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Free The Army Tour
The ''FTA Show'' (or ''FTA Tour'' or ''Free The Army tour''), a play on the common troop expression "Fuck The Army" (which in turn was a play on the army slogan "Fun, Travel and Adventure"), was a 1971 Opposition to the US involvement in the Vietnam War, anti-Vietnam War road show for G.I. (military), GIs designed as a response to Bob Hope's patriotic and pro-war United Service Organizations#Vietnam War, USO (United Service Organizations) tour. The idea was first conceived by Court-martial of Howard Levy, Howard Levy, an United States Army, ex-US Army doctor who had just been released from 26 months in Fort Leavenworth military prison for refusing orders to train Special Forces (United States Army), Green Beret medics on their way to the Vietnam War. Levy convinced actress Jane Fonda to participate and she in turn recruited a number of actors, entertainers, musicians and others, including the actors Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and Michael Alaimo, comedian and civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Myerson
Alan Myerson (born July 1, 1940) is an American film and television director known for such projects as '' Private Lessons''. Career Myerson began working in theatre in New York City, then directing The Second City in Chicago. He co-founded the improvisational comedy troupe The Committee in San Francisco in 1963. He directed films in the 1970s and 1980s, and has directed over 200 television episodes for shows such as ''Ally McBeal'', ''Boston Public'', ''Friends'', ''Boy Meets World'', ''The Larry Sanders Show'', ''Picket Fences'', ''Miami Vice,'' ''Laverne & Shirley'', '' Rhoda'', ''The Bob Newhart Show'', and '' Busting Loose''. He has taught acting at UC Berkeley, SF State, and directing at Maine Media Workshops. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, and has received nominations for Emmy, DGA, and CableACE awards. Personal life His has a son, Lincoln Myerson, who is an improvisational performer. Filmography As director *'' Steelyard Blues'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Henriques
Darryl Henriques (born January 28, 1942) is an author, satirist, stand-up comedian, and actor on stage and radio, and in TV and film. Early life Henriques was born in Jamaica on January 28, 1942. Career Henriques, a Cheese Board Collective worker, coined the phrase '' Gourmet Ghetto''. Darryl Henriques joined the '' San Francisco Mime Troupe'' in 1967, later ''El Teatro Campesino'', the ''East Bay Sharks'' (street theater) and the '' Bread and Puppet Theater''. KSAN (1968 to 1980) Scoop Nisker's ''Last News Show'' news comedy characters included: Joe Carcinogenni, Rattus Rat, Jacques Kissmatoe, Rev. Clyde Fingerdip and ''The Swami From Miami''. ''VIDEOWEST'' cable access show was hosted by Scoop Nisker with Henriques, Laura Daltry, Joe Lerer, and Jane Dornacker. He appeared in FTA Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, ''Star Trek VI'', ''Jumanji'' (1995) and the ''Star Wars'' franchise. On October 27, 1936, the play ''It Can't Happen Here'' opened in 22 theaters in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in Bob Hope filmography, more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54. These included a series of seven ''Road to ...'' musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as his partner. Hope hosted the Academy Awards ceremony a record 19 times. He also appeared in many stage productions and television roles and wrote 14 books. The song "Thanks for the Memory" was his signature tune. He was praised for his comedic timing, specializing in one-liners and rapid-fire delivery of jokes that were often self-deprecating. Between 1941 and 1991, he made 57 tours for the United Service Organizations (USO), entertaining military personnel around the world. In 1997, Congress passed a bill that made him an honorary veteran of the Armed Forces. Hope was bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition To The US Involvement In The Vietnam War
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1965 with demonstrations against the escalating role of the United States in the war. Over the next several years, these demonstrations grew into a social movement which was incorporated into the broader counterculture of the 1960s. Members of the peace movement within the United States at first consisted of many students, mothers, and anti-establishment youth. Opposition grew with the participation of leaders and activists of the civil rights, feminist, and Chicano movements, as well as sectors of organized labor. Additional involvement came from many other groups, including educators, clergy, academics, journalists, lawyers, military veterans, physicians (notably Benjamin Spock), and others. Anti-war demonstrations consisted mostly of peaceful, nonviolent protests. By 1967, an increasing number of Americans considered military involvement in Vietnam to be a mistake. This was echoed decades later by former S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Servicemen's Fund
The United States Servicemen's Fund (USSF) was a support organization for soldier and sailor resistance to the Vietnam War and the United States Armed Forces, U.S. military that was founded in late 1968 and continued through 1973. It was an "umbrella agency" that funded GI Underground Press, GI underground newspapers and GI Coffeehouses, as well as providing logistical support for the G.I. (military), GI antiwar movement ranging from antiwar films and speakers to legal assistance and staff. USSF described itself as supporting a GI defined movement "to work for an end to the Viet Nam war" and "to eradicate the indoctrination and oppression that they see so clearly every day." Founding USSF was started by several prominent anti-Vietnam War activists, including Army Captain and medical Doctor Court-martial of Howard Levy, Howard Levy, initially working clandestinely from Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth military prison where he had been sentenced for refusing to train Special Forces ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven-Charles Jaffe
Steven-Charles Jaffe (born 1951) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter known for his work on such films as '' Motel Hell'' (1980), ''Near Dark'' (1987), '' Strange Days'' (1995)'','' and the Best Picture-nominated romantic fantasy film ''Ghost''. He is a long-time friend and collaborator of directors Nicholas Meyer and Kathryn Bigelow, and has worked with them on films like '' Time After Time'' (1979), '' Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' (1991), and '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002). He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Life and career Jaffe was born and raised in New York state, the son of Herb Jaffe, a successful literary agent. At an early age, he wanted to be a novelist, and later an architect. His father entered the film industry while Jaffe was in high school, and became an executive at United Artists after selling his agency to ICM Partners. While attending the University of Southern California to study linguis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Joe McDonald
Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald (born January 1, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and musician who was the lead vocalist of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.Richard Brenneman"Country Joe McDonald Revives Anti-War Anthem", ''Berkeley Daily Planet'', April 16, 2004, accessed July 18, 2007. Early life and early career McDonald was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in El Monte, California, in the Los Angeles area. His father, Worden McDonald, worked for a telephone company. He was from Oklahoma, the son of a Presbyterian minister of Scottish heritage. His mother, Florence Plotnick, was the daughter of Russians, Russian Jewish immigrants and served for many years as the City Auditor of Berkeley, California. In their youth, both were Communist Party USA, Communist Party members and named their son after Joseph Stalin, before renouncing the cause. In high school McDonald was student conductor and president of the marching band. At the age of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Simone
Nina Simone ( ; born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, pianist, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. Her piano playing was strongly influenced by baroque and classical music, especially Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.. The sixth of eight children born into a respected family in North Carolina, Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of a local fund set up in her hometown, she enrolled at Allen High School for Girls, then spent a summer at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, preparing to apply for a scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She failed to gain admission to Curtis,Liz Garbus, 2015 documentary film, '' What Happened, Miss Simone?'' which she attributed to racism, though staff have pointed out th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella; November 7, 1942) is a retired American musician. He achieved commercial success and popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a singer and guitarist, characterized as a versatile and influential artist. Rivers is best known for his 1960s output, having popularized the mid-60s discotheque scene through his live rock and roll recordings at the Los Angeles nightclub Whisky a Go Go, and later shifting to a more orchestral, Soul music, soul-oriented sound during the latter half of the decade. These developments were reflected by his most notable string of hit singles between 1964 and 1968, many of them covers. They include "Memphis, Tennessee (song), Memphis", "Mountain of Love", "The Seventh Son", "Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers song), Secret Agent Man", "Poor Side of Town", "Baby I Need Your Loving, Baby I Need Your Lovin'", and "Summer Rain (Johnny Rivers song), Summer Rain". Rivers had a total of nine top-ten hits and 17 top-forty hit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Dane
Barbara Jean Spillman (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024), known professionally as Barbara Dane, was an American folk, blues, and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. "Bessie Smith in stereo," wrote jazz critic Leonard Feather of Dane in the late 1950s. ''Time'' wrote of Dane: "The voice is pure, rich ... rare as a 20-carat diamond" and quoted Louis Armstrong's exclamation upon hearing her at the Pasadena jazz festival: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser!" On the occasion of her 85th birthday, ''The Boston Globe'' music critic James Reed called her "one of the true unsung heroes of American music." Early life Dane's parents were from Arkansas, and arrived in Detroit where she was born in the 1920s. Her father Gilbert Spillman was a pharmacist who ran his own store, and her mother Dorothy (Roleson) Spillman was a professional bridge player. She was the oldest of three children. In the 1930s, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Chandler
Len Hunt Chandler Jr. (May 27, 1935 – August 28, 2023) was an American folk music, folk singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Chandler was known for his powerful voice and socially conscious songs. Early life and education Chandler was born in Akron, Ohio in 1935. He showed an early interest in music and began playing piano at age 8. Studying classical music in his early teens, he learned to play the oboe so he could join the high school band, and during his senior year joined the Akron Symphony Orchestra. He eventually earned his B.A. in Music Education from the University of Akron, moved to New York City, and received an M.A. from Columbia University. Career and activism By the early 1960s, Chandler began to get involved in the Civil Rights Movement. He sang at demonstrations and rallies and gained a reputation as a protest songwriter. One of his most famous songs was "Beans in My Ears", which was covered by the Serendipity Singers as well as by Pete Seeger. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Near
Holly Near (born June 6, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, teacher, and activist. Family Holly Near was born in Ukiah, California, United States, and was raised on a ranch in Potter Valley, California. She has two sisters, Timothy Near and Laurel Near, and a brother, Fred. One of her first cousins is actor Kevin Bacon (their mothers are sisters). Early years She was eight years old when she first performed publicly, and she auditioned for Columbia Records when she was ten. She sang in all the high school musicals, talent shows and often was invited to sing at gatherings of local service groups, such as the Soroptimist Club, Lions Club, and Garden Club. Her senior year she played Eliza Doolittle in the Ukiah High School production of ''My Fair Lady''. In the summer Near attended performing arts camps such as Perry-Mansfield in Colorado and Ramblerny Performing Arts where she studied with jazz musicians Phil Woods and his wife, Chan Parker (Parker was married t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
