Solveig Sandnes is a Danish singer and songwriter. She is a former member of the band Lovebites.
She is best known for her song "Marie", from her debut album Analog. It was an international hit, mostly on the Japanese and Southeast Asian pop charts during the summer of 1999. The song went to No. 1 in Japan. The song was written about her sister and has a catchy radio melody. In 2000, Sandnes released the follow up to Analog, Vagabond Squaw, which was released in Japan under Victor Entertainment.
Music
Her music can be described as Swede-pop, akin to the catchy melodic pop of The Cardigans. Solveig frequently collaborates with veteran engineer Tore Johansson.
Music video
Her music video for the song, "Marie", sees her mistaking someone else's house as her sister's. Controversial in its appeal, she appears in a bikini and has a brief shower scene that shows slight nudity.
Website
http://www.myspace.com/solveigsandnes
She is best known for her song "Marie", from her debut album Analog. It was an international hit, mostly on the Japanese and Southeast Asian pop charts during the summer of 1999. The song went to No. 1 in Japan. The song was written about her sister and has a catchy radio melody. In 2000, Sandnes released the follow up to Analog, Vagabond Squaw, which was released in Japan under Victor Entertainment.
Music
Her music can be described as Swede-pop, akin to the catchy melodic pop of The Cardigans. Solveig frequently collaborates with veteran engineer Tore Johansson.
Music video
Her music video for the song, "Marie", sees her mistaking someone else's house as her sister's. Controversial in its appeal, she appears in a bikini and has a brief shower scene that shows slight nudity.
Website
http://www.myspace.com/solveigsandnes
Norma Starkey is a fictional character in the Channel 4 drama Shameless and is played by Dystin Johnson. Norma is a long-distance lorry driver and was the women for whom Monica Gallagher left Frank Gallagher, after admitting that she was a lesbian. Monica has theoretically returned to Frank, but is still periodically having sex with Norma, who is living in the Gallaghers' old Dormobile. Carl Gallagher seems to have developed a crush on Norma.
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The Jazz Singer DVD is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on
October 16, 2007. It contains not only The Jazz Singer, the 1927 Al Jolson film hailed as the first talkie motion picture, but it is a collection of a wide variety of short subjects from the early days of talking pictures, as well as documentaries.
Disc 1
Disc 1 contains the feature film The Jazz Singer, restored and remastered. It includes the rarely seen intro and outro music. The movie includes an optional commentary track with Ron Hutchinson, founder of the Vitaphone Project and Nighthawks Orchestra bandleader Vince Giordano.
There are four vintage shorts featuring Al Jolson:
*A Plantation Act
*
*
*
There is a cartoon, I Love to Singa, which features a young jazz-singing Owl Jolson
There is an audio recording the Lux Radio Theatre presentation of the Jazz Singer, broadcast June 2, 1947, also starring Al Jolson.
And there is a collection of trailers from a number of Al Jolson movies:
*The Jazz Singer
*The Singing Fool
*Mammy
*Wonder Bar
*
*
Disc 2
Disc 2 includes a new feature-length documentary: with interviews with Leonard Maltin and many others.
Then there are what survives of the sound excerpts from 1929's Gold Diggers of Broadway.
Then there an assortment of other shorts:
*The Voice from the Screen a 1926 demonstration of the new invention of Vitaphone.
*, a Max Fleischer cartoon demonstrating how sound is put onto film.
And there are three shorts from the 1940's and 50's that give retrospectives on sound films:
*
*
*
Disc 3
Disc 3 features over 4 hours of rare and historic Vitaphone Shorts from 1926 through 1936. Many include long-forgotten vaudeville performers from the late 1920's.
*Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville Act:
*
*Van and Schenck:
*Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with the Music Boxes
*
*
*
*
*:
*Stoll, Flynn & Company:
*:
*The Foy Family in
*
*Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors
*
* Directed by
*Trixie Friganza in
*
*
*
*
*Baby Rose Marie, The Child Wonder
*Burns & Allen in
*Joe Frisco in
Extras
The DVD collection includes a lot of collectables and readables, including:
*a 16-page book with vintage document reproductions and DVD features guide
*10 behind-the-scenes photo cards
*a 12-page Vitaphone program reproduction, detailing what Vitaphone is, and who were the important figures behind its development.
*a reproduction of a 20-page souvenir program
*a reproduction of a 4-page theater herald
*a reproduction of a Western Union telegram from Al Jolson to Jack Warner
October 16, 2007. It contains not only The Jazz Singer, the 1927 Al Jolson film hailed as the first talkie motion picture, but it is a collection of a wide variety of short subjects from the early days of talking pictures, as well as documentaries.
Disc 1
Disc 1 contains the feature film The Jazz Singer, restored and remastered. It includes the rarely seen intro and outro music. The movie includes an optional commentary track with Ron Hutchinson, founder of the Vitaphone Project and Nighthawks Orchestra bandleader Vince Giordano.
There are four vintage shorts featuring Al Jolson:
*A Plantation Act
*
*
*
There is a cartoon, I Love to Singa, which features a young jazz-singing Owl Jolson
There is an audio recording the Lux Radio Theatre presentation of the Jazz Singer, broadcast June 2, 1947, also starring Al Jolson.
And there is a collection of trailers from a number of Al Jolson movies:
*The Jazz Singer
*The Singing Fool
*Mammy
*Wonder Bar
*
*
Disc 2
Disc 2 includes a new feature-length documentary: with interviews with Leonard Maltin and many others.
Then there are what survives of the sound excerpts from 1929's Gold Diggers of Broadway.
Then there an assortment of other shorts:
*The Voice from the Screen a 1926 demonstration of the new invention of Vitaphone.
*, a Max Fleischer cartoon demonstrating how sound is put onto film.
And there are three shorts from the 1940's and 50's that give retrospectives on sound films:
*
*
*
Disc 3
Disc 3 features over 4 hours of rare and historic Vitaphone Shorts from 1926 through 1936. Many include long-forgotten vaudeville performers from the late 1920's.
*Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville Act:
*
*Van and Schenck:
*Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with the Music Boxes
*
*
*
*
*:
*Stoll, Flynn & Company:
*:
*The Foy Family in
*
*Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors
*
* Directed by
*Trixie Friganza in
*
*
*
*
*Baby Rose Marie, The Child Wonder
*Burns & Allen in
*Joe Frisco in
Extras
The DVD collection includes a lot of collectables and readables, including:
*a 16-page book with vintage document reproductions and DVD features guide
*10 behind-the-scenes photo cards
*a 12-page Vitaphone program reproduction, detailing what Vitaphone is, and who were the important figures behind its development.
*a reproduction of a 20-page souvenir program
*a reproduction of a 4-page theater herald
*a reproduction of a Western Union telegram from Al Jolson to Jack Warner
Manny Atutahi was a fictional character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.
He was the nephew of Dr. Hone Ropata, a doctor at the Shortland Street medical centre. His uncle, Dr. Ropata, was accused of murdering one of his Manny's friends in 1994 and was charged with murder. At the trial he was found not guilty.
He was portrayed by Albert Belz from 1995 - 1996.
Atutahi, Manny
He was the nephew of Dr. Hone Ropata, a doctor at the Shortland Street medical centre. His uncle, Dr. Ropata, was accused of murdering one of his Manny's friends in 1994 and was charged with murder. At the trial he was found not guilty.
He was portrayed by Albert Belz from 1995 - 1996.
Atutahi, Manny