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all of this means the app store can never go down, kordek says .
another clerk, however, said he was not surprised that the store was picked, given that there is a much larger wiz nearby at avenue of the americas and 31st street and that the company' s flagship store is at fifth avenue and 46th street. he speculated that the store' s appearance may also have been a factor .
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please note: if you change the store language / currency, your shopping basket will be cleared .
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at the fifth avenue store, sales clerks learned from a reporter that their store would close.'' i' ve worked here for four years and every person in this store is my friend, so i' m sad,'' said one employee who spoke on condition of anonymity .
the gang dances their way to the wiz at 11th and market for the final exterior shot of the episode, which features a philly electronics store dressed up as it' s always sunny ’s the wiz. the store, however, is closed, and the group pleads with a man to fix their vcr, to which he responds by calling the police. with that, charlie believes he has learned the lesson the group must learn to turn white once again .
after nobody beats the wiz' s demise, marvin jemal seemed to struggle to find the next big thing .
nobody beats the wiz tv ads touting one sale after another became pop - culture phenomena. in one seinfeld episode, elaine fell in love with a nobody beats the wiz pitchman .
he' s not idiotic. he' s the wiz. and nobody beats him ,
elaine said .
nobody .
marvin jemal, a co - founder of nobody beats the wiz, pleaded guilty to fraud on thursday .
the company said on tuesday that the bankruptcy filing and store closings were prompted by a'' general softness in the consumer electronics industry.'' retail analysts agreed with that assessment, but added that the wiz also made the mistake of opening too many stores .
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besides the fifth avenue store, one of 11 wiz stores in manhattan, the other wiz outlets to be closed are in lake grove, manhasset, hicksville and sayville on long island; holmdel, old bridge and moorestown in new jersey; danbury and milford in connecticut; middletown, albany and syracuse in upstate new york, and the four in washington .
instead, the app store will focus on paid apps. the app developer can take a fraction of each financial transaction that takes place .
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kordek and beddows got the idea for lisk from the crypti foundation, the previous company where they worked, which was developing a similar kind of app store .
this is mainly an electronics store, but they also carry a limited selection of cd' s, tapes and videos .
but this idea that the next generation app store will be built on blockchain, whether by lisk or someone else, seems increasingly likely .
nobody beats the wiz stores was where new yorkers bought their tvs, compact - disc players and phones 20 years ago. the retailer’s ever - present ads infiltrated pop culture, with elaine falling in love with a nobody beats the wiz pitchman in one episode of seinfeld .
lisk is two things: a new kind of app store, and a new form of internet money, similar to bitcoin .
that sets off a lightbulb for mac, who remembers “that electronics store on market street, the wiz. ” the gang agrees to head down to the shop as a last - ditch effort, and sings out the scene wondering “what are the rules of being black in america” and “who can say the n - word. ”
kordek had to build a new cryptocurrency in order for the financial exchange part of his app - store network to work fast enough to run an app .
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on tuesday, when the retailer filed for protection from creditors under federal bankruptcy laws, the company said that the stores it would close would be mainly those farthest from new york city. but a wiz store at fifth avenue and 33d street is on the list, as are several stores in the suburbs close to the city. four of the 17 stores to be closed are in the washington area .
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the locations of the stores to be closed and the list of the main creditors were supplied by joshua peck, a spokesman for the wiz' s law firm, kramer, levin, naftalis & frankel in manhattan .
first and foremost, lisk is a new kind of app store built on the same kind of technology used by bitcoin to keep track of who owns how many coins .
the 17 stores that the wiz inc. will close as part of its bankruptcy filing are spread evenly throughout the northeast and include one in midtown manhattan, the electronics retailer' s law firm said yesterday .
wiz khalifa has made a career off his sneaker endorsements. using converse' s classic
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the company, the largest consumer electronics retailer in the new york region, has 50 nobody beats the wiz stores. its bankruptcy filing listed $ 354. 6 million in debts and $ 318. 2 million in assets. the single largest creditor is congress financial corporation of manhattan, which lent the wiz $ 150 million. its claim was listed as $ 139. 6 million .
nelson brandt, a u. s. coast guard pilot, invested every penny in a venture founded by nobody beats the wiz co - founder marvin jemal .
mr. peck said that at an average of 84 employees per store, the closings would cut about 1, 420 jobs from the company' s 4, 200 - person work force, assuming the company made no effort to retain displaced workers. officials at the wiz' s headquarters in carteret, n. j. , declined to comment, referring all inquiries to the law firm .
mr. jemal, 60, is the second member of his brooklyn family to be convicted of a crime since the demise of nobody beats the wiz. his older brother, a prominent washington, d. c. , developer named douglas jemal, was convicted at trial in 2006 for defrauding a lender. read more about the family and their challenges after nobody beats the wiz here .
like the now - defunct crazy eddie, another electronics and appliance retailer run by a syrian family from the same part of brooklyn, nobody beats the wiz succeeded with a combination of aggressive discounting and nonstop advertising .
costume for glinda the good witch in the wiz on broadway, 1975. created by geoffrey holder. gift of the black fashion museum founded by lois k. alexander - lane, 2007. 3. 11 .
lawrence was president and younger brother marvin was executive vice president, but both ran the company, according to billy weinstein, a consultant who worked with the retailer. stephen' s main role was store construction .
kordek believes that many of the people that invested were less interested in the app store, and just
speculating on
the price of the new coin, he says. that' s what happened with a cryptocoin called ethereum, he notes .
the wiz' s largest competitor, circuit city stores of richmond, va. , with 13 stores in the new york metropolitan area, said it planned to almost quadruple its presence in the region by late 1999 .
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after cablevision shut down nobody beats the wiz, marvin jemal tried to rekindle the magic by opening stores called the zone. he even trademarked the slogan
nobody beats the zone .
the stores closed in 2005, and he filed for bankruptcy the same year to shield his assets from creditors .
playbill from the wiz, 1975. published by playbill. gift of kayla deigh owens, playbill used by permission. all rights reserved, playbill inc. , 2011. 45. 98 .
marvin was one of four jemal brothers who helped launch nobody beats the wiz in 1976. the chain was named after their father’s favorite broadway show. by the late 1980s the appliance shops had spread from brooklyn to all over the city and by the early 1990s the brothers were making so much money they thought about buying the baltimore orioles .
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although the wiz said the bankruptcy would give it the'' flexibility to restructure its finances and reorganize,'' analysts seemed less sanguine about the company' s prospects.'' the wiz has been struggling for its life for over a year and the struggle continues, and the outcome of that struggle at this moment is very much in doubt,'' mr. barnard said.'' there is no assurance at this time that they will come out of chapter 11.''
lisk also made another promise to investors. the $ 6 million worth of bitcoin raised was put into escrow, meaning the cofounders can' t touch it to hire people or pay for bills until they launch their app store and network .
whatever that lesson is, however, fades away as the next scene arrives to reveal that the entire body - switching mess was a dream in the mind of old black man, who had fallen asleep while watching the wiz. he is the first to realize that the gang didn' t learn any lesson in the episode .
in late 2006, a u. s. coast guard pilot named nelson brandt was invited for dinner at the home of someone who had once been one of the city' s most successful retailers, nobody beats the wiz co - founder marvin jemal .
costume oil can prop güira for tin man in the wiz on broadway, 1975. designed by geoffrey holder. gift of the black fashion museum founded by lois k. alexander - lane, 2007. 3. 7. 4 .
max kordek is a 24 - year - old bitcoin wiz from germany. next week he and his co - founder, 37 - year - old oliver beddows, will launch their company ,
but there' s a few other things this app store will do. security and privacy are built in. it won' t be able to mine users' data, letting people keep their data private .
the costumes designed by holder provide a window into 1970s urban black life as represented in the art form of musical theater. holder was born in trinidad and moved to new york when he was in his twenties. the costumes he designed for the wiz reflect his caribbean - american experiences as well as the styles of african diasporic culture popular in the 1970s .
the gang meets up in an old city alleyway to discuss their next steps. after another rendition of “what are the rules, ” charlie joins the group with dee’s busted vcr, and suggests that they can get it fixed to get shocked again while watching the wiz, which might turn them white again .
eddie antar said he wasn' t friends with marvin jemal but confirmed he once got a german shepherd puppy from douglas jemal. he denied any business dealings between crazy eddie and nobody beats the wiz, although sam antar maintains the business relationship he described is accurate .
the good times didn' t last, though. big - box retailers like best buy and circuit city muscled in, and nobody beats the wiz filed for bankruptcy a few days before christmas in 1997. cablevision bought the company a few weeks later for $ 80 million, only to close the stores for good in 2003 .
this one, however, is no
the nightman cometh ,
and is much more pointed than the gang' s first musical episode. in the episode, the gang “turns black” after being shocked by an electric blanket while watching the wiz with old black man (played by wil garret), who previously appeared in season 11’s “ mac & dennis move to the suburbs. ”
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supreme has reached its level of popularity through business practices that most brands would find unconscionable. the brand, as a whole, does not seem eager to please. the in - store staff is mostly aloof, surly. (in the nineteen - nineties, staff members were known for walking up behind customers and menacingly telling them that they could not touch the clothing until they bought it .) staff members keep a handful of sold - out items in the back for when their friends come in. the store’s speakers play rap and heavy metal at nearly wall - shaking volume in the middle of the afternoon. perhaps most important, the brand makes a lot of clothing that its employees know they will not sell—they sometimes express surprise that customers are buying certain items .
using what was left of the $ 250, 000 investment they had secured for cicada as well as a big part of the technology built for that app, yang and zhu launched urltoken in 2014, first in the united states. they got lucky: it went viral, landing in the app store’s top 40 in less than a year. it hasn’t budged since .
inside a run - down mall off of elizabeth street in chinatown, down an escalator to the basement and past a raft of empty storefronts, is a minuscule store, the size of a walk - in closet, that’s quietly at the center of a peculiar global fashion empire. it has no sign and it’s not on the mall directory. it’s impossible to find on google .
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'' my guess is they chose this store because it would take a lot to remodel it,'' said the clerk, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.'' customers today are looking for a high - tech atmosphere, and this looks like it' s out of the 1970' s.''
as the truck rams the car over the cliff and falls off in the final film, there is a low roar sound effect that the filmmaker included to emphasize the death of the truck. spielberg, who wanted the truck to seem
but big - box retailers like best buy put the nobody beats the wiz out of business and marvin jemal struggled to find a successful new venture. in 2005, he filed for personal bankruptcy. around that time he met nelson brandt, a coast guard pilot and heir to a $ 20 million broadway theater fortune .
“i’ve brought in seven figures a year for the last two years, ” said peter, the owner of the store, a thirty - year - old who refused to give his last name or be photographed. “i can’t show my face—i’m under a lot of eyes, ” he said, sitting on a stool inside unique hype collection last week. (peter was actually under only four eyes: two posters of lady gaga looking at the camera while modelling a supreme t - shirt hung on the ceiling above him .) “i do everything myself. with the ebay store, i even pack it and ship it myself, ” he said, before pausing and thinking about this for a second. “actually, i don’t drive myself. i have a driver. ”
if you’ve ever wanted to “own” a no. 1 single, here’s your chance: a royalty interest in wiz khalifa’s hugely popular 2015 hit “see you again” is up for sale, with bidding set to close at 5 p. m. eastern time aug. 7 .
supreme clothing is peter’s signature stock in trade, although he resells a handful of pieces by similar menswear brands if their prices are right. (he also owns a collectible - card store .) the real supreme has been based out of a store on lafayette street in soho since it was established in 1994 (and now operates stores in london, los angeles, and six in japan). it was founded by the then - thirty - year - old british émigré james jebbia, who also had a hand in starting up the downtown skate meccas union and stüssy. he is now known among fans of supreme for his reclusiveness and gruff demeanor, especially with the press, because of his dissatisfaction with supreme being pigeonholed as skateboarding clothing, and therefore crappy .
shortly after the 2006 dinner party at marvin jemal' s home, mr. brandt made his biggest bet yet, investing $ 12 million in a luggage business called ene group, whose initials stand for
excellence never ends .
the company was mr. jemal' s biggest success since nobody beats the wiz, generating $ 10 million in annual revenue and employing 20 people, according to prosecutors .
eagle - eyed viewers will catch the word “flammable” scrawled across the back of the truck, yet when it careens off the cliff at the end of the movie it doesn’t go boom. the studio wanted a big explosion, but the director wanted a slower demise for his film’s villain .
after crazy eddie collapsed in an infamous 1980s accounting scandal (and eddie and sam antar were convicted of fraud), business at nobody beats the wiz really took off. by the mid - 1990s, it had 2, 000 employees working in 94 stores and, according to a website for a company run by stephen jemal, annual revenue of more than $ 1. 5 billion .
but in 1997 nobody beats the wiz went bankrupt. by 2003 its stores had disappeared altogether. on thursday, one of the company’s co - founders, marvin jemal, suffered a personal low when he appeared in a federal courtroom to respond to charges that he defrauded a bank by providing fake invoices and shipping documents in exchange for $ 7 million in loans for a luggage business he ran .
if you have a teenager, have been near a teen lately, or are just young at heart, chances are you’ve heard of musical. ly. the almost 2 - year - old app that encourages users to lip - sync to 15 - second clips of songs has exploded in popularity, especially among millennials. every day, users upload more than 10 million videos to the platform, which has held firm in the app store’s top 40 since last summer, right beside the likes of snapchat and youtube .
an image in a government briefing book helped a state department official see “the forest for the trees” in the west bank—and then was shared with the president .
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the prop recreators at chronicle collectibles have collaborated with universal studios to make the canisters as faithful to the original as possible. just like the prop used in the film, the vessel resembles an unassuming can of shaving cream from the outside. but screw off the bottom and you' ll find a secret compartment filled with vials the perfect size for storing prehistoric genetic material .
in 2017 we had to say goodbye to one of the best websites to ever roam the internet: vine. in case you have been living under a rock since 2013, vine was - (sad face) - a website and app that took the internet and the app store by storm in winter 2013. it contained 6 - second videos that were mostly comedy - but there were other genres including music, sports, cool tricks and different trends. vine stars would get together and plan out a vine and film it till they got it right .
for mann’s car, spielberg chose the relatively small red plymouth valiant to stand out in size and color from the enormous truck and the earth tones of the california landscape .
some of the people standing in the supreme line are secretly peter’s employees, mostly teen - agers whom he recruits for the line - standing job while they mill around in his collectible - card store. “everybody has a price, ” he notes. “sometimes it’s only fifty dollars. ” the usual rate is a hundred dollars per day of waiting in line. there’s no bonus for inclement weather. he hires between ten and thirty people to stand in line each time supreme releases clothing, which is generally every thursday. how do the kids know what to buy? “they know what to buy cuz they been working for
the costumes donated to the museum help us chronicle a great achievement in the arts through a story that celebrates african american experiences. visitors can appreciate the magic, humor, and resilience embodied in geoffrey holder’s elaborate designs in the exhibition taking the stage. dorothy, glinda, and tinman will be on view first, with other characters rotating in so the costumes can rest. the wizard is on view at the national museum of american history in the nmaahc exhibition through the african american lens .
urltoken has even secured deals with major labels to feature the work of several big - name artists. alicia keys and wiz khalifa have accounts on the service, and others, such as jason derulo, have committed to releasing new music videos on urltoken before posting them elsewhere. according to yang, the labels are coming to them, not the other way around. “we’ve gotten a very positive response from the music industry, ” he says. “not only labels, but publishers. they are seeing that urltoken is a platform that gives them extra benefits for releasing new music and promoting new artists. ”
ms. xie grew up in china and got a business degree before moving to the united states and working as a babysitter, which is what she was doing when peter asked her to run the store. although many of her customers know her by name and greet her like an aunt, she occasionally embodies the same brusque attitude toward customers that supreme itself does: “people say it is expensive? you don’t buy! you say, ‘is it real or fake supreme? ’ if you don’t know, you don’t buy! get out, don’t buy. ”
charlie’s revelation, however, is cut short after philadelphia cops approach the market street location. mistaking the toy train charlie is holding for a gun, the police shoot him four times in the chest. switching between actor charlie day and his young, black counterpart as the shooting happens, the scene is among the most shocking in the series' decade - plus run .
now kanye west, drake, lil wayne, and justin bieber wear its gear. jeff koons, takashi murakami, damien hirst, and richard prince have designed some of its skateboard decks. hypebeast, a popular men’s fashion web site, operates a message board on which a posting about supreme’s current season has generated more than five million views and nearly eighty thousand replies. some users post their salaries and discuss how much supreme clothing they can buy after they pay their taxes. when the brand releases a new season of clothing, supreme fans set up a sidewalk tent city outside the lafayette street store, sleeping on the street for as long as six days for the chance to get the first crack at the merchandise .
and mr. brandt had something mr. jemal wanted: the $ 20 million he' d inherited from his father, who owned several broadway theaters, movie houses and hotels. what mr. brandt didn' t know was that mr. jemal had been unable to repeat his success at nobody beats the wiz, had filed for personal bankruptcy in 2005, and needed to finance his comeback. he sweet - talked mr. brandt into investing virtually all his inheritance into a series of disastrous ventures that left the career military man nearly penniless .
the enterprise, which its owner refers to as unique hype collection, is in the business of buying clothing from the skate - inspired men’s fashion brand supreme at retail prices, waiting until the items have sold out at supreme’s physical stores and online shop, and then putting those items up for sale in the mall and on ebay at significant markups. much of its merchandise goes to japan, where supreme goods can cost twice what they do here at retail. on a recent friday afternoon, a cap that had gone on sale on thursday at supreme for forty - eight dollars was on the shelf at unique hype collection for eighty - five dollars, where teen - agers were eyeing it jealously. the store even uses authentic supreme shopping bags, recycled from purchases made at supreme .
“oh, man, ” bakula says to conclude the episode. “what are the rules? ”
“your boyfriend is a normal guy. he just happens to have the same name as one of the worst serial killers in the history of new york. ” —jerry to elaine, “the masseuse”
to capture the truck and the car at seemingly high speeds, spielberg shot each at low angles. to create those harrowing shots, spielberg borrowed the specially - made camera car from the 1968 steve mcqueen thriller bullitt, which could lower the camera to only 6 inches off the ground .
loftin rigged the truck with a dead clutch so the 18 - wheeler could drive without anyone behind the wheel. spielberg filmed the crash with seven cameras from multiple angles to be able to use some editing tricks to stretch out the scene .
spielberg only had one take to pull off the climactic cliff crash because the initial shoot only had a single truck at their disposal. (a backup truck was built during reshoots in case the engine of the main truck stopped working. the backup truck is
ayatollah ruhollah khomeini was the leader of the iranian revolution and was responsible for turning iran into the world’s first islamic republic. khomeini denounced the united states for providing sanctuary for the exiled mohammad reza shah pahlavi and supported the students who stormed the american embassy in tehran in november 1979. fifty - two americans were held hostage in iran for a total of 444 days .
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since the truck itself is the movie’s main antagonist, spielberg chose to cast it like he would any other actor: an in - person audition. the filmmaker auditioned seven different styles of semi - trucks on the universal backlot, finally settling on a 1955 peterbilt 281 because he felt that the split windshield, rounded lights, and elongated hood represented the menacing features of the truck’s “face. ”
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the movie debuted on november 13, 1971 as abc’s movie of the week, and proved to be so successful that spielberg was given the opportunity to shoot additional footage (the school bus scene and the railroad crossing scene) to be able to release it in theaters at feature length .
“mr. jemal is a decent man who unfortunately violated the law, ” mr. brafman said after the hearing .
after dee explains to frank via a song why they can’t use that word (“we’re not saying the n - word”), the group finds an african american man under the bridge who knows where old black man might be. the man uses the n - word himself, and tells the pair “you’re talking about old black man” before pointing him out .
instead of creating individual storyboards, spielberg mapped out the entire path of mann and the truck driver on a mural of drafting paper with notes about each plot point peppering the sheet .
the snakerama gas station seen in the film also appears in spielberg' s 1979 world war ii comedy, 1941, with actress lucille benson again appearing as the proprietor. the two elderly people weaver tries to flag down in a car also appear as helpless motorists in close encounters of the third kind .
the final product will be an even more accurate representation of the screen version than the images above, with a less stretch - out label and a skinnier can like those barbasol was selling in the early 1990s. in the movie, the gadget dispenses actual shaving cream and has a cold interior to mimic the cryo chamber at jurassic park. this prop lacks both features, which will probably make it easier for collectors to maintain .
director and costume designer geoffrey holder took home two tony awards for his work on the production. holder was the first african american man to be nominated and win the tony awards for director of a musical and costume designer. the collection has seven costumes from the 1975 broadway show worn by the original cast, part of a much larger donation from the black fashion museum, which was gifted in its entirety to nmaahc in 2007 .
'' they overexpanded, especially given the climate of absolute boredom that has afflicted the electronics industry at this moment,'' said kurt barnard, president of barnard' s retail trend report.'' no new products are likely to come down the pike to sufficiently sweep the public into the stores.''
jumpman, jumpman, jumpman them boys up to something... drake is looked at as one of the biggest superstars today. from his music to his fashion, to his latest dance moves in the hotline bling video. but what he' s making waves in now lately is the shoe game. drake' s recent collab with jordan has produced the beautiful 4 shoes above. these shoes are ridiculously hard to get your hands on because of how big and exclusive drake is. the shoes have been sold exclusively at ovo pop ups at random times and are on the top of the list for every sneakerhead. the hype surrounding the shoe and the impact the october' s very own brand has nowadays makes drizzy one of the most important people in sneaker culture .
matheson' s script stated that the villainous, unnamed truck driver would never be seen besides the insert shots of his arms and boots. (weirdly enough, matheson’s novella actually names the driver: “keller, ” matheson’s own spin on the word killer. )
weaver drove more than 2000 miles while shooting his scenes, and did many of the stunts himself, including the dangerous phone booth scene at the
snakerama
gas station in a single take .
mr. brandt' s mother, too, was roped into the struggling venture. to help ene group get $ 7 million in bank loans, mr. brandt pledged the florida condo she lived in as collateral. when $ 6 million of the loans defaulted, the bank warned mr. brandt it would seize the property .
he and stephen invested in a company called tecnozone international, which sold a device that claimed to block radiation from cellphones and tv screens by creating
a zone of biocompatibility between you and your electronic devices .
the federal trade commission said the claim was false and in 2003 ordered the jemal brothers and another partner to pay $ 85, 000. the brothers didn' t contest the ftc case at the time and wouldn' t comment on the matter .
instead, he talked to the fbi. his mother paid off the bank with her own money so she could keep her condo .
after mr. jemal entered his guilty plea, the judge left the room and the prosecutors and defense lawyers rose from their tables. mr. jemal, who had been standing throughout the hearing, sat down in his chair, tissues in hand, and wept .
look for the 4 - digit code printed on the front of your card just above and to the right of your main credit card number. this 4 - digit code is your card security code .
activist abbie hoffman co - founded the radical youth independent party (the “yippies”) with jerry rubin in 1967. both men were defendants in the chicago seven trial a year later after protesting at the democratic national convention. in 1971 hoffman published a counterculture treatise on methods to overthrow the government and defeat big business entitled steal this book. despite hoffman’s aversion to the pig empire, his book became a bestseller, essentially making him a member of the establishment he so despised .
“we found out that the challenge isn’t really about the tool. the challenge is that there are not too many people who are able to explain knowledge in such a short period of time, ” yang says. “the five minutes was very challenging for most people. ”
spielberg was given just $ 400, 000 and 10 days to shoot duel, but the schedule ballooned into a full 13 days to shoot the entire movie after the rookie director fell behind. to save time in shooting the high - speed chases on location in california' s soledad canyon, spielberg strategically set up multiple cameras along a single stretch of road to capture the shots needed for multiple scenes in one take. he had the camera turned 180 degrees and the cars driven in the opposite direction to get multiple shots for additional scenes .
after discussing whether their situation is more like quantum leap — a show “from the coke - fueled era of' 80s television, ” as dee puts it — or rob schneider’s the hot chick, the gang decides they “don’t know the rules” of being black. so the gang sings that they will find out “the rules when you’ve just turned black and you can’t switch back, ” and fix the situation before heading off into philadelphia to try and become their old, white selves .
and when you' re down on the bottom there' s nothing else / but to shout to the top ...
according to yang, the company has enough cash in the bank to experiment with different ways of making money, while still keeping the user experience positive. current ideas include running ads in feeds or sponsored content .
spielberg also enlisted 50 - year stunt veteran carey loftin as his stunt coordinator. loftin, who played the driver, also designed the legendary car chase sequences in vanishing point, bullitt, and the french connection .
, titled
never give a trucker an even break .
the recycled footage was completely legal since the show was also produced by universal .
of working with the rookie director, the veteran weaver later said, “i gave him the benefit of the doubt. i said, ‘there’s no reason for me to judge him because of his age. let’s see what he does. ’ and he did extremely well... i really think it’s one of the most creative jobs he’s ever done. ”
it' s a no brainer that kanye is the biggest rapper to influence sneakers. when kanye made the switch from nike to adidas earlier this year, we knew that fire sneakers were coming. kanye' s
red octobers
are still one of the rarest sneakers known to date, and even kanye' s newest sneakers with adidas are becoming hard to fine. the
adidas yeezy boosts
are arguably the hottest sneaker in the game right now and are extremely rare to find. the 750, which is a gray, high - top shoe was the first from west. the 350 which is a low - style runner in gray and black has since followed along with the 950 which almost looks like a winter boot. these shoes, the 350s, in particular, have been the hottest sneaker of the year and are still coming. according to west, and adidas, two new colors of the 350 are coming out on november 14th, in all white and tan. kanye' s back at it again, and he' s sweeping the sneaker game by force .
at that point, the episode turns into a musical, with charlie sing - demanding “one good reason” why the gang became a different race overnight .
what’s for sale is a share of the copyright revenue stream for “see you again, ” which also features charlie puth. the song spent a dozen weeks at no. 1 on billboard’s hot 100 pop chart in 2015 after appearing in the soundtrack for the movie “furious 7”; it’s a tribute to paul walker, the actor who died in a car wreck during filming .
i deeply regret and am ashamed of my conduct ,
he told u. s. district judge valerie caproni. asked by the judge if he knew he was breaking the law when he filed the phony documents to the bank, mr. jemal replied ,
yes, i did .
old souls are young at heart. you want things to follow through but there are times you can' t see your goals across the horizon. the best way to face uncertainty is to know that, as kurt vonnegut has said ,
nothing means anything .
nothing may be on the horizon, but you' ll sail your ship with the hope on the wind .
jurassic park (1993) is known for having some incredible props. the fake shaving cream can dennis nedry uses to smuggle dinosaur dna out of the cold storage unit may not be as iconic as the life - sized t. rex, but it still plays a colossal role in the film. now, io9 reports that an official replica of the prop can soon be yours .
i' ve got bats in the belfry / i' m in the kitchen boiling society... / we all see what we want
“we went to their wedding. you should have heard him talking about chappaquiddick—trying to blame the whole thing on bad directions. ” —jerry, “the baby shower”
with filmmaker edgar wright, spielberg explained, “ [ producer ] george eckstein told me after the network saw it, ‘well, we’re going back to the desert, they want to push the truck off the cliff again and blow it up again.' i told george why that was such a terrible idea. i’d worked so hard to give the truck a long and painful death and i thought that’s what the audience wanted out of the resolution. i said, ‘if the network does force you to blow the truck up again, you get another director to do it because i’m not going to do it.' george fought for me, and for himself because he agreed with me. ”
along with registering 20. 9 million sales and track - equivalent streams, the “see you again” video has amassed more than 3 billion views on youtube and recently surpassed “gangnam style” as the most viewed youtube video ever (though the feat was short - lived as “despacito” broke the 3 billion view mark friday) .
frank goes off the rails, singing to dee that he’s going to say words he hasn’t “had the chance to say before” now that he is black, like “homie, ” “bro, ” and “my man. ” dee draws the line when frank says he’s also going to say the n - word, which frank laments because “it’s probably the only chance i’ve got to say it. ”
the seller, who is remaining anonymous, was one of the track’s background singers, according to a news release. the auction is for 100 percent of the seller’s interest in domestic sound recording performance royalties and 30 percent of international royalties. while there is no guarantee of future performance, that share of “see you again” came to $ 11, 732 in payments over the last 12 months .
bad meat: why the nathan' s hot - dog eating ...
the next episode of always sunny, “ the gang goes to a water park, ” airs jan. 11 at 10 p. m. on fxx .
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in fact, its crowdfunding campaign sold off the first batch of lisk coins .
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“that’s not too bad. it’s not like a sunny von bülow coma. the doctor said he should snap out of it anytime. ” —jerry, “the suicide”
“if you could imagine uglier and fatter version of shirley booth. remember shirley booth from hazel? really embarrassing, ‘cause you know i had the only mother in the whole neighborhood who was worse looking than hazel. ” —george, “the subway”
to read, and she said,' don' t look at the girls, read the short story. it is right up your alley,' ”
3. dennis weaver’s work with orson welles got him the lead in duel .
mr. brandt fell so hard for mr. jemal’s sales pitch that he even pledged his mother’s florida condominium as collateral for the $ 7 million in loans that provided the basis for the government’s fraud case. after the loans defaulted, mr. brandt’s mother had to pay the lender, israel discount bank, to keep her home. mr. jemal filed for personal bankruptcy a second time in 2011 .
the jemals grew up in a small, two - bedroom apartment in a jewish enclave in south brooklyn made up largely of syrian immigrants. there were six boys and two girls in the jemal household. four of the sons followed in the footsteps of their father, norman, who ran a discount retailer in lower manhattan .
for instance, if a developer builds an app that lets coffee shops sell cups of coffee by subscription, every time a customer uses the app and money changes hands, the developer takes a tiny fraction of the lisk coin that changes hands .
“yeah, they should' ve taken care of castro when they had the chance. like we did in guatemala in ’53” —alton benes, elaine’s father, “the jacket”
earlier this year, the law caught up with mr. jemal. the u. s. attorney' s office in manhattan charged the 60 - year - old with bank fraud and money laundering. a court hearing is scheduled for may 12 .
the jemal brothers struggle to re - create their days of discount - chain glory .
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everyone will try to turn you into a product for their self - interest, and if you' re not careful, you can end up doing the same. take this advice from
the little prince
:
it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye .
much like “play it again, sam”, the oft - repeated line “a dingo ate my baby” is a frequent movie misquotation. it was originally attributed to lindy chamberlain, whose two - month - old daughter azaria was snatched from her tent by a wild dog while the family was camping at australia’s ayers rock. at the time of the 1980 incident, witnesses heard chamberlain call out either “that dog’s got my baby! ” or “my god, a dingo has got my baby! ” which didn' t stop investigators from believing it was chamberlain herself who murdered her child (she was convicted of the crime, but her sentence was overturned eight years later when new evidence proved the veracity of her claims). in the 1988 film adaptation of the incident, a cry in the dark, meryl streep cried out, “the dingo took my baby! ”
nobody beats the wiz was a chain of electronic stores in the northeastern united states , located primarily in new york , pennsylvania and new jersey . some locations were in canada as well . 
nobody beats the wiz was a chain of electronic stores in the northeastern united states, located primarily in new york, pennsylvania and new jersey. some locations were in canada as well.
nobody beats the wiz was a chain of electronic stores in the northeastern united states, located primarily in new york, pennsylvania and new jersey. some locations were in canada as well.