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Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born to a well-off English acting family on Sept 8, 1925. His mother and father worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. As a child, Sellers was spoiled, as his parents' first child had died at birth. He enlisted in the army and fought during World War II, where he met Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, who would become his future workmates. After the war he set up a review in London, which was a combination of music (he played the drums) and impressions. Then, all of a sudden, he burst into prominence as the voices of numerous favorites on "The Goon Show" (1951-1960), making his debut in films in Penny Points to Paradise (1951) and Down Among the Z Men (1952), before making it big as one of the criminals in The Ladykillers (1955). These small but showy roles continued throughout the 1950s, but he got his first big break playing the dogmatic union man, Fred Kite, in I'm All Right Jack (1959). The film's success led to starring vehicles into the 1960s that showed off his extreme comic ability to its fullest, but after the relative failure of What's New, Pussycat (1965), which was Woody Allen's first film, Sellers embarked on a rapid downfall to "Grade Z" movies in the 1970s, all of which he claimed to have made only because he needed the money. In 1972 he read the book "Being There" and decided to make it into a film. It took him seven years to finally bring it to the screen, but it earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination (he lost to Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of "Superdad" in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)). Being There (1979) proved to be somewhat of a last hurray for Sellers, as he died the following year. His last movie, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), completed just before his death, proved to be another flop. Director Blake Edwards' attempt at reviving the Pink Panther series after Sellers' death resulted in two panned 1980s comedies, the first of which, Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), deals with Inspector Clouseau's disappearance and was made from material cut from previous Pink Panther films and includes interviews with the original casts playing their original characters.
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Added: 8th September 2007
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Nov. 25, 1940 . . Woody Woodpecker's incredibly obnoxious laugh is heard for the first time in the cartoon KNOCK KNOCK . . . (unfortunately, this has been colorized)
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Knock
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Woodpecker
Added: 21st December 2007
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The blue Rollfast skoot was the best wheelie bike I tried.I used to borrow it off my friends sister the gearing was just right.She was also my 1st love until I told her I didn't like Donny Osmond her idol.She dumped me before I was even loaded!The demise of the muscle bike was the stick shift causing injuries.My problem was the gooseneck raising my voice.When B.M.X. hit the scene they had a pad there Why didn't I think of that?About 15 yrs.ago I bought a 3sp. CHOPPER $5.00 at a garage sale in bad shape called a museum in Chicago for it's value sold it to a local bike store for $150 they reconditioned it and it now hangs from their ceiling.The Grey ghost Schwinn when I last checked yrs.ago was worth several 1000 dollars!I owned a Iverson 5sp. muscle bike desgned by George Barris the custom car designer of Batmobile.Green Hornet,Surf woody,Pink Panther,Chipmunk,Munster Koach,Dragula,Beverly Hillbillies,Monkeemobile,General Lee,Knight Rider,Starsky & Hutch,Banachek,etc...He did not design the DeLorean in back to the future,though most beleive he did.LONG story lonnng my bike is worth(was) over $1000.00 Because of George Barris' role in design.
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1970s
bicycle
bike
schwinn
sting-ray
funk
old
roads
menotomy
vintage
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Added: 2nd January 2008
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Woody can't afford an expensive birthday present for his rich, ditzy girlfriend Kelly, so he performs this song for her.
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Woody
Kelly
song
Added: 6th January 2008
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Once we were proud nation.. there was nothing we couldn't do, or accomplish.
There was noting that we couldn't manufacture for ourselves. This was the American Spirit. It was what made this country the envy of every nation in the world.
Now, as one TV commentator put it, "We have become suicidally arrogant ... we have the attitude that there isn't anything anyone won't sell us."
It has been argued that "America holds no resemblance to the once great nation for which our forebears fought and died. Given the rapidity with which America has forsaken its heritage, can you imagine what it will look like 50 years from now?" - Chuck Baldwin
Once can only wonder. But, Once Upon A Time In America, it was truly a great and promising place to be.
Film Clip - Southern Pacific Cab Forward Collection
Southern Pacific Archives
Pentrex Videos/Pentrex Media Group
http://pentrex.com/
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Jack Delano
U.S. Office of War Information Collection
Library of Congress - Documenting America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome....
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fanfare for the common man
Aaron Copeland
railroad song
Jim Croce
railroad blues
Woody Guthrie
daddy was a railroad man
Box Car Willie
john henry/worried blues
Doc and Merle Watson
railroad song (reprise)
conceived and produced by Dale Caruso
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American
Spirit
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Added: 26th September 2008
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he Face of the Great Depression
Part Two: Dust Bowl Refugees
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The Library of Congress -
from the Dorothea Lange Collection
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hard time killing floor blues
Chris Thomas King
presbyterian guitar
Soggy Bottom Boys
can't find my way home
down to the river to pray
Alison Krause
this land is your land
Woody Guthrie
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Depression
Dust
Bowl
1930s
Dorothea
Lange
Migrants
Added: 25th September 2008
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