a. j. johnson
Defense buoys Boynton boys
Sun-Sentinel - Jan 03 1:41 PM Tigers take advantage of Gibbons' sluggishness Cardinal Gibbons didn't have much offensive production Wednesday against Boynton Beach in the second round of the Dillard Holiday Tournament.
aisha tyler
Kevin Bacon Lets Loose, Goes Bald
Extra TV - Jan 03 3:10 PM He’s the Hollywood A-lister who has starred in “Animal House,” “Footloose” and “A Few Good Men.” Now, Kevin Bacon, who once admitted, “There’s very little that I won’t do for a part,” lets loose with the clippers and shaves his head as the “Extra” cameras were rolling!
amy sedaris
TV Today
Philly.com - Jan 04 12:13 AM Live With Regis and Kelly (9-10 a.m., 6ABC) - Repeat segments: actress Meryl Streep; actress Marg Helgenberger; actor John Stamos; Vanessa Anne Hudgens performs.
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Andrea Zittel Critical Space at Albright Knox
Art Daily - Dec 25 3:12 PM Andrea Zittel (American, born 1965). A-Z Management and Maintenance Unit, Model 003, 1992. Steel, wood, carpet, plastic sink, glass mirror, stovetop, and household objects, 86 x 94 x 68" (218.4 x 238.8 x 172.7 cm.). Collection Andrea Rosen, New York. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
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'Monk' star is on the case shaping Arab image
Belleville News-Democrat - Jan 05 1:16 AM Before Tony Shalhoub broke through as the obsessive-compulsive detective Monk, the Lebanese-American actor had compiled a long list of supporting characters with widely diverse names: Haddad ("The Siege"), Kwan ("Galaxy Quest"), Scarpacci ("Wings"), Reyes ("Primary Colors") and Riedenschneider ("The Man Who Wasn't There"). This year, he has again been nominated for a Golden Globe, and he won his ...
arkady raikin
Swan Lake
St. Petersburg Times - Dec 25 1:59 PM The Theater of Russian Ballet performs Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic. Hermitage Theater, 7.30 p.m. opera The Tsar’s Bride Stanislav Gaudasinsky directs Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera, based on the libretto by I. Tiumenev and the play by L.A.Mey. Ivan the Terrible chooses a bride who is poisoned for loving someone else.
armstrong and miller
MILLER'S A BIT TOO CHEEKY
Daily Record - Dec 20 9:39 PM THAT'S enough for now, Mr Miller. Put yer cheeks away. Ben's buttocks are almost as well-kent as his face.
arthur askey
2006: a year in words
BBC News - Dec 29 9:20 AM The BBC News website takes a look at some of the political words and phrases that made the headlines in 2006.
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Thank you for the music
BBC News - Jan 05 3:48 AM Mud's drummer was one of the significant characters who died in December.
bill bailey
Community Briefs
East Memphis Appeal - Jan 03 2:40 AM The general meeting and luncheon of the Republican Women of Purpose will be held today at Ridgeway Country Club at 11 a.m. Special guest speaker will be Juvenile Court Judge Curtis Person Jr. Make reservations by calling Glenda Kimball at 854-8387 or gsk_53@yahoo.com.
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COMEDY
New York Post - Dec 29 2:50 AM TOWN HALL: Tomorrow: "Laughing Liberally," a look at the year in politics, with music by Jamie Jackson. 123 W. 43rd St.; (212) 307-4100. LAUGH FACTORY: Today: Wali Collins, Christian Finnegan, Judah Friedlander, Jay Oakerson, Bill Dawes and Mike...
bonzo dog band
YouTube: Get it while it's hot
Los Angeles Times - Dec 24 12:39 AM The video-hosting vcultural clearinghouse is a gift that keeps on giving, until it is taken away. THE beautiful thing about a machine like YouTube, the video-hosting virtual megalopolis named "invention of the year" by Time magazine (though its birth dates from 2005), is its fundamental neutrality, the way the website wraps itself around the user and becomes a reflection of his interests. My ...
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Remember These?
RedNova - Dec 31 12:09 PM By Charity Apple, Times-News, Burlington, N.C. Dec. 31--At first glance, the J. Seward Johnson Jr. sculptures looked like real people.
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HISTORY OF GIBSON COUNTY
Princeton Daily Clarion - Jan 03 9:23 PM In this section you will find an interesting historical account of the communities that make up Gibson County. Gibson County was once a wilderness situated in the Northwest Territory which, in 1784, was ceded to the United States of America by Virginia.
caroline quentin
Coronation Street Curly can see at last
Daily Mail - Dec 11 4:12 PM Severe long-sightedness had reduced actor Kevin Kennedy's world to what he calls "a blurry soup". "If I took my glasses off, I couldn't see the expression on my wife's face - even if she was right beside me," he says
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Caroline Rhea From The Biggest Loser To Star In Lifetime's To Be Fat Like Me
Reality TV Magazine - Jan 02 9:31 PM Kaley Cuoco (8 Simple Rules) and Caroline Rhea (The Biggest Loser) star in the Lifetime Original Movie To Be Fat Like Me, the story of an attractive high school junior who experiences first-hand the extreme prejudice and heartbreak overweight teens...
cheryl wheeler
Circle opens year with folk
Boston Globe - Jan 04 3:15 AM The Circle of Friends Coffeehouse will welcome the new year with two folk favorites. Singer and songwriter Cheryl Wheeler does it all. She can deliver a poignant, gently sung ballad to touch the heart. Without skipping a beat, she also can deliver witty, satirical tunes that elicit belly laughs. She'll perform at 8 p.m. Saturday. Terry Gonda will open the ...
chico marx
CHRISMAS QUIZ: It's all that and myrrh
Detroit Free Press - Dec 25 3:16 AM Q Santa Claus dropped in on 1.2 billion kids, eh? Where on Earth would he start?
christine lavin
We know funny - he just isn't it
St. Petersburg Times - Dec 30 10:29 PM WASHINGTON - Have you read Christopher Hitchens' essay in Vanity Fair, where he claims that women aren't funny? Actually, he doesn't argue that point so much as he accepts it as an immutable and incontestable fact, then examines how this tragic state of affairs has come about.
clive dunn
Open University's TV lectures are history
The Scotsman - Dec 15 4:32 PM FOR more than 35 years, it has been an icon of British television - a refuge for drunk students and insomniacs alike.
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Bear with Us
Chicago Tribune - Dec 11 5:29 PM
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Smothers Brothers bringing comedy routine to Cache Creek
The Woodland Daily Democrat Online - Dec 28 9:07 AM Time has been an essential ingredient in the Smothers Brothers success. They have been considered ahead of their time, masters of timing and practitioners of timeless comedy.
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a. j. johnson
Adrienne-Joi Johnson (sometimes credited as A.J. Johnson, born September 3, 1963, in Orange Newark, New Jersey) is an American actress and dancer. She has made many guest appearances on sitcoms and TV dramas; she also has numerous supporting roles in many movies. She has been acting since 1988.
Television and film
Johnson has appeared in A Different World, In the Heat of the Night, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Amen, the short-lived Sirens, Chicago Hope, The Jamie Foxx Show, and Touched By An Angel. She has also appeared in TV movies such as A Mother's Courage: the Mary Thomas Story (1989), Clippers (1991), Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (1992), Love, Lies & Lullabies (1993), and The Beast (1996).
Johnson has appeared in theatrical releases and independent films such as School Daze (1988), House Party (1990), Double Trouble (1992), Sister Act (1992), The Inkwell (1994), High Freakquency (1998), Two Shades of Blue (2000), Tara (2001), Baby Boy (2001), and Skin Deep (2003).
In addition to being an actress and dancer, Johnson is also a fitness trainer and was the host of the VH1 reality fitness competition From Flab to Fab.
Trivia
- There is an actor/comedian also named A.J. Johnson, who is best known as Ezal from the movie Friday.
- Johnson has a wide range of roles, from a teenager in House Party, to the mother of a twenty-something player in Baby Boy.
- Johnson graduated from Rumson-Fair Haven High School in NJ in 1981. She graduated magna cum laude from Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, where she earned a degree in psychology and was initiated as a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
External Links
- Official website
- Adrienne-Joi Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
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Defense buoys Boynton boys
Sun-Sentinel - Jan 03 1:41 PM Tigers take advantage of Gibbons' sluggishness Cardinal Gibbons didn't have much offensive production Wednesday against Boynton Beach in the second round of the Dillard Holiday Tournament.
Boynton tops Taravella
Sun-Sentinel - Jan 03 1:41 PM Tigers spread it around, win with late push Fort Lauderdale · It wasn't the most impressive offensive showing, but for Boynton Beach, it was the kind of balanced scoring that left players and coaches hopeful this week's showing in the Dillard Holiday Tournament will be a good one.
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