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  2. Where the Buffalo Roam - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $6,659,377. Where the Buffalo Roam is a 1980 American semi-biographical comedy film which loosely depicts author Hunter S. Thompson 's rise to fame in the 1970s and his relationship with Chicano attorney and activist Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. The film was produced and directed by Art Linson. Bill Murray portrayed Thompson and Peter Boyle ...

  3. Bill Thompson (voice actor) - Wikipedia

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    William H. Thompson (July 8, 1913 – July 15, 1971) was an American radio personality and voice actor, whose career stretched from the 1930s until his death. He was a featured comedian playing multiple roles on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio series, and was the voice of Droopy in most of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio theatrical cartoons from 1943 to 1958.

  4. First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President ...

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    274.3 cm × 457.2 cm (108 in × 180 in) Location. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., U.S. First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter. In the painting, Carpenter depicts Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his Cabinet members ...

  5. Bob Thompson (painter) - Wikipedia

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    Bob Thompson (June 26, 1937 – May 30, 1966) was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were influenced by the Old Masters. His art has also been described as synthesizing Baroque and Renaissance masterpieces with the jazz -influenced Abstract Expressionist movement.

  6. What Up with That? - Wikipedia

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    The sketch first aired in 2009. It stars Kenan Thompson as Diondre Cole, [1] host of a talk show on BET. Supporting characters include the show's announcer, originally played by Will Forte, and later by Taran Killam and Mikey Day, Fred Armisen as Giuseppe, a Kenny G -like saxophone player, Jason Sudeikis as Vance, an overzealous track-suit ...

  7. The Wild Side of Life - Wikipedia

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    "The Wild Side of Life" is a song made famous by country music singer Hank Thompson. Originally released in 1952, the song became one of the most popular recordings in the genre's history, spending 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard country chart, solidified Thompson's status as a country music superstar and inspired the answer song, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty Wells.

  8. Don Messick - Wikipedia

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    Messick was born on September 7, 1926, in Buffalo, New York, [2] the son of Binford Earl Messick, a house painter, Lena Birch ( née Hughes) [citation needed] and the brother of F. Thomas Messick. [1] He was raised in the Bolton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, [2] where he received his early training as a performer at the Ramsay Street School ...

  9. Bill Nighy - Wikipedia

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    William Francis Nighy was born on 12 December 1949 in Caterham, Surrey, the son of Alfred Martin Nighy (1913–1976) and Catherine Josephine, (née Whittaker) (1915–2003). [2] His father managed a car garage after working in the family chimney sweeping business; [3] his mother was a psychiatric nurse of Irish descent born in Glasgow, Scotland.