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Stritch's audition flopped, however, and under the impression that Arthur didn't want to participate, Harris asked McClanahan if she could persuade Arthur, with whom she worked previously on the CBS sitcom Maude, to take the role. Arthur flipped upon reading the script, but felt hesitant about McClanahan's approach as she didn't \"want to play (their Maude characters) Maude and Vivian meet Sue Ann Nivens.\" She reconsidered, however, after hearing that McClanahan and White had switched roles.", "precise_score": 3.3541553020477295, "rough_score": -0.47571542859077454, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "Maude Findlay (née Chadbourne; formerly Hilliard) is a fictional character and the main title character on the controversial 1970s sitcom Maude. She was portrayed by the Emmy-winning actress Bea Arthur.", "precise_score": 5.503169059753418, "rough_score": 6.09865140914917, "source": "wiki", "title": "Maude Findlay" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "Bea Arthur, “Maude” “Golden Girls” star | The Seattle Times", "precise_score": 2.181731939315796, "rough_score": 0.7960683703422546, "source": "search", "title": "Bea Arthur, “Maude” “Golden Girls” star | The Seattle Times" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "Bea Arthur, “Maude” “Golden Girls” star", "precise_score": 2.3529059886932373, "rough_score": 1.7468942403793335, "source": "search", "title": "Bea Arthur, “Maude” “Golden Girls” star | The Seattle Times" }, { "answer": "Beatrice Arthur", "passage": "Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear's sitcom \"Maude\" and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running \"The Golden Girls,\" died Saturday. She was 86.", "precise_score": 8.21287727355957, "rough_score": 8.793819427490234, "source": "search", "title": "Bea Arthur, “Maude” “Golden Girls” star | The Seattle Times" }, { "answer": "Beatrice Arthur", "passage": "LOS ANGELES — Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear’s sitcom “Maude” and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running “The Golden Girls,” died Saturday. 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She was 86.", "precise_score": 8.21287727355957, "rough_score": 8.793819427490234, "source": "search", "title": "Bea Arthur, star of 'Golden Girls' and 'Maude' dies at 86 ..." }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak (née Petrillo) is a fictional character from the TV series The Golden Girls, portrayed by Bea Arthur for 7 years and 183 episodes. Dorothy was the strong, smart, sarcastic, sometimes intimidating, and arguably most grounded of the four women in the house. Though tough, she is very friendly, polite and does geniunely care for the other girls. In the 1000th issue of Entertainment Weekly, Dorothy Zbornak was selected as the Grandma for \"The Perfect TV Family.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.8428267240524292, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "Dorothy was nicknamed \"Pussycat\" by her mother, and \"Spumoni Face\" by her father. Dorothy has two younger siblings: brother Phil, a cross-dresser, who died later in the show's run; and a sister, Gloria, who was nicknamed \"Kitten\" and married into money, and with whom Dorothy was sometimes estranged. In the fourth season episode Foreign Exchange, Dorothy wondered whether she is the biological daughter of the Petrillos, since Dominic and Philomena Bosco claimed that the hospital switched babies. However, in the third season episode \"Mother's Day,\" Sophia Petrillo's mother is also played by Bea Arthur, so it is implied that Dorothy and Sophia are biologically related (though in one episode Dorothy states that her grandmother was 94 when she was only 6, though it is never made clear if it is her paternal or maternal grandmother. However she also states that she was in a wheelchair, which her maternal grandmother was.). In that episode and three others which took place in Dorothy's young adulthood, Dorothy Zbornak was portrayed by a tall, dark-haired actress named Lynnie Greene. In the episode \"Clinton Avenue Memoirs,\" Dorothy was shown as a young child (played by Jandi Swanson) jealous of the attention that her parents were giving to her baby brother Phil, until her father tells her that he loves her very much.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.874207973480225, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Beatrice Arthur", "passage": "The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. An ensemble cast, the show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, as four older women who share a home in Miami, Florida. It was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.386932373046875, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "After six consecutive seasons in the top 10, and a seventh season at No. 30, The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. In the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy meets and marries Blanche's Uncle Lucas (Leslie Nielsen), and moves to Hollingsworth Manor in Atlanta, Georgia. Sophia was to join her, but in the end, Sophia stays behind with the other women in Miami, leading into the spin-off series, The Golden Palace. The series finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers. As of 2010, the episode ranked at No. 17 of most-watched finales. 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And that was, to me, what made it seem like it could be a contemporary, young show.\" As surprising as it may sound, Estelle Getty's continuously battled her fear of stage fright. During an interview in 1988, Getty's commented on her phobia and expressed how working with major stars, such as Arthur and White, made her even more nervous. There were times where she even froze on camera while filming. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.043078422546387, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "Bea Arthur and Betty White were personally distant when not working. This never came across publicly in press, and both acted as consummate professionals on set as each knew the importance of the other to the overall success of the show. It also didn't dull the experience or the enjoyment of doing the show for either one. Betty White has always expressed nothing but love and admiration for Bea Arthur. It was only after Arthur's death in 2009 that she revealed their differences were real and due to a fundamental personality clash with Arthur becoming easily irritated by White's positive, perky demeanor. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.80488109588623, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "The Golden Girls was shot on videotape in front of a live studio audience. Many episodes of the series followed a similar format or theme. For example, one or more of the women would become involved in some sort of problem, often involving other family members, men, or an ethical dilemma. At some point, they would gather around the kitchen table and discuss the problem, sometimes late at night and often while eating cheesecake or some other dessert. One of the other girls would then tell a story from her own life, which somehow related to the problem (though Rose would occasionally regale a nonsense story that had nothing to do with the situation, and Sophia would tell outrageous made-up stories). Some episodes featured flashbacks to previous episodes, flashbacks to events not shown in previous episodes or to events that occurred before the series began. Though the writing was mostly comical, dramatic moments and sentimental endings were included in several episodes. One of the actresses on the show, Bea Arthur, actually hated cheesecake. 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Her career spanned seven decades.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.668450355529785, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bea Arthur" }, { "answer": "Bernice Frankel", "passage": "Beatrice Arthur was born Bernice Frankel on May 13, 1922, to Rebecca ( Pressner) and Philip Frankel in New York City. Arthur was raised in a Jewish home with sisters Gertrude and Marian Kay. In 1933, the Frankel family relocated to Cambridge, Maryland, where her parents subsequently operated a women's clothing shop. She attended Linden Hall School for Girls, an all-girls' boarding school in Lititz, Pennsylvania, before enrolling at Blackstone College for Girls in Blackstone, Virginia, where she was active in the school's drama program.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.801370620727539, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bea Arthur" }, { "answer": "Beatrice Arthur", "passage": "The episode aired two months before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the procedure nationwide in the Roe v. Wade outcome in early 1973. By 1978, however, Arthur decided to move on from the series. Later the same year (1978), she costarred in Star Wars Holiday Special, in which she had a song and dance routine in the Mos Eisley Cantina. She hosted The Beatrice Arthur Special on CBS on January 19, 1980, which paired the star in a musical comedy revue with Rock Hudson, Melba Moore and Wayland Flowers and Madame. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.717292785644531, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bea Arthur" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "After Arthur left The Golden Girls, she made several guest appearances on television shows and organized and toured in her one-woman show, alternately titled An Evening with Bea Arthur as well as And Then There's Bea. She made a guest appearance on the American cartoon Futurama, in the Emmy-nominated 2001 episode \"Amazon Women in the Mood\", as the voice of the Femputer who ruled the giant Amazonian women. She appeared in a first-season episode of Malcolm in the Middle as Mrs. White, one of Dewey's babysitters. She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance. She also appeared as Larry David's mother on Curb Your Enthusiasm.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.24583101272583, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bea Arthur" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "In 2002, she returned to Broadway, starring in Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends, a collection of stories and songs (with musician Billy Goldenberg) based on her life and career. The show was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event. In addition to appearing in a number of programs looking back at her own work, Arthur performed in stage and television tributes for Jerry Herman, Bob Hope, Ellen DeGeneres and Peggy Lee, in Richard Barone's \"There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee\" at the Hollywood Bowl in 2004. In 2005, she participated in the Comedy Central roast of Pamela Anderson, where she recited sexually explicit passages from Anderson's book Star Struck in a deadpan fashion. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.19652271270752, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bea Arthur" }, { "answer": "Bea Arthur", "passage": "Arthur was a committed animal rights activist and frequently supported People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals campaigns. Arthur joined PETA in 1987 after a Golden Girls anti-fur episode. Arthur wrote letters, made personal appearances and placed ads against the use of furs, foie gras, and farm animal cruelty by KFC suppliers. In Norfolk, Virginia, near the site of the PETA headquarters, there is a dog park named Bea Arthur Dog Park in her honor. 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The series starts as Jed Clampett, an impoverished mountaineer, is living alongside an oil-rich swamp with his daughter and mother-in-law. A surveyor for the OK Oil Company realizes the size of the oil field, and the company pays him a fortune for the right to drill on his land. Patriarch Jed's cousin Pearl prods him to move to California after being told his modest property could yield $25 million. His family moves into a mansion in wealthy Beverly Hills, California, next door to his banker Milburn Drysdale. They bring a moral, unsophisticated, and minimalistic lifestyle to the swanky, sometimes self-obsessed and superficial community. Double entendres and cultural misconceptions are the core of the sitcom's humor. Plots often involve the outlandish efforts Drysdale makes to keep the Clampetts in Beverly Hills and their money in his bank. The family's periodic attempts to return to the mountains are often prompted by Granny's perceiving a slight from one of the \"city folk\".", "precise_score": 3.3972349166870117, "rough_score": 6.3930511474609375, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "Although he had received little formal education, Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) has a good deal of common sense. Jed is the son of Luke Clampett and his wife, and has a sister called Myrtle. A principal character of the show, Jed is a good-natured man; he is the apparent head of the family. Jed's wife (Elly May's mother) died, but is referred to in the episode \"Duke Steals A Wife\" as Rose Ellen. Jed is shown to be an expert marksman and is extremely loyal to his family and kinfolk. The huge oil pool in the swamp he owned was the beginning of his rags-to-riches journey to Beverly Hills. Although he longs for the old ways back in the hills, he makes the best of being in Beverly Hills. Whenever he has anything on his mind, he sits on the curbstone of his mansion and whittles until he comes up with the answer. His catchphrase is, \"Welllllll, doggies!\" Jed was one of the three characters to appear in all 274 episodes of the series.", "precise_score": 1.812628149986267, "rough_score": 2.073017120361328, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Granny's full name, Daisy Moses, is allegedly an homage to the popular and dearly loved folk artist Anna Mary Robertson, known to the world as Grandma Moses. (Grandma Moses died in 1961, a year before The Beverly Hillbillies made its television debut.) Granny is frequently referred to as \"Granny Clampett\" in a number of episodes, but technically she is a Moses. 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The special was released on VHS tape by CBS/Fox Video in 1995 and as a bonus feature on the Official Third Season DVD Set in 2009.", "precise_score": 1.8848365545272827, "rough_score": 4.06309700012207, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "In 1993, a movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies was released starring Jim Varney as Jed Clampett and featuring Buddy Ebsen in a cameo as Barnaby Jones, the lead character in his long-running post-Hillbillies television series.", "precise_score": 3.0533394813537598, "rough_score": 5.420565605163574, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Jed Clampett - The Beverly Hillbillies Characters - ShareTV", "precise_score": 2.093405246734619, "rough_score": 3.9869308471679688, "source": "search", "title": "Jed Clampett - The Beverly Hillbillies Characters - ShareTV" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "Although he had received little formal education, Jed Clampett had a good deal of common sense. A good-natured man, he is the apparent head of the family. Jed's wife (Elly May's mother) died, but is referred to in the episode \"Duke Steals A Wife\" as Rose Ellen. Jed was shown to be an expert marksman and was extremely loyal to his family and kinfolk. The huge oil pool in the swamp he owned was the beginning of his rags-to-riches journey to Beverly Hills. Although he longed for the old ways back in the hills, he made the best of being in Beverly Hills. Whenever he had anything on his mind, he would sit on the curbstone of his mansion and whittle until he came up with the answer. Jedediah, the version of Jed's name used in the 1993 Beverly Hillbillies theatrical movie, was never mentioned in the original television series (though coincidentally, on Ebsen's subsequent series, Barnaby Jones, Barnaby's nephew J.R. was also named Jedediah). In one episode Jed and Granny reminisce about seeing Buddy Ebsen and Vilma Ebsen—a joking reference to the Ebsens' song and dance act. Jed appears in all 274 episodes.", "precise_score": 3.7504358291625977, "rough_score": 6.308446884155273, "source": "search", "title": "Jed Clampett - The Beverly Hillbillies Characters - ShareTV" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies - 必应", "precise_score": -2.6973190307617188, "rough_score": 4.393354415893555, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - 必应 - bing.com" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies. Follow. CBS (ended 1971) USER EDITOR. MacDeacon . Overview; ... Cousin Pearl convinces Jed he should move his family to Beverly Hills. 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While he appears to be in a state of retirement, he is still frequently kept busy by trying to keep his family out of trouble and make peace with his neighbors. Then there is Granny; the Matriarch of the clan who is mature, highly opinionated, paranoid of new-fangled ways and things. She considers herself to be highly educated (a self proclaimed Doctor of Hillbilly Medicine) and has difficulty understanding why anyone doubts her wisdom. Then there is Elly May; Beautiful, but awkwardly naive. Apparently in her late teens or early twenties, she is considered an 'Old Maid' by the standards of her culture back in the mountains of her childhood. Last but not least, there is Jethro Bodine. Somewhat slow witted nephew of Jed. He is constantly attempting to find a girlfriend by impressing them with his education (elementary ... 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The rest of the family joining him at their new Beverly Hills mansion include Jed's mother-in-law Granny, pretty daughter Elly May, and nephew Jethro Bodine.", "precise_score": 3.2274796962738037, "rough_score": 2.653568744659424, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "In dramatic contrast to these hillbillies are the wealthy and status conscious Beverly Hills citizenry, as personified by Jed's banker, Mr. Drysdale, whose life revolves around maintaining the favour of his bank's main customer, Mr. Clampett, and protecting that thirty million dollars (or whatever the figure). His wife, Mrs. Drysdale, is a superficial & snooty dame who comes into frequent conflict with her neighbour, Granny. Jane Hathaway is Mr. Drysdale's very properly spinsterish but man hunting and bird watching secretary. She is the constant victim of her boss's greedy schemes and actually becomes quite a genuine friend to the Clampetts.", "precise_score": 1.7915016412734985, "rough_score": 2.903033494949341, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Best of the Beverly Hillbillies", "precise_score": -4.042160987854004, "rough_score": 2.5444140434265137, "source": "search", "title": "The Best of the Beverly Hillbillies - Watch Full Episodes ..." }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Best of the Beverly Hillbillies", "precise_score": -4.042160987854004, "rough_score": 2.5444140434265137, "source": "search", "title": "The Best of the Beverly Hillbillies - Watch Full Episodes ..." }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "“The Beverly Hillbillies” is a classic American comedy series that originally aired for nine seasons from 1962 to 1971 and was the first television series to feature a “fish out of water” genre. The series was about the Clampett family – widower Jed “J.D.” (Buddy Ebsen); his mother-in-law, Daisy May “Granny” Moses (Irene Ryan); beautiful but tomboyish daughter, Elly May (Donna Douglas); and nephew Jethro (Max Baer, Jr.) – that moves to ritzy Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on the family’s Texas country farm. The show was a huge success during most of its nine-year original run, and it continues to be broadcast on different channels to this day. Different episodes of the show continue to rank as some of the most-watched episodes of television shows of all time.", "precise_score": 6.346372604370117, "rough_score": 7.118707656860352, "source": "search", "title": "The Best of the Beverly Hillbillies - Watch Full Episodes ..." }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen , Irene Ryan , Donna Douglas , and Max Baer, Jr.", "precise_score": -1.4354026317596436, "rough_score": 0.07149405032396317, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies series starts with the OK Oil Company learning of oil in Jed Clampett's swamp land and paying him a fortune to acquire the rights to drill on his land. Patriarch Jed moves with his family into a mansion next door to his banker (Milburn Drysdale) in the wealthy Los Angeles County city of Beverly Hills, California, where he brings a moral, unsophisticated, and minimalistic lifestyle to the swanky, sometimes self-obsessed and superficial community. The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits \"Black Gold, Texas tea\": he had discovered oil. Double entendres and cultural misconceptions were the core of the sitcom's humor. Frequently, plots involved the outlandish efforts taken by Drysdale to keep the Clampetts in Beverly Hills and their money in his bank. The family's periodic attempts to return to the mountains were often prompted by Granny due to a perceived slight she received from one of the \"city-folk.\" The Beverly Hillbillies accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run. Nearly a half century since its premiere, the series remains in syndication on MeTV.", "precise_score": 2.543684482574463, "rough_score": 5.289555549621582, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Elly May Clampett", "passage": "The Hillbillies themselves were Buddy Ebsen as the widowed patriarch Jed \"J.D.\" Clampett; Irene Ryan as his ornery mother-in-law, Daisy May \"Granny\" Moses; Donna Douglas as his curvaceous, tom-boy daughter Elly May Clampett; and Max Baer, Jr. as Jethro, the brawny, half-witted son of his cousin Pearl Bodine. Pearl (played by Bea Benaderet ) appeared in most of the first season episodes, as did Jethro's twin sister Jethrine, played by Baer in drag, using Linda Kaye Henning 's voiceover. Pearl was the relative who prodded Jed to move to California, after being told his modest property could yield $25 million.", "precise_score": 2.4875261783599854, "rough_score": 3.618378162384033, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "The 1989 film UHF featured a \"Weird Al\" Yankovic parody music video, \"Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*,\" combining \" The Ballad of Jed Clampett \" and Dire Straits' \"Money for Nothing.\"", "precise_score": -2.174966335296631, "rough_score": -1.4435138702392578, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "Although he had received little formal education, Jed Clampett has a good deal of common sense. A good-natured man, he is the apparent head of the family. Jed's wife (Elly May's mother) died but is referred to in the episode \"Duke Steals A Wife\" as Rose Ellen. Jed is shown to be an expert marksman and is extremely loyal to his family and kinfolk. The huge oil pool in the swamp he owned was the beginning of his rags-to-riches journey to Beverly Hills. Although he longs for the old ways back in the hills, he makes the best of being in Beverly Hills. Whenever he has anything on his mind, he sits on the curbstone of his mansion and whittles until he comes up with the answer. Jed's full first name is never given in the television series, though 'Jedediah' was used in the 1993 Beverly Hillbillies theatrical movie (coincidentally, on Ebsen's subsequent series, Barnaby Jones, Barnaby's nephew J.R. was also named Jedediah). In one episode Jed and Granny reminisce about seeing Buddy Ebsen and Vilma Ebsen—a joking reference to the Ebsens' song and dance act. Jed appears in all 274 episodes.", "precise_score": 3.2118492126464844, "rough_score": 6.078524112701416, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Granny's full name, Daisy Moses, allegedly an homage to the popular and dearly loved folk artist Anna Mary Robertson, known to the world as Grandma Moses. (Grandma Moses died in 1961, a year before The Beverly Hillbillies made its television debut.) Granny is frequently referred to as \"Granny Clampett\" in a number of episodes but technically she is a Moses. Granny appears in all 274 episodes.", "precise_score": -2.9979372024536133, "rough_score": -0.8859097361564636, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Legend of The Beverly Hillbillies special ignored several plot twists of the TV movie, notably Jethro was now not a film director but a leading Los Angeles physician. Critter-loving Elly May was still in California with her animals but Jed was back home in the Hills, having lost his fortune, stolen by the now-imprisoned banker Drysdale (a plot twist that many fans found unsettling for this good-natured show.) Nancy Kulp had died in 1991 and was little referred to beyond the multitude of film clips that dotted the special (which curiously failed to include a single film clip of Harriet MacGibbon.) The special was released on VHS tape by CBS/Fox Video in 1995 and as a bonus feature on The Official Third Season DVD Set in 2009.", "precise_score": 1.5166126489639282, "rough_score": 3.5993895530700684, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "In 1993, a movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies was released starring Jim Varney as Jed Clampett and featuring Buddy Ebsen in a cameo as Barnaby Jones, the lead character in his long-running post-Hillbillies television series.", "precise_score": 3.0533390045166016, "rough_score": 5.420562267303467, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top 20 most-watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most-watched television episodes of all time. It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run. The series remains in syndication on MeTV, and its ongoing popularity spawned a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.255505561828613, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Granny frequently mentions that she was born and raised around Limestone, Tennessee, near Greenville, but the state from which the Clampetts move to California is never revealed. Various, sometimes conflicting, clues can be found in certain episodes. In season 5, episode 17, it is claimed that they come from the town of \"Bug Tussle\" in an unspecified state. There is a Bugtussle, Kentucky, about 230 mi from Limestone.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.071111679077148, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Elly May Clampett", "passage": "*Donna Douglas as Elly May Clampett, Jed's tomboy daughter ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.693790435791016, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jethro Bodine", "passage": "*Max Baer Jr. as Jethro Bodine, the brawny, half-witted son of Jed's cousin Pearl", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.7268900871276855, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Milburn Drysdale", "passage": "*Raymond Bailey as Milburn Drysdale, Jed's greedy, unscrupulous banker ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.411003112792969, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Margaret Drysdale", "passage": "*Harriet E. MacGibbon as Margaret Drysdale, Mr. Drysdale's ostentatious wife ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.34250545501709, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Milburn Drysdale", "passage": "Short and scrappy, Granny often wields a double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun and fires it numerous times during the run of the show (in a first-season episode, she chases Milburn Drysdale with it when she finds out his mother's family had a feud with her family back in the hills). She fires it once at the front lawn when Jed is witching for water and several times on the skeet-shooting range. During the mock Indian invasion, she believed she was shooting live shells, though Milburn Drysdale had removed the buckshot to protect the actors portraying the Indians. She fires rock salt and bacon rind at a crow during the \"Happy Valley\" episode, and again at the back of an armored truck in which Milburn Drysdale was taking refuge. She fires at (and hits in the posterior) Milburn Drysdale with rock salt, believing he is the ghost of \"Lady Clemintine\" ending their second visit to \"Clampett Castle\" in Kent, England which was filmed at Penshurst Place. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.909723281860352, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "She is also able to tell the precise time by a sundial and the weather by a beetle (\"Granny Versus the Weather Bureau\"). Without her glasses, Granny is extremely nearsighted — once in a crossover with the Petticoat Junction show, Granny mistakes a dog for a baby child and a coffee pot for a telephone. Two of Granny's phobias are \"Injuns\" (she actually buys wigs so the Clampetts will not be \"scalped\") and the \"cement pond\" (swimming pool–she has a fear of water). In a long story arc in season nine, Elly May dates a U.S. Navy frogman, which confuses Granny: After seeing the frogman climb out of the pool in his skin-diving wear, she thinks that anyone who swims in the pool will be turned into a frog. She also has a peculiar way of retelling the War Between The States, in which she thinks the South has won and Jefferson Davis is the president, while calling Sherman's March \"Sherman's Retreat to the Sea\". She even set Jethro straight on the subject of slavery: \"We fought a war to make the Yankees stop that foolishness!\" Any attempts to correct her meet with failure. She is also known for slicing off switches to use on Jethro, mainly whenever he goes too far with his idiotic schemes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.055473327636719, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Elly May Clampett", "passage": "Elly May Clampett", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.4409818649292, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Dash Riprock", "passage": "Elly May (Donna Douglas in all 274 episodes), the only child of Jed and Rose Ellen Clampett, is a mountain beauty with the body of a pinup girl and the soul of a tomboy. She can throw a fastball as well as \"rassle\" most men to a fall, and she can be as tender with her friends, animals, and family as she is tough with anyone she rassles. She said once that animals could be better companions than people, but as she grew older, she saw that, \"fellas kin be more fun than critters.\" Elly is squired about by eager young Hollywood actors with stage names such as \"Dash Riprock\" and \"Bolt Upright\". Other boyfriends for Elly include Sonny Drysdale, Beau Short, accountant Fred Penrod, beatnik Sheldon Epps, and Mark Templeton, a Navy frogman.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.289166450500488, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jethro Bodine", "passage": "Jethro Bodine", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.440645217895508, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Pearl Bodine", "passage": "Jethro (Max Baer Jr. in 272 episodes) is the son of Jed's cousin, Pearl Bodine (though he addresses Jed as his uncle). He drove the Clampett family to their new home in California and stayed on with them to further his education. The whole family boasts of Jethro's \"sixth-grade education\", but nevertheless feels he is a bit of an idiot. Jethro is simply naive in the first season of the show, but becomes incredibly ignorant and pompous as the series progresses. He often shows off his cyphering abilities with multiplication and \"go-zin-tas\", as in \"five gozinta five one time, five gozinta ten two times\", etc. The tallest student in his class in the town of Oxford because of his age, he is often impressing others that he graduated \"highest in his class at Oxford\". The punch line (\"6 foot 2\") would be given after a character expressed surprise in the claim. In Beverly Hills, he decides to go to college. He manages to enroll late in the semester at a local secretarial school due to his financial backing and earns his diploma by the end of the day because he did not understand what was going on in class and was too disruptive. This was an ironic in-joke – in real life, Max Baer Jr. has a bachelor's degree in business administration, minoring in philosophy, from Santa Clara University.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.608086585998535, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Milburn Drysdale", "passage": "Many stories in the series involve Jethro's endless career search, which include such diverse vocations as a millwright, a brain surgeon, street car conductor, double-naught spy, telephone lineman, soda jerk, chauffeur, short-order cook, sculptor, restaurant owner (with Granny's cooking), and once as a bookkeeper for Milburn Drysdale's bank; a Hollywood agent for \"cousin\" Bessie and \"Cousin Roy\": {see below}; Hollywood Producer {a studio flunky remarks Jethro has the \"right qualifications\" for being a producer: a sixth-grade education and an uncle who owns the studio; this in-joke gag as a movie producer was replayed in the 1981 movie}. More often than not, his overall goal in these endeavors is to obtain as many pretty girls as humanly possible. A running gag is that as usual Jethro fails catching girls – for example, a girl he had known from the hills became a successful actress, yet when she tries to talk to Jethro, he always hangs up on her.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.235767364501953, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "Milburn (Raymond Bailey in 247 episodes), Margaret (Harriet E. MacGibbon; 55 episodes in 1962–69), and Sonny (Louis Nye): The Drysdales are the Clampetts' next-door neighbors. Milburn is the Commerce Bank's tightwad president and the friendly bumpkins' confidant. The haughty Mrs. Drysdale boasts of a heritage that traces back to the Mayflower, but Milburn's concerns are strictly monetary. When suffering an anxiety attack, Milburn sniffs a stack of money and is quickly revived. Another time, Miss Hathaway discovered that whenever Jed Clampett took money out of his pocket, Drysdale's blood pressure would either go up or down depending on whether Jed was going to spend the money or not. Whenever Drysdale gets a taste of Granny's \"Tennessee Tranquilizer\" (moonshine), his face turns red. In the interest of keeping the Clampetts' account at all costs, Mr. Drysdale is prone to appease them, and says that anything they do is unquestionably right. He often forces others, especially his secretary, to placate the Clampetts by granting their unorthodox requests. A running gag is that Drysdale-as President of the Commerce bank of Beverly Hills-is in a feud with a rival bank President {of the Merchant Bank of Beverly Hills} as to \"who\" will have custody of Jed Clampett's millions.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.445725440979004, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Jane Hathaway (Nancy Kulp in 246 episodes), whom the Clampetts address as \"Miss Jane\", is Drysdale's loyal and efficient secretarial assistant. Though she always carries out his wishes, she is inherently decent and is frequently put off by her boss's greed. When she is annoyed with him, as is often the case, especially when one of Drysdale's schemes goes too far, she usually and forcefully says, \"Chief!\" Jane is genuinely fond of the family (to the Clampetts, she is considered family; even Granny, the one most dead-set against living in California, likes her very much); Jane actually harbors something of a crush on Jethro for most of the series' run. At first, she mistakes the Clampetts as servants until Drysdale told her who they really are (which almost costs her her job).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.017353057861328, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Miss Hathaway frequently has to \"rescue\" Drysdale from his idiotic schemes, receiving little or no thanks for her efforts. In one episode, Granny and she, disguised as \"geisha girls\", finally have enough and \"crown\" Drysdale and Jethro, who have made one too many comments about women serving men. Jane is loyal to Drysdale, as well, despite her misgivings toward his avarice and greed. In one episode, the Clampetts, feeling money has corrupted them, give all of their money to Virginia \"Ginny\" Jennings (Sheila Kuehl), a college student. While Drysdale moans the loss of the money, Jane immediately tells him to stop thinking about the Clampetts and start trying to get the Jennings account. Eventually, everyone discovered Jennings' real motives, and she was gone, with the Clampetts getting their money back, and things were as they were before. In one episode, it is established that Miss Jane sacrificed her job as the top secretary of the top executive of the top insurance company to join Mr. Drysdale at the Commerce Bank. Miss Jane was a Vassar graduate. In 1999, TV Guide ranked Jane Hathaway number 38 on its \"50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time\" list. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.039209365844727, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "*Pearl Bodine (portrayed by Bea Benaderet; 22 episodes in season 1) is Jethro's widowed mother. In the last season, Granny mentions that Pearl's husband, Fred Bodine, drowned in a fishing accident when Jethro was just a baby (although, in an earlier episode, Jethro shared some memories of his father with a psychiatrist). Pearl is a generally well-meaning mother to Jethro. She was also a popular character, often used as a foil for Granny, and became a regular part-way through the first season (the end credits were even refilmed to include Pearl with the other family members). The character disappeared after the first year because Benaderet had become the star of another Paul Henning series, Petticoat Junction. She is the daughter of Amos Clampett, Jed's uncle. Like Elly May, Pearl's name came from that of a character (Pearl Lester) in the popular rural-life novel, play, and film Tobacco Road. In the episodes \"The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed\" and \"The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted\", Herbert Rudley plays the psychiatrist Dr. Eugene Twombley. In the episodes, Pearl is enamored with Dr. Twombley; Benaderet's real-life husband was named Eugene Twombly. The role of Pearl was first offered to Shirley Collie. In season six, she makes a cameo appearance in the episode \"Greetings From The President\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.040325164794922, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Dash Riprock", "passage": "*Dash Riprock (played by Larry Pennell; 10 episodes in seasons 3–7) is a handsome Hollywood actor employed by Jed's movie studio. Elly May and he meet while she is working as an extra at the studio. When Dash sees the beautiful Elly in her bathing suit, he is smitten with her. The two have an on-and-off relationship. In one episode, Mr. Drysdale forces Dash into courting Elly May by threatening to put him in a television show called Crabman. Elly initially liked Dash and enjoyed being with him on dates; Jethro, however, was quite enamored with Dash because of his playboy persona. Riprock was a send-up of the blatantly fake screen names employed by a number of movie actors of the period. Riprock's real name (before being changed by Hollywood moguls) was \"Homer Noodleman\", and he was from Peoria, Illinois.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.659411430358887, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "*Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs (as themselves in seven episodes, 1963–68) are longtime friends of the Clampetts \"back home\" (Kimberling City, Missouri), who visit with the Clampetts when they are on tour in California. The duo had a number-one Billboard country single with the show's \"The Ballad of Jed Clampett\" (although the song is actually performed in the credits by Jerry Scoggins to Flatt and Scruggs' instrumental). (Actress Joi Lansing played Flatt's wife, Gladys, in five episodes, 1963–68.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.83297348022461, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "*John Brewster (played by Frank Wilcox; 14 episodes, 1962–1966), is the president and CEO of the OK Oil Company, headquartered in Tulsa, who purchases the oil rights to the gusher on the Clampett home back in the hills. The Clampetts are quite fond of him, and his wife occasionally visits them in California.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.730749130249023, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "*Shorty Kellums (played by Shug Fisher; 17 episodes in seasons 8 and 9) is Jed's longtime buddy from back home, with whom Jed reunites in 1969 when the Clampetts go back for an extended period to the Hills. Shorty is a wiry little man who is crazy about voluptuous girls half his age. Shorty later moves into the Clampett mansion in Beverly Hills for a period. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.127446174621582, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "*Elverna Bradshaw (played by Elvia Allman; 13 episodes, 1963–70) is Granny's longtime rival back in the Hills, a gossip second to none. Referenced as early as episode 3, she makes a brief appearance in a 1963 episode when the Clampetts go back to the Hills to fetch Pearl to California, but is not seen again until 1969, when the Clampetts return to their native land for an extended visit. However, both Granny and Jed referred to the character in several episodes throughout the series' run. Elverna and Granny rekindle their feud in a match to see who will be first wed, Elverna's daughter or Elly May. For reasons not really explained, Elverna also moves into the Clampett Beverly Hills mansion during the same period Shorty does; both of them, however, are gone from the estate for the final 1970–71 season, presumably having returned home.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.862791538238525, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jethro Bodine", "passage": "*Cousin Roy (played by Roy Clark; three episodes in seasons 6 and 7) was the Clampetts' cousin, who came from \"The Hills\" to Hollywood; he appeared in three episodes as an aspiring country singer. In furtherance of the running gag of Jethro Bodine's continuing failure to succeed, Jethro turned down the chance to be Cousin Roy's agent, who actually succeeded in Hollywood.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.540491104125977, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "The show's theme song, \"The Ballad of Jed Clampett\", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. The song is sung by Jerry Scoggins (backed by Flatt and Scruggs) over the opening and end credits of each episode. Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme (with Flatt singing) for Columbia Records; released as a single, it reached number 44 on Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and number one on the Billboard Hot Country chart (the lone country chart-topper for the duo).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.356467247009277, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The series generally features no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally play on the program. Pop singer Pat Boone appears in one episode as himself, under the premise that he hails from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, although Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.278789520263672, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "The 1989 film UHF featured a \"Weird Al\" Yankovic parody music video, \"Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*\", combining \"The Ballad of Jed Clampett\" and English rock band Dire Straits' 1985 hit song \"Money for Nothing\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.5192112922668457, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "*\"The Thanksgiving Story\" (7:10) - The Clampetts visit Hooterville and mingle with the Petticoat Junction cast. This includes a silent, split-second insert of Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor of Green Acres. Jethro pretends to be a Hollywood producer and tries to romance Billie Jo (Meredith MacRae) and Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) Bradley. This arc continues in the next episode, \"The Courtship of Homer Noodleman\" (7:10), with the Clampetts leaving for home following Eb Dawson's (from Green Acres) falling for Elly May.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.15970230102539, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "*\"Sam Drucker's Visit\" (7:23) - The final season seven crossover with Sam Drucker dropping in on the Clampetts in Beverly Hills. Drucker and Betty Jo share one scene set in his Hooterville General Store.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.660269737243652, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "*In season eight, \"Buzz Bodine, Boy General\" (8:15) and \"The Clampett-Hewes Empire\" (8:16) comprise the last two-part crossover of the series. The Clampetts return to Petticoat Junction in a story featuring Steve Elliott, Betty Jo, Sam Drucker, and a rare Hooterville visit by Miss Hathaway and Mr. Drysdale (Raymond Bailey).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.016480445861816, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies received poor reviews from some contemporary critics. The New York Times called the show \"strained and unfunny\"; Variety called it \"painful to sit through\". Film professor Janet Staiger writes that \"the problem for these reviewers was that the show confronted the cultural elite's notions of quality entertainment.\" The show did receive a somewhat favorable review from noted critic Gilbert Seldes in the December 15, 1962 TV Guide: \"The whole notion on which The Beverly Hillbillies is founded is an encouragement to ignorance... But it is funny. What can I do?\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.144998550415039, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Jethro Bodine", "passage": "In 1981, a Return of the Beverly Hillbillies television movie, written and produced by series creator Henning, was aired on the CBS network. Irene Ryan had died in 1973, and Raymond Bailey had died in 1980. The script acknowledged Granny's passing, but featured Imogene Coca as Granny's mother. Max Baer decided against reprising the role that both started and stymied his career, so the character of Jethro Bodine was given to another actor, Ray Young.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.861121416091919, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "In 1993, Ebsen, Douglas, and Baer reunited onscreen for the only time in the CBS-TV retrospective television special, The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies, which ranked as the fourth-most watched television program of the week—a major surprise given the mediocre rating for the 1981 TV movie. It was a rare tribute from the \"Tiffany network\", which owed much of its success in the 1960s to the series, but has often seemed embarrassed by it in hindsight, often down-playing the show in retrospective television specials on the network's history and rarely inviting cast members to participate in such all-star broadcasts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.645367622375488, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies is still televised daily around the world in syndication. In the United States, the show is broadcast currently on MeTV, Retro TV, MyFamily TV, and was previously on Nick at Nite, The Hallmark Channel, and WGN America. A limited number of episodes from the earlier portions of the series run have turned up in the public domain and as such are seen occasionally on many smaller networks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.3416647911071777, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "MeTV Network airs The Beverly Hillbillies weekdays at 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. ET. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.908149003982544, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The show is distributed by CBS Television Distribution, the syndication arm of CBS Television Studios and the CBS network. It was previously distributed by CBS Films, Viacom Enterprises, Paramount Domestic Television, and CBS Paramount Domestic Television (all through corporate changes involving TV distribution rights to the early CBS library). The repeats of the show that debuted on CBS Daytime on September 5–9, 1966, as \"Mornin' Beverly Hillbillies\" through September 10, 1971 and on September 13–17, 1971 as \"The Beverly Hillbillies\" lasted up to winter 1971–72. It aired at 11:00–11:30 am Eastern/10:00-10:30 am Central through September 3, 1971, then moved to 10:30–11:00 am Eastern/9:30–10:00 am Central for the last season on CBS Daytime.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.678921222686768, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Based on The Beverly Hillbillies movie, a PC computer adventure game for operating system MS-DOS was developed by Synergistic Software, Inc. and published in 1993 by Capstone Software.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.5803327560424805, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 8, Episode 13: The Hero - TV.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.372610569000244, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 8, Episode 13: The Hero ..." }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Drysdale's nephew Lance Bradford comes to Beverly Hills to start his job at the bank, as Vice President. But with all the celebration for Mrs. Drysdale's hero, Jethro thinks it is for him since he saved her dog from getting his hair cut. When Lance gives his hero speech, Jethro pulls up and accidentally hits his car, knocking him unconscious. This causes Lance to meet the Clampetts, and he begins taking an interest in Elly May. But Mrs. Drysdale doesn't trust them, and tells Lance to stay away because they are setting a trap. Mrs. Drysdale calls Elly a vixen and a peasant, and Granny shoves her in the cement pond. Mrs. Drysdale asks Lance for help, but he can't offer any because he can't swim.moreless", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.97870397567749, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 8, Episode 13: The Hero ..." }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies is one of the funniest and most inspired TV comedies of all time! 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TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Mrs. Drysdale hires a pair of fortunetellers to frighten the Clampetts out of Beverly Hills with dire prophecies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.383398056030273, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The mayor of Bug Tussle visits the Clampetts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.416389465332031, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Clampetts broaden their Beverly Hills experience by working as temporary Christmas help in a department store.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.985153198242188, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Sonny pays a return visit to Beverly Hills, rekindling the Clampetts' hopes of a marriage for Elly.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.16930103302002, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Mrs. Drysdale's father, a wily Bostonian short of cash, finds it's not too easy to part the Clampetts from their gold.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.217820167541504, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Clampetts Play the Rams", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.438372611999512, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "In order to keep the Clampetts in Beverly Hills, Mr. Drysdale tries to arrange a Possum Day Festival.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.526138305664062, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "Admiral Jed Clampett", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.2469482421875, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Clampetts force their well-intentioned but crude hospitality upon oil man John Brewster and his cultured bride.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.240449905395508, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Clampetts Versus Automation", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.444320678710938, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "When a computer replaces one of Drysdale's bookkeepers, the displaced worker finds real friends in the Clampetts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.464900970458984, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - TV Show, Episode Guide & Schedule" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Jethro brings home a friend, Armstrong Dueser McHugh III, who is coddled by a chauffeur who treats him as frail. The Clampetts know better, and show him a good time, friendship and family.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.113658905029297, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Mr. Drysdale wants Jed to incorporate for the tax advantages. So the Clampetts take over the top floor of the Commerce Bank and start doing what they can to stimulate the economy by getting more ...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.72351360321045, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Fun fills swanky Beverly Hills as the Clampetts take the polish off the city slickers. In color. (season five) See more  »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.445649147033691, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elly May Clampett", "passage": "As well as serving as animal trainer, Frank Inn actually provided the animals used on the show as Elly May Clampett's \"critters\". See more »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.33620834350586, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "During the Closing Credits of season one's Thanksgiving episode, immediate link: The Beverly Hillbillies: Elly's First Date , a grounds keeper is clearly and easily visible, walking towards a filming camera on the right side. He is carrying a rake and wearing a white armless (tank-top) shirt. He abruptly changes his path and looks deeply shocked, when he realized he was accidentally being filmed, apparently. He then immediately ran off the film of the camera screen, to the right of the film screen. See more »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.064490795135498, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "Jed Clampett : [Disgusted] Jethro, some day me and you got to have a long talk.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.0291748046875, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Clampetts are of course...something else...as they enter this alien world, where their mansion has every luxury imaginable including a cement pond. The superstitious & feisty Granny makes certain her kin always have lots of vittles, especially such delicacies as hog jowls and possum belly. She hangs out her shingle for the purpose of imparting her unique brand of down home doctoring & dentistry, and firmly believes that the South won (or at least is winning) the Civil War. Much of her time is spent chasing her great nephew, Jethro, out of her kitchen with a broom, trying to curtail his endless appetite. The dim witted Jethro is a scheming would be playboy, who's all proud that he graduated sixth grade and can cipher. Jed's sweet, innocent, & beautiful daughter, Elly May, has a penchant for critters, including a pet chimpanzee named Bessie. Granny is terrified that Elly's destined to become an old maid, as alas, she's still unwed at the ripe old age of eighteen. Much of Granny's energy is put into seeking out suitable beaux, although any courtin' & sparkin' in the Clampett parlour must be suitably chaperoned (or rather, cheered on) by spying through the closed door's keyhole.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.667402267456055, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "The gem of the series is Jed, around whose unfailing integrity this ongoing saga revolves. He always seems blissfully unaware that he's wealthy, feels and acts no differently than he did back in the hills, and treats everyone the same (whether rich or poor). He gives generously to country folk and city slickers alike, is equally kind to both neighbours and total strangers...all the while dealing with the crazy antics of both Granny and Jethro and seeing to the lovely & rich Elly's various suitors, not all of whom have the most honourable of intentions. As another commented, if only everyone was like Jed Clampett!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.362024784088135, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "It's a hilarious and side splitting romp, each episode funnier than the last. Through it all, Jed's integrity and honesty always shine through. The humble and good hearted neighbourliness of the Clampetts stands in sharp contrast to their affluent environment. It's Jed Clampett's desire for the simple pleasures of home, family, friends, and hard honest work versus Milburn Drysdale's blatant materialism. Every viewer realizes that, despite all the absurdity and the utterly ridiculous scenarios, the Clampetts know exactly what's important in life and that this family of uprooted hillbillies has a real life lesson to teach us all.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.595148086547852, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Best of the Beverly Hillbillies - Watch Full Episodes Free - United States - TV Shows - Viki", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.459254503250122, "source": "search", "title": "The Best of the Beverly Hillbillies - Watch Full Episodes ..." }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies | Beverly Hillbillies Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.048177242279053, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most watched television episodes of all time. [1]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.070249080657959, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Margaret Drysdale", "passage": "The supporting cast featured Raymond Bailey as Jed's greedy, unscrupulous banker Milburn Drysdale; Harriet E. MacGibbon as Drysdale's ostentatious wife Margaret Drysdale; and Nancy Kulp as \"Miss\" Jane Hathaway, Drysdale's scholarly, \"plain Jane\" secretary, who pined for the clueless Jethro.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.716278076171875, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "While Granny frequently mentioned that she was from Tennessee, the series never specified the state from which the Clampetts moved to California. However, they often referred to nearby towns such as Joplin, Branson, Springfield, Tulsa, Silver Dollar City, all of which are in or near southwest Missouri. In the eighth episode of season 8, named \"Manhattan Hillbillies,\" Granny tells the police officer in Central Park that her family comes from Taney County (which is in southwest Missouri). Early episodes also contained several references to Eureka Springs, which is in northwest Arkansas. All of the communities are in the Ozark Mountains. The show's creator was Hamilton (Buddy) Morgan, a television technician from NYC. Producer Paul Henning is from Independence, Missouri, and donated 1,534 acres (621 ha) for the Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area near Branson. [4]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.803420066833496, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Two episodes of Petticoat Junction feature characters from The Beverly Hillbillies: \"Granny, the Baby Expert\" featuring Granny, and \"A Cake from Granny\" featuring Granny and Miss Jane. Although none of the characters from The Beverly Hillbillies ever appeared on Green Acres, an episode of Green Acres was named after The Beverly Hillbillies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.8699769973754883, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "The show's theme song, \" The Ballad of Jed Clampett \", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs . The song was sung by Jerry Scoggins (backed by Flatt and Scruggs) over the opening and end credits of each episode. Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme (with Flatt singing) for Columbia Records; released as a single, it reached #44 on Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and #1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart (the lone country chart-topper for the duo). Flatt and Scruggs also had another Billboard country top ten hit with the comic \"Pearl, Pearl, Pearl\", an ode to the feminine charms of Miss Pearl Bodine who was featured in the episode \"Jed Throws a Wingding,\" the first of several Flatt and Scruggs appearances on the show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.948832511901855, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program. Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts (Boone is, in fact, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, although he spent most of his childhood in Tennessee).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.163294792175293, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Because of the show's high ratings, CBS asked creator Paul Henning to pen two more folksy comedies, spawning a mini-genre of rural sitcoms during the 1960s. Petticoat Junction featured an extended family, including three pretty young women of marrying age, running a small hotel in the isolated rural town of Hooterville. Green Acres flipped the Clampetts' fish-out-of-water concept by depicting two city sophisticates moving to Hooterville , which was populated by oddball country bumpkins.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.152084350585938, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Bea Benaderet, who had played Jethro's mother during the first season of The Beverly Hillbillies, was the mother of the family on Petticoat Junction.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.461965560913086, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Linda Kaye Henning , who provided the voiceover for the Beverly Hillbillies character Jethrine, portrayed Benaderet's daughter Betty Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction (the only female who remained all seven seasons).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.964022397994995, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Edgar Buchanan , who starred in all 222 episodes of Petticoat Junction and guest-starred in 17 episodes of Green Acres, also guested in three episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies, always as the character Uncle Joe Carson.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.034684658050537, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Sam Drucker, played by Frank Cady , of both Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, also appeared in several episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.129213809967041, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Despite the actor cross-overs and the character Uncle Joe Carson's multiple appearances (which made it clear that the three shows were set in the same fictional universe), the two Hooterville series retained identities that were distinct from The Beverly Hillbillies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.176138162612915, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Clampetts' truck (a 1921 Oldsmobile truck modified by George Barris) on display at Planet Hollywood in Downtown Disney. Another truck is at the College of the Ozarks. [7]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.173611640930176, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "In addition to The Beverly Hillbillies, the series that were eliminated included Green Acres , Mayberry R.F.D. , and Hee Haw , the last of which was resurrected in first-run syndication, where it ran for another twenty-one years. Petticoat Junction had been canceled a year earlier due to declining ratings following the death of its star, Bea Benaderet .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.493652820587158, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Daisy Moses", "passage": "Called \"Granny\" by all, relatives or not, shotgun-toting Daisy Moses, Jed's mother-in-law, is a true daughter of Dixie. Paul Henning, the show's creator/producer quickly disposed of the idea of Granny being Jed's mother, which would have changed the show's dynamics, making Granny the matriarch and Jed subordinate to her. Granny can be aggressive but is often over-ruled by Jed. She is a confederate to the core, defending President Jefferson Davis, the Stars and Bars, and the simple life. Short-fused and easily angered, Granny fancies herself a \"dunked\" (not \"sprinkled\") Christian with forgiveness in her heart. She abhors \"revenuers\" and blue-coat Yankees. A self-styled \"M.D.\" — \"mountain doctor\" — she claims to have an edge over expensive know-nothing city physicians. In lieu of anesthesia, Granny uses her \"white lightning\" brew before commencing on painful treatments such as leech bleeding and yanking teeth with pliers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.116023063659668, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Milburn Drysdale", "passage": "Short and scrappy, Granny often wields a double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun and fires it numerous times during the run of the show (in a first-season episode she chases Milburn Drysale with it when she found out his family had a feud with her family back in the hills). She fires it once at the front lawn when Jed is witching for water and several times on the skeet shooting range. During the mock Indian invasion she believed she was shooting live shells, though Milburn Drysdale had removed the buckshot to protect the actors portraying the Indians. She fires rock salt and bacon rind at a crow during the \"Happy Valley\" episode, and again at the back of an armored truck in which Milburn Drysdale was taking refuge in. She fires at (and hits in the posterior) Milburn Drysdale with rocksalt believing he is the ghost of \"Lady Clemintine\" ending their second visit to \"Clampett Castle\" in Kent, England.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.350371360778809, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "She is also able to tell the precise time via a sun dial and the weather via a beetle (Granny Versus the Weather Bureau). Without her glasses, Granny is extremely nearsighted — once in a crossover with the Petticoat Junction show, Granny mistakes a dog for a baby child and a coffee pot for a telephone. Two of Granny's phobias are \"Injuns\" (she actually buys wigs so the Clampetts won't be \"scalped\") and the \"cement pond\" (swimming pool–she has a fear of water). In a long story arc in the show's ninth season, Elly May dates a U.S. Navy frogman, which confuses Granny: After seeing the frogman climb out of the pool in his skin-diving wear, she thinks that anyone who swims in the pool will be turned into a frog. She also has a peculiar way of retelling the War Between The States, in which she thinks the South has won and Jefferson Davis is the president, while calling Sherman's March \"Sherman's Retreat to the Sea\". Any attempts to correct her meet with failure. She is also known for slicing off switches to use on Jethro, mainly whenever he goes too far with his dumb and idiotic schemes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.994779586791992, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Elly May Clampett", "passage": "Elly May Clampett", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.4409818649292, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Dash Riprock", "passage": "Elly May, Jed's only child, is a mountain beauty with the body of a pinup girl and the soul of a tomboy. She can throw a fastball as well as \"rassle\" most men to a fall, and she can be as tender with her friends, animals, and family as she is tough with anyone she rassles. She said once that animals could be better companions than people, but as she grew older she saw that, \"fellas kin be more fun than critters.\" Elly is squired about by eager young Hollywood actors with stage names like \"Dash Riprock\" and \"Bolt Upright.\" Other boyfriends for Elly include Sonny Drysdale, Beau Short, beatnik Sheldon Epps, and Mark Templeton, a frogman.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.9609694480896, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "In the 1981 TV movie of The Beverly Hillbillies, Elly May is head of a zoo. Elly May appears in all 274 episodes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6489311456680298, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Jethro Bodine", "passage": "Jethro Bodine", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.440645217895508, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Pearl Bodine", "passage": "Jethro (though he addresses Jed as his uncle) is the son of Jed's cousin, Pearl Bodine. He drove the Clampett family to their new home in California and stayed on with them to further his education. The whole family boasts of Jethro's \"sixth grade education\" but nevertheless feels he is a bit of an idiot. Jethro is simply naive in the first season of the show but becomes incredibly ignorant and pompous as the series progresses. He often shows off his cyphering abilities with multiplication and \"go-zin-ta's,\" as in \"five gozinta five one times, five gozinta ten two times,\" etc. The tallest student in his class in the town of Oxford (so named because \"that's where the oxen used to ford the creek\") because of his age, he is often impressing others that he graduated \"top of his class at Oxford.\" In Beverly Hills, he decides to go to college. He manages to enroll late in the semester at a local secretarial school due to his financial backing and earns his diploma by the end of the day because he didn't understand what was going on in class and was too disruptive. (This was an ironic in-joke—in real life Max Baer Jr, has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University(Also Minored in Philosophy)).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.770566463470459, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Milburn Drysdale", "passage": "Many stories in the series involve Jethro's endless career search, which include such diverse vocations as a millwright, a brain surgeon, street car conductor, double-naught spy, Hollywood producer (a studio flunky remarks Jethro has the right qualifications for being a producer-a 6th grade education and his uncle owns the studio. The in-joke gag of Jethro as a movie producer was replayed in the 1981 movie), soda jerk, short order cook, and once as a bookkeeper for Milburn Drysdale's bank. More often than not, his overall goal in these endeavors is to obtain as many pretty girls as humanly possible. Out of all the Clampett clan, he is the one who makes the most change from 'country bumpkin' to 'city boy.' Another running gag is that Jethro is known as the \"six foot stomach\" for his ability to eat: in one episode he eats a jetliner's entire supply of steaks; in another episode Jethro tries to set himself up as a Hollywood agent for cousin \"Bessie\"-with a fee of 10,000 bananas for Bessie and 1,000 bananas for Jethro. At one time Jed mentions that Jethro was the only baby he knew born with a full set of teeth \"just like a beaver.\" Jethro appears in 272 episodes; he is not in the third- or second-to-last episodes but Baer of course remains billed in the title credits. Baer claimed he only auditioned for the role of Jethro for fun and never expected to get the part. Supposedly, he clinched the part largely because of his grin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.806999206542969, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Clampetts' family dog. He's an old bloodhound that Jed had bought for four bits (50 cents) when he was a puppy. In early episodes, Jethro tries to teach Duke to fetch sticks, though to Jed it looks as if Duke is teaching Jethro how to do the trick. In a couple of episodes, Duke gets involved with a French poodle that was brought in to mate with Mrs. Drysdale's pampered pooch Claude. Apparently, the poodle has better taste and has Duke's puppies instead. When Mrs. Drysdale wants Claude to get revenge against Duke, Jed warns her that he's seen that old hound dog hold his own against a bobcat.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.432262420654297, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Milburn, Margaret, and Sonny: The Drysdales are the Clampetts' next door neighbors. Milburn is the Commerce Bank's tightwad president and the friendly bumpkins' confidant. The haughty Mrs. Drysdale touts a heritage that traces back to the Mayflower, but money-hungry Milburn's concerns are strictly monetary. When suffering an anxiety attack, Milburn sniffs a stack of money and is quickly revived. Mr. Drysdale appeases the Clampetts and says that anything they do is unquestionably right. He often forces others, especially his secretary, to placate the Clampetts' by granting their unorthodox requests. Although wife Margaret, a blue-blooded Bostonian, has obvious disdain for the \"peasant\" hillbillies, she tacitly agrees to tolerate them (rather than Milburn lose their ever growing account—which is $96,000,000 in 1969, equal to $608,406,534 today). Margaret loathes all four \"vagabonds,\" but her most heated rivalry is with Granny, with whom she occasionally has some \"scraps.\" Raymond Bailey appears in 247 episodes. Harriet E. MacGibbon appears in 55 episodes between 1962 and 1969, she is not seen in the last two seasons of the show although is occasionally mentioned. Margaret's aged father has gambled away most of their money. Mrs. Drysdale's son—and Milburn's Stepson—is Sonny (played by Louis Nye ), who is a forty-something collegian who doesn't believe in working up a sweat and is an insufferable mama's boy. Finding Elly May a lovely, naive Pollyanna, he courts her until she literally tosses him. Although the character is fondly remembered by fans, Sonny only appears in four episodes, three in 1962 and a final appearance in 1966.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.19936752319336, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "Nancy Kulp (center) as The Beverly Hillbillies' Jane Hathaway", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.548888921737671, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Jane Hathaway, whom the Clampetts addressed as \"Miss Jane,\" is Drysdale's loyal and efficient secretarial assistant. Though she always carried out his wishes, she was inherently decent and was frequently put off by her boss' greed. When she was annoyed with him, as was often especially when one of Drysdale's schemes went too far, she would usually and forcefully say \"Chief!\" Jane was genuinely fond of the family (to the Clampetts, she was considered family; even Granny, the one most dead-set against living in California, liked her very much and thought of her as part of the family), in fact, she actually harbored something of a crush on Jethro for most of the series' run. At first, she mistook the Clampetts as the servants, until she realized who they really were (which almost cost her her job). Miss Hathaway frequently has to \"rescue\" Drysdale from his idiotic schemes, receiving little or no thanks for her efforts. In one episode, she and Granny, disguised as \"geisha girls,\" finally have enough and \"crown\" Drysdale and Jethro, who have made one too many comments about women serving men. Jane is loyal to Drysdale as well, despite her misgivings toward his avarice and greed. In one episode, the Clampetts, feeling money has corrupted them, give all of their money to Virginia \"Ginny\" Jennings ( Sheila Kuehl ), a college student. While Drysdale moans the loss of the money, Jane immediately tells him to stop thinking about the Clampetts and start trying to get the Jennings account. Eventually, everyone discovered Jennings' real motives, and she was gone, with the Clampetts getting their money back, and things were as they were before. In one episode, it is established that Miss Jane sacrificed her job as the top secretary of the top executive of the top insurance company to join Mr. Drysdale at the Commerce Bank. Miss Jane was a Vassar graduate. Jane Hathaway appears in 246 episodes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.981453895568848, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Jed Clampett", "passage": "Country music stars Flatt and Scruggs (who play themselves in seven episodes, 1963–68), are longtime friends of the Clampetts \"back home\" (Kimberling City, Missouri) who visit with the Clampetts when they are on tour in California. The duo had a number-one Billboard country single with the show's \"The Ballad of Jed Clampett\" (although the song is actually performed in the credits by Jerry Scoggins to Flatt and Scruggs' instrumental). Actress Joi Lansing played Flatt's wife, Gladys, in five episodes, 1963–68.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.610213279724121, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Brewster (played by Frank Wilcox ), is the President & CEO of the OK Oil company headquartered in Tulsa who purchases the oil rights to the gusher on the Clampett home back in the hills. The Clampetts are quite fond of him, and his wife occasionally visits them in California. John Brewster appears in 14 episodes, 1962–1966.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.616823196411133, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Shorty (played by Shug Fisher ) is Jed's longtime buddy from back home whom Jed reunites with in 1969 when the Clampetts go back for an extended period to the Hills. Shorty is a wiry little man who is crazy about voluptuous girls half his age. Shorty later moves into the Clampett mansion in Beverly Hills for a period. Shorty Kellums appears in 17 episodes in the 1969–70 season, and returned again briefly during 1970–71.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.3944859504699707, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Elverna is Granny's longtime rival back in the Hills, a gossip second to none. She makes a brief appearance in a 1963 episode when the Clampetts go back to the Hills to fetch Pearl to California but is not seen again until 1969 when the Clampetts return to their native land for an extended visit. However, both Granny and Jed referred to the character in several episodes throughout the series' run. Elverna (played by Elvia Allman ) and Granny rekindle their feud in a match to see who will be first wed, Elverna's daughter or Elly May. For reasons not really explained, Elverna also moves into the Clampett Beverly Hills mansion during the same period that Shorty does; both of them, however, are gone from the estate for the final 1970–71 season, presumably having returned home. Elverna Bradshaw appears in 13 episodes, 1963–1970.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.421704292297363, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Templetons are two brothers both played by actor Roger Torrey , who originally auditioned (unsuccessfully) for the part of Jethro. Matthew is seen in three episodes in October 1969 during the Clampetts' stay in the Hills where Granny tags the preacherman as a prospective husband for Elly. Unfortunately, Granny learns that Matthew is married. Just a year later back in California, Elly meets Matthew's brother, Mark Templeton, who is a marine biologist, a frogman whom Granny believes is actually part frog. The Mark Templeton storyline played out for nine episodes and was abruptly dropped although advance publicity for the show indicated Elly May and Mark would be marrying during the season; however, the show was cancelled at the end of that season as part of the CBS Rural Purge .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.45405387878418, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Most episodes revolved around the clash between the \"uncivilized\" hillbilly culture represented by the Clampetts and the \"civilized\" American culture of the Drysdales. The Clampetts lived as they always had, even in their large, elegant mansion, never abandoning their mountain attire or replacing the old rattletrap truck in which they had moved to California. Although when asked what kind of truck it is, Jethro said 'I think it's a Stutz', it is actually based on a 1921 Oldsmobile. All the Hillbillies were handy with firearms and always seemed to have their weapons close at hand and ready to draw. They continued to grow their own food, and Granny made lye soap and moonshine. The extreme potency of the moonshine liquor and the harshness of the lye soap were running gags throughout the run of the series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.789338111877441, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "As another running joke, the movie theaters back in the hills were still showing films from the silent movie era and the Hillbillies were unaware of talking pictures or more contemporary movie stars. Granny's favorite actor was Hoot Gibson, but she also had an intense crush on William S. Hart, and the whole Clampett family adored Mary Pickford. Silent movie legend Gloria Swanson made a memorable guest appearance on the show as herself in an episode that featured a comic parody of a silent melodrama. The Clampetts did, however, have a television, on which they watched soap operas and \"rasslin'\", as well as John Wayne movies, as he was apparently one of the few \"talkie\" movie stars of whom they were aware. Wayne made a brief cameo as himself after the Clampett mansion was \"attacked\" by stuntmen dressed as Native Americans.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.369218826293945, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Should Granny or one of her kin feel lonely for the hills, banker Drysdale would bend over backwards to placate the offended subject. Drysdale went so far as to re-create the log cabin the Clampetts had lived in and place it right next to the \"cee-ment pond\" and the still Granny had installed to make moonshine. Another time Drysdale followed the Clampetts to the \"Hills\" and bought up the Silver Dollar City \"bank\" just to make sure he had a controlling interest in the Clampetts' money. One running gag was that when Jed would take money out of his pocket, Drysdale's blood pressure would go up. A similar running joke was that when it seemed the Clampetts would take their money out of his bank, Drysdale's face would turn green. A variation of the joke of Drysdale's face changing color is in one episode when, after being given some of Granny's \"Tennessee Tranquilizer\" (moonshine), Drysdale's face turns red.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.538683891296387, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Dash Riprock", "passage": "Another frequent source of humor dealt with Jethro's endless career search, which included such diverse vocations as soda jerk, brain surgeon, Hollywood celebrity, and secret \"double naught\" agent/spy. Jethro coveted movie star fame and relished becoming a \"playboy\" like Elly's beau Dash Riprock. Jethro's stupidity usually caused such career attempts to fail spectacularly, as when he decided to open a \"topless\" restaurant (\"The Happy Gizzard\"), where the waiters and waitresses were hatless. The one time in the series when Jethro almost succeeded as a \"Hollywood celebrity\" was when \"Cousin Roy\" ( Roy Clark ) tried to get Jethro to back him up as a country singer in Hollywood; Jethro refused and failed as usual. Jethro did have one success, of sorts. When he rescued a Bird Watchers girl troop who fell into the \"cement pond\" (they were attacked by ants), Jethro got a \"lifesaving badge\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.595151901245117, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "Misunderstandings were a general source of humor in the program: when the Clampetts did not understand something they had never encountered before (such as a water faucet), or when various city dwellers could not comprehend something the Clampetts were talking about. A group of businessmen overheard Jed talking about \"crawdads\" and concluded that he was discussing a new type of military vehicle, which they wanted to invest in. Conversely, when Jed muses to Mr. Brewster about whether he can afford to move to Beverly Hills, Brewster responds with, \"Why, Mr. Clampett, with your money, you could afford the Taj Mahal,\" to which Jed rejoins, \"I'll take it!\" When Brewster insists he was making a joke; Jed allows that he can go right ahead. Brewster: \"Well, that was the joke.\" Jed: \"Mr. Brewster, you're an awfully nice feller, but I've heard a sight better jokes than that!\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.590552806854248, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "The Clampetts went back to the hills for Christmas during the first season but did not return there until the eighth season, during which several episodes were filmed on location in Kimberling City, Missouri. During this period, Shug Fisher and Elvia Allman joined the cast as Shorty and Elverna (Allman had appeared on an episode in the first season playing the same character).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.105513572692871, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Clampetts", "passage": "One constant throughout the series was that the Hillbillies, who were scrupulously honest, were surrounded by cynical, conniving and money-hungry \"city-folk,\" whose plans were always foiled (usually unknowingly) by the Clampetts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.41551399230957, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The 1960s saw a plethora of tie-in merchandise hit store shelves, particularly toys. Several different coloring books and jigsaw puzzles were released, as was a fairly long-running comic book. There were even Hillbillies Halloween costumes. A Beverly Hillbillies lunchbox is among the most valuable pieces of memorabilia from the era.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.901793003082275, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies made the cover of TV Guide nine times between 1962 and 1970. Donna Douglas is the only cast member pictured on every cover. Donna Douglas was also one of the most publicized actresses of the era, making the covers of many movie magazines.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.417603492736816, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "In 1993, a 110-card set of Beverly Hillbillies trading cards was released by Eclipse Comics. Although timed to coincide with the release of the 1993 Beverly Hillbillies film, these cards featured photos from the original television series, with storylines and character details on the back. An earlier card series from 1963 is highly sought by collectors and is among the most expensive non-sports cards sets.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.602193832397461, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Jethro Bodine", "passage": "In 1981, a Return of the Beverly Hillbillies television movie, written and produced by series creator Paul Henning , was aired on the CBS network. Irene Ryan had died in 1973, and Raymond Bailey had died in 1980. The script acknowledged Granny's passing but featured Imogene Coca as Granny's mother. Max Baer decided against reprising the role that both started and stymied his career, so the character of Jethro Bodine was given to another actor, Ray Young.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.192368507385254, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "In 1993, Ebsen, Douglas, and Baer reunited onscreen for the only time in the CBS-TV retrospective television special, The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies which ranked as the 4th most watched television program of the week – a major surprise given the mediocre rating for the 1981 TV-movie. It was a rare tribute from the \"Tiffany network\" which owed much of its success in the 1960s to the series but has often seemed embarrassed by it in hindsight, often down-playing the show in retrospective television specials on the network's history and rarely inviting cast members to participate in such all-star broadcasts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.432046890258789, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies is still televised daily around the world in syndication. In the United States, the show is broadcast on TV Land and MeTV and was previously on WGN America. [13] A limited number of episodes from the earlier portions of the series run have turned up in the public domain and as such are seen occasionally on many smaller networks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.112666606903076, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Beverly Hillbillies", "passage": "The show is distributed by CBS Television Distribution, the syndication arm of CBS Television Studios. The repeats of the show that debuted on CBS Daytime on September 5–9, 1966 as \"Mornin' Beverly Hillbillies\" through September 10, 1971 and on September 13–17, 1971 as \"The Beverly HILLBILLIES\" lasted up to Winter 1971–1972. It aired at 11:00–11:30am Eastern/10:00-10:30am Central through September 3, 1971, then moved to 10:30–11:00am Eastern/9:30-10:00am Central for the last season on CBS Daytime.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.305610179901123, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" } ]

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The characters are more conventionally odd, the wife stereotypically talkative and dim, the Sam Drucker character of Sam Drucker is the absent-minded and befuddled feed store owner Mr. Kimball while hired hand Eb (Parley Baer, who guest-starred in several episodes of the television series) is elderly and stoic about incompetent management.", "precise_score": 4.225920677185059, "rough_score": 7.909106731414795, "source": "wiki", "title": "Green Acres" }, { "answer": "Granby's Green Acres", "passage": "Based upon a 1950s radio show called GRANBY'S GREEN ACRES, which featured Gale Gordon (HERE'S LUCY) and Bea Benadaret (PETTICOAT JUNCTION), this 1965 television situation comedy debuted as a spin-off of PETTICOAT JUNCTION (which in turn had spun off ...", "precise_score": 6.398782730102539, "rough_score": 8.032917976379395, "source": "search", "title": "Green Acres - The Complete Third Season (DVD, 2013, 4-Disc ..." }, { "answer": "Granby's Green Acres", "passage": "Old Time Radio's \"Granby's Green Acres\" was created for 1950s Radio by Jay Somers. The radio comedy starred actors Gale Gordon (Mr Mooney of \"The Lucy Show) & Bea Benaderet (Kate of \"Petticoat Junction\" as well as Mrs. Bodine of The Beverly Hillbillies).", "precise_score": 6.815123081207275, "rough_score": 7.974853992462158, "source": "search", "title": "Granby's Green Acres 06 Eps : Free Download & Streaming ..." }, { "answer": "Granby's Green Acres", "passage": "Following the success of The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, CBS offered producer Paul Henning another half-hour on the schedule—with no pilot required (which was very unusual). Henning encouraged colleague Jay Sommers to create a series for the time slot. Sommers created the show based on his 1950 radio series, Granby's Green Acres. The radio series, which lasted 13 episodes, had starred Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as a big-city family who moved to the country.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.632627010345459, "source": "wiki", "title": "Green Acres" }, { "answer": "Granby's Green Acres", "passage": "Granby's Green Acres", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.553334355354309, "source": "wiki", "title": "Green Acres" }, { "answer": "Granby's Green Acres", "passage": "*See main article, Granby's Green Acres.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6807891130447388, "source": "wiki", "title": "Green Acres" }, { "answer": "Granby's Green Acres", "passage": "Based upon a 1950s radio show called GRANBY'S GREEN ACRES, which featured Gale Gordon (HERE'S LUCY) and Bea Benadaret (PETTICOAT JUNCTION), this 1965 television situation comedy debuted as a spin-off of PETTICOAT JUNCTION (which in turn had spun off from THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES), with a different cast. New York lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) uproots his glamorous city-loving wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) to move to a ramshackle farm near Hooterville, a breeding ground for lunatic country c...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.7885661125183105, "source": "search", "title": "Green Acres - The Complete Third Season (DVD, 2013, 4-Disc ..." }, { "answer": "Granby's Green Acres", "passage": "Based upon a 1950s radio show called GRANBY'S GREEN ACRES, which featured Gale Gordon (HERE'S LUCY) and Bea Benadaret (PETTICOAT JUNCTION), this 1965 television situation comedy debuted as a spin-off of PETTICOAT JUNCTION (which in turn had spun off from THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES), with a different cast. New York lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) uproots his glamorous city-loving wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) to move to a ramshackle farm near Hooterville, a breeding ground for lunatic country characters: con man Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram), dimwitted helper Eb (Tom Lester), storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady), idiot county agent Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore), and Fred Ziffel and his treasured pig named Arnold, among many others. Everything Douglas touches on his farm immediately falls to pieces, and the colorful denizens of Hooterville remain more of a hindrance than a help. 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Parley Baer, Louise Erickson, Jay Sommers (writer, director), Jack Harvey (writer), Opie Cates (composer, conductor), Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Bob Lemond (announcer). 29:46. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.   10364. Granby's Green Acres. July 17, 1950. CBS net. \"Mr. Granby Discovers Electricity\". Sustaining. Granby decides an electric milker is needed for his farm. The announcer (possibly Johnny Jacobs) almost gives the wrong system cue. Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Parley Baer, Louise Erickson, Horace Murphy, Herb Vigran, Jay Summers (writer, director), Jack Harvey (writer), Dave Swift (writer), Opie Cates (composer, conductor), Johnny Jacobs (announcer ?). 29:48. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.   10365. Granby's Green Acres. July 24, 1950. CBS net. \"Mr. Granby Fights The Love Bug\". Sustaining. Granby's corn is doing poorly, but he won't listen to the county agent's advice. Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Parley Baer, Opie Cates (composer, conductor), Louise Erickson, Horace Murphy, Rye Billsbury, Jay Summers (writer, director), Jack Harvey (writer), Dave Swift (writer), Johnny Jacobs (announcer). 29:33. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.   10366. Granby's Green Acres. July 31, 1950. CBS net. \"Mr. Granby Lays An Egg\". Sustaining. The farm need chickens, so Granby buys two hundred of them, all roosters! Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Parley Baer, Louise Erickson, Horace Murphy, Rye Billsbury, Jay Sommers (writer, director), Jack Harvey (writer), Dave Swift (writer), Opie Cates (composer, conductor), Johnny Jacobs (announcer). 29:43. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.   66305. Granby's Green Acres. August 21, 1950. CBS net. \"Mr. Granby Breaks Down\". Sustaining. Granby becomes very sensitive to noise. The sequence makes excellent use of sound effects. The last show of the series. Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Louise Erickson, Rye Billsbury, Opie Cates (composer, conductor), Parley Baer, Hans Conried, Horace Murphy, Gail Bonney, Billy Gould (sound effects), Jay Sommers (writer, director), Jack Harvey (writer), Bob Shoe (assistant director), Ray Ehrlenborn (sound effects), Pat Walsh (engineer), Bob Lemond (announcer). 29:48. Audio condition: Excellent. 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[ { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "On May 19, 1992, Quayle gave a speech entitled Reflections on Urban America to the Commonwealth Club of California on the subject of the Los Angeles riots. In this speech, Quayle blamed the violence on a decay of moral values and family structure in American society. In an aside, he cited the single mother title character in the television program Murphy Brown as an example of how popular culture contributes to this \"poverty of values\", saying, \"It doesn't help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown – a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman – mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice'.\" ", "precise_score": 3.96830153465271, "rough_score": 2.2608120441436768, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dan Quayle" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "As stated above, The '90s was the era in which the Moral Guardians were always in a tizzy. While it was brewing in the '80s and early '90s ( Dan Quayle 's complaints about Murphy Brown , the moral panics over heavy metal and Satanic cults ), the presence of conservative Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush meant that the Christian Right felt itself to have a friend in the White House (regardless of how Reagan and Bush felt), and never felt truly pressured. However, the rise of Bill Clinton (the sax-playing, MTV-loving horndog who \" smoked but didn't inhale \") in 1992 and the high profile of his wife Hillary (who, during the election, gave off the image of a textbook Straw Feminist thanks to her snarky quotes about baking cookies and \"standing by my man like Tammy Wynette\") set off many religious conservatives. The first real shot was fired by Patrick Buchanan in his infamous \"culture war\"", "precise_score": -0.7738885283470154, "rough_score": 1.4161269664764404, "source": "search", "title": "The '90s / Useful Notes - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "Four of these books bring us into the firing line of the current cultural war over the family. They represent part of the output of the Institute for American Values, the think tank responsible for the sudden shift in the national debate on the family since 1992. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, author of The Divorce Culture, wrote the op-ed on Murphy Brown that inspired the remark in Dan Quayle's speech; she was also the author of the 1993 cover article in the Atlantic Monthly declaring that \"Dan Quayle Was Right.\"", "precise_score": -4.06513786315918, "rough_score": -3.4311375617980957, "source": "search", "title": "Family, Children, Marriage, Divorce - Arlindo Correia" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "Murphy Brown", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.409956932067871, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dan Quayle" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "The \"Murphy Brown speech\" became one of the most memorable incidents of the 1992 campaign. Long after the outcry had ended, the comment continued to have an effect on U.S. politics. Stephanie Coontz, a professor of family history and the author of several books and essays about the history of marriage, says that this brief remark by Quayle about Murphy Brown \"kicked off more than a decade of outcries against the 'collapse of the family. In 2002, Candice Bergen, the actress who played Brown, said \"I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.\" Others interpreted it differently; singer Tanya Tucker was widely quoted as saying \"Who the hell is Dan Quayle to come after single mothers?\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.4468536376953125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dan Quayle" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "The Murphy Brown controversy provides an illustration of the issues of centrality and control at the middle and upper-middle class level. 41 Murphy, a fictional television sitcom character who was obviously well-educated, professional and economically self-sufficient, decided to bear a child outside of marriage. Obviously, she was unlikely to become an AFDC recipient. Why did her decision become the subject of national attention and the focus of remarks by the Vice President of the United States?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.994979858398438, "source": "search", "title": "Family Values - Resources - More - Focus Areas - Markkula ..." }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "The answer seems clear. Murphy Brown's decision to have a child outside of marriage represented a threat to remove middle-class men from centrality and control in the family. Murphy Brown was essentially saying, \"I can support a child financially, and I can nurture a child without dependence on a man.\" She became a dangerous symbol because she posed the possibility that an attractive, affluent woman could choose to reject a powerful societal norm, decide to have a child without a man, and suffer no apparent adverse consequences.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.058834075927734, "source": "search", "title": "Family Values - Resources - More - Focus Areas - Markkula ..." }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "Clearly the Dan Quayle-Murphy Brown flap suggests that at least for some people, the term \"family values\" is a euphemism for the two-parent family. 45 This view may be combined with a belief that children are more likely to learn certain values such as honesty and good citizenship in that context. The notion that the two-parent family is a prerequisite to passing on good values, as well as the assumption that there is a consensus with respect to which values are important, was a central focus in the 1992 Republican Party Platform. Recent research, however, casts doubt on whether most Americans agree with this formulation. In a recent survey, only two percent of the women and one percent of the men questioned defined family values as being about the traditional nuclear family. Five percent of the women and one percent of the men defined family values as being connected to religion or the Bible. Nine out of ten women defined family values as loving, taking care of and supporting each other, knowing right from wrong and having good values, and nine out of ten said that society should value all kinds of families. 46", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.064446449279785, "source": "search", "title": "Family Values - Resources - More - Focus Areas - Markkula ..." }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "In the past these issues have turned out to be too difficult and too politically risky for debate. In the mid-1960s Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant secretary of labor, was denounced as a racist for calling attention to the relationship between the prevalence of black single-mother families and the lower socioeconomic standing of black children. For nearly twenty years the policy and research communities backed away from the entire issue. In 1980 the Carter Administration convened a historic White House Conference on Families, designed to address the growing problems of children and families in America. The result was a prolonged, publicly subsidized quarrel over the definition of family. No President since has tried to hold a national family conference. Last year, at a time when the rate of out-of-wedlock births had reached a historic high, Vice President Dan Quayle was ridiculed for criticizing Murphy Brown. In short, every time the issue of family structure has been raised, the response has been first controversy, then retreat, and finally silence.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.527232646942139, "source": "search", "title": "Family, Children, Marriage, Divorce - Arlindo Correia" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "As this story shows, unwed parenthood is thought of not only as a way to find happiness but also as a way to exhibit such virtues as honesty and courage. A similar argument was offered in defense of Murphy Brown's unwed motherhood. Many of Murphy's fans were quick to point out that Murphy suffered over her decision to bear a child out of wedlock. Faced with an accidental pregnancy and a faithless lover, she agonized over her plight and, after much mental anguish, bravely decided to go ahead. In short, having a baby without a husband represented a higher level of maternal devotion and sacrifice than having a baby with a husband. Murphy was not just exercising her rights as a woman; she was exhibiting true moral heroism.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.796635627746582, "source": "search", "title": "Family, Children, Marriage, Divorce - Arlindo Correia" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "On the night Murphy Brown became an unwed mother, 34 million Americans tuned in, and CBS posted a 35 percent share of the audience. The show did not stir significant protest at the grass roots and lost none of its advertisers. The actress Candice Bergen subsequently appeared on", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.22557258605957, "source": "search", "title": "Family, Children, Marriage, Divorce - Arlindo Correia" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "the cover of nearly every women's and news magazine in the country and received an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an Emmy award. The show's creator, Diane English, popped up in Hanes stocking ads. Judged by conventional measures of approval, Murphy Brown's motherhood was a hit at the box office.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.008987426757812, "source": "search", "title": "Family, Children, Marriage, Divorce - Arlindo Correia" }, { "answer": "Murphy Brown", "passage": "In 1992, it looked as if the fuel finally had run out; voters were turned off by Dan Quayle's attack on Murphy Brown, Marilyn Quayle's attack on working women, and Pat Buchanan's call for a religious war for \"family values.\" In August 1993, columnist Christopher Matthews predicted that never again would the Republicans waste their resources on the \"fool's gold\" of cultural issues. Instead, they would follow the Clinton campaign mantra \"the economy, stupid.\" \"The GOP has done a political/moral gut check and decided that the most vital 'family value' is a daddy, mommy, or live-together bringing home the bacon.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.200409412384033, "source": "search", "title": "Family, Children, Marriage, Divorce - Arlindo Correia" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "   Starting as a recurring bit on The Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family centered on a lower class southern family with Vicki Lawrence playing Thelma \"Mama\" Harper the matriarch of the Harper clan. Part of what got Vicki Lawrence hired onto The Carol Burnett Show was how very much she looked like Carol Burnett. They looked like they could be sisters. In this skit though Carol Burnett played Mama's daughter Eunice.", "precise_score": 5.244795322418213, "rough_score": 7.09614372253418, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"The Carol Burnett Show\" and \"Mama's Family\"" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "In her nearly three-hour Archive interview, Vicki Lawrence discusses her early experience in a high school musical troupe called Young Americans. She explains how a letter she wrote to Carol Burnett (along with her striking resemblance to the star) wound up jump-starting her career. She outlines her first job, on The Carol Burnett Show, where she played \"Little Sis\" and was mentored by cast-mates Harvey Korman and Tim Conway. She details her spin-off show, Mama's Family, and the genesis of her character, \"Mama\", on \"The Family\" sketches on the Burnett show. She discusses being the first female game-show host on Win, Lose, or Draw, getting her own TV talk show, Vicki!, and chronicles her many guest-roles on The Love Boat, Laverne & Shirley, and Hannah Montana, among others. Stephen J. Abramson conducted the interview in Long Beach, CA on August 10, 2011.", "precise_score": 6.13620662689209, "rough_score": 7.319634914398193, "source": "search", "title": "Vicki Lawrence Interview | Archive of American Television" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "A versital actress, and talented talker, Vicki has hosted two talk shows Vicki (1992), (Daytime EMMY� nominated in 1993) as well as Fox After Breakfast (1996). While fans remember her best as Thelma 'Mama' Harper from \"The Family\" sketches on The Carol Burnett Show, as well as the spin-off series Mama's Family(1983) the theme song for which she wrote, Vicki has made dozens of guest appearances on other shows including Laverne & Shirley, Roseanne, 6 appearances on The Love Boat, and a recurring role as Natalie Warner on the hit CBS series Yes Dear.", "precise_score": 5.689439296722412, "rough_score": 7.288220405578613, "source": "search", "title": "Mama's Family Site: Vicki Lawrence Actress Page" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "One of the most beloved television personalities of her generation, Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress and singer Vicki Lawrence is best known for her co-starring role on \"The Carol Burnett Show,\" and as the sharp-tongued matriarch, Thelma Harper, on the long-running television hit \"Mama's Family,\" a spin-off from the popular \"The Family\" sketches from \"The Carol Burnett Show.\" She's bringing both to The Palace Theater in Waterbury on Saturday, April 18. Her new stage show is a little bit Vicki Lawrence and little bit Mama, with both offering music, comedy and some real-life observations. The 66-year-old Lawrence was home in Long Beach, Calif., soaking in the sun, wishing for a little rain, and really quite mellow compared to her well-known \"Mama\" persona as she spilled the Beans with Java.", "precise_score": 7.609213829040527, "rough_score": 8.688178062438965, "source": "search", "title": "Vicki Lawrence Bringing Her Fan-Favorite 'Mama' Character ..." }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "The popular variety show not only established Burnett as a television superstar, but it also made her regular supporting cast household names, with such sketches as \"As the Stomach Turns\", (a parody of As the World Turns) and \"Went with the Wind!\" (a spoof of Gone with the Wind), \"Carol & Sis\", \"Mrs. Wiggins\", \"The Family\" (which would lead to a made-for-TV movie titled Eunice, as well as a spin-off television series titled Mama's Family), \"Nora Desmond\" (Burnett's send-up of Gloria Swanson's character Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard), and \"Stella Toddler\". A frequent repeated segment was \"Kitchen Commercials\", in which cast members parodied TV commercials that drove a woman (Burnett) crazy. The long-running show was frequently nominated for Emmys for best variety series and won three times.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.942570209503174, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Carol Burnett Show" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "As a recurring guest star from the show's launch and later a regular cast member, Conway provided unrehearsed bits to sketches that became known to the staff as \"Conway's Capers\". Conway would play the first taping straight, but ad-lib bizarre scenarios during the second. Some notable clips included Conway as a Nazi interrogator berating an American captive (Lyle Waggoner). Using a Hitler puppet and a pencil as a \"club\", Conway sang three verses of \"I've Been Working on the Railroad\" as Waggoner tried in vain to ignore him. Some, like the Hitler puppet, made it into the final broadcast; others, like a notably convoluted story about Siamese elephants joined at the trunk (ad-libbed during a 1977 Mama's Family sketch), would be edited, the uncensored version only appearing years later on CBS specials. Conway's favorite victim was Harvey Korman, who would often break character reacting to Conway's zaniness, such as when Conway played a dentist misusing Novocain or the recurring role of \"The Oldest Man\" – an elderly, shuffling, senile man who slowly rolled down stairways and fell prey to various mechanical mishaps (including an electric wheelchair and an automated dry-cleaning rack).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.688283920288086, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Carol Burnett Show" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "The \"Family\" sketches led to a 1982 CBS made-for-television film called Eunice starring Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Betty White and Ken Berry. The success of this program spawned a spin-off sitcom entitled Mama's Family starring Vicki Lawrence and Ken Berry which ran from 1983 to 1990. It occasionally featured Burnett and Harvey Korman guest-starring as Eunice and Ed Higgins, respectively. In the first year and a half of the show's run, Korman also appeared as narrator Alastair Quince introducing each episode (a parody of Alastair Cooke hosting Masterpiece Theatre) and also directed 31 episodes of the series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.043448448181152, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Carol Burnett Show" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "Spin Off: \"The Carol Burnett Show\" and \"Mama's Family\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.086903095245361, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"The Carol Burnett Show\" and \"Mama's Family\"" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.0744214057922363, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"The Carol Burnett Show\" and \"Mama's Family\"" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "Mama's Family (1983-1990)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.271726608276367, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"The Carol Burnett Show\" and \"Mama's Family\"" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "   There are lots of examples of this kind of spin off: The Tracey Ullman Show and The Simpsons, The Jackie Gleason Show and The Honeymooners and, our topic, The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.170370578765869, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"The Carol Burnett Show\" and \"Mama's Family\"" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "   After two seasons, NBC dropped the show. It disappeared for a season before it then reappeared in first run syndication. Gone were all the real big big names - Burnett, Korman, White, McClanahan - everyone except for Vicki Lawrence and Ken Berry and the less famous members of the supporting cast. It stayed alive in syndication for four more seasons bringing joy, I guess, to...well dozens of people... maybe... and to bring a tear of suffering to my eye when I would accidentally catch a moment of it. Given the choice of watching Mama's Family or the stunningly bad Small Wonder - the story of a young robot girl raised as a real girl by a family almost half as lifelike as herself - I would have to choose the deadly poison. Sometimes TV ain't pretty folks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.1292030811309814, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"The Carol Burnett Show\" and \"Mama's Family\"" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "One of most enduring characters to come out of \"The Carol Burnett Show\" is Mama, the cranky senior citizen who is never satisfied with her ambitious, emotional daughter Eunice. Fans loved the sketch so much that it spawned a made-for-TV movie and the spinoff \"Mama's Family,\" a classic sitcom in its own right, but the character's genesis caused fireworks on the set of the legendary variety show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.7378950119018555, "source": "search", "title": "Vicki Lawrence Explains Why 'The Carol Burnett Show ..." }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "\"Well, 'Mama's Family' is sort of set in some kind of time warp... I've often said that I think she's kind of like Archie Bunker in that we all know him, we all have one in our family, none of us will ever fess up to being him, so none of us are offended by him. And I think Mama's a lot the same way. You don't have to think about it: there's nothing sexual, there's nothing dark, there's nothing cynical, there's no message, it's just silly, good laughing for no good reason.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.243012428283691, "source": "search", "title": "Vicki Lawrence Interview | Archive of American Television" }, { "answer": "Eunice Harper", "passage": "as Eunice Harper: [Carol is caught off guard and quickly turns away trying to compose herself and not fall out of character] That's a *new* one, Mama!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.113892555236816, "source": "search", "title": "The Carol Burnett Show (TV Series 1967–1978) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eunice Harper", "passage": "as Eunice Harper: [clasping her hands over her face to hide her laughter] Oh, no!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.114198684692383, "source": "search", "title": "The Carol Burnett Show (TV Series 1967–1978) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Mama's Family", "passage": "Mama's Family Site: Vicki Lawrence Actress Page", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.242103576660156, "source": "search", "title": "Mama's Family Site: Vicki Lawrence Actress Page" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Belisarius Productions", "passage": "Bellisario retired in 2007, after widely reported tension with star Mark Harmon ended with the former's departure from NCIS. Although he retains the title of executive producer, he has not had any creative or executive involvement with NCIS since then. Bellisario later sued CBS over the creation of NCIS: Los Angeles, arguing his contract with the network entitled him to the first rights to create any NCIS spin off, as well as some share of profits from the new show. The suit was settled before trial in 2011 for an undisclosed amount. Bellisario's production company was named \"Belisarius Productions\" after the Roman general Belisarius, of which \"Bellisario\" is an Italian-language variant.", "precise_score": -4.087619781494141, "rough_score": -6.8107123374938965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donald P. Bellisario" }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "'<mark>Donald Bellisario</mark> was creator and executive producer of JAG, NCIS, and other television series including Magnum PI, Airwolf, and Quantum Leap. A recent lawsuit 1 in Los Angeles brought against CBS by him and his personal services company illustrates'", "precise_score": 8.954337120056152, "rough_score": 9.884267807006836, "source": "search", "title": "Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News" }, { "answer": "Belisarius Productions", "passage": "His service alongside John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was the basis for Quantum Leap's fifth season's double-length episode \"Lee Harvey Oswald\" (originally aired September 22, 1992). The episode supports the theory that Oswald carried out the assassination on his own, something Bellisario believes.<br /><br /> He heads the Los Angeles-based production company Belisarius Productions. The company's name recalls the Roman general Belisarius, of whose name Bellisario's own family name is an Italian-language variant.<br /><br /> Bellisario was married to actress and producer Deborah Pratt, who starred in several of his shows. As of year he resides in Studio City, California with his fourth wife, Vivienne.<br /><br /> Bellisario has seven children. From his first marriage to Margaret (m. 1956–1975), he has four children, including daughters Joy Bellisario-Jenkins (born c. 1956) and Leslie Bellisario-Ingham (born c. 1961), son David Bellisario who is a producer on NCIS: Los Angeles, and daughter Julie Bellisario Watson who is a producer on NCIS. From his second marriage, to Lynn Halpern (1979–1984), he has a son, Michael Bellisario (born April 7, 1980), who had a recurring role as Midshipman Michael Roberts on JAG and played Charles 'Chip' Sterling on NCIS. From his third marriage, to Deborah Pratt (1984–1991), he has a son Nicholas Dante Bellisario and a daughter Troian Bellisario (born October 28, 1985), who guest starred on Quantum Leap and plays Timothy McGee's sister Sarah McGee on NCIS. Read Less", "precise_score": -7.505929470062256, "rough_score": -9.197493553161621, "source": "search", "title": "Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Acclaimed writer, producer and director Donald P. Bellisario was online Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 12:30 p.m. ET to answer your questions about his television series.", "precise_score": -3.8422157764434814, "rough_score": -8.954182624816895, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: No, I think that 24 years have passed since Magnum came on the air and shows and storytelling changes. However I think you'll see that Magnum and NCIS has the same type of storytelling with an interesting ensemble cast mixed with humor.", "precise_score": -3.2262513637542725, "rough_score": -8.545320510864258, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: A Magnum feature film is in development with Imagine.", "precise_score": -1.1352885961532593, "rough_score": -6.77549934387207, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Contrary to what some have said, even those in the show Magnum, Robin Masters was not Jonathan Higgins. In the first season, I used the voice of Orson Wells as the voice of Robin Masters.", "precise_score": -2.230628490447998, "rough_score": -8.732470512390137, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Occasionally we will write an episode based on real life incidents that we have heard of but most times, and this is true in all the shows I've created going back to Magnum, I have for some strange reason written or created episodes which then actually came true. I think it wasn't just being prescient, I recall the first show I ever wrote was Ba Ba Black Sheep and I had Pappy Boyington ask me how I knew a certain incident happened that I put into the show and I told him that I didn't and he told me that it had happened. So, I've always been blessed or cursed with this ability. Which at one time had gotten me questioned by the FBI -- that had to do with the second year opening of Magnum which negotiations are going on between Vietnam and the U.S. government in Hawaii over our MIAs.", "precise_score": -1.7459825277328491, "rough_score": -9.39132022857666, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: No, the only thing related about Magnum and Lance White is that they were both played by Tom Selleck.", "precise_score": -1.7712299823760986, "rough_score": -7.785109519958496, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "4 Series co-creator, executive producer and episode writer/director Donald P. Bellisario is briefly seen during the opening credits ( at the same time his director credit is shown ) walking down N. Hotel Street in Chinatown.", "precise_score": 1.9474890232086182, "rough_score": -6.578946113586426, "source": "search", "title": "Magnum Mania! - Episode Guide - China Doll" }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "Few television writer-producers can boast a résumé like that of Glen A. Larson , who died Nov. 14 of esophageal cancer at age 77. Magnum, P.I., Quincy, M.E., Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, B.J. and the Bear and The Fall Guy — all created by Larson, who began his career as a pop singer and composed the music for many of his shows (including the Knight Rider theme song). Magnum, which Larson created with his friend and future NCIS creator Donald Bellisario , aired on CBS from 1980 to 1988 and made a star of a Hawaii-based, Ferrari-driving Tom Selleck, who remembers him here.", "precise_score": 3.09739089012146, "rough_score": -2.767000198364258, "source": "search", "title": "Tom Selleck on 'Magnum, P.I.' Creator Glen A. Larson: \"He ..." }, { "answer": "Don Bellisario", "passage": "\"Airwolf\" executive producer Don Bellisario was misquoted in Tuesday's Calendar as saying that he had seen film of the Jan. 18 helicopter crash in which a stunt man was killed during filming of an action sequence. Bellisario said there is no footage of the accident in which Reid Rondell, 22, was killed, adding that the camera crew was filming only the lead helicopter, not the pursuing one that crashed during a chase scene.", "precise_score": -4.194777488708496, "rough_score": -9.016841888427734, "source": "search", "title": "Copter Flight 'Routine,' Says 'airwolf' Producer - latimes" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "In 1981, series creators and writers Glen A. Larson and Donald P. Bellisario received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV Series.The 1981 Edgar Award was won for an episode entitled \"China Doll.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.71777629852295, "source": "wiki", "title": "Magnum, P.I." }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.244176864624023, "source": "search", "title": "Donald P. Bellisario - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario was born in North Charleroi in Pennsylvania. His father ran the tavern, where he grew up listening to the war stories of vets returning from WWII. He had a fifteen-year career in advertising before moving to Hollywood. He broke into television as the story editor for Black Sheep Squadron (1976). His most celebrated works to ... See full bio »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.051553726196289, "source": "search", "title": "Donald P. Bellisario - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.10981559753418, "source": "search", "title": "Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News" }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "Donald Bellisario", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.352005004882812, "source": "search", "title": "Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News" }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "'\\n The Hollywood Reporter\\'s best of the week \\n\\n\\n Los Angeles is a spinoff, <mark>Donald Bellisario</mark>\\'s lawyers slam the network for seeking medical records to harass and embarrass him.\\n\\nLAWRENCE KASDAN, SIMON KIMBERG LOCK DEALS TO WRITE AND PRODUCE \\'STAR WARS\\' INSTALLMENTS\\n\\nThe pair will write either \\\"Episode VIII\\\" or \\\"Episode IX\\\" — their exact division of responsibilities is yet to be determined — and also will come aboard to produce the films.\\n\\nTHR\\'S...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.137529373168945, "source": "search", "title": "Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News" }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "'8:30 am NCIS LAWSUIT A case management conference is scheduled in &quot;NCIS&quot; creator <mark>Donald Bellisario</mark>&#39;s lawsuit against CBS Studios Inc. He alleges the studio breached a contract allowing him to take part in the development of the series spinoff &quot;NCIS:'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.853026390075684, "source": "search", "title": "Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News" }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Donald Bellisario.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.400053024291992, "source": "search", "title": "Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Hello. It's really nice to be here today and let's see if I can answer some of your questions about my shows!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.435674667358398, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: It depends on how much longer JAG goes on. This could be the last season and I'm not predicting that it will be. I'll have to resolve that relationship one way or the other forever.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.509354591369629, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: There's always a chance in today's market to see the release of successful past series but that is a Universal television decision.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.282939910888672, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: I haven't considered doing it. One JAG is enough. Although now that NCIS is successful, I have thought of doing a combination JAG/NCIS on a carrier.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.360949516296387, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: NCIS is not CSI unless you are dyslexic. The fun of this show is the humor that goes on between the characters. The forensics is actually a small part of it and I think this distinguishes NCIS from all other similar forensic shows -- including not only the way it is written, but the way it is filmed, etc.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.424100875854492, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: I am working with Universal's scifi channel to create a new Quantum Leap which would have Stockwell as a regular and Scott Bakula appearing at least in the first episode which would introduce a young female reaper.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.301176071166992, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Many things are involved in renewing a show including contracts with key members of the cast, the demographics of the show. JAG for example has a rather old demographic that advertising doesn't care for therefore the show may be too costly for the advertising that it generates.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.475531578063965, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Some producers read comments submitted by fans. None of those sway us in terms of what we create in the season -- mainly because there are so many diverse and opposing views. As a writer-producer, you must stick to your own view otherwise you'd go crazy!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.033198356628418, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: I wouldn't count on Harm always winning in the courtroom. Believe me that there is no conspiracy among the writers and producers in JAG for Harm to win and make Mac looks less capable. It just happens.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.200727462768555, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: I agree with you. I think we need to into more of the earlier season stories than to turn JAG into a Harm Mac love hour.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.441658020019531, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: I have no idea about my next new series. I just want to keep these two shows going right now.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.436790466308594, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Unfortunately, I have no control over how shows are edited when they go to syndication. It certainly does frustrate me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.27882194519043, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: The end of NCIS usually has a humorous exchange between Gibbs, Tony, Sarah and McGee. Abby is rarely there nor is David because they are not the special agents that the cases revolve around. Although in future shows, you'll see some end on Abby or Ducky.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.322693824768066, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Over the years, I have been able to assemble a very talented team of writers and producers on JAG -- this always takes time. But now, they are doing the show and I have moved on to spending 95% of my time on NCIS. I wish I could stay on top of both but when you create a new show, it really has to have the mark of the creator and so hopefully NCIS where I won't have to spend much more time on it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.759749412536621, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: It's definitely both. It's a synergistic effect that requires both the actors and the writing to create a successful show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.300296783447266, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: What would a year of JAG be without Harm being in the cockpit of an aircraft? You'll see him flying again in an F-18 or his private Waco.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.40235710144043, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Kip is my dog! All JAG fans know that!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.418027877807617, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: They sure do but it's hard to revolt. It's like their ballpark, their ball and glove and you've got to play their game and you can't do it without the network.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.464245796203613, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Steven Culp is an excellent actor and a really nice guy and it's easy to see why he's working on so many different tv series. He has an extraordinary amount of talent that he brings to any character.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.009758949279785, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Your tv shows when you create them are like your children and you love them all. And like children, you occassionally love one more than the other but you won't let any of them know that.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.476973533630371, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Thank you for your comment. I have always believed that we should use the best in what we do and that goes for in front and behind the camera -- sex, race, age should have nothing to do with it. I try to portray the positive sid e of minorities not just the negative and I've always done that on my shows. For instance on Magnum, I made three of the characters Vietnam vets who were affective but not defective and at that time veterans were all defective on television. I think that some minorities were negatively treated earlier in the tv years and then the swing went the other way where you couldn't show a minority committing a crime. At one point we used to joke that the only bad guy you could show on tv was a WASP accountant. I try to portray in my show an equal balance, good or bad, for all characters. We're all flawed to some extent and we're all heros to some extent.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.730254173278809, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Because John Jackson felt that seven or eight years was enough and he wanted to go back to do some theater work and to following his son who has a major league baseball career.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.193482398986816, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Oh, you sure are! I don't want to do too many Iraq stories because viewere like to be entertained and they get enough of the subject in the news. But in the beginning of the season, you'll see some Iraq stories and then throughout the season, you'll see some more court martial cases.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.467026710510254, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: There is no best for me because I love the entire process. I love to create a show, write it, produce it, direct it, do the mix on it, edit it. It's what I do best is to take my grubby little hands in everything. Unfortunately that is hard to do with 24 episodes and two shows so I always look fondly on the pilots -- creating the show and setting the tone of it, although the tone has to be constantly evolving.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.471654891967773, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: No, you will never know who the mysterious redhead is and she will continue to appear throughout the life of the series and the idea is to make everyone speculate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.232475280761719, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: What a great rumor! I hadn't heard it until now!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.330368041992188, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Yes, you'll always see some action episodes with Harm and Mac with the new season in JAG -- I can't be more specific than that.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.489669799804688, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: My hope is always that this season is never the last. I will have a better idea after we get a half year of ratings and see where the show is and what it is doing in January 2005. If it is the last season, it will definitely effect the kinds of shows we tell and how we wrap things up.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.502361297607422, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: I wrote that episode and quite frankly, I debated in my own head into making it a cliff hanging two parter. But since I'm trying to separate NCIS from JAG, I didn't want to have cliff hangers as JAG does. The same is true for changing the name from NAVY NCIS to NCIS. The network insisted on calling it NAVY NCIS to hang onto the JAG audience but what your'e really saying Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service and it's a bit silly. I was able to convince them to go with just the acronym this season. JAG is a great show however NCIS is a completely different show and for that reason, I want to keep them separate. I'm probably the only exec producer who begged the network not to put in NCIS advertising \"from the creator of JAG.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.133830070495605, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: The initial clip of Harm has been the same for three years because I like it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.448444366455078, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: You have a character that has been written in mind and we don't adjust the role to fit the actor, it's the other way around.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.265113830566406, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: No, Battlestar Galactica episode had nothing to do with the concept of Quantum Leap. That came to me in my desire to create a show for network television that would have a different show every week with different characters -- something that networks don't like to do.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.420612335205078, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Catherine is indeed an outstanding female lead and I agree with you that her character is very important to the success of JAG.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.253039360046387, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: We would love to have JJ make a guest appearance but I don't think it's going to happen.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.436368942260742, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: You definitely will see Harriet in some upcoming shows. She's too good an actress and too important to only reference in episodes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.346837043762207, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Donald P. Bellisario", "passage": "Donald P. Bellisario: Thank you all for the questions. I've answered to the best of my ability and what I realize has been pathetic. I hope to do it again sometime but now I have to go to work. Thank you again and God Bless.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.447114944458008, "source": "search", "title": "TV: JAG and NCIS (washingtonpost.com)" }, { "answer": "Don Bellisario", "passage": "Eventually — and this really says who Glen is — I still had some issues with the script, and Glen was accommodating. Don Bellisario came in to take the show in a different direction, and Glen graciously stepped back. That's something a guy could hold a grudge over, and Glen never let it affect our relationship. Glen had his name on the show and stepped back with a graciousness that I don't think anybody could find fault with. It wouldn't happen with a lot of people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.250627517700195, "source": "search", "title": "Tom Selleck on 'Magnum, P.I.' Creator Glen A. Larson: \"He ..." }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "UPDATED: In a dispute over whether \"NCIS: Los Angeles\" is a spinoff, Donald Bellisario's lawyers slam the network for seeking medical records to \"harass and embarrass him.\" CBS calls the allegation \"baseless.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.324034690856934, "source": "search", "title": "'NCIS' Creator's 'Severe Brain Condition' Becomes Issue in ..." }, { "answer": "Donald Bellisario", "passage": "Donald Bellisario, the 77-year-old legendary creator of two of CBS' biggest hits, NCIS and JAG, is suffering from hydrocephalus, a neurological condition known as \"water on the brain.\" According to Bellisario's doctor, in the past year, the TV legend has suffered memory loss, disorientation, unsteadiness and lack of coordination.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.901796340942383, "source": "search", "title": "'NCIS' Creator's 'Severe Brain Condition' Becomes Issue in ..." }, { "answer": "Don Bellisario", "passage": "No unusual aerial maneuvers were involved in the helicopter crash that killed \"Airwolf\" stunt man Reid Rondell, says the show's executive producer, Don Bellisario: \"It was the most routine of flights. And that's what's got everybody so absolutely stunned.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.227715492248535, "source": "search", "title": "Copter Flight 'Routine,' Says 'airwolf' Producer - latimes" } ]

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[ { "answer": "William S. Paley", "passage": "Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, and by the end of 1927, Columbia Phonograph wanted out.Barnouw, Tower, p. 223 In early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the network's Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. None of the three were interested in assuming day-to-day management of the network, so they installed wealthy 26-year-old William S. Paley, son of a Philadelphia cigar family and in-law of the Levys, as president. With the record company out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to \"Columbia Broadcasting System\". He believed in the power of radio advertising since his family's \"La Palina\" cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio.Barnouw, Tower, p. 224 By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS and became its majority owner with 51% of the business. Page numbers in this article refer to the first paperback edition, May 1981", "precise_score": -2.7788846492767334, "rough_score": -3.233306646347046, "source": "wiki", "title": "CBS" }, { "answer": "William S. Paley", "passage": "William S. Paley, (born Sept. 28, 1901, Chicago , Ill., U.S.—died Oct. 26, 1990, New York , N.Y.), American broadcaster who served as the Columbia Broadcasting System ’s president (1928–46), chairman of the board (1946–83), founder chairman (1983–86), acting chairman (1986–87), and chairman (1987–90). 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Paley", "passage": "Once the war was over and Murrow returned for good, it was as \"a superstar with prestige and freedom and respect within his profession and within his company\".Halberstam, p. 40 He possessed enormous capital within that company, and as the unknown form of television news loomed large, he would spend it freely, first in radio news, then in television, taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy first, then eventually William S. Paley himself,Barnouw, Golden, p. 276 and with a foe that formidable, even the vast Murrow account would soon run dry.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.08934497833252, "source": "wiki", "title": "CBS" }, { "answer": "Bill Paley", "passage": "As 1939 wound down, Bill Paley announced that 1940 would \"be the greatest year in the history of radio in the United States.\"Barnouw, Golden, p. 139 He turned out to be right by more than anyone could imagine: the decade of the 1940s would indeed be the apogee of network radio by every gauge. Nearly 100% of the advertisers who made sponsorship deals in 1939 renewed their contracts for 1940; manufacturers of farm tractors made radios standard equipment on their machines.Barnouw, Golden, p. 138 Wartime rationing of paper limited the size of newspapers – and effectively advertisements – and when papers turned them away, they migrated to radio sponsorship.Barnouw, Golden, p. 165 A 1942 act by Congress made advertising expenses a tax benefit and that sent even automobile and tire manufacturers – who had no products to sell since they had been converted to war production – scurrying to sponsor symphony orchestras and serious drama on radio.Barnouw, Golden, p. 166 In 1940, only one-third of radio programs were sponsored, while two-thirds were sustaining; by the middle of the decade, the statistics had swapped – two out of three shows now had cash-paying sponsors and only one-third were sustaining.Bergreen, p. 167", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.780420303344727, "source": "wiki", "title": "CBS" }, { "answer": "William S. 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Babe Paley was often short-listed as one of the world's best-dressed women and became a doyenne of New York society, heralded by the likes of Truman Capote. (Both of Betsey's sisters died within several months of each other in 1978.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.925345420837402, "source": "search", "title": "John Hay Whitney - Biography - IMDb" } ]

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Bo Diddley pops up as a pawnbroker , Jim Belushi wears a gorilla costume at the New Year’s party on the train, comedy duo Franken & Davis (Al Franken and Tom Davis, fellow ‘SNL’ alums) are baggage handlers, Kelly Curtis (Jamie Lee’s sister) plays “Muffy,” one of the girls at Winthorpe’s country club, a trenchcoat-wearing, briefcase-carrying John Landis stands near Valentine after he’s released from jail, executive producer George Folsey, Jr. is the first man to greet Winthorpe at Duke & Duke…", "precise_score": 3.1125690937042236, "rough_score": -1.941690444946289, "source": "search", "title": "'Trading Places' - More Than 7 Things You May Not Know ..." }, { "answer": "John Landis", "passage": "With as much monkeying-around as his movies frequently display, it should come as no surprise to John Landis fans that one of his earliest inspirations as a filmmaker was the original 1933 version of King Kong . The man behind such carefree comedies as Animal House , Landis has also helped to blur the lines between comedy and horror with such efforts as An American Werewolf in London and Innocent Blood , in addition to crafting such fine-tined social satire as Trading Places .", "precise_score": -0.6667636036872864, "rough_score": -2.4583446979522705, "source": "search", "title": "John Landis | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos ..." }, { "answer": "John Landis", "passage": "Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel The Prince and the Pauper. It also bears a resemblance to another of Mark Twain's stories, The Million Pound Bank Note.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.604030132293701, "source": "wiki", "title": "Trading Places" }, { "answer": "John Landis", "passage": "The movie marked the first of Murphy's collaborations with director John Landis (who also directed Murphy in Coming to America and Beverly Hills Cop III) and proved to be an even greater box office success than 48 Hrs. In 1984, Murphy starred in the successful action comedy film Beverly Hills Cop. The film was Murphy's first solo leading role. Beverly Hills Cop grossed over $230 million at the box office and was 41st in the list of all-time total U.S. box office grossers (4th-highest amongst \"R\" rated films), after adjusting for inflation. 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Decades later, “Trading Places” is still hilarious, with its cutting commentary on class and race in America (regrettably still topical), legendary comedic performances by Murphy (way before “ Triplets ” talk and Murphy became the most overpaid actor in Hollywood ) and Aykroyd (way before “ Ghostbusters 3 ” talk and Aykroyd opened up about his belief in aliens ), and so much more (Jamie Lee Curtis plays a hooker with a heart of gold, the 1% lose out in the end, and more).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.90040397644043, "source": "search", "title": "'Trading Places' - More Than 7 Things You May Not Know ..." }, { "answer": "John Landis", "passage": "All three are linked to “Trading Places,” Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” is about “a day of madness,” in which the head-servant conspires to expose his scheming, skirt-chasing employer. Not-so-coincidentally, there are a few allusions to the 18th-century comic opera made in “Trading Places.” During the film’s opening sequence, “The Marriage of Figaro” overture plays while scanning the morning routines of Philadelphians, ending on Louis Winthorpe III (Aykroyd) being served breakfast in bed. On his way to work, Winthorpe whistles “Se vuol ballare” (the aria where Figaro declares “I’ll overturn all the machinery”), foreshadowing the film’s ending where he and Valentine (Murphy) overturn the Duke brothers. How many people actually got that reference during the film’s initial release? Honestly, we’d like to go to a pub quiz with those select few who comprise the intersection of John Landis fans and opera enthusiasts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.50572395324707, "source": "search", "title": "'Trading Places' - More Than 7 Things You May Not Know ..." }, { "answer": "John Landis", "passage": "Moving on from the definitive source of American wit to some “whoop, whoop, whoop”-ing slapstick, the “nature vs. nurture” debate is one employed in many Three Stooges shorts, though “ Hoi Polloi ” stands out in particular in its resemblance to “Trading Places.” In the short, two professors wager $10,000 (that sure is some moolah for 1935) on whether they can turn the Stooges into gentlemen, specifically on whether environment or heredity win out (think “Pygmalion” without the romance, which is “My Fair Lady” without the songs). Though shelling out more dough than the Duke brothers’ bet of one whole dollar , the old men make no headway with the Stooges. The film concludes with a party in which the society guests end up thwacking and slapping each other silly as the Stooges put on airs, saying, “this is our punishment for associating with the hoi polloi.” Although John Landis has not directly quoted this as a source, to our knowledge (feel free to share in the comment section below), the use of the wager and role-reversal in “Trading Places” does bear a striking resemblance “Hoi Polloi” and Landis is a known Stooges fan .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.516477584838867, "source": "search", "title": "'Trading Places' - More Than 7 Things You May Not Know ..." }, { "answer": "John Landis", "passage": "5. 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Returning to the US, he made his feature debut as a writer-director at age 21 with Schlock (1973), an affectionate tribute to monster movies. Clad in a Rick Baker -designed gorilla suit, Landis starred as \"Schlockthropus\", the missing link. After working as a writer, actor and production assistant, Landis made his second film, The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), in collaboration with the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams . Landis rose to international recognition as director of the wildly successful Animal House (1978). With blockbusters such as The Blues Brothers (1980), Trading Places (1983), Spies Like Us (1985), ¡Three Amigos! (1986) and Coming to America (1988), Landis has directed some of the most popular film comedies of all time. Other feature credits include Into the Night (1985), Innocent Blood (1992) and the comedy/horror genre classic An American Werewolf in London (1981), which he also wrote. In 1986 Landis and four others, were acquitted of responsibility for the tragic accident that occurred in Landis' segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) in which actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed. The film also included segments directed by Joe Dante , George Miller and Steven Spielberg . In 1983 Landis wrote and directed the groundbreaking music video of Michael Jackson 's Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983), created originally to play as a theatrical short. \"Thriller\" forever changed MTV and the concept of music videos, garnering multiple accolades including the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Overall Video, Viewer's Choice, and the Video Vanguard Award - The Greatest Video in the History of the World. In 1991 \"Thriller\" was inducted into the MVPA's Hall of Fame. In 1991, Landis collaborated again with Jackson (I) on Michael Jackson: Black or White (1991), which premiered simultaneously in 27 countries with an estimated audience of 500 million. Although it was not the first motion picture or music video to do so, \"Black or White\" popularized the use of \"digital morphing\", where one object appears to seamlessly metamorphoses into another; the project raised the standard for state-of-the-art special effects in music videos. Landis has also been active in television as the executive producer (and often director) of the Ace- and Emmy Award-winning HBO series Dream On (1990). Other TV shows produced by his company, St. Clare Entertainment (St. Clare is the patron saint of television), include Weird Science (1994), Sliders (1995), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997), Campus Cops (1995) and The Lost World (1998). In 2004 the Independent Film Channel broadcast his feature-length documentary about a used-car salesman, Slasher (2004). Deer Woman, an original one-hour episode written by Landis and his son Max Landis , inaugurated the Masters of Horror (2005) series in the fall of 2005 on Showtime. \"Masters of Horror\" also features one-hour episodes by John Carpenter , Roger Corman , Tobe Hooper , Don Coscarelli , Mick Garris , Dario Argento and Larry Cohen .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.502713680267334, "source": "search", "title": "John Landis - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John Landis", "passage": "Close friend, George Lucas , offered John Landis the role of director on Howard the Duck (1986). After reading the script Landis turned down the opportunity due to the police car crashes in the finale. 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[Source: London Times]British interviewer and entertainer David Frost makes a deal with former President Richard Nixon to undertake 24 hours of interviews on a wide range of topics, with six hours each on foreign policy, domestic affairs, Watergate, and a loosely defined “Nixon the Man” interview. Frost intends that the centerpiece of the interviews to be the Watergate session. Nixon agrees to a free, unfettered set of interviews in return for over a million dollars in appearance fees.", "precise_score": -0.1185091882944107, "rough_score": -6.258482933044434, "source": "search", "title": "Context of 'April 6, 1977: Nixon: ‘If the President Does ..." }, { "answer": "David Frost", "passage": "The research staff for British interviewer David Frost, preparing for his upcoming interviews with former President Richard Nixon (see Early 1976 ), finds transcripts of two conversations between Nixon and his then-aide Charles Colson from February 1973 (see February 13, 1973 and February 14, 1973 ) in a batch of documents surrounding the prosecution of the Watergate burglars (see January 1, 1975 ). Former Watergate prosecutors Richard Ben-Veniste and George Frampton, informally advising the Frost research team, are both keenly interested in the transcripts. “You’ve got something no one else has,” Frampton says. “These transcripts must have been placed in the official exhibit by a clerical error.” The two explain the significance of the conversations between Nixon and Colson: they place Nixon directly in the plot to cover up the Watergate conspiracy six weeks before Nixon says he first learned of it. Frampton shows researcher James Reston Jr. just how he would have used the conversations against Nixon in court, while Ben-Veniste instructs Reston on how Frost should interrogate Nixon as a hostile witness. Frost should ask something like, “Is it still your position, Mr. Nixon, that between 21 March and 30 April, 1973, you acted to stop the cover-up and prosecute the guilty?” When Nixon answers yes, Frost should follow, “But in fact, as late as 16 April, 1973, you were working out ‘scenarios’ with Ehrlichman and Haldeman to make John Dean the Watergate scapegoat, weren’t you?” Other questions to ask include, “By what right were you offering campaign money for the defense of your associates who were charged in a criminal conspiracy?” and “Isn’t it really true that you never made any effort before 21 March to learn the details of a criminal activity that you knew was going on all around you?”", "precise_score": -0.17395256459712982, "rough_score": -6.227099895477295, "source": "search", "title": "Context of 'April 6, 1977: Nixon: ‘If the President Does ..." }, { "answer": "David Frost", "passage": "Interviewer David Frost has a difficult time with his subject, former President Richard Nixon, in the day’s early questioning (see April 6, 1977 ). Frost attempts to recoup with a line of questioning suggested by his adviser James Reston, Jr., one used in the trial of former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman (see January 1, 1975 ). Were there no limits to what a president can do, even if the president wants to do something plainly illegal? he asks. Could he do anything despite the law? Burglary? Forgery? Even murder? “If the president does it, that means it’s not illegal,” Nixon retorts. “Never had his imperialism been so baldly stated,” Reston will later reflect. Frost asks if the dividing line between, for example, a police burglary and the murder of an antiwar protester is only the president’s judgment? Nixon agrees, and adds: “There’s nothing specific that the Constitution contemplates in that respect. I haven’t read every word, every jot and every tittle, but I do know this: That it has been, however, argued that as far as a president is concerned, that in war time, a president does have certain extraordinary powers which would make acts that would otherwise be unlawful, lawful if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the nation and the Constitution, which is essential for the rights we’re all talking about.”", "precise_score": 0.03175279498100281, "rough_score": -4.925228595733643, "source": "search", "title": "Context of 'April 6, 1977: Nixon: ‘If the President Does ..." }, { "answer": "David Frost", "passage": "James Reston Jr. [Source: James Reston, Jr]James Reston Jr., a member of David Frost’s research team for the famous Nixon-Frost interviews (see Early 1976 ), publishes his book, The Conviction of Richard Nixon, about those debates and their echoes in the actions of the Bush administration. Reston writes that “it might be argued that the post-September 11 domestic abuses find their origin in Watergate. In 1977 the commentators were shocked when Nixon said about his burglaries and wiretaps, ‘If the president does it, that means it’s not illegal’ (see April 6, 1977 ).… These brazen words… come eerily down to us through the tunnel of the last thirty years.”", "precise_score": -0.47216516733169556, "rough_score": -6.958425998687744, "source": "search", "title": "Context of 'April 6, 1977: Nixon: ‘If the President Does ..." }, { "answer": "David Frost", "passage": "By early 1975, Nixon's health was improving. He maintained an office in a Coast Guard station 300 yards from his home, at first taking a golf cart and later walking the route each day; he mainly worked on his memoirs. He had hoped to wait before writing his memoirs; the fact that his assets were being eaten away by expenses and lawyer fees compelled him to begin work quickly. He was handicapped in this work by the end of his transition allowance in February, which compelled him to part with many of his staff, including Ziegler. In August of that year, he met with British talk-show host and producer David Frost, who paid him $600,000 for a series of sit-down interviews, filmed and aired in 1977. They began on the topic of foreign policy, recounting the leaders he had known, but the most remembered section of the interviews was that on Watergate. Nixon admitted that he had \"let down the country\" and that \"I brought myself down. I gave them a sword and they stuck it in. And they twisted it with relish. 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Other scenes focus on the home life of Rob, his wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), and son Richie (Larry Mathews), who live at 148 Bonnie Meadow Road in suburban New Rochelle, New York. Also often seen are their next-door neighbors and best friends, Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris), a dentist, and his wife Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.487405300140381, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Dick Van Dyke Show" }, { "answer": "Dick van dyke show", "passage": "The Dick Van Dyke Show was preceded by a 1960 pilot for a series to be called Head of the Family with a different cast, although the characters were essentially the same, except for the the absence of Mel Cooley. In the pilot, Carl Reiner, who created the show based on his own experiences as a TV writer, played Robbie Petrie, with a long first \"e\": PEE-tree. Laura Petrie was played by Barbara Britton, Buddy Sorrell by Morty Gunty, Sally Rogers by Sylvia Miles, Richie by Gary Morgan, and Alan Sturdy, the Alan Brady character, was played by Jack Wakefield, although his face was never fully seen, which was also the case with Carl Reiner's Alan Brady for the first several seasons of The Dick Van Dyke Show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 8.8192777633667, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Dick Van Dyke Show" }, { "answer": "Laura Petrie", "passage": "* Laura Petrie (née Meehan; played by Mary Tyler Moore) – Rob's wife. As a 17-year-old dancer in the United Service Organizations, she met and married Rob. Then, she became a stay-at-home mom. About 60 actresses auditioned for the part before Moore was signed. 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There's a New Show on CBS-TV called The Dick Van Dyke Show debuted on October 3, 1961 and fresh out of the pilot called \"Head of the Family\" in 1960 as part of \"The Comedy Spot\". On this Series, Set in New Rochelle, NY at home. The Show focus on Robert \"Rob\" Petrie is the husband and Father of 1 Child and the Head Writer of the mythical \"THE ALAN BRADY SHOW\" where his co-writers Maurice \"Buddy\" Sorrell & Sally Rogers. Buddy Sorrell is a Married Man and he's unflappable and also he can insult Mel Cooley. Sally Rogers is a Single Woman as she's looking for a Husband. Melvin \"Mel\" Cooley is the Brother-In-Law of the Star of the Show and the unseen wife and The Star of the Show is Alan Brady is egomaniac, arrogant, selfish, obnoxious and stubborn Boss of Rob, Sally & Buddy in New York City. At Home, There's Laura Meeker Petrie is a Sensitive but Nervous and absolute Sexy Wife and Mother of 1 Child when she knows, sees and hears about goings-on of Rob's follies and non-sensible activities. The Child is Richard R. \"Richie\" Petrie is the 1 and Only Child of Rob & Laura happens to be their own son as he's being obedient and an habit of trouble and very loud when he gets into havoc of his wild fantasies and mischievous schemes and finally The Helpers lived across the street where Millie & Jerry Helper are helping out. Stories relates the trials and tribulations of the Petries, the Helpers and the Writing Staff of \"THE ALAN BRADY SHOW\". On September 7, 1966 THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW is hot on CBS-TV when its Cancelled. The Daytime Edition of the show aired reruns from August 1965 to September 1969. Syndicated from 1969 to 1991. From September 1991 to September 1998, Nick-at-Nite aired the show and in 1997, TV LAND airs the show. 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She considered it to be the most challenging of her career because she had \"never really played anyone quite so contradictory or difficult before\", but found the inconsistent and complicated character \"a blissful joy to embody\". The film was well-received, grossed $112 million worldwide, and critics were unanimous in their praise for Thompson's performance. The review in The Independent expressed thanks that her \"playing of Travers is so deft that we instantly warm to her, and forgive her her snobbery\", while Total Films critic felt that Thompson brought depth to the \"predictable\" film with \"her best performance in years\". Thompson was nominated for Best Actress at the BAFTAs, SAGs and Golden Globes, and received the Lead Actress trophy from the National Board of Review. Meryl Streep stated that she was \"shocked\" to see that Thompson did not receive an Academy Award nomination for the film. 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[ { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "The rise of the Jackson 5 in the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the rise of a very similar musical family, The Osmonds. The Osmonds had risen to fame as regular performers on The Andy Williams Show; Jay Osmond would later note: \"Michael had a unique sense of humor about him, and told us he was so tired of watching The Osmonds on The Andy Williams Show. He explained this was something their father had them do, and Michael joked he became really tired of it!\" The song \"One Bad Apple\", written by George Jackson, who had the Jackson Five in mind when he wrote it, was originally presented to Motown Record's Chairman of the Board Berry Gordy for the group to record, but he turned it down. It was then presented to MGM Records for The Osmonds. \"One Bad Apple\", which the Osmonds recorded in a similar style to the songs of the Jackson 5 at the time, reached number one and began a string of several hits for the Osmonds. Both bands followed a similar career trajectory: a string of several hits as a group, which eventually led to a breakout star (Michael for the Jacksons, Donny for the Osmonds) becoming a solo artist, a little sister not originally part of the group also rising to fame (Janet Jackson and Marie Osmond respectively), and eventual decline as a smaller group in the 1980s. The two groups' members eventually became friends, despite public perception of a rivalry between the two and allegations that the Osmonds, white Mormon brothers from Utah, were an imitation of the black Jackson 5.", "precise_score": -2.9825942516326904, "rough_score": -4.981046676635742, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Jackson 5" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson Sings on Diff'rent Strokes - YouTube", "precise_score": -0.16141358017921448, "rough_score": 2.1815409660339355, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Sings on Diff'rent Strokes - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson Sings on Diff'rent Strokes", "precise_score": 0.8695700168609619, "rough_score": 3.680537700653076, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Sings on Diff'rent Strokes - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Born on May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana, Janet Jackson is an award-winning recording artist and actress who's the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She is best known for hit singles like \"Nasty,\" \"Love Will Never Do (Without You),\" \"That's the Way Love Goes,\" \"Together Again\" and \"All for You.\" Jackson is ranked as one of the bestselling artists in contemporary music, having released an array of multi-platinum albums like Control, Rhythm Nation 1814 and Janet in collaboration with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. In 2015 she reunited with the two producers for Unbreakable, which became her seventh No. 1 album.   ", "precise_score": -1.9246798753738403, "rough_score": -4.9659223556518555, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson first appeared onstage in April 1974, singing and doing impressions alongside brother Randy in the Jackson family's Las Vegas act. In 1976, she appeared on The Jacksons, a summer replacement television show. Her performance earned her the attention of a producer who hired her to play Penny, a regular on the TV comedy series Good Times, from 1977-79. She continued her television work in the short-lived A New Kind of Family (1979), the sitcom Different Strokes (1984-5) and the teen drama Fame (1984-5), based at a New York City performing arts high school.", "precise_score": 6.471995830535889, "rough_score": 9.93558120727539, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Damita Jo Jackson was born May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. She was the youngest of nine children in the Jackson family, and her older brothers had already begun performing together as the Jackson 5 by the time she was born. Bitten by the performing bug, she first appeared on-stage with the Jackson 5 at age seven, and began a sitcom acting career at the age of ten in 1977, when producer Norman Lear selected her to join the cast of Good Times. She remained there until 1979, and subsequently appeared on Diff'rent Strokes and A New Kind of Family. In 1982, pushed by her father into trying a singing career, Jackson released her self-titled first album on A&M. \"Young Love,\" written and produced by René & Angela and Rufus' Bobby Watson, reached number six on Billboard's R&B chart, but the album didn't cross into the pop market. She was cast in the musical series Fame in 1983. The following year, she issued her second album, Dream Street, which didn't sell as well as its predecessor. Upon turning 18, Jackson rebelled against her parents' close supervision and eloped with a member of another musical family, singer James DeBarge. However, the relationship quickly hit the rocks and Jackson moved back into her parents' home and had the marriage annulled.", "precise_score": 2.454240322113037, "rough_score": 5.708961009979248, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Jackson toured the world again, and stayed on the charts in 1999 with the Top Five Busta Rhymes duet \"What's It Gonna Be?!\"; her appearance in the video remade her as a glitzy, artificially costumed, single-name diva. In 2000, she appeared in the Eddie Murphy comedy Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, and her soundtrack contribution, \"Doesn't Really Matter,\" became a number one single. Unfortunately, Jackson's marriage to Elizondo had become strained and the couple divorced in 2000, sparking a court battle over her musical income. Jackson returned with a new album, All for You, in 2001, which largely continued the sensual tone of janet. and The Velvet Rope. It debuted at number one, selling over 600,000 copies in its first week alone. The title track was issued as the album's first single and quickly topped the charts, followed by another sizable hit in \"Someone to Call My Lover.\"", "precise_score": -3.451781988143921, "rough_score": -3.989518165588379, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson was born into a musical family and was the youngest of nine children. Janet Jackson's brothers, including mega-celeb Michael Jackson , made up the '70s pop group the Jackson 5. Janet Jackson began performing when she was a child and opened for the Jackson 5 in Las Vegas. But at the time Janet Jackson was known more for her acting, rather than her singing. Janet Jackson appeared on the TV shows Good Times, Diff'rent Strokes and Fame. When Janet Jackson was 16, her father forced her to follow in her brothers' footsteps by singing professionally.", "precise_score": 3.0257418155670166, "rough_score": 7.659164905548096, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson didn't merely emerge from the shadows of her famous brothers to become a superstar in her own right. Starting with her breakout 1986 album Control, she became one of the biggest pop stars of the '80s. Through the early 2000s, she was able to maintain her stature with impeccable quality control and stylistic evolution. Her singles, expertly crafted with indelible pop hooks and state-of-the-art production, consistently set or kept up with trends in contemporary R&B, demonstrated by an exceptional run of Top 20 R&B singles that spans over 30 years. From platinum album to platinum album, Jackson's image smoothly shifted as it projected power and independence. In turn, she inspired the likes of TLC, Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Rihanna, all of whom learned a few things from her recordings, videos, and performances. Janet Damita Jo Jackson was born May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. She was the youngest of nine children in the Jackson family, and her older brothers had already begun performing together as the Jackson 5 by the time she was born. Bitten by the performing bug, she first appeared on-stage with the Jackson 5 at age seven, and began a sitcom acting career at the age of ten in 1977, when producer Norman Lear selected her to join the cast of Good Times. She remained there until 1979, and subsequently appeared on Diff'rent Strokes and A New Kind of Family. In 1982, pushed by her father into trying a singing career, Jackson released her self-titled first album on A&M. \"Young Love,\" written and produced by René & Angela and Rufus' Bobby Watson, reached number six on Billboard's R&B chart, but the album didn't cross into the pop market. She was cast in the musical series Fame in 1983. The following year, she issued her second album, Dream Street, which didn't sell as well as its predecessor. Upon turning 18, Jackson rebelled against her parents' close supervision and eloped with a member of another musical family, singer James DeBarge. However, the relationship quickly hit the rocks and Jackson moved back into her parents' home and had the marriage annulled. Jackson took some time to rethink her musical career, and her father hired her a new manager, John McClain, who isolated his young charge to train her as a dancer (and make her lose weight). McClain hooked Jackson up with producers/writers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, whom she'd seen perform as members of the Minneapolis funk outfit the Time. Jackson collaborated with Jam and Lewis on most of the tracks for her next album, Control, which presented her as a confident and tough-minded artist (with a soft side and a sense of humor) taking charge of her life for the first time. In support of Jackson's new persona, Jam and Lewis crafted a set of polished, computerized backing tracks with slamming beats that owed more to hard, hip-hop-tinged funk and urban R&B than Janet's older brother Michael's music. Control became an out-of-the-box hit, and eventually spun off six singles, the first five of which -- \"What Have You Done for Me Lately,\" the catch phrase-inspiring \"Nasty,\" the number one \"When I Think of You,\" the title track, and the ballad \"Let's Wait Awhile\" -- hit the Top Five on the Billboard Hot 100. Jackson was hailed as a role model and Control eventually sold over five million copies, establishing her as a pop star. It also made Jam and Lewis, whose considerable accomplishments were previously limited to the R&B world, a monstrously in-demand pop production team. For the hotly anticipated follow-up, McClain wanted to push Jackson toward more overtly sexual territory, to which she objected strenuously. Instead, she began collaborating with Jam and Lewis on more socially conscious material, which formed the backbone of 1989's Rhythm Nation 1814 (the \"1814\" purportedly stood for either the letters \"R\" and \"N\" or the year \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" was written). Actually, save for the title track, most of the album's singles were bright and romantically themed. Four of them -- \"Miss You Much,\" \"Escapade,\" \"Black Cat,\" and \"Love Will Never Do (Without You)\" -- hit number one, and three more -- \"Rhythm Nation,\" \"Alright,\" and \"Come Back to Me\" -- reached the Top Five, making Jackson the first artist ever to produce seven Top Five hits off one album (something not even her brother Michael had accomplished). Aside from a greater use of samples, Rhythm Nation's sound largely resembled that of Control, but was just as well-crafted, and listeners embraced it enthusiastically, buying over five million copies in the U.S. alone. Jackson undertook her first real tour (she'd appeared at high schools around the country in 1982) in support of the album and it was predictably a smashing success. In 1991, Jackson capitalized by jumping from A&M to Virgin for a reported $32 million, and also secretly married choreographer and longtime boyfriend René Elizondo. Once on Virgin, Jackson set about revamping her sound and image. Her 1992 duet with Luther Vandross from the Mo' Money soundtrack, \"The Best Things in Life Are Free,\" was another major R&B hit and reached the pop Top Ten. The following year, she also resumed her acting career, co-starring in acclaimed director (and former junior-high classmate) John Singleton's Poetic Justice, along with rapper Tupac Shakur. Neither really hinted at the seductive, fully adult persona she unveiled with 1993's janet., her Virgin debut. Jackson trumpeted her new image with a striking Rolling Stone cover photo -- an uncropped version of the cover of janet. -- in which her topless form was covered by a pair of hands belonging to Elizondo. Musically, Jam and Lewis set aside the synthesized funk of their first two albums with Jackson in favor of warm, inviting, gently undulating grooves. Jackson took credit for all the lyrics. The album's lead single, the slinky \"That's the Way Love Goes,\" became Jackson's biggest hit ever, spending eight weeks at number one. It was followed by a predictably long parade of Top Ten hits -- \"If,\" the number one ballad \"Again,\" \"Because of You,\" \"Any Time, Any Place,\" and \"You Want This.\" janet.'s debut showing at number one made it her third straight chart-topping album, and it went on to sell nearly seven million copies in the U.S. In 1995, Janet and Michael teamed up for the single \"Scream,\" which was supported by an elaborate, award-winning, space-age video that, upon completion, ranked as the most expensive music video ever made. The single debuted at number five on the Hot 100. In 1996, A&M issued a retrospective of her years at the label, Design of a Decade 1986-1996; it featured the Virgin hit \"That's the Way Love Goes\" and a few new tracks, one of which, \"Runaway,\" became a Top Five hit. Jackson also signed a new contract with Virgin for a reported $80 million. Yet while working on her next album, Jackson reportedly suffered an emotional breakdown, or at least a severe bout with depression. She later raised eyebrows when she talked in interviews about the cleansing value of coffee enemas as part of her treatment. Her next album, The Velvet Rope, appeared in 1997 and was touted as her most personal and intimate work to date. The Velvet Rope sought to combine the sensuality of janet. with the more socially conscious parts of Rhythm Nation, mixing songs about issues like domestic abuse, AIDS, and homophobia with her most sexually explicit songs ever. Critical opinion on the album was divided; some applauded her ambition, while others found the record too bloated. The lead American single \"Together Again,\" an elegy for AIDS victims, was a number one hit. Also popular on the radio was \"Got 'Til It's Gone,\" which featured rapper Q-Tip and a sample of Joni Mitchell over a reggae beat. \"I Get Lonely,\" featuring Blackstreet, was another big hit, but on the whole, The Velvet Rope didn't prove to be the blockbuster singles bonanza that its predecessors were, which was probably why its sales stalled at around three million copies. Jackson toured the world again, and stayed on the charts in 1999 with the Top Five Busta Rhymes duet \"What's It Gonna Be?!\"; her appearance in the video remade her as a glitzy, artificially costumed, single-name diva. In 2000, she appeared in the Eddie Murphy comedy Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, and her soundtrack contribution, \"Doesn't Really Matter,\" became a number one single. Unfortunately, Jackson's marriage to Elizondo had become strained and the couple divorced in 2000, sparking a court battle over her musical income. Jackson returned with a new album, All for You, in 2001, which largely continued the sensual tone of janet. and The Velvet Rope. It debuted at number one, selling over 600,000 copies in its first week alone. The title track was issued as the album's first single and quickly topped the charts, followed by another sizable hit in \"Someone to Call My Lover.\" While Jackson spent much of 2001 and 2002 on the road supporting All for You, she also found time for some guest appearances, most notably with Beenie Man on his Tropical Storm LP and Justin Timberlake on Justified. By 2003 she was back in the studio, working once again with Jam and Lewis on tracks for a new album. Additional producers included Dallas Austin and Kanye West. The following year began with an Internet leak of the upbeat Austin production \"Just a Little While.\" The singer's camp rolled with the punches, offering the track to radio as an authorized digital download, but the buzz this business caused was minuscule in comparison to the nightmare union of free exposure and bad publicity that Jackson's next adventure caused. Appearing during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, Jackson performed \"All for You\" and \"Rhythm Nation\" before bringing out surprise guest Timberlake for a duet on his hit \"Rock Your Body.\" But the real surprise came at song's end, when a gesture from Timberlake caused Jackson's costume to tear, exposing her right, pierced breast on live television to hundreds of millions of viewers. The incident caused furious backpedaling and apologizing from Timberlake, Jackson, the NFL, CBS, and MTV, which swore no previous knowledge of the so-called \"wardrobe malfunction,\" and led to speculation over how Damita Jo -- Jackson's upcoming album and her first in three years -- would be received. But while the controversy gave Jackson both grief and a bit of free advertising, it was also the impetus for a national debate on public indecency. A federal commission was set up to investigate prurience, the FCC enacted tougher crackdowns on TV and radio programs broadcasting questionable content, and suddenly everyone from pundits to politicians to the man in the street had an opinion about it. Later that March, the singer quietly started making the talk show rounds. She was still apologizing for the incident -- while Timberlake escaped unscathed -- but she was also promoting Damita Jo, which Virgin issued at the end of the month. Largely considered a disappointment, the album nonetheless sold over two million copies worldwide and earned three Grammy nominations. 20 Y.O. followed two years later, and though it was reviewed more favorably than Damita Jo, it was off the Billboard 200 album chart after 15 weeks. Jermaine Dupri, Jackson's love interest and the executive producer of the album, was so upset over Virgin's lack of support that he left his post as president of Virgin's urban division. Dupri moved to Island, and so did Jackson. In 2008, Jackson released her tenth studio album, Discipline, which became her sixth release to top the Billboard 200, despite another tumultuous artist-label relationship. Although Jackson didn't release another album for seven years, the longest gap in her discography was filled with professional activity and major life changes. During the filming of Why Did I Get Married Too?, she learned of her brother Michael's death. Soon after, she and Dupri split, and she toured in support of Number Ones, a double-disc anthology promoted with the number one club hit \"Make Me.\" She took the lead role in the big-screen adaptation of For Colored Girls, published a book, and remained deeply connected to various causes as a philanthropist. In 2015, she returned on her own Rhythm Nation label with \"No Sleeep,\" a slow-jam Jam and Lewis collaboration that hit the R&B Top 20. It primed her audience for a tour, as well as her 11th studio album, Unbreakable -- another number one hit. ~ Steve Huey & Andy Kellman", "precise_score": -0.24921396374702454, "rough_score": -0.8307365775108337, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson on Apple Music - iTunes" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Randy joined his older brothers in The Jackson 5 at age 11 (1972)  playing as a percussionist. He did not sing in the grougp until he and his family began performing their act in Las Vegas. Randy often sung with younger sister Janet, and the duo won fame on Dinah Shore's show in 1975 for the first time on national television, eventualy doing the act on the Jackson TV show", "precise_score": -1.8003193140029907, "rough_score": -1.3283631801605225, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": " Janet Jackson first appeared on stage in April 1974, singing and doing impressions alongside her brother Randy in the Jackson family's Las Vegas act. In 1976, she appeared on The Jacksons, a summer replacement television show. Her performance earned her the attention of a producer who hired her to play Penny, a regular on the TV comedy series Good Times, from 1977-79. 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Bitten by the performing bug, she first appeared on-stage with the Jackson 5 at age seven, and began a sitcom acting career at the age of ten in 1977, when producer Norman Lear selected her to join the cast of Good Times. She remained there until 1979, and subsequently appeared on Diff'rent Strokes and A New Kind of Family. In 1982, pushed by her father into trying a singing career, Jackson released her self-titled first album on A&M. \"Young Love,\" written and produced by René & Angela and Rufus' Bobby Watson, reached number six on Billboard's R&B chart, but the album didn't cross into the pop market. She was cast in the musical series Fame in 1983. The following year, she issued her second album, Dream Street, which didn't sell as well as its predecessor. Upon turning 18, Jackson rebelled against her parents' close supervision and eloped with a member of another musical family, singer James DeBarge. 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Her roster of albums include 'Control,' 'Rhythym Nation,' 'The Velvet Rope' and 'Unbreakable.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.502605438232422, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "“I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time. I wanted to allow people in... I want my fans to really know me. The ‘Janet’ album was sexual and I was beginning to really discover that side of me.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.241929054260254, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "—Janet Jackson", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.4974284172058105, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson - Mini Biography (TV-14; 5:19) A short biography of Janet Jackson, who, as a member of the Jackson Dynasty, started her career as a child actress. But she soon made a career for herself in music, and her videos turned her into a music icon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.27515983581543, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Singer, songwriter and actress Janet Jackson was born on May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. The youngest of nine children born to Katherine Esther and Joseph Walter Jackson , she grew up in the affluence of a show business family. Her five brothers— Jackie , Tito , Marlon , Jermaine and Michael —signed a contract with Motown Records in 1968 and would go on to rule the charts as The Jackson Five , with such hits as \"I Want You Back,\" \"The Love You Save,\" \"ABC\" and \"Dancing Machine.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.175847053527832, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "In late 1969, Jackson took her daughters Rebbie , La Toya and Janet as well as youngest son  Randy  to join her husband in Los Angeles, where they moved to further the band's career. (Marlon's twin brother, Brandon, had died within 24 hours of the twins' premature birth in 1957.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.14834976196289, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "The Jackson children were raised in the Jehovah's Witness faith, as Katherine Jackson had been baptized as a Witness in the '60s. La Toya famously chronicled their tumultuous childhood—including charges of physical and sexual abuse by father Joseph—in her tell-all autobiography, but Janet and others of her siblings disputed La Toya's account. The tensions within the family certainly increased on account of Michael's eventual emergence as a solo artist and superstar.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.821145534515381, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "With the guidance of her brother Michael, she released her debut album Janet Jackson, in 1982. The album reached No. 84 on the pop charts and had three hit singles, including \"Young Love\" and \"Give Your Love to Me.\" The self-titled album sold about 250,000 copies, as did her follow-up, Dream Street, which featured contributions from her brothers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.220338821411133, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Her next album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (a title potentially referring to the year the American national anthem was written), was a socially conscious outing also produced and co-written by Jam and Lewis. The album spawned a number of hit singles, including the chart-toppers \"Miss You Much,\" \"Escapade,\" \"Black Cat\" (written by Jackson herself) and \"Love Will Never Do (Without You),\" and again sold around eight million copies. Rhythm Nation, which won three American Music Awards, made Jackson the first artist to have seven Top 5 hits from a single album. Jackson embarked on her first tour in the spring of 1990.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.35217571258545, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson's contract with Virgin Records, signed in March 1991, was at the time the largest recording contract in history, at $32 million. (Michael Jackson reportedly held off signing his so-called \"billion-dollar\" contract until after Janet signed so as not to steal her publicity.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.144590377807617, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "In the summer of 1993, Jackson unveiled her fifth album, titled Janet, and also had her first lead big-screen role in the drama Poetic Justice, co-starring rapper Tupac Shakur . The film was directed by John Singleton , who had received two Oscar nominations for writing and directing his debut feature, Boyz n the Hood. The film received disappointing reviews, but Jackson received an Oscar nomination for the No. 1 song \"Again,\" which she performed on the soundtrack. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.6125335693359375, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur in Poetic Justice (1993). (Photo: Courtesy Photofest)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.303771018981934, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "The sensual Janet (another Jam and Lewis collaboration), sold more than six million copies and featured \"That's the Way Love Goes,\" \"If\" and \"Any Time, Any Place.\" The latter became Jackson's 14th gold single, tying her at the time with Aretha Franklin as the female solo singer with the most gold singles. In addition, \"That's the Way Love Goes\" earned a Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues Song. Jackson also released a song with brother Michael entitled \"Scream\" in 1995. The accompanying clip cost $7 million to produce, making it the most expensive music video ever made, and went on to win a Grammy for Best Short Form Video. That same year Jackson released her compilation album Design of a Decade, containing the lush ode to travel \"Runaway,\" a Top 5 hit. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.212786674499512, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson onstage for her Unreakable tour in 2015. (Photo: J Vettorino (1789) [ CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.829315185546875, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs |", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.30944538116455, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.4974284172058105, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "About Janet Jackson", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.334296226501465, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson didn't merely emerge from the shadows of her famous brothers to become a superstar in her own right. Starting with her breakout 1986 album Control, she became one of the biggest pop stars of the '80s. Through the early 2000s, she was able to maintain her stature with impeccable quality control and stylistic evolution. Her singles, expertly crafted with indelible pop hooks and state-of-the-art production, consistently set or kept up with trends in contemporary R&B, demonstrated by an exceptional run of Top 20 R&B singles that spans over 30 years. From platinum album to platinum album, Jackson's image smoothly shifted as it projected power and independence. In turn, she inspired the likes of TLC, Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Rihanna, all of whom learned a few things from her recordings, videos, and performances.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.694687366485596, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Jackson took some time to rethink her musical career, and her father hired her a new manager, John McClain, who isolated his young charge to train her as a dancer (and make her lose weight). McClain hooked Jackson up with producers/writers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, whom she'd seen perform as members of the Minneapolis funk outfit the Time. Jackson collaborated with Jam and Lewis on most of the tracks for her next album, Control, which presented her as a confident and tough-minded artist (with a soft side and a sense of humor) taking charge of her life for the first time. In support of Jackson's new persona, Jam and Lewis crafted a set of polished, computerized backing tracks with slamming beats that owed more to hard, hip-hop-tinged funk and urban R&B than Janet's older brother Michael's music. Control became an out-of-the-box hit, and eventually spun off six singles, the first five of which -- \"What Have You Done for Me Lately,\" the catch phrase-inspiring \"Nasty,\" the number one \"When I Think of You,\" the title track, and the ballad \"Let's Wait Awhile\" -- hit the Top Five on the Billboard Hot 100. Jackson was hailed as a role model and Control eventually sold over five million copies, establishing her as a pop star. It also made Jam and Lewis, whose considerable accomplishments were previously limited to the R&B world, a monstrously in-demand pop production team.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.051754474639893, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Once on Virgin, Jackson set about revamping her sound and image. Her 1992 duet with Luther Vandross from the Mo' Money soundtrack, \"The Best Things in Life Are Free,\" was another major R&B hit and reached the pop Top Ten. The following year, she also resumed her acting career, co-starring in acclaimed director (and former junior-high classmate) John Singleton's Poetic Justice, along with rapper Tupac Shakur. Neither really hinted at the seductive, fully adult persona she unveiled with 1993's janet., her Virgin debut. Jackson trumpeted her new image with a striking Rolling Stone cover photo -- an uncropped version of the cover of janet. -- in which her topless form was covered by a pair of hands belonging to Elizondo. Musically, Jam and Lewis set aside the synthesized funk of their first two albums with Jackson in favor of warm, inviting, gently undulating grooves. Jackson took credit for all the lyrics. The album's lead single, the slinky \"That's the Way Love Goes,\" became Jackson's biggest hit ever, spending eight weeks at number one. It was followed by a predictably long parade of Top Ten hits -- \"If,\" the number one ballad \"Again,\" \"Because of You,\" \"Any Time, Any Place,\" and \"You Want This.\" janet.'s debut showing at number one made it her third straight chart-topping album, and it went on to sell nearly seven million copies in the U.S.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.2935872077941895, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "In 1995, Janet and Michael teamed up for the single \"Scream,\" which was supported by an elaborate, award-winning, space-age video that, upon completion, ranked as the most expensive music video ever made. The single debuted at number five on the Hot 100. In 1996, A&M issued a retrospective of her years at the label, Design of a Decade 1986-1996; it featured the Virgin hit \"That's the Way Love Goes\" and a few new tracks, one of which, \"Runaway,\" became a Top Five hit. Jackson also signed a new contract with Virgin for a reported $80 million. Yet while working on her next album, Jackson reportedly suffered an emotional breakdown, or at least a severe bout with depression. She later raised eyebrows when she talked in interviews about the cleansing value of coffee enemas as part of her treatment. Her next album, The Velvet Rope, appeared in 1997 and was touted as her most personal and intimate work to date. The Velvet Rope sought to combine the sensuality of janet. with the more socially conscious parts of Rhythm Nation, mixing songs about issues like domestic abuse, AIDS, and homophobia with her most sexually explicit songs ever. Critical opinion on the album was divided; some applauded her ambition, while others found the record too bloated. The lead American single \"Together Again,\" an elegy for AIDS victims, was a number one hit. Also popular on the radio was \"Got 'Til It's Gone,\" which featured rapper Q-Tip and a sample of Joni Mitchell over a reggae beat. \"I Get Lonely,\" featuring Blackstreet, was another big hit, but on the whole, The Velvet Rope didn't prove to be the blockbuster singles bonanza that its predecessors were, which was probably why its sales stalled at around three million copies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.969563484191895, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson | New Music And Songs | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson Biography", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.198126316070557, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson Biography", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.198126316070557, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson's Big Break", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.818673610687256, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "In 1982, after signing to A&M Records, Janet Jackson released her first album called Janet Jackson, which she followed up with Dreamstreet in 1984. In 1986, Janet released Control, which was wildly successful. Control introduced the hit What Have You Done For Me Lately?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.801201820373535, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson Is A Diva", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.2591552734375, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson has firmly established herself as one of the biggest pop artists of all time. MTV has even honored Janet Jackson as one of the most influential artists in contemporary pop and R&B. Destiny's Child , Macy Gray, Outkast and *NSYNC have all paid tribute to Janet Jackson by performing her songs. With other majorly successful albums like Janet, Rhythm Nation, All For You and Damita Jo, Janet Jackson's career is still going strong. But, just like her brother, Janet has managed to stir up controversy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.706793785095215, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson is a legendary Diva", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.95513391494751, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and The Super Bowl Flash", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.222418785095215, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "During the 2004 Super Bowl, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed together during the halftime show, put on by MTV. MTV, the home of the Britney-Madonna kiss , is known for controversial stunts. This Super Bowl halftime show ended up being no different. At the end of Justin Timberlake's song Rock Your Body, he reached over and removed part of Janet's leather bustier top, leaving her breast revealed for 90 million football fans to see. MTV, CBS, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake have all sworn up and down that it was a total \"mistake.\" However, no one seems impressed and MTV is no longer hosting the halftime show, while Janet did not attend the Grammys later that same week.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.648649215698242, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet has been making music since the '80s, and one look at her discography will tell you that she always comes back - she loves her work! In 2006 she released 10 Y.O, followed up by Discipline 2008. Fans went wild when they heard she was making a comeback in 2015 with the album Unbreakable. The single is called \"No Sleep.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.073722839355469, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "                   Listen to \"No Sleep by Janet Jackson below!                                                                                                   ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.323468208312988, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson was secretly married to actor/producer Rene Elizondo for nine years.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.185687065124512, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson will play legendary actress/singer Lena Horne in the film Lena, released in 2004.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.830751895904541, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson's full name is Janet Damita Jo Jackson.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.440593719482422, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson Says...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.758886337280273, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Biography | Bio - Kidzworld" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson on Apple Music", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.550390720367432, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson on Apple Music - iTunes" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Once the brothers signed with Epic Records, Jackie was responsible for writing and co-writing some of their biggest hits such as, “Can You Feel It”, “Wondering Who”, “Walk Right Now” and “Torture”. In addition, he produced tracks for his sisters La Toya, Rebbie and Janet, and worked on several moviescores and soundtracks. Jackie sings the lead on songs such as “Wondering Who and “Wait”, while adding his signature high tenor sound to most other tracks he and his brothers produced.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.98687744140625, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Latoya, Jackie, Rebbie, Janet, Auggie,", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.148422241210938, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Marlon also worked on songs for all 3 of  his sisters solo albums, Centipede for Rebbie, My Special Love for Latoya, and Dream Street for Janet. Then he went on to produce the songs Beware for Barry White, Respect for Billiy Griffin, and worked on the sound track for the movie The Golden Child.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.013538360595703, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Randy was prepping for his own solo album around that time and one of his singles, \"How Can I Be Sure?\", featured the first recording of sister Janet, on the b-side of the song, titled \"Love Song For Kids\". Randy never got to release the album as he suffered injuries from a car crash around 1979. thankfully He would eventually recover from the accident. In 1984, he was thrust into the forefront of The Jacksons' Victory tour after Jackie's leg injury forced him to the sidelines. Afterwards, Randy and his brothers Jackie and Tito became renowned session musicians for other acts during this time. The trio recorded the title track to the Whoopi Goldberg film, \"The Burglar\", in 1987.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.684502601623535, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.272300720214844, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "In late 1969, Mrs. Jackson took her daughters Rebbie, LaToya, and Janet, and her youngest son, Randy, to join her husband in Los Angeles, where they had moved to further the band's career.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.603810787200928, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Unlike many of her siblings, Janet Jackson attended public school in Encino, California, for some time before switching to Valley Professional School, from which she graduated in 1984. During her time on Fame, she was able to break away from her family's supervision while on location in New York. In September 1984, she eloped with James DeBarge, a musician in the group DeBarge, also on the Motown label. Jackson's family disapproved of DeBarge, and the marriage was brief, as she applied for an annulment in January 1985, which was granted the following November.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.374397277832031, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Under the management of her father Joseph, she released her debut album Janet Jackson, in 1982. The album reached No. 84 on the pop charts and had three hit singles, including \"Young Love\" and \"Give Your Love to Me.\" The self-titled album sold about 250,000 copies, as did her follow-up, Dream Street, which featured contributions from her brothers Michael, Tito, Jackie, and Marlon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.883000373840332, "source": "search", "title": "Meet The Family - Michael Jackson: More Than A Musician" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Also Mr. Drummond would get married in the show too during the 1984-1985 season to Maggie McKinney(played by Dixie Carter before going on to \"Designing Women\",which was on a rival network),and also bringing in her son Danny as Arnold's other brother(played by Danny Cooksey-who would go on to star opposite Scwarzenegger in Terminator 2,and also do voice-overs for children's shows) Also,Janet Jackson would appear as Willis' girlfriend Charlene during the 1981-1983 season(which during this time Miss Jackson did have a hit album out along with this series at that time). Shavar Ross was Arnold's best friend Dudley. When the show was canceled by NBC on May 4,1985 there were several cast changes. Mary Ann Mobley replaced Dixie Carter on the show and also gone were Pearl(Mary Jo Catlett). On September 27,1985,the show moved to ABC-TV where 19 new episodes were produced before the network finally canceled it on March 7,1986 after 189 episodes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.165689468383789, "source": "search", "title": "Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series 1978–1986) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson Bio | Janet Jackson Career | MTV", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.106734275817871, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Bio | Janet Jackson Career | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Official Site: http://www.janet-jackson.com/", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.712215423583984, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Bio | Janet Jackson Career | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Janet Jackson didn't merely emerge from the shadows of her famous brothers to become a superstar in her own right. Starting with her breakout 1986 album Control, she became one of the biggest pop stars of the '80s. Through the early 2000s, she was able to maintain her stature with impeccable quality control and stylistic evolution. Her singles, expertly crafted with indelible pop hooks and state-of-the-art production, consistently set or kept up with trends in contemporary R&B, demonstrated by an exceptional run of Top 20 R&B singles that spans over 30 years. From platinum album to platinum album, Jackson's image smoothly shifted as it projected power and independence. In turn, she inspired the likes of TLC, Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Rihanna, all of whom learned a few things from her recordings, videos, and performances.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.694687843322754, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Bio | Janet Jackson Career | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Jackson took some time to rethink her musical career, and her father hired her a new manager, John McClain, who isolated his young charge to train her as a dancer (and make her lose weight). McClain hooked Jackson up with producers/writers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, whom she'd seen perform as members of the Minneapolis funk outfit the Time. Jackson collaborated with Jam and Lewis on most of the tracks for her next album, Control, which presented her as a confident and tough-minded artist (with a soft side and a sense of humor) taking charge of her life for the first time. In support of Jackson's new persona, Jam and Lewis crafted a set of polished, computerized backing tracks with slamming beats that owed more to hard, hip-hop-tinged funk and urban R&B than Janet's older brother Michael's music. Control became an out-of-the-box hit, and eventually spun off six singles, the first five of which -- \"What Have You Done for Me Lately,\" the catch phrase-inspiring \"Nasty,\" the number one \"When I Think of You,\" the title track, and the ballad \"Let's Wait Awhile\" -- hit the Top Five on the Billboard Hot 100. Jackson was hailed as a role model and Control eventually sold over five million copies, establishing her as a pop star. It also made Jam and Lewis, whose considerable accomplishments were previously limited to the R&B world, a monstrously in-demand pop production team.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.051754951477051, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Bio | Janet Jackson Career | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "Once on Virgin, Jackson set about revamping her sound and image. Her 1992 duet with Luther Vandross from the Mo' Money soundtrack, \"The Best Things in Life Are Free,\" was another major R&B hit and reached the pop Top Ten. The following year, she also resumed her acting career, co-starring in acclaimed director (and former junior-high classmate) John Singleton's Poetic Justice, along with rapper Tupac Shakur. Neither really hinted at the seductive, fully adult persona she unveiled with 1993's janet., her Virgin debut. Jackson trumpeted her new image with a striking Rolling Stone cover photo -- an uncropped version of the cover of janet. -- in which her topless form was covered by a pair of hands belonging to Elizondo. Musically, Jam and Lewis set aside the synthesized funk of their first two albums with Jackson in favor of warm, inviting, gently undulating grooves. Jackson took credit for all the lyrics. The album's lead single, the slinky \"That's the Way Love Goes,\" became Jackson's biggest hit ever, spending eight weeks at number one. It was followed by a predictably long parade of Top Ten hits -- \"If,\" the number one ballad \"Again,\" \"Because of You,\" \"Any Time, Any Place,\" and \"You Want This.\" janet.'s debut showing at number one made it her third straight chart-topping album, and it went on to sell nearly seven million copies in the U.S.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.2935872077941895, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Bio | Janet Jackson Career | MTV" }, { "answer": "Janet", "passage": "In 1995, Janet and Michael teamed up for the single \"Scream,\" which was supported by an elaborate, award-winning, space-age video that, upon completion, ranked as the most expensive music video ever made. The single debuted at number five on the Hot 100. In 1996, A&M issued a retrospective of her years at the label, Design of a Decade 1986-1996; it featured the Virgin hit \"That's the Way Love Goes\" and a few new tracks, one of which, \"Runaway,\" became a Top Five hit. Jackson also signed a new contract with Virgin for a reported $80 million. Yet while working on her next album, Jackson reportedly suffered an emotional breakdown, or at least a severe bout with depression. She later raised eyebrows when she talked in interviews about the cleansing value of coffee enemas as part of her treatment. Her next album, The Velvet Rope, appeared in 1997 and was touted as her most personal and intimate work to date. The Velvet Rope sought to combine the sensuality of janet. with the more socially conscious parts of Rhythm Nation, mixing songs about issues like domestic abuse, AIDS, and homophobia with her most sexually explicit songs ever. Critical opinion on the album was divided; some applauded her ambition, while others found the record too bloated. The lead American single \"Together Again,\" an elegy for AIDS victims, was a number one hit. Also popular on the radio was \"Got 'Til It's Gone,\" which featured rapper Q-Tip and a sample of Joni Mitchell over a reggae beat. \"I Get Lonely,\" featuring Blackstreet, was another big hit, but on the whole, The Velvet Rope didn't prove to be the blockbuster singles bonanza that its predecessors were, which was probably why its sales stalled at around three million copies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.969563484191895, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson Bio | Janet Jackson Career | MTV" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS for nine seasons, from September 26, 1962, to March 23, 1971. The show had an ensemble cast which features Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as a poor backwoods family who move to Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by writer Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS: Petticoat Junction, and its spin-off Green Acres, which reversed the rags-to-riches model of The Beverly Hillbillies.", "precise_score": 4.947420597076416, "rough_score": 6.161548614501953, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction Christmas Collection", "precise_score": -4.095778942108154, "rough_score": -3.0195112228393555, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction ..." }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "It's a down home holiday extravaganza with the whole gang from Petticoat Junction in their very special Cannonball Christmas\" episode in which a Scrooge-like railroad executive tries to shut them down. Then it's off to the West Coast for a double feature starring the Beverly Hillbillies , including Home for Christmas\" and Christmas with the Clampetts.\" 1962-63/b&w/90 min/NR/fullscreen.", "precise_score": -2.0446619987487793, "rough_score": -2.5354180335998535, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction ..." }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "   The first was a show called Petticoat Junction. Premiering in 1963, it was a sitcom about a hotel called The Shady Rest that sat next to the local train depot, or \"junction\" - Petticoat Junction. The hotel was run by widower Kate Bradley who had to watch over her three gorgeous daughters and keep them out of trouble. There was also old Uncle Joe who was movin' kinda slow at the junction - Petticoat Junction. A lot of other characters came and went but one who stayed for the entire run of the show was Sam Drucker who ran the town store. When the Beverly Hillbillies came home to visit, Sam was of utmost concern to Mr. Drysdale since he also ran what passed for the town bank - he was Drysdales competition! He wasn't much competition but like I said, money made Mr. Drysdale crazy and paranoid with greed. The junction - Petticoat Junction - was called Petticoat Junction because Kate's daughters would go skinny dipping in the local water tower and leave their petticoats hanging over the edge of the water tower. The show's opening credits always showed the girls getting caught, popping their heads over the edge of the tower in front of the hung petticoats and then disappearing inside with them. I'm sorry. It actually would be the girls doing this along with the show's final star - their dog who was played by the original Benji before he found movie fame!", "precise_score": 1.7956019639968872, "rough_score": -1.9371978044509888, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "   While the Beverly Hillbillies only made the occassional guest visit to Hooterville, the casts of Green Acres and Petticoat Junction frequently bopped back and forth between shows with some like Sam Drucker being regulars on both shows!", "precise_score": -4.481051921844482, "rough_score": -2.9543840885162354, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Bea Benaderet, who had played Jethro's mother during the first season of The Beverly Hillbillies, was the mother of the family on Petticoat Junction.", "precise_score": -0.63371342420578, "rough_score": 2.4699742794036865, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "In addition to The Beverly Hillbillies, the series that were eliminated included Green Acres , Mayberry R.F.D. , and Hee Haw , the last of which was resurrected in first-run syndication, where it ran for another twenty-one years. Petticoat Junction had been canceled a year earlier due to declining ratings following the death of its star, Bea Benaderet .", "precise_score": 0.9815435409545898, "rough_score": 4.231481552124023, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "She is also able to tell the precise time by a sundial and the weather by a beetle (\"Granny Versus the Weather Bureau\"). Without her glasses, Granny is extremely nearsighted — once in a crossover with the Petticoat Junction show, Granny mistakes a dog for a baby child and a coffee pot for a telephone. Two of Granny's phobias are \"Injuns\" (she actually buys wigs so the Clampetts will not be \"scalped\") and the \"cement pond\" (swimming pool–she has a fear of water). In a long story arc in season nine, Elly May dates a U.S. Navy frogman, which confuses Granny: After seeing the frogman climb out of the pool in his skin-diving wear, she thinks that anyone who swims in the pool will be turned into a frog. She also has a peculiar way of retelling the War Between The States, in which she thinks the South has won and Jefferson Davis is the president, while calling Sherman's March \"Sherman's Retreat to the Sea\". She even set Jethro straight on the subject of slavery: \"We fought a war to make the Yankees stop that foolishness!\" Any attempts to correct her meet with failure. She is also known for slicing off switches to use on Jethro, mainly whenever he goes too far with his idiotic schemes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.06100845336914, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "*Pearl Bodine (portrayed by Bea Benaderet; 22 episodes in season 1) is Jethro's widowed mother. In the last season, Granny mentions that Pearl's husband, Fred Bodine, drowned in a fishing accident when Jethro was just a baby (although, in an earlier episode, Jethro shared some memories of his father with a psychiatrist). Pearl is a generally well-meaning mother to Jethro. She was also a popular character, often used as a foil for Granny, and became a regular part-way through the first season (the end credits were even refilmed to include Pearl with the other family members). The character disappeared after the first year because Benaderet had become the star of another Paul Henning series, Petticoat Junction. She is the daughter of Amos Clampett, Jed's uncle. Like Elly May, Pearl's name came from that of a character (Pearl Lester) in the popular rural-life novel, play, and film Tobacco Road. In the episodes \"The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed\" and \"The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted\", Herbert Rudley plays the psychiatrist Dr. Eugene Twombley. In the episodes, Pearl is enamored with Dr. Twombley; Benaderet's real-life husband was named Eugene Twombly. The role of Pearl was first offered to Shirley Collie. In season six, she makes a cameo appearance in the episode \"Greetings From The President\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.391546249389648, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "*Sam Drucker (played by Frank Cady; 10 episodes in 1968–70) owns the general store in Hooterville. Granny is constantly under the impression Sam wants to marry her, but Sam has no intention of doing so. Cady also starred as Sam Drucker in Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. Cady reprised the role of Sam Drucker for the 1990 Green Acres reunion movie Return to Green Acres.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.204277038574219, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Season seven (1968–69) was packed with strategically placed, multi-episode crossover stories in which the fictional worlds of all three Paul Henning series overlap. The Clampett family makes several trips to Hooterville, Sam Drucker visits Beverly Hills, and Granny (Irene Ryan) does two guest appearances on Petticoat Junction. In season eight (1969–70), the Clampett family visits Hooterville one last time for a two-part episode.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.048530578613281, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "*\"Granny Goes to Hooterville\" (season 7: episode 6) - Granny leaves for Hooterville upon hearing distant cousin Betty Jo Bradley (Linda Henning) just had a baby. The only Petticoat Junction cast members are Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) and Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) seen talking to Granny on the phone. (The story continues on the Petticoat Junction episode \"Granny, the Baby Expert\".) \"The Italian Cook\" (7:7) wraps up the three-episode Hooterville story arc featuring Betty Jo, her husband Steve Elliott (Mike Minor), and Sam Drucker.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.198599815368652, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "*\"The Thanksgiving Story\" (7:10) - The Clampetts visit Hooterville and mingle with the Petticoat Junction cast. This includes a silent, split-second insert of Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor of Green Acres. Jethro pretends to be a Hollywood producer and tries to romance Billie Jo (Meredith MacRae) and Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) Bradley. This arc continues in the next episode, \"The Courtship of Homer Noodleman\" (7:10), with the Clampetts leaving for home following Eb Dawson's (from Green Acres) falling for Elly May.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.195633888244629, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "*\"The Week Before Christmas\" (7:13) - The crossover aspect is limited to two scenes in Sam Drucker's general store with the Bradley sisters and Drucker talking to Granny over the phone. The same broadcast week, Petticoat Junction aired \"A Cake from Granny\" with shots of Granny and Jane Hathaway (Nancy Kulp) in Beverly Hills baking a cake. \"Christmas in Hooterville\" (7:14) reunites the Clampett family with the Petticoat Junction cast. The follow-up episode, \"Drysdale and Friend\" (7:15), has appearances by Sam Drucker and Green Acres regular Fred Ziffel (Hank Patterson).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.630107879638672, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "*In season eight, \"Buzz Bodine, Boy General\" (8:15) and \"The Clampett-Hewes Empire\" (8:16) comprise the last two-part crossover of the series. The Clampetts return to Petticoat Junction in a story featuring Steve Elliott, Betty Jo, Sam Drucker, and a rare Hooterville visit by Miss Hathaway and Mr. Drysdale (Raymond Bailey).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.122364044189453, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "*During season nine, after the cancellation of Petticoat Junction, Lori Saunders appeared in three episodes playing a new recurring character, Elizabeth Gordon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.389636993408203, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "The series was created by Paul Henning who was one of the most successful men in the early years of television and maintained his record for hits throughout the sixties. He not only wrote the treatment for the series and many of the episodes he penned the still famous theme song. He goes back to the golden age of television with his work n such successful shows like �Burns and Allen�, �Dennis Day� and �The Real McCoys�. If are of the age that you don�t remember a time without computers ask your parents or perhaps your grandparents about these shows; they were the staples of our television viewing for many years. Henning would also create the two spin offs of �Hillbillies�; �Green Acres� and �Petticoat Junction�. At one time CSB was considered the rural television network because of Henning�s hit shows. There would later be some backlash for this public perception but during this third season the Hillbillies� were at the height of their popularity. There was something special about the shows that Henning provided to us. They were about simple people untouched by the hectic modern world; unassuming folk that we all could relate to. We all knew that we would never be a private detective, cowboy, lawyer or doctor, the subject of other TV shows, but we could feel a kinship to the simple folk shown in this series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.686626434326172, "source": "search", "title": "Beverly Hillbillies: Season 3 - Home Theater Info" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Amazon.com: The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction Christmas Collection: Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas, Edgar Buchanan, Linda Henning, Bea Benaderet, Higgins the Dog, Frank Cady, Lori Saunders, Rufe Davis, Meredith MacRae, Mike Minor, Smiley Burnette, Ron McManus, Al Simon, Martin Ransohoff, Paul Henning: Movies & TV", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.844365119934082, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction ..." }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Last Petticoat Junction crossover for the season", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.538000106811523, "source": "search", "title": "\"The Beverly Hillbillies\" Sam Drucker's Visit (TV Episode ..." }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "This 8th and final crossover for season 7 begins in Petticoat Junction. Sam Drucker asks Betty Jo (Lori Saunders) to look after the General Store while he's in Los Angeles. He won a trip to Hollywood and plans on visiting the Clampetts as well. A garbled telegram message gives Granny the false impression Sam is coming \"a courting\" and she over-reacts as usual. The misunderstanding between her and Sam has been an ongoing joke in most of the crossovers during the season.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.168535232543945, "source": "search", "title": "\"The Beverly Hillbillies\" Sam Drucker's Visit (TV Episode ..." }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "This is the only time in the entire series where a cast member from Petticoat Junction (or Green Acres, for that matter) visits the Clampetts in Beverly Hills. The family will visit the Junction once more in a season 9 two-part episode.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.56104850769043, "source": "search", "title": "\"The Beverly Hillbillies\" Sam Drucker's Visit (TV Episode ..." }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "The Hooterville Trilogy: \"The Beverly Hillbillies\", \"Green Acres\" and \"Petticoat Junction\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.476153373718262, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "   In addition to the Douglas family, Hooterville had a number of other... colorful residents. The Ziffel were the grimy country folk I mentioned earlier. They treated their pig Arnold like one of the family. And to be blunt, Arnold was probably the smartest character on the show! Mr. Haney was the shifty traveling salseman. Eb Dawson was their handyman. Sam Drucker was... well the same guy he was on Petticoat Junction and in his guest appearances on the Beverly Hillbillies: the guy who ran the local store!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.792915344238281, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "   It was an empire! A grimy pig pooped doused empire! Nothing could stop this hick town juggernaut trilogy! Except for CBS which ran all three shows. Petticoat Junction was cancelled in 1970. Then in 1971, CBS cancelled the still popular Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies as part of a sweeping move on the networks part to get rid of all its \"rural\" comedies. Smart programming guys. \"Gee, people still love these shows but lets cancel them anyway because they seem to have country appeal and not city appeal. And we want urban viewers not farmers.\" Because, of course, country folk only watch country themed shows and city folk only watch city themed shows. And so I guess only Nazis and POW could enjoy Hogan's Heroes and only people in parallel dimensions watched The Twilight Zone. And even if there was any truth to that way of thinking, what is up with snubbing country viewers anyway! Screw you 1971 CBS executives! Next time you need a meal, go eat pavement. Those are the folks who put the food on your overly self important tables Mr. Corporate Fat Cat! May Jed Clampett buy you out and make you live on the Douglas' run down farm!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.697756290435791, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "The series is about a poor backwoods family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning , it is the first in a genre of \"fish out of water\" themed television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS. In 1963, Henning introduced Petticoat Junction , and in 1965 he reversed the rags to riches model for Green Acres . The show paved the way for later culture-conflict programs such as McCloud, The Nanny, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Doc (TV series). Panned by many entertainment critics of its time, it quickly became a huge ratings success for most of its nine-year run on CBS.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.076888084411621, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Two episodes of Petticoat Junction feature characters from The Beverly Hillbillies: \"Granny, the Baby Expert\" featuring Granny, and \"A Cake from Granny\" featuring Granny and Miss Jane. Although none of the characters from The Beverly Hillbillies ever appeared on Green Acres, an episode of Green Acres was named after The Beverly Hillbillies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.276580572128296, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Because of the show's high ratings, CBS asked creator Paul Henning to pen two more folksy comedies, spawning a mini-genre of rural sitcoms during the 1960s. Petticoat Junction featured an extended family, including three pretty young women of marrying age, running a small hotel in the isolated rural town of Hooterville. Green Acres flipped the Clampetts' fish-out-of-water concept by depicting two city sophisticates moving to Hooterville , which was populated by oddball country bumpkins.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.170989990234375, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Linda Kaye Henning , who provided the voiceover for the Beverly Hillbillies character Jethrine, portrayed Benaderet's daughter Betty Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction (the only female who remained all seven seasons).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.009782314300537, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Edgar Buchanan , who starred in all 222 episodes of Petticoat Junction and guest-starred in 17 episodes of Green Acres, also guested in three episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies, always as the character Uncle Joe Carson.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.045434474945068, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Homer Bedloe", "passage": "Charles Lane played Homer Bedloe, vice president of the C. & F. W. Railroad, on both shows. He also played an apartment landlord to Jane Hathaway (\"Foster Phinney\") during the 1970–71 season.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.366719245910645, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Sam Drucker, played by Frank Cady , of both Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, also appeared in several episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9768872261047363, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "She is also able to tell the precise time via a sun dial and the weather via a beetle (Granny Versus the Weather Bureau). Without her glasses, Granny is extremely nearsighted — once in a crossover with the Petticoat Junction show, Granny mistakes a dog for a baby child and a coffee pot for a telephone. Two of Granny's phobias are \"Injuns\" (she actually buys wigs so the Clampetts won't be \"scalped\") and the \"cement pond\" (swimming pool–she has a fear of water). In a long story arc in the show's ninth season, Elly May dates a U.S. Navy frogman, which confuses Granny: After seeing the frogman climb out of the pool in his skin-diving wear, she thinks that anyone who swims in the pool will be turned into a frog. She also has a peculiar way of retelling the War Between The States, in which she thinks the South has won and Jefferson Davis is the president, while calling Sherman's March \"Sherman's Retreat to the Sea\". Any attempts to correct her meet with failure. She is also known for slicing off switches to use on Jethro, mainly whenever he goes too far with his dumb and idiotic schemes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.02552604675293, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Sam (played by Frank Cady ) owns the general store in Hooterville. Granny is constantly under the impression that Sam wants to marry her, however Sam has no intentions of doing so. He appears in 10 episodes between 1968–1970. Cady also starred as Sam Drucker in Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. Cady reprised the role of Sam Drucker for the 1990 Green Acres reunion movie Return to Green Acres", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.178781509399414, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Petticoat Junction", "passage": "Pearl and Granny often fought for kitchen supremacy. Pearl once told Granny \"a blood cousin trumps a mother-in-law\". This underscored a familial disconnect between Jethro and Granny; although they shared no bloodlines, Jethro still called her \"Granny\" (as did everyone else on the show, including Miss Jane and the Drysdales). Other than their kitchen wars, relations between Granny and Pearl were generally friendly. The second season began with a brief mention of Pearl having moved back to the hills, an ironic departure, as it was Pearl who had urged Jed to move to California. The change came about because actress Bea Benaderet had left the show to star in Petticoat Junction . Mrs. Drysdale soon became Granny's main sparring partner.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.802117347717285, "source": "search", "title": "The Beverly Hillbillies - Beverly Hillbillies Wiki - Wikia" } ]

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As one of the few times in television history that three shows from the same producer, set in the same city, aired back-to-back-to-back on a single network in the same night, the three shows occasionally took advantage of their unique circumstances to create storylines that carried through all three series, such as \"Hurricane Saturday.\" Starring actress Hodge left the show after two seasons. David Rasche joined the cast at the start of the second season and Loni Anderson was added as the new hospital administrator for the third season.", "precise_score": 5.805610179901123, "rough_score": 5.890088081359863, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "In 1991, Empty Nest spawned its own spinoff, Nurses, a sitcom about a group of nurses working in the same hospital as Dr. Weston. The three series (Empty Nest, The Golden Girls and Nurses) represented one of the few times in American television history that three shows from the same producer, all taking place in the same city and explicitly set up with the characters knowing each other from the very beginning, aired on the same network in one night. On at least two occasions, Harris wrote storylines which carried through all three series as fictional crossovers.", "precise_score": 7.991981029510498, "rough_score": 7.865438938140869, "source": "wiki", "title": "Empty Nest" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "The following is a list of Empty Nest episodes featuring characters from The Golden Girls or Nurses.", "precise_score": 2.7123987674713135, "rough_score": 6.644123554229736, "source": "wiki", "title": "Empty Nest" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Required Spinoff Crossover : All four leads from The Golden Girls appeared in various episodes (albeit not at the same time), and Sophia became a regular Transplant in season 6. Conversely, characters from this show made guest appearances on The Golden Girls as well as Nurses.", "precise_score": 3.226837396621704, "rough_score": 3.3901615142822266, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "    Empty Nest and Golden Girls initially aired back to back and as such the characters from each show would drop by the other on a regular basis. Eventually a third show named Nurses was added that took place at the Hospital where Harry worked. All three shows would air on the same night and elaborate theme nights started airing with characters from all the shows hopping from one to the other. One was a moonlight madness night where a full moon made people act crazy. Another one was a hurricane night where everyone became stranded in different areas, leaving some at the Golden Girl's home, some over at Empty Nest and other unable to leave the hospital on Nurses. All three shows were by the same production company and so these event nights were fun stunts for NBC that made sense. ABC later tried the same thing only with utterly unrealted shows having a theme crossover night forced on them by the network. This was an utterly stupid attempt at the same sort of thing. Click here to go to that crossover mess and see why it was a horrible mistake.", "precise_score": 2.949793815612793, "rough_score": 3.5697872638702393, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"Empty Nest\" and \"Golden Girls\" - Poobala" }, { "answer": "Nursing", "passage": "    Eventually the Golden Girls went off the air and was brought back in the form of Golden Palace on CBS. With the shows on different networks and the Golden Girls actually moving out of the neighborhood, the crossovers with Empty Nest stopped. After only a year though, Golden Palace was cancelled. At that point, the character of Dorothy's mother Sophia reappeared on Empty Nest as a regular. Sophia had moved back to the Shady Pines Nursing Home which was near to the Weston home and so she started stopping by on a regular basis.", "precise_score": 5.389186859130859, "rough_score": 4.888218879699707, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"Empty Nest\" and \"Golden Girls\" - Poobala" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "Empty Nest was a spinoff of The Golden Girls. Created by Susan Harris (Soap, Benson, The Golden Girls) this series centered around Dr. Harry Weston. A recent widow, Harry had to deal with going on with his life without his late wife, Libby. Fortunatly he had his practice (he's a pediatrician) as well as his two daughters, Carol and Barbara, who move back home and provide an annoyance to him. Other members of the cast include, Charlie Dietz (the obnoxious next door neighbor) and Laverne (Harry's sassy nurse). In later seasons, Harry began working at a clinic with Maxine, with Laverne in tow. Also, when the Golden Girls sequel, The Golden Palace, ended in 1993, Estelle Getty came to the show and portrayed the Golden Girl character of Sophia Petrillo. Theme Song: \"Life Goes On\" Written by: John Bettis and George Tipton Spin-off of: The Golden Girls", "precise_score": 8.17892074584961, "rough_score": 7.790154933929443, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Nurses was an Empty Nest spinoff created by show runner Susan Harris that ran on NBC from 1991 to 1994. The show was paired with Empty Nest on Saturday nights and centered around the staff members of Community Medical Center's 3 West nurses station - a floor above Dr. Weston's pediatrics office. It wasn't uncommon to see Harry, Laverne and other Empty Nest'ers stopping by the third floor.", "precise_score": 4.229433059692383, "rough_score": 4.645209789276123, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Nurses", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.371519088745117, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "Harry's job was another major focus for the show. For the first five seasons he worked at a hospital, where he was assisted by wisecracking Southern nurse Laverne (Park Overall). In season six Harry retired, eventually going to work for a struggling inner-city medical clinic run by the tough-talking Dr. Maxine Douglas (Marsha Warfield). Laverne, having been fired by Dr. Weston's replacement, came to work there as well.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.263863563537598, "source": "wiki", "title": "Empty Nest" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "*Episode 20: \"Love and Marriage\" – Jack Trenton from Nurses", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.299199104309082, "source": "wiki", "title": "Empty Nest" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "*Episode 2: \"Bye-Bye, Baby... Hello: Part 1\" – Casey MacAfee from Nurses", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.132547378540039, "source": "wiki", "title": "Empty Nest" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "*Episode 7: \"Mother Dearest\" – Casey MacAfee from Nurses", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.259160041809082, "source": "wiki", "title": "Empty Nest" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "The show centered around Dr. Harry Weston (Richard Mulligan), a Miami pediatrician. When Harry's wife passes away, his two adult daughters, neurotic divorcee Carol (Dinah Manoff) and tough party-girl policewoman Barbara (Kristy McNichol) move back in with Harry to help support him. A third daughter was mentioned as being away at college, but was not seen until 1992 - when McNichol left the series due to suffering from bipolar disorder, Emily (Lisa Rieffel) was introduced to the cast for one season. Rounding out the cast was the Westons' wacky, womanizing neighbor Charlie Dietz (David Leisure), Harry's tough Southern nurse Laverne Todd (Park Overall), and Dreyfuss the dog. Estelle Getty also reprised her role as Sophia Patrillo from The Golden Girls and Golden Palace , including as a regular cast member in the final two seasons after Golden Palace ended. Another plot point that occurred around the time the final two seasons began was that Harry and Laverne left the hospital where they initially worked at to work for a struggling inner-city medical clinic run by the tough talking Dr. Maxine Douglas (Marsha Warfield).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.572509765625, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Episodes generally centered around the relationship between Harry and his daughters, who were highly competitive for 'Daddy's' attention. Harry's career as a children's doctor was also a major focus. The series ran for seven seasons and spawned its own spin-off, Nurses, which revolved around a group of nurses whom also worked at the hospital where Harry worked at. However, ratings declined after several cast changes and the loss of The Golden Girls as a lead-in, and the series ended in 1995.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6115784645080566, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Nursing", "passage": "\"Rashomon\"-Style : Harry and Laverne recall their first meeting at her job interview in a dispute over whether she ever promised to wear a nursing cap. In Harry's version, Laverne is a naive country bumpkin, in Laverne's she is competent and professional (perhaps overly so) and a weak and indecisive Harry defers to her.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.340902328491211, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Spinoff : Nurses. Unfortunately, however, Nurses did not have the same ratings success that Empty Nest had and thus suffered from tragic Executive Meddling constantly throughout the run.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.5977768898010254, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Nursing", "passage": "    Golden Girls was a show about three older women (Dorothy, Blanche and Rose) sharing a house in Miami. On the very first episode, Dorothy's senile mother Sophia moved in with them after the nursing home she was living in had a fire. The show got away with a lot of raunchy humor because its stars were older women.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.116262912750244, "source": "search", "title": "Spin Off: \"Empty Nest\" and \"Golden Girls\" - Poobala" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.7993059158325195, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.0974515676498413, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Episodes typically focused on a mix of personal issues in the lives of the staff coupled with plots revolving around the hospital's eccentric patients - anything from a Hannibal Lecter-style cannibal to a group of Trekkies suffering from food poisoning. Like much of Harris's work, storylines dabbled in both the realistic and the zany. Relationships between men and women were a significant source of material with the four female nurses at times coming off as a younger version of The Golden Girls as they gathered in the lounge to talk about their problems.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.813075542449951, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "The show maintained modest ratings its freshman year thanks to the still-solid Saturday lineup that included both The Golden Girls and Empty Nest. As the NBC lineup changed and Saturday became less of a prime ratings destination, Nurses struggled to maintain its audience base. Changes in the cast, as well as the show's soundtrack, for both the second and third seasons led to some inconsistency that likely furthered the diminishing ratings. Despite considerable media attention in 1993 when Loni Anderson joined the cast, Nurses was canceled at the end of its third year.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.9507764577865601, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Reruns of the show aired briefly in the mid-90s on Lifetime but haven't been seen since, and the show has never been officially released on DVD. However, like Empty Nest, bootleg DVDs of Nurses tend to circulate online. Visit the FAQ page for details on where to find them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.726329326629639, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "Stephanie Hodge as Nurse Sandy Miller (Seasons 1 & 2) - A fast talking Texan, Sandy was a divorced single woman always on the hunt for a man. Her sarcastic wit and cynical", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.179936408996582, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "Arnetia Walker as Nurse Annie Roland - Annie, a long-suffering wife and mother, was head nurse of 3 West. A commanding presence and opinionated leader, Annie made a level-headed, solid boss for the floor whether she was advising Sandy on her latest relationship woes, keeping shady Jack Trenton in line or going head-to-head with Casey MacAfee.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.216129302978516, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Mary Jo Keenen as Nurse Julie Milbury - Julie was the Rose Nylund of Nurses. Her wide-eyed niavete was the source of much of the character's humor. Julie was new to the nursing field at the start of the show, having formerly been a psychiatric social worker, and had trouble dealing with the harsh realities of working in medicine - and the germs that came with it. But her big heart and sunny optimism often won ou", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.265178680419922, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "Ada Maris as Nurse Gina Cuevas - Gina was the lovestruck Latina who pined for the affection of Dr. Hank Kaplan and often shared humorous - and typically harrowing - tales from her homeland, the fictional San Pequeno. Hank and Gina eventually did get together and, after a one-night stand in season two that resulted in pregnancy, had a child in season three, delivered by Dr. Weston.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.140295028686523, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "Jeff Altman as Nurse Greg Vincent (Season 1) - Greg was a snarky male nurse who often got flack for his disrepect of the hospital's doctors. Jeff Altman left after the first season.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.184127807617188, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "Markus Flanagan as Nurse Luke Fitzgerald (Season 2) - Luke arrived at Community Med at the start of season two and butted heads with Dr. Kaplan right away. Luke, a self-professed loner, had trouble with authority and was not good at dealing with people. He often had the staff wondering just how sane he was. Markus Flanagan left after the second season.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.196438789367676, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Loni Anderson as Casey MacAfee (Season 3) - Corporate climber Casey MacAfee became hospital administrator at the start of the third season. When a corporate company took over operations, its flaky owner Mr. Waits (played in a recurring role by Will & Grace's Leslie Jordan) put Casey in charge, despite her having no experience with running a hospital. Her management decisions, such as installing a surveillance camera over the nurses station or ordering sunny yellow hospital gowns, conflicted with the staff, especially Annie, who became her biggest antagonist. Casey reinvigorated the show's Empty Nest connection when she set her romantic sights on Harry.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.473038673400879, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Nurses produced 68 episodes between September 1991 and May 1994. A title and air date guide can be found here . Also check out the Golden Girls/Nurses Crossovers section for more episode information.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.587047576904297, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Despite a brief run in syndication on Lifetime in the mid-nineties, Nurses has largely faded from view. But its cast went on to varying degrees of success after the show shut down production.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.810297966003418, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Arnetia Walker - Arnetia's biggest roles since Nurses include a recurring spot on the series Popular and a regular, albeit short-lived, stint on ABC's The Big House, which ran for six episodes in the spring of 2004.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.828817367553711, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Mary Jo Keenen - Mary Jo starred in the short-lived 1995 series My Wildest Dreams and made appearances on The John Laroquette Show, Everybody Loves Raymond and, perhaps most notably, a recurring role on Seinfeld as a neighbor of the Costanzas who thought George was in need of mental help. She is married to Mitchell Hurtwitz, a producer on Nurses and The Golden Girls, who has created and/or produced several series including the acclaimed Arrested Development. (In fact, it was Mary Jo who came up with the family name, Bluth, used on Arrested Development.) Mary Jo and Mitchell have three daughters.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.212065696716309, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Ada Maris - From 2000 to 2004, Ada starred on the Nickelodeon series The Brothers Garcia alongside Nurses costar Carlos Lacamara and has had roles on Stark Trek: Enterprise and, more recently, the soap opera One Life to Live in 2009-2010. She is married to actor Tony Plana (Ugly Betty).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.558716773986816, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Kip Gilman - Kip has accumulated an impressive list of guest roles since Nurses ended, including recent spots on shows such as Bones and CSI:Miami. He is also an accomplished stage actor. Kip is married to actress Jamie Rose.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.311874389648438, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Carlos Lacamara - Carlos reunited with his Nurses costar Ada Maris for the Nickelodeon series The Brothers Garcia, which ran from 2000 to 2004. Since then he has appeared in several primetime series and daytime soaps ranging from NCIS and Desperate Housewives to Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless. His most recent TV appearances include stints on Heroes: Reborn and Aquarius.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.431120872497559, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Jeff Altman - Comedian Jeff Altman has had a varied career in addition to his one-season run on Nurses that has included television (Baywatch), films and voiceover work (Bee Movie).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.227569580078125, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Florence Stanley - Florence was already an accomplished and well-known actress prior to her stint on Nurses. She continued to add to her impressive resume after leaving the show with appearances on such series as Mad About You, Cybill and Malcolm in the Middle. She was the voice of the grandmother on the ABC series Dinosaurs from 1991 to 1994 and the original voice of Lois's mother on Family Guy. Florence died in 2003 at the age of 79.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.844221115112305, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Markus Flanagan - Markus has appeared in a variety of TV shows since his one season on Nurses. Among his recent works are Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Supernatural and Bones. Markus is also a playwright and founded the L.A. Cafe Plays series in Santa Monica, CA. His book, One Less Bitter Actor, is a critcally-acclaimed guide for those trying to make it in show business.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.003616333007812, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurses", "passage": "Loni Anderson - Loni's varied career, which includes what are perhaps her most notable roles as Jennifer on WKRP in Cincinnati and the real-life Mrs. Burt Reynolds (which ended in a much-publicized divorce during her stint on Nurses), remained active after the show wrapped. She costarred in So NoTORIous in 2006, alongside Tori Spelling and Zachary Quinto, and has recently appeared on Baby Daddy and in the 2016 series My Sister is So Gay.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.872664451599121, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest Online - Nurses: The Empty Nest Spinoff" }, { "answer": "Nurse", "passage": "\"Empty Nest\" is set in Miami and tells of the day to day misadventures of a widowed pediatrician, Harry Weston, and his two adult daughters, Barbara and Carol Weston, who have come back to live with him after failed marriages. Much of the humour is derived from Barbara and Carols' ongoing attempts, and failure, to find the perfect partner, and once again leave the \"nest\". There is also the skirt-chasing next door neighbour, Charlie Dietz and Harry's southern nurse, Laverne Todd, unique for her unbelievable Hickory stories. 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Another classic was the precocious kid who developed a crush on Dr Weston's nurse, which he transferred to Carol at the end of the episode - another laugh out loud moment. This one needs to be revived pretty damn soon, it'd blow 'Friends' right out of the water!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.967153072357178, "source": "search", "title": "Empty Nest (TV Series 1988–1995) - IMDb" } ]

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Elizabeth Ashley is an eccentric aunt — everyone in the show is a little odd -veteran actor Ossie Davis runs the local cafe and Oscar nominee and Reynolds' friend Charles Durning is the town's redneck doctor. The acting ensemble is first class, award-winning and high-powered, and the scripts have a sassy sense of humour. The series has brought Burt Reynolds back to Hollywood.", "precise_score": 7.956295013427734, "rough_score": 8.279844284057617, "source": "search", "title": "Growing Up With Burt Reynolds - dougiethompson.com" }, { "answer": "Wood Newton", "passage": "Reynolds guest-starred in the Pony Express episode, \"The Good Samaritan\", which aired in 1960 on the centennial of the famed mail route. He used television fame to secure leading roles for low-budget films, like Operation C.I.A. (1965) and played the titular role in Navajo Joe. He later disparaged the series, telling Johnny Carson that Dan August had \"two forms of expression: \"mean and meaner\". Reynolds appeared on ABC's The American Sportsman hosted by outdoors journalist Grits Gresham, who took celebrities on hunting, fishing and shooting trips around the world. Saul David considered Reynolds to star in Our Man Flint, but Lew Wasserman rejected him. Albert R. Broccoli asked Reynolds to play James Bond, but he turned the role down, saying \"An American can't play James Bond. It just can't be done.\" The role went to George Lazenby. While filming Shark!, Sam Fuller disowned the rough cuts. Reynolds later starred in Skullduggery (1970). His breakout performance in Deliverance (1972) made him a star, and he gained notoriety when he posed naked in the April (Vol. 172, No. 4) issue of Cosmopolitan. Reynolds claims the centerfold in Cosmopolitan hurt the chances for the film and cast to receive Academy Awards. In 1977, Reynolds and Nick Nolte declined the role of Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, which went to Harrison Ford. Later that year, he worked as a guest color analyst on CBS Sports' telecast of the Sun Bowl, teaming with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier. Reynolds starred with Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason and Sally Field in Smokey and the Bandit, and later took the lead role in Stroker Ace (1983), a decision which, he later claimed, was a turning point in his career from which he never recovered. Reynolds tried his hand at producing two shows with friend Bert Convy, including Win, Lose or Draw. As a celebrity gameplayer, he appeared with Justine Bateman, Debbie Reynolds and Loretta Swit. Another show they produced was titled 3rd Degree, and like Win, Lose, or Draw, Reynolds appeared on a few episodes as a panelist from 1989 to 1990. He also played Wood Newton in the CBS sitcom, Evening Shade, and won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. For Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997), Reynolds won another Golden Globe and was nominated for his first Academy Award. In USA Network's Burn Notice, he played ex-CIA agent Paul Anderson, who is pursued by a team of Russian assassins who wanted to kidnap, interrogate and kill him.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.952674388885498, "source": "wiki", "title": "Burt Reynolds" }, { "answer": "Wood Newton", "passage": "A former pro football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers who quit due to injury, Wood Newton has settled down to a quiet life as the coach of the Evening Shade high school football team - a position that is slightly controversial as the team is notorious for losing every game. He and his wife, Ava, whom he married when she was only 18 (a frequently voiced grievance by her father, Evan Evans, the owner of the local newspaper), are devoted to one another despite the age difference. Ava is an ambitious and successful practicing lawyer who in the first season is elected District Attorney while pregnant with their fourth (unintended) child, Emily. Among Wood's and Ava's closest friends are the somewhat older Harlan Eldridge, the town doctor, and his trusting wife, Merleen, who is always eager to believe the best of people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.28555965423584, "source": "wiki", "title": "Evening Shade" }, { "answer": "Wood Newton", "passage": "This gentle rural sitcom, Evening Shade, starred Burt Reynolds as Wood Newton, an ex-pro football star who returned to his Arkansas home town of Evening Shade to coach the high school football team (the Mules), which had not won a game for two years. His wife Ava was elected the town's prosecuting attorney while pregnant with the couple's fourth child. Although their eldest son Taylor was the team quarterback, he inherited little of his father's sporting prowess. Assisting Wood is Herman Stiles, a fragile mathematics teacher uncommonly unsuited to the task of football coaching. Other regulars included cantankerous Dr Elldridge and Ava's father Evan, who disapproves of Wood's laid-back lifestyle and who has never forgiven him for stealing his daughter away at such a young age. (Ava was 18 when she got hitched to the 30-year-old Wood.) The series was narrated by Ossie Davis as Ponder Blue, the laconic and philosophical proprietor of Ponder Blue's Barbecue Villa, around which much of the action takes place. Evening Shade was marked by its sharp writing and measured, almost leisurely pacing, a style dictated by Reynolds with his deliberately understated performance as Newton (he also produced, wrote and directed episodes). 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Written by Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.753014326095581, "source": "search", "title": "Evening Shade ( TV Series 1990–1994) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Wood Newton", "passage": "Burt did. For half a dozen years he had been the biggest box-office attraction in the world and for a decade one of the top 10 favourites but, because of the gossip, he had to submit to medical tests before he would be considered for film roles. He had to meet studio executives to show not only that he was alive but that he was bright and cheerful. \"We didn't want them to be able to say: 'Oh, he looks depressed.'\" He worked to show he could but many of the films were remarkably bad. Ironically, his private life was exactly the opposite. Professionally, Burt is now back at the top with the television situation comedy Evening Shade, a sort of Southern Cheers, for which he won an Emmy - the TV Oscar - his year. Burt, as Wood Newton, a former American footballer, has returned to the fictional town of Evening Shade, Arkansas, to coach the local football team, whose major handicap is that they don't know how to play football. The half-hour programme is filmed \"live\" before a studio audience. This particular Friday evening, Newton has been handcuffed to a telephone pole. Suddenly, there is a noise offstage. The next moment actress Loni Anderson, who has been with Burt since 1981 and his wife since 1988 - their fourth anniversary is next April -is walking over to the star of the show with their adopted three-year-old son Quinton. Seeing his father handcuffed had upset the boy, explains Loni. \"We're just playing,\" Reynolds tell his son. \"It's only a play.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.234581470489502, "source": "search", "title": "Growing Up With Burt Reynolds - dougiethompson.com" }, { "answer": "Wood Newton", "passage": "Ergo, Reynolds' character in \"Evening Shade,\" was instantly transformed from the journalist that Thomason had been contemplating to Wood Newton, who, after a 15-year pro career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, returns to his hometown to coach the perennially last-place high school football team.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 8.256733894348145, "source": "search", "title": "TELEVISION : The Dawning of 'Evening Shade' : How the ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "Jackie Mason", "passage": "Chicken Soup is an American sitcom that aired on ABC, starring Jackie Mason and Lynn Redgrave.", "precise_score": 9.160301208496094, "rough_score": 8.200926780700684, "source": "wiki", "title": "Chicken Soup (TV series)" }, { "answer": "Jackie Mason", "passage": "ABC abruptly canceled ''Chicken Soup'' yesterday, the highest rated new program of the television season. The series, starring Jackie Mason, had its final telecast last night.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.2844014167785645, "source": "search", "title": "'Chicken Soup' Is Canceled By ABC After 7 Shows - NYTimes.com" }, { "answer": "Jackie Mason", "passage": "Mr. Mason issued a statement yesterday in which he said he was relieved that he could stop playing the character of Jackie Fisher. ''I need to be Jackie Mason,'' he said.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.206734657287598, "source": "search", "title": "'Chicken Soup' Is Canceled By ABC After 7 Shows - NYTimes.com" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Debbie Thompson", "passage": "Debbie Reynolds portrayed Debbie Thompson, a housewife married to Jim, a successful sportswriter for the Los Angeles Sun. Jim was portrayed by actor Don Chastain, his boss by longtime television actor Tom Bosley. Reynolds' attempts to amuse herself were regarded as being reminiscent of those of Lucille Ball on Here's Lucy.", "precise_score": 8.761226654052734, "rough_score": 7.479107856750488, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Debbie Reynolds Show" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Barbara Walters", "passage": "ABCNEWS' Barbara Walters interviewed actor and musician Dudley Moore for 20/20 in the fall of 1999 about his career and the malady that ultimately took his life. The following is a transcript of their conversation.", "precise_score": 7.421992301940918, "rough_score": 8.517629623413086, "source": "search", "title": "'20/20': Dudley Moore Battles Brain Disease - ABC News" }, { "answer": "Barbara Walters", "passage": "Today, that Pathétique performance has come to haunt the Dagenham-born star - as he revealed to American interviewer Barbara Walters on her 20-20 programme on ABC TV last week. 'I so loved playing and now I can listen but ...' Then he stopped, his hands open in front of him, staring at them in grief.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.70633602142334, "source": "search", "title": "Now Dudley confronts his demons | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Barbara Walters", "passage": "BARBARA WALTERS, ABCNEWS: Now the great comic actor, Dudley Moore. For years, he made us laugh in movies like Arthur and 10. But all that is history.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8021364212036133, "source": "search", "title": "'20/20': Dudley Moore Battles Brain Disease - ABC News" }, { "answer": "Barbara Walters", "passage": "\"I know very well what is happening to me,\" he told ABCNEWS' Barbara Walters in one of his final interviews, in June 2000. \"I just want them to know that I am going through this disease as well as I can.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.453512668609619, "source": "search", "title": "Dudley Moore Dead at 66 - ABC News" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy also had summer and part-time jobs, which included tutoring and working alongside Blanche at the museum and as a writer for the \"Mister Terrific Show\" at the television station that employed Rose Nylund.", "precise_score": -4.557647705078125, "rough_score": -7.286497592926025, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "While often mocked as a manly and sexually unattractive woman by her two roommate friends due to her height, deep voice and somewhat severe features, Dorothy is also in possession of many talents. In one episode, she is able to upstage Blanche at the latter's favorite bar, the Rusty Anchor, with her singing, winning the admiration of Blanche's many suitors. At another point, remembering how funny she could be in high school, Dorothy tries her hand at doing stand-up comedy, in the end winning over her audience by poking fun at her own life and bringing up such subjects as menopause with its hot flashes.", "precise_score": -8.192850112915039, "rough_score": -8.53757095336914, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "She is often very humble, and it is usually rare that she ever brags about herself. Dorothy can be comedically sarcastic, especially towards her less-than-sophisticated roommate, Rose, and man-obsessed Blanche. They can laugh at each other's remarks without hurt feelings, much of the time. Dorothy's mother Sophia has a tendency to \"borrow\" money from her, often without Dorothy's permission. Dorothy regards her roommates as family. She is very comforting and loving to them, giving them good advice. However, there are times when Rose and Blanche are scared of her, specifically when she gets angry. Blanche once reminded Rose of the time the latter had lost Dorothy's keys, to which Rose responded that Dorothy had \"uprooted a mighty sequoia.\" When Blanche considered that she and Rose should defy Dorothy, she made a list of questions, such as \"Can she intimidate us?\" and several other possibilities. Rose replied, \"Blanche, she can do all those things!\" Dorothy, who had a no-nonsense personality, was quick to make sarcastic remarks if someone (especially Rose) made a dumb comment; this tension between Dorothy and Rose was a natural byproduct of Arthur's and White's real-life personalities, and the two often struggled to get along offscreen. ", "precise_score": -0.6535877585411072, "rough_score": -0.6714965105056763, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "After her divorce from Stanley Zbornak, in which she kept her married surname, Dorothy Zbornak moved into a house in Miami, Florida, with widows Blanche Devereaux (owner / co-owner (all the girls decided that they should all own the house in one episode due to the building codes) of the house, played by Rue McClanahan) and Rose Nylund (Betty White). Shortly thereafter, Dorothy's mother, Sophia Petrillo, moved in after her nursing home, Shady Pines, burned down. This was a running gag during the show's run, where Sophia would often refer to Shady Pines as a prison, and Dorothy would defend it as a lovely retirement village. Other times, when Dorothy would become exasperated with her mother or try to get Sophia to listen to her, Dorothy would threaten \"Shady Pines, Ma!\", after which Sophia would immediately fall in line. Dorothy shared a unique relationship with her roommates, one often laced with her famously sardonic comments; the four shared a home for seven years, and in more than one episode it was pointed out that, despite a lack of blood ties, they were as much a family as any other household.", "precise_score": 0.8499323129653931, "rough_score": 1.301720142364502, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Some of Dorothy's suitors turned out to have less-than-virtuous characters. Elliot Clayton, a respected doctor, made a pass at Blanche, and when Blanche told Dorothy about it, Dorothy accused Blanche of making it all up, and wanting Elliot for herself. Blanche, deeply hurt that Dorothy would believe Elliot's word over hers, announced she was kicking Dorothy out of the house, and this would have ended their friendship for good had Rose not exposed Elliot for the liar he was on the day Dorothy was set to move out. During the battle, one of Dorothy's classic lines was: \"It's not enough that you've had half of the men in Dade County, you have to have everyone else's men, it's PATHETIC!\"", "precise_score": -6.147355556488037, "rough_score": -6.722967147827148, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "A few other suitors were portrayed by well-known actors, including Dick Van Dyke and Leslie Nielsen. Leslie Nielsen played Lucas Hollingsworth, Blanche's uncle (her father's brother), whom Dorothy later married. Blanche was excited to hear that he was coming to visit her in Miami, but, because of a previous engagement (a supposedly very important tennis date), she pawned him off on Dorothy. The date was rather dull, and both Dorothy and Lucas were angered with Blanche for her inconsiderate attitude. To get even with her, Dorothy and Lucas decided to fake an engagement. They played it up for weeks, angering and annoying Blanche. However, during the ruse, Dorothy and Lucas fell in love for real, he proposed, and she accepted. Despite Stan's hope to derail the marriage, he took her to the church in style (in a limo), and although he wanted to say something, he didn't. With that, Dorothy moved to Hollingsworth Manor in Atlanta, and moved on with her life. At first, Sophia was to move with her, but she decided to remain in Miami with Blanche and Rose (they all later opened a hotel named The Golden Palace, and a spin-off was also named The Golden Palace).", "precise_score": -3.742220163345337, "rough_score": -5.476810455322266, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Elaine Stritch was reportedly considered for the role of Dorothy Zbornak while The Golden Girls was in development, under the assumption that Arthur (the series was originally conceived with \"a Bea Arthur type\" in mind) would not consider returning to a regular television series. As Stritch related in her show Elaine Stritch at Liberty, she \"blew her audition\". Rue McClanahan, who had been cast as Blanche and had co-starred with her on Maude, convinced Arthur to take the role. (Coincidentally, Stritch and Arthur had appeared together on the short-lived 1956 TV series Washington Square.)", "precise_score": -0.000626164604909718, "rough_score": -1.8022619485855103, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In the series finale of The Golden Girls, Sophia, after initially deciding to follow the now-married Dorothy out of the house, turns back and decides to stay with Rose and Blanche, which sets up the transition to The Golden Palace. When Rose, Blanche and Sophia invest in a hotel, Sophia is installed as one of the two chefs, specializing in Italian cuisine while the hotel's previous chef, Chuy Castillos (Cheech Marin), handles Mexican food. Sophia begins to show signs of senile dementia, usually in comical situations (for instance, she is shown to be standing still and apparently unconscious while attempting to operate a vacuum cleaner) and her bluntness is toned down to a certain extent. In the episode \"One Angry Stan\" she is the only one to witness Stanley Zbornak after he fakes his death to avoid tax troubles; the fact that no one else sees Stan in these episodes (he ducks out of sight whenever someone else enters the room), coupled with Sophia's increased senility, make it unclear whether or not Stan is really alive or if Sophia is hallucinating Stan's appearance.", "precise_score": 5.773025989532471, "rough_score": 6.064879894256592, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sophia Petrillo" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia is best known for her wisecracks, put-downs and brazen remarks, often commenting on Dorothy's unmarried state, Blanche's promiscuity, and Rose's cluelessness. However, despite her sharp criticism of her daughter and roommates, she loves and cares for them deeply; she even sees Rose and Blanche as surrogate daughters. The other women usually seek Sophia out for advice, which Sophia is all too willing to share, usually beginning with her catchphrase, \"Picture it…\"", "precise_score": 0.6910669803619385, "rough_score": 1.739344835281372, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sophia Petrillo" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The series revolves around four older, single women (three widows and one divorcée) sharing a house in Miami, Florida. The owner of the house is a widow named Blanche Devereaux (McClanahan), who was joined by fellow widow Rose Nylund (White) and divorcée Dorothy Zbornak (Arthur) after they both responded to a room-for-rent ad on the bulletin board of a local grocery store a year prior to the start of the series. In the pilot episode, the three were joined by Dorothy's 80-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo (Getty), after the retirement home where she lived burned down. ", "precise_score": -0.11368715018033981, "rough_score": -6.342015743255615, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "After six consecutive seasons in the top 10, and a seventh season at No. 30, The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. In the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy meets and marries Blanche's Uncle Lucas (Leslie Nielsen), and moves to Hollingsworth Manor in Atlanta, Georgia. Sophia was to join her, but in the end, Sophia stays behind with the other women in Miami, leading into the spin-off series, The Golden Palace. The series finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers. As of 2010, the episode ranked at No. 17 of most-watched finales. ", "precise_score": 3.8143012523651123, "rough_score": 3.0262808799743652, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Born in Brooklyn, New York City, to Sicilian immigrants Sophia and Salvadore Petrillo, Dorothy became pregnant while still in high school, resulting in a marriage to Stanley Zbornak in order to legitimize the baby. Stan and Dorothy eventually moved to Miami, but divorced after 38 years when Stan left her for a young flight attendant. The marriage produced children. According to the timeline presented, Dorothy and Stan would have had three children, with their oldest son or daughter near 40 by the beginning of the series. However, due to a lack of continuity in the writing, it is implied they had three children but sometimes stated they only had two. Michael and Kate were repeatedly shown as being in their 20s during the run of the show, thus not being old enough to be the child Dorothy got pregnant with in high school. In the series' finale episode, Dorothy marries Blanche's uncle, Lucas Hollingsworth, and relocates to Atlanta, Georgia. Arthur also played Dorothy's grandmother, Sophia's mother, in a flashback episode to when they lived in Brooklyn.", "precise_score": -3.954385995864868, "rough_score": -4.5934271812438965, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Born in Palermo, Sicily, Sophia moved to New York after fleeing an arranged marriage to Guido Spirelli. She later married Salvadore Petrillo, with whom she had three children: Dorothy, Gloria, and Phil, a cross-dresser, who later dies of a heart attack (episode \"Ebbtide's Revenge\"). Initially a resident in the Shady Pines Retirement Home after having a stroke prior to the start of the series, she moved in with Blanche, Rose and Dorothy following a fire at the institution. During the series' run, Sophia married Max Weinstock, but they soon separated. Throughout the series, she held a few part-time jobs, mostly involving food, including fast-food worker and entrepreneur of spaghetti sauce and homemade sandwiches.", "precise_score": 2.3372886180877686, "rough_score": -3.397120237350464, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "* Debra Engle as Blanche's daughter Rebecca Devereaux, who has a baby girl by artificial insemination and appears in three episodes (seasons 5–6). Shawn Schepps played Rebecca in season three, when Rebecca returns from a modeling career in Paris, overweight and engaged to a verbally abusive man. (Debra) also appears in the series finale of The Golden Palace, in which she is called upon by Blanche for an ovum.", "precise_score": -9.360038757324219, "rough_score": -7.980429649353027, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "* Greece: Chrysa Koritsia: In 2008, Greek broadcaster ET1 premiered a Greek remake entitled Chrysa Koritsia (, \"Gold[en] Girls\"), which features the four women in Greece. Each of the characters has been Hellenized to suit the culture and modern setting. Names were only slightly changed but more for cultural reasons, as Sophia (whose first name was unchanged, as it is Greek), Bela (Blanche), Dora (Dorothy), Fifi (Rose), and Panos (Stan). The series began airing in mid-January, and features many similar plots to the original. ET1 aired a rerun of the show in the summer of 2008 and managed to take a place in the top 10 rates chart, presented by AGB Nielsen Media Research. The Greek edition features Mirka Papakonsantinoy as Dora, Dina Konsta as Sofia, Eleni Gerasimidou as Fifi and Ivonni Maltezoy as Bela.", "precise_score": 1.83164644241333, "rough_score": -4.330729007720947, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "* Netherlands: Golden Girls: A Dutch remake for the RTL 4 network stars Loes Luca as Barbara (Blanche), Beppie Melissen as Els (Dorothy), Cecile Heuer as Milly (Rose), and Pleuni Touw as Toos (Sophia). The show premiered in fall 2012, using essentially the same plots as the U.S. version, along with a Dutch-language version of the original theme song, \"Thank You for Being a Friend.\" ", "precise_score": 4.632169246673584, "rough_score": 4.41766357421875, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "* Russia: Bolshie Devochki: A Russian remake was broadcast in 2006, entitled Bolshie Devochki (), which in English can literally be translated to: \"Big Girls.\" The series featured renowned Russian actresses Galina Petrova as Irina (Dorothy), Olga Ostroumova as Nadejda (Blanche), Valentina Telechkina as Margarita (Rose), and Elena Millioti as Sofya (Sophia). However, the concept never caught on with the Russian viewers and the show was canceled after only thirty-two episodes. ", "precise_score": -0.6851096153259277, "rough_score": -3.870466709136963, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "* Spain: Juntas pero no revueltas/Las chicas de oro: In 1996, TVE launched a Spanish remake entitled Juntas pero no revueltas (Together, but not mixed) with Mercedes Sampietro as Julia (Dorothy), Mónica Randall as Nuri (Blanche), Kiti Manver as Rosa (Rose), and Amparo Baró as Benigna (Sophia). Low ratings made it disappear after one season. In 2010, another remake with the title Las chicas de oro (The Golden Girls) was announced, again on TVE, this time produced by José Luis Moreno and with Concha Velasco as Doroti (Dorothy), Carmen Maura as Rosa (Rose), Lola Herrera as Blanca (Blanche) and Alicia Hermida as Sofía (Sophia). The series premiered on September 13, 2010 with success. However, after only 26 episodes, the series was eventually discontinued after the end of the first season after receiving generally bad reviews and following dropping ratings. ", "precise_score": 3.388756036758423, "rough_score": 2.7923760414123535, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In an exclusive excerpt from Jim Colucci's new book, Golden Girls Forever, the author describes how Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia paved the way for shows like Living Single and Looking.", "precise_score": 6.654876708984375, "rough_score": 6.477753639221191, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "“Four points on a compass,” as Betty White aptly describes them, the characters of Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia match up to four classic comedic types:  respectively, the Brain, the Slut, the Ditz and the Big Mouth.  Comedy duos are a classic tradition, but a completely different animal.  And while it’s certainly true that three women can work, especially in film – think 9 to 5 – having three lead characters in a sitcom might leave one character having to carry the B plot on her own. ", "precise_score": 1.7133692502975464, "rough_score": -4.572387218475342, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "But four leaves us with infinite possibilities.  Rose takes Dorothy’s night school class in order to earn her diploma, while Blanche and Sophia compete for a suave Latin lover.  Or Blanche and Rose try out for the road show of Cats while Dorothy tries to prove that her mother is faking her injury. ", "precise_score": 0.5430472493171692, "rough_score": -1.0993720293045044, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In Designing Women, which launched in 1986, vain Southern beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker would certainly sense sisterhood with Blanche.  And apart from the difference in accents, Charlene Frazier’s hometown of Poplar Bluff, Missouri could easily be mistaken for Rose’s birthplace of St. Olaf, Minnesota.  Suzanne’s older sister Julia is clearly the Dorothy of the group – smart, opinionated and prone to speak her mind.  Only Annie Potts’ character of Mary Jo Shively is no easy match to a Golden Girl, perhaps because at the start, Mary Jo was the show’s least defined character.  Over seven seasons, Mary Jo essentially became a mini-Julia, another Dorothy.  So it’s no surprise that, after his initial appearance in an early first season episode (and also after actor Meshach Taylor’s small role in the Golden Girls pilot), Designing Women quickly promoted African-American delivery man Anthony Bouvier to regular status; like Sophia, he provides needed commentary from an outsider’s perspective (this time due to race and gender rather than age).", "precise_score": 2.337954044342041, "rough_score": 3.961810827255249, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Starting in 1993 on FOX, Living Single was almost a direct copy of The Golden Girls – and in fact, as Golden Girls writer Kevin Abbott explains, the show’s creator Yvette Lee Bowser even asked him for a copy of the Golden Girls pilot script, to use as a template.  Living Single’s characters of Khadijah and Synclaire James and Regine Hunter fit perfectly into the molds established by Dorothy, Rose and Blanche, respectively.  Again, only the Sophia role seems hard to fill, perhaps because when creating a show about young black women, there’s no obvious parallel for an old lady.  But Erika Alexander’s character Maxine Shaw comes pretty close; in her flirtatious banter with upstairs neighbor Kyle, she can be the most outrageous and outspoken of the four friends.", "precise_score": 5.915744304656982, "rough_score": 4.745204448699951, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In 1990, during the Girls’ run, one of the show’s writer/producers Gail Parent landed her co-creation Babes at Fox; but the sitcom about three overweight sisters and their elderly neighbor in a Manhattan apartment building was cancelled after a single season.  Ultimately it would be Gail’s fellow Golden Girls writer Marc Cherry who would find the greatest success by tapping into the power of the Rule of Four.  Having tinkered with the formula in 1994 by creating The Five Mrs. Buchanans for CBS, Marc brought Desperate Housewives to ABC a decade later, while acknowledging his debt to the four ladies from Miami.  “Blanche was my favorite character to write for,” he remembers, “because the character was so selfish and vain and self-obsessed, and yet you still liked her.”  Marc admits “there were a lot of traces of Blanche Devereaux in Gabrielle Solis.  It’s totally a credit to the actor.  Like Rue McClanahan, Eva Longoria is one of those actors who is able to be likeable when she is doing some unlikeable things.”", "precise_score": -3.9266865253448486, "rough_score": -5.610111713409424, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In 2013, Marc gave the formula yet another twist in creating his follow-up series, Devious Maids.  It’s easy to see parallels to Rose in naïve, goodhearted Rosie, and to Blanche in sexy and self-centered Carmen.  And while the educated, intellectual Marisol has obvious similarities to Dorothy, Marc points out that “the tart-tongued part of Dorothy you will find in Zoila’s mouth.”  In creating his Devious characters, he says, “I kind of took Dorothy and split her up.”", "precise_score": -5.270930290222168, "rough_score": -6.643045425415039, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "            By 2012, viewers were ready for a foursome from a whole new generation, and HBO’s Girls was born.  Although the show’s creator and star Lena Dunham didn’t base her Girls directly on the Girls from Miami, she does see at least one obvious parallel:  “I think we can all agree that [Jessa] is Blanche.”  As the show’s Executive Producer Bruce Eric Kaplan further explains, Lena’s creations do descend from Sophia, Dorothy, Rose and Blanche – albeit indirectly.  Addressing head-on the inevitable comparisons to its HBO ancestor Sex and the City, Girls’ pilot featured not only a discussion of Carrie and company, but also a poster of the iconic ‘90s series on Shoshanna’s bedroom wall.  “We have a very clear connection to Sex and the City,” Bruce explains.  “Girls is an update of Sex and the City, much as Sex and the City was so clearly a modernist version of The Golden Girls.  So I guess Girls’ link to The Golden Girls is sort of transitive.”  Thus, he adds, Girls’ lead character Hannah Horvath may be more direct a legacy of her more immediate predecessor Carrie Bradshaw than she is of Dorothy or Sophia.  But the connection, he agrees, is there.", "precise_score": 3.950446128845215, "rough_score": 2.9099488258361816, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "As the episode faded with “Thank You For Being a Friend” over its closing credits, it was an appropriate season ending for a series about a friendly foursome -- particularly one which has obvious parallels in terms of its characters:  naïve Patrick to Rose, caustic Agustín to Dorothy, and sexually-charged Dom to Blanche.  As the group’s only female, Doris stands out as its quippy Sophia – although “for the record,” notes Looking’s creator/writer Michael Lannan, “our Sophia is actually our costume designer, Danny Glicker.”", "precise_score": -0.7421773672103882, "rough_score": -2.597191095352173, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls' Most Lasting Legacy | Advocate.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "When Rose loses her job at the grief center, she begins searching for other sources of work. However, in the meantime she becomes incredibly depressed when she battles age discrimination. Meanwhile, Blanche tries to lose a few pounds and Dorothy is excited when a man she once had a crush on, contacts her and asks her out.moreless", "precise_score": -6.257495880126953, "rough_score": -7.992012977600098, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "A week before an awards ceremony for the Volunteer of the Year, Blanche, Dorothy and Rose each come down with a nasty flu, which compounds their arguing over who will win the prestigious award. Meanwhile, Sophia is having a hard time coming up with a date for the event.", "precise_score": 0.08013182878494263, "rough_score": -4.531935691833496, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche's psychology professor sexually harasses her when she goes to him for help on a difficult test. Blanche's professor makes her an harassing deal: If she has sex with him, he'll give her an \"A\" for the exam. Meanwhile, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia each try to get a hold of tickets for a sold out Frank Sinatra concert.moreless", "precise_score": 0.17142029106616974, "rough_score": -6.229297637939453, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche is romanced by a wealthy suitor who she learns has several small children. This fact dampens his proposal of marriage as Blanche ponders being a mother again. 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This leads to Dorothy and Stan rekindling old feelings resulting in the two of them spending the night together. Meanwhile, Dorothy, Rose and Blanche plan a vacation and Sophia is none too pleased when she learns she is not invited.moreless", "precise_score": 1.0507278442382812, "rough_score": -3.9219298362731934, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In a bowling competition, it's Dorothy and Blanche verses Rose and Sophia. 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Later, while out to dinner, she learns just what Virginia is after, Blanche's kidney. She soon must make a decision, give Virginia a kidney or let her find someone else. Meanwhile, Rose and Dorothy babysit for an infant.moreless", "precise_score": -6.065925598144531, "rough_score": -8.07819938659668, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Having not dated since her husband died, Rose reluctantly agrees to go on a double blind date with Blanche. However, while Blanche's date turns out to be a dud, Rose's date turns into a serious relationship and is later invited on a cruise which would involve sharing a stateroom, something she is not sure she's ready for. 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Hearing this, Rose worries over where she will live and later, worries that there is something off about Harry. Meanwhile, Dorothy is more than exuberant over Blanche's plans, but must also contend with her mother, Sophia, who arrives after her retirement home, Shady Pines, burns down.moreless", "precise_score": -1.9240626096725464, "rough_score": -5.42303991317749, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "After 30 years, we still look back on The Golden Girls with more than a little fondness. After all, who didn’t want a group of friends like Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia? To celebrate the show’s milestone anniversary, let’s take the time to remember one of the many things it gave us: some inspiring life lessons.", "precise_score": 5.082297325134277, "rough_score": 5.090213298797607, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls | Guideposts" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The show’s entire premise revolved around the hilarity that ensued thanks to each of the character’s personalities. The ladies were polar opposites in almost every way -- Blanche was the confident seductress; Dorothy was smart and sarcastic; Rose, optimistic and completely naïve and Sophia, the wise-cracking truth teller – but their individual relationships worked because after all of the hijinks, they respected and valued what they each brought to the table. Their friendship is a great lesson to all of us about the importance of looking past our own thoughts and prejudices in order to see someone’s truly unique worth.", "precise_score": 0.7544349431991577, "rough_score": -6.613858699798584, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls | Guideposts" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The opening number pretty much sums it up, but in case it didn’t sink in, The Golden Girls is one big testament to the power of friendship. When romantic relationships failed and family members passed away, Blanche, Rose and Dorothy always had each other to lean on. It doesn’t hurt to have someone in your corner that knows the best and worst parts of you who's also rooting for you to succeed.", "precise_score": 4.267919063568115, "rough_score": 1.118229866027832, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls | Guideposts" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy... Dorothy... Dorothy... Dorothy.", "precise_score": -5.982361793518066, "rough_score": -7.118341445922852, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : He knows, Blanche, he knows. Your thoughts and feelings go right to him, you can communicate directly from your heart, can't you, Dorothy?", "precise_score": -6.449507236480713, "rough_score": -7.900426387786865, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : Rose, we both answered an ad to share Blanche's house that we found in the supermarket. It was not the resurrection. 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One of the \"working girls\" takes offense at something Blanche says, and Dorothy steps in to save the situation]", "precise_score": -7.466029644012451, "rough_score": -9.026143074035645, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Absolutely no reaction from Blanche and Dorothy. She tries again]", "precise_score": -6.368496417999268, "rough_score": -8.060444831848145, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche. Blanche, Blanche, Blanche. You're about to set off the smoke detector.", "precise_score": -8.347830772399902, "rough_score": -8.804201126098633, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak , Blanche Devereaux , Rose Nylund : I am!", "precise_score": -2.5734713077545166, "rough_score": -6.869766712188721, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Oh, that would be my friend, Blanche... 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Dorothy Zbornak.", "precise_score": -8.070107460021973, "rough_score": -8.707423210144043, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : [Blanche and Dorothy are playing cards, Sophia keeps shaking her head for Blanche's plays] Stop telling her what to play.", "precise_score": -2.823432445526123, "rough_score": -5.595544815063477, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Yes Blanche, it's you.", "precise_score": -7.5146050453186035, "rough_score": -8.475793838500977, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : Yes Blanche, about a half hour ago. 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You see, when Charlie went off to war, I went to work for our local USO club. And, that's where I first met Eddie the Aqua Midget.", "precise_score": -7.63669490814209, "rough_score": -7.4890360832214355, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Dorothy grabs Blanche's hand in an attempt to stifle more laughter]", "precise_score": -8.19039535522461, "rough_score": -9.120123863220215, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : It's like having Agatha Christie right here in our kitchen! Rose, Blanche *is* that little floozie!", "precise_score": -5.268786430358887, "rough_score": -6.714828014373779, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Dorothy throws Jerry out, just as Blanche is coming home] Girls. 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That girl in the puddle was me.\"", "precise_score": -9.01122760772705, "rough_score": -9.087484359741211, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "\"Transplant\" (season 1): Rose, Dorothy and Sophia take care of baby Danny for their neighbor Ted, who was involved in a waterskiing accident. After his wife Lucy drove him to the hospital, the couple decide to leave Danny in the care of the three ladies while Blanche visits with her sister Virginia.", "precise_score": 0.43831318616867065, "rough_score": -4.7870330810546875, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "\"And Then There Was One\" (season 2): Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy run a temporary day care for the children of individuals participating in a walkathon for charity; Sophia herself participated in the walkathon. 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Sophia says she thought he was calling from Sports Illustrated about her walkathon performance.", "precise_score": 0.8876546621322632, "rough_score": -1.9732170104980469, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy: Come on, Blanche, that's a stereotype.", "precise_score": -7.059779167175293, "rough_score": -7.7250261306762695, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Bookends : The series premiere was about Blanche's wedding (and Dorothy and Rose's fears of being left behind), aborted because the guy turned out to be a bigamist and scam artist, whereas the series finale was about Dorothy's wedding, which went off without a hitch (and Blanche, Rose's and Sophia's fears of being left behind, which came true).", "precise_score": -0.2738044261932373, "rough_score": -5.817950248718262, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Butt Monkey : Rose is Dorothy's Butt Monkey , Dorothy is Blanche's Butt Monkey , Blanche is Rose's Butt Monkey (often completely by accident), and everyone is Sophia's Butt Monkey .", "precise_score": -0.588019847869873, "rough_score": -3.3898983001708984, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Canon Discontinuity : A few instances. Possibly the most prominent was Dorothy's son Michael and daughter Kate. Even though one of the two was born when Dorothy was still in high school, and thus should have been in at least their mid-forties, both were consistently played by actors in their twenties and early thirties. As another example, there's an episode in which Rose stubbornly adopts a puppy despite a prior agreement between the housemates that they can't get a dog; yet in another episode, Blanche and Dorothy get Rose a dog from a shelter.", "precise_score": -5.462024211883545, "rough_score": -8.360871315002441, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "An episode states that Rose, before moving in with Blanche and Dorothy, was thrown out of her apartment because she secretly had a cat and was caught; however, Rose is later shown to be very allergic to cats.", "precise_score": -4.729088306427002, "rough_score": -6.862386703491211, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Clap Your Hands If You Believe : Parodied in \"Henny Penny: Straight, No Chaser.\" Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy play Henny Penny, Goosey Loosey, and Turkey Lurkey in a grade school production, and Rose hates the ending in which the characters are eaten by Foxy Loxy. At the conclusion of the performance, she rushes back onstage and tells the children that they can choose to save the characters if they applaud. None of the kids do it, and Rose resorts to insulting the children and threatening them with bad dreams as Dorothy and Blanche drag her off.", "precise_score": -5.383155345916748, "rough_score": -8.385835647583008, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "This was mentioned as such with Rose's cousin Sven. When he mentions not knowing much about women, Blanche says, \"A big strong man like you, get out of here!\" He simply picks up his suitcase and leaves. When Rose chases after him saying that was just an expression, Blanche turns and says to Dorothy, \"I never thought I'd say this, but I think Rose got the brains in that family.\"", "precise_score": -5.483270645141602, "rough_score": -8.635272979736328, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Cool Old Ladies : More like cool middle-aged women for Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose, but Sophia played the trope very straight; despite being in her eighties, she kept up with pop culture, even owning a Game Boy in one episode.", "precise_score": 2.210423469543457, "rough_score": 1.8111940622329712, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Cool and Unusual Punishment : Mentioned as threats. Blanche once tells Sophia that either she goes along with Blanche's young-age pretense or she gets slapped with a big rent raise. And Sophia once makes Dorothy talk about her gambling addiction relapse with her on the threat that, if they don't right away, they'll talk in her bedroom after Sophia eats a bowl of chili.", "precise_score": -5.255654335021973, "rough_score": -7.532581806182861, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Everybody used Rose's famous St. Olaf stories as a punishment, including Rose herself. Once, when Dorothy and Blanche try to use lame excuses to duck out on one, she threatens to follow them to their room and act out the story with shadow puppets. In another, when Sophia is considering helping a friend commit suicide, Dorothy encourages Rose to tell a story, and then after the story is over, she turns to Sophia and says, \"You see what happens. You kill someone, and you end up a Rose story.\"", "precise_score": -0.29882359504699707, "rough_score": -4.524329662322998, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In-universe, while Rose is telling stories about her past. First, the \"herring war\" story, which was so hilarious to Dorothy and Blanche that they burst out laughing, and another time when Rose tells of the time a man known as the Aqua Midget had a crush on her; Blanche keeps making puns and Dorothy tries to stifle her, but their faces give it all away.", "precise_score": -4.092534065246582, "rough_score": -6.63279390335083, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Cure Your Gays : Played with in both episodes in which Blanche's brother Clayton appears (though only Blanche tries it), as well as in \"Goodbye Mr. Gordon,\" where Blanche and Dorothy are mistaken for a lesbian couple on a daytime TV talk show.note Rose got them on the show, at the station where she worked, because she misunderstood the meaning behind a show about 'women who live together.' A man interested in Blanche claims she's only \"like this\" because she's never been with a \"real man\". If Blanche actually were lesbian, this trope would be played straight; as she isn't, it's simply Played for Laughs .", "precise_score": -7.795624256134033, "rough_score": -8.611953735351562, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche, being Blanche, even takes it on as a new way to meet men, and gets Dorothy to play along. \"Come on, Dorothy, I have to try this .\"", "precise_score": -8.815492630004883, "rough_score": -9.023981094360352, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Deadpan Snarker : Both Dorothy and Sophia. Blanche had her moments too, and so did even Rose on occasion, although Rose would always apologize or qualify the remark afterward:", "precise_score": 2.7884509563446045, "rough_score": -2.5262937545776367, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dirty Old Woman : All four of them; if you really analyze it, The Golden Girls was possibly one of the most upfront and sexual shows on TV at the time. Blanche fit the trope most of all, to the point that even Maxim felt obliged to acknowledge her as #1 of \"TV's Best Nymphos.\"", "precise_score": -2.141004800796509, "rough_score": -7.633214950561523, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "One example, when Rose claims that Bob Hope is her father with no other proof than that she used to dream it, Blanche says it's strange, and wonders why Rose doesn't have a normal, healthy dream, \"like sweaty Argentinean men whipping things while they ride naked on the backs of Brahma bulls.\" Dorothy just shoots her an odd look and reminds herself never to use Blanche's towels again.", "precise_score": -6.983108997344971, "rough_score": -7.628262996673584, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In another episode, Blanche dared to attend her prom with Benjamin, despite the scorn of others. Dorothy assumes Benjamin was black. Nope. He was a Yankee from New Jersey. The same episode involves Rose dating a dwarf, and she spends the bulk of the episode learning to accept him as he is, only to be dropped because she isn't Jewish.", "precise_score": -6.054301738739014, "rough_score": -8.382542610168457, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In the two-parter \"Home Again Rose\", Rose has a heart attack and makes the girls promise to have their heads cryogenically frozen so they can all be friends forever. When she is wheeled into surgery, she has a dream about herself, Blanche, and Dorothy all reduced to nothing but heads and talking on the kitchen table. Sophia was part of the deal—but as she tipped the man who froze her, she ends up with the body of a twenty-something woman.", "precise_score": 0.8736531734466553, "rough_score": 1.0359426736831665, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In another episode, Blanche is trying to install a hot tub, and runs into some problems with the zoning code. When she addresses them, Rose inadvertently blurts out that there are three non-family members living in the house, which is another violation costing thousands of dollars. Dorothy eventually realizes that while it's against the law for strangers to live together, it would be perfectly legal if they all served as co-owners rather than renters. Blanche is initially reluctant, but eventually agrees, signing paperwork to give the girls equal claim to the house's title and changing the rent payments to mortgage payments.", "precise_score": -6.019643783569336, "rough_score": -7.880151271820068, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The Faceless : We never get to see Charlie, Rose's late husband. Dorothy's ex-husband Stan is a recurring character; we see Blanche's late husband George in a dream as well as meet his twin brother Jamie (played by the same actor); and Sal, Sophia's late husband, often appears in flashbacks, dreams, and hallucinations. Charlie, however, remains unseen for the entire series. We're never even given a description of him beyond \"six-foot-two and broad-shouldered\" (and, as noted above, apparently better endowed than a bull).", "precise_score": -3.2539634704589844, "rough_score": -6.096337795257568, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Four-Girl Ensemble : A textbook example. Rose is the Na�ve Everygirl , Dorothy is the tough, mannish Deadpan Snarker , Blanche is the promiscuous one , and Sophia is the wise Team Mom .", "precise_score": 2.3343985080718994, "rough_score": 5.000438690185547, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "It's even invoked in-universe when Rose has a hard time making friends with a coworker. She explains that everyone has to like her, as she's the \"nice one,\" then goes to list the other girl's attributes: Dorothy is the \"smart one,\" Blanche is the \"sexy one,\" and Sophia is the \"old one\" (which Sophia herself isn't crazy about).", "precise_score": 1.6133067607879639, "rough_score": 2.51203989982605, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Gratuitous Foreign Language : Rose speaking \" Scandinavian \" (sometimes identified as Norwegian, other times Swedish) and Sophia (and, on rare occasions, Dorothy) speaking Italian - sometimes specifically Sicilian (which, unlike Rose's \"Scandinavian\", is usually real, if pronounced with an obvious American accent ). Blanche was even guilty of this, speaking Gratuitous Southern.", "precise_score": -2.054220199584961, "rough_score": -5.020589828491211, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "At the beginning of the episode where Dorothy and Stan plan to remarry, Sophia is losing to Blanche during a game of chess, and exclaims, \"The game isn't over 'til the fat lady sings!\" Cue Rose walking in happily singing \" Singin' in the Rain \". Later in the episode, Rose throws Dorothy a bridal shower and makes the guests play games, including one where a heart-shaped sticker is taken off the player's clothing every time she crosses her legs. Dorothy protests: \"Who leaves their legs uncrossed all the time?\" Cue Blanche walking in covered with stickers.", "precise_score": -1.4620935916900635, "rough_score": -3.6376068592071533, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Incompatible Orientation : Dorothy, Rose and Blanche all find Laszlo devastatingly attractive... they just aren't his type...", "precise_score": -2.9708428382873535, "rough_score": -7.932713985443115, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Jerk with a Heart of Gold : Sophia is this. A woman with an insult for everyone she meets , she also is loving to her roommates - explicitly stating that she loves Rose and Blanche as if they were her own children - and cooks for them whenever they ask. She also works for charity. Specifically, one episode shows her volunteering in a hospital, bringing cheer to the patients. Dorothy would count too; she's as snarky and cynical as her mom, but is devoted to her teaching job, socially conscious, and quick to condemn any moral wrong she perceives.", "precise_score": -1.285935878753662, "rough_score": -2.2614080905914307, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Laser-Guided Karma : In \"Ebb Tide,\" Blanche's father Big Daddy dies, but she is too obsessed with a local social event to go to visit him in his last days. She wins an expensive ceremonial plate at the event. Later, when she and Dorothy travel to Atlanta for the funeral, Sophia turns the house into a temporary bed-and-breakfast in an attempt to raise cash for a big-screen TV. During the weekend, the plate ends up broken; Rose and Sophia manage to find a new one, but it ends up costing Sophia all of the money she's made. The plate is set back in place just as Dorothy and Blanche return, and the latter, having realized how selfish and inconsiderate she has been lately, proceeds to smash it on the floor. Sophia lampshades the situation:", "precise_score": -1.859321117401123, "rough_score": -3.931354522705078, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Madonna�Whore Complex : Of a sort, in \"Journey to the Center of Attention\", Dorothy becomes popular at the bar Blanche frequents; whereas Blanche is known for being easy and the men usually tell dirty jokes in front of her, a man chides another for attempting to make such a joke in the presence of a lady...Dorothy.", "precise_score": -9.06086540222168, "rough_score": -8.982776641845703, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Noodle Incident : Between Blanche's bedroom exploits, Rose's crazy childhood stories, and Sophia's \"picture it\" encounters in Sicily, The Golden Girls may have the most Noodle Incidents per episode in sitcom history.", "precise_score": 0.34418338537216187, "rough_score": -2.704427719116211, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Not What It Looks Like : Several, but the trope itself is spoken word for word by Blanche when she practices a dirty dancing routine with Rose, and is caught by Dorothy and Sophia.", "precise_score": -0.581515908241272, "rough_score": -5.776681423187256, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Once per Episode : One of the girls jokes about Dorothy being ugly or hopelessly single (sometimes both in one episode!), Blanche goes out with a man or talks about men, Rose does or says something stupid, and Sophia says something mean (but honest) about one of the girls.", "precise_score": -1.1405295133590698, "rough_score": -0.9437610507011414, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche had a lot of these. In another episode, Rose was having a bizarre dream, and Blanche wonders why she doesn't have a normal, healthy dream, like \"sweaty Argentinian men whipping things as they ride naked on the backs of Brahma Bulls.\" At this point, Dorothy decides she's never going to use Blanche's towels again.", "precise_score": -6.57808256149292, "rough_score": -7.553956031799316, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The Reveal : A minor one in \"The Artist.\" The girls discover that Jasper DeKimmel, a Jerkass artist, is dying, and needs a donor with a rare blood type to save his life. Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche use the opportunity to buy one his paintings, as Blanche points out that an artist's work often appreciates by a huge amount after her or his death. At the end of the episode, they're successful and call Sophia to let her know. Sophia tells them that they've wasted their money, as a donor was found with DeKimmel's blood type. The camera then pulls back to reveal Sophia herself lying in a hospital bed as she complains that all she gets for saving a man's life is \"juice and a cookie.\"", "precise_score": 0.6537336111068726, "rough_score": -4.7946624755859375, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In one episode, Rose becomes smarter and refuses to hand Dorothy a magazine until she promises not to hit her with it. Dorothy promises... and then passes the magazine to Blanche, who promptly smacks Rose on the head .", "precise_score": -5.615198612213135, "rough_score": -5.850138187408447, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! : Sophia's lack of tact is sometimes explained by Dorothy after the fact as a result of the stroke Sophia had in the past, which caused her to be placed in Shady Pines (though this is rarely referenced otherwise). The stroke and her propensity to say rude things are only fully described in the first episode; Rose expresses disapproval for some of Sophia's comments, and Blanche explains that she doesn't mind because she knows Sophia can't help it, since the stroke caused brain damage that, to put it simply, removed her politeness filter.", "precise_score": -2.949739933013916, "rough_score": -3.769659996032715, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Stripper/Cop Confusion : When Dorothy nearly marries Stan a second time, the girls (minus Sophia) hold a bachelorette party for her, and a cop comes because of a noise complaint filed by a neighbor. Blanche mistakes him for the stripper she'd called earlier, who was supposed to have been dressed as a cop, and grabs the officer's butt a few times before the stripper himself actually comes in right behind her. Later on, the two officers try on each other's hats, and things get, in Dorothy's words, \" really weird .\"", "precise_score": -4.925960063934326, "rough_score": -3.9415712356567383, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Tempting Fate : In \"The Housekeeper,\" the girls fire their Jamaican housekeeper Marguerite, who warns them that they're \"making a big mistake.\" As Marguerite had demonstrated apparently magical abilities before (she gave Blanche what was apparently a love potion and left a painted rock as a charm under Dorothy's bed), Rose and Blanche are convinced that she's cursed them when a string of bad luck hits. Dorothy refuses to believe this and points out that nothing that unusual has happened...cue a man in a crow suit suddenly parachuting onto their lanai.", "precise_score": -4.449620246887207, "rough_score": -6.086972236633301, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Undesirable Prize : The girls go through a lot of trouble to fly to California to be on the fictional game show Grab That Dough!, so they decide to split up in increase their chances of winning. Rose and Sophia lose, and each take home $100. Blanche and Dorothy win, and bet their cash on a mystery prize. After showing them Window 1 (new living room furniture) and Window 2 (a sports car) they open Window 3 and show them their prize... an electric skillet. And a lifetime supply of soup.", "precise_score": -1.1384621858596802, "rough_score": -2.9204790592193604, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Vague Age : All of the girls, to varying extents. Sophia was in her early 80s for the entire seven-year run. Dorothy was about 60 (and consistently over 60 in later seasons). Rose was 55 in the first season, but her age was hard to pin down after that. But Blanche was the most famous example - nobody ever figured out her actual age. She usually claimed to be around 40, and in one episode where the girls tried to find out, she said 42 - which was presented as an obvious lie. They discover that even her birth certificate has been blanked \"by order of the Governor.\" She seems to be younger than the rest of the girls (Rue McClanahan was in fact ten years younger than the other three), and is still fertile when the show starts (hitting menopause in an early episode), so 50-ish seems about right. The Mother's Day episode mentions that she was a senior in high school in 1949.", "precise_score": -2.0140159130096436, "rough_score": 0.3403474688529968, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "World of Snark : Usually Dorothy and Sophia. Most of the time , Rose asks a stupid question and Dorothy gives her a sarcastic answer. Although, even Rose and Blanche have a snark moment or two in some episodes.", "precise_score": 1.7815308570861816, "rough_score": -0.3878161609172821, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Yet another incident which put her at odds with Blanche was when she dated Stan's brother, Ted (McLean Stevenson). She was so angered that Blanche didn't want to see anyone but herself happy, she angrily told Blanche, \"Blanche, have you seen the latest ad campaigns? Join the Navy, see the world, sleep with Blanche Devereaux; Join the Army, be all you can be, and sleep with Blanche Devereaux; the Marines are looking for a few good men who have NOT slept with Blanche Devereaux!\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.833648681640625, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Another suitor turned out to be a married man, Glen O'Brien (portrayed by Alex Rocco in the first season); Dorothy broke off the relationship when she remembered how much it had hurt to be cheated on by Stanley. She dated Glen again a few years later (this time portrayed by Jerry Orbach) when he was divorced, but she broke off with him again because she felt that the only reason he wanted to be with her was that he didn't like being divorced and alone. Yet another prospect, named Eddie (John Fiedler), was the best lover Dorothy ever had, but Dorothy broke up with Eddie as well because their relationship never progressed past the physical stage. Her high-school teacher, Mr. Malcolm Gordon (James T. Callahan), whom she'd had a crush on, came back into her life many years later, only to plagiarize and take credit for an article that she had written. Stan's brother, Ted Zbornak(McLean Stevenson), told her that he had had a crush on her since they were young. They then \"spent the night\" together, nearly destroying her friendship with Blanche, who had gone out with Ted earlier that night. Later, Ted asked Dorothy to baby-sit the children of a stewardess that he wanted to date (Dorothy was under the impression that Ted was going to ask her to marry him), making Dorothy feel humiliated. However, Dorothy got her revenge when she announced to everyone in the restaurant they were dining at that he was impotent.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.626781463623047, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "* Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux, a Southern belle employed at an art museum", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.389232635498047, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Born into a wealthy family, Blanche grew up as the apple of her father's eye on a plantation outside of Atlanta, Georgia, prior to her relocation to Miami, where she lived with her husband, George, until his death. Their marriage produced six children: four sons and two daughters. A widow, Blanche was portrayed as man-hungry, and she clearly had the most male admirers—and stories detailing various sexual encounters—over the course of the series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.48594856262207, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "* Monte Markham as Blanche's brother Clayton Hollingsworth in two episodes, first when he comes out in season four and later to introduce his boyfriend in season six.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.255087852478027, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "* Sheree North as Virginia Hollingsworth Wylde, Blanche's sister who appears in two episodes, first in season one, then again in season five.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.917413711547852, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Hired to film the pilot, director Sandrich would also become instrumental in the casting process for the series. Both Rue McClanahan and Betty White came into consideration as the series Mama's Family, in which the two co-starred, had been canceled by NBC. Originally producers wanted to cast McClanahan as Rose and White as Blanche. The thinking for this was based on roles they previously played; White portrayed man-hungry Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, while McClanahan co-starred as sweet but scatter-brained Vivian Harmon in Maude. Eager not to be typecast, they took the suggestion of Sandrich and switched roles last-minute.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.610029220581055, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche's father, Big Daddy, comes to Miami for a visit, with an announcement, he's sold the family plantation and is setting out to become a country singer. Meanwhile, Sophia places a \"curse\" on a neighbor who refuses to remove his tree that fell over onto the lanai during a storm.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.306476593017578, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche's visiting niece is a chip right off the old block when she dates a different man all night every night. Meanwhile, Dorothy does battle with a mouse living in the house.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.411133766174316, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose is apprehensive about a visit from her daughter and granddaughter, since their reason for coming is to settle Rose's late-husband's will. But when her daughter takes a look at the will, Rose must explain where all of Charlie's money went. Meanwhile, Blanche gets caught up in the tabloids of a society murder.moreless", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.092757225036621, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose's dynamic mother comes to Miami for a visit and it becomes apparent to everyone that Rose needs to lay off and stop smothering her energetic mother who just wants to live life. Meanwhile, Blanche is shocked when her aerobics instructor asks her out on a date, but she is concerned because he is half her age and she does all she can to make herself look younger.moreless", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.183995246887207, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls - Season 1 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Though the drama was rife on the show, it was a sitcom which meant plenty of opportunities to laugh at Rose’s tall tales of her days on the farm and Blanche’s dating antics. But what was always appealing about the series and its main characters was their willingness to laugh at themselves. Each woman didn’t mind taking the other down a peg or two – usually in good fun.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.929128646850586, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls | Guideposts" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "It’s hard to pick a favorite amongst the girls, but if we were giving out awards, Blanche would definitely take home the title of \"Most Confident.\" The woman loved herself, knew her strengths – which were many – and played to them. Of course, overconfidence was a weakness of hers as well but Blanche’s ability to be unabashedly proud of herself and her accomplishments is a trait we should all aspire to possess.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.617050170898438, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls | Guideposts" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm from the South. Flirting is part of my heritage.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.225126266479492, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I know Blanche Devereaux, Lieutenant, and this tramp is incapable of committing murder!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.75556755065918, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I think I see now how it happened: Last evening at dinner, when Miss MacGlinn saw Blanche give Kendall Nesbitt her key she was furious. She dropped a steak knife into her purse...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.42762279510498, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche are you kidding? I have read every word Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler ever wrote. Sam Spade and Philip Marlow have become a part of me... \"She had more curves than the Monaco grand prix and was twice as dangerous. Her jewelry was mute testimony that Charlie Chaplin wasn't the only tramp who hit it big in this town.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.97331428527832, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : So when Miss MacGlinn was reconstructing the murder, she describe Blanche's dress being slung over the bed!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.21635627746582, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : All right, everybody, just write down who you think ought to leave.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.202997207641602, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [collects the ballots] Okay. Okay. Here we go. Good luck, ladies...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.104536056518555, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, Dorothy, it's your own damn fault. Why did you have to vote for yourself?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.317543029785156, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I guess that would hurt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.032793998718262, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, I don't see why I have to raise any money. I didn't create this problem. I think the moronic Scandinavian nitwit ought to pay it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.256370544433594, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Rose, you ninny! This says I'm going to convert my home into a half-way house for recently released convicts!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.909646987915039, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [Blanche's first ever lines] Dorothy, can I borrow your mink stole?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.724106788635254, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I just wonder what my husband, George, would make of me and Harry.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.900178909301758, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well, I just want him to know I'm happy, but I could never be as happy with Harry in the same way - as I was with him.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.890532493591309, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Your mother bets?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.223234176635742, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I can't eat anything with eyes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.194924354553223, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Whatever will we do with him for two weeks?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.406970977783203, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [gasps] David, you stop that.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.09288215637207, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I don't see how doing all these chores is going to make him feel loved.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.301682472229004, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Look Blanche, the one thing David has never had in his life is structure. Now doing chores will give him a little responsibility, he might even start feeling good about himself.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.591604232788086, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And start hating me if I make him do all this.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.135180473327637, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Now look Blanche, you do what is best for David, not what is easiest for you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.14700698852539, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh come on Blanche, I'm from New York, I did chores: I made the beds, I washed the dishes, scoured the pots, cleaned the bathroom, folded the laundry, took out the garbage.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.520639419555664, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : No, she lived with me!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.646221160888672, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I guess when I was little I didn't have to do anything. And I raised my daughter the same way, so that's why David is the way he is now, so it's all my fault.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.160279273986816, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh now Blanche you can't blame yourself for David.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.605949401855469, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You're right, it's my mother's fault, I'm going to give him this list and see that he gets started right away.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.951778411865234, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [on the phone with Janet] If you don't straighten up and give that boy the love and attention he deserves, I will kick your upty butt till hell won't have it again!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.06298542022705, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That was no bluff, I meant every word of it. I'd love the chance to raise David, I might make up for the mistake I made with Janet.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.838890075683594, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Yes!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.938348770141602, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : So, what was this great disappointment in your life, Rose?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.764852523803711, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, yeah. What an actress. She was so good in \"Gone with the Wind.\" I wanted to be Miss Olivia de Havilland myself.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.411508560180664, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, are you listening to this?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.506670951843262, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Bits and pieces.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.051101684570312, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Sophia, we're innocent!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.419877052307129, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Dorothy, that was magnificent, how did you do that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.45010757446289, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Breathless with anticipation, she speaks faster and faster, twisting the newspaper in her hands] Mr. John Forsythe. Oh my God! He's just the sexiest man in television. And Burt Reynolds is the sexiest man in the movies. Oh, I cannot believe this. All that manliness in one room. In one crowded room. One hot, crowded room. Everybody's steamy bodies pressed up against each other...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.810651779174805, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : My god. You're Mr. Burt Reynolds.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.917893409729004, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [sees Dorothy outside] Dorothy?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.191339492797852, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, what in the hell are you doing out there?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.78812026977539, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I think this is a lovely hospital room, don't you think it's lovely, Rose?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.826746940612793, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh no! Honey don't do that, no job is worth having to date women!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.305977821350098, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche! Bilingual means someone who speaks more than one language!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.526789665222168, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And here I thought it was something sexual.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.191092491149902, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : He also left you for a 28 year-old stewardess with firm thighs and perky breasts!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.341087341308594, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : He turned the hose on them?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.270374298095703, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Blanche gasps] Ohhhhh?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.250772476196289, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You know, Rose, sometimes I wish somebody had turned the hose on your parents.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.25233268737793, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Sex! At twenty, a man is at his peak and a woman in her forties is also at her peak so when the two come together, HOT DAMN!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.607722282409668, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh yes, definitely.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.877339363098145, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [everyone stares at Blanche in disbelief as she realises what she's said] Oh yes, definitely, that is something I would like to know about, too.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.964470863342285, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [laughing and humming, as in ecstasy, while eating cookies] Ha, ha, ha... hmmm, hmmm... oooh... mmm, mmm.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.799763679504395, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, are you in a good mood?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.708243370056152, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [Ham just rang the doorbell] Blanche, will you calm down? I have never seen you so worked up over one date.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.116230964660645, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, I let this gorgeous man slip though my fingers once before, I don't intend to let it happen again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.754387855529785, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [watching the movie] I want to get a better look at this guy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.27720832824707, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I don't know but I'm going to move down to the front row and find out.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.063684463500977, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [to Rose] I think it's wonderful that you're taking part in a Senior Sports Classic. You know, I might try entering it myself, in 15 years when I'm eligible. If I can come up with an event.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.960209846496582, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh good, we can sneak out.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.112390518188477, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I think it would cost less to squat in a Laura Ashley showroom.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.322036743164062, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, you don't mean...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.262917518615723, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Sex, Dorothy. I tried quittin' sex.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.49506664276123, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Then he's comin' back here to shoot the commercial?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.353619575500488, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : But if he shoots it at his studio, then I get screwed and have nothing to show for it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.125267028808594, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, now hold on here. I don't want a TV crew comin' in here, messin' up my kitchen, settin' up all that video equipment.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.346613883972168, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Well, how about shooting it in your bedroom, Blanche? The equipment's already set up there.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.843792915344238, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I didn't know you had hurt your back.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.241583824157715, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [astonished] For God's sake. What about tractors?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.340737342834473, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Well, come on, Blanche. If she was too old to pull a plow, how could she ever pull a tractor?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.734204292297363, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Rose, you can't stop takin' these pills. You have a problem.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.771435737609863, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Rose, let us call a rehabilitation center for you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.944453239440918, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [describing her temptations after her husband George died] There was a man. He asked me to sleep with him. I said, *No*. But I knew something greater than my will-power was necessary for me to resist him, so I called my sister.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.16823673248291, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, better than that. She drove straight over, she took him by the throat, she said if he ever tried that again she would shoot him through the head.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.515210151672363, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, did I forget to mention that the man was my sister's husband?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.337079048156738, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : But before we adjourn our secretary has a real special surprise. A Genuine Elvis artifact.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.204510688781738, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [having kicked Dorothy out of the Elvis club] Well I... I hope you're not too upset over this, Dorothy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.419846534729004, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : How long does Rose have to keep this pig before she gets the money?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.098356246948242, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I just read that it's very important that every child has a male influence in their life.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.139416694641113, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I cannot believe they lost all our luggage! Now I'm gonna have to go an entire weekend without underwear!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.332305908203125, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : What's Mount Losenbaden?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.379132270812988, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Why are there two Adlai Stevensons?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.38864517211914, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh, Blanche, isn't it obvious? He lost twice... Oh god - it's making sense!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.71552562713623, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : What's Mount Losenbaden?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.326774597167969, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Why are there two Adlai Stevensons?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.323589324951172, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [to Blanche] This is Fred he's come to fix the air conditioner.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.553550720214844, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh thank you god you're here, this heat is driving me crazy", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.273154258728027, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : We gave it away. Since Blanche got her pacemaker the doctor says we can't use the microwave.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.493614196777344, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, if we use the microwave, Blanche could die.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.524319648742676, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Later after Blanche leaves the room]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.119635581970215, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, just fine. The doctor could not believe it when I told him my age.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.23984432220459, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche's doctor wants her to go back to the hospital for more tests.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.373968124389648, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [very nervous] Yeah, well, if it makes him happy. If everything's as bad as he thinks it is, he wants to put a pacemaker in me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.175944328308105, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [outraged] How could he do a thing like that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.386069297790527, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche is telling me about Freud.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.188058853149414, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, you're a substitute. Your job isn't actually to teach.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.094673156738281, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : To keep the kids from burning the school down before the other teacher gets back.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.107438087463379, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : [trying to get Blanche to come downstairs] You were right, Blanche! These naked southern guys sure can dance!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.685521125793457, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, what're you doing?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.130398750305176, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [handcuffs herself to the radiator] If they're going to BLOW this place up they're gonna do it with ME in it!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.301493644714355, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Is she okay?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.089566230773926, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : My personal best is 38 hours... of course then I had somebody to play with.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.306939125061035, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : How are you going to explain this opened letter to Blanche?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.100484848022461, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Deveraux : [entering the kitchen] Good morning girls.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.907476425170898, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[hands it to Blanche and leaves]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.010852813720703, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Blanche, I didn't!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.869751930236816, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Deveraux : Oh, it's no problem, honey. It's just another one of those letters form Merrill. I would read it to you anyway. They're not personal.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.778580665588379, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Deveraux : Well, sure. And I wrote him I want to make passionate love to him in a hammock suspended between two Magnolia trees. You know that couldn't possibly happen!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.18154239654541, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Deveraux : [obviously miffed] Shut up, Rose.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.71153450012207, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Deveraux : Oh, I loved high school! It seems like only yesterday. Riding around with the boys in their cars, and the dances...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.098602294921875, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well that's all of the presents, except for the ones we know are fruitcakes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.14511775970459, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : Wait a minute, what about the one Blanche hid behind the couch?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.693953514099121, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[picks it up and gives it to Blanche]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.256443977355957, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [opens the present hesitantly, surprised] Rose! It's a beautiful blouse.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.147087097167969, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [watching the poor and homeless come in] I just never thought there'd be children.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.120046615600586, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Oh they pay these out of work guys 10 or 15 dollars to stand on a corner and ring their bell, most of them can't afford the price of a meal.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.371986389160156, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Sophia, you're here. And you have your suitcases. Does that mean you're not leaving?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.751738548278809, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I know that guy. That's just a stage name.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.154678344726562, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Oh, I know exactly what she's going through, Dorothy. First love can be very powerful. I felt the same way about Heywood Boyle, the star pitcher on our High School baseball team. Ah, an amazing athlete. That boy had exceptional control.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.237621307373047, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : He was always up for extra innings.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.022066116333008, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [a man in his 20s has invited Blanche out to dinner] You know what I think, I think I can handle this relationship with Dirk. I'm gonna go out with him this Saturday night.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.178316116333008, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Momentarily. This is strictly off the record but - Dirk's nearly five years younger than I am.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.048714637756348, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : In what Blanche, dog years?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.409952163696289, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I'm taking my bee-pollen and my sheep's liver extract and my fish oil protein. I'm getting younger with each passing day.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.310297012329102, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, really? I didn't notice that.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.193037033081055, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I can't wait to hear that crowd gasp, when they lift up the sheet and see me there.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.117855072021484, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [the girls have been arguing about posing for Lazlo] You, too?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.97877025604248, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, what exactly makes you think he's *your* man?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.794800758361816, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [after the statue has been unveiled] Oh! My God, I look gorgeous!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3142671585083, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Girls, be serious. Look at those eyes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.283928871154785, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Sophia, you can't see the butt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.503949165344238, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [to Blanche] Blanche, are you alright?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.628230094909668, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm stunned, I'm just stunned.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.124267578125, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That call, it was Viola Watkins, she used to be my Mammy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.911127090454102, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : My Mammy, the woman who took care of me when I was little.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.806009292602539, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Sophia and Blanche indicate 'No' shaking their heads without a word]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.854476928710938, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [after learning her father, Big Daddy, had an affair with her Mammy] This changes everything I ever thought about Big Daddy. I always assumed that he and Mama had a wonderful sex life. I walked in on 'em once when I was a little girl. There was all this huffin' and puffin' and high-pitched sounds, and then suddenly Big Daddy shouted out, \"GLORY!\", and they both lit up cigarettes. I vowed, then and there, I would *never* do anything so repulsive.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.946840286254883, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, Bobby Joe Porter explained to me that the cigarette part was optional.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.271463394165039, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [about her audition for MacBeth] I've got this part in the sack.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.081070899963379, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, aren't you forgetting something?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.130635261535645, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh no, I never wear underwear.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.176627159118652, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : You're right, Blanche. I mean, how could I possibly compete with you? I mean, you've given some of your best performances in back alleys.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.266450881958008, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy Zbornak, I resent that remark. Have you been talkin' to Ed Tyler? That man has *such* a big mouth. Which reminds me. I oughta go give him a call.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.597183227539062, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Which reminds me, has Ed Tyler returned my call?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.412400245666504, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : How'd you ever meet a man like that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.337861061096191, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Anything can happen on a leap year's full moon if you just believe.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.287708282470703, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [angrily] Ooh I hate him, God do I hate him! Not only did he steal my necklace, but he betrayed my trust! Oh please, God, let him get caught, let him go to jail. Let him rot and die in some filthy cell with the rats gnawin' at his eyes!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.328540802001953, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : [Blanche comes into the house moaning after a date] Why do I feel the need to bathe?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.866066932678223, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : So, how was it, Blanche?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.692755699157715, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, you might as well ask me to describe the glory of the Great Smoky Mountains as they rise from the mist of a Carolina dawn.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.08448314666748, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Or the colors of the monarch butterfly, spreadin' its wings as it emerges from the miracle of the cocoon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.08846664428711, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Or the sturdy cypress, reaching heavenward, tall and mighty and proud.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.824311256408691, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Rose is preparing to discard the pictures of Charlie in bed with Blanche]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.603554725646973, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : Honey, I think there's some mistake. Look, here's Blanche in bed with Charlie, but this one's Blanche in bed with a pontoon boat! Here's Blanche in bed with a big orange from the Sunkist building, and here's Blanche in bed with the Country Bear Jamboree! Honey do you know what this means?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.016406059265137, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[to Blanche]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.013331413269043, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Oh it doesn't say bed", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.175537109375, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Oh that's just my initials, Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.744551658630371, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : This will prove I am not a sexually indiscriminate person.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.316093444824219, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose : You expect me to believe that? Come on, Blanche, you've landed on your back more times than...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.420341491699219, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Yes. It's my hair. It has split ends, it's dull and listless, it makes my face look...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.050440788269043, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : If you're gonna make fun of somebody, make fun of Rose.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.559371948242188, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I need the professional care of the most talented hairdresser in Miami, Robaire. Oh, he's brilliant. Do you know he was the first one ever to use mousse?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.36121940612793, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : I'd check my facts if I were you, Blanche. Mr Ingrid of St Olaf has been using moose ever since I can remember. Of course, it's his own professional secret which part of the moose he uses.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.794967651367188, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [in a low, sultry voice] Well, that doesn't necessarily mean anything.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.212797164916992, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I hate watching what it's doin' to you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.288541793823242, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, your date must have been horrified.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.285492897033691, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : This may not be my place, but you two hardly sound like old friends.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.179461479187012, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Trudy McMann : Blanche is right. We should be more positive. Dorothy, you look wonderful.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.481255531311035, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, before you start, realize I am very vulnerable now, and in no mood to hear a story about you and some yahoo cracker with four first names pawing at each other under a magnolia tree.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.877045631408691, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [dripping with righteous indignation] Well pardon me, Dorothy, but we can't all come from places as socially acceptable as Brooklyn!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.108885765075684, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, before you start, realize I am very vulnerable now, and in no mood to hear a story about you and some yahoo cracker with four first names pawing at each other under a magnolia tree.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.877045631408691, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Blanche Devereaux:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.967727661132812, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well pardon me, Dorothy, but we can't all come from places as socially acceptable as Brooklyn!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.272141456604004, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : I'm sorry, Blanche, I'm sorry go on with the story, just try to shy away from words like tarnation and catfish", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.357208251953125, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Fine. Anyways I was eight years old when I first met Kathy Lee on the playground. We became fast friends. Just a thick as Louisiana blackstrap molasses on a stack of Johnny cakes as high as elephants knee...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.073183059692383, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : [interrupting] On a riverboat floating down the Mississippi delta. FINISH THE DAMN STORY BLANCHE!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.493656158447266, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : So you're five years older. So am I, so is Blanche. All right, so you have a few more wrinkles. So do I, so does Blanche. OK, so you're a little thicker around the middle. So is Blanche.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.504796981811523, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That's not all they're good at.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.991008758544922, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Who made the first move?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.646537780761719, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose : [to Blanche] What was the best sex you ever had?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.474444389343262, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Best sex. Oh, it's just so hard to rate these things. There's degree of difficulty, style points, choice of music, did they land on their feet during the dismount. Different people have different strengths, it's just impossible to tell. But, anything over a nine is excellent.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.115762710571289, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Points, Rose, points!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.51750373840332, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : No, you're a nitwit. How come you know those words?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.25186538696289, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, c'mon, it's not nice calling her a nitwit. But, since the cat's outta the bag, how *do* you know those words?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.186840057373047, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, I need to talk to you privately.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.446627616882324, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Okay.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.794820785522461, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Blanche abruptly stands up and steps away]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.020865440368652, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, what are you doing?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.086310386657715, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [sighs heavily] It's a curse. My beauty's always been a curse. I'm sorry, Dorothy, but... like the fatal blossom of the graceful gimson weed, I entice with my fragrance but can provide no suckle.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.095683097839355, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Get outta here! Stan has the hots for me?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.35395336151123, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Wait a minute. You set Dorothy up with some guy you met on a bus?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.206862449645996, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Rose comes in carrying a large box] What's in the box, Rose?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.72368335723877, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Blanche is upset after discovering her late husband had cheated on her in 1967, fathering an illegitimate son]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.955513000488281, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Why did George cheat on me?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.335997581481934, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [a young man comes to the door asking for Blanche's husband] My husband passed away a few years ago.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.192977905273438, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : What did you want George for?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.359824180603027, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Rose, no encyclopedia salesman lugs around 26 volumes door to door.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.609329223632812, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You can tell a lot about a man from the way he drives.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.257883071899414, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : You're not having company, are you, Blanche? Because I want everything to go smoothly for Miles and Caroline. It's a big step meeting a man's family.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.619200706481934, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Blanche's scheme is to meet men by telling them she's selling a Mercedes she doesn't have] Don't worry about it, honey, men'll be over, but they'll be in and out all day.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.001556396484375, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [later] My first appointment's here, right on time. I've been out there watchin' him. He's been lookin' at the car and smilin'. I feel just like a fisherman with a new lure.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.30354118347168, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [James is her first \"customer\" for the phantom Mercedes, as Blanche goes into action] You stay right there, and I'll get the keys.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.932400703430176, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "James : [Blanche comes back with the keys, and they go outside] I can't believe anything that beautiful is so cheap.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.942530632019043, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : [she covers Sophia's mouth, until Blanche and James are gone] I'm crampin' up!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.43991470336914, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Of course... I would just have to other men behind his back.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.003662109375, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, it couldn't be any worse than trying to sleep on a hard wooden bench in the middle of a railway station!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.306929588317871, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : Boy, you do it any place, don't you, Blanche?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.717756271362305, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Blanche is talking about coming home from Edna McCarthy's funeral.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.600615501403809, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Y' know, being at her funeral today made me start thinking about how quiclky life can pass you by. Maybe I oughta do something more adventurous in my life.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.25883674621582, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm not talking about men. I'm talking about things I've always wanted to do but never got around to trying. Dorothy, didn't you have something you wanted to do? Some kind of secret desire you always kept on the back burner?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.339798927307129, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : This is like a Twilight Zone... somehow we got on a train that ended up inside Rose's mind.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.837896347045898, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm your neighbour, Blanche Deveraux.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.944432258605957, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I beg your pardon?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.418416023254395, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You miserable old...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.018134117126465, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Freida Claxton : [to Blanche] Oh yes, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.084692001342773, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I beg your pardon?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.369911193847656, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Why you...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.871709823608398, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Blanche and Rose grab her as she lunges for Mrs. Claxton]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.590263366699219, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [later] I'm beginning to think Blanche is hung up on her looks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.056650161743164, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : [after hearing Blanche excitedly relate about her having helped out around the house while \"Big Daddy\" was on probation] And the point of this - - sordid Song Of The South?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.292208671569824, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [wants to be part of Dorothy's Save the Wetlands campaign] I know I'm not always the first one to volunteer, but I happen to have an affection for bayous. Matter of fact, I became a woman in one.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.305326461791992, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well, those don't count. I mean, they did at the time, but this is the definitive 'where I lost my virginity' story.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.121894836425781, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia : It's really nice of you to share something so personal with us, Blanche. In a bayou! You slut.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.482721328735352, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [Rose is suddenly concerned about a letter she has received] What is it, Rose. Is somethin' wrong?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.080582618713379, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [brainstorming ideas for Dorothy's Save the Wetlands campaign] How 'bout a celebrity auction.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.113749504089355, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, no. I paid with nature's credit card.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.231212615966797, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You hate me, 'cause I'm beautiful, don't you?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.35803508758545, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : The sixties were an emotional time for all of us. I can still see Big Daddy sittin' on the porch swing, swirling down home brew, picking off peaceniks with his BB gun. Oh God, I miss that man.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.097814559936523, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [planning a surprise] I have to figure out which of the traditional St Olaf party games to play at Blanche's party.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.646073341369629, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [suddenly walks into the kitchen] Party? Is that why you've been sneakin' around tryin' to find out my age? A party? I forbid it!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.447288513183594, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Blanche, a party is a celebration of life, and it's not just for you, but for your friends who love you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.507652282714844, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [unyielding] No!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.92232608795166, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Yes you can! If you eat right, exercise regularly, and live with women who look at lot older than you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.97368049621582, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Oh, Blanche! How exciting!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.369587898254395, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Let me tell you just how exciting a Christmas Eve can be. I was home from college on Christmas vacation, when my best friend, Lisa Jane Biedler fixed me up with the most beautiful boy I've ever laid my eyes on.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.265580177307129, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : No, this was Richard Jay Wilde. And believe me, his name said it all! Huh-huh-huh! We must've pulled over on the side of the road five times on our way to that Christmas dance. Ha-hah!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.145247459411621, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Anyway, when we finally got to the dance, why, Richard dropped me off, and I turned and ran smack into a man so gorgeous he made Richard Jay Wilde look like a pre-pubescent choirboy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.99641227722168, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : No-no, no. Ernie Willis. Well, Ernie smiled. And the next thing I knew, we were dancing in a local bar. When all of a sudden I heard a deep voice say, \"Hm-hm... May I cut in?\" Well when I turned, I saw the man I knew I was gonna spend the rest of my life with.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.255963325500488, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Uh, no. No. Thomas Pennville. Uh-huh. Well, after Thomas and I left...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.571727752685547, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche! I could get herpes listening to this story!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.368785858154297, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : He had these long, floppy ears. Kind of like a basset hound. When he came to pick me up for our blind date, I couldn't believe it. He jumped out of the car, and ran up the walk, and bounded up on to the front porch, and I remember thinking, \"He's gonna trip on those ears.\" But he didn't. So there he stood before me introducing himself, and I don't know, I was still so stunned, I just kind of half-muttered a \"Howdy-do\" and he said, \"I beg your pardon? I didn't hear you.\" Well, I don't know what came over me, but I just blurted out, \"Didn't hear me? I think you could pick up Radio Free Europe with those ears!\" And you know what he did? He laughed. Well, right then and there I started growing very fond of Mr. Preston Bougainvillea, and over the next several months we saw quite a lot of each other.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.299306869506836, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Oh, that's really very sweet, Blanche.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.01355266571045, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I know... By the way, did you girls know that the size of a man's ears is directly proportionate to the size of his other... bodily organs?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.032365798950195, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, absolutely. I always throw open the window, uncork a bottle of cold duck, and slip into my Frederick's of Hollywood ostrich-feather nightie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.089376449584961, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [in a dress with a low cut blouse] Do I look convincing?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.417437553405762, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well maybe that's the problem, they have to do all the work.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.059304237365723, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [has Dorothy try a new recipe] It's called creamy zesty Italian, only has one calorie, what do you think?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.40866470336914, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : I haven't said anything, have I Blanche?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.345674514770508, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Is this dress me?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.27607536315918, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I don't really mind Clayton being homosexual, I just don't like him dating men.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.152085304260254, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : There must be homosexuals who date women?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.254764556884766, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Girls, I just got a letter from my brother, Clayton. He says he's comin' for a visit next week, and he has a big surprise.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.59856128692627, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I bet I know what the surprise is, too. Clayton's met himself a girl, and he wants me to meet her.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.367610931396484, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, I think that gay thing was just a phase he was goin' through. You know, like, when Clay was in High School, all he ever wanted to do was go see gladiator movies. It's the same kind of thing.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.855687141418457, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Rose, how can you be so cheery? It's a terrible thing.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.930684089660645, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : She *fell* asleep drivin' the bookmobile!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.0950345993042, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Did you find her yet?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.006280899047852, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : [Blanche is considering meeting her 'secret admirer'] I can't believe you're gonna do it. I mean, sure, the flowers are nice, but, honey, are you sure you know what you're getting yourself into?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.850584030151367, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, come on, Dorothy, how much trouble can I get into in a public place?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.772767066955566, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Doorbell rings] Who on earth could that be at three o'clock at the morning?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.394341468811035, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : It's a pizza Rose.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.431757926940918, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Did you *really* know that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.262907028198242, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[Blanche's coaching a baseball player by making him wear panties and he shows up in a blue dress]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.260712623596191, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [about Blanche's jacket] It looks like you got a jacket somebody else returned. It's kind of beat up.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.024286270141602, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And now all I need is some accessories for it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.308611869812012, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : So you told her?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.079440116882324, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Honey, didn't that give you a false impression about... what a man would look like?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.288589477539062, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [walking in] How are you feeling, Dorothy?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.38877010345459, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [about Michael] You just did what you had to!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.182092666625977, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, knowing that does not help! I am going crazy - wondering where he is - I mean he could be sleeping under a pier for all I know - or in some flophouse or out on the street!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.425690650939941, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Stanley, how come I've never seen you at the Hacienda Hut?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.348665237426758, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Oh, get outta here!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.040571212768555, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : Shut up, Blanche. Not all of us are classified by the Navy as a friendly port!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.365999221801758, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Is this about Arnie?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.162650108337402, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Most of the guys I dated in college were for the stories.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.009133338928223, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Is this about Arnie?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.162650108337402, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [after a long talk about her late husband George, with his brother Jamie over dinner] It made me realize why, from the time I laid eyes on him 'til the day he died, there was never, never another man in my life.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.03669261932373, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Oh, Blanche, you? You were never tempted.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.664651870727539, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Never.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.642762184143066, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [the girls are discussing Blanche's notion of marrying her late husband's brother, Jamie] I remember back in St Olaf, when Inge Engstrand married her late husband's brother, Lars, and the whole town was shocked. 'Course, that could have been because at the time Inge was on trial for her late husband's dismemberment.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.339556694030762, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You wear a negligee, they think you want to sleep with them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.179010391235352, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Dorothy has just returned from her last therapy session with former husband Stan] Oh, you're back from your session early. Was it as cathartic as you thought?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.73580265045166, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I don't think I can stand it much longer. My body feels like a Corvet up on rocks with its engine racin', the wheels just spinnin' and spinnin' with nowhere to go. I feel like I'm gonna explode! Dorothy, you have to help me. You have to do something.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.214935302734375, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [Enters covered in flour] They got my jewels.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.158796310424805, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose : Oh my God, Blanche has cocaine?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.587328910827637, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : This is flour! I hid my jewels in the flour!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.365264892578125, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Did he put out the fire?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.310454368591309, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [in awe] Wow. The seldom-achieved Joan of Arc fantasy triple! Sophia, I hate you!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.734508514404297, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [to Rose] If you hold Miles at bay, amazing things will start to happen. Oh, he'll become more attentive, he'll send you flowers. He'll be a prisoner of love, and you'll be the warden. And if you're interested, I have costumes for both of you to rent.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.997793197631836, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche! First you tell my mother to sleep with a stranger, now this. I mean, what makes you think you know everything about the opposite sex?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.719892501831055, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Let the record speak for itself. I have had one hundred and forty-three relationships.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.187836647033691, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : Blanche, I hope you don't mind, but I borrowed your rhinestone necklace.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.368671417236328, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : No, that's fine, but I should point out that it was designed for a dainty neck.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.100419044494629, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Barbara, I picked up your first novel the other day.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.936708450317383, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well, I should hope so!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.813435554504395, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "[patronisingly to Blanche]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.046025276184082, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Yes, as a matter of fact I did, all those waves! Big waves. Little waves. Dark waves, rollin' in! Page after page! I had to take a Dramamine to get through chapter three!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.273836135864258, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Barbara Thorndyke : Blanche, the waves are a metaphor. You see, a metaphor...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.76839542388916, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I know what a metaphor is, dear. I'm not a dummy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.128427505493164, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Blanche, what's a metaphor?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.914067268371582, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : It's when you use a phrase to mean somethin' else. Like when I say \"Men are blinded by my beauty\". They're not really blinded. They get their sight back in a day or two!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.044583320617676, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I have. I once stood in line at a bookstore for Arnold Schwarzenegger's autograph!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.116950988769531, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : And Schwarzenegger. Yeah.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.64736557006836, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Yes. But only after he refused to sign my thigh!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.228424072265625, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Somebody dragged me to a show there one time. Three men paraded around the stage for five hours talkin' about God eatin' graham crackers. They wore masks to cover their faces, but other than that they were totally naked.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.249587059020996, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well, I would have left, but one of the actors looked so familiar to me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.92816162109375, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, hi, how was school today?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.355920791625977, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, I'm taking the tags off this dress and saving them so I can put them back on tomorrow. That way, when I take the dress back, they won't know I've worn it... See, I love the dress, but I can't afford it, not $300 worth, and I have a late date tonight, so I want to look stunning for it. Besides, it's not like I'm gonna wear it all that much. I'm just gonna put it on, and take it off... then put it on and come home and take it off again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.403692245483398, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, I know what you're talkin' about, Sophia. There are men's voices that get me goin' like that, too.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.738286972045898, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : This whole fantasy about Bob Hope is sick.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.191781997680664, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I mean, if she's gonna have fantasies, they oughtta be the normal, healthy kind, like... sweaty Argentinian cowboys whippin' things while they ride naked on the back of Brahma bulls.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.090767860412598, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : It's my Uncle Lucas. He's *perfect* - all man, all heart, all yours.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.11160945892334, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : Look, Blanche, forget it! It's not going to work out. I mean, he's a little bit country, and I'm a little bit... too smart for this.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.493614196777344, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, take it from me, honey, there is no gentle way to end it with a man. When you're gentle with them, they just don't get the message.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.157506942749023, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : He was a blue midget?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.202129364013672, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Didn't have far to fall.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.039661407470703, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I bet.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.888148307800293, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You tried to make it short and sweet?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.391851425170898, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, why didn't you tell your mother about our vacation?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.920833587646484, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : New York? I wanted to go to an island!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.37976360321045, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Yeah, but I want to go somewhere with a bunch of men who don't speak English!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.217978477478027, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And you believed him? I hear that at least twice a week!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.377997398376465, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : I don't believe th... wait a minute, that looks like Blanche's red dress.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.294633865356445, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia : And those look like Blanche's red shoes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.183704376220703, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [outraged] That little floozie stole Blanche's clothes!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.673907279968262, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [Blanche walks in] Blanche, it's *you*!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.101725578308105, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [mocking] Oh, you're getting so good at that, Rose, now who's that over there?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.550538063049316, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : You, sir, are nothin' but a lowdown, carpet-bagging, scallywag! And as God is my witness, I will never shampoo your hair again!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.215055465698242, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Me too. Although it was kind of exciting opening his closet and seeing his little boxing trunks hanging there with that provocative nickname on 'em.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.235652923583984, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, Everlast is a brand name, not a nickname.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.881813049316406, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Girls, you are my very best friends in the entire world, and I trust and respect you more than any people I know, so I want you to tell me the truth. Now, honestly, do you think I'm competent at what I do?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.864177703857422, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [annoyed] I am talkin' about my job at the museum.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.293317794799805, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Of course you're competent, Blanche, I mean they wouldn't have kept you for five years if you weren't.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.994030952453613, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, then, why do you think my boss is constantly lookin' over my shoulder?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.382375717163086, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That's right, she did. I hate being dumped. Just hate it! I haven't been dumped since Wade Hunnicut threw me over for Rebecca Wilkinson, a girl who did not value her reputation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.49061393737793, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Slept with his brother.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.048883438110352, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm fine. I just... feel a little cold and clammy, and, uh... just a little short of breath.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.799918174743652, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Whoo! Don't make me do this, Dorothy. This ball feels like it weighs about a hundred pounds.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.746952056884766, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, good.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.751447677612305, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Storming into the kitchen] I am stunned, just stunned! Stunned is the only way to describe how, stunned I am!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.44582748413086, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Just a minute, just a minute Blanche.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.461003303527832, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And I'm not?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.131043434143066, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well of course I was, Sophia. It was the third Thursday of the month. If I'd cancelled, that would have been it for July and August, when I'd be wearin' open-toed sandals.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.423040390014648, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well I didn't know he was gonna pick that precise hour to die. How could I know that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.375393867492676, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, he'd been in a coma for days. The fact is, I happen to be very good with sick people. I was once a candy-stripper.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.306007385253906, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, do you know what a bubble is?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.18554973602295, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [shows her ring] I know what a bauble is.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.245392799377441, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That's horrible, here, eat up.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.14127254486084, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Talk to your husband.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.140865325927734, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Renee Corliss : Blanche, at the hospital they call him St. George! I'm married to a saint and I'm gonna tell him to work less, I'm lonely?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.168455123901367, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Get outta here.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.131826400756836, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [cuts Rose off] No, no, no, no! Please! I cannot bear that again!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.352936744689941, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : She was listening to her car radio. Big Band, not all talk. There was a contest. Something about a little voice, a lucky number, and a dime in a door handle, then bim-bam-boom, she won the tickets!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.896049499511719, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [trying to help Rose find a good birthday present for Miles] Oh, I know. You can give Miles one of those boudoir photographs. You know, where you pose for pictures in sexy lingerie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.928393363952637, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, Rose, come on. It's a great idea. The pictures are just an intimate way to let a fella know he's the one and only man in your life. I've done it, twenty, thirty times.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.717328071594238, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : I'd better go change. Blanche, what should I wear?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.497363090515137, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, if you're gonna keep both feet on the floor, somethin' you can pull off over your head.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.346381187438965, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Paydirt! Well, are you gonna do it?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.36276912689209, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Honey, don't dawdle. Now, men have a very short memory span when it comes to that question. Sometimes they forget before you can get your clothes back on.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.243988037109375, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Can I tell her? Glen asked Dorothy to marry him.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.629180908203125, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Rose brought a dog home from the supermarket.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.551342010498047, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : [turns to Blanche, covering her mouth so Mr Allen won't hear] Is he gay?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.437825202941895, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [planning to 'crash' a High School reunion that isn't theirs] You have to be prepared. Now, I'm going to go by the school library and pick up some old yearbooks. We have to know all the basics, you know, like, oh, Senior Class president, quarterback of the football team, class slut.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.349140167236328, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, how do you tell a slut from a yearbook?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.327963829040527, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : But he wants me, I can feel it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.197344779968262, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You forgot to dial first?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.383003234863281, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : A shoe?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.298141479492188, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Blanche, please, I'm not an idiot... The TV has a remote control?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.851240158081055, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You know what I'm gonna miss most about Sophia? The way she used to tease me. The way she would ever-so-subtly jab me with names like, 'Tramp', 'Floozie', 'Trollop', 'Harlot', 'Magic Carpet Ride'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.932239532470703, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, every time I turn around you have the baby in your arms.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.522074699401855, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, its just amazing - every time I pick her up she stops fussing and goes back to sleep!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.244523048400879, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well you never get used to sleeping alone - I haven't.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.327302932739258, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : So, Marguerite, wont you start by telling us a little about yourself.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.093984603881836, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And besides it'll take a lot more than rest to get rid of those babies!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.287200927734375, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : What does one wear to a sperm bank?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.472740173339844, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [a pause] I have that.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.24800968170166, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [to Rebecca] You are a Devereaux and a Devereaux has never had to pay for it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.119077682495117, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : It doesn't have a title, you twit.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.21103286743164, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, you going to bed already?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.33365535736084, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Hey, Blanche, that's a great title for your book!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.535213470458984, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, did you have a good time tonight?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.334600448608398, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : [to Blanche] And just yesterday, her biggest concern was whether Bubbles the Chimp was traveling with Michael Jackson against his will.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.334826469421387, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [she holds up an electrical cord] Well if this isn't it, I'd like to know what other electrical appliance you're using under that blanket", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.045252799987793, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I feel hot.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.016749382019043, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Why Rose Nylund. Why, that cake is in the shape of...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.967857360839844, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, we know what it is.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.261016845703125, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That reminds me... I gotta give Charlie Melbourne a call.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.292318344116211, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I certainly did grow up around some ignorant people. Do you know what horrible thing the folks in my neck of the woods did once when I was a young-un?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.29019546508789, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : They burned books! The townspeople made a big pile of 'em out in front of the library, and they threw a torch on top. Only, Big Daddy was outraged. He fought his way through that crowd, clawed his way to the top of that pile, grabbed that lit torch, and turned to that crowd and said, \"What are you people doin'? This is lunacy. You start a fire from the bottom!\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.171789169311523, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Ooh... I've got goosebumps. Mel'll be here any minute.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.118209838867188, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I know but now there's more at stake - everything's changed. It's all new and exciting. In many ways I... I feel just the way I felt when I was a virgin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.079839706420898, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Are you implying I lost my virginity at an early age?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.35505199432373, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I'm sorry, Sophia. But I'm not gonna let your skepticism ruin my entire evening. Mel and I were maent to be together.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.812638282775879, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I'm not gonna stand for this.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.98546028137207, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Some people just don't know when to quit.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.101319313049316, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Tonight, Mel and I are starting a brand new relationship! Do you realize how rare it is to find out that the person you've been sleeping with is the person you love?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.453326225280762, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Rose, Miles called again. He wants you to meet him outside the concert hall.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.322858810424805, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm not gonna do your dirty work for you, Rose.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.808074951171875, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Look, I'm not going out with him. You go, Blanche.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.017614364624023, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, what are you doing lining shelves on a Friday night?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.369771003723145, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm workin' off all my excess sexual energy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.306180953979492, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [on learning that Rose had 56 boyfriends during her senior year of high school] If that were true Rose, then that would mean you were... a slut.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.343814849853516, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Oh, come on, Blanche, how can you say that? So the woman had fifty-six boyfriends in one year. She's not a slut.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.247553825378418, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy Zbornak, you take that back!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.369194030761719, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [coming in to Dorothy's room in the middle of the night] I heard you laughing, what's so funny?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.550657272338867, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : What's funny about that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.212814331054688, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Of course not. I mean, I've never known any personally, but isn't Danny Thomas one?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.128473281860352, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [they discuss it further, then Blanche concludes] Well, I'll never understand what Jean doesn't see in the opposite sex, but hey, if that's what makes her happy, that's fine by me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.8938627243042, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Rose? Jean has the hots for Rose? I don't believe it! I do not believe it!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.699384689331055, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well, I'll bet. To think Jean would prefer Rose over me, that's ridiculous!... Does Rose know?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.378729820251465, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Oh, good. I don't think you ought to tell her. After all, she's not as worldly and sophisticated about these things as I am.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.807807922363281, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Jean's a very attractive woman. She could have any man she wants.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.503875732421875, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well, why not? A man has so much more to offer, y'know what I mean, Dorothy?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.296743392944336, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Why, what does that have to do with anything?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.323256492614746, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : He looks very peaceful and natural.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.0582914352417, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : Well, I hate telling you this, Blanche... no, that's not true. I look forward to telling you this, Blanche. The woman your great-grandfather married was born, well, outside of Georgia.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.180233001708984, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : How far outside of Georgia?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.410789489746094, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : Buffalo. You're a Yankee, Blanche!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.318246841430664, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : No, this can't be.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.971037864685059, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [panicking] There must be some mistake.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.319454193115234, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Let me see the certificate. I want to see with my own eyes that my great-grandmother was... that thing you said.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.278677940368652, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, stop it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.937492370605469, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [she carefully inspects the document] Oh, my God!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.073281288146973, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Ahhh, I remember growin' up in Atlanta, how all of us girls used to pretend to be Confederate belles and we'd receive gentleman callers. Got to be like a competition. In fact, I once received seven callers in one evening.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.01307487487793, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, I hesitate to say this, but something in Frank's eyes says to me that he thinks of you as more than just a friend.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.573275566101074, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Did you try that geriatric shoe store she likes to hang out at? What's the name of it...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.30979061126709, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Since when is this my fault?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.333287239074707, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [deeply offended] I don't believe you said that. Oh, f I weren't a lady, I'd deck you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.208490371704102, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, I was. But as it turned out, nothing fit me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.86127758026123, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : What did you expect, Blanche? Last weekend you ate so many pudding pops, you could have built the Eiffel Tower from the sticks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.25350284576416, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That's not what I meant. I meant everything just hangs on me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.266341209411621, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, damn. What's the point of wearin' this if I've got nothin' to put in it?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.323928833007812, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : Blanche, why are you dressed like that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.936027526855469, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Because I am goin' to an authentic, Texas-style barbecue, and my date is a real-live cowboy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.409421920776367, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : He's from Amarillo, Texas. He was the grand marshal of the B'nai B'rith rodeo for three years straight. Who better to go with to a barbecue?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.330437660217285, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [the 'phone rings, Blanche answers] Hello? Morty... threw your back out puttin' your boots on? You're in traction? Oh, I guess this means you're gonna be a little late? Oh, all right.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.395833015441895, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [she hangs up] Well, can you believe that? Because of one little slipped disc, Morty is not takin' me to the barbecue.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.289159774780273, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : [Blanche shares her delight that she's going out with old boyfriend Steven] That's nice. Maybe I should look up one of my old flames.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.155961990356445, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : No - I wanted to ask you - do you think Blanche has been picking on me lately?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.92350959777832, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [Blanche walks in] Hi, Blanche!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.123847961425781, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : ...Must you always be so cheerful you... empty-headed, Mary Poppins knock-off!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.036149024963379, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [talking to Max] You hardly ever remember to lift the toilet seat up.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.391777992248535, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, that sounds morbid.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.968255043029785, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And speaking of being touched, it's nickel beer night at The Rusty Anchor. I'm gonna get my purse, you get changed, 'cause we're goin'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.264811515808105, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : Oh, Blanche, what if no-one there wants to talk to me? What if nobody asks me to dance?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.325512886047363, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Now Dorothy, think: if there's somebody out there who is willing to dance with a corpse, there's somebody willing to dance with you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.453179359436035, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Of course she will. Honey have you given any thought to advertising?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.18477725982666, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose : Oh Blanche! I could never dress the way you do. Besides, I have to wear undies. Not all my wool skirts are lined.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.662166595458984, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I was hiding behind the drapes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.168996810913086, "source": "search", "title": "Dorothy Zbornak (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : All right, everybody, just write down who you think ought to leave.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.202997207641602, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [collects the ballots] Okay. Okay. Here we go. Good luck, ladies...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.104536056518555, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, Dorothy, it's your own damn fault. Why did you have to vote for yourself?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.317543029785156, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I guess that would hurt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.032793998718262, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Harry : Well - you must be Blanche's sister.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.878776550292969, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [Long pause] Sophia's home just burnt down.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.060190200805664, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Your mother bets?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.223234176635742, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Fidel Santiago : Blanche was right. She said you were incorrigible!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.69353199005127, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Blanche Devereaux has never shared a man!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.055168151855469, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go take a long, hot, steamy bath, with just enough water to barely cover my perky bosoms.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.226730346679688, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Is this dress me?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.27607536315918, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, you don't mean...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.262917518615723, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Sex, Dorothy. I tried quittin' sex.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.49506664276123, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Then he's comin' back here to shoot the commercial?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.353619575500488, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : But if he shoots it at his studio, then I get screwed and have nothing to show for it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.125267028808594, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, now hold on here. I don't want a TV crew comin' in here, messin' up my kitchen, settin' up all that video equipment.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.346613883972168, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Well, how about shooting it in your bedroom, Blanche? The equipment's already set up there.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.843792915344238, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Rose, let us call a rehabilitation center for you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.944453239440918, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I don't care about anything anymore, life has no meaning.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.257566452026367, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Whatever will we do with him for two weeks?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.406970977783203, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh come on Blanche, I'm from New York, I did chores: I made the beds, I washed the dishes, scoured the pots, cleaned the bathroom, folded the laundry, took out the garbage.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.520639419555664, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : No, she lived with me!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.646221160888672, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [opens the present hesitantly, surprised] Rose! It's a beautiful blouse.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.147087097167969, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Sophia, you're here. And you have your suitcases. Does that mean you're not leaving?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.751738548278809, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I know that guy. That's just a stage name.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.154678344726562, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche is telling me about Freud.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.188058853149414, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, you're a substitute. Your job isn't actually to teach.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.094673156738281, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : To keep the kids from burning the school down before the other teacher gets back.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.107438087463379, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, it's somethin' she doesn't have.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.936009407043457, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Is she okay?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.089566230773926, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [Rose is just coming home] Rose, what were you doin' out so early this mornin'?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.56844425201416, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose : I couldn't sleep, so I went for a spin last night. To Alabama! Blanche, do you know, at a truck stop in Tuscaloosa, they have an egg dish named after you!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.862316131591797, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Really! How are they prepared.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.123017311096191, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [wants to be part of Dorothy's Save the Wetlands campaign] I know I'm not always the first one to volunteer, but I happen to have an affection for bayous. Matter of fact, I became a woman in one.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.305326461791992, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well, those don't count. I mean, they did at the time, but this is the definitive 'where I lost my virginity' story.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.121894836425781, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia : It's really nice of you to share something so personal with us, Blanche. In a bayou! You slut.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.482721328735352, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [brainstorming ideas for Dorothy's Save the Wetlands campaign] How 'bout a celebrity auction.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.113749504089355, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh good, we can sneak out.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.112390518188477, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I didn't listen to my children, you don't see any of them coming to visit me, do you?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.321562767028809, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [the doorbell rings, and Sophia expects it's her date, as Blanche coaches her] Take your glasses off. And you know, it's a good idea if you can find something to compliment him on.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.080322265625, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Did he put out the fire?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.310454368591309, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [in awe] Wow. The seldom-achieved Joan of Arc fantasy triple! Sophia, I hate you!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.734508514404297, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I think I see now how it happened: Last evening at dinner, when Miss MacGlinn saw Blanche give Kendall Nesbitt her key she was furious. She dropped a steak knife into her purse...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.42762279510498, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche are you kidding? I have read every word Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler ever wrote. Sam Spade and Philip Marlow have become a part of me... \"She had more curves than the Monaco grand prix and was twice as dangerous. Her jewelry was mute testimony that Charlie Chaplin wasn't the only tramp who hit it big in this town.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.97331428527832, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : They are good, aren't they?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.264671325683594, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [to Rose] Just shut up you bleached blonde bubble-headed...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.428483009338379, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I hate watching what it's doin' to you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.288541793823242, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I asked my teacher for help like you all told me to, he said the only way I would get an A on his final is if I sleep with him.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.297531127929688, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : You're not having company, are you, Blanche? Because I want everything to go smoothly for Miles and Caroline. It's a big step meeting a man's family.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.619200706481934, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [Blanche's scheme is to meet men by telling them she's selling a Mercedes she doesn't have] Don't worry about it, honey, men'll be over, but they'll be in and out all day.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.001556396484375, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [later] My first appointment's here, right on time. I've been out there watchin' him. He's been lookin' at the car and smilin'. I feel just like a fisherman with a new lure.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.30354118347168, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [James is her first \"customer\" for the phantom Mercedes, as Blanche goes into action] You stay right there, and I'll get the keys.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.932400703430176, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "James : [Blanche comes back with the keys, and they go outside] I can't believe anything that beautiful is so cheap.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.942530632019043, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : [she covers Sophia's mouth, until Blanche and James are gone] I'm crampin' up!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.43991470336914, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I remember when a woman had to impress a man's *parents*, not his *children*. Oh, Mama Devereaux was fit to be tied when George introduced me. She wanted her boy to marry a *virgin*.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.720653533935547, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : Maybe it was all the 'honk if you had Blanche' bumper stickers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.982693672180176, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [after a long talk about her late husband George, with his brother Jamie over dinner] It made me realize why, from the time I laid eyes on him 'til the day he died, there was never, never another man in my life.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.03669261932373, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Oh, Blanche, you? You were never tempted.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.664651870727539, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Never.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.642762184143066, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [the girls are discussing Blanche's notion of marrying her late husband's brother, Jamie] I remember back in St Olaf, when Inge Engstrand married her late husband's brother, Lars, and the whole town was shocked. 'Course, that could have been because at the time Inge was on trial for her late husband's dismemberment.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.339556694030762, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : You know, Sophia... This birthday thing kinda has me depressed as well. You think you could help me, too?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.280031204223633, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : So why don't you kiss Rose and get it over with?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.006402969360352, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : What's the difference?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.361621856689453, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : I haven't said anything, have I Blanche?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.345674514770508, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [to Rose] You don't have to worry about me, I'm very healthy. I treat my body like a temple.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.526358604431152, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : My backside is spread all across the front page! How could they do that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.31741714477539, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : I don't believe th... wait a minute, that looks like Blanche's red dress.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.294633865356445, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia : And those look like Blanche's red shoes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.183704376220703, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : [outraged] That little floozie stole Blanche's clothes!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.673907279968262, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And I'm not?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.131043434143066, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well of course I was, Sophia. It was the third Thursday of the month. If I'd cancelled, that would have been it for July and August, when I'd be wearin' open-toed sandals.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.423040390014648, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well I didn't know he was gonna pick that precise hour to die. How could I know that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.375393867492676, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, he'd been in a coma for days. The fact is, I happen to be very good with sick people. I was once a candy-stripper.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.306007385253906, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : No, you're a nitwit. How come you know those words?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.25186538696289, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Blanche, c'mon, it's not nice calling her a nitwit. But, since the cat's outta the bag, how *do* you know those words?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.186840057373047, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Remember Sophia, when you find money, you buy something that you would never buy for yourself.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.199474334716797, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy : I'd better go change. Blanche, what should I wear?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.497363090515137, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, if you're gonna keep both feet on the floor, somethin' you can pull off over your head.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.346381187438965, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, I was. But as it turned out, nothing fit me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.86127758026123, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : What did you expect, Blanche? Last weekend you ate so many pudding pops, you could have built the Eiffel Tower from the sticks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.25350284576416, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That's not what I meant. I meant everything just hangs on me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.266341209411621, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : You're right, Blanche. I mean, how could I possibly compete with you? I mean, you've given some of your best performances in back alleys.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.266450881958008, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy Zbornak, I resent that remark. Have you been talkin' to Ed Tyler? That man has *such* a big mouth. Which reminds me. I oughta go give him a call.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.597183227539062, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Which reminds me, has Ed Tyler returned my call?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.412400245666504, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, I know what you're talkin' about, Sophia. There are men's voices that get me goin' like that, too.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.738286972045898, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, damn. What's the point of wearin' this if I've got nothin' to put in it?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.323928833007812, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : Blanche, why are you dressed like that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.936027526855469, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Because I am goin' to an authentic, Texas-style barbecue, and my date is a real-live cowboy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.409421920776367, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : He's from Amarillo, Texas. He was the grand marshal of the B'nai B'rith rodeo for three years straight. Who better to go with to a barbecue?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.330437660217285, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [the 'phone rings, Blanche answers] Hello? Morty... threw your back out puttin' your boots on? You're in traction? Oh, I guess this means you're gonna be a little late? Oh, all right.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.395833015441895, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [she hangs up] Well, can you believe that? Because of one little slipped disc, Morty is not takin' me to the barbecue.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.289159774780273, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : [Blanche shares her delight that she's going out with old boyfriend Steven] That's nice. Maybe I should look up one of my old flames.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.155961990356445, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [entering the room, feigning surprise] Oh, my goodness, we have company. I'm just so embarrassed to be seen in this old thing.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.289617538452148, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Jerry, I'd like you to meet my roommate, Blanche Devereaux. And Blanche, this is...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.688770294189453, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Why, you don't have to tell *me*. \"From the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic, from the Keys to the Okefenokee, with the 11 O'Clock News, this is Jerry Kennedy.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.214051246643066, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I don't really mind Clayton being homosexual, I just don't like him dating men.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.152085304260254, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : There must be homosexuals who date women?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.254764556884766, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm not old.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.990083694458008, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : It's either that or a big rent raise.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.321927070617676, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Sophia's old and I'm filled with anxiety.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.336599349975586, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose Nylund : Blanche, you can't stay home from work forever. Can't you just swallow your pride?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.924216270446777, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Why are you insulting me?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.387627601623535, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, well I understand. In that case, I won't take it personally.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.156972885131836, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, your date must have been horrified.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.285492897033691, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : This may not be my place, but you two hardly sound like old friends.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.179461479187012, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Trudy McMann : Blanche is right. We should be more positive. Dorothy, you look wonderful.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.481255531311035, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : [quietly, to Blanche] Who's the Mexican?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.17233657836914, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Bobby Lee has asked for my hand in marriage... And I accepted.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.165499687194824, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : That's not all they're good at.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.991008758544922, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You may not have noticed this but I've put on 3 pounds.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.310748100280762, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, that sounds morbid.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.968255043029785, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And speaking of being touched, it's nickel beer night at The Rusty Anchor. I'm gonna get my purse, you get changed, 'cause we're goin'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.264811515808105, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Zbornak : Oh, Blanche, what if no-one there wants to talk to me? What if nobody asks me to dance?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.325512886047363, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Now Dorothy, think: if there's somebody out there who is willing to dance with a corpse, there's somebody willing to dance with you.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.453179359436035, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [coming in to Dorothy's room in the middle of the night] I heard you laughing, what's so funny?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.550657272338867, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : What's funny about that?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.212814331054688, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Of course not. I mean, I've never known any personally, but isn't Danny Thomas one?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.128473281860352, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [they discuss it further, then Blanche concludes] Well, I'll never understand what Jean doesn't see in the opposite sex, but hey, if that's what makes her happy, that's fine by me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.8938627243042, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Rose? Jean has the hots for Rose? I don't believe it! I do not believe it!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.699384689331055, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Well, I'll bet. To think Jean would prefer Rose over me, that's ridiculous!... Does Rose know?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.378729820251465, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Oh, good. I don't think you ought to tell her. After all, she's not as worldly and sophisticated about these things as I am.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.807807922363281, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Sophia, people don't say queer anymore, they say gay.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.351019859313965, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [as they're ready to leave to crash a High School reunion, Rose is having second thoughts] Wait a minute, you're deliberately tryin' to get out of going.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.628185272216797, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [about Michael] You just did what you had to!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.182092666625977, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, knowing that does not help! I am going crazy - wondering where he is - I mean he could be sleeping under a pier for all I know - or in some flophouse or out on the street!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.425690650939941, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [after learning her father, Big Daddy, had an affair with her Mammy] This changes everything I ever thought about Big Daddy. I always assumed that he and Mama had a wonderful sex life. I walked in on 'em once when I was a little girl. There was all this huffin' and puffin' and high-pitched sounds, and then suddenly Big Daddy shouted out, \"GLORY!\", and they both lit up cigarettes. I vowed, then and there, I would *never* do anything so repulsive.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.946840286254883, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, Bobby Joe Porter explained to me that the cigarette part was optional.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.271463394165039, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Who is this secret man you're seein'?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.284555435180664, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : You are dating a friend of Miles? You scalywag.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.408937454223633, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : [sniffs Blanche] You've been with a man, haven't you?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.373051643371582, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Sophia, there's something I don't understand. Now you're always a bit ornery, unpleasant, impolite, even downright mean, that's part of your charm.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.909040451049805, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh, you don't mean...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.994303703308105, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : What do you mean harder on her? We're the ones doing everything around here while she's out there...eating life!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.064562797546387, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : [Abot Rose's recent behavior] I am abhorred!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.510886192321777, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia : [Overhearing] We know what you are, Blanche, I'm glad to hear you finally admitting it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.831406593322754, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : And you believed him? I hear that at least twice a week!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.377997398376465, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : [on a first date, Blanche brings along Sophia and introduces her as her Grandmother] Having a chaperon is an old Southern tradition. Grammy here brought me up since I was a child. She's the one who taught me how to put up peach preserves, and make my own clothes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.633095741271973, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Ted : Blanche, you didn't strike me as the type who needed a chaperon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.201950073242188, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, as I said, it was a tradition. We Southern families stick together.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.207088470458984, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Ooh... I've got goosebumps. Mel'll be here any minute.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.118209838867188, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I know but now there's more at stake - everything's changed. It's all new and exciting. In many ways I... I feel just the way I felt when I was a virgin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.079839706420898, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Are you implying I lost my virginity at an early age?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.35505199432373, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I'm sorry, Sophia. But I'm not gonna let your skepticism ruin my entire evening. Mel and I were maent to be together.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.812638282775879, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : I'm not gonna stand for this.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.98546028137207, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Some people just don't know when to quit.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.101319313049316, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : Show him, Blanche.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.413168907165527, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : [turns to Blanche, covering her mouth so Mr Allen won't hear] Is he gay?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.437825202941895, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I haven't had a decent nights sleep in weeks. Every time I climb into bed I feel guilty.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.398701667785645, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : I'm talking about the brass bed. I shouldn't have kept it. Rose was right, it's just like stealing.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.343535423278809, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Oh I couldn't do that, I've had it over three weeks. They won't take it back.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.224287033081055, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sophia Petrillo : [Blanche shoots her a look, reminding Sophia of her favourite hobby] I see your point.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.319175720214844, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Yum. I said yum", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.150429725646973, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereaux : Well, it's true! You got mad at us for firing you, that's why you reversed that love potion you gave me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.263694763183594, "source": "search", "title": "Sophia Petrillo (Character) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche Devereux, Queen of Sleepwear (part 3)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.86906623840332, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls Fashion" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: About Rose?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.270865440368652, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Picture it: Miami , The '80s . A charming Slice of Life sitcom surrounding the lives of four women over fifty (although good luck getting Blanche to admit it) sharing a house. These women are:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.138752937316895, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Acronym Confusion : Blanche's ( second ) middle name is Elizabeth, and she keeps a journal with her initials on the cover. Her initials spell BED, and the girls mistake it for a logbook of people she's slept with.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.136255264282227, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Adaptation Distillation : In-universe example. Rose tells Blanche a long, rather excruciating story about how she won Frank Sinatra tickets during a radio station contest, and is just about to tell Dorothy the exact same story, when...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.317739486694336, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: No! No! No! No! Please, I cannot bear that again! She [Rose] was listening to her car radio. Big Band, not All-Talk. There was a contest. Something about a little voice, a lucky number, a dime and a door handle, then bim-bam-boom, she won the tickets!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.165287017822266, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche's fears of getting old.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.052714347839355, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "There was also an episode where Blanche had a heart problem and was afraid of dying, even giving up sex for a while .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.112417221069336, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "All Gays Love Theatre : Sophia figures out Blanche's brother Clayton is gay because he sings in the shower and knows all the words to \"Send In The Clowns\" from Stephen Sondheim 's A Little Night Music . Although, it may have also been a reference to him being a fan of Barbra Streisand (who has a large gay male following ) as it is one of her more well-known songs .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.115569114685059, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "All Just a Dream : When Blanche dreams her husband had faked his death and comes back to her. The ending is a bit of a Tear Jerker .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.161272048950195, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "\"Not Another Monday\" (season 5): The baby in question is that of a neighbor, and the girls are sitting overnight. They memorably sing \"Mr. Sandman\" in three-part harmony to get him to sleep. Later, the baby develops a fever, and their pediatrician neighbor Dr. Harry Weston (from Empty Nest ) comes to examine him, with Blanche naturally taking advantage of the chance to flirt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.951033592224121, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche also went back to take classes for a necessary degree for a promotion at work. While there, her professor sexually propositioned her for a passing grade.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.949241638183594, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Bedmate Reveal : After hugging George in \"Mrs. George Devereaux\", we hardcut to Blanche smiling in bed, her eyes closed. She rolls over in bed... and we see she's alone .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.010738372802734, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blind Without 'Em and Blind Mistake : Sophia. She tended to make some rather hilarious goofs without them, such as mistaking Blanche for a black man (she was wearing very dark sunglasses at the time), and inadvertently buying condoms when she was trying to use what she thought was a payphone.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.81828498840332, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche : Oh yes, definitely. [ beat , everyone looks at her] ...oh yes, definitely, that is something I would like to know about too.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.777910232543945, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: She means like bad movies, or cold food, or running out of ice�", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.588683128356934, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Broken Treasure : The episode featuring Big Daddy's funeral has Sophia inadvertently break a commemorative plate Blanche received at a ball.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.518282890319824, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche could actually hold her own against Sophia occasionally. Once, when she asked for advice and Sophia turned it back into an insult, Blanche said very simply, \"I'm sorry, I thought that since you looked like Yoda you were also wise.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.450489044189453, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Occasionally, Rose got in some intentional jabs at Blanche:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.183029174804688, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanch: Rose, there's something I have to say to you...Just two little words, but they're probably the hardest two words in the English language for me to say.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.086222648620605, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche also liked to engage in this frequently. Probably her biggest case of this is when she claimed to have slept with Elvis Presley in order to convince Rose to elect her president of their newly-established Elvis fan club.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.29278564453125, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Corpsing : Deliberately invoked by the show's crew during a Christmas episode. The plot has Blanche give the other three girls homemade calendars titled \"The Men of Blanche's Boudoir,\" featuring pictures of some of Blanche's lovers. As a joke, some of the male members of the show's staff posed in exaggerated erotic positions while either nude or half-nude, took photographs, and filled the prop calendars with them. When the actresses rehearsed the scene and discovered the gag, they completely lost all composure.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.869857788085938, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche also considers herself capable of causing men to switch teams according to how she treats them, most notably a boyfriend who proposed to her with a cheap, fake ring, and after the relationship ended, supposedly turned gay. When Dorothy argues that it's not possible to just turn gay , Blanche counters that if he had been gay before, he would have had better taste in jewelry .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.210128784179688, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Cut a Slice, Take the Rest : In one episode, depressed Blanche puts a normal serving of lasagna on a plate, then leaves the plate on the counter and begins eating the rest from the casserole dish.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.374247550964355, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche also intended to go out this way, and in the hallucination where they were merely frozen heads on the kitchen table, she did. According to her, she was 92 and invited over a cute tennis instructor while she was in the tub, she asked him to sponge off her back, made her move, and her last words were \"Thank you baby, glub, glub, glub...\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.433138847351074, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy: Just a minute, just a minute, Blanche. Are you trying to tell us... that you are stunned?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.350593566894531, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Distracted by the Sexy : Blanche occasionally distracts herself by describing an erotic scene... or a scene that wouldn't be erotic at all, if it weren't Blanche describing it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.212674140930176, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche was so skilled at this that she was quite literally able to become aroused by a single line in the nursery rhyme \"Humpty Dumpty\" (specifically the one about \"all the king's men\").", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.99271011352539, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Although not nearly as bad as Rose, both Blanche and Sophia have their moments as well, the former due to occasionally misunderstanding anything not traditionally Southern, and the latter due to occasional bouts of senility ( Played for Laughs of course).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.233614921569824, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Early Installment Weirdness : Blanche didn't have a Southern accent in the first episode. There was also Coco the cook, Blanche's last name being Hollingsworth (later turned into her maiden name,) and the fact that Dorothy said she was from Queens, not Brooklyn.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.020124435424805, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In one episode, Blanche is struggling with a diet:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.191271781921387, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy: How's the diet going, Blanche?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.926673889160156, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Oh, piece of cake!...nice, big old piece of chocolate cake. Devil's food...smothered in whipped cream, and coconut shavings...and a lobster!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.112019538879395, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Even Sluts Have Standards : Blanche, for all her promiscuity, will not betray a friend or go to bed with married men. Oh -- except for that one time.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.156085968017578, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Now, that was not my fault! She was pronounced dead! Those paramedics never give up.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.97301197052002, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Or maybe not - in one episode, Dorothy was trying to wake Blanche up, and shaking her wasn't working. She then leaned over and whispered \"Blanche, get up, my wife's home\" and Blanch jumped up and started going through the motions of trying to get dressed and out the door, before she realized what had happened. Evidently, this was rather common event for her . . .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.300278663635254, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "During Rose and Blanche's first meeting:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.773659706115723, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Also, Rose's story about the bar in Tyler's Landing in the episode \"Nice & Easy\" - Rose, to illustrate \"teenage rebellion,\" told a story about the time she sneaked out to a gin mill to meet a boy and ran into her church's (married) pastor having an affair. \"A week later we became Lutherans,\" she concludes, leading Blanche to react this way:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.999390602111816, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Rose, that is not a teenage rebellion story. That is a changing religion story. That is a big who cares story! That is a why the hell tell it in the first place story!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.764942169189453, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "This is most notable with Blanche after season four; earlier in the series, the writers make a point of establishing that Blanche's promiscuity is something she does for her own enjoyment, and at one point lectures her niece about using sex and relationships as a crutch for low self esteem. Later seasons highlight Blanche's insecurity being at the root of her sexy behavior. The major change is when she starts self-identifying as a slut.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.867952346801758, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Formerly Fit : This is a major plot point in \"Blanche's Little Girl.\" Blanche's daughter Rebecca, who had a falling out with her mother when she left home to become a model in Paris, reaches out and wants to rekindle their relationship. It turns out, though, that Rebecca gained a great deal of weight while overseas, which Blanche has something of a hard time accepting. Her real fear, though, is that Rebecca will marry the man she brought with her—a jerk who makes constant nasty jokes about Rebecca's size. Thankfully, this doesn't come to pass.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.390904426574707, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Fourth Date Marriage : How Dorothy and Lucas's marriage eventually became to be. Blanche tricked them into going on a blind date with each other because his visit coincided with one of her dates so she needed to pass him off onto the others. When Dorothy and Lucas cottoned on to Blanche's deception, they set up a fake engagement in revenge, only for them to fall in love for real in the two months they kept the ruse going and got married for real in the series finale.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.94255256652832, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Full Name Ultimatum : Used by Blanche's old mammy in the episode \"Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy\" which stops her in her tracks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.050512313842773, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Fun with Acronyms : Three words: \"Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux.\" That is all.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.309612274169922, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Gag Boobs : At least once with Blanche (air filled, they deflate).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.078432083129883, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche gives Sophia a makeover for a date in one episode, which includes this trope.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.850954055786133, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The Game Never Stopped : The episode where they go to a murder mystery party weekend with Blanche's Maltese Falcon Club , and Blanche is accused of murdering her boss.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.161494255065918, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Gaydar : Averted, intentionally or otherwise, in the case of Blanche. Entire episodes hinge on her total lack of it, to the point where she honestly seems to think her gay brother Clayton should continue dating women, despite his having come out of the closet.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.027685165405273, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Genius Book Club : Blanche clearly enjoys Lady Chatterley's Lover , as she is seen reading a paperback copy of it several times throughout the series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.854484558105469, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In one episode, Sophia walks into the kitchen, where Blanche is looking for some batteries for her cassette player. The following exchange occurs:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.040111541748047, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Oh Sophia, do you have any batteries?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.49098014831543, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Similar to the above, Blanche once tells of the time her Headmistress interrupted Blanche's \"date\". Blanche could just wave from over her date's shoulder with her foot.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.810157775878906, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry : Shown repeatedly in a variety of situations, as all four women have at least one sister, and also have sisterly relationships between themselves. The best example of the trope being played fully straight is the relationship Dorothy had with her younger sister Gloria. Blanche also had this with her sisters Virginia and Charmaine, as the three were Too Much Alike .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.98606014251709, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Averted, however, with Blanche, who was very hands-off with her kids. But it's abundantly clear that she regrets this , given that she spends most of the series making up for it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.365157127380371, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: [stunned] ...good lord, no wonder you still mourn that man.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.039575576782227, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Charlie was also implied to have physical endowment that would've made a bull jealous . Blanche has trouble believing this since Rose is so embarrassed to talk about sex. Rose explains that, to her understanding, people who talk about sex don't really do it as much as they claim. All eyes are suddenly on Blanche.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.411547660827637, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Since the entire main cast is over 50, the others all engage in this to a lesser extent. For example, Andy Rooney wanted to have an affair with Blanche but she turned him down, and Rose's high school history teacher may or may not have been Adolf Hitler after he faked his death and was hiding under an alias. Rose's high school gym teacher openly went by Eva Braun.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.886274337768555, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Hahaha... ahahaha... ahahaha... God I wish I was dead.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.299033164978027, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Another in an episode where Blanche is dating a paraplegic:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.295876502990723, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Ted: Blanche, are you nervous?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.205062866210938, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Nervous? Me? [dismissive tone] Wheelchair!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.444669723510742, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche has also dubbed herself \"Water Lily,\" a term which she uses when talking to herself, and her mother also called her \"Peacock\" as a child.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.291254997253418, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Manipulative Bitch : Blanche, especially in the later seasons, mostly played this trope straight with her tendency to use people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.946102142333984, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Mistaken for Prostitute : One episode had Blanche check the girls into a hotel which turned out to be a brothel and then the cops come to arrest them thinking them to be prostitute like the other women there.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.090619087219238, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "A scene in another episode has them jump between a serious discussion about the state of the elder care system to jokes about the pictures of topless women Blanche has spread out over the coffee table (she was considering implants and was trying to decide which ones). At one point mid-line.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.042252540588379, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: You have a museum... where children go to look at cheese?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.27034854888916, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The story of Blanche's husband George's death. One version is that Blanche was out getting a pedicure when he died, after he had been comatose for a few days. Another is that she got a phone call at home from a rude, food-munching cop, who informed her that he died (presumably instantly) in a car accident, and Blanche mentions another time that a cop came to her house to let her know about George's death.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.984579086303711, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Another is where Blanche lived and how old she was when she moved to Miami. In one episode, when talking to her daughter, she mentioned how, when she was a baby, she would have to go downstairs in the middle of the night to scream for the governess when she was crying, implying she lived at her family home of Hollingsworth Manor and her Miami home was a retirement property. However, when considering selling shares of the house to the other girls, she's initially reluctant because she claims it was the house where she raised her children.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.387523651123047, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Even an element as simple as the characters' names are inconsistent. In the pilot, Blanche's last name is Hollingsworth. In the entire rest of the series, it's Devereaux (Hollingsworth is retconned into being her maiden name). Rose's maiden name is well-established as Lindstrom, but a notorious goof in the Bob Hope episode gives her parents the name Nylund, her married name. In two episodes, Blanche is given two different middle names, in each case strongly implied to be her only middle name: Marie and Elizabeth (the second was chosen so that her initials would form the word \" B.E.D. \").", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.242238998413086, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The 1964 Tokyo Olympics — although as Blanche puts it, \"The torch got there eventually, didn't it?\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.1442232131958, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: No more sitters! We're still in litigation with the last one.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.176093101501465, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "It's mentioned that Blanche has been arrested for various crimes, including driving topless, in Chattanooga.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.071495056152344, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Dorothy: Blanche, let me ask you something... are you allowed to go back to Chattanooga?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.15563678741455, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Are you kidding? The sheriff still writes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.24101734161377, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche's sexual encounter with a man that cost him his party's nomination.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.092691421508789, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "While arguing about Michael's attempts to marry a woman twice his age, Dorothy asks Blanche how she would feel if her son were trying to do the same thing. Blanche's response?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.847588539123535, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Dorothy, when my son was five years old he nearly burned down our whole town. Since then, nothing he does shocks me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.236015319824219, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: They are the stupidest birds....", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.642718315124512, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "When introduced to Blanche, a priest declares, \"It's nice to have a face to place with the name.\" When Blanche asks for clarification, he tells her \"I can't discuss anything told to me in confession,\" then later makes a crack in reference to her gymnastic skills.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.882768630981445, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche's promiscuity being so legendary that the Secret Service has a file on her. This is revealed when an agent visits the house to evaluate it for an upcoming visit from the President:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.217291831970215, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Let me know if you want to know anything else. I've got pictures.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.692988395690918, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche does not elaborate on what she was doing with her date that put her at risk of falling and chipping a tooth when Sophia's nurse interrupted.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.388790130615234, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "When they don't understand how to work a VCR remote and play a porn movie backwards , Blanche happily points at the screen.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.324823379516602, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: I did that once! (Notices the other girls' stares) It was his birthday.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.285764694213867, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The time Blanche got caught with the Orkin man.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.924345970153809, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "When Blanche claims to the girls that she lost her virginity in a bayou:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.88223648071289, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: Those times don't count!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.16852855682373, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Also, when the girls were trying to save an old tree in their neighborhood, their neighbor, Freida Claxton, said she had pictures of Blanche. Some of which may have included her and one of the councilmembers deciding the tree's fate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.266837120056152, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche will never be the other woman, except for that one time a man's wife was pronounced dead, only to quip how \"those paramedics never give up.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.229752540588379, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Another time, Blanche answered Miles' question over if anyone had seen a purple martin ( the bird species", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.103801727294922, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "No Periods, Period : Mostly averted since the girls were all at least middle-aged, i.e. either in or near, or post-menopause. However, one episode did deal with Blanche — the youngest of them — beginning to go through menopause, and this led to them relating stories of their first periods.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.013304710388184, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Nun Too Holy : A woman posing as a nun assists a man in scamming Blanche and Sophia at a local shopping mall. This trope is directly evidenced when the nun is seen lighting a cigarette and smoking it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.813141822814941, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The one time Blanche's mother-in-law was mentioned, she was said to wish on her deathbed for Blanche to have the disease that was killing her, and according to Blanche, until George died she would always refer to her as \"[George's] first wife.\" When she did pass, Blanche's only response was \"I hope the old witch went slowly.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.786297798156738, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In an earlier Christmas episode, Blanche revealed that she had a special fixation for guys in Santa Claus suits. Dorothy's response: \"You do realize that you're in the minority here.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.919801712036133, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Pregnancy Scare : In \"The End of the Curse\", Blanche believes that she's pregnant and spends the first part of the episode trying to work out who the father might be. She's entering menopause.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.105963706970215, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche's Big Daddy is a male version. \"They're admitting who into my country club?\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.214947700500488, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "The other girls (who are all grandmothers) avert this trope—particularly Blanche, who frequently defies her Southern heritage by showing an interest in African-American men. In the \"Mixed Blessings\" episode, she rushes to get a pencil when Greta mentions that she knows plenty of young, wealthy black men. Later, when Sophia asks if the myth about black men in bed is true , it's Blanche who immediately answers \"Oh yes, definitely... oh yes, definitely, that is something I'd like to know about, too .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.16640567779541, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche: In the South, we mature faster. I think it's the heat.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.993511199951172, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Rose held her own as well. She gives one to the nasty Frieda Claxton, and she also gives one to Blanche when Blanche goes too far with making Rose her personal slave.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.291439056396484, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche even gets in on the act, giving one to her scumbag night school professor in response to him propositioning her in return for a passing grade.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.009729385375977, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Reckless Gun Usage : Overcome with trauma stemming from a robbery, Rose purchases a gun and carelessly shoots it towards the front door, hearing a man's voice and thinking it was a robber (it was actually Blanche's date.) The bullet ends up hitting one of Blanche's prized vases.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.0042142868042, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated : A newspaper erroneously prints an obituary of Blanche. She can't believe they could print this sort of egregious misinformation. They got her age wrong!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.17007827758789, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Serial Spouse : Harry, Blanche's fiance in the pilot, married multiple women without divorcing them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.180276870727539, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sleazy Politician : Gil Kessler. Played with, Gil is actually a wimp and a coward, who doesn't dare dispute accusations that he is having an affair with Blanche and won't take it back when Blanche suffers from the press hounding her and Slut-Shaming by her roommates. He explains that he's doing this because no one's ever considered him a strong-willed person before, and sleeping with her makes him seem like one.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.078700065612793, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Sitting Sexy on a Piano : Blanche does this in \"Journey to the Center Of Attention,\" complete with a red dress . Of course, it fails horribly ; watch to see just how.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.275830268859863, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Straight Gay : Blanche's brother, Clayton. His second appearance has him bringing his equally masculine gay fiance along. Also guys the ladies take an interest in turn out to be gay a few times. And Dorothy's lesbian friend Jean doesn't display any stereotypical behavior either , but of course, all this was supposed to be the point .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.206316947937012, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Trigger : Played for Laughs when Rose and Blanche are rehearsing their roles as nuns in The Sound of Music . Rose says \"The Nazis are coming! The Nazis are coming!\" and Sophia bursts through the door in a panic telling everyone to hide in the basement.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.698899269104004, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "In \"Home Again, Rose,\" Rose suffers a severe heart attack and needs quadruple bypass surgery. When her daughter expresses concern that they won't be able to pay for the rehab, Blanche immediately remarks that the girls will help, commenting \"That's why houses have mortgages.\" In other words, she was willing to take out another loan on her property if it meant helping Rose.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.676223754882812, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Earlier in the series, Blanche actually makes the women co-owners of the house rather than renters, something she was initially reluctant to do.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.67016887664795, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Blanch", "passage": "Blanche's baseball-playing boyfriend Stevie, in the final season episode \"Where's Charlie?\", becomes one after Blanche makes him wear lingerie while playing for her own enjoyment.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.195510864257812, "source": "search", "title": "The Golden Girls (Series) - TV Tropes" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Children's Television Workshop", "passage": "Shortly after creating Sesame Street, its producers developed what came to be called the \"CTW model\" (named for the show's production company, the Children's Television Workshop), a system of television show planning, production, and evaluation based on collaborations between producers, writers, educators, and researchers. The show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales, and other media. By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or \"co-productions\", of Sesame Street broadcast in twenty countries. In 2001 there were over 120 million viewers of various international versions of Sesame Street, and by the show's 40th anniversary in 2009, it was broadcast in more than 140 countries.", "precise_score": 5.568247318267822, "rough_score": 5.520941734313965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sesame Street" }, { "answer": "Children's Television Workshop", "passage": "Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal was to create a children's television show that would \"master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them\", such as helping young children prepare for school. After two years of research the newly formed Children's Television Workshop (CTW) received a combined grant of US$8 million ($ million in dollars) from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the U.S. Federal Government to create and produce a new children's television show. The program premiered on public television stations on November 10, 1969. It was the first preschool educational television program to base its contents and production values on laboratory and formative research. Initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was broadcast in over 120 countries, and 20 international versions had been produced.", "precise_score": 7.820079803466797, "rough_score": 7.101548194885254, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sesame Street" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "Early in their history Sesame Street and the CTW began to look for alternative funding sources and turned to creating products and writing licensing agreements. They became, as Cooney put it, \"a multiple-media institution\". In 1970, the CTW created a \"non-broadcast\" division responsible for creating and publishing books and Sesame Street Magazine. They decided that all materials their licensing program created would \"underscore and amplify\" the show's curriculum. In 2004, over 68% of Sesame Streets revenue came from licenses and products such as toys and clothing. By 2008, the Sesame Street Muppets accounted for between $15 million and $17 million per year in licensing and merchandising fees, split between the Sesame Workshop and The Jim Henson Company.", "precise_score": 5.386476039886475, "rough_score": 7.432565212249756, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sesame Street" }, { "answer": "Children's Television Workshop", "passage": "Sesame Street is produced in the United States by Sesame Workshop , formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW). It premiered on November 10, 1969 on the National Educational Television network, and later that year it was moved to NET's successor, the Public Broadcasting Service. In 2015, Sesame Workshop struck a deal with HBO to air first-run Sesame Street episodes for the next five seasons, beginning with season 46 airing in January 2016. Re-runs will continue to air on PBS, though with a nine-month window between their debut on HBO. 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The total, of which $1.5-million is still uncollected, will pay also for a year of continuous research into the learning and TV habits of youngsters, and the success of commercial television techniques in reaching them.”", "precise_score": 6.3954386711120605, "rough_score": 8.571640014648438, "source": "search", "title": "‘Sesame Street’ goes to HBO and makes it clear why we ..." }, { "answer": "Children’s Television Workshop", "passage": "Federal funding may have helped stand up “Sesame Street.” Writing in the Weekly Standard in 2012, Jonathan V. Last noted that “In 1981, the federal government pulled its funding from the [Children’s Television Workshop] because it was pretty obvious that Big Bird was big enough that he no longer needed taxpayer dollars. (It crept back in the form of government grants and a small portion of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.) The Children’s Television Workshop had created not just an immensely popular program, but a mountain of intellectual property that could be profitably mined for decades. Which is exactly what they did.”", "precise_score": 3.9945812225341797, "rough_score": 6.327799320220947, "source": "search", "title": "‘Sesame Street’ goes to HBO and makes it clear why we ..." }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "On August 13, 2015, as part of a five-year programming and development deal, Sesame Workshop announced that first-run episodes of Sesame Street would move to premium television service HBO beginning with season 46, which premiered on January 16, 2016. HBO will hold first-run rights to all newer episodes of the series, after which they will air on PBS member stations following a nine-month exclusivity window, with no charge to the stations for airing the content. The agreement also gives HBO exclusive rights to stream past and future Sesame Street episodes on HBO Go and HBO Now – assuming those rights from Amazon Video and Netflix; on August 14, Sesame Workshop announced that it would phase out its in-house subscription streaming service, Sesame Go, as a standalone service; the service will remain in operation, likely with its offerings reduced to a slate content available for free or serving as a portal for Sesame Streets website. The deal came in the wake of cutbacks that had affected the series in recent years, the changing viewer habits of American children in the previous ten years, and Sesame Workshop's dependence upon revenue from DVD sales. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.5221548080444336, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sesame Street" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "As a result of Cooney's initial proposal in 1968, the Carnegie Institute awarded her an $8 million ($ million in dollars) grant to create a new children's television program and establish the CTW, renamed in June 2000 to Sesame Workshop (SW). Cooney and Morrisett procured additional multimillion-dollar grants from the U.S. federal government, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, CPB, and the Ford Foundation. Davis reported that Cooney and Morrisett decided that if they did not procure full funding from the beginning, they would drop the idea of producing the show. As Lesser reported, funds gained from a combination of government agencies and private foundations protected them from the economic pressures experienced by commercial broadcast television networks, but created challenges in procuring future funding.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.951338768005371, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sesame Street" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "Courtesy of TM and ©2009 Sesame Workshop.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.7151923179626465, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street funding: Why is Big Bird on PBS, anyway?" }, { "answer": "Children’s Television Workshop", "passage": "Because the networks turned it down. In 1967, a couple of years before the first episode of Sesame Street aired on PBS, one of the co-founders of the Children’s Television Workshop pitched the concept to executives at NBC and CBS. They both passed on the opportunity, as did Time-Life Broadcasting and Westinghouse. The problem wasn’t that the show was for children: Captain Kangaroo had already been a modest success on CBS for 12 years, and the networks had offered periodic programming for preschoolers. But Children’s Television Workshop was a somewhat revolutionary idea in 1967. It had a strongly academic bent, drawing together child psychiatrists and child-development researchers from the ivory tower in a way that suggested profit wasn’t their motivation. Its executives also refused to allow commercials to interrupt the program, although they were open to ads at the beginning and end. The Children’s Television Workshop leadership also insisted that the show focus on disadvantaged urban kids, rejecting calls from television producers that they broaden the target demographic to all preschool children.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.246647357940674, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street funding: Why is Big Bird on PBS, anyway?" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "The show is broadcast worldwide; in addition to the U.S. version, many countries have locally-produced versions adapted to local needs, some with their own characters, and in a variety of different languages. One hundred and twenty countries have aired the show, many of which partnered with Sesame Workshop to create local versions.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.093252182006836, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street - Muppet Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "Sesame Street has maintained a rigorous research standard since its foundation, to ensure that the programming is addressing the needs of its viewers. The Education and Research (E&R) department of Sesame Workshop is currently headed by Rosemarie T. Truglio, Ph.D. and Jeanette Betancourt . Truglio states that the level of interaction between E&R, Content, and Production is \"intimately hand-in-hand. They are not creating anything without our knowledge, our guidance and our review. We are involved in content development across all media platforms.\" This close-knit organizational structure has been an integral part of Sesame Workshop since it began.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.983832597732544, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street - Muppet Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "Since 1998, Sesame Workshop has provided extensive content on its website and others such as Random House [1] . Content ranges from birth to school-age, and includes information on dozens of topics, such as appropriate parenting techniques, dealing with children's fears, development of literacy, and maintenance a good health.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.369562149047852, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street - Muppet Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "Research is funded by government grants, corporate and private donations (including, recently, The Prudential Foundation for the Sesame Beginnings program), and the profits gained from the sale of Sesame Workshop merchandise.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.23301225900650024, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street - Muppet Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "According to people from Sesame Workshop, \"Health has always been a part of our Sesame Street curriculum, therefore we will always be committed to ensuring kids are given information and messages that will help them become healthy and happy in their development. For season 36, we have turned up the dial in health, but it will always be part of our curriculum.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.434500694274902, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street - Muppet Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "Its fiction books, published primarily by Random House , always display a notice stating that money received from the sale of the publications is used to fund Sesame Workshop, and often mention that children do not have to watch the show to benefit from its publications.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.267696380615234, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street - Muppet Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "In 2004, Copyright Promotions Licensing Group (CPLG) became Sesame Workshop's licensing representative for the Benelux.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.5565972328186035, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street - Muppet Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "© 2017 Sesame Workshop", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.787031650543213, "source": "search", "title": "Sesame Street | Preschool Games, Videos, & Coloring Pages" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "partners - Sesame Workshop", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.157402038574219, "source": "search", "title": "partners - Sesame Workshop" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "We rely on our funders’ support to bring the Sesame Workshop mission to life. Their collective commitment enables us to harness the educational power of media to benefit children around the world. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our current sponsors and partners, without whom our work to educate and inspire children would not be possible.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.202924728393555, "source": "search", "title": "partners - Sesame Workshop" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "UnitedHealthcare, a proud sponsor of Sesame Street, partners with Sesame Workshop to provide families with tools and strategies for keeping children healthy through programs such as Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget, Lead Away!, A is for Asthma and We have the Moves.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.678316593170166, "source": "search", "title": "partners - Sesame Workshop" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "American Greetings Corporation, a Sesame Workshop partner, is now a proud sponsor of The Electric Company.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.4670991897583, "source": "search", "title": "partners - Sesame Workshop" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "Sesame Workshop’s initiatives in Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kosovo, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania are made possible by generous support from the American people through USAID.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.085930824279785, "source": "search", "title": "partners - Sesame Workshop" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "Sesame Workshop is delighted to partner with the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation on Rechov Sumsum, the Israeli version of Sesame Street, and Shalom Sesame, a new series teaching American children about Israel and Jewish life.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.395914316177368, "source": "search", "title": "partners - Sesame Workshop" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "UnitedHealthcare has partnered with Sesame Workshop in their Healthy Habits for Life initiative, offering resources for keeping children healthy and strong and setting the foundation for lifelong healthy habits through programs such as Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget, Lead Away!, A is for Asthma and We have the Moves.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.26230525970459, "source": "search", "title": "partners - Sesame Workshop" }, { "answer": "Sesame Workshop", "passage": "American Greetings provides generous funding for Talk, Listen, Connect II and Emergency Preparedness initiatives. 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[ { "answer": "French", "passage": "Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to March 4, 1971 (Repeats were broadcast through September 9.) The series explored the trials of well-to-do engineer and bachelor Bill Davis (Brian Keith) as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French (Sebastian Cabot), also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy (Kathy Garver) and the 6-year-old twins, Jody (Johnny Whitaker) and Buffy (Anissa Jones). ", "precise_score": -0.4595576226711273, "rough_score": -0.7727588415145874, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "The word \"butler\" comes from Anglo-Norman buteler, variant form of Old Norman *butelier, corresponding to Old French botellier \"officer in charge of the king's wine bottles\", derived of boteille \"bottle\", Modern French bouteille, itself from Gallo-Romance BUTICULA \"bottle\". The role of the butler, for centuries, has been that of the chief steward of a household, the attendant entrusted with the care and serving of wine and other bottled beverages which in ancient times might have represented a considerable portion of the household's assets.", "precise_score": 0.8228649497032166, "rough_score": -5.053901672363281, "source": "wiki", "title": "Butler" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "The Steward of the Elizabethan era was more akin to the butler that later emerged. Gradually, throughout the 19th century and particularly the Victorian era, as the number of butlers and other domestic servants greatly increased in various countries, the butler became a senior male servant of a household's staff. By this time he was in charge of the more modern wine cellar, the \"buttery\" or pantry (from French pan from Latin panis, bread) as it came to be called, which supplied bread, butter, cheese, and other basic provisions, and the ewery, which contained napkins and basins for washing and shaving. In the very grandest households there was sometimes an Estate Steward or other senior steward who oversaw the butler and his duties. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, a manual published in Britain in 1861, reported:\t ", "precise_score": 1.4763950109481812, "rough_score": -5.116438388824463, "source": "wiki", "title": "Butler" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "Family Affair was a 30 minute family drama series on CBS about a rich bachelor living in a Fifth Avenue penthouse apartment in Manhattan. He had the classic British \"Gentleman's Gentleman\", Mr. French, to see after his every need! He had beautiful women seeking his attentions by the score! He had everything except responsibilities ... that is ... until his two Nieces and Nephew turned up at his door! Their parents were both killed in an accident and their future life was either an orphanage or \"Uncle Bill's\" penthouse. Of course, the carefree playboy was in no rush to give up that lifestyle, but after spending some time with the children, he found that there are other pleasures in life too! A truly heart-warming, family-oriented series.", "precise_score": -0.7681314945220947, "rough_score": -0.21719875931739807, "source": "search", "title": "Family Affair - CrazyAboutTV.com" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "Sebastian Cabot didn't really care for the role as Giles French when he read the script for the pilot. He felt that the stiff upper-lipped English butler would be a boring part to play. He agreed to do the pilot only because the money was very good. After Family Affair was picked up as a series he actually did get bored with the role very early on and even once said that both he and Brian Keith were exhausted with their roles for the final two seasons. Both of them found it difficult to force themselves to go to the studio.", "precise_score": 1.3098381757736206, "rough_score": 1.72501802444458, "source": "search", "title": "Family Affair - CrazyAboutTV.com" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "Family Affair was one of those successful family comedies of the 1960's. Bill Davis' carefree existence as a swinging bachelor was just about perfect. A highly paid consulting engineer, he maintained an elegant apartment off Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and had his domestic needs cared for by a very English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. French. Into this life of independence came three young orphans, the 6-year old twins Buffy and Jody and 15-year-old Cissy. Their parents, Bill's brother and sister-in-law, had died in an accident, and other relatives felt that Bill could best provide for them. Despite initial misgivings, Bill and French became very attached to the children and learned to adjust their lifestyle to make room for the new members of the household. Mr. French, a stickler for neatness and order, had the toughest adjustment to make, he was with the children all the time while Bill was often out of town on assignments. All in all, they were a happy family. Family Affair aka Fedderson & Hartmann's Family Affair is A DON FEDDERSON PRODUCTION in association with the CBS Television Network. Distributed by Paramount-VIACOM Television and CBS Television Network Distribution. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Broadcast History: {CBS Nighttime} Sep. 12, 1966-Sep. 15, 1969, CBS Monday at 9:30-10:00pm Sep. 25, 1969-Sep. 9, 1971, CBS Thursday at 7:30-8:00pm. {CBS Daytime} Sep. 7, 1970-Sep. 1, 1972 at 11:00-11:30am on CBS-TV Sep. 4, 1972-Jan. 12, 1973 at 4:00-4:30pm on CBS-TV. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ranks in the top 30 Nielsen Ratings No. 14 (tie) in the 1966-1967 Season (with \"The Dean Martin Show\") No. 4 (tie) in the 1967-1968 Season (with \"Gunsmoke\" & \"Bonanza\") No. 5 in the 1968-1969 & 1969-1970 Seasons No Ranking in the 1970-1971 Season.moreless", "precise_score": -3.032579183578491, "rough_score": -5.801070690155029, "source": "search", "title": "Family Affair - TV.com" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "William \"Bill\" Davis, originally of Terre Haute, Indiana, is a successful civil engineer who develops major projects all over the world. A wealthy bachelor often dating socialites, he lives in a large apartment on east 62nd Street off of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, and has a quintessential gentleman's gentleman, Giles French, for a valet. His quiet lifestyle is turned upside-down when his two nieces and nephew move in.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.126358985900879, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "Bill's brother Bob and sister-in-law Mary had died in an automobile accident a year prior to the premiere episode (the DVD collection's notes mistakenly state \"tragic plane accident\"). Their children—teenaged Cissy and her young twin siblings, Buffy and Jody—had been dispersed among relatives in Terre Haute for that year, but none of them wanted to continue raising the children, so they all attempt to give the responsibility to Bill. \"Uncle Bill\" is not keen on the idea at first, but the children endear themselves to him. First, comes Buffy, followed by Jody and, finally, Cissy. Initially mortified by the situation is Mr. French, who effectively becomes the children's nanny, on top of his valet duties. As time passes they all become a family, albeit an accidental one.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.947345733642578, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "When Sebastian Cabot became ill, Giles' brother, Nigel \"Niles\" French (John Williams) was introduced, working for the Davis family for nine episodes in 1967 while Giles is said to be touring with the Queen in the Commonwealth countries. In the last season, Bill hires a part-time housekeeper, Emily Turner (Nancy Walker) to assist Mr. French.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.535431861877441, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "Various other characters were also seen regularly, including several acquaintances of Mr. French who are in service (most notably Miss Faversham, played by Heather Angel), colleagues of Bill and friends of Cissy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.132630348205566, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "* Sebastian Cabot as Giles French ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.43061351776123, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "* Heather Angel as Miss Faversham, Mr. French’s friend (seasons 1–5)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.505011558532715, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "* John Williams as Nigel \"Niles\" French (season 1)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.52933406829834, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "* Mr. Giles French – Tim Curry", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.45002555847168, "source": "wiki", "title": "Family Affair" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "In ancient Greece and Rome, it was nearly always slaves who were charged with the care and service of wine, while during the Medieval Era the pincerna, usually a serf, filled the role within the noble court. The English word \"butler\" itself comes from the Middle English word bo(u)teler (and several other forms), from Anglo-Norman buteler, itself from Old Norman butelier, corresponding to Old French botellier (\"bottle bearer\"), Modern French bouteiller, and before that from Medieval Latin butticula. The modern English \"butler\" thus relates both to bottles and casks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.549342632293701, "source": "wiki", "title": "Butler" }, { "answer": "French", "passage": "Bill Davis is a highly paid and successful engineer living in a large apartment in New York with his valet, Mr. Giles French . His life is suddenly changed when his niece, Buffy shows up. ... 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The Guardians of Ra Mal are the name of these stone creatures and Godzilla is called upon once again to rescue the crew.moreless", "precise_score": 5.146868705749512, "rough_score": 8.25102710723877, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series - Episode Guide ..." }, { "answer": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series", "passage": "The Eartheater is the second episode from the first season of Godzilla: The Original Animated Series (1978). The original animation follows the adventures of a sea crew of four explorers, including Captain Carl Majors, scientist Darien Quinn, her nephew Pete and the Calico vessel's first mate, Brock. 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In Island of Lost Ships, the crew embarks on a trip to a remote island in the Greek Isles, only to find out later that this island only appears once every 1000 years. With a previous history of lost ships, a monster soon arises that makes it difficult for the crew to flee.moreless", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.619905471801758, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series - Episode Guide ..." }, { "answer": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series", "passage": "The Colossus of Atlantis is the seventh episode from the first season of Godzilla: The Original Animated Series (1978). The animated series follows the adventures of four sea explorers, which include Captain Carl Majors, scientist Darien Quinn, her nephew Pete and the team's first mate, Brock. In The Colossus of Atlantis, the city of Atlantis rises to the surface and the crew enjoys the opportunity to meet its inhabitants. Danger soon arises, however, when a robot built to guard the city malfunctions and becomes a threat to the city.moreless", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.222516059875488, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series - Episode Guide ..." }, { "answer": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series", "passage": "The Fire Bird is the debut episode from the first season of Godzilla: The Original Animated Series (1978). In The Fire Bird, the crew (headed by Captain Carl Majors) is tasked with seeking out a bird that has inhabited a volcano and is causing trouble for the residents in the town. Godzilla arrives to lend help as all must stop the creature before it begins laying eggs.moreless", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.5788627862930298, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series - Episode Guide ..." }, { "answer": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series", "passage": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series (1978) for Rent on DVD - DVD Netflix", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.685191631317139, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series for Rent on DVD ..." }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "The crew of the oceanic research ship &NFi;Calico&NFi_; contends with a seaweed monster, a cyclops, a well-disguised alien and the people of Atlantis -- with a little help from Godzilla -- in this collection of episodes from the Hanna-Barbera animated classic. While the &NFi;Calico&NFi_; researchers do their best to use science to get themselves out of a bind, it's nice to know that Godzilla's never far away -- especially since his nephew, Godzooky, isn't much help.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.6319899559021, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series for Rent on DVD ..." }, { "answer": "1970s Godzilla Cartoon", "passage": "Hanna Barbera's 1970s Godzilla cartoon comes to DVD!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.498867034912109, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla The Original Animated Series Vol 1 DVD (NR ..." }, { "answer": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series", "passage": "\"This DVD is called \"Godzilla: The Original Animated Series Volume 1.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.871044158935547, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla The Original Animated Series Vol 1 DVD (NR ..." }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "This show featured the Calico, a research ship that traveled all over the world. The Calico carried all sorts of scientific research equipment with it, as well as a minicopter, a minisub, a bathosphere, a hovercraft, and a lifeboat. The Calico's crew consisted of Captain Carl Majors, Dr. Quinn Darian (a research scientist), Brock (Dr. Darian's assistant), Pete (Dr. Darian's nephew), and Godzooky. Godzooky was apparently a younger relative of Godzilla. He was also Pete's pet.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.573373794555664, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla The Original Animated Series Vol 1 DVD (NR ..." }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "Although no episode of the show ever mentioned how the crew of the Calico became friends with Godzooky and Godzilla, it was mentioned in a press release when the show first aired: Godzooky was trapped in a coral reef, and he was rescued by the Calico's crew.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.229682922363281, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla The Original Animated Series Vol 1 DVD (NR ..." }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "As the crew of the Calico traveled all over the world, they would encounter various monsters, creatures, bad guys, villains, enemies, etc. When they got in trouble, they could summon Godzilla by pressing a button on a small handheld signaler, which would emit a sonic frequency. Godzilla would then appear and save the day. When the signaler was unavailable, or broken, or when the sonic frequency was blocked, they could also call Godzilla by having Godzooky scream. Since Godzilla was a good guy, he would always do whatever he could to help them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.810957670211792, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla The Original Animated Series Vol 1 DVD (NR ..." }, { "answer": "The Godzilla Power Hour", "passage": "\"This series is really one of Hanna-Barbera's best shows as the animation, writing and voice work is far superior to the other \"cookie-cutter\" produced shows the studio was churning out at the time. (Yogi's Space Race anyone?) It was originally presented under the title \"THE GODZILLA POWER HOUR\" (Not \"The Godzilla Show\") and was paired with a good adventure show called \"Jana of the Jungle\" (sadly not presented here) about a Sheena type jungle-woman looking for her lost father. Ratings for this second half of the \"power hour\" were awful as kids tuned out after the Godzilla segment ended. So Jana was dropped after only three months and replaced with two older, already tested HB shows and the title was changed to \"GODZILLA SUPER 90\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.3421173095703125, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla The Original Animated Series Vol 1 DVD (NR ..." }, { "answer": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series", "passage": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series, Vol. 1: Amazon.ca: DVD", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.248903751373291, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series, Vol. 1 - amazon.ca" }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "Other than that, this goofy 70's toon retains the Superfriends-style of bloodless action, complete with similar music and style, as a team of explorers get in way over their heads every time--but they have the best Pokemon of all--GODZILLA! Complete with flame breath and Laser Vision (!!!!), The Big G (voiced by Ted Cassidy) battles all manner of animated kaiju in style--aided by the cute, kid-friendly cross between Puff The Magic Dragon and Scooby-Doo, Godzooky. As if having a 20-ft tall dragon weren't enough. The stories even manage to squeak in some real science to appease parents who still, adhere to the need that toons need to educate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.079745292663574, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series, Vol. 1 - amazon.ca" }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "This was on Netflix streaming and my boys loved watching it (3.5 - 2 years old) then they took if off streaming, for the price and value you can't go wrong if you like the classic cartoons. Godzooky is a crummy version of Scooby Doo but whatever his proportional size in every scene is always way off but it's a classic. All in all my kids love it still, if you liked Scooby Doo and Superfriends this is another different but good series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.176960945129395, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series, Vol. 1 - amazon.ca" }, { "answer": "The Godzilla Power Hour", "passage": "Godzilla was packaged in many formats over its three year run from 1978 to 1981. These included The Godzilla Power Hour, The Godzilla Super 90, Godzilla, The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour, The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour, The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour, and Godzilla. Godzilla appeared in reruns on Cartoon Network from 1993-2000 and in 2000, The series began airing on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6273302435874939, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla - The Cartoon Network Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "The series follows the adventures of a team of scientists on the research vessel called the Calico, which is headed by Captain Carl Majors. The rest of the crew include scientist Dr. Quinn Darien, her nephew Pete, her research assistant Brock, and the ship's first mate, Carl. Also along for the ride is Godzooky, the \"cowardly cousin\" of Godzilla and Pete's best friend, who has a lighthearted role in the show. Godzooky can attempt to fly using the small wings under his arms. Whenever Godzooky tries to breathe fire, he usually just coughs up smoke.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.7942434549331665, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla - The Cartoon Network Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "The group often call upon Godzilla by using a special communicator when in peril, such as attacks by other giant monsters. Godzooky is also able to howl to summon Godzilla. Godzilla's size in the animated series shifts radically, sometimes within a single episode or even one scene. For instance, Godzilla's claw can wrap around a large ship, and only minutes later the team of scientists fit rather neatly on Godzilla's palm. In addition, Godzilla's trademark atomic breath is altered so he breathes simple fire. He can also shoot laser beams from his eyes much like Superman's heat vision.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.0733622312545776, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla - The Cartoon Network Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Godzilla Power Hour", "passage": "The Godzilla Power Hour (September 8, 1978 – October 28, 1978)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.7904924154281616, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla - The Cartoon Network Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Godzilla Power Hour", "passage": "The Godzilla Power Hour consisted of half-hour episodes of Godzilla and Jana of the Jungle . A total of 13 original episodes were produced in 1978, with the first eight airing as part of The Godzilla Power Hour. In November 1978, the show was expanded to 90 minutes with the addition of Jonny Quest reruns and retitled The Godzilla Super 90.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.911932110786438, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla - The Cartoon Network Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series", "passage": "All 13 Godzilla episodes from the first season have been released on DVD, in 3 separate volumes titled Godzilla: The Original Animated Series. Volume 1 contains the first 4 episodes, volume 2 contains the next 4, and volume 3 contains the next 5.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.0295040607452393, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla - The Cartoon Network Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Godzooky", "passage": "The crew of the research vessel, the Calico at one point rescue Godzooky, the young offspring of the mighty giant monster, Godzilla. Apparently, a pact was made that if the crew took care of the little guy, Godzilla would help if they needed him. As it turns out, this was a most fortuitous thing, because in the voyages of the Calico, they investigate mysteries that all too often lead to run-ins with dangerous giant beasts. With no way to battle the beasts themselves, the crew, either through a special signaling device or Godzooky calling himself, can summon Godzilla seemingly from anywhere around the world to confront the menace at hand. Written by Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.278512954711914, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (TV Series 1978–1980) - IMDb" } ]

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The series reached #1 in the Nielsen ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for eight seasons, TV Guide rated \"Roseanne\" as one of the greatest shows of all time.", "precise_score": -0.5244116187095642, "rough_score": 1.7297499179840088, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "The opening credits of Season 4 change from Season 3 in that the show now stars \"Roseanne Arnold\" instead of \"Roseanne Barr\".", "precise_score": 2.716808319091797, "rough_score": 5.515032768249512, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "The opening credits of Season 9 still say the show stars \"Roseanne\", but the first episode said \"Roseanne Barr Pentland Arnold Thomas\".", "precise_score": 1.7478889226913452, "rough_score": 2.5386972427368164, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "During the show's final season, Barr was in negotiations with Carsey-Werner Productions and ABC executives to continue playing Roseanne Conner in a spinoff. However, ABC withdrew from negotiations with Carsey-Werner and Barr after failed discussions with CBS and Fox. Barr and Carsey-Werner agreed to discontinue the negotiations. 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However, after failed discussions with ABC, and later CBS and Fox, Carsey-Werner and Barr agreed not to go on with the negotiations. ", "precise_score": -3.22109055519104, "rough_score": 0.8960008025169373, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 2005, she returned to stand-up comedy with a world tour. In February 2006, Barr performed her first-ever live dates in Europe as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival in Leicester, England. The shows took place at De Montfort Hall. She released her first children's DVD, Rockin' with Roseanne: Calling All Kids, that month. Roseanne's return to the stage culminated in an HBO Comedy Special Roseanne Barr: Blonde N Bitchin, which aired November 4, 2006, on HBO. Two nights earlier, Roseanne had returned to primetime network TV with a guest spot on NBC's My Name Is Earl, playing a crazy trailer park manager. In April 2007, Barr hosted season three of The Search for the Funniest Mom in America on Nick at Nite. ", "precise_score": -2.868300437927246, "rough_score": 0.1566230058670044, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 1970, when she was 17, Barr had a child whom she placed for adoption; they were later reunited. On February 4, 1974, Barr married Bill Pentland, a motel clerk she met while in Colorado. They had three children: Jessica, Jennifer, and Jake. Pentland and Barr divorced on January 16, 1990. Four days later, on January 20, 1990, Barr married fellow comedian Tom Arnold and became known as Roseanne Arnold during the marriage. Barr had met Arnold in 1983 in Minneapolis, where he opened for her stand-up comedy act. In 1988, Barr brought Arnold onto her sitcom, Roseanne, as a writer. ", "precise_score": 1.967123031616211, "rough_score": 4.371333122253418, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne Barr, one of America's funniest comedians, has another side that not many people have seen. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. During her teenage years, she worked as a dishwasher at a local restaurant. She married Bill Pentland and they had three children together. They remained married for 16 years, until Roseanne found her place as a comedian. She worked doing stand-up comedy until her 8/23/85 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) thrust her into the limelight. In 1987, HBO offered her a show of her own, On Location: The Roseanne Barr Show (1987). It was canceled after a short time. In 1989, Roseanne starred opposite Meryl Streep and Ed Begley Jr. in She-Devil (1989). Though her first picture wasn't as successful as she might have hoped, her sitcom, Roseanne (1988), ran for 9 seasons seasons on ABC. During the show, Roseanne fell in love with fellow cast member Tom Arnold and divorced her husband Bill after 16 years of marriage in order to marry Arnold.", "precise_score": -0.7922216653823853, "rough_score": 4.028519153594971, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne Barr's story is one of the most controversial of any actresses. She dropped out of high school when she was 17 years old. After a car accident, she was admitted to a mental institution, claiming she was having nightmares and memory loss. She left the institute less than a year later. Soon after, she gave birth to her first daughter, Brandi Brown, and gave her up for adoption. She began working at a restaurant as a dishwasher and waitress. Her hilarious comments to the customers she waited on led her to doing standup comedy at the restaurant. After her first TV appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in 1985, she wound up in her own standup comedy HBO show, On Location: The Roseanne Barr Show (1987). This led to the highly popular sitcom Roseanne (1988) , co-starring John Goodman , which dealt with real-life issues in a lower middle-class working family. During its first season on ABC, it leaped to #2. After the sitcom's first season, Roseanne Barr gained notoriety when she gave a screeching, crotch-grabbing performance of \"The Star Spangled Banner\" at a baseball game. When Roseanne divorced her first husband, _Bill Pentland_, after 16 years of marriage in 1990 and married Roseanne (1988) co-star Tom Arnold only four days later, her sitcom was already beginning its downward spiral. In 1991, she started to be billed as Roseanne Arnold.", "precise_score": 1.5629092454910278, "rough_score": 3.290883779525757, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Today, Roseanne Barr Pentland Arnold Thomas spends her time with her now 8-year-old son, Buck, and her other children in her new home in El Segundo, California.", "precise_score": 0.2717360556125641, "rough_score": 3.7299888134002686, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Someday when that Big Book of Sitcom Pitfalls to Avoid is published, Roseanne will definitely be the first entry listed under \"star megalomania.\" What started out as a successful comedy about a struggling blue-collar Midwestern family eventually turned into a platform for its namesake's (often) bizarre and radical viewpoints. Of course, even before Roseanne Barr Arnold got in touch with her multiple personalities, there was stress and dissention behind the scenes. There were also a few plot/character inconsistencies and other mysteries regarding the show that we'll try to clear up in this week's column.", "precise_score": 0.28036069869995117, "rough_score": 3.2909793853759766, "source": "search", "title": "6 Bizarre Explanations from the set of Roseanne | Mental Floss" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "When Roseanne first contracted for her television series with Carsey-Werner Productions, producer Matt Williams spent several days at her home taking notes as he watched her interact with her family. He also studied tapes of her stand-up act, and interviewed his star for hours on end. Much to Roseanne's dismay, however, when the credits rolled on that pilot episode Williams was listed as the \"creator\" of the show, instead of \"developer\" (which she thought was a more appropriate title). As time went on, relations between Williams and Roseanne became even more heated and came to a head when she boycotted an episode over one line of dialogue. Of course, the show must go on, and this one did so with its star only appearing in the opening scene and the tag (wearing an armband in protest). That episode, \"An Officer and a Gentleman,\" centered around an absent Roseanne and sister Jackie taking over the Conner household for a few days. It was so well-received that Williams asked Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman if they'd be willing to continue with the show if Roseanne suddenly\"¦quit. Both actors refused and later reported the meeting to Ms. Barr, winning her loyalty and support for the rest of the series' run. Matt Williams left the show after the first season and went on to co-create the Tim Allen sitcom Home Improvement.", "precise_score": -2.4314091205596924, "rough_score": 0.4522744119167328, "source": "search", "title": "6 Bizarre Explanations from the set of Roseanne | Mental Floss" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne the character announced her pregnancy in Season 7 about three months before Roseanne the person actually conceived via IVF, which explains why the TV character carried her baby for just over a year in TV time. To further confuse matters, in the \"Maybe Baby\" episode, Roseanne and Dan were informed by her obstetrician (after an amniocentesis) that she was carrying a girl. Of course, during a later Halloween episode Roseanne gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Jerry Garcia Conner. The reason for the switch was two-fold; Roseanne Barr Pentland Arnold Thomas wanted her show to reflect her real life (and her real-life baby, Buck, was a boy), plus she wanted to honor the (then) recently deceased Grateful Dead singer, Jerry Garcia.", "precise_score": 1.8114192485809326, "rough_score": 5.407407283782959, "source": "search", "title": "6 Bizarre Explanations from the set of Roseanne | Mental Floss" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne returned to stand-up comedy in 2005 with a world tour. In February of 2006, she released her first children's DVD called \"Rockin' with Roseanne: Calling All Kids.\" Roseanne's HBO comedy special, \"Roseanne Barr: Blonde N' Bitchin\" aired on November 6, 2006. Roseanne guest-starred on \"My Name is Earl\" and hosted Nick at Nite's \"The Search for the Funniest Mom in America\" show.", "precise_score": -3.0667877197265625, "rough_score": 0.7937437295913696, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - The Roseanne Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography, Pictures, Quotes, Photos, Videos, News", "precise_score": 0.6685132384300232, "rough_score": 1.9017014503479004, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography, Pictures, Quotes, Photos, Videos, News", "precise_score": 0.6685132384300232, "rough_score": 1.9017014503479004, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold)", "precise_score": 2.1889872550964355, "rough_score": 5.103275299072266, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) (1953– ) Actress, Comic, Talk Show Host", "precise_score": 2.813871383666992, "rough_score": 6.201153755187988, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr’s massive success continued to inspire increasingly extreme behavior. She had repeated plastic surgeries, claimed to be possessed by 24 different personalities, and revealed that she had been the victim of sexual abuse as a child, a charge her family vehemently denied. Divorcing Pentland, Barr married comic Tom Arnold in 1990 and alienated many of her associates by her vigorous promotion of Arnold as the star of two failed sitcoms, The Jackie Thomas Show and Tom. Calling herself Roseanne Arnold, she stunned her fans by announcing that she and Arnold were “marrying” her young female assistant. By 1994, her relationship with Arnold had ended in an ugly divorce, and she changed her stage name to simply Roseanne. She subsequently married her bodyguard Ben Thomas, with whom she had a son, Buck, in 1995. Roseanne filed for a divorce from Thomas three years later.", "precise_score": 4.939313888549805, "rough_score": 4.325534820556641, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Natalie West was cast as Roseanne's best friend and co-worker, Crystal Anderson. Crystal was consistently unlucky in love (with several failed marriages in her past) and her character alternated between naïve and just plain goofy. The character of Crystal was conceived during the original \"pitch\" meetings before the Roseanne show was sold \"“ after all, it's a golden rule of sitcoms that every main character needed a wacky friend or neighbor to \"bounce\" off. However, as the series progressed, it became evident that not only did Laurie Metcalf (\"Jackie\") and Roseanne Barr have better chemistry, it was also easier for the writers to concoct situations involving Roseanne and her sister than Roseanne and her best friend (especially since Crystal had a young son to care for). When Roseanne married Tom Arnold and he joined the cast as Arnie, Sandra Bernhard was brought aboard as Arnie's free-wheeling love interest (Nancy) in order to provide story lines for Roseanne's new hubby. With Jackie acting as Roseanne's best friend and Nancy providing the wackiness quotient, there wasn't much left for Crystal to do, so Natalie West was eliminated from the opening credits after Season Four and reduced to \"recurring character\" status.", "precise_score": 1.4312832355499268, "rough_score": 0.9843027591705322, "source": "search", "title": "Even More Secrets from the Set of Roseanne | Mental Floss" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In coming up with ideas for new shows, Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner of Carsey-Werner Productions decided to look into the concept of the working mother as a central voice. Up until that point, there had been shows with working mothers, but only as an adjunct to the father in the family. Werner had suggested that they take a chance on Barr whom they had seen on The Tonight Show. This was because he saw the unique \"in your face\" voice that they were looking for, and he contacted her agent and offered her the role. Barr's act at the time was the persona of the \"domestic goddess\", but as Carsey and Werner explains, she had the distinctive voice and attitude for the character and she was able to transform her into the working class heroine they envisioned. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.617414474487305, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr's real-life brother and sister are gay, which inspired her to push for introducing gay characters and issues into the show and was part of the reason for her fallout with former executive producer Matt Williams, who protested making the character Nancy a lesbian. \"My show seeks to portray various slices of real life, and homosexuals are a reality,\" said Barr. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.032073020935059, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) is a line worker at Wellman Plastics, along with her sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) and friend Crystal (Natalie West). Jackie has a brief relationship with Booker (George Clooney), the foreman at Wellman. Dan (John Goodman) finds sporadic work as a construction contractor and faces a strained relationship with his irresponsible and womanizing father (Ned Beatty). Roseanne's parents, Beverly (Estelle Parsons) and Al (John Randolph), consider moving to Lanford, but eventually decide against it. Tomboy Darlene (Sara Gilbert) struggles with her femininity as she enters puberty and gets her first period. Becky (Lecy Goranson) faces dating problems with her first boyfriend Chip (Jared Rushton), who is introduced in the \"Lover's Lane\" episode. Season one also finds the Conners experiencing, and surviving, a tornado. In the \"Death and Stuff\" episode a door-to-door salesman dies in the Conners' kitchen, and in the season finale, Roseanne stands up to a new foreman (Fred Thompson), when she leads Jackie, Crystal, and other coworkers as they quit Wellman Plastics. DJ is played by Sal Barone in the pilot episode and by Michael Fishman for the remainder of the series. There is a running gag in this season where they use the word \"corn\" in every episode. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.5528205633163452, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In the fall of 2008, Barr commented on what the current whereabouts of the Conners would be. \"I've always said now that if they were on TV, DJ would have been killed in Iraq and [the Conners] would have lost their house\". When asked for more details on where the rest of the Conners (Dan, Jackie, Becky, Darlene, David, and Mark) would be, Barr responded: \"Your question is intellectual property that may be developed later, so I don't want to get into that\". She added, \"No preview, absolutely not\". On December 20, 2009, Barr posted an entry on her website regarding what a possible Roseanne reunion would be like, which includes: DJ's being published, Mark's dying in Iraq; David's leaving Darlene for a woman half his age, Darlene coming out of the closet and meeting a woman and having a test tube baby with her, Becky's working at Walmart, Roseanne and Jackie's opening the first medical marijuana dispensary in Lanford, Arnie's becoming the best friend of the Governor of Illinois and remarrying Nancy, Bev's selling a painting for $10,000, Jerry and the grandsons forming a music group similar to the Jonas Brothers, Dan's reappearing alive after faking his death, and Bonnie's being arrested for selling crack. 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Barr won five additional People's Choice Awards for Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program (1989), Favorite Female All Around Entertainer (1990), and Favorite Female TV Performer (1990, 1994, and 1995).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.764604568481445, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1994 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.3180682957172394, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1995 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.6028521060943604, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1989 Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.7708752751350403, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1991 Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.7691420316696167, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1992 Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.7795685529708862, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1994 Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6285911798477173, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1994 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.898847222328186, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1989 Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program (Roseanne Barr, won)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.442652225494385, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1990 Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer (Roseanne Barr, won)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.292829990386963, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1990 Favorite Female TV Performer (Roseanne Barr, won)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.361177444458008, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1994 Favorite Female TV Performer (Roseanne Barr, won)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.379812240600586, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1995 Favorite Female TV Performer (Roseanne Barr, won)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.32610559463501, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1993 Funniest Female Leading Performer in a Television Series (Roseanne Barr, won)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.45436516404151917, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1996 Funniest Female Leading Performer in a Television Series (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6719481945037842, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1992 Favorite Television Actress (Roseanne Barr, won)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.027915000915527, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1995 Favorite Television Actress (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.00417423248291, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1996 Favorite Television Actress (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.734834671020508, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "* 1997 Favorite Television Actress (Roseanne Barr)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.900012969970703, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer, director, and 2012 presidential nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party. Barr began her career in stand-up comedy at clubs before gaining fame for her role in the classic sitcom Roseanne. The show was a hit and lasted nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997. She won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on the show. Barr had crafted a \"fierce working-class domestic goddess\" persona in the eight years preceding her sitcom and wanted to do a realistic show about a strong mother who was not a victim of patriarchal consumerism.Barr, R. (May 15, 2011) [http://nymag.com/print/?/arts/tv/upfronts/2011/roseanne-barr-2011-5/ \"And I Should Know\"] New York Magazine", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.0370830297470093, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "The granddaughter of immigrants from Europe and Russia, Barr was the oldest of four children in a working-class Jewish Salt Lake City family; she was also active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1974, she married Bill Pentland, with whom she had three children, before divorcing in 1990 and marrying comedian Tom Arnold for four years. Controversy arose when she sang \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" off-key at a 1990 nationally aired baseball game, followed by grabbing her crotch and spitting.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.629292011260986, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In early 2012, Barr announced her candidacy for the presidential nomination of the Green Party. Barr lost the nomination to Jill Stein. She then sought the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party, which she won on August 4, 2012. Barr received 61,971 votes in the general election, placing sixth overall. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.019388198852539, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr was born in Salt Lake City, to a working-class Jewish family. She is the oldest of four children born to Helen (née Davis), a bookkeeper and cashier, and Jerome Hershel \"Jerry\" Barr, who worked as a salesman. Her father's family were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Austria-Hungary and Lithuania, respectively. Her paternal grandfather changed his surname from \"Borisofsky\" to \"Barr\" upon entering the United States.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.098196983337402, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Her Jewish upbringing was influenced by her devoutly Orthodox Jewish maternal grandmother. Barr's parents kept their Jewish heritage secret from their neighbors and were partially involved in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Barr has stated, \"Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning I was a Jew; Sunday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday afternoon we were Mormons\". When Barr was three years old, she got Bell's palsy on the left side of her face. Barr said, \"[so] my mother called in a rabbi to pray for me, but nothing happened. Then my mother got a Mormon preacher, he prayed, and I was miraculously cured\". Years later Barr learned that Bell's palsy was usually temporary and that the Mormon preacher came \"exactly at the right time\". At six years old, Barr discovered her first public stage by lecturing at LDS churches around Utah and even was elected president of a Mormon youth group.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.9111967086792, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "At 16, Barr was hit by a car that left her with a traumatic brain injury. Her behavior changed so radically that she was institutionalized for eight months at Utah State Hospital. In 1970, when Barr was 18 years old, she moved out by informing her parents she was going to visit a friend in Colorado for two weeks, but never returned.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.445578575134277, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "While in Colorado, Barr did stand-up gigs in clubs in Denver and other Colorado towns. She later tried out at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and went on to appear on The Tonight Show in 1985. In 1986, she performed on Late Night with David Letterman and the following year had her own HBO special called The Roseanne Barr Show, which earned her an American Comedy Award for the funniest female performer in a television special. Barr was offered the role of Peg Bundy in Married... with Children but turned it down. In her routine she popularized the phrase, \"domestic goddess,\" to refer to a homemaker or housewife. The success of her act led to her own series on ABC, called Roseanne.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9811562299728394, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 1987, The Cosby Show executive producers Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner wanted to bring a \"no-perks family comedy\" to television. They hired Cosby writer Matt Williams to write a script about factory workers and signed Barr to play Roseanne Conner. The show premiered on October 18, 1988 and was watched by 21.4 million households, making it the highest-rated debut of that season. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.79777193069458, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr became outraged when she watched the first episode of Roseanne and noticed that in the credits, Williams was listed as creator. She told Tanner Stransky of Entertainment Weekly, \"We built the show around my actual life and my kids. The 'domestic goddess', the whole thing\". In the same interview, Werner said, \"I don't think Roseanne, to this day, understands that this is something legislated by the Writers Guild, and it's part of what every show has to deal with. They're the final arbiters.\" During the first season, Barr sought more creative control over the show, opposing Williams' authority. Barr refused to say certain lines and eventually walked off set. She threatened to quit the show if Williams did not leave. ABC let Williams go after the thirteenth episode.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.133012294769287, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne ran for nine seasons from 1988 to 1997. Barr won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Kids Choice Award, and three American Comedy Awards for her part in the show. For the final two seasons, Barr earned $40 million, making her the second-highest-paid woman in show business at the time, after Oprah Winfrey. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9091856479644775, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barbara Ehrenreich called Barr a working-class spokesperson representing \"the hopeless underclass of the female sex: polyester-clad, overweight occupants of the slow track; fast-food waitresses, factory workers, housewives, members of the invisible pink-collar army; the despised, the jilted, the underpaid,\" but a master of \"the kind of class-militant populism that the Democrats, most of them anyway, never seem to get right.\" Barr refuses to use the term \"blue collar\" because it masks the issue of class. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.247478485107422, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr gave Amy Sherman-Palladino and Joss Whedon their first writing jobs on Roseanne. She released her autobiography in 1989, titled Roseanne—My Life As a Woman. That same year, she made her film debut in She-Devil, playing Ruth. Film critic Roger Ebert gave her a positive review saying, \"Barr could have made an easy, predictable and dumb comedy at any point in the last couple of years. Instead, she took her chances with an ambitious project – a real movie. It pays off, in that Barr demonstrates that there is a core of reality inside her TV persona, a core of identifiable human feelings like jealousy and pride, and they provide a sound foundation for her comic acting\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.737799644470215, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 1991, she voiced the baby, Julie, in Look Who's Talking Too. She was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress. She appeared three times on Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1994, co-hosting with then-husband Tom Arnold in 1992. In 1994, she released a second book, My Lives. That same year, Barr became the first female comedian to host the MTV Video Music Awards on her own. She remained the only to have done so until comedian Chelsea Handler hosted in 2010. In 1997, she made guest appearances on 3rd Rock from the Sun and The Nanny.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.105718612670898, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 1998, she portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in a production of The Wizard of Oz at Madison Square Garden. That same year, Barr hosted her own talk show, The Roseanne Show, which ran for two years before it was canceled in 2000. In the summer of 2003, she took on the dual role of hosting a cooking show called Domestic Goddess and starring in a reality show called The Real Roseanne Show about hosting a cooking show. Although 13 episodes were in production, a hysterectomy brought a premature end to both projects. In 2004, she voiced Maggie, one of the main characters in the animated film Home on the Range.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6312432289123535, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In March 2008, she headlined an act at the Sahara Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. From 2009 to 2010, she hosted a politically themed radio show on KPFK. Since 2008, she and partner Johnny Argent have hosted a weekly radio show on Sundays, on KCAA in the Los Angeles area, called \"The Roseanne and Johnny Show\". On March 23, 2009 it was announced that Barr would be returning to primetime with a new sitcom, wherein she would once again play the matriarch. Jim Vallely of Arrested Development had been tapped to pen the series. She later stated on her website that the project had been canceled.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.921955108642578, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "On April 15, 2009, Barr made an appearance on Bravo's 2nd Annual A-List Awards in the opening scenes. She played Kathy Griffin's fairy godmother, granting her wish to be on the A-List for one night only. Barr headlined the inaugural Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival in February 2010, a project of the Traverse City Film Festival, founded by filmmaker Michael Moore. Moore developed the comedy fest with comedian Jeff Garlin. In 2010, Barr appeared in Jordan Brady's documentary about stand-up comedy, I Am Comic.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.678479194641113, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr released her third book, Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm, in January 2011. She appeared in 2011 on a Super Bowl XLV commercial for Snickers along with comedian Richard Lewis. It was the most popular ad based on the number of TiVo users rewinding and watching it over. Roseanne's Nuts, a reality show featuring Barr, boyfriend Johnny Argent, and son Jake as they run a macadamia nut and livestock farm in Big Island, Hawaii was broadcast by Lifetime Television in July 2011, and cancelled in September of that year. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4325013160705566, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In August 2011, it was reported that Barr was working on a new sitcom with 20th Century Fox Television tentatively titled Downwardly Mobile. Steven Greener, who also executive produced her reality show Roseanne's Nuts, will also executive produce the sitcom. Eric Gilliland is attached as co-creator, writer and executive producer; Gilliland was also a writer on Barr's previous sitcom Roseanne. The show will be set in a mobile home community and use a multiple-camera setup. In October 2011, NBC picked up the show. A pilot was filmed but initially ended up being shelved by the network. Barr blames her \"Progressive politics\" as being the sole reason behind the pilot's rejection. Barr states that she was notified that the show would not be picked up due to its being labeled \"too polarizing\" by network executives. In an interview with Politicker, Barr revealed that the show had been axed only to announce three hours later that she had just received a phone call saying that NBC had not given up on the project completely. The show could end up as an NBC midseason replacement. Barr hopes she's given the opportunity to retool the show. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.423121929168701, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr was \"roasted\" by Comedy Central in August 2012. Barr's former spouse, Tom Arnold, had claimed that he would not be appearing, but he ended up doing so. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.362541198730469, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In the summer of 2014 Barr joined Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters as a judge on Last Comic Standing on NBC.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.21418571472168, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "On November 28, 2014, Barr's series, Momsters: When Moms Go Bad debuted on the Investigation Discovery cable network, a network that she says she's a 'little obsessed with.' Barr hosts the show as herself.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.663334846496582, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "On July 25, 1990, Barr performed \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" before a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds at Jack Murphy Stadium. As she later claimed, she was initially having trouble hearing herself over the public-address system, so she was singing as loudly as possible, and her rendition of the song sounded \"screechy\". Following her rendition, she mimicked the often-seen actions of players by spitting and grabbing her crotch as if adjusting a protective cup. Barr claimed she had been encouraged by baseball officials to \"bring humor to the song\". The song and the closing routine received heavy media attention and offended many, including President George H. W. Bush, who called her rendition \"disgraceful.\" Barr would revisit this incident during her Comedy Central Roast in 2012, wherein she once again belted out the last few bars of the national anthem, without screeching. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.723860740661621, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 2014, the parents of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator who is known for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin but was later acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter, filed a lawsuit against Barr for tweeting their home address and phone number on March 29, 2012. Barr allegedly tweeted \"At first I thought it was good to let ppl know that no one can hide anymore ... If Zimmerman isn't arrested I'll rt his address again- maybe go 2 his house myself.\" Zimmerman's parents allege that Barr sought to \"cause a lynch mob to descend\" on their home. The Seminole County Circuit Court complaint sought more than $15,000 for emotional distress and invasion of privacy. In August 2015, summary judgment was granted in favor of Barr. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.13483715057373, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "On August 5, 2011, Barr appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and announced her candidacy for president in the 2012 presidential election, running on the \"Green Tea Party\" ticket. Her candidacy mixed attention to economics, personal health and meditation. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.150680541992188, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "She also said that she is running for Prime Minister of Israel. In an interview with The Jewish Daily Forward she invoked tikkun olam in her support of bringing women into politics and religion. On September 19, 2011, she appeared at the Occupy Wall Street protests and spoke in support of the protestors. She further stated that any \"guilty\" Wall Street bankers should be forced to give up any income over $100 million, be sent to re-education camps, or be executed by beheading if they resisted. Barr filed with the Federal Election Commission as a Green Party presidential candidate in January 2012. She formally announced her candidacy for the party's 2012 presidential nomination on February 2, 2012. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.206393241882324, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "On July 14, 2012, Barr came in second, losing the nomination to Jill Stein. Stein chose Cheri Honkala as her running-mate despite suggestions that she could choose Barr. Barr was given a prime speaking role at the Green Party National Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, but decided to instead send a surrogate (Farheen Hakeem) to speak on her behalf. Barr's surrogate reportedly chided the Party for not respecting Barr's candidacy. A shouting match in a hallway reportedly ensued. Barr repeatedly criticized Jill Stein after losing the Green Party nomination, and caused controversy by using alleged transphobic words in statements about Stein on Twitter. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.998480796813965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Shortly after losing the Green Party nomination, Barr [http://www.peaceandfreedom2012.org/posts/category/barr announced] she would run on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket with activist Cindy Sheehan as a running mate. On August 4, 2012, Barr won the 2012 presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party. Barr's running mate, Cindy Sheehan, immediately had disagreements with Barr, from Barr's views on policy, to Barr's desire to only campaign online, and Barr's treatment of Green Party nominee Jill Stein, leading Sheehan to request her name taken off the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. Sheehan was told it was too late to have her name removed, so she instead announced that she was simply leaving the campaign. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.548062324523926, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr finished her campaign with nearly 50,000 votes nationwide, placing sixth overall with considerably less than 0.1% of the popular vote; Stein placed far ahead of her in fourth place with roughly 0.3% of the popular vote and 469,501 votes. Barr was followed by a film crew throughout her entire campaign, with documentarian Eric Weinrib directing, leading to questions about the sincerity of her campaign. Over 300 hours were filmed and were released as a film called Roseanne for President!. Despite questions of her sincerity regarding her campaign, Barr and her family have insisted her desire to run for President was \"very real.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.703572750091553, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr has a lesbian sister, Geraldine Barr, and a gay brother, Ben Barr, both of whom inspired her to introduce gay characters into her sitcom. Barr has stated that she supports gay marriage. Geraldine was also Barr's manager while performing in comedy clubs and at the start of her sitcom. Geraldine claimed that Arnold tried to dominate Barr \"for his own reasons\". After being fired by Roseanne, Geraldine filed a $70.3 million breach of contract lawsuit in Superior Court of Los Angeles County on December 18, 1991. She said Barr promised her half the earnings from the Roseanne show for helping invent the \"domestic goddess\" character in 1981, serving as \"writer, organizer, accountant, bookkeeper and confidante\". Since it was six months past the statute of limitations, the suit was thrown out.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.3757067918777466, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In a 1991 interview with People, Barr described herself as an \"incest survivor\", accusing both of her parents of physical and sexual abuse, claims which they and Geraldine publicly denied. Melvin Belli, her parents' lawyer, said that they had passed a lie detector test \"with flying colors\". Barr was even part of an incest recovery group, something she said her parents knew about but for which they were \"in denial\". On February 14, 2011, Barr and Geraldine appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show where Barr admitted that the word \"incest\" could have been the wrong word to use and should have waited until her therapy was over before revealing the \"darkest time\" in her life. She told Oprah, \"I was in a very unhappy relationship and I was prescribed numerous psychiatric drugs... to deal with the fact that I had some mental illness... I totally lost touch with reality... (and) I didn’t know what the truth was... I just wanted to drop a bomb on my family\". She added that not everything was \"made up\", saying, \"Nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification\". Geraldine said they did not speak for 12 years, but had recently reconciled.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.926587104797363, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr filed for divorce from Tom Arnold on April 18, 1994 in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, citing irreconcilable differences. Their efforts to have children were unsuccessful. On February 14, 1995, Barr married Ben Thomas, her one-time personal security guard, at Caesars Tahoe with a reception at Planet Hollywood. In November 1994, she became pregnant through in-vitro fertilization and they had a son named Buck. The couple stayed together until 2002. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.234033107757568, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In the mid-1990s, Barr had multiple cosmetic surgeries performed, such as a breast reduction, tummy tuck, and a nose job. During the late 1990s she had gastric bypass surgery.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.009451866149902, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 2002, Barr met Johnny Argent online after running a writing competition on her blog and began dating him in 2003, after a year of phone conversations. They live on a 46-acre macadamia nut farm located on the Big Island of Hawaii. Barr purchased the property in 2007 for $1.78 million. Barr has studied Kabbalah at the Kabbalah Centre and frequently comments on the discipline.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.44698715209961, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 2015, Barr revealed she has been diagnosed with both macular degeneration and glaucoma, and thus is gradually losing her eyesight and expects to eventually go blind; she is consuming medical marijuana to fight the raised intraocular pressure that is a feature of these diseases. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.119746208190918, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne Barr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the north side of the 6700 block of Hollywood Blvd. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.654655933380127, "source": "wiki", "title": "Roseanne Barr" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "14. Among other \"Roseanne\" guest stars: pre-fame Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Tobey Maguire. DiCaprio played Darlene's home-ec classmate (in \"Home-Ec\"); Gordon-Levitt played D.J.'s awkward friend George in four episodes; and Maguire played a friend of Barry, the boy Darlene liked, though he liked Becky (in \"Valentine's Day\").", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.942561149597168, "source": "search", "title": "Happy 25th Anniversary, 'Roseanne'! 25 Things You Didn't ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne Barr - Biography - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.483805179595947, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne Barr", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.105804443359375, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "In 2002, she filed for divorce against Thomas for the second time (the first time, in 1998, she dropped the suit), accusing him of being disturbed and claiming that he threatened to run off with their son. After the divorce, she began to study the Kabballah, a form of Jewish mysticism, and those around her said she became amazingly centered and stable. Two years later, she ended the feud with her parents and siblings and went back to being billed as Roseanne Barr.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.549877166748047, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne Barr | The Roseanne Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.942488670349121, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - The Roseanne Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as the oldest of four children in a working-class Jewish family to parents Helen (née Davis) and Jerome \"Jerry\" Hershel Barr. Helen worked as a bookkeeper and cashier while Jerry worked as a salesman. Her parents were partially involved in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Roseanne's sister, Geraldine Barr is a lesbian and her brother, Ben Barr is gay. They both later inspired Roseanne to introduce gay characters into her television series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.6810458898544312, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - The Roseanne Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Roseanne did stand-up gigs in Denver and other clubs in Colorado. She later tried out at the Comedy Club in Los Angeles, California and later appeared on \"The Tonight Show\" in 1985. A year later, Roseanne performed on \"Late Night with David Letterman\" and in 1987, she had her own HBO special, \"The Roseanne Barr Show\" which earned her an \"American Comedy Award\" for the funniest female performer in a television special.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.1830291748046875, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne Barr - The Roseanne Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Through her long-running television series, Roseanne injected a dose of reality into the situation comedy genre. Born Roseanne Barr on November 3, 1953, she grew up feeling like an outsider as one of the few Jews in Salt Lake City, Utah. While still in her teens, she survived a nearfatal car accident and a mental breakdown that required months of hospitalization. At 19, Barr moved to Colorado, where she married postal clerk Bill Pentland. While raising their three children, she worked a series of low-paying jobs, living the life of the working poor she later chronicled in her comedy. During the 1970s, she became active in the women’s movement. Her commitment to feminism was at the center of a stand-up act she developed in 1981. Insisting on being called a “domestic goddess” instead of a homemaker, Barr joked about the abuses women suffered at the hands of their selfish husbands and children. The look of her onstage persona was itself radical: She stood before her audiences unabashedly frumpy and overweight, refusing to make quips at the expense of her own appearance, unlike most female stand-ups. After performing at comedy clubs throughout the West, Barr appeared at Los Angeles’s Comedy Club. The gig won her a spot on The Tonight Show in 1983. Barr starred in several HBO comedy specials before being lured to ABC to star in her own situation comedy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.3889407217502594, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Premiering in 1988, Roseanne softened Barr’s stand-up character and placed her at the center of the Conner family, which included two workingclass parents and their three smart-mouthed children. Although Barr exuded more warmth onscreen than onstage, the show had an edge that distinguished itself from other sitcoms of the time. Rather than painting a idealized portrait of family life, Roseanne looked clear-eyed at the Conners’ constant economic and personal struggles. The show’s comedy arose naturally as these intelligent characters used humor to help them cope. According to Entertainment Weekly, Roseanne quickly emerged as “the finest, truest, most nuanced, and best-acted sitcom about blue-collar people since ‘The Honeymooners.’” The show was an instant hit, even though, behind the scenes, Barr was launching an all-out war for creative control. Midway through the first season, she succeeded in elbowing out Matt Williams, who was billed as Roseanne’s cocreator.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.7700891494750977, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Throughout the show’s nine-year run, Barr would repeatedly fire producers and writers. While she was criticized as a prima donna, some insiders credited her actions with keeping the scripts fresh and innovative. Offscreen, Barr also generated controversy. In 1990, she was asked to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a baseball game at San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium. Singing off-key amidst booing from the crowd, she ended her appearance by grabbing her crotch and spitting in imitation of professional sports stars. What she thought was a comic performance sparked a national debate. Many Americans branded her as unpatriotic, including President George H. W. Bush, who called Barr’s rendition of the national anthem “disgraceful.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.51452350616455, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Barr, Roseanne. Roseanne: My Life as a Woman. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.2415924072265625, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "The Roseanne Barr Show (1987). HBO Home Video, VHS, 1990.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.4474751949310303, "source": "search", "title": "ROSEANNE (Roseanne Barr, Roseanne Arnold) Biography ..." }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Author Avatar : Being originally based on Barr's work as a stand-up comedian, this show screams it, almost from day one. By the time she has bought into her own media hype, it all but beats you over the head with its self-indulgence. The final episode proves it's also an in-universe example, as Roseanne reveals that the entire series was the book she's been writing in her office in the basement, and the self-indulgence the show descended into is her way of escaping from and fixing the things she felt were out of place in her life, but out of her control.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.985894203186035, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Betty and Veronica : For Darlene, Brian and Barry (in \"Vegas Interruptus\"), and later David and Jimmy. For Becky, Chip and The \"Tongue Bandit\" (Johnny?) or Dean and Mark. Later, Jackie plays Betty to Nancy's Veronica for Dan's friend (played by Tim Curry ). And in Season 9, Roseanne has to choose between Dan and Edgar Wellman.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.98729133605957, "source": "search", "title": "Roseanne (Series) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Barr", "passage": "Season 5, Episode 13. Dan is called into DJ's principal's office after DJ is caught with a violent pornographic comic book. The principal (who previously assumed Roseanne was a widow since Dan never turned up for school conferences) casts aspersions on Dan's parenting, especially after DJ reveals that the comic's author is Darlene. In the final scene of the episode, Dan is in the back of a police car, in handcuffs, after assaulting Jackie's abusive boyfriend, when they pull up to a red light beside another car being driven by the principal. 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Hence Ambassador Harriman’s observation as early as 1964 that - “not a single new African nation has succumbed to Communist penetration”; and the conclusion, in the same year, by the US State Department that:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.066740989685059, "source": "search", "title": "The Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar: Product of The Cold War?" }, { "answer": "1964", "passage": "Much has been written about the January 12, 1964 insurgency that came to be known as the Revolution, and of the role played in it by John Okello, Karume, and Babu and his Umma Party cadres. 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He was part of the group’s early success on its self-titled 1977 debut that spawned hit singles “Feels Like The First Time” and “Cold As Ice” as well as the 1978 follow up Double Vision featuring hit songs “Hot Blooded” and “Double Vision.”", "precise_score": 6.96129846572876, "rough_score": 7.022003173828125, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner Shares Heartfelt Tribute Following Death Of ..." }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "The news comes courtesy of Gagliardi’s former bandmate Lou Gramm , who posted a note to his Facebook fan club page on May 11 that reads, “It is a heavy heart that I let fans know that Foreigner’s original bassist Ed Gagliardi passed away last evening. I had spoken to Ed a few weeks ago & we were making plans to meet at my show in Orlando Florida on July 31. Rest in Peace Ed .. Always your Band mate, Lou”", "precise_score": -2.4071850776672363, "rough_score": -0.3271389901638031, "source": "search", "title": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Gagliardi rounded out Foreigner’s founding lineup, joining Gramm, guitarist Mick Jones, keyboard player Al Greenwood, drummer Dennis Elliott, and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald. In Gramm’s recently published memoir, ‘Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ he described Gagliardi as “a young guy from Long Island” and described the ways in which the bassist’s youthful enthusiasm tended to put him at odds with Jones.", "precise_score": 5.625156879425049, "rough_score": 5.995386123657227, "source": "search", "title": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Gagliardi eventually recovered, founding the band Spys with his fellow former Foreigner member Greenwood. Joined by guitarist John DiGaudio, drummer Billy Milne, and singer John Blanco, the band released a pair of albums (1982’s ‘Spys’ and 1983’s ‘Behind Enemy Lines’) before disbanding. Although Spys’ dissolution seems to have led to Gagliardi’s retirement as a recording artist, he remains well-remembered by the Foreigner faithful, some of whom have gathered at the Ed Gagliardi Fan Group on Facebook.", "precise_score": 3.0259010791778564, "rough_score": 5.833142280578613, "source": "search", "title": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Promotional studio portrait of American rock group Foreigner, 1977. (L-R): Lou Gramm, Ian McDonald, Al Greenwood, Mick Jones, Dennis Elliot. 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Ed and original Foreigner keyboardist Al Greenwood then formed the band Spys and recorded two albums.", "precise_score": 4.712029457092285, "rough_score": 5.694027900695801, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner: Original Bassist Dead At 62 « 104.3 WOMC" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Forever Legends album for sale by Foreigner was released Jan 14, 1997 on the Atlantic label. Foreigner includes: Mick Jones (vocals, guitar); Lou Gramm (vocals); Ian McDonald (guitar, horns, keyboards, background vocals); Al Greenwood (keyboards, synthesizer); Ed Gagliardi (bass, background vocals); Dennis Elliott (drums). Forever Legends CD music contains a single disc with 10 songs.", "precise_score": 3.065873384475708, "rough_score": 1.7665681838989258, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner - Forever Legends CD Album at CD Universe" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner album for sale by Foreigner was released Apr 02, 2002 on the Rhino label. 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Jones wrote most of the material, and his English prog-rock-meets-blues-rock background melded into the common parlance of US stadium rock, circa the mid to late '70s.", "precise_score": 6.627281665802002, "rough_score": 6.225318908691406, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner Mantra Studios Chicago, IL May 4, 1977" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Alan \"Al\" Greenwood (born October 20, 1951, New York) is an American rock musician who was a founding member and keyboardist of the rock band Foreigner from 1976 to 1980. 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He was 62.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.164122104644775, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner Shares Heartfelt Tribute Following Death Of ..." }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "After word got out of his passing, Foreigner shared a touching photo in his memory on its official Twitter account Monday, adding that the photo was taken at the band’s very first show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.306148529052734, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner Shares Heartfelt Tribute Following Death Of ..." }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.023087978363037, "source": "search", "title": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.023087978363037, "source": "search", "title": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Ed Gagliardi, the original bassist for Foreigner , has reportedly passed away at the age of 62.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.204460620880127, "source": "search", "title": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Saying Gagliardi could be “obstinate at times, playing the song the way he wanted rather than the way it was drawn up,” Gramm wrote, “He and Mick had some memorable arguments.” In fact, while Gagliardi’s three-year tenure included Foreigner’s hit self-titled debut and the even more successful ‘ Double Vision ‘ in 1978, by ’79 he found himself permanently on the outs. “It took awhile for Ed to accept his role and play the bass the way we needed it to be played,” explained Gramm in his book. “He wasn’t a bad guy, he just was a little headstrong and had his own ideas that weren’t always compatible with what we were trying to accomplish…Ed took the news really hard; he actually fainted after being told.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.795389413833618, "source": "search", "title": "Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "This is the official Dennis Elliott Fan Page. Dennis is one of ...the original founders of the incredible music group, Foreigner. He was the group's original drummer. Foreigner remains one of the most important music groups today. Ask questions and learn about the history of this incredible talent called Foreigner and Dennis Elliott, a most amazing man!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.974689483642578, "source": "search", "title": "The Official Dennis Elliott Fan Page Public Group | Facebook" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner: Original Bassist Dead At 62 « 104.3 WOMC", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.413383483886719, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner: Original Bassist Dead At 62 « 104.3 WOMC" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner: Original Bassist Dead At 62", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.45438003540039, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner: Original Bassist Dead At 62 « 104.3 WOMC" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "His daughter Nicole says, “There are no words. We appreciate your prayers and well wishes. We are shocked and heartbroken, thank you for your loyal fandom of an amazing man. I love you, Daddy.” Original Foreigner singer Lou Gramm says, “I had spoken to Ed just a few weeks ago and we were making plans to meet at my show in Orlando, Florida on July 31st. Rest in peace Ed… Always your bandmate, Lou.” And a tweet on the Foreigner Twitter page says, “Rest in peace Ed Gagliardi. You will me missed.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.41024112701416, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner: Original Bassist Dead At 62 « 104.3 WOMC" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner - Forever Legends CD Album", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.504605293273926, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner - Forever Legends CD Album at CD Universe" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.41627311706543, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner - Forever Legends CD Album at CD Universe" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Along with bands like Styx, Journey, and Boston, Foreigner was one of the first hard rock acts to add overt Top-40 pop sensibilities to the mix Forever Legends album for sale. The result was mass crossover success, something that both the pop and rock audiences could easily latch onto Forever Legends CD music. Foreigner's self-titled debut from 1977 is the epitome of classic rock: big guitar hooks, melodicism, simple driving rhythms, and sexually charged lyrics Forever Legends buy CD music. Two of Foreigner's best-known tracks, \"Double Vision\" and \"Cold as Ice,\" are included here, as are such strong album cuts as \"Long Way From Home.\" FOREIGNER was a multi-platinum success--with just one try, the band found itself at the top of the hard rock heap.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.084918022155762, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner - Forever Legends CD Album at CD Universe" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner - Forever Legends Album Track Listing", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.51109504699707, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner - Forever Legends CD Album at CD Universe" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner CD Album", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.544748306274414, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner CD Album at CD Universe" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner CD music Product Description", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.58359146118164, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner CD Album at CD Universe" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Along with bands like Styx, Journey, and Boston, Foreigner was one of the first hard rock acts to add overt Top-40 pop sensibilities to the mix.   ... 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And though they were a new band with a new album, in May of 1977 when they performed this set at Chicago's Mantra Studios, Foreigner played like the readymade superstars they were.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.99899959564209, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner Mantra Studios Chicago, IL May 4, 1977" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Opening the set here with the laidback \"Woman Oh Woman,\" the band works its way up the ladder with the ascending \"The Damage is Done.\" \"Long Long Way From Home\" (a Top 20 single) and \"Headknocker\" loosen things up a bit; these riff-heavy rockers are perfect for stomping and strutting through the big rooms Foreigner ruled in the '70s. \"Feels Like the First Time\" was of course the band's undeniable first Top 40 hit, though it wasn't necessarily the strongest cut. \"I Need You\" is essentially built as a showcase for Gramm's gritty vocal style, also built on British blues rock, and a blueprint of sorts for big '80s metal.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.236071586608887, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner Mantra Studios Chicago, IL May 4, 1977" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner stayed on the higher reaches of the album charts for the rest of the year. This Chicago appearance marks the beginning of what would be a long and very successful trip for the band. Founding member Jones remains a traveling man, on the road with a revised line-up of his band, giving a whole new meaning to his phrase, \"Feels Like the First Time.\" No strangers to success on either side of the Atlantic, Foreigner remains among the first names in '70s stadium rock and permanent residents in the big arenas they called home.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.081048011779785, "source": "search", "title": "Foreigner Mantra Studios Chicago, IL May 4, 1977" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.496522903442383, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Whether their singles were ‘Cold as Ice’ or ‘Hotblooded’, the seventies saw rock band Foreigner shoot straight to the top of the charts, where the group achieved platinum status time and again. With veteran rocker Mick Jones at its helm, the success of Foreigner’s brand of arena rock proved that audiences craved a solid middle ground between the harsh nature of punk and the optimistic sounds of disco.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.740663528442383, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner was established in 1976 out of lead guitarist Mick Jones’s desire “to combine Blues and R&B with British rock and make it sound soulful and authentic”. It was also the result of a challenge issued by the multi-instrumentalist to his manager Bud Prager that Jones could succeed as a musician.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.156132698059082, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "In fact, the Englishman was already familiar with the music business by the time he founded Foreigner. In the mid-Seventies, having played with bands such as Spooky Tooth, Jones found himself at a loose end following an acrimonious departure from his latest venture as the guitarist for The Leslie West Band.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.577346801757812, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "After searching for inspiration as to the band’s identity, Jones called the ensemble ‘Foreigner’ because of its collection of musical talent from both sides of the Atlantic.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.321876525878906, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "The newly named band immediately set forth to produce an album and find a record deal, yet the abundance of groups such as Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones meant that Foreigner failed to pose a draw for the labels. It was finally Atlantic Records who saw the potential in the experienced players. They would not regret their decision.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.080808639526367, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "In March 1977, Foreigner released its first self-titled album, ‘Foreigner’ (1977) and it did the unthinkable. It immediately shot to the top of the charts, selling over five million copies and exceeding even Jones' expectations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.117143630981445, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Bouyed by the song writing chemistry between Jones and Gramm, Foreigner bucked the trend by selling singles as well as albums. The songwriters were even nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist. Songs such as ‘Cold as Ice’ and ‘Long, Long Way from Home’ captured a legion of fans who bought them in their millions and catapulted the band into instant stardom.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.358080863952637, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Realising that he needed to capitalise on this success, Jones immediately returned the band to the studio to create their next album. In a move that many would have considered risky, Foreigner enlisted Grateful Dead producer Keith Olsen in place of Gary Lyons and John Sinclair who had helped create their debut record in order to keep their sound fresh.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.643059730529785, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "In fact, ‘Double Vision’ became another massive hit for the group, selling over seven million records in the US alone and proving that Foreigner was not a passing phase. Singles such as the title track ‘Double Vision’ and ‘Hot Blooded’ also became radio favourites, peaking at numbers two and three respectively in the US charts and keeping the album in the top ten for a grand total of six months.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.865192413330078, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner seemed unbreakable. Yet, as they embarked on their third album, ‘Head Games’ (1979), they did so without original member Gagliardi, who was replaced by Rick Willis. ‘Head Games’ proved yet another sensation for the group, spawning top ten singles such as ‘Dirty White Boy’ and peaking at number five on the US Billboard charts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.44619083404541, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "The group did not release an album that year, perhaps signalling a need for its members to take stock of their increasing fame and their depleted line up. Foreigner’s next offering, the aptly named ‘4’ (1981), would need to serve as a steadying force, both to the shaken group and its wary public.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.089056968688965, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "In 1984, Foreigner returned to a different audience. The rise of the MTV generation posed new challenges to the platinum selling group, requiring them to prove that they were still relevant. Yet their break from the limelight appeared to have imbued the group with a new level of energy and Foreigner battled their modern demons with ‘Agent Provocateur’ (1984).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.674735069274902, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "The single was a massive hit, providing the band with their first number one on the US charts. However, the fact that this song was a ballad also confused some of Foreigner’s fans, who were unsure whether to embrace them as a pure rock group or whether this marked a change of genre.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.079689025878906, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Whilst this uncertainty did not affect album sales, cracks began to emerge in Foreigner’s façade as the band divided along musical lines. In particular, whereas Jones was leaning towards a new pop sound, Gramm harked back to the band’s original rock roots.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.246837615966797, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "The members tried to work through their differences, releasing the album ‘Inside Information’ (1987). However, as the tension grew between the band’s leader and its vocalist, the situation proved untenable. In 1989, Gramm left Foreigner, claiming that Jones had become too controlling.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.105002403259277, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Jones quickly found a replacement for Gramm, bestowing the band with the new voice of Johhny Edwards. The change proved a step too far. Fans showed their disapproval, shunning Foreigner’s 1991 album, ‘Unusual Heat’.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.140563011169434, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "The failure of this record seemed to pull Foreigner further into a spiral of dissent. Dennis Elliott followed in Gramm’s footsteps, leaving the group without a drummer and with only Jones as an original member. Larry Aberman acted as a temporary replacement, but Foreigner would struggle for years to replace Elliott.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.6398468017578125, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Gramm returned to Foreigner in 1992, after Atlantic Records mediated between him and Jones. The reunion was long enough for the band to release a best hits album and an intended comeback record, ‘Mr Moonlight’ (1995). However, the album failed to achieve this aim, floundering near the bottom of the charts and producing only one minor hit, ‘Until the End of Time’.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.152480125427246, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "In 1999, Gramm was well enough to join Foreigner on a summer tour with fellow Eighties sensation Journey, as well as other performances through to 2002. However, the feud between Gramm and Jones appeared to be far from over. In late 2002, the two parted ways, leaving Jones to gather the pieces of Foreigner once again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.106818199157715, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "As the last remaining original member of the band, Jones’ attempt to create a new Foreigner yielded little success. In 2004, the band appeared for a one-off show in yet another guise as a sextet which included Jason Bonham, the son of Led Zeppelin’s drummer, John. This would be Foreigner’s last performance for three years.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.828622817993164, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "It was only in 2007 that Jones raised the group back from its near death. That year, Eighties super group Def Leppard announced that Foreigner and Styx would join it on its American tour.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.268179893493652, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Jones had managed to carve a new face for Foreigner, retaining Bonham as the group’s drummer and recruiting ex-Hurricane singer Kelly Hansen as lead vocalist. The venture proved so successful that Foreigner took to the road again later that year, marking its 30th anniversary with a ‘Greatest Hits’ tour.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.857819557189941, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "On 15 July 2008, Foreigner sent a message to its fan base and to the critics who denied the band had staying power with the release of ‘No End in Sight’. The best hits album containing three new singles and spawned a tour for the group, which had added Jeff Pilson and Tom Gimbel to its line up. Foreigner still boasted the talents of Hansen and Jones.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.671180725097656, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "Foreigner’s eclectic influences and professional approach to the music business catapulted it into the rock scene in the Seventies, earning it immediate success with rock tunes that became anthems. Yet, whilst the band has produced hit after hit, selling albums in their millions, it is perhaps the members’ passion for music which has been their undoing. Whether it has been the desire to pursue solo careers or disagreements over their musical tone, Foreigner has struggled to maintain its line up. Nevertheless, the group’s hits have never suffered, each withstanding the test of time.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.839412689208984, "source": "search", "title": "BIOGRAPHY: Foreigner Lifetime" }, { "answer": "Foreigner", "passage": "The Original Foreigner 1977-May 1990.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.176032066345215, "source": "search", "title": "Original Foreigner Fan Page Public Group | Facebook" } ]

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As the story unfolds, the speaker is driving on a dark desert highway late at night. He feels the wind in his hair and smells some desert flowers. Before long, he starts to feel drowsy and stops at a hotel for the night. You guessed it: it's the Hotel California. A mysterious woman stands and greets him at the door like a Homeric siren, luring the weary traveler with her seductive song. This female figure plays a central role in the song, though we never learn all that much about her. All the while, the speaker isn't sure what to make of the place. He starts to hear voices singing about how lovely and pleasant it is to stay at the hotel. The woman is rich and fun loving, and her friends are beautiful.", "precise_score": 5.103568077087402, "rough_score": -1.9238587617874146, "source": "search", "title": "Hotel California Meaning - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "In many ways, this is a story about California in general, and Los Angeles in particular. Don Felder, the guitarist for The Eagles who wrote the tune for \"Hotel California,\" has talked about how the song was inspired by driving into Los Angeles filled with high expectations that were later disappointed: \"If you drive into LA at night you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have.\" To many – the speaker in \"Hotel California\" included – Los Angeles seems like a beautiful oasis on the edge of a dark, squalid desert. Hundreds of thousands of people have migrated to California in search of sunshine, beautiful women, money, and fame. Yet many find this dream to be a mirage. As the nightman of the Hotel explains, \"we are programmed to receive.\"", "precise_score": -1.406064748764038, "rough_score": -3.58949875831604, "source": "search", "title": "Hotel California Meaning - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "Just what does \"colitis\" mean? In the song \"Hotel California\" by the Eagles the first lines are, \"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair, warm smell of colitis rising up through the air.\" I remember I tried looking it up at a university library years ago and couldn't find the answer. I know songwriters sometimes make up words, but I didn't see a Dr. Seuss credit on the album.", "precise_score": 6.027519226074219, "rough_score": 6.980719566345215, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "\"Hotel California\" is the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder (music), Don Henley, and Glenn Frey (lyrics). The Eagles' original recording of the song features Henley singing the lead vocals and concludes with an extended section of electric guitar interplay between Felder and Joe Walsh.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.480398654937744, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "The melody of the song was composed by Don Felder in a rented house on Malibu Beach. He recorded the basic tracks with a Rhythm Ace drum machine and added a 12 string guitar on a four-track recording deck in his spare bedroom, then mixed in a bassline, and gave Don Henley and Glenn Frey each the resulting demo cassette. Felder, who met the Eagles through his high school bandmate Bernie Leadon, said that Leadon advised him to make tapes of songs he wrote for the band so that other band members like Henley, whose forte is in writing lyrics, might work with him on finishing the songs they like. The demos he made were always instrumental, and on every album project he would submit 15 or 16 ideas. The demo he made for Hotel California showed influences from Latin and reggae music, and it grabbed the attention of Henley who said he liked the song that \"sounds like a Mexican reggae or Bolero\", which gave the song its first working title, \"Mexican Reggae\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.957449913024902, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "Henley decided on the theme of Hotel California, noting how The Beverly Hills Hotel had become a literal and symbolic focal point of their lives at that time. Henley said of their personal and professional experience in LA: \"We were getting an extensive education, in life, in love, in business. Beverly Hills was still a mythical place to us. In that sense it became something of a symbol, and the 'Hotel' the locus of all that LA had come to mean for us. In a sentence, I'd sum it up as the end of the innocence, round one.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.054620742797852, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "Henley decided that the song should be a single, although Felder had doubts and the record company was reluctant to release it as a single because of the length of song which is over six minutes long, far exceeding the standard length of songs played by radio stations. The band took a stand and refused the label's request to shorten the song. The song was released as the second single from the album after \"New Kid in Town\". The front cover art for some overseas editions of the 45rpm single released was a reworked version of the Hotel California LP cover art, which used a photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel by David Alexander, with design and art direction by Kosh. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.15961742401123, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "As \"Hotel California\" became one of the group's most popular songs and a concert staple for the band, live recordings of the song have therefore also been released. The first live recording of the song appeared on the Eagles' 1980 live album, and an acoustic version with an extended intro is a track in the 1994 Hell Freezes Over reunion concert CD and video release. The Hell Freezes Over version is performed using eight guitars and has a decidedly Spanish sound, with Don Felder's flamenco-inspired arrangement and intro. During the band's Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne, the song was performed in a manner closer to the original 1977 album version, but with a trumpet intro before the actual start of the song.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.728384971618652, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "\"Hotel California\" first entered the Billboard Hot 100 on chart dated February 26, 1977, and topped the Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977, the band's fourth song to reach No. 1 on that chart. It peaked at number 10 on the Easy Listening chart in April 1977. Billboard ranked it number 19 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. Three months after its first release, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), representing one million copies shipped. In 2009, the song was further certified Platinum (Digital Sales Award) by the RIAA for sales of one million digital downloads, and has since sold over 3 million downloads.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.3237886428833, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "The Eagles won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for \"Hotel California\" at the 20th Grammy Awards in 1978. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.433614730834961, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "The song is rated highly in many rock music lists and polls; Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 49 on its list of \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\". It was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. At the induction of the Eagles into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, all seven former and present members of the band reunited to perform \"Hotel California\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.476015567779541, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "The \"spirit\" that Hotel California hasn't had since 1969 refers the spirit of social activism of the 1960s, and how disco and the related pop music of mid-1970s had turned away from it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.820369720458984, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "The metaphorical character of the story related in the lyrics has inspired a number of conjectural interpretations by listeners. In the 1980s some Christian evangelists alleged that \"Hotel California\" referred to a San Francisco hotel that was purchased by Anton LaVey and converted into his Church of Satan. Other rumors suggested that the Hotel California was the Camarillo State Mental Hospital. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.127671241760254, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "Frank Ocean released a version sampling the entire instrumental track of \"Hotel California\" with his own vocal and lyrics on his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra (2011), entitled \"American Wedding\". However, it led to a threatened lawsuit from Don Henley for copyright infringement. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.799663543701172, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "In 2014 Lydia Lunch and Cypress Grove released a cover of the song Hotel California on their split album Twin Horses. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.082561492919922, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "In 2016, Norwegian heavy metal singer Jorn Lande released a cover of Hotel California on his album Heavy Rock Radio.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.024075508117676, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hotel California" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "\"Hotel California\" and its lyrics have become absorbed into the wider culture around the world, and have been used by various writers and commentators to reflect on issues ranging from politics to social media and welfare, or as an observation on a particular situation. The lines \"We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave!\" were used by an economist to refer to how the appeal of an attractive \"Hotel California\"-type host country to foreign investors may be countered by the cost of exit on leaving the country. A term \"The Hotel California Effect\" was then used to refer to the negative effect of financial regulations on investment, and the problems foreigner investors faced when getting their money out of China. It has also applied to other ideas such as leaving a service provider or social media network. A book titled Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq was written about the clandestine operation named after the song title by CIA–US Special Forces teams in Iraqi Kurdistan in the lead-up to the Iraq War. 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Or, to be more precise, California girls. They turn the Beach Boys' plea from 1965 (\"I wish they all could be California girls\") on its head. Apparently something drastic happened to girls from the Golden State between 1965 and 1976. By the time they wrote \"Hotel California,\" the Eagles had come to the conclusion that the \"cutest girls in the world\" also came with a lot of baggage.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.490068435668945, "source": "search", "title": "Hotel California Meaning - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "The speaker orders up some wine from the Wine Captain, who remarks that the speaker has brought the playful spirit of the 1960s along with him. The speaker passes out and hears the voices again singing about the Hotel California. This time, however, they mention something about having an alibi to prove their innocence. This tidbit is the first suggestion that all might not be well at our quaint hotel.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.38611888885498, "source": "search", "title": "Hotel California Meaning - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "The very first few lines of the song take us to the long, straight highways of California and the American southwest, which serves as a powerful symbol of freedom, desolation, and recklessness in songs by The Eagles. The song title suggests a sunny, laid-back place where people drink lots of pomegranate juice and practice yoga, but it also hints that the state of California (or, more accurately, the idea of California) is not really home to anyone. It's a place for people who are between destinations: transients. One central theme in \"Hotel California\" is the disconnect between popular perceptions of California versus the reality.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.523828506469727, "source": "search", "title": "Hotel California Meaning - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "And this is just what the Eagles found in California more than a century later. Despite their inextricable connection to the state of California, no member of the Eagles was originally from there. According to Don Henley, \"we were all middle-class kids from the Midwest. 'Hotel California' was our take on the high life in Los Angeles.\" Don Henley, originally from Texas, and Glenn Frey, a rocker from Detroit, came to Los Angeles in 1970 to pursue musical careers. Together, they formed the Eagles in 1971, along with Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner, after all four had toured as members of Linda Ronstadt's band. The Eagles managed to create a laid back California sound that effortlessly combined elements of country with rock music. The music they constructed was intended as a soothing antidote to the turmoil of the late '60s. This was a sound that appealed to American listeners of all stripes, as the band's huge record sales soon proved. Between 1975 and 1979, the Eagles released four consecutive #1 albums – One of these Nights, Their Greatest Hits, 1971-1975, Hotel California, and The Long Run. Greatest Hits still remains the bestselling album of all time in America.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.628796577453613, "source": "search", "title": "Hotel California Meaning - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "With all this money and success the Eagles soon found that they had become \"prisoners of their own device.\" Fame, excessive partying, and drug use took its toll on the band members. According to Glenn Frey, \"we weren't the [Rolling] Stones, but we weren't the Osmonds either, somewhere in between. But closer to the Stones.\" According to some interpretations, \"Hotel California\" is a song about drug addiction; others have viewed it as a song about a mental hospital, or devil worship, or – in one especially oddball take – even a real hotel run by cannibals. (That one sure puts a delicious new spin on \"you can check out but you can never leave.\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.978970527648926, "source": "search", "title": "Hotel California Meaning - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "Most likely, however, it is a song that chronicles the culture of excess, wealth, decadence, and self-destruction in the Southern California cultural milieu of the mid-1970s. In a 2007 interview with 60 Minutes, Don Henley described \"Hotel California\" as \"a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about.\" What's interesting here is that Henley and the Eagles are not trying to argue that the \"American Dream\" is a sham – no, they themselves are living examples of the American Dream (four Midwest boys come to California with the dream of becoming rock stars and five years later release the best-selling album in American history). Yeah, we'd say they got a pretty good deal. But instead, the Eagles are criticizing the culture of excess surrounding the rich and famous in Los Angeles – a culture that they were a part of. It turns out the old adage is true: \"mo' money mo' problems.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.287609577178955, "source": "search", "title": "Hotel California Meaning - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what does \"colitas\" mean?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.109036445617676, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "In the song \"Hotel California,\" what does \"colitas\" mean?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.268808841705322, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "As for \"Hotel California,\" you realize a lot of people aren't troubled so much by colitas as by the meaning of the whole damn song. Figuring that we should start with the general and move to the particular, I provide the following commonly heard theories:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.130910873413086, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "(1) The Hotel California is a real hotel located in (pick one) Baja California on the coastal highway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz or else near Santa Barbara. In other words, the song is a hard look at the modern hospitality industry, which is plagued by guests who \"check out any time [they] like\" but then \"never leave.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.151026725769043, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "(2) The Hotel California is a mental hospital. I see one guy on the Web has identified it as \"Camarillo State Hospital in Ventura County between LA and Santa Barbara.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.914908409118652, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "(4) Hotel California is a metaphor for cocaine addiction. See \"You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.\" This comes from the published comments of Glenn Frey, one of the coauthors.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.806381225585938, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "(6) My fave, posted to the Usenet by Thomas Dzubin of Vancouver, British Columbia: \"There was this fireworks factory just three blocks from the Hotel California … and it blew up! Big tragedy. One of the workers was named Wurn Snell and he was from the town of Colitas in Greece. One of the workers who escaped the explosion talked to another guy … I think it was probably Don Henley … and Don asked what the guy saw. The worker said, \"Wurn Snell of Colitas … rising up through the air.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.85385513305664, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." }, { "answer": "Hotel California", "passage": "This E-mail just in from Eagles management honcho Irving Azoff: \"In response to your [recent] memo, in 1976, during the writing of the song 'Hotel California' by Messrs. Henley and Frey, the word `colitas' was translated for them by their Mexican-American road manager as 'little buds.' You have obviously already done the necessary extrapolation. Thank you for your inquiry.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.809534072875977, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: In the song \"Hotel California,\" what ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "In the 1960’s, she withdrew from the movie business and began to spend more time with Tracy. In 1967, the pair starred in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner. Tracy and Hepburn played uptight upper class parents whose daughter comes home married to an African American man. It was the duo’s last film together, and Spencer Tracy’s last film ever; he died a few weeks after the movie was finished. However, Hepburn did earn her second Oscar, for Best Actress, for the film. The following year, Hepburn starred in The Lion In Winter, in which she won her third Academy Award. A review by the American Film Institute (AFI) said, “The performances by Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn are the best of their careers.” Hepburn played Eleanor of Aquitaine and O’Toole played King Henry II. The movie is about their rocky marriage and three sons, and who is left to become the next King. O’Toole was also nominated for an Academy Award and the movie was nominated for Best Picture in 1968.", "precise_score": 7.567384243011475, "rough_score": 5.954182147979736, "source": "search", "title": "Katherine Hepburn - Pennsylvania State University" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "With The African Queen (1951), Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film. She played more of these types of roles throughout the 50s, and won more Oscar nominations for many of them, including her roles in Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Her film roles became fewer and farther between in the 60s, as she devoted her time to her ailing partner Spencer Tracy. For one of her film appearances in this decade, in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), she received her ninth Oscar nomination. After a five-year absence from films, she then made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), her last film with Tracy and the last film Tracy ever made; he died just weeks after finishing it. It garnered Hepburn her tenth Oscar nomination and her second win. The next year, she did The Lion in Winter (1968), which brought her her eleventh Oscar nomination and third win.", "precise_score": 7.370223522186279, "rough_score": 6.259671688079834, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "As of 2009, \"Only Tie in Oscars For Best Actress\", Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968) and Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968) in 1969.", "precise_score": 5.751815319061279, "rough_score": 5.138333797454834, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Lion in winter", "passage": "Hepburn was awarded her third Oscar for her starring turn in A Lion in Winter (1968). She continued to appear in films and on television (including an Emmy-winning performance in 1976’s Love Among the Ruins) throughout the next three decades, winning a fourth Best Actress statuette for 1981’s On Golden Pond. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards in her lifetime (a record that would stand until 2003, when Meryl Streep received her 13th nomination), Hepburn never attended the awards show to collect her honors in person. In 1986, she broke her longtime silence about her relationship with Tracy (his widow had died in 1983) in a televised tribute to the actor. She read aloud a poignant letter she had written to him about his drinking, and about their last years together. She later included the letter in her best-selling 1991 autobiography Me: Stories of My Life.", "precise_score": 9.48451042175293, "rough_score": 6.882382392883301, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96 - Jun 29, 2003 - History.com" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "The return to the stage was in a play called The Philadelphia Story.  Her portrayal of spoiled socialite Tracy Lord received rave reviews. In 1940 Hepburn returned to Hollywood to make the film version of The Philadelphia Story. The film was one of the biggest hits of the year and earned Hepburn her third Oscar® nomination. After that success she appeared for the first time with Spencer Tracy in 1942’s Woman of the Year. Tracy and Hepburn would make nine films together over the next twenty-five years and become one the greatest screen couples ever. Their final appearance together would be 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, which was a blockbuster hit and earned Hepburn her 2nd Oscar® win. The following year she appeared in The Lion in Winter. She amazingly won her 3rd Oscar® win for Best Actress. Following her back to back Oscar® wins, Hepburn’s movie career took another downward spiral.", "precise_score": 7.856083393096924, "rough_score": 6.241811275482178, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn Movies - Ultimate Movie Rankings" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "The Lion in Winter (1968)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.371353149414062, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Awards - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "During the decades before her next Oscar wins, she made critics swoon over such films as Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story and swept up a further eight noms. But it was 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1968’s The Lion in Winter and 1981’s On Golden Pond that brought Oscars 2, 3 and 4. Hepburn made one appearance, at the 1974 awards presentation; she showed up wearing gardening togs, natch. She presented the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer and friend Lawrence Weingarten. “I’m living proof that a person can wait 41 years to be unselfish,” she said.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.4749092161655426, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn Won Four Oscars ... - Hollywood Reporter" }, { "answer": "Lion in winter", "passage": "Born May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, she was the daughter of a doctor and a suffragette, both of whom always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a child, she was also very close to her brother, Tom, and was devastated at age 14 to find him dead, the apparent result of accidentally hanging himself while practicing a hanging trick their father had taught them. For many years after this, Katharine used his birthdate, November 8, as her own. She then became very shy around girls her age, and was largely schooled at home. She did attend Bryn Mawr College, however, and it was here that she decided to become an actress, appearing in many of their productions. After graduating, she began getting small roles in plays on Broadway and elsewhere. She always attracted attention in these parts, especially for her role in \"Art and Mrs. Bottle\" (1931); then, she finally broke into stardom when she took the starring role of the Amazon princess Antiope in \"A Warrior's Husband\" (1932). The inevitable film offers followed, and after making a few screen tests, she was cast in Bill of Divorcement, A (1932), opposite John Barrymore. The film was a hit, and after agreeing to her salary demands, RKO signed her to a contract. She made five films between 1932 and 1934. For her third, Morning Glory (1933) she won her first Academy Award. Her fourth, Little Women (1933) was the most successful picture of its day. But stories were beginning to leak out of her haughty behavior off-screen and her refusal to play the Hollywood Game, always wearing slacks and no makeup, never posing for pictures or giving interviews. Audiences were shocked at her unconventional behavior instead of applauding it, and so when she returned to Broadway in 1934 to star in \"The Lake, \" the critics panned her and the audiences, who at first bought up tickets, soon deserted her. When she returned to Hollywood, things didn't much better. From the period 1935-1938, she had only two hits: Alice Adams (1935), which brought her her second Oscar nomination, and Stage Door (1937); the many flops included Break of Hearts (1935), Sylvia Scarlett (1936), Mary of Scotland (1936), Quality Street (1937), and the now-classic Bringing Up Baby (1938). With so many flops, she came to be labeled \"box-office poison.\" She decided to go back to Broadway to star in \"The Philadelphia Story\" (1938), and was rewarded with a smash. She quickly bought the film rights, and so was able to negotiate her way back to Hollywood on her own terms, including her choice of director and costars. The film version of Philadelphia Story, The (1940), was a box-office hit, and Hepburn, who won her third Oscar nomination for the film, was bankable again. For her next film, Woman of the Year (1942), she was paired with Spencer Tracy, and the chemistry between them lasted for eight more films, spanning the course of 25 years, and a romance that lasted that long offscreen. (She received her fourth Oscar nomination for the film.) Their films included the very successful Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), and Desk Set (1957). With African Queen, The (1951), Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film. She played more of these types of roles throughout the 50's, and won more Oscar nominations for many of them, including her roles in Summertime (1955), Rainmaker, The (1956), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Her film roles became fewer and farther between in the 60's, as she devoted her time to her ailing partner Spencer Tracy. For one of her film appearances in this decade, in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), she received her ninth Oscar nomination. After a five-year absence from films, she then made Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967), her last film with Tracy and the last film Tracy ever made; he died just weeks after finishing it. It garnered Hepburn her tenth Oscar nomination and her second win. The next year, she did Lion in Winter, The (1968), which brought her her eleventh Oscar nomination and third win. In the 70's, she turned to making made-for-TV films, with Glass Menagerie, The (1973) (TV), Love Among the Ruins (1975) (TV) and Corn Is Green, The (1979) (TV). She still continued to make an occasional appearence in feature films, such as Rooster Cogburn (1975), with John Wayne, and On Golden Pond (1981), with Henry Fonda. This last brought her her twelfth Oscar nomination and fourth win. She holds the record of being the actress with the most Oscar nominations and most Oscar wins. She made more TV-films in the 80's, and wrote her autobiography, _Me_, in 1991. Her most recent feature film was Love Affair (1994), with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, and her last TV-film to date was One Christmas (1994) (TV). She is still very much alive, now in her 90's and retired to Connecticut, truly a living legend.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6786320209503174, "source": "search", "title": "KATHERINE HEPBURN - Movietreasures" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 12, 1907 to a medical doctor and his wife. From an early age she was fascinated with the silent movies, often doing odd jobs to get the needed ticket money to go to her favorite theater and see the latest production. Katharine wanted to be an actress. She was educated at the Oxford School for Girls in Hartford and later attended Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. She had been in local school plays but college would be something different. At first her grades did not lend themselves to the academic scenario, in fact she almost flunked out. Unless her grades improved Katharine could not participate in college plays. She then buckled down and achieved the grades she needed to attain her dream. Before long Kate, as she is fondly called, became an established member of Bryn Mawr's theater group. After leaving college, Kate began her acting career in earnest while touring with a stock company on the East Coast. It wasn't too long before the cinema beckoned. At first, Paramount offered her a contract but she turned them down flat. She felt that Hollywood was a ridiculous place for her to be. However, when RKO Pictures offered her a contract, Kate demanded $1,500 per week. RKO countered with a screen test in New York. RKO was planning the film A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT (1932) and felt Kate was the right part for Sydney Fairfield. She passed the screen test and the studio agreed to her salary \"demands\". Though she had never made a movie, director George Cukor felt she was right for the part. The film was a hit and it launched Kate into a career that would make her legendary. Kate's next film as Eva Lovelace in 1933's MORNING GLORY was, in short, a masterful performance. So masterful, in fact, that Kate won the first of four Academy Awards. Later that year Kate appeared in LITTLE WOMEN which was a box-office smash, breaking all records up to that time. In 1934, Kate appeared in SPITFIRE as Trigger Hicks, the illiterate tomboy who believes herself a faith healer. Afterward, she returned to her love as a stage actress. She didn't leave the silver screen patrons abandoned however. Kate filmed SYLVIA SCARLETT, BREAK OF HEARTS, and ALICE ADAMS in 1935 and A WOMAN REBEL followed by MARY OF SCOTLAND the next year. After the movie, BRINGING UP BABY in 1938, Kate hoped for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND but lost out to Vivien Leigh. She stayed in her beloved Connecticut for the summer of 1939, turning down roles for both the stage and screen. She finally accepted the stage role of Tracy lord in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY which later was parlayed into the screen version with a hit that broke all box-office records again. She was nominated for an Oscar for the role of Miss Lord, but lost to Joan Fontaine in SUSPICION. In 1942, Kate starred with the great Spencer Tracy in WOMAN OF THE YEAR. This would not be the last time they would team together. In KEEPER OF THE FLAME later that year she again appeared with Tracy. By 1947, Kate's popularity at the box-office slipped somewhat and made fewer films as a result. She did star in the hit ADAM'S RIB in 1949 with Tracy. The films she chose to make were grand one's indeed. 1951 saw her star with Humphrey Bogart in THE AFRICAN QUEEN. Kate was to make six more films during the balance of the 1950's with SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER in 1959 with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. Kate was to make no films again until 1962's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. Five years later she teamed up again with Spencer Tracy in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER with Syndney Poitier. This film garnered her second Academy Award. The following year she won her third Oscar for THE LION IN WINTER which saw her tied with Barbra Streisand who played in FUNNY GIRL. A few movies and made for TV films followed in the 1970's. In 1981, Kate starred as Ethel Thayer with Henry Fonda in the hit ON GOLDEN POND which gave her a fourth Oscar. Several made for TV special followed with her last big screen appearance in LOVE AFFAIR in 1994. The longevity of this fine actress will be very hard to match. Currently Kate is retired to her home in Connecticut.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.5786468982696533, "source": "search", "title": "KATHERINE HEPBURN - Movietreasures" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Some of the early Tracy-Hepburn collaborations were heavy dramas such asKeeper of the Flame (1942) andThe Sea of Grass (1947). Dramatic fireworks flew as well inState of the Union (1948), but the team is best remembered for its humorous skirmishes in the battle of the sexes withWithout Love (1945),Adam's Rib (1949),Pat and Mike (1952), andDesk Set (1957). While Hepburn's work in the 1930s and 1940s receives the most attention today, many of the star's peak achievements were realized in the 1950s and 1960s. She picked up Oscar nominations for her work inThe African Queen (1951, opposite Humphrey Bogart, as a missionary whose personality she patterned after Eleanor Roosevelt),Summertime (1955),The Rainmaker (1956),Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, as Elizabeth Taylor's shrewish, sinister aunt), andLong Day's Journey Into Night (1962). Offscreen for five years, she returned to costar with Tracy inGuess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), which proved to be his final film; it won her a second Oscar. Hepburn received her third gold statuette the following year for her work in the period dramaThe Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine, which showed the aging actress in full command of her inestimable talent. She followed this triumph by making her Broadway musical debut as couturier Coco Chanel in \"Coco.\" Other films around this time include The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), The Trojan Women (1972), and A Delicate Balance (1973).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.5030882358551025, "source": "search", "title": "KATHERINE HEPBURN - Movietreasures" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Her Oscar-winning performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968) – an icon embodied by an icon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.246593475341797, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Keywords: Academy Award; The African Queen; Alice Adams; Broadway; Bryn Mawr College; Emmy Award; Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner; Hollywood Walk of Fame; Howard Hughes; The Lion In Winter; The Making of the African Queen; Me: Stories of My Life; Morning Glory; The Philadelphia Story; Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award; Spencer Tracy; Woman of the Year", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.602027893066406, "source": "search", "title": "Katherine Hepburn - Pennsylvania State University" }, { "answer": "Lion in winter", "passage": "The Lion In Winter, Anthony Harvey, AVCO Embassy & Haworth Productions, 1968.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.228400230407715, "source": "search", "title": "Katherine Hepburn - Pennsylvania State University" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Was a direct descendant of England's King John through one of his illegitimate children. Hepburn played King John's mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, in The Lion in Winter (1968).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.592397689819336, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "On June 2004 Sotheby's auction house hosted a two-day estate sale auctioning personal belongings of the legendary actress to collectors. The 700-plus items included Hepburn's furniture, jewelry (which included the platinum, diamond and sapphire brooch from one-time lover Howard Hughes which fetched $120,000, six times its estimated price); paperwork (such as personal checks, telegrams, birth certificates, letters, film contracts, movie scripts), and nomination certificates from the Academy Awards. Among other items were casual clothes, and gowns that included her unusual wedding dress to Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928, made of crushed white velvet with antiqued gold embroidery, which sold for $27,000. Also in the lot were house decorations drawings and paintings done by the actress herself, glamour portraits, and a glass bronze sculpture entitled \"Angel on a Wave\", which sold for $90,000; while a self-portrait entitled \"Breakfast in Bed and a Self-Portrait in Brisbane, Australia\", fetched $33,000, some 40 times the estimated price. Movie memorabilia included a ring from 1968's The Lion in Winter (1968), and Gertrude, the canoe from the film On Golden Pond (1981) which was bought for $19,200 by entertainer Wayne Newton . The most sought-after piece and the most expensive item was the bronze bust of Spencer Tracy that Hepburn created herself and that was also featured in their Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). The audience cheered when the three-inch sculpture sold for $316,000, compared to the estimated $3,000-$5,000. The only awards won by the actress that were auctioned were her 1958 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, the annual Shakespeare Club of New York City award, the Fashion Desinger Lifetime Achievement, a few Box Office Blue Ribbons, her Hollywood Walk of Fame plaque and the 1990 Kennedy Center Honor. Hepburn's four Oscars were not included due to contract reasons.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.023341178894043, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "In The Lion in Winter (1968) she plays the mother of Richard the Lionheart, who is played by Anthony Hopkins . Hopkins later said that Hepburn's voice was, in part, the basis for Hannibal Lecter's voice.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.122904777526855, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Holds the Guiness World Record as the only movie star to win four Academy Awards, all for her leading roles in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.32403039932251, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "She is a descendant of \"Eleanor of Aquitaine\", whom she portrayed in The Lion in Winter (1968).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.454815864562988, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Was nominated 12 times for the Academy Award, all as Best Actress, and won four times. Jack Nicholson also has 12 nominations (8 as Best Actor and 4 Best Supporting Actor nominations) and three wins (two Best Actor trophies and one Best Supporting Actor gong). Hepburn beat out previous acting nomination record holder Bette Davis (a double winner who was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, all of them Best Actress nods, and who had also received a write-in nomination in 1934, which was unofficial) with her 11th nod and 3rd win for The Lion in Winter (1968) (a record she extended with her 12 nomination and fourth win for On Golden Pond (1981). Hepburn herself was surpassed by Meryl Streep , with 17 nods (14 in the Best Actress category, 3 in the Best Supporting Actress category) and three wins (two in the Best Actress category and one Best supporting actress award). While it is possible that Nicholson and Streep might equal her four Oscar acting wins, it is improbable that her record of four wins in the top category will ever be surpassed.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.06237103044986725, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Her performance as \"Eleanor of Aquitaine\" in The Lion in Winter (1968) is ranked #13 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.679229736328125, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "According to Anthony Harvey - the director of The Lion in Winter (1968) - she kept the Oscar she received for the film in a paper bag and in a cupboard for years after he'd delivered it to her.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.967128753662109, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person. Hepburn did not accept any of her 4 wins (for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). The others are Claudette Colbert , Judy Holliday , Joan Crawford , Vivien Leigh , Anna Magnani , Ingrid Bergman , Sophia Loren , Anne Bancroft , Patricia Neal , Elizabeth Taylor , Maggie Smith , Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.104934215545654, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "Katharine Hepburn and Joan Fontaine both appeared in productions of The Lion in Winter (Hepburn in the 1968 film version, Fontaine in a 1979 Austrian stage production) and both passed away at the age of 96. Hepburn had appeared with Fontaine in Quality Street (1937).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8394174575805664, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Lion in winter", "passage": "In her next MGM film, Woman of the Year (1942), Hepburn co-starred with Spencer Tracy , a copacetic teaming that endured both professionally and personally until Tracy 's death in 1967. After several years of off-and-on films, Hepburn scored another success with 1951's The African Queen , marking her switch from youngish sophisticates to middle-aged character leads. After 1962's Long Day's Journey into Night , Hepburn withdrew from performing for nearly five years, devoting her attention to her ailing friend and lover Tracy . She made the last of her eight screen appearances with Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), which also featured her niece Katharine Houghton . Hepburn won her second Oscar for this film, and her third the following year for A Lion in Winter ; the fourth was bestowed 13 years later for On Golden Pond (1981). When she came back to Broadway for the 1969 musical Coco, Hepburn proved that the years had not mellowed her; she readily agreed to preface her first speech with a then-shocking profanity, and, during one performance, she abruptly dropped character to chew out an audience member for taking flash pictures. Hepburn made the first of her several television movies in 1975, co-starring with Sir Laurence Olivier in Love Among the Ruins -- and winning an Emmy award, as well. Her last Broadway appearance was in 1976's A Matter of Gravity.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.172760009765625, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos ..." }, { "answer": "The Lion in Winter", "passage": "An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 39.86.  26 Katharine Hepburn movies scored higher than that average….or 60.46% of her movies.  The Lion in Winter (1968) got the the highest UMR Score while The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) got the lowest UMR Score.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.017371892929077, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn Movies - Ultimate Movie Rankings" } ]

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Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna also appear in supporting roles.", "precise_score": 2.5899710655212402, "rough_score": 6.411098003387451, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "** John Rambo, main character from the Rambo film series, based on the novel First Blood by David Morrell", "precise_score": 0.7030701637268066, "rough_score": 5.5770649909973145, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "* John Rambo (politician), 17th-18th-century American politician, son of Peter Gunnarsson Rambo", "precise_score": 3.056361675262451, "rough_score": 5.339855194091797, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo (born July 4, 1947) is a fictional character in the Rambo saga. He first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, but later became more famous as the protagonist of the film series, in which he was played by Sylvester Stallone. The portrayal of the character earned Stallone widespread acclaim and recognition. The character was nominated for American Film Institute's list 100 Years…100 Heroes and Villains. The term \"Rambo\" is used commonly to describe a person who is reckless, disregards orders, uses violence to solve problems, enters dangerous situations alone, and is exceptionally tough and aggressive. ", "precise_score": 5.231286525726318, "rough_score": 7.851075172424316, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "According to the first film First Blood, Rambo's full name is John Rambo. He was born on July 6, 1947 in Bowie, Arizona, to a Navajo father (whose name according to the last film was probably R. Rambo) and an Italian American mother Marie Drago. However, in Rambo: First Blood Part II, Marshall Murdock states that Rambo is of American Indian and German descent. Rambo enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 18 on August 6, 1964, although he states in Rambo IV he was \"drafted into Vietnam.\" After he graduated from Rangeford High School in 1965, his military service began in January 1966. Rambo was deployed to South Vietnam in September 1966. He returned to the U.S. in 1967 and began training with the U.S. Army Special Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina under Colonel Trautman's tutelage.", "precise_score": 7.884546756744385, "rough_score": 9.281376838684082, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "The film First Blood takes place in December 1981, and begins with John Rambo (now a homeless, out-of-work drifter) searching for Delmore Barry, an old friend with whom he served in Vietnam. He goes to Barry's home but is told by his mother that he died from cancer due to Agent Orange exposure. This means that Rambo has now become the last surviving member of his Special Forces unit (with unit members Delmore, Westmore, Bronson, Danforth and Ortega now all dead). He then travels to the small town of Hope, Washington (the movie was filmed in Hope, British Columbia, evidenced by the town sign), where he is quickly spotted by the town's arrogant and abusive sheriff, Will Teasle, due to his long, unkempt hair, army jacket and all-around scruffy appearance. Teasle soon picks him up and drives him to the edge of town, refusing to let him have a meal (Rambo only wanted something to eat) while stressing his dislike of drifters and \"trouble makers\". Rambo begins heading back into town immediately after being dropped off, and Teasle then arrests him and takes him to the local police station.", "precise_score": 1.206489086151123, "rough_score": 2.964043140411377, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "David Morrell says that in choosing the name Rambo he was inspired by \"the sound of force\" in the name of Rambo apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania. Peter Gunnarsson Rambo sailed from Sweden to New Sweden (SE Pennsylvania/Southern NJ/Northern Delaware) in the 1640s, and soon the name would flourish in New Sweden. The name Rambo was likely derived from a shortened form of \"Ramberget\" (a hill on the Hisingen island near Gothenburg, where Peter Gunnarsson was born) plus \"bo\" (meaning \"resident of\"). Today, many of his descendants can still be found in this region of the US. Morrell felt that its pronunciation was similar to the surname of Arthur Rimbaud, the title of whose most famous work A Season in Hell, seemed to him \"an apt metaphor for the prisoner-of-war experiences that I imagined Rambo suffering\". Furthermore, an Arthur J. Rambo was an actual U.S. soldier in Vietnam, but he never returned. His name can be seen on the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington, DC. By sheer coincidence, the Japanese word \"rambō\" (乱暴) means \"violent\" or \"rough\". He was granted the first name \"John\" as a reference to the song \"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again\".", "precise_score": 6.191603183746338, "rough_score": 6.935614109039307, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo is considered a cultural icon. The character influenced many action heroes and films in the 1980s and '90s. The John Rambo character became a prominent part of pop culture, and \"Rambo\", a word that can function as a noun, adjective, or a verb, became part of the English language. Perhaps more crucial from a cultural perspective, Rambo is a word that can be found in the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary. According to this source, Rambo is \"a Vietnam War veteran represented as macho, self sufficient and bent on violent retribution.\" As well, it is widely popular to use adjectives such as Ramboesque, Ramboid, or Ramboism, to denote an ideological position that resembles Rambo’s attitude and behavior.", "precise_score": 2.024799108505249, "rough_score": 3.5273594856262207, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Rambo has also been mentioned or referenced in many films, such as Die Hard, TV shows, cartoons, novels and comic books. The character of John Rambo has been featured in many lists of greatest action heroes. In 2007, the film Son of Rambow is set during the early 1980s; the film is a coming of age story about two schoolboys and their attempts to make an amateur film inspired by First Blood. In 2013, Rambo was #6 in a list of the top 50 action movie heroes in Total Magazine. In 2013, Rambo was voted #1 in WatchMojo.com's top 10 film soldiers of all times.", "precise_score": 1.1088348627090454, "rough_score": 3.441157341003418, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo is the main protagonist of the Rambo film series and David Morell's novel First Blood . A former Vietnam veteran and highly skilled Green Beret, Rambo returned from the war as a decorated, but disturbed hero. He is filled with self-loathing and hates killing, but is willing to use his skills to protect those close to him. This is the general plot line of the three First Blood sequels . The main character of the series, Rambo appears in all the films. The only character to come close to this is Sam Trautman , his mentor and commander in Vietnam.", "precise_score": 2.9524788856506348, "rough_score": 5.166466236114502, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "David Morrell says that in choosing the name Rambo he was inspired by \"the sound of force\" in the name of Rambo apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania. Peter Gunnarsson Rambo sailed from Sweden to New Sweden in the 1640s, and soon the name would flourish in New Sweden. Today, many of his descendants can still be found in this region of the US. Morrell felt that its pronunciation was similar to the surname of Arthur Rimbaud, the title of whose most famous work A Season in Hell, seemed to him \"an apt metaphor for the prisoner-of-war experiences that I imagined Rambo suffering\". Furthermore, an Arthur J. Rambo was an actual U.S. soldier in Vietnam, but he never returned. His name can be seen on the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington, DC. By sheer coincidence, the Japanese word \"rambō\" (乱暴) means \"violent\" or \"rough.\" He was granted the first name \"John\" as a reference to the song \"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again\".", "precise_score": 6.009520530700684, "rough_score": 6.799045562744141, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Main article: John Rambo on Rambo: First Blood Part II", "precise_score": 0.7442250847816467, "rough_score": 6.077669143676758, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Rambo drops some of his many medals to which the meaning was gone down a prison sewage hole in the novelization of Rambo: First Blood Part II. He claims to have found it theraputic.  Rambo's Social Security Number is 936-01-1758, although citizens in Arizona are issued ones with the prefixes 526-527, 600-601, and 764-765. According to the file, John Rambo has the same birthday as Sylvester Stallone. But, Rambo is one year younger.", "precise_score": 2.2429370880126953, "rough_score": 2.8225159645080566, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "In Ted Kotcheff's \"First Blood,\" John Rambo (Stallone) is a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who was trained specifically as a killing machine… He has come to a quite little town in Oregon, only to visit one of his platoon buddies… He was told that his friend has died, last summer, of cancer…", "precise_score": 3.906996488571167, "rough_score": 5.714208602905273, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Seven years after his discharge, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) travels by foot to visit one of his old comrades, only to learn upon his arrival that his friend had died from cancer due to Agent Orange exposure during the war.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.164717674255371, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "* Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.2341275215148926, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "* John McLiam as Orval ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.450830459594727, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Calley at Warner Bros. then spent $125,000 to acquire the project from Columbia. Clint Eastwood and Robert de Niro were discussed for the lead and Martin Ritt agreed to direct from a script by Walter Newman (Newman did three drafts). In this version both Rambo and the sergeant died, and Trautman, \"the true villain of the piece\", according to Ritt, was allowed to live. Ritt says he wanted Bob Mitchum to play the sheriff and Paul Newman to play Rambo. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.623536109924316, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "In 1977, producer William Sackheim became involved and wrote a script with Michael Kozoll. Sackheim wanted to make the film with director John Badham starring John Travolta as Rambo, George C. Scott as Trautman and Gene Hackman or Charles Durning as the sheriff. Sackheim spent eight months on the project but could not get finance.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.118237018585205, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Producer Carter De Haven then optioned the project from Warner Bros for $25,000 and attached John Frankenheimer as director. Powers Boothe, Nick Nolte and Michael Douglas were considered for Rambo; in the end Brad Davis, coming off Midnight Express, was cast. Cinema Group were to finance and Filmways to distribute. However, before filming started Filmways were taken over by Orion and the movie went into limbo.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.396523952484131, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "It was later estimated there were eighteen versions of the script. A writer who turned down the job was John Milius, who was approached in the late 1970s. However Milius' producer, Buzz Feitshans eventually produced the movie after the original producer, Ed Carlin, died of a heart attack.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.355600357055664, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Ted Kotcheff had been approached with the project in 1976. He only returned to work on First Blood after Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna of Anabasis offered to finance one of his projects. Kotcheff offered the role of John Rambo to Sylvester Stallone, and the actor accepted after reading the script through a weekend.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8272242546081543, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Long before Stallone was hired to play Rambo, other actors were being considered for the role such as Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Nick Nolte, Ryan O'Neal, James Garner, Kris Kristofferson, Terence Hill were all offered the role but rejected it because they considered it \"too violent\". When Al Pacino was considered for the role of John Rambo, he turned it down when his request that Rambo be more of a madman was rejected. Prior to Stallone taking the lead role, Steve McQueen expressed interest in it. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.704592227935791, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Various screenplays adapted from Morrell's book had been pitched to studios in the years since its publication but it was only when Stallone, who at the time had limited success outside of the Rocky franchise (most of his non-Rocky films either barely broke even or were flops altogether), decided to become involved with the project that it was finally brought into production. Stallone's star power after the success of the Rocky films enabled him to rewrite the script, to make the character of John Rambo more sympathetic. While Morrell's book has the Rambo character violently kill many of his pursuers—Kozoll and Sackheim's draft had him killing sixteen people—in the movie version Rambo does not directly cause the death of any police or national guardsmen. Stallone also decided to let Rambo survive the film instead of keeping the book's ending where he dies. A suicide scene was filmed but Kotcheff and Stallone opted to have Rambo turn himself in at Trautman's urging.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.067325115203857, "source": "wiki", "title": "First Blood" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "* John Rambo, character from TV series Guest House", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6744918823242188, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "* John Rambo (athlete), American high jumper", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.1915893852710724, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "* Afzal Khan (actor), Pakistani actor also known as \"John Rambo\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.4996225833892822, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "* John \"Rambo\" Arias, one of the hip hop trio 1 Life 2 Live", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.028447151184082, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "After the incident in Washington, John Rambo is found guilty after a jury trial and sent to a labor camp prison. At the beginning of Rambo: First Blood Part II (set in 1985), he is visited by Colonel Samuel Trautman who offers him the chance to be released from prison if he goes to Vietnam to search for American POWs at the camp from where he escaped back in 1971. Promised a Presidential pardon if the mission succeeds, Rambo accepts and is officially reinstated in the U.S. Army temporarily. He later meets with Marshall Murdock, an American bureaucrat who is in charge of the operation. He tells Rambo that he is only to photograph the POWs and not to rescue them, nor is he to engage any enemy soldiers. Rambo reluctantly agrees. He is then told that an agent of the U.S. government will be there to receive him in the jungles of Vietnam.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.3320956230163574, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Rambo then returns to the base and, using the M60E3 machine gun from the helicopter, destroys Murdock's command center. He then unsheathes his knife and threatens Murdock, ordering him to find and rescue the remaining American POWs in Vietnam, snarling almost under his breath, \"You know there's more men out there. You know where they are. Find 'em... or I'll find you.\" Trautman then comforts Rambo and tries to pacify him and to convince him to rejoin the Special Forces, also telling him he would get another Medal of Honor for his actions. Rambo, however, visibly angry and fighting back tears, says that the soldiers he rescued deserve the Medal of Honor more than he does, and he only wants the same thing as the soldiers he rescued: for their country to love its soldiers as much as its soldiers love their country. Rambo then starts to leave. Trautman asks him, \"How will you live, John?\" Rambo replies, \"Day by day\". The film ends as Rambo walks off into the distance while his mentor watches him. Because of his actions in saving the POWs, Rambo is granted the Presidential pardon he had been promised and stays in Thailand.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.90142822265625, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "The next day, Rambo returns to the base once again, just in time to rescue Trautman from being tortured with a blow-torch. After rescuing several other prisoners, Rambo steals a helicopter and escapes from the base. However, the helicopter soon crashes and Rambo and Trautman are forced to continue on foot. After a confrontation in a cave, where Rambo and Trautman eliminate several Soviet Spetsnaz commandos including Kourov, they are confronted by an entire army of Soviet tanks, headed by Zaysen. Just as they are about to be overwhelmed by the might of the Red Army, the Mujahideen warriors, together with Mousa and Hamid, ride onto the battlefield by the hundreds in a cavalry charge, overwhelming the Communists. In the ensuing battle, in which both Trautman and John are wounded, Rambo manages to kill Zaysen by driving a tank (somehow doing the work of a four-man crew all by himself, by also loading and firing the main gun) into the Russian's helicopter. Rambo survives the explosion and gets out of the tank. At the end of the battle Rambo and Trautman say goodbye to their Mujahideen friends and leave Afghanistan to go home.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.275811195373535, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Former U.S. soldier John Rambo is still living in Thailand and resides in a village near the Burmese border. He makes a living capturing snakes and selling them in a nearby village. He also transports roamers in his boat. A missionary, Michael Burnett, asks Rambo to take him and his associates up the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission to give aid to Karen tribespeople. Rambo refuses, but he is convinced by Sarah Miller to take them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.1913328766822815, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Rambo" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "They signed their first record deal with Benson Records in 1964, after leaving their home in Dawson Springs, Kentucky and ending up in Nashville, Tennessee. Most singers and songwriters would have agreed without hesitation to such a deal with Benson Records, but Dottie wanted to make sure it was the will of God. Without telling anyone else, she prayed that if the deal was God's will, let the contract be for \"so many dollars . . . PLUS 13-CENTS\" The day the contract was to be signed, they were taken to the office of John T. Benson Jr. where the document was handed to Buck, who handled the group's business dealings. After he read the document, he asked Dottie if she wanted to see it. She said she only wanted to see the \"bottom line\" -- the contract amount. Handing her the document, Buck teased her saying that she was only interested in the money. In a sense, she was. When she saw the amount, the \"13-cents\" she had asked the Lord for to affirm that the deal was His will was there!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.080963134765625, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Rambos" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9570231437683105, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "―John Rambo [src]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.2721776962280273, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Although Rambo appears to be a butch, action stereotype, the character of John Rambo is actually a broken man. He has witnessed all of his friends die, was not loved as a child, faced unbearable terrors in Vietnam, returned to a country that rejected him, then was seduced back into combat where he killed hundreds more people before finally being left alone and miserable, unable to forgive himself for what he has done. At one point, Rambo stated that he had wasted his life fighting for things he thought he believed in. By the end of the series, Rambo hates himself and has lost his faith in humanity, God and the concept that things will get better for the world, due in no small part because of the horrors of war he experienced. Rambo did get better at the end of the series when he returned home, but he is no doubt plagued by nightmares from his posttraumatic stress disorder. The character has more emotional depth than most people would think based on what popular culture has depicted Rambo as, and Sylvester Stallone 's performance has been widely acclaimed.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.4558134078979492, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "In his commentary for First Blood, author David Morrell cites the primary personality inspiraction for John Rambo as being World War II hero and later Hollywood actor, Audie Murphy. Rambo's last stand in the finale of the fourth film is very similar to how Murphy won the Congressional Medal of Honor, manning a vehicle-mounted .50 caliber machine gun and singlehandedly holding off hundreds of enemy soldiers, saving his platoon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.616542100906372, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo was born on July 6, 1947 to R. Rambo and Marie Drago. He is of Navajo American Indian, Italian and German descent. His family was poor, often unable to buy food, and his mother died when he was young. As a young man, his life was violent. His father was an abusive alcoholic and John spent his childhood learning from tribe elders how to efficiently use the traditional Navajo weapon: the bow and arrow. He also learned how to fight. However, one night when John was older, his father tried to kill him with a knife. Rambo ran away that night, but not before shooting his father with a bow and arrow, nearly killing him. Rambo decided that the best way to get away from his problems was to leave for the Vietnam War. Rambo had a rough time with relationships and did not lose his virginity until he was 21. He met a girl whom he intended to marry, but he was deployed to Vietnam and, when he returned home, he saw, to his disappointment, that she was now married and with two children. Rambo graduated from Rangeford High School in 1965, and was drafted into the United States Army at the age of 18 on January 2, 1966. He was deployed to South Vietnam in September of 1966. He returned to the U.S. in 1967 and began training in the Special Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he was trained with a plethora of skills, including learning how to speak Vietnamese. Rambo would go on to recieve extensive survival and combat training, later becoming a Green Beret. In late 1969, Rambo was re-deployed to Vietnam where he served in the Baker Team , a Special Forces unit consisting of eight men; himself, Delmar Barry , Joseph Danforth , Ortega , Messner , Krackhauer , Colletta , and Jorgenson .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6488673686981201, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "After a long term of service in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, John returned to the United States for training in S.O.G. Then he began serving in North Vietnam and Cambodia in a reconnaissance and demolitions unit.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.454018592834473, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "In the director's cut of Rambo IV, John mentions that he mainly worked horses at his father's ranch during his time in Bowie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.200684070587158, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "After the incident in Washington , John Rambo found guilty after a jury trial and sent to a labor camp prison. In 1985, after four years of imprisonment, he was visited by Colonel Samuel Trautman who offered him the chance to be released from prison if he went to Vietnam to search for American POWs. Promised a Presidential pardon if the mission succeeds, he accepts and is officially reinstated in the army temporarily. He later meets with Marshall Murdock, an American bureaucrat who is in charge of the operation. He tells Rambo that he is only to photograph the POWs and not to rescue them, nor is he to engage any enemy soldiers. Rambo reluctantly agrees. He is then told that an agent of the U.S. government will be there to receive him in the jungles of Vietnam.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.235561370849609, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Rambo then returns to the base and, using the M60E3 medium machine gun from the helicopter, destroys Murdock's command center. He then unsheathes his knife and threatens Murdock to find and rescue the remaining American POWs in Vietnam, snarling almost under his breath, \"You know there's more men out there...you know where they are. Find 'em...or I'll find you.\" Trautman then comforts Rambo and tries to pacify him and to convince him to rejoin the Special Forces, also telling him he would get another Medal of Honor for his actions. Rambo, however, visibly angry and fighting back tears, says that the soldiers he rescued deserve the Medal of Honor more than he does, and he only wants the same thing as the soldiers he rescued; for America to love its soldiers as much as its soldiers love it. Rambo then moves towards an unknown destination. Trautman asks him, \"How will you live, John?\" To this, Rambo replies, \"Day by day.\" The film ends as Rambo walks off into the distance while his mentor watches him. Because of his actions of saving the POWs, Rambo is granted the Presidential pardon he had been promised and decides to live in Thailand.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.695621490478516, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Main article: John Rambo on Rambo IV", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.3096713423728943, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo in Rambo (2008).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.7242431640625, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Over twenty years later, John Rambo is still living in Thailand and resides in a village near the Burmese border. He makes a living capturing snakes and selling them in a nearby village. He also transports roamers in his boat. A missionary, Michael Burnett , asks Rambo to take him and his associates up the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission to give aid to Karen tribes people. Rambo refuses, but he is convinced by Sarah Miller to take them, and she becomes his friend.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.16048261523246765, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo using the bow to kill the Tatmadaw army because of their brutal interest of corruption.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.554877281188965, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Although his country is much more supportive of veterans now, John Rambo still is a very traumatized man, and coming home to support will not change the fact that he can't live with himself due to the horrible things he has done or witnessed during in the past. If another film is made, this will likely be the central focus of the film, as Sylvester Stallone says that he would like to take the franchise in a different direction and see the character \"go out in a blaze of glory\", although he has said that there likely will not be another film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.746044635772705, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "On January 6, 2016, Stallone officially confirmed that he was retiring the character of John Rambo, having deemed the fourth Rambo film to be a worthy and satisfying conclusion to the series and the character arc, showing that Rambo was on his way to getting better and making amends with his past. Stallone said: \"The heart's willing, but the body says, 'Stay home! It's like fighters that go back for one last round and get clobbered. Leave it to someone else.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.7098701596260071, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Throughout the film series, especially in the first and fourth films, John Rambo is displayed as a tragic hero, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and has difficulty adjusting to civilian life, which is especially complicated because of prejudice against returning soldiers. He is shown to be prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War. Rambo has difficulty talking about his problems and he is too scarred from trauma to open up to most people. The only person he really trusts in the world is Trautman, and he still has only told him about one of the brutal deaths he witnessed. This makes Rambo look like a quiet thug or super soldier to people who don't understand the character, but in reality he is so overwhelmed with self-hatred and nightmarish memories that he can't talk to anybody. As a result, conversations with Rambo are fairly one sided, as he chooses not to engage with most people and only speaks directly to a few people. As he grows older, as he becomes bitter and angry at the world, even leading to him casually swearing and making snide comments under his breath at people, and downright insulting people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.6964322328567505, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "This is especially elaborated upon in 2008's Rambo, where he refuses to be even remotely social with anybody, even Sarah Miller, who is displayed as a kind soul who wants to learn about Rambo's life and why he is the way he is. He often replies with one-word answers in this film and is terse with people so they will leave him alone. There is a scene, where Michael Burnett tries to get Rambo to take them down the Salween River. Rambo declines and Sarah asks, why he rebuffed the man he was talking to. Rambo replies that he wasn't talking to anybody and Sarah changes her statement to \"the man who was talking to you\". Oddly enough in Rambo III, Rambo is seen wisecracking one-liners similar to other action heros such as John Matrix from Commando. He cracks several of these, poking fun of the state he and Trautman are in and the predicaments he has gotten himself into. Most fans of the Rambo series aknowledge that Rambo III was more so made to exploit Rambo's character rather than further develop him. However, even in Rambo III Stallone carefully maintains the tortured persona that Rambo has to deal with, rarely cracking a smile and revealing the sad eyes he must have. Rambo III is generally disliked by fans of the Rambo films, because of how unrealistic it was and how it cashed in on Rambo's popularity at the time. This would explain the cheesy one-liners that were typical of other heroes of the time, but not Rambo.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.53995418548584, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Rambo wiki has a collection of images related to John Rambo.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5485344529151917, "source": "search", "title": "John Rambo | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.294185638427734, "source": "search", "title": "Rambo Surname, Family Crest & Coats of Arms" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone ) is a former member of a United States Army Special Forces Green Beret unit, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in the Cold War. The film begins after the war, in America in December of 1981. Rambo is searching for one of his friends from his unit, Delmar Barry , and soon learns that he has died from cancer due to Agent Orange exposure back in Vietnam. Rambo knows he is now the last surviving member of his unit. Now distraught and left with no place to go, Rambo decides to hitchhike his way to Portland, Oregon. Rambo walks up to the small town of Hope, Washington on foot. With his long hair and military-style coat, he is quickly spotted by the town's overzealous and paranoid sheriff, Will Teasle ( Brian Dennehy ), who offers Rambo a ride. Rambo asks if there is a place to eat and Teasle tells him that he will have to walk 30 miles up the highway, because he doesn't want \"drifters\" eating in his town, because they might attract other drifters. Another warning was that Rambo may not like it in Hope anyway. Teasle drives him to the city limits and advises him to get a haircut and a bath. Hungry, Rambo heads back toward town immediately, to the dismay of Teasle, who arrests him for vagrancy, resisting arrest and carrying a concealed weapon, a hunting knife.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.8298261761665344, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Long before Stallone was hired to play Rambo, other actors were being considered for the role such as Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Nick Nolte, John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, James Garner, Kris Kristofferson, and Michael Douglas. Terence Hill, as recently confirmed during an interview to an Italian TV talk-show, was offered the role but rejected it because he considered it \"too violent\", and Dustin Hoffman declined the role for the same reason. When Al Pacino was considered for the role of John Rambo, he turned it down when his request that Rambo be more of a madman was rejected.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.136841297149658, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Stallone’s star power after the success of the Rocky films enabled him to suggest changes to the script, to make the character of John Rambo more sympathetic. While Morrell's book has the Rambo character violently kill many of his pursuers, in the movie version Rambo does not directly cause the death of any police or national guardsmen. In fact, he only wounds anybody who pursues him and the one person he did kill was in self defense and not his fault. He threw a rock at a helicopter and because Art Galt wasn't wearing his seatbelt, he fell out the window to his death.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6744930744171143, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood | Rambo Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.024109363555908, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.690291166305542, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "When his friend Colonel Trautman is captured by Soviets during a mission in Afghanistan, John Rambo sets out to rescue him while taking on the brutal tyrant and his army who rule that region.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.25941801071167, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of missionaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.3975265324115753, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Director: John G. Avildsen", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3670654296875, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Director: John G. Avildsen", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3670654296875, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in Vietnam still haunts him. As he came to Hope, Washington to visit a friend, he was guided out of town by the Sheriff William Teasel who insults Rambo, but what Teasel does not know that his insult angered Rambo to the point where Rambo became violent and was arrested. As he was at the county jail being cleaned, he escapes and goes on a rampage through the forest to try to escape from the sheriffs who want to kill him. Then, as Rambo's commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman tries to save both the Sheriff's department and Rambo before the situation gets out of hand. Written by John Wiggins", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.7973546981811523, "source": "search", "title": "First Blood (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Samuel Trautman was named after Uncle Sam, according to author David Morrell . Uncle Sam created the soldier John Rambo. 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Avildsen", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3670654296875, "source": "search", "title": "Rambo (2008) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "John", "passage": "Vietnam veteran John Rambo has survived many harrowing ordeals in his lifetime and has since withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand, where he spends his time capturing snakes for local entertainers, and chauffeuring locals in his old PT boat. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble has a way of finding him: a group of Christian human rights missionaries, led by Michael Burnett and Sarah Miller, approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma. For over fifty years, Burma has been a war zone. The Karen people of the region, who consist of peasants and farmers, have endured brutally oppressive rule from the murderous Burmese military and have been struggling for survival every single day. After some inner contemplation, Rambo accepts the offer and takes Michael, Sarah, and the rest of the missionaries up the river. When the missionaries finally arrive at the Karen village, they find themselves part of a raid by the sadistic ... Written by stallonezone.com / Drew Lahat", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.5323166847229, "source": "search", "title": "Rambo (2008) - IMDb" } ]

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It was the start of India’s domination of the sport, an era that ended only with the emergence of Pakistan in the late 1940s. The call for more international matches led to the introduction in 1971 of the World Cup. Other major international tournaments include the Asian Cup, Asian Games, European Cup, and Pan-American Games. Men’s field hockey was included in the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1920 and then permanently from 1928. Indoor hockey, played by teams of six players with six interchanging substitutes, has become popular in Europe.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.1772966384887695, "source": "search", "title": "field hockey | sport | Britannica.com" }, { "answer": "1908", "passage": "The marathon was not an event of the ancient Olympic Games. The marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the Modern Olympic Games of 1896 in Athens, a race from Marathon—northeast of Athens—to the Olympic Stadium, a distance of 42.195 kilometers. 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For some unknown reason she was registered as the daughter of Frank DeViese, who then immediately vanished from history without a trace, the sort of detail that drives Holiday's biographers mad. Her actual father was a banjo player named Clarence Holiday, who in later years tried to ignore her existence because he thought having a grown-up daughter made him seem old. In childhood she was Eleanor Gough, named for a man to whom her mother was briefly married, or Eleanor Fagan, using her mother's birth name. At the Home of the Good Shepherd she became Madge because the nuns imagined new names helped inmates start new lives. Eventually she combined her father's surname with the first name of Billie Dove, a silent-movie star. 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In addition, she sparked mainstream acceptance of musical protest and thus serves as catalyst to music recorded by Bob Dylan; John Lennon; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; Country Joe and the Fish; Grandmaster Flash; Public Enemy; Rage Against the Machine; Sonic Youth; R.E.M.; Green Day; the Dixie Chicks; Pink; and many others. Though Holiday struggled personally, financially, and even professionally for much of her life, her posthumous success and influence are nearly unmatched in American music.", "precise_score": -11.074482917785645, "rough_score": -10.17936897277832, "source": "search", "title": "Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 - Credo Reference" }, { "answer": "Eleanora Fagan", "passage": "Though the celebrated opening of Holiday's autobiography is technically inaccurate, it certainly captures some of the essence of the problems her family had as well as her own fantasy about what they could be: “Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three” (Holiday 1956, 5). As Holiday biographer Donald Clarke points out, not only are the ages designated incorrect, for Sadie was 19 when Holiday was born on April 7, 1915, but so, too, is the claim that Sadie and Clarence ever married. Their immaturity, though, was to blame for many of their failings as parents, so it makes sense that Holiday exaggerated their youth. Sadie would forever vacillate between acting the parts of controlling parent and jealous older sister to her only daughter, whom she named Eleanora Fagan. Clarence Holiday, largely absent from his daughter's life, sought instead the thrill of the stage and the road. To be fair, he wasn't altogether missing from Holiday's life; by 1935, he was regularly catching her show and had for years been giving Sadie and Billie money for rent and other necessities, though sporadically and only, apparently, under pressure from his daughter (Clarke 2000).", "precise_score": -10.335047721862793, "rough_score": -10.535664558410645, "source": "search", "title": "Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 - Credo Reference" }, { "answer": "Billie Holiday", "passage": "The music critic Leonard Feather called the song “the first significant protest in words and music, the first unmuted cry against racism” (Margolick 2000, 17). The British music journal Q included “Strange Fruit” on its list of “ten songs that actually changed the world” (Margolick 2000, 21). However, not everyone was so enamored of it. John Hammond, the white record producer who liked to claim that he “discovered Billie Holiday” (Clarke 2000), declared that “Strange Fruit” was “artistically the worst thing that ever happened” to Holiday (Margolick 2000, 78). A few other jazz critics shared Hammond's assessment, as did Jerry Wexler, another record producer. He said of the song, “It's got too much of an agenda” (Margolick 2000, 80). He criticized its musical merits as well, but for Wexler as for Hammond, the song lacked appeal because it was protest, not despite this fact. Holiday was no doubt aware of these criticisms, but she sang the song anyway.", "precise_score": -11.319417953491211, "rough_score": -10.956069946289062, "source": "search", "title": "Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 - Credo Reference" }, { "answer": "Billie Holiday", "passage": "Still, she sang the song. She sang it when it was requested and when it was banned, though she sometimes refused to sing it if she felt that audiences would be too disrespectful. “And wherever, whenever Billie Holiday sang ‘Strange Fruit,’ it was an event,” notes Margolick (2000, 109). After Holiday's particularly moving performance of “Strange Fruit” at the Apollo, Jack Schiffman, whose father owned the Apollo, reported that there was “a moment of oppressively heavy silence … and then a kind of rustling sound I had never heard before. It was the sound of almost two thousand people sighing” (Margolick 2000, 99).", "precise_score": -11.354015350341797, "rough_score": -11.214824676513672, "source": "search", "title": "Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 - Credo Reference" }, { "answer": "Billie Holiday", "passage": "Though it's possible to find young recording artists who don't know the music of Billie Holiday, they all feel her influence. Holiday was at the heart of the jazz vocal improvisation movement. 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Though her legacy includes drug addiction, tragedy, heartbreak, and an early death, these, too, have imprinted Americans’ notions of musical genius, for better or worse. Perhaps most importantly, Holiday embodied the desire to innovate musically as well as socially, and the need for such attitudes remains alive and well. Holiday saw things changing, but not enough. She suffered most of her life from the social acceptance of domestic abuse, dying before second-wave feminism roused Americans’ ire over this silent epidemic. She didn't live to see the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and she certainly didn't see Americans elect the first African American president.", "precise_score": -10.540971755981445, "rough_score": -10.879179000854492, "source": "search", "title": "Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 - Credo Reference" }, { "answer": "Holiday, Billie", "passage": "Sublette, C.M. (2013). Holiday, Billie (1915--1959). In R.C. 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Hitchcock was nominated for the Best Director award, his first of five such nominations, but did not win.", "precise_score": 6.935136795043945, "rough_score": 5.5738420486450195, "source": "wiki", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "For Hitchcock, being a director meant being the primary creative source for the film—working on everything from the script to the props. In Hollywood, however, the power of the studios put producers in charge. For the Hollywood of the 1930s, screenwriters and directors were interchangeable technicians, not given serious consideration in the artistic decisions of the film. More than any other producer, Selznick took advantage of this and controlled nearly every aspect of his movies. Not surprisingly, Hitchcock and Selznick had difficulties from the very first film they made, REBECCA (1940). Disagreements began with Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel and lasted through the film’s completion. For the final scene, Selznick wanted smoke to form the shape of an “R” in the sky. Hitchcock was appalled. He suggested a subtler metaphor: the memory of Rebecca should go up in flames with an “R” embroidered on a bed pillow. Hitchcock won, but he felt battered by Selznick and resented his producer’s complete command of post-production.", "precise_score": 6.101452350616455, "rough_score": 4.761394500732422, "source": "search", "title": "American Masters - Alfred Hitchcock" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Pursuing greater opportunities than those available in Britain, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939. His first film made under contract to producer David O. Selznick was an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's REBECCA (1940), starring Laurence Olivier , Joan Fontaine and a host of talented British character actors including Judith Anderson , George Sanders , Gladys Cooper , Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce and C. Aubrey Smith.  In addition to popularity with critics and audiences, REBECCA also won the Academy Award as Best Picture of 1940 -- Hitchcock's only film to take the top prize.", "precise_score": 8.823224067687988, "rough_score": 7.676810264587402, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock at Reel Classics" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "In 1940, the Hitchcock family moved to Hollywood, where the producer _David O. Selznick_had hired him to direct an adaptation of 'Daphne du Maurier''s Rebecca (1940). After Saboteur (1942), as his fame as a director grew, film companies began to refer to his films as 'Alfred Hitchcock's', for example Alfred Hitcock's Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972).", "precise_score": 6.762989044189453, "rough_score": 5.524251937866211, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Foreign Correspondent , released in 1940, signified a major turning point in director Alfred Hitchcock's career. Although the film was his second to be made in the United States, it constituted his first experience with a Hollywood-type production. His first American film, based on Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, so retained the style and appearance of the director's English works that it is difficult to think of it as having been made in Hollywood. Interest­ingly, this result was not due to any stylistic intention on Hitchcock's part but was instead a reflection of the subject matter and of the production values aimed for by producer David 0. Selznick.", "precise_score": 8.531800270080566, "rough_score": 9.061988830566406, "source": "search", "title": "Foreign Correspondent - Alfred Hitchcock – Latest Movie ..." }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Foreign Correspondent, Hitchcock's second American film, provided him with more artistic freedom than had Rebecca and at the same time afforded the director most of the assets available at a Hollywood studio. Hitchcock had discovered that some other producers were less likely to interfere in his films than was Selznick; thus he endeavored to make additional pictures on loan to other studios. Foreign Correspondent, loosely based upon journalist Vincent Sheean's autobiography, Personal History, the first of these additional films, was made for Walter Wanger and United Artists. Its budget of one­and-one-half million dollars, which represented the most money with which Hitchcock had ever worked, was principally spent on scenery consisting of a ten-acre Amsterdam public square, a large section of London, a Dutch countryside complete with windmill, and a large transatlantic airplane. These items were planned and constructed by an army of 558 carpenters and tech­nicians. Additionally, fourteen screenwriters worked at various times on the screenplay, and more than 240,000 feet of film were shot and edited to 120 screen minutes. The film displays some of the finest visual design and cine­matography evident in any of Hitchcock's productions, indicating that the director quickly learned the manner in which to make optimum use of a generous budget.", "precise_score": 5.183291912078857, "rough_score": 4.674818515777588, "source": "search", "title": "Foreign Correspondent - Alfred Hitchcock – Latest Movie ..." }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "The British film industry’s loss was Hollywood’s gain, as Rebecca (1940) made abundantly clear. Du Maurier’s novel Rebecca was a property Selznick had acquired at great cost to follow his production of Gone with the Wind (1939), and the potentate bequeathed Hitchcock a star-filled cast: Laurence Olivier as the brooding Maxim de Winter, Joan Fontaine as his trembling bride, and Judith Anderson as the threatening Mrs. Danvers. The film was an enormous success both commercially and critically. It won the Academy Award for best picture, and Hitchcock earned his first Oscar nomination for best director.", "precise_score": 4.1830549240112305, "rough_score": 6.006082057952881, "source": "search", "title": "Sir Alfred Hitchcock | English-born director | Britannica.com" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Hitchcock was a multiple nominee and winner of a number of prestigious awards, receiving two Golden Globes, eight Laurel Awards, and five lifetime achievement awards including the first BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, as well as being five times nominated for, albeit never winning, an Academy Award as Best Director. His film Rebecca (nominated for 11 Oscars) won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940—another Hitchcock film, Foreign Correspondent, was also nominated that year. Hitchcock has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, receiving one for his contribution to television and another for his work in motion pictures.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.0641595721244812, "source": "wiki", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "* Rebecca (1940)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.176497459411621, "source": "wiki", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "\"Suite\" (clip) from REBECCA (1940) by Franz Waxman (a .MP3 file).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.276249885559082, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock at Reel Classics" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "While Alma and Patricia loved the weather in Southern California , Hitchcock was not fond of it. He continued to wear his dark English suits no matter how hot the weather. In the studio, he worked diligently on his first American film, Rebecca (1940), a psychological thriller. After the small budgets he had worked with in England, Hitchcock delighted in the large Hollywood resources he could use to build elaborate sets.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.1453874111175537, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Profile of the Famous British Film Director" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1940. Hitchcock was up for Best Director, but lost to John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.798120498657227, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Profile of the Famous British Film Director" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "His bridling under the heavy hand of producer David O. Selznick was exemplified by the final scene of Rebecca (1940). Selznick wanted his director to show smoke coming out of the burning house's chimney forming the letter 'R'. Hitchcock thought the touch lacked any subtlety; instead, he showed flames licking at a pillow embroidered with the letter 'R'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.542810440063477, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "First visited Hollywood in the late 1930s, but was turned down by virtually all major motion picture studios because they thought he could not make a Hollywood-style picture. He was finally offered a seven-year directing contract by producer David O. Selznick . His first project was supposed to be a film about the Titanic, but Selznick scrapped the project because he \"couldn't find a boat to sink.\" Selznick assigned Hitch to direct Rebecca (1940) instead, which later won the best picture Oscar.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.28650426864624, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "As of the 5th edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (edited by Steven Jay Schneider), Hitchcock is the most represented director, with 18 films. Included are his films Blackmail (1929), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Rebecca (1940), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964) and Frenzy (1972).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.8476441502571106, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "At five, he received more Academy Award nominations for Best Picture without a win than anyone other than Clarence Brown . He was nominated for Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.230417251586914, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "He directed nine of the American Film Institute's 100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies: Psycho (1960) at #1, North by Northwest (1959) at #4, The Birds (1963) at #7, Rear Window (1954) at #14, Vertigo (1958) at #18, Strangers on a Train (1951) at #32, Notorious (1946) at #38, Dial M for Murder (1954) at #48 and Rebecca (1940) at #80.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.231295585632324, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Many of Hitchcock's films have one-word titles: Blackmail (1929), Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Saboteur (1942), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), Rope (1948), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Marnie (1964), Topaz (1969) and Frenzy (1972). He favored one-word titles because he felt that it was uncluttered, clean and easily remembered by the audience.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.204735279083252, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "(April 27, 2014) Most successful director in IMDB Top 250 movies ever made with 9 entries - Rear Window (1954) (no 31.), Psycho (1960) (no. 32), North by Northwest (1959) (no. 61), Vertigo (1958) (no. 66), Rebecca (1940) (no. 138), Dial M for Murder (1954) (no. 163), Strangers on a Train (1951) (no. 194), Notorious (1946) (no. 198) and Rope (1948) (no. 242).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.574040412902832, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Hitchcock remarked in a British film journal interview just before leaving for Hollywood that he hoped to make a film about the tragic loss of RMS Titanic, as the inherent drama of the ocean liner's sinking appealed to him. He went on to make Rebecca (1940) instead.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5346906781196594, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Hitchcock was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1980 and received numerous honors for his work, yet the Academy Award for Best Director always eluded him. He was nominated for the prize five times—for “Rebecca,” “Lifeboat,” “Spellbound,” “Rear Window” and “Psycho”—but remained, in his own words, “always a bridesmaid, never a bride.” When Hitchcock finally received an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 1967, he gave one of the shortest acceptance speeches in the ceremony’s history, saying only, “Thank you…very much indeed.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.122961044311523, "source": "search", "title": "9 Things You May Not Know About Alfred Hitchcock - History ..." }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Selznick had brought Hitchcock to Hollywood in 1940 with an $800,000 contract to make four important pictures. When the first project, Titanic, based upon the story of the doomed luxury liner, had to be temporarily abandoned, the director was given Rebecca, a property which he had earlier attempted to purchase and produce in England. Hitchcock's second chance to make this film of the Manlier novel was, of course, a major success, earning the Oscar as Best Picture of 1940, but it also proved to Hitchcock that working for Selznick would be a mixed blessing. In England, the di­rector's creativity had been restrained by small budgetS; in Hollywood, how­ever, he could afford to explore more fully the technical tricks of movie-making and experiment with projects that were not hampered by budgetary limitations. There were, however, limitations imposed by Hollywood that Hitchcock had rarely encountered in England, where he was in almost com­plete artistic control of his films. In the United States during the 1940's, however, it was the producer who controlled the creative direction of the project, and his intentions and wishes always superseded those of the director. When the producer was a man like David 0. Selznick, control was imperious and complete. This was the situation with Rebecca, even though the film seems to be a reflection of the Hitchcock style.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.3143534660339355, "source": "search", "title": "Foreign Correspondent - Alfred Hitchcock – Latest Movie ..." }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Essential DVDs: The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Rebecca (1940), Shadow Of A Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946), Strangers On A Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North By Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.837759971618652, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - New York Film Academy | School of Film ..." }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "From his early UK work –Number 13 to Jamaica Inn –to the slicker stylish US output –Rebecca to Family Plot –cinema’s greatest heavyweight filmmaker (at his lardiest in the late ’30s, Hitchcock weighed in at 300lbs) delivered that rare thing: crowdpleasing bravura cinema that can be lapped up by the masses yet still complex enough to be pored over by speccy four-eyed academics. No filmmaker can count as many great fllms on a CV; (deep breath) The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, Shadow Of A Doubt (reputedly Hitchcock’s own personal fave), Notorious, Strangers On A Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds. And these are just the can’t-argue-with masterpieces. In the process, he also invented the Filmmaker As Public Figure, cameoing in his own films (starting with The Lodger), extending his persona to books and TV and offering colourful, usually completely false, soundbite in interviews.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.5766429901123047, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - New York Film Academy | School of Film ..." }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "With the prestigious Selznick picture Rebecca in 1940 , Hitchcock made his first American movie, set in England and based on a novel by English author Daphne du Maurier. The film starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This Gothic melodrama explores the fears of a naive young bride who enters a great English country home and must adapt to the extreme formality and coldness she finds there. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940. The statuette was given to Selznick, as the film's producer. The film did not win the Best Director award for Hitchcock.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.1242952346801758, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Horror Film Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "There were additional problems between Selznick and Hitchcock . Selznick was known to impose very restrictive rules upon Hitchcock who was forced to shoot the film as Selznick wanted. At the same time, Selznick complained about Hitchcock's \"goddamn jigsaw cutting\", which meant that the producer did not have nearly the leeway to create his own film as he liked, but had to follow Hitchcock's vision of the finished product. The film Rebecca was the fourth longest of Hitchcock's films, at 130 minutes, exceeded only by The Paradine Case (132 minutes), North by Northwest (136 minutes), and Topaz (142 minutes).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.296077251434326, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Horror Film Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Rebecca, which Hitchcock directed, won the 1940 Best Picture Academy Award for its producer David O. Selznick. In addition to Rebecca and Suspicion, two other films Hitchcock directed, Foreign Correspondent and Spellbound, were nominated for Best Picture. Hitchcock is considered the Best Film Director of all time by The Screen Directory website. Sixteen films directed by Hitchcock earned Oscar nominations, though only six of those films earned Hitchcock himself a nomination. The total number of Oscar nominations (including winners) earned by films he directed is fifty. Four of those films earned Best Picture nominations. Spellbound won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score. Actress Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Suspicion , the only Academy Award–winning performance under Hitchcock's direction.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.338615655899048, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Horror Film Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Hitchcock began his directing career in the United Kingdom in 1922 . From 1939 onward, he worked primarily in the United States. In September, 1940, Hitchcock had purchased a 200-acre (0.81 km2) mountaintop estate for the sum of $40,000. Known as the 1870 Cornwall Ranch or 'Heart o' the Mountain', the property was perched high above Scotts Valley, California, at the end of Canham Road. The Hitchcocks resided there from 1940 to 1972 . The Hitchcocks became close friends with the parents of Joan Fontaine, after she starred in his film, Rebecca . Years later, after a break-in at his estate, Hitchcock replaced all of the accumulated paintings with studio-made copies. The family sold the estate in 1974 , six years before Hitchcock's death.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.8578589558601379, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Horror Film Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Rebecca was the only Hitchcock film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (though the award did not go to Hitchcock); four other films were nominated. In 1967 he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement. He never won an Academy Award for direction of a film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.095865726470947, "source": "search", "title": "Alfred Hitchcock - Horror Film Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "The Hollywood years: Rebecca to Dial M for Murder", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.518783569335938, "source": "search", "title": "Sir Alfred Hitchcock | English-born director | Britannica.com" }, { "answer": "Rebecca", "passage": "Hitchcock has been called by some the greatest of all directors, the most adroit , and the most admired, and the case has been made that he was all of these. His many classics are widely acknowledged—including The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds—and in these films Hitchcock’s genius as both filmmaker and storyteller is abundantly evident.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.8898859024047852, "source": "search", "title": "Sir Alfred Hitchcock | English-born director | Britannica.com" } ]

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[23] After the gallery refused to pay a ransom demand of US$1 million in March 1994, Norwegian police set up a sting operation with assistance from the British police ( SO10 ) and the Getty Museum and the painting was recovered undamaged on 7 May 1994. [22] In January 1996, four men were convicted in connection with the theft, including Pål Enger, who had been convicted of stealing Munch’s Vampire in 1988. [24] They were released on appeal on legal grounds: the British agents involved in the sting operation had entered Norway under false identities. [25]", "precise_score": 6.23260498046875, "rough_score": 6.29966926574707, "source": "search", "title": "The Scream - MedLibrary.org" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "“The world screams,” said a headline in the major Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten over international reaction to the theft. 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The Munch Museum holds the other painted version (1910, see gallery, below) and a pastel version from 1893. These three versions have not traveled for years. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.060214042663574, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Scream" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "Among theories advanced to account for the reddish sky in the background is the artist's memory of the effects of the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, which deeply tinted sunset skies red in parts of the Western hemisphere for months during 1883 and 1884, about a decade before Munch painted The Scream. This explanation has been disputed by scholars, who note that Munch was an expressive painter and was not primarily interested in literal renderings of what he had seen. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the proximity of both a slaughterhouse and a lunatic asylum to the site depicted in the painting may have offered some inspiration. The scene was identified as being the view from a road overlooking Oslo, the Oslofjord and Hovedøya, from the hill of Ekeberg. At the time of painting the work, Munch's manic depressive sister Laura Catherine was a patient at the asylum at the foot of Ekeberg.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.710598945617676, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Scream" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "The 1910 tempera on board version of The Scream was stolen on 22 August 2004, during daylight hours, when masked gunmen entered the Munch Museum in Oslo and stole it and Munch's Madonna. A bystander photographed the robbers as they escaped to their car with the artwork. On 8 April 2005, Norwegian police arrested a suspect in connection with the theft, but the paintings remained missing and it was rumored that they had been burned by the thieves to destroy evidence. On 1 June 2005, with four suspects already in custody in connection with the crime, the city government of Oslo offered a reward of 2 million Norwegian krone (roughly US$313,500 or €231,200) for information that could help locate the paintings. Although the paintings remained missing, six men went on trial in early 2006, variously charged with either helping to plan or participating in the robbery. Three of the men were convicted and sentenced to between four and eight years in prison in May 2006, and two of the convicted, Bjørn Hoen and Petter Tharaldsen, were also ordered to pay compensation of 750 million kroner (roughly US$117.6 million or €86.7 million) to the City of Oslo. The Munch Museum was closed for ten months for a security overhaul. 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During the five-day exhibition, 5,500 people viewed the damaged paintings. The conserved works went back on display on 23 May 2008, when the exhibition \"Scream and Madonna — Revisited\" at the Munch Museum in Oslo displayed the paintings together. Some damage to The Scream may prove impossible to repair, but the overall integrity of the work has not been compromised. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.0199971199035645, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Scream" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "File:The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893 - Nasjonalgalleriet.png|1893: oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard. 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Brazen thieves had made off with the Edvard Munch masterpieces \"The Scream\" and \"Madonna,\" and there was speculation that the gang burned the paintings to escape the police search.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.717451572418213, "source": "search", "title": "Stolen Munch Paintings Recovered - The Art History Archive" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "On Thursday, police relieved those worries by recovering the national artistic treasures � just over two years after masked gunmen grabbed the paintings in front of stunned visitors at an Oslo museum and disappeared.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.49856185913086, "source": "search", "title": "Stolen Munch Paintings Recovered - The Art History Archive" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "Hans-Martin Frydenberg Flaaten, whose University of Oslo master's thesis was on \"The Scream,\" said the simple fact that the image has been used worldwide for everything from masks to blowup dolls to election campaign posters underscores its impact.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.399322509765625, "source": "search", "title": "Stolen Munch Paintings Recovered - The Art History Archive" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "But he was cagey at a news conference in Oslo about how the paintings were recovered, saying only that \"the pictures came into our hands this afternoon after a successful police action.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.519248962402344, "source": "search", "title": "Stolen Munch Paintings Recovered - The Art History Archive" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "He did say no reward was paid, even though the City of Oslo, which owns the paintings, offered 2 million kroner, or about $294,000, for their return. 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Alternatively, it has been suggested that the proximity of both a slaughterhouse and a lunatic asylum to the site depicted in the painting may have offered some inspiration. [11] The scene was identified as being the view from a road overlooking Oslo, the Oslofjord and Hovedøya , from the hill of Ekeberg. [12] At the time of painting the work, Munch’s manic depressive sister Laura Catherine was a patient at the asylum at the foot of Ekeberg.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.021844863891602, "source": "search", "title": "The Scream - MedLibrary.org" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "The 1910 tempera on board version of The Scream was stolen on 22 August 2004, during daylight hours, when masked gunmen entered the Munch Museum in Oslo and stole it and Munch’s Madonna . [26] A bystander photographed the robbers as they escaped to their car with the artwork. On 8 April 2005, Norwegian police arrested a suspect in connection with the theft, but the paintings remained missing and it was rumored that they had been burned by the thieves to destroy evidence. [27] [28] On 1 June 2005, with four suspects already in custody in connection with the crime, the city government of Oslo offered a reward of 2 million Norwegian krone (roughly US$313,500 or €231,200) for information that could help locate the paintings. [29] Although the paintings remained missing, six men went on trial in early 2006, variously charged with either helping to plan or participating in the robbery. Three of the men were convicted and sentenced to between four and eight years in prison in May 2006, and two of the convicted, Bjørn Hoen and Petter Tharaldsen, were also ordered to pay compensation of 750 million kroner (roughly US$117.6 million or €86.7 million) to the City of Oslo. [30] The Munch Museum was closed for ten months for a security overhaul. 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[35] Before repairs and restoration began, the paintings were put on public display by the Munch Museum beginning 27 September 2006. During the five-day exhibition, 5,500 people viewed the damaged paintings. The conserved works went back on display on 23 May 2008, when the exhibition “Scream and Madonna — Revisited” at the Munch Museum in Oslo displayed the paintings together. [36] Some damage to The Scream may prove impossible to repair, but the overall integrity of the work has not been compromised. [37] [38]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.32800817489624, "source": "search", "title": "The Scream - MedLibrary.org" }, { "answer": "Oslo", "passage": "1893: oil , tempera and pastel on cardboard. 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I mean, I had dogs chasing me down the street. I was wearing this tiny little Greek cocktail dress - with MY legs! Good Lord, it was really bad. In fact, it was the worst film made in the 1950s. My first review said that \"Mr. Newman delivers his lines with the emotional fervor of a Putnam stop conductor announcing local stop\".", "precise_score": 5.577417850494385, "rough_score": 3.2585878372192383, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "The two actors first met in the early 1950s while working in New York City on a Broadway production of the romantic drama Picnic. Newman had a supporting role and filled in for the show’s star, while Woodward was the understudy to the play’s female leads. They were both members of Lee Strasberg’s prestigious Actors Studio, alongside Marlon Brando, James Dean and Rod Steiger. After the play’s success, Newman and Woodward both headed to Hollywood, where he signed a contract with Warner Brothers and she began working with 20th Century Fox. Though Newman’s first film, The Silver Chalice (1954), was a bomb, he followed it up with an acclaimed turn as the boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). Woodward had even more early success, starring as a woman with multiple personality disorder in The Three Faces of Eve (1957). The role won her an Oscar for Best Actress.", "precise_score": 4.679865837097168, "rough_score": 4.128815174102783, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward marry - Jan 29, 1958 ..." }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "By 1950, the 25 year-old Newman had been kicked out of Ohio University for unruly behavior, served three years in the Navy during World War II as a radio operator, graduated from Ohio's Kenyon College, married his first wife, Jackie, and had his first child, Scott. 1950 was also the year that Paul's father died. When he became successful in later years, Newman said if he had any regrets it would be that his father wasn't around to see it. He brought Jackie back to Shaker Heights and he ran his father's store for a short period. Then, knowing that wasn't the career path he wanted to take, he moved Jackie and Scott to New Haven, Connecticut, where he attended Yale University's School of Drama. While doing a play there, Paul was spotted by two agents, who invited him to come to New York City to pursue a career as a professional actor. After moving to New York, Paul acted in guest spots for various television shows and in 1953 came a big break. He got the part of understudy of the lead role in the successful Broadway play Picnic. Through this play, he met actress Joanne Woodward, who was also an understudy in the play. While they got on very well and there was a strong attraction, Paul was married and his second child, Susan, was born that year. During this time, Newman was also accepted into the much admired and popular New York Actors Studio, although he wasn't technically auditioning. In 1954, a film Paul was very reluctant to do was released, The Silver Chalice (1954). He considered his performance in this costume epic to be so bad that he took out a full-page ad in a trade paper apologizing for it to anyone who might have seen it. He had always been embarrassed about the film and reveled in making fun of it. He immediately wanted to return to the stage, and performed in The Desperate Hours. In 1956, Newman got the chance to redeem himself in the film world by portraying boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), and critics praised his performance. In 1957, with a handful of films to his credit, he was cast in The Long, Hot Summer (1958), co-starring none other than Joanne Woodward . During the shooting of this film, they realized they were meant to be together and by now, so did Paul's wife Jackie. After Jackie gave Paul a divorce, he and Joanne married in Las Vegas in January of 1958. They went on to have three daughters together and raised them in Westport, Connecticut. In 1959, Paul received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). The 1960s would bring Paul Newman into superstar status, as he became one of the most popular actors of the decade, and garnered three more Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). In 1968, his debut directorial effort Rachel, Rachel (1968) was given good marks, and although the film and Joanne Woodward were nominated for Oscars, Newman was not nominated for Best Director. He did, however, win a Golden Globe for his direction. 1969 brought the popular screen duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford together for the first time when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) was released. It was a box office smash. Throughout the 1970s, Newman had hits and misses from such popular films as The Sting (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974) to lesser known films as The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) to a now cult classic Slap Shot (1977). After the death of his only son, Scott, in 1978, Newman's personal life and film choices moved in a different direction. His acting work in the 1980s and on is what is often most praised by critics today. He became more at ease with himself and it was evident in The Verdict (1982) for which he received his 6th Best Actor Oscar nomination and in 1987 finally received his first Oscar for The Color of Money (1986). Friend and director of Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Robert Wise accepted the award on Newman's behalf as he did not attend the ceremony. Films were not the only thing on his mind during this period. A passionate race car driver since the early 1970s, Newman became co-owner of Newman-Haas racing in 1982, and also founded \"Newman's Own\", a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which Newman donated to charity. He also started The Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, an organization for terminally ill children. He was as well known for his philanthropic ways and highly successful business ventures as he was for his legendary actor status. Newman enjoyed a 50-year marriage to Joanne in Connecticut, their main residence since moving away from the bright lights of Hollywood in 1960. Renowned for his sense of humor, in 1998 he quipped that he was a little embarrassed to see his salad dressing grossing more than his movies. During his later years, he still attended races, was much involved in his charitable organizations, and in 2006, he opened a restaurant called Dressing Room, which helps out the Westport Country Playhouse, a place that Paul took great pride in. In 2007, he made some headlines when he said that he was losing his invention and confidence in his acting abilities and that acting is \"pretty much a closed book for me.\" He died the next year. Whether he was on the screen or not, Paul Newman remained synonymous with the anti-heroism of the 1960s and 1970s cinema, and with the rebellious nature his characters so often embodied.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.595402717590332, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "Was so ashamed of his debut in the failed costume drama The Silver Chalice (1954), that he took out an ad in Variety apologizing for his performance.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.262731552124023, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "The role of Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) was originally awarded to James Dean , who died before filming began. Due to Dean's untimely death, Newman was cast in the role. Dean also was signed to play Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun (1958), but that role was also inherited by Newman after Dean's death. Dean and Newman had shot their last screen tests for East of Eden (1955) together; the six-years-younger Dean got the role and Newman went on to star in The Silver Chalice (1954), a notorious turkey.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.0698180198669434, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "Presented with the Golden Turkey Award for the Most Embarrassing Movie Debut of All Time for his performance in The Silver Chalice (1954). His response was that he fully agreed with the award.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.920271873474121, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, The Silver Chalice (1954) and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in Cars (2006)]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.98327922821045, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "[explaining why he accepted The Silver Chalice (1954) for his film debut] After the success of \"Picnic\", I had a lot of offers from Hollywood and I never accepted any of them. Finally, my agent said, \"You know, they're going to keep knocking on your door and knocking on your door and at some point they're going to stop. So you better make sure you say 'Yes' before that stop occurs\". That was when somebody sent me a copy of \"The Silver Chalice\" and I got talked into it. I knew that was going to be a bomb.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.047208786010742, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "The Silver Chalice (1954)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.346853256225586, "source": "search", "title": "Paul Newman's 62 films - Telegraph" }, { "answer": "The Silver Chalice", "passage": "THE SILVER CHALICE", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.47500228881836, "source": "search", "title": "Movies starring Paul Newman | the Movie title stills ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, \"UW\", or regionally as, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison is the official state university of Wisconsin, and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state. It became a land-grant institution in 1866. The 933 acre main campus includes four National Historic Landmarks. 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Lathrop became the university's first chancellor, in the fall of 1849. With John W. Sterling as the university's first professor (mathematics), the first class of 17 students met at Madison Female Academy on February 5, 1849. A permanent campus site was soon selected: an area of 50 acre \"bounded north by Fourth lake, east by a street to be opened at right angles with King street\", [later State Street] \"south by Mineral Point Road (University Avenue), and west by a carriage-way from said road to the lake.\" The regents' building plans called for a \"main edifice fronting towards the Capitol, three stories high, surmounted by an observatory for astronomical observations.\" This building, University Hall, now known as Bascom Hall, was finally completed in 1859. On October 10, 1916, a fire destroyed the building's dome, which was never replaced. North Hall, constructed in 1851, was actually the first building on campus. In 1854, Levi Booth and Charles T. Wakeley became the first graduates of the university, and in 1892 the university awarded its first PhD to future university president Charles R. Van Hise. ", "precise_score": -3.2958338260650635, "rough_score": -4.232985019683838, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "Notable historical moments in the first 150 years of the University of Wisconsin–Madison include:", "precise_score": -3.5285043716430664, "rough_score": -3.8165533542633057, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "The University of Wisconsin–Madison, the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System, is a large, four-year research university comprising twenty associated colleges and schools. In addition to undergraduate and graduate divisions in agriculture and life sciences, business, education, engineering, human ecology, journalism and mass communication, letters and science, music, nursing, pharmacy, and social welfare, the university also maintains graduate and professional schools in environmental studies, law, library and information studies, medicine and public health (School of Medicine and Public Health), public affairs, and veterinary medicine.", "precise_score": -0.7557445168495178, "rough_score": -2.7713935375213623, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "UW–Madison was ranked 11th among national universities (with three institutions tied) by the Center for Measuring University Performance in its 2007 report, with rankings based on objective statistics on research, faculty awards, student qualifications, and university assets. Of 38 programs at the UW–Madison that were included in the National Research Council's 1995 study, 16 ranked in the top 10 nationally. In 2007, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that 57 disciplines at the UW–Madison were in the top 10 in the U.S. in scholarly productivity, which placed it second after UC–Berkeley in the number of top ten programs. The UW placed 30th among national universities in Washington Monthlys 2009 rankings, which consider community service and social mobility, as well as research productivity. In 2009, UW–Madison was ranked 6th in the TrendTopper MediaBuzz rankings by the Global Language Monitor. In 2011, the Global Language Monitor increased the ranking to 1st in Internet Media Buzz. Forbes ranked UW-Madison in 69th place on its list of top American colleges for 2015. 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These colleges are involved in scientific research, education, training, and extension projects geared toward the conservation and practical use of U.S. coasts, the Great Lakes and other marine areas.", "precise_score": -1.559645652770996, "rough_score": -4.405978679656982, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "Located in Madison, about a mile from the state capitol, the main campus of the university is situated partially on the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. The main campus comprises 933 acre of land, while the entire campus, including research stations throughout the state, is over 10600 acre in area. The central campus is on an urban layout mostly coinciding with the city of Madison's street grid, exceptions being the suburban University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and the Department of Psychiatry & Clinics in the West Side research park. The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, a demonstration area for native ecosystems, is located on the west side of Madison. The main campus includes many buildings designed or supervised by architects J.T.W. Jennings and Arthur Peabody. The hub of campus life is the Memorial Union. In 2011, Travel+Leisure listed the Madison campus as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States. ", "precise_score": -4.01349401473999, "rough_score": -5.892582893371582, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "The University of Wisconsin–Madison has two student unions. The older, Memorial Union, was built in 1928 to honor American World War I veterans. Also known as the Union or the Terrace, it has gained a reputation as one of the most beautiful student centers on a university campus. Located on the shore of Lake Mendota, it is a popular spot for socializing among both students and the public, who enjoy gazing at the lake and its sailboats. The union is known for the Rathskeller, a German pub adjacent to the lake terrace. Political debates and backgammon and sheepshead games over a beer on the terrace are common among students. The Rathskeller serves \"Rathskeller Ale\", a beer brewed expressly for the Terrace. Memorial Union was the first union at a public university to serve beer. ", "precise_score": -3.7309024333953857, "rough_score": -4.1366190910339355, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "The University of Wisconsin–Madison has the 12th largest research library collection in North America. More than 40 professional and special-purpose libraries serve the campus. The campus library collections include more than 8.3 million volumes representing human inquiry through all of history. In addition, the collections comprised more than 101,000 serial titles, 6.4 million microform items, and over 8.2 million items in other formats, such as government documents, maps, musical scores, and audiovisual materials. Over 1 million volumes are circulated to library users every year. Memorial Library serves as the principal research facility on campus for the humanities and social sciences. It is the largest library in the state, with over 3.5 million volumes. It also houses a periodical collection, domestic and foreign newspapers, Special Collections, the Mills Music Library, a letterpress printing museum, and the UW Digital Collections Center. 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The school is consistently one of the highest ranking public schools in the nation that draws top high school students far past state lines. Last year an out-of-state enrollment cap of 27.5% was lifted, but the school continues to guarantee the enrollment of at least 3,500 Wisconsin high school graduates each year. Students can choose 232 undergraduate majors and certificates within the university’s eight undergraduate schools and colleges. The most common majors are biological and biomedical sciences, social sciences, engineering and business. Approximately 13% of the undergraduates are members of the more than 55 fraternities or sororities. There are also more than 900 student organizations, such as Wildlife Disease association, Women in Business, American Society of Civil Engineers and others. Campus traditions include the Cane Toss, when graduating law students march down the football field and throw white canes over the crossbar of the goal post. If students catch their canes on the other side, they will supposedly win their first case. The Wisconsin Badgers compete in the NCAA Division I Big 10 Conference. More »", "precise_score": 2.2099266052246094, "rough_score": 2.1165544986724854, "source": "search", "title": "University of Wisconsin, Madison - Forbes" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "UW–Madison is organized into 20 schools and colleges, which enrolled 29,302 undergraduate, 9,445 graduate, and 2,459 professional students and granted 6,659 bachelor's, 3,493 graduate and professional degrees in 2013–2014. The University employs over 21,796 faculty and staff. Its comprehensive academic program offers 136 undergraduate majors, along with 148 master's degree programs and 120 doctoral programs. 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Based in Wisconsin's populist history, the Wisconsin Idea continues to inspire the work of the faculty, staff, and students who aim to solve real-world problems by working together across disciplines and demographics. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.161590099334717, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "In the late 1960s and early 1970s, UW–Madison was shaken by a series of student protests, and by the use of force by authorities in response, comprehensively documented in the film The War at Home. The first major demonstrations protested the presence on campus of recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company, which supplied the napalm used in the Vietnam War. Authorities used force to quell the disturbance. The struggle was documented in the book, They Marched into Sunlight, as well as the PBS documentary Two Days in October. Among the students injured in the protest was current Madison mayor Paul Soglin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.096273422241211, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "* 1909 William Purdy and Paul Beck wrote On, Wisconsin the UW–Madison athletic fight song", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.523543357849121, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "* 1925 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation chartered to control patenting and patent income on UW–Madison inventions", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.040596008300781, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "* 1934 The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, whose mission was to restore lost landscapes, such as prairies, was opened", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.232147216796875, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "* 1936 UW–Madison began an artist-in-residence program, the first ever at a university", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.312365531921387, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "* 1988 The Onion founded by two UW–Madison students, Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.076465606689453, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "* 1998 UW–Madison's James Thomson (cell biologist) first isolated and cultured human embryonic stem cells", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.342920303344727, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "In the 2015 QS World University Rankings, UW was ranked 54th in the world and received five excellence stars. It was ranked 24th among world universities and 18th among universities in the Americas in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which assesses academic and research performance. In the G-factor International University Ranking of 2006, which is a re-analysis of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University data, the UW–Madison was listed 13th. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.047475814819336, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "The Times Higher Education Supplement placed it 50th worldwide, based primarily on surveys administered to students, faculty, and recruiters. Additionally, the professional ranking of world universities from École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, based in part on the number of senior managerial positions occupied by alumni, placed UW–Madison 35th in the world. 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It has been considered a major academic center for embryonic stem cell research ever since UW–Madison professor James Thomson became the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells. This has brought significant attention and respect for the University's research programs from around the world. The University continues to be a leader in stem cell research, helped in part by the funding of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and promotion of WiCell. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.30317497253418, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "In 2012, UW-Madison experiments on cats came under fire from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who claimed the animals were abused. In 2013, the NIH briefly suspended the research's funding pending an agency investigation. The following year the university was fined more than $35,000 for several violations of the Animal Welfare Act. Bill Maher, James Cromwell and others spoke out against the experiments that ended in 2014. The university defended the research and the care the animals received claiming that PETA's objections were merely a \"stunt\" by the organization. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.983083724975586, "source": "wiki", "title": "University of Wisconsin–Madison" }, { "answer": "Madison", "passage": "The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences fulfills the UW–Madison's mission as a land-grant university, which dates back to 1862, when Congress passed legislation to establish a national network of colleges devoted to agriculture and mechanics and Wisconsin received 240,000 acres of allotted federal land. In 1885 the university began offering a winter course for farmers, the Agriculture Short Course, which was greatly developed and enhanced by Ransom Asa Moore from 1895 until 1907 and continues today as the Farm and Industry Short Course. In 1889 the university put all of their agricultural offerings under a new College of Agriculture, with W.A. Henry as dean. Professors listed in the 1896 Agricultural Short Course for the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison listed popular professors such the Dean of the College of Agriculture, W.A. Henry (Feeds and Feeding), S.M. Babcock (Agricultural Chemistry; Farm Dairying), F.H. King (Agricultural Physics, Agricultural Mechanics, and Meteorology), E.S. Goff (Plant Life, Horticulture, and Economic Entomology), H.L. Russell (Bacteriology), J.A. Craig (Breeds: Breeding and Judging Live Stock), Wm. A. Scott (Economics of Agriculture), C.I. King (Practical Mechanics), Mr. R.A. Moore (Parliamentary Procedures and Book-keeping), A.B. Sayles (Farm Dairying), Fred. Cranefield (Assistant in Green House Instruction), and the previous instructor in Veterinary Science, W.G. 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Her mother, Dorothy Deanne (née Keaton; 1921–2008), was a homemaker and amateur photographer; her father, John Newton Ignatius \"Jack\" Hall (1922–1990), was a real estate broker and civil engineer. Keaton was raised a Free Methodist by her mother. Her mother won the \"Mrs. Los Angeles\" pageant for homemakers; Keaton has said that the theatricality of the event inspired her first impulse to be an actress, and led to her wanting to work on stage. She has also credited Katharine Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong and independent women, as one of her inspirations. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.541762351989746, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diane Keaton" }, { "answer": "Diane Hall", "passage": "Keaton is a 1963 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. During her time there, she participated in singing and acting clubs at school, and starred as Blanche DuBois in a school production of A Streetcar Named Desire. After graduation, she attended Santa Ana College, and later Orange Coast College as an acting student, but dropped out after a year to pursue an entertainment career in Manhattan. Upon joining the Actors' Equity Association, she changed her surname to Keaton, her mother's maiden name, as there was already an actress registered under the name of Diane Hall. For a brief time, she also moonlighted at nightclubs with a singing act. She would later revisit her nightclub act in Annie Hall (1977) and And So It Goes (2014), and a cameo in Radio Days (1987).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.6443095207214355, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diane Keaton" }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "Her photo by Douglas Kirkland appeared on the cover of the September 26, 1977, issue of Time magazine, with the story dubbing her \"the funniest woman now working in films.\" Later that year, she departed from her usual lighthearted comic roles when she won the highly coveted lead role in the drama Looking for Mr. Goodbar, based on the novel by Judith Rossner. In the film, she played a Catholic schoolteacher for deaf children, who lives a double life, spending nights frequenting singles bars and engaging in promiscuous sex. Keaton became interested in the role after seeing it as a \"psychological case history.\" The same issue of Time commended her role choice and criticized the restricted roles available for female actors in American films: A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics. Men are presumed to be interesting. A female can play a wife, play a whore, get pregnant, lose her baby, and, um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull. ... Now a determined trend spotter can point to a handful of new films whose makers think that women can bear the dramatic weight of a production alone, or virtually so. Then there is Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar. As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Rossner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.809476613998413, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diane Keaton" }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "1984 brought The Little Drummer Girl, Keaton's first excursion into the thriller and action genre. The Little Drummer Girl was both a financial and critical failure, with critics claiming that Keaton was miscast for the genre, such as one review from The New Republic claiming that \"the title role, the pivotal role, is played by Diane Keaton, and around her the picture collapses in tatters. She is so feeble, so inappropriate.\" However, that same year she received positive reviews for her performance in Mrs. Soffel, a film based on the true story of a repressed prison warden's wife who falls in love with a convicted murderer and arranges for his escape. Two years later she starred with Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek in Crimes of the Heart, adapted from Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play into a moderately successful screen comedy. In 1987, she starred in Baby Boom, her first of four collaborations with writer-producer Nancy Meyers. In Baby Boom, Keaton starred as a Manhattan career woman who is suddenly forced to care for a toddler. That same year she made a cameo in Allen's film Radio Days as a nightclub singer. 1988's The Good Mother was a misstep for Keaton. The film was a financial disappointment (according to Keaton, the film was \"a Big Failure. Like, BIG failure\"), and some critics panned her performance, such as one review from The Washington Post: \"her acting degenerates into hype – as if she's trying to sell an idea she can't fully believe in.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.942051887512207, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diane Keaton" }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "In 2001, Keaton co-starred with Warren Beatty in Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only US$7 million in its North American theatrical run. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that Town & Country was \"less deserving of a review than it is an obituary....The corpse took with it the reputations of its starry cast, including Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.\" Also in 2001, and 2002, Keaton starred in four low-budget television films. She played a fanatical nun in the religious drama Sister Mary Explains It All, an impoverished mother in the drama On Thin Ice, and a bookkeeper in the mob comedy Plan B. In Crossed Over, she played Beverly Lowry, a woman who forms an unusual friendship with the only woman executed while on death row in Texas, Karla Faye Tucker.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.840123176574707, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diane Keaton" }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "In 2010, Keaton starred alongside Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford in Roger Michell's comedy Morning Glory, playing the veteran TV host of a fictional morning talk show that desperately needs to boost its lagging ratings. Portraying a narcissistic character that would do anything to please the audience, Keaton described her role as \"the kind of woman you love to hate.\" Inspired by Neil Simon's 1972 Broadway play The Sunshine Boys, the film became a moderate success at the box office for a worldwide total of almost US$59 million. Though some critics found that Keaton was underused in the film, the actress was generally praised for her performance, with James Berardinelli of ReelViews noting that \"Diane Keaton is so good at her part that one can see her sliding effortlessly into an anchor's chair on a real morning show.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.9832865595817566, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diane Keaton" }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "Also in 2011, Keaton began production on Justin Zackham's 2013 ensemble comedy The Big Wedding, in which she, along with Robert De Niro, played a long-divorced couple who, for the sake of their adopted son's wedding and his very religious biological mother, pretend they are still married. Upon release, the remake of the original 2006 French film Mon frère se marie received largely negative reviews. In his review for The New York Post, Lou Lumenick stated that \"the brutally unfunny, cringe-worthy The Big Wedding provides ample opportunities for Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams to embarrass themselves.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.7690422534942627, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diane Keaton" }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "Diane Keaton - Biography - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.380642890930176, "source": "search", "title": "Diane Keaton - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Diane Hall", "passage": "Woody Allen wrote her starring vehicle, Annie Hall (1977), with her in mind. Her real name is Diane Hall and her nickname is Annie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.166595458984375, "source": "search", "title": "Diane Keaton - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "Keaton first appeared on TV in several episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968). He left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for TV. He began cropping up in popular TV shows including Maude (1972) and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979). Around this time, Keaton decided to use an alternative surname to remove confusion with better-known actor Michael Douglas . After reading an article on actress Diane Keaton , he decided that Michael Keaton sounded good. His next break was scoring a co-starring role alongside Jim Belushi in the short-lived comedy series Working Stiffs (1979), which showcased his comedic talent and led to his co-starring role in Night Shift (1982). Keaton next scored the lead in the comedy hits Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny Dangerously (1984) , Gung Ho (1986) and the Tim Burton horror-comedy Beetlejuice (1988).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.1448757648468018, "source": "search", "title": "Michael Keaton - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "When he realized he needed to change his name to join the union, he was in the K's for surnames and thought it inoffensive so chose Keaton. 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When the Hollywood system started, people commonly took simplified versions of their names to make them easier for people to say. Doris Day is much simpler than “Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff” and Clayton Holmes Grissom picked “Clay Aiken” when signing up for American Idol — because it was just more memorable. Or if you’re Albert Brooks, there’s no fucking possible way you can use your real name — because…well, you’ll see.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.59187126159668, "source": "search", "title": "55 Celebrities Whose Real Names Will Surprise You ..." }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "16. Diane Keaton", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.141529560089111, "source": "search", "title": "55 Celebrities Whose Real Names Will Surprise You ..." }, { "answer": "Diane Keaton", "passage": "Diane Keaton was raised in Los Angeles, and first appeared on stage in high school plays and summer stock productions, then studied drama at Santa Ana College before moving to New York. She worked and studied at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater. She learned her early mannerisms in the original Broadway production of Hair, in which Keaton played three small parts on opening night. 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We are in no way associated with or authorized by the War Memorial Opera House and/or San Francisco Ballet: The Nutcracker and neither that entity nor any of its affiliates have licensed or endorsed us to sell tickets, goods and or services in conjunction with their events.", "precise_score": 3.3536124229431152, "rough_score": 2.8903937339782715, "source": "search", "title": "San Francisco Ballet: The Nutcracker - War Memorial Opera ..." }, { "answer": "Opera", "passage": "As vaudeville faded from American popular culture, Harold and Lew joined George Balanchine’s new company, American Ballet, in 1935. In 1932, Willam formed a ballet school in Portland, Oregon; in 1937, he was engaged as principal male soloist by San Francisco Opera Ballet. He became the company’s ballet master and choreographer in 1938. With his brother Harold, he purchased the company from the Opera in 1942, renaming it San Francisco Ballet. In 1951, Willam retired as director of SF Ballet and moved to Utah, where he started teaching ballet in the country’s first university ballet department at the University of Utah. With a group of his students, he founded the Utah Civic Ballet (now known as Ballet West) in 1963; the company remained under Christensen’s directorship until 1978. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.64753532409668, "source": "wiki", "title": "San Francisco Ballet" }, { "answer": "Opera", "passage": "After leaving the vaudeville circuit in 1935, Harold Christensen danced with American Ballet, San Francisco Opera Ballet, Kirstein’s Ballet Caravan, and San Francisco Ballet until his retirement from the stage in 1946. In 1940, his brother Willam invited him to become director of the San Francisco Ballet School, and in 1942 he and Willam purchased the SF Ballet. Harold continued to serve as the school’s director until his retirement in 1975.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.586172103881836, "source": "wiki", "title": "San Francisco Ballet" }, { "answer": "Opera", "passage": "San Francisco Ballet performs repertory from January through May at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. 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It contains research space and facilities to foster biotechnology and life sciences entrepreneurship and will double the size of UCSF's research enterprise. All in all, UCSF operates more than 20 facilities across San Francisco. The University of California, Hastings College of the Law, founded in Civic Center in 1878, is the oldest law school in California and claims more judges on the state bench than any other institution. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.651816368103027, "source": "wiki", "title": "San Francisco" }, { "answer": "Opera", "passage": "Public broadcasting outlets include both a television station and a radio station, both broadcasting under the call letters KQED from a facility near the Potrero Hill neighborhood. KQED-FM is the most-listened-to National Public Radio affiliate in the country. Another local broadcaster, KPOO, is an independent, African-American owned and operated noncommercial radio station established in 1971. 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[ { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997) also known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC,\"Blessed Mother Teresa\". (2007). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 4 July 2010. was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (modern Republic of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. After having lived in Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.", "precise_score": 4.8981499671936035, "rough_score": 7.884142875671387, "source": "wiki", "title": "Mother Teresa" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "Mother Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (; gonxhe meaning \"rosebud\" or \"little flower\" in Albanian) on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family. She considered 27 August, the day she was baptised, to be her \"true birthday\".(2002) \"Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910–1997)\". Vatican News Service. Retrieved 30 May 2007. Her birthplace of Skopje, now capital of the Republic of Macedonia, was part of the Ottoman Empire at the time of her birth in 1910. ", "precise_score": 5.89591121673584, "rough_score": 7.491015911102295, "source": "wiki", "title": "Mother Teresa" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, now known as Mother Teresa, was the third and final child born to her Albanian Catholic parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, in the city of Skopje (a predominantly Muslim city in the Balkans).", "precise_score": 7.041511058807373, "rough_score": 7.431321144104004, "source": "search", "title": "Mother Teresa, the Saint of the Gutters - About.com Education" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje * , Macedonia, on August 26 ** , 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.", "precise_score": 5.3828606605529785, "rough_score": 7.471470832824707, "source": "search", "title": "Mother Teresa - Biographical" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "She was the youngest of the children of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai). Her father, who was involved in the politics of the Albanian community in Macedonia, died in 1919 when she was eight years old. Her father may have been from Prizren, Kosovo, while her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.88400411605835, "source": "wiki", "title": "Mother Teresa" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "Mother Teresa said \"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.983407020568848, "source": "wiki", "title": "Mother Teresa" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "By 1996, Mother Teresa was operating 517 missions in more than 100 countries. Over the years, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands serving the \"poorest of the poor\" in 450 centres around the world. The first Missionaries of Charity home in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York; by 1984 the congregation operated 19 establishments throughout the country. Mother Teresa was fluent in five languages: Bengali, Albanian, Serbian, English, and Hindi. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.1726155281066895, "source": "wiki", "title": "Mother Teresa" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "Mother Teresa was honoured by both governments and civilian organisations. She was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia in 1982, \"for service to the community of Australia and humanity at large.\" The United Kingdom and the United States each repeatedly granted awards, culminating in the Order of Merit in 1983, and honorary citizenship of the United States received on 16 November 1996. Mother Teresa's Albanian homeland granted her the Golden Honour of the Nation in 1994. Her acceptance of this and the Haitian Legion of Honour proved controversial. Mother Teresa attracted criticism from a number of people for implicitly giving support to the Duvaliers and to corrupt businessmen such as Charles Keating and Robert Maxwell. In Keating's case she wrote to the judge of his trial asking for clemency to be shown.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.538486480712891, "source": "wiki", "title": "Mother Teresa" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "Mother Teresa inspired a variety of commemorations. She has been memorialised through museums, been named patroness of various churches, and had various structures and roads named after her, including Albania's international airport. Mother Teresa Day (Dita e Nënë Terezës) on 19 October is a public holiday in Albania. In 2009 the Memorial House of Mother Teresa was opened in her hometown Skopje, in Macedonia. The Roman Catholic cathedral in Pristina is also dedicated in her honour. Its construction sparked controversy in Muslim circles in 2011; local Muslim leaders claimed that the cathedral was too large for Pristina's small Catholic community and complained that most Muslim places of worship in the city were far smaller. An initiative to erect a monument to Mother Teresa in the town of Peć that same year was also protested by some Albanian Muslims. A youth group calling itself the Muslim Youth Forum started a petition demanding that a monument to Albanian veterans of the Kosovo War be erected instead, and collected some 2,000 signatures by May 2011. The Muslim Youth Forum claimed that the building of a Mother Teresa monument would represent an insult to the town's Muslim community, which makes up about 98 percent of the population. Noli Zhita, the group's spokesperson, claimed that Mother Teresa was not an Albanian but a Vlach from Macedonia. He described the monument's planned construction as part of a plot to \"Christianise\" Kosovo. The Mayor of Peć, Ali Berisha, voiced support for the monument's construction and indicated that the head of the Islamic community in the town had not raised any objections. 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As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus. �Small of stature, rocklike in faith, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was entrusted with the mission of proclaiming God�s thirsting love for humanity, especially for the poorest of the poor. �God still loves the world and He sends you and me to be His love and His compassion to the poor.� She was a soul filled with the light of Christ, on fire with love for Him and burning with one desire: �to quench His thirst for love and for souls.� ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.848618507385254, "source": "search", "title": "Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), biography" }, { "answer": "Albanian", "passage": "She was an adamant opponent of abortion and contraception, endorsed a mid-1970s effort that forcibly sterilized poor women in India, and spoke out against the legalization of divorce in Ireland -- opinions presumably informed by her own vow of celibacy taken as a teenager. 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[ { "answer": "Freddie and the Dreamers", "passage": "\"I'm Telling You Now\" is a song by Freddie Garrity and Mitch Murray, originally performed by Freddie and the Dreamers that hit number one on the American Billboard Hot 100 in 1965. Murray also wrote songs for other British artists during the 1960s, including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Manfred Mann, and Georgie Fame. \"I'm Telling You Now\" was first released in 1963 on Capitol Records, USA/Canada and on Columbia, UK/India/Netherlands/Sweden, and was not successful. Two years later, Capitol's subsidiary, Tower Records, re-released the song, which became extremely popular, and propelled Freddie and the Dreamers to pop-music stardom.", "precise_score": 6.826308250427246, "rough_score": 6.2035441398620605, "source": "wiki", "title": "I'm Telling You Now" }, { "answer": "Freddie and the Dreamers", "passage": "In the late 1950s, a flourishing culture of groups began to emerge, often out of the declining skiffle scene, in major urban centres in the UK like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London. This was particularly true in Liverpool, where it has been estimated that there were around 350 different bands active, often playing ballrooms, concert halls and clubs.[http://www.triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/about/founders-story2.shtml Mersey Beat - the founders' story]. Beat bands were heavily influenced by American bands of the era, such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets (from which group the Beatles derived their name), as well as earlier British groups such as the Shadows. After the national success of the Beatles in Britain from 1962, a number of Liverpool performers were able to follow them into the charts, including Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Searchers and Cilla Black. Among the most successful beat acts from Birmingham were the Spencer Davis Group and the Moody Blues. From London, the term Tottenham Sound was largely based around the Dave Clark Five, but other London bands that benefited from the beat boom of this era included the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds and the Kinks. The first non-Liverpool, non-Brian Epstein-managed band to break through in the UK were Freddie and the Dreamers, who were based in Manchester, as were Herman's Hermits. The beat movement provided most of the groups responsible for the British invasion of the American pop charts in the period after 1964, and furnished the model for many important developments in pop and rock music.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.511466979980469, "source": "wiki", "title": "1960s in music" }, { "answer": "Freddie and the Dreamers", "passage": "During the next two years, Chad & Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, the Animals, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits, the Rolling Stones, the Troggs, and Donovan would have one or more No. 1 singles. Other acts that were part of the invasion included the Kinks and the Dave Clark Five.T. Leopold, [http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/05/beatles.40/ \"When the Beatles hit America CNN February 10, 2004\"], CNN.com, retrieved 1 February 2010. British Invasion acts also dominated the music charts at home in the United Kingdom.[ \"British Invasion\"], Allmusic, retrieved 29 January 2010.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.38643741607666, "source": "wiki", "title": "1960s in music" }, { "answer": "Freddy and the Dreamers", "passage": "I'm Telling You Now - Freddy And The Dreamers - YouTube", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.422593355178833, "source": "search", "title": "I'm Telling You Now - Freddy And The Dreamers - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Freddy and the Dreamers", "passage": "I'm Telling You Now - Freddy And The Dreamers", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6916797161102295, "source": "search", "title": "I'm Telling You Now - Freddy And The Dreamers - YouTube" } ]

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Sex produces the energy, and it is repressed so the energy can be channeled into progress - but the price of progress is the prevalence of guilt instead of happiness. \"Progress\", for Marcuse, is a concept that provides the explanation and excuse of why the system has to continue; it is the reason the happiness of people is sacrificed (see also pleasure principle).", "precise_score": 3.018223762512207, "rough_score": 1.1360076665878296, "source": "wiki", "title": "Eros and Civilization" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which Marcuse offers a wide-ranging critique of both contemporary capitalism and the Communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in both these societies, as well as the decline of revolutionary potential in the West. He argues that \"advanced industrial society\" created false needs, which integrated individuals into the existing system of production and consumption via mass media, advertising, industrial management, and contemporary modes of thought.", "precise_score": 3.7331490516662598, "rough_score": 0.08682117611169815, "source": "wiki", "title": "One-Dimensional Man" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Eros and Civilization (Ark Paperbacks): Amazon.co.uk: Herbert Marcuse: 9780415186636: Books", "precise_score": 4.005558490753174, "rough_score": 3.291034698486328, "source": "search", "title": "Eros and Civilization (Ark Paperbacks): Amazon.co.uk ..." }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "This item:Eros and Civilization (Ark Paperbacks) by Herbert Marcuse Paperback £21.55", "precise_score": 2.6671290397644043, "rough_score": 2.035856008529663, "source": "search", "title": "Eros and Civilization (Ark Paperbacks): Amazon.co.uk ..." }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse(1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including\"One-Dimensional Man\"and\"Eros and Civilization.\"\" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.", "precise_score": 7.058080196380615, "rough_score": 5.996837615966797, "source": "search", "title": "Eros and Civilization (Ark Paperbacks): Amazon.co.uk ..." }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Eros and civilization is a piece of literary work done by one Herbert Marcuse who was a German philosopher who lived in the 20th century. The literature revolves around a critique approach to Freud's sociological titled 'civilization and its discontents.' Marcuse begins by giving an elaborate description of biology, which he argues is a fight against suppression of instincts, hence is a force that tries to bring out the best of intuition or the sixth sense as many call it. He continues to argue that capitalism, which is the economic lifestyle that has overtaken society, is up in arms trying all it can to prevent us from reaching the level of a non-repressive society. Herbert continues to say that the theory put forth by Freud that repression is a necessary condition if civilization is to survive in the current. On the contrary, Herbert thinks that Eros is more superficial, constructive and liberating (Herbert, p.16).", "precise_score": 6.425315856933594, "rough_score": 6.717440605163574, "source": "search", "title": "Eros And Civilization Analysis Philosophy Essay" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse was a German philosopher born in Berlin in the year 1898 and died in 1979. He was a critical thinker who in his lifetime wrote a lot of philosophical works among them being Eros and Civilization, One dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension. In his early youthful years, he joined the German army and he later found his way into the soldiers' council that participated in the Sparta cist uprising where he became a members. By the year 1922 he had completed his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Freiburg. He moved to Berlin after this and worked with a publishing house and while at it met and married Sophie Wertheim, who was a mathematician. In 1924 he and another writer by the name of Martin Heidegger, whom he referred to as his greatest teacher, wrote a book by the title Hegel's Ontology and Theory of Historicity, which was later published in the year 1932. In 1933 after Marcuse's academic career was blocked by the rise of the Third Reich, he joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social research. In the same year he published his own review of Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. This was the first publication that helped him gain a social standing as a theorist of his generation. He did not step here because while still a member is the Institute, he created a model for critical social theory by creating a theory on capitalism. In this theory he described the relationships between philosophy, sociology and cultural criticism. He went ahead and provided a criticism and analysis of German fascism. His works were boosted by the fact that he closely worked with critical theorist while in Frankfurt Institute (Herbert, p.301).", "precise_score": 7.67740535736084, "rough_score": 5.775852680206299, "source": "search", "title": "Eros And Civilization Analysis Philosophy Essay" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "One-Dimensional Man : Herbert Marcuse : 9780807014172", "precise_score": 4.0124030113220215, "rough_score": -0.6022491455078125, "source": "search", "title": "One-Dimensional Man : Herbert Marcuse : 9780807014172" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including \"One-Dimensional Man\" and \"Eros and Civilization.\" show more", "precise_score": 6.485898494720459, "rough_score": 6.145534992218018, "source": "search", "title": "One-Dimensional Man : Herbert Marcuse : 9780807014172" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Critical theorist Douglas Kellner writes in Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism that One-Dimensional Man was one of the most important books of the 1960s and one of the most subversive books of the twentieth century. Despite its importance, it was—due to its subversive nature—severely criticized by both orthodox Marxists and academic theorists of various political and theoretical commitments. Despite its pessimism, represented by the citation of the words of Walter Benjamin at the end of this book that \"Nur um der Hoffnungslosen willen ist uns die Hoffnung gegeben\" (\"It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us\"), it influenced many in the New Left as it articulated their growing dissatisfaction with both capitalist societies and Soviet communist societies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.1348365545272827, "source": "wiki", "title": "One-Dimensional Man" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.257609367370605, "source": "search", "title": "Herbert Marcuse (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.825393676757812, "source": "search", "title": "Herbert Marcuse (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was one of the most prominent members of the Frankfurt School or The Institute for Social Research (Institute für Sozialforschung) in Frankfurt am Main. The Frankfurt School was formed in 1922 but went into exile in the United States in the early 1930s during the reign of the Third Reich. Although most of his colleagues returned to Germany after the World War Two, Marcuse remained in the United States.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.474138259887695, "source": "search", "title": "Herbert Marcuse (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse was born on July 19, 1898 in Berlin. His mother was born Gertrud Kreslawsky and his father was a well-off businessman, Carl Marcuse. According to Marcuse, his childhood was that of a typical German upper-middle class youth whose Jewish family was well integrated into German society (Kellner 1984: 13). Marcuse's formal education began at the Mommsen Gymnasium and continued at the Kaiserin-Augusta Gymnasium in Charlottenburg from 1911–1916. In 1916 Marcuse was called to military duty. It was in the military where his political education began, although during this period his political involvement was brief. The experience of war and the German Revolution led Marcuse to a study of Marxism as he tried to understand “the dynamics of capitalism and imperialism, as well as the failure of the German Revolution” (Kellner 1984: 17). Marcuse also wanted to learn more about socialism and the Marxian theory of revolution so that he may understand his own inability to identify with any of the major Left parties at that time (Kellner 1984: 17). However, this study of Marxism would be brief. In 1918 Marcuse was released from military service.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.49878215789795, "source": "search", "title": "Herbert Marcuse (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.125402450561523, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "The International Herbert Marcuse Society , formally founded as a non-profit organization at its 5th biennial conference in 2013, has a website that serves to connect scholars currently working on topics related to Marcuse's work.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.799628257751465, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "The International Herbert Marcuse Society website, www.marcusesociety.org , was begun in Spring 2009 to archive and publicize the biennial conferences begun at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia in 2005.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.971458435058594, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Hans-J�rgen Krahl's F�nf Thesen zu Herbert Marcuse als kritischer Theoretiker der Emanzipation , a defense of Herbert after an \"attack\" by Rolf Hochhuth (1971; archived on partisan.net: http://www.bemorecreative.com/one/1865.htm [10/04: offline]).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.357095718383789, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse 1898-1979, U.S. political philosopher, b. Berlin. He was educated at the Univ. of Freiburg and with Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer founded the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. A special target of the Nazis because of his Jewish origins and Marxist politics, he emigrated (1934) to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1940. Marcuse served with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and later taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Brandeis before becoming (1965) professor of philosophy at the Univ. of California at San Diego. He is best known for his attempt to synthesize Marxian and Freudian theories into a comprehensive critique of modern industrial society. In One Dimensional Man (1964), his most popular book, he argued for a sexual basis to the social and political repression in contemporary America; the book made him a hero of New Left radicals and provided a rationale for the student revolts of the 1960s in the United States and Europe. His other works include Reason and Revolution (1941), Eros and Civilization (1955), An Essay on Liberation (1969), and Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.3679332733154297, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Wikiquote's Herbert Marcuse page offers 18 (printed) pages of quotations, organized chronologically by book (version modified April 2014). It was begun in 2005, tripled in size in 2008, and got a huge boost (20 fold increase) by wikipedian \"Peter1c\" in 2012. According to his wikiquote biography Peter Capofreddi is an electrical engineer, technology critic, and student of German literature who lives in State College, Pennsylvania.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.783594131469727, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "The Berlin German Historical Museum's \"LEMO\" Marcuse page has nice time-line type biography and a couple of portraits in its on-line exhibition (in German). Several minor mistakes were corrected at our prompting in October 2004. (These errors are repeated on Christian Fuchs's \"Herbert Marcuse Association\" page in Vienna, and the Frankfurt City Library's page.) See the original page archived on the internet archive from January 2000 to February 2004.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.827615737915039, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Has standard biography gleaned from this site's Herbert Marcuse homepage, plus some interesting characterizations of Herbert's books. (added 10/4/04)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.4232816696167, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.825393676757812, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Allgemeines: Herbert Marcuse (1898 - 1979). Deutsch-Amerikanischer Philosoph jüdischer Abstammung. Während der Revolution 1918/19 Mitglied in einem Soldatenrat. Ursprünglich Schüler Husserls und Heideggers. Versuchte dann phänomenologische und marxistische Gedanken zu verbinden. Zu Beginn der Nazi-Zeit in die USA emigriert, wo er auch nach Ende des 2. Weltkrieges blieb. Wird vielfach der Frankfurter Schule zugerechnet. Im Gegensatz zu Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno engagierte er sich für die Studentenbewegung der späten 60er Jahre. Wurde zu einem der wichtigsten Theoretiker der Neuen Linken und der Studentenbewegung (68ff) in vielen Ländern.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.083999633789062, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "German-born philosopher Herbert Marcuse was one of the leading theorists of the New Left in Europe and the United States in the late 1960s. Much like Michel Foucault in a later generation, Marcuse had an enormous influence on theories of sexual liberation, particularly in the early post-Stonewall gay movement and on the left.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.192230224609375, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Herbert Marcuse, Towards a Critical Theory of Society, ed. by Douglas Kellner (Routledge, 2001);", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.98355484008789, "source": "search", "title": "Web pages about Herbert Marcuse" }, { "answer": "Herbert Marcuse", "passage": "Joan Nordquist, Herbert Marcuse: A Bibliography (Ref. and Res. 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A Friburgo è allievo di Martin Heidegger con il quale si laurea nel 1921. In questo periodo segue l'indirizzo fenomenologico. Ben presto si avvicina al marxismo e nel 1932 viene a far parte dell'Istituto per la ricerca sociale di Francoforte lavorando con Theodor W. Adorno e Max Horkheimer. Nel 1932 esce L'ontologia di Hegel e la fondazione di una teoria della storicità . È tra i numerosi intellettuali tedeschi che con l'avvento del nazismo emigrano negli Stati Uniti. Insegna in numerose a università americane e tra queste lavora all'Istituto per la ricerca sociale della Columbia University. Muore a Starnber (Baviera), il 29 luglio 1979. Del 1955 e del 1964 sono i due libri che gli procureranno una vasta conoscenza di pubblico:Eros e civiltà e L'uomo a una dimensione. 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It is appropriate to refer such requests directly to this department. A request for cancellation should be made through MTA 67 and request for removal from the country should be made through MTA 140.", "precise_score": 2.697136640548706, "rough_score": 2.2744524478912354, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Registration certificate of the vehicle", "precise_score": -4.338580131530762, "rough_score": -0.36038100719451904, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Conversion of the vehicle class is possible only within a period of 25 years from the date of registration.", "precise_score": -9.20789623260498, "rough_score": -8.106648445129395, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with English letters", "precise_score": 3.413698196411133, "rough_score": 2.7425031661987305, "source": "search", "title": "Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with English letters", "precise_score": 3.413698196411133, "rough_score": 2.7425031661987305, "source": "search", "title": "Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Sri Lanka’s old vehicles using the licence number plates with Sinhala auspicious letter 'Sri' are now being issued with new registration numbers with English letters. This was initiated by the Department of Motor Traffic with the approval of the cabinet, Commissioner General of Motor Traffic, B.D.L Dharmapriya said. He added that owners of 36 vehicles have changed their number plates from the 'Sri' numbers to English letters, so far. Old vehicles that bear 'Sri' numbers can obtain numbers with English letters after paying Rs. 20,000 to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles Department. The old vehicles will be issued numbers from AA 0001 to FZ 9999, he added. The issue of English numbers has commenced from GA 0001.", "precise_score": 6.2896270751953125, "rough_score": 5.679750919342041, "source": "search", "title": "Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Registration documents of the vehicle", "precise_score": -2.880247116088867, "rough_score": -1.0767743587493896, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Registration Certificate/ Cancellation of Registration (re-registration) Certificate of the vehicle (with English translations)", "precise_score": -5.649877548217773, "rough_score": -7.360576152801514, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Registration Number of the vehicle", "precise_score": -4.388658046722412, "rough_score": 1.1547207832336426, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Online vehicle number registration available soon via srilanka.lk | The Sundaytimes Sri Lanka", "precise_score": 1.8934623003005981, "rough_score": 5.250705718994141, "source": "search", "title": "Online vehicle number registration available soon via ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Online vehicle number registration available soon via srilanka.lk", "precise_score": -1.9379040002822876, "rough_score": -2.5058391094207764, "source": "search", "title": "Online vehicle number registration available soon via ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Sri Lanka’s Government Information Centre (GIC) service, best known locally by its telephone short code 1919, will soon be adding 12 new services to the 25 eServices, from 14 government departments, which are currently available online. Accessible via the Lanka Gate portal (srilanka.lk), these new services will include paid services such as the online reservation of vehicle numbers, from the Department of Motor Vehicles, and examinations applications processing, from the Department of Examinations, as well as free, informational services such as a profile bank, from the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, and the ability to view claim processing status, from the Department of Labour.", "precise_score": -0.274679958820343, "rough_score": -0.6367926001548767, "source": "search", "title": "Online vehicle number registration available soon via ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A number of officers including the Mr. Nihal Somaweera – the Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Jagath Chandrasiri – Commissioner General of Motor Traffic and a Senior Superintendent of Police of Sri Lanka also graced the occasion.", "precise_score": -4.623324871063232, "rough_score": -8.353360176086426, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "C L", "passage": "Sri Lanka's documented history spans 3,000 years, with evidence of pre-historic human settlements dating back to at least 125,000 years. Its geographic location and deep harbours made it of great strategic importance from the time of the ancient Silk Road through to World War II. Sri Lanka was known from the beginning of British colonial rule until 1972 as Ceylon. Sri Lanka's recent history has been marred by a thirty-year civil war which decisively ended when the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.889776229858398, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "According to the Mahāvamsa, a chronicle written in Pāḷi, the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka are the Yakshas and Nagas. Ancient cemeteries that were used before 600BC and other signs of advanced civilization has also been discovered in Sri Lanka. Sinhalese history traditionally starts in 543 BCE with the arrival of Prince Vijaya , a semi-legendary prince who sailed with 700 followers to Sri Lanka, after being expelled from Vanga Kingdom (present-day Bengal). He established the Kingdom of Tambapanni, near modern-day Mannar. Vijaya (Singha) is the first of the approximately 189 native monarchs of Sri Lanka described in chronicles such as the Dipavamsa, Mahāvaṃsa, Cūḷavaṃsa, and Rājāvaliya (see list of Sinhalese monarchs). Sri Lankan dynastic history ended in 1815 CE, when the land became part of the British Empire. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.682389259338379, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Succeeding kingdoms of Sri Lanka would maintain a large number of Buddhist schools and monasteries and support the propagation of Buddhism into other countries in Southeast Asia. Sri Lankan Bhikkhus studied in India's famous ancient Buddhist University of Nalanda, which was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji. It is probable that many of the scriptures from Nalanda are preserved in Sri Lanka's many monasteries and that the written form of the Tipitaka, including Sinhalese Buddhist literature, were part of the University of Nalanda. In 245 BC, bhikkhuni Sangamitta arrived with the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, which is considered to be a sapling from the historical Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha became enlightened. It is considered the oldest human-planted tree (with a continuous historical record) in the world. (Bodhivamsa) ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.316178321838379, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Sri Lanka was the first Asian country known to have a female ruler: Anula of Anuradhapura (r. 47–42 BCE). Sri Lankan monarchs undertook some remarkable construction projects such as Sigiriya, the so-called \"Fortress in the Sky\", built during the reign of Kashyapa I of Anuradhapura, who ruled between 477 and 495. The Sigiriya rock fortress is surrounded by an extensive network of ramparts and moats. Inside this protective enclosure were gardens, ponds, pavilions, palaces and other structures. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.724150657653809, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The 1,600-year-old Sigiriya frescoes are an example of ancient Sri Lankan art at its finest. It is one of the best preserved examples of ancient urban planning in the world. It has been declared by UNESCO as one of the seven World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka. Among other structures, large reservoirs, important for conserving water in a climate with rainy and dry seasons, and elaborate aqueducts, some with a slope as finely calibrated as one inch to the mile, are most notable. Biso Kotuwa, a peculiar construction inside a dam, is a technological marvel based on precise mathematics that allows water to flow outside the dam, keeping pressure on the dam to a minimum. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.336305618286133, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Ancient Sri Lanka was the first country in the world to establish a dedicated hospital, in Mihintale in the 4th century. It was also the leading exporter of cinnamon in the ancient world. It maintained close ties with European civilisations including the Roman Empire. For example, Bhatikabhaya (22 BCE – 7 CE) sent an envoy to Rome who brought back red coral, which was used to make an elaborate netlike adornment for the Ruwanwelisaya. In addition, Sri Lankan male dancers witnessed the assassination of Caligula. When Queen Cleopatra sent her son Caesarion into hiding, he was headed to Sri Lanka. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.394318580627441, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The next three centuries stating from 1215 were marked by kaleidoscopically shifting collections of kingdoms in south and central Sri Lanka, including Dambadeniya, Yapahuwa, Gampola, Raigama, Kotte,Codrington, [http://lakdiva.org/codrington/chap06.html Ch. 6] Sitawaka, and finally, Kandy. Chinese admiral Zheng He and his naval expeditionary force landed at Galle, Sri-Lanka in 1409 and got into battle with the local king as the local king tried to capture him. Zheng He captured the local king and later released him. Zheng He erected a stone tablet inscription at Galle in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian which is known as Galle Trilingual Inscription to commemorate his visit. The stele was discovered by S. H. Thomlin at Galle in 1911 and is now preserved in the Colombo National Museum.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.813163757324219, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "By the end of the 19th century, a new educated social class transcending race and caste arose through British attempts to staff the Ceylon Civil Service and the legal, educational, and medical professions. New leaders represented the various ethnic groups of the population in the Ceylon Legislative Council on a communal basis. Buddhist and Hindu revivalism reacted against Christian missionary activities. The first two decades in the 20th century are noted by the unique harmony among Sinhalese and Tamil political leadership, which has since been lost. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.256415367126465, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The Soulbury constitution ushered in Dominion status, with independence proclaimed on 4 February 1948. D. S. Senanayake became the first Prime Minister of Ceylon. Prominent Tamil leaders including Ponnambalam and Arunachalam Mahadeva joined his cabinet. The British Royal Navy remained stationed at Trincomalee until 1956. A countrywide popular demonstration against withdrawal of the rice ration, known as Hartal 1953, resulted in the resignation of prime minister Dudley Senanayake. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.267783164978027, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was elected prime minister in 1956. His three-year rule had a profound impact through his self-proclaimed role of \"defender of the besieged Sinhalese culture\". He introduced the controversial Sinhala Only Act, recognising Sinhala as the only official language of the government. Although partially reversed in 1958, the bill posed a grave concern for the Tamil community, which perceived in it a threat to their language and culture. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.446948051452637, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The Federal Party (FP) launched a movement of non-violent resistance (satyagraha) against the bill, which prompted Bandaranaike to reach an agreement (Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact) with S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the FP, to resolve the looming ethnic conflict. The pact proved ineffective in the face of ongoing protests by opposition and the Buddhist clergy. The bill, together with various government colonisation schemes, contributed much towards the political rancour between Sinhalese and Tamil political leaders. Bandaranaike was assassinated by an extremist Buddhist monk in 1959. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.326847076416016, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Sri Lanka lies on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formerly part of the Indo-Australian Plate. It is in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal, between latitudes 5° and 10°N, and longitudes 79° and 82°E. Sri Lanka is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait. According to Hindu mythology, a land bridge existed between the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka. It now amounts to only a chain of limestone shoals remaining above sea level. Legends claim that it was passable on foot up to 1480 AD, until cyclones deepened the channel. Portions are still as shallow as 1 m, hindering navigation. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.561551094055176, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The island consists mostly of flat to rolling coastal plains, with mountains rising only in the south-central part. The highest point is Pidurutalagala, reaching 2524 m above sea level. The climate is tropical and warm, due to the moderating effects of ocean winds. Mean temperatures range from 17 C in the central highlands, where frost may occur for several days in the winter, to a maximum of 33 C in other low-altitude areas. Average yearly temperatures range from 28 C to nearly 31 C. Day and night temperatures may vary by 14 C-change to 18 C-change. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.504127502441406, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The arid northwest and southeast coasts receive the least amount of rain at 800 to per year. Periodic squalls occur and sometimes tropical cyclones bring overcast skies and rains to the southwest, northeast, and eastern parts of the island. Humidity is typically higher in the southwest and mountainous areas and depends on the seasonal patterns of rainfall. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.569751739501953, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Sri Lanka has 103 rivers. The longest of these is the Mahaweli River, extending 335 km. These waterways give rise to 51 natural waterfalls of 10 meters or more. The highest is Bambarakanda Falls, with a height of 263 m. Sri Lanka's coastline is 1,585 km long. Sri Lanka claims an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) extending 200 nautical miles, which is approximately 6.7 times Sri Lanka's land area. The coastline and adjacent waters support highly productive marine ecosystems such as fringing coral reefs and shallow beds of coastal and estuarine seagrasses. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.873083114624023, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Lying within the Indomalaya ecozone, Sri Lanka is one of 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world. Although the country is relatively small in size, it has the highest biodiversity density in Asia. A remarkably high proportion of the species among its flora and fauna, 27% of the 3,210 flowering plants and 22% of the mammals (see List), are endemic. Sri Lanka has declared 24 wildlife reserves, which are home to a wide range of native species such as Asian elephants, leopards, sloth bears, the unique small loris, a variety of deer, the purple-faced langur, the endangered wild boar, porcupines and Indian pangolins. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.684812545776367, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Flowering acacias flourish on the arid Jaffna Peninsula. Among the trees of the dry-land forests are valuable species such as satinwood, ebony, ironwood, mahogany and teak. The wet zone is a tropical evergreen forest with tall trees, broad foliage, and a dense undergrowth of vines and creepers. Subtropical evergreen forests resembling those of temperate climates flourish in the higher altitudes. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.451155662536621, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Yala National Park in the southeast protects herds of elephant, deer, and peacocks. The Wilpattu National Park in the northwest, the largest national park, preserves the habitats of many water birds such as storks, pelicans, ibis, and spoonbills. The island has four biosphere reserves: Bundala, Hurulu Forest Reserve, the Kanneliya-Dediyagala-Nakiyadeniya, and Sinharaja. Of these, Sinharaja forest reserve is home to 26 endemic birds and 20 rainforest species, including the elusive red-faced malkoha, the green-billed coucal and the Sri Lanka blue magpie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.272672653198242, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The untapped genetic potential of Sinharaja flora is enormous. Of the 211 woody trees and lianas within the reserve, 139 (66%) are endemic. The total vegetation density, including trees, shrubs, herbs and seedlings, has been estimated at 240,000 individuals per hectare. The Minneriya National Park borders the Minneriya tank, which is an important source of water for numerous elephants (Elephus maximus) inhabiting the surrounding forests. Dubbed \"The Gathering\", the congregation of elephants can be seen on the tank-bed in the late dry season (August to October) as the surrounding water sources steadily disappear. The park also encompasses a range of micro-habitats which include classic dry zone tropical monsoonal evergreen forest, thick stands of giant bamboo, hilly pastures (patanas). and grasslands (talawas). ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.440216064453125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Sri Lanka is home to over 250 types of resident birds (see List). It has declared several bird sanctuaries including Kumana. During the Mahaweli Program of the 1970s and 1980s in northern Sri Lanka, the government set aside four areas of land totalling 1900 km2 as national parks. Sri Lanka's forest cover, which was around 49% in 1920, had fallen to approximately 24% by 2009. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.759270668029785, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Since independence in 1948, the primary focus of the armed forces has been internal security, crushing three major insurgencies, two by Marxist militants of the JVP and a 30-year-long conflict with the LTTE which has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by 32 countries. The armed forces have been in a continuous mobilised state for the last 30 years. Marking a rare occurrence in modern military history, the Sri Lankan military was able to bring a decisive end to the Sri Lankan Civil War in May 2009. Sri Lanka has claimed to be the first country in the modern world to eradicate terrorism on its own soil. The Sri Lankan Armed Forces have engaged in United Nations peacekeeping operations since the early 1960s, contributing forces to permanent contingents deployed in several UN peacekeeping missions in Chad, Lebanon, and Haiti. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.123391151428223, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "While the production and export of tea, rubber, coffee, sugar and other commodities remain important, industrialisation has increased the importance of food processing, textiles, telecommunications and finance. The country's main economic sectors are tourism, tea export, clothing, rice production and other agricultural products. In addition to these economic sectors, overseas employment, especially in the Middle East, contributes substantially in foreign exchange. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.46725845336914, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Sri Lanka has the longest continuous history of Buddhism of any predominately Buddhist nation, with the Sangha having existed in a largely unbroken lineage since its introduction in the 2nd century BC. During periods of decline, the Sri Lankan monastic lineage was revived through contact with Thailand and Burma. Buddhism is given special recognition in the Constitution which requires Sri Lankan to \"protect and foster the Buddha Sasana\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.387667655944824, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke served as Chancellor of Moratuwa University in Sri Lanka from 1979 to 2002. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.439689636230469, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": ", 51 newspapers (30 Sinhala, 10 Tamil, 11 English) are published and 34 TV stations and 52 radio stations are in operation. In recent years, freedom of the press in Sri Lanka has been alleged by media freedom groups to be amongst the poorest in democratic countries. Alleged abuse of a newspaper editor by a senior government minister achieved international notoriety because of the unsolved murder of the editor's predecessor Lasantha Wickrematunge, who had also been a critic of the government and had presaged his own death in a posthumously published article. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.569993019104004, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The UN Human Rights Council has documented over 12,000 named individuals who have undergone disappearance after detention by security forces in Sri Lanka, the second highest figure in the world since the Working Group came into being in 1980. The Sri Lankan government has confirmed that 6,445 of these are dead. Allegations of human rights abuses have not ended with the close of the ethnic conflict. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.51791000366211, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "In 2012, the UK charity Freedom from Torture reported that it had received 233 referrals of torture survivors from Sri Lanka for clinical treatment or other services provided by the charity. In the same year, Freedom from Torture published Out of the Silence which documents evidence of torture in Sri Lanka and demonstrates that the practice has continued long after the end of the civil war in May 2009. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.120532035827637, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The culture of Sri Lanka dates back over 2500 years. It is influenced primarily by Buddhism and Hinduism. Sri Lanka is the home to two main traditional cultures: the Sinhalese (centred in the ancient cities of Kandy and Anuradhapura) and the Tamil (centred in the city of Jaffna). In more recent times, the British colonial culture has also influenced the locals. Sri Lanka claims a democratic tradition matched by few other developing countries. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.431180000305176, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Dishes include rice and curry, pittu, Kiribath, wholemeal Roti, String hoppers, wattalapam (a rich pudding of Malay origin made of coconut milk, jaggery, cashew nuts, eggs, and spices including cinnamon and nutmeg), kottu, and hoppers. Jackfruit may sometimes replace rice. Traditionally food is served on a plantain leaf or lotus leaf.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.498968124389648, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The movie Kadawunu Poronduwa (The broken promise), produced by S. M. Nayagam of Chitra Kala Movietone, heralded the coming of Sri Lankan cinema in 1947. Ranmuthu Duwa (Island of treasures, 1962) marked the transition cinema from black-and-white to colour. It in the recent years has featured subjects such as family melodrama, social transformation and the years of conflict between the military and the LTTE. The Sri Lankan cinematic style is similar to Bollywood movies. In 1979, movie attendance rose to an all-time high, but has been in steady decline since then. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.959217071533203, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "An influential filmmaker is Lester James Peiris, who has directed a number of movies which led to global acclaim, including Rekava (Line of destiny, 1956), Gamperaliya (The changing village, 1964), Nidhanaya (The treasure, 1970) and Golu Hadawatha (Cold heart, 1968). Sri Lankan-Canadian poet Rienzi Crusz, is the subject of a documentary on his life in Sri Lanka. His work is published in Sinhalese and English. Similarly, naturalized-Canadian Michael Ondaatje, is well known for his English-language novels and three films.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.396415710449219, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The earliest music in Sri Lanka came from theatrical performances such as Kolam, Sokari and Nadagam. Traditional music instruments such as Béra, Thammátama, Daŭla and Răbān were performed at these dramas. The first music album, Nurthi, recorded in 1903, was released through Radio Ceylon (founded in 1925). Songwriters like Mahagama Sekara and Ananda Samarakoon and musicians such as W. D. Amaradeva, H. R. Jothipala and Clarence Wijewardene have contributed much towards the upliftment of Sri Lankan music. Baila is another popular music genre in the country, originated among Kaffirs or the Afro-Sinhalese community. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.058793067932129, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "There are three main styles of Sri Lankan classical dance. They are, the Kandyan dances, low country dances and Sabaragamuwa dances. Of these, the Kandyan style, which flourished under kings of the Kingdom of Kandy, is more prominent. It is a sophisticated form of dance, that consists of five sub-categories: Ves dance, Naiyandi dance, Udekki dance, Pantheru dance and 18 Vannam. An elaborate headdress is worn by the male dancers and a drum called Geta Béraya is used to assist the dancer to keep on rhythm. In addition, four folk drama variants named Sokri, Kolam Nadagam, Pasu, and several devil dance variants such as Sanni Yakuma and Kohomba Kankariya can be also observed.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.245763778686523, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The history of Sri Lankan painting and sculpture can be traced as far back as to the 2nd or 3rd century BC. The earliest mention about the art of painting on Mahavamsa, is to the drawing of a palace on cloth using cinnabar in the 2nd century BC. The chronicles have description of various paintings in relic-chambers of Buddhist stupas, and in monastic residence.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.829877853393555, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Sri Lankan literature spans at least two millennia, and is heir to the Aryan literary tradition as embodied in the hymns of the Rigveda. The Pāli Canon, the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, was written down in Sri Lanka during the Fourth Buddhist council, at the Alulena cave temple, Kegalle, as early as 29 BC. Ancient chronicles such as the Mahāvamsa, written in the 6th century, provide vivid descriptions of Sri Lankan dynasties. According to the German philosopher Wilhelm Geiger, the chronicles are based on Sinhala Atthakatha (commentary), that dates few more centuries back. The oldest surviving prose work is the Dhampiya-Atuva-Getapadaya, compiled in the 9th century.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.299983024597168, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The greatest literary feats of medieval Sri Lanka include Sandesha Kāvya (poetic messages) such as Girā Sandeshaya (Parrot message), Hansa Sandeshaya (Swan message) and Salalihini Sandeshaya (Myna message). Poetry including Kavsilumina, Kavya-Sekharaya (diadem of poetry) and proses such as Saddharma-Ratnāvaliya, Amāvatura (Flood of nectar) and Pujāvaliya are also notable works of this period, which is considered to be the golden age of Sri Lankan literature. The first modern-day novel, Meena, a work of Simon de Silva appeared in 1905, and was followed by a number of revolutionary literary works. Martin Wickramasinghe, the author of Madol Doova is considered the iconic figure of Sri Lankan literature. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.66662311553955, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sri Lanka" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "All copies of MTA 6 shall be completed by the Current registered owner of the vehicle.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.331856727600098, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The current registered owner shall keep the A and A1 copies of the application and handover the rest to the new owner of the Vehicle", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.561516761779785, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The new owner may handover the duly completed copy B of MTA 6 and copy C of MTA 8 to the relevant Vehicle Transfer section of the Department of Motor Traffic and shall obtain the CMT 52 receipt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.294180870056152, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Vehicles of State or Statutory Boards will not be transferred under the One day Service.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.839262008666992, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "In case of Registered Vehicle Owner is present , the Deputy or Assistant Commissioner in charge could issue a Duplicate of the Certificate of Registration through one day service if he/she is satisfied with the details presented.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.221572875976562, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "If the transferor or transferee is a limited liability company the applications shall be signed and stamped with an embossed seal. If it is not using an embossed seal it shall be clearly stated in a letter written on a company letter head.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.414231300354004, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "2 copies of transferee’s photographs (size 2”x2.5”). One copy shall be endorsed by the Grama Niladhari of the area, a Justice of Peace or a staff grade government officer( The registration number of the JP shall be included in the stamp)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.278299331665039, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A letter of no objection from the transferor and a copy of the national identity card. Both these documents shall be certified by a the Grama Niladhari of the area, a Justice of Peace ,a lawyer, a commissioner for oaths or a staff grade government officer( The registration number of the JP shall be included in the stamp)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.24474811553955, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Vehicle Identity Card (applicable only for vehicles with new numbers starting with English letters.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.833192825317383, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "In case of a change of the colour of the vehicle, engine number etc. certificate of the Motor Vehicle examiner (CMT – 130)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.329826354980469, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Vehicle Identity Card  (V1C)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.78839111328125, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Letter of consent from the owner of the vehicle for mortgaging the vehicle to the relevant institution or to transfer absolute ownership.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.818970680236816, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Vehicle Identity Card (VIC)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.479296684265137, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A certified photo copy of the applicant’s national identity card. A letter written on a letterhead of the Financial institution addressing the Commissioner of Motor Traffic requesting the cancellation of mortgage / absolute ownership / lease as well obligations have been settled. (Stating the number of the relevant vehicles in compulsory)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.25068473815918, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A CMT 130 application to obtain weight certificate of a vehicle.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.736199378967285, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Obtaining the duplicate of number plate of a vehicle or a duplicate of the sticker of a vehicle bearing a number starting with English letters.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.801872253417969, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A certificate of identity obtained by the new owner after presenting the vehicle to a motor vehicle examiner should be submitted.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.640305519104004, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "In case a motor vehicle removed from the country is brought back to the country and registration needs to be reactivated, the registration certification issued on the removal of the vehicle, the documents relevant to the cancellation of registration in a foreign country if such has been the case, should be submitted along with the customs documents.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.551791191101074, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Documents required  to declare a vehicle as disabled.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.231136322021484, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Vehicle identity card (only for the vehicles with new English numbers)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.58812427520752, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Producing the approval documents and the vehicle to the Werahera office and obtaining weight certificate and fuel conversion of vehicle can be performed after handing over the documents to the relevant branch.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.026128768920898, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Conversion of the vehicle class", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.348221778869629, "source": "search", "title": "Registration of Ownership Tranfer - Motor Traffic" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The department will begin issuing number plates with three English letters for the newly registered vehicles after the present series is completed. Production of number plates for three letter numbers have already begun and 1600 number plates a day are produced now, said a department official.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.284109115600586, "source": "search", "title": "Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The year 1957 was marked by much friction over the issue of the 'Sri' letter in vehicle number plates.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.75688648223877, "source": "search", "title": "Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The earlier system was to use English alphabet letters from the country's name CEYLON (CE, CL, CN, EY, EN etc. The then SWRD Bandaranaike government wanted it to begin with the Sinhala 'Sri.' Tamil politicians resented this as a form of Sinhala imposition. They protested and demanded that the Tamil 'Shree' also be substituted. Ironically there was no letter 'Shree' in the Tamil alphabet. The 'Shree' used was derived from Sanskrit. On January 19, 1957 the Federal Party began an anti-Sri campaign in the northeast. Vehicles began running with Tamil letters. The 'Sinhala' Sri was changed into the Sanskrit derived 'Tamil' Shree.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.546680450439453, "source": "search", "title": "Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with ..." }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Import of Vehicles Under Gift Scheme - Unit 2", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.992586135864258, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Import of Vehicles Under Gift Scheme", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.84089183807373, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Importation of Motor Vehicle under the Gift Scheme from a close Family Member.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.481212615966797, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Importation of Motor Vehicle under the Gift Scheme for Temples.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.564181327819824, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Importation of Motor Vehicle under the Gift Scheme for an organization.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.497030258178711, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Motor Vehicle should have been used", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.4545259475708, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Vehicle should be right hand driven", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.283846855163574, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Should not be a vehicle with CFC A/C", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.888919830322266, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A photograph of the vehicle", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.107696533203125, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A copy of the vehicle invoice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.699810028076172, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Importation of Motor Vehicle Under the Gift Scheme from a Family Member:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.362060546875, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Importation of Motor Vehicle Under the Gift Scheme for Temples:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.65829849243164, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Details of the vehicle", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.304930686950684, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "If the applicant has been gifted a vehicle previously-", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.065328598022461, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "If the applicant or another person has attempted to import or to release the vehicle from the customs, all such details should be provided to the customs", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.124664306640625, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "If the vehicle is exempted fro the Gift tax, a letter of exemption obtained from the Ministry of Trade, Commerce and Consumer Affairs should be attached.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.095552444458008, "source": "search", "title": "The Government Information Center - gic.gov.lk" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Online access to the computer network of the Customs Department was acquired to obtain additional Customs information required for new registration of vehicles.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.889925956726074, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Computer programs were modified to print the transfer date and the date of issue of the duplicates on the Vehicle Registration Certificate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.578417778015137, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A data-base was formed containing the details of Vehicle Registration Certificates and Driving Licenses which could not be delivered.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.424674034118652, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Co-ordination between the Provincial Councils and the Department of Motor Traffic was built up to issue Revenue Licenses based on the computerized data on motor vehicles.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.158615112304688, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Steps were taken to carry out the process of vehicle inspection and issuing weight certificates at the Werahera Office premises.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.041686058044434, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Three District Motor Vehicle inspection Offices were networked with the Head Office.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.201055526733398, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "New name boards were installed in each section of the Department for easy identification. A Shramadana Campaign was conducted to clean up all the sections and the Department premises and all unnecessary stationary as well as other waste items were removed.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.415040016174316, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Vehicle Ownership Transferring Sections were established to transfer the ownership of vehicles on the basis of the class of vehicles.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.89022159576416, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Incentives were granted for the officers who contributed to speed up the Vehicle Ownership Transferring process.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.26789379119873, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "To network all District Motor Vehicle Inspection Offices which have not yet linked with the Head Office.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.259286880493164, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "This was disclosed at a special technical meeting held 2016.12.06 on the commencement of the electric railway project held at Colombo Taj Samudra with the participation of relevant stakeholders.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.354440689086914, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Nine major themes were discussed on the occasion and Three-wheel Associations also put forward a few suggestions before the Minister. One of their requests was to increase 40kmph speed limit to 50kmph. It was decided at the discussion to make a decision on the speed limit in the future in consultation with the relevant institutions including the Police.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.552000999450684, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Hon. Ashok Abesinghe – The Deputy Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation and a number of officers including Mr. Nihal Somaweera – Secretary to the Ministry and Mr. B.A.P Ariaratne – General Manager of Railways also graced the occasion.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.423416137695312, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Mr. Nimal Siripala De Silva – Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation is of the view that Lakdiwa Enginnering Institute will be a profit making institute by producing spare parts and equipment for the maintenance of railway tracks. The Minister expressed these views at a ceremony held on 2016.10.07 at the Auditorium of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation at Sethsiripaya premises in order to hand over the sets of equipment including railway track joining nails produced by Lakdiwa Enginnering Institute to the Department of Railways.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.458413124084473, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "The Minister further stated that “ the Lakdiwa Engineering Institute has set a good example for the government programme that has been commenced realizing  the government policy of maintaining government institutions profitable without the same being privatized. Therefore, the officers including the Secretary to the Ministry have been instructed to direct  all the vehicles owned by the Ministry and its affiliated institutes to be repaired to the Lakdiwa Engineering Institute in the future.  I am confident that the Lakdiwa Engineering Institute will be able to make profits by grasping this opportunity.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.350037574768066, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "A large number of officers including Mr. Thilakaratne Bandara – Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Udaya Kumara – Assistant General manager of the Department of Railways and Mr. Ravi Gunawardene – Chairman of the Lakdiva Enginnering company  graced the occasion.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.389727592468262, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "This was stated by the Minister at a discussion held on 2016.11.02 at the Auditorium of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation with Police Officers, Heads of Civil Security Force, Representatives of the Department of Labour, Representatives of the General Treasury and Railway Officers including the General Manager of Railways.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.475375175476074, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Officers of the Ministry including Hon Ashok Abesinghe – Hon. Deputy Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation and Mr. Nihal Soomaweera - Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation also took part in the occasion.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.512605667114258, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "This ceremony was graced by a number of SLTB officers including the Chairman of SLTB Mr. Ramal Siriwardene.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.488157272338867, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" }, { "answer": "CL", "passage": "Under the first phase of this, the inaugural programme of bus operation according to a rotated time table was held recently with the participation of invitees including Hon. Deputy Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Mr. Ashok Abeysinghe, Western Provincial Transport Minister Hon. Gunadasa Dehigma, Western Provincial Minister, Managers of private and SLTB bus operations, and regional managers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.436976432800293, "source": "search", "title": "Department of Motor Traffic - Ministry of Transport" } ]

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I've found that while Kazan's films often feel clunky and dated, his leading men always feel startlingly contemporary. He was a brilliant actor's director, all right, and a pretty good hand at everything else.", "precise_score": 7.41203498840332, "rough_score": 7.207940578460693, "source": "search", "title": "‎East of Eden (1955) directed by Elia Kazan • Reviews ..." }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "East of Eden is a 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the second half of the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel.", "precise_score": 10.754838943481445, "rough_score": 10.215974807739258, "source": "search", "title": "East of Eden 1955 ( FILMING LOCATION ) OPENING SCENE ..." }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "Director Elia Kazan first toyed with the idea of casting Marlon Brando as Cal and Montgomery Clift as Aron, but at 30 and 34 years old, respectively, they were simply too old to play teenage brothers. Paul Newman, who was one year younger than Brando, was a finalist for the part of Cal, which eventually was played by James Dean, who was six years younger than Newman.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.666417121887207, "source": "wiki", "title": "East of Eden (film)" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "The conflict between James Dean and Raymond Massey came to a boiling point in the scene where Cal angers his father because of the way he reads from the Bible. Elia Kazan, who found Massey to be a rather rigid and unemotional \"stiff\" off screen and on, wasn't happy with the way it was going, so he took Dean aside and whispered some suggestions. Dean came back and read the Old Testament passages interlaced with the most offensive curses and crude sexual expressions. Massey became incensed, storming off the set and threatening to call his lawyers. But before the outburst, Kazan was able to capture the heightened anger he was going for.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.071410179138184, "source": "wiki", "title": "East of Eden (film)" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "Despite the annoyances and difficulties he faced making East of Eden, Massey called the role of Adam Trask one of the best parts he ever had on screen and one of the few three-dimensional characters he played in movies. Even though he appreciated the tension that came through on the screen, Elia Kazan later said he didn't do justice to the character of Adam by hiring Raymond Massey, who he said \"had only one colour.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.946906089782715, "source": "wiki", "title": "East of Eden (film)" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "* Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama: Elia Kazan", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.128811836242676, "source": "wiki", "title": "East of Eden (film)" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "* Cannes Film Festival, Best Dramatic Film: Elia Kazan ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.462361335754395, "source": "wiki", "title": "East of Eden (film)" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "* Academy Award for Directing: Elia Kazan", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.17322826385498, "source": "wiki", "title": "East of Eden (film)" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "Director: Elia Kazan", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.784783363342285, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb: East of Eden (1955)" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "Director: Elia Kazan", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.784783363342285, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb: East of Eden (1955)" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "Elia Kazan , in his autobiography \"A Life\" (1988), said that Raymond Massey came to despise James Dean . 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One deals with the first generation of the Trask family, in which the character of Cathy Ames, a malevolent and corrupting influence, is a central character.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.785641193389893, "source": "search", "title": "Jennifer Lawrence to Star in ‘East of Eden’ Remake - The ..." }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "A 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.4639668464660645, "source": "search", "title": "East Of Eden Trailer (HD) - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "Based on a novel by John Steinbeck, and directed by Elia Kazan, this is the first film in the James Dean Trilogy. Set in Salinas, California in 1917, this is the story of Cal (Dean) a young wayward man who competes with his brother Aron (Dick Davalos) for the affections of their hardened father Adam (Raymond Massey). It's basically a Cain and Abel type of story, and agriculture plays an important role even. It's not a strict adaptation of that story, but it is the best reference point to use to describe things. Things are rather dramatic, though they dip into melodrama at times. And, in typical Kazan fashion, there's a lot of subtext, mostly since the imminent entrance of the U.S. into World War i and anti-German sentiment plays a fairly sizable role throughout. It took me a bit to get interested and involved, but once I tapped into this film's groove, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Like the other two film's Dean did I do think it's overrated to a degree, but it's still pretty solid even then. Of the three, this one's #2 for me behind Rebel Without a Cause. It's good, but personally I didn't think it was outstanding or anything. The acting is terrific though, and there's some great camerawork, but it just didn't completely seem like my thing. If it were, I'd probably have a somewhat higher opinion of it. Still though, it's getting a really solid recommendation from me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.067306518554688, "source": "search", "title": "East of Eden (1955) - Rotten Tomatoes" }, { "answer": "Elia Kazan", "passage": "ONLY a small part of John Steinbeck's \"East of Eden\" has been used in the motion picture version of it that Elia Kazan has done, and it is questionable whether that part contains the best of the book.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.11634494364261627, "source": "search", "title": "The Screen: 'East of Eden' Has Debut; Astor Shows Film of ..." } ]

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His wife, Catherine, had died in 1983. They had one daughter. The band survived Basie's death, with trumpeter Thad Jones directing until his own death in 1986.", "precise_score": 8.476412773132324, "rough_score": 7.723788261413574, "source": "search", "title": "Count Basie Biography - parents, death, history, wife ..." }, { "answer": "1984", "passage": "William James \"Count\" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His mother taught him to play the piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red Bank, New Jersey. By 16 years old, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten's death in 1935.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.636725425720215, "source": "wiki", "title": "Count Basie" }, { "answer": "1984", "passage": "Basie toured in several acts between 1925 and 1927, including Katie Krippen and Her Kiddies as part of the Hippity Hop show; on the Keith, the Columbia Burlesque, and the Theater Owners Bookers Association (T.O.B.A.) vaudeville circuits; and as a soloist and accompanist to blues singers Katie Krippen and Gonzelle White. His touring took him to Kansas City, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Chicago. Throughout his tours, Basie met many jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong. Before he was 20 years old, he toured extensively on the Keith and TOBA vaudeville circuits as a solo pianist, accompanist, and music director for blues singers, dancers, and comedians. This provided an early training that was to prove significant in his later career.\"Bill; William (1904 -1984) Bandleader and Pianist.\" PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. Nov 30, 2012. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.5268073081970215, "source": "wiki", "title": "Count Basie" }, { "answer": "1984", "passage": "William \"Count\" Basie (1904-1984)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.042323112487793, "source": "search", "title": "Count Basie Theatre : William \"Count\" Basie Bio" }, { "answer": "1984", "passage": "By the end of the 1960s, Basie had returned to more of a jazz format. His album Standing Ovation earned a 1969 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Large Group or Soloist with Large Group (Eight or More), and in 1970, with Oliver Nelson as arranger/conductor, he recorded Afrique , an experimental, avant-garde album that earned a 1971 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band. By this time, the band performed largely on the jazz festival circuit and on cruise ships. In the early 1970s, after a series of short-term affiliations, Basie signed to Pablo Records, with which he recorded for the rest of his life. Pablo recorded Basie prolifically in a variety of settings, resulting in a series of well-received albums: Basie Jam earned a 1975 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Group; Basie and Zoot was nominated in the same category in 1976 and won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist; Prime Time won the 1977 Grammy for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band; and The Gifted Ones by Basie and Dizzy Gillespie was nominated for a 1979 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Group. Thereafter, Basie competed in the category of Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band, winning the Grammy in 1980 for On the Road and in 1982 for Warm Breeze , earning a nomination for Farmer's Market Barbecue in 1983, and winning a final time, for his ninth career Grammy, in 1984 for 88 Basie Street .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.576447010040283, "source": "search", "title": "Count Basie | Biography & History | AllMusic" }, { "answer": "1984", "passage": "Copyright © 1984 by Francis Davis. 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Although jazz enthusiasts most commonly associate Count Basie with Kansas City, where he formed his first band and first made a name for himself, he was in fact a Red Bank native, born in his parent's house on Mechanic Street on August 21, 1904, and living there through his teen years. It is fitting that a venue with numerous names to its history should finally settle on a name in honor of one of this country’s greatest performing artists.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.509876728057861, "source": "search", "title": "Count Basie Theatre : Count Basie Theatre History" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "His ambition to synthesize America was expressed in The Bridge (1930), intended to be an uplifting counter to Eliot's The Waste Land. The Brooklyn Bridge is both the poem’s central symbol and its poetic starting point.[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hart-crane Poetry Foundation profile] Crane found what a place to start his synthesis in Brooklyn. Arts patron Otto H. Kahn gave him $2,000 to begin work on the epic poem. When he wore out his welcome at the Opffers, Crane left for Paris in early 1929, but failed to leave his personal problems behind. It was during the late 1920s, while he was finishing The Bridge, that his drinking, always a problem, became notably worse. ", "precise_score": 3.5411946773529053, "rough_score": 4.710029602050781, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hart Crane" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "Print shows a view of the Brooklyn Bridge above an excerpt from the poem by Hart Crane.", "precise_score": 5.517195701599121, "rough_score": 5.835726261138916, "source": "search", "title": "\"Hart Crane. The Bridge\" / Frasconi, 59. | Library of Congress" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "The Bridge is about modern society. The title refers to the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, where Crane wrote the poem.", "precise_score": 2.8573594093322754, "rough_score": 1.985164999961853, "source": "search", "title": "Hart Crane: 'The Bridge' & Influence on Modernist Poetry ..." }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "            Being able to convey such depths of connection begins not with rhetorical prowess but with a connection that is actually that deep, and this is what allows Hart Crane to make To Brooklyn Bridge so significant. It is an ode to the relationship between the bridge, the city, Hart Crane, and (through Hart Crane), the individual. There is a constant struggle with being an individual in any city, especially one that’s arguably the world capital of individuality. The ability, however, to get lost in a sea of faces can be a welcome respite, and Hart Crane observes, in the seventh stanza, how the bridge’s uncaring objectivity in its job reflects this: “of anonymity time cannot raise: vibrant reprieve and pardon thou dost show.” As one of the anonymous faces, Hart Crane observes the Bridge from a constantly shifting time and viewpoint, starting from the top of both the bridge and the morning with the seagull, moving slowly down to street level by noon, and finally ending up underneath the bridge at night. His rhetorical focus shifts over time as well, moving from broad and all-encompassing to incisive and impossibly deep while retaining a constant horsepower. These similar yet vastly different perspectives show us the myriad of ways the city looks out over the city and, obviously, vice versa. The bridge occupies an ironclad place in both our physical and figurative realities, simultaneously connecting communities and cultures and places and people and ideas both in the individual and the whole. Hart Crane, though a man who by all accounts spent most of his time alive without strong or reliable connections, found a deeply meaningful entity in the Brooklyn Bridge. If poetry is photography of ideas and a photo is worth a thousand words, Hart Crane’s work is comparable to Chuck Close, his creation an enormous collection of small yet intricate individual images that comprise, upon zooming out, a breathtaking, existentialism-inducing monument.", "precise_score": 5.226905345916748, "rough_score": 5.4831929206848145, "source": "search", "title": "Dividing The Idiom: An Analysis of Hart-Crane’s The Bridge ..." }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "Hart Crane and the Brooklyn Bridge", "precise_score": 6.585407257080078, "rough_score": 7.202224254608154, "source": "search", "title": "Poets and Poems: Hart Crane, “The Bridge” and Me" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "The Bridge was inspired by New York City's \"poetry landmark\", the Brooklyn Bridge. Crane lived for some time at 110 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, where he had an excellent view of the bridge; only after The Bridge was finished did Crane learn that one of its key builders, Washington Roebling, had once lived at the same address. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.763936996459961, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridge (long poem)" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "The Bridge comprises 15 lyric poems of varying length and scope. In style, it mixes near-Pindaric declamatory metre, free verse, sprung metre, Elizabethan diction and demotic language at various points between alternating stanzas and often in the same stanzas. In terms of its acoustical coherence, it requires its reader, novelly, to follow both end-paused and non end-paused enjambments in a style Crane intended to be redolent of the flow of the Jazz or Classical music he tended to listen to when he wrote. Though the poem follows a thematic progress, it freely juggles various points in time. -The University of Illinois' Modern American Poetry site analyses the symbolic meaning of \"the bridge\" as a central image throughout the book: When Crane positions himself under the shadows of the bridge, he is, in one sense, simply the poet of the romantic tradition, the observer who stands aside the better to see; but he is, in another sense, the gay male cruising in an area notorious for its casual sex. Even the bridge itself, the Brooklyn Bridge that is the central object of the poem, was strongly identified in Crane’s own mind with [Crane's lover] Emil Opffer, to whom Voyages was dedicated. The appearance of the bridge secretly encrypts a highly personal memory and a specific presence in the text. Crane’s \"epic of America\" gets underway as a personal quest, as a poem divided against itself, in devotion to an urban setting that encourages social diversity, with secret inscriptions that retain their meanings to which only a privileged few are accessible. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.608470916748047, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridge (long poem)" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "\"Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge\" is the short lyrical ode to the Brooklyn Bridge and New York City which opens the sequence and serves as an introduction (and New York City's urban landscape remains a dominant presence throughout the book). After beginning with this ode, \"Ave Maria\" begins the first longer sequence labeled Roman numeral I which describes Columbus' accidental voyage to the Americas. The title of the piece is based upon the fact that Columbus attributed his crew's survival across the Atlantic Ocean to \"the intercession of the Virgin Mary.\" Ellmann, Richard and Robert O'Clair, eds. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2nd Edition. New York: Norton, 1988. The second major section of the poem, \"Powhatan's Daughter,\" is divided into five parts, and one well-known part, entitled \"The River,\" follows a group of vagabonds, in the 20th century, who are traveling west through America via train. In \"The River,\" Crane incorporates advertisements and references Minstrel shows. He claimed in a letter that \"the rhythm [in this section] is jazz.\" The section also includes the story of Pocahontas (who was \"Powhatan's Daughter\") and a section on the fictional character Rip Van Winkle. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.926115036010742, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridge (long poem)" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "Other major sections of the poem include \"Cape Hatteras\" (the longest individual section of the poem), \"Quaker Hill,\" \"The Tunnel,\" and \"Atlantis,\" the rapturous final section that returns the poem's focus back to the Brooklyn Bridge, and which was actually the first part of the overall poem finished despite its reservation for the end.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.138561248779297, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridge (long poem)" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "From a more positive critical perspective, The Bridge was recently singled out by the Academy of American Poets as one of the 20th century's \"Groundbreaking Books\". The organization writes, \"Physically removed from the city [since he began the piece while living in the Caribbean], Crane relied on his memory and imagination to render the numerous awesome and grotesque nuances of New York, evident in poems such as 'The Tunnel' and 'Cutty Sark.' The book’s opening, 'Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge,' is indicative of Crane’s ecstatic, symbolic vision of the modern city. . .However, [because of his suicide in April 1932,] Crane would never again complete anything as complex or compelling as The Bridge.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.7845296859741211, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridge (long poem)" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "Just imagine looking out your window directly on the East River with nothing intervening between your view of the Statue of Liberty, way down the harbour, and the marvelous beauty of Brooklyn Bridge close above you on your right! All of the great new skyscrapers of lower Manhattan are marshaled directly across from you, and there is a constant stream of tugs, liners, sail boats, etc in procession before you on the river! It's really a magnificent place to live. This section of Brooklyn is very old, but all the houses are in splendid condition and have not been invaded by foreigners...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.963776588439941, "source": "wiki", "title": "Hart Crane" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "-  Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--1950-1960", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.5970659255981445, "source": "search", "title": "\"Hart Crane. The Bridge\" / Frasconi, 59. | Library of Congress" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "The Brooklyn Bridge is a symbol in the poem. It's a manmade structure, and at the time that Crane was writing, it was a relatively new structure. Other poets of the time saw manmade objects as representative of the downfall of society. To them, the technology of the day (bridges, telephones, cars, and other new breakthroughs) was breaking society apart and causing a rift between people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.4253155589103699, "source": "search", "title": "Hart Crane: 'The Bridge' & Influence on Modernist Poetry ..." }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "But Crane uses the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol for what manmade things can do: bring together - or bridge - the fractured aspects of society. Even as other poets wrote about how society's advances were tearing people apart, Crane points out that the same innovations could bring people together.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.830489456653595, "source": "search", "title": "Hart Crane: 'The Bridge' & Influence on Modernist Poetry ..." }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "Quickly skimming Harold Hart Crane’s ode To The Brooklyn Bridge will yield little, if any, information. The poem seems simultaneously choppy and meandering, a strange maze of misplaced words that changes subject and setting nearly every line. It doesn’t, when read out loud, sound particularly melodic, and the craftsmanship isn’t obvious. Once inspected, though, an endless amount of depth becomes evident. All but one of the lines, for instance, have exactly ten syllables (with some arguable dipthongs) and the one longer line—“Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars” provides what I see as two of the most revealing and beautiful metaphors in the poem. The rhythm itself doesn’t offer any particularly significant-seeming patterns. Hart Crane uses a typical-of-the-time Iambic pentameter that is full of irregularities which don’t seem to align with any particular pattern. It is interesting to note, however, that the feet ending most of the lines tend to reassume regular meter, though I can’t guess at the intent of this. Punctuated caesuras are spread throughout the poem, with nearly every type of punctuation being represented. They accomplish a variety of rhythmic and rhetorical purposes and add to the piece’s distinctiveness. Some of them are used to emphasize shifts in action, like the dash delineating the seagull’s hover and swoop between the first and second stanzas. Semicolons are used frequently and confusingly. Some separate ideas that are different but very much entwined, and still others separate stanzas. Ellipses also make several appearances, usually separating ideas where the idea being led into is rather calming and periods tend to underline where a cap is being put on a summative idea: “all afternoon the cloud-flown derricks turn…/ Thy cables breathe the North Atlantic still.” Hart Crane occasionally doubles up on punctuation, which plays on distinctions so minute that their effect is far more evident than explainable.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.893715739250183, "source": "search", "title": "Dividing The Idiom: An Analysis of Hart-Crane’s The Bridge ..." }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "The rhythm and sound of Hart Crane’s syllables and letters play distant fiddles to his words. Hart Crane is a controversial figure in poetry because he seems to dance the fine line between untouched depth of meaning and very fancy nonsense, although I’ll argue that, at least in this poem, his feet are firmly on the former side, however much he waves his arms on the other side. Brooklyn Bridge is teeming with strange wordplay, nearly each word asking to be looked at closely. The poem is a labyrinth of hyperbaton, ellange, and other grammatical tropes, keeping the reader constantly off balance as verbs trade subjects like one of those holographic pictures that changes depending upon which angle you look at it. There are, of course, the obvious tropes, such as the metaphor he uses to so casually to connect the bridge with hugely constructive images, like “O harp and altar of the fury fused,” which also has a nice metalepsis in “fury” (fury to work to workers) and is followed by an equally notable parenthesis: “(How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!)” In just those twenty syllables Hart Crane evokes the church, music, metallurgy, and still manages to enclose yet another idea in punctuation that, more clearly than any other part of the poem let us know that he is not just chronicling this beauty; he too is overwhelmed. While there are these and many more examples of easily-identifiable tropes, much more often the power of the language is achieved not by any particular trope, as tropes require defined and repeatable parameters, but through some indescribable manipulation of our language centers [1] . As Arthur Quinn puts it when describing the difference between periphresis and pleonasm, “we need more than a blue pencil to retrieve the literal meaning.”(Quinn 64)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.8490529656410217, "source": "search", "title": "Dividing The Idiom: An Analysis of Hart-Crane’s The Bridge ..." }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "According to Lincoln Kirstein, E. E. Cummings claimed that \"Crane’s mind was no bigger than a pin, but it didn’t matter; he was a born poet.\" Crane’s mature poetry was written over a meteorically-brief period, from the spring of 1924 until the fall of 1926, and it was intensely performative. If it was short on intellectual conception, it was long on linguistic feats that sought to duplicate an experience as it was unfolding. If Crane had attempted only to be celebratory, he would have endured, perhaps, as a minor poet, an American Swinburne. But Crane also came of age at a time when poets found themselves thinking as critics, extending the range of their own poetry to include \"unpoetic\" analytical meditations. Some of his closest friends were the young men who would go on to invent the new criticism – Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, Kenneth Burke – all of whom saw themselves, in those early years of their lives, first as poets. Crane’s letters are filled with remarkably astute observations about what might be possible in the future for poetry, and in an exchange with Harriet Monroe, he mounted a strong defense of one of his own works, \"At Melville’s Tomb,\" detailing what he called a \"logic of metaphor\" that was unfolding within and below the poem’s linguistic surface, as a product of the interplay of the connotations of words. Few other poets, in 1925, could have been so eloquent about what they hoped to achieve. In his mature style, in works such as Voyages, \"The Wine Menagerie,\" \"O Carib Isle!,\" and (from The Bridge) \"Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge,\" \"The Harbor Dawn,\" \"Cutty Sark,\" and \"The Tunnel,\" Crane masterfully uses variations in rhythm and syntax to establish a powerful, nearly invisible foundation that provides a dynamic forward movement to a poetic line that is bristling with significance, its diction drawn from virtually dozens of conflicting and overlapping registers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.723366737365723, "source": "search", "title": "Hart Crane Biographical Sketch - Welcome to English" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "The Promenade over the Brooklyn Bridge, New York, opened 1883. John and Washington Roebling. Corbis-Bettmann, photo c. 1925.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.793519973754883, "source": "search", "title": "Hart Crane Biographical Sketch - Welcome to English" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "Geography further impinges on these poems. On the Isle of Pines, his thoughts turned longingly to New York, to the urban space in which it was possible to pursue emotional attachments that took unconventional turns, in which the homosexual life style was more or less sheltered. As a result, many poems in The Bridge center on New York City: they convey the spaces of the modern city as few other poems have – the droning menace of the abruptly-deserted subway (in \"The Tunnel\"), the harsh quality of mid-day light as it is reflected off the sides of skycrapers (\"Proem\"), or the vistas that unexpectedly open to disclose layers of the past (\"Cutty Sark\"). At the same time, the poems are also encoded with elements of the gay life-style. The love that is sought in the city is left unspecified, as if it were designed to be universalized, anyone’s love. While the poem asks to be read in this way, it also suggests that love may flourish in unexpected places. When Crane positions himself under the shadows of the bridge, he is, in one sense, simply the poet of the romantic tradition, the observer who stands aside the better to see; but he is, in another sense, the gay male cruising in an area notorious for its casual sex. Even the bridge itself, the Brooklyn Bridge that is the central object of the poem, was strongly identified in Crane’s own mind with Emil Opffer, to whom Voyages was dedicated. The appearance of the bridge secretly encrypts a highly personal memory and a specific presence in the text. Crane’s \"epic of America\" gets underway as a personal quest, as a poem divided against itself, in devotion to an urban setting that encourages social diversity, with secret inscriptions that retain their meanings to which only a privileged few are accessible.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.296967029571533, "source": "search", "title": "Hart Crane Biographical Sketch - Welcome to English" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "I had never read the entire work until recently. In high school, our junior English class read a few excerpts from the volume, which includes short poems on Rip Van Winkle, the Brooklyn Bridge (a kind of homage to Walt Whitman ), Powhatan’s daughter, the Mississippi River, Cape Hatteras and a number of other subjects. As The Poetry Foundation’s entry on Crane points out, it was perhaps inevitable that the Great American Poem would fall short of its goals. He intended The Bridge to be a kind of response or alternative to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land ; 85 years later, we’re far more familiar with The Waste Land than The Bridge.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.9637224674224854, "source": "search", "title": "Poets and Poems: Hart Crane, “The Bridge” and Me" }, { "answer": "Brooklyn Bridge", "passage": "  (From “To Brooklyn Bridge” in The Bridge)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.173018455505371, "source": "search", "title": "Poets and Poems: Hart Crane, “The Bridge” and Me" } ]

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The yell was a creation of the movies based on what Burroughs described in his books as simply \"the victory cry of the bull ape.\" ", "precise_score": 1.5712791681289673, "rough_score": -4.656835556030273, "source": "wiki", "title": "Tarzan yell" }, { "answer": "Weissmuller", "passage": "Although the RKO Picture version of the Tarzan yell was putatively that of Weissmuller, different stories exist as to how the Tarzan Yell was created. Many speculate that a man named Lloyd Thomas Leech was the original voice behind the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tarzan Yell. He was an opera singer from the 1940s into the '60s, winning the Chicagoland Music Festival on August 17, 1946, and going on to sing throughout the U.S., touring with several opera companies. There are recordings of his recollections of creating the Tarzan yell, a story supported by his children and grandchildren. According to the newspaper columnist L. M. Boyd (circa 1970), \"Blended in with that voice are the growl of a dog, a trill sung by a soprano, a note played on a violin's G string and the howl of a hyena recorded backward.\" According to Bill Moyers, it was created by combining the recordings of three men: one baritone, one tenor, and one hog caller from Arkansas. Another widely published notion concerns the use of an Austrian yodel played backwards at abnormally fast speed. But Weissmuller claimed that the yell was actually his own voice. His version is supported by his son and by his Tarzan co-star, Maureen O'Sullivan.", "precise_score": 0.6103754043579102, "rough_score": -3.35798978805542, "source": "wiki", "title": "Tarzan yell" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "TARZAN AND HIS MATE (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1934), directed by Jack Conway (credited to MGM art director Cedric Gibbons), a sequel to the successful TARZAN THE APE MAN (1932), remains a highly acclaimed entry in the series. As with its predecessor, the character of Tarzan (and now Jane) do not appear until late into the story, in this instance 23 minutes from the start of the movie. Hailed by many as the best of the entire series, it's noted solely not only for its action and adventure, but for its sexual innuendos, Jane's two-piece jungle wear, as well as the most eye-opening sequence of all, the underwater swimming of Tarzan (still sporting his loincloth) with Jane, in long shot and shown from her back, completely in the nude. This now famous sequence which was later removed, especially from commercial television, has amazingly survived over the years and now restored, elevating the standard 93 minute print back up to its near theatrical length of 105 minutes. Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic swimming champion chosen to play Edgar Rice Burrough's literary jungle hero, reprises his role, with an added bonus with mono-syllable ideologue. Unlike his co-star, Maureen O'Sullivan, Weissmuller's movie career became limited solely to playing Tarzan while O'Sullivan ventured in other screen roles without losing her identity as Jane.", "precise_score": 1.0052751302719116, "rough_score": -3.0758543014526367, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan and His Mate Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Weissmuller", "passage": "The film's storyline took many departures from ERB's Tarzan of the Apes. There was little reference to the apeman's origins and he was changed from an intelligent well-spoken English lord into an oafish, inarticulate apeman. One reason the MGM Weissmuller Tarzans were different from the book versions was because of the contract MGM had with ERB which stated in part: ERB \"grants rights to Metro to write an original story using character of Tarzan . . . Author to point out any material which conflicts or infringes upon any story heretofore written by author...\"  In other words, M-G-M purchased the name \"Tarzan\" and created their own storyline.", "precise_score": -2.2305142879486084, "rough_score": -5.238865852355957, "source": "search", "title": "ERBzine 0611: Tarzan the Ape Man" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "The Internet Movie Database lists 200 movies with Tarzan in the title between 1918 and 2014. The first Tarzan movies were silent pictures adapted from the original Tarzan novels, which appeared within a few years of the character's creation. The first actor to portray the adult Tarzan was Elmo Lincoln in 1918's Tarzan Of The Apes. With the advent of talking pictures, a popular Tarzan movie franchise was developed, which lasted from the 1930s through the 1960s. Starting with Tarzan the Ape Man in 1932 through twelve films until 1948, the franchise was anchored by former Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role. Weissmuller and his immediate successors were enjoined to portray the ape-man as a noble savage speaking broken English, in marked contrast to the cultured aristocrat of Burroughs's novels.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.5723700523376465, "source": "wiki", "title": "Tarzan" }, { "answer": "Weissmuller", "passage": "The Tarzan yell is often used for comic effect in later, unrelated movies, particularly when a character is swinging on vines or doing other \"Tarzanesque\" things. The sound clip used in the Weissmuller films has also been exclusively used for animated series appearances of Tarzan, and in the Tarzan television series (1966 - 1968), which starred Ron Ely, rather than having the actor providing Tarzan's voice for the series attempt to imitate the trademark yell. A comical version of this yell was performed by Ray Stevens in his 1969 novelty hit \"Gitarzan\". It was even used in the 1981 film Tarzan, the Ape Man. The yell is heard at Carolina Hurricanes home games. Comedian Carol Burnett would do the yell on request during a question and answer weekly session on her comedy sketch series. A version of the yell even appeared in Return of the Jedi as the character of Chewbacca swings on a vine towards an Imperial Scout Walker on the forest planet of Endor. The yell is also heard in the third prequel Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith in a similar scene of a wookiee swinging onto an attacking droid tank. It was also used to dubious comic effect in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983 and in the first Mad Max film in 1979.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.304119110107422, "source": "wiki", "title": "Tarzan yell" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "While stock footage is again used extensively, the racial stereotypes of the 30s are apparent, and the gorillas are obviously actors in ape suits, TARZAN AND HIS MATE achieves a level of sophistication unsurpassed in any other 'Tarzan' film, as well as a sexiness that even Bo Derek's blatantly erotic TARZAN, THE APE MAN couldn't touch. Johnny Weissmuller was in peak condition, physically, Maureen O'Sullivan was never more beautiful, and 'Africa' never looked more romantic, and dangerous.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.180336952209473, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan and His Mate Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Weissmuller", "passage": "TARZAN AND HIS MATE, along with the remaining post 1934 MGM films in the series, were distributed on video cassette during the 1990s, then onto DVD in 2004. This along with the other Tarzan adventures played on the American Movie Classics cable channel from 1997 to 2000, and beginning in 2004, Turner Classic Movies picked up the option in airing the duration of the MGM/ Weissmuller series (1934-1942), making this second entry the most televised thus far. (***1/2) Next installment: TARZAN ESCAPES (1936).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.998157501220703, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan and His Mate Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weismuller", "passage": "Johnny Weismuller is cast perfectly for this role. The fact that he's an Olympic swimmer lends credibility to his role as a muscular he-man living with the apes. While some people have criticized his lack of acting ability (confusing his limited lines to be equivalent with limited acting ability), I've come to the conclusion that he's a natural actor - one who can express a range of emotion with very few words - which is exactly what Tarzan should be. As an athlete, Weismuller is used to expressing himself physically - Weismuller's Tarzan is a man of few words and limited grammar, but his eyes and body language express exactly what he's feeling and thinking. While Jane is the speaker who does, Tarzan is the doer who speaks. Jane is the civilized communicator who is not afraid to dive into a crocodile-infested river. Tarzan is the noble savage who dives into a river and only speaks to clarify what his eyes and hands are saying.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.7797136306762695, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan and His Mate Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "Considered by almost all the critics to be the best of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films, I have no argument with that, although there are a couple of others I thought just as entertaining. One thing: it's the longest of the series that I've seen at 105 minutes. I've only seen six of them but this was longer than I'm used to and with the drawn-out action finale I thought the whole thing was a bit too long.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.78740406036377, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan and His Mate Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "The second of the MGM Tarzan movies should be heralded as one of the finest adventure films in cinematic history. A sequel to Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), it brings back Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan as Tarzan and Jane respectively, and then runs through scene after scene of pre-code and pre-computer effects excellence.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.299637794494629, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan and His Mate Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "Meanwhile, the project screenwriter, Cyril Hume, recommended another athlete, Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller. Weissmuller was offered the role, but first MGM had to make arrangements with BVD who had him under exclusive contract to endorse their line of swim trunks. Metro and Burroughs also had to deal with delaying film producer Sol Lesser's dormant 1928 option for five Tarzan pictures, a contract that was ruled binding by the courts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.0251851081848145, "source": "search", "title": "ERBzine 0611: Tarzan the Ape Man" }, { "answer": "Weissmuller", "passage": "For the role of Jane, Thalberg chose lovely twenty-year-old Irish actress, Maureen O'Sullivan.  This proved to be a brilliant piece of casting as the fair, dark-haired, curvaceous beauty was as feminine as Weissmuller was masculine. ERB noted that she added quite a bit to the picture and that she was far more attractive off the screen than on, \"which is unusual for motion picture actresses.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.1379976272583, "source": "search", "title": "ERBzine 0611: Tarzan the Ape Man" }, { "answer": "Weissmuller", "passage": "In exchange for substantial royalty cheques, Burroughs now seemed quite willing to give up his long, ongoing feud with Hollywood over the liberties taken with his original view of Tarzan that he often had found objectionable in earlier years. In fact, he made a public statement to MGM: \"Now that I have seen the picture I wish to express my appreciation of the splendid job you have done. This is a real Tarzan picture. . . .  Mr. Weissmuller makes a great Tarzan. He has youth, marvelous physique and magnetic personality.\" Nor did he quibble over how MGM had changed the pronunciation of \"Tarzan\" from TAR-zn to Tar-ZAN.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.67410945892334, "source": "search", "title": "ERBzine 0611: Tarzan the Ape Man" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "When released in March of 1932 the film was an immediate popular and critical sensation becoming one of the top ten box office hits of the year. Johnny Weissmuller, despite, or maybe because of, his naked physique, was hailed as the biggest new star of the early '30s. Tarzan fever had hit and the ERB media blitz had begun: more films and novels, Sunday and daily comic strips, comic strip reprints in various book compilations, new magazine appearances - pulp and slick, radio shows, Tarzan clubs, advertising promotions, trading cards, toys, articles, and imitators galore.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.502562999725342, "source": "search", "title": "ERBzine 0611: Tarzan the Ape Man" }, { "answer": "Weissmuller", "passage": "Weissmuller wives:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.402908325195312, "source": "search", "title": "ERBzine 0611: Tarzan the Ape Man" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.205550193786621, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Buckler", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.242354393005371, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weismuller", "passage": "This is the first of the MGM Tarzan films featuring Olympic medalist Johnny Weismuller in the titular role. It is new out on DVD, in a box set that contains the first six (out of twelve) that he would make. His co-star in these first six films (though I think she disappears in the latter six) is Maureen O'Sullivan, one of the greatest beauties Hollywood ever knew. They are the perfect Tarzan and Jane. Tarzan the Ape Man is extraordinary. The second film of the series, Tarzan and His Mate, is an acknowledged masterpiece of the adventure drama, but I'd almost rank Ape Man aside with it. It is beautifully done in every way, fun and exciting, but also at lengths gentle, charming, and downright erotic. There's a long scene where Tarzan and Jane play in the water. It's so sweet and so sexy. There's hardly any background music to the film, which sets it apart from many in its era that overused their musical scores. Long scenes are played out silently. There is no attempt to make up for a lack of dialogue. Of course, since this is the first time Tarzan meets men (at least white men), he doesn't speak much except for a few grunts to his chimpanzee buddies. It's quite amazing how much attention and care is put into the way Tarzan behaves, how he has become chimp-like. I also begin to notice with this film how good an actor Johnny Weismuller is. Tarzan the Ape Man is really a wonderful film. The new box set is absolutely a must-have. 10/10.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.020883083343506, "source": "search", "title": "Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Johnny Weissmuller", "passage": "The sheer physical scope of the film, as well as the abrupt, rough, explicit bloodiness of some of the jungle material, have little to do with the ''me Tarzan, you Jane'' fantasies that have been with us virtually since Burroughs published ''Tarzan of the Apes'' in 1914. Burroughs went on to write a couple of dozen sequels that, in turn, served as the inspiration for any number of Tarzan movies featuring everyone from Elmo Lincoln (1918) to Miles O'Keefe (1981), though the late Johnny Weissmuller is the Tarzan most of us remember most vividly.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.430949687957764, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review - - FILM: 'GREYSOKE,' TARZAN IN AFRICA AND ..." } ]

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In the United States, this Algonquian-speaking people historically lived from Lake Superior westward. Today, they live mostly in Montana, where they share a reservation with the Ojibwe (Chippewa). The documented westward migration over time has been strongly associated with their roles as traders and hunters in the North American Fur Trade.", "precise_score": 5.5795578956604, "rough_score": 7.024253845214844, "source": "search", "title": "Cree Indians - Crystalinks Home Page" }, { "answer": "Montana", "passage": "At one time the Cree were located in northern Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana. Today they live as part of the federally recognized Chippewa Cree tribe, located on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in Montana. They share the reservation with the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians, who form the \"Chippewa\" half of the Chippewa Cree tribe. (In Canada the Chippewa are known as Ojibwa.) 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Today American Cree are enrolled in the federally recognized Chippewa Cree tribe, located on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation, and in minority as \"Landless Cree\" on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and as \"Landless Cree\" and \"Rocky Boy Cree\" on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, all in Montana. The Chippewa Cree share the reservation with the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians, who form the \"Chippewa\" (Ojibwa) half of the Chippewa Cree tribe. On the other Reservations, the Cree minority share the Reservation with the Assiniboine, Gros Ventre and Sioux tribes. 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", "precise_score": -2.245126962661743, "rough_score": -7.8545331954956055, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bob Dole" }, { "answer": "Doctor", "passage": "Clinton won the argument about orphanages and school lunches, but remained silent on the rest of the bill and left Democratic Congressmen with no support for an alternative to the Republican plan. He vetoed two bills submitted by the Republicans, one of which contained cuts to Medicaid. Although Medicaid provides health care to the poor, it also pays for nursing care for the middle class, and hospitals, doctors, and pharmacists benefit from it as well as middle class families. Clinton was not willing to go against those powerful lobbies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.576560020446777, "source": "search", "title": "Poverty and the American Dream - William Paterson University" }, { "answer": "Doctor", "passage": "The doctor begins to lose freedom. . . . First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then doctors aren’t equally divided geographically. So a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him, you can't live in that town. They already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it's only a short step to dictating where he will go. . . . All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay. And pretty soon your son won't decide, when he's in school, where he will go or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.502254486083984, "source": "search", "title": "Ronald Reagan - Wikiquote" }, { "answer": "Doctor", "passage": "I know what I'm about to say now is controversial, but I have to say it. This nation cannot continue turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the taking of some 4,000 unborn children's lives every day. That's one every 21 seconds. One every 21 seconds. We cannot pretend that America is preserving her first and highest ideal, the belief that each life is sacred, when we've permitted the deaths of 15 million helpless innocents since the Roe versus Wade decision. 15 million children who will never laugh, never sing, never know the joy of human love, will never strive to heal the sick, feed the poor, or make peace among nations. Abortion has denied them the first and most basic of human rights. We are all infinitely poorer for their loss. There's another grim truth we should face up to: Medical science doctors confirm that when the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing. This nation fought a terrible war so that black Americans would be guaranteed their God-given rights. Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some could decide whether others should be free or slaves. Well, today another question begs to be asked: How can we survive as a free nation when some decide that others are not fit to live and should be done away with? I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings. Without that right, no other rights have meaning. \"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of God.\" I will continue to support every effort to restore that protection including the Hyde-Jepsen respect life bill. I've asked for your all-out commitment, for the mighty power of your prayers, so that together we can convince our fellow countrymen that America should, can, and will preserve God's greatest gift.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.071157455444336, "source": "search", "title": "Ronald Reagan - Wikiquote" }, { "answer": "Doctor", "passage": "We must all educate ourselves to the reality of the horrors taking place. Doctors today know that unborn children can feel a touch within the womb and that they respond to pain.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.32979679107666, "source": "search", "title": "Ronald Reagan - Wikiquote" } ]

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[ { "answer": "8", "passage": "Prime time usually takes place from 18:00 to 23:00 WIB, preceded by a daily newscast at 17:00. After prime time, programs classified as Adult are allowed to be broadcast.", "precise_score": -9.89306640625, "rough_score": -5.836794376373291, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Malaysian prime time starts with the main news from 20:00 to 20:30 (now 20:00 to 21:00) and ends at 23:00. Usually, programmes during prime time are domestic dramas, foreign drama series (mostly American), movies and entertainment programmes. Programmes that classify as 18 are not allowed to be broadcast before 10:00 p.m. but on RTM, most programmes on this slot are rated U (U means Umum in Malay and literally General Viewing or General Audiences in English) throughout the whole day. However, programmes broadcast after 23:00 are still considered prime time. As of December 2010, NTV7's prime time continues until 12:00 a.m. Programmes during prime time may have longer commercial breaks due to number of viewers.", "precise_score": -8.621374130249023, "rough_score": -4.272160530090332, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In the Philippines, prime time blocks begin at 18:00 (now 17:50 or 17:00) and run until about 23:00 (or 23:30) on weekdays, and 19:00 to 23:00 on weekends. The weekday prime time blocks usually consists of local teleseryes (soap operas) and foreign television series. The network's highest-rated programs are usually aired right after the evening newscast at 20:00, while a foreign series usually precedes the late night newscast.", "precise_score": -9.889352798461914, "rough_score": -2.681696653366089, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "On weekends, non-scripted programming such as talent shows, reality shows and current affairs shows air in prime time. For the minor networks, prime time consists of American television series on weekdays, with encores of those shows on weekends. Prime time originally started earlier at around 19:00, but the evening newscasts were lengthened to 90 minutes and now start at 18:30, instead of the original one-hour newscast that starts at 18:00.", "precise_score": -8.627530097961426, "rough_score": -2.8144607543945312, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "On Channel 8, prime time ends at 24:00 or 0:15 on weekdays, at 0:30 on Saturday nights and at 23:30 on Sunday nights. On Channel 5, prime time ends at 0:00 on weekdays, at 1:30 (or later) on Saturday nights and at 0:30 on Sunday nights. On Suria, prime time ends at 23:30 on Monday to Thursday nights and at 23:00 on Friday to Sunday nights. On Vasantham, prime time ends at 23:00 on Mondays to Thursdays and at 24:00 (or later) on Fridays to Sundays. On Channel NewsAsia, prime time ends at 23:01, immediately after the news headlines, seven days a week. On Channel U, prime time ends at 23:00 seven days a week and on Okto, prime time ends at closedown at 24:00 or later. Generally, however, prime time is considered to be from 18:30 to 24:00.", "precise_score": -9.32025146484375, "rough_score": -4.159207344055176, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In South Korea, prime time usually runs from 20:00 to 23:00 during the week, while on Saturdays and Sundays, it runs from 18:00 to 23:00. Family-oriented television shows are broadcast before 22:00, and adult-oriented television shows air after 22:00.", "precise_score": -10.125828742980957, "rough_score": -5.0752387046813965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In Taiwan, prime time (called bādiǎn dàng - 八點檔] - in Mandarin Chinese) starts at 20:00 in the evening. Taiwanese drama series played then are called 8 o'clock series and are expected to have high viewer ratings.", "precise_score": -8.214057922363281, "rough_score": -6.686873435974121, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In Georgia, prime time starts between 18.45 and 20.00 and generallly ends at 24.00. However, on Friday night / Saturday morning prime time usually continues until 1.00.", "precise_score": -9.581786155700684, "rough_score": -5.792882919311523, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In Hungary, prime time on weekdays on the two big commercial stations (RTL Klub and TV2) starts at 19.00 with game shows, tabloid and docu-reality programmes. At 21.00, two popular soap operas air: Barátok közt and Jóban Rosszban, which follows at 21.30. American and other series, movies, talk-shows and magazines run until 23.30. The prime-time lineup is preceded by daily news programmes at 18.30. At weekends prime time begins at 19.00, with blockbuster movies and television shows.", "precise_score": -10.03112506866455, "rough_score": -4.392964839935303, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Before 15 March 2015, the public television station M1 began its prime time with a game show at 18.30, which was followed by the daily news programme Híradó at 19.30. After the news, the channel broadcast American and other series, talk shows, magazines, and news programmes until 22.00, after which came the daily news magazine Este and the late edition of Híradó.", "precise_score": -10.954120635986328, "rough_score": -6.82505464553833, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In Poland, prime time starts around 20:00 (sometimes 20:30). On (TVP 1) It is preceded by a daily newscast at 19:30, on (TVN) the newscast is aired at 19:00 followed by the newsmagazine Uwaga at 19:50 (weekdays)/19:45 (weekends) and then the soap Na Wspólnej at 20:05 (Monday to Thursday, from Friday to Sunday (at 20:00) various: movies on Friday, show or movies (Winter and Summer) at Saturday, and programme or movies (Winter and Summer) at Sunday), on (Polsat) the news is aired at 18:50, followed by a sitcom Świat według Kiepskich at 19:30.", "precise_score": -10.670263290405273, "rough_score": -4.062016487121582, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In Slovenia, prime time, the period in which the most-watched shows are broadcast, is from 8:00pm to 11:00pm. It is preceded by daily newscasts; Dnevnik RTV SLO (7:00pm–8:00pm) on TV SLO 1, 24ur (6:55pm–8:00pm) on POP TV, Svet na Kanalu A (6:00pm–7:00pm; 7:50pm–8:0pm), and Danes (7:30pm–8:00pm) on Planet TV.", "precise_score": -10.377302169799805, "rough_score": -3.48203706741333, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In Argentina, prime time is considered to be from 8.00 p.m. until 12.00 a.m.; with the most successful series and telenovelas in the country (such as Los Roldán and Valientes), and entertainment shows, like CQC (Caiga Quien Caiga).", "precise_score": -9.491394996643066, "rough_score": -5.960987091064453, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Prime time is commonly defined as 8:00-11:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific and 7:00-10:00 p.m. Central/Mountain. On Sundays, the four major broadcast television networks traditionally begin their primetime programming at 7:00nbsp;p.m. (Eastern/Pacific, 6:00nbsp;p.m. Central/Mountain) instead. Some networks such as Fox, The CW, and MyNetworkTV only broadcast from 8:00-10:00 p.m., a time period known as \"common prime\". Most networks air primetime programming nightly, but the smaller CW and MyNetworkTV only broadcast prime time programs on weekdays, leaving weekends to their affiliates. The major American networks have come to consider Saturday prime time as a graveyard slot, and have largely abandoned scheduling of new scripted programming on that night. The major networks still maintain a prime time programming schedule on Saturdays; while live sporting events (most commonly college football during the first portion) are generally preferred to fill the time slot, they typically air encores of programs aired earlier in the week, films, non-scripted reality programs and, occasionally, burned off episodes of low-rated or cancelled series.", "precise_score": -8.873802185058594, "rough_score": -3.9663760662078857, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Prime time can be extended or truncated if coverage of sporting events run past their allotted end time. Since the \"Heidi Game\" incident in 1968, in which NBC cut away from coverage of a New York Jets/Oakland Raiders football game on the east coast in order to show a movie (and, in the process, causing viewers to miss an unexpected comeback by the Raiders to win the game), the later National Football League mandated that all games be broadcast in their entirety in the markets of the teams involved. Due to this rule, game telecasts may sometimes overrun into the 7:00 p.m. ET hour. Fox previously scheduled repeats of its animated series in the 7:00 hour, allowing themselves to simply pre-empt the reruns if a game ran long. This was later replaced by a half-hour-long wrap-up show, The OT. In contrast, CBS does not, as its weekly newsmagazine 60 Minutes has traditionally aired as close to 7:00 p.m. ET as possible. If a game runs long, 60 Minutes is shown in its entirety at the conclusion of coverage, and the rest of the prime time schedule on the East Coast is shifted to compensate. For example, if game coverage were to end at 7:30 p.m., prime time would end at 11:30 p.m.", "precise_score": -9.805146217346191, "rough_score": -5.308750629425049, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Until the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulated time slots prior to prime time with the now-defunct Prime Time Access Rule in 1971–1972, networks began programming at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific/6:30 p.m. Central and Mountain on weeknights (that is, the 1970–1971 season was the last season in which the networks began prime time at 7:30). The change helped instigate what is colloquially known as the ”rural purge”, in which rural-themed and older-skewing programs were disproportionately canceled. In the 1987-1988 season, NBC-owned stations in several cities experimented with airing a schedule of syndicated first-run sitcoms at 7:30/6:30 p.m. (known as Prime Time Begins at 7:30) to compete against syndicated reruns or game shows such as Wheel of Fortune on rival stations. ", "precise_score": -6.570663928985596, "rough_score": -5.280450820922852, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. The show was originally based on a segment from ABC's Love, American Style titled Love and the Television Set, (later retitled Love and the Happy Days for syndication) featuring future cast members Ron Howard, Marion Ross and Anson Williams.", "precise_score": -3.205332040786743, "rough_score": -4.718847751617432, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "The series' pilot was originally shown as Love and the Television Set, (later retitled Love and the Happy Days for syndication), a one-episode teleplay on the anthology series Love, American Style, aired on February 25, 1972. Happy Days spawned the hit television shows Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy as well as three failures, Joanie Loves Chachi, Blansky's Beauties (featuring Nancy Walker as Howard's cousin), and Out of the Blue. The show is the basis for the Happy Days musical touring the United States since 2008. The leather jacket worn by Winkler during the series was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution for the permanent collection at the National Museum of American History. ", "precise_score": -3.954040765762329, "rough_score": -3.3397648334503174, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Al Delvecchio – From seasons four to nine (1976–82), Al became the new owner/cook of the drive-in after Arnold got married the previous season. Al later married Chachi's mother Louisa, thereby becoming Chachi's stepfather and Fonzie's uncle. Molinaro left Happy Days in 1982 to take his \"Al\" character to Joanie Loves Chachi, and returned as Al in three later episodes of Happy Days. Known for sighing \"Yeeep, yep, yep, yep, yep\" when he was disappointed or when things did not go his way.", "precise_score": -5.832261085510254, "rough_score": -7.201318740844727, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* In its 11 seasons on the air, Happy Days is the second-longest running sitcom in ABC's history (behind The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which ran 14 seasons, from 1952 to 1966), and one of the longest-running primetime programs in the network's history. It is also unique in that it remained in the Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. time slot for the series' first ten seasons. Tuesdays at 8 p.m. became a signature timeslot for ABC, with Who's The Boss? instantly becoming a Top 10 hit when it was moved from Thursdays and staying in that time slot for six seasons, followed by the equally family-friendly sitcom Full House (another Miller-Boyett co-production). That sitcom also hit the Top 10 immediately after inheriting the Tuesday at 8 p.m. slot and then stayed there for four seasons.", "precise_score": 3.5166637897491455, "rough_score": 3.8572826385498047, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "The first two seasons of Happy Days (1974–75) were filmed using a single-camera setup and laugh track. One episode of season two (\"Fonzie Gets Married\") was filmed in front of a studio audience with three cameras as a test run. From the third season on (1975–84), the show was a three-camera production in front of a live audience (with a cast member, usually Tom Bosley, announcing in voice-over, \"Happy Days is filmed before a live audience\" at the start of most episodes), giving these later seasons a markedly different style. A laugh track was still used during post-production to smooth over live reactions.", "precise_score": -4.029324054718018, "rough_score": -4.746947288513184, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "The idiom \"jumping the shark\" describes a point in a series where it resorts to outlandish or preposterous plot devices to maintain or regain good ratings. Specifically, the term arose from the season five episode \"Hollywood (Part 3)\" that first aired on September 20, 1977, in which a water-skiing Fonzie (clad in swim trunks and signature leather jacket) jumps over a confined shark. Despite the decline in ratings, Happy Days continued for several years until its cancellation in 1984. The program never received an Emmy nomination for writing during its entire run; comedy writing Emmy nominations during Happy Days broadcast history were routinely awarded to the writers of such shows as M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and All in the Family. ", "precise_score": -4.286640167236328, "rough_score": -4.908385753631592, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Happy Days has been syndicated by many networks. It aired in the United States on TBS from 1989 to 1995, The Family Channel from 1990 to 1996, Nick at Nite from 1995 to 2000 (and again in 2002–03), Odyssey Network/Hallmark Channel from 1999 to 2002 (and again from January to April 2013), TV Land from 2002 to 2007, WGN America from 2002 until 2008, and FamilyNet from 2009 to 2010. It also aired on Me-TV from December 21, 2010, until early 2012, when it was removed from the network's lineup, where it aired on Sunday afternoons at 1pm Eastern and Pacific time. The series also joined INSP's line-up, airing in an hour block from 6 to 7 pm Eastern time, on January 2, 2012 to September 30, 2013. From October 11, 2010 through October 3, 2014, the show aired on Hub Network. The show returned to Me-TV on May 26, 2014.", "precise_score": -2.5852184295654297, "rough_score": -4.6311798095703125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "There are two animated series. Both were produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Paramount Television (now known as CBS Television Distribution). The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang ran from 1980 to 1982. There are also animated spin-offs of Laverne & Shirley (Laverne & Shirley in the Army) and Mork and Mindy (centering on a young Mork and Mindy in high school). The following season, they were connected together as The Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour (1982). ", "precise_score": -5.467185020446777, "rough_score": -6.6411638259887695, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In July 2008, Nielsen released the first in a series of quarterly reports, detailing video and TV usage across the ‘three screens’ – Television, Internet and Mobile devices. The A2/M2 Three Screen Report also includes trends in timeshifted viewing behavior and its relationship to online video viewing, a demographic breakdown of mobile video viewers and DVR penetration.", "precise_score": -9.588736534118652, "rough_score": -4.808166027069092, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* The show ranked number eighteen (4.793 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending January 25, 2009. ", "precise_score": -2.129795551300049, "rough_score": -2.146057605743408, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* The show ranked number ten (4.535 million viewers), twelve (4.264 million viewers), thirteen (4.221 million viewers), fifteen (4,161 million viewers), seventeen (4.132 million viewers), and twenty (4.081 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending March 1, 2009. ", "precise_score": -2.0374631881713867, "rough_score": -6.347085475921631, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* The show ranked sixteen (4.091 million viewers), seventeen (4.084 million viewers), eighteen (4.072 million viewers), and twenty (4.006 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending March 29, 2009. ", "precise_score": -1.6508749723434448, "rough_score": -3.2060017585754395, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* The show ranked number five (4.492 million viewers), six (4.467 million viewers), eight (4.394 million viewers), nine (4.214 million viewers), fifteen (3.962 million viewers), and seventeen (3.8.58 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending May 3, 2009. ", "precise_score": -1.8504085540771484, "rough_score": -5.54394006729126, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* The show ranked number three (4.82 million viewers), six (4.38 million viewers), ten (3.82 million viewers), eleven (3.88 million viewers), and fourteen (3.87 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top fifteen most-watched cable shows for the week ending November 1, 2009. ", "precise_score": -3.323733329772949, "rough_score": -4.866849899291992, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "The Virginian (known as The Men From Shiloh in its final year) is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was a spin-off from a 1958 summer series called Decision . Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute Western series (75 minutes excluding commercial breaks ). Immensely successful, it ran for nine seasons—television's third longest running western, [2] behind Bonanza at fourteen seasons and 430 episodes, and Gunsmoke at twenty seasons and 635 episodes. 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", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.461003303527832, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "From 15 March 2015, Duna began broadcasting all of the entertainment programming transferred to it from that date from M1, meaning that prime time on Duna now begins at 18.00, starting with the simulcast of the 18.00 edition of Híradó from the newly re-launched news channel, M1.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.262271881103516, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Much like in Germany, prime time in the Netherlands usually begins at 8:30 p.m. in order to not compete with NOS Journaal's flagship 8:00 p.m. newscast.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.209179878234863, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "However, in the rare case where the NFL game runs excessively late (8 p.m. or later), an episode of a series scheduled for later in the evening may be pre-empted (for example, Cold Case in October 2009 after the Bills-Jets game ran excessively late). In an extreme case, CBS's prime time can be extended past midnight during broadcasts of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. This does not necessarily apply universally; in 2001, after an XFL game went into overtime, forcing the delay of a highly promoted episode of Saturday Night Live, NBC made a decision to cut off all future XFL broadcasts at 11:00 p.m. NBC backed out of the XFL after the end of that season, leading to its failure.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.534277439117432, "source": "wiki", "title": "Prime time" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Domestically, the album peaked at #6 on the US Billboard Top Gospel albums chart, #13 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Christian chart, and #28 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.553019523620605, "source": "wiki", "title": "Time and Seasons" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "8. Psalms 84 (4:37)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.948999404907227, "source": "wiki", "title": "Time and Seasons" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "18. You Are Forgiven (4:55)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.661092758178711, "source": "wiki", "title": "Time and Seasons" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "Lynda Goodfriend joined the cast as semi-regular character Lori Beth Allen, Richie's steady girlfriend, in season five, and became a permanent member of the cast between seasons eight and nine, after Lori Beth married Richie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.354890823364258, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* Richie Cunningham – The protagonist for the first seven years of the series (1974–80). When Ron Howard left the show due to his burgeoning directorial career, Richie was written out by leaving to join the United States Army. He marries his girlfriend, Lori Beth, in season eight by phone, while Fonzie stands-in for him in the wedding. Howard returned for guest appearances as Richie during the show's final season. He came back with Lori Beth and their son, Richie Jr., and Ralph in the season 11 two-part episode, \"Welcome Home\", and then left for California with Lori Beth and Richie Jr. to pursue a career in screenwriting. He also returned in \"Passages\", when he and his family attended Joanie and Chachi's wedding. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.404156684875488, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Howard \"Mr. C\" Cunningham – Husband of Marion Cunningham, father of Richie and Joanie, business owner of a hardware store called \"Cunningham's Hardware\", he is a lodge member, and family man. Frequently seen reading the daily newspaper in his easy chair. Enjoys driving his beloved 1948 DeSoto Suburban. In \"Letting Go\", he did not want Joanie to go to Chicago, still seeing her as his \"little girl\". But after talking with Fonzie and realizing how much she has grown up, he supports her going. In \"Passages\", Howard says that he is proud of Richie and Joanie in Joanie and Chachi's wedding. Howard is one of only two characters (the other being Fonzie) to appear in every episode of the series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.317503929138184, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Ralph Malph – In the first season, Ralph was more of a side character to plots, but when Most became a main cast member in season two, Ralph was more commonly seen, and he, Richie, and Potsie (these two also later became roommates) became the three amigos. Known for saying \"I still got it!\" after delivering one of his jokes. Ralph left with Richie after the 1979–80 season to join the Army. Malph returned as a guest star in the final season, although he is absent in the finale (along with Potsie) – he is mentioned as having left to continue college to become an optometrist like his father.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.624958992004395, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Jenny Piccalo – Joanie's boy-crazy best friend (1980–83), often mentioned in early episodes, but did not appear in person until the 1980 season. Returned as a guest star in the series finale. Jenny's father appeared in one episode, played by Silvers' real-life father Phil Silvers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.223871231079102, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Roger Phillips – Marion's nephew, coach and teacher at Jefferson High, until \"Vocational Education\" where he became principal at Patton High. Introduced in 1980 after Richie left the show as a recurring character.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.382582664489746, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* Lori Beth Allen-Cunningham – Richie's girlfriend and later his wife (1977–82). She married Richie by phone in season eight. Fonzie helped Lori Beth while she delivers the baby in \"Little Baby Cunningham.\" She returned as a guest star in the final season.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.818742752075195, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Bobby Melner (Harris Kal) (seasons 8–11; 19 episodes) – Friend of Chachi and Joanie seen in episodes after Richie and Ralph left the show. He is a student in Fonzie's auto shop class, as well as in Roger's health class. At one point, he was also on the Jefferson High basketball team, and performed in a band with Joanie and Chachi.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.42679214477539, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Tommy (Kevin Sullivan) (seasons 8–11; 13 episodes) – Another friend of Chachi and Joanie in episodes after Richie and Ralph left the show. Like Bobby, Tommy is a student in Fonzie's auto shop class, as well as in Roger's health class. At one point, he was also on the Jefferson High basketball team, and performed in a band with Joanie and Chachi.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.331761360168457, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Eugene Belvin (Denis Mandel) (seasons 8 & 9; 10 episodes) – Nerdy classmate of Joanie and Chachi, and twin brother of Melvin Belvin. Is in Fonzie's auto shop class, and has a crush on Jenny Piccalo. Despite being a general stooge to his classmates at Jefferson High, he frequently tags along with Joanie and Chachi's circle of friends.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.433019638061523, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Wendy (Misty Rowe) (season 2; 8 episodes) – A carhop from Arnold's in season two. She was paired with Marsha Simms in five episodes. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.20337963104248, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Melvin Belvin (Scott Bernstein) (seasons 9 & 10; 8 episodes) – Nerdy classmate of Joanie and Chachi, and twin brother of Eugene Belvin. Like his brother, Melvin frequently tags along with Joanie's and Chachi's circle of friends. He once went on a date with K.C. Cunningham.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.803254127502441, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Louisa Arcola-Delvecchio (Ellen Travolta) (seasons 8–11; 5 episodes) – Mother of Chachi Arcola and Fonzie's aunt. She married Al Delvecchio and they moved to Chicago.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.017943382263184, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Mitsumo \"Arnold\" Takahashi (Pat Morita) (seasons 3 10-11: 26 episodes) depicted the owner of Arnold's Drive-In for season three (1975–76). He stated that he obtained the moniker when he purchased Arnold's restaurant and people thought it was named after him, explaining that it was too costly to buy enough letter signs needed to rename it \"Takahashi\". He moonlighted as a martial arts instructor, teaching self-defense classes at the drive-in after hours. Morita also played \"Arnold\" as a guest star in 1977 and 1979 before returning as a recurring character after Al Molinaro departed in 1982.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.85073471069336, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* Robin Williams appeared in two episodes as Mork from Ork; in season five's \"My Favorite Orkan\", Mork wants to take Richie back to Ork with him to study earthlings, which led to the spin-off Mork & Mindy; season six's \"Mork Returns\" aired during the height of the popularity of Mork and Mindy", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.32841682434082, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Lyle Waggoner appeared in the episode \"Dreams Can Come True\" (season 8) as Bobby Burns, host of the titular game show on which Marion appears as a contestant and in the episode \"Like Mother, Like Daughter\" (season 11) as Frederick Hamilton, Marion's former college boyfriend.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.959412574768066, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Happy Days was produced by Miller-Milkis Productions, a teaming of Thomas L. Miller with former film editor Edward K. Milkis, which became Miller-Milkis-Boyett Productions when Robert L. Boyett joined the company in 1980, and was the first ever show to be produced by the company's most recent incarnation, Miller-Boyett Productions, which followed Milkis's resignation from the partnership. It was also produced by Henderson Productions and was one of the popular shows produced in association with Paramount Television.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.937503814697266, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "For the show's 11th and final season (1983–84), the theme was rerecorded in a more modern style. It featured Bobby Arvon on lead vocals, with several back-up vocalists. To accompany this new version, new opening credits were filmed, and the flashing Happy Days logo was reanimated to create an overall \"new\" feel which incorporated 1980s sensibilities with 1950s nostalgia (although by this time the show was set in 1965).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.367173194885254, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Tuesday at 8:00–8:30 PM on ABC: January 15, 1974 – March 22, 1983", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.14353084564209, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Tuesday at 8:30–9:00 PM on ABC: September 27, 1983 – May 8, 1984", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.10856819152832, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Thursday at 8:30–9:00 PM on ABC: June 28 – July 19, 1984", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.033000946044922, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Thursday at 8:00–8:30 PM on ABC: September 27, 1984", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.233119010925293, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In the United Kingdom reruns aired on Five USA and on Channel 4 between the early 1990s and the early 2000s. Original-run episodes in the 1970s and 1980s were shown on various regions of the ITV network usually on a weekday afternoon at 17:15. It is currently (2015–16) being shown on the True Entertainment channel.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.16624641418457, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "On April 19, 2011, five Happy Days co-stars; Erin Moran, Don Most, Marion Ross, Anson Williams and the estate of Tom Bosley, who died in 2010, filed a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, which owns the show, claiming they had not been paid for merchandising revenues owed under their contracts. The cast members claimed they had not received revenues from show-related items, including comic books, T-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards and DVDs where their images appear on the box covers. Under their contracts, they were supposed to be paid 5% of the net proceeds of merchandising if their sole image were used, and half that amount if they were in a group. CBS said it owed the actors $8,500 and $9,000 each, most of it from slot machine revenues, but the group said they were owed millions. The lawsuit was initiated after Ross was informed by a friend playing slots at a casino of a \"Happy Days\" machine on which players win the jackpot when five Marion Rosses are rolled.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.265924453735352, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Robin Williams made his first appearance as \"Mork\" on Happy Days. In his own sitcom, Mork & Mindy, his character of Mork, the alien from the planet Ork, landed in 1970s Boulder, Colorado, to study humans and took up residence with Pam Dawber's character of Mindy McConnell. Originally, Mork's appearance was explained as a dream of Richie's, but after the spin-off was established, a new ending was tagged on to the repeat of the Happy Days episode explaining that Mork would return to Earth in 1978.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.762272834777832, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Joanie Loves Chachi was a short-lived show about Richie's younger sister Joanie and Fonzie's younger cousin Chachi's relationship during their years as musicians in Chicago. While commonly believed that the show was canceled due to low ratings, the program finished in the Top 20 its first season, but ABC determined that the show was losing too much of its lead-in, suggesting low appeal if the show were moved (a suggestion that came to be realized, as the show's ratings dropped dramatically after a move to another time slot in its second season). This type of cancellation seemed strange in the early 1980s, but soon became a commonplace part of TV audience research.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.945453643798828, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Another stage show, Happy Days: A New Musical began touring in 2008. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.430383682250977, "source": "wiki", "title": "Happy Days" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Arthur C. Nielsen founded the AC Nielsen Company in August 1923 with the idea of selling engineering performance surveys. It was the first company to offer market research.Gillespie, Mary. \"Nielsen makes viewers count by watching them watch TV.\" Chicago Sun-Times, April 9, 1989 The company expanded its business in 1932 by creating a retail index that tracked the flow of food and drug purchases. This was the first retail measurement of its kind and for the first time allowed a company to determine its \"share\" of the market—the origination of the concept of \"market share\" Arthur C. Nielsen is credited with coining this business term.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.891467094421387, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In 1936, Arthur C. Nielsen acquired the Audimeter, which measured which radio stations a radio had been tuned to during the day. After tinkering with the device for a few years, the company created a national radio rating service in 1942.Basler, Barbara. \"A.C. Nielsen, Who Devised System That Rates TV Programs, Dead.\" The New York Times, June 4, 1980 The company collected information on which stations were tuned to in 1,000 homes. Then, this survey data was sold to manufacturers who were interested in the popularity of programs and demographic information about listeners for advertising purposes. This was the birth of audience measurement that would become the most well-known part of Nielsen’s business when applied to television. Today, these are commonly referred to as \"Nielsen ratings\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.211617469787598, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In the 1980s, the company launched a new measurement device known as the \"people meter\". The device resembles a remote control with buttons for each individual family member and extras for guests. Viewers push a button to signify when they are in the room and push it again when they leave, even if the TV is still on. This form of measurement was intended to provide a more accurate picture of who was watching and when. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.460267066955566, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Nielsen was acquired by the Dun & Bradstreet Company in 1984. In 1996, D&B divided the company into two separate companies: Nielsen Media Research, which was responsible for TV ratings, and AC Nielsen, which was responsible for consumer shopping trends and box-office data. In 1999, Nielsen Media Research was acquired by the Dutch publishing company VNU (Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen). VNU later acquired AC Nielsen and recombined the two businesses in 2001. In between, VNU sold off its newspaper properties to Wegener and its consumer magazines to Sanoma. The company's publishing arm also owned several publications including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard magazine. VNU combined the Nielsen properties with other research and data collection units including BASES, Claritas, HCI and Spectra. VNU also acquired companies that added to its measurement capabilities.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.382113456726074, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In 2006, VNU sold its business publications division for €320m (£210m) to venture capital group 3i, which then sold the UK division (VNU Business Publications Ltd) to Incisive Media.[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2803926/Incisive-to-buy-VNU-Business-Publications.html Incisive to buy VNU Business Publications], The Daily Telegraph, February 6, 2007", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.448477745056152, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In 2008, Nielsen acquired IAG Research which measures viewer engagement with TV commercials. The same year, Nielsen made a strategic investment in NeuroFocus, a California firm applying neuroscience brainwave techniques for consumer research. The firm was later fully acquired by Nielsen in 2011 In 2009 and 2010, Nielsen sold its business magazines; its well-known entertainment properties went to the new company e5 Global Media.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.160978317260742, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "On September 18, 2014 Nielsen announced the acquisition of Indicus Analytics Pvt Ltd. This helped Nielsen to grow footprints in micromarkets & economics", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.898382186889648, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "On October 8, 2014, Nielsen acquired Affinnova, an international media and marketing research firm. The Affinnova team joins Nielsen's legacy BASES team to form Nielsen’s Innovation Practice area ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.79835033416748, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Nielsen was a private company from 2006 through 2011. On January 25, 2011 the company listed itself on the New York Stock Exchange and issued an Initial Public Offering (IPO) that raised $1.8 billion in the largest private equity-backed U.S. IPO since 2006. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.036107063293457, "source": "wiki", "title": "Nielsen N.V." }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "The concept and characters were initially introduced in two episodes of the CBS series JAG (season eight episodes 20 and 21: \"Ice Queen\" and \"Meltdown\"). The show, a spin-off from JAG, premiered on September 23, 2003, on CBS. To date it has aired for thirteen full seasons and has gone into broadcast syndication on the USA Network and Cloo. Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill are co-creators and executive producers of the premiere member of the NCIS franchise. It is the second longest-running scripted, non-animated U.S. primetime TV series currently airing, surpassed only by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present), and is the 15th longest-running scripted U.S. primetime TV series overall.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.266364097595215, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Sasha Alexander as Caitlin Todd; an NCIS Special Agent and a former Secret Service Agent (seasons 1–2; guest: seasons 3, 8, 9, 12).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.950591087341309, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Lauren Holly as Jenny Shepard; the Director of NCIS (seasons 3–5; guest seasons 8, 9, 12).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.931327819824219, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* JAG: The pilot of NCIS was made up of two episodes which were part of JAG Season 8, the episodes being \"Ice Queen\" and \"Meltdown\". These JAG episodes introduced Mark Harmon as Gibbs, Michael Weatherly as Tony, Pauley Perrette as Abby, and David McCallum as Ducky. Patrick Labyorteaux reprised his role as Lt. Bud Roberts in the first season episode \"Hung Out to Dry\"; Alicia Coppola returned as Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman in \"UnSEALed\", \"Call of Silence\", and \"Hometown Hero\", while Adam Baldwin returned as Cmdr. Michael Rainer in \"A Weak Link\", and John M. Jackson appeared as retired Rear Admiral A. J. Chegwidden in the season ten episode \"Damned If You Do\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.904867172241211, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "The first eleven seasons of NCIS have been released in Regions 1, 2 and 4. In Germany (Region 2), seasons 1–4 and 6–8 were released in two separate sets for each season. The first season DVD omits the two introductory episodes from season eight of JAG, though they are featured on the JAG season eight DVD.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.576543807983398, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* On January 15, 2013, NCIS surpassed its previous series high in viewers, with the season ten episode \"Shiva\" attracting 22.86 million viewers. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.671493530273438, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In 2009, CBS picked up an NCIS spin-off series with the title NCIS: Los Angeles, with the backdoor pilot, \"Legend\", airing on April 28, 2009 and May 5, 2009. The backdoor pilot introduced Chris O'Donnell as Special Agent G. Callen, LL Cool J as Special Agent Sam Hanna, Louise Lombard as Special Agent Lara Macy, Peter Cambor as Operational Psychologist Nate Getz: and Daniela Ruah as Special Agent Kensi Blye. The crew for the series includes Michael B. Kaplan, Lev L. Spiro, Jerry London, Sheldon Epps, and Mark Saraceni. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.73225212097168, "source": "wiki", "title": "NCIS (TV series)" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "All in the Family is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, a new show, Archie Bunker's Place, picked up where All in the Family had ended. That sitcom lasted another four years, ending its run in 1983.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.43130111694336, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "The show is set in the Astoria section of Queens, one of New York City's five boroughs, with the vast majority of scenes taking place in the Bunkers' home at 704 Hauser Street (and later, frequently, the Stivics' home). Occasional scenes take place in other locations, most often (especially during later seasons) Kelsey's Bar, a neighborhood tavern where Archie spends a good deal of time and which he eventually buys. The house seen in the opening is at 89-70 Cooper Avenue near the junction of the Glendale, Middle Village, and Rego Park sections of Queens. According to the US Postal Service, the official address is: 8970 COOPER AVE, REGO PARK NY 11374-5324. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.940354347229004, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* Sally Struthers as Gloria Stivic, née Bunker. The Bunkers' college-age daughter was married to Michael Stivic. Gloria frequently attempted to mediate Archie's and Michael's arguments. The roles of the Bunkers' daughter and son-in-law (then named \"Dickie\") initially went to Candice Azzara and Chip Oliver. However, after seeing the show's pilot, ABC, the original production company, requested a second pilot expressing dissatisfaction with both actors. Lear later recast the roles of \"Gloria\" and \"Dickie\" with Struthers and Reiner. Penny Marshall (Reiner's wife, whom he married in April 1971, shortly after the program began) was also considered for the role of Gloria. During the earlier seasons of the show, Struthers was known to be discontented with how static her part was, frequently coming off as irritating and having only a few token lines. As the series continued Gloria's character became more developed, satisfying Struthers. Struthers appeared in 157 of the 202 episodes during the first eight seasons—from January 12, 1971 to March 19, 1978. She later reprised the role in the spin-off series Gloria, which lasted for a single season in 1982-83.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.865857124328613, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic. Gloria's Polish-American hippie husband was part of the counterculture of the 1960s. He constantly sparred with Archie (in the original pilot, he was Irish-American). Michael was, in many ways, as stubborn as Archie, even though his moral views were generally presented as being more ethical and his logic somewhat sounder. Though this was true, he was generally portrayed in a more negative light than Archie; Archie was portrayed in a more sympathetic sense, while Michael was portrayed as loudmouthed and at times, demanding. He consistently tried to prove himself correct (as evidenced in the episode \"The Games Bunkers Play\") and seemed desperate to convince people that his way was the right way to go all the time, even more than Archie, who gave up giving advice about his way when there was no point. This would occasionally, if not often, end him up in conflict with his friends and wife. For his bullheadedness, Stivic was sometimes criticized for being an elitist. He also struggled with assumptions of male superiority. He spoke of believing in female equality, but often tried to control Gloria's decisions and desires in terms of traditional gender roles. While Archie was a representative of supposed bigotry and demonstrated the lion's share of the hypocrisy, Michael, on many occasions, showed his own. As discussed in All in the Family retrospectives, Richard Dreyfuss sought the part but Norman Lear was convinced to cast Reiner. Reiner appeared in 174 of the 202 episodes of the series during the first eight seasons—from January 12, 1971 to March 19, 1978. Reiner is also credited with writing three of the series' episodes. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.039342880249023, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Danielle Brisebois as Edith's 9-year-old grandniece, Stephanie Mills, who is a regular throughout the 9th season. The Bunkers take her in after the child's father, Floyd Mills, abandons her on their doorstep in 1978 (he later extorts money from them to let them keep her). She remained with the show through its transition to Archie Bunker's Place, and appeared in all four seasons of the latter show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.853729248046875, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Betty Garrett and Vincent Gardenia as the liberal and Roman Catholic next-door neighbors Irene and Frank Lorenzo. Both first appeared as a married couple as Irene was trying to use the Bunker's phone. However, during an argument earlier in the episode, Archie and Mike had broken the phone wire. Irene being a 'handyman' of sorts with her own tools, which she carried in her purse, fixed it. Irene fixed many things at the Bunker house during her time on the show. She also had a sister who was a nun and appeared in one episode. It is revealed in the episode Edith's Christmas Story that Irene has had a mastectomy. Archie got her a job as a forklift operator at the plant where Archie worked. Irene was a strongwilled woman of Irish heritage, and Frank was a jovial Italian househusband who loved cooking and singing. He also was a salesman, but it never was said what he sold. Gardenia, who also appeared as Jim Bowman in Episode 8 of Season 1 (as the man who sold his house to the Jeffersons) and as Curtis Rempley in Episode 7 of Season 3 (as a swinger opposite Rue McClanahan), became a semi-regular along with Garrett in 1973. Gardenia only stayed for one season as Frank Lorenzo, but Garrett remained until her character was phased out in late 1975.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.097987174987793, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "* Burt Mustin as Justin Quigley, a feisty octogenarian. Mr. Quigley first appeared in the episode: \"Edith Finds an Old Man\" (Season 4 Ep 3 Sept 23, 1973) where he runs away from the Sunshine Home where Edith volunteers. He temporarily moves in with the Bunkers and soon finds a geriatric sweetheart, Josephine \"Jo\" Nelson, played by Ruth McDevitt. He appeared in four other episodes including: \"Archie's Weighty Problem\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.772391319274902, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Nedra Volz as Aunt Iola. Edith's aunt who was mentioned several times in the 8th season and stayed with the Bunkers for two weeks. Edith wanted her to move in, but Archie would not allow it, though when he thought Iola didn't have any place to go, he told her privately that she could always stay with them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.067395210266113, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "* Clyde Kusatsu as Reverend Chong. Reverend Chong appeared in several episodes. He refused to baptize little Joey in Season 6, and then remarried both Archie and Edith and Mike and Gloria in Season 8, and gave counsel to Stephanie in Season 9 as it was learned she was Jewish.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.711353302001953, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In the pilot, Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton played Archie and Edith Justice. Kelly Jean Peters played Gloria and Tim McIntire played her husband, Richard. It was taped in October 1968 in New York City. After screening the first pilot, ABC gave the producers more money to shoot a second pilot, titled Those Were the Days, which was taped in February 1969 in Hollywood. Candice Azzara played Gloria and Chip Oliver played Richard. D'Urville Martin played Lionel Jefferson in both pilots.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.070528984069824, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "All in the Family was the first major American series to be videotaped in front of a live studio audience. In the 1960s, most sitcoms had been filmed in the single-camera format without audiences, with a laugh track simulating an audience response. Lear employed the multi-camera format of shooting in front of an audience, but used tape, whereas previous multi-camera shows like Mary Tyler Moore had used film. Thanks to the success of All in the Family, videotaping sitcoms in front of an audience became a common format for the genre during the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s. The use of videotape also gave All in the Family the look and feel of early live television, including the original live broadcasts of The Honeymooners, to which All in the Family is sometimes compared.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.974924087524414, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In addition to O'Connor and Stapleton singing, footage is also shown beginning with aerial shots of Manhattan, and continuing to Queens, progressively zooming in, culminating with a still shot of a lower middle-class semi-detached home, presumably representing the Bunkers' house in Astoria. The house shown in the opening credits, however, is actually located at 89–70 Cooper Avenue in the Glendale section of Queens, New York. There is a notable difference, however, between the Cooper Avenue house and the All in the Family set: there is no porch on the Cooper Avenue house, while the Bunkers' home featured a front porch. The footage for the opening had been shot back in 1968 for the series' first pilot, thus the establishing shot of the Manhattan skyline was completely devoid of the World Trade Center towers, which had not yet been built. When the series aired two years later, the Trade Center towers, although under construction, had still not yet risen high enough to become a prominent feature on the Manhattan skyline (this did not happen until the end of 1971). Despite this change in the Manhattan skyline, the original 1968 footage continued to be used for the series opening until the series transitioned into Archie Bunker's Place in 1979. At that point a new opening with current shots of the Manhattan skyline were used with the Trade Center towers being seen in the closing credits. This opening format – showing actual footage of the cities and neighborhoods in which the show was set – became the standard for most of Norman Lear's sitcoms including Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.857754707336426, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "The façade of the house shown at the show opening is an actual home located at 89-70 Cooper Avenue, Glendale, Queens, New York, across from St. John Cemetery ().", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.433534622192383, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Additionally, the writers of All in the Family continued throughout the series to have the Bunkers, as well as other characters, use telephone exchange names when giving a telephone number (most other series at the time, such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, were using the standard fake 555 telephone number) at a time when AT&T was earnestly trying to discontinue them. At different times throughout the series, the telephone exchanges Ravenswood and Bayside were used for the Bunkers' telephone number. Both exchanges were and still are applicable names for phone numbers in the neighborhoods of Astoria and Bayside. This may have had to do with the fact that at the time many major cities in the United States, such as New York, were resisting the dropping of telephone exchange names in favor of all-number calling, and were still printing their telephone books with exchange names. Actual residents of the Bunkers' age continued using exchange names into the early 1980s. This fact is referred to in the 1979 episode \"The Appendectomy,\" when Edith, while dialing a telephone number, uses the Parkview exchange name only to correct herself by saying that she keeps forgetting that it's all-number dialing now. However, she comes to the conclusion that the number is exactly the same either way.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.55436897277832, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Saturday at 8:00-8:30 PM on CBS: September 18, 1971—March 8, 1975", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.144207000732422, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Monday at 9:00-9:30 PM on CBS: September 8, 1975—March 8, 1976", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.29776382446289, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Sunday at 9:00-9:30 PM on CBS: October 9, 1977—October 1, 1978", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.37583065032959, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Sunday at 8:00-8:30 PM on CBS: October 8, 1978—April 8, 1979", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.280452728271484, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Since the late 1980s, All in the Family has been rerun on various cable and satellite networks including TBS (though they had the rights locally in Atlanta as well), TV Land and Nick at Nite. Since January 3, 2011, the show has been airing on Antenna TV.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.357763290405273, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*The first spin-off was Maude on September 12, 1972. Maude Findlay, played by Bea Arthur, was Edith's cousin; she had first appeared on All in the Family in the episode \"Cousin Maude's Visit\", which aired on December 11, 1971, in order to help take care of the Bunkers when they all were sick with a nasty flu virus. Maude disliked Archie intensely, mainly because she thought Edith could have married better, but also because Archie was a conservative while Maude was very liberal in her politics, especially when Archie denounced Maude's support of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Maude was featured in another All in the Family episode in which Archie and Edith visited Maude's home in Westchester County to attend the wedding of Maude's daughter Carol. It aired as the finale of the second season on March 11, 1972, titled \"Maude.\" The episode was essentially designed to set up the premise for the spin-off series that would air later in the year. In the episode, Bill Macy played Maude's husband, Walter; it was a role he reprised for the weekly series that fall. Marcia Rodd, the actress who played Carol in the episode, was replaced by Adrienne Barbeau in Maude. The show lasted for six seasons and 141 episodes, airing its final episode on April 22, 1978.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.862074851989746, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "**Good Times is considered by some to be a spin off of Maude, focusing on Maude's former maid Florida Evans. However, the character was retroactively changed. According to producer Allan Manings \"It wasn't really a spin-off.\" The show contains no mention of Maude, and the Evans' now live in Chicago. It ran for six seasons from February 8, 1974 to August 1, 1979.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.54909896850586, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*The second and longest-lasting spin-off of All in the Family was The Jeffersons. Debuting on CBS on January 18, 1975 The Jeffersons lasted 11 seasons and 253 episodes compared to All in the Family's 9 seasons and 208 episodes. The main characters of The Jeffersons were the Bunkers' former next-door neighbors George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) and his wife, Louise \"Weezie\" Jefferson (Isabel Sanford). George Jefferson was the owner of a chain of seven successful dry-cleaning stores; as The Jeffersons begins, they have just moved from the Bunkers' neighborhood to a luxury high-rise apartment building in Manhattan's Upper East Side. George was considered to be the \"black Archie Bunker,\" and just as racist as Archie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.517319679260254, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "**Checking In was spun off from The Jeffersons, focusing on the Jeffersons' maid Florence Johnston working as executive housekeeper at the St. Fredereick Hotel in Manhattan. It only lasted four weeks from April 9 to April 30, 1981 and Florence returned to her old job as the Jeffersons' maid.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.182042121887207, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "*Gloria was the third spin-off of All in the Family, focusing on Archie's divorced daughter Gloria starting a new life as an assistant trainee to a couple of veterinarians in Foxridge, New York. It premiered September 26, 1982 and ran for one season.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.81788158416748, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "At the height of the show's popularity, Henry Fonda hosted a special one-hour retrospective of All in the Family and its impact on American television. Included were clips from the show's most memorable episodes up to that time. It was titled The Best of \"All in the Family\", and aired on December 21, 1974.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.571478843688965, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "The special was so well received by the viewing audience (ratings: 14.7 household rating from 8-9:30pm while Empty Nest garnered a 17.3) that CBS decided to air reruns of All in the Family during their summer schedule that year. During its summer run, the 20-year-old program was popular. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.277113914489746, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "So successful were these primetime reruns that they garnered higher ratings than the new series scheduled next to it, the Norman Lear-produced sitcom Sunday Dinner. The latter was Lear's return to TV series producing after a seven-year absence (after the failed A.k.a. Pablo for ABC in 1984). It was cancelled after the six-week tryout run.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.516115188598633, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "On October 30, 2012, Shout! Factory released All in the Family - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The 28-disc box set features all 208 episodes of the series as well as bonus features. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.100201606750488, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Popular T-shirts, buttons, and bumper stickers showing O'Connor's image and farcically promoting \"Archie Bunker for President\" appeared around the time of the 1972 presidential election. In 1998, All in the Family was honored on a 33-cent stamp by the USPS. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.318982124328613, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs are on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Originally purchased by the show's set designer for a few dollars at a local Goodwill thrift store, the originals were given to the Smithsonian (for an exhibit on American television history) in 1978. It cost producers thousands of dollars to create replicas to replace the originals.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.449310302734375, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": ";1978", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.926584243774414, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": ";1978", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.926584243774414, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": ";1980", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.10986042022705, "source": "wiki", "title": "All in the Family" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "28 August 2004", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.146732330322266, "source": "search", "title": "\"Happy Days\" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Really good show from the 70s....less so in the 80s...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.972199440002441, "source": "search", "title": "\"Happy Days\" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "I remember when this show was King, c. '76 or so, Tuesdays at 8pm. It was one of those shows that you watched faithfully, got into the characters, jokes, knew the punchlines beforehand every time, and talked about the day after w/ friends. Kids loved it the most, as the Fonz Was a TV hero like you don't see anymore.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.27387523651123, "source": "search", "title": "\"Happy Days\" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "I always felt that this should have ended about 5 years before it did too-when Malph and Richie left. Putting the show on in the 80's w/ Chachi as a lead, set in the '60's, Ted McGinley, etc--it was really outta gas and a shadow of its former self. If you ever see the repeats from c. '82 you know what I mean.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.289700508117676, "source": "search", "title": "\"Happy Days\" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "\"American Graffiti\"-styled television show that ran a decade (1974-1984) and completed a mind-blowing 255 episodes in all. The show followed the Cunningham family (father Tom Bosley, mother Marion Ross, son Ron Howard and daughter Erin Moran) in Milwaukee throughout the 1950s. Howard, his friends (Don Most and Anson Williams) and their misadventures with school and girls dominated the show's story-lines early on. Would-be motorcycle tough guy punk Henry Winkler (aka Fonzie) stole the show from minute one and he was the main reason why the show survived so long. Cast departures (Howard, Most and diner owner Pat Morita) and additions (Ted McGinley, Scott Baio, Al Molinaro and Morita again) did nothing to change ratings as the show consistently stayed high on the Nielsen scale. Also the father of two lesser spin-offs (\"Laverne & Shirley\" and \"Joanie Loves Chachi\"), \"Happy Days\" proved that one amazing character (Fonz) could basically carry a program's list of shortcomings. 4 stars out of 5.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.072742462158203, "source": "search", "title": "\"Happy Days\" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Page 1 of 8:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.271011352539062, "source": "search", "title": "\"Happy Days\" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "9/24/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.608962059020996, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "7/19/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.388801574707031, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "7/12/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.65721607208252, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "7/5/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.656070709228516, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "6/28/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.604453086853027, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "5/8/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.626884460449219, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "5/8/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.626884460449219, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "5/1/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.740128517150879, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "4/24/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.608414649963379, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "1/31/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.538034439086914, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "1/24/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.690712928771973, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "1/17/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.538910865783691, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "1/10/84", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.68016529083252, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "12/13/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.499053955078125, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "12/6/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.691773414611816, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "11/22/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.56203556060791, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "11/8/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.537691116333008, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "11/1/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.875170707702637, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "10/25/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.689199447631836, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "10/18/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.69058609008789, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "10/4/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.58585262298584, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "9/27/83", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.714179992675781, "source": "search", "title": "Happy Days - Episode Guide - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "8.9", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.385907173156738, "source": "search", "title": "Good Times (TV Series 1974–1979) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "8.6", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.39980697631836, "source": "search", "title": "Good Times (TV Series 1974–1979) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "8.6", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.39980697631836, "source": "search", "title": "Good Times (TV Series 1974–1979) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eight", "passage": "Life in the Chicago projects is never easy, However, the Evans family never gives up trying to make the best of things. While Florida and James struggle to provide for their family, their sons J.J., an aspiring painter, Micheal, the undying political crusader, causing trouble while their sister, Thelma, stands between them as the voice of reason. Living in the same building were Willona Woods, Florida's best friend from High School who provided support, love and gossip and Nathan Bookman, the overweight janitor who gave them grief and was the butt of alot of fat jokes, especially Willona who often referred to him as Buffalo Butt or Booger. Life, at least, is never boring while they fight to keep their heads above water and one day leave the projects, which they did in the series finale. Sadly, it was without James who was killed off in the 4th season. Written by Kate Tripper", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.20283317565918, "source": "search", "title": "Good Times (TV Series 1974–1979) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "8 February 1974 (USA) See more  »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.249357223510742, "source": "search", "title": "Good Times (TV Series 1974–1979) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "This hard-hitting and emotional companion series from NBC's Law & Order franchise chronicles the life and crimes of the elite Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was created by Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf. SVU celebrated its 200th episode in April 2008. Although Law & Order: Special Victims Unit carries the brand name Law & Order, the newer program has established a strong and unique identity. It has proved itself as a hit in its own right. In the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 seasons, the series broke into the Top 20. Mariska Hargitay has won a Golden Globe and Emmy each for her portrayal of Det. Olivia Benson. It also garnered Emmy wins for guest-stars Amanda Plummer, Leslie Caron, and Cynthia Nixon. The series' popularity was recognized with the People's Choice Awards, Image Awards, Satellite Awards, and the TV Guide Awards with nominations for Favorite New Series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.099325180053711, "source": "search", "title": "Most Popular TV Shows for comedy and 1970-1979 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "After Oceanic Air Flight 815 tears apart in mid-air and crashes on a Pacific island on September 22nd 2004, its survivors are forced to find inner strength they never knew they had in order to survive. But they discover that the island holds many secrets, including a mysterious smoke monster, polar bears, housing with electricity and hot & cold running water, a group of island residents known as \"The Others,\" and a mysterious man named Jacob. The survivors also find signs of those who came to the island before them, including a 19th century sailing ship called The Black Rock and the ruins of an ancient statue, as well as bunkers belonging to the DHARMA Initiative -- a group of scientific researchers who inhabited the island in the recent past. Lost has won a Golden Globe, 10 Saturn Awards and 10 Emmy Awards.moreless", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.269248962402344, "source": "search", "title": "Most Popular TV Shows for comedy and 1970-1979 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "After his father is murdered, Lieutenant Commander Steven J. McGarrett decides to return home to Oahu in order to catch the killer. The governor offers him the opportunity to run a new task force where he is able to call the shots. Steve brings together his own team, starting with Chin Ho Kelly, an ex-Honolulu Police Detective and former protege of McGarrett's father. Kelly has been assigned to a federal security patrol after being suspected of corruption. Detective Danny (Danno) Williams is a New Jersey cop who recently moved to the island to be close to his 8-year-old daughter, Grace. Kono Kalakaua is Kelly's cousin and a rookie officer, fresh from the academy. McGarrett's team is given full backing from the governor.moreless", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.420790672302246, "source": "search", "title": "Most Popular TV Shows for comedy and 1970-1979 - TV.com" }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Seasons 1 through 8", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.824252128601074, "source": "search", "title": "The Virginian (TV series) | Wiki | Everipedia, the ..." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Set in the late 19th century, and loosely based on the 1902 novel by Owen Wister , the series revolved around the tough foreman of the Shiloh Ranch, played by James Drury . His top hand Trampas ( Doug McClure ) and he were the only characters to remain with the show for the entire run. As in the book, the foreman went only by the name \"The Virginian\". The Virginian's real name was never revealed in the nine years the show was on the air. The series was set in Medicine Bow, Wyoming . Various references in the first season indicate that setting is about 1898 - in episode 5, \"The Brazen Bell\", guest star George C. Scott quotes from Oscar Wilde 's The Ballad of Reading Gaol , which was first published in 1898, in episode 7, \"Riff Raff\", several of the main characters join Theodore Roosevelt 's Rough Riders , the volunteer cavalry unit formed in 1898, and in episode 11, \"The Devil's Children\", the grave marker for one of the characters that dies in the episode states 1898 as the year of death. The series circled around the foreman's quest to maintain an orderly lifestyle at Shiloh. The ranch was named after the two-day American Civil War Battle of Shiloh , Tennessee . The Virginian's white Appaloosa was named Joe D., and Trampas' buckskin horse was named Buck. As the show progressed, Trampas became the more developed of the characters, and it continues to be the role for which actor Doug McClure was best known.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.837096214294434, "source": "search", "title": "The Virginian (TV series) | Wiki | Everipedia, the ..." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Several cast changes were made throughout the program's run. In the first three seasons, the owner of the ranch was Judge Garth ( Lee J. Cobb ). His daughter Betsy ( Roberta Shore ) lived at the ranch with him, and had a sister relationship with the ranch hands. Ranch hand Steve Hill ( Gary Clarke ) joined in episode storylines. Randy Boone joined the show in the second season as a youthful ranch hand who played guitar and sang duets with Betsy. [3] (In 1965 Decca Records released an LP of songs from the two singing actors.) In the episode \"First To Thine Own Self\" (February 12, 1964) Boone's character sings \" I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry \". This is odd in that the series was set in the 1890s but the song was written by Hank Williams in 1949. In the third season, Clu Gulager was added to the show as the restless deputy Emmett Ryker. After executive producer Frank Price was replaced by Norman Macdonnell at the end of season 3, season 4 became a troublesome time. When Roberta Shore left the cast, Macdonnell added a new leading woman— Diane Roter , who played Jennifer, the Judge's niece. When Lee J. Cobb also left the show, John Dehner was brought in as the new owner, Morgan Starr. His demanding presence and tough demeanor did not fit well with the show, nor did fans like his character. Frank Price was brought back on board for season 5 to straighten out the series. He replaced the characters of Randy, Morgan Starr and Jennifer with a few actors who brought back the family atmosphere to the show. John Grainger (played by Charles Bickford ) became the new owner. Elizabeth Grainger (played by Sara Lane), was John Grainger's granddaughter. Her brother Stacey (Don Quine) rounded out this new cast. Although Price left again, the series continued smoothly in the pattern that he set. In season 6, Clay Grainger (played by John McIntire ) took over ownership after his brother's apparent departure \"on business.\" [4] (John Grainger's abrupt series exit, due to Charles Bickford's sudden death on November 9, 1967, was never properly explained onscreen.) The sixth season also added Holly Grainger (played by Jeanette Nolan , McIntire's real-life wife) as the wife of Clay. Season 7 saw the entrance of David Sutton, played by David Hartman . However, Sutton was replaced in season 8 with a younger hand, Jim Horn (played by Tim Matheson ).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.101219177246094, "source": "search", "title": "The Virginian (TV series) | Wiki | Everipedia, the ..." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "In several countries, including the United Kingdom, the show went under the extended title The Virginian: Men From Shiloh. [8] The opening theme song was changed to a new one, composed by Ennio Morricone , and the look of the show was changed reflecting a style similar to spaghetti westerns , which were very popular at the time. [9] The hats worn featured much broader brims and higher crowns. The clothing was also jauntier and more imaginative and mustaches and beards were much in evidence.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.358194351196289, "source": "search", "title": "The Virginian (TV series) | Wiki | Everipedia, the ..." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Played by James Drury , [11] the Virginian was the tough foreman of the Shiloh Ranch. Based loosely on the character in the Owen Wister novel , he always stood his ground firmly. Respected by the citizens of Medicine Bow and the hands of the ranch, he was a prominent figure in Medicine Bow. In the series, the Virginian is the ranch foreman from the first episode. This way, the producers were able to establish a feeling that he had been there for a while, and thus keep a consistent story line. In the book, however, the Virginian was the deputy foreman, and only became the foreman after a promotion from the Judge. When making the show, the producers chose not to reveal the Virginian's real name, and little about his past was actually made known. This succeeded in making the Virginian an intriguing and mysterious character. The foreman worked under five ranch owners throughout the series: Judge Garth ( Lee J.Cobb ), Morgan Starr ( John Dehner ), John Grainger ( Charles Bickford ), Clay Grainger ( John McIntire ), and Col. Mackenzie ( Stewart Granger ). James Drury and Doug McClure were the only cast members to remain with the show for all nine seasons. James Drury first played The Virginian on the July 6, 1958 episode of Decision .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.46768856048584, "source": "search", "title": "The Virginian (TV series) | Wiki | Everipedia, the ..." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "Stacey's younger sister Elizabeth (Sara Lane) was the granddaughter of John Grainger, starting in season 5. [12] Trampas, the Virginian, and Stacey all look out for her wellbeing. Elizabeth was cast as a teenage girl enjoying her life on the frontier. She loved horses, riding the range, and going to the ever-present Saturday night dances. Sara Lane left the series in season 8.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.286264419555664, "source": "search", "title": "The Virginian (TV series) | Wiki | Everipedia, the ..." }, { "answer": "8", "passage": "After the death of Charles Bickford, John McIntire was hired as his brother, Liz and Stace's great uncle. Clay had a wife, Holly ( Jeanette Nolan ), and was the ranch owner for seasons 5 through 8. McIntire had earlier taken over the lead role in Wagon Train upon the death of Ward Bond , assuming the role of the new wagonmaster. In season 9, The Virginian was revamped, and McIntire, along with Jeanette Nolan , Sara Lane, David Hartman , and Tim Matheson , left the show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.626677513122559, "source": "search", "title": "The Virginian (TV series) | Wiki | Everipedia, the ..." } ]

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It was adapted into the 1978 animated film Watership Down. Later there was a television series also titled Watership Down which ran from 1999 to 2001. ", "precise_score": 9.728965759277344, "rough_score": 9.638691902160645, "source": "wiki", "title": "Watership Down" }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "Much of Watership Down takes place in the area where Richard Adams grew up. The detailed descriptions of the natural world in which the rabbits live, therefore, stem from his actual experiences. Adams has seen the places that he writes about; although the novel is fantasy, it is geographically accurate. Watership Down has been viewed as a statement about nature, an attempt to give us a glimpse into the beautiful yet removed world of the woods and grasslands.", "precise_score": 8.215519905090332, "rough_score": 8.585695266723633, "source": "search", "title": "SparkNotes: Watership Down: Context" }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "Watership Down author Richard Adams: I just can’t do humans | Books | The Guardian", "precise_score": 8.943171501159668, "rough_score": 8.812417030334473, "source": "search", "title": "Watership Down author Richard Adams: I just can’t do ..." }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "Like a lot of classic books, Watership Down almost didn’t make it to print. After at least seven rejections, author Richard Adams, then 54 and a civil servant, was on the verge of self-publishing the novel when it was finally picked up by Rex Collings, a one-man publishing outfit in London. Collings wrote to a friend at the time, “I’ve just taken on a novel about rabbits, one of them with extra-sensory perception. Do you think I’m mad? ”", "precise_score": 9.685160636901855, "rough_score": 9.162116050720215, "source": "search", "title": "11 Fascinating Facts About 'Watership Down' | Mental Floss" }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "The title refers to the rabbits' destination, Watership Down, a hill in the north of Hampshire, England, near the area where Adams grew up. The story began as tales that Richard Adams told his young daughters Juliet and Rosamond during long car journeys. As he explained in 2007, he \"began telling the story of the rabbits ... improvised off the top of my head, as we were driving along.\" The daughters insisted he write it down—\"they were very, very persistent\". After some delay he began writing in the evenings and completed it 18 months later. The book is dedicated to the two girls. 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The fragments of language presented by Adams consist of a few dozen distinct words, and are chiefly used for the naming of rabbits, their mythological characters, and objects in their world.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.495800971984863, "source": "wiki", "title": "Watership Down" }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "Richard Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England, in 1920. He served in the British Army from 1940 through 1946, during World War II. In 1948 Adams received a mater's degree from Worcester College at Oxford University. He worked as a civil servant from 1948 to 1974, and since 1974 has been a fulltime author.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.572282791137695, "source": "search", "title": "SparkNotes: Watership Down: Context" }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "It may come as a shock to the millions who loved his book, but Richard Adams is 'not a fluffy bunny sort of person at all.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.853930473327637, "source": "search", "title": "Watership Down web sites - iiNet" }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "England's Rabbits Lose Their Greatest Ally: The rabbit Fiver, shown here in a still from the film version of Watership Down, looks down in horror at a rabbit warren running red with blood. Now, in the part of England where the book is set, exterminators plan to flood rabbit warrens with cyanide gas to kill off an out-of-control rabbit population -- a move Richard Adams, who wrote the book, calls 'a regrettable necessity.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.262722492218018, "source": "search", "title": "Watership Down web sites - iiNet" }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "Run, Fiver, run. Bigwig, be very afraid. 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As a new illustrated edition is published, the author tells Alison Flood why he loves making children wince and weep", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 8.233242988586426, "source": "search", "title": "Watership Down author Richard Adams: I just can’t do ..." }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "Bedtime chiller … Richard Adams, now 94, at home in Hampshire. Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.100714683532715, "source": "search", "title": "Watership Down author Richard Adams: I just can’t do ..." }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "Richard Adams, no stranger to terrifying children with his tales of rabbits being snared or gassed, narrows his eyes and recites, word-perfect, a lengthy passage from an intensely creepy short story by MR James called The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral . The author of Watership Down has been remembering, with some pride, how he used to petrify his children with scary stories at bedtime. “When you’re little,” he says, “you don’t distinguish between fiction and reality. It’s all reality. And thank goodness for that. I do not believe in talking down to children. Readers like to be upset, excited and bowled over. I can remember weeping when I was little at upsetting things that were read to me, but fortunately my mother and father were wise enough to keep going.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.655681848526001, "source": "search", "title": "Watership Down author Richard Adams: I just can’t do ..." }, { "answer": "Richard Adams", "passage": "Lockley’s work was an important addition to the science of rabbits, and it would soon become immortalized in fiction. 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According to Hawke, the historically large $9.6 billion budget deficit left by the Coalition \"became a stick with which we were justifiably able to beat the Liberal National Opposition for many years\". Although Howard was widely regarded at this time as being \"discredited\" by the hidden deficit, he had in fact argued unsuccessfully against Fraser that the revised figures should be disclosed before the election. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.3958418369293213, "source": "wiki", "title": "Paul Keating" }, { "answer": "Bob Hawke", "passage": "Howard, determined to avoid a repeat of the 1993 election, adopted a \"small target\" strategy, publicly committing to keep Labor reforms such as Medicare, and defusing the republic issue by promising to hold a constitutional convention. Howard was therefore successfully able to focus the campaign on the longevity of the Labor government, which by 1996 had been in power for 13 years. 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Some Africans initially opposed construction of the dam, seeing it as a symbol of the unpopular Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland , which dissolved into Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Zambia in 1963. 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Southern Rhodesia, the richest of the three, objected to a Kafue dam and insisted that the dam be sited instead at Kariba. Also, the capacity of the Kafue dam was much lower than that at Kariba. The Kariba Dam is now owned and operated by the Zambezi River Authority, which is jointly and equally owned by Zimbabwe and Zambia. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.728248119354248, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kariba Dam" }, { "answer": "Zambezi", "passage": "The creation of the reservoir forced resettlement of about 57,000 Tonga people living along the Zambezi in both Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia. 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Vast areas of forest and scrub would be inundated. Literally thousands of wild animals would lose their habitats and, more importantly, the local villages would have to be relocated. Analysis of the economic advantages convinced the authorities that the ultimate benefit to the people would outweigh the loss of wildlife and disturbance to people’s lives.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.141358375549316, "source": "search", "title": "Kariba Dam - Zambia Tourism Board" }, { "answer": "Zambezi", "passage": "The Zambezi River rises in north western Zambia and its catchment area covers 1 352 000 square kilometers and eight countries, namely Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. 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The magnificent tigerfish, endemic to the Zambezi River, is a thrilling catch for avid anglers, and the focus of an International  Tigerfishing Tournament held  in Kariba in October each year. Various other species including several types of bream make good eating. Bait is available from the boat harbours and some fishing tackle can be provided, but it is advisable to bring your own if possible.  National Park entry and fishing permits are essential and can usually be obtained from your boat harbour at Kariba.  Be especially careful when fishing or walking near the shoreline, and never swim in the lake.   It has a very large population of crocodiles.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8621795177459717, "source": "search", "title": "Kariba Town - Wild Zambezi" }, { "answer": "Zambezi", "passage": "A famous feature of Kariba craftwork is the intricately-carved wooden walking stick originally designed by an enterprising Kariba artist/entrepreneur in the 1970s.  The sticks, which can be found on sale at all the craft stalls are an interesting artistic blend of the ancient legend of Nyaminyami – River God (or Spirit) of the Zambezi  and the modern story of the Zambezi’s Tonga people who were displaced by the building of the dam.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.832634449005127, "source": "search", "title": "Kariba Town - Wild Zambezi" }, { "answer": "Zambezi", "passage": "WildZambezi.com is the best source of independent travel information on Mana Pools and the Zambezi River Valley. 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They had lived for centuries in the Gwembe Valley along the northern and southern banks of the Zambezi River. But in 1958, this wide valley turned from river to reservoir. Whole villages were flooded, displacing 57,000 indigenous people. Affected communities were given little information about the dam and no choice but to move. Some displaced communities resisted resettlement, but were defeated by colonial authorities in a short battle know as the Chisamu War. Villages were burned so the people could not return.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.378898620605469, "source": "search", "title": "Kariba Dam, Zambia / Zimbabwe | International Rivers" } ]

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According to Ross, her mother actually named her \"Diane\" but a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as \"Diana\" on her birth certificate. Although she was sometimes listed as \"Diana\" during the first Supremes records, she introduced herself as \"Diane\" until early in the group's heyday. Her friends still call her \"Diane\". Ross's grandfather John E. Ross, a native of Gloucester County, Virginia, was born to Washington Ross and Virginia Baytop. Virginia Baytop's mother Francis \"Frankey\" Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the Civil War.", "precise_score": 2.364032745361328, "rough_score": 3.3830671310424805, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diana Ross was named one of the Five Mighty Pop Divas of the Sixties along with Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Martha Reeves and Dionne Warwick. Among other titles, Ross has been named \"The Queen of Motown\".", "precise_score": -4.133360862731934, "rough_score": -8.490680694580078, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diana Ross", "precise_score": -5.48684024810791, "rough_score": -9.575143814086914, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Actress, Singer - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diana Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. She began singing with friends as a teenager, and eventually formed the groundbreaking 1960s trio the Supremes, going on to have hits like \"Come See About Me\" and \"You Can't Hurry Love.\" Ross left for a solo career in 1969, later reaching No. 1 with hits like \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\" and \"Love Hangover.\" She starred in the films Mahogany and Lady Sings the Blues as well, earning an Oscar nomination for the latter. Despite personal and professional ups and downs, Ross has withstood the test of time as a performer with a career that spans more than four decades.", "precise_score": -0.25391918420791626, "rough_score": -0.5120070576667786, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Actress, Singer - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diane Earnestine Earle Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. Developing a reputation as an accomplished performer, Ross began singing in the group the Primettes with friends Mary Wilson , Florence Ballard  and Barbara Martin as a teenager. Martin eventually dropped out, but the remaining members of the group went on to become the internationally successful 1960s R&B and pop trio, the Supremes (later named Diana Ross and the Supremes).", "precise_score": 3.8857946395874023, "rough_score": 7.740329265594482, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Actress, Singer - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diana Ross", "precise_score": -5.48684024810791, "rough_score": -9.575143814086914, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Best known as the the lead singer of the popular 1960s singing group The Supremes , Diana Ernestine Earle Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children of African-American parents Ernestine Lillian (Moten), a schoolteacher, and Fred Earl Ross, who served in the army. After being raised in housing projects for most of the late 1940s and early 1950s, Diana started singing in the gospel choir of a Baptist church. With friends Mary Wilson , Florence Ballard and Barbara Martin, she formed a vocal group, The Primettes, at age 15. After Barbara had departed the group, the remaining three girls inked a deal with Motown Records and were renamed The Supremes . Ross wasn't picked to become the group's lead singer until Motown honcho Berry Gordy decided that the time was exactly right, and from then on he described the group as \"Diana Ross and the Supremes.\" From 1965 to 1969 the group had a string of #1 records. In late 1969 Gordy announced that Ross would be leaving the group for a solo career. In the third week of 1970 she played her last concert with The Supremes and started working with the songwriting team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson . Ross' first two songs by the team reached #1 on both the pop and R&B charts, justifying her move. Prior to starting a family of her own, she won the title role in the Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues (1972), which was extremely successful at the box office, and had the distinction of being nominated for an Academy Award for her first film. The movie's soundtrack reached #1 on the U.S. charts. Despite fame and fortune, her next two big films, Mahogany (1975) and The Wiz (1978), didn't meet with the same success. However, she had a #1 hit single with \"Mahogany\" to make up for it. In February 1976, just before another #1 hit with \"Love Hangover,\" she was stunned when her singing partner and friend, Florence Ballard , died after complications from a combination of alcohol abuse and long-term depression, which led to cardiac arrest. Ballard was only 32 years old and Ross was devastated by the loss.", "precise_score": 3.9253647327423096, "rough_score": 1.7876269817352295, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock History", "precise_score": 4.31083869934082, "rough_score": 7.930913925170898, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit…", "precise_score": 4.084095001220703, "rough_score": 8.023849487304688, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit. She is the lead singer of the Supremes from 1961-69. 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Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Diana Ross has sold more than 100 million records.", "precise_score": -1.4896056652069092, "rough_score": -6.584288120269775, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "That same year, Motown acquired the film rights to the popular Broadway play The Wiz, an African-American reinterpretation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Although teenage Stephanie Mills, a veteran of the play, was originally cast as Dorothy, Diana Ross convinced Universal Pictures producer Rob Cohen to have Ross cast as Dorothy. As a result, the eleven-year old protagonist of the story was altered into a shy twenty-four year old schoolteacher from Harlem, New York. Among Ross’ costars in the film were Lena Horne, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross (no relation), and her former label mate and protégé Michael Jackson from the Jackson 5. Upon its October 1978 release, the film adaptation of The Wiz was a costly commercial and critical failure, and was Ross’ final film for Motown. The accompanying Quincy Jones produced soundtrack album, however, sold over 850,000 copies. As the years have gone by, The Wiz has become a cult classic and in 2008 was re-released in an Anniversary Edition.", "precise_score": -8.07378101348877, "rough_score": -9.658620834350586, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diana Ross is applauded by her fellow Kennedy Center honorees as she is recognized for her achievements by President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007, during the Kennedy Center Gala Reception. 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Williams, Yolanda Adams, and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks performed in a musical tribute.", "precise_score": -8.016657829284668, "rough_score": -9.482000350952148, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diana Ross (1944 - ) Born Diana Ernestine Earle Ross. An American singer, actress, record producer and songwriter. She was the lead singer of the Supremes which was the most successful vocal group as well as one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. 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As part of the Supremes, her success made it possible for future African American R&B and soul acts to find mainstream success. The group released a record-setting, twelve number-one hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 including the hits \"Where Did Our Love Go\", \"Baby Love\", \"Come See About Me\", \"Stop! In the Name of Love\", \"You Can't Hurry Love\", \"You Keep Me Hangin' On\", \"Love Child\" and \"Someday We'll Be Together\".", "precise_score": 5.2347283363342285, "rough_score": 6.062073707580566, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Music on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diana Ross Soundtrack, Bridget Jones's Diary Best known as the the lead singer of the popular 1960s singing group The Supremes , Diana Ernestine Earle Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children of African-American parents Ernestine Lillian (Moten), a schoolteacher, and Fred Earl Ross, who served in the army...", "precise_score": 4.5624871253967285, "rough_score": 6.887456893920898, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb: Most Popular People Born In \"Detroit/ Michigan/ USA\"" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Born in Detroit in 1943, singer Florence Ballard, became famous in the 1960s as a member of The Supremes, a group which she started with childhood friends Mary Wilson and Diana Ross. 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Artists were backed by in-house vocalists The Andantes and The Funk Brothers, the Motown house band that was featured in Paul Justman's 2002 documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, based on Allan Slutsky's book of the same name.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.702180862426758, "source": "wiki", "title": "Detroit" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Following her departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross released her debut solo album, Diana Ross, which contained the hits \"Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)\" and the number-one hit \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\". She released the album Touch Me in the Morning in 1973. Its title track reached number 1, becoming her second solo hit. By 1975, the Mahogany soundtrack included her 3rd number-one hit \"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)\". Her 1976 album Diana Ross included her fourth number-one hit \"Love Hangover\". In 1979, Ross released the album The Boss. Her 1980 album Diana which reached number 2 on the Billboard albums chart and spawned the number-one hit \"Upside Down\" and the international hit \"I'm Coming Out\". After leaving Motown, Ross achieved her sixth and final number-one hit with the duet \"Endless Love\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.900619506835938, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "The group scored their first number-one hit with \"Where Did Our Love Go\", paving the way for unprecedented success: between August 1964 and May 1967, Ross, Wilson and Ballard sang on ten number-one hit singles, all of which also made the UK top 40. The group had also become a hit with audiences both domestically and abroad, going on to become Motown's most successful vocal act throughout the sixties. Following significant issues with her comportment, weight, and alcoholism, Florence Ballard was fired from the Supremes by Gordy in July 1967, hiring Cindy Birdsong from Patti LaBelle and the Blue-Bells as Ballard's replacement. Simultaneously, Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, made it easier to charge a larger performance fee for a solo star and a backing group, as it did for other renamed Motown groups. Gordy initially thought of Ross leaving the Supremes for a solo career in 1966, changing his mind when he figured the group's success was still too significant for Ross to pursue solo obligations. 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That year, Ross hosted her own HBO special, Standing Room Only, taken place in Las Vegas during Ross' \"Tour '79\" concert tour, with most of the performances coming from The Boss album. In 1980, Ross released her most successful album to date, diana. Composed by Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, the album included the hits \"I'm Coming Out\" and \"Upside Down\", the latter becoming her fifth chart-topping single. Prior to leaving Motown, Ross recorded the duet ballad \"Endless Love\", with Lionel Richie. The song would become her sixth and final single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.700066566467285, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "In 1971, Diana Ross began working on her first film, Lady Sings the Blues, which was a loosely based biography on singer Billie Holiday. Despite some criticism of her for taking the role, once the film opened in October 1972, Ross won critical acclaim for her performance in the film. Jazz critic Leonard Feather, a friend of Holiday's, praised Ross for \"expertly capturing the essence of Lady Day\". Ross's role in the film won her Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. The soundtrack to Lady Sings the Blues became just as successful, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200 staying there for two weeks. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.806358337402344, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Ross's second film, Mahogany, was released in 1975. The film reunited her with Billy Dee Williams, her co-star in Lady Sings the Blues, and featured costumes designed by Ross herself. The story of an aspiring fashion designer who becomes a runway model and the toast of the industry, Mahogany was a troubled production from its inception. The film's original director, Tony Richardson, was fired during production, and Berry Gordy assumed the director's chair himself. In addition, Gordy and Ross clashed during filming, with Ross leaving the production before shooting was completed, forcing Gordy to use secretary Edna Anderson as a body double for Ross. While a box office success, the film was not well received by the critics: Time magazine's review of the film chastised Gordy for \"squandering one of America's most natural resources: Diana Ross\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.68554973602295, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "The second concert held the very next day was without rain. The funds for the playground were to be derived from sales of different items at the concert; however, all profits earned from the first concert were spent on the second. When the mainstream media discovered the exorbitant costs of the two concerts, Ross faced criticism and poor publicity. Although her representatives originally refused to pay anything for the proposed playground, Ross herself later paid, out of pocket, the $150,000 required to build the park. The Diana Ross Playground was finally built three years later. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.340349197387695, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "In 1999, she was named the most successful female singer in the history of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. Madonna would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the UK. Later that year, Ross presented at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in September of the year and shocked the audience by touching rapper Lil' Kim's exposed breast, pasty-covered nipple, amazed at the young rapper's brashness.[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,345909__339339_4,00.html \"Diana Ross and Lil' Kim's wild VMA moment\"], Lisa Costantini, August 21, 2002, Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 26, 2007.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.87314510345459, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "In 1999, Ross and mega-tour promoter SFX (which later became LiveNation) began negotiations regarding a Diana Ross tour which would include a Supremes segment. Due to public response the promoters floated the idea of a Supremes Tour instead. Some fans suggested a Supremes tour in which all living former Supremes would participate. Neither Jean Terrell nor late 1970s member Susaye Greene chose to participate. Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne were then touring as members of the Former Ladies of the Supremes. Mary Wilson agreed to begin negotiations, as did Cindy Birdsong. Negotiations however to have the 1967–70 lineup of the group perform together for the first time in a concert tour since 1970 failed when Wilson and SFX could not to come to terms. SFX hired Payne and Laurence to sing with Ross on the tour. Ross, Payne and Laurence had never performed together during their Supremes' tenures. Laurence and Payne would later say they got on well with Ross. The Return to Love tour launched in June 2000, to a capacity audience in Philadelphia, PA. The reunion tour, however, never made it through the first half due to a fan backlash public lack of interest. It was cancelled mid-tour due to lagging ticket sales. Some arenas barely filled to 25% capacity. Most believe there was lack of interest because of high ticket prices,overly large venues & Mary Wilson's negative campaign towards Ross & the former \"Supremes\" she had worked with in the '70s. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.453458786010742, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "On April 1, 2015, Ross began the first of nine performances as a part of her mini-residency, The Essential Diana Ross: Some Memories Never Fade at The Venetian Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.9232177734375, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Motown: The Musical is a Broadway musical that launched on April 14, 2013. 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Billboard magazine named Ross the \"female entertainer of the century\" in 1976. In 1993, she earned a Guinness World Record, due to her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any other female artist in the charts with a career total of 70 hit singles. Ross is also one of the few recording artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one as a solo artist and the other as a member of the Supremes. After her 1983 concert in Central Park, Diana Ross Playground was named in her honor with a groundbreaking opening ceremony in 1986.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.827696800231934, "source": "wiki", "title": "Diana Ross" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Ross was given credit for the discovery of The Jackson 5 although her \"discovery\" was part of Motown's marketing and promotions plan for the Jackson 5. 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This feat puts her in a tie for fifth place among solo female artists with the most No. 1s on the Hot 100.  She is also one of the few recording artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame–one as a solo artist and the other as a member of the trio “The Supremes.” In December 2007, she received a John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Honors Award.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.893525123596191, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "The Supremes in 1965. 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Her first track with Bristol, “Someday We’ll Be Together”, was tagged as her first solo single; it was instead issued as the final Diana Ross & the Supremes release. “Someday We’ll Be Together” was the 12th and the final number-one hit for the Supremes and the last American number-one hit of the 1960s. 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The album’s second single, a cover of Gaye and Terrell’s 1967 hit “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”, was an international hit, and gave Ross her first #1 pop single as a solo artist. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” garnered Ross a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.655379295349121, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "In late 1971, it was announced that Diana Ross was going to play jazz icon Billie Holiday in a Motown-produced biographical film loosely based on Holiday’s autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. From the moment the film was announced, critics ridiculed Ross throughout the media: Ross and Holiday were miles apart from each other in vocal stylings and appearance. Ross soldiered on, immersing herself in Holiday’s music and life story. Ross actually knew little about Holiday and wasn’t a big fan of jazz in general. 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In addition, Gordy and Ross clashed during filming, with Ross leaving the production before shooting was completed, forcing Gordy to use secretary Edna Anderson as a body double for Ross. While a box office hit, the film was not a critical success: Time magazine’s review of the film chastised Gordy for “squandering one of America’s most natural resources: Diana Ross.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.958986282348633, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Ross hit number-one on the pop charts twice in 1976 with “Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)”, and the disco single “Love Hangover”. The successes of these singles made her 1976 album, Diana Ross, her fourth LP to reach the Top 10. In 1977, her Broadway one-woman show earned the singer a special Tony Award. 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Some of the victims of the attacks subsequently filed law suits against New York City for failing to provide adequate security at the concert; the law suits were eventually settled at a cost of millions of dollars. Although representatives of Diana Ross originally refused to pay anything for the proposed playground, citing a lack of revenue from the concert, the Diana Ross Playground was finally built three years later.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.487343788146973, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Other hit singles recorded by Ross for RCA included the Grammy nominated “Muscles” (1982), “So Close” (1983), “Pieces of Ice” (1983), “All of You” (1984), the no. 1 dance hit “Swept Away” (1984), the no. 1 R&B Marvin Gaye tribute “Missing You” (1985), “Eaten Alive” (1985) and the UK number-one single, “Chain Reaction” (1986). Ross also sang on the 1985 worldwide #1 “We Are The World”. Hit albums during this period included the gold-certified releases, All The Great Hits, Silk Electric, Diana Ross Anthology and Swept Away, the latter being the last top forty charted album in Ross’ career for two decades. While Ross continued to have success overseas as the 1980s continued, she began to struggle on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart. The 1987 album Red Hot Rhythm & Blues was a critical but less commercial success and “If We Hold On Together”, the theme to the Don Bluth animated film “The Land Before Time” in 1988 was a # 1 single in Japan, later making the UK Top 20 in 1992. 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Despite a respectable opening in Philadelphia and a sellout show at Madison Square Garden in New York (ironically, the final show they would play), the Return to Love tour was canceled after nine dates, because of lackluster ticket sales.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.205221176147461, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "In 2005, Diana Ross returned to the charts with a pair of duets. “I Got a Crush on You” was recorded with Rod Stewart for his album The Great American Songbook, and reached #19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart. 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The winner, worldwide, was Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” while Ross’ version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” was No. 2. This track was the top choice by British voters. The poll determined the track listing for a Motown fiftieth anniversary album to be released in December. So many Supremes and Diana Ross cuts finished in the Top 50 of the poll that they had to eliminate some of their songs from the anniversary album or it would have been another Diana Ross CD.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.142782211303711, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "To see a list of awards and accolades won by Diana Ross, see List of Diana Ross awards and accolades.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.080328941345215, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Further information: Diana Ross discography", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.005531311035156, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* 1970: Diana Ross (US R&B #1))", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.655658721923828, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* 1976: Diana Ross (US #5; UK #4)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.659224510192871, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* The Big Event: An Evening with Diana Ross (1977)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.680294036865234, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* Diana Ross in Concert! (1979)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.763094902038574, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* Standing Room Only: Diana Ross (1981)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.871870040893555, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* For One And For All – Diana Ross Live! in Central Park (1983)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.829316139221191, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* Diana Ross: Red Hot Rhythm and Blues (1987)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.989094734191895, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* Diana Ross: Workin’ Overtime (1989)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.122020721435547, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "* Diana Ross Live! The Lady Sings… Jazz & Blues: Stolen Moments (1992)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.063252449035645, "source": "search", "title": "1944 – Diana Ross (Diane Earle) is born in Detroit… | Rock ..." }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Diana Ross - Music on Google Play", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.191205024719238, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Music on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Following her departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross released her debut solo album, Diana Ross, which contained the hits \"Reach Out and Touch\" and the number-one hit \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\". She released the album Touch Me in the Morning in 1973. Its title track reached number 1, becoming her second solo hit.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.910568237304688, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Music on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Every Day is a New Day is a studio album by American singer Diana Ross, released in 1999 on the Motown label. It was released around the same time as the television motion picture, Double Platinum,...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.11884880065918, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Music on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Take Me Higher is a studio album by American singer Diana Ross, released in 1995 on the Motown label. It reached #114 in the USA and sold a little over 100,000 copies. 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Primarily written and produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, the album also includes a contribution from Michael Jackson wh...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.68728256225586, "source": "search", "title": "Diana Ross - Music on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Singer Florence Ballard formed The Supremes in 1961 with childhood friends Mary Wilson and Diana Ross. She sang on 16 different Top 40 hits.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.501226425170898, "source": "search", "title": "Florence Ballard - Singer - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Although Ballard had a huge and soulful voice, she never sang lead again on another released 45 single for the group. In 1963, Motown leader Berry Gordy named Diana Ross lead singer of The Supremes. However, Ballard did sing lead parts throughout her Supremes career on several album tracks. Most famous were the second verses of \"It Makes No Difference Now\" from The Supremes Sing Country Western And Pop and \"Ain't That Good News\" from We Remember Sam Cooke, plus the Christmas songs \"Silent Night\" and \"O Holy Night.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.010974884033203, "source": "search", "title": "Florence Ballard - Singer - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Diana Ross", "passage": "Questions have arisen about the cause of Ballard's death over the years, with her sister Maxine Ballard Jenkins alleging that there was foul play. Ballard's short life witnessed more than its share of disappointment and sadness. But her contribution to music, especially as a member of The Supremes, brought joy to fans around the world. Ballard sang on 16 different Top 40 hits; she, Diana Ross, and Mary Wilson dazzled the world with their talent and style, becoming role models to millions of people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.009428024291992, "source": "search", "title": "Florence Ballard - Singer - Biography.com" } ]

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The later version was recorded by Kate Smith, and became her signature song.", "precise_score": 10.758689880371094, "rough_score": 10.688875198364258, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Smith, God Bless America - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "America's unofficial national anthem was composed by an immigrant who left his home in Siberia for America when he was only five years old. The original version of \"God Bless America\" was written by Irving Berlin (1888-1989) during the summer of 1918 at Camp Upton, located in Yaphank, Long Island, for his Ziegfeld-style revue, Yip, Yip, Yaphank. \"Make her victorious on land and foam, God Bless America...\" ran the original lyric. However, Berlin decided that the solemn tone of \"God Bless America\" was somewhat out of keeping with the more comedic elements of the show and the song was laid aside.", "precise_score": 9.444371223449707, "rough_score": 8.751435279846191, "source": "search", "title": "God Bless America (Memory): American Treasures of the ..." }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "He was irritated by Irving Berlin's \"God Bless America,\" sung by Kate Smith , which seemed to be endlessly playing on the radio in the late 1930s. So irritated, in fact, that he wrote this song as a retort, at first sarcastically calling it \"God Blessed America for Me\" before renaming it \"This Land Is Your Land.\" Guthrie's original words to the song included this verse:", "precise_score": 8.028707504272461, "rough_score": 9.127130508422852, "source": "search", "title": "The Story Of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "Irving Berlin wrote the song in 1918 while serving the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, but decided that it did not fit in a revue called Yip Yip Yaphank, so he set it aside. The lyrics at that time included the line \"Make her victorious on land and foam, God bless America...\" as well as \"Stand beside her and guide her to the right with the light from above\".[http://www.npr.org/2013/09/02/216877219/from-peace-to-patriotism-the-shifting-identity-of-god-bless-america \"From Peace To Patriotism: The Shifting Identity Of 'God Bless America'\"]. Interview of Sheryl Kaskowitz by Robert Siegel. NPR.org. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 8.153946876525879, "source": "wiki", "title": "God Bless America" }, { "answer": "Israel Baline", "passage": "Music critic Jody Rosen says that a 1906 Jewish dialect novelty song, \"When Mose with His Nose Leads the Band,\" contains a six-note fragment that is \"instantly recognizable as the opening strains of \"God Bless America\"\". He interprets this as an example of Berlin's \"habit of interpolating bits of half-remembered songs into his own numbers.\" Berlin, born Israel Baline, had himself written several Jewish-themed novelty tunes. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.596437931060791, "source": "wiki", "title": "God Bless America" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "In 1938, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Irving Berlin, who was Jewish and had arrived in America from Russia at the age of five, felt it was time to revive it as a \"peace song,\" and it was introduced on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938, sung by Kate Smith on her radio show. Berlin had made some minor changes; by this time, \"to the right\" might have been considered a call to the political right, so he substituted \"through the night\" instead. He also provided an introduction that is now rarely heard but which Smith always used: \"While the storm clouds gather far across the sea / Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free / Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, / As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.\" (In her first broadcast of the song, Kate Smith sang \"that we're far from there\" rather than \"for a land so fair\".) This was changed when Berlin published the sheet music in March 1939.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.145666122436523, "source": "wiki", "title": "God Bless America" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "In 1943, Smith's rendition was featured in the patriotic musical \"This is the Army\" along with other Berlin songs. The manuscripts in the Library of Congress reveal the evolution of the song from victory to peace. Berlin gave the royalties of the song to 'The God Bless America Fund' for redistribution to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in New York City. Smith performed the song on her two NBC television series in the 1950s and in her short-lived The Kate Smith Show on CBS, which aired on CBS from January 25 to July 18, 1960. \"God Bless America\" also spawned another of Irving Berlin's tunes, \"Heaven Watch The Philippines,\" during the end of World War II after he heard the Filipinos sing a slightly revised version of the song replacing \"America\" with \"The Philippines.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.8544538021087646, "source": "wiki", "title": "God Bless America" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "“I’d like to write a great peace song,” Irving Berlin told a journalist in 1938, “but it’s hard to do, because you have trouble dramatizing peace.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.509819030761719, "source": "search", "title": "The story behind Irving Berlin's \"God Bless America\"" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "As for Irving Berlin, he lived to the ripe old age of 101, passing away in 1989. Though his incredible legacy of songs ranges from the glitzy (“Putting On the Ritz”) to the sentimental (“Always”) to the seasonal (“White Christmas”), “God Bless America” remains one of his most personal achievements.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.7930396795272827, "source": "search", "title": "The story behind Irving Berlin's \"God Bless America\"" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "“God Bless America” has attained the “composerless” status of an anthem or a folk song, but it has roots in Tin Pan Alley . Irving Berlin—who would go on to write classics like “White Christmas” and “Easter Parade”—originally wrote the song in 1918 as the finale to an all-soldier revue called Yip, Yip, Yaphank, but he ultimately decided not to include it, tucking it away in his trunk of discarded songs.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 8.219482421875, "source": "search", "title": "6 Things You Didn't Know About the Song 'God Bless America'" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "Today, “God Bless America” is often used as a symbol of support for war, sung by soldiers in uniform at baseball games and other events. But when Irving Berlin rediscovered his old song in 1938, he had been looking for a “peace song” as a response to the escalating conflict in Europe. He made changes to it and gave it to radio star Kate Smith to perform on her radio show on the eve of the first official celebration of Armistice Day—a holiday originally conceived to commemorate world peace and honor veterans of the Great War. (The peace part would be dropped in 1954, when it became Veteran’s Day.) In announcing the song’s premiere on her daytime talk show, Kate Smith declared, “As I stand before the microphone and sing it with all my heart, I’ll be thinking of our veterans and I’ll be praying with every breath I draw that we shall never have another war.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.119356155395508, "source": "search", "title": "6 Things You Didn't Know About the Song 'God Bless America'" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "Since Irving Berlin was a Jewish immigrant (born Israel Baline, the son of a Jewish cantor who fled persecution in Europe), there were some who questioned both his right to evoke God and to call the United States his “home sweet home.” In 1940, the song was boycotted by the KKK and the Nazi-affiliated German American Bund, and the newspaper of a domestic pro-Nazi organization printed a screed against the song, in which the author wrote, “[I do] not consider G-B-A a ‘patriotic’ song, in the sense of expressing the real American attitude toward his country, but consider that it smacks of the ‘How glad I am’ attitude of the refugee horde.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.4950480461120605, "source": "search", "title": "6 Things You Didn't Know About the Song 'God Bless America'" }, { "answer": "Irving Berlin", "passage": "“God Bless America” was added to the seventh inning stretch after the September 11th attacks in 2001, but this was not the first time the song had become part of our national pastime or other sports. 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[ { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "\"The Tide Is High\" is a 1966 song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group the Paragons, with John Holt as lead singer. The song gained international attention in 1980, when a version by the American band Blondie became a US/UK number one hit. The British girl group Atomic Kitten also had a number one hit with their version of the song in 2002, and a version of the song was a minor hit for Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall in 2008.", "precise_score": 4.226205825805664, "rough_score": -3.290030002593994, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Tide Is High" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "\"The Tide Is High\" was covered by the American new wave band Blondie in 1980, in a reggae style that included horns and strings. It was released as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album, Autoamerican (1980). It was Blondie's third number one smash on the Billboard Hot 100 and their fifth in the UK. It also went on to reach the top three of Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, and was popular throughout the world, reaching no. 4 in Australia, and no. 15 in Germany. It was the last UK number one single for the band until \"Maria\" in 1999. The B-side of \"The Tide Is High\" was \"Suzie and Jeffrey\", which appeared as a bonus track on the original 1980 cassette edition of the album Autoamerican and was also included on EMI-Capitol's re-issue of Autoamerican in 2001.", "precise_score": 4.902879238128662, "rough_score": -0.1238071620464325, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Tide Is High" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "Blondie in the 80s", "precise_score": -8.53177547454834, "rough_score": -9.5523099899292, "source": "search", "title": "Blondie - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "As with the reggae-inspired The Tide is High, this totally different style of music didn't go down well with some Blondie fans, and was a mile away from the band's original new wave/punk rock sound. 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The compilation was part of a 2-disc set called Blondie 4(0) Ever which included their 10th studio album Ghosts of Download and marked the 40th anniversary of the forming of the band.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.517168998718262, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Tide Is High" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "In 2002, the song was covered by English girl group Atomic Kitten, and was released as the second single from their second studio album, Feels So Good (2002). Their version of the song also added a new bridge, hence the subtitle \"Get the Feeling\". The full song was played during the opening credits of The Lizzie McGuire Movie, and was also used for a TV commercial featuring Japanese beer company, Asahi Breweries. This was the group's third and final number-one single. The Atomic Kitten version was selected by The Daily Telegraph writer David Cheal as one of his \"Top five awful cover versions\" in 2002, describing it as \"a ghastly, sickly confection that has none of the wistfulness or soulfulness of either Blondie's version or the Paragons' original\". 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Blondie's version reached No.2 in the UK in 1978, and was kept off the top spot by Kate Bush with Wuthering Heights.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.144505500793457, "source": "search", "title": "Blondie - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "This was the first single to be lifted from Blondie's third album Parallel Lines and reached No.12 in the UK singles chart in 1978. The single was not released in the U.S. In the promotional video (see the playlist above) Debbie Harry is wearing a yellow dress designed by Stephen Sprouse. The fashion designer pioneered sixties-inspired, neon and graffiti print clothing that has a sophisticated style.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.970588684082031, "source": "search", "title": "Blondie - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "There have been literally dozens of cover versions of Call Me, the most notable ones being by The Dandy Warhols on their 2004 album Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols. Also, Tina Arena (remember her?) on the 2008 album Songs Of Love & Loss II (this was a unique swing version) and by Scottish band Franz Ferdinand on the War Child Charity Album after a request by Blondie themselves.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.472654342651367, "source": "search", "title": "Blondie - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "The driving bass-line in Atomic makes this my joint favourite Blondie track along with the previous single Call Me. It was the third single to be released from Blondie's fourth studio album Eat To The Beat, and reached #1 in the UK for two weeks on 1st March 1980. The single was actually a remix of the 4:35 album version.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.488893508911133, "source": "search", "title": "Blondie - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "Eat To The Beat made #1 in the UK album charts and #17 in the US. This is Blondie's most-loved album and regarded by many as a step-up from the previous album Parallel Lines. It features the perfect blend of 80s new wave, punk, catchy pop and a beautiful ballad called Shayla. Add the quality drumming of Clem Burke and you end up with one of the finest albums ever released.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.517701148986816, "source": "search", "title": "Blondie - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "Blondie were never shy of trying out new music styles, and Rapture was the first rap-influenced single to reach #1 on the American Billboard charts. It peaked at #5 in the UK during January 1985 and was taken from the album Autoamerican.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.378520965576172, "source": "search", "title": "Blondie - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com" }, { "answer": "Blondie", "passage": "Released in April 1982, Island Of Lost Souls was a bright and breezy, calypso style pop song that peaked at #11 in the UK, #13 in Australia and #37 in the US. It was the first single to be lifted from Blondie's sixth studio album The Hunter, and was written by Deborah Harry and Chris Stein.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.317248344421387, "source": "search", "title": "Blondie - 80s Songs and Albums - simplyeighties.com" } ]

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Ekland's next prominent role came when she was cast as the lead Bond girl, Mary Goodnight, in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, which received mixed reviews but furthered Ekland's status as a sex symbol. In 1976 she provided the French spoken part at the end of then boyfriend Rod Stewart's hit single \"Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)\". Ekland also portrayed biographical characters, such as the one based on real-life actress Anny Ondra (boxer Max Schmeling's wife) in the television movie Ring of Passion (1978). Ekland was also featured in the horror pictures The Monster Club (1980) and Satan's Mistress (1982). 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Cape finally published it in 1953 on the recommendation of Fleming's older brother Peter, an established travel writer. Between 1953 and 1966, two years after his death, twelve novels and two short-story collections were published, with the last two books – The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights – published posthumously. All the books were published in the UK through Jonathan Cape.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.974883079528809, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "The Man With The Golden Gun", "passage": "Fleming's novels and early screen adaptations presented minimal equipment such as the booby-trapped attaché case in From Russia with Love, although this situation changed dramatically with the films. 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Honor Blackman? Ok, so where did Maud Adams, the bland Swedish model-actress killed halfway through The Man With The Golden Gun, appear? Last? Yep, she was pretty much last on our list too. We just don’t get it. She isn’t even that attractive. 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In 1987 he released his second solo album, Primitive Cool. While it failed to match the commercial success of his debut, it was critically well received. In 1988 he produced the songs \"Glamour Boys\" and \"Which Way to America\" on Living Colour's album Vivid. Between 15 and 28 March he had a solo concert tour in Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka). 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Two older brothers, Bernie and Johnny, preceded him into professional boxing, both adopting the name of their idol, Jack Dempsey. Neither was particularly successful.", "precise_score": 6.794190406799316, "rough_score": 7.809244632720947, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "His professional boxing career at a stand-still, Dempsey served for a few months as a sparring partner for heavyweight contender Carl Morris . Around the same time, he found a new manager, Jack \"Doc\" Kearns . Kearns brought momentum back to Dempsey's boxing hopes. Between September and November 1916, Dempsey ran up four successive victories against marginal (at best) competition in Utah and Colorado. Then Kearns got Dempsey a shot at his first internationally known opponent, veteran heavyweight Fireman Jim Flynn , a former title challenger known for his rugged fighting style and punching power. The fight took place on February 13, 1917 , in Murray, Utah. Dempsey claimed he injured his right hand days before the fight but told no one and went ahead with the fight because he needed the money. Dempsey was knocked out in the first round. It would be the only knockout loss of his career. Newspapers reported that Flynn put Dempsey down for the count with a right to the jaw ten seconds into the fight. However, in his three autobiographies, Dempsey claimed he was floored several times, and his brother, who was working his corner, stopped the fight prematurely. Many believe he took a dive, but Dempsey always denied it.", "precise_score": 2.5600972175598145, "rough_score": 4.6751251220703125, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "He began knocking out his opponents in six of his first eight fights. When he eventually lost to a relatively unknown boxer named Jack Downey, Dempsey went to Nevada. He was not happy there and resolved to return to his home state of Colorado. Here, he was once again highly successful. He fought Jack Downey again, this time resulting in a draw.", "precise_score": 5.756889820098877, "rough_score": 6.678404331207275, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey Biography – Life of American Boxer" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "Boxing’s Greats of the States | Colorado: Jack Dempsey", "precise_score": 5.950456619262695, "rough_score": 3.5092790126800537, "source": "search", "title": "Boxing’s Greats of the States | Colorado: Jack Dempsey ..." }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "Born William Harrison Dempsey in Manassa, Colorado, he grew up in a poor family in Colorado, West Virginia, and Utah.According to a January 11, 1955 Sports Illustrated article The son of Mary Celia (née Smoot) and Hiram Dempsey, his family's lineage consisted of Irish, Cherokee, and Jewish ancestry. Following his parents' conversion to Mormonism, Dempsey was baptized into the LDS Church in 1903 following his 8th birthday, the \"age of accountability\", according to Mormon doctrine. Because his father had difficulty finding work, the family traveled often and Dempsey dropped out of elementary school to work and left home at the age of 16. Due to his lack of money, he frequently traveled underneath trains and slept in hobo camps.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.197004318237305, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jack Dempsey" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "It may not be that well-known, but Colorado has a rich history in boxing. Some great pugilists have come through the Centennial State, but none had more of an impact on the Sweet Science than Jack Dempsey.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.970655679702759, "source": "search", "title": "Boxing's Greats of the States | Colorado: Jack Dempsey" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "Nicknamed for the Colorado town in which he was born, “The Manassa Mauler” scored wins over icons Jess Willard, Jack Sharkey, Luis Firpo, Billy Miske and Georges Carpentier, knocking out all of them. Dempsey was defeated in his two legendary brawls with fellow all-time great Gene Tunney in 1926 and 1927, losing both battles by decision. Some of his fights were so massive that they filled up Yankee Stadium, Soldier Field, the Polo Grounds and, of course, Madison Square Garden.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.808422803878784, "source": "search", "title": "Boxing's Greats of the States | Colorado: Jack Dempsey" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "William left school at the age of sixteen and began working as a laborer at various Colorado railroad stations and mining camps. In his free time, he frequented saloons, challenging other patrons to fisticuffs for side bets. Though he weighed only 150 pounds, he routinely beat older, bigger men and the men who saw him fight began calling him \"Kid Blackie\" because of his jet black hair. Soon enough, he was participating in organized prizefights, though the details of his record as Kid Blackie have been lost to history.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.376904487609863, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "According to Dempsey, his first organized bout for money took place against a fellow named Freddy Woods in Montrose, Colorado. The date is uncertain, but it was probably in 1913. There is, however, no newspaper account or hard evidence to confirm the fight. Dempsey said he promoted the fight himself. Dempsey was dropped by a body shot in the fourth round, but he came back later in the round to knock Woods unconscious with a right to the chin. \"I paid Woods fifteen dollars,\" Dempsey said. \"After expenses, I made almost thirty buck.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.0586354732513428, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "The earliest fight that researchers have uncovered was a six-round draw against the otherwise forgotten Young Herman, which took place on August 17, 1914, in Ramona, Colorado.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.413360595703125, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "A few months later, Dempsey relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he won three consecutive fights by first-round knockout. He suffered his first recorded loss there in 1915, losing a decision to a more experienced fighter named Jack Downey. Less than a year later, on February 21, 1916 , he knocked out Downey in two rounds. Kid Blackie continued taking bouts wherever he could find them in the West: Nevada, Colorado, Utah. In early 1916, he strung off seven consecutive wins and decided to try his hand in New York City. His brothers had retired by this point, and William looked to make his name as the new \"Jack Dempsey.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.5383915901184082, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "By this time, controversy began to surround the champion. During his early title reign, Dempsey was not a generally liked figure. His fighting style brought in crowds, but many regarded him as immoral, thuggish and even cowardly as a man. The public considered Miske and Brennan to be push-overs for Dempsey, and they demanded to see him in with a top flight fighter. Worse yet, information had surfaced that Dempsey had dodged the draft for the First World War, which had only just ended. His estranged wife, a prostitute, had publicly brought charges against him of neglect. Dempsey avoided a conviction for draft evasion by proving that he was the sole support for his large family back in Colorado, which precluded his eligibility for conscription. The divorce proceedings with Maxine Cates, meanwhile turned into what journalists of the times called the \"Trial of the Century.\" In both the court and newspapers, Mrs. Dempsey spewed all sorts of scandalous intrigues about Dempsey's early years as a wandering hobo and frequenter of whorehouses. The public came to regard him as a far cry from the role model most expected from the heavyweight champion of the world. Eventually, the trial faded from the headlines and the Dempseys were divorced. Still, all of the mud-slinging had left a bad taste in the mouth of the public for Jack.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6703827381134033, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "Newspapers of October 18, 1924, reported that Dempsey's first manager, Norman (Buck) Weaver, 42, was accidentally shot dead while duck hunting 19 miles southwest of Pueblo, Colorado. He and a companion, Howard Walker, 22, were sitting in separate boats when Walker laid down his shotgun to pick up the oars to row and the gun discharged. Weaver was hit in the face and died several hours later.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.66629695892334, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "Dempsey was born in Manassa, Colorado, on June 24, 1895. He was the youngest child in a large Mormon family, which was rather poor due to his father’s lack of employment. For this reason, Jack only went to school until the age of eight, when he began to be employed to tend crops on the farm.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.3113458156585693, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Dempsey Biography – Life of American Boxer" }, { "answer": "Colorado", "passage": "Born in Manassa, Colorado, as William Harrison Dempsey, he grew up in Colorado, West Virginia, and Utah, in a poor family. He was the son of Mary Celia and Hiram Dempsey, and his ancestry included Irish, Cherokee, and a Jewish paternal great-great-grandmother. Both parents became Mormon converts, and Jack was baptized on August 2, 1903, after he reached the required age of accountability. Jack would later write, \"I'm proud to be a Mormon. And ashamed to be the Jack Mormon that I am.\" Because his father had difficulty finding work, the family traveled often. 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A warning to Americans against taking passage on British vessels, signed by the Imperial German Embassy, appeared in morning papers on the day the vessel was scheduled to sail from New York, but too late to accomplish its purpose. The vessel was unarmed, though the Germans made a point of the fact that it carried munitions for the Allies. The considerable sympathy for Germany that had previously existed in the United States to a large extent disappeared after the disaster, and there were demands from many for an immediate declaration of war. President Wilson chose the course of diplomacy and sent Germany a strong note asking for \"reparation so far as reparation is possible.\" Germany refused to accept responsibility for the act in an argumentative reply, but issued secret orders to submarine commanders not to attack passenger ships without warning. After prolonged negotiations, Germany finally conceded its liability for the sinking of the Lusitania and agreed to make reparations and to discontinue sinking passenger ships without warning. The immediate crisis between the United States and Germany subsided. The incident, however, contributed to the rise of American sentiment for the entry of the United States into World War I, with recruitment posters two years later urging potential enlistees to \"Remember the Lusitania!\"", "precise_score": 8.840147018432617, "rough_score": 8.089430809020996, "source": "search", "title": "Lusitania, ship - Infoplease" }, { "answer": "Lusitania", "passage": "On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans. The attack aroused considerable indignation in the United States, but Germany defended the action, noting that it had issued warnings of its intent to attack all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain.", "precise_score": 9.588807106018066, "rough_score": 8.664593696594238, "source": "search", "title": "Lusitania sinks - May 07, 1915 - HISTORY.com" }, { "answer": "Lusitania", "passage": "In early May 1915, several New York newspapers published a warning by the German embassy in Washington that Americans traveling on British or Allied ships in war zones did so at their own risk. The announcement was placed on the same page as an advertisement of the imminent sailing of the Lusitania liner from New York back to Liverpool. The sinkings of merchant ships off the south coast of Ireland prompted the British Admiralty to warn the Lusitania to avoid the area or take simple evasive action, such as zigzagging to confuse U-boats plotting the vessel’s course. The captain of the Lusitania ignored these recommendations, and at 2:12 p.m. on May 7 the 32,000-ton ship was hit by an exploding torpedo on its starboard side. 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The sinkings of merchant ships off the south coast of Ireland and reports of submarine activity there prompted the British Admiralty to warn the Lusitania to avoid the area and to recommend adopting the evasive tactic of zigzagging, changing course every few minutes at irregular intervals to confuse any attempt by U-boats to plot her course for torpedoing. The ship’s captain, William Thomas Turner, chose to ignore these recommendations, and on the afternoon of May 7 the vessel was attacked. A torpedo struck and exploded amidships on the starboard side, and a heavier explosion followed, possibly caused by damage to the ship’s steam engines and pipes. Within 20 minutes the Lusitania had sunk, and 1,198 people were drowned. The loss of the liner and so many of its passengers, including 128 U.S. citizens, aroused a wave of indignation in the United States , and it was fully expected that a declaration of war would follow, but the U.S. government clung to its policy of neutrality.", "precise_score": 4.960158348083496, "rough_score": 5.263186931610107, "source": "search", "title": "Lusitania | British ship | Britannica.com" }, { "answer": "Lusitania", "passage": "Aug 25, 2009 the proper course of action, however in May of 1915, the Germans sunk another ship carrying American passengers. 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Like most other White Star Liners, these three ships were born of a special effort by the line to attract more immigrants by treating them with respect and making their crossings pleasurable.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.970385551452637, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ocean liner" }, { "answer": "Lusitania", "passage": "The outbreak of World War I greatly disrupted commercial trans-Atlantic travel. While some companies continued to maintain a regular schedule of voyages, the sinking of the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland by a German U-boat in May 1915 with the loss of nearly 1,200 passengers and crew highlighted the dangers involved. 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The captain of the Lusitania ignored these recommendations, and at 2:12 p.m. on May 7, in the waters of the Celtic Sea, the 32,000-ton ship was hit by an exploding torpedo on its starboard side. The torpedo blast was followed by a larger explosion, probably of the ship’s boilers. The Lusitania sank within 20 minutes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.574808120727539, "source": "search", "title": "German submarine sinks Lusitania - May 07, 1915 - HISTORY.com" }, { "answer": "Lusitania", "passage": "Germany justified the attack by stating, correctly, that the Lusitania was an enemy ship, and that it was carrying munitions. It was primarily a passenger ship, however, and among the 1,201 drowned in the attack were many women and children, including 128 Americans. Colonel Edward House, close associate of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, was in London for a diplomatic visit when he learned of the Lusitania‘s demise. 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The United States eventually sent three notes to Berlin protesting the action, and Germany apologized and pledged to end unrestricted submarine warfare. In November, however, a U-boat sunk an Italian liner without warning, killing 272 people, including 27 Americans. 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Because if you just do the simple math, the amount of people who are in our two unions, the amount of people who in our profession are out of work at any given time, the amount of movies that are made every year, and then you're one of five. How could you possibly think of yourself as a loser?\"", "precise_score": 2.9812088012695312, "rough_score": 4.550336837768555, "source": "wiki", "title": "Glenn Close" }, { "answer": "Fatal Attraction", "passage": "Ironically, it took a villainess role, that of the “Other Woman,” in the suspenseful blockbuster Fatal Attraction, to put Close at the forefront of leading ladies, for which she was rewarded with a fourth (and first Best Actress) nomination. “I wanted to break out of the kinds of roles I used to do, because I was boring myself,” Close said about her typecasting as an earth mother. 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For a third and final time, Close was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Close went on to star in films like The Stone Boy (1984), Maxie (1985) and Jagged Edge (1985). In 1987 Close was cast in the box office hit Fatal Attraction (1987) for which she portrayed deranged stalker Alex Forrest alongside costars Michael Douglas and Anne Archer . For this role she was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress. The following year Close starred in the Oscar Winning Drama Dangerous Liaisons (1988) for which she portrayed one of the most classic roles of all time as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil, starring alongside John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer . For this role she was nominated once again for the Academy Award and BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress. Close was favorite to win the coveted statue but lost to Jodie Foster for The Accused (1988). Close had her claim to fame in the 1980s. Close starred on the hit Drama series Damages (2007) for which she has won a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. In her career Close has been Oscar nominated six times, won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award.", "precise_score": 5.5396881103515625, "rough_score": 6.530148029327393, "source": "search", "title": "Glenn Close - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Fatal Attraction", "passage": "Cher gained more respect for her film work as the widowed bookkeeper in \"Moonstruck\". Glenn Close played \"the other woman\" who won't be ignored in \"Fatal Attraction\". Holly Hunter was the year's breakthrough star with a leading role in \"Broadcast News\". Sally Kirland portrayed a famed actress, who was denied reentry to her native country after the 1968 communist invasion, in \"Anna\". 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Her first film role was in The World According to Garp (1982), which she followed up with supporting roles in The Big Chill (1983), and The Natural (1984); all three earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She would later receive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and Albert Nobbs (2011). In the 1990s, she won two more Tony Awards, for Death and the Maiden in 1992 and Sunset Boulevard in 1995, while she won her first Emmy Award for the 1995 TV film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.922642469406128, "source": "wiki", "title": "Glenn Close" }, { "answer": "Fatal Attraction", "passage": "In 1984, Close starred in the critically acclaimed drama Something About Amelia, a Golden Globe-winning television movie about a family destroyed by sexual abuse. In 1987 she played the disturbed book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction, this role later propelled Close into stardom. The movie became the highest-grossing film worldwide in that year and has been considered one of Close's most iconic roles. During the re-shoot of the ending, Close suffered a concussion from one of the takes when her head smashed against a mirror. After being rushed to the hospital, she discovered, much to her horror, that she was actually a few weeks pregnant with her daughter. To this day, Close said watching the ending makes her uncomfortable because of how much she unknowingly put her unborn daughter at risk from the physically demanding shoot. In 1988 she played the scheming aristocrat The Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons. Close was nominated for her first BAFTA for that role but did not win. She later went on to play the role of Sunny von Bülow in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune to critical acclaim. 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[ { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family. The story, spanning 1945 to 1955, chronicles the family under the patriarch Vito Corleone, focusing on the transformation of Michael Corleone (Pacino) from reluctant family outsider to ruthless Mafia boss.", "precise_score": 7.664639472961426, "rough_score": 8.157928466796875, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "The concept of a mafia \"Godfather\" was an invention of Mario Puzo's and the film's effect was to add the fictional nomenclature to the language. Similarly, Don Vito Corleone's unforgettable \"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse\"voted the second most memorable line in cinema history in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes by the American Film Institutewas adopted by actual gangsters. In the French novel Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac wrote of Vautrin telling Eugene: \"In that case I will make you an offer that no one would decline.\" According to Anthony Fiato, Patriarca crime family members Paulie Intiso and Nicky Giso modeled their speech on Brando's portrayal. Intiso would frequently swear and use poor grammar; but after the movie came out, he started to articulate and philosophize more.", "precise_score": 4.229397773742676, "rough_score": 5.560997009277344, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "The Godfather is a famous crime novel written by Italian American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It details the story of a fictional Mafia family based in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia. The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.", "precise_score": 10.838227272033691, "rough_score": 9.270143508911133, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "In 2004, Random House published a sequel to Puzo's The Godfather, The Godfather Returns, by Mark Winegardner. A further sequel by Winegardner, The Godfather's Revenge, was released in 2006. The sequel novels continue the story from Puzo's novel.", "precise_score": 7.313477516174316, "rough_score": 7.397281169891357, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "The Godfather Returns picks up the story immediately after the end of Puzo's The Godfather. It covers the years 1955 to 1962, as well as providing significant backstory for Michael Corleone's character prior to the events of the first novel. The events of the film The Godfather Part II all take place within the time frame of this novel, but are only mentioned in the background. The novel contains an appendix that attempts to correlate the events of the novels with the events of the films.", "precise_score": 5.1552958488464355, "rough_score": 7.519238471984863, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "\"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse\" was included in both the original Puzo novel, The Godfather (1969), and used in the film adaptation (1972). It is the second ranking cinematic quote included in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes (2005) by the American Film Institute. Its origin very well may be from the same work to which Balzac is credited with the opening epigraph. Balzac wrote of Vautrin telling Eugene: \"In that case I will make you an offer that no one would decline.\" ", "precise_score": 3.740436553955078, "rough_score": 5.740486145019531, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "The estate of Mario Puzo, who wrote the novel that was adapted into the classic Francis Ford Coppola film, The Godfather, has fired back at Paramount Pictures' attempts to stop a new licensed literary sequel. On Monday, the Puzo estate filed an answer and counterclaim in New York federal court that alleges Paramount doesn't have as much hold on the Godfather franchise as the studio asserts. In fact, the Puzo estate now wishes to terminate its original 1969 rights grant to Paramount, which would have huge implications well beyond mere books.", "precise_score": 8.663564682006836, "rough_score": 8.34738540649414, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "When Mr. Puzo wrote ''The Godfather'' in the late 1960's, he did it reluctantly. His first two novels had received favorable reviews but had earned him a total of $6,500. At 45 and in debt, he thought he was going downhill fast as a writer. But he had some favorite stories to tell about the Mafia, and for the money, he decided to write a book about Italian-Americans in organized crime. From the author's account, he had scant encouragement from publishers and received an advance of only $5,000. But when the book was published in 1969, it became one of the most phenomenal successes in literary and cinematic history.", "precise_score": 7.403069496154785, "rough_score": 6.794040203094482, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "In a preface to a new edition of his second novel, ''The Fortunate Pilgrim,'' Mr. Puzo said that his mother was the model for Don Corleone, the Godfather (the character played by Mr. Brando and later, at an earlier age, by Mr. De Niro). ''Whenever the Godfather opened his mouth,'' he wrote, ''in my own mind I heard the voice of my mother.'' He said ''The Fortunate Pilgrim'' began as a book about himself but was taken over by the character of Lucia Santa, based on his mother: ''My mother was a wonderful, handsome woman, but a fairly ruthless person.''", "precise_score": 5.216522216796875, "rough_score": 7.741926670074463, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "Mario Puzo, who wrote the novel upon which the films were based and helped write the first two screenplays, had another Corleone story in his pocket, it turns out, tracing in more detail Vito's rise through the 1920's and 30's New York mob scene. The tales took shape in a screenplay that went unproduced, and while the original actors are far too old or otherwise unavailable to bring a fourth \"Godfather\" film -- especially one set before the original -- to screen, Puzo's final Corleone story will be told within the confines of a new novel.", "precise_score": 8.120349884033203, "rough_score": 5.872983932495117, "source": "search", "title": "'The Family Corleone': 'Godfather' Prequel By Mario Puzo ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "This isn't the first time \"The Godfather\" has been revisited; Puzo himself wrote a sequel to his original novel, titled \"The Sicilian,\" that heavily features the Corleone family. Then, in 2004, Mark Winegardner, published \"The Godfather Returns,\" which follows the years immediately after Puzo's first book and coincides somewhat with the second film.", "precise_score": 8.152765274047852, "rough_score": 8.30968952178955, "source": "search", "title": "'The Family Corleone': 'Godfather' Prequel By Mario Puzo ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "The Godfather is a crime novel written by Mario Puzo , originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons . It details the story of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family based in New York City and headed by Don Vito Corleone , who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia .", "precise_score": 10.824073791503906, "rough_score": 9.765036582946777, "source": "search", "title": "The Godfather (novel) - The Godfather Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "In 2004, Random House published a sequel to Puzo's The Godfather, The Godfather Returns , by Mark Winegardner . A further sequel by Winegardner, The Godfather's Revenge , was released in 2006. The sequel novels continue the story from Puzo's novel.", "precise_score": 7.313477516174316, "rough_score": 7.397281646728516, "source": "search", "title": "The Godfather (novel) - The Godfather Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "The Godfather Returns picks up the story immediately after the end of Puzo's The Godfather. It covers the years 1955 to 1962 , as well as providing significant backstory for Michael Corleone's character prior to the events of the first novel. The events of the film The Godfather Part II  all take place within the time frame of this novel, but are only mentioned in the background. The novel contains an appendix that attempts to correlate the events of the novels with the events of the films.", "precise_score": 5.1552958488464355, "rough_score": 7.519238471984863, "source": "search", "title": "The Godfather (novel) - The Godfather Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Continuing Puzo's habit, as seen in The Godfather, of featuring characters who are close analogues of real life events and public figures, Winegardner features in his two Godfather novels analogues of Joseph , John , and Robert Kennedy (the Shea family, in the novels) as well as an analogue for alleged organized crime figure Carlos Marcello ( Carlo Tramonti ). In The Godfather Returns , Winegardner also dramatizes the sweep of organized crime arrests that took place in Apalachin, New York, in 1957 .", "precise_score": 6.14497184753418, "rough_score": 5.515677452087402, "source": "search", "title": "The Godfather (novel) - The Godfather Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "The film was the highest-grossing film of 1972 and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando) and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Puzo and Coppola). Its seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor and Coppola for Best Director. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and Part III (1990).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.079572677612305, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "The film is based on Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, a well-received novel that remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 67 weeks and sold over nine million copies in two years. The novel became the best selling published work in history for several years. Paramount Pictures originally found out about Puzo's novel in 1967 when a literary scout for the company contacted then Paramount Vice President of Production Peter Bart about Puzo's sixty-page unfinished manuscript. Bart believed the work was \"much beyond a Mafia story\" and offered Puzo a $12,500 option for the work, with an option for $80,000 if the finished work were made into a film. Despite Puzo's agent telling him to turn down the offer, Puzo was desperate for money and accepted the deal. In March 1967, Paramount announced that they backed Puzo's upcoming work and planned to make a feature-length film out of it. In 1969, Paramount confirmed their intentions to make a film out of the novel for the price of $80,000, with aims to have the film released on Christmas Day in 1971. On March 23, 1970, Albert S. Ruddy was officially announced as the film's producer, in part because studio executives were impressed with his interview and because he was known for bringing his films in under budget.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.909973621368408, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Paramount production head Robert Evans wanted the picture to be directed by an Italian American to make the film \"ethnic to the core.\" Sergio Leone was Paramount's first choice to direct the film. Leone turned down the option to work on his own gangster film Once Upon a Time in America. Peter Bogdanovich was then approached but he also declined the offer because he was not interested in the mafia. In addition, Peter Yates, Richard Brooks, Arthur Penn, Costa-Gavras, and Otto Preminger were all offered the position and declined. Peter Bart wanted Francis Ford Coppola to get the job as director because he believed Coppola would work for a low sum and budget. Coppola initially turned down the job because he did not finish Puzo's novel. At the time Coppola's studio, American Zoetrope, owed over $400,000 to Warner Bros. for budget overruns with the film THX 1138 and when coupled with his poor financial standing, along with advice from friends and family, Coppola reversed his initial decision and took the job. Coppola was officially announced as director of the film on September 28, 1970. Paramount had offered twelve other directors the job with The Godfather before Coppola agreed. Coppola agreed to receive $125,000 and six percent of the gross rentals.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.1911163330078125, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "On April 14, 1970, it was revealed that Puzo was hired by Paramount for $100,000, along with a percentage of the film's profits, to work on the screenplay for the film. Working from the book, Coppola wanted to have the themes of culture, character, power, and family at the forefront of the film, whereas Puzo wanted to retain aspects from his novel and his initial draft of 150 pages was finished on August 10, 1970. After Coppola was hired as director, both Puzo and Coppola worked on the screenplay, but separately. Puzo worked on his draft in Los Angeles, while Coppola wrote his version in San Francisco. Coppola created a book where he tore pages out of Puzo's book and pasted them into the book. There, he made notes about each of the book's fifty scenes, which related to major themes prevalent in the scene, whether the scene should be included in the film, along with ideas and concepts that could be used when filming to make the film true to Italian culture. The two remained in contact while they wrote their respective screenplays and made decisions on what to include and what to remove for the final version. A second draft was completed on March 1, 1971 and was 173 pages long. The final screenplay was finished on March 29, 1971, wound up being 163 pages long, 40 pages over what Paramount had asked for. When filming, Coppola referred to the notebook he had created over the final draft of the screenplay. Screenwriter Robert Towne did uncredited work on the script, particularly on the Pacino-Brando garden scene. Despite finishing the third draft, some scenes in the film were still not written yet and were written during production.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.571049690246582, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "The Italian-American Civil Rights League wanted all uses of the words \"mafia\" and \"Cosa Nostra\" to be removed from the script, in addition to feeling that the film emphasized stereotypes about Italian-Americans. The league also requested that all the money earned from the premier be donated to the league's fund to build a new hospital. Coppola claimed that Puzo's screenplay only contained two instances of the word \"mafia\" being used, while \"Cosa Nostra\" was not used at all. Those two uses were removed and replaced with other terms, which Coppola felt did not change the story at all. The league eventually gave its support for the script.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.101944923400879, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Puzo was first to show interest in having Marlon Brando portray Don Vito Corleone by sending a letter to Brando in which he stated Brando was the \"only actor who can play the Godfather.\" Despite Puzo's wishes, the executives at Paramount were against having Brando play the part due to the poor success of his recent films and short temper. Coppola favored Brando or Laurence Olivier for the role, but Olivier's agent refused the role claiming Olivier was sick; however, Olivier went on to star in Sleuth later that year. The studio mainly pushed for Ernest Borgnine to receive the part. Other actors that were considered for the part were: George C. Scott, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Carlo Ponti. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.327505588531494, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times praised Coppola's efforts to follow the storyline of the eponymous novel, the choice to set the film in the same time as the novel, and the film's ability to \"absorb\" the viewer over its three-hour run time. While Ebert was mainly positive, he criticized Brando's performance, saying his movements lacked \"precision\" and his voice was \"wheezy.\" The Chicago Tribunes Gene Siskel gave the film four out of four stars, commenting that it was \"very good.\" Village Voice's Andrew Sarris believed Brando portrayed Vito Corleone well and that his character dominated each scene it appeared in, but felt Puzo and Coppola had the character of Michael Corleone too focused on revenge. In addition, Sarris stated that Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, and James Caan were good in their respective roles. Desson Howe of the Washington Post believed that the film is a \"jewel\" and that Coppola deserves most of the credit for the film. The New York Times Vincent Canby felt that Coppola had created one of the \"most brutal and moving chronicles of American life\" and went on to say that it \"transcends its immediate milieu and genre.\" Director Stanley Kubrick thought the film had the best cast ever and could be the best movie ever made. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.027968406677246, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "When the nominations for the 45th Academy Awards were revealed on February 12, 1973, The Godfather was nominated for eleven awards. The nominations were for: Best Picture, Best Costume Design, Marlon Brando for Best Actor, Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola for Best Adapted Screenplay, Pacino, Caan, and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing, Nino Rota for Best Original Score, Coppola for Best Director, and Best Sound. Upon further review of Rota's love theme from The Godfather, the Academy found that Rota had used a similar score in Eduardo De Filippo's 1958 comedy Fortunella. This led to re-balloting, where members of the music branch chose from six films: The Godfather and the five films that had been on the shortlist for best original dramatic score but did not get nominated. John Addison's score for Sleuth won this new vote, and thus replaced Rota's score on the official list of nominees. Going into the awards ceremony, The Godfather was seen as the favorite to take home the most awards. From the nominations that The Godfather had remaining, it only won three of the Academy Awards: Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.082149028778076, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "It inspired a 1972 film of the same name. Two film sequels, including new contributions by Puzo himself, were made in 1974 and 1990. The first and second films are widely held in high esteem as examples of the cinematic arts. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.285894393920898, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "The 1972 film adaptation of the novel was released with Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone and Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Mario Puzo assisted with both writing of the screenplay and other production tasks. The film grossed approximately $269 million worldwide and won various awards, including: three Academy Awards, five Golden Globes and one Grammy. The film is considered to be tremendously significant in cinematic history. The sequel, The Godfather Part II won six Oscars, and became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.5862643718719482, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "In 1984, Puzo's literary sequel to The Godfather was published. Entitled The Sicilian, it chronicles the life of \"Giuliano\" (Salvatore Giuliano) but the Corleone family is featured heavily throughout, Michael Corleone in particular. Chronologically this story sits between Michael's exile to Sicily in 1950 to his return to the USA. For copyright reasons, the Corleone family involvement was cut from the Michael Cimino film adaptation, which is not considered part of the Godfather film series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.7424802780151367, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Continuing Puzo's habit, as seen in The Godfather, of featuring characters who are close analogues of real life events and public figures (as Johnny Fontane is an analogue of Frank Sinatra), Winegardner features in his two Godfather novels analogues of Joseph, John, and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as an analogue for alleged organized crime figure Carlos Marcello (Carlo Tramonti). In The Godfather Returns, Winegardner also dramatizes the sweep of organized crime arrests that took place in Apalachin, New York, in 1957.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.5684151649475098, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Winegardner uses all of the characters from the Puzo novels, and created a few of his own, most notably Nick Geraci, a Corleone soldier who plays a pivotal role in the sequel novels. Winegardner further develops characters from the original novel, such as Fredo Corleone, Tom Hagen, and Johnny Fontane.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.525046348571777, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "In 2012, a prequel, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo, titled The Family Corleone was written by Ed Falco. It tells the story of how Vito Corleone rises to Don and how Sonny Corleone and Tom Hagen enter the family business.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.185111045837402, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Honoré de Balzac's “Le Père Goriot” (1834) has been the inspiration for notable lines that have gained wide popularity in cinema history. Puzo opened his 1969 novel with an epigraph popularly attributed to Balzac: \"Behind every great fortune there is a crime.\" The saying is most likely evolved over time from Balzac's original text: \"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.92384147644043, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Godfather (novel)" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "Mario Puzo Estate Wants To Cancel 'The Godfather' Contract with Paramount in Countersuit | Hollywood Reporter", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.770993709564209, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "Mario Puzo Estate Wants To Cancel 'The Godfather' Contract with Paramount in Countersuit", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.738218784332275, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "Controversy erupted after the estate of Mario Puzo had plans to license a new book sequel without Paramount's blessing. \"Paramount wanted a war, and they’re going to get one,\" says estate attorney Bert Fields.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.063392639160156, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "The studio alleged in its lawsuit that the previous Godfather book sequel had tarnished the legacy of the famous mafia story and that it had agreements with the Puzo heirs not to come out with any more new sequels.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.7790921330451965, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "The Puzo estate, in its answer Monday, hit back at Paramount, denying many of the studio's claims, including that the Godfather 3 film was highly acclaimed.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.054819107055664, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Paramount had previously asserted that it had gained most of the rights on the franchise, but the Puzo estate says that isn't true. The studio's wish to attain book rights was an offer that could be refused, according to the defendant.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.276947021484375, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Specifically, the estate says the 1967 rights agreement expressly excluded and reserved \"book publishing rights\" for Puzo, who died in 1999.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.041415214538574, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "The estate's legal filing stresses the fact that in those old deals, Puzo reserved and retained the right to publish books including characters from The Godfather in similar or new situations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.520037651062012, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "And as for a deal made about a decade ago, which supposedly allowed the Puzo estate to grant Random House the right to publish one -- \"but only one\" -- sequel novel, the estate's lawyers now say that \"Paramount's self-serving motivation was to coerce Mario Puzo's children into ceding to Paramount the motion picture rights in the first sequel novel without payment.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.589856147766113, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "The Puzo estate seeks the right to cancel and terminate its 1969 deal, which could cause uncertainty surrounding the studio's ongoing enjoyment of its lucrative franchise. Additionally, the estate is seeking in excess of $10 million in damages. The estate is being represented in court by Motty Shulman at Boies, Schiller & Flexner.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.552694320678711, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo estate wants to cancel ‘The Godfather’ contract ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "\"Mario Puzo brought vast wealth to Paramount at a time when they desperately needed it. Now that he’s gone, Paramount’s trying to deprive his children of the rights he specifically reserved. I promised Mario I’d protect his kids from this kind of reprehensible conduct. 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With a screenplay by Mr. Puzo and Mr. Coppola, the film made reputations (for the director, the writer and many of its stars), earned millions of dollars, won Academy Awards for the screenwriters, among others, and became the most quoted movie of its time, with phrases like ''an offer he couldn't refuse'' entering the American lexicon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.40585708618164, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of the movie's success was that it was repeated again and again, as ''The Godfather'' gave rise to ''The Godfather, Part II'' (1974) and ''The Godfather, Part III'' (1990), both also with screenplays by Mr. Puzo and Mr. Coppola. Playing various Corleones, Mr. Brando, Mr. Pacino and Robert De Niro gave some of their most memorable screen performances, as did Robert Duvall, James Caan and Diane Keaton in other roles. There has been talk of a possible ''Godfather, Part IV,'' tailored to another Italian-American movie star, Leonardo DiCaprio. Mr. Puzo's agent said the author knew nothing of that.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.7763874530792236, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "As the Corleones entered mythology, they were surrounded by contradictions. Were they villains or heroes or some hybrid of the two? Don Vito Corleone and his sons were feared and admired, and later they were often parodied. With the help of Mr. Coppola, Mr. Puzo had humanized people who in other fictional and cinematic forms had often been condemned and reviled. The Corleones were, first of all, a family, and there was a bond that extended through the sequels as more and more people throughout the world were touched by their story.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.798853874206543, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Because of his insights into crime and crime families, it was assumed that Mr. Puzo wrote from firsthand experience. One of the oddities of his career is that when it came to the Mafia, he was very much an outsider. As he wrote in 1972 in ''The Godfather Papers and Other Writings,'' ''I'm ashamed to admit that I wrote 'The Godfather' entirely from research. I never met a real honest-to-God gangster. I knew the gambling world pretty good, but that's all.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.879465103149414, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Sometimes it seemed as if the person with the strongest doubts was Mr. Puzo. ''I wished like hell I'd written it better,'' he said. ''I wrote below my gifts in that book.'' He preferred his second novel, ''The Fortunate Pilgrim,'' an autobiographical novel about an immigrant Italian-American family in New York. But there was no denying that ''The Godfather'' and the Corleones transformed the author's life and made him one of the most popular and wealthiest of novelists.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.430689811706543, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "Mario Puzo was born in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan. His parents were poor Italian-American immigrants from Naples (not, like the Corleones, from Sicily). His father, who was a railroad trackman for the New York Central Railroad, deserted the family when Mario was 12, leaving his wife, Maria, to raise their seven children.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.185303688049316, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Although there were, of course, gangs on the New York streets, Mr. Puzo stayed clear of them and conformed, he said, to the formidable structure of his family. As he later recalled, his mother often told him to stay home because ''only bad things happen to you outside.'' Mr. Puzo once spoke of his boyhood environment as ''the stone city.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.325572967529297, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Mr. Puzo began writing stories in high school and dreamed of making writing his career, but as a young man, in common with his father, he worked for the New York Central Railroad. After serving with the Army in Germany in World War II, he attended the City College of New York on the G.I. Bill and wrote short stories.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.181441307067871, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "At the same time Mr. Puzo was working on his first novel, ''Dark Arena.'' Published in 1955, it dealt with an American veteran of World War II who returns to Germany to look up his former mistress. Nine years later he published ''The Fortunate Pilgrim.'' A reviewer in The New York Times Book Review called it ''a small classic.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.929033279418945, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "In 1960 Bruce Jay Friedman hired him as an assistant editor of a group of men's magazines (Male, Men, etc.). For those magazines Mr. Puzo wrote action stories, many of them versions of World War II battles.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.797070503234863, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Recalling Mr. Puzo in those days, Mr. Friedman once wrote that his memories all had to do with ''size -- the size of his appetite'' for food and for reading books: ''I have a picture of him sitting in a chair with not one but six volumes in his lap, wetting his finger and taking 'tastes' of each one.'' He spoke also of the size of Mr. Puzo's laugh, ''always filled with amazement at some quirk of human behavior.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.73242473602295, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Still supporting himself and his family (his wife and five children) as a freelance writer, Mr. Puzo began ''The Godfather.'' When the paperback rights to the book were suddenly sold for $410,000, he telephoned his mother. She misunderstood and thought he said $40,000. Three times he told her the real figure, and then she said, ''Don't tell nobody.'' Earlier his mother had been skeptical about his work. After ''The Godfather,'' she called him ''a poet.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.297119140625, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "While writing the screenplays for the ''Godfather'' movies with Mr. Coppola and winning two Academy Awards, Mr. Puzo also was a writer on other films (including ''Earthquake,'' ''Superman,'' ''Superman II'' and ''The Cotton Club'') and continued his career as a novelist.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.40315580368042, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "In an interview with Camille Paglia in The Times in 1997, Mr. Puzo said, ''I fancy myself an Italian peasant who's living comfortably on his little farm.'' Four of his five children lived nearby.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.422393798828125, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "After Mr. Puzo's wife, Erika, died in 1978, her nurse, Carol Gino, became his companion. In addition to Ms. Gino, he is survived by his five children: Virginia McLauglin, Eugene, Anthony, Joseph, all of whom live on Long Island, and Dorothy of Los Angeles; nine grandchildren; his sister, Evelyn Murphy, and his brother, Antony Cleri.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.925409317016602, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "In the 1997 Paglia interview, Mr. Puzo said he was ''a Romantic writer'' with ''a sympathy for evil.'' He attributed the popularity of ''The Godfather'' to a ''disenchantment with the American justice system'' as well as a craving for close family ties. ''I hate violence,'' said the father of ''The Godfather.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.411192774772644, "source": "search", "title": "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "'The Family Corleone': 'Godfather' Prequel By Mario Puzo Set To Become Book | The Huffington Post", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.9898236989974976, "source": "search", "title": "'The Family Corleone': 'Godfather' Prequel By Mario Puzo ..." }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "'The Family Corleone': 'Godfather' Prequel By Mario Puzo Set To Become Book", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.3774254322052, "source": "search", "title": "'The Family Corleone': 'Godfather' Prequel By Mario Puzo ..." }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "It formed the basis for a 1972 film of the same name . Two film sequels, including new contributions by Puzo himself, were made in 1974 and 1990 . 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Although it is widely reported that Puzo was inspired to use \" Godfather \" as a designator for a Mafia leader from his experience as a reporter, the term The Godfather was first used in connection with the Mafia during Joe Valachi's testimony during the 1963 United States congressional hearing on organized crime.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.0005502700805664, "source": "search", "title": "The Godfather (novel) - The Godfather Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "In 1972, a film adaptation of the novel was released, starring Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola . Mario Puzo assisted with writing the screenplay and with other production tasks. The film grossed approximately $269 million worldwide and won various awards, including three Academy Awards , five Golden Globes and one Grammy and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The sequel, The Godfather Part II won six Oscars, and became the first sequel to win the Oscar for Best Picture.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.6088452339172363, "source": "search", "title": "The Godfather (novel) - The Godfather Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "In 1983 Puzo's literary sequel to The Godfather was published. Entitled The Sicilian it chronicles the life of \"Giuliano\" ( Salvatore Giuliano ) but the Corleone family is featured heavily throughout, Michael Corleone in particular. Chronologically this story sits between Michael's exile to Sicily in 1950 to his return to the USA. For copyright reasons the Corleone family involvement was cut from the Michael Cimino movie adaption.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.6185593605041504, "source": "search", "title": "The Godfather (novel) - The Godfather Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Puzo", "passage": "Winegardner uses all of the characters from the Puzo novels, and created a few of his own, most notably Nick Geraci , a Corleone caporegime whose role in the two sequel novels is as important as those of the Puzo-created characters. Winegardner further develops characters from the original novel, such as Fredo Corleone, Tom Hagen, and Johnny Fontane.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.995917320251465, "source": "search", "title": "The Godfather (novel) - The Godfather Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Mario Puzo", "passage": "In 2012, a prequel, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo, titled The Family Corleone was written by Ed Falco . 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One impressive and notable detail in his career is that he went against the very best names in the boxing world in such a golden era of the sport where getting a match against prizefighters was more than enough to earn the respect and admiration of the boxing community. Winning the title of heavyweight champion in 1929 against Tommy Loughran established his name even more as a great boxing contender.", "precise_score": 6.6521897315979, "rough_score": 8.269457817077637, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Sharkey | Boxer Profile at Sports Pundit" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Jack Sharkey (October 26, 1902 – August 17, 1994) was an American heavyweight boxing champion . He was born Joseph Paul Zukauskas (his birth surname is sometimes given as Cukoschay), the son of Lithuanian immigrants, in Binghamton, New York but moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a young man. 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By the time of his honorable discharge just short of a month later, he had won a second fight and was already earning write-ups in the Boston papers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.211660385131836, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jack Sharkey" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Boxing career", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.380167961120605, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jack Sharkey" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Sharkey then retired with a record of 38-14-3 with 13 knockouts. As the Cyber Boxing Zone website describes him, \"Sharkey had good skills, could hit with power, box well and take punishment when he set his mind to fight; But, he was an erratic, 'up-and-down' boxer who never seemed to put all his skills together consistently; when he was good, he was very good but when he was bad, he was awful.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.108763217926025, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jack Sharkey" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Life after boxing", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.402093887329102, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jack Sharkey" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Sharkey saved most of the money he earned in the ring and, in retirement, owned a bar, worked as a boxing and wrestling referee in the United States and Canada, often earned money from personal appearances, and entertained troops in North Africa during World War II. He also pursued his love of fly fishing, and teamed and toured with baseball great Ted Williams in fly fishing promotions. 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Zukauskas was born in a time when public figures had to take on an appropriate alias or pseudonym, and he chose to be named after two of his boxing idols, the retired Irish “Sailor Tom” Sharkey and legendary fighter Jack Dempsey, whom he would later fight in the ring. Both Sharkeys, Jack and Tom, were honored as International Boxing Hall of Famers as a recognition of their exceptional boxing prowess.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.4619998931884766, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Sharkey | Boxer Profile at Sports Pundit" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Jack Sharkey fought a total number of fifty-five (55) boxing matches in his career, thirty-eight (38) of which he emerged victorious, with thirteen (13) knockout wins. 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During his brief returns home to Boston he took part in his first fights for pay, the first on January 24, 1924, against one Billy Muldoon, whom he knocked out in the first round. By the time of his honorable discharge just short of a month later, he had won a second fight and was already earning write-ups in the Boston papers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.211660385131836, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Sharkey - Boxing Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Sharkey then retired with a record of 38-14-3 with 13 knockouts. 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Sharkey's indefatigable willingness to fight any opponent is best illustrated by his distinction in being the only man to have faced both Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis in prizefights. Though he consistently fought the best, Sharkey did not always prevail when up against the true upper crust of the division. In fact, his finest performances are perhaps his losses to Dempsey and Max Schmeling . Outspoken about his own confidence in his abilities and often surly or uncooperative in business, Sharkey had the talent to back up his ego. 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He quickly established notoriety as the best boxer aboard any vessel on which he served. During his brief returns home to Boston, he took part in his first fights for pay, the first taking place on January 24, 1924 against one Billy Muldoon, who was dispatched inside of a round. By the time of his honorable discharge just short of a month later, he had won a second fight and was already earning write ups in the Boston papers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.705591201782227, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Sharkey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Having found himself a manager and now focused entirely on his career as a prizefighter, young Zukauskus decided to adopt a more publicity-friendly stage name. He decided upon \"Jack Sharkey\"—combining the names of two of his idols, heavyweight boxing icons Jack Dempsey and Tom Sharkey . He met with moderate success in his first two years of fighting mainly in the Boston area. Though he did not always win his early bouts, he routinely fought reputable opponents with vast experience advantages over him. As a result, his technique improved quickly, as was displayed in his 1926 New York City debut, fought at no less a venue than Madison Square Garden . His opponent, Eddie Huffman , was no contender but was still a favorite over the Bostonian. The unknown Sharkey boxed well enough over ten rounds to take the decision and earn notice in fight circles as an up-and-coming heavyweight. Five follow-up wins led to a match with future Hall-of-Famer Harry Wills , who was considered at the time to be the fighter all of the top heavyweights made a point to avoid. To the surprise of many, Sharkey clearly outboxed the veteran Wills, who retaliated with an illegal backhand blow that got him disqualified in the thirteenth round. 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His opponent would be Germany's Max Schmeling , a little-known counter puncher whose record lacked the big names evident on Sharkey's. On June 12, 1930, in his first fight for the title, Sharkey again exhibited terrific boxing ability and appeared to have control of the fight going into the fourth round. In that round, he landed what appeared to be a low blow on Schmeling, who fell to his knees howling that he had been fouled. When Schmeling's manager broke into the ring, chaos ensued and the panicked referee disqualified Sharkey.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.6816351413726807, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Sharkey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Boxer", "passage": "Still determined to prove himself with the best in the world, Sharkey next took on Mickey Walker , the popular brawler and former two-division champion who was moving up in weight in hopes of winning the heavyweight title. In an admittedly close fight in which Sharkey scored the only knockdown, the judges ruled the fight a draw. Sharkey then moved from having a considerable size advantage against Walker to being at a decided size disadvantage against Italy's Primo Carnera on October 12, 1931. Carnera stood over six and a half feet tall and weighed two hundred and sixty one pounds, but he had none of the technique of a clever boxer like Sharkey. The Bostonian boxed rings around the \"Ambling Alp,\" scored a knockdown in the fourth, walked away with a decision after fifteen rounds, and earned himself a second shot at Schmeling.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.2535581588745117, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Sharkey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Jack Sharkey died on August 17, 1994, at the age of 91, just months after his induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5228646993637085, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Sharkey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Boxing", "passage": "Roberts, James B. and Alexander G. Skutt. The Boxing Register (4th ed. 2006)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.894635200500488, "source": "search", "title": "Jack Sharkey - BoxRec" }, { "answer": "Boxer", "passage": ", a heavy-handed boxer, defeated George Godfrey and Harry Wills in 1926 to earn a number three ranking in the heavyweight division. 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He debuted as a professional boxer in 1924, and he built a record of 42 wins, 4 losses and 3 draws, before fighting Jack Sharkey for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship in 1930. 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[ { "answer": "The Misfits", "passage": "The last film that Monroe completed was John Huston's The Misfits, which Miller had written to provide her with a dramatic role. She played a recently divorced woman who becomes friends with three aging cowboys, played by Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift. Its filming in the Nevada desert between July and November 1960 was again difficult. Monroe and Miller's four-year marriage was effectively over, and he began a new relationship. Monroe disliked that he had based her role partly on her life, and thought it inferior to the male roles; she also struggled with Miller's habit of re-writing scenes the night before filming. Her health was also failing: she was in pain from gallstones, and her drug addiction was so severe that her make-up usually had to be applied while she was still asleep under the influence of barbiturates. In August, filming was halted for her to spend a week detoxing in a Los Angeles hospital.Monroe and Miller separated after filming wrapped, and she was granted a quick divorce in Mexico in January 1961. The Misfits was released the following month, failing at the box office. Its reviews were mixed, with Bosley Crowther calling Monroe \"completely blank and unfathomable\" and stating that \"unfortunately for the film's structure, everything turns upon her\". Despite the film's initial failure, in 2015 Geoff Andrew of the British Film Institute described it as a classic. ", "precise_score": 7.014384746551514, "rough_score": 0.9978678822517395, "source": "wiki", "title": "Marilyn Monroe" }, { "answer": "The Misfits", "passage": "The Misfits, the last film of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, is a truly haunting film that never leaves you long after you've finished watching it. Despite having a poor box office and mixed reviews, it is now highly regarded among modern critics. It is about a restless fragile divorcée finding a new life in Reno with a couple of cowboys, one of which has a gambling problem and survives on slaughtering mustangs to make dog food.", "precise_score": 8.028037071228027, "rough_score": 6.64708948135376, "source": "search", "title": "The Misfits (1961) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Misfits", "passage": "By 1953, Monroe was one of the most bankable Hollywood stars, with leading roles in three films: the noir Niagara, which focused on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, which established her star image as a \"dumb blonde\". Although she played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, she was disappointed at being typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project, but returned to star in one of the biggest box office successes of her career, The Seven Year Itch (1955). When the studio was still reluctant to change her contract, Monroe founded a film production company in late 1954, Marilyn Monroe Productions (MMP). She dedicated 1955 to building her company and began studying method acting at the Actors Studio. In late 1955, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. After a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop (1956) and acting in the first independent production of MMP, The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for Some Like It Hot (1959). Her last completed film was the drama The Misfits (1961).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.2605193257331848, "source": "wiki", "title": "Marilyn Monroe" }, { "answer": "The Misfits", "passage": "*The Misfits (1961)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.323028564453125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Marilyn Monroe" }, { "answer": "The Misfits", "passage": "The Misfits (1961) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.35466194152832, "source": "search", "title": "The Misfits (1961) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Misfits", "passage": "Search for \" The Misfits \" on Amazon.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.504244804382324, "source": "search", "title": "The Misfits (1961) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Misfits", "passage": "The Misfits is a very suitable title as it refers to both the poor horses caught up in the web of human greed and also to the restless humans, unsatisfied and cruel.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.533306121826172, "source": "search", "title": "The Misfits (1961) - IMDb" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Leon Bismark \"Bix\" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.", "precise_score": 5.114221096038818, "rough_score": 7.878032207489014, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "The genius of Bix Beiderbecke’s cornet playing was—and still is—revered by musicians. According to the Oxford Companion to Jazz: \"Where Armstrong's playing was bravura, regularly optimistic, and openly emotional, Beiderbecke's contained a range of intellectual alternatives. Where Armstrong, at the head of an ensemble, played it hard, straight and true, Beiderbecke, like a shadow-boxer, invented his own way of phrasing 'around the lead.' Where Armstrong's superior strength delighted in the sheer power of what a cornet could produce, Beiderbecke's cool approach invited rather than commanded you to listen.\"", "precise_score": 3.019711971282959, "rough_score": 5.207513332366943, "source": "search", "title": "Riverwalk Jazz - Stanford University Libraries" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "An even larger, mainstream audience came to know Bix Beiderbecke’s work during the years he spent as a hot cornet soloist with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, the most popular music act of the 1920s. Bix toured nationally with Whiteman, on and off until 1929, when his poor health forced him to quit. He died in New York in 1931 and is buried in Davenport, Iowa.", "precise_score": 3.7928035259246826, "rough_score": 5.080541133880615, "source": "search", "title": "Riverwalk Jazz - Stanford University Libraries" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was a notable jazz cornet player.", "precise_score": 5.478396415710449, "rough_score": 6.222620964050293, "source": "search", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats ..." }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Great Cornet Solos-Bix Beiderbecke (Trumpet  | J.W. Pepper Sheet Music", "precise_score": 3.4206390380859375, "rough_score": 6.301856517791748, "source": "search", "title": "Great Cornet Solos-Bix Beiderbecke (Trumpet | J.W. Pepper ..." }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Bix Beiderbecke was one of the great jazz musicians of the 1920's; he was also a child of the Jazz Age who drank himself to an early grave with illegal Prohibition liquor. His hard drinking and beautiful tone on the cornet made him a legend among musicians during his life. The legend of Bix grew even larger after he died. Bix never learned to read music very well, but he had an amazing ear even as a child. His parents disapproved of his playing music and sent him to a military school outside of Chicago in 1921. He was soon expelled for skipping class and became a full-time musician. In 1923 Beiderbecke joined the Wolverine Orchestra and recorded with them the following year. Bix was influenced a great deal by the Original Dixieland Jass Band , but soon surpassed their playing. In late 1924 Bix left the Wolverines to join Jean Goldkette's Orchestra , but his inability to read music eventually resulted in him losing the job. In 1926 he spent some time with Frankie Trumbauer's Orchestra where he recorded his solo piano masterpiece", "precise_score": 3.556804895401001, "rough_score": 5.81064510345459, "source": "search", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke - Red Hot Jazz" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "A native of Davenport, Iowa, Beiderbecke taught himself to play cornet largely by ear, leading him to adopt a non-standard fingering some critics have connected to his original sound. He first recorded with Midwestern jazz ensembles, The Wolverines and The Bucktown Five in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based Jean Goldkette Orchestra before joining Frankie \"Tram\" Trumbauer for an extended gig at the Arcadia Ballroom in St. Louis. Beiderbecke and Trumbauer joined Goldkette in 1926. The band toured widely and famously played a set opposite Fletcher Henderson at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City in . He made his greatest recordings in 1927 (see above). In 1928, Trumbauer and Beiderbecke left Detroit to join the best-known and most prestigious dance orchestra in the country: the New-York-based Paul Whiteman Orchestra.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.3073803186416626, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "When his brother Burnie returned to Davenport at the end of 1918 after serving stateside during World War I, he brought with him a Victrola phonograph and several records, including \"Tiger Rag\" and \"Skeleton Jangle\" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. From these records, Bix first learned to love hot jazz; he taught himself to play cornet by listening to Nick LaRocca's horn lines. Beiderbecke also listened to jazz music off the riverboats that docked in downtown Davenport. Louis Armstrong and the drummer Baby Dodds claimed to have met Beiderbecke when their New-Orleans-based excursion boat stopped in Davenport. Historians disagree over whether that is true. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.532738208770752, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Both qualities—complementary or \"correlated\" phrasing and cultivation of the vocal, \"singing\" middle-range of the cornet—are on display in Bix's \"Jazz Me Blues\" solo, along with an already discernible inclination for unusual accidentals and inner chordal voices. It is a pioneer record, introducing a musician of great originality with a pace-setting band. And it astonished even the Wolverines themselves. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.156420707702637, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "The Wolverines recorded 15 sides for Gennett Records between February and October 1924. The titles revealed a tough and well-formed cornet talent. His lip had toughened from earlier, more tentative years; on nine of the Wolverines' recorded titles he proceeds commandingly from lead to opening solo without any need for a respite from playing. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.098958015441895, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Where Armstrong emphasized showmanship and virtuosity, Beiderbecke emphasized melody, even when improvising, and—different from Armstrong and contrary to how the Bix Beiderbecke of legend would be portrayed—he rarely strayed into the upper reaches of the register. Paul Mares of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings insisted that Beiderbecke's chief influence was the New Orleans cornetist Emmett Hardy, who died in 1925 at the age of 23. Indeed, Beiderbecke had met Hardy and the clarinetist Leon Roppolo in Davenport in 1921 when the two joined a local band and played in town for three months. Beiderbecke apparently spent time with them, but the degree to which Hardy's style influenced Beiderbecke's is difficult to know because Hardy never recorded. In some respects, Beiderbecke's playing was sui generis, but he nevertheless listened to and studied the music around him: from Armstrong and Joe \"King\" Oliver to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings to Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.6246590614318848, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Beiderbecke left the Wolverines in October 1924 for a spot with Jean Goldkette in Detroit, but the job didn't last long. Goldkette recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz style of soloing; it wasn't copacetic with the commercial obligations that came with the band's recording contract. King also was frustrated by the cornetist's inability to deftly sight read. After a few weeks, Beiderbecke was bounced from the Goldkette band, but soon arranged a recording session back in Richmond with some of its members. On January 26, 1925, Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers set two tunes to wax: \"Toddlin' Blues\", another number by LaRocca and Shields, and Beiderbecke's own composition, \"Davenport Blues\". Beiderbecke biographer Lion has complained that the second number was marred by the alcohol consumed by the musicians. In subsequent years, \"Davenport Blues\" has been recorded by musicians from Bunny Berigan to Ry Cooder to Geoff Muldaur. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.7963104248046875, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Although the band recorded numerous sides for Victor during this period, none of them showcases Beiderbecke's most famous solos. Much of Goldkette's money was made through these records, but they were subject—as Eddie King had well understood—to the forces of the commercial market. As a result, their sound was often \"sweeter\" than what many of the hot jazz musicians would have preferred. In addition to their sessions with Goldkette, Beiderbecke and his friends recorded under their own names for the Okeh label. For instance, on February 4, 1927, Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra recorded \"Trumbology\", \"Clarinet Marmalade\", and \"Singin' the Blues\", all three of which featured some of Beiderbecke's best work. Again with Trumbauer, Beiderbecke re-recorded Carmichael's \"Riverboat Shuffle\" in May and delivered two of his best known solos a few days later on \"I'm Coming, Virginia\" and \"Way Down Yonder in New Orleans\". Beiderbecke earned co-writing credit with Trumbauer on \"For No Reason at All in C\", recorded under the name Tram, Bix and Eddie (in their Three Piece Band). Beiderbecke switched between cornet and piano on that number, and then in September played only piano for his recording of \"In A Mist\". This was perhaps the most fruitful year of his short career.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.22516348958015442, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "In February 1929, Beiderbecke returned home to Davenport to convalesce and was hailed by the local press as \"the world's hottest cornetist.\" He then spent the summer with Whiteman's band in Hollywood in preparation for the shooting of a new talking picture, The King of Jazz. Production delays prevented any real work from being done on the film, leaving Beiderbecke and his pals plenty of time to drink heavily. By September, he was back in Davenport, where his parents helped him to seek treatment. He spent a month, from October 14 until November 18, at the Keeley Institute in Dwight, Illinois. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.9926364421844482, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the once-booming music industry contracted and work became more difficult to find. For a while, Beiderbecke's only income came from a radio show booked by Whiteman, The Camel Pleasure Hour. However, during a live broadcast on October 8, 1930, Beiderbecke's seemingly limitless gift for improvisation finally failed him: \"He stood up to take his solo, but his mind went blank and nothing happened,\" recalled a fellow musician, Frankie Cush. Whiteman finally let Beiderbecke go. The cornetist spent the rest of the year at home in Davenport and then, in February 1931, he returned to New York one last time.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.3837003707885742, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Ferguson's sense of what was \"right\" became the basis for the Beiderbecke Romantic legend, which has traditionally emphasized the musician's Iowa roots, his often careless dress, his difficulty sight reading, the purity of his tone, his drinking, and his early death. These themes were repeated by Beiderbecke's friends in various memoirs, including The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965) by Hoagy Carmichael, Really the Blues (1946) by Mezz Mezzrow, and We Called It Music (1947) by Eddie Condon. Beiderbecke was portrayed as a tragic genius along the lines of Ludwig van Beethoven. \"For his talent there were no conservatories to get stuffy in, no high-trumpet didoes to be learned doggedly, note-perfect as written,\" Ferguson wrote, \"because in his chosen form the only writing of any account was traced in the close shouting air of Royal Gardens, Grand Pavilions, honkeytonks, etc.\" He was \"this big overgrown kid, who looked like he'd been snatched out of a cradle in the cornfields,\" Mezzrow wrote. \"The guy didn't have an enemy in the world,\" recalled Beiderbecke's friend Russ Morgan, \"[b]ut he was out of this world most of the time.\" According to Ralph Berton, he was \"as usual gazing off into his private astronomy,\" but his cornet, Condon famously quipped, sounded \"like a girl saying yes.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.5826478004455566, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "At the beginning of the 21st century, Beiderbecke's music continues to reside mostly out of the mainstream and some of the facts of his life are still debated, but scholars largely agree—due in part to the influence of Sudhalter and Evans—that he was an important innovator in early jazz; jazz cornetists, including Sudhalter (before his death in 2008), and Tom Pletcher, closely emulate his style. In 2003, to mark the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Greater Astoria Historical Society and other community organizations, spearheaded by Paul Maringelli and The Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Committee, erected a plaque in Beiderbecke's honor at the apartment building in which he died in Queens. That same year, Frederick Turner published his novel 1929, which followed the facts of Beiderbecke's life fairly closely, focusing on his summer in Hollywood and featuring appearances by Al Capone and Clara Bow. The critic and musician Digby Fairweather sums up Beiderbecke's musical legacy, arguing that \"with Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke was the most striking of jazz's cornet (and of course, trumpet) fathers; a player who first captivated his 1920s generation and after his premature death, founded a dynasty of distinguished followers beginning with Jimmy McPartland and moving on down from there.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.2959389686584473, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Beiderbecke's cornet style is often described by contrasting it with Armstrong's markedly different approach. Armstrong was a virtuoso on his instrument, and his solos often took advantage of that fact. Beiderbecke was largely, although not completely, self-taught, and the constraints imposed by that fact were evident in his music. While Armstrong often soared into the upper register, Beiderbecke stayed in the middle range, more interested in exploring the melody and harmonies than in dazzling the audience. Armstrong often emphasized the performance aspect of his playing, while Beiderbecke tended to stare at his feet while playing, uninterested in personally engaging his listeners. Armstrong was deeply influenced by the blues, while Beiderbecke was influenced as much by modernist composers such as Debussy and Ravel as by his fellow jazzmen. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.2134108543396, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Like Green, who made particular mention of Beiderbecke's \"amount of teaching,\" the jazz historian Ted Gioia also has emphasized Beiderbecke's lack of formal instruction, suggesting that it caused him to adopt \"an unusual, dry embouchure\" and \"unconventional fingerings,\" which he retained for the rest of his life. Gioia points to \"a characteristic streak of obstinacy\" in Beiderbecke that provokes \"this chronic disregard of the tried-and-true.\" He argues that this stubbornness was behind Beiderbecke's decision not to switch from cornet to trumpet when many other musicians, including Armstrong, did so. In addition, Gioia highlights Beiderbecke's precise timing, relaxed delivery, and pure tone, which contrasted with \"the dirty, rough-edged sound\" of King Oliver and his protégé Armstrong, whose playing was often more energetic and whose style held more sway early in the 1920s than Beiderbecke's. Gioia further wonders whether the many hyperbolic and quasi-poetic descriptions of Beiderbecke's style—most notably Condon's \"like a girl saying yes\"—may indicate that Beiderbecke's sound was muddled on recordings. 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Although it was one of his earliest recordings, the hallmarks of his playing were evident. \"The overall impression we get from this solo, as in all of Bix at his best,\" writes the trumpeter Randy Sandke, \"is that every note is spontaneous yet inevitable.\" Richard Hadlock describes Beiderbecke's contribution to \"Jazz Me Blues\" as \"an ordered solo that seems more inspired by clarinetists Larry Shields of the ODJB and Leon Roppolo of the NORK than by other trumpet players.\" He goes on to suggest that clarinetists, by virtue of their not being tied to the melody as much as cornetists and trumpet players, could explore harmonies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.432424545288086, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "\"Jazz Me Blues\" was also important because it introduced what has been called the \"correlated chorus\", a method of improvising that Beiderbecke's Davenport friend Esten Spurrier attributed to both Beiderbecke and Armstrong. \"Louis departed greatly from all cornet players in his ability to compose a close-knit individual 32 measures with all phrases compatible with each other\", Spurrier told the biographers Sudhalter and Evans, \"so Bix and I always credited Louis as being the father of the correlated chorus: play two measures, then two related, making four measures, on which you played another four measures related to the first four, and so on ad infinitum to the end of the chorus. So the secret was simple—a series of related phrases.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.0885813236236572, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bix Beiderbecke" }, { "answer": "Cornet", "passage": "Beiderbecke plays piano on his recordings \"Big Boy\" (October 8, 1924), \"For No Reason at All in C\" (May 13, 1927), \"Wringin' and Twistin'\" (September 17, 1927)—all with ensembles—and his only solo recorded work, \"In a Mist\" (September 8, 1927). Critic Frank Murphy argues that many of the same characteristics that mark Beiderbecke on the cornet mark him on the keyboard: the uncharacteristic fingering, the emphasis on inventive harmonies, and the correlated choruses. Those inventive harmonies, on both cornet and piano, eventually helped point the way to bebop, which abandoned melody almost entirely. 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In 1934 Bhumibol was given his first camera, which ignited his lifelong enthusiasm for photography. When Bhumibol's childless uncle Prajadhipok abdicated in 1935, his nine-year-old brother Ananda became the new King Rama VIII. However, the family remained in Switzerland and the affairs of the head of state were conducted by a regency council. They returned to Thailand for only two months in 1938. In 1942, Bhumibol became a jazz enthusiast, and started to play the saxophone, a passion that he has kept throughout his life. He received the baccalauréat des lettres (high-school diploma with a major in French literature, Latin, and Greek) from the Gymnase Classique Cantonal of Lausanne, and by 1945 had begun studying sciences at the University of Lausanne, when World War II ended and the family was able to return to Thailand.", "precise_score": 2.285888195037842, "rough_score": 0.06589652597904205, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Sayam", "passage": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Thai full title is \"Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paraminthra Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej Mahitalathibet Ramathibodi Chakkrinaruebodin Sayamminthrathirat Borommanatthabophit\" (; ), which is referred to in the chief legal documents; and in general documents, the title is shorthened to \"Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paraminthra Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej Sayamminthrathirat Borommanatthabophit\" or just \"Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paraminthra Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej.\"", "precise_score": -0.49823904037475586, "rough_score": 0.743886411190033, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "* HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. 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The king has reigned since the death of his older brother Ananda Mahidol on 9 June 1946, making him the world's longest reigning current monarch and the world's longest serving head of state. King Bhumibol is not just a symbolic figurehead but possesses some powers, such as being the prerogative of royal assent and the power of pardon. King Bhumibol is loved and revered by most Thai people and is protected by lèse majesté laws.", "precise_score": 2.1324281692504883, "rough_score": 3.2761824131011963, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand", "precise_score": 1.9331438541412354, "rough_score": 3.3968379497528076, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The current king of Thailand , Bhumibol Adulyadej, is the longest-reigning monarch in the world today, as well as Thailand's longest-reigning king ever. The beloved king's common name is pronounced \"POO-mee-pohn uh-DOON-ja-deht\"; his throne name is Rama IX.", "precise_score": 2.257425308227539, "rough_score": 3.1423888206481934, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Born a second son, and with his birth taking place outside of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej was never meant to rule. His reign came about through a mysterious act of violence. Since then, the King has been a calm presence at the center of Thailand's stormy political life.", "precise_score": 3.0364584922790527, "rough_score": 4.837337017059326, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Although he was never intended for the throne, Bhumibol Adulyadej has been a successful and increasingly beloved king of Thailand over the many decades of his reign. Superficially his life seems similar to other monarchs, such as Japan's Emperor Akihito ; both are semi-divine, have a life-long interest in science, enjoy art and music, etc. However, unlike the current Emperor of Japan , Bhumibol plays a significant if shadowy role in the politics of his realm.", "precise_score": 2.6127543449401855, "rough_score": 1.6291803121566772, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Bhumibol Adulyadej (pōˈmēpôlˌ ädŏlˈyädĕtˌ) [ key ], 1927–, king of Thailand (1946–), b. Cambridge, Mass. A member of the Chakri dynasty, he was at school in Switzerland when his brother, King Ananda Mahidol, died (1946) under mysterious circumstances. Bhumibol ruled with a regent until 1950, when he was formally crowned Rama IX. The longest-ruling monarch in Thailand's history, in 2000 he also became longest-reigning ruler in the world. He has enjoyed great popular support although his power is largely ceremonial. The king has actively promoted development projects and has been generally a stabilizing force in the country's turbulent politics, intervening several times to resolve governmental crises or criticize government leaders. His displeasure with the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra partially contributed to the coup that ousted Thaksin, and the king subsequently gave his approval to the coup and new government. The king's name also appears as Phumiphen.", "precise_score": 3.873333692550659, "rough_score": 5.945550918579102, "source": "search", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej - Fact Monster" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai | Go Thai", "precise_score": 1.5243589878082275, "rough_score": 3.5376195907592773, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej", "precise_score": 2.480191946029663, "rough_score": 4.251873970031738, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Thailand is a monarchy, and has been ruled by the Chakri Dynasty for a very long time. Its current leader, King Bhumibol Adulyadej was born in the USA in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was born in 1927 and became king on the 9th of June 1946. This makes him the longest ruling king in the world. His actual coronation was on the 5th of May 1950, when he was still studying in Switzerland, which is where he met the present queen HM Queen Sirikit.", "precise_score": 5.739077568054199, "rough_score": 5.525479793548584, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In 1946 His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the ninth king of the Chakri dynasty, ascended to the Thai throne. At his coronation ceremony he promised that both he and Queen Sirikit would “reign with righteousness for the benefits and happiness of the Siamese people,” and according to Richard William Jones, whose biography of Bhumibol was published by Thailand’s National Identity Office, “For over 60 years, as the world’s longest reigning, living monarch, His Majesty has upheld the commitment articulated at his coronation.” ", "precise_score": 2.509908437728882, "rough_score": 2.508066177368164, "source": "search", "title": "Biography: King Bhumibol of Thailand - Vision" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The King of Thailand, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX is the ninth monarch of the Chakri Dynasty and the current King of Thailand. ♥♔♥♔LONG LIVE THE KING♥♔♥♔ http://islandinfokohsamui.com/", "precise_score": 2.1236660480499268, "rough_score": 3.348353624343872, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol of Thailand on Pinterest | Bhumibol ..." }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work -- Thailand's Monarchy in Perspective by Nicholas Grossman and Dominic Faulder (eds.) [Asian Review of Books]", "precise_score": 2.188430070877075, "rough_score": 6.1070075035095215, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work - Asian Review of Books" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life�s Work -- Thailand�s Monarchy in Perspective by Nicholas Grossman and Dominic Faulder (eds.)", "precise_score": 0.9981104731559753, "rough_score": 3.983668088912964, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work - Asian Review of Books" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The young prince Bhumibol Adulyadej never expected to become King of Thailand and never expected to become the world�s longest reigning monarch. He ascended the throne in June 1946 following the mysterious death of his brother Ananda. But his coronation would only take place in 1950, when he returned from Switzerland after finishing his studies, and where he had met his young wife Queen Sirikit.", "precise_score": 4.829547882080078, "rough_score": 2.517437696456909, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work - Asian Review of Books" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The young prince Bhumibol Adulyadej never expected to become King of Thailand and never expected to become the world�s longest reigning monarch. He ascended the throne in June 1946 following the mysterious death of his brother Ananda. But his coronation would only take place in 1950, when he returned from Switzerland after finishing his studies, and where he had met his young wife Queen Sirikit.", "precise_score": 4.829547882080078, "rough_score": 2.517437696456909, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work - Asian Review of Books" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Since 2006, Bhumibol has suffered declining health and has spent extended periods at Siriraj Hospital. Bhumibol is generally highly revered by the people in Thailand, but his heir Vajiralongkorn does not share the popularity of his father, leading to concerns that the Thai monarchy will lose prestige and influence after Bhumibol's death. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.8951287269592285, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Bhumibol was crowned King of Thailand on 5 May 1950 at the Royal Palace in Bangkok where he pledged that he would \"reign with righteousness for the benefit and happiness of the Siamese people\" (\"เราจะครองแผ่นดินโดยธรรม เพื่อประโยชน์สุขแห่งมหาชนชาวสยาม\"). Notable elements associated with the coronation included the Bahadrabith Throne beneath the Great White Umbrella of State; and he was presented with the royal regalia and utensils. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6815986633300781, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In 1950 on Coronation Day, Bhumibol's consort was made Queen (Somdej Phra Boromarajini). The date of his coronation is celebrated each 5 May in Thailand as Coronation Day, a public holiday. On 9 June 2006, Bhumibol celebrated his 60th anniversary as the King of Thailand, becoming the longest reigning monarch in Thai history.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9398201704025269, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "Other disused ceremonies from the classical period of the Chakri Dynasty, such as the royally-patronised ploughing ceremony (Thai: พิธีพืชมงคล), were also revived. Bhumibol's birthday (5 December) was declared the national day, replacing the previous national day, the anniversary of the Siamese Revolution of 1932 (24 June). Upon Sarit's death on 8 December 1963, an unprecedented 21 days of mourning were declared in the palace. A royal five-tier umbrella shaded his body while it lay in state. Long-time royal adviser Phraya Srivisarn Vacha later noted that no Prime Minister ever had such an intimate relationship with Bhumibol as Sarit. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.683467864990234, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In 1992, Bhumibol played a key role in Thailand's transition to a democratic system. A coup on 23 February 1991 returned Thailand to military dictatorship. After a general election in 1992, the majority parties invited General Suchinda Kraprayoon, a leader of the coup group, to be prime minister. This caused much dissent, which escalated into demonstrations that led to a large number of deaths when the military was brought in to control protesters. The situation became increasingly critical as police and military forces clashed with protesters. Violence and riots spread to many areas of the capital with rumours of a rift among the armed forces. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.160183906555176, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res9405E7DF1038F93BA35757C0A9659C8B63 \"A Wave of Drug Killings Is Linked to Thai Police\"] By Seth Mydans, 8 April 2003 New York Times [http://www.akha.org/content/drugwar/drugwarsethmydansnyt.html]Amnesty International report: [http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA39/008/2003 Thailand: Grave developments – Killings and other abuses] The War on Drugs was widely criticized by the international community. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.284926414489746, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "10566797 \"Thailand's drug wars. Back on the offensive\"] 24 January 2008 The Economist", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.285571098327637, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In May 2006, the Sondhi Limthongkul-owned Manager Daily newspaper published a series of articles describing the \"Finland Plot\", alleging that Thaksin and former members of the Communist Party of Thailand planned to overthrow the king and seize control of the nation. No evidence was ever produced to verify the existence of such a plot, and Thaksin and his Thai Rak Thai party vehemently denied the accusations and sued the accusers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.45254898071289, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The King's role in the coup was the subject of much speculation among Thai analysts and the international media, although publication of such speculation was banned in Thailand. The King had an audience with Privy Council President Prem Tinsulanonda at the same time that special forces troops were mobilised. Anti-coup protesters claimed that Prem was the mastermind of the coup, although the military claimed otherwise and banned any discussion of the topic. In a BBC interview, Thitinan Pongsudhirak of Chulalongkorn University noted, \"This coup was nothing short of Thaksin versus the King... He [the King] is widely seen as having implicitly endorsed the coup.\" In the same interview, social critic Sulak Sivaraksa claimed, \"Without his [the King's] involvement, the coup would have been impossible.\" Sulak added that the King is \"very skillful. He never becomes obviously involved. If this coup goes wrong, Sonthi will get the blame, but whatever happens, the King will only get praise.\" On Saturday, 23 September 2006, the junta warned they would \"urgently retaliate against foreign reporters whose coverage has been deemed insulting to the monarchy.\" The President of Bhumibol's Privy Council, General Prem Tinsulanonda, supported the coup. The junta later appointed Privy Council member General Surayud Chulanont as prime minister.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.996467590332031, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The junta appointed a constitutional tribunal to rule on alleged polling fraud involving the Thai Rak Thai and Democrat political parties. Guilty rulings would have dissolved both parties, Thailand's largest and oldest, respectively, and banned the parties' leadership from politics for five years. The weeks leading up to the verdicts saw rising political tensions. On 24 May 2007, about a week before the scheduled verdict, Bhumibol gave a rare speech to the Supreme Administrative Court (the president of which is also a member of the constitutional tribunal). \"You have the responsibility to prevent the country from collapsing,\" he warned them in the speech, which was shown on all national television channels simultaneously during the evening. \"The nation needs political parties.... In my mind, I have a judgment but I cannot say,\" he said. \"Either way the ruling goes, it will be bad for the country, there will be mistakes.\" The tribunal later acquitted the Democrat Party, but dissolved the Thai Rak Thai Party and banned 111 of its executives from politics for five years.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.057650566101074, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Assembly later tried to use the King in a propaganda campaign to increase public support for its widely criticised draft constitution. The CDA placed billboards saying, \"Love the King. Care about the King. Vote in the referendum\" throughout northeast Thailand, where opposition to the junta was greatest. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.929569244384766, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In April 2008, Bhumibol appointed alleged coup plotter General Surayud Chulanont to the Privy Council of Thailand. In the weeks leading up to the 2011 general election, Bhumibol appointed Air Chief Marshal Chalit Pukbhasuk, a leader of the 2006 military coup, to his Privy Council. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.211074829101562, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "For a historical perspective on how Bhumibol's constitutional powers have changed over time, see the Constitutions of Thailand article", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.062963485717773, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Several academics outside Thailand, including Duncan McCargo and Federico Ferrara, have noted the active political involvement of Bhumibol through a \"network monarchy,\" whose most significant proxy is Privy Council President Prem Tinsulanonda. McCargo claimed that Bhumibol's conservative network worked behind the scenes to establish political influence in the 1990s, but was threatened by the landslide election victories of Thaksin Shinawatra in 2001 and 2005. Ferrara claimed, shortly before the Thai Supreme Court delivered its verdict to seize Thaksin Shinawatra's assets, that the judiciary was a well-established part of Bhumibol's network and represented his main avenue to exercise extra-constitutional prerogatives despite having the appearance of being constitutional. He also noted how, in comparison to the Constitutional Court's 2001 acquittal of Thaksin, the judiciary was a much more important part of the \"network\" than it was in the past. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.648589134216309, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The network's ability to exercise power is based partly on Bhumibol's popularity and strict control of Bhumibol's popular image. According to Jost Pachaly of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Bhumibol \"plays an important role behind the scenes. But the role is difficult to assess because nothing is reported about it and no one really knows anything specific,\" due to lese majeste laws forbidding discussion about Bhumibol's political activities. Bhumibol's popularity was demonstrated following the 2003 Phnom Penh riots in Cambodia, when hundreds of Thai protesters, enraged by rumors that Cambodian rioters had stomped on photographs of Bhumibol, gathered outside the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok. Photographs of the stomping were not published in Thailand, but were available on the internet. The situation was resolved peacefully only when Police General Sant Sarutanonda told the crowd that he had received a call from royal secretary Arsa Sarasin conveying Bhumibol's request for calm. The crowd dispersed. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.9190592765808105, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In the military governments of Sarit Dhanarajata and his successors (1958–1980), Bhumibol was portrayed as the \"development King\" and the inspiration for the economic and political goals of the regime. Royally-ordered projects were implemented under the financial and political support of the government, including projects in rural areas and communities under the influence of the Communist Party of Thailand. Bhumibol's visits to these projects were heavily promoted by the Sarit government and broadcast in state-controlled media.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.89432954788208, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "There are two English language books that provide extensive detail—albeit not always verifiable—about Bhumibol's life, especially his early years and then throughout his entire reign. One is The Revolutionary King by William Stevenson, the other is The King Never Smiles by Paul M. Handley. A third and earlier work, The Devil's Discus, is also available in Thai and English. The latter two books are banned in Thailand, while the first has never been sold in the country due to its inaccuracies, despite having been written with royal patronage.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.863461494445801, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Bhumibol's creativity in, among other things, music, art and invention, was the focus of a two-minute long documentary created by the government of Abhibisit Vejjajiva that was screened at all branches of the Major Cineplex Group and SF Cinema City, the two largest cinema chains in Thailand. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.198088645935059, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Bhumibol initially received general music training privately while he was studying in Switzerland, but his older brother, then King Ananda Mahidol, who had bought a saxophone, sent Bhumibol in his place. King Ananda would later join him on the clarinet. On his permanent return to Thailand in 1950, Bhumibol started a jazz band, Lay Kram, whom he performed with on a radio station he started at his palace. The band grew, being renamed the Au Sau Wan Suk Band and he would perform with them live on Friday evenings, occasionally taking telephoned requests. Bhumibol also performed with his band at Thai universities, composing anthems for the universities of Chulalongkorn, Thammasat, and Kasetsart. Bhumibol performed with Benny Goodman in Bangkok's Ambara Throne Hall in 1956, and later played at Goodman's home in New York in 1960. Many bands such as Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Claude Bolling Big Band, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band recorded some of Bhumibol's compositions and can still be heard in Thailand. A 1996 documentary, Gitarajan, was made about Bhumibol's music.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.2583155632019043, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Bhumibol is an accomplished sailor and sailboat designer. He won a gold medal for sailing in the Fourth Southeast Asian Peninsular (SEAP) Games in 1967, together with HRH Princess Ubol Ratana whom he tied for points. This accomplishment is all the more remarkable given Bhumibol's lack of binocular depth perception. Bhumibol has also sailed the Gulf of Thailand from Hua Hin to Toey Harbour in Sattahip, covering 60 nmi in a 14-hour journey on the \"Vega 1,\" an OK Class dinghy he built.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9775567054748535, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Estimates of the post-devaluation (c. 1997–1998) wealth of the royal household and the Crown Property Bureau (CPB) range from US$10 billion to $20 billion. In August 2008, Forbes published its 2008 version of The World's Richest Royals and King Bhumibol was listed first, with an estimated wealth of US$35 billion. A few days later, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand issued a statement that the Forbes report incorrectly conflated the wealth of the CPB and that of Bhumibol. In the 2009 Forbes list, the Thai government's objections were acknowledged, but Forbes justified the continued inclusion of the CPB's assets, as the Bureau is responsible for handling the Crown's property and investments. The 2009 estimate was a reduced figure of US$30 billion due to declines in real estate and stocks, and this figure was also published in April 2014 by Business Spectator, which also confirmed that the CPB is the body responsible for the management of the Crown's wealth. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.392023086547852, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Through the CPB, the Crown owns land and equity in many companies and massive amounts of land, including 3,320 acres in central Bangkok, as well as 13,200 acres of rural land. The CPB owns 32 per cent of Siam Cement (worth US$12.6 billion), 23 per cent of Siam Commercial Bank (Thailand's largest bank), and interests in Christiani & Nielsen, Deves Insurance and Shin Corporation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.032679557800293, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "The CPB also lets or leases about 36,000 properties to third parties, including the sites of the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok, the Suan Lum Night Bazaar, Siam Paragon and the Central World Tower. The CPB spearheaded a plan to turn Bangkok's historical Ratchadamnoen Avenue into a shopping street known as the \"Champs-Élysées of Asia\" and in 2007, shocked longtime residents of traditional marketplace districts by serving them with eviction notices. The Crown's substantial income from the CPB, estimated to be at least five billion baht in 2004 alone, is exempt from taxes. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.156257629394531, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "American journalist Paul Handley, who spent thirteen years in Thailand, wrote the biography The King Never Smiles. The Information and Communications Ministry banned the book and blocked the book's page on the Yale University Press website in January 2006. In a statement dated 19 January 2006, Thai National Police Chief General Kowit Wattana said the book has \"contents which could affect national security and the good morality of the people.\" The book provides a detailed discussion of Bhumibol's role in Thai political history and also analyzes the factors behind Bhumibol's popularity.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.975984573364258, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "William Stevenson, who had access to the Royal Court and the Royal Family, wrote the biography The Revolutionary King in 2001. An article in Time says the idea for the book was suggested by Bhumibol. Critics noted that the book displays intimate knowledge about personal aspects of Bhumibol. However, the book has been unofficially banned in Thailand and the Bureau of the Royal Household warned the Thai media about even referring to it in print. An official ban was not possible as it was written with Bhumibol's blessing. The book has been criticised for factual inaccuracies, disrespecting Bhumibol (it refers to him by his personal nickname \"Lek\"), and proposing a controversial theory explaining the mysterious death of King Ananda. Stevenson said, \"The king said from the beginning the book would be dangerous for him and for me.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.350761413574219, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "Bhumibol's only son, Prince Vajiralongkorn, was given the title \"Somdej Phra Boroma Orasadhiraj Chao Fah Maha Vajiralongkorn Sayam Makutrajakuman\" (Crown Prince of Siam) on 28 December 1972 and made heir apparent (องค์รัชทายาท) to the throne in accordance with the Palace Law on Succession of 1924. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8408751487731934, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "On 5 December 1977, Princess Sirindhorn was given the title \"Siam Boromrajakumari\" (Princess Royal of Siam). Her title is often translated by the English-language press as \"Crown Princess\", although her official English-language title is simply \"Princess\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.172531127929688, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Recent constitutions of Thailand have made the amendment of the Palace Law of Succession the sole prerogative of the reigning king. According to Assoc. Prof. Gothom Arya, former election commissioner, this allows the reigning king, if he so chooses, to appoint his son or any of his daughters to the throne. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.645249366760254, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "* Sayamminthrathirat—\"the Great King of Siam,\" from Sanskrit Siam (former name of Thailand) + indra (\"leader\") + adhi (\"great\") + rāja (\"king)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.394415855407715, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bhumibol Adulyadej" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The monarchy of Thailand (whose monarch is referred to as the King of Thailand or historically as King of Siam; , refers to the constitutional monarchy and monarch of the Kingdom of Thailand (formerly Siam). The King of Thailand is the head of state and head of the ruling Royal House of Chakri.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.078725814819336, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Although the current Chakri Dynasty was created only in 1782, the existence of the institution of monarchy in Thailand is traditionally considered to have its roots from the founding of the Sukhothai Kingdom in 1238, with a brief interregnum from the death of Ekkathat to the accession of Taksin in the 18th century. The institution was transformed into a constitutional monarchy in 1932 after the bloodless Siamese Revolution of 1932. The monarchy's official residence is the Grand Palace in Bangkok; however, the present king spends much of his time at the Chitralada Palace, or the Klai Kangwon Villa (Thai: วังไกลกังวล) (\"Palace Far from Worries\") in the beach resort city of Hua Hin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.944498062133789, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The King of Thailand's titles include Head of State, Head of the Armed Forces, Adherent of Buddhism, and Upholder of religions. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.067034721374512, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The current concept of Thai kingship has evolved through 800 years of absolute rule. The first king of a unified Thailand was the founder of the Kingdom of Sukhothai, King Sri Indraditya, in 1238. The idea of this early kingship is said to be based on two concepts derived from Hinduism and Theravada Buddhist beliefs. The first concept is based on the Vedic-Hindu caste of \"Kshatriya\" (, or warrior-ruler, in which the king derives his powers from military might. The second is based on the Theravada Buddhist concept of \"Dhammaraja\" (, Buddhism having been introduced to Thailand somewhere around the 6th century CE The idea of the Dhammaraja (or kingship under Dharma), is that the king should rule his people in accordance with Dharma and the teachings of the Buddha.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.675590515136719, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "The king was chief administrator, chief legislator, and chief judge, with all laws, orders, verdict and punishments theoretically originating from his person. The king's sovereignty was reflected in the titles \"Lord of the Land\" ( Phra Chao Phaen Din) and \"Lord of Life\" ( Chao Chiwit). The king's powers and titles were seen by foreign observers as proof that the king was an absolute monarch in the European sense. However, in Siamese tradition the duty and responsibility of the king was seen as developed from the ancient Indian theories of royal authority, which resemble Enlightened Absolutism, although the emphasis is not on rationality but on Dhamma. This was disrupted in 1767, when Thai digests of the dhammasāt () were lost when a Burmese army under the Alaungpaya Dynasty invaded, sacked and burned the city of Ayutthaya.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.147887229919434, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In 1782, King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ascended the throne and moved the capital from the Thonburi side to the Bangkok side of the Chao Phraya River. There he established the House of Chakri, the current ruling dynasty of Thailand. (This first reign was later designated as that of Rama I in the list of Rama Kings of Thailand.) He also established the office of Supreme Patriarch as the head of the Sangha, the order of Buddhist monks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.676912307739258, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "Chulalongkorn (Rama V) ascended the throne as a minor at age 15 in 1868, and as King of Siam on 16 November 1873. As a prince, he had been tutored in Western traditions by the governess, Anna Leonowens. Intent on reforming the monarchy along Western lines, during his minority he traveled extensively to observe western administrative methods. He transformed the monarchy along Western lines of an \"enlightened ruler\". He abolished the practice of kneeling and crawling in front of the monarch, and repealed many laws concerning the relationship between the monarch and his people, while continuing many of the ancient aspects and rituals of the old kingship. In 1874, he created a privy council copied from the European tradition, to help him rule his Kingdom. During his reign Siam was pressured to relinquish control of its old tributaries of Laos and northern Malaya to Western powers, Siam itself narrowly avoided being colonized.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.167572021484375, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": " In 1905, 37 years after his coronation, Chulalongkorn ended slavery with the Slave Abolition Act. In 1867 slaves accounted for one-third of Siamese population.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.00307846069336, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "Prajadhipok (Rama VII) succeeded his brother in 1925. The Eton and Sandhurst educated monarch created a council similar to a cabinet, where the most important government officials could meet to decide state affairs. This advisory and legislative council, styled the Supreme Council of State of Siam (Thai: อภิรัฐมนตรีสภา) was founded on 28 November 1925 and existed until 1932.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.467354774475098, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "In June 1932, a group of foreign educated students and military men called \"the promoters\" carried out a bloodless revolution, seizing power and demanded that King Prajadhipok, grant the people of Siam a constitution. The King agreed and in December 1932 the people were granted a constitution, ending 150 years of absolute Chakri rule. From then on the role of the monarch was relegated to that of a symbolic head of state. His powers from then on were exercised by a prime minister and the national assembly.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.708760261535645, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In 1935 King Pradhipok (Rama VII) abdicated the throne, following disagreements with the government. He lived in exile in the United Kingdom until his death. The King was replaced by his young nephew Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII). The new king was 10 years old and was living abroad in Switzerland. A council of regents was appointed in his place. During this period the roles and powers of the King were entirely usurped by the fascist government of Plaek Phibunsongkhram, who changed the name of the kingdom from Siam to Thailand, and aligned it on the side of the Axis powers in the Pacific theatre of World War II. By the end of the war Phibunsongkhram was removed and the young King returned. The Free Thai movement provided resistance to foreign occupation during the war and helped rehabilitate Thailand after the war.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.691656589508057, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Since c. 2000, the role of the Thai monarchy has been increasingly challenged by scholars, media, observers and traditionalists, and as more educated pro-democracy interests began to express their rights to speech. Many deemed that a series of laws and measures relating to lèse majesté in Thailand, aimed at protecting the king and the royal family, are hindrances to freedom of expression. Dozens of arrests, hundreds of criminal investigations and multiple imprisonments have been made based on these laws. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in his 2005 national birthday broadcast, also indicated that he could be criticized if the criticism is constructive and not politically motivated.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.987579822540283, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The lèse-majesté law is part of Thailand’s Criminal Code, which also contains general provisions on defamation and libel of private individuals.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.218389511108398, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The king is assisted in his work and duties by the Private Secretary to the King of Thailand and the Privy Council of Thailand, in consultation with the head of the cabinet, the Prime Minister. In accordance with the constitution the king is no longer the originator of all laws in the kingdom; that prerogative is entrusted to the National Assembly of Thailand. The monarchy's household and finances are managed by the Bureau of the Royal Household and the Crown Property Bureau respectively, these agencies are not considered part of the Thai government and all personnel are appointed by the king. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.033510208129883, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The heir apparent to the Thai monarchy is the Crown Prince of Thailand, Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn. The succession to the throne is governed by the 1924 Palace Law of Succession, promulgated by King Vajiravudh. Section 22 of the constitution clearly stated that the amendment of the palace law shall be prerogative of the king. Journalist Andrew MacGregor Marshall has argued that behind the scenes, there are \"endless struggles for the throne\". His book has been banned in Thailand and holding a copy results in three year's imprisonment and a fine.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.005208015441895, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The present set of royal regalia of Thailand ( and the royal utensils was created mostly during the reign of King Rama I and Rama IV, after the previous set was lost during the sack of Ayutthaya by the Burmese in 1767. The Regalia is used mainly during the coronation ceremony of the king at the beginning of every reign. The Regalia is presently on display in the Museum of the Grand Palace in Bangkok. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.174610137939453, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "*Royal Thrones of Thailand- currently there are six, distributed at various Throne Halls in the Grand Palace. 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However, sometimes recommendations are made by the Cabinet of Thailand and the Prime Minister.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.440380096435547, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "*The Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.50313949584961, "source": "wiki", "title": "Monarchy of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "Asian Americans have been involved in the entertainment industry since the first half of the 19th century, when Chang and Eng Bunker (the original \"Siamese Twins\") became naturalized citizens. Acting roles in television, film, and theater were relatively few, and many available roles were for narrow, stereotypical characters. More recently, young Asian American comedians and film-makers have found an outlet on YouTube allowing them to gain a strong and loyal fanbase among their fellow Asian Americans. There have been several Asian American-centric television shows in American media, beginning with Mr. T and Tina in 1976, and as recent as Fresh Off the Boat in 2015.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.807487487792969, "source": "wiki", "title": "Asian Americans" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "When Bhumibol was a year old, his family returned to Thailand, where his father took up an intership in a hospital in Chiang Mai . Prince Mahidol was in poor health, though, and died of kidney and liver failure in September of 1929.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.381190776824951, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In March of 1935, King Rama VII abdicated in favor of his 9-year-old nephew, Bhumibol's older brother Ananda Mahidol. The child king and his siblings remained in Switzerland, however, and two regents ruled the kingdom in his name. Ananda Mahidol returned to Thailand in 1938, but Bhumibol remained in Europe. The younger brother continued his studies in Switzerland until 1945, when he left the University of Lausanne at the end of World War II .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.1278460025787354, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Just as his father had done in Massachusetts, Bhumibol met his wife-to-be while studying overseas. The young king often went to Paris, where he met the daughter of Thailand's ambassador to France, a student named Mom Rajawongse Sirikit Kiriyakara. Bhumibol and Sirikit began a demure courtship based on taking in Paris' tourist sights .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9848201274871826, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The newly crowned king had very little actual power. Thailand was ruled by military dictator Plaek Pibulsonggram until 1957, when the first of a long series of coups removed him from office. Bhumibol declared martial law during the crisis, which ended with a new dictatorship forming under the king's close ally Sarit Dhanarajata.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.2339887619018555, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Over the next six years, Bhumibol would revive many abandoned Chakri traditions. He also made many public appearances around Thailand, significantly reviving the prestige of the throne.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.204552173614502, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "When a military coup leader was selected as Prime Minister in 1992, huge protests broke out in Thailand's cities. The demonstrations turned into riots, and the police and military were rumored to be dividing into factions. Fearing a civil war, King Bhumibol called the coup leader and the opposition leader to an audience at the palace.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.299095153808594, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Although Thailand is a constitutional monarchy, Bhumibol retains more powers than other heads of state such as Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II . He can veto laws passed by parliament, pardon convicted criminals, and approve or disapprove cabinet members. Bhumibol also has significant leeway in allocating money to his own pet development projects within the country.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.113986492156982, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "From outside of Thailand, King Bhumibol looks very much like other modern kings - quiet, dignified, with plenty of hobbies to fill his free time. However, to the Thai people he is quasi-divine, the Buddhist \"Dharmaraja\" and an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu . As such, he is protected by strict laws of lese majeste .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.8960490226745605, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The ninth Chakri king of Thailand has guided his country through very turbulent political waters. In fact, he has already earned the title \" The Great .\" How the nation will fare after he passes away is anybody's guess.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.232039451599121, "source": "search", "title": "Brief Biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "In this period, Siam changed its name to Thailand and was experiencing much political and social instability. However, the people of Thailand remained in need of a King and it is very clear that such is still the case. The people of Thailand see their royal family as a true pillar of the community. The King, when he assumed the throne, stated that he will reign with the happiness and righteousness of the people of Siam at the forefront of all his actions, and he still stands for this.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.524408340454102, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "For the people of Thailand, the kind is the country’s father. This means they expect him to look after them and give them what they need to survive. This includes a foundation of good education and the ability to gain employment when they grow up. In return, the people of Thailand want to look after their father when he reaches old age, so he can be comfortable after retirement.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.617859840393066, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Siam", "passage": "Every Thai person, as such, is a child of the king. The oldest and wisest went to form a group that allows the younger children to have a peaceful and prosperous home. As such, the current King is seen as the father to some 60 million people, who he has looked after properly during his reign. This is demonstrated through the hard work he has done as a philanthropist, using his personal funds to improve the nation as a whole. The Thai will agree that no monarch has worked as hard for his people as King Bhumibol Adulyadej has, particularly as he the people of Siam were not living in healthy or good conditions when he came to the throne. However, even during those days, they had their basic needs met and they were happy, something that the King built upon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.906187653541565, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The people in the most rural areas, however, were quite lost. As such, the King put in strong efforts to improve education in these areas by starting schools and he ensured the continued existence of these communities. The government, which is comprised of older and wiser children, have helped to ensure that these projects can continue and are always seen as important. Although the people of Thailand – the King’s children – are ready to look after their King in his retirement, he is still going strong and shows no signs of wanting to retire.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.762358665466309, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The King truly is a strong pillar for the people of Thailand. He has seen his country turn into a true democracy after much bickering between the older and wiser children. This bickering, besides bringing some infrastructure into Bangkok, did not bring about much positive change, particularly for the rural areas that the King has always been so interested in. Hence, he has provided personal funds and time to go to these areas and bring them into development.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.555846214294434, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "For the Thai people, the King and his Queen are true parents. They can offer them the comfort they seek knowing that they are looked after. As a result, most homes in Thailand will have images of their beloved royal family. In moments of happiness, they will always look for this image and give thanks. If you visit Thailand, it is very important to understand this important role of the royal family in the everyday lives of Thai people. Being disrespectful of this is absolutely unacceptable.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.717944145202637, "source": "search", "title": "The King Of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej - Go Thai" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Biography: King Bhumibol of Thailand", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.918034791946411, "source": "search", "title": "Biography: King Bhumibol of Thailand - Vision" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "King Bhumibol of Thailand", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9142093658447266, "source": "search", "title": "Biography: King Bhumibol of Thailand - Vision" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Even though King Bhumibol’s reign has been considered the Golden Age of Thailand, there have been critics of the monarchy and its effectiveness in our modern era. In the introduction to his biography of King Bhumibol entitled The King Never Smiles Paul M. Handley states that the king has heavily promoted the throne as the nation’s salvation. However, asks Handley, has this “really created a sustainable model of the meaningful monarchy in the age of liberal constitutional democracy? Or has his restoration wistfully, and maybe recklessly, taken the monarchy back to a time which can no longer exist, and perhaps never really did?” There have also been suggestions that monarchs in Thailand—whether beneficent or not—may have a popularity advantage because of Lèse Majesté laws, regulations that allow for the arrest of those who criticize or insult a monarch. If these ensure a king’s popularity, however, they also do not preclude the possibility that a king may not choose to make use of them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.877590656280518, "source": "search", "title": "Biography: King Bhumibol of Thailand - Vision" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The king has a very practical approach to national development and to improving the environment, and thereby the lives, of his citizens. Jones notes that the king is not afraid of getting his shoes dirty, “King Bhumibol has trampled over many hills in the isolated areas of Thailand to meet excited subjects waiting to show off their new coffee shrub, peach tree or asparagus.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.875634670257568, "source": "search", "title": "Biography: King Bhumibol of Thailand - Vision" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "“Today, Thailand is one of the anchors of the modern, prosperous Southeast Asia. Bangkok has become one of the world’s great cities and commercial centers… . Much of this extraordinary success is due to the wise guidance of King Bhumibol. The king has led by example. He has embodied the ten traditional moral principles of Buddhist kings: charity toward the poor; morality; sacrifice of personal interest; honesty; courtesy; self-restraint; tranquility of temperament; non-violence; patience; and impartiality in settling disputes. And he has led by action. Together, King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit have devoted decades to improving the lives of Thai people in rural and impoverished regions. They constantly travel to the country’s 73 provinces, meeting with villagers and staying close to the people. The results are obvious in improved public health, the spread of education to all Thai children and the renewal of traditional crafts and textiles.” ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.645478367805481, "source": "search", "title": "Biography: King Bhumibol of Thailand - Vision" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Because of his hard work and widely-recognized dedication to the Thai community, King Bhumibol holds a cherished place in the hearts and minds of his people. In an age when celebrity is fleeting and fame disappears in moments, Bhumibol’s popularity in Thailand remains undiminished. He appears not only to have lived up to his coronation promise to rule with righteousness, but in the eyes of many of his people he also appears to have lived up to his name, Bhumibol, which in Sanskrit means “Strength of the Land.”   ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.8723702430725098, "source": "search", "title": "Biography: King Bhumibol of Thailand - Vision" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "1000+ images about King Bhumibol of Thailand on Pinterest | Prince, We and Thailand photos", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.18842887878418, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol of Thailand on Pinterest | Bhumibol ..." }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "The constitutional monarchy was weak, but the young inexperienced king was guided by�a group of old princes and councillors determined to restore the monarchy�s stature, battered after the overthrow of the absolute monarchy in 1932. 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The Kaiser himself stepped in to defuse the issue in 1904 and the law became a non-issue thereon. In 2005, King Bhumibol made it clear that he was unhappy with the law, but his intervention had little effect and unfortunately he may now be too frail to make a decisive intervention.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.666082382202148, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work - Asian Review of Books" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "Everyone acknowledges that the Bhumiphol era is drawing to a close in Thailand and this in itself produces anxiety, especially among conservatives.�A Life�s Work�tries to sum up the era, and it does so without the adulatory tone of previous tomes published on royal landmark occasions. It attempts to deal frankly with the monarchy�s critics, and to speak openly about difficult issues. For example, the death in 1946 of King Ananda, King Bhumibol�s brother and predecessor, is discussed succinctly. That his death remains officially a �mystery� to the palace itself, however, ensures that it will be the stuff of conspiracy theories for years to come, because I can�t see any new information ever coming to light. Even the exhaustively investigated assassination of US President Kennedy in 1963 still produces arcane conspiracy theories.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.831326484680176, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work - Asian Review of Books" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "This book will be dismissed outright as apologia by anti-monarchists, who�it must be said�have grown rapidly in Thailand since the 2006 military coup. That many saw it as a �royalist� coup illustrates the monarchy�s precarious relationship with democracy. On the other hand the book�s attempt to deal evenly with the history of King Bhumibol�s reign will give little comfort to hardline royalists who wish to turn the clock back. 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That his death remains officially a �mystery� to the palace itself, however, ensures that it will be the stuff of conspiracy theories for years to come, because I can�t see any new information ever coming to light. Even the exhaustively investigated assassination of US President Kennedy in 1963 still produces arcane conspiracy theories.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.831326484680176, "source": "search", "title": "King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work - Asian Review of Books" }, { "answer": "Thailand", "passage": "This book will be dismissed outright as apologia by anti-monarchists, who�it must be said�have grown rapidly in Thailand since the 2006 military coup. That many saw it as a �royalist� coup illustrates the monarchy�s precarious relationship with democracy. On the other hand the book�s attempt to deal evenly with the history of King Bhumibol�s reign will give little comfort to hardline royalists who wish to turn the clock back. 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It was originally a target of criticism from the Roman Catholic Church on the one hand and contemporary music critics who objected to its Broadway/populist elements on the other. In the present day, it is perhaps seen as less blasphemous and more a piece of its era: in 2000 it was even performed in the Vatican.", "precise_score": 5.120273113250732, "rough_score": 4.375697612762451, "source": "wiki", "title": "Leonard Bernstein" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "and his wife, Felicia, had become personal friends of the President ( just one year Bernstein’s senior) and Mrs. Kennedy. Stunned by the tragedy, he decided to dedicate “Kaddish” with its theme of mourning “to the beloved memory of John F. Kennedy.” Five years later, with the building of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., well underway, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis approached Bernstein with a commission for a major new work for the Center’s opening performances in 1971. After a difficult gestation, it would become the longest, most ambitious and ultimately most controversial piece this protean composer/conductor ever created. Mass was Bernstein’s most intimate, self-revealing work, yet paradoxically, it would require more than 200 musicians and dancers to perform. In honor of Kennedy’s Catholic faith, it was a setting of the traditional Roman Mass, and yet it was filled with anti-establishment songs set to contemporary rock and blues beats that called the tenets of Catholicism—and by extension all religions—into question. It was a work for a classical concert hall with all the theatrical trappings and glitz of Broadway, where Bernstein had enjoyed so many triumphs. Its mélange of musical languages defined eclecticism: rhythmand-blues nestled up to serial tone rows, Latino dances mingled with Lutheran chorales, candid American folk ballads shook hands with Beethoven and Stravinsky. For some listeners at its Washington premiere on Sept. 8, 1971, it was a deeply moving spiritual experience; for others, it was an outrageous sacrilege.The critics, too, were bitterly divided. TheWashington Post’s Paul Hume called it “the greatest music Bernstein has ever written.” But The NewYork Times’ redoubtable Harold C. Schonberg dismissed it as “cheap and vulgar,” adding,“It is a show-biz Mass, the work of a musician who desperately wants to be with it.” Bernstein’s Attraction to the Catholic Mass", "precise_score": 4.795025825500488, "rough_score": 5.351362705230713, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's Mass by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - issuu" }, { "answer": "JFK", "passage": "In 1971, Leonard Bernstein, a Jew, wrote a Catholic mass of sorts. An audacious theatrical interpretation of the liturgy that was commissioned in memory of JFK to open the Kennedy Center in Washington, \"Mass\" is an impudent stylistic brew that combines rock, 12-tone music and Broadway. 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Kennedy", "passage": "In 1962 the New York Philharmonic moved from Carnegie Hall to Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall) in the new Lincoln Center. The move was not without controversy because of acoustic problems with the new hall. Bernstein conducted the gala opening concert featuring vocal works by Mahler, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and the premiere of Aaron Copland's Connotations, a serial-work that was merely politely received. During the intermission Bernstein kissed the cheek of the President's wife Jacqueline Kennedy, a break with protocol that was commented on at the time. In 1961 Bernstein had conducted at President John F. Kennedy's pre-inaugural gala, and he was an occasional guest in the Kennedy White House. He also conducted at the funeral mass in 1968 for the late President Kennedy's brother Robert Kennedy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.962512493133545, "source": "wiki", "title": "Leonard Bernstein" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "With his commitment to the New York Philharmonic and his many other activities, Bernstein had little time for composition during the 1960s. The two major works he produced at this time were his Kaddish Symphony dedicated to the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy and the Chichester Psalms which he produced during a sabbatical year he took from the Philharmonic in 1965 to concentrate on composition. To try to have more time for composition was probably a major factor in his decision to step down as Music Director of the Philharmonic in 1969, and to never accept such a position anywhere again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.449827194213867, "source": "wiki", "title": "Leonard Bernstein" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "Tribute At the time of that assassination, my father was finishing the orchestrations for his Symphony No. 3,“Kaddish.” He immediately decided to dedicate the piece to the slain president, his beloved friend. How grimly appropriate it was that the Hebrew text in that symphony is the Kaddish prayer, the Jewish prayer of mourning for the dead. But my father’s tribute to President Kennedy did not end there. Six years later, when ground was broken for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.336808204650879, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's Mass by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - issuu" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "Where did this profound sense of breakdown come from? As the daughter of the composer of Mass, I have always had the clear sense that my father’s pessimism was cemented on the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. My parents adored the Kennedys.They counted themselves among the First Family’s friends. I had never seen my parents cry before Nov. 22, 1963. On the contrary, our house was always full of laughter. So on that Friday after school, when my father’s face distorted with anguish and my mother crumpled on her bed and sobbed, I felt my world lurch sickeningly on its foundations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.005460739135742, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's Mass by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - issuu" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "called her friend Lenny and asked him, not to write Mass, but to be the Chairman of the Center! My father was overwhelmed by the honor. Yet being an administrator was probably the last thing he would ever want to do—not to mention the last thing he’d be good at. But how could he turn Jackie down? So he said yes.And then he was in agony. As I recall, it was my mother who came to the rescue. She was the one who made the difficult phone call to Mrs. Onassis, gently suggesting that perhaps, given Lenny’s other obligations, wouldn’t it be more appropriate if he were to, say, write a piece for the inauguration rather than run the place? And that is how Mass came to be born. By the time of Mass’s completion in 1971, the nation had become a very different place.TheVietnam War was in full cry; young people had become polarized into a movement that threatened to split the nation along its seams; and we had the very antithesis of John F. Kennedy for a president in Richard M. Nixon. For Kennedy-philes like my parents, it must have felt like the most vertiginous fall from grace. Mass had a polarizing effect on its audiences; they either loved it or hated it. The Catholic Church was appalled by many aspects of the piece. Some cities bowed under the pressure of their local Catholic churches, and cancelled productions of Mass. Some music critics objected to the mixing of genres: how could Leonard Bernstein dare to combine a symphony orchestra with a rock band? And to many rock musicians at the time, the rock music seemed artificial and, well, square. But now that more than 30 years have passed since Mass appeared on the scene, these issues have all but subsided.The sounds of 1970’s rock music are now fascinating artifacts rather than dated facsimiles, since the piece has long since shed the need to sound current. And by now, we’re all quite accustomed to the mixing of musical genres.We hear rock bands with orchestras all the time. But Bernstein,", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.5202757120132446, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's Mass by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - issuu" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "PHOTO BY JFK COLLECTION/ZUMA PRESS. (©) COPYRIGHT 1963 BY JOHN F. 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Kennedy, America’s first and only Catholic president, for the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1971. He chose the structure of the Roman Catholic Mass, complete with a Celebrant playing the central role. Provocative and innovative to some, appalling to others, Mass is first and foremost a celebration of human faith, but it also questions the relevance of ceremonial rituals and immutable “truths” in an increasingly faithless modern world.Audiences leapt to their feet at the premiere, reacting to a work that felt so anti-establishment and real. Today, 37 years after its world premiere, Mass seems even more vital and relevant. Political volatility, an unpopular war seemingly", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.782606601715088, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's Mass by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - issuu" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "MARIN ALSOP leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein’s Mass on October 16-18 at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, Md.; October 24 at Carnegie Hall, New York City; October 25 at United Palace Theater, New York City; and October 26 at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. The Carnegie Hall and United Palace Theater performances are part of Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds, a festival co-produced by Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, running September 24-December 13.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.565118312835693, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's Mass by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - issuu" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "In November 1963, Leonard Bernstein was busy orchestrating the final movement of his Third Symphony, “Kaddish,” when he learned of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Admiring his politics, his vigorous personality and his openness to high culture, Bernstein", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.1906683444976807, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's Mass by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - issuu" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "of the reason that the Catholic Mass became the spinal structure—unconsciously, perhaps—must have had something to do with the Kennedys and because John F. Kennedy was America’s first Catholic president. But I’ve always had a deep interest in Catholicism in all its aspects, its similarities and dissimilarities to Judaism. … Mass is also an extremely dramatic event in itself—it even suggests a theater work.” Perhaps, too, Bernstein was mindful of the fact that his great idol Gustav Mahler had converted from Judaism to Catholicism as an adult. In Mass, however, the solid beliefs of Catholicism are constantly being assaulted by songs set in contemporary popular styles and using irreverent words mostly written by Bernstein himself. Nina Bernstein likens them to “the particularly Jewish practice of occasionally addressing God in confrontational terms.” But beyond that, the confrontational, antiestablishment tone of Mass is rooted in the highly charged era in which it was written: the late 1960s and early 1970s.TheVietnam War was at its height, and so too were the anti-war protests.Thousands were marching in demonstrations on the Pentagon and in cities across America. Students were shot by the national guard at Kent State University, and college campuses went on strike from California to Massachusetts.The hippie generation was in ascendancy with drugs,“free love” and rock music embraced as the new way to live.The summer of 1969 had seen thousands gather at Woodstock to celebrate the joys of the counterculture. The Baby Boomer generation opposed almost everything that had been handed down to it, be it organized religion or American democracy. Though now in his 50s, Bernstein too enjoyed a fashionable flirtation with the flower children. He had attended at least one Jimi Hendrix concert and in his book The Infinite Variety of Music extolled rock: “Pop music seems to be the only area where there is to be found unabashed vitality, the fun of invention, the feeling of fresh air. Everything else suddenly seems old-fashioned.” In 1970, he and his wife held a fundraising party for the Black Panthers, prompting author Tom Wolfe to dub them “radical chic.” He intended Mass to be, at least partly, an anti-war statement and an indictment of the Nixon administration. Indeed, members of Nixon’s inner circle already knew about this, and it was for this reason that the President did not attend the performance.The fact that Bernstein had also met with jailed anti-draft activist Father Philip Berrigan to discuss liturgical matters pertaining to Mass didn’t help matters. During periods at the MacDowell Colony snatched from his international conducting schedule, Mass fitfully took shape, but by June 1971, just three months from the opening of B e r n s t e i n ’s M a s s C o m m e m o r a t i v e Pr o g r a m", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.577587842941284, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's Mass by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - issuu" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "This was also the year when 18-year-olds received the right to vote in the U.S. and women received that right in Switzerland. Conceptual art and the \"Jesus Movement\" became much-hyped forces in American culture. Rock producer Bill Graham closed his legendary Fillmores East and West, but in September the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened in Washington, D.C.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.31605339050293, "source": "search", "title": "Mass | LA Phil" }, { "answer": "JFK", "passage": "Concept musicals such as Stephen Sondheim's Company also provided an important context for this plotless depiction of spiritual trauma. The problem of finding God in a seemingly godless world was an issue that Bernstein grappled with often (his 1963 \"Kaddish\" Symphony, which was dedicated to the memory of JFK, previewed many musical and thematic elements of Mass). During the course of the mass, the Celebrant's faith is challenged repeatedly, leading to a hallucinatory breakdown, before reconciling faith and doubt in the communal joy of praise.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.551299810409546, "source": "search", "title": "Mass | LA Phil" }, { "answer": "John F. Kennedy", "passage": "That's what attracted Philadelphia music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a newcomer to the piece. \"First and foremost I am attracted to pieces that present great music. This one provides a broad palette of styles and is very different than anything else we've done before,\" he wrote in an e-mail during breaks from conducting Don Carlo last week at the Metropolitan Opera. \"It also completes our requiem cycle, as the work was conceived as a requiem to John F. Kennedy.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.25079345703125, "source": "search", "title": "Bernstein's great, soulful buffet of a Mass - Philly.com" } ]

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Boone and Presley's styles/images represented opposite ends of the burgeoning musical form, which competed with one another throughout the remainder of the decade.", "precise_score": -5.817198276519775, "rough_score": -9.99856185913086, "source": "wiki", "title": "1950s in music" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Classic pop declined in popularity as Rock and roll entered the mainstream and became a major force in American record sales. Crooners such as Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, and Patti Page, who had dominated the first half of the decade, found their access to the pop charts significantly curtailed by the decade's end. However, new Pop vocalists continued to rise to prominence throughout the decade, many of whom started out singing Rock ‘n’ Roll. These include: Pat Boone (\"Don’t Forbid Me\", \"April Love\", \"Love Letters in the Sand\"), Connie Francis (\"Who’s Sorry Now\", \"Among My Souvenirs\", \"My Happiness\"), Gogi Grant (\"Suddenly There’s a Valley\", \"The Wayward Wind\"), Bobby Darin (\"Dream Lover\", \"Beyond the Sea\", \"Mack the Knife\"), and Andy Williams (\"Canadian Sunset\", \"Butterfly\", \"Hawaiian Wedding Song\"). Even Rock ‘n’ Roll icon Elvis Presley spent the rest of his career alternating between Pop and Rock (\"Love Me Tender\", \"Loving You\", \"I Love You Because\"). Pop would resurface on the charts in the mid-1960s as \"Adult Contemporary\".", "precise_score": -10.131709098815918, "rough_score": -10.811357498168945, "source": "wiki", "title": "1950s in music" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "During this period Elvis Presley converted over to country music. He played a huge role in the music industry during this time. The number two, three and four songs on Billboard's charts for that year were Elvis Presley, \"Heartbreak Hotel;\" Johnny Cash, \"I Walk the Line;\" and Carl Perkins, \"Blue Suede Shoes\". Cash and Presley placed songs in the top 5 in 1958 with No. 3 \"Guess Things Happen That Way/Come In, Stranger\" by Cash, and No. 5 by Presley \"Don't/I Beg Of You\". Presley acknowledged the influence of rhythm and blues artists and his style, saying \"The coloured folk been singin' and playin' it just the way I'm doin' it now, man for more years than I know.\" But he also said, \"My stuff is just hopped-up country.\" By 1958, many rockabilly musicians returned to a more mainstream style or had defined their own unique style and rockabilly had largely disappeared from popular music, although its influences would remain into the future.", "precise_score": -10.804998397827148, "rough_score": -10.721099853515625, "source": "wiki", "title": "1950s in music" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "\"A Big Hunk o' Love\" is a song written by Aaron Schroeder and Sid Wyche, aka Sid Jaxon. The former is best known for writing the jazz standard \"Alright, Okay, You Win\", whereas Aaron Schroeder co-wrote a whole bunch of hits from the rock`n`roll area, from \"Fools Hall of Fame\" (Pat Boone) to \"Because They're Young\" (Duane Eddy). In an interview conducted by Jan-Erik Kjeseth, he also revealed that in fact he worked with his partner Wally Gold in order to improve a song submitted by another writer, and the end result was \"It's My Party\", a big hit for Lesley Gore. Schroeder and Gold tossed a coin as to whose name should go on the record, and Gold \"won\". Other titles written by the duo include \"It's Now or Never\" and \"Good Luck Charm\"; both of which - like \"A Big Hunk o' Love\" - were originally recorded by American rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. \"A Big Hunk o'Love\" was released as a single on June 23, 1959 by RCA Victor and later topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. ", "precise_score": 3.667055368423462, "rough_score": 1.0594861507415771, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "\"A Big Hunk o' Love\", a hard, driving rocker, was recorded at Elvis' first and only session during his two years of army service. The session took place on June 10, 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the first session that did not include guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, who had both worked with Elvis since his first recordings for Sam Phillips at the Memphis Recording Service, which later became known as Sun Studios. The recording featured Elvis' regular drummer D.J. Fontana and backing vocalists the Jordanaires, who would continue to work with Elvis until Elvis' appearance at the Hilton in Las Vegas. The rest of the musicians were top Nashville session men, such as guitarist Hank Garland on Gibson Byrdland guitar, Floyd Cramer on piano, Bob Moore on double bass, Buddy Harman and D.J.Fontana on a drums. The song was recorded in four takes, the released version is actually spliced from takes three and four. 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When the single was released on June 23, it was the second release to come from Elvis' army session after \"I Need Your Love Tonight\" b/w \"(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I\" on March 10, 1959.", "precise_score": 3.043881893157959, "rough_score": 3.7997517585754395, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Due to the songs success, Elvis' next single was another Aaron Schroeder co-composition, \"Stuck on You\". \"A big Hunk o' Love\" was the first of four of Schroeder's songs that became #1 hits for Elvis.", "precise_score": 2.4781813621520996, "rough_score": -2.495245933532715, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics : The Elvis SongDataBase", "precise_score": 2.554131031036377, "rough_score": -1.642338514328003, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "At this session, one of his best, Elvis recorded 'I Need Your Love Tonight', 'A Big Hunk O' Love', 'Ain't That Loving You Baby', 'Ain't That Loving You Baby' (Fast Version), '(Now And Then There's A) Fool Such As I' and 'I Got Stung'. All except 'Ain't That Loving You Baby' were released in 1958 / 1959 with great success.", "precise_score": -0.9762636423110962, "rough_score": -2.3282103538513184, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "For those familiar only with the King of Rock & Roll's name and reputation, the prospect of buying a best-of can be quite a nauseating proposition. The huge range of compilations available varies in quality, and depth, but as yet there exists no definitive choice for first-time Presley ers. RCA's latest attempt to correct this is perhaps the finest best-of Elvis Presley ever. Spanning two CDs and, as its title suggests, 50 songs, all the classic tracks are here, from \"Heartbreak Hotel\" through \"Suspicious Minds.\" The sound quality is as near-perfect as one will get for a best-of from this artist, and the packaging is quite superb. While it may not be as in-depth as other compilations, The 50 Greatest Hits is adequate for those wanting the major hits, and provides a taster for each of his styles. As a starting point to Elvis Presley 's work, this is unmatched by any other best-of and is an almost perfect compilation in that all of his most noted tracks are here, as are all the finest moment from each of his eras. For the more hardcore Elvis fan, also, The 50 Greatest Hits is an essential purchase, offering almost all of the finest tracks on a mere two discs.", "precise_score": -10.310111999511719, "rough_score": -10.416908264160156, "source": "search", "title": "The 50 Greatest Hits - Elvis Presley | Songs, Reviews ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Celebrate Elvis' Birthday with a Big Hunk O'Love Recipe | InStyle.com", "precise_score": 0.5963068604469299, "rough_score": -2.3772060871124268, "source": "search", "title": "Celebrate Elvis' Birthday with a Big Hunk O'Love Recipe ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Celebrate Elvis' Birthday with a Big Hunk O'Love Recipe", "precise_score": 0.6429640054702759, "rough_score": -1.0728610754013062, "source": "search", "title": "Celebrate Elvis' Birthday with a Big Hunk O'Love Recipe ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Matt Lewis and and Renato Poliafito, the minds behind the New York cult bakeries  Baked , were inspired by Elvis' favorite flavor combo: peanut butter and banana. \"Few megastars are so associated with one food item as Elvis is associated with the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich,\" Lewis writes in the introduction to this big hunk o'love recipe in Baked Occasions: Desserts for Leisure Activities, Holidays, and Informal Celebrations ($23, amazon.com ).", "precise_score": -1.2291322946548462, "rough_score": -7.321704387664795, "source": "search", "title": "Celebrate Elvis' Birthday with a Big Hunk O'Love Recipe ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2007 Elvis: #1 Hit Performances (Video) (performer: \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Hound Dog\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"All Shook Up\", \"Teddy Bear\", \"Jailhouse Rock\", \"Stuck On You\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You\", \"Love Me\", \"Too Much\", \"Treat Me Nice\", \"Trouble\", \"Wooden Heart\", \"Can't Help Falling In Love\", \"Rock-a-Hula Baby\", \"Return To Sender\", \"Bossa Nova Baby\", \"That's All Right (Mama)\", \"One Night\", \"Are You Lonesome Tonight?\", \"If I Can Dream\", \"In the Ghetto\", \"Suspicious Minds\", \"Don't Cry Daddy\", \"The Wonder of You\", \"A Big Hunk O' Love\", \"Burning Love\", \"An American Trilogy\") / (writer: \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"All Shook Up\")", "precise_score": -10.12131118774414, "rough_score": -9.739398002624512, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2005 Elvis: Golden Greats (Video) (performer: \"Burning Love\", \"Hound Dog\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"Peace In The Valley\", \"Suspicious Minds\", \"Fever\") / (writer: \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -10.874553680419922, "rough_score": -10.754837036132812, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 1981 This Is Elvis (\"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"Don't Be Cruel\") / (performer: \"Love Me\", \"Ready Teddy\", \"King Creole\", \"As Long As I Have You\", \"Frankfurt Special\", \"Stuck On You\", \"Blue Hawaii\", \"Rock-A-Hula Baby\", \"King of the Whole Wide World\", \"Guitar Man\", \"Let Yourself Go\", \"Big Hunk o'Love\", \"If I Can Dream\", \"Can't Help Falling In Love\" - uncredited)", "precise_score": -2.592156171798706, "rough_score": -6.702801704406738, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 1973 Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii (TV Special documentary) (performer: \"C.C. Rider\", \"Burning Love\", \"Something\", \"You Gave Me A Mountain\", \"Early Morning Rain\", \"Steamroller Blues\", \"My Way\", \"Love Me\", \"Johnny B. Goode\", \"It's Over\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry\", \"I Can't Stop Loving You\", \"Hound Dog\", \"Blue Hawaii\", \"What Now My Love\", \"Fever\", \"Welcome To My World\", \"Suspicious Minds\", \"I'll Remember You\", \"Hawaiian Wedding Song\", \"Long Tall Sally\", \"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On\", \"Ku'u Ipo\", \"An American Trilogy\", \"Big Hunk Of Love\", \"Can't Help Falling in Love\")", "precise_score": -7.217801570892334, "rough_score": -10.388468742370605, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 1973 Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii - Rehearsal Concert (TV Movie) (performer: \"C.C. Rider\", \"My Way\", \"Big Hunk Of Love\", \"An American Trilogy\", \"Ku'u Ipo\", \"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On\", \"Long Tall Sally\", \"Hawaiian Wedding Song\", \"I'll Remember You\", \"Suspicious Minds\", \"Welcome To My World\", \"Fever\", \"What Now My Love\", \"Blue Hawaii\", \"Hound Dog\", \"I Can't Stop Loving You\", \"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"Can't Help Falling in Love\", \"It's Over\", \"Love Me\", \"Steamroller Blues\", \"Something\", \"Early Morning Rain\")", "precise_score": -3.8146634101867676, "rough_score": -8.307846069335938, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 1972 Elvis on Tour (Documentary) (arranger: \"See See Rider\") / (performer: \"See See Rider\", \"Polk Salad Annie\", \"Separate Ways\", \"Proud Mary\", \"Never Been To Spain\", \"Burning Love\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Ready Teddy\", \"That's All Right\", \"Lead Me, Guide Me\", \"Bosom Of Abraham\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"Until It's Time For You To Go\", \"Suspicious Minds\", \"I John\", \"Bridge Over Troubled Water\", \"Funny How Time Slips Away\", \"An American Trilogy\", \"Mystery Train\", \"I Got a Woman\", \"A Big Hunk O' Love\", \"You Gave Me A Mountain\", \"Lawdy Miss Clawdy\", \"Can't Help Falling In Love\", \"Memories\") / (writer: \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -3.8996403217315674, "rough_score": -9.730524063110352, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 1968 Elvis (TV Movie) (performer: \"A Little Less Conversation\", \"All Shook Up\", \"Are You Lonesome Tonight?\", \"Baby, What You Want Me to Do\", \"Big Boss Man\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"Can't Help Falling In Love\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Guitar Man\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Hound Dog\", \"If I Can Dream\", \"It Hurts Me\", \"Jailhouse Rock\", \"Lawdy, Miss Clawdy\", \"Let Yourself Go\", \"Little Egypt\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"MacArthur Park\", \"Memories\", \"Nothingville\", \"One Night\", \"Santa Claus Is Back In Town\", \"Saved\", \"Tiger Man\", \"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Where Could I Go But to the Lord / Up Above My Head / Saved\", \"That's All Right\", \"Trying To Get To You\", \"Baby, What You Want Me To Do?\", \"Trouble\") / (writer: \"All Shook Up\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -9.89957332611084, "rough_score": -10.817075729370117, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "A Big Hunk O' Love - Elvis Presley", "precise_score": 3.9297826290130615, "rough_score": 3.469386577606201, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "In 1957, a popular television show featuring rock and roll performers, American Bandstand, went national. Hosted by Dick Clark, the program helped to popularize the more clean-cut, All-American brand of rock and roll. By the end of the decade, teen idols like Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis, and Fabian Forte were topping the charts. Some commentators have perceived this as the decline of rock and roll; citing the deaths of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens in a tragic plane crash in 1959 and the departure of Elvis for the army as causes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.133489608764648, "source": "wiki", "title": "1950s in music" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Rock and roll has also been seen as leading to a number of distinct subgenres, including rockabilly (see below) in the 1950s, combining rock and roll with \"hillbilly\" country music, which was usually played and recorded in the mid-1950s by white singers such as Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and with the greatest commercial success, Elvis Presley.[ \"Rockabilly\"], Allmusic, retrieved 6 August 2009. Another subgenre, Doo Wop, entered the pop charts in the 1950s . Its popularity soon spawns the parody \"Who Put the Bomp\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.184419631958008, "source": "wiki", "title": "1950s in music" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "In 1951, Little Richard Penniman began recording for RCA Records in the late-1940s jump blues style of Joe Brown and Billy Wright. However, it wasn't until he prepared a demo in 1954, that caught the attention of Specialty Records, that the world would start to hear his new, uptempo, funky rhythm and blues that would catapult him to fame in 1955 and help define the sound of rock and roll. A rapid succession of rhythm-and-blues hits followed, beginning with \"Tutti Frutti\" and \"Long Tall Sally\", which would influence performers such as James Brown, Elvis Presley, and Otis Redding. 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In 1954, however, Elvis Presley truly began the popularization of the genre with a series of recordings for Sun Records. \"Rock Around the Clock\" (1955, Bill Haley) was the breakthrough success for the style, and it launched the careers of several rockabilly entertainers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.353565216064453, "source": "wiki", "title": "1950s in music" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "The song was revived by Presley in 1972 during his engagements at the Las Vegas Hilton in February 1972 and was used in his live shows until mid-1973. It was performed live for the last time on January 26, 1974. The song is included in the 1972 documentary Elvis On Tour and his 1973 show broadcast via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. During this time period, it was played by the Elvis' TCB Band, and featured Glen D. Hardin and James Burton.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.465597152709961, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "*Elvis Presley – lead vocals", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.477815628051758, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Lyrics Home › Elvis Presley.News › Elvis Photos › Elvis SongDataBase › Sitemap ›", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.571192741394043, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Elvis Presley Lyrics", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.556405067443848, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Little Mama", "passage": "Don't be a stingy little mama", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.438959121704102, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "June 10, Elvis managed to squeeze in a quick Nashville recording session.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.533592224121094, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Elvis Presley makes television and entertainment history with his Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii - Via Satellite special. Performed at the Honolulu International Center Arena on January 14, 1973, broadcast live at 12:30 AM Hawaiian time, beamed via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries. It is seen on a delayed basis in around thirty European countries. A tape of the show will be seen in America on April 4th on NBC. The live broadcast in January attracts 37.8% of the viewers in Japan, 91.8% in the Philippines, 70% in Hong Kong, and 70-80% of the viewers in Korea. The April showing in America will attract 51% of the television viewing audience, and will be seen in more American households than man’s first walk on the moon. In all, it will be seen in about forty countries by one billion to 1.5 billion people. Elvis commissions an American Eagle design for his jumpsuit for this show, his patriotic message to his worldwide audience. Never has one performer held the world’s attention in such a way. Elvis is in top form physically and vocally. This is probably the pinnacle of his superstardom, one of the all-time great moments of his career. Elvis was very, very nervous at first. Nobody else had ever done a satellite show before.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.068695068359375, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Elvis was a nervous wreck. But as he went along rehearsing, and enjoying Hawaii, he became very comfortable with it. The thing about it, when you go on a satellite show, you go on stage at a certain time and you got to get off at a certain time, otherwise they will just cut you off, the satellite will cut you off after one hour. So the hardest part that Elvis was worried about, was to time it right.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.451774597167969, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "But as we all know it went along perfectly. Joe Esposito was at the side of the stage while Elvis was performing with a flashlight and about ten minutes before the end time, he flashed the light to let Elvis know he had ten minutes left. It was an unbelievable performance, it was all for charity, and he was very comfortable when he walked on stage. He did a great job, looked fabulous. Can we ask for more?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.343714714050293, "source": "search", "title": "A Big Hunk o' Love by Elvis Presley : Elvis Presley Lyrics ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "The 50 Greatest Hits - Elvis Presley | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.229580879211426, "source": "search", "title": "The 50 Greatest Hits - Elvis Presley | Songs, Reviews ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Happy Birthday, Elvis! We're All Shook Up Over This Caramel Banana, Peanut Butter, and Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.536515235900879, "source": "search", "title": "Celebrate Elvis' Birthday with a Big Hunk O'Love Recipe ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "\"The allure of Elvis is everlasting,\" Lewis told InStyle. \"Even if you aren't a dyed in the wool fan, you can't help but fall into the warm embrace of his smooth vocal stylings and iconic hip shaking.\" Agreed. To celebrate The King's big day, we can't help falling in love with the ultra-indulgent mash-up of smooth chocolate, rich caramel, and custardy bread pudding. Any way you slice it, this decadent dessert is guaranteed to love you tender.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.086596488952637, "source": "search", "title": "Celebrate Elvis' Birthday with a Big Hunk O'Love Recipe ..." }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "ELVIS BURNING LOVE - YouTube", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.396834373474121, "source": "search", "title": "ELVIS BURNING LOVE - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "ELVIS BURNING LOVE", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.242415428161621, "source": "search", "title": "ELVIS BURNING LOVE - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Elvis Presley - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.478119850158691, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Presley (née Gladys Love Smith) and Vernon Presley (Vernon Elvis Presley). He had a twin brother who was stillborn. In September 1948, Elvis and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he attended Humes High School. In 1953, he attended the senior prom ... 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Goode\", \"The Wonder Of You\", \"Trying To Get To You\", \"It's Over\", \"In The Ghetto\", \"One Night\") / (writer: \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.111438751220703, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": " 2006 Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash: The Road Show (Video documentary) (performer: \"Money Honey\", \"Too Much\", \"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Peace In The Valley\", \"Shake Rattle 'N' Roll\") / (writer: \"Heartbreak Hotel\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.361165046691895, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2006 Elvis: Broadcasting Live (Video) (performer: \"Baby Let's Play House\", \"Tutti Frutti\", \"Money Honey\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"Hound Dog\", \"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Love Me\", \"Too Much\", \"When My Blue Moon Turns Gold Again\", \"Peace In The Valley\") / (writer: \"Don't Be Cruel\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.303231239318848, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2005 Elvis by the Presleys (TV Movie documentary) (performer: \"Can't Help Falling in Love\", \"Fever\", \"Merry Christmas, Baby\", \"Trying to Get to You\", \"Hawaii Wedding Song\", \"It's Now or Never\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"Like A Baby\", \"C'Mon Everbody\", \"Early Morning Rain\", \"I'll Be Home For Christmas\", \"Blue Christmas\", \"In the Ghetto\", \"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'\", \"Jailhouse Rock\", \"Old MacDonald\", \"Peace In the Valley\", \"If I Can Dream\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"Suspicious Minds\", \"Love Me\", \"The King of the Whole Wide World\", \"Bossa Nova Baby\", \"Separate Ways\", \"Lawdy Miss Clawdy\", \"It's Over\") / (writer: \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.821695327758789, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2005 Elvis (TV Series) (performer: \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"Too Much\", \"All Shook Up\", \"One Night\", \"Are You Lonesome Tonight?\", \"Surrender\", \"Return to Sender\") / (writer: \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"All Shook Up\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.31149673461914, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2005 Elvis: The Ultimate Live Collection (Video) (performer: \"Hound Dog\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Ready Teddy\", \"Too Much\", \"When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again\", \"Peace In The Valley\", \"Shake, Rattle and Roll\", \"Baby Let's Play House\", \"Tutti Frutti\", \"Money Honey\") / (writer: \"Don't Be Cruel\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.35450553894043, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2005 Elvis: The Last 24 Hours (TV Movie) (performer: \"Suspicion\", \"Don't\", \"Too Much\", \"The Girl Of My Best Friend\", \"Paralyzed\", \"Love Letters\", \"Fame and Fortune\", \"American Trilogy\") / (writer: \"Paralyzed\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.333951950073242, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2005 Elvis: The Memphis Flash (Video documentary) (performer: \"That's All Right Mama\", \"Blue Moon Of Kentucky\", \"I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine\", \"Good Rockin' Tonight\", \"Milkcow Blues Boogie\", \"You're A Heartbreaker\", \"Blue Moon\", \"Shake Rattle and Roll\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.394977569580078, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2003 The Milton Berle Show: The Lost Elvis (Video) (performer: \"Shake, Rattle and Roll\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\") / (writer: \"Heartbreak Hotel\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.327469825744629, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2003 Estradilla: Agents & Elvis (TV Movie) (writer: \"All Shook Up\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.327877044677734, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2002 The Sun Days with Elvis (Video documentary) (performer: \"That's Allright\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.454645156860352, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2002 Elvis: Rare Moments with the King (Video documentary) (performer: \"I Want You I Need You I Love You\", \"Hound Dog\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.41332721710205, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2002 The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and Priscilla (Video documentary) (performer: \"Today, Tomorrow and Forever\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"Viva Las Vegas\", \"Double Trouble\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.406109809875488, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2002 The Definitive Elvis: The Army Years (Video documentary) (performer: \"G.I. Blues\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\") / (writer: \"Heartbreak Hotel\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.4260892868042, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2002 The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part I: 1956-1961 (Video documentary) (performer: \"Money Honey\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"Poor Boy\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"We're Gonna Move\", \"Teddy Bear', \"Jailhouse Rock\", \"King Creole\", \"Wild in the Country\", \"G.I. Blues\") / (writer: \"Poor Boy\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"We're Gonna Move\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.063281059265137, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2002 The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (Video documentary) (performer: \"C'mon Everybody\", \"Beach Shack\", \"Follow That Dream\", \"Girls! Girls! Girls!\", \"Return to Sender\", \"Marguerita\", \"Bossa Nova Baby\", \"Viva Las Vegas\", \"Kissin' Cousins\", \"Spring Fever\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.338006973266602, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2002 The Definitive Elvis: The Memphis Years (Video documentary short) (performer: \"My Happiness\", \"I Was the One\", \"Hound Dog\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.425336837768555, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2002 The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years (Video documentary) (performer: \"Baby Let's Play House\", \"Ready Teddy\", \"Hound Dog\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Stuck on You\") / (writer: \"Love Me Tender\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.258626937866211, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": " 2002 Elvis Presley: His Early Performances (Video documentary) (performer: \"Flip, Flop and Fly\", \"Baby Let's Play House\", \"Tutti Frutti\", \"Money Honey\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"Hound Dog\", \"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Love Me Tender\", \"Love Me\", \"Too Much\", \"When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again\", \"Peace in the Valley\") / (writer: \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Don't Be Cruel\", \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.207756042480469, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 2001 Elvis: The Missing Years (Video documentary) (performer: \"Maybellene\", \"That's Alright Mama\", \"Blue Moon of Kentucky\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.41563892364502, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": " 2001 Classic Albums: Elvis Presley (Video documentary) (performer: \"Blue Suede Shoes\", \"That's All Right\", \"Baby Let's Play House\", \"Tutti Frutti\", \"Heartbreak Hotel\", \"Money Honey\", \"I Was The One\", \"Shake Rattle And Roll\", \"Mystery Train\") / (writer: \"Heartbreak Hotel\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.391989707946777, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": " 2000 He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley (Video documentary) (\"Swing Down Sweet Chariot\") / (performer: \"Peace in the Valley\", \"How Great Thou Art\", \"Swing Down Sweet Chariot\", \"Where Could I Go\", \"I, John\", \"He Touched Me\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.42486572265625, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 1999 Fanny and Elvis (performer: \"The Wonder of You\") / (writer: \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.15352725982666, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 1997 Elvis: The Great Performances, Vol. 3 - From the Waist Up (Video documentary) (performer: \"Baby, Let's Play House\", \"Peace in the Valley\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.42430591583252, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": " 1996 Elvis: The Complete Story (Video documentary) (performer: \"Love Me Tender\", \"Loving You\", \"Jailhouse Rock\", \"King Creole\", \"G.I. 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Girls! Girls! (performer: \"Girls! Girls! Girls!\", \"I Don't Wanna Be Tied\", \"We'll Be Together\", \"A Boy Like Me, A Girl Like You\", \"Earth Boy\", \"Return To Sender\", \"Because Of Love\", \"Thanks To The Rolling Sea\", \"Song Of The Shrimp\", \"The Walls Have Ears\", \"We're Coming In Loaded\", \"Dainty Little Moonbeams\", \"I Don't Want To\", \"Where Do You Come From\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.233787536621094, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": " 1960 Frank Sinatra's Welcome Home Party for Elvis Presley (TV Special) (performer: \"It's Nice to Go Trav'ling\" (uncredited), \"Fame and Fortune\", \"Stuck on You\", \"Witchcraft\") / (writer: \"Love Me Tender\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.241687774658203, "source": "search", "title": "Elvis Presley - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.961881637573242, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me - Elvis Costello", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.012106895446777, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Such Unlikely Lovers - Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.342950820922852, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "I Wanna Be Loved - Elvis Costello & the Attractions", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.527275085449219, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Love Field - Elvis Costello & the Attractions", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.403002738952637, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Love For Tender - Elvis Costello & the Attractions", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.365768432617188, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Love Went Mad - Elvis Costello & The Attractions", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.304917335510254, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Lovers Walk - Elvis Costello & the Attractions", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.480376243591309, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "The Loved Ones - Elvis Costello & the Attractions", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.40128231048584, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis", "passage": "Why Don't You Love Me (Like Yo - Elvis Costello & the Attractions", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.347911834716797, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Burning Love - Elvis Presley", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.317286491394043, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.397607803344727, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You - Elvis Presley", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.408493995666504, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "If That Isn't Love - Elvis Presley", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.141318321228027, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Love Me - Elvis Presley", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.266816139221191, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.29431438446045, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" }, { "answer": "Elvis Presley", "passage": "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Elvis Presley", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.257943153381348, "source": "search", "title": "1187 Songs With Love In The Title | Toronto Mike's Blog" } ]

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Chuck Berry had returned to his part-time job in construction and begun training to be a hairdresser when “Maybellene” hit the airwaves. After “Maybellene” became a #1 R&B hit and a #5 pop hit—the first hit rock-and-roll single by a black performer—Berry set down his hammer and scissors in favor of his Gibson ES-350T and major place in American cultural history.", "precise_score": 7.6136040687561035, "rough_score": 5.348913192749023, "source": "search", "title": "Chuck Berry records “Maybellene” - May 21, 1955 - HISTORY.com" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "In 1955, a sort of undefined, get-you-in-the-belly music was named rock 'n' roll, though as John Lennon once put it, `If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might have called it Chuck Berry .' Berry was a young man in St. Louis in 1955. He recorded the song \"Maybellene\" for Chess Records, and the rest is history. At a mere two minutes and 18 seconds, the song embodied the sexual tensions of a generation or, as Berry's producer put it, `the big beat, the cars and young love; it was a trend and we jumped on it.'", "precise_score": 5.056403636932373, "rough_score": 5.332276344299316, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "In 1972, 17 years and more than 200 recordings after \"Maybellene,\" Chuck Berry finally scored a number-one hit on the pop charts. The song? A rather indelicate ditty called \"My Ding-A-Ling.\"", "precise_score": 3.3823165893554688, "rough_score": 3.589784622192383, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "If Elvis Presley cracked open the door for rock & roll, Chuck Berry kicked it wide open—and did his signature duck walk over it for good measure. 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Even more than Elvis Presley, who was an incomparable performer, but of other people’s songs, Chuck Berry created the do-it-yourself template that most rock-and-rollers still seek to follow. If there can be said to be a single day on which his profound influence on the sound and style of rock and roll began, it was this day in 1955, when an unknown Chuck Berry paid his first visit to a recording studio and cut the record that would make him famous: “Maybellene.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.199317693710327, "source": "search", "title": "Chuck Berry records “Maybellene” - May 21, 1955 - HISTORY.com" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "BangShift.com BangShift Daily Tune Up: Maybellene - Chuck Berry (1955) - BangShift.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.3530569076538086, "source": "search", "title": "BangShift Daily Tune Up: Maybellene – Chuck Berry (1955)" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "Chuck Berry always seemed to be having issues with women and cars at the same time. There was the chick whose “safety belt wouldn’t budge” and in this song there is the famously lead-footed temptress Maybellene who has stolen the heart of the singer by cheating on him with another dude. 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He gained early exposure to music through his family's participation in the choir of the Antioch Baptist Church, through the blues and country-western music he heard on the radio, and through music classes, especially at Sumner High School. Berry was still attending high school when he was sent to serve three years for armed robbery at a Missouri prison for young offenders. After his release and return to St. Louis, he worked at an auto plant, studied hairdressing, and played music in small nightclubs. Berry traveled to Chicago in search of a recording contract; Muddy Waters directed him to the Chess brothers. Leonard and Phil Chess signed him for their Chess label, and in 1955 his first recording session produced Maybellene (a country-and-western-influenced song that Berry had originally titled Ida Red), which stayed on the pop charts for 11 weeks, cresting at number five. Berry followed this success with extensive tours and hit after hit, including Roll Over Beethoven (1956), School Day (1957), Rock and Roll Music (1957), Sweet Little Sixteen (1958), Johnny B. Goode (1958), and Reelin' and Rockin' (1958). His vivid descriptions of consumer culture and teenage life, the distinctive sounds he coaxed from his guitar, and the rhythmic and melodic virtuosity of his piano player (Johnny Johnson) made Berry's songs staples in the repertoire of almost every rock-and-roll band.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.055957555770874, "source": "search", "title": "Chuck Berry - Maybellene - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "At the peak of his popularity, federal authorities prosecuted Berry for violating the Mann Act, alleging that he transported an underage female across state lines for immoral purposes. After two trials tainted by racist overtones, Berry was convicted and remanded to prison. Upon his release he placed new hits on the pop charts, including No Particular Place to Go in 1964, at the height of the British Invasion, whose prime movers, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, were hugely influenced by Berry (as were the Beach Boys). In 1972 Berry achieved his first number one hit, My Ding-A-Ling. Although he recorded more sporadically in the 1970s and '80s, he continued to appear in concert, most often performing with backing bands comprising local musicians. Berry's public visibility increased in 1987 with the publication of his book Chuck Berry: The Autobiography and the release of the documentary film Hail! Hail! Rock n' Roll, featuring footage from his 60th birthday concert and guest appearances by Keith Richards and Bruce Springsteen.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.62431812286377, "source": "search", "title": "Chuck Berry - Maybellene - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "Interviewees: Chuck Berry (DAT will be sent shortly)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.471149444580078, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "Recordings Used: \"Maybellene,\" Chuck Berry", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.82382869720459, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "Chuck Berry performing at the Birmingham Odeon in England. 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He says Berry was not only a rock 'n' roll pioneer, he was its first great poet.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.153374671936035, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "\"Chuck Berry was the first artist that really did it all, like wrote the songs, he wrote the lyrics of the music, he choreographed the stage show. And no one did that. Until Bob Dylan came along, there was no one that could master him, I think.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.705615043640137, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "It was the way his words stayed so close to the beat, yet still managed to sound like real speech. And there were the puns. From the opening line in \"Maybellene\" where he sang `motor-vatin',' as in `As I was motor-vatin' over the hill,' Chuck Berry's clever wordplay would change rock lyrics forever.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4508635997772217, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "\"What he did with the English language and how he worked the words and the detail that he put into the songs, I mean, if you listen to the verses in a Chuck Berry song, they keep changing, and they keep telling the story,\" Mr. Edwards says. \"And then pretty soon, by the end of that song—and it might only be a two-minute, 58-second song—but you've heard a lifetime in the life of a teen-ager.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.462080955505371, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "In 1986, more than 30 years after he wrote \"Maybellene,\" Chuck Berry was finally credited as the song's sole composer. By that time, it was little more than a legal technicality, but in the end, it may be the most fitting tribute. After all, \"Maybellene\" could have been written by no one but Chuck Berry. If that's not already obvious from the music and the lyrics, just listen to the guitar solo.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.7912799119949341, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "The rock 'n' roll guitar was supposed to be a rhythm instrument, polite and unobtrusive, but a little over a minute into \"Maybellene,\" Chuck Berry, wielding his yellow Gibson ES-350T, shattered that image forever.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.256014823913574, "source": "search", "title": "' Maybellene ' : NPR" }, { "answer": "Chuck Berry", "passage": "In the years following \"Maybellene,\" Chuck Berry produced an astonishing string of hits: \"Roll Over Beethoven,\" \"School Days,\" \"Sweet Little Sixteen,\" \"Johnny B. Goode,\" to name just a few, more or less inventing rock 'n' roll as he went along. That's pretty much the consensus; everyone from The Beatles to The Rolling Stones has said it. 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[ { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "\"Love Will Never Do (Without You)\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson, recorded for her fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989). It was written and produced by James Harris III, and Terry Lewis. The song was released as the seventh single from the album on October 2, 1990, by A&M Records. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week.", "precise_score": 8.07051944732666, "rough_score": 7.0046772956848145, "source": "wiki", "title": "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "The song became Jackson's fifth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, the final of seven top five singles from the album, making her the only artist to achieve seven top five singles from one album. The success of \"Love Will Never Do (Without You)\" also helped the album to become the only one in history to produce number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in three separate calendar years, those being \"Miss You Much\" in 1989, \"Escapade\" and \"Black Cat\" in 1990, and \"Love Will Never Do (Without You)\" in 1991.", "precise_score": 6.316092491149902, "rough_score": 3.6833646297454834, "source": "wiki", "title": "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": ";UK 1996 12\" single[http://www.discogs.com/release/572309 Janet Jackson - Love Will Never Do (Without You) ('96 Mixes)]", "precise_score": 3.614719867706299, "rough_score": 4.672034740447998, "source": "wiki", "title": "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "Love Will Never Do (Without You) (Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, #1 Pop)", "precise_score": 3.31531023979187, "rough_score": 4.0852203369140625, "source": "search", "title": "JANET JACKSON’S GREATEST HITS CELEBRATED ON NUMBER ONES" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "\"Love Will Never Do Without You\" from Janet Jackson's 1989 album Rhythm Nation 1814 became her fifth number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100.", "precise_score": 5.87730598449707, "rough_score": 7.29543399810791, "source": "search", "title": "20 Reasons Why Janet Jackson is a Superstar - The Best of ..." }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "The video won for Best Female Video and was nominated for Best Choreography and Best Art Direction at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. It ranked 13 on Rolling Stones The 100 Top Music Videos, 72 on VH1's 100 Greatest Videos, and 88 on MTV's 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made. Britney Spears was inspired by the video for her \"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know\" clip, saying \"he did Janet Jackson-remember when she made her comeback?\" she says, alluding to Janet's makeover, which was orchestrated by Ritts when he directed her \"Love Will Never Do (Without You)\" video.\" American recording artist Nicole Scherzinger revealed that she was inspired by the video for her \"Your Love\" clip. 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Rolling Stone observed Jackson's artistic growth shifted from \"personal freedom to more universal concerns—injustice, illiteracy, crime, drugs—without missing a beat.\" The album was also considered \"the exclamation point on her career\", consisting of a \"diverse collection of songs flowing with the natural talent Jackson possesses\", which effectively \"expanded Janet's range in every conceivable direction\", being \"more credibly feminine, more crucially masculine, more viably adult, more believably childlike.\" With singles \"Miss You Much\", \"Rhythm Nation\", \"Escapade\", \"Alright\", \"Come Back to Me\", \"Black Cat\" and \"Love Will Never Do (Without You)\", it became the only album in history to produce number one hits in three separate calendar years, as well as the only album to achieve seven top five singles on the Hot 100. Famous for its choreography and warehouse setting, the \"Rhythm Nation\" video is considered one of the most iconic and popular in history, with Jackson's military ensemble also making her a fashion icon. The video for Love Will Never Do (Without You) is notable for being the first instance of Jackson's transition into sexual imagery and midriff-baring style, becoming her trademark. Rhythm Nation 1814 became the highest selling album of 1990, winning a record fifteen Billboard Awards. The long-form \"Rhythm Nation\" music video won a Grammy Award. 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After the initial salvo of �Miss You Much�, a steady string of successes followed with �Rhythm Nation�, �Escapade�, �Come Back to Me�, �Alright�, �Black Cat� and �Love Will Never Do (Without You)�. Did she release seven singles from Nation to purposefully top the six-hit string from Control? Maybe, but that doesn�t undermine the fact that all of them really were genuinely popular. Nation established Janet as a consistent force within the pop world, a title she�s retained over the 12 years and three albums since 1989.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5109458565711975, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation (1990)" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "A compilation of music videos from the album, The Rhythm Nation Compilation allows us to remember Janet circa 1989-90. It includes seven tunes in all: �Miss You Much�, �Rhythm Nation�, �Escapade�, �Come Back to Me�, �Alright�, �Black Cat�, and �Love Will Never Do (Without You�. The first two of these actually resulted from a longform video that offered some sort of cheesy �Janet rescues the needy inner city children� plot. I haven�t seen the long Rhythm Nation piece in a while, but I don�t remember it fondly.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.4979095458984375, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation (1990)" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "Although the longform Rhythm Nation included other songs from the album, none of the remaining five videos from the Rhythm Nation record came from that piece. As I noted during my review of the All For You video compilation, Janet�s videos tend to fall into two camps: big, dancer-filled production numbers and small, intimate and erotic numbers. During the early part of her career - before 1993�s Janet. - this distinction strongly favored the former. I guarantee Nineties Janet would have offered a much hotter clip for �Miss You Much�, and even the romantic notions of �Come Back to Me� and �Love Will Never Do (Without You)� are quite tame, especially when compared to her later work.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.7932004928588867, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation (1990)" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "We didn�t know it at the time, but in retrospect, �Love Will Never Do (Without You)� heralded Janet�s future direction. The song itself is very good but nothing revolutionary; it was the video that hinted at Janet�s upcoming route. During the Control and Rhythm Nation periods, Janet wasn�t the sex symbol she is today. While cute, she was a bit chunky and gawky; she hadn�t quite matured yet.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9448137283325195, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation (1990)" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "Colors varied but usually appeared acceptably vibrant. �Miss You Much�, �Rhythm Nation�, and �Love Will Never Do (Without You)� were black and white, but the others featured fairly solid stylized tones. During �Escapade�, I felt the colors looked a bit muddy, but the other videos looked reasonably clear and vivid. Black levels came across as a little murky during �Rhythm� and �Miss�, but they were decently deep and rich at other times; �Love� worked especially well in that regard. Overall, this program remained very watchable at all times, but it never appeared impressive.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.555673599243164, "source": "search", "title": "Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation (1990)" }, { "answer": "Without you", "passage": "10.  1990 - \"Love Will Never Do Without You\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.737211227416992, "source": "search", "title": "20 Reasons Why Janet Jackson is a Superstar - The Best of ..." } ]

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We settled on 'Ms.' because it was symbolic and also it was short, which is good for a logo.\"", "precise_score": 8.11790943145752, "rough_score": 8.155397415161133, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ms. (magazine)" }, { "answer": "Steinem", "passage": "When I first met Gloria Steinem more than 40 years ago, the world was a different place. The women's movement was just beginning, and so Gloria became not only my new friend, but also my touchstone on the many issues that were starting to confront us on the front lines of feminism. We were part of an important new conversation that was going on all across the country. It was apparent that women needed to talk to each other and they needed a place where their minds could meet. So in 1972, Gloria co-founded that place: Ms. magazine, which would instantly become -- and remain -- the indispensable handbook of the women's movement. This week, the City of New York honored Gloria and the editors and writers of Ms. on the occasion of the magazine's 40th anniversary, and so I thought it would be illuminating to ask my soul-sister about the cultural and historical impact of the magazine. 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A giant figure of Wonder Woman strides across the landscape, while the caption proclaims, “Wonder Woman for President.”", "precise_score": 7.841258525848389, "rough_score": 7.926884174346924, "source": "search", "title": "Ms. Magazine and Gloria Steinem - Citelighter" }, { "answer": "Steinem", "passage": "In 1972, Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine, remained one of its editors for fifteen years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms., and was instrumental in the magazine’s move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1973, Ms. Steinem joined with Patricia Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas to create the Ms. Foundation for Women.", "precise_score": 9.77700138092041, "rough_score": 9.641742706298828, "source": "search", "title": "Gloria Steinem | Ms. Foundation for Women" }, { "answer": "Steinem", "passage": "Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972 and remained one of its editors for 15 years. 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Modern use of Ms. as an honorific was promoted by Sheila Michaels. Michaels, whose parents were not married to each other, and who was not adopted by her stepfather, had long grappled with finding a title that reflected her situation: not being \"owned\" by a father and not wishing to be \"owned\" by a husband. Her efforts to promote its use were ignored in the nascent Women’s Movement. Around 1971, during a lull in an interview with \"The Feminists\" group, Michaels suggested the use of the title \"Ms.\" (having chosen a pronunciation current for both in Missouri, her home). ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.8511555790901184, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ms. (magazine)" }, { "answer": "Steinem", "passage": "Ms. made history in 1972 when it published the names of women admitting to having had abortions when the procedure was still illegal in most of the United States. A year later, Roe v. Wade would legalize abortion throughout the country. Ironically, also in 1972, science-fiction author Samuel R. Delany had a planned story arc for the Wonder Woman comic book that was to culminate in Wonder Woman protecting an abortion clinic. This story arc was cancelled because of Steinem's intervention - her disapproval of Wonder Woman being out of costume was used as a publicity stunt and excuse to remove Delany from the comic book and cancel the controversial storyline. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.477201461791992, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ms. (magazine)" }, { "answer": "Steinem", "passage": "The \"We Had Abortions\" petition appears in the October 2006 issue as part of the issue's cover story. The petition contains signatures of over 5,000 women declaring that they had an abortion and were \"unashamed of (the) decision\", including actresses Amy Brenneman and Kathy Najimy, comedian Carol Leifer, and Steinem herself. 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She was a staff writer at New York Magazine when it debuted in 1968, along with Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wolfe. Radicalized by an abortion speak-out, which she covered for New York in 1969, Steinem started spending more time thinking, writing, and giving talks about feminism. She testified in the Senate in 1970 on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment, and co-founded the Women’s Action Alliance and the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971. That same year, she helped launchMs. magazine,which became the first periodical ever to be created, owned, and operated entirely by women. A forty-page excerpt of its preview issue was published in the December 20, 1971, issue of this magazine. 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In the United States, the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood's character in all three films as the \"Man with No Name\".", "precise_score": 5.2259039878845215, "rough_score": 6.327487468719482, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Fistful of Dollars" }, { "answer": "Italy", "passage": "A Fistful of Dollars was released in Italy in September 1964. Over the film's theatrical release, it grossed more than any other Italian film up to that point. In January 1967 the film premièred in the United States grossing $4.5 million for the year. It eventually grossed $14.5 million in its American release. In 1969 it was re-released, earning $1.2 million in rentals. ", "precise_score": 6.487060070037842, "rough_score": 5.213834285736084, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Fistful of Dollars" }, { "answer": "Italy", "passage": "A Fistful of Dollars was at first intended by Leone to reinvent the western genre in Italy. In his opinion, the American westerns of the mid- to late-1950s had become stagnant, overly preachy and not believable. Despite the fact that even Hollywood began to gear down production of such films, Leone knew that there was still a significant market in Europe for westerns. He observed that Italian audiences laughed at the stock conventions of both American westerns and the pastiche work of Italian directors working behind pseudonyms. His approach was to take the grammar of Italian film and to transpose it into a western setting.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.4044727087020874, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Fistful of Dollars" }, { "answer": "Itali", "passage": "Eastwood was not the first actor approached to play the main character. Originally, Sergio Leone intended Henry Fonda to play the \"Man with No Name.\" However, the production company could not afford to employ a major Hollywood star. Next, Leone offered Charles Bronson the part. He, too, declined, arguing that the script was bad. Both Fonda and Bronson would later star in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Other actors who turned the role down were Henry Silva, Rory Calhoun, Tony Russel, Steve Reeves, Ty Hardin, and James Coburn. Leone then turned his attention to Richard Harrison, who had recently starred in the very first Italian western, Duello nel Texas. Harrison, however, had not been impressed with his experience on his previous film and refused. The producers later presented a list of available, lesser-known American actors and asked Harrison for advice. Harrison suggested Eastwood, who he knew could play a cowboy convincingly. Harrison later stated, \"Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing A Fistful of Dollars and recommending Clint for the part.\" Eastwood later spoke about transitioning from a television western to A Fistful of Dollars: \"In Rawhide, I did get awfully tired of playing the conventional white hat...the hero who kisses old ladies and dogs and was kind to everybody. I decided it was time to be an anti-hero.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.154324054718018, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Fistful of Dollars" }, { "answer": "Itali", "passage": "A Fistful of Dollars was an Italian/German/Spanish co-production, so there was a significant language barrier on set. Leone did not speak English, and Eastwood communicated with the Italian cast and crew mostly through stuntman Benito Stefanelli, who also acted as an unlicensed interpreter for the production and would later appear in Leone's other pictures. Similar to other Italian films shot at the time, all footage was filmed silent, and the dialogue and sound effects were dubbed over in post-production. For the Italian version of the film, Eastwood was dubbed by stage and screen actor Enrico Maria Salerno, whose 'sinister' rendition of the Man With No Name's voice contrasted with Eastwood's cocksure and darkly humorous interpretation. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.613841533660889, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Fistful of Dollars" }, { "answer": "Itali", "passage": "However, in response to these immediate negative reviews, Howard Hughes, in his 2012 book 'Once upon a time in the Italian West', reflected by stating: \"American and British critics largely chose to ignore Fistful's release, few recognising its satirical humour or groundbreaking style, preferring to trash the shoddy production values...\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.073406219482422, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Fistful of Dollars" }, { "answer": "Itali", "passage": "British critic Sir Christopher Frayling identifies three principal sources for A Fistful of Dollars: \"Partly derived from Kurosawa's samurai film Yojimbo, partly from Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest (1929), but most of all from Carlo Goldoni's eighteenth-century play Servant of Two Masters.\" Leone has cited these alternate sources in his defense. He claims a thematic debt, for both Fistful and Yojimbo, to Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters—the basic premise of the protagonist playing two camps against each other. Leone asserted that this rooted the origination of Fistful/Yojimbo in European, and specifically Italian, culture. The Servant of Two Masters plot can also be seen in Hammett's detective novel Red Harvest. The Continental Op hero of the novel is, significantly, a man without a name. Leone himself believed that Red Harvest had influenced Yojimbo: \"Kurosawa's Yojimbo was inspired by an American novel of the serie-noire so I was really taking the story back home again.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.5912246704101562, "source": "wiki", "title": "A Fistful of Dollars" }, { "answer": "Itali", "passage": "Compared to Leone's previous films, the Clint Eastwood \"man with no name\" trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West, his new work A Fistful of Dynamite gained lukewarm reviews and little notice. One reason could be Leone's insistence on using the Duck, You Sucker title, which gave potential movie-goers the mistaken impression that the film would be a comic western. (Duck, You Sucker is a fairly direct translation of the repeated phrase of the film, \"Giù la Testa, coglione!\" in the Italian version, where however the movie was titled just \"Giù la Testa\"). Leone was convinced the phrase \"duck, you sucker\" was a popular American expression, contrary to the advice of his American stars Rod Steiger and James Coburn that they had never heard of that phrase. When the film was edited for a re-release in 1972, it was re-titled A Fistful of Dynamite by the studio, hoping to capitalize on Leone's first hit, A Fistful of Dollars.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.398458003997803, "source": "search", "title": "Fistful Of Dynamite - The Bridge ( filming location ..." }, { "answer": "Italy", "passage": "Clint Eastwood was best known to American audiences for his role as Rowdy Yates in the series Rawhide. The series had ended and he was offered this strange new and challenging role in this movie of the American West that was made in Italy! Eastwood said his wife read that script and liked it. She said it was really \"wild\" because it was written in Western \"slang\" by Italians who really didn't understand English. He did this picture almost as a lark, and then read that it had become one of the biggest hits in Europe and then when it was released in America it outgrossed even the most popular current American films and made Clint Eastwood both a star and a phenomenon. Its strange to me that the best films ever made about the American west should have been made by Sergio Leone, an Italian who couldn't even speak English. Clint Eastwood said that all he knew in Italian was \"arrevadershi\" and all Leone knew in English was \"goodbye\" and yet these two combined to make an awesome film. As the poncho clad \"Man With No Name\", Eastwood created a role that hit us like a punch in the face and really re-defined the definition of the true Western hero. Eastwood tore out pages and pages of the dialogue and reduced his character to the bare bones to make him more mysterious. Leone said that he clad Eastwood in that sweat stained serepe to give him a cloak of mystery and put the cheroot in his mouth as a pendant between his two cold eyes and it worked like a charm. He broke all the rules and re-defined screen violence. I read that Leone wanted to make a blood and guts Western and show to the audience \"I want them to feel what the hell it is like to get shot\" and he does it! The scene where Clint is beaten to a pulp is one of the most graphic that you will ever see. It would have killed most other men!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.483946800231934, "source": "search", "title": "A Fistful of Dollars (1964) - IMDb" } ]

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These 24 countries are: Austria , Belgium , Cyprus , Estonia, Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , Portugal , Slovakia , Slovenia and Spain (official euro members which are all European Union member states) as well as Andorra , Kosovo , Monaco , Montenegro , San Marino and the Vatican which use it without having a say in eurozone affairs and without being European Union members. Together, these countries have a population of more than 330 million.", "precise_score": -2.0486538410186768, "rough_score": -0.8487731218338013, "source": "search", "title": "Estonia travel guide - Wikitravel" }, { "answer": "Latvia", "passage": "Estonia is edged by Latvia, the Russian Federation, the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea. The first settlers arrived at the beginning of the 12th century and many communities soon evolved around the main rivers and their tributaries, such as the Narva and the Parnu. During the mid to late 20th century, Soviet forces occupied much of Estonia until the country finally achieved its independence in 1991, subsequently joining the European Union in the spring of 2004.", "precise_score": 1.4283584356307983, "rough_score": 3.1337201595306396, "source": "search", "title": "Estonia Tourism and Tourist Information: Information about ..." }, { "answer": "Latvia", "passage": "Evidence has been found of hunting and fishing communities existing around 6500 BC near the town of Kunda in northern Estonia. Bone and stone artefacts similar to those found at Kunda have been discovered elsewhere in Estonia, as well as in Latvia, northern Lithuania and in southern Finland. The Kunda culture belongs to the middle stone age, or Mesolithic period.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.293853282928467, "source": "wiki", "title": "Estonia" }, { "answer": "Latvia", "passage": "In his book Germania, the Roman historian Tacitus (ca. AD 98) describes the Aesti tribe. Tacitus mentions their term for amber in an apparently Latinised form, glesum (cf. Latvian glīsas). This is the only word of their language recorded from antiquity. Due to this point, the Aestii are generally considered the ancestors of the later Baltic peoples. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.931939125061035, "source": "wiki", "title": "Estonia" }, { "answer": "Latvia", "passage": "The Oeselians or Osilians (Estonian saarlased; singular: saarlane) were a historical subdivision of Estonians inhabiting Saaremaa (; ; ), an Estonian island in the Baltic Sea. They were first mentioned as early as the second century BC in Ptolemy's Geography III. The Oeselians were known in the Old Norse Icelandic Sagas and in Heimskringla as Víkingr frá Esthland (Estonian Vikings). Their sailing vessels were called pirate ships by Henry of Latvia in his Latin chronicles written at the beginning of the 13th century. 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The story of Tharapita's or Taara's flight from Vironia to Saaremaa has been associated with a major meteor disaster estimated to have happened in 660 ± 85 BC that formed Kaali crater in Saaremaa.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.3393235206604, "source": "wiki", "title": "Estonia" }, { "answer": "Latvia", "passage": "The Reformation in Europe officially began in 1517 with Martin Luther (1483–1546) and his 95 Theses. The Reformation greatly changed the Baltic region. Its ideas came quickly to the Livonian Confederation and by the 1520s were widespread. Language, education, religion and politics were transformed. Church services were now conducted in the vernacular instead of in Latin, previously used. During the Livonian War in 1561, northern Estonia submitted to Swedish control. In the 1560s two voivodeships of present-day southern Estonia, Dorpat Voivodeship (Tartu region) and Parnawa Voivodeship (Pärnu region), became the autonomous Duchy of Livonia within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, under joint control of the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy. In 1629, mainland Estonia came entirely under Swedish rule. Estonia was administratively divided between the provinces of Estonia in the north and Livonia in southern Estonia and northern Latvia. This division persisted until the early twentieth century.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.5599963665008545, "source": "wiki", "title": "Estonia" }, { "answer": "Latvia", "passage": "In 1989, during the \"Singing Revolution\", in a landmark demonstration for more independence, more than two million people formed a human chain stretching through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, called the Baltic Way. All three nations had similar experiences of occupation and similar aspirations for regaining independence. The Estonian Sovereignty Declaration was issued on 16 November 1988. On 20 August 1991, Estonia declared formal independence during the Soviet military coup attempt in Moscow, reconstituting the pre-1940 state. The Soviet Union recognised the independence of Estonia on 6 September 1991. The first country to diplomatically recognise Estonia's reclaimed independence was Iceland. The last units of the Russian army left on 31 August 1994.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.3644561767578125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Estonia" }, { "answer": "Latvia", "passage": "Since the early 1990s, Estonia is involved in active trilateral Baltic states co-operation with Latvia and Lithuania, and Nordic-Baltic co-operation with the Nordic countries. The Baltic Council is the joint forum of the interparliamentary Baltic Assembly (BA) and the intergovernmental Baltic Council of Ministers (BCM). Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB-8) is the joint co-operation of the governments of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. Nordic-Baltic Six (NB-6), comprising Nordic-Baltic countries that are European Union member states, is a framework for meetings on EU related issues. Parliamentary co-operation between the Baltic Assembly and Nordic Council began in 1989. Annual summits take place, and in addition meetings are organised on all possible levels: speakers, presidiums, commissions, and individual members. The Nordic Council of Ministers has an office in Tallinn with a subsidiary in Tartu and information points in Narva, Valga and Pärnu. Joint Nordic-Baltic projects include the education programme Nordplus and mobility programmes for business and industry and for public administration. 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Estonian is closely related to Finnish, spoken on the other side of the Gulf of Finland, and is one of the few languages of Europe that is not of an Indo-European origin. Despite some overlaps in the vocabulary due to borrowings, in terms of its origin, Estonian and Finnish are not related to their nearest geographical neighbours, Swedish, Latvian, and Russian, which are all Indo-European languages.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.886887073516846, "source": "wiki", "title": "Estonia" }, { "answer": "Latvia", "passage": "Estonia has two news agencies. The Baltic News Service (BNS), founded in 1990, is a private regional news agency covering Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The ETV24 is an agency owned by Eesti Rahvusringhääling who is a publicly funded radio and television organisation created on 30 June 2007 to take over the functions of the formerly separate Eesti Raadio and Eesti Televisioon under the terms of the Estonian National Broadcasting Act. 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And our excuse is the new \"Lone Ranger\" movie, which has opened to mixed reviews. The old TV show, which aired in the 1950s, was a favorite of Robert's when he was a boy. 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From out of the past comes the thundering hoof beats of the great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. Hi-yo, Silver, away.", "precise_score": 5.681664943695068, "rough_score": 6.341219902038574, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "CLAYTON MOORE AS THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.343987464904785, "source": "search", "title": "Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "The Lone Ranger (TV Series 1949–1957) - Quotes - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.741019248962402, "source": "search", "title": "The Lone Ranger (TV Series 1949–1957) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "The Lone Ranger : Only you, Tonto, know I'm alive. To the world, I'll buried here beside my brother and my friends... forever.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.269777297973633, "source": "search", "title": "The Lone Ranger (TV Series 1949–1957) - Quotes - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Lone Ranger", "passage": "Tonto : You are alone now. Last man. 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Radio provided news and sports, just like today, but also game shows, variety programs, and dramas. Unlike many parts of the economy, radio was thriving. In Detroit, radio station mogul George W. Trendle wanted to create a new hero to star in a drama to be produced by his flagship station, WXYZ. He wanted somebody like Robin Hood or Zorro, so he came up with the concept of an Old West lawman, a former Texas Ranger who wore a mask and rode a white horse. He gave the idea to one of his writers, Fran Striker, to flesh out. \"The Lone Ranger\" premiered on WXYZ and several other stations in Michigan in January 1933, and was an immediate hit. Within months, the stations would be overwhelmed with the response. A year later, Trendle took his show national over the fledgling Mutual network, and started counting the money.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.797128677368164, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "    Trendle and his writers developed a back story for the Ranger that has been used virtually unaltered in every succeeding version. Around 1870, a platoon of Texas Rangers, including two brothers named Reid, are in pursuit of the Butch Cavendish gang. The Rangers are ambushed in a narrow canyon and left for dead. A day later, a wandering Indian named Tonto comes onto the scene, discovering that one Ranger, who turns out to be the younger Reid brother, is still alive. Nursed back to health by Tonto, Reid vows to avenge the deaths of his brother and the other Rangers by tracking down Cavendish and bringing him and his gang to justice. But he realizes that to succeed, he must allow the outlaws to think they killed all of the Rangers; thus, Reid dons a mask, made from the bullet-riddled vest of his brother, and becomes the Lone Ranger.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.036636352539062, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "    Like most hit radio dramas of the day, \"The Lone Ranger\" was optioned to the movies. Republic Studios bought the rights for a radio serial in 1937, filming a 15-episode series over the span of 19 days late in the year. Each episode was about 17 minutes long, but unlike most serials of the era, this one had relatively high production values, acting and writing. Released early in 1938, it was a hit, and a sequel came out a year later. In the first one, with the Ranger wearing a full-face mask, two different actors, plus a stuntman, actually provided the voice of the Ranger. In the second, actor Robert Livingston played the hero; Livingston was from Illinois and appeared in 135 movies. Tonto was played in both serials by the stuntman and actor known as Chief Thundercloud, who was billed as a University of Arizona-educated Cherokee; his real name was Victor Daniels, who may or may not have been a full-blooded Native American, and no record of his enrollment at UA could ever be confirmed. Trendle was not happy with Republic's handling of the character; the studio had shown Livingston unmasked through most of the second serial, for example, so after that one Trendle terminated the contract and ordered the prints destroyed. Decades later, versions released in Spain with Spanish subtitles were found and painstakingly restored, so they're available to Ranger aficionados today.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.173523902893066, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "    Meanwhile, \"The Lone Ranger\" kept riding hard on the radio, with nearly 3000 episodes airing from 1933-54. Several actors voiced the lead role on the radio series, but the two most memorable were Earle Graser (1933-41) and Brace Beemer, who had been the show's narrator but took over the lead role when Graser died of injuries sustained in a car crash; as Graser lingered on his deathbed, the show went on, with the voice of the Ranger reduced to a whisper and Tonto carrying the action. Beemer held the role until the radio series ended in 1954. To maintain the mystery of the character, Graser had never been allowed to do any other radio work, and he had to keep his involvement in the show secret. He wasn't even allowed to make public appearances to promote the show, as many radio stars of the day did; short and pudgy, never on a horse in his life, Graser had to yield the public persona of the character to the taller, more athletic Beemer, who was also an expert horseman. It was said that one time Graser was at a night club with his wife when there was a contest to see who could shout \"Hi-yo, Silver!\" like the Lone Ranger. Graser entered but didn't win. But he was dedicated, doing three live performances of each show, three times a week, and he never missed a show in his eight years as the voice of the Ranger. Like Graser, Beemer was restricted from doing any other radio work while he voiced the character. Throughout the series, Tonto was voiced by John Todd, a white man of Irish descent; at one time a genuine Native American was considered for the role, but the actor, a college-educated man, refused to recite the simplistic, \"me Tonto\"-style dialogue for the character, and Todd kept the job to the end.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.016666412353516, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "Lone Ranger", "passage": "    What most Lone Ranger fans then and now don't know is that the Ranger is connected to another masked avenger that debuted on radio in the 1930s and later made his way to movie serials and TV. The young son of the elder Reid brother later sires a son named Britt, who becomes a newspaper publisher by day...and at night, with his faithful Japanese sidekick Kato, rides the streets in the Black Beauty automobile, fighting crime as the Green Hornet.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.98289680480957, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "The Green Hornet, played in the 1960s TV series by Van Williams, was originally the Lone Ranger's grand-nephew. And who played the Hornet's sidekick Kato in the TV version? Bruce Lee.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.22396183013916, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "    After the last of the Moore-Silverheels pictures, \"The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold\" was released in 1958, the character could only be seen on TV reruns. By the late '70s, the rights to the character had been sold to producer Jack Wrather, who had produced many of the episodes in the TV series. Wrather was planning a big-screen version of the story and wanted Moore to stop appearing in public as the Lone Ranger, filing a lawsuit to that effect in 1979. It was one of the biggest public relations gaffes in Hollywood history, and probably had a big effect on the failure of the movie to lure decent box office numbers. Although the film was well-written and had beautiful location cinematography, the movie also was hurt by the casting of unknown Klinton Spilsbury as the Lone Ranger. Not only was Spilsbury inexperienced and not as physically-imposing as Moore had been, his voice was so weak that every line of his dialogue in the picture was re-dubbed with the voice of veteran actor James Keach, who didn't even receive credit for his work. As for Spilsbury, he never appeared in another movie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.880627632141113, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "    James Keach is better known for having married Jane Seymour than being the voice of the Lone Ranger.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.467710494995117, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "    Rescued by Tonto, well-played by Michael Horse, a real Apache, Reid learns to shoot, finds the wild silver stallion and tames him, dons the mask and with Tonto at his side, they ride off to find Cavendish. Merle Haggard provides narration in the picture and a couple songs. Grant is played by Jason Robards, and is accompanied on his train by renowned Old West heroes Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill Cody and General George A. Custer. I thought that part was certainly a stretch, but what the heck, it's a movie. Without giving away the ending, I will say that it was well-done and exciting. But the movie sank like a stone at the box office and today is regarded as the worst adaptation of the Lone Ranger ever to appear. It was so bad that nobody would touch the property for another 20 years. Then came the publication of a series of graphic novels that were noted for their adherence to Lone Ranger canon and tradition but questioned because of the level of violence. But again, the Old West was a violent place and if there really had been a Lone Ranger, he couldn't have survived long just by trying to shoot the guns out of the bad guy's hands. I have heard that another Ranger movie is in the works. We'll see how they do it this time. At least now they won't have to hassle Clayton Moore, who passed away in 1999 at the age of 85.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.781143188476562, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "    Several years ago, when my son Jim was about 12, I happened to find a video of \"The Lone Ranger\", the 1956 Clayton Moore feature film. I had never seen it and thought this would be one of those precious moments when the father passes down a family tradition to his son. The movie was great, and during an intense scene when the Ranger is duking it out on top of a rugged plateau with a renegade Apache, I was on the edge of my seat. I glanced over at Jim...and he was fast asleep. 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The Ranger always treated Tonto as an equal, which was a lesson for all of us kids in race relations, even if we didn't realize it, and Tonto was portrayed with great dignity by Silverheels, dispelling many a stereotype that showed the Indian of the Old West as an uncouth savage. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.549654960632324, "source": "search", "title": "Those thrilling days of yesteryear - A Strenuous Life" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "    It was all that, I think, but also this: the Lone Ranger was truly a good guy. He sacrificed everything he could've had in order to pursue the cause of justice. He risked his life to save the innocent. 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But he always wore a mask, he always pursued justice and he never accepted praise or payment.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.337030410766602, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) Hi-yo, Silver, away.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.116077423095703, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "FRAN STRIKER, JR.: Well, my name is Fran Striker, Jr. And my father's name was Fran Striker and he was the creator and author of \"The Lone Ranger.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.339417457580566, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) I'll shoot to wound, not to kill. A man must die, it's up to the Lord to decide that; not the person behind the six shooter.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.28692626953125, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) No, thanks. A man drinks that kind of medicine to forget something he does want to remember.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.167868614196777, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "JR.: The Lone Ranger always used dead-on perfect English. That's what George Trendle read the scripts for.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.451906204223633, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) (Unintelligible) open the door, sheriff.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.304153442382812, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) Back inside.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.184995651245117, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) Don't make a move for your guns...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.205926895141602, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "SIEGEL: Professor Hoppenstand ranks The Lone Ranger among a handful of important iconic figures in American popular culture. A vigilante lawman who protects the criminal justice system by working outside it, a hero made for radio audiences of the Great Depression.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.290614128112793, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "BOB DYLAN: (Singing) Well, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, they're riding down the line, fixing everybody's troubles, everybody's except mine...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.249194145202637, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "SIEGEL: For the first 10 episodes of \"The Lone Ranger,\" the Ranger actually rode alone. This was before they cooked up the back-story of the ambush at Bryant's Gap. As writer Fran Striker told us son, Fran Jr., that posed a problem for creating dialogue.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.110485076904297, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "JR.: The problem being that The Lone Ranger had nobody to talk to, if he was a lone ranger. So they had suggested that the creative sidekick for The Lone Ranger. Script 11 introduced Tonto, and he was developed solely for the purpose of giving the Lone Ranger somebody to talk to.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.437919616699219, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) All right, Tonto, you'll be a lot of help. We'll ride together.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.31321907043457, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) Take cover, Tonto.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.265336036682129, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MARK ELLIS: I always loved The Lone Ranger is like your idealized white man. 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Ah-do-dah-do-dah-dah...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.23437213897705, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) I'll hide my identity somehow.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.252765655517578, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) That's it, Tonto. From now on, I'll wear a mask.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.153342247009277, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "Lone Ranger", "passage": "SIEGEL: That's Terry Salomonson, lifelong fan and collector of \"Lone Ranger\" memorabilia. Of course, that doesn't explain why he always wore the mask, even when he and Tonto were riding alone across the Texas wilderness.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.01636028289795, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) No one is going to know I'm alive. I'm supposed to be dead and I'm going to stay that way.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.214723587036133, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "HOPPENSTAND: He wears a mask that is the very symbol of the outlaws that the Lone Rangers go after.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.437470436096191, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "SIEGEL: So who actually knew The Lone Ranger's face? Well, his nephew did and, of course, Tonto did. And, this may be surprising, but President Ulysses S. Grant did.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.148941993713379, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) Mr. President.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.249760627746582, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "SALOMONSON: President Grant summoned him to a railroad siding in St. Louis because of the actions of a particular group of individuals that were trying to carve out their own country, so to speak, in the West. And that started off a 64-episode series entitled \"The Legion of the Black Arrow.\" And President Grant requested that the Lone Ranger come in for a meeting to say is there something we can do, and how can you fight against it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.518590927124023, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) There.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.1663236618042, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "MOORE: (as The Lone Ranger) Thank you, sir.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.178849220275879, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "SIEGEL: The Lone Ranger was a patriot - in real life, too.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.464425086975098, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "FRAN STRIKER JR.: Interestingly, during World War II, my father was called to Washington by the War Department and they had a favor. 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Let's see what happens here. A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty Hi-yo Silver. The Lone Ranger, with his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early Western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.047142028808594, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" }, { "answer": "The Lone Ranger", "passage": "SIEGEL: That was announcer Fred Foy back in 2008. Foy died three years ago. Everyone else I mentioned is five years older now, including the Lone Ranger. He's 80.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.16223430633545, "source": "search", "title": "The Man Behind The Mask: A Profile Of The Lone Ranger" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Taurus", "passage": "In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30° sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox (one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator), also known as the First Point of Aries. The order of the astrological signs is Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.", "precise_score": -8.442649841308594, "rough_score": -9.854574203491211, "source": "wiki", "title": "Astrological sign" }, { "answer": "Taurus", "passage": "Rulership is the connection between planet and correlated sign and house. In traditional Western astrology, each sign is ruled by one and only one of the seven visible planets (note that in astrology, the Sun and Moon are termed The Lights, while the other bodies are called planets, which literally means wanderers, i.e. wandering stars as opposed to the fixed stars). The traditional rulerships are as follows: Aries (Mars), Taurus (Venus), Gemini (Mercury), Cancer (Moon), Leo (Sun), Virgo (Mercury), Libra (Venus), Scorpio (Mars), Sagittarius (Jupiter), Capricorn (Saturn), Aquarius (Uranus), Pisces (Jupiter). ", "precise_score": -8.947216987609863, "rough_score": -9.516621589660645, "source": "wiki", "title": "Astrological sign" }, { "answer": "Taurus", "passage": "The following table enumerates the twelve divisions of celestial longitude, with the Latin names (still widely used) and the English translation (gloss). The longitude intervals, being a mathematical division, are closed for the first endpoint (a) and open for the second (b) — for instance, 30° of longitude is the first point of Taurus, not part of Aries. Association of calendar dates with astrological signs only makes sense when referring to Sun sign astrology.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.007753372192383, "source": "wiki", "title": "Astrological sign" }, { "answer": "Taurus", "passage": "Psychologically-oriented astrologers often believe that Uranus is the ruler or co-ruler of Aquarius instead of Saturn; Neptune is the ruler or co-ruler of Pisces instead of Jupiter, and that Pluto is the ruler or co-ruler of Scorpio instead of Mars. Some astrologers believe that the planetoid Chiron may be the ruler of Virgo, while other group of modern astrologers claim that Ceres is the ruler of Taurus instead. Other astrologers, still, use the former planets Pallas, Vesta, Juno and Hygiea in their delineations and rulerships, for example Vesta to Taurus and Pallas to Virgo.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.092996597290039, "source": "wiki", "title": "Astrological sign" }, { "answer": "Taurus", "passage": "Note that, if one starts from Leo and Cancer, the traditional planetary rulers are arrayed outward in the same order from the sun as they occur in the natural solar system. The Lights ruling Leo and Cancer, Mercury ruling Virgo and Gemini, Venus ruling Libra and Taurus, Mars ruling Scorpio and Aries, Jupiter ruling Sagittarius and Pisces, Saturn ruling Capricorn and Aquarius. The result is a symmetry of traditional rulerships across the 0° Leo/Aquarius axis. Note that modern rulerships, which attribute Pluto as ruler of Scorpio, break this symmetry.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.062261581420898, "source": "wiki", "title": "Astrological sign" }, { "answer": "Taurus", "passage": "* Exaltation and Fall : In addition, a planet is also strengthened when it is in its sign of Exaltation. In traditional horary astrology, Exaltation denotes a level of dignity somewhat exaggerated compared to rulership. Exaltation was considered to give the planet (or what it signified in a horary chart) dignity, with the metaphor of an honoured guest – who is the centre of attention but the extent of their ability to act is limited. Examples of planets in their Exaltation are: Saturn (Libra), Sun (Aries), Venus (Pisces), Moon (Taurus), Mercury (Virgo, although some disagree to this classification), Mars (Capricorn), Jupiter (Cancer). A planet in the opposite sign of its Exaltation is said to be in its Fall, and thus weakened, perhaps seemingly more so than Detriment. The Planet in fall is passively rejected or ignored by the sign that it's in. It can be likened to a mayor of a rival city trying to make suggestions to the hosting mayor for how he should run his city: The host mayor finds it difficult to trust him and cannot see how his input could have relevancy to his city. The people of the city feel the same as their ruler. The result is impasse and failure on behalf of both mayors and the city. There is no agreement as to the signs in which the three extra-Saturnian planets may be considered to be exalted. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.83477783203125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Astrological sign" }, { "answer": "Taurus", "passage": "While the element and modality of a sign are together sufficient to define it, they can be grouped to indicate their symbolism. The first four signs, Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer, form the group of personal signs. The next four signs, Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio form the group of interpersonal signs. The last four signs of the zodiac, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces, form the group of transpersonal signs. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.171401977539062, "source": "wiki", "title": "Astrological sign" } ]