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Alexa Kenin
Alexa Jordan Kenin (February 16, 1962 – September 10, 1985) was an American actress known for her supporting roles in several films released during the 1980s, including ''Little Darlings'' (1980), '' Honkytonk Man'' (1982), and ''Pretty in Pink'' (1986) which was released after her death. Career Kenin was born in New York City. Her parents divorced when she was young and her mother, actress Maya Kenin, married character actor John Ryan. Kenin began acting as a child and won her first professional part with a supporting role in the 1972 holiday TV special ''The House Without a Christmas Tree'', which starred Jason Robards and Lisa Lucas. In 1977, Kenin appeared in John Guare's ''Landscape of the Body'' at The Public Theater and in the off-Broadway production of ''Elusive Angel''. The following year she played David Janssen's daughter in the television miniseries '' The Word''. In December 1980, she portrayed the role of "Libby" in the touring production of Neil Simon's '' ...
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Little Darlings
''Little Darlings'' is a 1980 American teen comedy-drama film starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol and featuring Armand Assante and Matt Dillon. It was directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. The screenplay was written by Kimi Peck and Dalene Young and the original music score was composed by Charles Fox. The film was marketed with the tagline "Don't let the title fool you", a reference to a scene in which Randy comments on Angel's name, to which Angel replies, "Don't let the name fool you." Film critic Roger Ebert said of the film that it "somehow does succeed in treating the awesome and scary subject of sexual initiation with some of the dignity it deserves." Plot A group of teenage girls from Atlanta go to summer camp, and, unbeknownst to the adults, two of them make a bet as to which one will lose her virginity first, with all the girls in camp betting money on the contest. The girls involved in the contest are opposites and rivals: cynical, suspicious and streetwise poor gir ...
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ABC Afterschool Special
''ABC Afterschool Special'' is an American television anthology series that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from October 4, 1972, to January 23, 1997, usually in the late afternoon on weekdays. Most episodes were dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy. The series won 51 Daytime Emmy Awards during its 25-year run. In 2004 and 2005, BCI Eclipse and Sunset Home Visual Entertainment issued six DVD collections of episodes from the series that had been produced by Martin Tahse, each collection containing four episodes. A boxed set, in the shape of a school bus, was also released containing all of the DVD releases, with a detailed information booklet of all the specials on the set and including an extra DVD of two specials that had previously not been released on DVD. Episodes ...
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New Montefiore Cemetery
New Montefiore Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in West Babylon, New York. History Montefiore Cemetery Corporation had been maintaining Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens since 1908. The corporation bought 250 acres from Pinelawn Cemetery for $375,000 and established New Montefiore Cemetery in 1928. Burials started shortly afterwards. New Montefiore is one of a group of adjacent large cemeteries on Long Island sometimes called "cemetery row." From north to south along Wellwood Avenue, these are the Department of Veterans Affairs' Long Island National Cemetery, the non-sectarian Pinelawn Memorial Park and Gardens, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn's Saint Charles Cemetery, and four Jewish cemeteries, which are Beth Moses Cemetery, Wellwood Cemetery, New Montefiore, and Mount Ararat Cemetery. The Shomrim Society, the fraternal society of Jewish officers in the New York City Police Department, has a burial plot for their members in New Montefiore Cemetery. ...
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John Hughes (filmmaker)
John Wilden Hughes Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American filmmaker. Hughes began his career in 1970 as an author of humorous essays and stories for the '' National Lampoon'' magazine. He went on to Hollywood to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s such as ''National Lampoon's Vacation''; ''Mr. Mom''; ''Sixteen Candles''; '' Weird Science''; ''The Breakfast Club''; ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''; ''Pretty in Pink''; '' Some Kind of Wonderful''; ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles''; ''She's Having a Baby''; ''Uncle Buck''; ''Home Alone''; ''Dutch''; ''Beethoven'' (co-written under the pseudonym Edmond Dantès); '' Dennis the Menace''; and ''Baby's Day Out''. Most of Hughes's work is set in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is best known for his coming-of-age teen comedy films with honest depictions of suburban teenage life. Many of his most enduring characters from these years were written f ...
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Nashville
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the fourth most populous city in the southeastern U.S. Located on the Cumberland River, the city is the center of the Nashville metropolitan area, which is one of the fastest growing in the nation. Named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the city was founded in 1779. The city grew quickly due to its strategic location as a port on the Cumberland River and, in the 19th century, a railroad center. Nashville seceded with Tennessee during the American Civil War; in 1862 it was the first state capital in the Confederacy to be taken by Union forces. After the war, the city reclaimed its position and developed a manufacturing base. Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county gov ...
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Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "''Dollars Trilogy''" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five ''Dirty Harry'' films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. An Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for his Western film ''Unforgiven'' (1992) and his sports drama '' Million Dollar Baby'' (2004). His greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy ''Every Which Way but Loose'' (1978) and its action comedy sequel ''Any Which Way You Can'' (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns ''Hang 'Em H ...
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Gimme A Break!
''Gimme a Break!'' is an American television sitcom created by Morton Lachman, Mort Lachman and Sy Rosen, that aired on NBC for six seasons from October 29, 1981, to May 12, 1987. The series starred Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief (Dolph Sweet) and his three daughters. Cast Main characters *Nell Carter as Nellie Ruth "Nell" Harper *Dolph Sweet as Carl Kanisky (seasons 1-4) *Kari Michaelsen as Kathleen "Katie" Kanisky (seasons 1-5) *Lauri Hendler as Julie Kanisky Maxwell (seasons 1-5) *Lara Jill Miller as Samantha "Sam" Kanisky (seasons 1-5, recurring season 6) *John Hoyt as Stanley Kanisky (seasons 2-6, previously recurring) *Joey Lawrence as Joey Donovan (seasons 3-6) *Howard Morton as Ralph Waldo Simpson (seasons 3-5, previously recurring) *Telma Hopkins as Dr. Adelaide "Addy" Wilson (seasons 4-6, previously recurring) *Jonathan Silverman as Jonathan Maxwell (season 5, previously recurring) *Rosetta LeNoire as Maybelle Harper (season 6, previously re ...
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The Facts Of Life (TV Series)
''The Facts of Life'' is an American television sitcom created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon and a spin-off of ''Diff'rent Strokes'' that originally aired on NBC from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms of the 1980s. The series focuses on Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae), as she becomes a housemother (and from the second season onward, a dietitian as well) at the fictional Eastland School, an all-girls boarding school in Peekskill, New York. Plot Season 1 A spin-off of ''Diff'rent Strokes'', the series featured the Drummonds' former housekeeper Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae) becoming the housemother of a dormitory at Eastland School, a private all-girls school in Peekskill, New York. The girls in her care included spoiled rich girl Blair Warner (Lisa Whelchel); the youngest, gossipy Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey (Kim Fields) and impressionable Natalie Green (Mindy Cohn). The pilot for the show was originally aired as the last episode of the fi ...
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Tatum O'Neal
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress. She is the youngest person ever to win an Academy Award, winning at age 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in '' Paper Moon'' (1973) opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal. She also starred as Amanda Wurlitzer in ''The Bad News Bears'' (1976), followed by ''Nickelodeon'' (1976), and ''Little Darlings'' (1980). O'Neal later appeared in guest roles in ''Sex and the City'', ''8 Simple Rules'' and ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''. From 2006 to 2007, she portrayed Blythe Hunter in the My Network TV drama series ''Wicked Wicked Games''. Family background O'Neal was born in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, California, to actors Ryan O'Neal and Joanna Moore. Her brother, Griffin, was born in 1964. In 1967, her parents divorced and her father quickly married actress Leigh Taylor-Young, together having Tatum's half-brother, Patrick. The two divorced in 1973. Tatum has another half-brother, Redmond, from Ryan O'Neal ...
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Kristy MacNichol
Christina Ann McNichol (born September 11, 1962) is an American former actress. She is known for such film roles as Angel in ''Little Darlings'', Polly in '' Only When I Laugh'', and Barbara Weston in the TV sitcom ''Empty Nest''. She won two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of teenage daughter Letitia "Buddy" Lawrence in the TV drama ''Family''. McNichol retired from acting in 2001. Early life, family and education McNichol was born on September 11, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of James and Carolyn McNichol. Her father was a carpenter and her mother worked odd jobs to support the family, including as a secretary, cosmetics salesperson and movie extra. McNichol is Scottish/Irish on her father's side and her mother is of Lebanese descent. Career She appeared with her brother Jimmy McNichol in commercials and later, on her own, in guest appearances on such other series as ''Starsky & Hutch''; ''The Bionic Woman''; ''Love, American Style''; and ''The Love Boat'', t ...
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Co-Ed Fever
''Co-Ed Fever'' is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the motion picture ''National Lampoon's Animal House''. It was the third of three "frat house" comedy series to air in early 1979 (the others were ABC's ''Delta House'' and NBC's '' Brothers and Sisters''). After CBS aired the first episode of ''Co-Ed Fever'' as a "special preview" on February 4, 1979, the airing's low ratings and viewer complaints caused the network to cancel it before it ever aired in its planned Monday-night time slot. ''Co-Ed Fever'' ranked number 32 on ''TV Guide''s 50 Worst Shows of All Time list. Synopsis The series is set in Brewster House, a dormitory on the campus of Baxter College, a formerly all-female college that has just started to admit male students.(12 January 1979).College fun big success in Hollywood. ''Montreal Gazette''. United Press International. ''Co-Ed Fever'' stars Heather Thomas (as Sandi), Alexa Kenin (Maria ''a.k ...
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Beverly Hills High School
Beverly Hills High School (usually abbreviated as Beverly or as BHHS) is the only major public high school in Beverly Hills, California. The other public high school in Beverly Hills, Moreno High School, is a small alternative school located on Beverly's campus. Beverly Hills High School is part of the Beverly Hills Unified School District and located on on the west side of Beverly Hills, at the border of the Century City area of Los Angeles. The land was previously part of the Beverly Hills Speedway board track, which was torn down in 1924. Beverly, which serves all of Beverly Hills, was founded in 1927. The original buildings were designed by Robert D. Farquhar in the French Normandy style. The school previously received income from its on-campus oil tower. History Beverly Hills High School was originally in the Los Angeles City High School District. On March 23, 1936, the Beverly Hills Elementary School District left the Los Angeles City High School District and formed the B ...
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