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Martha Burk is an American political psychologist, feminist, and former Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations. She is widely known... for a disagreement beginning in 2002 with William "Hootie" Johnson, then chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, over admission of female members to Augusta National. Burk contended that hosting the Masters Tournament at a male-only club, constituted sexism because 15% of the club's membership were CEO's, many of them Fortune 500 CEO's. Johnson characterized Burk's approach as "offensive and coercive", and despite efforts to conflate the issue with sexism and civil rights, Johnson maintained the issue had to do with the rights of any private club. For her part, Burk — whose childhood nickname was also Hootie — was "called a man hater, anti-family, lesbian, all the usual things." For his part, Johnson was portrayed as a Senator Claghorn type — that is, a blustery defender of all things Southern — despite his very real, progressive social record. Following the discord, two club members resigned, Thomas H. Wyman, a former CEO of CBS, and John Snow, when President George W.
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Miranda Leigh Shelton is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in... third place and later signed to Epic Records. Lambert made her debut with the release of "Me and Charlie Talking", the first single from her 2005 debut album Kerosene. This album, which was certified Platinum in the United States, also produced the singles "Bring Me Down", "Kerosene", and "New Strings". All four singles were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. After Epic's Nashville division closed, Lambert was transferred to Columbia Records Nashville for her second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was released in early 2007. Although the title track failed to make top 40, the next three singles were all Top 20 hits, with "Gunpowder & Lead" becoming her first Top 10 country hit in July 2008. Lambert's third album, Revolution, was released in September 2009.
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Richard Bradford is an American actor, known for his lead role as former CIA agent turned private eye McGill in the British TV adventure series Man... in a Suitcase, made by ITC in 1967. Bradford was born in Tyler, Texas, the son of Rose and Richard Edwin Bradford. His stepfather was a wholesale grocer. He first studied acting at the Actors' Studio in New York. As well as his numerous TV appearances, Bradford has featured in many films, such as The Chase , More American Graffiti , and The Legend of Billie Jean , and The Trip To Bountiful , but his best known role in the cinema was in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables , playing corrupt Irish cop Mike Dorsett, and also having a notable fight scene with Sean Connery. Bradford played a similar police officer in the 1997 film Hoodlum featuring Laurence Fishburne, Andy García, and Tim Roth. Bradford appeared in the 1989 film Heart of Dixie. Bradford also had notable turns in Costa Gravas' Missing and the Kurt Russell thriller The Mean Season. He also guest starred on NBC's Viper, he starred in the miniseries Amerika.
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Morgan Wade is a professional BMX rider from Tyler, Texas. He competed in the 2006 and 2007 X-Games in the Freestyle and Big Air competitions. His... sponsors include Etnies, Levi's, Maxxis, and ODI. His Signature move is the superman tailwhip. He once appeared on the MTV show Scarred. Wade appeared in the video section of Ride BMX's Drop The Hammer, in which he looped the Mt. Baldy fullpipe.
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Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor and singer. who is best remembered as the piano-player and singer "Sam" who sings "As Time Goes By" at... the request of Ilsa Lund in the 1942 film, Casablanca – the Sam in the famously misremembered line "Play it again, Sam" – a phrase which was never actually spoken in the film. Wilson, an African-American, was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting for good, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films. His role in Casablanca was by far his most famous, but his other films included My Favorite Blonde , Stormy Weather , and the 1951 western Passage West. Wilson was born in Tyler, Texas, and broke into show business at the age of 12, playing in a vaudeville minstrel show. He sang and played the drums in black clubs in the Tyler area before he moved to Chicago. He received the nickname "Dooley" while working in the Pekin Theatre in Chicago, circa 1908, because of his then-signature Irish song "Mr.
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Bob Luman was an American country and rockabilly singer. Luman was born in Nacogdoches, Texas. His early interest in music was influenced by his... father, an amateur fiddle, guitar and harmonica player. Bob Luman received his first guitar when he was thirteen years of age. Luman attended high school in Kilgore, where the family had moved after young Bob's birth. It was in high school that Luman started his first band. Bob Luman had been a baseball star in his high school, and he tried out with the Major League Baseball Pittsburgh Pirates, but when he didn't make it in professional baseball, he decided to concentrate on music. In 1956, he won a talent contest promoted by the Future Farmers of America, which earned him an appearance on the Louisiana Hayride. For the Hayride, Luman formed a backup band called the Shadows, including James Burton on guitar, James Kirkland on bass and Butch White on drums. In 1957, the band signed with Imperial Records, where they recorded "All Night Long" and "Amarillo Blues.
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Richard Bradford is an American actor, known for his lead role as former CIA agent turned private eye McGill in the British TV adventure series Man... in a Suitcase, made by ITC in 1967. Bradford was born in Tyler, Texas, the son of Rose and Richard Edwin Bradford. His stepfather was a wholesale grocer. He first studied acting at the Actors' Studio in New York. As well as his numerous TV appearances, Bradford has featured in many films, such as The Chase , More American Graffiti , and The Legend of Billie Jean , and The Trip To Bountiful , but his best known role in the cinema was in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables , playing corrupt Irish cop Mike Dorsett, and also having a notable fight scene with Sean Connery. Bradford played a similar police officer in the 1997 film Hoodlum featuring Laurence Fishburne, Andy García, and Tim Roth. Bradford appeared in the 1989 film Heart of Dixie. Bradford also had notable turns in Costa Gravas' Missing and the Kurt Russell thriller The Mean Season. He also guest starred on NBC's Viper. He appeared in one episode of the Television series Gunsmoke in the 1960s.
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Weston Michael DuPree is the drummer for the indie pop band Eisley. His sisters Stacy, Sherri, and Chauntelle, and his cousin Garron are also... members of the band. He is now married to Jessica Munns of LuvBeat, his longtime girlfriend. They married on January 23, 2010. Weston plays the drums in Eisley with three of his sisters and his cousin.
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Morgan Wade is a professional BMX rider from Tyler, Texas. He competed in the 2006 and 2007 X-Games in the Freestyle and Big Air competitions. His... sponsors include Etnies, Levi's, Maxxis, and ODI. His Signature move is the superman tailwhip. He once appeared on the MTV show Scarred. Wade appeared in the video section of Ride BMX's Drop The Hammer, in which he looped the Mt. Baldy fullpipe.
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David "Sully" Sullivan is an American film and television actor. Sullivan was born in Tyler, Texas and grew up in Longview, and attended Spring Hill... Schools where he graduated in 1996. He went on to attend Baylor University and majored in marketing and corporate communications, graduating in 2000. During college, he was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, and played one year of football and two years of soccer. David starred as "Abe" in the 2004 independent film Primer, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. The movie was filmed in Dallas in 2001, but spent two years in editing and post-production. Since the debut of Primer, Sullivan has moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actor. He has appeared in several television shows including Joey, Justified, Big Love, Boston Legal and filmed several movies. In August 2010 he filmed the independent comedy-drama, Beauty and the Least.
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Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor and singer. who is best remembered as the piano-player and singer "Sam" who sings "As Time Goes By" at... the request of Ilsa Lund in the 1942 film, Casablanca – the Sam in the famously misremembered line "Play it again, Sam" – a phrase which was never actually spoken in the film. Wilson, an African-American, was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting for good, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films. His role in Casablanca was by far his most famous, but his other films included My Favorite Blonde , Stormy Weather , and the 1951 western Passage West. Wilson was born in Tyler, Texas, and broke into show business at the age of 12, playing in a vaudeville minstrel show. He sang and played the drums in black clubs in the Tyler area before he moved to Chicago. He received the nickname "Dooley" while working in the Pekin Theatre in Chicago, circa 1908, because of his then-signature Irish song "Mr.
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John Paul Gimble , better known as Johnny Gimble, is an American country musician associated with Western swing. He is an award-winning fiddle player... and considered one of the most impressive fiddlers in the genre's history. Gimble was born in Bascom, Texas, . He began playing in a band with his brothers at age 12, and continued playing with two of them, George and Jerry, as the Rose City Swingsters. The trio played local radio gigs, but soon after Gimble moved to Louisiana and began performing with Jimmie Davis. Late in the 1940s, he joined Bob Wills's band, the Texas Playboys. With Wills, he played both fiddle and electric mandolin, and distinguished himself by using a five-string fiddle . He broke off to form his own group in 1951, performing as the house band at Wills's club, but rejoined in 1953 and continued to play with Wills until the early 1960s. Gimble left the music business briefly, working in a barbershop and a hospital, until 1969 when he and Wills began recording together again.
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