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Chee-Chee (other)
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Chee-Chee or Chee Chee may refer to: *Chee-Chee, a monkey character in the Doctor Dolittle series of children's books * Chee-Chee, an ethnic slur against an Anglo-Indian or Eurasian half-caste; also a reference to English spoken with a South Asian accent *Chee-Chee and Peppy, an American teen R&B vocal duo in the early 1970s * Frank DeMayo (1885-1949?), Missouri mobster nicknamed "Chee-Chee" *Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977), Ojibwa-Canadian artist * ''Chee-Chee'' (musical), a 1928 Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart See also *Chi-Chi (other) Chi-Chi or variations thereof may refer to: Geography *Chichi (village) or Çiçi, in the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan *Chi-chi, Nantou, a township in Taiwan People *Chi Chi Gonzalez (born 1992), American baseball pitcher *Chi Chi (record producer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Doctor Dolittle Characters
This is a list of characters from the ''Doctor Dolittle'' series of children's books by Hugh Lofting and movies based on them. Most of the characters were introduced in the first book, the 1920 novel ''The Story of Doctor Dolittle''. Humans Doctor Dolittle ;Portrayed by: * Rex Harrison (1967) * Eddie Murphy (1998, 2001) * Robert Downey Jr. (2020) Doctor John Dolittle is an English physician who became a doctor for animals after his parrot, Polynesia, taught him to speak animal languages. He lives in the fictional town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in England's West Country, along with his many animal friends. He has very few human friends and spends most of his time treating animals, travelling the world with his animals and conducting research into new animals and new forms of animal languages. He is portrayed by Rex Harrison in the 1967 film ''Doctor Dolittle'', Eddie Murphy in ''Dr. Dolittle'' (1998) and ''Dr. Dolittle 2'' (2001), and by Robert Downey Jr. in '' Dolittle'' (2020). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ethnic Slurs
The following is a list of ethnic slurs or ethnophaulisms or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnicity or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner. Some of the terms listed below (such as "gringo", "yank", etc.) can be used in casual speech without any intention of causing offense. The connotation of a term and prevalence of its use as a pejorative or neutral descriptor varies over time and by geography. For the purposes of this list, an ''ethnic slur'' is a term designed to insult others on the basis of race, ethnicity, or nationality. Each term is listed followed by its country or region of usage, a definition, and a reference to that term. Ethnic slurs may also be produced as a racial epithet by combining a general-purpose insult with the name of ethnicity, such as "dirty Jew", "Russian pig", etc. Other common insulting modifiers include "dog", "filthy" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chee-Chee And Peppy
Chee-Chee and Peppy were an American R&B teen vocal duo who recorded in the early 1970s and had a US Hot 100 hit with "I Know I'm In Love". The duo comprised Dorothy "Dottie" Moore (born 1959, Norristown, Pennsylvania) and Keith Bolling (born 1957, Frankford, Pennsylvania). Moore, then aged 12, was discovered by record producer and songwriter Jesse James when he was asked to speak to local children at her school. She sang and danced at the event, and James later got agreement from her mother to form a duo around her. Keith Bolling was the son of Sam Cooke and a member of Frankford High School's Ambassadors of Song, and under James' direction a duo was formed. "Chee-Chee" (Moore) and "Peppy" (Bolling) took their performing names from those of their pet dogs. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank DeMayo
Frank Alphonse "Chee-Chee" DeMayo (born Franco DeMaio) (April 6, 1885 in Italy – August 2, 1949 in Kansas City) was a Kansas City, Missouri mobster who became the crime boss of the Kansas City crime family during the later years of Prohibition. Bootlegging Little is known of DeMayo's early involvement in organized crime. By 1927, DeMayo was running the Kansas City criminal organization. The Kansas City gang, like other criminal organizations around the country, gained immense wealth and power during Prohibition by bootlegging alcohol. Unlike New York and Chicago, which were wracked by bloody gang wars during this period, the criminal gangs in Missouri had managed to cooperate and avoid bloodshed. Most of murders that occurred during this era were committed by the mob to protect their bootlegging operations in the city and surrounding area. The largest alcohol stills were located in the heavily wooded and inaccessible areas on the Missouri River east of the city limits. Stills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Chee Chee
Kenneth Thomas Chee Chee (26 March 1944 – 14 March 1977), known as Benjamin Chee Chee, was an Ojibwa Canadian artist born in Temagami, Ontario. Early life Chee Chee's early life was troubled and he lost track of his mother, for whom he spent many years searching. He moved to Montreal in 1965 where he developed his love of drawing, and moved back to Ottawa in 1973. ] Career Chee Chee's first exhibition was held in 1973 at the University of Ottawa. Soon after he gained fame as he developed his unique style of clear graceful lines and minimal colour, depicting birds and animals. Though his art featured a great deal of iconography often used by Canadian First Nations artists, Chee Chee had denied his art had symbolic meaning. He instead referred to the animals featured in his art as "creatures of the present". He also specifically referred to himself as an Ojibway artist, as opposed to allowing himself to be categorized under the broader net of simply an "Indian" artist. Death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chee-Chee (musical)
''Chee-Chee'' is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart based on the 1927 book, ''The Son of the Grand Eunuch'', by Charles Pettit. ''Chee-Chee'' opened on Broadway September 25, 1928, and the show closed after 31 performances. In 1963 vocalist Betty Comden released an album that included some of the songs from the musical. Synopsis In 1928 Herbert Fields wrote a libretto based on Pettit's book in which the son of the Grand Eunuch, Li-Pi, and his wife, Chee-Chee, are forced into exile when the Grand Eunuch announces his plan for Li-Pi to become a eunuch and take his father's place as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee is captured and rescued, and Li-Pi is captured and rescued, and finally the musical ends happily. Musical Numbers Two acts, seven scenes. ;Act I Scene I: A Corridor in the Palace of the Holy Emperor, Son of Heaven, in the Violet Town of Peking * We're Men of Brains - Eunuchs * I Am a Prince - Prince Tao-Tee * In a Great Big Way - Li-Li-Wee * The Most Majestic of Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
