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Saturday Night Live (season 9)
The ninth season of ''Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 8, 1983, and May 12, 1984. Hosts Future cast member Billy Crystal hosted twice this season: once with musical guest Al Jarreau and again on the season finale with Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Betty Thomas and former cast member Don Novello, with the Cars as musical guest. Cast Jim Belushi was added to the cast, making his debut on the third episode of the season. Eddie Murphy's movie schedule got too busy during this season that, in a historic act for the show, he pre-taped a batch of sketches in September of 1983 that were aired throughout the season as if they were live so that he could skip those live shows. Murphy only performed live in eight of the season's 19 episodes, but he appears in new pre-taped sketches that aired in eight episodes he wasn't present for throughout the season. Midway through the season in February, Murphy left the show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Saturday Night Live Season 8
The eighth season of ''Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 25, 1982, and May 14, 1983. Format changes For the season, Dick Ebersol brought back the show's opening phrase " Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", the monologues by the hosts and Don Pardo as announcer. Ebersol also changed ''Weekend Update''s name for the second time, to ''Saturday Night News''. Since Brian Doyle-Murray and Christine Ebersole had both been dropped, a new anchor was needed for the segment. Brad Hall got the gig and became the new anchor. Notable moments Notable moments of this season included Drew Barrymore hosting the show—the youngest ever person to host. During the episode, the audience at home was given the chance to vote on whether or not Andy Kaufman should be banned from the show. The vote was conducted by a 1-900 number. At the end of the show the people had spoken, and Kaufman was banned from eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus ( ; born January 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian. She has gained acclaim for starring in a string of successful comedy series as well as several comedy films. She has received List of awards and nominations received by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, numerous accolades including 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and 9 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Louis-Dreyfus was born in New York City, the daughter of the French billionaire Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, and entered comedy as a performer with the The Practical Theatre Company, Practical Theatre Company in Chicago. She first appeared on TV with Michael Richards in the comedy sketch series 'Fridays' from 1980-1982. This led to her being cast in the sketch show ''Saturday Night Live''. Her breakthrough came from 1990 to 1998 playing Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom ''Seinfeld'', which became one of the most critically and commercially successful sitcoms. She earned acclaim for her roles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor and filmmaker. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series ''Taxi (TV series), Taxi'' (1978–1983), which won him a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award and an Primetime Emmy Award, Emmy Award. He plays List of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia characters#Frank Reynolds, Frank Reynolds on the FXX sitcom ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2006–present). DeVito is known for his film roles in ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975), ''Terms of Endearment'' (1983), ''Head Office'' (1985), ''Ruthless People'' (1986), ''Throw Momma from the Train'' (1987), ''Twins (1988 film), Twins'' (1988), ''The War of the Roses (film), The War of the Roses'' (1989), ''Batman Returns'' (1992), ''Jack the Bear'' (1993), ''Junior (1994 film), Junior'' (1994), ''Matilda (1996 film), Matilda'' (1996), ''L.A. Confidential (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert ( ; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American Film criticism, film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gene Siskel
Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the ''Chicago Tribune'' who co-hosted a movie review television series alongside colleague Roger Ebert. Siskel started writing for the ''Chicago Tribune'' in 1969, becoming its film critic soon after. In 1975, he was paired with Roger Ebert to co-host a monthly show called ''Opening Soon at a Theater Near You'' airing locally on PBS member station WTTW. In 1978, the show, renamed ''Sneak Previews'', was expanded to weekly episodes and aired on PBS affiliates across the United States. In 1982, Siskel and Ebert left ''Sneak Previews'' to create the Broadcast syndication, syndicated show ''At the Movies (1982 TV program), At the Movies''. Following a contract dispute with Tribune Entertainment in 1986, Siskel and Ebert signed with Buena Vista Television, creating ''Siskel & Ebert & the Movies'' (renamed ''Siskel & Ebert'' in 1987, and renamed again several times after Siskel's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company ( ; HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works. The company is based in the Financial District, Boston, Boston Financial District. It was formerly known as the Houghton Mifflin Company, but it changed its name following the 2007 acquisition of Harcourt (publisher), Harcourt Publishing. Prior to March 2010, it was a subsidiary of EMPG, Education Media and Publishing Group Limited, an Irish-owned holding company registered in the Cayman Islands and formerly known as Riverdeep. In 2022, it was acquired by Veritas Capital, a New York-based private-equity firm. Company history In 1832, William Ticknor and John Allen purchased a bookselling business in Boston and began to involve themselves in publishing; James T. Fields joined as a partner in 1843. Fields and Ticknor gradually gathered an impressive list of writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Crumblin' Down
"Crumblin' Down" is a rock music, rock song co-written and performed by John Mellencamp, John Cougar Mellencamp, released as the lead single from his 1983 album ''Uh-Huh''. It was a top-ten hit on both the US ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100 and Canadian pop charts, and it reached #2 on the US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, Mainstream Rock charts. Background "Crumblin' Down" was written by John Mellencamp and longtime writing partner George Green (songwriter), George Green. It was the last song recorded for ''Uh-huh, Uh-Huh''; after listening to the masters for the other tracks recorded, Mellencamp decided that the album needed a song that would work as the album's lead single. He contacted Green, with whom he had previously written "Hurts So Good," to solicit ideas. Green had begun a song with lines about walls crumbling down; he and Mellencamp then built the song by trading lines, attempting to top one another. According to Green, the song attempts t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pink Houses
"Pink Houses" is a song written and performed by John Cougar Mellencamp. It was released on 23 October 1983 as the second single from his album '' Uh-Huh''. It reached No. 8 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in early 1984 and No. 15 in Canada. "Pink Houses" was ranked No. 447 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Origins Recorded in a farmhouse in Brownstown, Indiana, the song was inspired when John Mellencamp was driving along an overpass on the way home to Bloomington, Indiana, from Indianapolis International Airport. Mellencamp observed an old black man sitting outside his small pink shotgun house with his cat in his arms, completely unperturbed by the traffic speeding along the highway in his front yard. "He waved, and I waved back," Mellencamp said in an interview with ''Rolling Stone''. "That's how 'Pink Houses' started." Mellencamp has stated many times since the release of "Pink Houses" that he is unhappy with the song's final ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. Mellencamp found success in the 1980s starting in 1982, with a string of top 10 singles, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack & Diane", "Crumblin' Down", "Pink Houses", "Lonely Ol' Night", "Small Town", "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.", "Paper in Fire", and "Cherry Bomb (John Mellencamp song), Cherry Bomb". He has scored fourteen top 20 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most songs by a solo artist to hit number one on the Mainstream Rock (chart), Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. He has sold over 60 million albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brandon Tartikoff
Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was an American television executive who was head of the entertainment division of NBC from 1981 to 1991. He was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with several hit series: '' Hill Street Blues'', ''L.A. Law'', '' Law & Order'', '' ALF'', '' Family Ties'', '' The Cosby Show'', ''Cheers'', ''Seinfeld'', ''The Golden Girls'', '' Wings'', '' Miami Vice'', '' Knight Rider'', '' The A-Team'', '' Saved by the Bell'', '' The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', '' St. Elsewhere'', and '' Night Court''. Tartikoff also helped develop the 1984 sitcom '' Punky Brewster''; he named the title character after a girl he had a crush on in school. He was also involved in the creation of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and '' Beggars and Choosers''. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family in Freeport, New York, Tartikoff was a graduate of Lawrenceville School and Yale University, where he contributed to campus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Saturday Night Live Season 6
The sixth season of ''Saturday Night Live'', an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between November 15, 1980, and April 11, 1981. Jean Doumanian, who had been an associate producer for the first five seasons of ''SNL'', was given executive producer responsibilities after Lorne Michaels left the show, along with all the cast and almost all the writing staff. (Michaels would return five years later.) Doumanian's firstand onlyseason in charge was plagued by difficulties, from a reduced budget to new cast members who were compared unfavorably to the Not Ready for Prime Time Players. Critical reception was strongly negative and ratings sank. After cast member Charles Rocket swore on air in the February 21, 1981 episode, NBC president of entertainment Brandon Tartikoff fired Doumanian and hired Dick Ebersol to improve the show. The show went on a brief hiatus as Ebersol retooled the cast, firing most of Doumanian's hires with the exception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pam Norris
Pamela Norris is an American screenwriter and producer. She is best known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' (1980–1984), and for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film ''Troop Beverly Hills''.(7 April 1989'Troop'strictly rank-and-vile ''The Pantagraph''. Retrieved November 17, 2010. She was executive producer of the sitcom ''Designing Women'',Meyers, Kate (11 October 1991)TV Sitcoms Take a Rear View ''Entertainment Weekly'', Retrieved November 17, 2010 ("'There's nothing funnier than someone's pants falling down,' explains Designing Women co-executive producer Pamela Norris. 'There must be something down deep in the human character — that infantile quality.') and '' The Huntress'' on USA Network.Bianculli, David (26 July 2000Quirky Picker-Uppers: Mom & daughter claim bounties in 'Huntress' ''Daily News (New York)'', Retrieved November 17, 2010 ("Executive producer Pamela Norris once wrote for 'Designing Women,' and 'The Huntress' really d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
