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Shane may refer to: People * Shane (name), a masculine given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with this name * Shane (actress) (born 1969), American pornographic actress * Shane (New Zealand singer) (born 1946) * iamnotshane (born 1995), formerly known as Shane, American singer Arts, entertainment, and media Literature and adaptations * ''Shane'' (novel), a 1949 Western novel by Jack Schaefer ** ''Shane'' (film), a 1953 movie based on Schaefer's book ** ''Shane'' (American TV series), a 1966 American television series based on Schaefer's book, starring David Carradine, that aired on ABC Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * ''Shane'' (British TV series), 2004 sitcom written by and starring Frank Skinner * The Shanes (German band), a German rock band * The Shanes (Swedish band), a Swedish rock band Other uses * 1994 Shane, an asteroid * Shane Building, a historic building in Hollywood, California * Shane Company Shane Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane (name)
Shane is mainly a masculine given name. It is an anglicized version of the Irish name '' Séaghan/Séan'', which itself is cognate to the name '' John''. ''Shane'' comes from the way the name ''Seán'' is pronounced in the Ulster dialect of the Irish language, as opposed to '' Shaun'' or '' Shawn''. Shane is sometimes used as a feminine given name, from the Yiddish name '' Shayna'', meaning "beautiful". Shane is also a popular surname with the prefix "Mac", "Mc", or "O'", to form anglicized Irish surname patronyms. The surname was first recorded in Petty's census of Ireland (1659), which lists a Dermot McShane (i.e., Son of Shane). Variant forms include O'Shane, O'Shea, Séamus, Seán or Sean, Shaine, Shauna, Shawna, Shay, Shayna, and Shayne. The name Shane was popularized by Jack Schaefer's novel '' Shane'' (1949) and its eponymous 1953 movie adaptation, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr. Given name Men * Shane, New Zealand singer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane (actress)
Shane (born December 16, 1969) is an American former pornographic actress, director, and web personality, known for creating the '' Shane's World'' series of adult videos after having debuted in the Seymore Butts video series. She is also the founder of an adult film production company of the same name. Shane is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. Career At the age of 17, she began working as a stripper. Shane started her adult film career in 1993. According to her '' Adult Video News'' magazine profile, she and a girlfriend were impressed by a video made by Seymore Butts and decided to make a video of her own, which she sent to him. He invited her to Los Angeles and soon after she began making videos with him and for other production companies. The videos she made with Butts became among the most popular titles in reality porn. In 1994, Shane and Butts caused controversy when Shane performed a sex act on a volunteer firefighter at an Elmont, New York fire department without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane (New Zealand Singer)
Shane Paul Arthur Hales (born 15 May 1946), known by the stage name Shane and for some of the early part of his career as Trevor Hales, is a New Zealand singer who had several top-10 hits in that country's singles chart in the 1960s and 1970s. Biography Shane grew up in Guildford, Surrey, England, attending Park Barn Secondary School, before moving to Australia and then New Zealand in the mid-1960s. Shane started his career in 1966 as a member of Australian band The Pleazers, who spent much of their career in Auckland. Shane was briefly a member of Auckland band The Jamestown Union in 1967 before forming his own band, Shane. This band recorded a single, "The Town of Tuxley Toymaker" in 1968. While playing a gig in 1968, Shane was approached by television producer Kevan Moore to become a regular singer on the television pop programme '' C'mon''. Shane accepted, and was a regular feature on the show from its second season on. Shane was taken under the wing of New Zealand pop i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iamnotshane
Shane Niemi (born August 2, 1995), known by his stage name iamnotshane (stylized in all lowercase), is an American singer and songwriter. He became known for his music video for his 2016 song "Insecure", which includes a version of Michael Jackson's anti-gravity lean and has been viewed over 5 million times History Niemi was born in Los Angeles. He has been performing since the age of 8 and began writing original songs at age 12. In 2014, he posted his first music video for "Sinister". A year later he released his first EP ''Sad''. In 2016, his music video for "Insecure" went viral and has 6.5 million views on YouTube. He later changed his stage name to iamnotshane and released his self-titled EP ''iamnotshane'' in 2020 through Avant Garden and Island Records Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in Jamaica by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in 1959, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane (novel)
''Shane'' is a western novel by Jack Schaefer published in 1949. It was initially published in 1946 in three parts in '' Argosy'' magazine, and originally titled ''Rider from Nowhere''. The novel has been printed in seventy or more editions, and translated into over 30 languages, and was adapted into the 1953 film starring Alan Ladd. The novel covered themes associated with the Johnson County War and took the side of the settlers in their conflict against the wealthy ranchers. Plot The story is set in 1889 Wyoming, when the Wyoming Territory was still open to the Homestead Act of 1862. It is narrated by a homesteader's son, Bob Starrett. The original unclaimed land surrounding the Starretts' homestead had been used by a cattle driver named Luke Fletcher before being claimed by Bob's father, Joe Starrett, along with 12 other homesteaders. Fletcher had settled there first, although he could only claim as a homestead. He wants to expand his herd; homesteads in the area would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane (film)
''Shane'' is a 1953 American Western (genre), Western film directed and produced by George Stevens and starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance. The screenplay, written by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (with contributions from Jack Sher), is based on the 1949 Shane (novel), novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. Set in the Wyoming Territory in 1889, the film follows the titular character, a gunfighter with a mysterious past who becomes embroiled in a conflict between poor homesteaders and wealthy ranchers. The novel and film were both inspired by the Johnson County War (1888–1893). The film was released by Paramount Pictures on April 23, 1953.''Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews, Harrison's Reports'' film review; April 18, 1953, page 63. It was both a critical and commercial success, and was noted at the time for its Technicolor landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre.Andrew, Geoff. "Shane", ''Time Out Film Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane (American TV Series)
''Shane'' is an American Western television series which aired on ABC in 1966. It was based on the 1949 book of the same name by Jack Schaefer and the 1953 classic film starring Alan Ladd. David Carradine portrayed the titular character in the television series, a former gunfighter and sometimes outlaw who takes a job as a hired hand at the ranch of a widowed woman, her son, and her father-in-law. Premise The series follows the 1953 film in its general premise, even in the lead character's buckskin shirt and concho gun belt, but departs from it in several important aspects: The Shane, Marian, and Joey characters are much younger; Marian is a widow who lives with her father-in-law Tom, and Shane has lived with them for a while already when the story starts. That is the basis for a romance subplot that constitutes the arc of the whole series; nearly every person who meets them supposes Shane and Marian are a couple. Her father-in-law approves it, and the boy Joey idolizes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane (British TV Series)
''Shane'' is an ITV sitcom written by and starring Frank Skinner and directed by Audrey Cooke, with the first series originally broadcast in 2004. Reviews were generally poor, but a second series was commissioned. After the second series had been recorded, contract differences between Frank Skinner and ITV arose; the second series, consisting a further six episodes has never been broadcast despite being finished and edited. An American version of the show was piloted by CBS, with Skinner working as executive producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the production of media. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties). In film .... Plot The show was about the title character, Shane (Skinner), a middle aged taxi driver, and his long suffering family. His wife, Myrtle, is a mature student who enjoys creative writing and amateur dramatics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shanes (German Band)
The Shanes are a German folk rock, folk punk, and polka band from Trier, active from 1991 until the present. The band has published 11 albums and tours mainly in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg, but they have also performed in the United States/Texas, Great Britain, France and Hungary. Members *Kornelius Flowers (since 1991) - vocals *Jörg "Warpig" Stoffregen (since 2004) - guitar, banjo, mandolin *Matt Dawson (since 2011) - pedal steel, dobro, mandolin *Chris Birch (since 2011) - fiddle *Nataša Grujović (since 2008) - accordion *Herr Dannehl (since 1994) - bass guitar, upright bass *"Boergermeister" Markus Schu (since 2006) - drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ... Albums *1992: Songs From the Urban Country Hell (Strangeways/Indigo) *1993: Polka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shanes (Swedish Band)
The Shanes were a Swedish rock band active from 1963 to 1969. The group played in a variety of British- and American-influenced styles, including British R&B, Merseybeat, and instrumental pop. They were successful in their home country, landing a string of top ten hit singles, including "Chris-Craft No. 9", which reached number 2 there in 1967.Richie Unterberger, The Shanesat Allmusic They released one single in the UK on Columbia Records, "I Don't Want Your Love", but it did not chart there. Members *Lennart Grahn – vocals *Tommy Wåhlberg – guitar, vocals *Staffan Berggren – lead guitar, vocals *Tor-Erik Rautio – drums *Kit Sundqvist – keyboards, guitar, vocals *Rolf Carvenius – saxophone *Svante Elfgren – bass Discography LPs * ''Let Us Show You!'' (1964) * ''The Shanegang'' (1965) * ''Shanes Again!'' (1966) * ''Ssss Shanes!'' (1967) * ''VI'' (1967) Swedish singles EPs * ''Shanes-Moonlighters live!'' (1965; Columbia SEGS-138) * ''Let Me Tell Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Shane
1994 Shane, provisional designation , is a dark Adeonian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 October 1961, by astronomers of the Indiana Asteroid Program conducted at the Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States. It was later named after American astronomer C. Donald Shane. Orbit and classification ''Shane'' is a member of the Adeona family (), a large family of carbonaceous asteroids. The asteroid orbits the Sun in the intermediate main belt at a distance of 2.1–3.2 AU once every 4 years and 5 months (1,603 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 10 ° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as at Simeiz Observatory in 1939, extending ''Shane''s observation arc by 22 years prior to its official discovery observation at Goethe. Lightcurve In October 2009, a rotational lightcurve of ''Shane'' was obtained from photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Building
Shane Building, also known as Shane & Regar Store Building or Hollywood Center, is a historic four-story building at 6650-6654 W. Hollywood Blvd. and 1655 N Cherokee Ave in Hollywood, California. History Built in 1930, Shane Building was designed by Norton & Wallis. The building was the original home of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, and was once home to the Directors Guild of America as well. During the 1970s and 1980s, the building was owned by Walnut Properties/Pussycat Theatres (Vincent Miranda, George Tate). From August 1977 to January 1978, the building's basement was home to Los Angeles's first punk rock club, The Masque. The club also had a secondary access point from the building's neighboring pornographic theater. The Ramones opened in the basement club before becoming famous. In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Shane Building listed as a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
