“AAAA! Quincy - you chewed up my sweater! BAD iguana! BAD, BAD, BAD iguana! BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD iguana! Wait a minute - this is Paige's sweater. Semi-bad iguana...”
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William Fox
Vilmos Fried, known professionally as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s. Although he lost control of his film businesses in 1930, his name was used by 20th Century Fox and continues to be used in the trademarks of the present-day Fox Corporation, including the Fox Broadcastin…
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business · Hungarian-American film producer (1879–1952) · film producer · entrepreneur · geologist · film director · also William Fox, William Fox (producer), Wilhelm Fried Fuchs, Wilhelm Fuchs, Vilmos Fried, Fried Vilmos
Born 1 January 1879 · Died 8 May 1952 · Q134382
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It's unbelievable! The Cartoon Network is running live-action sitcoms now! They're the Cartoon Network! They're supposed to run cartoons! How can they get away with this?! It'd be like a news network running stuff besides news!
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“It's unbelievable! The Cartoon Network is running live-action sitcoms now! They're the Cartoon Network! They're supposed to run cartoons! How can they get away with this?! It'd be like a news network running stuff besides news!”
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“Hello, FBI? I was wondering if you could send me some information about becoming an X-Files agent. You know, like in the TV show. The people who investigate things like UFOs and alien encounters and- Hello? Hello, are you there? They keep hanging up on me. Darned conspiracy of silence.”
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“Can you believe it? I'm going to go back to school [with a Garfield binder] and everyone's gonna think I'm some drippy nerd. Maybe if I wear my Wrath of Khan T-shirt...”
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“I knew we should've gone with the ten-quart hats instead.”
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2015).
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1952· 1 entry
Died 1952-05-08.
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1943· 1 entry
Fox served a five-month, seventeen-day prison sentence on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and defraud the United States in connection with his bankruptcy
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1936· 1 entry
Attempted to bribe judge John Warren Davis and committed perjury
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1933· 1 entry
Collaborated with the writer Upton Sinclair on a book, Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, in which Fox recounted his life and stated his views on what he considered to be a large Wall Street conspiracy against him
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1930· 1 entry
His name was used by 20th Century Fox (The Walt Disney Company) and continues to be used in the trademarks of the present-day Fox Corporation, including the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News, Fox Sports, and Foxtel
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1929· 1 entry
With Schenck's assent, he bought the Loew family's MGM holdings, unbeknownst to MGM studio bosses Louis B
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1917· 1 entry
With the move significantly boosting Mix's popularity
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1915· 2 entries
By replacing a few of his other studios with insurance and banking money provided by the McCarter, Kuser, and Usar families of Newark, New Jersey, and the small New Jersey investment house of Eisele and King
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And the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s
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1914· 1 entry
New Jersey–based Fox bought films outright from the Balboa Amusement Producing Company in Long Beach, California, for distribution to his own theaters and then for rental to other theaters across the country
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1910· 1 entry
Fox managed to successfully lease the New York Academy of Music and convert it into a movie theater
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1900· 1 entry
Fox started his own company, which he sold in 1904 to purchase his first nickelodeon
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1879· 1 entry
Born 1879-01-01.
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