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Robinson and the Fat Boys were featured in the 1985 movie Krush Groove.The film, loosely based on the early days of the Def Jam record label, also featured Blair Underwood as Russell Simmons (named Russell Walker in the movie), and record producer Rick Rubin, along with Run DMC, Sheila E., Beastie Boys, Kurtis Blow, and a young LL Cool J.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Fothergill was born in Massillon, Ohio, in 1897. [3] His father was a fireman in a rolling mill who died from tetanus when Fothergill was four years old. Fothergill had only a grade school education, and played with the Massillon Tigers and Canton Bulldogs in the early years of professional American football. [4]
Hebranko was born in Brooklyn on May 14, 1953, to Michael Hebranko Sr. and Jeanette Pica. His paternal grandfather was a Ukrainian immigrant. [2] [3]After a stay at the St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City, he dropped his weight from 411 kg (906 lb) to 90 kg (200 lb) and waist size from 290 cm (110 in) to 91 cm (36 in) in 19 months with the help of the dieting and exercise coach Richard ...
After leaving the series, Chaney returned to his native Baltimore and attended public school, where he excelled in his studies.In spite of having a normal diet and regular exercise since childhood, he continued to gain weight and eventually topped 300 lb (140 kg), though he never grew beyond 4 ft 7 in (1.4 m).
The group began as Fat City, a husband/wife duo of Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert. [2]Danoff and Nivert co-wrote the song "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado" and then, with John Denver, "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which became a hit single in 1971 and became an official song of West Virginia in 2014. [3]
Antoine Caliste Domino Jr. [1] (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American singer-songwriter and pianist.One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. [2]