Paul Henning | |
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Born | Paul William Henning September 16, 1911 Independence, Missouri, USA |
Died | March 25, 2005 Burbank, California, USA |
(aged 93)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Television producer and writer |
Years active | 1930s-1993 |
Spouse | Ruth Henning (1939-2002) (her death) |
Children | 3 children; Linda Kaye, Carol Alice and Paul Anthony Henning |
Paul William Henning (September 16, 1911 – March 25, 2005) was an American producer and writer. Most famous for the successful TV sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, he was crucial in the development of several "rural" comedies for CBS.
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He was born and grew up on a farm in Independence, Missouri. While working in a drugstore as a teenager, he met future President Harry S. Truman, who advised him to become a lawyer. Although he did attend the Kansas City School of Law, his ambition was to be a singer on the radio. When the local radio station KMBZ[1] (KMBC at the time) had no money for writers to create the "filler" between songs, he became a writer as well as a singer.
Writing proved the more lucrative of the two and he abandoned singing, eventually writing for such series as Fibber McGee & Molly and the The Burns & Allen Show, and later such television series as The Dennis Day Show, The Real McCoys, and The Andy Griffith Show. Henning was also the creator, writer and producer of The Bob Cummings Show, where he first met many of the actors who were subsequently to appear in his later series. Another series produced by Henning was The Ray Bolger Show. He also wrote or co-wrote such feature films as Lover Come Back (1961), for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) but lost to William Inge and also wrote for Bedtime Story (1964).
In 1962, Henning created the CBS series, The Beverly Hillbillies; a sitcom based on his past experiences while camping in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri. He also wrote the music and lyrics for the popular theme song, "The Ballad of Jed Clampett".
The Beverly Hillbillies was one of the highest-rated series of all time, even becoming a feature film about three decades later. After the major success of Hillbillies, CBS gave Henning another half-hour timeslot on their schedule. In 1963, Petticoat Junction debuted CBS and was a great success as well. This series had a starring role for Henning's daughter (who shared a September 16th birthday with her fater), Linda Kaye Henning, who was simply billed as "Linda Kaye". In 1965, Henning and his colleague, Jay Sommers, created Green Acres, and once again found a hit.
All three programs were popular, achieving major ratings success during most of their runs. However, changing times led their parent network, CBS to look down on the so-called "ruralcoms" and move in a more "adult", sophisticated direction with series such as All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Thus in 1971, The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres were canceled as a result of the "rural purge", joining Petticoat Junction (which ended the year before) in syndicated reruns.
He married Ruth Barth in 1939 and the couple had 3 children; Linda Kaye Henning on whom Paul partially based the character of Elly May Clampett, Carol Alice and Paul Anthony Henning.
Ruth Henning often told her husband about how she and her female cousins often visited her grandparents at the tiny hotel they owned near the Rock Island Railroad station located in Eldon, Missouri. This later became the concept for Petticoat Junction. Later in life Henning and his wife Ruth donated land to a conservation area near Branson, Missouri.[2] The conservation area is 1,534-acres of oak and hickory forest, steep hills, and glades with four designated trails created by the Missouri Department of Conservation and one longer trail created largely by the members of Boy Scout Troop 2001.[3][4] His wife Ruth Barth Henning died, aged 88 from a heart attack on January 15, 2002 at their home in Los Angeles, California. Henning retired to Toluca Lake, California, dying in a Burbank hospital on March 25, 2005, aged 93.
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[Kashiem]
Day One in my journal's where it start from
A potion, for inner strength, that's the outcome
Cause my mental gets deep on individuals
Yet a feeble body to me is not a virtue
Cause the strength in my mind will not hurt you
I curse you like Yacub Ashou Alyu
If it's you cool, me I knew I'd name it one day
Then it struck like a hammer, call it Gamma Ray
I'm alienated like your dark skies
How I part tide of energies within let's bring it outside
Like a machine that's used to measure time
But will it measure mine?
Between this world and space there's a thin line
I'm like the brink of insanity, that's my reality
If David met you, you couldn't handle me
Day Two I'm makin progress, reporters get stressed
They couldn't stand the smell of human burnt flesh
I turn the innocent to grim reapers
I took a little baby rabbit and did experiment on meat eaters
I turn the skeptic into true believers
I turn the fighter into Rison, turn the breeders into non-breeders
So put that momma unborn baby girl, that's pure like the pearl
My scientific methods soon will shock the world
They try to label this as Top Secret, but if it's Top Secret
they only try to use it, when they need it
The project now is known as Governmental, well if it's Governmental
they'll go to any length to keep it confidential
Yet I know what's wrong I need me manner, but if I break
my code of silence would this mean the death of Dr. Banner?
But I can't hear to lose or any notion
Yet I wonder what would happen if I fucked around
and took the potion..
[growling noises, obvious Hulk mutation]
"David? David is that you??
My.. that's the worst I've seen him.." [SIGH]
"Dr. Banner is no longer in the pressure chamber.
He has metamorphisized into some.. extrordinary creature!"
[Profound]
Extra..ordinary YES
Hulk, dominate, watch crime shape
Break, newsmen, who give chase
Erase obliterate, need more space
He intrude on, Hulk territory
Now see man in, him own news territory
Glory be Hulk, made to destroy
Enjoy destruction, one whole convoy
Doctor need me, him weak, and feeble
Hulk destroy him, me blessed, with evil
intentions dipped in, the walls, they fall
Hulk eliminate, barricades all
Chains don't hold him, they wrap, me mangle
Strangle bad man, then snap, him ankle
Thank you David, for use, of Gamma
Rays Hulk medicine to last all days
Me crazed, posessive, want, whole body
David Banner's mind, green skin for everybody
Now you see me, Hulk no stranger
It be smart, you to me, not anger
Hulk posess, outer strength of a He-Man
Crush machinery, a bomb and a mad clip
Lives through explosion, him powered by attitude
Hulk keep growing, me am a bad dude
To move Earth shatterer him must keep pace
But Doctor want cure, him must have faith
To escape be free Dr. Banner must travel