Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein on February 24, 1947) is a British-born American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, and author of plays, novels, and stories. He is widely known for his number one pop hit "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (1979/1980) and the song "Him", which reached the number 6 position on the Billboard Hot 100 U.S. pop chart in 1980. He is also known for his 1985 Tony Award-winning musical Drood (originally The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and his 2007 Drama Desk Award-winning book for the Broadway musical Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN.
Life and career
Holmes was born David Goldstein in Northwich, Cheshire, England. His father, Leonard Eliot Goldstein, was a United States Army warrant officer and bandleader. His mother, Gwendolen Mary (nee Pynn), was English, and both were musical. Holmes has dual British and American citizenship. The family moved when Holmes was six years old to the northern New York City suburb of Nanuet, New York, where Holmes grew up and attended nearby Nyack High School and then the Manhattan School of Music (majoring in clarinet). Holmes' brother, Richard, is an opera singer based in New York City and is the principal lyric baritone of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, sings roles with regional opera companies, such as Glimmerglass Opera, Lake George, and Virginia Opera, among others, and has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera.
The Sunday People
The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881.
It is published by the Trinity Mirror Group, and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011 it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By January 2014 the circulation had shrunk to 374,820. Despite its tagline claim to be a "truly independent" newspaper, The People endorsed the Labour Party at the 2015 general election on the recommendation of polling data from its readers.
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4 the People
4 the People is a 2004 Malayalam film directed by Jayaraj. It is the first of a trilogy of films, followed by By the People and ending with Of The People. Bharath, Gopika, Benny Dayal, Kishore, PadmaKumar, Narain, and Pranathi played the lead roles. It was later re-shot with minor alterations in Tamil as 4 Students and remade in Telugu as Yuvasena- 4 the people. The music of the film was trendsetting and most of the songs were chartbusters. The film was an unexpected critical and commercial success and recorded as Blockbuster at the box-office after comparison with its budget and gross. The film send a vibe across Kerala.
Plot
Vivek (Bharath), Aravind (Arun), Eshwar (Arjun Bose) and Shafeek (Padma Kumar) are four angry engineering students who cannot stand the corruption in society. They take the law into their own hands and they form the secretive clique called 4 The People (their dress code is black and everything about them is black) that takes out corrupt officials. They have a website where the public can lodge their complaints. Soon the police are on their track. A young cop (Narain) is in hot pursuit of the gang. In a racy climax the foursome attempt to kill the Minister but fail. Seeing the brutality of the police the students come to the support of the foursome. One of the students kills the minister and is joined by three more students. They escape due to the support of students. The revolution continues.
KARK-TV
KARK-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 32), is a NBC-affiliated television station located in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The station is owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV (channel 42); Nexstar also operates Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16) and CW affiliate KASN (channel 38) under a shared services agreement with owner Mission Broadcasting.
All four stations share studio facilities located on West Capitol Avenue in Downtown Little Rock, one block east of the Arkansas State Capitol; KARK maintains transmitter facilities located on Shinall Mountain, near the Chenal Valley section of the city. On cable, the station is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 5 in standard definition and digital channel 232 in high definition.
History
The station first signed on the air on April 15, 1954; KARK is Little Rock's second-oldest continuously operating television station, after KATV (channel 7), which beat KARK to the air by almost five months. In 1966, the station's original owners sold KARK to Mullins Broadcasting, then-owner of KBTV (now KUSA) in Denver, Colorado. After the company's owner John C. Mullins died in 1969, the Mullins estate sold both KBTV and KARK to Combined Communications in 1972; Combined's television station properties would eventually be acquired by the Gannett Company seven years later in 1979, in what was the largest media merger in United States history at the time. In 1983, Gannett sold KARK to Southwest Media, a subsidiary of United Broadcasting, a one-time owner of WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire and also owner of KDBC-TV in El Paso, Texas and WTOK-TV in Meridian, Mississippi; Gannett would re-enter the Little Rock-Pine Bluff market when it acquired rival CBS affiliate KTHV (channel 11) from the Arkansas Television Company in December 1994.
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Rupert Holmes
ALBUMS
- Cast of Characters: The Rupert Holmes Songbook released: 2005
- Greatest Hits released: 2000
- Scenario released: 1994
- Full Circle released: 1981
- Adventure released: 1980
- Partners in Crime released: 1979
- Pursuit of Happiness released: 1978
- SINGLES released: 1976
- Rupert Holmes released: 1975
- Widescreen released: 1974
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (original Broadway cast) released:
- Escape (The Best of) released:
Cast of Characters: The Rupert Holmes Songbook
Released 2005- Widescreen
- Terminal
- Second Saxophone
- Phantom of the Opera
- Talk
- Bagdad
- Our National Pastime
- Letters That Cross in the Mall
- Soap Opera
- Psycho Drama
- Too Scared to Sing
- Brass Knuckles
- You Burned Yourself Out
- Deco Lady
- I Don't Want to Hold Your Hand
- Rifles and Rum
- Studio Musician
- Everything Gets Better When You're Drunk
- The Man Behind the Woman
- The Place Where Failure Goes
Greatest Hits
Released 2000- Remember When (Theme From "Remember WENN")
- Second Saxophone
- Terminal
- Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
- Him
- The Last of the Romantics
- The People That You Never Get to Love
- Weekend Lover
- Answering Machine
- Speechless
- I Don't Need You
- Let's Get Crazy Tonight
- Less Is More
- Widescreen
- Studio Musician
- Morning Man
- Talk
- Town Square & The Old School
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (original Broadway cast)
- There You Are
- A Man Could Go Quite Mad
- Two Kinsmen
- Moonfall
- Moonfall Quartet
- The Wages of Sin
- Ceylon
- Both Sides of the Coin
- Perfect Strangers
- No Good Can Come From Bad
- Never the Luck
- The Name of Love / Moonfall (reprise)
- Settling Up the Score
- Off to the Races
- Don't Quit While You're Ahead
- The Garden Path to Hell
- A Word From Your Chairman...
- Out on a Limerick: Rosa Bud
- Out on a Limerick: Reverend Crisparkle
- Out on a Limerick: Bazzard
- Out on a Limerick: Neville Landless
- Out on a Limerick: Helena Landless
- Murderer's Confession: Jasper
- Murderer's Confession: Puffer
- Murderer's Confession: Rosa Bud
- Murderer's Confession: Bazzard
- Murderer's Confession: Reverend Crisparkle
- Murderer's Confession: Neville Landless
- Murderer's Confession: Helena Landless
- Finale: The Writing on the Wall
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Terminal
by: Rupert HolmesI've come back this mornin' to where I first came alive
Here within this terminal where the buses arrive
I was a commuter on the 804
Work for a computer on the 19th floor and...
You came down the aisle of the bus and you sat by my
side
Shoulder up to shoulder we shared that 9 o'clock ride
Oh, my heart was screamin' as you left your seat
Followin' your movements I was at your feet and...
Oh, down into the terminal both of us smiled
So we entered the terminal just as you smiled
"Won't you leave out work for today?" you ask of me
then
So I phoned-in-sick on the way to the home of a friend
We were all alone from 10 A.M. till 3
Really thought the fire had gone out of me but...
You awoke the sleep of my life from gray into red
Made the weary wonder of Wall Street rise from the dead
Could have held up budding my entire life
But I had to get home to the kids and the wife and...
So I left for the terminal where I began
Baby, no, I wouldn't have left if I'd been half a man
So here I am this morning where love had asked for the
dance
Here within this terminal where I passed on a chance
Lord, I'll never find her though I've truly tried
Probably she's found another bus to ride and...
I am now about to begin the last of my days
I'm within what others would call a terminal phase
I myself can only say it's livin' dead
Ridin' to the office with a song in my head that
goes...
La da da...
And you know it grows
La da da...
Oh, la da da...