"Lulu (singer) Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She is internationally known, but especially by UK audiences in the 1960s. Later in her career she had hits internationally with ""To Sir with Love"" from the 1967 film of the same name and with the title song to the 1974 James Bond film ""The Man with the Golden Gun"". In European countries, she is also widely known for her Eurovision Song Contest 1969 winning entry ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"", and in the UK for her 1964 hit ""Shout"", which was performed at the closing"
"Lulu's Back In Town Lulu’s Back in Town is a popular song written in 1935 by Al Dubin (Text) and Harry Warren (Music). ""Lulu’s Back in Town"" was performed in the 1935 film ""Broadway Gondolier"", directed by Lloyd Bacon, where it was sung by Dick Powell and the Mills Brothers. The arrangement was by George Roumanis. It was also used as the title song of the Warner Brothers animated short ""Buddy the Gee Man"". The chorus runs One line has a reference to Cole Porter: This refers to the macabre Cole Porter song ""Miss Otis Regrets"". ""Lulu’s Back in Town"""
"Blackboard Jungle Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an interracial inner-city school, based on the novel ""The Blackboard Jungle"" by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack and for the unusual breakout role of a black cast member, future Oscar winner and star Sidney Poitier as a rebellious, yet musically talented student. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically,"
"film and sang the title song, with which she had a major hit in the United States, reaching #1. ""To Sir With Love"" became the best-selling single of 1967 in the United States, selling well in excess of 1,000,000 copies; it was awarded a gold disc, and was ranked by ""Billboard"" magazine as the #1 song of the year. In the UK, ""To Sir With Love"" was released on the B-side of ""Let's Pretend"", a #11 hit. In the late 1960s, Lulu's pop career in the UK thrived and she had several television series of her own. Her first BBC"
"Lulu says, she acquired from a divorce. They embark on a bizarre adventure, including crashing and abandoning the car, stealing from a liquor store and leaving a diner without paying. Believing Charlie to be married, Lulu discloses that her real name is Audrey, and takes him to visit her mother, Peaches. Audrey now adopts a different persona, becoming a demure blonde. Coming to accept Audrey's free-wheeling lifestyle, Charlie realizes he is falling in love with her. The relationship (and movie) takes a dark turn when her violent ex-convict husband, Ray Sinclair (Ray Liotta), shows up at a high school reunion;"
"performed the song on ""Sanford and Son"" in the episode, ""Brother, Can You Spare an Act?"". Rachel York, as the character of Circe, sung a cover of ""Lulu's Back In Town"" in the fifth episode of ""Justice league Unlimited"". Lulu's Back In Town Lulu’s Back in Town is a popular song written in 1935 by Al Dubin (Text) and Harry Warren (Music). ""Lulu’s Back in Town"" was performed in the 1935 film ""Broadway Gondolier"", directed by Lloyd Bacon, where it was sung by Dick Powell and the Mills Brothers. The arrangement was by George Roumanis. It was also used as"
"Inside Daisy Clover Inside Daisy Clover is a 1965 American drama film based on Gavin Lambert's 1963 novel of the same name, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Natalie Wood. It follows an eponymous tomboy who becomes a Hollywood actress and singer. In 1936 Santa Monica, Daisy Clover is a tomboy, living with her eccentric mother Lucile, in a ramshackle trailer. Wishing to become an actress, Daisy submits a recorded song to studio owner Raymond Swan. Swan puts her under contract for five years. Raymond's wife Melora asks Daisy to deal with her job. Lucile is sent to the hospital"
"Paris Blues Paris Blues is a 1961 American drama film made on location in Paris, starring Sidney Poitier as expatriate jazz saxophonist Eddie Cook, and Paul Newman as trombone-playing Ram Bowen. The two men romance two vacationing American tourists, Connie Lampson (Diahann Carroll) and Lillian Corning (Joanne Woodward) respectively. The film also deals with American racism of the time contrasted with Paris's open acceptance of black people. The film was based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Harold Flender. The film also features trumpeter Louis Armstrong (as Wild Man Moore) and jazz pianist Aaron Bridgers; both play"
"released on DVD in the United States on September 21, 1999. In April 2006, the original music soundtrack was released on CD on the Blue Note label (4953172). Lulu on the Bridge Lulu on the Bridge is a 1998 American romantic-mystery drama film written and directed by author Paul Auster and starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Willem Dafoe. The film is about a jazz saxophone player whose life is transformed after being shot. After discovering a mysterious stone, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful aspiring actress, but their happiness is cut short by a series of"
"Back to School Back to School is a 1986 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Terry Farrell, William Zabka, Ned Beatty, Sam Kinison, Paxton Whitehead and Robert Downey Jr. It was directed by Alan Metter. The plot centers on a wealthy but uneducated father (Dangerfield) who goes to college to show solidarity with his discouraged son Jason (Gordon) and learns that he cannot buy an education or happiness. Author Kurt Vonnegut has a cameo as himself, as does the band Oingo Boingo, whose frontman Danny Elfman composed the score for the film. The University"
"attended these parties, known to use wit or wisecracks to punctuate anecdotes and gossip, began using references to ""Miss Otis"" as a punchline. Porter incorporated the tale of ""Miss Otis Regrets"" into ""Hi Diddle Diddle"" later that year. “Miss Otis” entered the lexicon of American pop culture, its enormous popularity and commercial success indicated when, a year later, Al Dubin and Harry Warren included an homage to Miss Otis in their song ""Lulu's Back In Town"", written for the 1935 film ""Broadway Gondolier"". A man sings about getting ready for a date with Lulu, focusing all his attention on this"
"Rini Bell Honorine Bell (born March 21, 1981) is an American actress. Bell was born in Rome, Italy and spent most of her childhood in Europe before her family relocated to the United States where she grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Louise S. McGehee school. She is named after the French Saint Honorine. Bell has been in movies such as ""Ghost World"", ""The Terminal"", ""Bring It On"", ""Road Trip"", Baja Beach Bums, and ""Jarhead"". She had a recurring role on ""Gilmore Girls"" playing Lulu, a local third grade teacher at the Stars Hollow Elementary School and girlfriend"
"Lulu — topped the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""Ode to Billie Joe"" was also a hit on the Hot Country Singles chart during 1967. ""To Sir with Love"" was the #1 song of the year. Three songs in this volume — ""Love is Blue"" by Paul Mauriat, ""Honey"" by Bobby Goldsboro and ""Harper Valley PTA"" by Jeannie C. Riley — topped the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. In addition, ""Honey"" and ""Harper Valley PTA"" both reached number one on the Hot Country Singles chart. Three songs in this volume — ""Love Theme from ""Romeo and Juliet"""" by Henry Mancini, ""In the Year 2525"
"in his shoulder. Kelly was eight years old when he had his first girlfriend. They would hold hands and eat make-believe meals inside their playhouse built from cardboard, where they ""vowed to be boyfriend and girlfriend forever."" Their last play date turned tragic when, after fighting with some older children over a play area by a creek, Lulu was pushed into the water. A fast-moving current swept her away while she screamed Kelly's name. Shortly after, she was found dead downstream. Kelly calls Lulu his very first musical inspiration. Kelly entered Kenwood Academy in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood in the"
"Duke Ellington except as indicated"" Paris Blues Paris Blues is a 1961 American drama film made on location in Paris, starring Sidney Poitier as expatriate jazz saxophonist Eddie Cook, and Paul Newman as trombone-playing Ram Bowen. The two men romance two vacationing American tourists, Connie Lampson (Diahann Carroll) and Lillian Corning (Joanne Woodward) respectively. The film also deals with American racism of the time contrasted with Paris's open acceptance of black people. The film was based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Harold Flender. The film also features trumpeter Louis Armstrong (as Wild Man Moore) and jazz"
"For Love of Ivy For Love of Ivy is a 1968 romantic comedy film directed by Daniel Mann. The film stars Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters and Carroll O'Connor. The story was written by Sidney Poitier with screenwriter Robert Alan Arthur. The musical score was composed by Quincy Jones. The theme song ""For Love of Ivy"", written by Quincy Jones and Bob Russell, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The film received Golden Globe supporting acting nominations for Beau Bridges and Abbey Lincoln. Ivy Moore, an African-American maid, age 26, has"
"Lulu on the Bridge Lulu on the Bridge is a 1998 American romantic-mystery drama film written and directed by author Paul Auster and starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Willem Dafoe. The film is about a jazz saxophone player whose life is transformed after being shot. After discovering a mysterious stone, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful aspiring actress, but their happiness is cut short by a series of strange, dreamlike events. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Jazz saxophone player Izzy Maurer (Harvey Keitel) is shot"
"refigures the opera's themes in a torrent of images featuring Ms. Hauman as Lulu. With an ever-inventive approach to color and symbol, Klahr distills the title character's moral predicament, along with a great many of German Expressionism’s characteristic motifs, in the span of a pop song. The film received many awards and accolades from several international film festivals after its debut in 1996. Constance Hauman Constance Hauman (born 1961) is a soprano. She attended Northwestern University. Constance Hauman is credited with having the only live recording of Alban Berg's ""Lulu"" (Chandos) in the title role; recorded in Copenhagen 1996 at"
"on December 17, 1996, by TVT Records. The soundtrack features 11 songs—most of which appeared in various scenes in the film—plus a piece from the film's score, ""Trouble In Woodsboro""/""Sidney's Lament"", by Beltrami. The Alice Cooper version of ""School's Out"" appeared in the film following the closure of Woodsboro high school, but it was replaced with a cover version of the song by The Last Hard Men on the album. An acoustic cover of Blue Öyster Cult's ""Don't Fear the Reaper"", performed by Gus Black, plays softly in the background while Sidney and Billy discuss their relationship. Analyst Jeff Smith"
"""Rolling in the Deep"" and ""Isn't She Lovely"". Six songs were covered, all of which were released as singles and charted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. As the McKinley High junior prom approaches, Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) and Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) are front-runners to be crowned prom king and queen. Contender Noah ""Puck"" Puckerman (Mark Salling) learns that his relationship with Lauren Zizes (Ashley Fink) has damaged his bad boy reputation, and resolves to restore it by spiking the prom punch bowl. Meanwhile, Dave Karofsky (Max Adler) and Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera) intensify their election efforts with their anti-bullying"
"the principal song in the movie. It was projected in the Sundance Festival and in the Gijón Film Festival. Lulu and Jimi Lulu and Jimi is a 2009 drama film directed by Oskar Roehler. It is about the relationship between Lulu, a rich German girl and Jimi, a black man, happened in the German 50's. Lulu, a well-off German girl, falls in love with Jimi, the owner of a bumper cars stall. The problem is that he is black and her family doesn't approve of him, especially her mother (Katrin Sass). Lulu doesn't want the ridiculous boy her mother has"
"A Patch of Blue A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between a black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and a blind white female teenager (played by Elizabeth Hartman), and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America. Made in 1965 against the backdrop of the growing civil rights movement, the film explores racism from the perspective of ""love is blind."" Shelley Winters won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her second win for the award, following her victory in 1959"
"released as a single by ABC Records. All compositions by Quincy Jones While it isn't a race movie, or primarily about race, Jack Parks (Sidney Poitier) enjoys playing on the Austin children's racial stereotypes. The film was released on Region 1 DVD by MGM Home Video January 20, 2004. For Love of Ivy For Love of Ivy is a 1968 romantic comedy film directed by Daniel Mann. The film stars Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters and Carroll O'Connor. The story was written by Sidney Poitier with screenwriter Robert Alan Arthur. The musical score was composed"
"de los Años 60;"" by Dionne Warwick for the album ""The Windows of the World"" (1967); by Scott Walker on his début solo album ""Scott"" (1967); and by Barbra Streisand on ""The Movie Album"" (2003). Wood's vocal recordings, completed for other songs, were unused and unheard on commercial recordings until the ""Film Score Monthly"" was released in April 2009. Inside Daisy Clover Inside Daisy Clover is a 1965 American drama film based on Gavin Lambert's 1963 novel of the same name, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Natalie Wood. It follows an eponymous tomboy who becomes a Hollywood actress and"
"The Children's Hour (film) The Children's Hour (released as The Loudest Whisper in the United Kingdom) is a 1961 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the 1934 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman. The film stars Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner. Former college classmates Martha Dobie (Shirley MacLaine) and Karen Wright (Audrey Hepburn) open a private school for girls. Martha's Aunt Lily (Miriam Hopkins), an aging actress, lives and teaches elocution at the school. After an engagement of two years to Joe Cardin (James Garner), a"
"Class of 1984 Class of 1984 is a 1982 Canadian-American action thriller crime film directed by Mark L. Lester and co-written by Tom Holland and John Saxton based on a story by Holland. The film stars Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross (who also served as co-executive producer), Timothy Van Patten, Lisa Langlois, Stefan Arngrim, Michael J. Fox (credited as Michael Fox in an early role shortly before his breakthrough on the TV series ""Family Ties""), and Roddy McDowall. The film used the punk look and image that was becoming part of popular culture in the early 1980s. The theme song,"
"its initial summer. A song by the band Prozzak, ""Get a Clue"", appeared in the film and the music video was shown on Disney Channel at the time of its release. The name of the band was changed to ""Simon and Milo"", the characters depicted in the music video so their band name would not be associated with the drugs. Get a Clue Get a Clue is a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Lindsay Lohan as Lexy Gold, a teenage high school student who investigates a mystery after one of her teachers goes missing. The movie stars Bug Hall"
"Kirk, Deborah Walley, Bobbi Shaw, Jesse White, Aron Kincaid, Quinn O'Hara and Boris Karloff. Pop singer Nancy Sinatra, who was on the rise at the time just before the film was released, has a supporting role and performs one song written for the film; and The Bobby Fuller Four appear as themselves and sing two songs. Claudia Martin, daughter of Dean Martin, co-stars in the film as Lulu. The briefly famous Italian starlet Piccola Pupa appears as herself and sings a song. The ghost of recently dead Mr. Hiram Stokeley (Boris Karloff) finds that he has 24 hours to perform"
"Johnny Hallyday, Brian Setzer, Sha Na Na, Fairport Convention on the album """", Mike Smith, Alan Mills, and Siggi Fassl in 2011. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have performed the song live in concert in the late 1970s. High School Confidential (Jerry Lee Lewis song) ""High School Confidential"" is a 1958 song written by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ron Hargrave (and copyrighted in both their names on January 28, 1958) as the title song of the MGM movie of the same name directed by Jack Arnold. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded the song at the Sun Studio in February"
"Joan Sims, who was the first to spot the incident, yelled, ""Charlie, Charlie, your mother's bag is on fire!"". Charles Hawtrey poured his cup of tea into the bag, snapped it shut, and carried on chatting as if nothing had happened. Interiors: Exteriors: The name of the school was later alluded to by Morrissey in the song ""Late Night, Maudlin Street"". Carry On Teacher Carry On Teacher is the third in the series of ""Carry On"" films, with 31 entries. It was released at the Plaza Cinema in London on 3 September 1959. It features Ted Ray in his only"
"Big Adventure"" (both re-recordings made in London) on CD. Original film recordings were issued in 2010 on ""The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box"". Back to School Back to School is a 1986 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Terry Farrell, William Zabka, Ned Beatty, Sam Kinison, Paxton Whitehead and Robert Downey Jr. It was directed by Alan Metter. The plot centers on a wealthy but uneducated father (Dangerfield) who goes to college to show solidarity with his discouraged son Jason (Gordon) and learns that he cannot buy an education or"
"The Group (film) The Group is a 1966 ensemble film directed by Sidney Lumet based on the novel of the same name by Mary McCarthy about the lives a group of eight female graduates from a Vassar-like college South Tower from 1933 to 1940. The cast of this social satire includes Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, and Joanna Pettet. The film also features small roles for Hal Holbrook, Carrie Nye, James Broderick, Larry Hagman and Richard Mulligan. For its time, the film touched on controversial topics, such as free love, contraception, abortion, lesbianism,"
"is a much less satisfying one, but is more typical and would have been a bit more commercially acceptable and far less challenging to the audiences of the day. In this ending, Ninian shows up in the nick of time just as Lulu decides to go off on her own life to work and live elsewhere. He asks her forgiveness and she agrees saying ""I forgave you in Savannah, Georgia."" In 1921 the work was adapted for a silent film of the same name by Clara Beranger, directed by William C. deMille, starring Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen"