Sharon G. Flake (born December 24, 1955) is an American writer of young adult literature. She has lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her daughter for many years. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in English.
Her debut novel The Skin I'm In (1998) follows a young African American girl who has issues with people teasing her about the color of her skin and the way she dresses. She tries her best to fit in but it doesn't go too well. She learns that trying to fit in is not the best way to make people like you. Her works have won numerous awards. The Skin I'm In won the John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 1999 for new authors and garnered positive feedback from Booklist and School Library Journal. She has been a runner-up for two Coretta Scott King Awards.
Flake was born in Philadelphia. She is the second youngest child, with three brothers and two sisters, and grew up in an inner-city neighborhood. Her father worked for Philadelphia Gas Co., while her mother did days work and raised her children. Through their guidance, Flake and her siblings were encouraged to be themselves, learning about culture through music, TV, politics, and books. As a teenager, she attended Simon Gratz High School, where she was a member of the tennis team.She wrote many books.
"Bang" is a song and single by rapper/dancer Rye Rye featuring M.I.A.. It was recorded in 2008 and appears on the deluxe version of her 2012 album Go! Pop! Bang!. It was released in 2009 on N.E.E.T. Recordings and Interscope Records. The single was released first, followed by an EP of remixes, Bang – The Remixes, which includes remixes by Buraka Som Sistema and DJ Sega. The song appears in the films Fast & Furious and Step Up 3D and in the episode "The Sorkin Notes" of the TV-series Entourage.
The video features Rye Rye, M.I.A. and several Baltimore club dancers including Whyte Boi dancing in a dark, messy underground club setting. The video was directed by M.I.A. in Baltimore.
Bang! (also known as The Gun Game! amongst other variants) is a drama game, in which players stand in a circle and shoot each other with imaginary guns.
The objectives of the game include enhancing concentration skills and reaction time as well as helping groups of people remember each other's names.
The workshop leader/director or other nominated person does not join the circle. Each remaining player holds an imaginary gun in each hand, pointed at the adjacent player.
The leader will call out a player's name. If he/she calls "John" then John must duck to avoid being shot. The players on either side of John must shout "bang!" One of the following then occurs:
If someone accidentally ducks or shoots when they were not supposed to be doing so then they are also out.
Actors: Alex Buechel (actor), Michael Bugard (actor), Robert Forte Shannon III (actor), Brandon Gallo (actor), Aaron Golematis (actor), Jerry Hayes (actor), Mike Hestand (actor), Tony Miello (actor), James Polony (actor), Bill Pulkovski (actor), David Qasawa (actor), Jon Rick (actor), Irfan Shiekh (actor), Jay Shimko (actor), R Wolf Baldassarro (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi,Actors: Iran Black (actor), Camari Brown (actor), Montel Bush (actor), Richard Cannon (actor), Denny Castiglione (actor), Giovanni Castiglione (actor), Arthur Chu (actor), Jeyquin London Davis (actor), Adrian Denzel (actor), Larry DiBartolomeo (actor), Joseph Eddie (actor), E'Mear Howard (actor), Jefferson J. Jones II (actor), Jason Klingensmith (actor), Kyle Adam (actor),
Plot: Born of French Creole parents, Renee Arceneux invested her entire life into her struggling security software company, Arceneux Analytics. Now she finally is about to receive the break that will make her wealthy beyond her wildest imagination. However, a lethal strategy to save an old friend from a brutal enemy threatens everything she stands for and everyone around her.
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Noel Carroll (actor), Jacob Givens (actor), Derek Haugen (actor), Bruce Leon (actor), Nathan Lorch (actor), Turner Nguyen (actor), Peter Story (actor), Kevin Wheatley (actor), Victoria Avalon (actress), Talya Carroll (actress), Jamie Givens (actress), Caitlin O'Connor (actress), Laura Owen (actress), Kassidy Serbus (actress), Chelsea Taylor (actress),
Plot: A foul mouthed gamer wakes up in the world of "Tumbleweed,' the most modern, graphically realistic, video game in history. But his impatient want for violence and sex activates an unexpected feature in this new and advanced game... consequences.
Keywords: tv-mini-seriesActors: Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Jim Cummings (actor), Jim Cummings (actor), R. Lee Ermey (actor), Jared Hillman (actor), Scott Holst (actor), Jason Marsden (actor), Jason Marsden (actor), Andrew Racho (actor), Andrew Racho (actor), Andrew Racho (actor), Andrew Racho (actor), Andrew Racho (actor), Adam Jared Smith (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Stein Bjørn (actor), Gard B. Eidsvold (actor), Roger Hilleren (actor), Stig Henrik Hoff (actor), Jørgen Langhelle (actor), Andreas Rottem Paulsen (actor), Morten Rudå (actor), Christoffer Staib (actor), Bjørn Sundquist (actor), Helge Sveen (actor), Nina Bendiksen (actress), Sibeth Hoff (actress), Hege Elise Strømsnes (actress), Aage Aaberge (producer), Live Bonnevie (writer),
Plot: Pelle The Police car is a movie about a little girl called Maria who gets her bicycle stolen by some filthy thieves with filthy plans. Uncle Rikhard, a local policeman wants to help little Maria, but there is one problem. Uncle Rikhard has no police car. But one night Maria wishes for a miracle, and out from the blue comes Pelle The Police car, and the hunt for the thieves can begin.
Keywords: stolen-bicycleActors: In-sung Hwang (actor), Du-yi Jang (actor), Cheol-woo Jeon (actor), Jin-yeong Jeong (actor), Jae-hyeon Jo (actor), Ki-won Kang (actor), Cheol-su Kim (actor), Il-woo Kim (actor), In-hwan Park (actor), Yeong-tak Song (actor), Kan-hie Lee (actress), Keon Seop Park (producer), Chul Shin (producer), Seong-wook Bang (writer), Seong-wook Bang (director),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: John Botvid (actor), Ernst Eklund (actor), Olle Florin (actor), Gustaf Färingborg (actor), Max Hansen (actor), Torsten Hillberg (actor), Karl-Arne Holmsten (actor), Nils Hultgren (actor), Ludde Juberg (actor), Magnus Kesster (actor), Arne Källerud (actor), Egon Larsson (actor), Gustaf Lövås (actor), Börje Mellvig (actor), Carl Andersson (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Rod Bacon (actor), Sam Bernard (actor), Douglas Deems (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Paul Fix (actor), William Frawley (actor), Willie Fung (actor), Pat Gleason (actor), Larry Harris (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Harry Holman (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), Jerry Jerome (actor), Edgar Kennedy (actor), Wally Albright (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: Arthur Jensen (actor), Eyvind Johan-Svendsen (actor), Viggo Lindstrøm (actor), Jørgen Lund (actor), Harald Madsen (actor), Henrik Malberg (actor), Lauritz Olsen (actor), Aage Redal (actor), Carl Schenstrøm (actor), Benno Smytt (actor), Lise Bauditz (actress), Sho Erlind (actress), Kate Fabian (actress), Ellen Krayenbühl (actress), Else Skouboe (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Carl Alstrup (actor), Edvin Bruun (actor), Frederik Buch (actor), Aage Hertel (actor), Peter Jørgensen (actor), Lauritz Olsen (actor), Carl Schenstrøm (actor), Charles Willumsen (actor), Maja Bjerre-Lind (actress), Vita Blichfeldt (actress), Lily Frederiksen (actress), Ingeborg Olsen (actress), Ebba Thomsen (actress), Valdemar Andersen (writer), Robert Dinesen (director),
Genres: Comedy, Short,"Who's there?"
"Forgive me father for I have sinned."
"Yes my son You have a confession to make?"
"They want me to do it again."
"Those who repent shall recieve salvation."
"I gotta go back..."
...I bang on everything, boy
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Up jump the boogie
And you're just a rookie
So I take your cookies boy
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
I'm getting money, I push the seven-sixty
Got green like Bill Bixby baby
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
No, you shouldna missed me
Cause I'm gonna toss 'em back at ya, like hot frisbees fucka
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
It's all I know, it's all I do
Countin cash in stacks, grind all night through
I'm pushin' packages bitch
I got a automatic
I ran down your block and popped a crack addict
Speakin' in tounges since I was young. I tote a uzi
Professional hitman, pop you and your floozie
Who's he? Esham, I do no interviews
Blood's on my tennishoes, win or lose
I'm finda smoke a ounce of kush
Fuck George Bush
Still on the block where it's hot murders be overlooked
Dreams and nightmares
Everythings right there
In the city that don't care
Somehow we profit off welfare - Hell yeah
Pistols be popping
Coppers is dropping
No time for no bitches, keep my riches
'Less it's coke shoppin'
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
No, you don't know me
I roll with my homie
It's Jesus, not unholy, ya heard me?
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
I send hollows threw you , I scream "Hallelujah"
I do ya, cause you don't know me baby
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
This is for my Crips and my Bloods
And all my gangstas and thugs that show slug love
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Guns up in the club, holding a lot of drugs
Whats really good, what?
Power and paper stacked up like skyscrapers
I'm getting my money right
I'm keeping my game tight
Oh no
I'm comin up on a bubble
Bitches in trouble
Breakin boulders like Barney Rubble
Makin' my pockets double (whoady)
Slug from a fourty-five, I live and die
Like the gangstas before me
'Till they fourty-four me
Or outlaw me
They never saw no one raw as me
The general in this war is me
Hilter
Young wigspliter
Kill any rapper out there, nuclear warfare
Spit napalm, Esham
Wicket like Taliban
Pushin denally from Detroit to Cali, mon
Wicket
Wicket
Wicket
It's so wicket
Wicket
The way I kick shit
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
I'm poppin' pistols
So duck if the bullets whistle
You're hopin that they don't hit you, homie
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
I'm down to buck'em all, fuck'em all
Till they bodys in the ground where the maggots crawl
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
This is not a game
Say "hello" to my little friend.. Bang Bang Bang
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Blow out your brains
Ain't no friends in this game
Fuck a five-0 and the fame
Prelude to all this evil,
Some people might say it's money whether they believe you.
Judgement day is still a'comin people, never leave me.
It will be with me forever only time i need you's
When your fuckin head is severed stackin'up my green books.
At night I'm playin' with black magic. Tell me, have you seen crooks
Busting off they automatics deep into the darkness?
Some might even say i'm heartless