document_title: Virginia Williams

question_text: who played claudia in how i met your mother

text: Virginia Williams

text: Early life[edit]

text: Williams first began her acting education in New York, earning a B.A. in Theatre Performance from Fordham University and later studying Shakespeare at Oxford University and at the British American Drama Academy in London.

text: Career[edit]

text: Williams made her professional acting debut in the ABC daytime soap One Life to Live as Lorna Van Skyver, a role she played from 1995 to 1996. She also played Brandy Taylor on the CBS daytime soap As the World Turns from 2001 to 2002. With those experience in daytime soaps, she parlayed her talents into several primetime roles, including the leading role of Bianca on Lifetime's Monarch Cove, Claudia on five episodes of the hit series How I Met Your Mother, Shelley Long's daughter who was snubbed at the altar in the film Honeymoon with Mom, and two seasons on Comedy Central's Strangers with Candy. She also played the role of Caitlin McNabb who is a gold digger in the 2010 ABC Family TV movie Revenge of the Bridesmaids.

text: Williams has performed guest starring roles and recurring characters on more than two dozen shows, including The Mentalist, Rules of Engagement, Better Off Ted, Lie to Me, In Plain Sight, Two and a Half Men, My Wife and Kids, Jack & Bobby, As the World Turns, Veronica Mars and Drop Dead Diva. She has also held lead roles on numerous television pilots for every major network.[1] In 2011, she began portraying the role of Lauren Reed on the USA Network series Fairly Legal.[2]

text: In 2016, Williams was featured in Mogul's #IAmAMogul campaign for "Inspiring women to rise higher, shine brighter, and give back", as part of Women's History Month in March. She also had a guest spot on the NCIS episode "Charade" as Leah Ramsey as well as playing C.J., Steve's love interest in season two of the Netflix family sitcom Fuller House.

text: Personal life[edit]

text: Williams lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Bradford Bricken.[1]


document_title: Rango (2011 film)

question_text: who plays the man with no name in rango

question_tokens: who plays the man with no name in rango

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text: Rango (2011 film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: A pet chameleon (Johnny Depp) becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert after his terrarium falls from his owners' car by accident. He meets an armadillo named Roadkill (Alfred Molina) who is seeking the mystical "Spirit of the West". While wandering the desert, he narrowly avoids being eaten by a vicious red-tailed hawk before meeting the desert iguana Beans (Isla Fisher). Beans takes him to Dirt, an Old West town populated by desert animals.

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text: The chameleon presents himself to the townsfolk as a tough drifter named "Rango". He quickly runs afoul of outlaw Gila monster Bad Bill (Ray Winstone), but avoids a shootout when Bill is scared off by the hawk's return. Rango is chased by the hawk until he accidentally knocks down an empty water tower which crushes the predator. The town mayor (Ned Beatty), an elderly tortoise, appoints Rango as the new sheriff. Meanwhile, the townsfolk worry that with the hawk dead, the gunslinger Rattlesnake Jake (Bill Nighy), who is afraid of hawks, will return.

text: After discovering Dirt's water reserves—stored in the town bank inside a water cooler bottle—to be near empty, a skeptical Beans demands Rango investigate where the water has gone. That night, Rango inadvertently assists a trio of bank robbers, led by a mole named Balthazar (Harry Dean Stanton), mistaking them for prospectors. The townsfolk find their water bottle stolen the next day, so Rango organizes a posse. During the search they find the banker, Mr. Merrimack (Stephen Root) in the middle of the desert dead, but oddly the cause of his death was drowning. The posse track the robbers to their hideout. They fight Balthazar's (bat) riding clan over the stolen water bottle before discovering it to be empty. The robbers profess that they found it empty, but the posse brings them to town for trial.

text: Rango confronts the mayor about his buying of the land around Dirt, but the mayor denies any wrongdoing and shows Rango that he is building a modern city with the purchased land. The mayor then summons Rattlesnake Jake, who forces Rango to admit that he lied to the townsfolk and runs him out of town. Falling unconscious, Rango wakes and meets the Spirit of the West (Timothy Olyphant), whom Rango identifies as the Man with No Name. The Spirit inspires Rango, telling him, "No man can walk out on his own story."

text: With the aid of Roadkill and mystical moving yuccas, Rango learns that Dirt's water supply is controlled by an emergency shut-off valve in a water pipeline to Las Vegas, which the mayor has been manipulating to cause a drought so he could buy the land. Rango returns to Dirt to challenge Jake to a duel, a diversion so the yuccas can turn the pipeline's valve to flood the town and with the aid of Balthazar's clan who fly their bats in formation to make a silhouette of a hawk. Jake discovers the deception and shoots several down before running out of bullets, to which Rango then holds him at gunpoint and making clear his resolve. The mayor, however, forces Rango to surrender by threatening Beans' life, and locks them inside the glass bank vault to drown. He then tries to shoot Jake with Rango's gun, intending to kill Jake along with the rest of the Old West, but the gun is empty. Rango has taken the bullet, which he uses to crack the glass and shatter the vault, freeing himself and Beans. Impressed, Jake salutes Rango and drags the mayor into the desert. The citizens of Dirt celebrate the return of the water and recognize Rango as their hero.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Johnny Depp as Rango, a eccentric but intelligent and heroic chameleon[4]
Isla Fisher as Beans, a hot tempered but good hearted desert iguana[5]
Abigail Breslin as Priscilla, a sweet cactus mouse or aye-aye[6][7]
Ned Beatty as Tortoise John, a evil and calculator desert tortoise, who is the Mayor of Dirt[8]
Alfred Molina as Roadkill, a nine-banded armadillo[8]
Bill Nighy as Rattlesnake Jake, a evil and dangerous Western diamondback rattlesnake
Harry Dean Stanton as Balthazar, a mole[9]
Ray Winstone as Bad Bill, a Gila monster[10]
Timothy Olyphant as the Spirit of the West
Stephen Root as Doc, a rabbit; Mr. Merrimack[10]
Maile Flanagan as Lucky
Alanna Ubach as Boo Cletus, a raccoon; Fresca; Miss Daisy
Ian Abercrombie as Ambrose, a burrowing owl
Gil Birmingham as Wounded Bird, a Chihuahuan raven
James Ward Byrkit as Waffles, a horned toad; Gordy; Papa Joad; Cousin Murt
Claudia Black as Angélique, a fox[10]
Blake Clark as Buford, a Sonoran desert toad and a Gas Can Saloon bartender
John Cothran, Jr. as Elgin
Patrika Darbo as Delilah; Maybelle
George DelHoyo as Señor Flan, the accordion player and narrator of the Mariachi Owls
Charles Fleischer as Elbows
Beth Grant as Bonnie
Ryan Hurst as Jedidiah, Balthazar's son, Ezekiel's brother
Vincent Kartheiser as Ezekiel, Balthazar's son, Jedediah's brother; Lasso rodent
Joe Nunez as Rock-Eye, a toad who disguises himself as a rock, until he is snatched by the hawk
Christopher L. Parson as Hazel Moats, Kinski, Stump, Clinker, Lenny, Boseefus, Dirt Kid
Lew Temple as Furgus; Hitch
Gore Verbinski as Sergeant Turley, a wild turkey; Crevice; Slim, a turkey vulture; Lupe, the violin player
Kym Whitley as Melonee
Alex Manugian as Spoons, a mouse prospector
Kenan Thompson as Beans' father

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text: Production[edit]

text: The film was produced by Nickelodeon Movies, Gore Verbinski's production company Blind Wink, and Graham King's GK Films. The CGI animation was created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), marking its first full-length animated feature. ILM usually does visual effects for live-action films.[11] It is also the first animated film for Verbinski. During voice recording, the actors received costumes and sets to "give them the feel of the Wild West"; star Johnny Depp had 20 days in which to voice Rango; and the filmmakers scheduled the supporting actors to interact with him.[12] Verbinski said his attempt with Rango was to do a "small" film after the large-scale Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, but that he underestimated how painstaking and time-consuming animated filmmaking is.[11][12]

text: The film contains a number of references to movie Westerns and other films, including The Shakiest Gun in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, Chinatown, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Cat Ballou, Raising Arizona, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas;[13] and references to earlier ILM work, including the dogfight in the Death Star trench in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.[14] Verbinski has also cited El Topo as an influence on the film.[15]

text: In a discussion about the nature of contemporary animated features, Verbinski said in December 2011,

text: There are shackles with the budgets and the profit margins. You want to compete with what they're doing at Pixar and DreamWorks. There's a price tag with that just in terms of achieving that quality level. What happened to the Ralph Bakshis of the world? We’re all sitting here talking about family entertainment. Does animation have to be family entertainment? I think at that cost, yes. There's the bull's-eye you have to hit, but when you miss it by a little bit and you do something interesting, the bull's-eye is going to move. Audiences want something new; they just can't articulate what.[16]

text: Release[edit]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: Rango's teaser trailer was released on June 9, 2010,[17] along with the film's official site, RangoMovie.com.[18] It shows an open desert highway and an orange, wind-up plastic fish floating slowly across the road.[19] On June 28, 2010, the first poster was released, showing the character Rango.[4] A two-minute film trailer was released June 29, 2010.[20][21] Another trailer was released December 14, 2010.[22] A 30-second spot was made specifically to run during Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011.[23]

text: Home media[edit]

text: The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 15, 2011.[24][25] The release had been produced as a two-disc Blu-ray, DVD, and "Digital Copy" combo pack with both the theatrical and an extended version of the film, cast and crew commentary, deleted scenes, and featurettes.[26][27][28]

text: The extended version adds a final scene with the flooded town now a beach resort renamed Mud, and Rango riding out to deal with news that Bad Bill is causing trouble elsewhere.

text: On January 24, 2017, Rango was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD.

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Rango, which was distributed by Paramount Pictures, earned $123,477,607 in North America and $122,246,996 in other countries for a total $245,724,603.[29] It is the 23rd-highest-grossing film of 2011 worldwide.[30]

text: In North America, Rango debuted in 3,917 theaters, grossing $9,608,091 on its first day and $38,079,323 during its opening weekend, ranking number one at the box office.[1] On March 26, 2011 it became the first film of 2011 to cross the $100 million mark in North America.[31]

text: In markets outside North America, during its first weekend, it earned $16,770,243 in 33 countries.[32] It topped the overseas box office two times in March 2011.[33][34]

text: With its distribution contract with DreamWorks Animation set to be concluded in 2012, Paramount Pictures, pleased by the performance of this film, announced plans to establish its own animation department.[35]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: The film holds an 87% rating on the film critics aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 214 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The site's consensus says, "Rango is a smart, giddily creative burst of beautifully animated entertainment, and Johnny Depp gives a colorful vocal performance as a household pet in an unfamiliar world." [36] Another review-aggregation website, Metacritic, reported that the film had been given an average rating of 75 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[37] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.[38]

text: Richard Corliss of Time applauded the "savvy humor" and called the voice actors "flat-out flawless."[39] He later named it one of the 10 best movies of 2011, saying, "In a strong year for animation … Rango was the coolest, funniest and dagnab-orneriest of the bunch."[40] Bob Mondello of National Public Radio observed that "Rango's not just a kiddie-flick (though it has enough silly slapstick to qualify as a pretty good one). It's a real movie lover's movie, conceived as a Blazing Saddles-like comic commentary on genre that's as back-lot savvy as it is light in the saddle."[5] Frank Lovece of Film Journal International, noting the nervous but improvising hero's resemblance to the Don Knotts character in The Shakiest Gun in the West, echoed this, saying that "with healthy doses of Carlos Castaneda, Sergio Leone, Chuck Jones and Chinatown … this [is] the kid-movie equivalent of a Quentin Tarantino picture. There's no gory violence or swearing, of course, but there sure is a film buff's parade of great movie moments."[41] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars calling the film "some kind of a miracle: An animated comedy for smart moviegoers, wonderfully made, great to look at, wickedly satirical … The movie respects the tradition of painstakingly drawn animated classics, and does interesting things with space and perspective with its wild action sequences."[42]

text: After praising "the brilliance of its visuals," Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "The narrative isn't really dramatic, … [but] more like a succession of picturesque notions that might have flowed from DreamWorks or Pixar while their story departments were out to lunch."[43]

text: In one of the more negative reviews, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune acknowledged its "considerable care and craft" but called it "completely soulless" and that watching it "with a big suburban preview audience was instructive. Not much laughter. Moans and sobs of pre-teen fright whenever Rattlesnake Jake slithered into view, threatening murder."[44]

text: Smoking controversy[edit]

text: The Sacramento, California-based anti-smoking organization Breathe California regards the film a "public health hazard"; it said there were at least 60 instances of smoking in the film.[45] Because of this, some anti-smoking organizations, including Breathe California, petitioned for the film to receive an R rating instead of the original PG rating received by the Motion Picture Association of America. However, no change was made to the smoking scenes, and the film maintained its PG rating.[46]

text: Accolades[edit]

text: Rango is the first Nickelodeon Movies film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Film and the first Nickelodeon movie to be nominated for the award since Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It is the first time since the 2006 film Happy Feet that the award did not go to either a Disney or Pixar film. It is the fifth non-Disney/Pixar film to win Best Animated Film.

text:
List of awards and nominations

Award
Category
Recipient(s) and nominee(s)
Result

Academy Awards
Best Animated Film
Gore Verbinski
Won

Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Best Animated Film

Won

Best Animated Female
Isla Fisher
Won

American Cinema Editors
Best Edited Animated Feature Film
Craig Wood
Won

Annie Awards
Best Animated Feature

Won

Animated Effects in an Animated Production
Chase Cooper
Nominated

Animated Effects in an Animated Production
Willi Geiger
Nominated

Character Design in a Feature Production
Mark “Crash” McCreery
Won

Directing in a Feature Production
Gore Verbinski
Nominated

Storyboarding in a Feature Production
Delia Gosman
Nominated

Storyboarding in a Feature Production
Josh Hayes
Nominated

Writing in a Feature Production
John Logan, Gore Verbinski and James Ward Byrkit
Won

Editing in a Feature Production
Craig Wood
Won

BAFTA
Best Animated Film
Gore Verbinski
Won

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Animated Film

Won

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Feature

Won

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Animated Feature
Gore Verbinski
Won

Golden Globes Awards
Best Animated Feature Film

Nominated

Hollywood Film Festival
Best Animated

Won

IGN Best of 2011
Best Animated Movie

Won

International Film Music Critics Association
Best Original Score for an Animated Feature
Hans Zimmer
Nominated

Kids Choice Awards
Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film

Won

Motion Picture Sound Editors
Best Sound Editing in an Animation Feature Film

Nominated

National Board of Review Awards
Best Animated Feature

Won

Online Film Critics Society Awards
Best Animated Feature

Won

People's Choice Awards[47]
Favorite Movie Animated Voice
Johnny Depp
Won

Producers Guild of America Awards
Best Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
John B. Carls, Gore Verbinski
Nominated

San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Feature

Won

Satellite Awards
Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media

Nominated

Saturn Awards
Best Animated Film

Nominated

Teen Choice Awards[48]
Choice Movie Animated Voice
Johnny Depp
Won

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Feature

Nominated

Visual Effects Society[49]
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Tim Alexander, Hal Hickel, Jacqui Lopez, Katie Lynch
Won

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Frank Gravatt, Kevin Martel, Brian Paik, Steve Walton
Won

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
John Bell, Polly Ing, Martin Murphy, Russell Paul
Won

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Colin Benoit, Philippe Rebours, Nelson Sepulveda, Nick Walker
Won

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text: Video games[edit]

text: Console games[edit]

text: Electronic Arts released a video game of the same name based on the film. It is rated E10+ and was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and Wii.[50]

text: Online games[edit]

text: Funtactix launched Rango: The World, a browser-based virtual world set in the Rango universe, on March 4, 2011, the day of the film's release.[51][52]

text: Soundtrack[edit]

text:
Rango: Music from the Motion Picture

Film score by Hans Zimmer

Released
March 11, 2011

Genre
Score

Length
34:18

Label
ANTI-

Hans Zimmer film scores chronology

How Do You Know
(2010)How Do You Know2010
Rango
(2011)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
(2011)Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides2011

text:
Rango[53][54]

No.
Title
Artist
Length

1.
"Welcome Amigo"
Rick Garcia
1:06

2.
"Rango Suite"
Hans Zimmer
5:57

3.
"Certain Demise"
Hans Zimmer
0:24

4.
"Medley - It's A Metaphore / Forkboy"
Hans Zimmer / Lard
0:43

5.
"Welcome to Dirt"
Hans Zimmer
0:58

6.
"Name's Rango"
Hans Zimmer
1:31

7.
"Lizard for Lunch"
Jose Hernandez, Anthony Zuniga, Robert Lopez
1:26

8.
"Stuck in Guacamole"
Hans Zimmer
0:21

9.
"Underground"
Hans Zimmer
3:18

10.
"We Ride, Really!"
Hans Zimmer
0:50

11.
"Rango and Beans"
Hans Zimmer
1:04

12.
"Medley - Bats / Rango Theme / Ride of the Valkyries / An Der Schönen Blauen Donau, OP. 314"
Hans Zimmer / Hans Zimmer / FirstCom Music / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
4:28

13.
"The Bank's Been Robbed"
Rick Garcia
0:22

14.
"Rango Returns"
Hans Zimmer
1:16

15.
"La Muerte a Llegado"
Rick Garcia & George DelHoyo
0:44

16.
"It's a Miracle"
Hans Zimmer
1:57

17.
"El Canelo"
Los Lobos
0:44

18.
"The Sunset Shot"
Hans Zimmer
0:53

19.
"Walk Don't Rango"
Los Lobos
2:47

20.
"Rango Theme Song"
Los Lobos
3:29

Total length:
34:18


document_title: Ryan McPartlin

question_text: who is the guy in the sugarland stuck like glue

text: Ryan McPartlin

text: Early life[edit]

text: McPartlin was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Steve and Lois McPartlin. He was raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago),[1] and attended Glenbard South High School. McPartlin graduated with a degree in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was a member of the Illinois Fighting Illini football team as a walk-on tight end from 1993-95. McPartlin's older brother, Chris, was also a member of the Illinois football team, earning a varsity letter as a linebacker in 1994.[2] After six months in Australia and New Zealand, McPartlin moved to Southern California to pursue acting as a career.

text: Career[edit]

text: McPartlin spent years as an Abercrombie & Fitch model.[1] McPartlin's first acting role was on The Nanny with Fran Drescher as a Leonardo DiCaprio-type character in a Titanic spoof.[1] McPartlin has been mostly known for his role as Hank Bennett on the popular soap opera Passions replacing Dalton James from April 2001 until June 2004 and made a brief appearance in the series L.A. 7 as Ryan. McPartlin worked with Drescher again as Riley Martin on the television sitcom Living with Fran playing her much younger live-in boyfriend.[1] Living with Fran was canceled on May 17, 2006, after two seasons. McPartlin originally auditioned for the role of Clark Kent/Superman in the film Superman Returns, but lost the role to Brandon Routh. In 2008, Ryan participated in Mad Men, playing an affair of January Jones character, Betty Draper.

text: McPartlin also played Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb on NBC's Chuck from 2007 to 2012. In mid-2011, McPartlin appeared in Sugarland's music video "Stuck Like Glue" as a man being stalked and abducted by lead singer Jennifer Nettles. McPartlin appears in commercials for Kate Walsh's perfume "Boyfriend". In March 2012, McPartlin began working with the website LiveLifeLocal to help promote active lifestyles and is filming a series of videos for the site. In 2014, he portrayed the recurring roles of police detective Dwayne Freeman on Mystery Girls and Billy the fireman on Bad Judge.

text: Personal life[edit]

text: McPartlin is a certified personal trainer. He has been married to actress Danielle Kirlin since October 26, 2002 and has two sons. McPartlin's hobbies include scuba diving, tennis, snowboarding and racquetball.

text: Filmography[edit]

text:
Film

Year

Title

Role

Notes

2003

King of the Ants

Straff

2006

The Shadow Effect

Chaz Martini

Short film

2009

Super Capers

Will Powers

2010

Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers

Clutch Powers

Voice

2011

Game Time: Tackling the Past

Jake Walker

Television film

2011

J. Edgar

Lawrence Richey

2012

Holly's Holiday

Bo

Television film

2012

A Perfect Christmas

Television film

2013

The Right Kind of Wrong

Danny

2013

Chance at Romance

Heath Madsen

Television film

2015

Babysitter's Black Book

Mark

2015

Heaven Sent

Sean Miller

Premiered on Lifetime December 2016

2015

You Cast a Spell on Me

Matt

aka A Kind of Magic

2015

The Flight Before Christmas

Michael Nolan

Television film

2018

Hunter Killer

Matt Johnstone

Filming

text:
Television

Year

Title

Role

Notes

1999

The Nanny

Performer #3

Episode: "Yetta's Letters"

1999

Odd Man Out

N/A

Episode: "Batman Forever"

2000

L.A. 7

Ryan Sinclar

Episode: "Mr Muscle"

2001

Three Sisters

Brad

Episode: "My Best Friend's Girl"

2001–04

Passions

Hank Bennett

Contract: April 24, 2001 – April 2004Recurring: April – June 18, 2004

2003

According to Jim

Bob

Episode: "No Harm, No Fowl"

2004

Still Standing

Jeremy

Episode: "Still Flirting"

2004

North Shore

William

Episode: "Secret Service"

2005

What I Like About You

Riley Martin

Episode: "Girls Gone Wild"

2005–06

Living with Fran

Riley Douglas Martin

Main cast; 26 episodes

2006

Pepper Dennis

Grady Harper

Episode: "Charlie Babcock's Homosexual Encounter"

2007

CSI: NY

Terry Rockwell

Episode: "Obsession"

2007

Notes from the Underbelly

Hunter

Episode: "Mother's Milk"

2007–12

Chuck

Devon Woodcomb

Recurring, season 1; main cast, seasons 2–5; 70 episodes

2008

Swingtown

Luke

Episode: "Friends with Benefits"

2009

Mad Men

Gentleman

Episode: "Meditations in an Emergency"

2009

Everything She Ever Wanted

Tom Allanson

Miniseries; 2 episodes

2011

Friends with Benefits

Evan Macklam

Episode: "The Benefit of the Right Track"

2011

Community

Frisbee student #3

Episode: "Documentary Filmmaking: Redux"

2012

Hot in Cleveland

David

Episode: "Life with Lucci"

2012

CSI: Miami

Josh Avery

4 episodes

2012

Rizzoli & Isles

Dale Bowman

Episode: "Money Maker"

2012

Necessary Roughness

Ted

Episode: "Double Fault"

2013

I Hate My Teenage Daughter

Chris Reynolds

Episode: "Teenage Party"

2013–14

Hart of Dixie

Carter Covington

4 episodes

2014

Playing House

Steve

Episode: "Totes Kewl"

2014

Friends with Better Lives

Sam

Episode: "Cyrano de Trainer-Zac"

2014

Sequestered

Ryan

Main cast; 12 episodes

2014

Mystery Girls

Detective Dwayne Freeman

5 episodes

2014

Bad Judge

Billy

2 episodes

2016

Fuller House

Tyler

Episode: "Mad Max"

2016

Devious Maids

Kyle

Recurring Role

2017

Ghosted (TV series)

Water Delivery Guy

Episode: "Lockdown"

TBA

L.A.'s Finest

Patrick McKenna

Main cast; filming

text:
Web

Year

Title

Role

Notes

2012

Daybreak

Eric

5 episodes

text:
Music videos

Year

Title

Artist

2010

"Stuck Like Glue"

Sugarland

2015

Give You What You Like

Avril Lavigne


document_title: Pocono Raceway

question_text: who has the most nascar wins at pocono

question_tokens: who has the most nascar wins at pocono

text: Pocono Raceway

text: Track configuration[edit]

text: The track was designed by 1959 and 1962 Indianapolis 500 winner Rodger Ward,[2] Pocono Raceway has a unique design, as each turn is modeled after a turn at a different track.

text:
Turn one (14° banking) - modeled after Trenton Speedway
Turn two (9° banking) also known as the "Tunnel Turn" - modeled after Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Turn three (6° banking) - modeled after the Milwaukee Mile

text: The circuit is sometimes considered a tri-oval, but the turns are much more severe than those of a more typical tri-oval such as Daytona and other intermediate speedways. An additional complication is that the three turns are in no way the same, nor are any of the three straights identical in length. The banking of each turn is considerably less than on many other long superspeedways. Although the track is long [2.5 mi (4.023 km)], the sharp nature of the turns and the low banking tend to make the average speeds lower than at other tracks of similar lengths. Because of its unique characteristics, Pocono is sometimes referred to as a roval (an oval track that behaves like a road course). Others refer to Pocono as a modified road course, due to the use of shifting gears to handle the range between the slowest turn and the fastest straightaway.

text: The unique design makes the setup of the car and the crew's ability to make chassis adjustments more crucial than at many other tracks. Often it is the difference between a winning performance and a poor performance.

text: Shifting[edit]

text: In 1991 some drivers in NASCAR (notably Mark Martin) experimented with shifting gears down the long, 3,740 foot front straight. The ratios for third gear and fourth gear were set so that third was used for most of the circuit (including the turns), and fourth was used for the later part of the long front stretch. This method provided a better RPM range around the track and improved overall lap times. By 1993, the entire field was shifting at Pocono, and using a special transmission (manufactured by Jerico) to shift gears without using the clutch. Shifting was criticized by some drivers (Rusty Wallace stated that the Jerico took away the ability to pass cars while Terry Labonte called it "a pain in the butt"). However, the practice continued until 2005, when a new gear rule eliminated the effectiveness of shifting. In 2011 the gear rule was changed again, and shifting returned to Pocono.

text: IndyCar races at Pocono[edit]

text: From 1971 to 1989, first USAC and then the CART IndyCar World Series held a 500-mile (800 km) race at Pocono as part of the IndyCar 500-mile Triple Crown. In 1989, Emerson Fittipaldi set a qualifying track record of 211.715 mph (340.722 km/h). Following the 1989 race, however, the track was criticized for its roughness, lack of catch fencing and runoff areas. After continuing squabbles between the management and the sanctioning body, it was removed from the IndyCar schedule.

text: In the wake of a meeting between Pocono CEO Brandon Igdalsky and IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard at the 2012 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, speculation developed throughout 2012 regarding the possibility of a 2013 IndyCar Series race at Pocono Raceway. On the September 30, 2012, edition of Speed Channel's WindTunnel with Dave Despain, Bernard officially confirmed that the IndyCar Series would return to Pocono with a 400-mile race on July 7, 2013. Further acknowledging Pocono's place in IndyCar history, Bernard also announced that from 2013, the Indianapolis 500, Pocono IndyCar 400 and MAVTV 500 at California's Auto Club Speedway would mark a revival of IndyCar's all-oval Triple Crown. A $1 million bonus will be paid to a driver who wins all three races in a single season.

text: During the 2015 ABC Supply 500, Andretti Autosport driver Justin Wilson was struck in the head by Sage Karam's nose cone after he crashed in turn 1 late in the race.  Wilson died from his injuries on August 24, 2015, the day after the race, at Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

text: Race of Champions[edit]

text: From 1977 to 1991, Pocono Raceway hosted the Race of Champions Modified race. From 1977 to 1979, the race was held on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) triangular superspeedway; from 1980 onward, the three-quarter-mile infield oval was used. Richie Evans and George Kent were the leading winners, each winning two of the fifteen RoC events at Pocono.  In 1992, the Race of Champions was moved to Flemington Raceway.

text: Notable events[edit]

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1971: Schaefer Beer agrees to sponsor Pocono's Indycar 500.
July 3, 1971: Mark Donohue wins the inaugural USAC Pocono 500. NASCAR Grand National regulars Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough finish 28th and 32nd respectively.
July 1972: Massive flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes forced postponement of the Schaefer 500 to late July, in conjunction with USAC's Pennsylvania 500 for stock cars; Pocono became the first track to hold back-to-back 500 mile races in one weekend. Joe Leonard won the Schaefer 500 while Roger McCluskey drove a Plymouth Superbird to win the Pennsylvania 500.
July 20 to July 29, 1973: The Pocono State Fair offered performances by Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, Mac Davis, the Jackson Five, Helen Reddy, Sammy Davis Jr., Lawrence Welk, and other stars.
August 4, 1974: Richard Petty wins the inaugural Pocono 500.
August 1, 1976: Petty scores a popular win after David Pearson blows a tire with two laps to go.
June 21, 1981: A. J. Foyt wins the USAC Van Scoy Diamond Mines 500. This is the final IndyCar race that USAC sanctioned at Pocono. From 1982–1989 the IndyCar races would be sanctioned by CART. It was also Foyt's final IndyCar win.
August 15, 1982: Rick Mears wins the CART Domino's Pizza Pocono 500, the first CART IndyCar sanctioned race.
1985 Bill Elliott sweeps both Pocono cup races.
1986–1987: Tim Richmond wins three Pocono races in a row. The third and last was the spring race in 1987. Richmond had just returned after missing the first part of the season battling HIV. Richmond was the first HIV positive race car driver to win a major race, this wasn't revealed for nearly four years.
July 20, 1986: Richmond recovers from a crash and beats Ricky Rudd and Geoff Bodine in a photo finish.
June 19, 1988: On the opening lap of the 1988 Miller High-life 500, Bobby Allison suffered career-ending injuries when he spun and was T-boned by the No. 63 of Jocko Maggiacomo.
August 21, 1988: Bobby Rahal wins the CART Quaker State 500. This was Bobby's only win of the season. It was his final win with the Truesports IndyCar team, he would leave the team at the end of the season to join team Kraco (incidentally at the end of 1989 team Kraco merged with Galles racing to form Kraco-Galles). This was also the only Indycar win ever scored for the Judd engine.
August 20, 1989: Danny Sullivan wins the final CART Pocono 500. This was the final year of the IndyCar 500 mile triple crown.
1999: Bobby Labonte sweeps both races at Pocono.
June 18, 2000: Jeremy Mayfield knocked Dale Earnhardt out of his way to score his third career Winston Cup win.
July 28, 2002: Steve Park and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. became entangled exiting turn one, and both cars slammed into the inside wall, causing Park's vehicle to go airborne over the hood of Earnhardt's car and barrel roll.  The incident resulted in a lengthy red flag to repair the old-fashioned highway barrier (a guardrail with wooden supports) that lined the inside of the track in that area.  Soon afterward, all outdated barriers at the track were replaced with sturdier walls. The race was shortened by 25 laps due to this repair and rain delays throughout the race, Bill Elliott won the race.
2004: The SAFER barrier is installed in all the turns.[3]
2006: NASCAR's Rookie of the Year Denny Hamlin sweeps both races of the 2006 season at Pocono.
June 6, 2008:  Pocono Raceway becomes one of the first NASCAR tracks in the country to utilize barcode-based ticketing.[4]
June 2008 James Hylton becomes the oldest driver to race at Pocono in the ARCA series.
August 2, 2008: Frank Kimmel, a 9-time ARCA Re/Max Series champion, was injured after a 3-car crash on lap 68 of a Pocono race that involved his car being clipped and slamming into the backstretch wall on the driver's side, going airborne as a result. Kimmel suffered a partially torn sphincter and pulled groin, spending the night in a local hospital before being released.
June 7, 2009: Tony Stewart wins the 2009 Pocono 500.  In doing so, he becomes the first person who both owns and drives his car to win in the NASCAR Cup Series since Ricky Rudd in 1998. The double-file restart shootout style restart procedure was introduced at the race for the first time at a NASCAR Cup Series points race.
June 6, 2010: With two laps to go, Kevin Harvick turned Joey Logano, setting up a green white checkered finish. On the last lap, Kasey Kahne, who had been one of the fastest cars in the race found himself in the back of the pack on late race restart due to different pit strategies playing out, got a huge run on teammate A.J. Allmendinger and Allmendinger proceeded to force a flying Kahne going a good 10 mph quicker, into the grass causing him to spin and he was hit by Mark Martin and Greg Biffle, and flew through the air, landing on top of the wall and completely destroying several hedges outside the track due to the absence of a catch fence and he was hit by Jeff Gordon and several others as his car came to a rest on the track, due to the track being blocked. Both Kasey Kahne and Greg Biffle said that the wreck was Allmendinger's fault as he had forced a much faster Kasey Kahne into the wet grass, causing him to spin to the right across the track in front of a little over half the field. Kahne stated that he would not speak to Allmendinger, and that he usually did not anyways, because there had been tension between the two for a while. Kahne did not like the way his young teammate drove, and during a night race at Phoenix the previous year Kasey Kahne was catching Allmendinger on the track, when Allmendinger began weaving to the left and right as though he was taunting teammate Kasey Kahne, prompting Kahne to say over the team radio "What the hell's Allmendinger doing`!?".  Denny Hamlin cruised home to his third victory at Pocono.
July 31, 2010: The Camping World Truck Series raced for the first time at Pocono in the Pocono Mountains 125. It used a multi-truck qualifying format in which successive trucks were sent out 25 seconds apart. Elliott Sadler won the inaugural Truck Series event at Pocono.
August 1, 2010: Jimmie Johnson clipped Kurt Busch on the Long Pond Straightaway and Busch spun across the track. Behind him Elliott Sadler was turned by teammate A. J. Allmendinger and collided with the inside guardrail so savagely it ripped the engine out of the car and threw it to the entrance of the Tunnel Turn. Sadler's wrecked car slid to a stop back on the track and despite being shaken and suffering some pain, he would climb out of the car slowly and was able to walk to the ambulance. The crash was recorded as the hardest hit in NASCAR history. This wreck (along with Kasey Kahne's crash in the spring race) aroused concern over the safety of the track and renovations were made to improve safety, adding SAFER barriers to the inside retaining wall and a catch fence on the Long Pond Straightaway. Greg Biffle won the race, days after owner Jack Roush was involved in a plane crash.
June 12, 2011: Jeff Gordon scored his 84th NASCAR Cup Series win, tying Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip for 3rd on the all time win list.
August 7, 2011: Brad Keselowski won the NASCAR Cup Series race just three days after sustaining an injury in a test crash at Road Atlanta. This would be the final 500-mile NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway, when two days later NASCAR announced that starting in 2012 both NASCAR Cup events would be changed from 500 to 400 miles.
October 4, 2011: Improvement projects were announced, including repaving the track, installing a new flag stand, making the pit stalls concrete, and adding a new pit wall. This was the first time the track has been repaved since 1995. The new flag stand came from an incident in which a Camping World Truck Series hauler clipped the old stand and destroyed it in August 2011.
January 26, 2012: Founder and chairman of the board for Pocono Raceway, Joseph Mattioli, dies after a long illness.[5]
January 31, 2012: After a viewing and a funeral, Mattioli took his last lap around Pocono Raceway.[6]
April 25–26, 2012: Pocono Raceway hosts a Goodyear Tire Test for NASCAR Cup Series and Camping World Truck series teams, the first event held following the repaving project.
August 5, 2012: Jeff Gordon clinches his first win of the 2012 season and extends his all-time leading six wins at Pocono in the 2012 Pennsylvania 400 after the race ended due to a rainstorm. A fan was killed by a lightning strike, while nine others were injured.[7]
October 2012: Pocono Raceway suffers damage from Hurricane Sandy, such as the steeple being destroyed, the Victory Tower roof being partially missing, and power outages.[8]
June 8, 2013: Chase Elliott wins the Pocono ARCA 200, becoming the youngest ARCA Racing Series superspeedway winner in series history at the age of 17 years and 6 months.
July 7, 2013: Scott Dixon wins the 2013 Pocono IndyCar 400, the first Indy car race at Pocono since 1989.
July 6, 2014: Juan Pablo Montoya in the Team Penske number 2 car won the Pocono 500 from the pole. The race would set an international motorsports record as the, "Fastest 500 Mile Race in History". The race had an average speed of 202.402 mph, shattering the previous record of 197.995 mph from a 2002 open wheel race at California Speedway.[9]
August 3, 2014: Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the GoBowling.com 400, becoming the most recent NASCAR driver to sweep Pocono's Cup Series events in a season.
August 23, 2015: Ryan Hunter-Reay wins the ABC Supply 500 IndyCar race. On lap 179, Sage Karam spun and a piece of debris from his car struck Justin Wilson on the head, knocking Wilson unconscious and sending him into the wall. Wilson was airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, where he died the following day.[10][11][12]
June 4, 2016: The NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Pocono for the first time in the Pocono Green 250. Kyle Larson would go on to win the race after persistent rain showers ended the race after 53 of the scheduled 100 laps.
August 1, 2016: Chris Buescher gets his first career win in the fog shortened 2016 Pennsylvania 400 after stretching his fuel window.
June 10, 2017: The second running of the Pocono Green 250 goes the full 100-lap/250-mile distance with Brad Keselowski making a last lap pass on the inaugural race's winner Kyle Larson on the backstretch.
June 11, 2017: Ryan Blaney holds off Kevin Harvick to win his first ever Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race in the 2017 Axalta presents the Pocono 400.
August 19, 2018: Alexander Rossi dominated and won the ABC Supply 500 IndyCar race. On lap 7, Robert Wickens and Ryan Hunter-Reay made contact in turn 2, which sent Wickens' car into the catchfence and caused a multicar wreck which also involved James Hinchcliffe, Takuma Sato and Pietro Fittipaldi. The race was red-flagged for two hours to repair the catchfence while Wickens was airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital with injuries to his legs, spine and right arm in addition to pulmonary contusion.[13][14]

text: Races[edit]

text: Current[edit]

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
Pocono 400
Gander Outdoors 400
Verizon IndyCar Series
ABC Supply 500
NASCAR Xfinity Series
Pocono Green 250 Recycled by J.P. Mascaro & Sons
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Gander Outdoors 150
ARCA Racing Series
General Tire #AnywhereIsPossible 200
ModSpace 150

text: Former[edit]

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CART IndyCar
Pocono 500 (1982-1989)
IMSA GT Championship
Grand Prix at Pocono (1981–1985)
Indy Lights
Pocono Indy Lights 100 (1986-1989, 2013-2014)
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
Race of Champions (1985-1991)
NASCAR Sportsman Division (1991-1995)
SCCA/USAC Formula 5000 Championship (1975-1976)
Trans-Am Series (1975-1976)
USAC IndyCar
Pocono 500 (1971–1981)
USAC Mini Indy Series (1979-1980)
USAC Stock Car
Pennsylvania 500 (1971-1974)

text: Records[edit]

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NASCAR qualifying: Kyle Larson, 183.438 mph (295.215 km/h), August 1, 2014
NASCAR race: Jeff Gordon, 145.384 mph (233.972 km/h), June 12, 2011
CART qualifying: Emerson Fittipaldi, 211.715 mph (340.722 km/h), 1989
CART race: Danny Sullivan, 170.720 mph (274.747 km/h), 1989
IndyCar qualifying: Juan Pablo Montoya, 223.871 mph (360.285 km/h), July 5, 2014 *Overall track record[15]
IndyCar race: Juan Pablo Montoya, 202.402 mph (325.734 km/h), July 6, 2014 *Overall Track Record[9]
Most open-wheel wins: A. J. Foyt 4, 1973,1975,1979,1981[16]
Most wins in one series: Tim Steele, 9, ARCA Racing Series[17]

text: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series records[edit]

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(As of 30/07/17)
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Most wins
6
Jeff Gordon
Most top-5s
20
Mark Martin Jeff Gordon
Most top-10s
34
Mark Martin
Most starts
55
Ricky Rudd
Most poles
5
Ken Schrader Bill Elliott
Most laps completed
9884
Terry Labonte
Most laps led
1040
Jeff Gordon
Best avg. start*
4.7
David Pearson (6 races)
Best avg. finish*
8.6
Kyle Larson (7 races)

text: * from minimum five starts

text: Environmental initiatives[edit]

text: In July 2010 Pocono Raceway began the installation of a 3 megawatt solar photovoltaics system. Upon completion the racetrack became the largest solar-powered sports facility in the world. The "solar farm" encompasses approximately 25 acres and consists of almost 40,000 solar modules, which satisfies the energy consumption for the entire racing complex and will help power 1,000 homes.[19] By December 2010, with less than four months in operation, the Pocono system had surpassed the 1,000,000 kilowatt hour production mark. Over the next 20 years the system is expected to produce in excess of 72 million kilowatt hours and offset 3,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Sheep are used to keep the grass to a low level.[20]