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unusual facts about The Stairs


Zukanican

Formed in 2003 from the ashes of Ged Lynn's post Stairs band "The Living Brain", which along with singer Lars Gabel also featured James Pagella and Tom Sumnall.



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9½ Weeks

Winston Grennan's reggae "Savior" as well as Jean Michel Jarre's "Arpegiator," played during the sex scene on the stairs in the rain, were not included on the record.

All Fired Up! Live

The shows second act carries on with "Issues", which sees Mollie King and Una Healy sat on the stairs on the right hand side of the stage, Rochelle Wiseman and Vanessa White on the left, and Frankie Sandford sat above the doors in the middle back of the stage.

Ben Maddow

As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award.

Donna Lynne Champlin

This was followed by taking the title role of Very Warm for May, her Broadway debut in James Joyce's The Dead, then By Jeeves, Hollywood Arms, Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot the Musical, and The Dark At The Top of the Stairs, for which she won the 2007 Obie Award.

Jesse Barfield

On August 22, 2006 it was reported by the Associated Press that Barfield's younger son, Jeremy Barfield, pushed his father down the stairs, causing Jesse to be hospitalized.

Jon Farriss

Examples of these techniques can be found in such songs as "Need You Tonight" and "The Stairs".

Jufuku-ji

Two yagura are dedicated to Hōjō Masako and her son Minamoto no Sanetomo, who was assassinated while still young by nephew Kugyō on the stairs of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū.

Korn Digital EP 3

The EP contains three tracks, including live recordings of "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)" and "Pop a Pill", recorded at Ozzfest 2010 in London, a demo of "Are You Ready to Live?" by Jonathan Davis, and an in-studio video of "Trapped Underneath the Stairs" not incluced in the Korn III: Remember Who You Are deluxe edition package.

La Guerre des clans

minus the design of the survey board (similarly but not quite looking to that of Family Fortunes) and the brick wall pattern replacing the stairs artwork, the cover art looks pretty much similar to the Pressman/Croner versions from the US in 1990 and Australia in 1989 respectively.

Making an entrance

This happens in 1999 film She's All That where the lead female character Laney Boggs (played by Rachael Leigh Cook) is transformed from a geeky-looking girl to a stunning beauty wearing a red bodycon dress, and walks slowly down the stairs after the makeover.

Nashville Rhythm

The next morning, paramedics were called to Anthony's residence, by Anthony's sister-in-law Susan Bucher, to treat her after either a fall down the stairs or a dog bite or mixing alcohol with the anxiety-relieving drug Xanax, depending on the story she gave at the time.

Ponderosa Ranch

The stairs led nowhere, as the "bedrooms" were actually located on a sound stage in Hollywood.

Sadberk Hanım Museum

The entrance floor is paved in white Afyon marble while black Adapazarı marble was used for the floors of the exhibition spaces and the stairs.

Stair climbing

Every year several stair climbing races are held around the world with the competitors running up the stairs of some of the world's tallest buildings and towers (e.g., the Empire State Building, Gran Hotel Bali), or on outside stairs such as the Niesenbahn Stairway.

Stairs Expedition to Katanga

The Stairs Expedition to Katanga of 1891−1892 led by Captain William Stairs was the winner in a race between two imperial powers to claim Katanga, a vast mineral-rich territory in Central Africa for colonization, during which a local chief, (Mwenda Msiri) was killed.

Staten Island Railway

Part of singer Madonna's music video for "Papa Don't Preach" was filmed on the stairs and platform of the railway's Stapleton station.

The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil

The title of the song refers to Winnie the Pooh as well as folk singer Fred Neil: parts of the lyric are taken from A. A. Milne's first book of children's poetry When We Were Very Young, including the poem "Halfway Down," which includes the words "Halfway down the stairs Is a stair where I sit" and the poem "Spring Morning."

The Big Showdown

Two episodes also exist on videotape: the 1974 pilot and an episode from 1975 where Jim Peck falls while making his entrance down the stairs (which has made an appearance on The Most Outrageous Game Show Moments).

The Mo'Nique Show

Mo'Nique appears from an 'elevator', and is walked down the stairs by Rodney Perry.

What the World Needs Now Is Love

Alec Baldwin sang a part of the song in the episode Somebody to Love of 30 Rock while playing a piano, as his soon to be lover CC walked down the stairs at the party which they met.

Zebedy Colt

His Broadway acting work included appearing as Anthony Newley’s understudy in The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd as well as performances in "The Royal Family", "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" and an award-winning 1976 production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties.