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4 unusual facts about Shapiro


Frank Abbandando

In September 1931, Abbandando reportedly helped Buchalter and gang member Abe Reles eliminate The Shapiro Gang, rivals from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who were trying to take over some of the men's rackets.

Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment

The Jack Abramoff produced feature was dropped by Warner Bros. when protest groups claimed that the involvement of the South African government in the film's creation violated the United Nations cultural boycott against the Pretoria government.

Films such as Basket Case 2, Frankenhooker, Maniac Cop, McBain, and Red Scorpion were released theatrically and often found a wider audience when released on home video and on cable television.

Shapiro, Bernstein and Co. v. H.L. Green Co.

The plaintiff in the underlying action was the proprietor of certain copyrights (Shapiro, Bernstein and Co.), and it sued two defendants: a record concessionaire (Jalen Amusement Company, Inc.), which allegedly infringed Shapiro's copyrights by selling bootleg copies, and the chain store in which the record concessionaire was based (H. L. Green Company) which allegedly engaged in contributory infringement of those copyrights by virtue of its business relationship with the record concessionaire.


17233 Stanshapiro

Named for Stanley Shapiro, the teacher-advisor of several Intel Science Talent Search finalists from Midwood High School at Brooklyn College.

Alex Shapiro

Shapiro testified in September 2009 on a Federal Communications Commission panel hearing in Washington, D.C., about broadband access and digital rights issues.

Shapiro served on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California from 1990 to 1996, including a term as the 30,000-member affiliate's Vice President.

Andrew J. Shapiro

During the 2008 presidential election, Shapiro was a member of Hillary Clinton's campaign team, with his special focus being on foreign affairs.

Ari Shapiro

On September 12, 2012, Shapiro was recorded coordinating a question to ask Mitt Romney with CBS News's Jan Crawford just before a press conference to be held by Romney intended to address the American administration's response via the State Department to the 2012 diplomatic missions attacks.

Ben Shapiro

Shapiro guest hosts regularly for major talk show hosts including nationally syndicated hosts Jerry Doyle and Rusty Humphries.

C. Grimaldis Gallery

Another noteworthy exhibition at C. Grimaldis Gallery featured works on paper by the sculptors; Jene Highstein, Pello Irazu, Mel Kendrick, Ulrich Ruckriem, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and John Van Alstine titled "Drawings By Sculptors" opened in January 1996 at the 523 N Charles Street location.

Daniel B. Shapiro

From 1993 to 1995 Shapiro served as a professional staff member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee under Chairman Lee H. Hamilton.

David I. Shapiro

In February 1960, Shapiro was asked to represent American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell by the American Civil Liberties Union, to which he reportedly replied "My middle name’s Israel. I’m not going to represent this sonofabitch."

David Shapiro

J. David Shapiro (or J.D. Shapiro, born 1969), American filmmaker and stand-up comedian

Dr. Cat (born David Shapiro), president, co-founder, executive producer and creative director of Dragon's Eye Productions

Dee Dee Warwick

In October, she cut 10 tracks at Muscle Shoals, again with Crawford producing (along with Brad Shapiro).

Dickstein Shapiro

Dickstein Shapiro was founded by Sidney Dickstein and David I. Shapiro in New York City in 1953.

Eric Shapiro

Short fiction by Eric Shapiro can be found in the fiction anthologies "The Elastic Book of Numbers" (British Fantasy Award Winner for Best Anthology, 2006), "Daikaiju!" (Ditmar Award Winner for Collected Work, 2006), and "Corpse Blossoms" (Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Anthology, 2006), among other speculative fiction anthologies.

The screenplay for "Rule of Three" was penned by Rhoda Jordan, and explores themes involving karma along with Shapiro's more familiar revelatory content.

George B. Field

Among his doctoral students were Eric G. Blackman, Sean M. Carroll, Carl E. Heiles, Péter Mészáros, Christopher McKee, Telemachos C Mouschovias, and Paul R. Shapiro

Georgina Cookson

She was no less busy in the 50s, with notable appearances including Lionel Shapiro’s The Bridge for Bristol Old Vic (1952); 13 for Dinner (Duke of York's Theatre, 1953); the world premier of I Capture the Castle, with Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and a young Roger Moore, which opened at Grand Theatre, Blackpool before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in 1954; and Robert Morley’s Six Months’ Grace (Phoenix Theatre, 1957).

Gravitational singularity

However, in 1991, physicists Stuart Shapiro and Saul Teukolsky performed computer simulations of a rotating plane of dust that indicated that general relativity might allow for "naked" singularities.

Helen Shapiro

Aged ten, Shapiro was a singer with "Susie and the Hula Hoops," (with her cousin, 60s singer, Susan Singer) a school band which included Marc Bolan (then using his real name of Mark Feld) as guitarist.

Irwin I. Shapiro

In 1981, Edward Bowell discovered the 3832 main belt asteroid and it was later named after Shapiro by his former student Steven J. Ostro.

Jenette Goldstein

She also appeared as the vampire Diamondback in Near Dark (1987), Officer Meagan Shapiro in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Janelle Voight in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), the U.S.S. Enterprise-B science officer in Star Trek Generations (1994), and an Irish immigrant mother in Titanic (1997).

Judith Shapiro

Building on a strong financial foundation, the College doubled its endowment to $134 million during President Shapiro's tenure and has continued to expand its annual fundraising, even during the economic downtown of the 2002-2003 fiscal year, when a record $25 million in gifts and pledges was raised.

Late Nite Comic

Shapiro also provided new orchestrations for the recording, in the absence of the show's original arranger, Larry Hochman.

Lawrence Shapiro

Shapiro also claims to have beaten Steven Nadler in the 2006 Madison Ironman competition by four minutes.

Linda Shapiro

Linda Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, a Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.

Mark Howell

In addition to his band work, Howell has composed for Lynn Shapiro (at the American Dance Festival 1994), Amy Sue Rosen, Diane Torr, and Stephanie Artz.

Martin Shapiro

Shapiro’s first feature-length screenplay Lair of the Fox, a military action-thriller, was optioned by Ilya Salkind (Producer of Superman).

Menachem Ziemba

In another incident, Rabbi Ziemba, along with the other two surviving members of the Warsaw Rabbinate, Rabbi Shimshon Sztokhamer and Rabbi David Shapiro, were suddenly summoned to the Judenrat.

Modulations

Featuring: Rob Young on the pioneers of electronic music, Simon Reynolds on krautrock, Peter Shapiro on disco & post-punk, Kodwo Eshun on house, David Toop on hip hop, Mike Rubin on techno, Chris Sharp on jungle, Tony Marcus on ambient, Kurt Reighley on downtempo, and Michael Berk on the technology of electronic music.

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Two further prominent characters were Rabbi Levy (Christopher Benjamin in the pilot (he later reappeared as Dr Shapiro in a later episode), Cyril Shaps in series 1 to 4, David Nettheim and Jonathan Burn as Rabbi Stone in series 5) from the local synagogue, and Father Ryan (Denis Carey in the pilot, Eamon Kelly in series 1 to 4) from the local Catholic church.

New York Percussion Trio

The group was originally formed in 1954 as the Dance-Percussion Trio, to accompany performances by the modern dancer Daniel Nagrin; Nagrin was a member of the trio along with the pianist David Shapiro and the percussionist Ronald Gould.

Richard and Esther Shapiro

Richard Shapiro and Esther Shapiro are married American television screenwriters and producers best known as the creators of the long-running 1980s primetime serial Dynasty, its spin-off series The Colbys and the 1991 miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion.

Richard B. Shapiro

On August 18, 2009 Shapiro pleaded "no contest" to a misdemeanour charge of vandalism in connection with the key-scratching of the 2008 Jaguar sedan owned by Jerry Jamgotchian, a horse-owner who was one of Shapiro's harshest critics during his time on the board.

Rick Shapiro

On April 25, 2013, Shapiro was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disorder that attacks the central nervous system.

Ryan Shapiro

Shapiro and investigative journalist Jason Leopold filed a joint lawsuit on July 26, 2013 against the FBI for ignoring their FOIA requests concerning a possible file on Michael Hastings, a Rolling Stone journalist who died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

SIGKDD

KDD Conferences grew from KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) workshops at AAAI conferences, which were started by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro in 1989, 1991, and 1993, and Usama Fayyad in 1994.

Sound Diplomacy

Advisors to the company include Spotify’s Will Page, The Orchard’s Scott Cohen and Damon Forbes of Sheer Sound, while further insights come from Shain Shapiro’s research, who is currently completing work on a PhD thesis entitled ‘The History Of Popular Music Funding In Canada'.

The Leveller

Members, who met for collective meetings initially in the Euston and Kings Cross areas of north London, and later in Brixton, included: Roger Andersen, Nick Anning, Julia Bard, Imogen Bloor, Dave Clark, Andy Curry, Brian Deer, Tim Gopsill, Cheryl Hicks, Terry Ilott, Phil Kelly, HO Nazareth, Mike Prest, Jane Root, Rose Shapiro, Russell Southwood, Dave Taylor, Adam Thompson, John Verner, Ian Walker.

The Perfect Furlough

Edwards and Shapiro would re-team the following year for another Tony Curtis service comedy, Operation Petticoat.

Todd Hughes

Premiering on Lifetime on May 6, 2013 as a mother's day special, Todd is producer of the documentary Dear Mom, Love Cher as well as Executive Producer along with P. David Ebersole (who also wrote and directed), Cher, Risa Shapiro and Tanya Lopez.

Tom Shapiro

In addition, Shapiro has produced albums for Billy Dean and Dusty Springfield, as well as writing several singles for the former.

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

2013: NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Career Transition for Dancers; William "Bill" Craver; Peter Lawrence (Production Stage Manager); The Lost Colony (Roanoke Island, in Manteo, North Carolina); jointly to Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro, the four actresses who share the lead in Matilda the Musical

Vidyo

With Mr. More’s advice and support, Mr. Shapiro brought his plans to venture capital firms Sevin Rosen Funds and Star Ventures.

Wayne Perkins

This led to work at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with such names as David Porter and the Soul Children, Dave Crawford and Brad Shapiro, Dee Dee Warwick, Ronnie Milsap, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Jimmy Cliff, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood and Marlin Greene.

Yechezkel Sarna

In 1902, he journeyed to Maltsch to study under Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro, who also presided as the Chief Rabbi of the city.


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