In 2007, the Guru Josh Project was formed, and included Guru Josh, Snakebyte and the man that inspired the project, Darren Bailie. The Guru Josh Project’s adaptation of Infinity became another hit in 2008 and 2009 as a remixed version by DJ Klaas, under the title Infinity 2008. The release enjoyed much success, reaching #1 in France, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Hungary and on the Eurochart Hot 100, and reached #2 on the German dance chart. It peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart. The remix was written by Paul Walden and produced by Klaas Gerling and Jerome Isma-Ae. It was published by EMI Music.
In April 2009, the track was picked up by Ultra Music in the United States and debuted on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart, where it reached the #1 spot, dethroning Lady Gaga’s Poker Face, in May 2009.
In France, the song was included on the double compilation NRJ Music Awards 2009. The video features German playmate Janina Wissler (Playboy’s Girl of September 2005) and Josh.
In Germany, the song was released under Kontor Records.
A Time to Kill is a 1996 American legal drama film. It is based on John Grisham’s 1989 novel of the same name. Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, and Samuel L. Jackson star with Donald and Kiefer Sutherland appearing in supporting roles. The film received mixed to positive reviews and was a commercial success, making $152 million at the worldwide box office. It is the second of two films based on Grisham’s novels directed by Joel Schumacher, with the other being The Client released two years prior.
In Clanton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan.
In France, the film has been the subject of controversy. Critics have accused the movie of making an apology for the death penalty and right of self-defense. A question mark was added at the end of the title (Le Droit de tuer?/The Right to Kill?) so as not to shock the audience.
Tonight’s the Night is the debut album by American girl group the Shirelles, released in December 1960 by Scepter Records. It contains the hit song Will You Love Me Tomorrow as well as Tonight’s the Night, a minor hit. The album was remastered and restored by Cornbread Records. It was then reissued in 2017 on 180 Gram Vinyl with 2 bonus tracks, Look A Here Baby and A Teardrop And A Lollipop.
In 2022, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
Although Shirley Owens was the group’s main lead singer, Tonight’s the Night also features lead vocals by Doris Coley and Beverly Lee; all four members share lead for Doin’ the Ronde. Later on in 1963, Unlucky was covered by Dionne Warwick for her debut album, Boys, which had been the B-side of Will You Love Me Tomorrow and a regional hit on its original release, became better known after it was covered by the Beatles on their debut album Please Please Me in 1963.
Dedicated To The One I Love is a song written by Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass which was a hit for the “5” Royales, the Shirelles the Mamas & the Papas and Bitty McLean. Pauling was the guitarist of the “5” Royales, the group that recorded the original version of the song, produced by Bass, in 1957. Their version was re-released in 1961 and charted at #81 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Shirelles cover version reached #83 in 1959. It was re-released in 1961 and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #2 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Sides. The song was subsequently included on Tonight’s the Night.
Tonight’s the Night (the single) was written by Luther Dixon and Shirley Owens. The lyrics dealt with a woman’s feelings before losing her virginity and was released as the album’s second single in 1960. In 2010, Rolling Stone listed it as one of the 500 greatest songs of all time. It peaked at #39.
Will You Love Me Tomorrow, sometimes known as Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, is a song with words written by Gerry Goffin and music composed by Carole King. It was originally recorded in 1960 at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, with this version going to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is also notable for being the first song by a black all-girl group to reach number one in the United States. It has since been recorded by many artists over the years, including a 1971 version by co-writer Carole King. In addition to reaching #1 in the United States, the song also reached #2 on the R&B chart, #4 in the UK and #3 in New Zealand.
This was a game very similar to the game of baseball. This game predated baseball and was the greatest past time in the U.S. The object of the game was to hit a small leather ball as far as you could with a 17″ stick towards a target. Whoever hit the ball the farthest wins.
MySpace, a social networking site, is owned by Fox Interactive Media. As of September 7, 2007, the site claims to have 200 million accounts. The site has become famous for hosting some of the ugliest websites on the internet with loud music and garish backgrounds. The site is home to millions of early teenage girls who talk entirely in capital letters with an indecipherable text-message based variant of English called “stupid.” LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLZ.
In 1974, Kashif was recruited as a keyboard player and vocalist to join the funk band B. T. Express, whose credits included the hits Express and Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied), among others. Seeking a more challenging musical assignment in 1978, Kashif exited B. T. Express and landed a job as a keyboardist for R&B musician Stephanie Mills.
In 1981 Kashif wrote and produced the hit I’m in Love for Evelyn “Champagne” King, which was a shift in sound from King’s Shame to a minimalist becoming Kashif’s signature sound. The song revitalized King’s career and branded Kashif as one of the most sought-after producers of the day. Over the next ten years, he created hits including So Fine for Howard Johnson, Love Come Down, Betcha She Don’t Love You, and Back to Love, among many others.
In 1983, Kashif signed with Arista Records as a solo artist. Introduced to Arista by Milton Allen, the artist development director, his self-titled debut album Kashif (1983) spawned the hits I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On), Stone Love, Help Yourself to My Love, Say Something Love, and the instrumental track The Mood. With this release, Kashif was well received as an innovator in music, as R&B artists were only beginning to experiment with synthesizers and other electronic instruments. In 1984, his second album, Send Me Your Love resulted in two Grammy nominations, Edgartown Groove, featuring Al Jarreau, and the instrumental Call Me Tonight along with the hits Baby Don’t Break Your Baby’s Heart and Are You the Woman.
Kashif can be heard on releases by Kenny G, George Benson, Evelyn “Champagne” King, Johnny Kemp, Melba Moore, Dionne Warwick, Giorge Pettus, Stacy Lattisaw, Meli’sa Morgan, Exposé, the Wootens, Freda Payne, Whitney Houston, and others.
In 1985, he received another Grammy nomination for another instrumental entitled The Movie Song. He also wrote and produced Inside Love for his musical idol, George Benson. It was during this time that he met and launched the career of then unknown Kenny G with Hi How Ya Doin and Tribeca.
In 1985, Kashif teamed up with then newcomer, Whitney Houston. The result was the hit You Give Good Love. Kashif also produced and was her duet partner on Thinking About You, a single track from Houston’s debut album. The album became the bestselling debut album by a female artist. Kashif also produced Where You Are on Houston’s second album entitled Whitney.
His other albums include Condition of the Heart (1985), Love Changes (1987) and Kashif (1989). On the Love Changes album, Exposé provided background vocals. 1989’s Kashif included the cover of the Four Tops’ hit Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got).
In 1987, he produced Love Changes, a #2 R&B hit in which Me’lisa Morgan was his duet partner and that name was taken from his bestselling album, which had the same name. The track also appears on Meli’sa Morgan’s album Good Love. Also contained on that album was another duet that yielded yet another international hit, the song Reservations For Two with Dionne Warwick. Between 1987 and 1989, Kashif continued to churn out the hits for Jermaine Jackson, The Stylistics, Melba Moore, George Benson, Stacy Lattisaw, and many others
Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and editor. Craven has commonly been recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre due to the cultural impact and influence of his work.Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven was best known for his pioneering work in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor and satire.
Craven created the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (1984–2010), specifically writing and directing the first film, co-writing and producing the third, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and writing and directing the seventh, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994). He additionally directed the first four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He also directed cult classics The Last House on the Left (1972) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), the horror comedy The People Under the Stairs (1991), and psychological thriller Red Eye (2005). His other notable films include Swamp Thing (1982), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Shocker (1989), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), and Music of the Heart (1999).
Craven received several accolades across his career, which includes a Scream Award, a Sitges Film Festival Award, a Fangoria Chainsaw Award, and nominations for a Saturn Award and several other film festivals. In 1995, he was honored by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films with the Life Career Award, for his accomplishments in the horror genre. In 2012, the New York City Horror Film Festival awarded Craven the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Craven’s first marriage, to Bonnie Broecker, produced two children: Jonathan Craven (born 1965) and Jessica Craven (born 1968). Jonathan is a writer and director. Jessica was a singer-songwriter in the group the Chapin Sisters. The marriage ended in 1970.
In 1984, Craven married a woman who became known professionally as actress Mimi Craven. The two later divorced, with Wes Craven stating in interviews that the marriage dissolved after he discovered it “was no longer anything but a sham.” In 2004, Craven married Iya Labunka; she frequently worked as a producer on Craven’s films.
Craven was a birder; in 2010, he joined Audubon California’s board of directors.
On August 30, 2015, four weeks after his 76th birthday, Craven died of a brain tumor at his home in Los Angeles. The tenth episode of the horror television series Scream and the fourth sequel in the franchise were dedicated in his memory.
Imaginary Friend is a psychological horror novel by American author Stephen Chbosky. It was published on October 1, 2019 by Grand Central Publishing and was an instant New York Times Best Seller. It is Chbosky’s long-awaited follow-up to the 1999 international best-seller The Perks of Being a Wallflower. A departure from his debut novel, Imaginary Friend was very well-received and debuted as a New York Times Best Seller. The review from Time stated it evoked “echoes of Stephen King” and “well worth the time for those who dare.”
Christopher is seven years old. Christopher is the new kid in town. Christopher has an imaginary friend.
We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.
Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It’s as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out.
At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again.
The quintessential American treat is deceptively simple: a basic, creamed-butter cookie recipe turns out to have endless subtle variations that produce dramatically different results.
Whatever your favorite version, a perfect chocolate chip cookie is a delicate balance of textures and flavors. A crispy rim gives way to a tender, melting center, and the buttery sweetness of the dough sets off the slight edge of bittersweet chocolate and brown sugar.
Legend has it that the chocolate chip cookie has its origins in a happy accident, when Massachusetts inn owner Ruth Wakefield stirred chopped chocolate into her cookie dough in an attempt to make uniformly chocolatey cookies. Her brand-new recipe was published in a Boston newspaper, and the rest was pastry history.
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Apollo 17, the final manned moon mission, took place in 1972.
The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in an appeal President Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.”
At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments, and Cold War-era America welcomed Kennedy’s bold proposal. In 1966, after five years of work by an international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission, testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and spacecraft combination.
Then, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when a fire broke out during a manned launch-pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rocket. Three astronauts were killed in the fire.
Despite the setback, NASA and its thousands of employees forged ahead, and in October 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, orbited Earth and successfully tested many of the sophisticated systems needed to conduct a moon journey and landing.
In December of the same year, Apollo 8 took three astronauts to the far side of the moon and back, and in March 1969 Apollo 9 tested the lunar module for the first time while in Earth orbit. That May, the three astronauts of Apollo 10 took the first complete Apollo spacecraft around the moon in a dry run for the scheduled July landing mission.
Timeline of the 1969 Moon Landing
At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, with the world watching, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins aboard. Armstrong, a 38-year-old civilian research pilot, was the commander of the mission.
After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19. The next day, at 1:46 p.m., the lunar module Eagle, manned by Armstrong and Aldrin, separated from the command module, where Collins remained. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at 4:17 p.m. the craft touched down on the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong immediately radioed to Mission Control in Houston, Texas, a now-famous message: “The Eagle has landed.”
At 10:39 p.m., five hours ahead of the original schedule, Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module. As he made his way down the module’s ladder, a television camera attached to the craft recorded his progress and beamed the signal back to Earth, where hundreds of millions watched in great anticipation.
At 10:56 p.m., as Armstrong stepped off the ladder and planted his foot on the moon’s powdery surface, he spoke his famous quote, which he later contended was slightly garbled by his microphone and meant to be “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Aldrin joined him on the moon’s surface 19 minutes later, and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests and spoke with President Richard Nixon via Houston.
By 1:11 a.m. on July 21, both astronauts were back in the lunar module and the hatch was closed. The two men slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at 1:54 p.m. the Eagle began its ascent back to the command module. Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon—July 1969 A.D.—We came in peace for all mankind.”
At 5:35 p.m., Armstrong and Aldrin successfully docked and rejoined Collins, and at 12:56 a.m. on July 22 Apollo 11 began its journey home, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 12:50 p.m. on July 24.