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Edward (Eddie) Griffin (born July 15, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for portraying Eddie Sherman on the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie and the title character in the 2002 comedy film Undercover Brother. Early lifeGriffin was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and was raised by his single mother, Doris Thomas, a phone company operator. After attending high school in Kansas City, he enrolled as a biological engineering major at Kansas State University, but left after three months. CareerGriffin has starred in films such as The Meteor Man (1993), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999),Double Take (2001), Undercover Brother (2002), John Q (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) and Norbit (2007).

In 2007, he starred in Urban Justice, a thriller set in New Mexico. He also starred in the UPN television series Malcolm & Eddie (1996–2000).Griffin was ranked at number 62 on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.

The original “Power Pros” visual style, featuring cartoon versions of MLB players, recreates your favorite stars in a uniquely humorous manner. Easy pick-up-and-play pitching and batting mechanics create a fun experience for both novices and gamers. Take your best shot at several fun game modes, including Matchup, Playoffs and Home Run. Oct 10, 2014  MLB Power Pros 2008 is fantastic. Don't let the 'kiddie' graphics fool you. Beneath the veneer of playing with animated caricatures of MLB players (which my wife calls my 'little league game') lies a surprisingly deep baseball game. It's a pleasing blend of arcade and sim elements. The controls are logical although they take some practice to.

In 2011 Comedy Central released You Can Tell ‘Em I Said It on DVD. It was 82 minutes of unedited and uncensored content.Griffin performed on two tracks from Dr. Dre’s 1999 album, 2001, and the intro track from The D.O.C.’s 1996 album Helter Skelter. He also has appeared on commercials for Miller Beer’s Man Laws. He is well known for his comedic routine of imitating Michael Jackson on crack cocaine. He also made an appearance on Chappelle’s Show in the skit “World Series of Dice” as Grits n’ Gravy.

Personal lifeGriffin has been married three times. He married his first wife, Carla, in 1983; he was 16 years old. They were together for 13 years before divorcing. He married his second wife, Rochelle, in 2002, but they have since divorced. On September 8, 2011, he married Nia Rivers.

However, they filed for divorce after one month of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. They were officially divorced six months later. He has nine children.In March 2007, Griffin participated in a charity race at Irwindale Speedway to promote the film Redline, using a Ferrari Enzo owned by Daniel Sadek. During a practice run, Griffin accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brake and lost control of the Enzo, crashing hard into a concrete barrier. He walked away unscathed, but the $1.5 million supercar was badly damaged.

Griffin later lashed out at reporters who claimed the crash was a publicity stunt. Barbara Randolph (5 May 1942 – 15 July 2002), also known as Barbara Ann Sanders, was an African American singer and actress who recorded for Motown Records in the 1960s. BiographyShe was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was adopted by the actress Lillian Randolph, who appeared in It’s a Wonderful Life and many other movies. Barbara’s show business career began – under the name Barbara Ann Sanders, having taken the name of Lillian’s second husband - when she was eight years old, playing the part of Tanya in Bright Road with Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge. In 1957, both she and her mother Lillian briefly joined Steve Gibson’s, vocal group, The Red Caps, as singers. However, regardless of common belief, Lillian Randolph and Steve Gibson were not sister and brother and he is, therefore, not Barbara’s uncle (although she may have affectionately referred to him as such). James “Jay” Price, a member of the Red Caps from 1952-8, says that, while Steve and Lillian jokingly called each other “sister” and “brother,” they weren’t related at all.

The story apparently started with a 31 December 1953 article in Jet Magazine that referred to Steve as Lillian’s brother. Always remember me young. It appeared in Major Robinson’s gossip column, which carried the most outrageous (and unverified) claims from press agents.

Most telling is that, in the 1910 United States Census, Lillian’s mother was about 50, far too old to have given birth to Steve Gibson on October 12, 1914. She also appeared in her mother’s and Gibson’s nightclub acts, using her mother’s maiden (and stage) name of Randolph in 1957 (and would appear with the Red Caps on many occasions in the 1960s).Barbara Randolph first recorded as a solo singer for RCA Records in 1960. In 1964 she joined The Platters, replacing singer Zola Taylor, but left after a year and an album (The New Soul of the Platters).

She also continued to work as an actress, taking the part of Dorothy in the 1967 movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn. In the same year, she signed with Motown Records, but only released two singles for the company on its subsidiary Soul label - “I Got a Feeling” / “You Got Me Hurtin’ All Over” (Soul 35038), followed a year later by a version of “Can I Get a Witness” (Soul 35050), using the same B-side. Neither record was commercially successful, but Randolph was sufficiently highly regarded to tour with Marvin Gaye as a replacement for Tammi Terrell after Tammi became ill. Randolph also toured with The Four Tops, Gladys Knight and the Pips and Hugh Masekela as part of the “Motown Sound” show in 1968. She was reportedly also considered as a replacement for Florence Ballard in 1967 for the Supremes, and Diana Ross in The Supremes in 1969. In 1969 and 1970 Randolph issued two singles on Lee Hazlewood’s LHI label: Woman To That Man and Miracle On 19th Street, but both never got beyond the status of promotional recordings. Randolph used the year 1970 for entertaining US forces in Vietnam, returning to paid performances the next year.She married Eddie Singleton, who had been married to Berry Gordy’s ex-wife, Raynoma Liles Gordy.

They opened a production company together, and Barbara Randolph retired from singing, except to re-record a version of “I Got A Feeling” for the Nightmare label in the UK in 1989. By that time, the track - and other recordings by Randolph during her brief recording career - had achieved considerable popularity in Britain on the Northern soul dance scene, and since the 1980s has been reissued on several compilation albums. A collection of her recordings, most of which dated from 1969 but had not been issued, was released by Spectrum Records in 2003.Barbara Randolph died from cancer in South Africa in 2002, at the age of 60. William Still (October 7, 1821 – July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, conductor on the Underground Railroad, businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist.

Before the American Civil War, Still was chairman of the Vigilance Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and directly aided fugitive slaves and kept records to help families reunite. After the war, he remained an important businessman and philanthropist, as well as used his meticulous records to write an account of the underground system and the experiences of many refugee slaves, entitled The Underground Railroad Records(1872).

FamilyWilliam Still was born October 7, 1821 (or November 1819), in Shamong Township, Burlington County, New Jersey to Sidney (later renamed Charity) and Levin Still. His parents had come to New Jersey separately. First, his father bought his freedom in 1798 from his master in Caroline County, Maryland on the Eastern Shore and moved north to New Jersey.His mother, Charity, escaped twice from Maryland.

The first time, she and four children were all recaptured and returned to slavery. A few months later, Charity escaped again, taking only her two younger daughters with her and reached her husband in New Jersey. Following her escape, Charity and Levin had 14 more children, of whom William was the youngest. Though these children were born in the free state of New Jersey, under Maryland and federal slave law, they were still legally slaves, as their mother was an escaped slave. According to New Jersey law, they were free.However, neither Charity nor Levin could free their older boys, who remained enslaved. And Peter Still were sold from Maryland to slave owners in Lexington, Kentucky. Later they were resold to planters in Alabama in the Deep South.

Died from a whipping while enslaved. Peter and most of his family escaped from slavery when he was about age 50, with the help of two brothers named Friedman, who operated mercantile establishments in Florence, Alabama, and Cincinnati, Ohio. They were the subject of a book published in 1856. Peter Still sought help at the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society to find his parents or other members of his birth family. Thus he met William Still, but had no idea they were related.

However, William listened to Peter’s story, and recognized the history his mother had told him many times. After learning that his older brother Levin was whipped to death for visiting his wife without permission, William shouted, “What if I told you I was your brother!” Later Peter and his mother were reunited after having been separated for 42 years.Another of William’s brothers was James Still. Born in New Jersey in 1812, James wanted to become a doctor but said he “was not the right color to enter where such knowledge was dispensed.” James studied herbs and plants and apprenticed himself to a white doctor to learn medicine. He became known as the “Black Doctor of the Pines”, as he lived and practiced in the Pine Barrens.

James’s son, James Thomas Still, completed his dream, graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1871.William’s other siblings included Levin, Jr.; Peter; James; Samuel; Mary, a teacher and missionary in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Mahala (who married Gabriel Thompson); and Kitturah, who moved to Pennsylvania. Marriage and childrenIn 1844, William Still moved from New Jersey to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1847, the year he was hired as a clerk for the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, Still married Letitia George. They had four children who survived infancy. Their oldest was Caroline Virginia Matilda Still (1848–1919), a pioneer female medical doctor. Caroline attended Oberlin College and the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia (much later known as the Medical College of Pennsylvania). She married Edward J.

Wyley and, after his death, the Reverend Matthew Anderson, longtime pastor of the Berean Presbyterian Church in North Philadelphia. She had an extensive private medical practice in Philadelphia and was also a community activist, teacher and leaders.William Wilberforce Still (1854–1932) graduated from Lincoln University and subsequently practiced law in Philadelphia.

Robert George Still (1861–1896) became a journalist and owned a print shop on Pine at 11th Street in central Philadelphia. Frances Ellen Still (1857–1943) became a kindergarten teacher (she was named after poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, who had lived with the Stills before her marriage). According to the 1900 U.S. Census, William W., his wife, and Frances Ellen all lived in the same household as the elderly William Still and his wife, confirming the custom that extended families lived together.

ActivismAbolitionismIn 1847, three years after settling in Philadelphia, Still began working as a clerk for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. When Philadelphia abolitionists organized a Vigilance Committee to directly aid escaped slaves who had reached the city, Still became its chairman. By the 1850s, Still was one of the leaders of Philadelphia’s African-American community.In 1855, he participated in the nationally covered rescue of Jane Johnson, a slave who sought help from the Society in gaining freedom while passing through Philadelphia with her master John Hill Wheeler, newly appointed US Minister to Nicaragua. Still and others liberated her and her two sons under Pennsylvania law, which held that slaves brought to the free state voluntarily by a slaveholder could choose freedom. Her master sued him and five other African Americans for assault and kidnapping in a high-profile case in August 1855. Jane Johnson returned to Philadelphia from New York and testified in court as to her independence in choosing freedom, winning acquittal for Still and four others, and reduced sentences for the last two.In 1859, Still challenged the segregation of the city’s public transit system, which had separate seating for whites and blacks. He kept lobbying and, in 1865, the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law to integrate streetcars across the state.Underground RailroadOften called “The Father of the Underground Railroad”, Still helped as many as 800 slaves escape to freedom.

He interviewed each person and kept careful records, including a brief biography and the destination for each, along with any alias adopted. He kept his records carefully hidden but knew the accounts would be critical in aiding the future reunion of family members who became separated under slavery, which he had learned when he aided his own brother Peter, whom he had never met before.Still worked with other Underground Railroad agents operating in the South, including in Virginia ports, nearby Delaware and Maryland, and in many counties in southern Pennsylvania. His network to freedom also included agents in New Jersey, New York, New England and Canada. Conductor Harriet Tubman traveled through his office with fellow passengers on several occasions during the 1850s. Still also forged a connection with the family of John Brown, and sheltered several of Brown’s associates fleeing the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.American Civil War and aftermathDuring American Civil War, Still operated the post exchange at Camp William Penn, the training camp for United States Colored Troops north of Philadelphia. He also opened a stove store and, in 1861 bought a coal yard and operated a coal delivery business, which continued after the war.In 1867, Still published A Brief Narrative of the Struggle for the Rights of Colored People of Philadelphia in the City Railway Cars.In 1872, Still published an account of the Underground Railroad, The Underground Railroad Records, based on the carefully recorded secret notes he had kept in diaries during those years.

His book includes his impressions of station masters such as Thomas Garrett, Daniel Gibbons and Abigail Goodwin. It went through three editions and in 1876 was displayed at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Historians have since used it to understand how the Underground Railroad worked; both Project Gutenberg and the Internet archive make the text freely available.Businessman and philanthropistAfter the war, Still continued as an active businessman, philanthropist and social activist in the Philadelphia metropolitan areas.In addition to the ongoing coal business, Still owned considerable real estate, including Liberty Hall, for some time the largest public hall in the US owned by a black man. He owned stock in the journal the Nation, was a member of Philadelphia’s Board of Trade, and financed and was officer of the Social and Civil Statistical Association of Philadelphia (which in part tracked freed people).Still also remained active in the Colored Conventions Movement, having attended national conventions including the New England Colored Citizens’ Convention of 1859, where Still advocated equal educational opportunities for all African Americans. He also advocated temperance. He was a member of the Freedmen’s Aid Union and Commission, an officer of the Philadelphia Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, and an elder in the Presbyterian church (where he established Sabbath Schools to promote literacy including among freed blacks).He had a strong interest in the welfare of black youth. He helped to establish an orphanage and the first YMCA for African Americans in Philadelphia.

In addition to continuing as member of the board for the Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home and the Home for the Destitute Colored Children, Still became a trustee at Storer College. Death, legacy and honorsWilliam Still died on July 14, 1902, survived by his wife Letitia and daughter Caroline, as well as grandchildren and other relatives. He was buried in Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, as would later be his wife and daughter.

Founded just a month before Still’s death, Eden Cemetery is now the nation’s oldest African-American owned cemetery, and on the National Register of Historic Places since 2010.DescendantsFamily members donated his papers, including personal papers 1865-1899, to the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University Library, where they remain accessible to researchers.Brothers Peter, James and William Still later moved with their families to Lawnside, New Jersey, a community developed and owned by African Americans in Camden County, New Jersey across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. To this day, their descendants have an annual family reunion every August. Notable members of the Still family include the composer William Grant Still, professional WNBA basketball player Valerie Still, professional NFL defensive end Art Still, and professional NFL defensive tackle Devon Still.National Underground Railroad NetworkIn 1997, Congress passed H.R. 1635, which President Bill Clinton signed into law, and which authorized the United States National Park Service to establish the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program to identify associated sites and popularize the Underground Railroad. This also affirmed Still’s national importance as a leading Underground Railroad agent in a major center of abolition.In popular culture. Actor Robert Hooks portrayed Still in A Woman Called Moses, the 1978 miniseries that is based upon the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

Actor Ron O'Neal portrayed a fictional version of Still in the 1985 miniseries, North and South. Stand by the River (2003), a musical based on Still’s life and rescue of Jane Johnson, was written and composed by Joanne and Mark Sutton-Smith. It has been produced in New York and Chicago, and at universities and other venues across the country. Actor Chris Chalk portrayed a fictional version of Still on the WGN America period drama TV series, Underground.

Etta Drucille Guyse, known as Sheila Guyse (July 14, 1925 – December 28, 2013), was a popular African-American singer, actress, and recording artist, performing on stage and screen during the 1940s and 1950s. Early lifeSheila Guyse was born on July 14, 1925, in Forest, Mississippi. She moved with her parents in 1945 to New York City, where she worked at a dime store on 125th Street, across from the Apollo Theater.Guyse first got her start in show business by performing in amateur shows, as was common among black performers. She made nightclub debut in 1945 at Club Zombie in Detroit. ComparisonsShe was often compared to Dorothy Dandridge and it has been said that some critics thought Guyse was a better actress than the more well-known Dandridge. It may be argued that if Sheila had been allowed the opportunity to make an impact in the Hollywood cinema, she would have been stiff competition for the more established actress.

Race filmsGuyse had a sultry “girl-next-door” appeal which she showcased in three independent all-Black films (so-called “race films”) of the late 1940s: Boy! What a Girl! (1947), Sepia Cinderella (1947, co-starring with Billy Daniels), and Miracle in Harlem (1948) giving impressive performances in all of them. She also appeared in the “Harlem Follies of 1949” and in a 1957 television adaptation of the play The Green Pastures. BroadwayGuyse was not an experienced or trained actress but she was a natural talent. She made her Broadway debut in the stage production Memphis Bound, which opened in 1945.

She was selected to play the female lead opposite Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. The show closed after 36 performances. She also appeared in the Broadway stage productions Lost in the Stars and Finian’s Rainbow, which were both long-running. Lost in the Stars won a Outer Circle Critics Award.

Guyse contributed to cast recordings for these productions, and her singing voice was said to be as beautiful as she was: divine, sweet, easy on the ears whether singing jazz, pop, or gospel. MagazinesSheila Guyse was popular in the 1940s and 1950s, and graced many covers of publications such as Jet, Ebony, and Our World.

She also was known to grace the cover of a magazine called Hue. MarriagesSheila Guyse was married three times. She married and divorced Shelby Irving Miller, and their union produced one daughter, Sheila Crystal Miller. Guyse’s most publicized marriage, however, was to her second husband, Kenneth Davis.

The couple was featured in the article “Negro Women with White Husbands” in the February 1952 issue of Jet. Guyse and Davis met on the set of Finian’s Rainbow, where Davis was a dancer.

They married in Philadelphia, but spent the majority of their marriage in the Bronx, NY. In 1954 Ken Davis and Sheila Guyse announced that they would end their marriage. In 1958 Guyse married Joseph Jackson, a sanitation worker in New York, and they had two children: Deidre Jean Jackson and Michael Jackson. Guyse later became a Jehovah’s Witness due to her marriage to Jackson.

The couple remained married until his death in 2012. HealthShelia Guyse’s health played a very important role in her career as a performer and entertainer.

She struggled with her heath many times throughout her career which caused her to turn down various roles and even take time away from the entertainment industry. In 1953, she was diagnosed with stomach ulcers a day after she had accepted a role in the Broadway stage production Mile High. She later came back to the entertainment industry in 1958 to record her only studio album, This is Sheila. Although she attempted to make a career comeback she struggled to get back into industry. She died of complications due to Alzheimer’s disease on December 28, 2013, at the age of 88.

Eric Gerard Laneuville (born July 14, 1952) is an American television director and actor. His first acting roles were in the science-fiction film The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston, and the ABC television series Room 222 (1970–1973). His role as Luther Hawkins in the television series St. Elsewhere is his best known role. He also starred in A Force of One (1979) playing Charlie, the stepson of Chuck Norris. In more recent years, he frequently directs such one-hour dramas as Ghost Whisperer and Lost. He directed Body of Proof episode “Missing”.

Door slammers gold mod apk. He also appeared in Love at First Bite. CareerActingLaneuville began acting while attending Audubon Junior High School in the Crenshaw, Los Angeles, District. He often played juvenile characters younger than his own age.

He appeared in several musicals staged at Audubon by drama teacher Mario Lomeli, including Bye Bye Birdie, Annie Get Your Gun, and Oklahoma! While taking drama courses at nearby Susan Miller Dorsey High School, he began acting professionally, co-starring as a troubled youth in an award-winning television movie and becoming a semi-regular cast member on Room 222, including one episode in which he appeared with his future Force of One co-star, Chuck Norris. He appeared in three episodes of Sanford and Son, as Esther’s adopted son. In 1982, he landed the role of Luther Hawkins in the television series St. He stayed with the series until it ended in 1988.As well as The Omega Man (1971), his other film appearances included roles in Black Belt Jones (1974), Death Wish (1974) opposite Charles Bronson, Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue (1974), A Piece of the Action (1977), Love at First Bite (1979), A Force of One, (1979), The Baltimore Bullet (1980) and Back Roads (1981).DirectingLaneuville’s first directing assignments were for episodes of St. He has subsequently directed episodes of L.A.

Law (1986), Quantum Leap (1989), Doogie Howser, M.D. (1990), NYPD Blue (1993), ER (1995), 413 Hope St., Gilmore Girls (2004), Lie to Me(2009), Monk (2005), The Mentalist (2009–12), Invasion, Medium, Lost (2005–08), Girlfriends, Everybody Hates Chris, Prison Break, Ghost Whisperer, and Grimm (2012–14). In 1992 he won an Emmy for directing the episode “All God’s Children” of the NBC series I’ll Fly Away. He also directed the 2004 television film, America’s Prince: The John F.

Story.As his directing career took off, Laneuville’s acting career continued only sporadically, usually in small cameo roles. His most recent on-camera appearance was on October 3, 2014, in a guest role on “Blue Bloods” in an episode he also directed. Prior to that, he had appeared as Dr.

Lamar in the TV series Scrubs. He also appeared in the Fear of a Black Hat (1994), a mockumentary parodying 1990s hip-hop culture.Producer credits. Bull (Executive producer). 413 Hope St. (executive producer). Midnight Caller (producer). Brand New Life (supervising producer).

Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American writer, best known for his controversial novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers), and went on to be chosen as The Sunday Times Book of the Year. The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co-produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a “cult classic”. Life and workBorn in Chicago, Greenlee attended the University of Wisconsin (BS, political science, 1952) and the University of Chicago (1954-7). He was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity (Beta Omicron 1950). He served in the military (1952-4), earning the rank of first lieutenant, and subsequently worked for the United States Information Agency, serving in Iraq (in 1958 he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for bravery during the Baghdad revolution), Pakistan, Indonesia, and Greece between 1957 and 1965. Leaving the United States foreign service after eight years, he stayed on in Greece. He undertook further study (1963-4) at the University of Thessaloniki, and lived for three years on the island of Mykonos, where he began to write his first novel.

2K Sports put a lot of game into MLB POWER PROS 2008, a graphically-challenged offering that was originally a big Japanese hit. If you're looking for a story with your baseball game, you'll find it here as you move from Double A ball to the majors. A peppy announcer heralds your achievements all along the way making you want to find out what comes next in your ascent to sports stardom.There's a lot in the game as far as modes and stats go; plus, you can play the game in four ways: with the Wiimote only, with the Wiimote and Nunchuk by pressing buttons, with the GameCube controller, and with the Classic controller. The superstars and workaday players look like little Miis, perhaps one notch down from the graphic quality of. Most people will want to try it out by using the Wiimote, and that way lies true simplicity, more so than in WiiSports. You can throw different kinds of pitches, but you can't seem to vary them in any appreciable way. Hitting is easy in novice mode, but ramps up appreciably in the next mode up.

It can pretty pretty hard to time a hit, and forget about AllStar mode, at least for the first week. Because modes beyond the Wiimote style of baseball are so deep, the makers include a very detailed booklet that tells you the ins and outs. After you come up through the minors, you can create your own team, right down to the logo.

You'll earn points after each game to buy baseball cards or help your team through the season with new equipment or trades. You'll have to keep track of your player's motivation and vitality or he won't be picked up by the big leagues.

In the minors, you may even take a part-time job to get through, including working at a restauarant. The subpar graphics may be a turnoff, as may the glitches that happen occasionally in a game. You may start an inning and suddenly, there was an out before you do anything. Or, there is someone on base before you take your first pitch. This doesn't happen all that much, but it's very strange and annoying. Sadly, there's no online mode, either.Ultimately, the game is as good as any of the bigger sports games like minus the great graphics. Again, this is not a kiddie game only.

It can be as deep as you want it to be, just like.