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John Paul Larkin (March 13, 1942 – December 3, 1999), better known by his stage name Scatman John, was an American musician who created a fusion of scat singing and dance music, best known for his 1995 hit "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)".
A stutterer, Larkin stated that scatting was "turning my biggest problem into my biggest asset". Scatman John sold millions of recordings worldwide and was named "Best New Artist" in the Echo Awards in both Japan and Germany. He was a recipient of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Annie Glenn Award for outstanding service to the stuttering community and National Stuttering Association Hall of Fame.
Born in El Monte, California, Larkin suffered from a severe stutter since his beginning of speech which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. Even at the peak of his success in 1995, journalists reported that during interviews he “hardly finishes a sentence without repeating the phrase at least six or seven times.” At age twelve he began to learn piano, and was introduced to the art of scat singing at the age of fourteen through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, amongst others. The piano provided him with a means of artistic expression to compensate for his speech difficulties. He remarked in a 1996 interview that “playing piano gave me a way to speak… I hid behind the piano because I was scared of talking.”
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer.
Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.
Cab Calloway was born in a middle-class family in Rochester, New York, on Christmas Day in 1907. He lived there until moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 1918. His father, Cabell Calloway II, was a lawyer and his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist. When Cab was young, he enjoyed singing in church. His parents recognized their son's musical talent and he began private voice lessons in 1922. He continued to study music and voice throughout his formal schooling. Despite his parents' and vocal teachers' disapproval of jazz, Calloway began frequenting and eventually performing in many of Baltimore's jazz clubs, where he was mentored by drummer Chick Webb and pianist Johnny Jones.
Actors: Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Anita Surendran (miscellaneous crew), Scott Ferlisi (miscellaneous crew), Brittany Snow (actress), Jennifer Quesenbery (miscellaneous crew), Ian M. Stratford (miscellaneous crew), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Josh Pais (actor), Rachel Dratch (actress), Adam LeFevre (actor), Kirstie Alley (actress), Katri Billard (miscellaneous crew), Barrie M. Osborne (producer), Chris von Hoffmann (miscellaneous crew), Scott Friedman (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Sam Mason-Bell (actor), Sam Mason-Bell (director), Sam Mason-Bell (writer), Sam Mason-Bell (producer), Mike Peter Reed (editor), Jackson Batchelor (actor), Ross Doney (actor), Ryan Carter (actor), Becki Short (actress), Helen Keech (actress), August Hart (actor), Jordan Curry (actor), Amy Thomas (actor), Issie Barnard (actress), Char Gallagher (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Eoin Macken (writer), Eoin Macken (producer), Eoin Macken (editor), Eoin Macken (actor), Brian Fortune (actor), Eoin Macken (director), Emmett Scanlan (producer), Emmett Scanlan (actor), Karl Argue (actor), Natalia Kostrzewa (actress), Liam Alex Heffron (actor), Tereza Srbová (actress), Sean Stewart (actor), Vanessa Matias Fahy (actress), Greg French (composer),
Plot: Horror Thriller film about 5 young girls and their boyfriend who go partying in an abandoned warehouse to celebrate one of the girls birthday. Things begin to go quickly wrong however as they are subjected to a terrifying attack before succumbing to a supernatural horror that has no compunction between good or evil. The girls try to escape but are trapped in the building, with the only question left being, is there any way out?
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller,Actors: Haji Abdullah (actor), Leandre Fiori (actor), Leandre Fiori (producer), Cedric Fulton (actor), Michael Overstreet (actor), Donovin Freeman (director), Marilea Butler (actress), Donovin Freeman (producer), Donovin Freeman (writer), Archie Hughes (actor), Charlie Jenkins (actress), John Artis Jr. (actor), Brian Lassiter (producer), Nate Chase (actor), Askia Jefferson (actor),
Plot: James Johnson lives in any ghetto USA. He's a honest, hard working, god fearing parent who loves his mother, son and girlfriend. Even though James works more than fifty hours a week he still has trouble making ends meet. That is until one fateful night when he saves the life of his drug dealing boss Ra-him. In a show of appreciation Ra-him offers James a deal he can't refuse. Surprisingly James accepts the offer and takes to crime like a fish to water. His mother and girlfriend however are not enamored with James' new lifestyle making him choose between a life of fast money and even faster women or a life Stuck On Broke.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Markus Selin (producer), Bjarni Gautur (actor), Jukka Helle (producer), Mike Downey (producer), Sam Taylor (producer), Ingvar Þórðarson (actor), Ingvar Þórðarson (producer), Júlíus Kemp (producer), Jón Gnarr (actor), Zorana Piggott (producer), Stephane Wasila (miscellaneous crew), Steinn Ármann Magnússon (actor), Sigurður Skúlason (actor), Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir (actress), Víkingur Kristjánsson (actor),
Plot: When Hildur - a beautiful high society girl and a regular guest in the national celebrity press - finds out that her boyfriend Jolli is about to go into jail, she realizes she has to learn to stand on her own two feet. Hildur possessing no skills or any practical experience tries to find work but without success. She's about to give up when by pure coincidence she lands a job selling role playing books and accessories at the local fantasy-shop Astropia. From that moment her life transforms. At Astropia Hildur is introduced to a group of nerds who give her a new outlook on life. Among them are Dagur a translator of romantic fiction, Scat a rapper who makes his nerdlyness look cool, the comic and video clerks Floki and Pesi, the violent tomboy Beta and an eight year old whizkid Snorri. Gradually unlikely friendships are formed and Hildur enters the fantasy world of role playing where she struts around in a skimpy outfit slaying Orcs and Goblins and the world of adventure starts blending into her real life. Her old boyfriend Jolli, determined to get Hildur and his old lifestyle back, breaks out of jail and kidnaps Hildur. Hildur's ragtag group of friends are not about to let her go without a fight. In the end it really is up to Hildur and her newfound self-confidence and independence to break free from Jolli's shackles once and for all.
Keywords: abusive-boyfriend, comic-book-shop, cosplay, friendship, geek-culture, growing-up, iceland, imaginary-world, kidnapping, paparazziActors: Tanesha Chynna Littlejohn (composer), Tanesha Chynna Littlejohn (editor), Tanesha Chynna Littlejohn (director), Tanesha Chynna Littlejohn (producer), Chynna Littlejohn Berry (producer), Shyhiem Littlejohn (composer), Timothy Wells (writer), Timothy Wells (actor), Kendahl Wells (producer), Tereak Washington (actor), Oliver Buchert (composer), Alex Harris (actor), Cory Sloss (composer), Tikeara Sloss (actress), Raheem Lee (actor),
Plot: Scat is celebrating his seven year anniversary with his girlfriend. He spends time with his journal documenting the events leading up to the evening. Scat never planned on his special day turning into a nightmare when he tries to save a life. Now he has to fight to save his own.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Noah Beery Jr. (actor), Henry Fonda (actor), Larry Hagman (actor), John Marley (actor), James McEachin (actor), Leonard Nimoy (actor), Woodrow Parfrey (actor), James Sikking (actor), Vic Tayback (actor), Kenneth Tobey (actor), Aubrey Schenck (producer), Robert Michael Lewis (director), Paul Sorensen (actor), Harve Bennett (producer), Harve Bennett (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Benny Bartlett (actor), Benjamin Stoloff (producer), Tommy Bond (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), William Beaudine (director), Art Miles (actor), Emory Parnell (actor), Syd Saylor (actor), Jay Silverheels (actor), Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer (actor), Delmar Watson (actor), Robert A. McGowan (writer), Robert E. Kent (writer), Harry Reynolds (editor), Lela Bliss (actress),
Plot: The Gas House Kids take a job delivering an automobile to California, unaware that it is a stolen car. Upon their arrival, they discover a hot-car ring run by a crooked ranch foreman with lecherous designs on the rancher's daughter.
Keywords: archive-footage, automobile-salesman, automobile-theft, b-movie, b-western, barn, basketball, basketball-game, basketball-team, californiaActors: Marc Lawrence (actor), Peter Leeds (actor), Wally Albright (actor), Jack Kenny (actor), Paul Fix (actor), William Frawley (actor), Willie Fung (actor), Pat Gleason (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Harry Holman (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), Jerry Jerome (actor), Edgar Kennedy (actor), Charles McAvoy (actor),
Plot: Bill Raymond, a hotshot newspaper reporter will all the trappings, is following a story about and looking for the leaders of an alien smuggling gang. Along the way he gets the aid of a screwball heiress, Bonnie Parker (no, not Clyde Barrow's Bonnie), and a couple of ex-pugilists, Biff and Bang.
Keywords: 1940s, alien, alien-smuggler, b-movie, bellhop, chinese, cigarette-smoking, companion, delivery-man, detectiveActors: Fred MacMurray (actor), William Newell (actor), Burr Caruth (actor), John Indrisano (actor), Gordon Jones (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Joe Cunningham (actor), Russ Clark (actor), William Collier Sr. (actor), Joseph Franz (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Tom Hanlon (actor), Oscar O'Shea (actor),
Plot: Trainer Pop Hardy thinks his heavyweight boxer 'King' Cole could be champ...some day; he wants to sell a half interest in Cole to his rich friend Wayne. Wayne's daughter Eleanor is disdainful, but brash Cole manages to get under her skin. Can a society dame and a mug find happiness together? And can she wait for his slow rise to fame?
Keywords: 1930s, boxer, boxing, daughter