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Willy Wonka introduces himself to the audience and summons his Oompa-Loompa workers, announcing that he is retiring and he must choose a new successor when he does ("Pure Imagination" / "The Golden Age of Chocolate"). Wonka, acting as narrator, introduces the impoverished Bucket family: Mr. and Mrs. Bucket, their young son Charlie, and Charlie ...
"Golden Age" is a 2008 song by the band TV on the Radio, the first single from their album Dear Science. It was number 12 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008. [1] Spin magazine chose the song as the 8th best song of the year. [2] MTV ranked it as the 20th best song of the year, [3] and Pitchfork chose it as the 51st best song ...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. [1] The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in ...
A golden age is often ascribed to the years immediately following a technological innovation that allows new forms of expression and new ideas. Examples include: Golden age of chocolate, 1850-1900 [17] Golden age of illustration, 1880s-1910s; Golden age of board games, 1880s-1920s [18] or 2000-present
The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity (Greek: χρύσεον γένος chrýseon génos) [1] lived.
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Scharf was a ten-time Oscar nominee, working on more than 100 films, receiving nominations for his musical direction on such pictures as Danny Kaye's Hans Christian Andersen (1952), Barbra Streisand's Funny Girl (1968) and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).
Peter Allen (born Peter Richard Woolnough; 10 February 1944 – 18 June 1992) was an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer, known for his flamboyant stage persona, energetic performances, and lavish costumes.