56 relations: Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Awards, American folk music revival, Annette O'Toole, Atlanta, Best in Show (film), Bob Balaban, Castle Rock Entertainment, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, Comedy film, Ed Begley Jr., Eugene Levy, Filipino Americans, Folk music, Fred Willard, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, Harold Leventhal, Harry Shearer, Heavy metal music, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Karen Murphy (producer), Los Angeles, Mental breakdown, Michael McKean, Mockumentary, Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles), Parker Posey, Paul Dooley, PBS, Pornographic film, Robert Leighton (film editor), Rotten Tomatoes, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live (season 10), September 11 attacks, Sitcom, Smallville, Tagline, The Folksmen, The Town Hall (New York City), This Is Spinal Tap, Trade fair, Transgender, Turner Broadcasting System, Turner Classic Movies, Vancouver, ..., Waiting for Guffman, Warner Bros., WarnerMedia, Witchcraft, 46th Annual Grammy Awards, 76th Academy Awards. Expand index (6 more) »
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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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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American folk music revival
The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.
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Annette O'Toole
Annette O'Toole (born April 1, 1952) is an American actress, dancer, and singer-songwriter.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Best in Show (film)
Best in Show is a 2000 American mockumentary comedy film co-written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy and directed by Guest.
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Bob Balaban
Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, author, producer, and director.
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Castle Rock Entertainment
Castle Rock Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn.
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Catherine O'Hara
Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress, writer, and comedian.
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Christopher Guest
Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), usually simply known as Christopher Guest, is a British-American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian who holds dual British and American citizenship.
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Comedy film
Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.
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Ed Begley Jr.
Edward James Begley Jr. (born September 16, 1949) is an American actor.
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Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy, (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, musician and writer.
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Filipino Americans
Filipino Americans (Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino descent.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Fred Willard
Frederick Charles Willard (born September 18, 1939) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor and writer, best known for his improvisational comedy.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media (including its previous names) is the Grammy Award awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media.
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Harold Leventhal
Harold Leventhal (May 24, 1919 – October 4, 2005) was an American music manager.
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Harry Shearer
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host, director and producer.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.
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Jane Lynch
Jane Marie Lynch (born July 14, 1960) Note: Site gives Dalton, Illinois, as birth place, while Lynch in a Late Late Show source cited here gives Evergreen Park, Illinois.
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Jennifer Coolidge
Jennifer Audrey Coolidge (born August 28, 1961) is an American actress, comedian and activist.
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John Michael Higgins
John Michael Higgins (born February 12, 1963) is an American actor and voice actor whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift, and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim.
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Karen Murphy (producer)
Karen Murphy is an American film producer.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Mental breakdown
A mental breakdown (also known as a nervous breakdown) is an acute, time-limited mental disorder that manifests primarily as severe stress-induced depression, anxiety, Paranoia, or dissociation in a previously functional individual, to the extent that they are no longer able to function on a day-to-day basis until the disorder is resolved.
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Michael McKean
Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, and musician, known for a variety of roles played since the 1980s.
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Mockumentary
A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
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Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles)
The Orpheum Theatre on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California, opened on February 15, 1926, as the fourth and final Los Angeles venue for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit.
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Parker Posey
Parker Christian Posey (born November 8, 1968) is an American actress and musician.
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Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley (born February 22, 1928) is an American actor, writer and comedian.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Pornographic film
Pornographic films, or sex films, are films that present sexually explicit subject matter for the purpose of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction of the viewer.
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Robert Leighton (film editor)
Robert Leighton is a British film and television editor with more than 30 feature film credits since 1980.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.
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Saturday Night Live (season 10)
The tenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 6, 1984, and April 13, 1985.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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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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Smallville
Smallville is an American television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
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Tagline
Templates to add citations > cite web | cite news | cite book | cite journal.
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The Folksmen
The Folksmen are a fictitious American folk music trio, conceived and performed by actors-comedians-musicians Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer.
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The Town Hall (New York City)
The Town Hall is a performance space, located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in midtown Manhattan New York City.
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This Is Spinal Tap
This Is Spinal Tap (stylized as This Is Spın̈al Tap) is a 1984 American mockumentary directed and co-written by Rob Reiner.
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Trade fair
A trade fair (trade show, trade exhibition, or expo) is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of rivals, and examine recent market trends and opportunities.
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Transgender
Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.
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Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is an American media conglomerate that is part of AT&T's WarnerMedia, and manages the collection of cable television networks and properties initiated or acquired by Ted Turner.
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Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Waiting for Guffman
Waiting for Guffman is a 1997 American mockumentary comedy film co-written and directed by Christopher Guest.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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WarnerMedia
Warner Media, LLC (formerly Time Warner Inc.), doing business as WarnerMedia, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in New York City and owned by AT&T.
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Witchcraft
Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.
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46th Annual Grammy Awards
The 46th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 8, 2004 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
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76th Academy Awards
The 76th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2003 and took place on February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
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