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4 unusual facts about Real People


Ila Loetscher

Loetscher appeared in National Geographic documentaries and on numerous television shows, including the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with David Letterman, the Today Show, and Real People.

Real People

Oscar says it's the show that "searches the world for interesting real-life Grouches and brings them right into your living room."

Real People gave fitness instructor Richard Simmons his major break into the mass media, and spotlighted such unique talents as Pittsburgh Police traffic cop Vic Cianca.

Strassner Editing Systems

At the time Mr. Strassner wrote the software, he was a working editor in Hollywood for shows like Entertainment Tonight and Real People, and companies like Paramount Pictures, CBS, NBC and Smith-Hemion.


FSU Flying High Circus

The Florida State University Circus has been seen on "CBS Sports Spectacular," "ABC's Wide World of Sports," "On the Road" with Charles Kuralt, NBC's "Real People," "PM Magazine," and ESPN.

Love Somebody Today

Love Somebody Today was one of four albums to be written and produced by Edwards and Rodgers in 1980, the other three being Sheila and B. Devotion's King of the World including its hit single "Spacer", Chic's fourth studio album Real People and Diana Ross' multi-platinum selling diana which includes "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" and "My Old Piano".

Sherman Oaks Galleria

Following on the popularity of the song, the TV show Real People hosted an Ultimate Valley Girl competition (referred to as "a nightmare" by contest judge Moon Zappa), at the Galleria.


see also

Burt Dow, Deep-water Man

Many of the characters in this book are based on real people who lived in the community of Deer Isle, Maine, where McCloskey wrote many of his books.

Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President

Others are fictionalized depictions of real people, such as campaign advisor George Tuck (based on Dick Tuck), Democratic Vice-President Al Nore (based on Al Gore), and the current president Bill Clayton (ビル・クライトン Biru Kuraiton, based on Bill Clinton), who hails from Arkansas, has faced multiple scandals, and has a politically ambitious wife named Ellery Clayton (エラリー・クライトン Erarī Kuraiton).

El Borak

He is likely to have been inspired by real people such as Richard Francis Burton, John Nicholson, "Chinese" Gordon and Lawrence of Arabia as well as the fiction of Talbot Mundy.

Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building

It features work by such western artists as Charles Russell and Harry Jackson; these artists, who often served as cowhands and guides of the western plains, modeled their work after real people and personal experiences.

Frederick Emerson Peters

Over the following years he impersonated real people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Booth Tarkington and Gifford Pinchot II.

José Ángel Mañas

Like in old pastoral romances, many of the characters from Caso Karen are depictions of real people: in "Karen del Korral" Lucía Etxebarria's personality traits are observed; "Carina Martinell" is Carmen Balcells; "Armando Sala" is Antonio Gala, etc.

Leila Mackinlay

Some of her novels are based on real people like Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby; she also wrote Musical Productions, a musical book.

Some of her novels are based in real people like, Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby, she also wrote Musical Productions, a musical book.

Minimidget

The character may have been inspired by the movie The Devil Doll, which featured Lionel Atwill as an escapee from Devil's Island who poses as an elderly female dollmaker and sells dolls that are actually real people shrunken down to a size of about six inches through a secret process developed by a mad scientist.

Out Come the Freaks

Instead of song titles, the more positive final chorus listed real people such as Leon Trotsky and John Coltrane.

RBD: La Familia

The characters of the sitcom are not similar to the soap opera Rebelde but are similar to the real people of RBD.

Real People Press

Real People Press is an American book publisher, founded in 1967 by John O. Stevens in Lafayette, California.

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Many of the characters in Tales of a Wayside Inn were inspired by real people: Luigi Monti (the Sicilian), Daniel Treadwell (the theologian), Thomas William Parsons (the poet), Henry Wales (the student), Isaac Edrehi (the Spanish Jew), Ole Bull (the musician), and Lyman Howe (the landlord).