Yup, that’s the one! Steel talks about the research that went into developing the campaign in his book, “Truth, Lies, and Advertising,” which is (a) an easy, fun read, and (b) one of the best books about account planning ever written.
Bill Burr was the first stand-up comedian on the Late Night with Conan O’Brian show.
The Tomorrow Show was the first talk show to be broadcast at 1 am. It was part of the NBC trilogy: The Today Show, The Tonight Show, and The Tomorrow Show. It first aired October, 1973, and making their first appearances on American television were Weird Al Yankovich and U2. John Lennon made his last televised appearance on it (as “Tomorrow Coast to Coast”).
Wallace was more conservative than Nixon and much more so than Humphrey, and is generally considered to have hurt Nixon more. Without Wallace in the race, Nixon would probably have swept the South, or come close to it.
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Ray Bradbury’s 1955 short-story collection The October Country is generally dark and spooky, and includes one of my all-time Bradbury favorites, “The Scythe,” about a man who inadvertently becomes the personification of the Grim Reaper.
I see Wallace as a backlash to Johnson’s Great Society victories: de-segregation enforced by the National Guard, The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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In Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher, Mark Hamill plays a ruthless lawyer dedicated to protecting the Usher family. His name is Arthur G Pym (taken from Poe’s 1838 novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket), and his adversaries refer to him as “The Pym Reaper.”
In Marvel comic books, Henry “Hank” Pym is a scientist, who developed a form of subatomic particles – “Pym Particles” – which could be used to shrink or enlarge creatures or objects. Pym initially used these particles as part of his superhero alter-ego, Ant-Man, who could shrink to the size of an ant (or smaller). Pym later adopted several other superhero names, including Yellowjacket, Giant-Man, and Goliath; in the latter two personas, he used his particles to grow to a superhuman size.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hank Pym has been portrayed by actor Michael Douglas.
I agree, especially as Wallace was a former Democrat, but I don’t think you’ve contradicted my point.
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Over the course of a long career, Michael Douglas has played a police detective (The Streets of San Francisco, Basic Instinct, Black Rain), an irreverent TV news cameraman (The China Syndrome), a troubled millionaire (The Game), a ruthless tycoon (Wall Street) and an idealistic President of the United States (The American President), among many other roles.
Guest stars on The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1977) included Nicolas Colasanto (Coach!), Sam Elliott, Mark Hamill, Mariette Hartley, Bernie Kopell, Cheryl Ladd, Stefanie Powers, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger won seven Mr. Olympia competitions. His record was beaten by Lee Haney with eight victories. Haney’s record was tied by Ronnie Colemen.
Bodybuilder Lee Haney is a devout Christian who has a program called “TotaLee Fit with Lee Haney.” He is usually joined by famous Christian sportsmen. On the show he teaches the importance of both physical and spiritual growth. One of his most famous quotes is that we should “train to stimulate, not annihilate.”
Gen. Robert E. Lee offered his resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis after the disastrous 1863 Gettysburg Campaign, but Davis refused it. Lee continued to command the Army of Northern Virginia through the end of the American Civil War in 1865.
In the spring of 1865, the Parliament of the Province of Canada approved the Quebec Resolutions, which were to be the foundation of the confederation of the British North American provinces. Confederation seemed to be on the way.
Then in an election the same year, the pro-Confederation government of Leonard Tilley in New Brunswick was defeated by a anti-Confederation grouping, putting Confederation on hold.
The characters Sheldon and Leonard in The Big Bang Theory were named after Sheldon Leonard, famous for (among other things) producing TV shows like The Andy Griffith Show, I Spy, and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Dick Van Dyke played both Bert the chimney sweep and The Elder Mr. Dawes, head of the bank, in Mary Poppins. If I recall correctly, the young actress who played Jane didn’t realize the latter was him until she saw the credits.
Reportedly, Pamela “P.L.” Travers felt that in the end, Mary Poppins betrayed the artistic integrity of her work and story’s characters. Resentful over what she considered poor treatment at the hands of Walt Disney, Travers vowed never to permit Disney to adapt her other novels for any purpose. Travers’ last will bans all American adaptation of her works to any form of media.
Emma Thompson played the prickly Miss Travers in the 2013 film Saving Mr. Banks, about the making of Mary Poppins. Tom Hanks played the avuncular Walt Disney.
Actress Emma Thompson collaborated with her then-husband, actor/director Kenneth Branagh, on four films in the late 1980s and early 1990s: Henry V, Dead Again, Peter’s Friends, and Much Ado About Nothing.
In later years, both Thompson and Branagh appeared in the Harry Potter films, as professors at Hogwarts (Sybill Trelawney and Gilderoy Lockhart, respectively), though they did not appear together in any of the films.
Emma Thompson has stated that filming the breakup of her movie marriage to Alan Rickman over his infidelity in Love Actually was traumatic given that her marriage to Kenneth Branagh was breaking up at the same time over the same issue.
Emma Thompson is the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing, with her Best Actress award for Howards End, and her Best Adapted Screenplay award for Sense and Sensibility.
She is also one of only twelve performers to receive two acting nominations in one year, for Best Actress in Remains of the Day and Best Supporting Actress, in In the Name of the Father, where she played a lawyer defending Daniel Day Lewis.
Stanley Kubrick’s lone Oscar (13 nominations) is for visual effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey