Bert and Ernie - Bert and Ernie Ernie and Bert are two muppets on the long-running PBS children's television show Sesame Street. They appear in numerous skits together, forming a comic duo that is one of the centerpieces of the program. In the tradition of many American movie comic duos, notably Abbott and Costello, the interplay forms between the mischievious innocent (Ernie) and the world-weary partner (Bert ). A typical skit begins by Ernie coming up with a hare-brained idea and Bert calmly attempting to talk him out of it, and ends with Bert losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea..
Ernie (Sesame Street) - Ernie (Sesame Street) Ernie is a muppet character on PBS' long-running children's television show, Sesame Street. He and Bert form a comic duo that is one of the program's centerpieces, with Ernie acting the role of the naive trouble-maker and Bert the world-weary foil. Because Ernie and Bert share a bedroom (in separate beds) they are sometimes accused of being representations of gay lovers..
Ernie Wise - Ernie Wise Ernie Wise (November 27, 1925 - March 21, 1999) was a British comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became an institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials. Ernie's real name was Ernest Wiseman, but he changed his name (as did his partner) to go into show business -- which he did at an early age, appearing as an actor and singer in music hall. His father, Harry, a railway porter, was also a semi-professional singer, and they appeared together under the name "Bert Carson and his Little Wonder". In 1939, while still a teenager, he appeared with top British comedian Arthur Askey in his famous Bandwagon show. Ernie joined forces with Eric Morecambe in.
Bert - Bert Bert is a muppet character on PBS' long-running children's television show, Sesame Street. He and his friend and roommate Ernie form a comic duo that is one of the program's centerpieces, with Bert the world-weary foil to Ernie's naive trouble-maker. Bert is intelligent though also grumpy, boring, and easily frustrated. He enjoyed such dull activities as bottle cap collecting, pigeon watching, and oatmeal cooking. A typical "Ernie and Bert" skit has Ernie coming up with a hare-brained idea and Bert attempting to talk him out of it, ending with Bert completly losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea. The most famous of such routines was the Banana in my ear sketch. Ernie and Bert share an apartment whose address is.
Sesame Street's Bert fiction bibliography - Sesame Street's Bert fiction bibliography Ernie and Bert Can, Can You: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets, a Chunky Book, edited by Jim Henson, illustrated by Michael Smollin, hardcover, March 1982 The Sesame Street Word Book illustrated by Tom Leigh, hardcover, August 22, 2000 Open Sesame Picture Dictionary: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets, English Edition, written by Jill Wagner Schimpff, illustrated by Tom Cooke, hardcover, June 1983 Open Sesame Picture Dictionary: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets, English as a Second Language Edition, written by Jill Wagner Schimpff, illustrated by Tom Cooke, hardcover, June 1983.
Jim Henson - for Wilkins Coffee) by Henson characters through the 1960s. In 1963 Henson and his wife and fellow-puppeteer Jane moved to New York City, where the recently formed Muppets, Inc. would reside for some time. Henson devised Rowlf, a piano-playing anthropomorphic dog, the first Muppet to make a regular appearance on a network show (The Jimmy Dean Show). At that time Henson's long-time partner Frank Oz also came on board with the new company. From 1964-1968, Henson began exploring film-making, and produced a series of experimental films. In 1968, Joan Ganz Cooney and the team at the Children's Television Workshop began work on Sesame Street, a visionary children's program for public television. Part of the show was set aside for a series of funny, colorful puppet characters living on the titular street..
It's a Wonderful Life - to show the colorized versions than the black and white original. Then, in 1993, Republic Pictures (whose predecessor, National Telefilm Associates, originally bought key rights to the film, including the original television syndication rights, the original nitrate film elements, the music score, and the story on which the film is based ["The Greatest Gift"]) scored a landmark court victory restoring the film's copyright. As a result, the film is no longer shown as much on television (NBC is currently licensed to show the film on U.S. network television), the colorized versions have been withdrawn, and Republic now has exclusive video rights to the film (under license with Artisan Entertainment). The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. A popular belief is that Sesame Street characters.
History of Sesame Street - show 2 1969, The Inaugural Season 3 The 1970s 4 The 1980s 5 The 1990s 5.2 Honours in the 1990s 5.3 Theft of artifacts 6 The 2000s 6.4 Osama and Evil Bert Pre-production (1966-1969) Joan Cooney invited some guests over to dinner on a blustery February, 1966, to her and her husband Tom's Manhattan apartment. Most dinner guests were involved in some way with television; they included Cooney's boss Lewis Freedman, the program director for local educational television station Channel 13, and Lloyd Morriset, then vice president of the Carnegie Corporation, which has supported public television since its earliest days. Naming the show David Connell commented that CTW "toyed with everything from The Video Classroom to The Nitty Gritty Itty Bitty Kiddy Show." The list of names included an extended version.
1951 - in topic 1951 in film An American in Paris The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn A Streetcar Named Desire Flying Leathernecks starring John Wayne 1951 in literature 1951 in music The release of "Rocket 88", a song by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats. Some music historians consider this record to be the first rock and roll recording. 1951 in sports 1951 in television January 3 - Dragnet airs on television for the first time (NBC). May 28 - The U. S. Supreme Court upholds the FCC's approval of the CBS color television system June 25 ? CBS presents its first commercial color telecast with Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, and Faye Emerson. June - RCA demonstrates its new electronic color system. August 11 - The first baseball games.
1939 in music - James Van Heusen "I Want My Mama" w. (Port) Jararaca & Vincente Paiva (Eng) Al Stillman m. Jararaca & Vincente Paiva "If A Grey Haired Lady Says "How's Yer Father?"" w.m. Ted Waite "If I Didn't Care" w.m. Jack Lawrence "If I Only Had A Brain" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen "If I Only Had Wings" w.m. Sid Colin & Ronnie Aldrich "I'll Never Smile Again" w.m. Ruth Lowe "I'll Walk Beside You" w.m. Alan Murray & Edward Lockton "I'm Building A Sailboat Of Dreams" Cliff Friend, Dave Franklin "In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room" m. Raymond Scott "In The Mood" w. Andy Razaf m. Joe Garland "Is 'E An Aussie, Lizzie, Is 'E?" w.m. B. C. Hilliam & Malcolm McEachern "It's A Hap - Hap - Happy Day" w.m. Sammy Timberg, Winston Sharples & Al J. Neiburg "I've Got My.
1923 in music - Billy Rose & Con Conrad "Covered Wagon Days" w.m. Will Morrisey & Joe Burrows "Dizzy Fingers" m. Zez Confrey "Frasquita Serenade" m. Franz Lehar "Gulf Coast Blues" w.m. Clarence Williams "Horsey, Keep Your Tail Up" w.m. Walter Hirsch & Bert Kaplan "I Cried For You" w. Arthur Freed m. Gus Arnheim & Abe Lyman "I Love Life" w. Irwin M. Cassel m. Mana-Zucca "I Love You" w. Harlan Thompson m. Harry Archer "I Won't Say I Will But I Won't Say I Won't" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin "I'm Goin' South" w.m. Abner Silver & Harry Woods "I'm Sitting Pretty In A Pretty Little City" w.m. Lou Davis, Henry Santly & Abel Baer "Indiana Moon" w. Benny Davis m. Isham Jones "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" w.m. Wendell Hall "I've Got The Yes! We Have No Bananas.
1922 in music - George Gershwin "Down In MIdnight Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Edward P. Moran m. Harry Von Tilzer "Downhearted Blues" w.m. Alberta Hunter "Dreamy Melody" w.m. Ted Koehler, Frank Magine & C. Naset "Farewell Blues" w.m. Paul Joseph Mares & Elmer Schoebel "Georgette" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Georgia" w. Howard Johnson m. Walter Donaldson "Goin' Home" w.m. Williams Arms Fisher "Hot Lips" w.m. Henry Busse, Henry Lange, Lou Davis "I Found A Four Leaf Clover" w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin "I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Fred E. Ahlert "I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin "In The Little Red Schoolhouse" w.m. Al Wilson & James A. Brennan "A Kiss In The Dark" w. B. G. De Sylva.
Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Little, Walter M. Scott - All About Eve Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - The Red Danube 1950 Color Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Samson And Delilah Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle - Annie Get Your Gun Ernst Fegte, George Sawley - Destination Moon 1951 Black-and-White Richard Day, George James Hopkins - A Streetcar Named Desire Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode - Fourteen Hours Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - House on Telegraph Hill Jean d'Eaubonne - La Ronde Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Wills, Jack D. Moore - Too Young to Kiss 1951 Color Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - An American in.
Banned films - not been so kind to them. Famous Laws used to ban/censor films 1930 Motion Picture Production Code (the "Hays Code") Famous organizations promoting banning/censorship of films Catholic Legion of Decency Mechanisms for getting films unbanned The usual steps require going to court and winning. This can be expensive and time-consuming, which is just what the banners of the film want. Does the Internet change everything? With the advent of the Internet, people can release their films for free if they have to, and let the world watch them, albeit at each viewer's own peril. Since even unbanned films are being shared without paying the copyright owners any royalties, it seems that countries intent on banning films will also have to ban the Internet to keep control. But if the Internet is.
Blue Amberol Records - Alstyne) Frederick J. Wheeler 1738 When I Lost You (w.m. Irving Berlin) Irving Gillette 1743 Trail Of The Lonesome Pine (w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll) Manuel Romain 1749 Goodbye Boys (w. Andrew B. Sterling & William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer) Billy Murray 1796 Snookey Ookums (w.m. Irving Berlin) Collins & Harlan 1931 You Made Me Love You (w. Joseph McCarthy m. James V. Monaco) Anna Chandler 1941 Somebody's Coming To My House (w.m. Irving Berlin) Walter Van Brunt 1943 There's A Girl In The Heart Of Maryland (w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll) Walter Van Brunt 2022 Curse Of An Aching Heart (w. Henry Fink m. Al Piantadosi) Will Oakland 2036 Peg O' My Heart (w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher) Walter Van Brunt 2114 Southern Dream Patrol (by.
The Annual Sesame Street Cookie Baking Contest - once told his niece Baby Monster, that this was the "...easiest thing [he] ever did to get a cookie!". Entrants that year club members Grover, Roosevelt Franklin, Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Little Bird, the Count and Prairie Dawn. Judging took place in front of the apartment building at 123 Sesame Street. Oscar the Grouch was in attendance, but it is presumed he, Slimey and Fluffy did not participate. No word if he or Slimey were entrant in the Annual Sesame Street Cookie Baking Contest. All information told by Cookie Monster to his little niece Baby Monster while eating cookies..
Sesame Street - levels. Broadcast History The show is broadcast worldwide; in addition to the American version, many countries have locally-produced versions adapted to local needs, some with their own characters, and in a variety of different languages. Broadcasts in Australia commenced in 1971. In Canada, 15-minute segments called Canada's Sesame Street were broadcast starting in 1970 and eventually grew to a full program called Sesame Park in 1995. Separate programs exist in countries including Germany, Greece, (on ERT, later to a private network), the Netherlands, and Mexico, and there are plans for a joint Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian project. A list of major characters in international versions. Controversy faced by the show Occasionally, the international version of the show airs segments that might not be considered acceptable to American audiences. In 2002, Sesame Workshop announced that.
Sesame Street discography - 1996 Sing The Alphabet (Sony Wonder) 1971 - The Muppet Alphabet Album Carry About (CRA) 1971 - The Year of Roosevelt Franklin a.k.a. My Name is Roosevelt Franklin (Columbia) / 1974 (CTW) 1972 - Havin' Fun With Ernie and Bert (CRA) 1972 - Havin' Fun With Ernie and Bert Carry About (CRA) 1973 - Sesame Street Concert/On Stage - Live (Columbia) / 1975 (CTW) 1974 - Bert's Blockbusters (CTW) 1974 - Letters ...and Numbers, Too (CTW) 1974 - Ernie's Hits (CTW) 1974 - Sing the Hit Songs of Sesame Street (CTW) 1974 - "C" Is For Cookie (CTW) / 1995 - "C" is for Cookie: Cookie's Favorite Songs (Sony Wonder) 1974 - Big Bird Sings (CTW) 1974 - Somebody Come and Play a.k.a. Play-Along Songs (CTW) 1974 - Let a Frown.
Sesame Street fiction bibliography - illustrated by Joe Matthieu, first printing in 1986. Are We There Yet, written by Sarah Albee, illustrated by Tom Brannon, paperback, January 2000 Bert and the Missing Mop Mix-Up \Big Bird, part of the Sesame Street Furry Faces series, written by Anna Ross, illustrated by Carol Nicklaus, hardcover, March 1999, comes with a plush toy of baby Big Bird's face on its front Big Bird's Yellow Book: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets, an Open Sesame, Stage A book, written by Jane Zion Brauer, paperback, March 1985 Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street, No 82 of the Beginner Books series, written by Eleanor Hudson, hardcover, July 1997 Don't Cry, Big Bird, A Sesame Street Start-To-Read Book, written by Sarah Roberts Don't Cry, Big Bird, A Sesame Street.
Pro Football Hall of Fame - Packers 9 Indianapolis Colts 10 Kansas City Chiefs 11 Miami Dolphins 12 Minnesota Vikings 13 New England Patriots 14 New Orleans Saints 15 New York Giants 16 New York Jets 17 Oakland Raiders 18 Philadelphia Eagles 19 Pittsburgh Steelers 20 Saint Louis Rams 21 San Diego Chargers 22 San Francisco 49ers 23 Seattle Seahawks 24 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 25 Tennessee Titans 26 Washington Redskins 27 Defunct Clubs 28 See also: 29 Links Arizona Cardinals (Chicago Cardinals - 1920-1959; St. Louis Cardinals - 1960-1987; Phoenix Cardinals - 1988-1993) Charles Bidwell (1967) - 1933-1947 Jimmy Conzelman (1964) - 1940-1942, 1946-1948 Dan Dierdorf (1996) - 1971-1983 John "Paddy" Driscoll (1965) - 1920-1925 Dick "Night Train" Lane (1974) - 1954-1959 Ollie Matson (1972) - 1952, 1954-1958 Ernie Nevers (1963) - 1929-1931 Jackie Smith (1994) -.
