I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson.
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With the collaboration of her husband, she invented and created Topo Gigio , the famous puppet that has enjoyed considerable success both nationally and internationally.
It was a time of innovation in Italy, with television and animation cinema ; Maria Perego introduced a new technique unknown in the peninsula, using puppets instead of drawings, inspired by the Czech Jiří Trnka (who followed the Italian tradition of puppet theater ).
In the fifties he created several characters dedicated to young people. Before Topo Gigio, the most famous of them was Picchio Cannocchiale . For her creation Maria Perego was inspired by an already existing character, loved by children: Picchiarello . In the same way he invented Topo Gigio, but this time he took Mickey Mouse as a reference . Topo Gigio saw the light in 1959, and his fortune was due to some programs broadcast in prime time, with the voice of Peppino Mazzullo . The mouse attracted not only children (for its smallness and for its infantile nature), but also an adult public. At the end of the fifties Topo Gigio was a guest in programs with very high audience ratings. He also had an incredible success in selling plush toys. One of the many peculiarities of this character is the representation of reality as of fiction, because, despite being a fictional character, he also faces real problems, which are part of everyone's life, as intentionally desired by the creator. His fame then became international, appearing as a guest on television programs around the world, including the Ed Sullivan Show.
In 1974 Topo Gigio was even co-host of Canzonissima , flanked by Raffaella Carrà and Cochi and Renato : he duet with famous people (such as Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra ). Determined to defend her creative autonomy, Maria Perego built up a reputation as a woman and professional "of iron" over time, also because of her not always easy relations with Rai. Buona notte Maria. Grazie per il dono di Topo Gigio
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Hosted and produced by Jake Roper of Vsauce 3 fame answering the series titled question – 'could you survive?'" You are transported into the movies filled with mind-blowing experiments like what would happen if you actually jumped in a DeLorean and went back in time?" The show's Back to the Future episode, which breaks down all of the inaccuracies with Doc Brown's clock-tower-based plan to send Marty McFly back to 1985 via a bolt of lightning. After all, it is the only thing beyond stolen plutonium that's capable of generating 1.21 giagawatts.
Best known as "Hollywood Superman" Christopher Dennis has died. Dennis was 52 years old. He walked Hollywood Boulevard dress as Superman for almost 30 years. He was known for his resemblance to film star Christopher Reeve, who played Superman in a series of movies in the 1980s.
Actor, producer,
and director with a career in entertainment spanning roughly eight decades.
Lloyd has appeared in over sixty films and television shows. In the 1980s, he
gained a new generation of fans for playing Dr. Daniel Auschlander, one of the
starring roles on the groundbreaking medical dramaSt. Elsewhere.
November 8, 1979
The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered on
ABC-TV.
The
show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into "Nightline" in
March of 1980. The program had its beginnings on November 8, 1979, just four days after the Iran hostage crisis started. ABC News president Roone Arledge felt
the best way to compete against NBC's The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was
to update Americans on the latest news from Iran. At that time, the show was
called The Iran Crisis–America Held Hostage: Day "xxx",
where xxx represented each day that Iranians held hostage the
occupants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Originally, World News Tonight lead anchor Frank Reynolds hosted
the special report. Shortly after its creation, Reynolds stopped hosting the
program. Ted Koppel, then ABC News's State Department Correspondent, took
on the hosting duties. It was not until a few days later that a producer had
the idea of displaying the number of days on America Held Hostage:
Day 15, Day 50, Day 150, and so on.
November 8, 1994:
Salvatore
"Sonny" Bono is elected to the U.S. Congress.
If
you had made a friendly wager back in 1974 as to which recent or current
pop-music figure might go on to serve in the United States Congress in 20
years' time, you might have picked someone with an apparent political agenda,
like Joan Baez, or at least one who was associated with some kind of cause,
like nature-lover John Denver. You almost certainly wouldn't have placed your
bet on Sonny Bono, a singer of arguably limited talents who appeared content to
stand, literally and figuratively, in the shadow of his far more popular wife,
Cher. It was indeed Salvatore "Sonny" Bono, however, who had a future
in elective politics—a future that included his election to the United States
House of Representatives from California's 44th Congressional District on this
day in 1994
Sonny
Bono fell almost completely out of the public eye following the cancellation of
The Sonny and Cher Show in 1977. While his ex-wife and erstwhile musical
partner, Cher, launched a hugely successful second phase of her career with
well-received acting roles in the 1980s, Sonny left the spotlight behind to
focus on the restaurant business. Although he presented himself as a
none-too-bright bumbler during his days on television, Bono had been an astute
operator in shepherding his and Cher's early musical career and in his later
business dealings. The owner of several successful restaurants, Bono got
involved in politics after growing frustrated with the bureaucratic hurdles
placed before one of his restaurant construction projects by local officials in
Palm Springs, California, in the late 1980s. Though he himself had registered
to vote for the first time only one year earlier, Bono was elected mayor of
Palm Springs in 1988. Following a failed run in the California Republican
Senatorial primary in 1992, Bono turned his attention to the 44th District's
Congressional seat in 1994. A conservative Republican, Bono was swept into
office as part of the Newt Gingrich-led Republican "revolution" that
year, and he was re-elected in 1996.
During
his time in office, Bono did not treat his fellow lawmakers to any singing
performances, but the man behind the hits "I Got You Babe" (1965) and
"The Beat Goes On" (1967) did trade on his public persona as a
good-natured, non-threatening nice guy. As The Washington Post noted in its
obituary following Bono's death in a skiing accident in 1996, "Bono
brought to Congress a rare skill: He could make lawmakers—even the most pompous
among them—laugh at themselves." Or as President Bill Clinton said,
""His joyful entertainment of millions earned him celebrity, but in
Washington he earned respect by being a witty and wise participant in
policymaking processes that often seem ponderous to the American people."
As a result of its extensive influence, Sesame Street is one of the
most highly regarded, and most watched, educational shows for children in the
world. The original series has been televised in more than 120 countries, and
25 independent versions have been produced. The show has been called
"perhaps the most vigorously researched, vetted, and fretted-over
program". In 2018, it was estimated that 86 million Americans had watched the series as children. As of 2018, Sesame Street has won 189 Emmy Awards and 11 Grammy Awards, more than any other children's show. An estimated 77 million Americans
watched the series as children.
Sesame Street uses a combination of animation, puppets, and live actors to
stimulate young children's minds, improve their letter and word recognition,
basic arithmetic,
geometric forms, classification, simple problem solving, and socialization by
showing children or people in their everyday lives. Since the show's inception,
other instructional goals have been basic life skills, such as how to cross the
street safely, proper hygiene, healthy eating habits, and social skills; in
addition, real-world situations are taught, such as death, divorce, pregnancy and
birth, adoption, and even all of the human emotions such as happiness, love,
anger, and hatred. Also, recently, the Sesame Street Muppets discussed
the late-2000s recession with their latest
prime-time special Families Stand Together: Feeling Secure in Tough Times.
The series has made many published lists, including greatest all-time show
compilations by TV
Guide and Entertainment Weekly. A 1996 survey
found that 95% of American preschoolers have watched the show by the time they
are three years old.
In late 2015, in response to "sweeping changes in the media business", and as part of a five-year programming and development deal, premium television service HBO began airing first-run episodes of Sesame Street. Episodes became available on PBS stations and websites nine months after they aired on HBO. The deal allowed Sesame Workshop to produce more episodes, about 35 new episodes per season, compared to the 18 episodes per season it aired previously, and provided the opportunity to create a spinoff series with the Sesame Street Muppets and a new educational series.
As of the show's 50th anniversary in 2019, Sesame Street has produced over 4,500 episodes, 35 TV specials, 200 home videos, and 180 albums.Its YouTube channel has almost 5 million subscribers. It was announced in October 2019 that first-run episodes will move to HBO Max beginning with its 51st season in 2020.
Jon Stone was responsible for hiring the first cast of Sesame Street.
He did not audition actors until Spring 1969, a few weeks before the five test
shows were due to be filmed. He videotaped the auditions, and Ed Palmer took
them out into the field to test children's reactions. The actors who received
the "most enthusiastic thumbs up" were cast. For example, Loretta
Long, was chosen to play Susan when the children who saw
her audition stood up and sang along with her rendition of "I'm a Little Teapot". It was Stone's goal
to cast white actors in the minority. As Stone said, casting was the only
aspect of the show that was "just completely haphazard".Most
of the cast and crew found jobs on Sesame Street through personal
relationships with Stone and the other producers. Stone also hired Bob McGrath
to play Bob, Will
Lee to play Mr. Hooper, and Matt Robinson to play Gordon.
Some countries
have co-produced their own unique versions of Sesame Street, in which
the characters and segments represent their country's cultures. Other countries
simply air a dubbed version of Sesame Street, or a dubbed version of Open Sesame. Among various
other countries, Australia has and still does broadcast the American version on
the ABC and the UK had broadcast the American show,
on Channel 4 until 2001 when it was replaced
with Henson production The Hoobs.
Dubbed versions include Seesamtie in Finnish, Boneka Sesame in
Indonesian, Sesam Opnist Þú in Icelandic, Sezame otevři se in
Czech, Sesamo Apriti in Italian, Sezame, otevři se in Czech, and Taman
Sesame in Malay. In 2004, one Japanese network cancelled the dubbed
American Sesame, while another created a local version. In New Zealand,
locally produced segments entitled "Korero Māori" (in
English: "let's speak Māori") were inserted into episodes to educate
children in the Māori language. Likewise, in Canada the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
substituted locally-produced French
language segments in place of the Spanish
language portions of the US version. Spanish program La
Cometa Blanca also includes segments from Sesame Street. Locally produced adaptations of Sesame
Street include:
In 1974 Topo Gigio was even co-host of Canzonissima , flanked by Raffaella Carrà and Cochi and Renato : he duet with famous people (such as Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra ). Determined to defend her creative autonomy, Maria Perego built up a reputation as a woman and professional "of iron" over time, also because of her not always easy relations with Rai. 
Buona notte Maria. 
