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Rook (surname)
Rook is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ada Rook, Canadian musician * Alan Rook (1909-1990), editor of the 1936 issue of ''New Oxford Poetry'', one of the Cairo poets *Jean Rook (1931–1991), British newspaper columnist * Jerry Rook (1943-2019), American former professional basketball player *Susan Rook Susan Rook (born ) is a journalist best known for her years as a CNN anchor and original Host of CNN's Talkback Live. Rook started anchoring overnight news cutins, then moved up to more visible anchor assignments: co-anchoring "Newsnight" with Pat ..., journalist and photographer Fictional people * Bodhi Rook, Star Wars character See also * Albert Harold Rooks (1891–1942), Captain in U.S. Navy, World War II Medal of Honor recipient {{surname, Rook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Dresses
Black Dresses are a Canadian noise pop duo consisting of Ada Rook and Devi McCallion. Their debut album, '' Wasteisolation'', was released independently in 2018. The duo released three additional albums, ''Thank You'' (2019), ''Love and Affection for Stupid Little Bitches'' (2019), and '' Peaceful as Hell'' (2020), before breaking up in 2020. Despite no longer being a band, Black Dresses has released two additional albums, '' Forever in Your Heart'' (2021) and '' Forget Your Own Face'' (2022). History 2018-2019: ''Wasteisolation'', ''Thank You'', and ''Love and Affection for Stupid Little Bitches'' Black Dresses was formed in 2017 by self-taught musicians Ada Rook and Devi McCallion after Rook sent McCallion a beat on Twitter. They released their first single, a cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes", in December 2017. The duo released their debut album, '' Wasteisolation'', in April 2018. The album was created entirely through online collaboration, with McCallion based in Toronto an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Rook
(William) Alan Rook OBE (1909 – 1990) was a British Cairo poet and edited the 1936 issue of ''New Oxford Poetry''. As a soldier In the Second World War Rook served as a Lieutenant anti-aircraft gunner with the 6th A.A. Division of the Royal Artillery. After evacuation at Dunkirk he served in searchlight operations with an anti-aircraft unit, defending the East End of London during the Blitz. He rose to the rank of Major. He left a vivid diary of the Blitz experience. He left the Army in 1944, invalided out. He continued an interest in targeting and weapons after the war, becoming a keen archer. As a poet His first book of poems was published in 1938, and three further books during the war. During the war, and in the decade after 1945, he was best known in Britain as a war poet. His best known poem was ""Dunkirk," which was considered the finest poem inspired by the war." and it "became famous in tent and household". He was a good friend of fellow conservative poets such as J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Rook
Jean Kathleen Rook (13 November 1931 – 5 September 1991) was an English journalist dubbed ''The First Lady of Fleet Street'' for her regular opinion column in the ''Daily Express''. She was also, along with Lynda Lee-Potter, a model for the Glenda Slagg column in the satirical magazine ''Private Eye''. Rook was the highest-paid woman on Fleet Street, London, then the centre of the British newspaper industry. Early life and career Jean Rook was the daughter of an engineer, Horace Rook, a consultant engineer from Boston, Lincolnshire, and a cinema usherette, Freda Garton. Jean was born in Kingston upon Hull and raised in the East Riding of Yorkshire. She was educated at Malet Lambert High School in Hull and Bedford College, part of the University of London, where she became the first woman to edit the university's Sunday newspaper, '' Sennet''. She read English, and graduated in 1954 with an upper second-class degree. Rook took an MA in 1956. She began her professional ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Rook
Jerry G. Rook (October 27, 1943 – August 25, 2019) was an American basketball player, best known for his success at Arkansas State University. He played one season for the New Orleans Buccaneers in the American Basketball Association (ABA). High school Rook was born and raised in rural Arkansas. He attended Nettleton High School in Jonesboro. The school system was so small that all elementary, junior high and high school students shared the same three-story school building. As a basketball player for Nettleton, Rook was voted All-Conference and All-District three times (1959–61). He was twice named All-State (1960, 1961) and, his senior season of 1960–61, ''Scholastic Magazine'' named him an All-American. Rook was also named the State Tournament MVP that year after his team finished 40–3 and as state champions (he scored 52 points in the state final and 144 points in the state tournament). The previous season, Nettleton had finished as state runners-up. Rook finished his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Rook
Susan Rook (born ) is a journalist best known for her years as a CNN anchor and original Host of CNN's Talkback Live. Rook started anchoring overnight news cutins, then moved up to more visible anchor assignments: co-anchoring "Newsnight" with Patrick Emory and later '' PrimeNews'' and "Evening News" (later renamed to World News), co-anchoring with Bernard Shaw and later hosting the topical daily talk show '' TalkBack Live''. Rook was one of the three panelists, along with Helen Thomas and Gene Gibbons, in the 3rd 1992 United States presidential election debate with then president George H. W. Bush and future president Bill Clinton. She was also a general assignment reporter in New Orleans and Ft Myers, FL before coming to CNN. She is a graduate of George Mason University She originally turned down the offer to Anchor on CNN. She took the job after the News Director in New Orleans spiked her investigative story about political corruption. She turned the story over to Ron Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodhi Rook
Bodhi Rook is a fictional character in the '' Star Wars'' franchise who first appeared in 2016 in ''Rogue One'', portrayed by British Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed. Bodhi is a former Imperial cargo pilot who, under the influence of Galen Erso, defects to the Rebel Alliance in an attempt to steal the plans to the Death Star. Character Origins Industrial Light & Magic chief creative officer John Knoll, credited for the story of ''Rogue One'', told '' Vanity Fair'' in 2016 that he conceived the plot of the film while working as a visual effects supervisor on the 2005 film '' Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith''. Hearing about the development of a live-action ''Star Wars'' television series, he conceived a story, inspired by a plot point mentioned in the opening crawl of the original 1977 film '' Star Wars'', which would eventually become ''Rogue One''. At the beginning of shooting, Bodhi did not have a big role in the film, with Ahmed noting "He had a different name and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |