My Best Days Are Ahead of Me (RCA Nashville, 2009)
My Best Days Are Ahead of Me is a song written by Marv Green and Kent Blazy, and recorded by American Idol season 8 finalist Danny Gokey. It was released in December 2009 as the lead-off single from his debut album My Best Days, which was released on March 2, 2010, via RCA Nashville. The song peaked at #82 on the Hot 100 and #24 on the Country chart. My Best Days Are Ahead of Me is Gokey’s only Hot 100 appearance.
In My Best Days Are Ahead of Me, the narrator looks back at the mistakes he has made in his life, but realizes that his “best days are ahead of [him].” Originally, Gokey’s first single was slated to be It’s Only, written by Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum. This song was withdrawn as a single in November 2009 and replaced with My Best Days Are Ahead of Me.
I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle (Dirk Productions, 1990)
This trashy British horror-comedy is partially successful in its satire of American cheapo horror schlock in the style of Troma Entertainment, but it’s also got plenty of sincere badness of its own. It’s that rare sort of film that is amusing both in its intentional corniness and its unintentional badness, which is not a common combination. It’s just a gloomy, bizarre film, with scenes that include a dream sequence featuring a talking turd in the hero’s toilet. You probably don’t want to see that, but if you do, I won’t judge. It’s exactly what the trailer implies from the first lines: “Most good motorcycles run on gasoline. This is a bad motorcycle. It runs on blood.”
I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle was directed by Dirk Campbell and starred Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick and Anthony Daniels.
Born into the 90’s is R. Kelly’s collaboration album with his group Public Announcement. Released in January 1992, the album became an R&B hit with the success of singles such as She’s Got That Vibe (peaked at #57 in the UK and #59 in the U.S. It also peaked at #16 on the UK Dance chart and #44 on the U.S. Dance chart and at #7 on the U.S. R&B chart). Dedicated (peaked at #31 in the U.S. and #9 on the R&B chart). Kelly’s first two #1 R&B hits were Honey Love (peaked at #56 in the UK, #39 in the U.S. and #40 on the American dance chart), and Slow Dance (Hey Mr. DJ) (which peaked at #43 in the U.S.). By June 1992, Born into the 90’s was eventually certified platinum and picked up an American Music Award nomination for Favorite Soul/R&B Single (Honey Love). Born into the 90’s peaked at #42 in the U.S. (#3 on the R&B Albums charts) and #67 in the UK. This would be R. Kelly’s only album with Public Announcement as he separated from the group before he began recording his next album.
You win by getting all four of your “criminals” into Life Imprisonment, Death Row, or the Electric Chair. No, seriously, that’s how you win. You beat the opposition by getting their criminals away from the “Path of Justice” and back on the Street where they can murder more innocent victims.
Celebrated on April 12th annually, Yuri’s Night is an unofficial holiday that celebrates and commemorates space exploration by mankind. It is named after the first human to launch into space, Yuri Gagarin, who piloted the Vostok 1 spaceship on April 12, 1961. It also celebrates the first Space Shuttle mission which occurred on this date in 1981. This holiday is considered a worldwide “space party” and is celebrated in almost 60 different countries.
On April 12th, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human to pilot his ship, the Vostok 1, into Earth’s orbit. He then spent about 2 hours orbiting the Earth. When he returned, he immediately become a celebrity recognized all over the world and was awarded a variety of different medals and titles. One of the titles he received was “Hero of the Soviet Union,” which is the highest honor of the Soviet Union.
This holiday was created by Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, Trish Garner and George T. Whitesides in 2000. A year later, the first Yuri’s Night was held on April 12th, 2001. The holiday coincides with the Russian holiday Cosmonautics Day – which was started in 1962 – and the International Day of Human Space Flight, a holiday that was created by the United Nation in 2011.
The Mormons have often been nicknamed “The Singing Saints,” and vocal rejoicing has been a part of their religious practice since the formation of the Church of the Latter Day Saints by Joseph Smith in 1830. The forerunner of the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir, as it is officially known, was established on August 22, 1847, less than two weeks after Brigham Young and his hardy followers began setting up their base in Utah’s Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
Two years later, John Perry became the choir’s regular director. Richard P. Condie, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music of Music and a young tenor in many traveling opera company productions, worked as the assistant conductor of the choir for 20 years before becoming the choir’s 11th conductor in 1957, at the age of 59. The group had toured and recorded on numerous occasions: for one recording session, in 1910, the Columbia Phonograph Company used two mammoth horns, coupled directly to the recording needle and wax disk, to capture the rejoicing.
Condie had certain ideas about just how the choir should sound. He had grown up listening to Italian immigrants singing romantic old songs and wanted a sound like that for the choir. Many have since credited Condie with creating the “Tabernacle Choir sound.”
In 1958, Condie and his 300-plus voices, with the frill support of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded one of the most memorable–and one of the strangest entries on the charts, the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It peaked at #13 in the U.S. Their rendition of this “oldie” from 1862 earned them a Grammy as Bcst Performance by a Vocal Group.
Victor Morozoff was an American actor and director whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s ABC television series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and film dramas, and numerous guest roles on television. Morrow also gained notice for his roles in movies Blackboard Jungle (1955), King Creole (1958), God’s Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976).
Morrow was born in the New York City borough of the Bronx, to a middle-class Jewish family. He was a son of Harry Morozoff, an electrical engineer, and his wife Jean (Kress) Morozoff. Morrow dropped out of high school when he was 17 and enlisted in the United States Navy.
Morrow attracted attention playing Stanley Kowalski in a touring production of A Streetcar Named Desire. His first movie role was in Blackboard Jungle (1955), playing a thug student who torments teacher Glenn Ford. His career took off from there. Morrow’s last roles included guest roles in Charlie’s Angels, Magnum, P.I. and the films 1990: TheBronx Warriors (1981) and Abenko Green Berets (1982).
In 1958, Morrow married actress and screenwriter Barbara Turner. They had two daughters, Carrie Ann Morrow (1958–2016) and actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962). Morrow’s marriage to Barbara ended in divorce after seven years. He married Gale Lester in 1975, but they separated just prior to Morrow’s death in late July 1982.
Morrow fell out with his daughter Jennifer after his divorce from her mother. She changed her last name to Leigh and they were still estranged at the time of his death.
In 1982, Morrow was cast in a feature role in Twilight Zone: The Movie, in a segment directed by John Landis. Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish man in Vichy France, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S. soldiers.
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, Morrow and two child actors, seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were filming on location in California, in an area that was known as Indian Dunes, near Santa Clarita. They were performing in a scene for the Vietnam sequence, in which their characters attempt to escape out of a deserted Vietnamese village from a pursuing U.S. Army helicopter. The helicopter was hovering at approximately 24 feet (7.3 m) above them when the heat from special effect pyrotechnic explosions reportedly delaminated the rotor blades and caused the helicopter to plummet and crash on top of them, killing all three instantly. Morrow and Le were decapitated and mutilated by the helicopter rotor blades, while Chen was crushed by a helicopter skid.
Landis and four other defendants, including the helicopter pilot Dorsey Wingo, were ultimately acquitted of involuntary manslaughter after a nearly nine-month trial. The parents of Le and Chen sued and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Both of Morrow’s daughters also sued and settled for an undisclosed amount.
The Woman in Black is a 1983 horror novel by Susan Hill, written in the style of a traditional Gothic novel. The plot concerns a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town. A television film based on the story, also called The Woman in Black, was produced in 1989, with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale. In 2012, a theatrical film adaptation of the same name was released, starring Daniel Radcliffe.
The book has also been adapted into a stage play by Stephen Mallatratt. It is the second longest-running play in the history of the West End, after The Mousetrap.
Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child’s scream in the fog, and most dreadfully–and for Kipps most tragically–The Woman In Black.
Firstly, cashews are seeds, not nuts, so you’ve been misled all this time. Their shells are deadly, and have a coating of anacardic acid, which can burn your skin if handled incorrectly, as well as give you a nastily upset stomach. Additionally, cashews must be cooked or steamed before consumption, as in their raw state they contain urushiol, a chemical which is also found in poison ivy, and can be fatal if consumed in large enough amounts. So if you see cashews growing in the wild on your travels, don’t pick or eat them.
Best Worst Movie is a 2009 American documentary film about the making of the infamously received 1990 horror film Troll 2 and its subsequent resurgence as a cult film. Directed by Michael Stephenson, the child star of Troll 2, the film was distributed by Magicstone Productions and New Video Group. It was also included in the first 5,000 copies of Scream Factory’s Blu-ray double feature of Troll and Troll 2, released on November 17, 2015.
Almost twenty years after critically-panned film Troll 2 was released, the cast and crew are followed in this documentary to see how they handle the new life that the movie has been given. Fans gather to celebrate the movie at screenings.
Director of the documentary Michael Stephenson, who played the young boy in Troll 2, interviews many of the former cast and crew. Although many consider Troll 2 to be one of the worst movies ever made, many fans have had parties, annual screenings, and found joy in watching the unintended humor of the movie.
The documentary follows lead actor of Troll 2 George Hardy, a dentist living in his hometown Alabama where he is well-liked by people around him and embraces the role he had in the movie. He is seen trying to convince his neighbors to attend a local screening of the movie and also goes to conventions. He mentions that if he could have chosen to be an actor or a dentist, he would have been an actor as he did not mind the spotlight.
Claudio Fragasso, director of Troll 2, is also featured discussing what he intended this film to become. He is happy to see the cult following that his original film has achieved but fails to understand why fans of the movie laughed at scenes that were not intended to be funny. When asked why the film was called “Troll 2” when there were no trolls in the movie, he initially does not understand the question and after being told that the creatures in the film are called goblins, he scoffs at the question. Although Fragasso is made aware that his film is considered to be a poorly-made one, he is glad the film has had an impression on its viewers.
Other actors of the cast and crew do Q&A sessions with fans of the film. Some joke that they had never read the entire script when their parts were filmed. Others say that they never knew what kind of movie they were filming. Margo Prey, who played the wife of Hardy’s character in Troll 2, was interviewed but did not want to go to the local screening of Troll 2 because of how “complicated” it would have been. More former cast members were interviewed at their homes to discuss their thoughts on the film and what the film has become since the production.
In the end, Hardy stated he would do Troll 3 if he were asked to do so. During the credits, it was noted that Fragasso was writing his next movie Troll 2: Part 2.