What celebrity group had several members living at the Tamarisk Country Club and started in such films as Ocean's 11?
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Tamarisk Country Club Tamarisk Country Club is a private country club in Rancho Mirage, California, established in 1952. The club had 65 original investors, including Jack Benny, George Burns, Danny Kaye, and the Marx Brothers. Ben Hogan was the club's first golf professional. The club hosted the Bob Hope Classic 18 times. Architect William Francis Cody designed the clubhouse. Frank Sinatra lived in a walled compound on the club's 17th fairway, and his Rat Pack friends, Sammy Davis Jr., Pat Henry, and Jilly Rizzo built homes around the corner from Sinatra.
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Rat Pack The Rat Pack is a term used by the media to refer to an informal group of entertainers centered on the Las Vegas casino scene. Having its origins in a group of friends that met at the Los Angeles home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, by the 1960s, it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group that called itself "the Summit" or "the Clan", featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop among others; they appeared together on stage and in films in the early 1960s, including the movies "Ocean's 11", "Sergeants 3", and "Robin and the 7 Hoods" (in the last film, Bing Crosby replaced Lawford). Sinatra, Martin, and Davis were regarded as the group's lead members.
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Johnny Harra Johnny Lee Harra (born Harry Lee Lovett; July 11, 1946 – March 30, 2011) was an American Elvis impersonator. He began impersonating Elvis at the age of 11 and was cast as the 42-year-old Elvis in the 1981 docudrama "This Is Elvis". Harra, one of four actors to portray Elvis in the movie, was featured in two scenes from the re-enactment of August 16, 1977, filmed at Graceland. After many years in seclusion he returned to the stage before the 25th anniversary of Elvis' death.
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Ken Carson Ken Carson (November 14, 1914 – April 7, 1994) was an American entertainer primarily known for singing Western music. He was an early member of the Sons of the Pioneers, appearing with that group in 22 of Roy Rogers' films. His voice was featured on their iconic recordings of Tumbling Tumbleweeds and Cool Water.
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Hampton Beach, New Hampshire Hampton Beach is a village district, census-designated place, and beach resort in the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, United States, along the Atlantic Ocean. Its population at the 2010 census was 2,275. Hampton Beach is in Rockingham County, about 15 mi south of Portsmouth. The community is a popular tourist destination and the busiest beach community in New Hampshire. Ocean Boulevard, the main street along the beach, includes a boardwalk, many shops and businesses, several seasonal hotels, and the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, which hosts national acts in the summer. Hampton Beach State Park was named one of four "Superstar" beaches in the United States in 2011, for having had perfect water-quality testing results in each of the previous three years.
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Celebrity Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc.) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention. Celebrity status is often associated with wealth (commonly referred to as "fame and fortune"), while fame often provides opportunities to earn revenue.
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Allstars (band) Allstars (stylised allSTARS*) are a former British pop group, who were active between 2001 and 2002, achieving some chart success in the UK. Consisting of Sam Bloom, Thaila Zucchi, Ashley Taylor Dawson, Rebecca Hunter and Sandi Lee Hughes (the initial letters of the band members' names making up the "stars" of in the name of their group), they were probably best noted for having their own television show, "STARStreet*", on CITV between 2001 and 2002.
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Celebrity (film) Celebrity is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, and features an ensemble cast. The screenplay describes the divergent paths a couple takes following their divorce.
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A.S. Films International A.S. Films International is an American film production company operated by first cousins Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor. Since its formation in 2007, AS Films has produced five short films, including the DC Trilogy – a trio of movies linked by themes Americans have had to encounter in a post-9/11 world. Boylan and Taylor were profiled in the "Washington Post" in 2008 during their trip to the Cannes Film Festival to market "A Free Radical". Their latest film, "Clam Pie", debuted in 2009 to critical acclaim and won numerous audience and jury awards at film festivals around the United States. In order to promote the movie, the producer/directors brought 40 cooked clam pies from Cape Cod to Manhattan for the New York City Food Film Festival.
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Ocean Finance Ocean Finance is a loans and mortgages business set up in 1991 in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. It became infamous in the late 1990s and early 2000s for its advertising, including sponsoring its own channel on Sky TV and its advertising became widely parodied. The firm prospered on the back of rising house prices and the credit boom. By 2002 the firm was a leading player in the UK's secured loan market valued at over £14bn.
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Parliament House (hotel) Parliament House is a gay resort on the Orange Blossom Trail in Florida, United States that includes several bars and hosts performances such as drag shows. There are 112 rooms in the complex, which encompasses ten thousand square feet, including an outdoor stage, a swimming pool, and a dance floor. The resort was established in 1975, and eventually became the most well-known gay resort in Orlando. In 2006, the resort expanded to include a timeshare. In 2010, Parliament House was in danger of foreclosure. In 2012, Kenneth Creuzer, a 48-year-old HIV-positive man, was arrested on charges relating to his having allegedly raped a man at Parliament House. Alison Arngrim, who portrayed Nellie Oleson on the television series "Little House on the Prairie", performed a one-person show called "Confessions of a Prairie Bitch" at Parliament House in 2013. On July 25, 2014, the resort filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with $12.4 million in debts and nearly $4 million in assets. In February 2015, a fourteen-million-dollar debt relief plan was approved by the relevant parties.
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Cheetah's Cheetah's Topless Club is a "gentleman's club" or topless bar located in San Diego, and Las Vegas, best known for being featured in the 1995 movie "Showgirls", and also for having been owned by Mike Galardi, a nightclub owner who was investigated by the FBI with a controversial invocation of the "Patriot Act". The Cheetah's club in San Diego is a full nude club, no alcohol is served. It has achieved notoriety for having been frequented by some of the September 11 hijackers.
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Tuxedo Club The Tuxedo Club is a private member-owned country club located on West Lake Road in the village of Tuxedo Park, New York, in the Ramapo Mountains. Founded in 1886 by Pierre Lorillard IV, its facilities now include an 18-hole golf course, lawn tennis, court tennis, racquets, squash, platform tennis, olympic-sized pool, and boating. The tuxedo was introduced by New York millionaire James Potter at the club's first Autumn ball in 1886, after a trip to England.
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Ghost Town Royals The Oakland Royals is a children's and youth baseball team in a neighborhood of Oakland, California locally known as Ghost Town, that was founded in 2004 for children ages four to thirteen. It was founded by Roscoe Bryant and a film was made about it by Gene Corr in 2010, called "Ghost Town to Havana".
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The 'Bu (TV show) The 'Bu is a 2003 award-winning television series from Channel 101's short film contest, it mocks the soap opera television genre and satirized life in Malibu, California (hence the reference to "the 'bu" as a slang name for Malibu) and has seven finished episodes, with an eighth episode "apology" also submitted after the creators ended the show. It was created by The Lonely Island, it stars Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Sarah Chalke, and was directed by Akiva Schaffer. The group's website references the show as "vintage" and cites it as an example of their early work. Three more episodes were filmed after the original cast abandoned the series, bringing the total number of episodes to 11 but it was cancelled in April 2005.
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Tom Cruise Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards. He started his career at age 19 in the film "Endless Love".
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Hilton family The Hilton family is an American family. The family members hold varying degrees of wealth and status as socialites in the United States. They are widely known for the Hilton Hotel and Resorts Group which was established by Conrad Hilton in 1919 when he bought his first hotel.
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BBMak BBMak (Barry, Burns, McNally) were an English pop/rock group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Together they sold three million albums and had hit singles worldwide between 1999 and 2003 when they disbanded. The band guest starred on ABC's "All My Children" in 2000 and Disney's "Even Stevens" in 2001. They also featured on many movie soundtracks.
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Yacht Club Boys The Yacht Club Boys was a quartet of American comic singers, popular in the 1920s and 1930s: Charles Adler, George Kelly, Billy Mann, and Jimmie Kern (later known professionally as James V. Kern). They made recordings from the 1920s and appeared as a specialty act in several feature films of the 1930s. The Yacht Club Boys' screen career (and on-screen behavior) paralleled those of The Ritz Brothers, a zany musical-comedy trio doing the same type of musical burlesques.
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Demi Moore Demi Gene Guynes ( ; born November 11, 1962), professionally known as Demi Moore, is an American actress, former songwriter, and model. Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to pursue an acting career and appeared in the men's magazine "Oui" in 1981. After making her film debut later that year, she appeared on the soap opera "General Hospital" and subsequently gained recognition for her work in "Blame It on Rio" (1984) and "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985). Her first film to become both a critical and commercial hit was "About Last Night..." (1986), which established her as a Hollywood star.
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Yakety Yak, Take It Back Yakety Yak, Take it Back was a 1991 celebrity charity music video film aimed at encouraging recycling using a combination of live action rock stars, rappers and animated Warner Bros. characters.
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The Osmonds The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career — a career that took them from singing barbershop music as children to achieving success as teen-music idols, from producing a hit television show to continued success as solo and group performers. The Osmonds are devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and their religious values have influenced their careers.