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Paul Boland
Paul Edward Boland Jr. (born 1960 or 1961) is an American impressionist, singer, and announcer. Raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, Boland began his career as an actor in community theater in Lomita, California. He performed on Rick Dees' TV show ''Into the Night Starring Rick Dees'' in 1990 and was the announcer for the 1998 revival of ''Match Game''. While Rod Roddy was receiving cancer treatment, Boland filled in as announcer on ''The Price Is Right'' in 2002. Since around the 1990s, Boland has performed as an impressionist on cruise ships, including for Cunard Line but mostly for Royal Caribbean Group. He routinely impersonates Elvis Presley and is able to imitate over 100 characters including Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, and Kermit the Frog. Early life and early career Paul Edward Boland Jr. was born in 1960 or 1961 to Paul Boland Sr. and Christine Boland and was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. He received a high school diploma in 1978 from Cathedral High School an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit organization, not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used ''AP Stylebook'', its AP polls tracking National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA sports, sponsoring the National Football League's annual awards, and its election polls and results during Elections in the United States, US elections. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Binkley
Gregg Binkley (born March 20, 1963) is an American actor. He is known for playing Kenny James on ''My Name is Earl'' (2005–2009), Barney on ''Raising Hope'' (2010–2014), Harold in '' Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation'' (1992), and Dan, the Del Taco spokesperson. Binkley also runs his own business where he hosts acting workshops and classes. Early life and career Binkley grew up in Topeka, Kansas, and graduated from Washburn Rural High School where he served as the class president of 1981. Upon moving to California, he was a contestant on Classic Concentration in May 1988. He is known for his roles as Kenny James on ''My Name Is Earl'' and as Dan, the Del Taco spokesperson. He has also had guest spots on ''Gilmore Girls'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'', ''Yes, Dear'', ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''Full House'', ''Family Matters'' and ''Wizards of Waverly Place''. Binkley once held a job making celebrity impersonation phone calls, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling musicians of all time. He has written and recorded ten singles that reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desiree (song), Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (which he co-wrote with Marilyn Bergman and performed with Barbra Streisand), "America (Neil Diamond song), America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight (song), Heartlight (co-written with Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach). A total of thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Adult Contemporary (chart), Adult Contemporary chart, including "Sweet Caroline". He has also acted in films, maki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McLure
James Miller McLure, Jr. (August 5, 1951 – February 17, 2011) was an American playwright. He was born in Alexandria, Louisiana and grew up in Shreveport where he was educated by the Jesuits. He became interested in acting in high school, performing in Shakespearean plays. He obtained a BFA degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and subsequently studied at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, California. While studying at SMU his roommate was actor and friend Stephen Tobolowsky, who frequently recalls stories involving McLure in his podcast. He moved to New York City in 1975 and was a member of the Lion Theatre Company. His plays ''Lone Star'' and ''Pvt. Wars'' were presented off-Broadway in 1979 after having been presented at the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. In 1980, ''Lone Star'' and ''Laundry and Bourbon'' were shown together as ''1959 Pink Thunderbird'' at the McCarter Theatre. His subsequent plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Manhoff
Wilton "Bill" Manhoff (June 25, 1919 – June 19, 1974) was an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. His television series script writing credits included ''Sanford and Son'', ''The Partridge Family'', ''All in the Family'', ''Room 222'', '' The Odd Couple'', ''Petticoat Junction'', ''Leave It to Beaver'', ''The Jane Wyman Show '' and ''The Real McCoys''. He also wrote the script for the 1964 Broadway play ''The Owl and the Pussycat'', which Buck Henry used as inspiration for the screenplay for the 1970 film adaptation. Manhoff died at age 54 in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, .... References External links * * 1919 births 1974 deaths American male screenwriters American television writers Writers from Newark, New Jersey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star-Spangled Girl
''The Star-Spangled Girl'' is a comedy written by Neil Simon. The play is set in San Francisco, California, in the 1960s. Plot overview The story is a love triangle, mixed with politics. Roommates and radicals Andy Hobart and Norman Cornell are two earnest young men using their San Francisco apartment as a publishing office for their magazine, ''Fallout'', which is dedicated to fighting " the system" in America, but they barely make a living working on the magazine. Former Olympic swimmer Sophie Rauschmeyer, an all-American Southern girl, moves into the apartment next door. Her friendliness and charm leave Norman hopelessly smitten, but what is love at first sight (or, as the play has it, first smell) for Norman is not reciprocated. Norman's obsession with Sophie causes Andy to hire her just to sustain the magazine's operation. Meanwhile, Andy finds himself dealing with angry phone calls from the printer demanding payment, while also trying to divert the landlady's attention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a 29th Tony Awards, Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the United States Army Air Forces, Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Breeze
The ''Daily Breeze'' is a 57,000-circulation daily newspaper published in Hermosa Beach, California, United States. It serves the South Bay cities of Los Angeles County. Its slogan is "LAX to LA Harbor". Early history The paper was founded as the weekly ''The Breeze'' in 1894 by local political activist S. D. Barkley and first served the local Redondo Beach community. Coverage eventually spread to other coastal cities, and by 1922, it had become a daily publication. In 1928, the ''Daily Breeze'' was purchased by Copley Press. The competition went out of business in 1970 (The ''Torrance Herald'', 1913–1969). Modern history Like most of the newspaper industry, the ''Daily Breeze'' has suffered its share of hardships, with the rise of free news on the Internet and the competitive Los Angeles media market. It merged with the (San Pedro) ''News-Pilot'' in 1999. In 2005, it added to its circulation numbers through the purchase of two local weeklies, '' The Beach Reporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Camino College
El Camino College (Elco or ECC) is a public community college in Los Angeles County, California. Most of it is in Alondra Park,Alondra Park CDP, California ." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved May 5, 2010. while a section is in the city limits of Torrance. It consists of 37 buildings spanning an area of roughly . It is one of two community colleges serving Southern California's South Bay area. The El Camino Community College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camelot (musical)
''Camelot'' is a Musical theatre, musical with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and a book by Alan Jay Lerner. It is based on the legend of King Arthur as adapted from the 1958 novel ''The Once and Future King'' by T. H. White. The original 1960 production, directed by Moss Hart with orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang, ran on Broadway theatre, Broadway for 873 performances, winning four Tony Awards. It starred Richard Burton as Arthur, Julie Andrews as Guenevere, and Robert Goulet as Lancelot. It spawned several notable productions including four Broadway revival (theatre), revivals and a 1967 Camelot (film), film adaptation. The 2023 Broadway revival features a revised book by Aaron Sorkin. The musical has become associated with the Presidency of John F. Kennedy, which is sometimes called the "Camelot Era", because of an interview with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jackie Kennedy in which she compared her husband's presidency to King Arthur's reign, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively written as Launcelot and other variants, is a popular character in the Matter of Britain, Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition. He is typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table, as well as a secret lover of Arthur's wife, Guinevere. In his most prominent and complete depiction, Lancelot is a beautiful orphaned son of King Ban of the lost kingdom of Benoïc. He is raised in a fairy realm by the Lady of the Lake while unaware of his real parentage prior to joining Arthur's court as a young knight and discovering his origins. A hero of many battles, quests and tournaments, and famed as a nearly unrivalled Swordsmanship, swordsman and Jousting, jouster, Lancelot soon becomes the lord of the castle Joyous Gard and personal champion of Queen Guinevere, to whom he is devoted absolutely. He also develops a close relationship with Galehaut and suffers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
