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Paul Wayne
Paul Wayne (born Paul Weinberg; 17 January 1932) is a Canadian writer. He wrote sketches of television variety shows, like ''The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'' that he won an Emmy Award for, and episodes of other television shows, like ''Three's Company''. He also served as producer of only two short-lived sitcoms, ''Doc'' and ''Excuse My French''. Career All together with his writing partner George Burditt and other writing crew, they earned Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Series: ''The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour'' in 1972 and 1974, and ''Van Dyke and Company'' in 1977, a variety show starring Dick Van Dyke. Wayne and Burditt co-wrote mainly the first three seasons (1977–79) of the television series ''Three's Company'', Both together co-wrote one episode of ''All in the Family'', "Archie Eats and Runs" (1974), and another episode of '' Sanford and Son'' (alongside Aaron Ruben), "The Way to Lamont's Heart" (1974). Individually or with o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Welcome Back, Kotter
''Welcome Back, Kotter'' is an American sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a high-school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial education class called the "Sweathogs." Recorded in front of a live studio audience, the series aired on ABC from September 9, 1975, through May 17, 1979. It provided John Travolta with his breakthrough role. Premise The show stars stand-up comedian and actor Gabriel "Gabe" Kaplan as the main character, Gabe Kotter. A wisecracking teacher who returns to his alma mater, James Buchanan High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, to teach a remedial class of loafers, the Sweathogs. The rigid vice principal, Michael Woodman ( John Sylvester White), dismisses the Sweathogs as witless hoodlums and only expects Kotter to contain them until they drop out or are otherwise banished. As a former remedial student and a founding member of the original class of Sweathogs, Kotter befriends the current Sweathogs and stimulates their potenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Calgary Herald
The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler." It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. A year's subscription cost $3. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack. Cayley quickly became partner and editor. Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ottawa Journal
The ''Ottawa Journal'' was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1885 to 1980. It was founded in 1885 by A. Woodburn as the ''Ottawa Evening Journal''. Its first editor was John Wesley Dafoe who came from the ''Winnipeg Free Press''. In 1886, it was bought by Philip Dansken Ross. The paper began publishing a morning edition in 1917. In 1919, the paper's publishers bought the ''Ottawa Free Press'', whose former owner, E. Norman Smith, then became editor with Grattan O'Leary. In 1959, it was bought by F.P. Publications. By then, the ''Journal'', whose readers tended to come from rural areas, was trailing the ''Ottawa Citizen'', its main competitor. The paper encountered labour problems in the 1970s and never really recovered. In 1980, it was bought by Thomson Newspapers and was closed on 27 August 1980. That left Southam Newspapers's ''Ottawa Citizen'' as the only major English-language newspaper in Ottawa (''Le Droit'' remaining the only Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
29th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 29th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 11, 1977. The ceremony was broadcast on NBC. It was hosted by Angie Dickinson and Robert Blake (actor), Robert Blake. The top shows of the night were ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Tyler Moore'', which, in its final season, won its third consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Comedy Series Award, it also became the first comedy series to gain eleven major nominations (since broken). ''Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series), Upstairs, Downstairs'', also in its final season, won its third Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Drama Series Award in four years (it competed as a miniseries in 1976, and won that category too). But the overwhelming champion of the ceremony was the miniseries ''Roots (1977 miniseries), Roots''. ''Roots'' set several milestones and broke multiple records during the night. It became the first show to receive at least twenty major no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 26th Emmy Awards, later known as the 26th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 28, 1974. The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson. Winners are listed in bold and networks are in parentheses. The top shows of the night were ''M*A*S*H'' and '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. ''M*A*S*H'' and ''The Waltons'' had the most major nominations with nine. ''The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'' led the night with four major wins. For this ceremony, individual awards dubbed "Super Emmys" were given out in addition to the traditional categories. The individual categories were dropped the following year and have not returned since. Winners and nominees Programs Acting Lead performances Supporting performances Directing Writing Super Emmys The Primetime Super Emmy Award was a set of 14 awards that were given in conjunction with the traditional Emmy Awards at the 1974 ceremony. Winners of a traditional Emmy would then compete against their genre counterpart from the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 24th Emmy Awards, later known as the 24th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 6, 1972. The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson. Winners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses. The top shows of the night were ''All in the Family'' and ''Elizabeth R''. ''All in the Family'' set numerous records during the night, it became the first show to win six major awards, (although one came in a tie, this record would be broken by other shows that won six major awards outright). It also became the first non-anthology drama to receive at least ten major nominations. A milestone was set when ''All in the Family'' and ''Columbo'' each received every nomination in a major category, both for writing. This feat has become extremely rare as the field of nominees expanded to five and later six. Glenda Jackson also made history by receiving three acting nominations for the same performance as Queen Elizabeth I in ''Elizabeth R''. Rule changes have made this impos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st Primetime Emmy Awards
The 21st Emmy Awards—also known since 1974 as the 21st Primetime Emmy Awards—were handed out on June 8, 1969. The ceremony was co-hosted by Bill Cosby and Merv Griffin. The top shows of the night were ''Get Smart'', which won Outstanding Comedy Series for the second consecutive year, and Outstanding Dramatic Series winner ''NET Playhouse''. ''NET Playhouse'', from the PBS predecessor National Educational Television Network, became the first show outside the Big Three television networks to win a top series award. Due to several categories being combined for the ceremony, no show received more than two major wins. The most drastic rule change was that all shows that had aired more than two seasons were ineligible. The cause of this change was due to the rise in repeat winners in recent years. There was no winner in the category of ''Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role'', because the judges felt that none of the nominees were worthy of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeneas MacKenzie
Aeneas MacKenzie, or Æneas MacKenzie (August 15, 1889 in Stornoway, Scotland – June 2, 1962 in Los Angeles), was a Scottish-American screenwriter. MacKenzie wrote many notable Hollywood films, including: ''The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'' (1939), ''They Died with Their Boots On'' (1941), ''Ivanhoe'' (1952), and ''The Ten Commandments'' (1956). Career Maackenzie came from England to work on a film of '' East Lynne''. In January 1938, he was under contract to Warner Bros. to write what would become ''Juarez''. In February 1939, he was working on a biopic of John Paul Jones for James Cagney. He also wrote a biopic of Disraeli for Claude Rains. Neither were made, but by July 1940, he was working on a biopic of George Custer which became ''They Died with Their Boots On''. MacKenzie wrote ''The Widow of Devil's Island'' for Bette Davis. In March 1942, he was working on a movie about "Sing Sing" prison. In October 1943, RKO announced they would make a film from his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Against All Flags
''Against All Flags'' is a 1952 American pirate film directed by George Sherman and Douglas Sirk and starring Errol Flynn as Brian Hawke, Maureen O'Hara as Prudence "Spitfire" Stevens and Anthony Quinn as Roc Brasiliano. The film's plot is set in 1700, when British officer Brian Hawke infiltrates a group of pirates located on Libertatia on the coast of Madagascar, and falls in love with pirate captain "Spitfire" Stevens. Plot Lieutenant Brian Hawke, an officer aboard the British merchant ship ''The Monsoon'', volunteers for a dangerous mission to infiltrate the pirates' base at Diego Suarez on the coast of Madagascar. He and two trusted crewmen, Jones and Harris, pose as deserters; to make his disguise more convincing, he is given twenty lashes. When they arrive in Diego Suarez, they arouse the suspicions of the pirates, especially Captain Roc Brasiliano. Brasiliano orders Hawke to appear before a tribunal of the Coast Captains to decide his fate. If they do not believe him, he wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King's Pirate
''The King's Pirate'' is a 1967 American pirate film directed by Don Weis and starring Doug McClure, Jill St. John and Guy Stockwell. It is a remake of the 1952 film ''Against All Flags''. Plot A British naval officer volunteers for a dangerous mission to infiltrate the base of pirates who threaten shipping off Madagascar. Cast * Doug McClure as Lt. Brian Fleming * Jill St. John as Mistress Jessica Stephens * Guy Stockwell as John Avery * Mary Ann Mobley as Princess Patna * Kurt Kasznar as Zucco * Richard Deacon as Swaine * Torin Thatcher as Captain Cullen * Diana Chesney as Molvina MacGregor * Ivor Barry as Cloudsly * William Glover as Captain Hornsby (as Bill Glover) * Woodrow Parfrey as Gow * Sean McClory as Sparkes * Émile Genest as Captain Mission * Ted de Corsia as Capt. McTigue * Alex Montoya as Caraccioli * Tanya Lemani as Member of Zucco's Troop * Ami Luce as Member of Zucco's Troop * Bob Terhune as Member of Zucco's Troop (as Robert Terhune) * Chuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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