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Walkin' Butterfly

Walkin' Butterfly was voted the 2nd best new josei manga in English of 2007 by readers of About.com.


Asian fetish

In the afterword to the 1988 play M. Butterfly, the writer, David Henry Hwang, using the term "yellow fever," a pun on the disease of the same name, discusses white men with a "fetish" for Asian women.

Beppe Wolgers

He wrote about a thousand songs and specialized in putting Swedish lyrics to foreign tunes like "Walkin' My Baby Back Home", "Waltz for Debby", "Dat Dere", "Take Five" and "Bachianas brasileiras" no 5.

Breast Cancer Network Australia

In September 2010, AFL champion Shane Crawford embarked on a marathon walk from Adelaide to Melbourne, That's What I'm Walkin' About.

Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies

Male masochism, a key element in many of the films, especially film noirs like Criss Cross, The Killers, Gilda, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and more modern explorations like Lolita and Cronenberg's M. Butterfly, earns its own chapter.

Coo Coo Cal

After leaving Tommy Boy in 2002, Cal released a follow-up to Walkin' Dead entitled Still Walkin'.

Flutter By, Butterfly

Flutter By, Butterfly is an album by the Kenny Wheeler Quintet recorded in 1987 and released on the Soul Note label.

Greg Camp

Camp has written Smash Mouth's most memorable songs of the later 1990s and early 2000s, including "Walkin' on the Sun," "All Star," and "Then the Morning Comes".

Joyce Wadler

Wadler authored Liaison: The True Story of the M. Butterfly Affair (ISBN 0-553-09213-8) after interviewing Bernard Boursicot, who granted her wide access to information and insight into his affair with Shi Pei Pu.

Paint the Town

#"Walkin', Talkin', Cryin', Barely Beatin' Broken Heart" (Roger Miller, Justin Tubb) — 2:33

Rose Gregorio

The following year she returned to Broadway as Beatrice in the original production of A View from the Bridge at the Ambassador Theatre, and again in 1988 as Helga in the original production of M. Butterfly at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

Rubber Rodeo

However, the group also recorded takes on country and western classics such as Ennio Morricone's "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and the Patsy Cline standard "Walkin' After Midnight".

Shi Pei Pu

The incident became the basis of David Henry Hwang's 1988 play M. Butterfly, in which B. D. Wong played Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer and spy based on Shi Pei Pu in the original Broadway production of the play.

The story made headlines in France when it came to light and became the basis for the 1988 play M. Butterfly and the 1993 movie of the same title.

The Nat King Cole Story

# "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:42

Translucent Flashbacks – The Singles

The singles which were released on Glass Records between 1986 & 1988 are "Walkin' With Jesus", Transparent Radiation EP and "Take Me To The Other Side".

Walkin'

The album's title track, a staple of Davis's live set for many years, was also covered by Bobby McFerrin on his 1987 album Spontaneous Inventions.

Walkin' After Midnight

On January 28, 1957, Cline was invited to perform a song on the CBS television program hosted by Arthur Godfrey entitled, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.

The song was left unused until Hecht rediscovered it when writing for Four Star Records.

In January 1957, Cline performed the song on an episode of the CBS television program, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.

Walkin' Down the Line

1992 - Rising Sons on their album Rising Sons Featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder (recorded in the mid-1960s)

Walkin' in the Sun

# "William Tell Overture" (Gioachino Rossini, arranged by Glen Campbell & Dennis McCarthy) - 2:44

Walkin' the Razor's Edge

Two versions of this video were filmed: One for music video channels, and the other being an "adult" version featuring topless models including a then 16-year-old porn star Traci Lords.

Walkin' to Missouri

The best-known version of the song was recorded by Guy Mitchell in 1952.

The song is a Prodigal Son allegory about a young man (the story's metaphorical "robin") who couldn't fly and could only walk all the way back to his old home in Missouri following a life of partying hard in the big city jazz scene -- or more to the point, the repercussions that happened as a result.

Wax Museum, Vol. 1

# "Walkin' in the Rain" (Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil)

Wili

Harold Lamont Otey or "Walkin' Wili", the first person executed since 1976 in Nebraska


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