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High Society (band)
High society is a category of people deemed to have social status or prestige. High Society may also refer to: Films * ''High Society'' (1924 film), an Our Gang silent comedy * ''High Society'' (1932 film), a comedy film starring Florence Desmond * ''High Society'' (1955 film), a Bowery Boys film * ''High Society'' (1956 film), an MGM musical film * ''High Society'' (2014 film), a French drama film * ''High Society'' (2017 film), a German film of the 2010s * ''High Society'' (2018 film), a South Korean film * Music * "High Society" (Bear Hands song) * "High Society" (composition), a 1901 jazz standard written by Porter Steele * ''High Society'' (Enon album) * ''High Society'' (Epik High album) * ''High Society'' (High Contrast album) * ''High Society'' (Kottonmouth Kings album) * ''High Society'' (soundtrack), from the 1956 film * ''High Society'' (The Silver Seas album) Musicals * ''High Society'' (musical), a 1998 Broadway musical based on the 1956 film * , a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society
High society, sometimes simply society, is the behavior and lifestyle of people with the highest levels of wealth and social status. It includes their related affiliations, social events and practices. Upscale social clubs were open to men based on assessments of their ranking and role within high society. In American high society, the ''Social Register'' was traditionally a key resource for identifying qualified members. For a global perspective, see upper class. The quality of housing, clothing, servants and dining were visible marks of membership. History 19th century The term became common in the late 19th century, especially when the newly rich arrived in key cities such as New York City, Boston, and Newport, Rhode Island, built great mansions and sponsored highly publicized parties. The media lavished attention on them, especially when newspapers devoted whole sections to weddings, funerals, parties and other events sponsored by the local high society. In major cities, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (Kottonmouth Kings Album)
''High Society'' is the second studio album by American hip hop group Kottonmouth Kings. It was released June 27, 2000 under Suburban Noize Records and Capitol Records. The album peaked at number 65 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart on July 15, 2000. The song "Peace Not Greed" peaked at number 37 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, Artist Chart History: Singles/ref> with its accompanying music video being featured on MTV's ''Total Request Live ''Total Request Live'' (known commonly as ''TRL'') was an American television program broadcast on MTV that premiered on September 14, 1998. TRL featured popular music videos played during its countdown, and was also used as a promotion tool by ...'' as a "Close Call". The song "Crucial" along with a short FMV were included in the PS1 game T.J. Lavin's Ultimate BMX. Track listing Personnel *Daddy X - Vocals, Lyrics *D-Loc - Vocals, Lyrics *Johnny Richter - Vocals, Lyrics *Lou Dogg - Drums, Percussion *DJ Bobby B - DJ, Engineeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentry
Gentry (from Old French ''genterie'', from ''gentil'', "high-born, noble") are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past. Word similar to gentle [simple and decent] families ''Gentry'', in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see manorialism), upper levels of the clergy, and "gentle" families of long descent who in some cases never obtained the official right to bear a coat of arms. The gentry largely consisted of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a Estate (land), country estate; some were gentleman farmers. In the United Kingdom, the term ''gentry'' refers to the landed gentry: the majority of the land-owning social class who typically had a coat of arms, but did not have a Peerages in the United Kingdom, peerage. The adjective "Patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician" ("of or like a person of high social rank") describes in comparison other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (2015 TV Series)
''High Society'' () is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Uee, Sung Joon, Park Hyung-sik and Lim Ji-yeon. It aired on SBS from June 8 to July 28, 2015 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 ( KST) time slot for 16 episodes. Synopsis Jang Yoon-ha (Uee) is the youngest daughter of a chaebol family. Her family is a mess. Hated by her mother, she wants to live a normal life like a normal person. She is arranged to marry a young chaebol Yoo Chang-soo (Park Hyung-sik). She hides her identity and works as a part-time sales woman in a supermarket and befriends with Lee Ji-yi ( Lim Ji-yeon) who wants to marry a rich man and starts dreaming about it. Lee Ji-yi has a crush on Choi Joon-gi ( Sung Joon), a brilliant and hard-working friend of Yoo Chang-soo, who comes from a poor family and wants to become rich by marrying a rich girl. Joon-gi catches Yoon-ha's attention and he proposes to her. Yoo Chang-soo flirts with Lee Ji-yi and they become a couple. Yoon-ha starts a relationsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (2010 TV Series)
''High Society'' is a reality show following the lives of Tinsley Mortimer, a Manhattan socialite, and her friends, which premiered on The CW on October 3, 2010. It was originally scheduled to air every Wednesday at 9 pm after ''America's Next Top Model'' but due to low ratings the network decided to push it back half hour to air after '' Fly Girls''. Starring *Tinsley Mortimer, a famous New York City socialite. The series follows her through a widely publicized divorce from her husband Topper, the descendant of a Standard Oil president, and her dating a German prince whom her mother Dale does not approve. *Dabney Mercer, Tinsley's younger sister and shoulder to cry on. Dabney lives with Jules Kirby at the Empire hotel, until Kirby is evicted. * Paul Johnson Calderon, a fame-hungry socialite from the Upper West Side and admitted alcoholic who has already been through rehab several times and still drinks. He survives by repeatedly asking his mother for more money from his trust fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (1995 TV Series)
''High Society'' is an American sitcom television series starring Jean Smart and Mary McDonnell that aired Monday nights on CBS from October 30, 1995, to February 26, 1996; it was entered into the CBS schedule as a replacement for ''If Not for You,'' a sitcom that was quickly canceled by the network. The theme song was " The Lady Is a Tramp" sung by Chaka Khan. Its premise was similar to the campy British comedy series ''Absolutely Fabulous''. Storyline The series revolves around two New York City women who acted in an outrageous, campy, and decadent manner. Ellie Walker (Jean Smart) is a successful author of trashy romantic novels, and her best friend and publisher is Dorothy 'Dott' Emerson (Mary McDonnell). Emerson is a divorced mother with a preppie college-aged son, Brendan Emerson (Dan O'Donahue), a College Republican, who resists Ellie's relentless sexual advances. At the publishing house, the women worked with a flamboyant gay male secretary named Stephano (Luigi Amodeo) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (novel)
''High Society'' (2002) is a darkly comic novel by English author Ben Elton. The story focuses on Peter Paget, a Labour Party MP, and his mission to legalise all recreational drugs in the United Kingdom. Plot summary It also follows several other characters: *Tommy Hanson. Tommy Hanson is Britain's most successful musical artist and became famous after winning ''Pop Hero'' (ostensibly a reference to ''Pop Idol''). He is an abuser of several drugs and narrates his story to people at his NA and AA meetings. His character is possibly inspired by Robbie Williams, whose name is mentioned several times in the novel. *Jessie. Jessie is a seventeen-year-old Scottish girl who, after running away from home to London, was coerced into prostitution. The story follows her battle to escape her pimp and her battle against her drug addiction. *Commander Barry Leman, a high ranking police officer who becomes obsessed with a personal quest for justice when a friend of his daughter's is horri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (magazine)
''High Society'' is a U.S. pornographic magazine. In addition to hardcore pictorials of nude models, it also has feature articles and occasional celebrity pictorials. History ''High Society'' was first published in May 1976. Carl Ruderman hired the adult industry's first female men's magazine editor, Gloria Leonard, in 1977. Leonard, an adult film star, is credited with the use of "900" and " 976 phone numbers" to advertise upcoming magazine issues. This evolved into the very first "phone sex" lines. In November 1981 a spin-off magazine, ''High Society Live!'', debuted. Another venture was a celebrity focused publication, ''Celebrity Skin'' magazine, in 1986. The 10th Anniversary Issue of High Society, published May, 1986 featured Gail Thackray (Gail Harris) with a 10-page spread, Centerfold and Front cover. Over its 25-year run Margot Kidder, Ann-Margret and Barbra Streisand unsuccessfully attempted to sue the magazine after it published nude photos of them. ''High Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (comics)
''High Society'' is the second collected volume, and first volume-length story, of Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's ''Cerebus'' comic book series. It focuses mainly on politics, including ''Cerebuss campaign for the office of Prime Minister, in the fictional city-state of Iest in Sim's world of Estarcion. It is generally considered the best book for beginning ''Cerebus'' readers to start reading, and has been called "one of the finest storylines of the 1980s". The story was published in individual issues from May 1981 (issue #26) to May 1983 (#50), with the collection published in 1986. The story is considered a turning point in the ''Cerebus'' series, as Sim moved from the " Conan pastiche" of the stories contained in the ''Cerebus'', to making a "piece of political satire," the beginning of Sim moving away from individual issue-focused stories and short, two- or three-issue story arcs, to "longer, far more complex 'novels'" lasting hundreds of pages, that were the focus of the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (musical)
''High Society'' is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Some updated or new lyrics were provided by Susan Birkenhead. The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy '' The Philadelphia Story'' and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, ''High Society'', which features Porter's songs. The musical includes most of the music featured in the movie, along with several songs selected from other Porter musicals. It premiered on Broadway in 1998 and has since been revived.Simonson, Robert and David Lefkowitz"''High Society'' Opens on Broadway" Playbill.com, April 27, 1998 Another musical adaptation of the story had opened in London in 1987 with a different book by Richard Eyre. The plot centers on a pretentious Oyster Bay socialite who is planning to wed an equally pretentious executive, when her ex-husband arrives to disrupt the proceedings. Plot ;Act I Glamorous but pretentious Oyster Bay, Long Island socialite Tracy Sama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (The Silver Seas Album)
''High Society'' is the second album by the Silver Seas The Silver Seas, formerly the Bees, are a pop-rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, that formed when producer-musician Jason Lehning met singer-songwriter Daniel Tashian, son of Barry and Holly Tashian. History They played their first show as .... The album was originally self-released in May 2006 under the band's previous name, the Bees, then rereleased in October 2007 by Cheap Lullaby under their current name. The song "Catch Yer Own Train" was featured in a first-season episode of AMC's '' Breaking Bad'' and is included on the soundtrack album ''Breaking Bad: Music From the Original Television Series'' (2010). Track listing All songs written by Daniel Tashian, except where noted. # "The Country Life" – 2:39 # "High Society" – 2:44 # "Ms. November" – 2:10 # "Imaginary Girl" – 2:28 # "She Is Gone" – 3:14 # "Catch Yer Own Train" – 3:06 # "Tativille" – 2:38 # "We'll Go Walking" (Tashian, Jason Lehning) †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Society (soundtrack)
''High Society'' is a 1956 soundtrack album, featuring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Grace Kelly. This was Crosby's fifth LP album, and his first recorded for Capitol Records. It was the soundtrack for the MGM feature film ''High Society'', also released in 1956. Initially issued on vinyl either in mono or stereo format, the album has been issued on CD by Capitol in Japan (CD: TOCP-6587) in 1991 and by Capitol in the UK (CD: CDP 793787-2) in 1995. The album was also included in a 3-CD box set called "Original Soundtrack Recordings" issued by the EMI Music Group Australasia Crosby's exclusive recording contract with Decca Records expired at the end of 1955 and he chose to go freelance. After his recording of " True Love" with Grace Kelly went gold, Crosby joked that it was the only gold record to feature a real-life princess. " True Love" was the only song in the album to be nominated for an Academy Award but it lost out to " Que Sera, Sera". Reception The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
