I'm still waiting for it to hit the big time.
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Can podcasts finally hit the big time as a business?
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If it performs well, Bellator may have hit the big time.
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Singapore's smallest mobile operator is looking to hit the big time. Circles.
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They've hit the big time, and their clothing has adjusted to match.
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Feedback and Flashfood need to bulk up before they hit the big time.
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But prosecutors revealed on Monday that their investigations have hit the big time.
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The adorable duo has hit the big time by starring in a Denny's commercial.
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New York (CNN Business)In 210.6, a homegrown grocery chain hit the big time.
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You know you've hit the big time when you have not one, but several topiaries.
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You haven't hit the big time till you get immortalised on a set of stamps.
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He saw the singer and Bernie through two albums of material before they hit the big time.
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Nokia hit the big time while churning out handsets from the small town of Salo in Finland.
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But just before RedOne hit the big time, Mr. Zain returned to Sweden to take a break.
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"People say, 'Oh, my God, you've hit the big time—Hillary Clinton talked about you,' " he scoffed.
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It hit the big time, The Wall Street Journal reported; retail partners banked millions of dollars in sales.
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The brands had become self-aware, and an idea broadly known as body positivity hit the big-time.
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The class has been in the works for a while — since even before Pokémon Go hit the big time.
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"If I start buying dish soap and other things there, I will have hit the big time," she said.
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Esports have hit the big time, and nowhere is that more evident than the venues where the games are played.
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But it isn't in his native United States where Gavin has really hit the big time, that honor belongs to China.
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It makes sense, then, that Iceland's first female fighter to hit the big time is named after a cataclysmic weather event.
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But it was not long before he hit the big time, earning more than enough to stay in those hotels himself.
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Coworking and flex-office space hit the big time this year, thanks to a mix of hype and front-page controversy.
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Yet from a pro player's perspective, Overwatch still requires a handful of changes before it can really hit the big time.
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Some lucky folk hit the big time as gangly adolescents and remain there until they approach grizzled middle age – alright for some.
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For good or ill (and it's mostly ill), things don't really hit the big time in pro wrestling unless it happens in WWE.
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The Fury family had sometimes boxed there before they hit the big time, Kuba said, and Bugzy had shot a music video there too.
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We wondered why electric buses haven't quite hit the big time yet, and how to eliminate tire noise to make electric vehicles super stealthy.
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Now he's hit the big time, having signed on to direct "Deadpool 2" (in theaters Friday) after the first movie's director, Tim Miller, exited the project.
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Since appearing on Shark Tank, the team behind Three Jerks jerky has been "knee-deep in filet mignon" -- that is to say, they've hit the big time.
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It was not until 2012 that the term "really hit the big time," according to Time, which included selfie in its top 10 buzzwords of the year.
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On Loaded, London mobile game company Idle Thumbs has just hit the big time, with a generous acquisition offer from a vague, insidious-sounding American corporation called Northlock.
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Walter Steiger EliteHaving already been worn by the likes of Kylie Jenner (pictured below) and actress Anna Kendrick, these swirly sneakers are sure to hit the big time.
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Neville, the latest furry fashion friend to hit the big time, joins Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette and Thom Browne's miniature dachshund Hector as a star on the rise.
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Other ideas from franchisees that hit the big time include the Filet-O-Fish, Egg McMuffin, Apple Pie (once deep-fried but now baked), and the Shamrock Shake.
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The lucky few get covered in mainstream publications like this one, where someone like me insists it's evidence that video games have grown up and hit the big time.
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While I might never really hit the big time, I'm fine with being that girl from a '90s reality TV show who isn't really from a small town in Pennsylvania.
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There are indeed too many companies fighting for limited time and attention from busier-than-ever marketers — and equally true is that martech hasn't hit the big time for public valuations.
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But the group underwent tons of changes in its early years, including the addition of keyboardist Christine McVie, and really hit the big time with the inclusion of Lindsey BuckinghamStevie Nicks.
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Then, after a few years, if all goes according to plan, they hit the big time — an initial public offering and a chance to be the next face of the future.
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Bruce hates O.J.'s guts -- wants nothing to do with him -- to the point where he turned down a paying offer to introduce The Juice before UFC hit the big time.
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Their works are found in the repertories of companies worldwide, but they all hit the big time at New York City Ballet, where Mr. Wheeldon and Mr. Peck started as dancers.
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Danny Willett of England hit the big time in 2016 when he won the Masters Tournament, his final round of 67 — 5 under par — taking him past a faltering Jordan Spieth.
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But it hit the big time in 2015 when it raised $100 million from Tiger Global, the New York hedge fund that made ambitious bets on a number of India's most promising internet firms.
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CM: So their comedy troupe gets popular, they hit the big time, they get a big TV contract, and their stand up shows and improv shows and sketch comedy shows are broadcast on national television.
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Slice, born Kevin Ferguson, was a football talent whose career never hit the big time and who wound up working as a limousine driver and bodyguard for the owners of the Reality Kings pornography empire.
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Just as they are about to hit the big time with an appearance on "The Tonight Show," Verb is shaken by an instance of police brutality, in which a black teenager is shot 18 times.
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I remember when you were doing a local show on WABC and then you hit the big time, you substituted for Rush, you went into syndication, you started with Fox at the very beginning of Fox.
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Having spent years trying to make his mark in Silicon Valley, Kessler believed a move south to "Silicon Beach" to create a disruptive shipping logistics company would be the way he could finally hit the big time.
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In the past year, Florence Pugh has seriously hit the big time with critically acclaimed roles in Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, and Little Women, the latter of which landed her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Six did not hit the big time until Daisy joined the band as their lead singer, but her presence brought along drama, intrigue, and a variety of tensions between herself and Billy Dunne, the leader of The Six.
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Charles M. Campion, addicted to politics from the start, knew he had hit the big time when he became the assistant campaign manager for a candidate for state representative who was running in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.
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Before Alessandri hit the big time and started rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bill Gates, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, he began by designing the first prototypes of his fitness equipment in his family's garage, near Cesena, Italy.
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Tom Holland may have made his stage debut in 2008 with Billy Elliot the Musical, but the British actor really hit the big time when he signed on to play Spider-Man in Kevin Feige's massive Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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And if you pay close enough attention, you'll notice that the Life Sentence actress has a knack for trying some of the raddest trends of the year before they hit the big time... and no one ever seems to notice.
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He is tall and muscular, and before he hit the big time as the drug lord Stringer Bell in "The Wire," he was a bouncer (and pot dealer) at the comedy club Carolines on Broadway, sometimes living in his Chevy Astro van.
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But what made 20013 such a fertile time for this previously fringe idea to hit the big time, and 22001 years on, what does the meme's mutation into a thousand different forms—from television series to UFO religions—imply about our perception of the past?
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Virtual reality has yet to hit the big time with the vast majority of consumers — headset sales are still in the single-digit millions — but today Google and NBC announced a deal to make programming that could help the medium pick up some more mainstream appeal.
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The Icleandic acts include groups that have hit the big time — like Of Monsters and Men, who had a breakthrough hit in 215 with their "Little Talks" and have since made the rounds of America's major talk shows — and lesser-known groups, like the death metal rock act Beneath.
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Besides Gyllenhaal's character (the kind of ultra-powerful and influential critic who only exists in movies), Rene Russo plays a gallery owner, Zawe Ashton her ambitious assistant, Toni Collette a curator, Daveed Diggs a lower-class artist who's hit the big time, and John Malkovich a Koons-esque washout.
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But one woman proved that it doesn't take otherworldly, innate skill to leap from the humdrum world of the everyday into a higher, more thrilling plane—that with a little hard work and a little luck, you can hit the big time doing something you don't know a damn thing about.
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Legend has it that dry pot—a sauceless medley of anything small enough to be tossed in a wok, birthed in Chongqing, the sprawling metropolis at the heart of Sichuan—hit the big time only after a few Beijing chefs, on vacation in Sichuan, imported the method north in the early aughts.
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It sounds like Telenor primarily intends to use the tech across its own footprint, which is not only in Norway, as its name might imply: the company is also very active in emerging markets like Vietnam and Burma, where mobile networks are only just starting to hit the big time with services that are not cost-crippling to the vast majority of residents.
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The truth is, before the Internet, if your band didn't hit the big time—like, free-cocaine-on-a-private-jet big time—then you probably didn't get signed at all, and therefore didn't have the means to send your music out into the world, and you disappeared into the ether long before any greasy longhair with a computer could obsess over you.
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On the musician side, however, this is not the place to find a Taylor Swift track (not yet, at least): it's a lot of mostly anonymous names who are professional jobbing musicians who are either doing this for supplementary income until they do hit the big time, or as an end in itself, with the biggest creators making "tens of thousands of dollars per month" on Epidemic, said Oscar Hoglund, Epidemic's co-founder and CEO.
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Richards, Dave (2016). "30 years ago, Erie band the Stabilizers hit the big time." GoErie.com. September 20, 2016 Retrieved 4-28-2017.
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69-70 The Moments never hit the big time, though original founding member Steve Marriott did, early the next year, 1965, with Small Faces.
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After the second album Nils added brother Tom Lofgren as a rhythm guitarist. Grin failed to hit the big time, and were released by their record company.
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Murray married his high school girlfriend Kathy Koontz as The Turtles hit the big time, and soon they had a daughter, Jenny. He was admitted to a hospital in January 1996 for ulcer surgery, and died three months later from post-operative complications.
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Huron is a Canadian rock band from Hamilton, Ontario. Members include pedal- steel player/guitarist Aaron Goldstein,"Huron Interview". Cut from Steel, February 19, 2013 known for his session work with Cowboy Junkies,Rockingham, Graham (February 25, 2010). "Catch Huron before they hit the big time", The Hamilton Spectator.
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The band's name was suggested by Golden Earring vocalist Barry Hay. They released their first single, "Hit The Big Time", produced by ex Golden Earring drummer Jaap Eggermont early in 1974 and it reached no. 16 on the Dutch Singles Chart. Keyboardist Eschauzier was replaced in April 1974 by Elmer Veerfoff.
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The Good Life received fairly good reviews from music critics. PopMatters Juli Thanki states in her review that "On his first full length record, The Good Life, Justin Townes Earle delivers the best debut roots music has seen since Old Crow Medicine Show hit the big time with OCMS in 2004".
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Rex Jameson was a variety artist who hit the big time in the 1950s and 1960s, and went on to attract audiences in the 1970s. The character Mrs Shufflewick was celebrated by artists such as Danny La Rue, Roy Hudd, Bob Monkhouse, Barry Cryer and Barry Humphries. Mrs Shufflewick appeared weekly for Sunday lunch during the 1970s.
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They returned to football with ITV's Feet First (1979) starring Jonathan Barlow as Terry Prince, a local footballer given the chance to hit the big time. Also less successful than The Good Life was their sitcom for ITV Just Liz (1980) starring Sandra Payne. This was followed by Don't Rock The Boat (1982–83) which starred Nigel Davenport.
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He worked with Ronny Shand, an acrobatic comic as well as Jo Lawman and Stella Lamond. Scanlon remembered nursing Toni Lamond when she was a baby. Scanlon was in his early 20s when he hit the big time. He started performing at the Melbourne Tivoli which marked the beginning of a 26-year relationship with the Tivoli circuit.
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One of the last glam metal bands to hit the big time before the advent of grunge in the early 1990s, Skid Row had a sound uncharacteristically heavier than their late 80s counterparts. Hill was also in the band Ozone Monday with singer Shawn McCabe, current Skid Row members guitarist Dave "The Snake" Sabo and bassist Rachel Bolan, and former Skid Row drummer Rob Affuso.
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Winburn traveled the local region as a typical territorial band. Upon the advice of Jimmie Jewell, owner of the Jewel Building, Winburn left Omaha and hit the "big time" with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. North Omaha's musical culture also gave rise to several nationally and internationally reputable African-American musicians. Influential drummer Buddy Miles was friends with Love while they grew up and played together.
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In July 1992, he replaced an injured Akira Nogami to team with Hiroshi Hase to participate in the NWA World Tag Team Championship tournament held by World Championship Wrestling and they defeated The Fabulous Freebirds in the quarterfinals, before losing to Dustin Rhodes and Barry Windham in the semi-finals. Hashimoto finally hit the big time in 1993, as he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from the Great Muta in September.
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The 12" single included the 1985 live version that would later appear on the album Tina Live in Europe (1988). Adams told Songfacts that this was his most memorable collaboration of all the ones he has done. He explained: "Working with Tina Turner was amazing. I used to go to see her in the clubs when I was in my late teens/early 20s before she hit the big time.
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1986 really should have seen the formula hit the big time but, meetings were still hard to come by with just 19 definite fixtures including sessions at Barrow in Furness. Despite a much bigger driver base of 51 registered, attendances averaged around the 20 mark. Much publicity was gained when ex 1981 F1 World Champion Len Wolfenden joined the ranks. In August the Hotstox traveled east to Mildenhall.
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At age 16, it looked like Martin had hit the big time when his brother invited him to be part of a three men group that was to work with top producer, Gabi Le Roux. That group was Inadiflo of "Halala" fame. They signed to Sony Music and released their first album. In 2004, he entered the Coca-Cola Popstars and was selected out of 15,000 entrants for the winning group, Ghetto Lingo.
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Warners had hit the big time. The last of the "Big Five" Hollywood conglomerates of the Golden Age emerged in 1928: RKO. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), led by David Sarnoff, was looking for ways to exploit the cinema sound patents, newly trademarked RCA Photophone, owned by its parent company, General Electric. As the leading film production companies were all preparing to sign exclusive agreements with Western Electric for their technology, RCA got into the movie business itself.
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She has appeared in more than 20 theatre and musical theatre productions, including Capricornia, Mother Courage and her Children, The Sapphires, Natural Life, Nailed, The Sunshine Club, Jerry Springer the Opera, Nathaniel Storm, and The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom"Baby, you've hit the big time now". Northern Territory News 30 December 2007"Who's That Girl?". Deadly Vibe Issue 113 July 2006"Ursula Yovich". Song Summit Sydney"The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom".
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This is attributed to their hometown being Okinawa, a well- known station for American military bases and, thus, cultures and different styles often blend. Due to high sales of their works, Orange Range's singles are often attached to various movies, shows or Japanese products. This is usually seen as a sign of a band or singer having hit "the big time" in the Japanese media. Originally, Orange Range was a cover band, doing mostly covers of songs by other artists.
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Alongside this, Big in Falkirk presented some of the most popular names in music having welcomed Snow Patrol, The Stranglers, Deacon Blue, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. The festival also managed to secure acts just before they hit the big time, with McFly, Orson and Sandi Thom celebrating number one singles during or immediately after playing at Big in Falkirk. Big in Falkirk 2007 was on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 May and headlined by The Human League and Heaven 17.
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And while this film's controversial subject matter ensured its dismal failure at the Indian box office, its poignant story, sensitive portrayals and heartfelt performances garnered it much praise from fans and critics alike, who all had nothing but encouraging words to offer for Shilpa's work in particular. An actress was born. Abhishek Bachchan hadn't yet quite hit the big time during the making of this film, but his turn as the struggling advocate Tarun gives a nice indication of the good things to come.
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Born in Shoshoni, Wyoming, on July 19, 1907, Jewell was the daughter of Emory Lee Jewell and Livia A. Willoughby Jewell. Her father was "a prominent ... doctor and medical researcher." She was educated at St. Mary's Academy in Minnesota and at Hamilton College in Kentucky. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in Up Pops the Devil (1930). She received glowing critical reviews for Blessed Event (1932) as well.
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Following the positive reception Slayer's previous release Hell Awaits had received, the band's producer and manager Brian Slagel realized the band were in a position to hit the "big time" with their next album. Slagel negotiated with several record labels, among them Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons's Def Jam Recordings. However, Slagel was reluctant to have the band signed to what was at the time primarily a hip hop label. Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo was made aware of Rubin's interest, and he initiated contact with the producer.
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In 1991, Kidron and partners Steve Waterman and Jeff Franklin, begun production of Catwalk in Toronto, Canada. Catwalk was a syndicated television series based around the struggles of an urban band trying to hit the big time. The series is best known for launching the career of Neve Campbell (Daisy), discovered by Kidron while she was a performer in the Canadian production of The Phantom of the Opera. Catwalk also featured Lisa Butler (Sierra), Christopher Lee Clements (Atlas), Paul Popowich (Jesse), Kelli Taylor (Mary), and Keram Malicki-Sánchez (Johnny).
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She composed the musical Yellow, about a singer/dancer/actress who leaves Puerto Rico to hit the big time in New York, in which she played the principal part. The movie was filmed in 2005 and released in 2007. Also in 2007, she acted as Monique, the ballet teacher, in The Game Plan, and in 2009, starred in The Perfect Sleep, a neo-noir drama, co-starring Patrick Bauchau, Tony Amendola, Isaac Singleton, and Peter Lucas. In 2011, Sánchez made a guest appearance on TNT's Rizzoli & Isles, playing villainous attorney Valerie Delgado.
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Amazon Online Reader : Hummer: How the Little Truck Company Hit the Big Time, Thanks to Saddam, Schwarzenegger, and GM After a short turn in public relations at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama, Padgett moved to Atlanta, where he began writing for publications including Details, Men's Health, Stuff, and AutoWeek. He also worked for AutoTrader before taking on the editorial duties at The Car Connection. Padgett lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
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" He was also coach of Jordanhill, where he worked with Ian McLauchlan, and Bill McLaren considered that McLauchlan's success was partly down to Dickinson:McLaren :"he had a sage and uncompromising guide in... Bill Dickinson. McLauchlan wasn't taken seriously when he first hit the big time. For one thing he had a roly-poly build and weighed in at just over 13 stones. I have to admit when I first saw him I thought he was just too small for the international game... I doubted that a player of McLauchlan's physique could hold his own with such giants.
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During the next five years, Roach's career took off as he won 23 of his 24 fights and built an 18-fight win streak. As a professional, Roach rolled to enough victories to be named boxing's 1947 rookie of the year by Nat Fleischer of Ring Magazine. He then hit the big time when he defeated Tony Janiro in the main event at Madison Square Garden on January 16, 1948. Roach was given little chance against the more experienced Janiro but Roach was in impeccable shape and picked apart Janiro in a lopsided victory by winning 9 of 10 rounds.
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Dillinger Monogram continued to experiment with film series; some hit and some missed. Definite box office hits were Charlie Chan (which Monogram picked up in 1944 after the series had been dropped by Twentieth Century Fox), The Cisco Kid, and Joe Palooka, all proven movie properties abandoned by other studios and revived by Monogram. Less successful were the comic-strip exploits of Snuffy Smith, the mysterious adventures of The Shadow, and Sam Katzman's comedy series co-starring Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard, and Maxie Rosenbloom. Later Monogram very nearly hit the big time with Dillinger, a King Brothers Productions sensationalized crime drama that was a runaway success in 1945.
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John attended the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 to help promote three films that he was starring in showing there, including the multi award-winning 45 and Left Holding Baby and the political thriller 31 North 62 East. He relocated to Hollywood in 2010 although he still has a base in London. He wrote and produced the TV series Futch Tube and played one of the leading roles in the improv TV series L.A Paranormal for Koldcast TV. He also played the lead in the comedy Hit the Big Time filmed in Hollywood, Las Vegas, London and Utah. He played in a British gangster feature Butterflies and Bullets.
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A public ban on music gradually takes an effect in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after a radical alliance of right-wing religious parties gain power in local elections the previous year. Several music and film stores are closed, musicians have been harassed and vigilantes routinely tear down posters and torch tapes, decrying them as "un-Islamic". But in the town of Peshawar, near the Afghan border, an encounter with a bus-load of Pashtuns showed Salman Ahmad how the masses are still in thrall to music. Salman Ahmad is mobbed by men who ask for his autograph and then start singing the tune with which his band hit the big time - "Jazba-e-Junoon".
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From May to November 1988, future Today host Matt Lauer hosted WNEV's mid-morning talk show Talk of the Town. Two more WNEV/WHDH alumni would then hit the big time: reporter Miles O'Brien, a 1987 arrival to the station, left to join CNN in 1989. Edye Tarbox, now E.D. Hill, who was an anchor/reporter at WHDH from 1990 to 1992, later worked at Fox News Channel from 1999 to 2008. Tom Ellis, who had been dethroned of the male lead anchor position at the station in 1986, came full circle when Inside Edition Extra, a companion series to the syndicated program Inside Edition, appeared on WHDH's fall 1992 daytime schedule.
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John Campbell-Mac has been working consistently as an actor since 1995 in many leading and supporting roles. He is often cast as a lovable rogue, tough guy but is at his best when playing comedy. He has appeared in many films, including 31 North 62 East alongside John Rhys Davies and Mariner Sirtis, "Visible Scars" with Tom Sizemore and Hit The Big Time with Jason Lee Hyde He received positive reviews for the movie Winner Takes All where he acted in the lead role, a film he also wrote and produced. The film was nominated for a BAFTA Award, and was included in the official selection for over 40 festivals worldwide.
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Jason Reolon is a South African pianist and son of jazz drummer Bobby Gien (who was a drummer in Ronnie Scott's Trio) and jazz singer Josie Gien. Reolon was winner of the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) National Overseas Scholarship for best Jazz Pianist in 2001,It's all Happening for the piano man, University of Cape Town, 3 June 2002 the scholarship for which he took up in New York City in 2004. With his jazz band Breakfast Included, he is a 2 times winner of the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters competition. Reolon performed at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2004,"Breakfast Included hit the Big Time", Saturday Argus, 27 March 2004 a spin-off of the North Sea Jazz Festival held in The Netherlands.
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According to Rikky Rooksby, author of The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna, although "Keep It Together" sonically pays tribute to Sly and the Family Stone, the lyrics talk about the realization of how important Madonna's family has been as a form of stability in her life, especially in the line "Brothers and sisters, They've always been there for me, We have a connection, Home is where the heart should be". The lyrics follow the course of Madonna's rise from figuratively being a "hungry sibling" ("I'm gonna leave this place, So I can forget every single hungry face") to being a superstar ("I hit the big time but I still get the blues, Everyone's a stranger, City life can get to you").
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Rico Nasty is here and changing, but, most importantly, not going anywhere." Israel Daramola of Spin wrote "Rico Nasty’s confidence is contagious, and her fusion of sounds make her a hypnotizing artist of the future" and described Nasty as "a cohesive and strong body of work–the kind of great summer album that is so energetic and unquestionably hard, that [Rico Nasty] only rise from here." Aaron Williams of Uproxx wrote that the record "bangs wall to wall, and Rico’s smirkingly confident personality shines through on every track". David Bromfield of Spectrum Culture noted that "While rising rappers often end up with their identities groomed out once they hit the big time, Nasty is the rare major-label debut at the intersection of artistry and intent.
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Bodine was quite an accomplished driver before he hit the big-time in NASCAR's premier division, the Winston Cup Series, with his first start in 1979. By this time, Bodine was well known as a Modified driver in the Northeast, racing against popular drivers like Richie Evans, Jerry Cook, Jimmy Spencer, Ron Bouchard, and others. Bodine earned Modified championships at Stafford Speedway, Shangri-La Speedway, Spencer/Williamson Speedway, and Utica-Rome Speedway. He has won many of the big races in Modifieds including the Lancaster 200 (1978, 1981), Race of Champions (1972 - Trenton, 1978 - Pocono), the Stafford 200 (1978), the Trenton Dogleg 200 (1979), the Thompson 300, the Spring Sizzler (1980 - Stafford Speedway), Oswego Classic (1981), Cardinal Classic (1975 - Martinsville Speedway), Oxford 250 (1980, 1981), and other modified events.
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Tony Forsyth (born Liverpool, Lancashire) is a former English theatre and film actor of the 1980s-90s, noted for his troubled teen portrayals and scouse accent. Forsyth is best known for his role playing rent-boy "Michael" in the 1988 British film The Fruit Machine, a/k/a Wonderland (USA). He first appeared on television in the BBC's John Lennon: A Journey in the Life and Channel 4's Brookside before being cast in The Fruit Machine, writer Frank Clarke's follow-up to Letter to Brezhnev. Other film roles include Hard Days Hard Nights as Alan in a story loosely based on the Beatles trip to Hamburg before they hit the big time, The Tall Guy as Berkoff Actor and Derek Jarman's Edward II in which he played Captive Policeman.
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On 14 August 2015, it was announced that Paloma Faith would be replacing Rita Ora on the panel. Upon her appointment on the show, she said “I'm really excited about working with creative people who are there not just to be great singers, but also innovative personalities and performers. I have a long history of helping break artists as in my club nights I booked Kate Nash, Adele and The Noisettes before they hit the big time, and four of my band members have gone on to pursue successful solo careers. I'm really looking forward to getting my teeth into something that cultivates the talents of another person and takes the focus off myself for a bit.” On 14 August 2015, it was announced that Boy George would be joining the coaching lineup replacing Sir Tom Jones.
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Turrentine Jones performing at Sziget in Budapest in 2015 Following on from the release of their debut album, Turrentine Jones were labelled a "Future Classic" by Real Radio XS and went on to perform at Future Classics Live, an official show of the national radio station to "see the talent of tomorrow before they hit the big time". Their performance was brought to the attention of Marc Carey, European Director of Hard Rock Cafe, whom would later invite the band to perform on the Hard Rock Cafe stage at Isle of Wight Festival the following year. Turrentine Jones performed at a number of popular festivals across the UK including Dot To Dot Festival in both Manchester and Nottingham, Tramlines Festival and Monmouth Music Festival. On 16 August 2015 the band performed at Sziget Festival in Budapest, Europe’s largest music festival.
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Gallagher and Lyle also enjoyed a brief stint as members of Ronnie Lane's band Slim Chance, recording the album Anymore For Anymore with him and backing him on several TV appearances, including a slot on Top of The Pops to promote his hit single "How Come". It was not until 1976, however, that the duo hit the big time after teaming up with US producer David Kershenbaum on their gold-selling fifth album Breakaway. This set spawned two British Top 10 singles, "I Wanna Stay With You" and "Heart on My Sleeve", both of which also charted in the US; the latter song was covered successfully by Bryan Ferry. The album included "Stay Young", which Don Williams took to No.1 on the US C&W; chart, while Art Garfunkel enjoyed a US Adult Contemporary No. 1 with the title song, "Breakaway".
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The club's compere was insane American Kinky John Fowler (Vic), whose "plucking peppercorns" routine was not one of Tony's favourites. After a disastrous "Erotic Night," and an even more calamitous "Talent Night" (which consisted of a man with a fox on his head and a man frightening ducks with a hydraulic machine), things took a turn for the better when boy band Mandate (managed by Kinky John) played a successful set, and Paul managed to secure the services of Les Dennis for one night only. At the end of the series, a jealous Kinky John got "shit-faced" and threatened everyone with a large gun. Luckily for Kinky John, Mandate may have hit the big time in the Vic and Bob universe, as Jeff Randall (Bob) is seen singing their song "Touching Heaven" (performed in Bang Bang) in the duo's remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Kinky John had previously appeared in one-off BBC2 special It’s Ulrika, written for Ulrika Jonsson by Vic and Bob in 1997.
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Paul and Dorsey started work as electricians, and Johnny worked in the garment district. They then found out about the Wednesday night auditions for the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour, and they joined the endless queue of show business hopefuls. Elvis Presley had only hit the big time in late January 1956, and someone in the Mack audition crew thought that the Burnettes and Burlison might reach the same market. So they were given the fast track and appeared on the show, which was networked nationally by ABC. They won three straight appearances in April and May 1956, which gained them a slot on the finalists' tour on 9 September 1956, their appearance being unfortunately telecast live from New York opposite to that of Elvis Presley's first appearance at the Ed Sullivan Show which was also beamed live from Los Angeles, and capturing the highest share in the history of US television, an 82.6%, which meant the finals of the Arthur Godfrey Show were seen by less than 5 million viewers.
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Following a now- infamous appearance on the BBC television music programme Top of the Pops in July 1988, All About Eve soon hit the big-time with the first album and the single "Martha's Harbour" peaking within the top ten of the UK Albums Chart and UK Singles Chart respectively, along with four other top forty hits on the latter chart between the summers of 1988 and 1989. Bricheno left the band at the end of 1990 (and join The Sisters of Mercy), to be replaced by Church guitarist Marty Willson-Piper for All About Eve's third album, Touched by Jesus, for which David Gilmour from Pink Floyd also contributed guitar work on two songs. Touched By Jesus did not quite enjoy the commercial success of the first two albums and All About Eve subsequently changed record labels to MCA in 1992. Here they were to record their fourth (and final) studio album Ultraviolet – a somewhat psychedelic move in which, as Regan later admitted, her vocals were mixed too far down into the swirling guitars, with the net result sounding something akin to Cranes or Spiritualized.
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