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Ellen Foley

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Ellen Foley (born June 5, 1951) is an American singer and actress who has appeared on Broadway and television, where she co-starred in the sitcom Night Court. [1]

91 relations: Actor, Adrian Lyne, Another Breath, Bat Out of Hell, Beehive, Bernadette Peters, Blue Öyster Cult, Body and Soul (Joe Jackson album), Broadway theatre, Celine Dion, Cocktail (1988 film), Columbia Pictures, Combat Rock, Debbie Allen, Epic Records, Fatal Attraction, Hair (film), Hair (musical), Harry Anderson, Have a Good Time but Get Out Alive!, Hitsville UK, Ian Hunter (singer), Into the Woods, Iron City Houserockers, It's All Coming Back to Me Now, Jim Steinman, Joe Jackson (musician), Joe Strummer, Jonathan Demme, Karla DeVito, Lee Wilkof, Lip sync, Manhattan, Markie Post, Married to the Mob, Martin Scorsese, Me and My Girl, Meat Loaf, Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist), Mick Ronson, Miloš Forman, Mimi Kennedy, Music video, NBC, New York City, Night Court, Night Out (album), NME, No Pay, Nudity, Old Globe Theatre, ..., Original Sin (Pandora's Box album), Orion Pictures, Pandora's Box (band), Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Paramount Pictures, Reinhold Weege, Rock music, Roger Donaldson, Sandinista!, School of Rock (company), Should I Stay or Should I Go, Singing, Sitcom, Spirit of St. Louis (album), St. Louis, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Van Zandt, Sydney Pollack, Television, The Blockheads, The Clash, The Fall Guy, The King of Comedy (film), Tootsie, Touchstone Pictures, TV Guide, United Artists, United States, Utopia (band), Webster University, Welcome to the Club (Ian Hunter album), Wounded Bird Records, 1977 in television, 1979 in film, 1982 in film, 1984 in television, 1985 in television, 1987 in film, 1988 in film, 20th Century Fox, 3 Girls 3. Expand index (41 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Adrian Lyne

Adrian Lyne (born 4 March 1941) is an English film director, writer, and producer.

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Another Breath

Another Breath is the third studio album by Ellen Foley.

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Bat Out of Hell

Bat Out of Hell is the second studio album and the major-label debut by American rock singer Meat Loaf, as well as being his first collaboration with composer Jim Steinman and producer Todd Rundgren, released in September 1977 on Cleveland International/Epic Records.

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Beehive

A beehive is an enclosed structure man-made in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young.

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Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara; February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer and children's book author.

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Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult (often abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1967, whose most successful work includes the hard rock songs "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Godzilla", "Burnin' for You" and "Shooting Shark".

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Body and Soul (Joe Jackson album)

Body and Soul is an album by Joe Jackson, released in March 1984.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer.

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Cocktail (1988 film)

Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Heywood Gould, whose screenplay was based on his book of the same name.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Combat Rock

Combat Rock is the fifth studio album by the English rock band The Clash.

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Debbie Allen

Deborah Kaye "Debbie" Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American psychological erotic thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by James Dearden.

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Hair (film)

Hair is a 1979 musical anti-war drama film based on the 1968 Broadway musical Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical about a Vietnam War draftee who meets and befriends a "tribe" of hippies on his way to the army induction center.

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Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.

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Harry Anderson

Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018) was an American actor, comedian, and magician.

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Have a Good Time but Get Out Alive!

Have a Good Time but Get Out Alive! is a studio album by the Iron City Houserockers.

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Hitsville UK

"Hitsville U.K." is a song by The Clash and the second off their fourth album Sandinista!.

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Ian Hunter (singer)

Ian Hunter Patterson (born 3 June 1939), known as Ian Hunter, is a British singer-songwriter and musician who is best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople, from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and at the time of its 2009 and 2013 reunions.

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Into the Woods

Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.

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Iron City Houserockers

The Iron City Houserockers were an American rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, led by the singer and guitarist Joe Grushecky, from 1976 to 1984.

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It's All Coming Back to Me Now

"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" is a power ballad written by Jim Steinman.

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Jim Steinman

James Richard Steinman (born November 1, 1947) is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for many hit songs.

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Joe Jackson (musician)

David Ian "Joe" Jackson (born 11 August 1954) is an English musician and singer-songwriter.

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Joe Strummer

John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was an English musician, singer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the Clash, a punk rock band formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk.

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Jonathan Demme

Robert Jonathan Demme (February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Karla DeVito

Karla DeVito (born August 29, 1953) is an American singer and actress.

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Lee Wilkof

Lee Wilkof (born June 25, 1951) is an American actor and veteran of the Broadway stage.

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Lip sync

Lip sync (short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with prerecorded sung or spoken vocals that listeners hear, either through the sound reinforcement system in a live performance or via television, computer, cinema speakers, or generally anything with audio output in other cases.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Markie Post

Marjorie Armstrong "Markie" Post (born November 4, 1950) is an American actress, known for her roles as bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy on ABC from 1982 to 1985, as public defender Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1985 to 1992, and as Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire from 1992 to 1995.

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Married to the Mob

Married to the Mob is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Me and My Girl

Me and My Girl is a musical with music by Noel Gay and its original book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose.

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Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist)

Michael Geoffrey "Mick" Jones (born 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, cofounder and songwriter for The Clash until his dismissal in 1983.

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Mick Ronson

Michael Ronson (26 May 1946 – 29 April 1993) was an English guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer.

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Miloš Forman

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor who, until 1968, lived and worked primarily in the former Czechoslovakia.

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Mimi Kennedy

Mary Claire "Mimi" Kennedy (born September 25, 1948) is an American actress, author, and activist, best known for her performances in television comedies.

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Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Night Court

Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992.

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Night Out (album)

Night Out is the 1979 debut studio album by Ellen Foley, a long-time backup vocalist for Meat Loaf.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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No Pay, Nudity

No Pay, Nudity is a 2016 American comedy drama film starring Gabriel Byrne.

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Old Globe Theatre

The Old Globe Theatre is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.

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Original Sin (Pandora's Box album)

Original Sin is a concept album performed by Pandora's Box and produced by Jim Steinman.

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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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Pandora's Box (band)

Pandora's Box was a female pop group assembled by Jim Steinman in the 1980s.

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Paradise by the Dashboard Light

"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is a song written by Jim Steinman.

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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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Reinhold Weege

Reinhold Weege (December 23, 1949 – December 1, 2012) was an American television writer, producer and director.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roger Donaldson

Roger Lindsey Donaldson (born 15 November 1945) is an Australian-born New Zealand film director, producer and writer whose films include The World's Fastest Indian (2005), acclaimed 1981 relationship drama Smash Palace, and a run of titles shot in the United States, including the Kevin Costner films No Way Out (1987) and Thirteen Days (2000), and the 1997 disaster film Dante's Peak.

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Sandinista!

Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by English rock band the Clash.

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School of Rock (company)

School of Rock (formerly known as The Paul Green School of Rock Music) is a music education program.

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Should I Stay or Should I Go

"Should I Stay or Should I Go" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash, from their album Combat Rock.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Spirit of St. Louis (album)

Spirit of St.

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St. Louis

St.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician and actor, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve.

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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Blockheads

The Blockheads are an English rock band.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981, to May 2, 1986.

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The King of Comedy (film)

The King of Comedy is a 1982 American satirical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard.

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Tootsie

Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Dustin Hoffman, with a supporting cast that includes Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Geena Davis (in her acting debut), and Doris Belack.

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Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures is an American film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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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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Utopia (band)

Utopia is an American rock band formed in 1973 by Todd Rundgren.

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Webster University

Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, Missouri.

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Welcome to the Club (Ian Hunter album)

Welcome to the Club is the first live album by Ian Hunter.

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Wounded Bird Records

Wounded Bird Records is a compact disc only, re-issue record label, that was founded in 1998 in Guilderland, New York.

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1977 in television

For 1977 in television, see.

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1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

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1982 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1982 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1984 in television

For 1984 in television see.

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1985 in television

For 1985 in television, see.

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1987 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1988 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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3 Girls 3

3 Girls 3 is a 1977 American variety television show that ran for four episodes on the NBC network, starring Debbie Allen, Ellen Foley, and Mimi Kennedy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Foley

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