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12 unusual facts about Bartolo "Buddy" Valastro


Buddy the Detective

In keeping with the article Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929-1939), the date here given for the release of this cartoon is September 15; this conflicts with the information given in the appendix of Leonard Maltin's Of Mice and Magic (see references below.) For more on this discrepancy and others, see the Release date discrepancy section of the article Buddy's Circus.

Buddy the Woodsman

For more on this issue see the relevant section of the article Buddy's Circus.

Buddy's Day Out

It was directed by former Disney animator Tom Palmer, who created Buddy as a star character to replace Harman and Ising's Bosko, and was shortly thereafter fired from the studio.

It is one of only three Buddy cartoons so honored, the others being Buddy's Beer Garden and Buddy's Circus.

In subsequent cartoons, Buddy (or Cookie) owned a dog called Bozo, and in others Buddy's friend is a larger dog called Towser (cf. Buddy and Towser).

Buddy's Show Boat

Buddy and Cookie perform a rendition of "Under my Umbrella," after which Buddy introduces, to his pleased crowd, an Aboriginal performer called "Chief Saucer-lip", who, upon the captain's departure, immediately becomes a caricature of Maurice Chevalier, who recites "So I Married the Girl," with a kangaroo at the piano.

Buddy introducing the Zulu native who can impersonate Maurice Chevalier was only edited to remove Buddy referring to the native as "Chief Saucer Lip."

Sasser Cup

Formally called The Commissioner's Cup, it was renamed The Sasser Cup after former Commissioner George F. "Buddy" Sasser.

The GreenMount School

All of the students get together to work on a theme-related project with their “buddies.” First graders are paired with 8th graders, 2nd graders with 6th graders, etc.

Viva Buddy

For more on this issue, see the relevant section of the article Buddy's Circus.

Wampus cat

A musical ensemble who recorded several tracks in 1937 and 1938, and consisting of six or seven string musicians including Oscar "Buddy" Woods, were billed as 'The Wampus Cats'.

WEZB

Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto (did WDSU-TV 6 sports reports during the morning show with "Cajun" Ken Cooper in the 1980s; deceased)


A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Dorothea is scheduled to join Bodey and Buddy for their weekly Sunday picnic in Creve Coeur Park, a short trolley car ride away, but she delays her departure, certain Mr. Ellis is going to call.

Alan Shacklock

Shacklock has also produced music for films including Quicksilver (starring Kevin Bacon), Doc Hollywood (starring Michael J. Fox) and Buddy's Song (starring Chesney Hawkes and Roger Daltrey).

Bill Wendell

Wendell also appeared as a TV announcer in the movie, Mr. Saturday Night, which starred Billy Crystal as comedian Buddy Young, Jr., a character Crystal originally created when he was a regular on Saturday Night Live.

Brendan Hill

Brendan was involved in the formation of this band with H.O.R.D.E. buddy Michael McMorrow and still plays with them as his schedule permits, but Ogre does have a permanent drummer and tours without Hill.

Buddy Baer

After the war Buddy appeared in movies and TV, owned a bar in Sacramento with Fred Cullincini and worked as a marshal at the California State Legislature.

Buddy Biancalana

In 1985, during the countdown to Pete Rose breaking Ty Cobb's hits record, David Letterman instituted a Buddy Biancalana countdown calendar.

Buddy Fruits

Buddy Fruits is also involved in its local community and supports the Miami Hurricanes and the Miami Dolphins.

Buddy Napier

Buddy Napier died at the age of 78 on March 29, 1968 in Hutchins, Texas.

Buddy Peace

Dave House - "Weeknights and Weekends (Buddy Peace Remix)" from Kingston's Current (2004)

Buddy Stewart

Buddy Stewart (né Albert James Byrne, Jr; 1922 in Derry, New Hampshire — 1 February 1950 Deming, New Mexico) was an American jazz singer.

Buddy system

The video game, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, uses the buddy system procedure for its RBG PvP system to ensure each player is watching out for another player.

Çiğ köfte

In an episode of Taxicab Confessions set in Las Vegas, a young male Armenian tourist confirms to the cabdriver that his buddy (also a young male Armenian) is right that he would marry a woman who could prepare good chee kufta.

Coal Creek War

The song "Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line", written and performed by Grand Ole Opry pioneer Uncle Dave Macon, was based on the Coal Creek War.

Conan Lee

Lee is best known for his roles in cult kung fu/ninja hybrid movie Ninja in the Dragon's Den, alongside popular Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, and the crime/comedy buddy cop film Tiger on the Beat with Chow Yun-fat.

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

Diary of a Drug Fiend

The American band The Lemonheads recorded a song called "My Drug Buddy", based on this book, on their 1992 album It's a Shame About Ray.

Ducey's Bass Lake Lodge

In 1941, Buddy Freeman constructed Freeman's Bass Lake Lodge on the north shore of Bass Lake, California about one mile west of the Pines Village.

Frank Fulco

Fulco's colleagues included future U.S. Representative and Governor Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III, then of Bossier City, future U.S. District Judge Tom Stagg of Shreveport, and Robert G. Pugh, a Shreveport lawyer who advised three governors and wrote much of the section on local and state government in the Constitution.

Franklin Sousley

In the 1961 film The Outsider, starring Tony Curtis as Ira Hayes, the fictional character James B. Sorenson (Hayes's Marine buddy in the movie), portrayed by James Franciscus, was a composite based primarily on Franklin Sousley.

Kitchen Boss

Unlike the documentary series Cake Boss and the reality series Next Great Baker, Kitchen Boss is a studio-based, straight cooking program, in which Buddy cooks various Italian-American dishes from his family's recipes.

Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name

and Mrs. Is the Name is a 1935 animated Merrie Melodies cartoon, starring Buddy and Cookie (as two mermaid kids), and is noted to be the only Buddy cartoon in Technicolor.

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 crime / romantic comedy film starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy.

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man

The joke used by Crosby and Hope was also attempted by Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and his old army buddy, Sid (Don Rickles) in the Get Smart (1965–70) episode, "The Little Black Book"; in their case, it failed.

Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs

There is also Sharpei Tulula who has sight and hearing problems and a three legged Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Buddy.

R.O.B.

R.O.B. has appeared as a cameo character in various video games, such as StarTropics, Kirby's Dream Land 3, the Star Fox series, the WarioWare series, the F-Zero series, Viewtiful Joe, and his head appears in Pikmin 2, called the 'Remembered Old Buddy'.

Richard Switzer

Arguably the youngest film producer in history, his first two films are due for a 2014 release, A Fatal Obsession and Buddy Hutchins, featuring talent such as Jamie Kennedy, Eric Roberts, Tracy Nelson, and Sally Kirkland.

Riding Into History

On is inception proceeds went to Buddy Check 12, a partnership between Baptist Health and First Coast News (WTLV/WJXX).

River Rail Streetcar

This section opened on February 16, 2007, with a ribbon cutting by Pulaski County Judge Buddy Villines, Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola, and North Little Rock Mayor Pat Hays.

Robert MacNaughton

Born in New York City, MacNaughton primarily worked in the theater, both before and after E.T., performing with the Circle Repertory Company, where he originated the role of Buddy Layman in Jim Leonard's The Diviners.

Sam Hairston

The two other three-generation MLB families have four members each: the Boone family (Ray, Bob, Bret and Aaron) and the Bell family (Gus, Buddy, David, and Mike).

Sing and Swing with Buddy Rich

Sing and Swing with Buddy Rich is a jazz album recorded in New York City in January 1955 by Buddy Rich.

Southwestern Moundbuilders

He is best known for his role in the 1986 film Hoosiers where he played the character of team captain Buddy Walker.

Square Shells

Regarding the track, "Losing Momentum (for Jim Jarmusch)", which references filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in its title, Kurt Vile noted: "I have an early EP my buddy Richie put out, called The Hunchback EP, and there’s a song called “Losing It” on there. The record is 45 RPM, but it doesn’t say it on there, so people were playing it at 33, and tons of people were coming up to me saying, like, “Dude, you should listen to that at 33.”

Stetson Kennedy

To which Kennedy's self-described "stud buddy", Woody Guthrie, added, "Palmetto Country gives me a better trip and taste and look and feel for Florida than I got in the forty-seven states I've actually been in body and tramped in boot."

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

Two cover songs are also included: the title track, originally a single in 1975 for Elvis Presley, and "Leave My Girl Alone", previously recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan on his 1989 album In Step, and Chicago blues guitarist Buddy Guy before that.

Terry Danko

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The Case of the Raging Rottweiler

During their stay, an old buddy of Slim drives by for a visit, bringing a Rottweiler named Bruiser.

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

After five years of false starts and shoddy police work by the Ada police department, Williamson—along with his "drinking buddy", Dennis Fritz—were charged, tried and convicted of the rape and murder charges in 1988.

The Monster Times

Contributing writers and photographers included Michael Uslan, Joe Kane, Doug Murray, Allan Asherman, Phil Seuling, Buddy Weiss, Frank Verzyl, Dean Latimer, Edward Summer, Joe Brancatelli, Manny Maris, and Jason Thomas (aka Tom Rogers).

The Starfighters

Lt. John Witkowski (Dornan) and his buddy, Lt. York, arrive at George Air Force Base in Southern California to train to fly the F-104 Starfighter, with special emphasis on the complicated mid-air refueling maneuver.

Tony Maxwell

He was one of the dancers in Weezer's "Buddy Holly" video directed by Spike Jonze, he played the Dog Boy in Jonze's video for Daft Punk's "Da Funk" and "Fresh", he choreographed the Dance of Despair in Jonze's Being John Malkovich, and he was Nicolas Cage's body double in Jonze's Adaptation..

When My Man Comes Home

The single with vocals by Ella Johnson was the most successful R&B hit of Buddy Johnson's career.