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Brendan Kavanagh (born October 1967 [2] [3]), also known as "Dr K" due to his PhD in English, is a British pianist and piano teacher of Irish descent. He specializes in playing and promoting the boogie-woogie genre, almost exclusively improvised, often combined with classical, jazz , blues , rock & roll , and traditional Irish music themes.
Faces in the Crowd is a long-running segment from Sports Illustrated. Starting in the January 9, 1956, issue, the segment was originally titled These Faces in the Crowd. [1] The predecessor to These Faces... was a segment called Pat on the Back. It differed in that it did not just focus on unknown or amateur athletes.
A smiley, sometimes called a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face. [1] [2] Since the 1950s, it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram or as a form of communication, such as emoticons. The smiley began as two dots and a line representing eyes and a mouth.
The buttons became popular, with orders being taken in lots of 10,000. More than 50 million smiley face buttons had been sold by 1971, [12] and the smiley has been described as an international icon. [13] By 1971 the smiley face was everywhere, so Ball contacted patent attorneys, who told him the design was now in the public domain.
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film.
Kliban died at UCSF Medical Center aged 55 of an undisclosed heart condition; he had undergone heart surgery there two weeks previously. [1] He was survived by his second wife, Judith Kamman Kliban (who married actor Bill Bixby shortly before Bixby's death in 1993); brother, Ken, of New York City; and two daughters: Kalia, from his first marriage with M. K. Brown; and Sarah, from another ...
By 1977, the year of Smiley's People, Esterhase is retired from British Intelligence and operates a second-rate art gallery in London selling forgeries of Edgar Degas and other artists. During this time, he is approached to assist with a private operation by Vladimir, an Estonian dissident and ex-Circus asset formerly run by Esterhase and Smiley.
Smiley’s People is a 1982 British six-part spy drama by the BBC.Directed by Simon Langton and produced by Jonathan Powell, it is the television adaptation of the 1979 spy novel Smiley's People by John le Carré, and a sequel to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (missing out the second book in the trilogy, The Honourable Schoolboy, which was not filmed for cost reasons).