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The Wanderers (1979 film)

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The Wanderers is a 1979 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen and Toni Kalem. [1]

96 relations: Academy Awards, Alan Rosenberg, Alberto Grimaldi, Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter), AllMusic, Baby It's You, Battle of Mons Graupius, Ben E. King, Berry Gordy, Big Girls Don't Cry (The Four Seasons song), Bob Crewe, Bob Dylan, Bob Gaudio, Bravo (U.S. TV network), Burt Bacharach, Chris Bryant (writer), Cult film, Dion DiMucci, Do You Love Me, Dolph Sweet, Doo-wop, Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Ernie Maresca, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film), Jerry Goldstein (producer), Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Jim Youngs, John Friedrich (actor), Karen Allen, Ken Wahl, Kino International (company), Lee Dorsey, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Linda Manz, Luther Dixon, Mack David, Martin Ransohoff, Mean Streets, Michael Chapman (cinematographer), Michael Wright (actor), Morris Levy, My Boyfriend's Back (song), O'Kelly Isley Jr., Olympia Dukakis, Orion Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Philip Kaufman, Pop rock, Retroactive continuity, ..., Rhythm and blues, Richard Gottehrer, Richard Price (writer), Rock and roll, Rolling Stone, Ronald Isley, Rose Kaufman, Rotten Tomatoes, Rudolph Isley, Runaround Sue, Samm-Art Williams, San Francisco Chronicle, Scott Rudin, Sherry (song), Shout (The Isley Brothers song), Sidgwick & Jackson, Soldier Boy (song), Soundtrack, Stand by Me (Ben E. King song), Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, Star Trek: The Original Series, Telluride Film Festival, The Angels (American group), The Bronx, The Contours, The Ducky Boys gang, The Four Seasons (band), The Isley Brothers, The New York Times, The Numbers (website), The Shirelles, The Times They Are a-Changin' (song), The Wanderer (Dion song), The Wanderers (Price novel), Time Out (magazine), Toni Kalem, Tony Ganios, United States, Val Avery, Van Cortlandt Park, Variety (magazine), Walk Like a Man (The Four Seasons song), Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Records, Wayne Knight, Ya Ya. Expand index (46 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Alan Rosenberg

Alan Rosenberg (born October 4, 1950) is an American stage and screen actor.

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Alberto Grimaldi

Alberto Grimaldi (born 28 March 1925) is an Italian film producer.

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Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter)

Allan Shiach (born 16 September 1940), who uses the pseudonym Allan Scott, is a Scottish screenwriter and producer, nominated for BAFTA's Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and a Genie Award for his 1997 film Regeneration.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Baby It's You

"Baby It's You" is a song written by Burt Bacharach (music), Luther Dixon (credited as Barney Williams), and Mack David (lyrics).

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Battle of Mons Graupius

The Battle of Mons Graupius was, according to Tacitus, a Roman military victory in what is now Scotland, taking place in AD 83 or, less probably, 84.

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Ben E. King

Benjamin Earl King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson, September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015), known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer.

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Berry Gordy

Berry Gordy III (known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., born November 28, 1929) is an American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer.

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Big Girls Don't Cry (The Four Seasons song)

"Big Girls Don't Cry" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by The Four Seasons.

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Bob Crewe

Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Gaudio

Robert John Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, and the keyboardist/backing vocalist for The Four Seasons.

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Bravo (U.S. TV network)

Bravo is an American cable and satellite television network, launched on December 1, 1980.

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Burt Bacharach

Burt Freeman Bacharach (born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of popular hit songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with popular lyricist Hal David.

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Chris Bryant (writer)

Chris Bryant (June 7, 1936 – October 27, 2008) was an English screenwriter and occasional actor (usually performing in productions he wrote himself).

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Dion DiMucci

Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer, songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, rock and R&B styles—and, most recently, straight blues.

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Do You Love Me

"Do You Love Me" is a 1962 hit single recorded by The Contours for Motown's Gordy Records label.

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Dolph Sweet

Adolphus Jean Sweet (July 18, 1920 – May 8, 1985) was an American actor, credited with nearly 60 television and film roles as well as several roles in stage productions before his death from cancer in 1985.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Erland Van Lidth De Jeude

Erland Philip Peter Van Lidth De Jeude (June 3, 1953 – September 23, 1987) was a Dutch-born American actor who appeared in several Hollywood films, as well as being a wrestler, singing as an operatic bass-baritone, and studying computer science at MIT.

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Ernie Maresca

Ernest Peter "Ernie" Maresca (August 21, 1938 – July 8, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter and record company executive, best known for writing or co-writing some of Dion's biggest hits, including "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer".

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, that stars Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 American science fiction horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy.

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Jerry Goldstein (producer)

Gerald Goldstein (born February 17, 1940) is an American producer, singer-songwriter, talent manager, music executive, musician and entrepreneur.

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Lyricist Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Mike Stoller (born Michael Stoller; March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners.

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Jim Youngs

Jim Youngs (born October 16, 1956) is an American actor.

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John Friedrich (actor)

John Friedrich (born March 15, 1958) is an American film actor.

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Karen Allen

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film and stage actress.

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Ken Wahl

Ken Wahl (born February 14, 1957) is a retired American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy.

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Kino International (company)

Kino International is a film and video distributor, founded by Bill Pence in 1977.

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Lee Dorsey

Irving Lee Dorsey (December 24, 1924 – December 1, 1986) was an African American pop and R&B singer during the 1960s.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Linda Manz

Linda Manz (born August 20, 1961) is a retired American actress, mainly active from 1978 to 1985.

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Luther Dixon

Luther Dixon (August 7, 1931 – October 22, 2009) was an American songwriter, record producer, and singer.

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Mack David

Mack David (July 5, 1912 – December 30, 1993) was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning the period between the early 1940s and the early 1970s.

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Martin Ransohoff

Martin Ransohoff (July 7, 1927 – December 13, 2017) was an American film and television producer, and member of the Ransohoff family.

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Mean Streets

Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin.

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Michael Chapman (cinematographer)

Michael Crawford Chapman, A.S.C. (born November 21, 1935) is an American cinematographer who is well known for his work on many films of the American New Wave of the 1970s and in the 1980s with prominent directors such as Martin Scorsese and Ivan Reitman.

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Michael Wright (actor)

Michael Wright (born April 30, 1956) is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie Kane Jr., in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats.

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Morris Levy

Morris Levy (August 27, 1927 – May 21, 1990) was an American jazz club, music publishing, and independent record industry entrepreneur, widely known as the founder and owner of Roulette Records and the owner of the Birdland jazz club and the Roulette Room.

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My Boyfriend's Back (song)

"My Boyfriend's Back" was a hit song in 1963 for the Angels, an American girl group.

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O'Kelly Isley Jr.

O'Kelly "Kelly" Isley Jr. (December 25, 1937 – March 31, 1986) was an American singer and one of the founding members of the family group The Isley Brothers.

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Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is a Greek American actress.

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Orion Pictures

Orion Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture producer and distributor that produced and released films from 1978 until 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Philip Kaufman

Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than five decades.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.

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Retroactive continuity

Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity with the former.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Gottehrer

Richard Gottehrer (born 1940) is an American songwriter, record producer and record label executive.

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Richard Price (writer)

Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008).

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Ronald Isley

Ronald Isley (born July 21, 1941) also known as Ron Isley and Mr.

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Rose Kaufman

Rose Kaufman (née Fisher; March 30, 1939 – December 7, 2009) was an American screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplays of The Wanderers (1979) and Henry & June (1990) with her husband, writer-director Philip Kaufman.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rudolph Isley

Rudolph Bernard Isley (born April 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter and is one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers.

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Runaround Sue

"Runaround Sue" is a pop song, in a modified doo-wop style, originally a US No.

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Samm-Art Williams

Samm-Art Williams (born Samuel Arthur Williams; January 20, 1946) is an American playwright and screenwriter, and a stage and film/TV actor.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Scott Rudin

Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American film and theatre producer.

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Sherry (song)

"Sherry" is a song written by Bob Gaudio and recorded by The Four Seasons.

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Shout (The Isley Brothers song)

"Shout" is a popular American song, originally recorded by the Isley Brothers.

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Sidgwick & Jackson

Sidgwick & Jackson is an imprint of book publishing company Pan Macmillan.

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Soldier Boy (song)

"Soldier Boy" is a song written by Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)

"Stand by Me" is a song, originally performed by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King, and written by King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller.

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Star Trek: Planet of the Titans

Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, also known as Star Trek: Planet of Titans, is an unproduced film based on Star Trek, which reached the script and design phases of pre-production.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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Telluride Film Festival

The Telluride Film Festival is a film festival in Telluride, Colorado, U.S., over Labor Day Weekend in September of each year.

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The Angels (American group)

The Angels are an American girl group, best known for their 1963 No.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Contours

The Contours were one of the early African-American soul singing groups signed to Motown Records.

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The Ducky Boys gang

The Ducky Boys gang was a purported Irish gang from The Bronx, New York.

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The Four Seasons (band)

The Four Seasons is an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that started as a vocal trio consisting of brothers O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Numbers (website)

The Numbers is a movie industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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The Shirelles

The Shirelles were an American girl group notable for their rhythm and blues, doo-wop and soul music and gaining popularity in the early 1960s.

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The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)

"The Times They Are a-Changin'" is a song written by Bob Dylan and released as the title track of his 1964 album of the same name.

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The Wanderer (Dion song)

"The Wanderer" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion.

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The Wanderers (Price novel)

The Wanderers is a novel by the American author Richard Price.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a British travel magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Toni Kalem

Toni Kalem (born August 29, 1950) is an American actress, screenwriter and director.

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Tony Ganios

Tony Ganios (born September 21, 1959) is an American actor.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Val Avery

Sebouh Der Abrahamian (July 14, 1924 – December 12, 2009), known professionally as Val Avery, was an American character actor who appeared in hundreds of movies and television shows.

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Van Cortlandt Park

Van Cortlandt Park is a park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Walk Like a Man (The Four Seasons song)

"Walk Like a Man" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by the Four Seasons.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Wayne Knight

Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor, voice artist and comedian.

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Ya Ya

"Ya Ya" is a song by Lee Dorsey.

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