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Jade Gatt
Jade Gatt (born 3 April 1978) is an Australian actor who appeared in TV commercials, films and TV shows, and has hosted several Australian TV specials. Career Gatt starred in the ABC's '' Swap Shop'' in 1990, and in 1994 was cast as Bradley in the pilot for ''The Bastards Next Door''. Other roles in TV include parts in ''Heartbreak High'' and ''Home and Away''. In 1995 he began hosting the morning cartoon show '' Cheez TV'' for Network Ten, and in 1997 he appeared in the film ''Blackrock''. Later that year he started hosting the late-night music program ''Ground Zero'' but was released from the show in July 1998. On 31 December 2004, Gatt and Ryan Lappin finished presenting the children's show ''Cheez TV'', but still continued to air without presenters until 20 August 2005. Gatt and his former Cheez TV co-host Lappin were special guests at AVCon in 2011, which ran from 22 to 24 July for that year. AVCon is an anime and video games convention that is held yearly in Adelaid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Lappin
Ryan Lappin (born 1980) is an Australian television personality. He is known for co-hosting children's morning show, ''Cheez TV'', from 1995 until 2004 with Jade Gatt. Biography Lappin was born in 1980. As an actor he has appeared on ''Home and Away'' and took the role of Bartholomew/Bart on ''Heartbreak High''. Lappin started co-hosting ''Cheez TV'' with Jade Gatt in July 1995, on weekday mornings for Network Ten. Aside from presenting cartoons such as ''Pokémon'', ''Digimon'', ''Transformers'', ''Dragon Ball Z'', ''Count Duckula'' and ''Rugrats''; the pair also performed skits. They left ''Cheez TV'' in December 2004. Lappin was a member of the Australian band, UfOBiA, previously named, the Grymm. In 2009, he appeared in a television commercial for Dare Iced Coffee. Lappin and Gatt were special guests at AVCon in 2011, which ran from 22 to 24 July. AVCon is an anime and video games convention that is held yearly in Adelaide. On 14 February 2016, Lappin and Gatt launche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs From Dawson's Creek
''Songs from Dawson's Creek'' is the first soundtrack album for the teen drama television series ''Dawson's Creek''. Released by Columbia Records and Sony Music after the broadcasting of the series' first season on The WB network, it features a set of pop rock and folk pop songs by artists such as Sophie B. Hawkins, Jessica Simpson, Shooter, Heather Nova, Adam Cohen, Sixpence None the Richer, and Paula Cole, most of which appeared during the series' second season. A commercial success, it scattered two US charts hit singles, including Sixpence None the Richer's " Kiss Me" and ''Dawson's Creek''s theme song " I Don't Want to Wait", and reached the top of the Australian Albums Chart. The album also peaked within the top in Austria, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. During it first sixth months of release, ''Songs from Dawson's Creek'' sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide and was certified triple platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizza (TV Series)
''Fat Pizza'' (simply known as ''Pizza'', titled ''Fat Pizza: Back in Business'' from season six onwards) is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech. The series premiered on SBS on 24 April 2000 where it aired for its first five seasons between 2000 and 2007 before moving to 7mate for its sixth and seventh seasons, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. The series has a spin-off feature length film, ''Fat Pizza'', released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video and DVD that featured previously unreleased footage and a schoolies exposé, released in 2004. In addition to this, a theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza", starring several characters from the show, toured the Australian east coast. In 2014, the storyline of the series was combined with that of ''Housos'' to create the motion picture ''Fat Pizza vs. Housos''. The film was shown in Australian cinemas from 27 November 2014. Through some ironic and self-conscious references, ''Pizza'' involves themes of ethni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy's Holiday
''Billy's Holiday'' is a 1995 Australian musical film, directed by Richard Wherrett and starring Max Cullen. Based on Cullen's real-life ability to vocally impersonate Billie Holiday, the film revolves around a man named Billy Apples, played by Cullen, whose life and music career are stagnating until he is visited by Holiday's spirit and finds himself gifted with her voice. Despite finding a receptive audience at the Cannes Film Festival and some success with international distributors, the film was negatively received in Australia and was a box office bomb. Plot summary As the film begins, bus driver Sid (Drew Forsythe) is stuck in traffic on King Street, Newtown, making light of the situation by playing "I Can't Get Started" on trumpet to his passengers. We then meet Billy Appleby, known professionally as Billy Apples (Max Cullen) - a divorced, middle-aged man who owns a hardware store in Newtown. In his spare time, he plays trombone and sings lead vocals in The Billy Apples Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Punisher (1989 Film)
''The Punisher'' is a 1989 American vigilante-action-thriller film directed by Mark Goldblatt and written by Boaz Yakin, based on the Marvel Comics character of same name. It stars Dolph Lundgren in the title role, a vigilante who wages war on the Mafia and Yakuza. Louis Gossett, Jr., Jeroen Krabbé, and Kim Miyori appear in supporting roles. The film had a troubled release due to distributor New World International's financial issues. It was released directly to home media in the United States, but grossed $30 million on a $9 million budget from an international theatrical run. ''The Punisher'' has since gained a cult following. Plot Frank Castle is a former undercover police detective whose wife Julie and two daughters were killed 5 years before the events of the film in a Mafia car bomb intended for Frank, who was presumed to be dead. Castle has since become the city's infamous vigilante – known only as "The Punisher". He now lives in the city's labyrinthine sewer syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people. It is the fifth-largest of the states and territories by population. This population is the second-most highly centralised in the nation after Western Australia, with more than 77% of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 26,878. South Australia shares borders with all the other mainland states. It is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria (state), Victoria, and to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVCon
Avcon Corporation was a company that manufactured charging interfaces for early battery electric vehicles (BEV). The lettering convention is Avcon for the company and AVCON (capitals) for the EV charging connector. The company had ceased operation in 2007. AVCON coupler was deprecated the following year. History Avcon belonged to the Maréchal Electric group of companies, which has its primary corporate headquarters in France. Maréchal established the MELTRIC Corporation in 1981 to market products for North America; MELTRIC, in turn, registered the trademark for Avcon Corporation in 1995. The initial registered address for Avcon was in Cudahy, Wisconsin.The company ceased operation in 2007. On April 10, 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office SPTOinvalidated the company’s trademark. AVCON coupler system The AVCON conductive interface was used by the Ford Ranger EV truck, Solectria, and the Honda EV Plus. The AVCON conductive EV charging coupler system consists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ground Zero (television Show)
''Ground Zero'' was a late night Australian music television program on Network Ten that featured music videos and live appearances. The program was written and produced by James Mark Anthony who also negotiated sponsorship with major brands that allowed the program to be produced free of charge to Network Ten. The program aired from 1997 to 2001 and was initially directed by Bernie Zelvis and was hosted by Jade Gatt (who was dropped from the show in controversial circumstances).Ugly Phil and Jackie O (radio hosts) replaced Jade Gatt, Ugly Phil and Jackie O. By 1999 the program was no longer filmed in a studio and was instead shot on various locations across Sydney and Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori .... With the structural change also came a change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral Sea, Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are Enclave and exclave, enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. , the population of New South Wales was over 8.3 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population, 5.3 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its Western Australia border, western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825. The colony then also includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
