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Peery's Egyptian Theater is a movie palace located at 2439 Washington Blvd., in Ogden, Utah in the United States of America. It was added to the... National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Peery's Egyptian Theater was built after the fiery demise of the Arlington Hotel in 1923. Harman and Louis Peery devised a plan to build a grand theater, "The Showplace of the West". The architectural firm of Hodgson & McClenahan, notable for many important Wasatch Front landmarks, was hired for the task. They took cues from many of the most famous western theaters, including Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, and settled upon an Egyptian-themed showhouse. Construction began in 1923 on the cleared area left from the Arlington Hotel, and incidentally, the location of the Peery's first Ogden home. Ten months passed, and on July 3, 1924, the Egyptian opened. The first feature played at the new theater was Zane Grey's Wanderers of the Wasteland. This "natural color" silent film was accompanied by the Mighty Wurlitzer, the Egyptian's famous pipe organ. The first "talking picture" was In Old Arizona, shown in 1929.
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The John Moses Browning House is located at 505 27th Street in Ogden, Utah and was built between 1890 and 1900. The front porch area has been... modified but the home in general retains its historic style. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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Ogden High School is a secondary school located in Ogden, Utah, currently educating students in grades 10–12. As of 2011, the school principal... is professor Briggs. Operated by the Ogden City School District, Ogden High enrolls approximately 1,000 students each year. The Ogden High mascot is the Tiger. Ogden High School is recognized as an architectural landmark in Ogden, and was designed by the architectural firm of Hodgson and McClenahan. Other buildings of historical interested designed by Hodgson and McClenahan include Peery's Egyptian Theatre, the Regional Forest Service Building, and the City and County Building. In 2004, the National Trust for Historic Preservation provided a $10,000 matching grant to restore Ogden High School. A bond was recently passed by the district for the remodeling of Ogden High School including a new cafeteria, gym complex, and performing arts center in the first stage. The blueprint process began in December 2006. The main parking lots, and the ceramics building were demolished in the summer of 2007. New parking lots for faculty and visitors were built on the north end facing 28th St, and the south end in the former 29th St corridor.
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The Gustav Becker House is located at 2408 Van Buren Avenue, in Ogden, Utah. It was built around 1915 based on Frank Lloyd Wright's "A Fireproof... House for $5,000" published in Ladies' Home Journal in April 1907. It was designed in detail by Salt Lake architects Ware & Treganza.
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Hal Ashby was an American film director and film editor. Born William Hal Ashby in Ogden, Utah, Ashby grew up in a Mormon household and had a... tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family which included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide and his dropping out of high school. Ashby was married and divorced by the time he was 19. He got a girl pregnant in high school, and had never seen their daughter. His daughter now lives in California. As Ashby was entering adult life, he moved from Utah to California where he quickly became an assistant film editor. His big break occurred in 1967 when he won the Academy Award for Film Editing for In the Heat of the Night. Ashby has often stated that film editing provided him with the best film school background outside of traditional university study and he carried the techniques learned as an editor with him when he began directing. At the urging of its producer, Norman Jewison, Ashby directed his first film, The Landlord, in 1970.
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Alan Ralph Osmond was a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. He was the oldest of the seven siblings who could sing, as the two oldest... brothers, Virl and Tom, are hearing impaired although Tom is currently under treatment. During much of the Osmonds' career, Alan was the leader of the group. Today he performs only rarely because he has multiple sclerosis. Osmond dated the Carpenters' lead singer, Karen Carpenter. He later married Suzanne Pinegar. He and Suzanne have eight sons, who perform as the Osmond Brothers Second Generation. Alan, like all the Osmonds, is a devout Mormon; seven of his sons have served Mormon missions, and the younger son Tyler plan on serving in the future. His son, David Osmond, lead singer of the group Osmonds 2nd Generation, who also suffers from multiple sclerosis, participated in the eighth season of American Idol on January 28, 2009 with a pass to Hollywood. However, due to laryngitis, he was not able to make it past Hollywood week. Alan's oldest son Michael has six children : Suzannah Renee, Sarah Ann, Sasha Louise, Sean Michael, Sophie and Sadie Marie Osmond.
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Thomas Doane Chambers is a retired American NBA basketball player. Known for his strong shooting and high-flying dunks, Chambers was a NBA star... during the 1980s and 1990s. At 6'10", he played at the power forward position as a professional, and was a popular four-time NBA All-Star, most notably with the Seattle Supersonics and the Phoenix Suns. He starred at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado before attending the University of Utah. Hailing from an athletic family, Chambers was a promising 6-2 guard at the end of his sophomore year. Suddenly, he grew six inches during the next six months. As a junior, teammates marveled that he had not lost any coordination with that growth. A broken wrist as a senior forced him to use his left hand more, improving his game. An all-Colorado high school player, he was hotly recruited and enrolled at Utah. At Utah, Chambers played center with star forward Danny Vranes. The two led successful teams in the Western Athletic Conference. An excellent athlete, some doubted Chambers would be successful at the NBA level as he would not likely remain a center there.
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Moroni Olsen was an American actor. Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Marsha Hoverholst who named him after... the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, or even John Willard Clawson, Jr. There appears to be no support for this claim. Olsen studied at Weber State Academy, the predecessor of Weber State University. He then went to study at the University of Utah, where one of his teachers was Maud May Babcock. During World War I, he sold war bonds for the United States Navy. In 1923 Olsen organized the "Moroni Olsen Players" out of Ogden. They performed at both Ogden's Orpheum Theatre and at various other locations spread from Salt Lake City to Seattle. After having worked on Broadway he made his film debut in a 1935 adaptation of The Three Musketeers. He later played a different role in a 1939 comedy version of the story, starring Don Ameche as D'Artagnan and the Ritz Brothers as three dimwitted lackeys who are forced to substitute for the musketeers, who have drunk themselves into a stupor.
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Kent Bradley James is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and activist. He is also known as Nick Name. In the 90's, James performed his original... song "Out of Control" on the popular TV show Star Search and won the first round of competition. He acted in the TV series Emmanuelle in Space, Erotic Confessions, and Women: Stories of Passion. He also acted in the music video "Silent Scream" by Richard Marx and directed by Kiefer Sutherland. In 2000, James began performing as his gay punk rock alter ego "Nick Name". In 2001, Name performed his original songs "Head Rush" and "I Fucked Your Boyfriend" on the "Tolerance" episode of MTV's Flipped. In 2002, Name toured the U.S. West Coast. He was featured in an interview in Unzipped Magazine. In 2003, Portland's Willamette Week proclaimed "If Kurt Cobain had stayed around long enough to come out of the closet, he would have sounded just like Nick Name". Name was featured in an article in Australia's Blue Magazine, in an interview in New York City's Next Magazine, and in a cover story in London's QX Magazine. Name released a cover version of "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John.
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Merrill Davis Osmond is the lead singer and bassist of the 1970s music group The Osmonds. He continues to perform with his brothers and also without... them as a solo act. He is releasing a new album 'A Tribute to Classic Rock' and also tours worldwide. Merrill was the fifth of the nine children of Olive Osmond and George Osmond and was the first of the performing siblings to marry. He married Mary Carlson on September 17, 1973; they have four sons, two daughters, and ten grandchildren. Merrill's second son, Justin Osmond, is deaf, just as Merrill's two oldest brothers, Virl and Tom are deaf. Justin works with several organizations and launched the Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund in late 2010. Like the rest of his family, Merrill is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In keeping with church tradition, all of his sons have served as missionaries. Merrill's son Shane has three daughters, Aspen Rushelle born 2003, Andelyn Sherina born 2005 and McCaul Osmond born July 21, 2009. Merrill's daughter Heather has three sons, Keaton Kade born 2005, Kruze born 2008 and Lincoln T. Hallows born 2009.
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Gedde Watanabe is an American theatre, film, and television actor. He was in several dramatic productions in high school, both acting and singing.... After graduation, Watanabe left Ogden for San Francisco, where he hoped to make his living as a street musician while honing his acting skills. He appeared on Broadway in 1976 in Pacific Overtures, originating the role of the Boy in a Tree, and has appeared in a number of films and television shows. Watanabe appeared on Sesame Street for some years and had a recurring role on ER from 1998 to 2002. In 1998 he was the voice for Ling in the Disney film Mulan and reprised the role for the 2004 direct-to-video sequel, Mulan II. Watanabe's acting parts have been mostly caricatured East Asians with heavy accents . Jason Buchanan wrote for Allmovie, "The character that Gedde Watanabe is most remembered for is no doubt Long Duk Dong, the clumsy foreign exchange student in Sixteen Candles whose drunken fall from a tree and laughable bastardization of the English language had ninth-graders of the day rolling in theater aisles.
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Hal Ashby was an American film director and film editor. Born William Hal Ashby in Ogden, Utah, Ashby grew up in a Mormon household and had a... tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family which included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide and his dropping out of high school. Ashby was married and divorced by the time he was 19. He got a girl pregnant in high school, and had never seen their daughter. His daughter now lives in California. As Ashby was entering adult life, he moved from Utah to California where he quickly became an assistant film editor. His big break occurred in 1967 when he won the Academy Award for Film Editing for In the Heat of the Night. Ashby has often stated that film editing provided him with the best film school background outside of traditional university study and he carried the techniques learned as an editor with him when he began directing. At the urging of its producer, Norman Jewison, Ashby directed his first film, The Landlord, in 1970.
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Byron Foulger was an American film character actor with a familiar face who appeared in hundreds of movies and dozens of television programs.... Foulger attended the University of Utah, and started acting through his participation in community theatre. He made his Broadway debut in March 1920 in a production of Medea featuring Moroni Olsen, and performed in four more productions with Olsen on the 'Great White Way', back-to-back, ending in April 1922. He then toured with Olsen's stock company, and ended up at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he both acted and directed. Foulger made his first films in 1934 and 1936 – The Little Minister and The President's Mystery, the latter based on a story by Franklin Delano Roosevelt – but his career didn't start in earnest until 1937, after he performed opposite Mae West in a racy 'Adam and Eve' sketch on the Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy network radio program which resulted in West being banned from the airwaves almost immediately. . From this point on, Foulger worked steadily in motion pictures.
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Alan Ralph Osmond was a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. He was the oldest of the seven siblings who could sing, as the two oldest... brothers, Virl and Tom, are hearing impaired although Tom is currently under treatment. During much of the Osmonds' career, Alan was the leader of the group. Today he performs only rarely because he has multiple sclerosis. Osmond dated the Carpenters' lead singer, Karen Carpenter. He later married Suzanne Pinegar. He and Suzanne have eight sons, who perform as the Osmond Brothers Second Generation. Alan, like all the Osmonds, is a devout Mormon; seven of his sons have served Mormon missions, and the younger son Tyler plan on serving in the future. His son, David Osmond, lead singer of the group Osmonds 2nd Generation, who also suffers from multiple sclerosis, participated in the eighth season of American Idol on January 28, 2009 with a pass to Hollywood. However, due to laryngitis, he was not able to make it past Hollywood week. Alan's oldest son Michael has six children : Suzannah Renee, Sarah Ann, Sasha Louise, Sean Michael, Sophie and Sadie Marie Osmond.
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Cynthia Brimhall is an American model and B-movie actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for October 1985. Cynthia went on to... perform in several films by Andy Sidaris and appeared on The Price Is Right as one of Barker's Beauties.
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Thomas Doane Chambers is a retired American NBA basketball player. Known for his strong shooting and high-flying dunks, Chambers was a NBA star... during the 1980s and 1990s. At 6'10", he played at the power forward position as a professional, and was a popular four-time NBA All-Star, most notably with the Seattle Supersonics and the Phoenix Suns. He starred at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado before attending the University of Utah. Hailing from an athletic family, Chambers was a promising 6-2 guard at the end of his sophomore year. Suddenly, he grew six inches during the next six months. As a junior, teammates marveled that he had not lost any coordination with that growth. A broken wrist as a senior forced him to use his left hand more, improving his game. An all-Colorado high school player, he was hotly recruited and enrolled at Utah. At Utah, Chambers played center with star forward Danny Vranes. The two led successful teams in the Western Athletic Conference. An excellent athlete, some doubted Chambers would be successful at the NBA level as he would not likely remain a center there.
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