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The Singer (album) The Singer is an album by Diamanda Galás released in 1992, largely featuring her versions of classic blues and gospel songs. The cover art is notable for a glamor shot of the artist, which on closer inspection reveals the words "We Are All HIV+" tattooed on her knuckles.
The Singers Unlimited The Singers Unlimited was a four part jazz vocal goup formed in 1971 by Gene Puerling. Members of the group included Len Dresslar (better known as the Jolly Green Giant in General Mills commercials), Bonnie Herman, Don Shelton and Puerling himself.
The Singing Angels Proudly rooted in Cleveland, Ohio, The Singing Angels is a non-profit organization dedicated to youth development the highest level of artistic achievement in the performing arts. They've visited over 30 countries on three continents.
The Singing Bell The Singing Bell is a science fiction mystery short story by Isaac Asimov that first appeared in the January 1955 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1968 collection Asimov's Mysteries.
The Singing Estate The Singing Estate was a four-part reality television programme made by North One Television for Channel Five and FiveArts Cities in the UK, shot from January 2006 to April 2006 and transmitted from 11th June to 2nd July 2006. On the Blackbird Leys estate, in Oxford, conductor Ivor Setterfield auditioned 140 hopeful amateur singers, eventually picking 40 for 'Ivor's Choir' as they were then known.
The Singing Girls of Texas The Singing Girls of Texas is a choir based at Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts in Texas, United States. The choir was founded in January 2001 when the new Academy was formed as a charter school by The Texas Boys Choir.
The Singing Ringing Tree The Singing Ringing Tree (German: Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) was a children's film made by East German studio DEFA in 1957 and shown in the form of a television series by the BBC. It was a story in the style of the Brothers Grimm, directed by Francesco Stefani.
The Single File (boxed set) The Single File is a 1984 boxed set, available only on vinyl, containing all Kate Bush's 7" singles and their b-sides up until that point. At the same time a collection of all her videos at the time also called The Single File was released.
The Singles 1982 ~ 85 The Singles 1982 ~ 85, released in 1985, is an 8 track collection of Play Dead's singles featured on the albums From the Promised Land, The First Flower, and eventually Resurrection. The song "Solace (7" version) is not available on CD officially.
The Singles: 1974-1978 The Singles: 1974-1978 is a compilation album by American pop duo The Carpenters containing some of their singles released in the years mentioned in the title. It was released internationally, but the declining popularity of the Carpenters in the U.
The Singularity Is Near The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking Penguin, ISBN 0-670-03384-7) is a 2005 update of Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1987 book The Age of Intelligent Machines. In it, as in the two previous versions, Kurzweil attempts to give us a glimpse into what awaits us in the near future.
The Sink Is Overflowing The Sink Is Overflowing was an EP from Simi Valley, CA based punk rock band Midget Fan Club. This EP is out of print and featured 4 songs (2 by GFS and 2 by Anthony Stubelek) that were exclusive to this release.
The Sinking of the Lusitania The Sinking of the Lusitania, released in 1918, is an animated short film by American artist Winsor McCay. It features a short 12 minute explanation of the sinking of RMS Lusitania after it was struck by two torpedoes fired from a German U-boat.
The Sissy Duckling The Sissy Duckling (Simon & Schuster, 2002 ISBN 0-689-83566-3) is a children's book written by noted actor Harvey Fierstein and illustrated by Henry Cole. It is 40 pages long and intended for children ages 4-8.
The Sisterhood The Sisterhood was a short-lived English musical project, consisting of Andrew Eldritch (writer and producer), drum machine Doktor Avalanche and the "Chorus of Vengeance" of Lucas Fox (drums), Patricia Morrison (bass and vocals), James Ray (guitar and vocals) and Alan Vega (synthesizer and vocals). Eldritch does not sing lead vocals on the record.
The Sisters (2005 film) The Sisters is a 2005 film starring Mario Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson, Erika Christensen, Alessandro Nivola, Rip Torn, Eric McCormack, Steven Culp, Tony Goldwyn and Chris O'Donnell. The film was written by Richard Alfieri and directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman.
The Sisters Euclid The Sisters Euclid are a Canadian quartet based in Toronto and are known for their eclectic music. For over two years, Sisters Euclid had a weekly residency at Toronto's Orbit Room, which is co-owned by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson.
The Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy are a rock band that emerged out of the English post punk scene in 1980-1981. After achieving early underground and Goth fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output as a strike against their record company.
The Situation Room The Situation Room is an afternoon/early evening newscast on CNN hosted by Wolf Blitzer that first aired on August 8, 2005. The show replaces Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics, Crossfire (cancelled on July 3, 2005) and Wolf Blitzer Reports.
The Sitwells The Sitwells (Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell) were three siblings, who formed an identifiable literary and artistic clique around themselves in London in the period roughly 1916 to 1930. This was marked by some well-publicised events, the most prominent of which was probably Edith's Façade with music by William Walton, with its public debut in 1923.
The Six Parts Seven The Six Parts Seven is an American indie rock band based in Kent, Ohio. The band was founded in 1995 by brothers Allen and Jay Karpinski (playing guitar and drums, respectively), who had earlier played with Old Hearts Club, a band of similar style (but with vocals).
The Six Swans The Six Swans is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales, "The Six Swans" It is tale number 49, and Aarne-Thompson type 451, the brothers who were turned into birds.
The Sixth Form College, Solihull The Sixth Form College Solihull is a college for 16 to 18-year-olds situated on the outskirts of Solihull, West Midlands, England. It was founded in 1974 and consists of several large buildings on a single site just outside the town of Solihull in the West Midlands.
The Sixth Man The Sixth Man is a supernatural comedy starring Marlon Wayans and Kadeem Hardison. The film was directed by Randall Miller who as directed other films and television shows including Class Act, Houseguest, thirtysomething, and Northern Exposure.
The Sixth Sense The Sixth Sense is a 1999 film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan that tells the story of a troubled, isolated boy (played by Haley Joel Osment) living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a child psychologist (played by Bruce Willis) who tries to help him.
The Ska Brothers Johnny Ska (born January 28, 1976) & Jimmy Ska (born June 28, 1980) in Los Angeles, California are comedians, actors, writers and are comedy video directors internationally known as The Ska Brothers comedy group.
The Skatalites The Skatalites are a Jamaican music group that played a major role in popularising ska, the first truly Jamaican music created by fusing boogie-woogie blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, mento, calypso, and African rhythms. They recorded many of their best known songs, including "The Guns of Navarone (song)", in the period between 1964 and 1965, as well as played on records by Prince Buster and many other Jamaican artists.
The Skate Party The Skate Party is an indie rock music group whose main claim to fame is recording The Cheat's Theme Song, featured as a music video on Homestar Runner. Their website contains self-deprecating and satirical humor.
The Skatebirds The Skatebirds was a one-hour show on CBS Saturday mornings from 1977 to 1978. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, the show featured a number of short segments hosted by live-action wraparounds featuring "The Skatebirds", three large birds played by actors in costumes.
The Skating Minister The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known by its truncated title The Skating Minister, is an oil painting by Sir Henry Raeburn in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was practically unknown until about 1949; today, however, it is one of Scotland's best known paintings.
The Skeleton Key The Skeleton Key is a 2005 horror-suspense film released in the UK on 22 July and in the USA on August 12. It is set in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana and has a cast led by Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, and John Hurt in an original screenplay by Ehren Kruger, directed by Iain Softley.
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible The Skeptic's Annotated Bible (SAB) is a skeptical analysis of the Bible, edited by Steve Wells. It consists of annotations presented alongside the text of the King James Version of the Bible to highlight internal inconsistencies, contradictions with science and history, and reprehensible ethics allegedly advocated in the Bible.
The Skeptical Environmentalist The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Danish: Verdens Sande Tilstand, literal translation: The Real State of the World) is a controversial book by political scientist Bjørn Lomborg, which argues that claims of global warming, overpopulation, declining energy resources, deforestation, species loss, water shortages, and a variety of other global environmental issues are unsupported by analysis of the relevant data. Notably, no popularly publicized area of environmental concern escaped the book's positive reassessment.
The Skeptics Society The Skeptics Society is a nonprofit, member-supported organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudoscience, superstition, and irrational beliefs. The Skeptics Society was originally founded as a Los Angeles-area skeptical group to replace the defunct Southern California Skeptics.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly one-hour podcast hosted by Steven Novella, MD and a panel of "skeptical rogues". It is the official podcast of the New England Skeptical Society, and is produced in conjunction with the James Randi Educational Foundation.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, written by Washington Irving, is a collection of essays and short stories, including Irving's best-known works, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Other tales include "Roscoe," "The Broken Heart," "The Art of Book-making," "A Royal Poet," "The Spectre Bridegroom," "Westminster Abbey," "Little Britain," and "John Bull.
The Sketch Show The Sketch Show is a British television sketch comedy program, featuring many leading British comedians and - in more recent series - Australian stand-up comedian Kitty Flanagan. A short-lived spinoff of the same title was produced in the United States.
The Ski Tour The Ski Tour is a professional skiing league that features the best athletes in the world competing for the largest purse in the sport. The Ski Tour also features an extensive entertainment package that includes dozens of concerts, parties, and other non-athletic events at each of the tour's venues.
The Skids The Skids were a punk rock band from Dunfermline in Scotland, founded in 1977 by Stuart Adamson (1958-2001, on guitar, vocals), Richard Jobson (vocals), Tom Kellichan (drums) and Willie Simpson (bass). Their biggest success was the single "Into the Valley" in 1979.
The Skin Game The Skin Game is a 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a play by John Galsworthy. The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrests and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them.
The Skin of Our Teeth The Skin of Our Teeth is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning play by Thornton Wilder. It opened on October 15, 1942 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1942.
The Skinners' School The Skinners' School (formally The Skinners' Company's School for Boys) was opened in Royal Tunbridge Wells in 1887. It was founded by the Skinners' Company, a London Livery Company, and is the sister school of the nearby Judd School in Tonbridge, with which it is particularly competitive.
The Skinny (Publication) The Skinny is a free, local newspaper distributed in music related establishments in Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland. The magazine features articles about Music, Art, Film, Comedy and other aspects of scottish culture.
The Skinny Improv The Skinny Improv, located in Springfield, Missouri, is a dynamic improvisational comedy group that creates scenes and games to entertain and involve audiences. This hip, cutting-edge, and lightning-fast style of improvised sketches, scenes, and music is guaranteed to keep you roaring with laughter and leave you screaming for more.
The Skull The Skull is a 1965 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis for Amicus Productions. It starred the frequently paired horror actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, alongside Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee and Peter Woodthorpe.
The Skull Army: The Rise Of The Skull Army The Skull Army: The Rise Of The Skull Army is an independent film produced by MDA Movies. It was put into production on December 7th 2006 and is the first film of The Skull Army Series, consisting of ten films.
The Skulls (film) The Skulls was a 2000 film starring Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, and Leslie Bibb; and directed by Rob Cohen. Its plot is based upon some of the most wild conspiracy theories surrounding Yale University's Skull and Bones student society.
The Sky at Night The Sky at Night is a monthly television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. From its first airing on 24 April 1957, it is the longest running television programme with the same presenter, the monocled Sir Patrick Moore.
The Sky is Falling The Sky is Falling, also known as Chicken Little, Chicken Licken or Henny Penny is an old fable of unknown origin about a chicken who believes the sky is falling. The phrase has also become used to indicate a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent.
The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy is an album recorded by the punk band Nomeansno with Jello Biafra. The project came about after Nomeansno and Biafra had collaborated (on the song Falling Space Junk (Hold the Anchovies)) for the soundtrack to the underground film Terminal City Ricochet.
The Sky Is a Landfill "The Sky Is a Landfill" is the first track on the posthumous Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk album release by Jeff Buckley. A live recording also exists (with different lyrics) from a performance at New York's Knitting Factory in 1997.
The Sky Report The Sky Report was a 60-minute newscast shown every weekday evening on Sky News at 7pm (GMT). The programme was hosted by long-standing Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham, and showcased in-depth reports and analysis of the day's top news stories (generally emphasising "hard" news), often devoting significant time to reporting events given little or no coverage on the channel's daytime rolling-news shows.
The Sky So Big and Black The Sky So Big and Black is a science fiction novel by John Barnes that was published in 2002. The title itself refers to the clear sky as seen from the surface of Mars, to the nearness of the Martian horizon because Mars is a much smaller planet, and to the abrupt absence/darkness of many overhead satellites that occurs at a key point in the story.
The Sky's the Limit The Sky's The Limit (RKO) is a 1943 Hollywood musical comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan and Eric Blore, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by Edward H.
The Skye Boat Song The Skye Boat Song has gained the reputation of a traditional Scottish song recalling the escape of the young pretender Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) after his defeat at Culloden in 1746: he escaped from Uist to the Isle of Skye in a small boat with the aid of Flora Macdonald. He was disguised as a serving maid.
The Skymines of Karthos The Skymines of Karthos is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
The Skystone The Skystone is a historical fiction novel written by Jack Whyte, which was first published in 1992. The story revolves around a Roman Officer called Publius Varrus, who is an expert blacksmith as well as a soldier.
The Slab Boys The Slab Boys is a play by the Scottish artist and playwright John Byrne. The play is the first part of a trilogy, originally known as Paisley Patterns but now called "The Slab Boys Trilogy", which tells the story of a group of young, urban, working-class Scots people during the period 1957-1972. In The Slab Boys, all the action takes place in the morning and afternoon of a Friday in the winter of 1957. The scene is the Slab Room of Carpet Manufacturers A.F. Stobo & Co. of Paisley, a town near Glasgow, Scotland. The slab room is a small, paint-spattered dungeon where apprentice designers mix and grind colours for the design department. Coping with this boring task requires a dangerously strong sense of humour.
The Slabs The Slabs were a punk scene band from the early 1980's. They had a significant presence on the scene at that time, playing all ages shows at various venues such as Foolkiller Theater, Planet Lounge, Harlings, Lawrence Opera House, Bone Club (Texas).
The Slackers The Slackers are one of the more well-known bands emerging from the New York City ska scene, having been formed in Brooklyn in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, soul, swing, garage rock, and jazz.
The Slackers (album) The Slackers was a cassette-only release by The Slackers distributed by Moon Records in 1993. To be clear, this tape WAS NOT released by Moon Records, they may have sold copies of it in their catalog, but it was never issued a MR number.
The Slackers and Friends The Slackers and Friends is an album by the ska/reggae band The Slackers. It saw limited release in November 2002 (see 2002 in music), and was later re-released with two additional tracks on January 27, 2004 (see 2004 in music).
The Slad The Slad is the name given to an Iron age defensive earth rampart in Hertfordshire, England. It is thought to have formed part of a larger defensive fortification, joining up with Beech Bottom Dyke and the Devil's Dyke and bordered on the other side by the River Lea and the River Ver to create a fortified enclosed settlement of approximately 35 hectares (86 acres).
The Slag Brothers The Slag Brothers, Rock and Gravel, are characters from the cartoon series Wacky Races. They are covered with hair and ride along in a stone vehicle called the Boulder Mobile, hitting each other with their clubs.
The Slate Roof House The Slate Roof House stood at the site of Philadelphia’s Welcome Park and represented both the first era of Philadelphia buildings constructed during William Penn’s lifetime and the only known residence of Penn within the city limits.
The Slaughter Rule The Slaughter Rule is an independent film, released in 2002 and starring Ryan Gosling and David Morse. The movie, set in contemporary Montana, explores the relationship between a small-town high school football player (Gosling), and his troubled coach (Morse).
The Slave Girl (Petipa/Pugni) The Slave Girl (AKA La Fille Esclave) is a ballet Divertissement in 1 Act, choreographed by the Balletmaster Marius Petipa to the music of Cesare Pugni, first presented by the Imperial Ballet for the Imperial Court at the theatre of Tsarskoe Selo, on April 27/May 9 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1869 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Slayers d20 The Slayers d20 is a roleplaying game published by Guardians of Order based on the anime series Slayers. The title refers to the title under which Central Park Media released the three seasons of the television series.
The Sledding Hill The Sledding Hill is a post-modern metafictional novel by young adult writer Chris Crutcher. By having the novel narrated by a super-omniscient dead boy and placing himself into the novel, Crutcher has written a work that encompasses two literary fads.
The Sleep Train Sleep Train is one of the highest-grossing mattress retailers in California. It was founded by Dale Carlsen in the early 1980s with a very strong emphasis on customer service, employee training, and quality products.
The Sleeper (Spooks) The character Tom Quinn was replaced here by Adam Carter, since Tom messed up on Operation Flytrap, an operation to attempt to stop the construction of a nuclear bomb in London by a terrorist equivalent of MI5. Tom began to sympathise with Professor Fred Chambers (played by Ian McDiarmid), and attempted to abort the operation in a misguided attempt to reconcile the professor with his family.
The Sleeping The Sleeping is a post-hardcore/alternative rock band from Long Island, New York. Cameron Keym, Sal Mignanio, and Joe Zizzo formed the band in 2003 from the remains of Skycamefalling, after auditioning twenty-two potential singers, they came across Doug Robinson former singer/guitarist of the band Stillwelle.
The Sleeping Father The Sleeping Father is a novel by Matthew Sharpe first published in 2003 about an average middle-class American family struck by betrayal, separation, and illness. In particular, it is about the coming of age of the two teenage members of the family despite, or rather through, the troubles that befall them.
The Sleeping Gypsy The Sleeping Gypsy or La Bohémienne endormie is an 1897 oil painting by French Naive artist Henri Rousseau. The fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night is one of the most recognizable artworks of modern times.
The Sleeping Place of the Stars "The Sleeping Place of the Stars" is a piece of band music written by Ralph Ford. He was commissioned by the Homewood, Alabama Middle School Band to write the tune, and the inspiration came from a poem of the same title written by Ethel Armes with the quote "I have found the sleeping place of the stars.
The Sleepover The Sleepover is an episode in Timothy Goes To School. Frank & Frank are coming for a sleepover but Timothy is afraid they will call him a baby if he sleeps with a plush toy so he hides his toy so they won`t find it.
The Sleepover Club The Sleepover Club is a series of children’s books by author Rose Impey, and a children’s television program based on the series. Whereas the book is set in England, the television show is set in the Australian beachside suburb of Crescent Bay (a fictional place).
The Sleepwalkers (Broch) The Sleepwalkers (original title Die Schlafwandler) is a novel (or a novel trilogy) by the Austrian novelist and essayist Hermann Broch. It is considered, along with Robert Musil´s The Man Without Qualities, to be a masterpiece of modern Austrian prose of the first half of the 20th century.
The Sleeze Brothers The Sleeze Brothers was a short-lived comic published by Epic Comics, between August 1989 and January 1990 (UK release dates), lasting for 6 issues. A collection of the six issues were later released in 1990, along with a final extended issue in 1991.
The Slickers The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They are best known for the song "Johnny Too Bad", featured on the film soundtrack of The Harder They Come and later covered by British reggae group UB40.
The Slightest Touch The Slightest Touch is the name of a 1987 hit single by British pop group Five Star, peaking at UK #4 in April of that year and later becoming their third biggest-selling 7 inch with over 175,000 sales recorded. It spent a total of 10 weeks inside the UK top 75, four of those inside the top 10.
The Slim Shady Show The Slim Shady Show was a series of animated cartoons that were first broadcast on the on the internet and later released on DVD. They focused on the fictional adventures of Eminem's alter-egos, Slim Shady, Marshall Mathers and Ken Kaniff.
The Slowguns The Slowguns (or SlowGuns as they preferred) were a Stockport (nr Manchester, England) punk rock band whose brief career spanned two singles between 1978 and 1980. Although a part of the burgeoning local punk scene the mod influence was obvious in both their sound and look.
The Small Back Room The Small Back Room (1949) is a film by the British producer-writer-director team of Powell & Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. It was based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin.
The Small House at Allington The Small House at Allington is the fifth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in 1864. It enjoyed a revival in popularity in the early 1990s when the British prime minister, John Major, declared it as his favourite book.
The Small Rain The Small Rain is a semi-autobiographical novel by Madeline L'Engle, about the many difficulties in the life of talented pianist Katherine Forrester between the ages of 10 and 18. Published in 1945 by The Vanguard Press, it was the first of L'Engle's long list of books, and was reprinted in 1984.
The Small School Founded in September 1982 by Satish Kumar in Hartland Devon, The Small School is a secondary school (age 11-16). Satish Kumar, who also founded Resurgence magazine, lived in a rural village and did not want to send his 10 year old son to the nearest secondry school either in Bude or Bideford.
The Smallest Show on Earth The Smallest Show on Earth is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford. The supporting cast included Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis De Wolff, George Cross, June Cunningham and Sid James.
The Smallgoods The Smallgoods is an Australian indie pop band originally from the Victorian coastal town of Port Fairy, but now based in Melbourne. The band's music draws on influences from 1960s artists such as The Beatles and The Byrds, along with more recent pop influences.
The Smalls The Smalls was a punk/metal band from Edmonton, with jazz and country influences. Formed in 1990 and disbanding in 2001, the band featured bass player Corb Lund, who is attracting a lot of attention with his new outfit The Hurtin' Albertans, a roots-country band.
The Smashing Pumpkins The Smashing PumpkinsUp until 1995, the band was generally referred to as "Smashing Pumpkins" and was credited as such on the records. Starting with the cover of and the promotion surrounding Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness the band's name was altered to "The Smashing Pumpkins" for the duration of the band's career.
The Smile Behind the Veil The Smile Behind the Veil is the final episode of the popular 1969 ITC British television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on 28 March 1970 on the ITV.
The Smiling Lieutenant The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Made in the Pre-Code era, it was written by Jacques Battaille-Henri, Ernst Lubitsch, Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum, by Felix Dormann and Leopold Jacobson, which in turn was based on the novel Nux der Prinzgemahl by Hans MĂĽller.
The Smith's Snackfood Company The Smith's Snackfood Company is a company best known for producing and selling a range of snack food such as crisps/chips in Australia (despite being started in the UK). It is now owned by New York based company PepsiCo.
The Smithsonian Institution (novel) Gore Vidal's novel The Smithsonian Institution is a fictional account of the adventures of "T." (a thinly-veiled version of Vidal's boyhood lover Jimmy Trimble) as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create the neutron bomb, and encounters historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs.
The Smoggies The Smoggies or Stop the Smoggies (US title) was an animated children's television show by Cinar that started airing in 1988. It is originally from Canada but the show aired in the United States under the name 'Stop the Smoggies' in 1994 as well as in France as 'USS Polluards.
The Smokestack Wager The Smokestack Wager is a Dogme 95 film shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 2004. Staring a group of unknown actors, including Jonathan Wilson, Melanie Dahling, Matt Donahue, Kate Schellenberg, John Perrin IV and Levon Cheater.
The Smokin' Gunns The Smokin' Gunns were a professional wrestling tag team of "brothers" Billy Gunn and Bart Gunn. They portrayed two cowboys in the mid 1990s era of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and became a very successful face team, capturing the WWF World Tag Team Championship three times, and having Sunny as a manager after they beat The Godwinns for one of those title reigns.
The Smoking Gun The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis. The intent is to bring to the public light information that is damning, shocking, outrageous, or amazing, yet also somewhat obscure or unreported by more mainstream media sources.
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