Showing posts with label history america. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Derek Jeter - baseball player

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Derek Jeter is an American professional baseball player who is at present with the New York Yankees. He is a Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop who has played his whole career for the New York Yankees. He has serve as the Yankees' team leader since 2003. Jeter's presence in the Yankees' lineup, tinted by his hitting prowess, played an active role in the team's late 1990s dynasty. Jeter debuted in the main Leagues in 1995, and the subsequent year he won the Rookie of the Year Award and help the Yankees win the 1996 World Series.

In 2000, Jeter become the only player in history to win together the All Star Game MVP Award and the World Series MVP Award in the similar year. He has been selected as an All-Star eleven times, won the Silver Slugger award four times, and he has won the Gold Glove award on five time. He is the all-time hits head among shortstops and his .317 career batting average during the 2009 season ranks as the fifth highest with active players. He has been among the American League (AL) leaders in hits and runs scored for the past ten years. He is the every time Yankees hit leader, transitory Hall of Fame member Lou Gehrig in 2009.

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Date Of Birth

June 26, 1974

Place Of Birth

Pequannock, New Jersey

Bats

Right

Throws

Right

Batting average

.314

Hits

2,926

Runs

1,685

Home runs

234

Runs batted in

1,135

On-base plus slugging

.837

Teams

New York Yankees

Thursday, December 9, 2010

George Carlin - stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author

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George Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums. Carlin was famous for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and different taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy custom were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices avowed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. The first of his 14 standup comedy special for HBO was film in 1977.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Carlin's routines listening carefully on the flaws in modern-day America. He often comment on modern political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. His last HBO special, it’s bad for Ya, was film smaller than four months before his death. In 2004, Carlin positioned second on the Comedy Central list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time, in front of Lenny Bruce and behind Richard Pryor. He was a frequent artist and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three decade Johnny Carson era, and hosted the first event of Saturday Night Live. In 2008, he was prize the Mark Twain prize for American humor.

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Birth name

George Denis Patrick Carlin

Date Of Birth

May 12, 1937

Place Of Birth

Manhattan, New York, U.S.

Medium

Stand-up, television, film, books, radio

Genres

Character comedy, observational comedy, Insult comedy, black comedy, surreal humor

Spouse

Brenda Hosbrook, Sally Wade

Date Of Death

June 22, 2008

Place Of Death

Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Woody Allen - American screenwriter, actor, director, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright

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Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, actor, director, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. He’s characteristic films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a famous American director. He is also illustrious by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the mass of them. For inspiration, Allen draw greatly on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema, among a wealth of other fields of interest.

Allen developed fervor for music early on and is a celebrated jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to usual public performances at various small venues in his hometown of Manhattan, with irregular appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in presentation that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and performed in a rare European tour in 1996, which became the topic of the documentary Wild Man Blues.

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Birth Name

Allan Stewart Konigsberg

Date Of Birth

December 1, 1935

Place Of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Comedian, Musician, Playwright

Spouse

Harlene Rosen, Louise Lasser, Soon-Yi Previn

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Al Pacino - American film and stage actor and director

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Al Pacino is American film and stage actor and director. He is mainly famed for playing mobsters including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared some times on the other side of the law as a police officer, detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after getting seven previous Oscar nominations.

He complete his feature film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the foremost role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle Park. Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was known the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which get him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor was for Dick Tracy and Glengarry Glen Ross. Oscar nominations for Best Actor include The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, the court room drama. And Justice for All and smell of a Woman.

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Birth Name

Alfredo James Pacino

Date Of Birth

April 25, 1940

Place Of Birth

New York City, New York, U.S.

Occupation

Actor, director, screenwriter, producer

Partner

Jan Tarrant, Beverly D'Angelo

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