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Tommy Roland Shaw (born September 11, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and performer best known for his work with the rock band, Styx. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with other groups including the Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades and has released several solo albums.
Tommy Shaw was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and played with many local bands in his early years. He left Montgomery after attending Robert E. Lee High School to join The Smoke Ring and then MSFunk, a Chicago-managed outfit that he played with for 3 years, which gave him a chance to be noticed by Styx during a 2-week club gig in Chicago. After MSFunk disbanded, he went back to Montgomery to join a local group with his childhood friends called Harvest, which performed at the club Keglers Kove, in a bowling alley called Bama Lanes. Following Styx's move to A&M, guitarist and vocalist John Curulewski suddenly left the band shortly before they were to embark on a nationwide tour, and a frantic search to find a last-minute replacement was launched. While playing at the bowling alley bar, as a result of his previous experience with MSFunk in Chicago, Shaw, 23 years old, got the call to audition for Styx and was quickly hired.
Actors: Luke Jennings (director), Alexander Abineri (actor), John Clements (actor), Sam Goodman (actor), Chris Hallaron (actor), Ryan Lightfoot (editor),
Plot: The newest short film from Nuts and Bolts Productions featuring Tommy Shaw, an ex army solder suffering from post traumatic stress disorder who can't go back to his solider ways leaving him no choice but to try and lead a normal life. Directed by Luke Jennings.
Genres: Short,Actors: Michael Mark (actor), Mary Field (actress), Stanley Blystone (actor), Richard Carle (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Tom Brown (actor), Frank Mitchell (actor), Henry Roquemore (actor), Larry Williams (actor), Jerome Cowan (actor), Dora Clement (actress), Fritz Feld (actor), Mary Currier (actress), Grace Hayle (actress),
Plot: Woodbury's fashionable gown-salon on Fifth Avenue is about to take bankruptcy. An unemployed showgirl, Connie Curtiss, tell's the store's press agent, Tommy Shaw, that more girls would buy and wear Woodbury's styles if the prices weren't so high. Tommy sells store-owner C. J. Woodbury on the idea of installing a new line of low-priced apparel. Over the objections of Woodbury's starchy secretary, Minerva, and his own secretary, Miss Lansdale, Tommy starts a publicity campaign with Connie as "Miss Manhattan", and has her wear the new styles at various gathering places around New York City. Tommy gets his newspaper-columnist friend, Ted Carter, to help stage a style show for working girls. A fee complications arise from that.
Keywords: 1930s, archive-footage, auditorium, b-movie, bankruptcy, bathing-suit, brooklyn-new-york-city, cigarette-girl, cigarette-smoking, contestant