"Quagmire's Mom" was written by Tom Devanney. Greg Colton is the director of the episode. Allison Janney is a guest star as Quagmire's mother. The episode was watched by about 2.81 million people when it was first broadcast. Narsimha Chintaluri from "TV Fanatic" thought that the episode was "entertaining". He said he was tricked because he thought "Quagmire might learn a lesson for the first time". The Parents Television Council were unhappy that the episode made jokes on statutory rape. They wanted people to make complaints to the FCC about the episode.
Paparazzi
Paparazzi (plural, singular is Paparazzo for men, and Paparazza for women) are independent photographers. Very often, they take pictures of well-known (high-profile) people who go about their daily routines. They then sell these pictures to media outlets or tabloid newspapers.
Cocktail party effect
When they are in a noisy environment, humans have the ability to focus their hearing onto one source. This phenomenon is called cocktail party effect. It is named after the fact that a person attending a noisy cocktail party is able to focus their listening to the conversation they are doing, and disregard the other conversations.
It has been proposed that one's sensory memory subconsciously parses all stimuli and identifies discrete pieces of information by classifying them by salience. This effect is what allows most people to "tune into" a single voice and "tune out" all others. This phenomenon is often described in terms of "selective attention" or "selective hearing". It may also describe a similar phenomenon that occurs when one may immediately detect words of importance coming from unattended stimuli, for example hearing one's name among a wide range of auditory input.
An inability to segregate stimuli in this way is sometimes referred to as the cocktail party problem or cocktail party deafness.
Tito Ortiz
Tito Ortiz (born January 23, 1975 in Huntington Beach, California) is an American mixed martial artist. He is known for fighting in the UFC.
Gloria (TV series)
Gloria is an American situation comedy television program and a spin-off of "Archie Bunker's Place". It was on television from September 26, 1982, to April 10, 1983 on CBS. The show was about Sally Struthers playing her role of Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker again.
The story of the show is the Gloria Stivic was on her own after her husband, Michael Stivic left her to go live in a commune with another woman in California. Gloria wants to live closer to her father, Archie Bunker so she and her son Joey pack up and move to New York. But Gloria does not want to live in the city so she moves to Upstate New York. She takes a job as a assistant to two veterinarians. Even though the show did good in the Nielsen ratings CBS did not make a second season. It was one of the few "All in the Family" spin-offs that did not do well.
CBS did not like "Gloria"s first pilot which had a short cameo by Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker dropping off Gloria and Joey at Dr. Adams' clinic and residence. But the episode was put on to "Archie Bunker's Place" as a backdoor pilot.
A backdoor pilot, called "Gloria: The First Day", was first aired as the 29th and final episode of the third season of "Archie Bunker's Place".
Billy Halop
Billy Halop (February 11, 1920 - November 9, 1976) was an American actor. He was born in Jamaica, Queens. He was in many movies like, "Dead End" where he played a gang leader. He played the cab driver, "Mr. Munson" on the television situation comedy, "All in the Family". He died on November 9, 1976.
3:10 to Yuma (1957 movie)
3:10 to Yuma is a 1957 American western movie directed by Delmer Daves and was based on the 1953 short story of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It stars Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Robert Emhardt, Ford Rainey, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Ellenstein and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was remade in 2007.
Quantez
Quantez is a 1957 American action western movie directed by Harry Keller and starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Sydney Chaplin, John Gavin, John Larch, Michael Ansara. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Boys in Brown
Boys in Brown is a 1949 British crime drama movie directed by Montgomery Tully and was based on the 1940 play of the same name by Reginard Beckwith. It stars Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley, Barbara Murray, Patrick Holt, Graham Payn.
Equale
An equale is a composition of music for several instruments of the same type. Most of the time, they are short festive pieces. Most of them were written to be played at funerals, or at days where the dead are remembered, such as All Souls' Day. The instrument commonly used is the trombone. Among the best known are probably "Drei Equale für vier Posaunen" WoO 30, by Ludwig van Beethoven (composed 1812), and "2 Aequale für 3 Posaunen" by Anton Bruckner, composed 1847.
The Lost People
The Lost People is a 1949 British drama movie directed by Bernard Knowles and Muriel Box and was based on the play "Cockpit" by Bridget Boland. It stars Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Maxwell Reed, William Hartnell, Siobhán McKenna, Gerard Heinz, Zena Marshall, Olaf Pooley, Harcourt Williams, Jill Balcon, Grey Blake.
The Guinea Pig (movie)
The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British drama movie directed by Roy Boulting and was based on the 1946 play of the same name by Warren Chetham-Strode. It stars Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sims, Bernard Miles, Cecil Trouncer, Robert Flemyng, Edith Sharpe, Joan Hickson, Anthony Newley.
František Lízna
František Lízna (July 11, 1941 – March 4, 2021) was a Moravian priest, Jesuit and chairman of the editorial board of the Akord magazine. He focused mainly on the pastoral care of Roma, prisoners and the homeless.
He was born in Jevíčko on July 11, 1941. He came from a communist-persecuted family, he was imprisoned five times for political reasons and performed his military service with the PTP in Slovakia. In 1968 he was admitted to the novitiate of the Jesuit order and becme a priest in 1974.
In 1978 he signed Charter 77. After the Velvet Revolution he worked in Brno and in the prison in Kurim. From 1995 to 2004 he worked as a prison clergyman in Mírov and until his death he was a pastor in Vyšehorky. In 2000 he became a member of the government's Human Rights Council.
He died in 4 March 2021 from COVID-19 at an Olomouc hospital, aged 79.
The Sand Pebbles (movie)
The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American war adventure drama movie directed by Robert Wise and was based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Richard McKenna. It stars Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako Iwamatsu, Marayat Andriane, Ford Rainey, Simon Oakland, Gavin MacLeod and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was nominated for 8 Academy Awards in 1967.
The Shooting (movie)
The Shooting is a 1966 American western movie directed by Monte Hellman and starring Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins.
Jimmy Spratt
James Andrew Spratt (19 August 1951 – 4 March 2021) was a British politician and police officer from Northern Ireland. He was a member of the Democratic Unionist Party. He was an MLA for South Belfast from 2007 to 2015.
Spratt was to Lynda. The couple had four children. He was a Presbyterian. He died on 4 March 2021, at the age of 69.
The Saint in London
The Saint in London is a 1939 British crime movie directed by John Paddy Carstairs and was based on the 1932 short story "The Million Pound Day" by Leslie Charteris. It stars George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns, Gordon McLeod, Henry Oscar, Athene Seyler, Ralph Truman, Norah Howard and was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was the third movie of the series of eight movies.
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