He Loves U Not is a song by American girl group Dream. It was released on August 22, 2000, as the group’s debut single and is featured on their debut album, It Was All a Dream (2001). The song was written in 1999 by Steve Kipner, David Frank and Pamela Sheyne, with the former two doing the production. A pop and R&B song, He Loves U Not is about a girl confronting another girl trying to steal her boyfriend. An early version of the song started with a young girl’s voice saying “He loves me, he loves you not,” but was removed from both album and single versions, with the phrase “He loves you not” being heard at the end of the album version.
He Loves U Not received mixed reviews from critics who gave credit to the production and lyrics but felt that it was derivative compared to other songs of its time. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks. It also peaked at #3, #9, and #15 on the Mainstream Top 40, Rhythmic, and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, respectively. Worldwide, it reach the top 40 in several countries, including Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling over 500,000 copies in the United States.
An accompanying music video for the song, directed by Marcus Raboy, premiered on MTV’s Total Request Live and features the girls dancing in three different settings: a white room with the Dream logo behind them, a California desert and a rotating white room.
That’s the Way of the World is a 1975 film produced and directed by Sig Shore and starring Harvey Keitel. It features the music of R&B/Funk group Earth, Wind & Fire (who also appear in the picture as a fictionalized version of themselves). The film depicts the music business and the life of record executives. A soundtrack by Earth, Wind & Fire released in the same year eventually became one of the group’s landmark albums.
Coleman Buckmaster (Harvey Keitel), also known as “the Golden Ear,” is a producer extraordinaire for A-Chord Records. In the midst of working slavishly to complete the debut album of “the Group” (Earth, Wind & Fire), Buckmaster is forced to put their project on the back-burner in favor of a new signing to A-Chord, “the Pages,” Velour (Cynthia Bostick), Gary (Jimmy Boyd) and Franklin (Bert Parks). According to label head Carlton James (Ed Nelson), the Pages represent good, old-fashioned, wholesome family values. According to Buckmaster, they represent everything wrong with the music business: a soulless pastiche of cheese-on-white-bread, and he wants nothing to do with them. However, due to his contract, he is forced to turn the flat song of their demo, Joy, Joy, Joy into a workable hit. In the meantime, he ends up in a relationship with Velour, seemingly also against his will, but he is able to use the relationship to his and the Group’s advantage, then to break the news of a makeshift marriage to Velour, updated her part of the music contract, the Pages. A twist where everybody wins.
Robbie Nevil is Robbie Nevil’s first album, released in 1986. It peaked at #37 on the Billboard 200, remaining on the chart for 46 weeks. The album produced three Billboard Top 20 pop singles: C’est La Vie (#2), Dominoes (#14) and Wot’s It to Ya (#10). In the United Kingdom, the album was retitled C’est La Vie after the single reached #3 on the Gallup UK Singles Chart, with the album becoming a small hit when it peaked at #93 in June 1987.
His debut single C’est la Vie reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, propelling the album into the top 40 on both the U.S. pop and Billboard R&B chart. His second single Dominoes hit #14 on the Hot 100 and #22 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, while the third single Wot’s It to Ya peaked at #10 on the Hot 100 and Dance Club/Play charts, and #69 on the R&B chart. He sang backup on Stevie Nicks’ version of Silent Night for the holiday compilation, A Very Special Christmas.
Nevil’s second album was released in 1988; however, it did not match the success of his debut album. A Place Like This (#118) spawned the top 40 moderate hit Back on Holiday (#34), and a second single, Somebody Like You, became a minor hit, peaking at #63.
In 1991, Nevil’s third album, Day 1, was released to fewer sales. The lead single Just Like You became his biggest hit since his debut album, and his fifth and final top 40 single, peaking at #25 on the Hot 100. Second single For Your Mind peaked at #86, ending his chart run in the U.S.
Nevil turned to writing and producing for other acts such as Babyface, Jessica Simpson, Destiny’s Child, and Japanese pop singer Seiko Matsuda.
Wikipedia is a treasure trove of interesting information. The Wiki Game makes use of the free online encyclopedia by challenging you to travel from one Wikipedia page to another by using the internal links on the page. It also times you based on how easy the challenge is.
For example, getting from the start page of The Pacific War to the end page of Sea is relatively easy. On the other hand, moving from Electric Chair to HTML is a bit trickier.
Celebrated annually on August 14, this unofficial holiday with unknown origins honors the creamsicle, a refreshing summertime treat on a stick. The original creamsicles were made of vanilla ice cream covered by iced orange juice. In recent years, creative ice cream makers have replaced the outer orange fruit juice layer with other flavors like blueberry, strawberry, and grape.
Although Creamsicle is a brand name ice cream in the United States, any ice cream covered by a layer of iced fruit juice on a flat wooden stick is popularly called a creamsicle.
Due to the popularity of the Popsicle, which is a brand of frozen beverages, people sometimes use the word popsicle to refer to the creamsicle. Creamsicles are also sometimes generically called ice pops in the United States and in Canada and ice lolly in the United Kingdom.
Obsession is a 1983 song by Holly Knight and Michael Des Barres, covered in 1984 by the group Animotion. The song hit #6 in the United States, and #5 in the United Kingdom in early 1985, helped by a distinctive video that MTV played frequently. Obsession also hit the Top 40 on the U.S. dance chart, twice: once in 1984; then in 1986, as a double-sided hit, along with the track I Engineer.
Cowriter Michael Des Barres was recovering from a heroin addiction in 1983, so Obsession was a familiar word to him. But although drugs were familiar territory to him, he wanted to write about something that would appeal to a much wider audience, like love. The line, “Like a butterfly, a wild butterfly, I will collect you and capture you” was inspired by The Collector, a movie Des Barres had watched about a man who kidnapped a beautiful woman. Cowriter Holly Knight would often practice or write riffs on the bass E-string of her guitar, which spawned the bass rhythm of Obsession.
Alan Scott Newman (September 23, 1950 – November 20, 1978) was an American film and television actor and stuntman whose most prominent roles were in The Towering Inferno and Breakheart Pass. He was the only son and the eldest child of actor Paul Newman. After Scott Newman’s death from a drug overdose in 1978, his father established the Scott Newman Center, which is dedicated to preventing drug abuse through education.
Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Paul Newman and his first wife, Jackie Witte. When Scott was still a young boy with two younger sisters, Susan and Stephanie, his father moved to California to further his career, leaving his family in New York City. By 1958, his parents had divorced and his father had married Joanne Woodward. They settled in Westport, Connecticut, during the late 1960s, where Scott attended Staples High School briefly. Scott attended expensive private schools from some of which he was expelled for bad behavior.
By the late 1960s, Scott had dropped out of college and started to take jobs as a stuntman in his father’s films, making over five hundred parachute jumps to become a certified instructor. He also took on menial jobs and refused to ask his father for financial help. In the early 1970s, his father used his influence to initiate an acting career for his son, and arranged a part for him in The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), starring Robert Redford. At the time, Scott stated, “I’m not taking any acting help from my father. I want my work to stand on its own merit.” He had started to drink heavily, and was arrested for minor alcohol-related offenses. He also assaulted a police officer, kicking him in the head in a squad car after being arrested for vandalizing a school bus while drunk. Newman’s father paid the resulting $1,000 fine.
Newman later played an acrophobic firefighter in The Towering Inferno (1974), in which his father co-starred. Although they had no dialog together because Scott’s scenes were with Steve McQueen, both Newmans can be seen in the film’s finale. Paul’s character is on the steps with Faye Dunaway, while Scott is one of the two firemen carrying a man on a stretcher down the plaza steps to California Street at the Bank of America building in San Francisco. Newman also played small parts in TV series during 1975, such as Marcus Welby, M.D., Harry O., and S.W.A.T. During the same year, he also appeared in the Charles Bronson film Breakheart Pass. Newman subsequently appeared in the 1977 film Fraternity Row, which was to be his last appearance. His alcoholism became more severe, and by 1978 he was sleeping on friends’ floors and working as a laborer. He also tried his hand at cabaret singing in small clubs, billing himself as William Scott.
Scott Newman felt burdened by his father’s fame, and sought to carve out a distinct identity. In a 1974 interview with New York Daily News columnist Sidney Fields, he said “Out there in Hollywood you can’t stand on daddy’s feet. You need your own.” He told Fields that “as a kid I felt I was entitled to everything my father gave me,” but that in recent years he had “made and paid my own way.” In his posthumously published 2022 memoir, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, Paul Newman agonized over his relationship with Scott in what the Wall Street Journal described as “anguished confusion.” The actor said he never realized that Scott “might not want to be like me and ride in a race car or on a horse,” and that “I never did think to say to him: ‘Scott, would you like to go out on a horse? And it’s no big deal if you don’t want to do it.’”
He suffered a motorcycle accident in the fall of 1978, and was taking painkillers to ease the discomfort of his injuries. He also accepted an offer of psychiatric help, paid for by his father. However, in Los Angeles on the night of November 19, he took a fatal dose of valium with alcohol and other drugs. Police ruled the death as accidental. His father told Hotchner: “There’s nothing you can say that will repair my guilt about Scott. It will be with me as long as I live.”
In 1980, Paul Newman established the Scott Newman Center, dedicated to helping healthcare professionals and teachers educate children about the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse. The organization also founded the Rowdy Ridge Gang Camp, a network of summer camps for families dealing with problems associated with drug abuse and alcoholism.
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively more primitive and wild in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.
London spent almost a year in the Yukon, and his observations form much of the material for the book. The story was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903 and was published later that year in book form. The book’s great popularity and success made a reputation for London. As early as 1923, the story was adapted to film, and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations.
Everyone has heard of tacos and fish, so why not mix the two together? San Diego is the self-proclaimed home of fish tacos, but this prized food can be found all up and down the coast. The fish taco is to San Diego, what the cheese steak sandwich is to Philadelphia. Savor fish tacos with breaded sole, or try a grilled salmon taco topped with veggies and guacamole for an even more luxurious treat. Fish tacos can be spicy or tangy, crispy or creamy, and the best part about this delicacy is one can order them from food trucks on the side of the street!
The Arthur Haynes Show (1956–66), networked on ITV, made Haynes the most popular comedian in Britain. There were 95 thirty-minute shows, 62 thirty-five-minute shows and one fifty-minute show, spread over fifteen series. Haynes’s most popular character was a working class tramp – created by Johnny Speight, now better known for creating Alf Garnett. Speight said he got the idea of the tramp from a real tramp who climbed into his Rolls-Royce when it was stopped at a traffic light. In 1963 and 1964 Haynes worked with Dermot Kelly who played another tramp (called Irish), who was not very bright. Sometimes Patricia Hayes would join them as a female tramp. In early episodes, the shows were played out on a theater stage, and basic scenery and props were used where, for instance, the audience could see outside and inside a house, as there was no wall on their side. Later episodes had improved sets. The stars sometimes forgot (or did not bother to learn) their lines, and would ad lib them. If someone fluffed a line, that would be used to get more laughs. Haynes and others sometimes failed to keep a straight face and occasionally burst into laughter.
The shows would also feature musical guests, such as the Springfields in 1963, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen and the Rolling Stones in 1964, and Joe Brown and the Bruvvers and the Dave Clark Five in 1965. A number of the shows started and ended with Arthur Haynes driving a horse and cart along a narrow country lane, whistling and (unconvincingly) playing a harmonica. Some began with a cartoon workman using a road drill on the show’s title.