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"question": "who ran the fastest 40 yard dash in the nfl",
"answers": [
"Jakeem Grant",
"John Ross"
],
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"title": "40-yard dash",
"text": "4.18 run by Jackson within the same week added some support to the legitimacy of the times. Texas Tech's Jakeem Grant was hand-timed by a New Orleans Saints scout as running a 4.10 in 2016, potentially beating Jackson's record. Deion Sanders ran a 4.27-second 40-yard dash in 1989. In 2013, Carlin Isles recorded a time of 4.22 at a Detroit Lions facility during a workout. In 2017 Olympic sprinter Christian Coleman ran a time of 4.12 seconds on turf in response to claims that NFL players are as fast as Usain Bolt. This is a list of the official 40-yard",
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"title": "Ivory Crockett",
"text": "Ivory Crockett Ivory Crockett (born August 24, 1948) is a retired American sprinter who, for a time, held the distinction of being \"the world's fastest man\" when he broke the world record for the 100-yard dash in 1974. Crockett was born in Hall, Tennessee, where his father was a sharecropper. His family moved to Missouri when Crockett was a young boy. Crockett was a track star from his time at high school in Webster Groves in St. Louis County, Missouri. In 1968 as a senior he ran the second fastest time that year by a high-school student. He was recruited",
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"title": "440-yard dash",
"text": "440-yard dash The 440-yard dash, or quarter-mile race, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. In many countries, athletes compete in the 440 yard dash (402.336 m) \u2013 which corresponds to a quarter mile. Many athletic tracks are 440 yards per lap. In the 19th century it was thought of as a middle distance race. World-record holder Lon Meyers (1858\u20131899) was the first person to run the 440 in under 50 seconds. In 1947, Herb McKenley of Jamaica set a world record in the event with a time of 46.3 seconds, which he lowered the following year to",
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"title": "40-yard dash",
"text": "factored in. Furthermore, the use of hand-timing in the 40-yard dash can considerably alter a runner's time; the methods are not comparable to the rigorous electronic timing used in track and field. Jacoby Ford, who ran a 4.28 s in the 2010 NFL Combine, had a collegiate best of 6.51 s in the 60-meter dash (outside the top-40 of the all-time lists). This highlights the difficulties in comparing track running times to football 40-yard times due to the different timing methods. Auburn's Bo Jackson claims to have run a 40-yard dash with a time of 4.13 s. A time of",
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"id": 3238558,
"title": "400 metres",
"text": "distance is now obsolete. Maximum sprint speed capability is a significant contributing factor to success in the event, but athletes also require substantial speed endurance and the ability to cope well with high amounts of lactic acid to sustain a fast speed over a whole lap. While considered to be predominantly an anaerobic event, there is some aerobic involvement and the degree of aerobic training required for 400 metre athletes is open to debate. The current men's world record is held by Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa, with a time of 43.03 seconds; van Niekerk is also the reigning",
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"id": 3238561,
"title": "400 metres",
"text": "Wariner and LaShawn Merritt; and 4 times by women; Monika Zehrt, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Olga Bryzgina and Sanya Richards-Ross. All but Rhoden, Markin, Zehrt and Bryzgina ran on American relay teams. Injured after his double in 1996, Johnson also accomplished the feat in 2000 only to have it disqualified when his teammate Antonio Pettigrew admitted to doping. 3 or more 400 metres victories at the Olympic Games and World Championships: 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since",
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"title": "Men's 400 metres world record progression",
"text": "Men's 400 metres world record progression The first world record in the 400 m for men (athletics) was recognized by the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as the International Association of Athletics Federations, in 1912. The IAAF ratified Charles Reidpath's 48.2 performance set at that year's Stockholm Olympics as a world record, but it also recognized the superior mark over 440 yards (402.34 metres) run by Maxie Long in 1900 as a world record. To June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 23 world records in the event. The following tables show the world record progression in the men's",
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"title": "Ivory Crockett",
"text": "the best in the USA and the world in the 100 m sprint event in the period from 1969 to 1974, according to \"Track and Field News\". He was also voted to be ranked 10th in the USA and 4th in the world in the 200 m sprint in 1973. Ivory Crockett Ivory Crockett (born August 24, 1948) is a retired American sprinter who, for a time, held the distinction of being \"the world's fastest man\" when he broke the world record for the 100-yard dash in 1974. Crockett was born in Hall, Tennessee, where his father was a sharecropper.",
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"id": 16066728,
"title": "440-yard dash",
"text": "a new world record of 46.0 seconds. Adolph Plummer took the record under 45 second with a 44.9 on May 25, 1963. In 1971, John Smith lowered the world record to 44.5 seconds, which remains the world record. The 440 yard race distance used imperial measurements, which have been replaced by metric-distance races. The 400 Metre Dash is the successor to the 440 yard dash. An athlete who competes in the 400 m may still be referred to as 'quarter-miler'. 440-yard dash The 440-yard dash, or quarter-mile race, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. In many countries,",
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"id": 800641,
"title": "Florence Griffith Joyner",
"text": "Florence Griffith Joyner Florence Delorez Griffith\u2013Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 \u2013 September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand. During the late 1980s she became a popular figure in international track and field because of her record-setting performances and flashy personal style. Griffith-Joyner was born and raised in California. She was athletic from a young age. She attended California State",
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"title": "Michael Johnson (sprinter)",
"text": "side. By November, he stated he was almost \"back to normal\", and attributed his successful recovery to the \"Olympic mindset\". Michael Johnson (sprinter) Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships gold medals. He formerly held the world and Olympic records in the 200 m and 400 m as well as the world record in the indoor 400 m. He also once held the world's best time at 300 m. Johnson is generally considered one of the greatest and most consistent sprinters in the history of",
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"title": "Michael Johnson (sprinter)",
"text": "Michael Johnson (sprinter) Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships gold medals. He formerly held the world and Olympic records in the 200 m and 400 m as well as the world record in the indoor 400 m. He also once held the world's best time at 300 m. Johnson is generally considered one of the greatest and most consistent sprinters in the history of track and field. He is the only male athlete in history to win both the 200 metres and 400 metres",
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"title": "Sam Stoller",
"text": "great individuals.\" In 2007, Stoller was posthumously awarded the \"Pillar of Achievement\" award by the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Sam Stoller Sam Stoller (August 8, 1915 \u2013 May 29, 1985) was an American sprinter and long jumper who tied the world record in the 60-yard dash in 1936. He is best known for his exclusion from the American 4 \u00d7 100 relay team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, triggering widespread speculation that he and Marty Glickman, the only two Jews on the U.S. track team, were excluded because U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Avery Brundage wanted to",
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"title": "40-yard dash",
"text": "dash results of 4.30 seconds or better recorded at the NFL Scouting combine since 1999, the first year electronic timing was implemented at the NFL Scouting Combine. According to a five-year NFL combine report, wide receivers and cornerbacks had the fastest average times at 4.48, followed by running backs at 4.49. The following average times were measured between 2000 and 2012 at the NFL combine for players who played at least 5 games. 40-yard dash The 40-yard dash is a sprint covering . It is primarily run to evaluate the speed and acceleration of American football players by scouts, particularly",
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"id": 16873179,
"title": "Grover Klemmer",
"text": "Grover Klemmer Grover Klemmer, Jr. (March 16, 1921 \u2013 August 23, 2015) was an American athlete. While running for the University of California, he lettered in American football, basketball and track and field. He was called the \"golden boy\" for the Golden Bears. In 1941, he set the world record for the 400 metres, running 46.0 around a single turn at the University of Pennsylvania Franklin Field on June 29, 1941. Two weeks earlier, he anchored the Bears mile relay team to a world record in 3:09.4, edging out the University of Southern California team anchored by Hubie Kerns (who",
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"title": "Jesse Owens",
"text": "included relay medals.) Though Owens enjoyed athletic success, he had to live off campus with other African-American athletes. When he traveled with the team, Owens was restricted to ordering carry-out or eating at \"blacks-only\" restaurants. Similarly, he had to stay at \"blacks-only\" hotels. Owens did not receive a scholarship for his efforts, so he continued to work part-time jobs to pay for school. Owens achieved track and field immortality in a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935, during the Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he set three world records and tied a",
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"title": "Jim Fielding",
"text": "in under 21 seconds. Fielding attended Georgetown University. He died while still a student at Georgetown. Jim Fielding Jim Fielding was a high school track champion and record holder in the late 1940s. Fielding was a standout sprinter for Metuchen High School in Metuchen, New Jersey. Fielding's speed was such that the Metuchen athletic director steered him toward track, not wanting him to get hurt playing football. He soon became a statewide success and was followed by the state's largest newspaper, the \"Newark Star Ledger\". Fielding ran the 40 yard dash in 4.2 seconds, a United States schoolboy record at",
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"id": 10487553,
"title": "100-yard dash",
"text": "offense: 100-yard dash The 100-yard dash is a track and field event of 100 yards or 91.44 metres. It was part of the Commonwealth Games until 1966, and was included in the decathlon of the Olympics, at least in 1904. It is not generally used in international events (having been replaced by the 100-metre sprint). However, it is still occasionally run in the United States in certain competitions. Walter Halben Butler (1852\u20131931) is credited with being the first to run the race in 10 seconds. \"Automatic timed results only.\" Note: The following athletes have had their performances annulled due to",
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"id": 12939021,
"title": "Sam Stoller",
"text": "Sam Stoller Sam Stoller (August 8, 1915 \u2013 May 29, 1985) was an American sprinter and long jumper who tied the world record in the 60-yard dash in 1936. He is best known for his exclusion from the American 4 \u00d7 100 relay team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, triggering widespread speculation that he and Marty Glickman, the only two Jews on the U.S. track team, were excluded because U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Avery Brundage wanted to avoid embarrassing Adolf Hitler by having two Jewish athletes win gold medals. Stoller vowed at the time that he would never",
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"id": 3227857,
"title": "Otis Davis",
"text": "Otis Davis \"For the baseball player, see Otis Davis (baseball)\" Otis Crandall Davis (born July 12, 1932) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals for record-breaking performances in both the 400 m and 4\u00d7400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Davis set a new world record of 44.9 seconds in the 400 m event, and he became the first man to break the 45-second barrier. Otis Crandall Davis was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on July 12, 1932. He is black and Native American. He served four years in the United States Air Force, during the Korean",
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"id": 790330,
"title": "Wyomia Tyus",
"text": "Wyomia Tyus Wyomia Tyus (pronunciation: \"why-o-mia\"; born August 29, 1945) is a retired American track and field sprinter, and the first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m (a feat since duplicated by Carl Lewis, Gail Devers, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Usain Bolt). Raised on a dairy farm, as the youngest of four children, and the only girl in the family Tyus was encouraged by her father to participate in sports. While a high school athlete Tyus participated in basketball and began her track endeavors as a high jumper before transitioning to the sprints after being invited to",
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"id": 3238559,
"title": "400 metres",
"text": "world and Olympic champion. The world indoor record holder is Michael Norman, in 44.52 seconds. The current women's world record is held by Marita Koch, with a time of 47.60 seconds. Phyllis Francis is the reigning women's world champion, while Shaunae Miller holds the women's Olympic title. The men's T43 Paralympic world record of 45.07 seconds is held by Oscar Pistorius. An Olympic double of 200 metres and 400 m was first achieved by Valerie Brisco-Hooks in 1984, and later by Marie-Jos\u00e9 P\u00e9rec of France and Michael Johnson from the United States on the same evening in 1996. Alberto Juantorena",
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"id": 10487552,
"title": "100-yard dash",
"text": "100-yard dash The 100-yard dash is a track and field event of 100 yards or 91.44 metres. It was part of the Commonwealth Games until 1966, and was included in the decathlon of the Olympics, at least in 1904. It is not generally used in international events (having been replaced by the 100-metre sprint). However, it is still occasionally run in the United States in certain competitions. Walter Halben Butler (1852\u20131931) is credited with being the first to run the race in 10 seconds. \"Automatic timed results only.\" Note: The following athletes have had their performances annulled due to doping",
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"title": "Men's 400 metres hurdles world record progression",
"text": "beaten by the current record holder Kevin Young with a time of 46.78 seconds at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. As of June 21, 2009, 21 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event. \"y\" denotes time for 440 yards (402.34 m) which was ratified as a world record in this event From 1975, the IAAF accepted separate automatically electronically timed records for events up to 400 metres. Starting January 1, 1977, the IAAF required fully automatic timing to the hundredth of a second for these events. John Akii-Bua's 1972 Olympic gold medal run was the fastest recorded",
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"id": 14663651,
"title": "Darrell Robinson",
"text": "Darrell Robinson Darrell Robinson (born December 23, 1963) is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400-meter dash. He set a US high school and world junior record of 44.69 seconds in the 400 m at the age of 18. He was in the world's top-five 400 m runners in 1985 and 1986. He won a bronze medal at the 1986 Goodwill Games, and won races at numerous high-profile track meetings. In 1989 he accused Carl Lewis, Florence Griffith-Joyner, and Bob Kersee (among others) of using or distributing performance-enhancing drugs. The accusations, which were never substantiated,",
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"id": 576665,
"title": "Jesse Owens",
"text": "Jesse Owens James Cleveland \"Jesse\" Owens (September 12, 1913 \u2013 March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as \"perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history\". He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan\u2014a feat that has never been equaled and has been called \"the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport\". He",
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"id": 17844120,
"title": "400 metres at the Olympics",
"text": "being the only non-French entrants. Kopp\u00e1n was the victor with a handicap of 35 m, Werkm\u00fcller was second with a handicap of 35 m, and Frenchman Andr\u00e9 Lemonnier took third with a 26 m handicap. Two professionals-only events were also held in 1900. The 400 metres world record holder Edgar Bredin won with a time of 53.2 seconds, ahead of Legrain of France (possibly Paul Legrain) and his compatriot Jules Bouchoux. A handicap professional race was also held but the results have not been located. A handicap 440-yard dash (402.3 m) competition was held at 1904 Summer Olympics after the",
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"title": "Ben Johnson (American sprinter)",
"text": "Ben Johnson (American sprinter) Benjamin Washington Johnson (1914\u20131992) was an American sprinter who was considered a serious rival to Jesse Owens. Known as the \"Columbia Comet\", Johnson was the United States champion at 100 yards in 1938. Injury and the outbreak of the Second World War denied him the chance of competing in the Olympics. In later life he became one of the first African-American colonels in the United States Army. Born in Virginia, Johnson moved with his mother from Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, to Plymouth, Pennsylvania, about 1929. Johnson attended Plymouth High School where in his Freshman year (1929-1930), he",
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"id": 9164705,
"title": "Jim Fielding",
"text": "Jim Fielding Jim Fielding was a high school track champion and record holder in the late 1940s. Fielding was a standout sprinter for Metuchen High School in Metuchen, New Jersey. Fielding's speed was such that the Metuchen athletic director steered him toward track, not wanting him to get hurt playing football. He soon became a statewide success and was followed by the state's largest newspaper, the \"Newark Star Ledger\". Fielding ran the 40 yard dash in 4.2 seconds, a United States schoolboy record at the time, the 100 yard dash in a wind-assisted 9.2 seconds, and the 220 yard sprint",
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"id": 16078300,
"title": "Willie Williams (athlete)",
"text": "Willie Williams (athlete) Willie Williams (born September 12, 1931) is a former American sprinter who set the 100 metres world record in 1956, with a new time of 10.1s, one-tenth of second faster than previous record held jointly by 8 men. He grew up in Gary, Indiana, attending Roosevelt High School where he played football and was first in the state in the 100m as a senior. He attended the University of Illinois, from where he gained a degree in physical education. He was in the US army in special services when he broke the world record at the International",
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"id": 13903332,
"title": "Al Tharnish",
"text": "Al Tharnish Eli Albert (\"Al\") Tharnish (May 3, 1869 \u2013 March 18, 1935) was an American runner known for foot racing and was the first to be called \"The World's Fastest Man\". From 1884 to 1891, Tharnish was never defeated in a race for money, including races from a 50-yard dash to four miles. He was trained by Ed W. Moulton, trainer of Charlie Paddock. His time for the 100 yard dash was 9 4/5 seconds. Tharnish ran for Barnum and Bailey after racing and beating a man, while barefoot and in overalls, the circus had claimed to be \"the",
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"id": 13631165,
"title": "Men's 400 metres hurdles world record progression",
"text": "Men's 400 metres hurdles world record progression The first world record in the men's 400 metres hurdles was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. That inaugural record was the performance by Charles Bacon at the 1908 Olympics. Three athletes, all from the United States, have had long-standing records. Glenn Hardin broke the world record three times and was the record holder for over 21 years, between 1932 and 1953. Edwin Moses set his first record in 1976 and improved his own world record three times. He held the record from 1976 until 1992, when it was",
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"title": "Ralph Metcalfe",
"text": "Phi Alpha fraternity, Alpha Sigma Nu honor society, and the Corpus Christi parish in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. He converted to Catholicism in 1932, while an undergraduate at Marquette. Ralph Metcalfe Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. (May 29, 1910 \u2013 October 10, 1978) was an American track and field sprinter and politician. He jointly held the world record in the 100-meter dash and placed second in that event in two Olympics, first to Eddie Tolan and then to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Metcalfe won four Olympic medals and was regarded as the world\u2019s fastest human in 1934",
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"id": 3472220,
"title": "Ralph Metcalfe",
"text": "Ralph Metcalfe Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. (May 29, 1910 \u2013 October 10, 1978) was an American track and field sprinter and politician. He jointly held the world record in the 100-meter dash and placed second in that event in two Olympics, first to Eddie Tolan and then to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Metcalfe won four Olympic medals and was regarded as the world\u2019s fastest human in 1934 and 1935. He later went into politics and in the city of Chicago and served in the United States Congress for four terms in the 1970s as a",
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"title": "40-yard dash",
"text": "speed, the best method of timing is through lasers which start and stop the times when passed through. A laser start (from a stationary position) is more accurate for measuring pure speed as it does not register a runner's reaction time. However, the method of timing a 40-yard dash can affect the accuracy by as much as 0.5 seconds (with the manual stopwatch method). The National Football League (NFL) did not begin using partial electronic timing (started by hand, stopped electronically) at the NFL Scouting Combine until 1999. For purposes of measurement at the Combine, the run is made along",
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"id": 16018932,
"title": "Lon Myers",
"text": "day. He won the same four races three days later at the Canadian Nationals. That year, he set an American record in the 100-yard dash (10.0 seconds; tying two others), and world records in the 250 (26.25 seconds), 300, 320 (35.125 seconds), 500 (58 seconds), 600 (1:11.4), 660 (1:22.0), 880 (1:56.125), 1,000 (2:18.25), and mile (4:29.50). Unusual distances in some of the races were a product of the fact that tracks at the time varied in length. In 1881, after a runner in England boasted as to how he would fare against Myers in a 440 race, Myers finished the",
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"title": "Men's 400 metres world record progression",
"text": "400 metres, as ratified by the IAAF. (+) plus sign denotes en route time during longer race<br> \"y\" denotes time for 440 yards, ratified as a record for this event<br> \"A\" indicates that the time was set at altitude. From 1975, the IAAF accepted separate automatically electronically timed records for events up to 400 metres. Starting January 1, 1977, the IAAF required fully automatic timing to the hundredth of a second for these events. Lee Evans' 1968 Olympic gold medal victory time of 43.86 was the fastest recorded result to that time. Men's 400 metres world record progression The first",
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"title": "Willie Williams (athlete)",
"text": "Illinois. Willie Williams (athlete) Willie Williams (born September 12, 1931) is a former American sprinter who set the 100 metres world record in 1956, with a new time of 10.1s, one-tenth of second faster than previous record held jointly by 8 men. He grew up in Gary, Indiana, attending Roosevelt High School where he played football and was first in the state in the 100m as a senior. He attended the University of Illinois, from where he gained a degree in physical education. He was in the US army in special services when he broke the world record at the",
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"id": 13631167,
"title": "Men's 400 metres hurdles world record progression",
"text": "fully electronic 400 metre race to that time, at 47.82. Men's 400 metres hurdles world record progression The first world record in the men's 400 metres hurdles was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. That inaugural record was the performance by Charles Bacon at the 1908 Olympics. Three athletes, all from the United States, have had long-standing records. Glenn Hardin broke the world record three times and was the record holder for over 21 years, between 1932 and 1953. Edwin Moses set his first record in 1976 and improved his own world record three times. He",
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"id": 6036348,
"title": "40-yard dash",
"text": "40-yard dash The 40-yard dash is a sprint covering . It is primarily run to evaluate the speed and acceleration of American football players by scouts, particularly for the NFL Draft but also for collegiate recruiting. A player's recorded time can have a heavy impact on his prospects in college or professional football. This was traditionally only true for the \"skill\" positions such as running back, wide receiver, and defensive back, although now a fast 40-yard dash time is considered important for almost every position. The 40-yard dash is not an official race in track and field athletics and is",
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"id": 3233391,
"title": "Maxie Long",
"text": "Maxie Long Maxwell Warburn Long (October 16, 1878 \u2013 March 4, 1959) was an American athlete, winner of 400 m at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Having won three AAU titles from 1898 to 1900 and IC4A title in 1899 in 440 yd (402 m), 1899 an AAU title in 220 yd (201 m) and 1900 an AAU title in 100 yd (91 m), Maxie Long from Columbia University, was one of the top favourites for the Olympic title in Paris. In Paris, Long led the race from start to finish, beating his teammate William Holland at 3 yards (2.7 m).",
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"id": 18054575,
"title": "Forrest Beaty",
"text": "Forrest Beaty Forrest O. Beaty is a retired American track and field athlete memorable for setting the National High School record in the straight 220 yard dash, a race slightly longer than the 200 metres straight. It is the longest standing record on the books, although mostly because that distance is not ran anymore. His record time, set on a cinder track in 1961 as a high school junior at Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California was hand timed at 20.2 and equaled the world record for the imperially measured distance. Later in his high school career, he also",
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"text": "had been set by Mel Patton in 1948. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, Budd played high school football at Asbury Park High School in Asbury Park. He ran track at Villanova University but never played a down of college football. At Villanova he was coached by their legendary track coach James 'Jumbo' Elliott. Amazingly. Budd achieved his success despite a deformed right calf, the legacy of a childhood disease, possibly polio. Budd was considered the world's best 100 y/m sprinter in 1961. That year, he was to equal the world record for 100 y at 9.3 s, set a",
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"title": "Philip Rabinowitz (runner)",
"text": "Philip Rabinowitz (runner) Philip \"Flying Phil\" Rabinowitz (16 February 1904 \u2013 28 February 2008) was a sprinter from South Africa who, on 10 July 2004, entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest 100-year-old to ever run the 100 meters. Rabinowitz finished in a time of 30.86 seconds; breaking the previous world record of 36.19 set by Erwin Jaskulski of Austria. A week before, the centenarian broke the record, but a faulty electronic timer kept the mark out of the books. Rabinowitz worked as a bookkeeper for his daughter and tried to walk at least four miles (six",
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"title": "Harry Hutchens",
"text": "for 100 yards was 9.4 seconds. Harry Hutchens Harry Hutchens (born Henry Hutchins, 27 February 1858 \u2013 2 January 1939) was a professional British runner. Hutchens became a messenger at Putney railway station at 14 and soon discovered he was a fast runner. He became a professional in 1876. Hutchens died poor and in obscurity in 1939 but received an obituary from \"The New York Times\". In 1920, American Olympic champion and writer Ellery Harding Clark declared that Harry Hutchens was \"the greatest sprinter the world had ever seen.\" Hutchens is regarded by many observers as the greatest sprinter of",
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"title": "Roscoe Cook",
"text": "Roscoe Cook Roscoe Cook, Jr. (March 2, 1939 \u2013 December 30, 2011) was an educator and held three world records in track. Cook attended San Diego High, where he set numerous track and field records and was a member of the school's 1955 national championship football team. He attended the University of Oregon, where he was a member of the Oregon Ducks track and field team. In 1959 at Modesto Junior College Cook tied the world record in the 100 yards at 9.3 seconds, and in the process beat Olympic Champion Bobby Morrow and Ray Norton, who had previously run",
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"id": 10685612,
"title": "Trindon Holliday",
"text": "college recruiters would not believe Holliday's actual running times, his high school coaches added to his recorded times before sending them in. Despite his speed records, several schools, including Duke and Louisiana-Lafayette, rejected Holliday due to his small size. Holliday was never scheduled to appear at LSU's camp. So David Masterson, Holliday's high school coach, took Holliday along also. After initial workouts, Holliday ran the 40 in 4.28 seconds wearing high top basketball shoes. The time was so outrageous that the LSU coaches began arguing if they had started their stopwatches on time. \"They asked me if Trindon could run",
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"title": "Otis Davis",
"text": "in events that include sprinting, spring relays and circle relays, and the Sports Challenge, which provides special needs children with the opportunity to be a part of sports activities. Otis Davis \"For the baseball player, see Otis Davis (baseball)\" Otis Crandall Davis (born July 12, 1932) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals for record-breaking performances in both the 400 m and 4\u00d7400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Davis set a new world record of 44.9 seconds in the 400 m event, and he became the first man to break the 45-second barrier. Otis Crandall",
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"title": "Night of Speed",
"text": "Night of Speed The Night of Speed was the rare occurrence when three men set the world record in the 100 metres in the same On Thursday, June 20, 1968, two semi-final races were held as part of the AAU National Championships held at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California. At the time, the world record for the 100 metres was 10.0 seconds, hand timed, set and equalled over the years by Armin Hary (Germany) and Harry Jerome (Canada) in 1960, Horacio Esteves (Venezuela) and Bob Hayes (United States) in 1964, Jim Hines (United States) and Enrique Figueroa (Cuba) in 1967,",
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"id": 16530033,
"title": "Roddie Haley",
"text": "into the University of Arkansas Hall of Honors Sept. 2, 2016. Roddie Haley Roddie Haley (born December 6, 1964 Texarkana, Texas) is an American former sprinter. Haley ran on the USA World championship 4 \u00d7 400 m relay team and won gold in 1987. He was an NCAA 400 meter champion as a freshman in college at the University of Arkansas, with a time of 44.20 seconds. Haley was also a nine-time All-American (four indoor, five outdoor) for coach John McDonnell, and one of the Razorbacks\u2019 top performers both on the indoor and outdoor ovals. Haley was also a three-time",
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"id": 800663,
"title": "Florence Griffith Joyner",
"text": "work has been on display as part the Art of The Olympians (AOTO). She is one of two posthumous members of AOTO, the other being the founder and Olympian, Al Oerter. Florence Griffith Joyner Florence Delorez Griffith\u2013Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 \u2013 September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand. During the late 1980s she became a popular figure in",
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"title": "Claude Bracey",
"text": "Claude Bracey Claude Bracey (June 8, 1909 \u2013 September 23, 1940), known variously as the \"Texas Flyer,\" the \"Dixie Flyer,\" and the \"Texas Tornado,\" was an American sprinter who tied world records in the 100-yard and 100-meter races between 1928 and 1932. He competed for the United States at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and also won the 100-yard and 220-yard sprints at the 1928 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships. Bracey grew up in Humble, Texas and attended Humble High School. As a boy, he participated in games of \"hare-and-hound,\" in which the children would chase each other",
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"title": "Bob Hayes",
"text": "have is Bob Hayes.\" Drayton was able to reply afterwards, \"That's all we need.\" The race was also Hayes' last as a track and field athlete, as he permanently switched to football after it, aged only 21. In some of the first meets to be timed with experimental fully automatic timing, Hayes was the first man to break ten seconds for the 100 meters, albeit with a 5.3 m/s wind assistance in the semi-finals of the 1964 Olympics. His time was recorded at 9.91 seconds. Jim Hines officially broke 10 seconds at the high altitude of Mexico City, Mexico in",
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"title": "10-second barrier",
"text": "low altitude under electronic timing, with 9.97 seconds on 14 May 1983 at the Modesto Relays. Calvin Smith recorded a world record 9.93 seconds on 3 July 1983, again at altitude in Colorado Springs, Colorado and became the first sprinter to run under ten seconds twice, in August that year. Six sprinters legally broke the barrier during the 1980s. Another, Ben Johnson, had eclipsed both the 9.90 mark and 9.80 mark in 1987 and 1988, however both of these records were disqualified after he tested positive for, and later admitted to using steroids. The 100 m final at the 1991",
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"title": "10-second barrier",
"text": "United States, three men ran legal hand-timed 9.9 seconds: Jim Hines first and Ronnie Ray Smith second in the first semi-final, and Charlie Greene first in the second semi-final. This was dubbed the \"Night of Speed\", and all three were recognised as world records by the IAAF. The IAAF lists their FATs as: Hines 10.03, Smith 10.14 and Greene 10.10; although \"Time\" magazine reported at the time that \"an automatic Bulova Accutron Phototimer confirmed that all three had indeed broken [10.0s]\". Hines also had a wind-assisted 9.8 s in the heats. Hines went on to win the 1968 Olympic 100m",
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"title": "Trentavis Friday",
"text": "also \"Track and Field News\" \"High School Athlete of the Year.\" Trentavis Friday Trentavis Friday (born June 5, 1995) is an American track and field athlete specializing in sprinting events. He is the USA Men's High School Record Holder over 100 metres. A native of Gastonia, North Carolina, Friday attended Cherryville High School. He then attended Florida State University for one year, before turning professional by signing a four-year contract with Xtep in November 2015, in order to prepare for the 2016 Summer Olympics. However, at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Friday only finished fifth in his preliminary. Friday was",
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"title": "400 metres hurdles",
"text": "there is no longer any penalty for knocking hurdles over, runners prefer to clear them cleanly, as touching them during the race slows runners down. The best male athletes can run the 400 m hurdles in a time of around 47 seconds, while the best female athletes achieve a time of around 53 seconds. The current men's and women's world record holders are Kevin Young with 46.78 seconds and Yuliya Pechonkina with 52.34 seconds. Compared to the 400 metres run, the hurdles race takes the men about three seconds longer and the women four seconds longer. The 400 m hurdles",
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"title": "400 metres at the World Championships in Athletics",
"text": "at the competition on one occasion and Johnson's championship record remains the world record as of 2015. The current women's championship record stood as the women's world record for two years and remains the only time that feat has been accomplished at the championships. Michael Johnson is the most successful athlete of the World Championships 400 m, having won four straight titles from 1993 to 1999. He is the only sprint athlete to have won that many individual titles in an event. The second most successful is LaShawn Merritt \u2013 a two-time champion and the only other athlete to have",
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"text": "football players that participated in the American Flag Football League (AFFL). The team were crowned the champions of participating pro teams but lost in the final match to the amateur champion team. Jeremy Wariner Jeremy Mathew Wariner (born January 31, 1984) is a retired American track athlete specializing in the 400 meters. He has won four Olympic medals (three gold, one silver) and six World Championships medals. He is the fourth fastest competitor in the history of the 400 m event with a personal best of 43.45 seconds, behind Wayde van Niekerk (43.03 WR, 2016), Michael Johnson (43.18 WR, 1999)",
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"title": "Jesse Owens",
"text": "accomplishments at the games, and a letter (intercepted by the Gestapo) from a fan urging him not to shake hands with Hitler. Jesse Owens James Cleveland \"Jesse\" Owens (September 12, 1913 \u2013 March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as \"perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history\". He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet",
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"title": "60 metres",
"text": "60 metres 60 metres, or 60-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor venues it is a rare distance, at least for senior athletes. The 60 metres was an Olympic event in the 1900 and 1904 Summer Games but was removed from the schedule thereafter. American Christian Coleman currently holds the men's world record in the 60 metres with a time of 6.34 seconds, while Russian Irina Privalova holds the women's world record at 6.92. In the past, it",
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"title": "Adolph Plummer",
"text": "the period 1963\u20131966, according to the votes of the experts of \"Track and Field News\". Plummer competed in the 220 yard/220 meter and 440 yard/400 meter events in the USA National Track and Field Championships between 1961 and 1966. Adolph Plummer Adolph Plummer (January 3, 1938 \u2013 November 30, 2015) was an American track and field athlete. He is best known for breaking the world record in the 440 yard dash in 1963, the last runner to hold the 400 m record with a time recorded for the longer 440 yards. During his time running at the University of New",
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"id": 4831785,
"title": "Butch Reynolds",
"text": "silver medals at the World Championships in Athletics. He also enjoyed success with the 4\u00d7400 meter relay team, winning the world title three times in his career with the United States (1987, 1993 and 1995). His team's time of 2:54.29 minutes at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics is the current world record. Reynolds remains the third fastest of all-time in the 400 m after Michael Johnson, the former world record holder, and Wayde van Niekerk, the current world record holder. In 2016, he was elected into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. Reynolds was born in Akron,",
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"title": "Roddie Haley",
"text": "Roddie Haley Roddie Haley (born December 6, 1964 Texarkana, Texas) is an American former sprinter. Haley ran on the USA World championship 4 \u00d7 400 m relay team and won gold in 1987. He was an NCAA 400 meter champion as a freshman in college at the University of Arkansas, with a time of 44.20 seconds. Haley was also a nine-time All-American (four indoor, five outdoor) for coach John McDonnell, and one of the Razorbacks\u2019 top performers both on the indoor and outdoor ovals. Haley was also a three-time NCAA champion, including twice in the indoor 500 meters (1986\u201387) and",
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"id": 5980081,
"title": "Tyson Gay",
"text": "Tyson Gay Tyson Gay (born August 9, 1982) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 and 200 meters dash. His 100 m personal best of 9.69 seconds is the American record and makes him tied for the second fastest athlete ever. His 200 m time of 19.58 makes him the sixth fastest athlete in that event. He has since received a one-year ban for doping. Gay has won numerous medals in major international competitions, including a gold medal sweep of the 100 m, 200 m and 4 \u00d7 100 m relay at the 2007 Osaka",
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"title": "Derrick Adkins",
"text": "Derrick Adkins Derrick Ralph Adkins (born July 2, 1970) is a former American track and field athlete who specialized in the 400-meter hurdles. He was an Olympic gold medalist in that event at the 1996 Summer Olympics and World Champion at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. He was the fastest man in the world in the 1994 and 1996 seasons and holds a personal record of 47.54 seconds. Adkins was a two-time national champion at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. A Georgia Institute of Technology alumnus, he won back-to-back gold medals at the Summer Universiade from 1991",
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"title": "400 metres at the Olympics",
"text": "1904 Olympic men's 400 m race. An American, F. Darcy, won the race with a time of 50.8 (12-yard start). George Underwood, also of the United States, came second with no handicap and John Peck of Canada came third off a six-yard headstart. These events are no longer considered part of the official Olympic history of the 400 metres or the athletics programme in general. Consequently, medals from these competitions have not been assigned to nations on the all-time medal tables. 400 metres at the Olympics The 400 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition",
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"id": 5191696,
"title": "4 \u00d7 100 metres relay",
"text": "runners on the second and fourth legs take the baton in their left. Polished handovers can compensate for a lack of basic speed to some extent, and disqualification for dropping the baton or failing to transfer it within the box is common, even at the highest level. The United States men historically dominated this event through the 20th century, winning 15 Olympic gold medals and five IAAF world championships. Carl Lewis ran the anchor leg on U.S relay teams that set six world records from 1983 to 1992, including the first team to break 38 seconds. The current men's world",
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"id": 11471927,
"title": "Steve Williams (sprinter)",
"text": "inducted into the San Diego State University's Hall of Fame as part of 2016 class. Steve Williams (sprinter) Steve Williams (born November 13, 1953) is a retired track and field sprinter from the United States. He equalled the men's world records for the 100 m and 200 m with hand-timed runs of 9.9 seconds and 19.8 seconds, respectively, and was also a member of a team that set a world record in the 4 \u00d7 100 m relay. He never competed at the Olympics, but had success at the IAAF World Cup: he won the 100 m and set a",
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"title": "Max Truex",
"text": "Max Truex Max Edwin Truex (b. November 4, 1935 Warsaw, Indiana, d. March 24, 1991 Milton, Massachusetts) was an American long distance runner. He was a two-time Olympian, running the 10,000 metres at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. He also was a two-time United States champion in the 6 mile run, the imperial equivalent and added a 3-mile championship in 1962 (though he actually finished second to New Zealander Murray Halberg). The diminutive 5' 5\" Truex was called a seemingly tireless running machine. While running for Warsaw High School, Truex came to fame by setting the national high school record",
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"title": "Paul Nash (athlete)",
"text": "Paul Nash (athlete) Paul Nash (born 1947) is a South African sprinter who tied the 100-metre world record four times in 1968 with a time of 10.0 seconds. He attended Michaelhouse school in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His most celebrated race in South Africa occurred on 2 April 1968 when at the Krugersdorp stadium he equalled what was then the world record of 10.00. He was ranked third in the world over 100-metre behind Jim Hines of the United States and Lennox Miller of Jamaica by Track and Field News in 1968. Hines won the Olympic title at",
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"title": "Jim Hines",
"text": "Jim Hines James Ray Hines (born September 10, 1946) is a retired American track and field athlete, who held the 100 m world record for 15 years. In 1968, he became the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters, and won individual and relay gold at the Mexico Olympics. Born in Dumas, Arkansas, Hines was raised in Oakland, California and graduated from McClymonds High School in 1964. He was a baseball player in his younger years until he was spotted by track coach Jim Coleman as a running talent, and Hines became a sprinter. At",
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"title": "100 metres",
"text": "mixed ethnic background and former world record holder in the 110 metre hurdles, noted that both his parents were talented athletes and suggested that biological inheritance was the greatest influence, rather than any perceived racial factor. Furthermore, successful black role models in track events may reinforce the racial disparity. Major 100 m races, such as at the Olympic Games, attract much attention, particularly when the world record is thought to be within reach. The men's world record has been improved upon twelve times since electronic timing became mandatory in 1977. The current men's world record of 9.58 s is held",
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"id": 8950114,
"title": "Josh Culbreath",
"text": "able to make his normal track and field public appearances. Josh Culbreath Joshua \"Josh\" Culbreath (born September 14, 1932) is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 meter hurdles\u2014the national outdoor champion from 1953 to 1955; three-time winner of the event in the Penn Relays in the same years, and Olympic bronze medal winner in 1956, while he was serving in the U.S. Marine Corps; and world record holder in 1957. Culbreath was inducted into the United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. Joshua Culbreath was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania on September 14, 1932.",
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"id": 14802709,
"title": "Geoff Vanderstock",
"text": "Geoff Vanderstock Geoffrey Peter \"Geoff\" Vanderstock (born October 8, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) (also known as Jeff) is an American track and field athlete primarily known for running hurdles. He was once the World Record holder in the 400 metres hurdles. His 48.94 was set at the high altitude United States Olympic Trials (track and field) at Echo Summit, California on September 11, 1968. He was the first man to run the event under 49 seconds. The hand time took .3 off the previous record held by Rex Cawley. A month later at the 1968 Summer Olympics, he finished 4th",
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"id": 9150875,
"title": "Houston McTear",
"text": "Houston McTear Houston McTear (February 12, 1957 \u2013 November 1, 2015), was an American sprinter, who emerged from desperate poverty in the Florida Panhandle to become an international track star in the mid-1970s. McTear rated in the top 10 in the 100 meters for the United States from 1975\u20131980, but he was stronger at shorter distances, including 60 meters. His 1978 world record in the 60 meters (6.54 s) stood up until it was broken by Ben Johnson in 1986. McTear ran a 6.38 in 1980, but that mark has been invalidated due to \"questionable timing\". If that time were",
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"title": "Jim Hines",
"text": "the 1968 US national championships in Sacramento, California, Hines became the first man to break the ten second barrier in the 100 meter race, setting 9.9 (manual timing), with an electronic time of 10.03 \u2013 two other athletes, Ronnie Ray Smith behind him (electronic time 10.13) and Charles Greene on the other semi-final (electronic time 10.09) having the same official clocking. That evening of June 20, 1968, at Hughes Stadium has been dubbed by track and field historians as the \"Night of Speed.\" Hines attended Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He was a member of the Texas Southern University",
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"id": 17882323,
"title": "Ken Dennis",
"text": "Ken Dennis Ken Dennis (May 13, 1937 \u2013 April 7, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American track and field athlete. As a Masters sprinter he held the world record in the 100 metres in several age groups. Standing 5'3\" the short Dennis was known for his soft spoken nature, his greetings of \"Hey man\" or \"Go man\" and his blazing fast starts. Dennis first began sprinting at Fremont High School in Los Angeles where he opened eyes with a 9.5 100-yard dash before transferring to Centennial High School in Compton. At Centennial, he was joined by Charles Dumas,",
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"id": 12939033,
"title": "Sam Stoller",
"text": "this date, of the country's leading sprinters.\" The press observed that, in a career \"heretofore frustrated alone by Owens,\" 1937 was Stoller's \"bid for national recognition.\" In February 1937, Stoller beat a fast field in the 50-yard dash at the Boston meet, finishing ahead of Ben Johnson of Columbia, Glickman and Canadian star Sam Richardson. And in April 1937, Stoller ran a 9.5 second 100-yard dash at Los Angeles. He dominated the 100-yard dash through the 1937 track season, winning both the Big Ten and NCAA championships. His best official time in 1937 was 9.6, though he was unofficially timed",
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"title": "4 \u00d7 400 metres relay",
"text": "world records in that event. \"Note:\" On 12 August 2008, the IAAF rescinded a time of 2:54.20 set by the USA (Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Tyree Washington, Michael Johnson) at Uniondale on 22 July 1998 after Pettigrew admitted to using human growth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003. \"Note:\" A time of 3:00.77 by the USC runners (Zach Shinnick, Rai Benjamin, Ricky Morgan Jr., Michael Norman) at the 2018 NCAA Division I Championship was rejected as a record as Benjamin was a citizen of Antigua & Barbuda while the others are US citizens. US runners Ilolo Izu, Robert Grant,",
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"id": 7380876,
"title": "Marty Hogan",
"text": "veracity of the record, however. In 1907, for instance, \"Washington Post\" sports columnist J. Ed Grillo conceded that \"Hogan was a great sprinter\" but described his unofficial record as \"out of reason\". Grillo, who argued that \"the fastest runners in baseball failed to come anywhere near the mark\", lent his support to an official record of 14.1 that had been set more recently by Eastern League player Wally Clement. An article published in the \"Washington Herald\" days earlier also raised questions about Hogan's baserunning record. In this case, however, the writer claimed that the most \"authentic\" record had been set",
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"id": 11471910,
"title": "Steve Williams (sprinter)",
"text": "Steve Williams (sprinter) Steve Williams (born November 13, 1953) is a retired track and field sprinter from the United States. He equalled the men's world records for the 100 m and 200 m with hand-timed runs of 9.9 seconds and 19.8 seconds, respectively, and was also a member of a team that set a world record in the 4 \u00d7 100 m relay. He never competed at the Olympics, but had success at the IAAF World Cup: he won the 100 m and set a world record in the 4\u00d7100-meter relay with the USA team at the inaugural championship in",
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"id": 17616625,
"title": "Roscoe Cook",
"text": "Brown, and Jettiev Manning; and numerous nieces and nephews. Roscoe Cook Roscoe Cook, Jr. (March 2, 1939 \u2013 December 30, 2011) was an educator and held three world records in track. Cook attended San Diego High, where he set numerous track and field records and was a member of the school's 1955 national championship football team. He attended the University of Oregon, where he was a member of the Oregon Ducks track and field team. In 1959 at Modesto Junior College Cook tied the world record in the 100 yards at 9.3 seconds, and in the process beat Olympic Champion",
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"id": 12894662,
"title": "Harry Gissing",
"text": "Harry Gissing Harry E. Gissing (December 3, 1890 - November 29, 1963) was an American track and field athlete, a member of the New York Athletic Club, Mohawk Athletic Club, and the Irish American Athletic Club. In 1911, he was part of a world's record setting team in the 4x400 meter relay race. In 1908, Gissing won the A.A.U half-mile championship with a time of 1 minute 56 and 4/5 seconds. He came in first place in the 1,000 yard National A.A.U indoor championship three years running, 1908, 1909 and 1910. In 1909 Gissing also won the 880 yard New",
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"text": "Irena Szewi\u0144ska Irena Szewi\u0144ska, n\u00e9e Kirszenstein ( ; 24 May 1946 \u2013 29 June 2018) was a Polish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events. She is the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100m, the 200m and the 400m. Irena Kirszenstein was born in Leningrad to a Jewish family. Her father came from Warsaw and mother from Kiev. They met in Samarkand where they studied at the time, and in 1947 moved to Warsaw. In 1967 she married her coach, Janusz",
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"text": "the Otago Witness in 1905 that \u201cI consider that Harry Hutchens of Putney was the best sprinter of all time. Only men who could run and had run with Hutchens could understand what a marvel he was. I have been doing 10.2 for 100 yards but when running with Hutchens I am lost altogether. He could do 9.5 easily, and could smother L.E. Myers in the quarter-mile. Lon Myers held the American record for 100 yards at 10.0 seconds and was U.S. champion twice. Myers sometimes trained with Hutchens and in his biography, claimed that Hutchens was at least 6",
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"text": "held by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj, who ran a time of 3:43.13 in Rome in 1999. In 1964, America's Jim Ryun became the first high-school runner to break four minutes for the mile, running 3:59.0 as a junior and a then American record 3:55.3 as a senior in 1965. Tim Danielson (1966) and Marty Liquori (1967) also came in under four minutes, but Ryun's high-school record stood until Alan Webb ran 3:53.43 in 2001. Ten years later, in 2011, Lukas Verzbicas became the fifth high-schooler under four minutes. In 2015, Matthew Maton and Grant Fisher became the sixth and seventh",
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"text": "would therefore be Griffith-Joyner's 10.61s performance in the final the next day. Some records have been marred by prohibited drug use \u2013 in particular, the scandal at the 1988 Summer Olympics when the winner, Canadian Ben Johnson was stripped of his medal and world record. Jim Hines, Ronnie Ray Smith and Charles Greene were the first to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m, all on 20 June 1968, the Night of Speed. Hines also recorded the first legal electronically timed sub-10 second 100 m in winning the 100 metres at the 1968 Olympics. Bob Hayes ran a wind-assisted",
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"text": "Lon Myers Laurence Eugene \"Lon\" Myers (February 16, 1858 \u2013 February 16, 1899) was an American sprinter and middle distance runner. Myers won 28 national championships. He also set world records at 11 different distances, and held every American record for races 50 yards to one mile. Myers set the world quarter-mile record while running the final 120 yards without his right shoe. He finished another race that he won running sideways, in conversation with a runner who had boasted that he would defeat Myers. Myers was Jewish, and was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Solomon H. Myers, a clerk.",
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"text": "Angelo Taylor Angelo F. Taylor (born December 29, 1978) is an American track and field athlete, winner of 400-meter hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics. His personal record for the hurdles event is 47.25 seconds. His time puts him in a tie with F\u00e9lix S\u00e1nchez for the #8 performer of all time. S\u00e1nchez also won two Olympic gold medals, in 2004 between Taylor's two golds and 2012, immediately following. Taylor also has a 400-meter dash best of 44.05 seconds, ranking him as the #15 performer of all time, superior to any other athlete who has made a serious",
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"text": "Pink, after screen tests, he was removed from the starring role and replaced with punk musician and frontman of the Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof. In \"Behind the Wall\", both Waters and Geldof later admitted to a story during casting where Geldof and his manager took a taxi to an airport, and Geldof's manager pitched the role to the singer, who continued to reject the offer and express his contempt for the project throughout the fare, unaware that the taxi driver was Waters' brother, who promptly proceeded to tell Waters about Geldof's opinion. Since Waters was no longer in the starring",
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"text": "band. It was also attended by various celebrities including Geldof, Scarfe, Paula Yates, Pete Townshend, Sting, Roger Taylor, James Hunt, Lulu and Andy Summers. The film opened with a limited release on 6 August 1982 and entered at No. 28 of the US box office charts despite only playing in one theatre on its first weekend, grossing over $68,000, a rare feat even by today's standards. The film then spent just over a month below the top 20 while still in the top 30. The film later expanded to over 600 theatres on 10 September, achieving No. 3 at the",
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"text": "the tour, band relationships dropped to an all-time low; four Winnebagos were parked in a circle, with the doors facing away from the centre. Waters used his own vehicle to arrive at the venue, and stayed in separate hotels from the rest of the band. Wright, returning to perform his duties as a salaried musician, was the only member of the band to profit from the tour, which lost about \u00a3400,000. A film adaptation, \"Pink Floyd \u2013 The Wall,\" was released in July 1982. It was written by Waters and directed by Alan Parker, with Bob Geldof as Pink. It",
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"text": "Pink Floyd \u2013 The Wall Pink Floyd \u2013 The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film directed by Alan Parker with animated segments by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, and is based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album of the same name. The film centers around a confined rocker named Pink, who, after being driven into insanity by the death of his father and many depressive moments during his lifetime, constructs a metaphorical (and sometimes physical) wall to be protected from the world and emotional situations around him. When this coping mechanism backfires he puts himself on trial and",
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"text": "the four to profit from the venture, which lost about $600,000 (US$ in dollars). \"The Wall\" concept also spawned a film, the original idea for which was to be a combination of live concert footage and animated scenes. However, the concert footage proved impractical to film. Alan Parker agreed to direct and took a different approach. The animated sequences would remain, but scenes would be acted by professional actors with no dialogue. Waters was screen-tested, but quickly discarded and they asked Bob Geldof to accept the role of Pink. Geldof was initially dismissive, condemning \"The Wall\"s storyline as \"bollocks\". Eventually",
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"text": "Al Gregg Al Gregg (born 9 June 1963 in West Brompton, London) is an English actor, writer and musician who has appeared in a variety of theatre, television, film, commercials and voice overs. After leaving school at sixteen he played guitar and sang in various punk bands including Three Minute Warning/Four Minds Crack and then The Wall, (who were produced by both Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols and Jimmy Pursey from Sham 69), and appeared in music magazines like Melody Maker, and recorded on the Wall's Day Tripper 12\" and EP, recorded at the Crass Southern Studios in 1982.",
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"text": "sets himself free. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. Like its musical companion, the film is highly metaphorical, and symbolic imagery and sound are present most commonly. However, the film is mostly driven by music, and does not feature much dialogue. Gerald Scarfe drew and animated 15 minutes of animated sequences, which appear at several points in the film. It was the seventh animated feature to be presented in Dolby Stereo. The film is best known for its disturbing surrealism, animated sequences, sexual situations, violence and gore. Despite its turbulent production and the creators",
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"text": "grew out of that approach, combined with the issue of the growing alienation between the band and their fans. This symbolised a new era for rock bands, as Pink Floyd \"explored (... ) the hard realities of 'being where we are'\", drawing upon existentialists, namely Jean-Paul Sartre. Even before the original Pink Floyd album was recorded, a film was intended to be made from it. However, the concept of the film was intended to be live footage from the album's tour, with Scarfe's animation and extra scenes. The film was going to star Waters himself. EMI did not intend to",
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"text": "most songs from the album, albeit with several changes, as well as additional material (see table below). The only songs from the album not used in the film are \"Hey You\" and \"The Show Must Go On\". \"Hey You\" was deleted as Waters and Parker felt the footage was too repetitive (eighty percent of the footage appears in montage sequences elsewhere) but available to view as a bonus feature on the DVD release under the name \"Reel 13\". A soundtrack album from Columbia Records was listed in the film's end credits, but only a single containing \"When the Tigers Broke",
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"text": "Hell\" from a studio car park, and a television set being destroyed was used on \"One of My Turns\". At Britannia Row Studios, Nick Griffiths recorded the smashing of crockery for the same song. Television broadcasts were used, and one actor, recognising his voice, accepted a financial settlement from the group in lieu of legal action against them. The maniacal schoolmaster was voiced by Waters, and actress Trudy Young supplied the groupie's voice. Backing vocals were performed by a range of artists, although a planned appearance by the Beach Boys on \"The Show Must Go On\" and \"Waiting for the",
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"text": "smaller rig that was a more acceptable fit, and he simply lay on his back. The war scenes were shot on Saunton Sands in North Devon, which was also featured on the cover of Pink Floyd's \"A Momentary Lapse of Reason\" six years later. The film was shown \"out of competition\" during the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The film's official premiere was at the Empire, Leicester Square in London, on 14 July 1982. It was attended by Waters and fellow Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, but not Richard Wright, who was no longer a member of the",
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"text": "times, it looks more daring than it did in 1982, when I saw it at Cannes ... It's disquieting and depressing and very good.\" It was chosen for the opening night of 2010. Rotten Tomatoes currently ranks the film with a critics' review rating of 73% (based on 22 reviews). Danny Peary wrote that the \"picture is unrelentingly downbeat and at times repulsive ... but I don't find it unwatchable \u2013 which is more than I could say if Ken Russell had directed this. The cinematography by Peter Biziou is extremely impressive and a few of the individual scenes have",
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"text": "undeniable power.\" Waters has expressed deep reservations about the film, saying that the filming had been \"a very unnerving and unpleasant experience ... we all fell out in a big way.\" As for the film itself, he said: \"I found it was so unremitting in its onslaught upon the senses, that it didn't give me, anyway, as an audience, a chance to get involved with it,\" although he had nothing but praise for Geldof's performance. David Gilmour stated (on the \"In the Studio with Redbeard\" episodes of \"The Wall\", \"A Momentary Lapse of Reason\" and \"On an Island\") that the",
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"text": "footage was too theatrical and that it would jar with the animation and stage live action. After the concert footage was dropped, Seresin left the project and Parker became the only director connected to \"The Wall\". Parker, Waters and Scarfe frequently clashed with each other during production, to the point where the director described the filming as \"one of the most miserable experiences of my creative life.\" Scarfe declared that he would drive to Pinewood Studios carrying a bottle of Jack Daniel's, because \"I had to have a slug before I went in the morning, because I knew what was",
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"text": "The Wall The Wall is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released as a double album on 30 November 1979 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records and in the United States by Columbia Records. Bassist and songwriter Roger Waters conceived the album as a rock opera during Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh Tour, when his frustration with the audience became so acute that he spat on them. Its story explores Pink, a jaded rockstar character that Waters modeled after himself and the band's original leader Syd Barrett. Pink's life begins with the",
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"text": "box office charts, below \"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\", and \"An Officer and a Gentleman\". The film eventually earned $22 million before closing in early 1983. The film received generally positive reviews. Reviewing \"The Wall\" on their television programme \"At the Movies\" in 1982, film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel gave the film \"two thumbs up\". Ebert described \"The Wall\" as \"a stunning vision of self-destruction\" and \"one of the most horrifying musicals of all time ... but the movie is effective. The music is strong and true, the images are like sledge hammers, and for once, the rock and roll",
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"text": "The Wall (TV series) The Wall was a British comedy television programme presented by Alexa Chung and Rhys Thomas. The programme was produced by Zeppotron for BBC Three and premiered on the channel on 8 April 2008. The programme featured a regular cast of Lee Kern, Lucy Montgomery, We Are Klang, Simon Brodkin and Jamie Glassman who performed comedy sketches, interviews and music and were joined each week by celebrity guests. At the heart of the programme was a large video wall on which viewers could rate sketches and make suggestions. The show was named the \"Worst British TV Panel",
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"text": "attended the reception for Gilmour's wedding to Ginger that immediately followed the recording sessions; however, he left early without exchanging goodbyes with the newlyweds. Apart from a brief encounter between Waters and Barrett in Harrods a couple of years later (during which, when Barrett saw Waters, he ran outside, dropping his bags full of sweets in the process), this was the last time any member of Pink Floyd saw him. A reflection on the day appears in Mason's book \"\". A reference to this reunion also appears in the film \"The Wall\", where the character Pink, played by Bob Geldof,",
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"text": "room. Pink slowly begins to lose his mind to metaphorical \"worms\". He shaves all his body hair and, while watching \"The Dam Busters\" on television, morphs into a neo-Nazi alter-ego. Pink's manager, along with the hotel manager and some paramedics, discover Pink unresponsive and inject him with drugs to enable him to perform. Pink fantasizes that he is a dictator and his concert is a neo-Nazi rally. His followers proceed to attack ethnic minorities, and Pink holds a rally in suburban London, singing \"Waiting for the Worms\". The scene is intercut with images of animated marching hammers that goose-step across",
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"text": "Eddy Joseph, Clive Winter, Graham Hartstone & Nicholas Le Messurier; and 'Best Original Song' for Waters. It has been suggested that the protagonist stands in some way for Waters. Beyond the obvious parallel of them both being rock stars, Waters lost his father while he was an infant and had marital problems, divorcing several times. Romelo and Cabo place the Nazism and imperialism related symbols in the context of Margaret Thatcher's government and British foreign policy especially concerning the Falklands issue. \"Pink Floyd \u2013 The Wall\" was released on VHS in 1983 (MV400268), 1989 (M400268), 1994 (M204694) by MGM/UA Home",
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"text": "musician, making \"The Wall\" the last album recorded with the 11-year-spanning line-up of Waters, Wright, guitarist David Gilmour, and drummer Nick Mason. From 1980 to 1981, Pink Floyd staged \"The Wall\" as a live tour in support of the album featuring elaborate theatrical effects. Upon its release, \"The Wall\" initially received a mixed response from critics, but was a commercial success, reaching number three on the UK Albums Chart and topping the US \"Billboard\" 200 for 15 weeks. It became the band's second best-selling album, one of the best-selling of all time, and one of the most well-known concept albums",
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"text": "by advertising was derived from the name of Leonard Plugge. Plugge pronounced his name \"Plooje\", claiming Flemish origins. It was only when he stood for the parliamentary seat of Chatham that he agreed to the slogan \"Plugge in for Chatham\" and accepted the way everybody else pronounced his name. In the 1960s and 1970s, Plugge moved in a social set that included Princess Margaret, her husband photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones, broadcaster Julian Pettifer and transsexual April Ashley. The film \"Performance\", starring Mick Jagger and James Fox, was filmed in Plugge's house in Lowndes Square. Plugge moved to Hollywood, California in 1972,",
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"text": "Show/Satire of 2008\" in \"The Comedy.co.uk Awards\". The Wall (TV series) The Wall was a British comedy television programme presented by Alexa Chung and Rhys Thomas. The programme was produced by Zeppotron for BBC Three and premiered on the channel on 8 April 2008. The programme featured a regular cast of Lee Kern, Lucy Montgomery, We Are Klang, Simon Brodkin and Jamie Glassman who performed comedy sketches, interviews and music and were joined each week by celebrity guests. At the heart of the programme was a large video wall on which viewers could rate sketches and make suggestions. The show",
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"text": "Tilly and the Wall Tilly and the Wall is an indie pop group from Omaha, Nebraska. Their name originated from a children's book called \"Tillie and the Wall\", written by Leo Lionni. They are particularly noted for having a tap dancer, Jamie Pressnall, instead of a drummer. The group formed in 2001 after the demise of several Omaha groups, including Conor Oberst's Park Ave., of which Neely Jenkins and Jamie Pressnall (then Jamie Williams) were members. Jamie brought along Kianna Alarid from another band that broke up called Magic Kiss. Derek Pressnall and Nick White, natives of Dunwoody, Georgia were",
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"text": "Come Dancing\" ballroom dancer Anton du Beke and former international cricketer Darren Gough were the team captains for the first series. Additionally, Jonathan Pearce commented on the replays and Peter Dickson provided the opening voice-over. The wall was activated by the presenter shouting \"Bring on the wall!\". On 3 July 2008, the BBC announced that the show had been commissioned for BBC One. A second series was confirmed, with Anton du Beke giving up his captain role to take over from Dale Winton as host, and new team captains in the shape of former rugby player Austin Healey and actor",
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"text": "WALL-E WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL\u00b7E) is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written by Jim Reardon. It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy and Sigourney Weaver, and was the overall ninth feature film produced by the company. It follows a solitary trash compactor robot on a future deserted Earth, left to clean up garbage. However, he is visited by a probe sent by the",
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"text": "1970s and 80s, Wall occasionally performed a one-man stage show, \"Aspects of Max Wall\", in which he recaptured the humour of old-time music hall theatre. On 1 April 1977, Wall's version of Ian Dury's song \"England's Glory\" (which featured in Dury's stage show \"Apples\") was issued on Stiff Records (BUY 12), backed with \"Dream Tobacco\" and given away with the album \"Hits Greatest Stiffs\". Wall also appeared onstage with Dury at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1978, but was poorly received, and said \"They only want the walk\". Between 1982 and 1984 he appeared as Tombs in the BBC Two adaptation",
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"text": "and the popular robot have made dozens of appearances at various events. In the same year, Mike Senna completed his own WALL-E build. He also created an EVE. They were present at a photo op at Disney's D23 Expo 2015. WALL-E WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL\u00b7E) is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written by Jim Reardon. It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy and",
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"text": "seven days earlier Jean-Michel Jarre had set a new world record for concert attendance, with his free Paris la D\u00e9fense show attracting a live audience of two million. The event was produced and cast by British impresario and producer Tony Hollingsworth. It was staged partly at Waters' expense. While he subsequently earned the money back from the sale of the CD and video releases of the album, the original plan was to donate all profits past his initial investment to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, a UK charity founded by Leonard Cheshire. However, audio and video sales came in",
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"text": "make the film, as they did not understand the concept. Director Alan Parker, a Pink Floyd fan, asked EMI whether \"The Wall\" could be adapted to film. EMI suggested that Parker talk to Waters, who had asked Parker to direct the film. Parker instead suggested that he produce it and give the directing task to Gerald Scarfe and Michael Seresin, a cinematographer. Waters began work on the film's screenplay after studying scriptwriting books. He and Scarfe produced a special-edition book containing the screenplay and art to pitch the project to investors. While the book depicted Waters in the role of",
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"text": "season. In 2014, he reunited with Olivia Hussey for the film \"Social Suicide\" (2015), their first work together in the 46 years since \"Romeo and Juliet\". In 1971, Whiting married model Cathee Dahmann, in 1972 they had a daughter Sarah Beth Whiting, They divorced in 1977. In 1995, He married his assistant Lynn Presser. Whiting ended his film career, for the most part, in the mid-'70s and subsequently placed his focus upon his theatrical career as an actor and writer. He lives in London. Leonard Whiting Leonard Whiting (born 30 June 1950) is an English actor and singer who is",
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"text": "five more shows at Earl's Court (13\u201317 June) for filming, with the intention of integrating the shows into the upcoming movie. The London shows are documented on the album \"Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81\". David Gilmour and Mason attempted to convince Waters to expand the show for a more lucrative, large-scale stadium tour, but because of the nature of the material (one of the primary themes is the distance between an artist and his audience) Waters balked at this. On tour, relations between Gilmour, Mason, Waters and Richard Wright were at an all-time low: their four",
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"text": "\"Salty\", alongside Antonio Banderas and Olga Kurylenko in July 2016. Dingle-Wall is married to Peta Danvers. Their first child, a son, was born in 2015. He has a brother and sister, Jamie & Sally. Marty grew up on the cost of Bondi. In October 2016, Dingle-Wall revealed that shortly after relocating to Los Angeles in 2012, he began receiving treatment from Alcoholics Anonymous. The actor told Jonathon Moran of \"The Daily Telegraph\" that he decided to attend AA because he did not like the personality changes he suffered as a result of consuming alcohol. Martin Dingle Wall Channel - YouTube.",
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"text": "the series won four of five nominations: Martin Phipps for Original Television Music, Anthony Dod Mantle for Photograph & Lighting (Fiction/Entertainment), Jacqueline Abrahams for Production Design, and Bosse Persson, Lee Crichlow, Iain Eyre and Paul Hamblin for Sound (Fiction/Entertainment). Ray Leek was also nominated for his opening titles work. In May 2009, PBS distributed promotional DVDs of \"One Step Behind\" to members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for nomination consideration at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards. The episode was not nominated, but Branagh was nominated for his performance in the Outstanding Actor, Miniseries or Movie category and",
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"text": "by a local dignitary (Major Billy Jepson Turner) and performers included Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith and Peter Cook (as two members of a \"lesbian\" synchronised swimming team), Rik Mayall first as \"Kevin Turvey\" and then later singing \"Trouble\" with Jools Holland on piano and Bill Wyman on guitar, Jenny Agutter, Wayne Sleep, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Arthur Smith, John Wells, Roger McGough, Stanley Unwin in a sketch as a school teacher trying to dissuade Bill Wyman from going and playing that Rock and Rollode. It also featured local people doing their \"turn\". The closing act was Billy Connolly. Although the",
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"text": "Duncan Wisbey Duncan James Wisbey (born 16 December 1971) is an English actor, musician, writer and impressionist. He is often credited as simply Wisbey. From 2001, Wisbey collaborated with Jonny Trunk, founder of Trunk Records, to produce the album \"Dirty Fan Male\", based on Trunk's experiences organising glamour models' fan clubs. The album comprises Wisbey's amusing recitals of the fan mail they received and it was later turned into an acclaimed live show and a book. The inclusion of Wisbey's song \"The Ladies' Bras\" on the 2007 compilation album \"Now We Are Ten\" and its appearances on \"The All Day",
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"text": "twice that, with approximately one billion television viewers. Leonard Cheshire asked him to do the concert to raise funds for charity. Waters' group of musicians included Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Scorpions, and Sin\u00e9ad O'Connor. Waters also used an East German symphony orchestra and choir, a Soviet marching band, and a pair of helicopters from the U.S. 7th Airborne Command and Control Squadron. Designed by Mark Fisher, the Wall was 25 metres tall and 170 metres long and was built across the set. Scarfe's inflatable puppets were recreated on an enlarged scale, and although many rock icons",
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"text": "new level. The characters were designed by the notable satirical artist, Gerald Scarfe. Special effects reached a new and outrageous level during these \"Wall\" shows. For example, a long, high wall made from 340 white bricks was built between the audience and the band during the first half of the show. The final brick was placed as Roger Waters sang \"goodbye\" at the end of the song \"Goodbye Cruel World\". For the second half of the show, the band was largely invisible, except for a hole in the wall that simulated a hotel room where Roger Waters \"acted out\" the",
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"text": "a nervous breakdown. Jennifer left him, and although there were reconciliations, he divorced Jennifer for desertion in 1962. Wall re-emerged during the 1950s when producers and directors rediscovered his comic talents, along with the expressive power of his tragic clown face and the distinctive sad falling cadences of his voice. He secured television appearances and, having attracted Samuel Beckett's attention, he won parts in \"Waiting for Godot\" in 1979 and \"Krapp's Last Tape\" in 1984. In 1966 he appeared as P\u00e8re Ubu in Jarry's \"Ubu Roi\", and in 1972 he toured with Mott the Hoople on their \"Rock n' Roll",
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"text": "of the film), Eric Clapton, The Pretenders, Kiri Te Kanawa and Bruce Springsteen. The soundtrack album did not, however, feature the cast's rendition of the Jerome Kern standard \"The Way You Look Tonight\", as performed in the film nor the song, 'Orpheus on the Underground', by John Hudson, which features at the beginning and end of the film. \"Peter's Friends\" grossed over $4 million in the United States, and in 1992 alone, it grossed \u00a33.1 million in the U.K. \"Peter's Friends\" was well received by most critics and currently holds a 70% \"Fresh\" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33",
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"text": "Waters agreed to Ezrin's suggestion that several tracks, including \"Nobody Home\", \"The Trial\" and \"Comfortably Numb\", should have an orchestral accompaniment. Michael Kamen, who had previously worked with David Bowie, was booked to oversee these arrangements, which were performed by musicians from the New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony Orchestras, and a choir from the New York City Opera. Their sessions were recorded at CBS Studios in New York, although Pink Floyd were not present. Kamen eventually met the band once recording was complete. \"Comfortably Numb\" has its origins in Gilmour's debut solo album, and was the source of",
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"text": "conflict between him and Waters started with the making of the film. Gilmour also stated on the documentary \"Behind The Wall\" (which was aired on the BBC in the UK and VH1 in the US) that \"the movie was the less successful telling of \"The Wall\" story as opposed to the album and concert versions.\" Although the symbol of the crossed hammers used in the film was not related to any real racist group, it was adopted by white supremacist group the Hammerskins in the late 1980s. It earned its creators two British Academy Awards; 'Best Sound' for James Guthrie,",
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"text": "automobile self starter for when WALL-E goes fast, and the sound of cars being wrecked at a demolition derby provided for WALL-E's compressing trash in his body. The Macintosh computer chime was used to signify when WALL-E has fully recharged his battery. For EVE, Burtt wanted her humming to have a musical quality. Burtt was only able to provide neutral or masculine voices, so Pixar employee Elissa Knight was asked to provide her voice for Burtt to electronically modify. Stanton deemed the sound effect good enough to properly cast her in the role. Burtt recorded a flying radio-controlled jet plane",
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"text": "In keeping with the artificial \"Axiom\", camera movements were modeled after those of the steadicam. The use of live action was a stepping stone for Pixar, as Stanton was planning to make \"John Carter of Mars\" his next project. Storyboarder Derek Thompson noted introducing live action meant that they would make the rest of the film look even more realistic. Eggleston added that if the historical humans had been animated and slightly caricaturized, the audience then would not have been able to recognize how serious their devolution was. Stanton cast Fred Willard as the historical Buy n Large CEO because",
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"text": "Glenister on 1970s and 1980s culture, \"Things Ain't What They Used to Be\", was published in October 2008. Glenister is patron of the charity Momentum in Kingston upon Thames, which aims to help children and the families of children undergoing treatment for cancer in Surrey. Glenister has been married to actress Beth Goddard since 2006. Together, they have two daughters named Millie and Charlotte. Glenister is a supporter of non-league football team Wealdstone FC. He is also known to be a fan of Arsenal FC. Philip Glenister Philip Haywood Glenister (born 10 February 1963) is an English actor, best known",
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"text": "Tim Curry, Cyndi Lauper, Sin\u00e9ad O'Connor, Marianne Faithfull, Joni Mitchell, Ute Lemper and Thomas Dolby). This concert was even bigger than the previous ones, as Waters built a long and high wall. The size of the theatrical features of \"The Wall\" were increased to cater for a sold-out audience of 200,000 people and of another estimated 500 million, in 35 countries, watching on television. After the concert began, the gates were opened and an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people were able to watch the concert. This show is available on \"The Wall Live in Berlin\" album and DVD. Roger staged",
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"text": "set off firecrackers, leading Waters to stop playing and scold them. In July 1977, on the final date at the Montreal Olympic Stadium, a group of noisy and excited fans near the stage irritated Waters so much that he spat at one of them. Guitarist David Gilmour refused to perform a final encore and sat at the soundboard, leaving the band, with backup guitarist Snowy White, to improvise a slow, sad twelve-bar blues, which Waters described as \"some music to go home to\". That night, Waters spoke with music producer Bob Ezrin and Ezrin's psychiatrist friend about the alienation he",
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"text": "Darth Vader, made from himself breathing into a scuba regulator. Burtt is also known for \"voicing\" the title character, Wall-E, in the 2008 Pixar movie \"WALL-E\". He also created the robotic sound of Wall-E's voice, along with all the other characters in \"WALL-E\", and was the sound editor of the movie. The winner of four Academy Awards (two of which are Special Achievement Academy Awards), he is the director of various documentary films. He is also the editor of the \"Star Wars\" prequel trilogy. Burtt was born in Jamesville, New York, and graduated with a major in physics from Allegheny",
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"text": "Merton \"Out Of My Head\". Richard Vranch Richard Leslie Vranch (born 29 June 1959, Frome, England) is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Vranch graduated from Cambridge University with a PhD in physics. While a first-year doctoral student, he joined the Footlights in 1981 and was a contemporary of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Morwenna Banks, Tony Slattery and Neil Mullarkey. He was a researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory and a research fellow at St John's College, Oxford for nine months before going into comedy full-time. Vranch improvises comedy on stage with the Comedy Store Players every Wednesday and Sunday at",
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"text": "disorder in a documentary made by Stephen Fry, \"The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive\", in 2006; Slattery claimed that he spent time living in a warehouse and \"throwing [his] furniture into the Thames\". In 1998, he was elected as Rector of the University of Dundee. He has said \"I\u2019m happily described as gay,\" and has been in a relationship with the actor Mark Michael Hutchinson since 1986. Tony Slattery Anthony Declan James Slattery (born 9 November 1959) is an English actor and comedian. He has appeared on British television regularly since the mid-1980s, most notably as a regular on",
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"text": "albums between 1976 and 1984; \"The Jacksons\", \"Goin' Places\", \"Destiny\", \"Triumph\", and \"Victory\", as well as a live concert album in 1981. During that period, Michael was not only the lead singer, but also the chief songwriter for the group, writing or co-writing such hits as \"Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)\", \"This Place Hotel\" and \"Can You Feel It\". In 1978, Jackson starred as Scarecrow in the film musical \"The Wiz\". The musical scores were arranged by Quincy Jones, who formed a partnership with Jackson during the film's production and agreed to produce the singer's solo album \"Off",
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"text": "ten all over Europe. Walling has recently appeared in shows such as \"The Smoking Room\", \"Coronation Street\" and \"My Family\". Mike Walling appeared in the following TV shows and films: He wrote or co-wrote scripts for the following comedy shows: Mike Walling Mike Walling (born 8 July 1950 is an English comic actor and screenwriter. He began his career as an English teacher at Holland Park School in London. In the mid-1970s, while still a teacher, he won a British TV talent contest, New Faces, with a comedy double act called \"Mr Carline & Mr Walling.\" He immediately quit teaching",
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"text": "climb, mentioning all the names of the people that were also taking part \u2013 it was based on Lily Allen's \"The Fear\", and was called \"(A month off of) The Beer\". From 3 February \u2013 23 March 2009, Moyles was joined by Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole, Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating, Ben Shephard and Fearne Cotton to help raise money for charity by reading the time on the Speaking Clock. Moyles has provided his voice and/or likeness to a number of films and games. His face was used in \"\", and his voice can be heard in the films \"Wimbledon\", \"War",
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"text": "to bring a new detective to British screens to replace Inspector Morse, who had been killed off on-screen in 2000. Actors proposed to play Wallander were Trevor Eve, Neil Pearson, Jason Isaacs, David Morrissey, Clive Owen and Michael Gambon. Negotiations were still under way in 2007, when Kenneth Branagh met Henning Mankell at an Ingmar Bergman film festival and asked to play Wallander. Branagh had started reading the \"Wallander\" books \"relatively late\" but enjoyed them, and read all nine translated novels in a month. Mankell agreed to let Branagh play the role, and Branagh visited Ystad in December to scout",
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"text": "Conservative politicians have been members of The Bullingdon, including Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. The production's scene changes were marked by the Riot Club's a cappella renditions of current popular music such as Wearing My Rolex by the grime rapper Wiley; the music was arranged by James Fortune. In 2012 the Royal Court production of the show was revived in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre with several cast changes. The script was updated, including references to the coalition government which had since come to power and a",
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"text": "heavily re-written version toured theatres nationwide, with Marks and Gran constantly updating the script to keep it topical. However, Mayall succumbed to chronic fatigue and flu in May 2007 and withdrew from the show. Alan B'Stard was played by his understudy, Mike Sherman during his hiatus. Mayall was cast as the poltergeist Peeves in \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" (2001), the first of the \"Harry Potter\" films, although all of his scenes were cut from the film. He claimed in his semi-autobiographical book \"Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ\" that he had not been made aware that his scenes",
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"text": "several clips from television sitcoms and cartoons like \"Family Guy\" as well as comedy routines from George Carlin. After the first leg of the North American tour, the sound collage was dropped and replaced with 20 minutes of music in the following order and has been the same for every show since, \"Mother\" by John Lennon, \"Masters of War\" by Bob Dylan, \"A Change Is Gonna Come\" by Sam Cooke, \"Imagine\" by John Lennon, \"Strange Fruit\" by Billie Holiday, and \"People Get Ready\" by The Impressions. During the homeless man's tour through the crowd, the pre-show music stops and the",
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"text": "several references to former band member Syd Barrett, including \"Nobody Home\", which hints at his condition during Pink Floyd's abortive US tour of 1967, with lyrics such as \"wild, staring eyes\", \"the obligatory Hendrix perm\" and \"elastic bands keeping my shoes on\". \"Comfortably Numb\" was inspired by Waters' injection with a muscle relaxant to combat the effects of hepatitis during the \"In the Flesh Tour\", while in Philadelphia. The album was recorded in several locations. In France, Super Bear Studios was used between January and July 1979, with Waters recording his vocals at the nearby Studio Miraval. Michael Kamen supervised",
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"text": "features the band dressed and acting in an absurd and surreal manner, including guitarist Brian May dressed as a penguin (a reprise of his outfit featured in the booklet of the first Queen album), drummer Roger Taylor wearing a tea kettle on his head and riding a tricycle while Mercury sneaks up on him and is chasing him, a man in a gorilla suit, bassist John Deacon as a jester, and Mercury wearing a bunch of bananas as a wig, which corresponds with the line \"I think I'm a banana tree.\" \"I'm Going Slightly Mad\" is the last Queen video",
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"text": "wanted to do. It was eventually greenlighted by Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio at Embassy Pictures. The film satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal bands, as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rockumentaries of the time. The three core members of the band Spinal Tap\u2014David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel\u2014were portrayed by McKean, Shearer and Guest respectively. The three actors play their musical instruments and speak with mock English accents throughout the film. There was no script, although there was a written breakdown of most of the scenes, and many",
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"text": "Colin Sharp Colin Ainsley Sharp (5 September 1953 \u2013 7 September 2009) was an English actor, biographer, percussionist and singer-songwriter, who was part of the Manchester music scene of the late 1970s and dedicated to arts in Newcastle upon Tyne. In the late 1970s, he joined post-punk band The Durutti Column as singer during the last months of 1978, replacing original vocalist Phil Rainford. The band featured Vini Reilly and Dave Rowbotham as guitarists and future Simply Red members Tony Bowers on bass and Chris Joyce on drums. With him, the band continued to play live performances and recorded two",
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"text": "The Wall Tour (1980\u201381) The Wall Tour was a concert tour by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd throughout 1980\u20131981 in support of their concept album \"The Wall\". The tour was relatively small compared to previous tours for a major release, with only 31 shows in total. The tour was notable for its extensive use of stage theatrics, most notably a giant wall constructed across the stage to convey the sense of alienation present in both the album, and Roger Waters' personal feelings at the time. \"I was struck by the thought that there was a huge wall, that",
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"text": "unhappy, and an alcoholic [...] I\u2019m not ashamed of what happened. And I think if anyone finds any relationship to it, then it might motivate them to get well. But I am not proud of it either \u2014 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s cool, like I was Mr. Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll, blackout and all that s---. It wasn\u2019t, it was just terrible.\" Pegg was awarded an honorary fellowship by the University of Gloucestershire on 4 December 2008. Simon Pegg Simon John Pegg (n\u00e9 Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Pegg came to public prominence",
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"text": "the Wall\". Jackson was dedicated to the role, and watched videotapes of gazelles, cheetahs and panthers in order to learn graceful movements for his part. Jones recalled working with Jackson as one of his favorite experiences from \"The Wiz\", and spoke of Jackson's dedication to his role, comparing his acting style to Sammy Davis, Jr. Critics panned \"The Wiz\" upon its October 1978 release, but Jackson's performance as the Scarecrow was one of the only positively reviewed elements of the film, with critics noting that Jackson possessed \"genuine acting talent\" and \"provided the only genuinely memorable moments.\" Of the results",
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"text": "who appears to be homeless pushes a shopping cart around the aisles around the floor seats. He wears a flannel jacket and a cowboy hat, and makes small talk with the fans as he makes his way around the floor. His cart is full of empty soda cans and rubbish and a sign that reads different sayings that vary from show to show, including, \"No thought control\" on one side and, \"Homeless people need money for booze and hookers\" on the other. His cart also contains the original stuffed \"Pink\" doll from 1979. The pre-show audio was 20 minutes of",
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"text": "Brent Titcomb Brent Arthur Titcomb (born August 10, 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor and musician. He was an original member of the folk rock group 3`s A Crowd starting in 1965 in Vancouver and they eventually moved to Toronto. They played various coffeehouses and festivals with the release of an album titled Christopher`s Movie Mattine, with the help of Cass Elliott. In concert he was the comic of the group where he used an odd-sounding vacuum cleaner as part of the routine. In 1968 Titcomb went solo and toured across Canada and parts of Europe. His",
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"text": "two parts of \"Echoes\" edited together into one long track. 2016 stereo CD A CD was also issued as part of \"The Early Years 1965\u20131972\" box set; like the 5.1 surround sound video it omits \"Mademoiselle Nobs\", restores the un-edited version of \"A Saucerful of Secrets\" and brings together the two parts of \"Echoes\" into one track. As shown in the film. Based on an idea and directed by Adrian Maben The hip hop group the Beastie Boys made a music video for their song \"Gratitude\" that appears to be a homage to the film. Shot by David Perez in",
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"text": "in April 1988. In June 2011, it was announced that Cleese, Jones, Gilliam and Palin would perform in a 3-D animated version of Chapman's memoir \"A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI\". Co-director Jeff Simpson worked closely with Chapman's estate and the surviving Python members to \"get this exactly right\". The film, titled \"\", was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012 and premiered in the UK the following month as part of the BFI London Film Festival. The voices of Cleese, Gilliam, Jones, and Palin were spliced into commentary recorded by Chapman reading from his memoir and taped",
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"text": "two guys playing chess. There is that sort of dynamic between the characters in the film.\" The script appeared in the 2014 Black List of most liked un-produced screenplays. On March 29, 2016, it was reported that Doug Liman had been hired to direct the psychological thriller. Glen Basner's FilmNation Entertainment handled the film's international sales at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, allowing for a theatrical release. On May 9, 2016, \"Variety\" confirmed that Aaron Taylor-Johnson had joined the film's cast to play Isaac, the junior American soldier. On November 29, it was reported that Amazon had partnered with Roadside",
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"text": "love you\" are standing outside the wall and warns that, if you do not tear down your metaphorical wall, some might eventually give up on you and leave you to live out a lonely life instead of \"banging [their] heart against some mad bugger's wall\". This is what happens to the main character, Pink, during the course of the album. Roger Waters himself has refused to provide any explanation when asked for one. A longer and more elaborate version was recorded for the film which runs for a little more than four minutes and includes the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the",
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"text": "has been married twice, and has six children. His first wife Susan, from whom he was divorced in the early 1970s, died in a car accident in 1977. Nicholas married his second wife, columnist Linzi, in 1984. Paul Nicholas has released three studio albums and one compilation album. Paul Nicholas Paul Nicholas (born Paul Oscar Beuselinck; 3 December 1944) is an English actor and singer. He started out with a pop career, but soon changed to musical theatre. Later, in the 1970s, he returned to the pop charts, and he began an acting career \u2013 starring in the 1983 BBC",
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"text": "Ian Dury Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 \u2013 27 March 2000) was an English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and before that of Kilburn and the High Roads. Dury was born at his parents' home at 43 Weald Rise, Harrow Weald, Middlesex (though he often pretended that he had been born in Upminster, Essex, which all but one of his obituaries in the UK national press stated as fact). His father, William",
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"text": "credited guitar work by future Spinal Tap member Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest). A photo on the inside cover also includes two band members, \"Murph\", the keyboard player from The Blues Brothers, and \"Ming the Merciless\", purported to be Kiss drummer Peter Criss without his famous \"cat\" costume and make-up, though Criss denies it was him. McKean has confirmed that the drummer in the photograph is actually Don Poncher. Lenny and the Squigtones Lenny and the Squigtones is a fictional musical group headed by Michael McKean and David Lander, the two actors who played the characters Lenny and Squiggy on the",
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"text": "used Scarfe's animations alongside actors, with little conventional dialogue. A modified soundtrack was created for some of the film's songs. In 1990, Waters and producer Tony Hollingsworth created \"The Wall \u2013 Live in Berlin\", staged for charity at a site once occupied by part of the Berlin Wall. Beginning in 2010 and with dates lasting into 2013, Waters performed the album worldwide on his tour, \"The Wall Live\". This had a much wider wall, updated higher quality projected content and leading-edge projection technology. Gilmour and Mason played at one show in London at The O2. A film of the live",
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"text": "Cillian Murphy Cillian Murphy (; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. He began his career performing as a rock musician. After turning down a record deal, he began his acting career in theatre, and in short and independent films in the late 1990s. He appeared in the films \"28 Days Later\" (2002), \"Cold Mountain\" (2003), \"Intermission\" (2003), \"Red Eye\" (2005) and \"Breakfast on Pluto\" (also 2005), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy and won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor. He played the",
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"text": "changes, the group's lead singer Fee Waybill plays the character of Quay Lewd, a take off on Quaalude, a drugged out British rock star wearing two-foot tall platform shoes, a feather boa and a long blonde wig. In his early career as a choreographer, Kenny Ortega would add elements to try to make every show more spectacular. There were explosions, smoke, chainsaws and a daredevil aerial artist. Among the barely-dressed dancers and characters were Jane Dornacker and Pearl E. Gates. Even up and coming local actor/comedian Robin Williams auditioned for the show. While it was considered too politically incorrect to",
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"text": "Paul Putner Paul Putner is an English comedian and actor. Putner was born in East Grinstead. He studied at LAMDA where he won the Kenneth More prize for comedy acting. His first significant TV role saw Putner as numerous characters in \"The Glam Metal Detectives\" shown on BBC2. His real break in comedy came after he set up the club \"The Regency Rooms\" with fellow performers Steve Furst and Oliver Darly. The club developed a cult following and was attended by many comics. Richard Herring saw Paul performing there and cast him in his play \"Punk's Not Dead\" at the",
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"text": "Helm and Garth Hudson of The Band, The Hooters, Van Morrison, Sin\u00e9ad O'Connor, Cyndi Lauper, Marianne Faithfull, Scorpions, Joni Mitchell, Paul Carrack, Thomas Dolby and Bryan Adams, along with actors Albert Finney, Jerry Hall, Tim Curry and Ute Lemper. Leonard Cheshire opened the concert by blowing a World War II whistle. This performance had several differences from Pink Floyd's original production of The Wall show. Both \"Mother\" and \"Another Brick in the Wall, Part II\" (like in the 1980/81 concerts) were extended with solos by various instruments and the latter had a cold ending. \"In The Flesh\" (also like the",
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"text": "Powell Society, a tribute to his portrayal of Kenneth Widmerpool. Beale is gay. In the \"Independent on Sunday\" 2006 Pink List \u2013 a list of the most influential gay men and women in the UK \u2013 he was placed at number 30, representing an advance of four positions since the previous year's rankings. Beale serves as Patron of the following organisations: Simon Russell Beale Simon Russell Beale, CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor, author and music historian. Beale has been described by \"The Independent\" as \"the greatest stage actor of his generation.\" He has appeared in \"Persuasion\"",
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"text": "with make-up by Julie Nightingale and Dani Richardson with Gabi Norland as the clapper-loader. British actors Martin Freeman and Shaun Dingwall both feature in the promo, along with performance artist David Hoyle as the karaoke singer, and also stars Michelle Butterly of the ITV series, \"Benidorm\". Derren Litten, the writer of \"Benidorm\" and a contributor to \"The Catherine Tate Show\", is also seen in the video. \"I Started a Joke\" was parodied by a \"Radio Free Vestibule\" sketch in which a voiced-over commentary takes the lyrics completely literally, appeared on the film \"Zoolander\" as covered by The Wallflowers. The song",
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"text": "won over by the prospect of participation in a significant film and receiving a large payment for his work, Geldof agreed. Screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1982, \"Pink Floyd \u2013 The Wall\" premi\u00e8red in the UK in July 1982. In 1982, Waters suggested a new musical project with the working title \"Spare Bricks\", originally conceived as the soundtrack album for \"Pink Floyd \u2013 The Wall.\" With the onset of the Falklands War, Waters changed direction and began writing new material. He saw Margaret Thatcher's response to the invasion of the Falklands as jingoistic and unnecessary, and dedicated",
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"title": "Cillian Murphy",
"text": "nation\". Cillian Murphy Cillian Murphy (; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. He began his career performing as a rock musician. After turning down a record deal, he began his acting career in theatre, and in short and independent films in the late 1990s. He appeared in the films \"28 Days Later\" (2002), \"Cold Mountain\" (2003), \"Intermission\" (2003), \"Red Eye\" (2005) and \"Breakfast on Pluto\" (also 2005), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy and won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor. He played",
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"text": "Boosh\" cast member, Dave Brown. It features many of his old and new paintings, drawings and photography. Fielding's video installation of 'The Jelly Fox' was shown at the Saatchi Gallery, and in 2012 he created a unique piece inspired by The Beatles for Liverpool Love at the Museum of Liverpool. In March 2015, his exhibition 'He Wore Dreams Around Unkind Faces' was shown at the Royal Albert Hall. Fielding was born in Westminster, London, and grew up in Pollards Hill, south London. His parents are Ray (born 1953) and Yvonne Fielding (1953). His brother is Michael Fielding, who appears as",
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"text": "as a person from southern Sweden, he recognised all the settings and they had never looked as beautiful as in this production. Branagh won the award for best actor at the 35th Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Awards (2009). It is his first major television award win in the UK. The series was nominated for Best Drama Series but lost to \"The Devil's Whore\". The series, represented by \"Sidetracked\", won the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Richard Cottan, Branagh, Philip Martin and Francis Hopkinson are named as the nomination recipients. At the BAFTA Television Craft Awards,",
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"text": "portrayed by Michael McKean (as David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (as Nigel Tufnel) and Harry Shearer (as Derek Smalls). \"This Is Spinal Tap\" was accompanied by a soundtrack album of the same name. In the years following the film's release, the actors have portrayed the band members at concerts and released music under the Spinal Tap name. Guest, McKean, and Shearer toured in the United States in and performed as Spinal Tap in a \"One Night Only World Tour\" on June 30, 2009, at Wembley Arena in London, three days after playing the Glastonbury Festival. Support at Wembley Arena came",
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"text": "Sheeran in Croke Park, Dublin. In 2008, Hansard took a four-week filmmaking workshop at the New York Film Academy. In 2016, Hansard was a prominent member of the Home Sweet Home Group, a coalition of activists and homeless. The group broke into Apollo House in Dublin and illegally occupied it. They eventually had to vacate the premises due to trespassing. Glen Hansard Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970) is an Irish songwriter, actor, vocalist and guitarist for Irish group The Frames, and one half of folk rock duo The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared",
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"text": "(\"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)\") and finishes building his wall (\"Goodbye Cruel World\"), completing his isolation from human contact. Hidden behind his wall, Pink becomes severely depressed (\"Hey You\") and starts to lose all faith (\"Vera\"). In order to get him to perform, a doctor medicates him (\"Comfortably Numb\"). This results in a hallucinatory on-stage performance where he believes that he is a fascist dictator performing at concerts similar to Neo-Nazi rallies (\"The Show Must Go On\"), at which he sets brownshirts-like men on fans he considers unworthy (\"In the Flesh\"). Upon realizing the horror of what he",
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"text": "The Bathroom Wall The Bathroom Wall is the debut album by Jimmy Fallon. The first five tracks of the album consists of studio songs, with the remainder of the album consisting of stand-up comedy material. It was released on August 27, 2002. This was most notable for the song \"Idiot Boyfriend\", which included a music video. Actress and singer/songwriter Zooey Deschanel appears in the music video as the girlfriend, but is not credited. Allmusic described it as Fallon's \"mix tape of high school fights, bad athletic performances, and collegiate experimentation combined with a dose of rock & roll mayhem\"; two",
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"text": "much argument between Waters and Gilmour. Ezrin claimed that the song initially started life as \"Roger's record, about Roger, for Roger\", although he thought that it needed further work. Waters changed the key of the verse of the song and added more lyrics for the chorus with Gilmour adding some extra bars for the line \"I have become Comfortably Numb\", but his \"stripped-down and harder\" recording was not to Gilmour's liking. Gilmour preferred Ezrin's \"grander Technicolor, orchestral version\", although Ezrin preferred Waters's version. Following a full-scale argument in a North Hollywood restaurant, the two compromised; the song's body eventually included",
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"text": "Room to Let (film) Room to Let is an award-winning short film directed by Joe McStravick, written by Gerlind Becker and starring Robin Edwards (The Wall & Living in Hope) and Roz McCutcheon (The League of Gentlemen and Jam). A black comedy about a young man who gets into the clutches of a possessive old landlady, who harbours a secret plan to turn him into her pet During the casting period, actor Liam McMahon (\"Snatch\" and Hunger) recommended Robin Edwards for the part of Pete. Liam would later take the role of Adrian. The casting of Milred took much longer",
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"text": "and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. It won Best Animated Feature Film at the 66th Golden Globe Awards, 81st Academy Awards, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2008. It was nominated for several awards at the 2009 Annie Awards, including Best Feature Film, Animated Effects, Character Animation, Direction, Production design, Storyboarding and Voice acting (for Ben Burtt); but was beaten out by \"Kung Fu Panda\" in every category. It won Best Animated Feature at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards and was also nominated there for Best Music and Sound. Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel won",
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"text": "to the song as \"Come on Big Bum\". The vocals during the verses were performed by band members Gregg Dechert and Mickey Feat. In 2001 and 2002, the verse vocals were performed on different dates by guest singers: Robert Wyatt, Kate Bush, Durga McBroom, and Bob Geldof, who had played Pink in the movie version of \"The Wall\". On 29 May 2006, at the Royal Albert Hall, David Bowie, in a guest appearance, sang Waters' part of the song. The next day, 30 May, Richard Wright sang Waters' part, by himself, at the same venue. Both performances were immortalised on",
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"text": "with a video feed for the overflow audience in the village pub (the hall looked as if it could only hold about 150 people). Ned Sherrin and Gore Vidal vied in the village shop for the best location to hold their book-signing sessions. Norman Lovett did his turn on the back of a farm vehicle. The festival included a guided walk of the village with Michael Hordern and a quiz hosted by Bamber Gascoigne which pitted village locals against the greatest minds in the world featuring the philosopher A. J. \"Freddie\" Ayer (the locals won!). The main review was compered",
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"text": "it was important to separate his work and home life, but, at the time, he had no choice. The original premiere took place on 2 September 1972, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. This initial cut, running for one hour, only featured the live footage. The film was scheduled for a special premiere at London's Rainbow Theatre, on 25 November 1972. It was cancelled at the last minute by the theatre's owner, Rank Strand as they didn't have a certificate from the British Board of Film Censors and the theatre could be seen to be in competition with established cinemas.",
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"text": "Roses guitarist John Squire worked on this series as a set artist. Voice actors on this adaptation included David Jason, Ian Carmichael and Michael Hordern. Fed up with spring cleaning, Mole (Richard Pearson) ventures out of his underground home. He goes for a walk in the countryside and soon comes to a river where he meets and befriends Ratty (Ian Carmichael) (who lives there). Rat takes Mole on a picnic where they notice Badger (Michael Hordern) (who appears behind the bushes) and ask him to join them, but he just mutters \"Hmmm! Company!\" and walks off home (though he still",
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"text": "\"the media was on the whole slavishly worshipping of Thatcher\". He said of his political views \"I believe in the politics of Clement Attlee. I'm a Welfare State Labour voter.\" He parodied himself though in the sketch 'Benny Elton' for \"Harry Enfield and Chums\" in 1994, sending up his 'right on' socialist image as a politically correct spoilsport chasing Page Three models around a park to chastise them and tricking heterosexual couples into becoming gay. Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative",
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"title": "Derek Royle",
"text": "Derek Royle Derek Royle (7 September 1928 \u2013 23 January 1990) was a British actor born in London, England. His face was probably better known than his name to British viewers, but he acted in films and TV from the mid-1960s until his death. He had a supporting role in the Beatles' film \"Magical Mystery Tour\" in 1967, as well as a minor one with Cilla Black in the film \"Work Is a Four-Letter Word\" a year later. Most of his film appearances were in comedy films such as \"Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!\" (1973), \"Tiffany Jones\" (1973) and",
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"title": "Graeme Garden",
"text": "Graeme Garden David Graeme Garden OBE (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter, best known as a member of The Goodies and for being a cast member on \"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue\". Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he grew up in Preston, England. Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which he became President in 1964), and performed with the 1964 Footlights revue, \"Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of\" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Garden qualified",
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