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Carny (other)
A carny is a carnival employee. Carny, Carnie, or Carnies may also refer to: Entertainment * ''Carnies'' (film), a 2010 horror film * ''Carny'' (1980 film), a film starring Jodie Foster * ''Carny'' (2009 film), a television film starring Lou Diamond Phillips * Carny (band), a psychedelic blues band from Austin, Texas * "The Carny", a 1986 song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds * "Carnies", the fifth track on Canadian rock trio Rush's 2012 album, ''Clockwork Angels'' People Given name * Carnie Smith (born 1911–1979), American football player and coach * Carnie Wilson (born 1968), American singer and television host * Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886–1962), British author Surname * Andrew Carnie (born 1969), associate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona * Dave Carnie (born 1969), former editor-in-chief of Big Brother Magazine * John Carnie (born 1927–2009), Australian politician * John Carney (born 1964), American football player See also * Carney (disambigua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carny
Carny, also spelled carnie, is an informal term used in North America for a traveling carnival employee, and the language they use, particularly when the employee operates a game ("joint"), food stand ("grab", "popper" or "floss wagon"), or ride ("ride jock") at a carnival. The term "showie" is used synonymously in Australia, while "showman" is used in the United Kingdom. Etymology ''Carny'' is thought to have become popularized around 1931 in North America, when it was first colloquially used to describe one who works at a carnival. The word ''carnival'', originally meaning a "time of merrymaking before Lent" and referring to a time denoted by lawlessness (often ritualised under a lord of misrule figure and intended to show the consequences of social chaos), came into use around 1549. Carny language The carny vocabulary is traditionally part of carnival cant, a secret language. It is an ever-changing form of communication, in large part designed to be impossible to understand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnies (film)
''Carnies'' is a 2010 horror film directed by Brian Corder and starring Doug Jones. Plot In 1936 the Knuckles Brothers Show, a carnival sideshow, pulls into another in a long series of small towns, only to be plagued by a killer. Cast * Chris Staviski as Virgil * Doug Jones as Ratcatcher * David Markham as William Crowley * Reggie Bannister as Detective Conrad Ellison * Denise Gossett as Helen * Lynn Ayala as Zoe * Lee Perkins as Professor James Algonquin Release The DVD release is set for October 12, 2010 on DVD and Video on Demand. The theatrical release is part of the "Week of Terror" festival in the Bluelight Cinemas in Cupertino, California Cupertino ( ) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 57,82 .... References External links at Carnytown * * * 2010 films American sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carny (1980 Film)
''Carny'' is a 1980 American drama film about a waitress who joins a traveling carnival. It stars Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, and Robbie Robertson. It also includes an early role for Fred Ward. Plot Frankie and Patch are friends who work for the Great American Carnival, a small-time carnival that tours the South. Frankie does an act as The Mighty Bozo, a character who sits in a dunk tank insulting the crowd, while Patch takes the money and runs the game. Patch is also the show's "adjuster," hence his carny name, working with the owner of the carnival, Heavy St. John, negotiating deals with local officials and representatives of the local underworld to keep the show open. What it takes to keep the show open varies from town to town. In one town, it is making good on a city official's gambling losses on the midway and giving a city councilor a pile of free passes to the carnival. In another, it is compromising to allow the strippers to work, but keeping the freak show closed. In a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carny (2009 Film)
''Carny'' (known in Australia as ''Jersey Devil'') is a 2009 Canadian television horror film by Syfy and the 17th film in the ''Maneater Series''. The film was directed by Sheldon Wilson and stars Lou Diamond Phillips. Plot An unseen creature is being delivered to a traveling carnival as a new addition to the freak show. The ringmaster, Cap kills the man who sold him the beast before he and his assistant Quinn attempt to bring the creature into the carnival's truck, tranquilizing it to calm it down. However, as Quinn heaves on the chains, the beast quickly recovers from the dart's effects and slashes his eye out before attempting to make its escape. Cap eventually shoots it with more tranquilizer darts, which causes the beast to finally pass out. Sheriff Atlas comes to investigate Cap's carnival under the local paranoid pastor's requests. After meeting with several of the deformed carnies, and getting acquainted with the normal looking, but psychic Samara, Atlas meets with Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carny (band)
Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed in San Antonio, Texas, by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has been consistent since 1983. Teresa Nervosa served as second drummer from 1983 to 1985, 1986 to 1989, and 2009. The band has also employed a variety of bass players, most notably Jeff Pinkus.Lieck, "Reissuing the Butthole Surfers: Tongue-in-Cheek Terror", Austin Chronicle vol. 18 No. 52. Emerging from the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Butthole Surfers quickly became known for their chaotic live shows, black comedy, and a sound that incorporated elements of psychedelia, noise rock, and punk as well as their use of sound manipulation and tape editing.Young, "Butthole Surfers biography", RollingStone.com. Although they were respected by their peers and attracted a devoted fanbase, Butthole Surfers had little commercial success until 1996's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Carny
"The Carny" is a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appearing on their fourth studio album '' Your Funeral... My Trial''. It was written by Nick Cave and was recorded in August 1986 at Hansa Tonstudio and Strongroom. Subject The lyrics concern a carnival worker who vanished, highlighted in the words "No one saw the Carny go". As the circus prepares to leave without the missing performer, they find the Carny's horse Sorrow, "so skin and bone", and kill it. The dwarfs Moses and Noah dig a ditch to bury it, later remarking "we should've dug a deeper one". When it begins to rain, the Carny's caravan is swept away. The song is featured in Wim Wenders' 1987 film ''Wings of Desire'', when the character Marion (Solveig Dommartin) listens to the album ''Your Funeral, My Trial''. The song corresponds to the plot, in which the circus that Marion works for as a trapeze artist closes down. Professor Adrian Danks wrote "The Carny" adds a feel of sorrow in the background, while Marion gives "b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clockwork Angels
''Clockwork Angels'' is the nineteenth and final studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on June 12, 2012, on Roadrunner Records. During the band's year-and-a-half break following its Snakes & Arrows Tour, the group decided to write a new studio album. The album was recorded in April 2010 at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, and from October to December 2011 at Revolution Recording in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Two songs that would eventually appear on the album, " Caravan" and "BU2B," were released to radio stations and made available as a digital download on June 1, 2010. Following the release of the two songs, the band embarked on the Time Machine Tour, with "Caravan" and "BU2B" included in the set list. ''Clockwork Angels'' was completed following this tour. The album's second single, "Headlong Flight," was released April 19, 2012. The album's third single, "The Wreckers," was released July 25, 2012. On February 20, 2013, "The Anarchist" was released as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnie Smith
Carnie Henry Smith (January 29, 1911 – January 25, 1979) was an American football player and coach. Smith was the seventh head football coach at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. He held that position for 18 seasons, from 1949 until 1966, compiling a record of 116–52–6. Pittsburg State University Gorillas all-time coaching records His teams were declared the NAIA National Football Champions in 1957 and 1961. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnie Wilson
Carnie Wilson (born April 29, 1968) is an American singer and television personality. She is the daughter of Brian Wilson and in 1989 co-founded the pop music trio Wilson Phillips with her younger sister Wendy. From 1995 onwards, she has also been a host or guest star on a variety of television shows. Early life and musical career Carnie Wilson was born in Los Angeles on April 29, 1968, the daughter of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and of his first wife, former singer Marilyn Rovell of The Honeys. Her mother is of Jewish heritage, while her father is of Dutch, Scottish, English, German, Irish, and Swedish ancestry. She co-founded Wilson Phillips with her younger sister Wendy and childhood friend Chynna Phillips when they were in their teens. They released two albums, ''Wilson Phillips'' and '' Shadows and Light'', which between them sold twelve million copies. The group also charted three No. 1 singles and six top 20 hits in the United States before disbanding in 1993. Carni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1 January 1886 – December 1962), working-class writer, feminist, and socialist activist from Lancashire (also published as Ethel Carnie and Ethel Holdsworth). Poet, journalist, children's writer and author, Carnie Holdsworth was the first working-class woman in Britain to publish a novel and is a rare example of a female working-class novelist. She published at least ten novels during her lifetime. Childhood Holdsworth was born on 1 January 1886 into a weaving family in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. When she was six her parents moved to the growing textile town of Great Harwood, near Blackburn. She started part-time work at Delph Road mill in Great Harwood at aged eleven and was in full-time employment at St. Lawrence Mill from thirteen. In her later articles for the ''Woman Worker'', she described her experience as "slavery". Education Holdsworth attended Great Harwood British School from 1892. According to Edmund and Ruth Frow, she showed promise in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Carnie
Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is a Canadian professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of eight books and has papers published on formal syntactic theory and on linguistic aspects of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. He was born in Calgary, Alberta. He is also a teacher of Balkan and international folk dance. In 2009, he was named as one of the Linguist List's Linguist of the Day. Since 2010, he has worked as the faculty director of the University of Arizona's Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs. In August 2012, he was appointed interim Dean of the graduate college. Linguistics The bulk of Carnie's research has been in the field of syntax. Education * B.A. (Hons) in Linguistics and Celtic Studies: The University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, 1991 * Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995 Books * Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Carnie
David Ross Carnie (born December 14, 1969) is an American writer, magazine editor, and skateboarder. He is the former editor-in-chief of '' Big Brother'' and current writer for numerous publications. Writing career Carnie writes freelance and has had articles published in ''Rolling Stone'', ''Hustler'', ''The Skateboard Mag'', ''Snowboard Magazine'', and '' Bizarre''. Carnie also helped co-write a couple of short films with Spike Jonze (whom he met through fellow ''Big Brother'' editor Jeff Tremaine). Through his work on the ''Big Brother'' videos he was also one of the original creators of the television show '' Jackass'' and has appeared in numerous ''Jackass'' episodes. During his time at ''Big Brother'' Dave can be credited with launching the careers of numerous ''Jackass'' stars, including Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, and Chris Pontius, and has brought fame to hundreds of skateboarding stars. Recently, Carnie was an editor of jackassworld.com. Dave has a cat with no tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
