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I'm All Right Jack


I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney based on the novel "Private Life" by Hackney. The film is a sequel to the Boultings' 1956 film "Private's Progress" and Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and Miles Malleson reprise their characters. Peter Sellers played one of his best-known roles, as the trades union shop steward Fred Kite and won a
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Alan Hackney


novels "Private's Progress" and "Private Life", which were both adapted into films, the former as "Private's Progress" (1956) and the latter as "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). Hackney also co-wrote the script of "I'm All Right Jack", which was a satire of trade unions. He was also a frequent contributor to "Punch". At around this time the British film industry collapsed and Hackney’s career was never to hit such heights again
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Jack Johnson (album)


to C minor. It concludes with a voiceover by actor Brock Peters: "I'm Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion of the world. I'm black. They never let me forget it. I'm black all right. I'll never let them forget it." Liner notes accompanying a later release of the album provide a description of the music: According to "The Guardian"s Tim Cumming, "Jack Johnson" abandoned jazz and the broad textures of "Bitches Brew" in favor of a concerted take on hard rock
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Look Back in Anger (1959 film)


4 categories in the 1959 BAFTA Awards. Best British Actor (Richard Burton); Best British Film; Best British Screenplay (Nigel Kneale); Best Film from any Source. The eventual winners in these categories were Peter Sellers ("I'm All Right Jack"); "Sapphire"; Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney for "I'm All Right Jack"; "Ben-Hur". Burton was also nominated as Best Motion Picture Actor – Drama in the 1959 Golden Globes. The eventual winner
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Jack Harkness


I read all of the stuff he had to do, I had to look at it from the point of view of 'I'm Jack Harkness and I'm right'." For Lynnette Porter, Jack's actions in the serial make him "a benchmark for [morally] grey heroes"; some audiences may even view him, in light of his actions, as "villainous or downright monstrous." Although Jack ultimately saves the majority of the world's children and finds a way to foil the monstrous 456,
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Brock Peters


' soundtrack album, "Jack Johnson", saying: "I'm Jack Johnson. Heavyweight champion of the world. I'm black. They never let me forget it. I'm black all right! I'll never let them forget it!" Between 1981 and 1996, Peters provided the voice of Darth Vader for the radio adaptation of the original "Star Wars" trilogy for National Public Radio. He also played the role of a Colonial prosecutor trying to make a murder case against Starbuck in an episode of the
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John Le Mesurier on stage, radio, screen and record


was his portrayal in the BBC television play "Traitor", of a character loosely based on Kim Philby, which earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1972. In 1948, Le Mesurier worked on his first film, "Death in the Hand", a mystery in which he played the character Jack Mottram. He went on to appear in over 100 films, including "Private's Progress" (1955), "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), "The Punch and Judy
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Sep Smith


maker of all-time behind Graham Cross. Smith mentored former Leeds United and England manager Don Revie during his time at Leicester. Revie, who dedicated an entire chapter in his autobiography entitled "What I Owe to Sep Smith" claimed "I'm proud now to think of how much time Sep spent passing on his Soccer knowledge to me. He played a big part in my shaping my career." He also referred to Smith as "an extraordinary footballer," saying "he could place the ball within an inch
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Jack Johnson (album)


. It also contains a riff based on Sly and the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song", most prominently at 18:44. Much of the track "Yesternow" is built around a slightly modified version of the bassline from the James Brown song "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud". "Right Off" comprises a series of improvisations based on a B♭ chord, but changes after about 20 minutes to an E chord. "Yesternow" has a similar B♭ ostinato and shifts
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Martha MacKenzie


Although the characters were separated on screen, they had gained a fan base on the Internet that believed Martha should be with Jack and wanted the pair to reunite. Gordon herself backed the pairing, stating that she believed they should be together. She said: "I actually love Jack and Martha together, I'm a sucker for romance so, I want want them to be together [...] I want them to continue on, [...] the timing is not right, they are not mature enough. Jack's
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List of The Goon Show cast members and characters


catchphrase, "You can't park 'ere, mate", was a Goon in-joke that took a swipe at officious BBC commissionaires. (Sellers used a similar voice for trade union leader Fred Kite in the movie "I'm All Right Jack"). Based on a hardware store owner known to the Goons. When asked "What kind of wood is this?" he would respond "That's solid wood, that is, mate." In the Goon Show script "Books" he is revealed
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Margaret Rutherford


Peter Sellers and Leslie Phillips (both 1957). She also joined a host of distinguished comedy stars, including Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers, in the Boulting Brothers satire "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). In the early 1960s she appeared as Miss Jane Marple in a series of four George Pollock films loosely based on the novels of Agatha Christie. The films depicted Marple as a colourful character, respectable but bossy and eccentric. Authors Marion Shaw and Sabine Vanacker in their book "Reflecting on Miss Marple"
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Archibald Murray


(French Fifth Army, on the British right). Wilson noted (diary 6 Sep – the day on which the BEF began to advance as part of the Battle of the Marne) that French and Murray “were out motoring and playing the ass all day”. He had to intercede to prevent French from sacking Harper (Wilson diary 7 Sep) but a week later recorded (Wilson diary 14 Sep), that Murray and Harper argued constantly. After a month Murray was still talking of “my men” and
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United States hydrogen policy


programs. Each states energy office gets SEP funding and manages all SEP funded projects. For more information about the SEP, including project descriptions, visit the SEP website. Clean Ports USA is an incentive-based program designed to help reduce emissions by encouraging port authorities to redesign and replace older diesel engines with new technologies and cleaner fuels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Clean Diesel Campaign offers funding to port authorities to help them overcome the obstacles that prevent the adoption of cleaner diesel technologies. Clean Construction USA promotes the reduction
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Jack McKeon


team at Sampson Air Force Base in New York. McKeon is the author of two books, "Jack of All Trades" and "I'm Just Getting Started". McKeon's son, Kasey, was a minor league catcher from 1989–91 before becoming a scout; as of , he is the director of player procurement of the Washington Nationals. Jack McKeon's grandson, Kellan, is a two-time state champion wrestler for Chapel Hill High School and was the captain of the wrestling team at Duke University. On May
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Peter Sellers


role as Fred Kite, Sellers watched footage of union officials. The role earned him a BAFTA, and the critic for "The Manchester Guardian" believed it was Sellers's best screen performance to date. In between "Carlton-Browne of the F.O." and "I'm All Right Jack", Sellers starred in "The Mouse That Roared", a film in which Jean Seberg also appeared, and was directed by Jack Arnold. He played three leading and distinct roles: the elderly Grand Duchess, the ambitious Prime
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Jack Clancy


even Clancy acknowledged the injury had slowed him down: "I'm still a couple of steps slower than before the operation. But I'm optimistic. It doesn't pain me. I figure I have a month to work the way I want to, I'll be all right." Clancy's comeback appeared to be on track in early November, as he was a close second among Miami receivers with 21 catches for 289 yards. However, the comeback was cut short on November 2, 1969, when he suffered
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Right Here Right Now (Jordin Sparks album)


she spoke on some of the tracks and announced that the official title for her third album would be called "Right Here Right Now" stating "I'm coming into my own Right Here, Right Now, I'm feeling confident Right Here, Right Now & all we have is Right Here, Right Now. So I thought the title was very symbolic in a lot of ways...". In early 2015 Sparks shot the album packaging photo shoot with LA based photographer James White. Salaam Remi had also held a previous
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List of Jeeves characters


the weather and Seppings's lumbago. On one occasion, Bertie calls him "Pop Seppings" in a familiar manner. He is employed alongside the supreme chef Anatole. Like many others, Seppings highly esteems Anatole's cooking. In "Right Ho, Jeeves", Bertie describes Seppings when recalling Tuppy pushing away Anatole's cooking at dinner, stating that "Seppings, Aunt Dahlia's butler, a cold, unemotional man, had gasped and practically reeled when Tuppy waved aside those "nonnettes de poulet Agnès Sorel"".
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Marne Maitland


, "The Terror of the Tongs" (1961), and as Malay in "The Reptile" (1966). Other film roles include "Father Brown" (1954), "Bhowani Junction" (1956), "Carlton-Browne of the F.O." (1959), "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), "Cleopatra" (1963), "Lord Jim" (1965), "Khartoum" (1966), "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969),
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The Hollies


Through" (Sep. 1964, UK No.7) (credited to a pseudonym, "L. Ransford", the name of Graham Nash's grandfather, as were all their early compositions). This was followed by two more cover versions, "Yes I Will" (Jan. 1965, UK No.9) and finally the Clint Ballard, Jr.-penned "I'm Alive" (May 1965, the band's first UK No.1, US No.103, Canada No.11). Their second album, "In The Hollies Style" (1964)
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can


I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can is a 1982 American biographical film directed by Jack Hofsiss and starring Jill Clayburgh. The screenplay by David Rabe is based on the memoir of the same title by Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon, whose addiction to and difficult withdrawal from Valium serves as the basis of the plot. Barbara Gordon appears to have it all, including a successful career in a male-dominated industry and a solid relationship with her live-in lover, attorney Derek Bauer. Beneath her facade is
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British Lion Films


success with "I'm All Right Jack" (1960) starring Sellers. They followed it with "Suspect" (1960). Other movies from British Lion at this time included "Expresso Bongo" (1959), "Subway in the Sky" (1959), "Make Mine a Million" (1959), "Model for Murder" (1959), "Honeymoon" (1959) (from Michael Powell), "Jet Storm" (1959), "Cone of Silence" (1960)
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Jack Holden (Home and Away)


Jack should be with Martha and wanted the pair to reunite. Gordon herself backed the pairing, stating that she believed they should be together and perfect for each other. Whilst interviewed she said: "I actually love Jack and Martha together, I'm a sucker for romance so, I want want them to be together [...] I want them to continue on, [...] the timing is not right, they are not mature enough. Jack's in a relationship with someone else as Martha is, there just
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Kenneth Griffith


1958), in the crime caper "Track the Man Down" (1955) and especially in the comedies of the Boulting brothers, including "Private's Progress" (1956) and "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). He portrayed the gay medic Witty in "The Wild Geese" (1978) and a whimsical mechanic in "The Sea Wolves" (1980). He appeared in the episodes "The Girl Who Was Death" and "Fall Out" of the 1967–68 TV series "The
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Misbehaving (song)


including Shazam, failed to recognize the song. After a series of speculation on social media, Labrinth revealed that it is his song, as well as one of those from his forthcoming album. Labrinth told "Billboard": "I feel like I have music to share with the world so I'm so ready to make it to that international level so that's pretty much where I'm at right now, and it feels like all the opportunities that are lined up are based on that. So I'm just mega
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I'm All Right Jack


BAFTA Best Actor Award. The rest of the cast included many well-known British comedy actors of the time. The film is a satire on British industrial life in the 1950s. The trade unions, workers and bosses are all seen to be incompetent or corrupt to varying degrees. The film is one of a number of satires made by the Boulting Brothers between 1956 and 1963. The title is a well-known English expression indicating smug and complacent selfishness. After leaving the army and returning to university, newly graduated upper
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Cinema of the United Kingdom


satires on British life and institutions, beginning with "Private's Progress" (1956), and continuing with (among others) "Brothers in Law" (1957), "Carlton-Browne of the F.O." (1958), and "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). Popular comedy series included the "Doctor" series, beginning with "Doctor in the House" (1954). The series originally starred Dirk Bogarde, probably the British industry's most popular star of the 1950s, though
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Boulting brothers


" (1958), an adaptation of "Quiet Wedding", then returned to it with "Carlton-Browne of the F.O." (1959), a send up of diplomacy. The Boultings took on increasingly powerful trade unions and ever corrupt board room power with "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), a sequel to "Private's Progress" with Carmichael, Thomas and Attenborough reprising their roles, and Harvey co-writing. The film was also notable for the performance of Peter Sellers as trade union
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Mutz Greenbaum


1920. His career continued into the sound era and he moved to England working on such films as "The Stars Look Down" (1940), "Hatter's Castle" (1942), "Thunder Rock" (1942), "So Evil My Love" (1948), "Night and the City" (1950) and "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), usually credited as Max Greene. He directed a few British films in the 1940s, but is remembered today for the over
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Ian Carmichael


. He had greater success, however, performing in a series of comedy films for the Boulting brothers, including "Private's Progress" (1956), "Brothers in Law" (1957), and "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). He appeared in similar films for other producers including "School for Scoundrels" (1960) and in the "Pride" segment of "The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins" (1971). During the 1960s and 1970s, he worked in television, including the
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Jack Currie (RAF officer)


pitch and yaw was very difficult to maintain. Reaching England, he doubted he could maintain adequate control of the aircraft to land safely, and advised his crew to bail out. Lanham asked "What are you going to do, Jack?" "I'm going to put her down at base, but I might make a balls of it." "You wont. This is your lucky night. I'm staying on board." The rest of the crew followed suit, and though Currie warned them again
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation


France, Ambassador Francois Delattre presented Rabbi Arthur Schneier with the Legion of Honor in recognition of his tireless efforts to promote and support religious freedom, human rights and interfaith tolerance all over the world Sep 23, 2010 Address by Bill Burns, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in absence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, recipient of the 2010 World Statesman Award. Sep 22, 2009 Address by Ivan Lewis on behalf of PM Gordon Brown The Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom received the 2009 World Statesman
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Terry-Thomas


, "How Do You View?" (1949). He appeared on various BBC Radio shows, and made a successful transition into British films. His most creative period was the 1950s when he appeared in "Private's Progress" (1956), "The Green Man" (1956), "Blue Murder at St Trinian's" (1957), "I'm All Right Jack" (1959) and "Carlton-Browne of the F.O." (1959). From the early 1960s Terry-Thomas
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Liz Fraser


with Peter Sellers for the first time. Her breakthrough role was as the daughter of Sellers' character in "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), for which she received a BAFTA nomination as Most Promising Newcomer. She was in several of the early "Carry On" films: "Carry On Regardless" (1961), "Carry On Cruising" (1962), and "Carry On Cabby" (1963), but was sacked by producer Peter Rogers after casually saying the series could be better marketed
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Dennis Price


Naked Truth" (1957), "Danger Within" (1959), and "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). He was top billed in "Don't Panic Chaps!" (1959). In the 1950s, Price appeared in London and New York City in new plays and revivals of classics. It has been suggested that he was the first name actor on television to play a "more or less overtly gay role" in "Crime on Our Hands" (1954). In 1957
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Sam Kydd


about life in a prison camp, and as this was an area where he had much experience, he got a part. He went on to appear in many more films, including such memorable films as "The Blue Lamp", "Father Brown", "The 39 Steps" and "I'm All Right Jack". He often played the part of a strong and resilient cockney. He is best remembered as a character actor in films such as "Chance of a Lifetime", "The Cruel Sea"
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I'm All Right Jack


made both sides look bad and has to go. Cox tries to bribe him with a bagful of money to resign quietly but Windrush turns him down. On a televised discussion programme moderated by Malcolm Muggeridge (playing himself), Windrush reveals to the nation the underhanded motivations of all concerned. When he throws Cox's bribe money into the air, the studio audience riots. In the end, Windrush is convicted of causing a disturbance and everyone else is exonerated. He is last seen with his father (Miles Malleson) relaxing
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Sep Smith


role of inside forward and shifted into a deeper role at right half, the position he would make his own for the club for the next 17 years. He helped Leicester to their first ever FA Cup semi-final in 1934 in which came up against two other of his older brothers, Jack and Bill, who were both playing for Leicester's opponents Portsmouth. He was made club captain two years later in 1936 and won his only honour with the club the following year, winning the Second Division title in 1936–37.
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Heavens Above!


Curzon Soho), and although it disappointed the critic for "The Times", who found it lacking the mild bite and satire of the Boulting-Sellers film "I'm All Right Jack", it became one of the 12 most popular films in Britain in 1963. An article in "Garden History" likened the character of the Reverend John Smallwood to that of an 18th-century picturesque guru William Gilpin: "The first act of the new reverend is to invite a group of colourful travellers to reside in the
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Don't Think Twice, It's All Right


melody is based on the public domain traditional song "Who's Gonna Buy Your Chickens When I'm Gone" and was taught to Dylan by folksinger Paul Clayton, who had used it in his song "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone?" As well as the melody, a couple of lines were taken from Clayton's "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone?", which was recorded in 1960, two years before Dylan wrote "Don't Think Twice"
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Signal Transfer Point


A Signal Transfer Point (STP) is a router that relays SS7 messages between "signaling end-points" (SEPs) and other signaling transfer points (STPs). Typical SEPs include "service switching points" (SSPs) and "service control points" (SCPs). The STP is connected to adjacent SEPs and STPs via signaling links. Based on the address fields of the SS7 messages, the STP routes the messages to the appropriate outgoing signaling link. Edge STPs can also route based upon message body content using
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Richard Attenborough


to keep "Gandhi" afloat.") At the beginning of the 1950s Attenborough featured on radio on the BBC Light Programme introducing records. Attenborough worked prolifically in British films for the next 30 years, including in the 1950s, appearing in several successful comedies for John and Roy Boulting, such as "Private's Progress" (1956) and "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). In 1963, he appeared alongside Steve McQueen and James Garner in "The Great Escape" as RAF Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett
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Anthony Harvey


the Cocked Hat", 1959), and "I'm All Right Jack" (also 1959). Harvey edited the industrial drama "The Angry Silence" (1960), directed by Guy Green, and the Anthony Asquith comedy "The Millionairess" (also 1960), which starred Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren. Harvey worked with both Bryan Forbes and Stanley Kubrick, editing Forbes' drama "The L-Shaped Room" and Kubrick's adaptation of Nabokov's "Lolita" (both 1962). His collaboration
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Robin Ray


Robin Ray (17 September 1934 – 29 November 1998) was an English broadcaster, actor, and musician. Born as Robin Olden, the son of comedian Ted Ray, he was educated at Highgate School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, first appearing as a professional actor in a London production of "The Changeling" in 1960, and playing small roles in films such as "I'm All Right Jack" (1959) and "A Hard Day's Night" (1964), before taking up teaching drama
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Richard Burton


one of Burton's best on-screen roles; he was nominated in the Best Actor categories at the BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards but lost to Peter Sellers for "I'm All Right Jack" (1959) and Anthony Franciosa for "Career" (1959) respectively. Though it didn't do well commercially, Burton was proud of the effort and wrote to Philip, "I promise you that there isn't a shred of self-pity in my performance. I am for the first time ever looking forward to
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Peter Sellers


of his films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians. Sellers was nominated three times for an Academy Award, twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his performances in "Dr. Strangelove" and "Being There", and once for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for "The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film" (1959). He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role twice, for "I'm All Right Jack" and
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F.I.N.E.*


Tracks chart. "F.I.N.E." is an upbeat, hard rocking song, similar to "Young Lust" both lyrically and musically. Its raunchy lyrics focus on youth angst and lasciviousness, and the verses feature the line "I'm ready" after each line, suggesting sexual arousal, or being "ready" for sex. Tongue-in-cheek lyrics are prevalent, including "she's got the Cracker Jack, now all I want's the prize", "I got the right key baby, but the wrong
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British comedy films


series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy "Carry On" films. John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including "Private's Progress" (1956) and "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959). As in the United States, in the next decade much of this talent would move into television. In the late 1950s, as the United States, the television industry has become a serious competition over the film
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Ross Jack


difference to the future prospects of Scottish football." He continued to play football at a junior level, particularly in the North Caledonian Football League with Alness United and, in the summer months, with hometown Avoch. In October 2007 there was speculation that Jack may make a return to management with Ross County with The Scotsman quoting Jack as saying "the time could be right for me to get back into the game. I could think of no better club than Ross County to do that with. I'm a local boy
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Jack C. Mancino


, feelings, urban themes as abstractions with vibrant colorization with my own naive and raw shapes. I'm actually unable to specify my own style. Right now I`m very much in love with Abstract expressionism." Mancino's work in abstract expressionism and suprematism is mainly based on artworks of earlier appeared great abstract expressionists from the early and middle of the 20th century. On his earlier stage he worked on classical landscapes and still life compositions but at his later stage he made study focusing on the works and art theories of abstract art
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Terry-Thomas


chosen as Britain's entry for the 1959 Moscow International Film Festival until the Foreign Office petitioned the British Film Producers' Association for it to be withdrawn on the basis that the Russians might consider the film to accurately portray British diplomatic behaviour. Terry-Thomas's final film with the Boulting brothers was "I'm All Right Jack", a post-war follow-up to "Private's Progress" with Terry-Thomas reprising the role of Major Hitchcock to an industrial setting, as the "tetchily incompetent" personnel manager
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Terry-Thomas


. Many of the other cast from "Private's Progress" also returned, including Attenborough, Carmichael and Dennis Price; they were joined by Peter Sellers, who took most of the plaudits from the critics, although Stanley Kauffman, writing in "The New Republic" also delighted in Terry-Thomas's "finesse" and "extraordinary skill". The "Los Angeles Times" retrospectively considered "I'm All Right Jack" and "Carlton-Browne of the F.O." to have been Terry-Thomas's best works
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Shepperton Studios


, British Lion ran into financial difficulties in the 1950s when it was unable to repay a 1949 loan from the National Film Finance Corporation and went into receivership on 1 July 1954. In January 1955, a new company, British Lion Films Ltd, was formed and Roy and John Boulting took over at Shepperton Studios. Their comedies, such as "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), were produced there, as were dramas from other film-makers such as J. Lee Thompson's "The Guns of Navarone"
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Eynon Evans


1960) and "Jubille Concert" (1961). In 1958 he appeared in the comedy western"The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw", which was followed by a few one-off appearances in TV shows. In 1959 he took small roles in two notable British films, playing Mr Morgan in J. Lee Thompson's "Tiger Bay" and Truscott in John Boulting's "I'm All Right Jack". After appearances in comedy films "Friends and Neighbours" (1959) and Two-Way Stretch (1960), he
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Heavens Above!


Heavens Above! is a 1963 British satirical comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by John and Roy Boulting, who also co-wrote along with Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge. It is in much the same vein as the earlier collaboration between Sellers, Harvey and the Boultings, "I'm All Right Jack". A naive but caring prison chaplain, Smallwood (Sellers), is accidentally assigned as vicar to the small and prosperous country town of Orbiston Parva, in place of an upper-class
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Only Two Can Play


office in 1962. It was nominated for Best Film in the 1963 BAFTA awards. In "The New York Times", Bosley Crowther wrote, "ANYBODY who could do to organized labor what Peter Sellers did with his thumping performance of a union leader in the British comedy, "I'm All Right, Jack," is clearly the fellow to do the same thing to sex. And we are pleased to be able to proclaim he does it in his latest side-splitter, "Only Two Can Play".
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Ian Carmichael


Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English actor. He had roles in the films of the Boulting brothers, including "Private's Progress" (1956) and "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), and later played Dorothy L. Sayers's gentleman detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, on television and radio. Carmichael also had a career on stage. Carmichael was born in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The son of an optician, he
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Alan Hackney


. A further two children meant that he had to travel to write and he had spells in Canada, Italy (with the RAI TV series "K 2 +1", directed by Luciano Emmer, starring the Kessler Sisters and Johnny Dorelli), and Hollywood as well as working for British television and continuing to contribute to "Punch". In recent years he worked with the composer Howard Blake on a musical version of "I'm All Right Jack". His best-remembered films are "Two-Way Stretch"
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Peter Sellers


album reached number three in the UK Albums Chart; The same year, Sellers made his first film with John and Roy Boulting in "Carlton-Browne of the F.O.", a comedy in which he played a supporting role for the film's lead, Terry-Thomas. Before the release of that film, the Boultings, along with Sellers and Thomas in the cast, started filming "I'm All Right Jack", which became the highest grossing film at the British box office in 1960. In preparation for his
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Peter Sellers


also thought that because of his sympathy, Sellers could "inject into his characterisations the frailty and substance of a human being". Author Aaron Sultanik observed that in Sellers's early films, such as "I'm All Right Jack", he displays "deft, technical interpretations [that] pinpoint the mechanical nature of his comic characterization", which "... reduces each of his characters to a series of gross, awkward tics". Academic Cynthia Baron observed that Sellers's external characterisations led to doubt with reviewers as to
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List of Welsh films


character Martin Pawly claims that he is 1/8 Cherokee, and the rest is English and Welsh. 1958: "Look Back in Anger", starred Welsh actor Richard Burton and featuring the Welsh character, Cliff. It was directed by Tony Richardson. 1958: "The Vikings" has Rhodri Mawr as a character, and his daughter Morgana (played by Janet Leigh). 1959: "I'm All Right, Jack" starred Peter Sellers and featured a Welsh worker named Dai. It was directed by John Boulting. 1959
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Muriel Young


Young was instantly hired and announced for Associated-Rediffusion on 22 September 1955, the opening night of commercial television in the UK. Young worked as a presenter and interviewer for regional programmes on Granada Television and Southern Television, and as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg. She was cast, alongside Peter Sellers in the movie "I'm All Right Jack" (1959) as an announcer, without the director knowing that it was in fact her real-life job. However, her career could have easily taken a different
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Music hall


When they wipe my face with sponges / and they feed me on blancmanges / I'm glad I've got a bit of a blighty one"). Tilley became more popular than ever during this time, when she and her husband, Walter de Frece, managed a military recruitment drive. In the guise of characters like 'Tommy in the Trench' and 'Jack Tar Home from Sea', Tilley performed songs such as "The army of today's all right" and "Jolly Good Luck to the Girl who
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Jack Healey


Jack Healey (born 1938) is an American human rights activist. Called "Mr. Human Rights" by "U.S. News and World Report", Healey's focus has been on inspiring the youth to support non-violent activism that would push back oppressive governments and societies. Healey heads the Washington, D.C. based Human Rights Action Center, (HRAC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. His projects include printing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into all passports and bringing Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to
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SEP-IRA


A Simplified Employee Pension Individual Retirement Arrangement (SEP IRA) is a variation of the Individual Retirement Account used in the United States. SEP IRAs are adopted by business owners to provide retirement benefits for themselves and their employees. There are no significant administration costs for a self-employed person with no employees. If the self-employed person does have employees, all employees must receive the same benefits under a SEP plan. Since SEP IRAs are a type of IRA, funds can be invested the same way as most other IRAs
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American International Center


from his beach house. Grosh had no qualifications or experience relevant to policy research and currently works in construction. At a Senate hearing into the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal, Mann refused to answer questions, but Grosh admitted that he had abetted the deception. In a prepared statement that opened his testimony, he said "I'm embarrassed and disgusted to be a part of this whole thing. The Lakota Indians have a word, Wasi'chu, which aptly describes all of us right now." The Center paid for the rent
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Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record


appearances, in character roles and for interviews and advertisements. His stage appearances were few, largely because he had been unhappy with the touring he had done as a child with his family. During his career, he also released a number of albums containing sketches and comic songs; the songs were undertaken in a variety of comic characters. Starting in the 1950s, Sellers appeared in over fifty films, including "I'm All Right Jack", "Dr. Strangelove", "Lolita", "Being There" and the
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Eynon Evans


took a lead role in the 1960 television production of "How Green Was My Valley". Evans played family patriarch Gwilym Morgan, with Welsh actress Rachel Thomas in the role of his wife. Evans continued to take small TV roles through the early 1960s, and in 1962 he appeared in "Only Two Can Play" and "Go to Blazes". "Only Two Can Play" was the third time he had appeared in a film starring Peter Sellers, the others being "I'm All Right Jack" and "
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Heavens Above!


trouble. The cast includes several noteworthy uncredited performers: "A Hard Day's Night" actor John Junkin, Rodney Bewes, who has a couple of lines as a milkman, and future Small Faces and Humble Pie singer Steve Marriott. Sellers's performance is generally held to be outstanding, in a meatier, more dramatic role, similar to his work in "I'm All Right Jack", released in 1959. The film premiered in London on 23 May 1963 at the Columbia Cinema in Shaftesbury Avenue (today known as
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Irene Handl


mostly comedy character parts such as slightly eccentric mothers, grannies, landladies and servants. Among many stage appearances, she played Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" in 1975, directed by Jonathan Miller. Handl had minor roles in such landmark films as "Night Train to Munich", "Spellbound" and "Brief Encounter". Her notable appearances included "I'm All Right Jack" (1959) as the wife of Peter Sellers' union leader Fred Kite, Mrs. Gammon the formidable cook opposite Gordon Harker
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English-language accents in film


1921 through 1959, as "the leading British film expert on the portrayal of the Cockney", while BBC News recognized the skill of actor John Mills (active 1932–2004) in Cockney speech. Dialect coach Robert Blumenfeld highlighted as an "excellent" cinematic example of Cockney speech the performances of Peter Sellers and Irene Handl (the latter originally Cockney) in "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). Dick Van Dyke attempted a Cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" (1964). Van Dyke admitted the notoriety of
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John Le Mesurier


, among them Roy Boulting's comedy "Happy Is the Bride", about which Dilys Powell wrote in "The Sunday Times": "[M]y vote for the most entertaining contributions ... goes to the two fathers, John Le Mesurier and Cecil Parker". In 1959, the busiest year of his career, Le Mesurier took part in 13 films, including "I'm All Right Jack", which was the most successful of Le Mesurier's credited films that year; he also had an uncredited role as a doctor
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I'm All Right Jack


strike to protect the rates his union workers are being paid. This is what Cox and Tracepurcel want: Cox owns a company that can take over a large new contract with a Middle Eastern country at an inflated cost. He, Tracepurcel and a Mr Mohammed (Marne Maitland), the country's representative, would each pocket a third of the £100,000 difference. Things don't work out for either side. Cox arrives at his factory to find that his workers are walking out in sympathy for Kite and his strikers.
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I'm All Right Jack


The press reports that Kite is punishing Windrush for working hard. When Windrush decides to cross the picket line and go back to work (and reveals his connection with the company's owner), Kite asks him to leave his house. This provokes the adoring Cynthia and her mother (Irene Handl) to go on strike. More strikes spring up, bringing the country to a standstill. Faced with these new developments, Tracepurcel has no choice but to send Hitchcock to negotiate with Kite. They reach an agreement but Windrush has
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Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians


its coverage to represent technicians working on ITV, and the following year incorporated "Television" into its name. In the late 1950s, ACTT came into dispute with film directors John and Roy Boulting, and this may have partly inspired their film, "I'm All Right Jack". ACTT were highly critical of the film's negative portrayal of trade unionists. In 1969, Elvin was replaced as General Secretary by Alan Sapper. The union repeatedly discussed potential mergers with the Association of Broadcasting Staff (ABS), which represented
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Peter Sellers


along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, took part in the successful radio series "The Goon Show", which ended in 1960. Sellers began his film career during the 1950s. Although the bulk of his work was comedic, often parodying characters of authority such as military officers or policemen, he also performed in other film genres and roles. Films demonstrating his artistic range include "I'm All Right Jack" (1959), Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita" (1962) and "Dr. Strangelove"
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Peter Sellers


Minister and the innocent and clumsy farm boy selected to lead an invasion of the United States. The film received high praise from critics. After completing "I'm All Right Jack", Sellers returned to record a new series of "The Goon Show". Over the course of two weekends, he took his 16mm cine-camera to Totteridge Lane in London and filmed himself, Spike Milligan, Mario Fabrizi, Leo McKern and Richard Lester. Originally intended as a private film, the eleven-minute short film "
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Liz Fraser


Elizabeth Joan Winch (14 August 1930 – 6 September 2018), known professionally as Liz Fraser, was an English actress, best known for her comedy roles as a provocative "dumb blonde" in British films. Fraser was born in Southwark, London. Her year of birth was usually cited as 1933, which she gave when auditioning for her role in "I'm All Right Jack", because the Boulting Brothers wanted someone younger for the part. In fact she was three years older, as she confirmed in her
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John Comer


prize in the Butlin's National Talent Contest, winning £1,000 and a film contract with the Boulting Brothers. In 1959 the Boulting Brothers cast John and Tony Comer in the film "I'm All Right Jack", in which they starred alongside Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough as trade union shop stewards. Their next film roles were in 1961, when they featured alongside Rita Tushingham in "A Taste of Honey". However shortly afterwards Tony decided to leave showbusiness and returned to full-time work at Metropolitan-Vickers,
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Jilly Kitzinger


her Jilly appears unfazed, replying "That I'm right." She is present for a final philosophical stand-off between Torchwood – represented by Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and Gwen Cooper – and the Families and throws her allegiance behind the Families' plan for world power, responding to a moral appeal by Cooper by declaring that she considers all altruism to be fraudulent. After Torchwood end the Miracle and Oswald blows up the Shanghai facility, Kitzinger escapes alive. Some time later she meets the blue-eyed representative of
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Jack Norworth


Gershwin, who was also a piano player for this vaudeville troupe. Albert Koch, of Wisconsin, also an accomplished songwriter, claims to have written the song himself, and sold it outright for $50, forfeiting the rights to the song. Other popular songs credited to Norworth include "Back to My Old Home Town"; "Come Along, My Mandy"; "Dear Dolly"; "Good Evening, Caroline"; "Holding Hands"; "Honey Boy"; "I'm Glad I'm a
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Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi


urban areas voting for us, more people who are not white and more women. I play that back and think, I'm a woman, I'm not white, I'm from an urban area, I'm from the North, I'm working class—I kind of fit the bill. All the groups that we're aiming for are groups that I'm familiar with. I believe you've got to have the right people in the right job," she added. In the same interview, she said
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Master of Suspense (album)


Master of Suspense is an album by trumpeter Jack Walrath which was recorded in 1986 and released on the revamped Blue Note label. The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "The biggest news of this CD by trumpeter Jack Walrath is that Willie Nelson sings and plays guitar on two numbers: "I'm Sending You a Big Bouquet of Roses" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." The other selections feature Walrath (who composed all but the two Nelson features) with a larger group than normal; a septet
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Sep Lambert


Septimus Drummond "Sep" Lambert (3 August 1876 in Dublin, Ireland – 21 April 1959 in Dublin) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he played 14 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1896 and 1921, including seven first-class matches. Lambert was educated at Rathmines School and Wesley College in Dublin and at St John's College in Preston before qualifying as a solicitor in Dublin. Sep Lambert made his debut for Ireland against I Zingari in August 1896. Never a
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Kalief Browder


another occasion, after an appearance before a judge, Browder made a sharp implement from the bucket in his cell and started to slit his wrists. An officer intervened. After his release, Browder continued to have symptoms of depression. He said, "People tell me because I have this case against the city I'm all right. But I'm not all right. I'm messed up. I know that I might see some money from this case, but that's not going to help me mentally. I'm
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List of Onedin Line episodes


rest nice and easy now, we'll get you a proper headstone as soon as I can afford it. I'm off to Liverpool to settle matters with James Onedin'. Jack Pearson calls on Margarita pursuing a debt of £2000 owing for 5 months. Max Van Der Rheede calls at the office and learns that Dawkins has been sacked. Baines calls on James but he is out. He tells Margarita that if James had treated Tom right, he wouldn't have run off and been killed. 'It will all
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Deadpan


Fawlty Towers" and Rowan Atkinson as Edmund Blackadder in "Blackadder" are two notable exponents of dry, sarcastic wit from television sitcoms. In his various roles Ricky Gervais often draws humour from an exasperated sigh. For his deadpan delivery Peter Sellers received a BAFTA for Best Actor for "I'm All Right Jack" (1959). Spice Girls member Victoria Beckham, the breakout star from the 1997 film "Spice World", is known for her dry wit. Dry humor is often confused with highbrow or egghead humor,
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2011 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election


MSP and Liz Smith MSP endorse Murdo Fraser. 30 Aug – Liz Smith is declared as Murdo Fraser's campaign manager. 1 Sep – Gavin Brown, formerly speculated as standing in the election, states that he will not run and lends his backing to Murdo Fraser. 2 Sep – Jackson Carlaw officially launches his leadership campaign in Glasgow. 4 Sep – Murdo Fraser makes the high-profile announcement that if elected leader, he would disband the Scottish Conservatives and seek to create a new centre-right party, autonomous but allied
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Back from the Grave, Volume 1 (CD)


the cut, "That's the Bag I'm In," though recorded in Hollywood, was released on the Dallas-based Cottonball label. The Malibus from Providence, Rhode Island can be heard on the fuzz-drenched "Cry" and the Legends from Holland, Michigan, play "I'll Come Again," which was recorded in 1965 but not released until 1967 on Fenton Records. Several of the odder cuts are the "We All Love Peanut Butter" and a take on "Jack the Ripper,"
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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I'm Alan Partridge


him and now lives with his brother in Sunderland. In the last episode of the first series, Michael appears at Alan's party already drunk on Scrumpy Jack and proceeds to insult the other guests. He is also a recurring character in the second series of "I'm Alan Partridge", in which he has left the Linton Travel Tavern and works in a petrol station. Dave is a Radio Norwich DJ who in the first series runs "The Breakfast Show", the prestigious drive-time programme scheduled right after Alan
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I'm All Right Jack


class Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) is looking for a job but fails miserably at interviews for various entry level management positions. His uncle, Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) and his old army comrade, Sidney DeVere Cox (Richard Attenborough), persuade him to take an unskilled blue-collar job at Tracepurcel's missile factory, despite Aunt Dolly's (Margaret Rutherford) misgivings. At first suspicious of the overeager newcomer, communist shop steward Fred Kite (Peter Sellers) takes Stanley under his wing and even offers to take
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I'm All Right Jack


him in as a lodger. When Kite's curvaceous daughter Cynthia (Liz Fraser) drops by, Stanley readily accepts. Meanwhile, personnel manager Major Hitchcock (Terry-Thomas) is assigned a time and motion study expert, Waters (John Le Mesurier), to measure how efficient the employees are. The workers refuse to cooperate but Waters tricks Windrush into showing him how much more quickly he can do his job with his forklift truck than other more experienced employees. When Kite is informed of the results, he calls a
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Aurelio Rodríguez


Phil Mankowski -- Rodgriguez started 83 games and Mankowski 78. Rodriguez was unhappy with his new part-time role: "I'm not used to sitting on the bench, watching all nine innings. I finally got the Golden Glove last year, and now I'm not playing. I feel bad about it" Rodriguez was then slowed further when he slipped in a bathtub on July 2 and sustained a hairline rib fracture below his right arm. In 1978, Rodriguez appeared in 131 games at third base, but only 86
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I'm All Right


"I'm All Right" is the opening track of "Half the Perfect World", Madeleine Peyroux's third solo album. The song was composed by Walter Becker, Larry Klein and Madeleine Peyroux. It was released as a single and Peyroux sang it in her "Live from Abbey Road" episode. When she was awarded with BBC Best International Jazz Artist in 2007, this was the chosen song for the CD with the winning performers. In this song, Peyroux tells to her former lover she is "all right
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Kang the Conqueror


Kang the Conqueror is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A time traveler, several alternate versions of Kang have appeared throughout Marvel's titles over the years, including his future self Immortus and a young heroic character named Iron Lad. In 2009, Kang was ranked as IGN's 65th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. Kang first appeared in "The Avengers" #8 (Sep. 1964), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. Rama-Tut first appeared
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The Wiz (store)


is rejected and she decides to take back Jack. She tells Jack her decision and he reveals that the electronics chain is bringing him back as its spokesman. Jack then dons his character's trademark crown and begins to march back and forth, ludicrous as ever, proclaiming, "I'm the Wiz! I'm the Wiz! I'm the Wiz and nobody beats me!" In the 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Jordan Belfort, suggests answering a classified in the local
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Wolfgang Van Halen


the instrument. His style was described by Eddie as a "rhythm bassist, like I'm a rhythm guitarist and a bassist put together." When he first began playing bass, his inspirations were Les Claypool of Primus and Justin Chancellor of Tool. He also enjoys Chris Wolstenholme of Muse, John Entwistle of The Who, Jack Bruce of Cream "and all of the classic players". Most of Van Halen's basses are custom-built, and are based on his father's Frankenstrats and EVH Wolfgangs by Fender Master
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