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Ya Got Trouble
"Ya Got Trouble" is a patter song by Meredith Willson from the 1957 Broadway musical ''The Music Man'', and its 1962 filmed version. It is one of the most popular and recognizable songs in the musical. Willson considered eliminating a long piece of dialogue from his draft of ''The Music Man'' about the serious trouble facing River City parents. However, he realized it sounded like a lyric and transformed it into "Ya Got Trouble". Content A smooth-talking, yet corrupt, traveling salesman takes up the occupation of a musical-instrument dealer and tries to convince the citizens of River City, Iowa, to fund his idea for a boys' marching band by playing on their fears of youth corruption, represented by a new pocket pool table in the local billiard hall. The song is his slippery slope argument of what could happen should the citizens fail to recognize the danger and not follow his suggestion for a more wholesome activity. Title variations The song is sometimes listed as "(Ya Got) Trou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Music Man (Broadway Cast Recording)
The Broadway cast recording of the 1957 musical ''The Music Man'' was released as an album by Capitol Records. The original release formats included LP, 4× EP, and reel-to-reel tape Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels. To prepare for use, the ''supply reel'' (or ''feed reel'') containing the tape is plac .... The album spent several weeks at number one on ''Billboards Best Selling LPs chart. Track listing 12-inch LP (Capitol WAO 990) Charts Certifications References {{DEFAULTSORT:Music Man Cast recordings 1958 albums Capitol Records albums Various artists albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skip Hinnant
Joseph Howard "Skip" Hinnant (born March 12, 1940) is an American actor, comedian, and singer, best known for his work in children’s television and musical theater. Hinnant’s career spans voice acting, stage performances, and singing, beginning in the 1960s. He has also appeared in films and various theater productions, contributing to both entertainment and children’s educational programming. Career Hinnant's first major role was as Cathy's boyfriend, Ted, on '' The Patty Duke Show'' from 1963 to 1965. In 1967, he played Schroeder in the original off-Broadway cast of Clark Gesner's '' You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown,'' where his older brother, Bill Hinnant, played Snoopy. Hinnant is best known as a featured performer on the children's show '' The Electric Company'', which aired on the American educational television network PBS from 1971 to 1977. He was best known at that time as word decoder Fargo North, Decoder (a play on "Fargo, North Dakota") and as "The Boy" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is best known as the creator and star of the television series ''Family Guy'' (since 1999) and ''The Orville'' (2017–2022), and co-creator of the television series ''American Dad!'' (since 2005) and ''The Cleveland Show'' (2009–2013). He also co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in the films ''Ted (film), Ted'' (2012) and its sequel ''Ted 2'' (2015), and ''A Million Ways to Die in the West'' (2014). MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied animation. He was recruited to Hollywood as an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera's television series ''Johnny Bravo'', ''Cow and Chicken'' and ''Dexter's Laboratory''; during this time, he created the animated short ''The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, Larry & Steve''—a loose precursor of ''Family Guy''—for ''What a Cartoon!''. In 2008, he cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
62nd Writers Guild Of America Awards
The 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film, television, and videogame writers of 2009. Winners were announced on February 20, 2010. Nominees Names in bold denote the winners. Film Best Adapted Screenplay * ''Crazy Heart'' * ''Julie & Julia'' * '' Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire'' † * ''Star Trek'' * '' Up in the Air'' Best Original Screenplay * ''(500) Days of Summer'' * ''Avatar'' * ''The Hangover'' * ''The Hurt Locker'' † * ''A Serious Man'' Best Documentary Feature Screenplay * ''Against the Tide'' – Richard Trank; based on original material written by Richard Trank and Rabbi Marvin Hier * '' Capitalism: A Love Story'' – Michael Moore * '' The Cove'' – Mark Monroe * ''Earth Days'' – Robert Stone * ''Good Hair'' – Chris Rock, Jeff Stilson, Lance Crouther, and Chuck Sklar * ''Soundtrack for a Revolution'' – Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman Television Dramatic Series Comedy Series New Series Episodic Drama Episodic C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, actor, and producer. He is best known for having hosted Late-night talk show, late-night talk shows, beginning with ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' (1993–2009) and ''The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'' (2009–2010) on the NBC television network, and ''Conan (talk show), Conan'' (2010–2021) on the cable channel TBS (American TV channel), TBS. Before his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1988 to 1991, and the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox animated sitcom ''The Simpsons'' from 1991 to 1993. He has hosted the podcast series ''Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend'' since 2018, and starred in the 2024 travel show ''Conan O'Brien Must Go'' on Max (streaming service), Max. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, O'Brien was raised in an Irish Catholic family. He served as president of ''The Harvard Lampoon'' while attending Harv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
58th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 58th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, August 27, 2006, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on NBC at 8:00 p.m. ET (00:00 UTC) with Conan O'Brien hosting the show. The ceremony attracted 16.2 million viewers, 2.5 million fewer than the previous year's ceremony, but still the ratings winner for the week. The Discovery Channel received its first major nomination this year. This awards show was the first in fourteen years to be held in August because of NBC's request; because of ''NBC Sunday Night Football'', the ceremony moved to accommodate NFL Kickoff Weekend. A new voting system determined nominees in particular categories (mostly lead acting and outstanding series categories) by a "blue ribbon" panel of judges, which resulted in the exclusion of popular shows such as ''Desperate Housewives'' and '' Lost'', and actors like James Gandolfini and Edie Falco from The Sopranos and Hugh Laurie from ''House''. ''Lost''s exclusion was mocked during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monorail Song
"The Monorail Song" is a song written for and performed by ''The Simpsons'' cast, for the fourth-season episode of ''The Simpsons'' entitled "Marge vs. the Monorail", which originally aired on January 14, 1993. Production The song was written by then-show runner Al Jean and Conan O'Brien, and was performed by Phil Hartman as Lyle Lanley, along with other Simpsons characters. Synopsis The song sees a traveling salesman razzle dazzle the local town into spending their windfall of money on a monorail, with all criticism being washed aside through the charismatic performance. The song begins with a repeated whispered chant of "monorail," as Miss Hoover, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Barney Gumble, Abraham Simpson, and Chief Wiggum each question his plan in turn, to which Lanley rebukes each with a rhyming phrase. The crowd is swept into a frenzy, singing a chorus of "monorail." The only person continuing to dissent is Marge Simpson, who hoped to spend the money on fixing Main Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marge Vs
Marge is a feminine given name, a shortened form of Marjorie, Margot or Margaret. Notable Marges include: People * Marge (cartoonist) (1904–1993), pen name of Marjorie Henderson Buell, American cartoonist *Marge Anderson (1932–2013), Ojibwe Elder and politician for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe * Marge Anthony (1935–2013), Canadian broadcaster and media executive * Marge Bishop (1910–1960), New Zealand cricketer * Marge Burns (1925–2009), American golfer * Marge Calhoun (1926–2017), American surfer * Marge Callaghan (1921–2019), American baseball player * Marge Carey (1938–2012), trade unionist and served as President of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) from 1997 to 2006 * Marge Chadderdon (born 1937), Republican Idaho State Representative *Marge Champion (1919–2020), American dancer and choreographer * Marge Ellis (1926–2021), South African lawn bowler * Marge Frantz (1922–2015), American activist and women's studies academic * Marge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Simpsons
''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a Satire (film and television), satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer Simpson, Homer, Marge Simpson, Marge, Bart Simpson, Bart, Lisa Simpson, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson, Maggie. Set in the fictional town of Springfield (The Simpsons), Springfield, in an unspecified location in the United States, it caricatures society, Western culture, television and the human condition. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of The Simpsons shorts, animated shorts with producer Brooks. He created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after his own family members, substituting Bart for his own name; he thought Simpson was a funny name in that it sounded similar to "simpleton". The shorts became a part of ''The Tracey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally McBeal
''Ally McBeal'' is an American legal comedy-drama television series created by David E. Kelley that originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997, to May 20, 2002. It revolves around Calista Flockhart in the title role as a lawyer working in the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Although the series is ostensibly a legal drama, its main focus is the romantic and personal lives of the main characters. The series was produced by David E. Kelley Productions and 20th Century Fox Television, with Kelley serving as executive producer alongside Bill D'Elia. ''Ally McBeal'' received critical acclaim in its early seasons, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 1998 and 1999, and also winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1999. Despite these achievements, it was canceled by Fox after five seasons. In March 2021, it was reported that a revival as a limited series was in early development at 20th Television with Flockhart po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Stevens
Morgan Stevens (October 16, 1951 – January 26, 2022) was an American actor, primarily seen on television. Biography Stevens played Paul Northridge in one episode of ''The Waltons'' and in three reunion movies. In ''A Wedding on Walton's Mountain'', the character of Northridge married Erin Walton ( Mary Elizabeth McDonough), and he appeared in ''Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain'' and ''A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain''. He was Sam Stadder (John-Boy's hospital roommate) in the Waiting episode S8 Ep 9. Stevens portrayed teacher David Reardon in two seasons of '' Fame'' (1982–1984). He then played Jack Gardner in the miniseries and subsequent series ''A Year in the Life'' (1986–1988). In 1995, he appeared in seven episodes of ''Melrose Place'' as Nick Diamond. Stevens made guest appearances on several television programs, including '' One Day at a Time'', ''The Love Boat'', '' Murder One'', and ''Murder, She Wrote'' (in three episodes as three characters). His last r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fame (1982 TV Series)
''Fame'' is an American musical drama television series based on the 1980 film of the same name. It followed the lives of the students and faculty at New York City's High School of Performing Arts. Most interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California. In all seasons except the third, the show filmed several exterior scenes on location in New York City. The popularity of the series around the world, most notably in the United Kingdom, led to several hit records and live concert tours by the cast. Despite its success, few of the actors maintained high-profile careers after the series was cancelled. Several of the cast members were seen again briefly in ''Bring Back...Fame'', a reunion special made for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 2008. Episodes Cast Cast timeline ;Cast notes Main cast *Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant, dance teacher and choreographer, reprising her role from the original film * Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli (seasons 1–3; guest season 6), music ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
