THE TONG-BAI FOUNDATION - Mae Wang, Chiang Mai
The TONG-BAI FOUNDATION is a non profit organisation and set up in order to provide a good living for Thailand's working elephants and their owners...READ MORE HERE ///
Elephants Bathing in The River @THE TONG-BAI FOUNDATION
Elephants Bathing in The River @THE TONG-BAI FOUNDATION - Mae Wang, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Thong bai Elephant Tour
Tong Bai Elephant Tour - The most elephant friendly tour in Thailand
A Day with a Giant: The Tong Bai Elephant Foundation Experience
A brief view of our day taking care of an Elephant at the Tong Bai Elephant Foundation outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Such a wonderful experience. It was like taking care of a dinosaur for a day. #elephants #elephantsanctuary #Thailand #travelblog
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TONG BAI FOUNDATION - Elefanten eine Zukunft bieten
Es stellt sich die thailändische TONG BAI FOUNDATION vor, die mit Projekten wie Freilaufgehegen, einer Elefanten-Krankenstation und der Finanzierung gesunden Futters für die Tiere Elefanten eine erfolgreiche Zukunft bietet.
A day with the Asian elephant
This movie gives an impression of the Tong Bai elephant camp. This is really a meet and great possibility for those who are really interested in this impressive animal.
Elephant sanctuary in Chiang Mai by untouched Thailand
This is a great elephant camp to visit when you are in Chiang Mai
Unique and no commercial camp
MAE TAENG TREKKING
Trekking experience in Mae Taeng Mountains near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
Some older folks like to stay around younger crowd. It makes them feel good forgetting about age.
But it works until you look at a mirror. On my trekking experience in Mae Taeng there were no mirrors!
Wycieczka w gory Mae Taeng niedaleko miasta Chiang Mai w polnocnej Tajlandi.
W bardziej zaawansowanym wieku niektorzy preferuja obracac sie w towarzystwie mlodych.
To ich odmladza i czuja sie swietnie..... do momentu kiedy spojrza w lustro.
Podczas mojej wycieczki w gorach Mae Taeng luster w ogole nie bylo.
Elephants thailand 2015
Baanchang Elephant Park
Unser Ausflug in Chiang Mai
Wir sind im Wat Suan Dok und Wat Umong zu Besuch.
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សួនផ្ការាជព្រឹក្ស Royal Park Rajapruek, Chiang Mai, Thailand
សួនផ្ការាជព្រឹក្ស Royal Park Rajapruek, Chiang Mai, Thailand, landscaped grounds featuring flowers, plants & sculptures, plus an elegant commemorative chapel.
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Our Thailand Holiday 9 day in Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Bangkok Travelling below:
1- ជិះឡានពី Phnom Penh to Bangkok 14 hour Traveling by Vehicle Mini Bus
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2- ហោះពី សុវណ្ណាភូមិ ទៅ ឈៀងរ៉ៃ Flight from Bangkok to Chiang Rai
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3- វត្តព្រះកែវ ខេត្តឈៀងរ៉ៃ ប្រទេសថៃ Wat Phra Kaew, Chiang Rai, Thailand
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4- វត្តរុងឃុន រឺ បា្រសាទស ឈៀងរ៉ៃ Wat Rong Khun The White Temple Chiang Rai, Thailand
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5- វត្ត រុងសៅថេត រឺ ប្រាសាទខៀវ ខេត្តឈៀងរ៉ៃ ថៃ The Blue Temple, Chiang Rai, Thailand
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6- ភូមិនារីកវែង Union of Hill Tribe Villages and Long Neck Karen, Chiang Rai, Thailand
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7- សួនផ្កា ដយទុង Doi Tung Garden and Hall of Inspiration, Chiang Rai, Thailand
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8- តំបន់ត្រីកោណមាស Golden Triangle, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos
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9- សម្រស់ដ៏ត្រកាលនៃព្រះអាទិត្យរះនៅ Kornwat Garden Resort, Chiang Rai, Thailand
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10- ភ្លក់ស្រាឆ្ងាញ់នៅលើភ្នំ ដយមេសាឡន Doi Mae Salong, Chiang Rai, Thailand
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11- ចំការតែ ឆូយ ហ្វុង Choui Fong Tea Plantation, Chiang Rai, Thailand.
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12- ផ្ទះខ្មៅ Black House Baan Dam, Chiang Rai, Thailand
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13- មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលផលិតឆត្រ Bo Sang Umbrella Making Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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14- វត្ត ដយស៊ូធេប Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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15- សួនផ្ការាជព្រឹក្ស Royal Park Rajapruek, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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16- ភ្លក់អាហារប្រពៃណីនៅសួន Lumpini Park in Bangkok, Thailand
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17- ដើរលេងផ្សារទំនើប ICONSIAM Bangkok, Thailand
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Bo Sang Umbrella Festival 20-22/01/2017: San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The Grand Opening of Bo Sang Umbrella Festival 2017 at San Kam phaeng District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
The Enormous Radio / Lovers, Villains and Fools / The Little Prince
The Enormous Radio is a short story written by John Cheever in 1947. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947 issue of The New Yorker and was later collected in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories. The story deals with a family who purchases a new radio that allows them to listen in on conversations and arguments of other tenants living in their apartment building.
According to Alan Lloyd Smith, author of American Gothic Fiction - An Introduction ISBN 0-8264-1595-4, a concept of domestic abjection is one that disturbs identity, order, and system. This is exactly what the new radio did in the Westcott household. When Mrs. Westcott saw the new radio in the large gumwood cabinet, she did not like the enormousness of it. The Gumwood cabinet is a dark cabinet and did not fit in with the living room furnishings and colors that Irene had personally chosen. This cabinet is dark and ugly, bringing darkness into the living room and their lives. Eventually, Irene identifies herself with the object.
Another gothic concept of The Enormous Radio is the element of buried secrets. Both Jim and Irene begin to recognize that there is tension in their marriage. Irene had many deep dark secrets that she feels guilty about. She has successfully hidden these secrets all these years until the ugliness of the radio brings up her neighbors problems. Irene has suppressed and hidden her feelings to others and herself for a long time. This is the reason she is drawn to the radio, it exposes the inner life of others and eventually hers. Irene identified with the others in the building as her own problems. It is ironic that the thing purchased to bring joy to the Westcott's life did nothing but cause trouble between them. Secrets revealed are sometimes not able to be handled well.
Alan Lloyd Smith also identifies Domestic Gothic as,[2] intimately bound up with the idea of the house, gender, and family, which becomes through metaphor, a way of externalizing the inner life of fictional characters.
Ip Man: nace la leyenda, la vida real del maestro de Bruce Lee (1)
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IP MAN EL PRINCIPIO 1 motivación
Ip Man en la década de 1930 vive en Foshan, ciudad con una fuerte tradición en artes marciales de China del Sur. Aquí varias escuelas reclutan activamente discípulos y compiten unas contra otras. Aunque el maestro de Wing Chun Ip Man es el artista marcial más experto de Foshan, mantiene una vida alejada de la competencia entre escuelas. Como hombre rico e independiente, no siente ninguna necesidad de aceptar discípulos y en su lugar se pasa el día entrenándose, saliendo con sus amigos, y pasando tiempo con su familia. Sin embargo, su esposa esta a menudo resentida por el tiempo que pasa dedicado al entrenamiento y discusión de las artes marciales con sus amigos y colegas. Ip es respetado en Foshan debido a las habilidades que se muestra en competiciones amistosas, a puerta cerrada con maestros locales. La reputación de Ip es aún mayor cuando se derrota a un agresivo y grosero luchador, altamente cualificados en las artes marciales del Norte, Jin Shanzhao, confirmando así el orgullo regional de los luchadores del Sur y de Foshan.
La invasión japonesa en 1937, afecta negativamente a la vida de todos en Foshan. La casa de Ip es confiscada por los japoneses y utilizado como cuartel general. Ip y su familia pierden su riqueza y se ven obligados a mudarse a una casa pobre. Desesperado por mantener a su familia, Ip acepta trabajar como peón en una mina de carbón. El general japonés Miura (San Po para los chinos), quien es un maestro de Karate, crea un espacio donde los artistas marciales chinos compiten con sus alumnos militares. Los chinos ganan un saco de arroz cada vez que ganan un combate. Li Zhao, un ex oficial de la policía y conocido de Ip, trabaja como traductor para los japoneses y difunde la oferta para los luchadores chinos que ahora trabajan como peones. Ip al principio se niega a participar en los combates. Sin embargo, cuando su amigo Lin desaparece, se compromete a participar con el fin de investigar. Ip Man se enfurece cuando ve a un maestro Foshan amigo suyo (Maestro Liu) es ejecutado sin piedad por recoger una bolsa de arroz de premio después de permitir un segundo partido contra tres karatekas. También llega a comprender que Lin fue asesinado en una pelea anterior. Apenas capaz de contener su rabia, Ip exige un partido con diez japoneses a la vez. A pesar de no haber practicado Wing Chun desde que comenzó la invasión (con el fin de conservar la poca comida que su familia tenía para sobrevivir), procede a aplastar sin piedad a cada uno de ellos con una andanada brutal de su dominio del arte marcial, sin mostrar nada de las restricciones que solía aplicar expuso en épocas anteriores. Su habilidad despierta el interés del general Miura, que trata de aprender más acerca de Ip y verlo pelear de nuevo.
Ip visita a su amigo Chow Ching-Chuen, que posee y dirige una fábrica de algodón en Foshan. Chow dice a Ip que unos bandidos dirigido por Jin Shanzhao está acosando a sus trabajadores y tratando de obtener dinero de ellos. Ip entrena a los trabajadores en el arte Wing Chun para la autodefensa. Mientras tanto, Miura se impacienta cuando Ip no vuelve a la arena y envía hombres a buscarlo, lo que provoca que Ip lesionea varios soldados japoneses y pase a la clandestinidad con su familia en la casa de Li Zhao. Mientras tanto, los ladrones vuelven a la fábrica de algodón para exigir dinero. Los trabajadores defienden el uso de las técnicas que Ip les enseñó, pero Ip parece hacerse cargo de las cosas personalmente y derrota a Jin Shanzhao, advirtiéndole para que nunca vuelva a hostigar a los trabajadores.
Los soldados japoneses finalmente, encuentran a Ip en la fábrica de algodón. Miura le dice a Ip que su vida estará a salvo si está de acuerdo en instruir a los soldados japoneses en artes marciales. Ip se niega y desafía a Miura a un combate, que Miura acepta, tanto a causa de su amor por las artes marciales como porque negarse a aceptar el desafío sería una humillación para los japoneses. El combate entre el Ip y Miura se lleva a cabo en público en la plaza de Foshan. Al principio, los dos combatientes parecen igualados, pero Miura pronto es incapaz de penetrar la impecable defensa de Ip y se ve en abrumado por sus golpes implacables y directos. Incapaz de defenderse a sí mismo Ip si apenas esfuerzo le inflige un duro castigo, venciendo con claridad.
En cuanto al general derrotado se acuesta después de su derrota, Ip mira a la multitud de chinos vitoreándole y ve a su esposa e hijo con Chow. De repente, el coronel Sato, asistente de Miura, dispara a Ip, desatando una pelea entre el público chino y los soldados
Suspense: The Dead Sleep Lightly / Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble / Fear Paints a Picture
The Three Witches or Weird Sisters are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (c. 1603--1607). Their origin lies in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland. Other possible sources influencing their creation aside from Shakespeare's own imagination include British folklore, contemporary treatises on witchcraft including King James I and VI's Daemonologie, Scandinavian legends of the Norns, and ancient classical myths concerning the Fates, the Greek myths of the Moirai and the Roman myths of the Parcae. Portions of Thomas Middleton's play The Witch were incorporated into Macbeth around 1618.
Shakespeare's witches are prophets who hail the general Macbeth early in the play with predictions of his rise as king. Upon committing regicide and taking the throne of Scotland, Macbeth hears the trio deliver ambiguous prophecies threatening his downfall. The witches' dark and contradictory natures, their filthy trappings and activities, as well as their intercourse with the supernatural all set an ominous tone for the play.
In the eighteenth century the witches were portrayed in a variety of ways by artists such as Henry Fuseli. Since then, their role has proven somewhat difficult for many directors to portray, due to the tendency to make their parts exaggerated or overly sensational. Some have adapted the original Macbeth into different cultures, as in Orson Welles's performance making the witches voodoo priestesses. Film adaptations have seen the witches transformed into characters familiar to the modern world, such as hippies on drugs or goth schoolgirls. Their influence reaches the literary realm as well in such works as The Third Witch and the Harry Potter series.
Come and Go, a short play written in 1965 by Samuel Beckett, recalls the Three Witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It features only three characters, all women, named Flo, Vi, and Ru. The opening line: When did we three last meet? [28] recalls the When shall we three meet again? of Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 1.[29] The Third Witch, a 2001 novel written by Rebecca Reisert, tells the story of the play through the eyes of a young girl named Gilly, one of the witches. Gilly seeks Macbeth's death out of revenge for killing her father.[30]
J. K. Rowling has cited the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth as an influence in her Harry Potter series. In an interview with The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet, when asked, What if [ Voldemort ] never heard the prophecy?, she said, It's the 'Macbeth' idea. I absolutely adore 'Macbeth.' It is possibly my favourite Shakespeare play. And that's the question isn't it? If Macbeth hadn't met the witches, would he have killed Duncan? Would any of it have happened? Is it fated or did he make it happen? I believe he made it happen.[31] On her website, she referred to Macbeth again in discussing the prophecy: the prophecy (like the one the witches make to Macbeth, if anyone has read the play of the same name) becomes the catalyst for a situation that would never have occurred if it had not been made.[32] More playfully, Rowling also invented a musical band popular in the Wizarding world called The Weird Sisters that appears in passing in several books in the series as well as the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The third Harry Potter movie's soundtrack featured a song by John Williams called Double Trouble, a reference to the witches' line, Double double, toil and trouble. The lyrics of the song were adapted from the Three Witches' spell in the play.
Our Miss Brooks: Indian Burial Ground / Teachers Convention / Thanksgiving Turkey
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
Calling All Cars: I Asked For It / The Unbroken Spirit / The 13th Grave
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
Calling All Cars: Invitation to Murder / Bank Bandits and Bullets / Burglar Charges Collect
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
You Bet Your Life: Secret Word - Door / Heart / Water
Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 -- August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He is known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses, a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho Marx was, and is, the most recognizable and well-known of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho's trademark eye glasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as Groucho glasses, nose-glasses, and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.
Nat Perrin, close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of Gomez Addams on the 1960s TV series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).
Alan Alda often vamped in the manner of Groucho on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Hawkeye and Trapper put on a Marx Brothers act at the 4077, with Hawkeye playing Groucho and Trapper playing Harpo. In three other episodes, a character appeared who was named Captain Calvin Spalding (played by Loudon Wainwright III). Groucho's character in Animal Crackers was Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding.
On many occasions, on the 1970s television sitcom All In The Family, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), would briefly imitate Groucho Marx and his mannerisms.
Two albums by British rock band Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed '39 a capella. A long-running ad campaign for Vlasic Pickles features an animated stork that imitates Groucho's mannerisms and voice. On the famous Hollywood Sign in California, one of the Os is dedicated to Groucho. Alice Cooper contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.
In 1982, Gabe Kaplan portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in a one-man stage production. He also imitated Marx occasionally on his previous TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Actor Frank Ferrante has performed as Groucho Marx on stage for more than two decades. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a one-man show entitled An Evening With Groucho in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s Ferrante starred as Groucho in the off-Broadway and London show Groucho: A Life in Revue penned by Groucho's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. Woody Allen's 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You, in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and Goldie Hawn, attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of Hooray for Captain Spaulding—done entirely in French.
In the last of the Tintin comics, Tintin and the Picaros, a balloon shaped like the face of Groucho could be seen in the Annual Carnival.
In the Italian horror comic Dylan Dog, the protagonist's sidekick is a Groucho impersonator whose character became his permanent personality.
The BBC remade the radio sitcom Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, with contemporary actors playing the parts of the original cast. The series was repeated on digital radio station BBC7. Scottish playwright Louise Oliver wrote a play named Waiting For Groucho about Chico and Harpo waiting for Groucho to turn up for the filming of their last project together. This was performed by Glasgow theatre company Rhymes with Purple Productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Glasgow and Hamilton in 2007-08. Groucho was played by Scottish actor Frodo McDaniel.
Our Miss Brooks: The Bookie / Stretch Is In Love Again / The Dancer
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.