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Brickman
Brickman is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Arlyne Brickman, American mafia informant and prostitute *Jason Brickman (born 1991), American basketball player *Jim Brickman (born 1961), American pianist and New Age composer * Lester Brickman, American law professor and legal scholar *Marc Brickman (born 1953), American lighting designer *Marshall Brickman (born 1941), Brazilian-American screenwriter and banjo player *Morrie Brickman (1917–1994), American cartoonist *Paul Brickman Paul Brickman (born April 23, 1949) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing '' Risky Business''. Early life Brickman was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Highland Park, the son of Shirle ... (born 1949), American screenwriter and film director (''Risky Business'') Fictional * Brickman (comic strip), comic strip and character created by UK cartoonist Lew Stringer {{DEFAULTSORT:Brickman English-langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Brickman
Lester Brickman is an emeritus professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of the Yeshiva University and a legal scholar. He is one of the founding faculty members of the Cardozo, recruited by Yeshiva University in 1976 from the University of Toledo College of Law. On May 31, 2016, Professor Brickman received the Monrad Paulsen Award of the Cardozo School, upon his retirement from teaching. He taught contracts, legal ethics and Land Use and Zoning at the Cardozo School of Law. He is the author of a book, ''Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011), a detailed critique of perceived abuses and excessive costs of the American tort system, with proposals for reform. Brickman is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a juris doctor degree from the University of Florida and an LLM degree from Yale Law School. Professor Brickman has written on asbestos litigation and tort reform. Brickman, with co-authors Jeff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Brickman
James Merrill Brickman (born November 20, 1961) is an American pop songwriter, pianist and radio host. Brickman has earned two Grammy nominations for his albums ''Peace'' (2003) for Best Instrumental, and ''Faith'' (2009) for Best New Age Album.The 52nd annual Grammy Awards nominees list He won a , a Dove Award presented by the , and was twice named Songwriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Brickman
Jason Alexander Brickman (born November 19, 1991) is a Filipino-American basketball player for the Kaohsiung Aquas of the T1 League. He completed his college career for the Long Island University Blackbirds after the 2013–14 season. Brickman was considered one of the best passers in the nation according to ESPN analyst Jay Bilas. Of Brickman, Bilas said "He really understands angles very well. He gets the ball to (LIU's) best players, and he does a really nice job of managing the game. An excellent passer." Brickman led NCAA Division I in assists per game as a junior with an 8.52 average, then repeated in 2013–14 with a 10.00 per game average. He is one of only four players in Division I history to record 1,000 assists. High school career Brickman played prep basketball at Tom C. Clark High School in San Antonio, Texas. In his senior season he led Clark to a District 28-5A championship behind the strength of a 29–7 record. He was named the district's most valuab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morrie Brickman
Morrie Brickman (July 24, 1917 – March 15, 1994) was a cartoonist. His nationally syndicated comic strip ''The Small Society'' was published in over 300 papers, including 35 foreign publications. Biography Brickman was born in Chicago, Illinois. His career as an artist began slowly, as he worked odd jobs selling and repairing shoes, as a housekeeper for ''Esquire'' illustrator John Groth, and an advertising designer. With the money saved from this work, Brickman took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Brickman was a commercial artist, creating illustrations for many companies. His most recognizable is Mr. Yoyo, the brand character for Duncan yoyos. He also wrote and illustrated books, including ''Don't Do It Yourself'', about home repair. Brickman created the acclaimed semi-autobiographical comic strip ''The Small Society'' in 1966, which ran in over 300 publications worldwide, distributed by the Washington Star Syndicate. According to his daughter, Harriet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Brickman
Marc Brickman (born June 15, 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist, director, producer, lighting designer and production designer. His visuals for Pink Floyd are iconic, and have reached audiences of millions world-wide. Often described as "groundbreaking", Marc's work includes productions for Paul McCartney, The Barcelona and Nagano Olympics Ceremonies, Cirque du Soleil (Viva Elvis), Blue Man Group, David Gilmour, Nine Inch Nails, John Mayer, Keith Urban, Barbra Streisand, Black Eyed Peas, Roger Waters, Whitney Houston, Slipknot, Bruce Springsteen, Yumi Matsutoya, Composer Hans Zimmer's Concert Series and Yusuf Islam, among hundreds of others. Brickman’s artistry is never static and has helped to push the live entertainment industry, developing new technologies to meet the demands of newly-imagined creative design. In 1992, under Brickman’s direction, Jumbotron screens were moved live for the first time in Genesis’ '' We Can’t Dance tour''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brickman
Paul Brickman (born April 23, 1949) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing ''Risky Business''. Early life Brickman was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Highland Park, the son of Shirley (née Kronenthal) and Morrie Brickman. His father, Morrie Brickman, was a cartoonist who created the popular comic strip "The Small Society." He graduated from Highland Park High School in 1967. He graduated from Claremont Men's College in Claremont, California. Career Brickman began his career by writing the screenplays for ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' and '' Handle with Care'', both of which were released in 1977. In 1983, he made his directorial debut with ''Risky Business'', starring Tom Cruise. Much of the film was filmed in Brickman's hometown, Highland Park, Illinois, and the surrounding area. However, the film was set in nearby Glencoe. The film was a major success, though Brickman felt disillusioned at having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlyne Brickman
Arlyne Brickman (1934–2020) was a mafia informant. Biography Brickman was born in New York's Lower East Side in 1934. When growing up in New York City's Lower East Side, Brickman chose as her role model Virginia Hill, girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel. Brickman said of Hill, "here was a broad that really made it good." As a teenager Brickman became involved with Italian mobsters, hanging out in mafia nightclubs, seducing them in Cadillacs, and in later years running drugs. At 35, Brickman was beaten and raped by gangsters and learned none of her mafia friends would help since she was a woman and Jewish. According to Brickman, she turned on the mob eight years later when a loan shark threatened to hurt her eighteen-year-old, only daughter Leslie, unless Brickman paid off a loan. Brickman contacted the FBI, agreeing to wear a wire, hiding the microphone in her brassiere or purse. In return, the government paid her debts and gave her a plea bargain. Over the next decade, Brick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Brickman
Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1939) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is the co-recipient of the 1977 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''Annie Hall''. He is also known for playing the banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in ''The New Yorker''. Life and career Brickman was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to American parents Pauline (née Wolin) and Abram Brickman. His family was Jewish. After attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he became a member of Folk act The Tarriers in 1962, recruited by former classmate Eric Weissberg. Following the disbanding of The Tarriers in 1965, Brickman joined The New Journeymen with John Phillips and Michelle Phillips, who later had success with The Mamas & the Papas. He left The New Journeymen to pursue a career as a writer, initially writing for television in the 1960s, including ''Candid Camera'', ''The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brickman (comic Strip)
''Brickman'' is a humour comic strip and character created by UK cartoonist Lew Stringer. A parody of Batman, the spoof features the adventures of zillionaire Loose Brayne and his partner Tina Trowel who fight crime in Guffon City, fighting villains such as the Poker, the Mad Cobbler and Gnat-Woman. The strip's humour uses heavy amounts of puns, sight gags and absurdism. The strip began in the fanzine ''After Image'' No.3 in 1979, before moving on to other small press fanzines and minicomics. ''Brickman'' then turned up in his own title published by short-lived UK independent Harrier Comics in 1986, featuring guest pages drawn by Dave Gibbons, Mike Collins, Mark Farmer, and Kevin O'Neill (with an introduction written by Alan Moore). He also made a cameo, alongside discontinued Marvel UK comedy characters in a ''The Prisoner'' homage, in Stringer's ''Combat Colin''. After a ten-year gap while Stringer focused on his other comic characters, ''Brickman'' was revived in 1996 in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
