Pierce started the non-profit, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp. to build new affordable solar and geothermal homes in the area for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp
Wendell Pierce
Wendell Pierce | Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp
Pierce started the non-profit, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp. Yes, he started the non-profit, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp.. Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
what year is the wire season 1 set in
user
Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
assistant
what is the wire?
user
It is an American crime drama television series
assistant
who created it?
user
David Simon
assistant
where was it filmed?
user
Set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland
assistant
who were the characters?
user
Detective Bunk Moreland, Detective Jimmy McNulty, Cedric Daniels to name a few
assistant
who plays the first character's role?
user
Wendell Pierce
assistant
has this actor been a part of any other show?
user
Yes, "Treme"
assistant
which network was this show aired on?
user
HBO
assistant
when was it first aired?
user
"Treme" premiered on April 11, 2010
assistant
has pierce been a part of any charity work?
user
Pierce started the non-profit, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp. to build new affordable solar and geothermal homes in the area for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Wendell Pierce | Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp
Academy Award-winner and former "Homicide" star Melissa Leo was cast as a civil rights lawyer just before the pilot began filming in March 2009. John Goodman was cast as her character's college professor husband when the show started filming its season order, and scenes featuring him were added to the pilot. The casting of the series is similar to that of "The Wire" in that local actors are used wherever possible. Local casting took place for the first season in January and February 2009 and continued for season two through April 2011 via RPM Casting. New Orleans native Phyllis Montana LeBlanc was cast as the girlfriend of Pierce's character.
Treme (TV series) | Casting
Pierce graduated in 1981 from both Benjamin Franklin High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (most NOCCA students attend traditional secondary school in the mornings and the arts school in the afternoons). In 1981, Pierce was named a Presidential Scholar of the Arts. As a young actor, he appeared in "The Winter's Tale" at the Tulane Shakespeare Festival. He produced and hosted "Think About It", a youth-themed talk show, for the local NBC affiliate station, and also hosted a weekly jazz show on WYLD-FM Radio called "Extensions from Congo Square".
Wendell Pierce | Early life
Pierce describes himself as "tri-coastal", splitting his time among Los Angeles, New York City, and New Orleans. He is a supporter of the New Orleans Saints, and locals have nicknamed him "Saints Wendell". He is also an avid supporter of St. Patrick's Athletic FC. Pierce attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention, was one of President Barack Obama's top campaign fundraisers in 2012, and once escorted Gwen Ifill to a White House State Dinner. When first cast in "The Wire", Pierce and his castmates doubted the show would be a hit: "I remember the first time we all sat around and watched the pilot.
Wendell Pierce | Personal life
"The Wire" star Wendell Pierce was the first acclaimed star to join the series. His involvement was announced shortly after the pilot was commissioned in July 2008. Pierce is a New Orleans native and plays Antoine Batiste, an accomplished trombonist. Fellow "The Wire" alumnus Clarke Peters was also attached to star in the project early in its development. Peters plays Albert Lambreaux, the leader of a Mardi Gras Indian tribe who is trying to bring his scattered people home and revitalize the neighborhood. Khandi Alexander, who previously worked with Simon on "The Corner", joined the project in August 2008 and was cast as Ladonna Batiste-Williams, the ex-wife of Pierce's character and a bar owner.
Treme (TV series) | Casting
Pierce was born in New Orleans one of three sons of a teacher and a decorated World War II veteran who worked as a maintenance engineer. His father's segregated Army unit helped Marines win the Battle of Saipan in 1944. Pierce has said of his father's experience: "When the country wasn't loving my father, my father was loving his country. It's the ultimate act of patriotism." Pierce was raised in the black middle-class community of Pontchartrain Park, the first African-American post-war suburb. His father, along with many black veterans moved into the neighborhood after returning home from the war. The neighborhood was wiped out during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, including Pierce's family home which was flooded by 14 feet of water.
Wendell Pierce | Early life
Lady Aberlin is asking those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to donate to the new performing arts program. Lady Elaine refuses to contribute until she learns what King Friday is donating.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 5) | Episode 24 (Arts Foundation)
On June 22, 1949, the DuMont Television Network adapted "The Timid Soul" to television as the premiere presentation of their "Program Playhouse" series. Caspar Milquetoast was portrayed by Ernest Truex.
H. T. Webster | Television
Pierce's first big television break came in the early 1990s with Norman Lear's political comedy, "The Powers That Be," in which Pierce played Theodore, a Congressman. Despite positive reviews from critics, the show was canceled after a brief run. In part due to his close physical resemblance to Kelsey Grammer, the producers of the "Cheers" spin-off "Frasier" created the role of Niles Crane (Frasier Crane's younger brother) for him. Although prior to "Frasier" going into production, Pierce had petitioned the Screen Actors Guild to change his billing to David Pierce, the name he had used on the stage, the use of his middle name in the show's credits helped reinforce the actor's and the character's "snooty" image.
David Hyde Pierce | 1990s-2000s
"Advanced Gay" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American television series "Community". It aired originally on November 3, 2011 on NBC. In the episode, Pierce decides to market Hawthorne Wipes to the gay community, only to be stopped by his homophobic father. This draws the ire of Jeff, who inadvertently exposes his own "daddy issues". Meanwhile, Troy is recruited by Greendale's secret air conditioning repair school. The episode was written by Matt Murray and directed by Joe Russo. It received mixed critical reviews.
Advanced Gay | Introduction
In 1984, Pierce began the Celebrity Series of Boston outreach program, Project Discovery, which provided students and senior citizens an opportunity to attend Celebrity Series performances at greatly reduced prices. Pierce also developed the Emerging Artists Series which provided worthy Boston-based performers the opportunity to perform in a major Boston concert venue sponsored by the Celebrity Series. Soprano Lorraine Hunt, soprano Dominique Labelle, and baritone Christopheren Nomura; pianists Christopher Taylor and Max Levinson, the Boston Composers String Quartet and the Atlantic Brass Quintet all performed on the Series. In addition to presenting as head of the Celebrity Series, Pierce served as artistic advisor to several New England based concert series, among them the Gile Community Concert Trust Fund concerts in Concord, New Hampshire, the Greater New Bedford Concert Association, the Portland Concert Association in Portland, Maine, the Temple Beth-El Series in Providence, Rhode Island, the Castle Hill summer concert series in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the Phillips Academy Celebrity Series in Andover, Massachusetts, the Boston Morning Musicales, the annual Gratwick concert at Milton Academy, and the Harvard Musical Association.
Walter Pierce (impresario) | Creation of Project Discovery
Mr. Appel is named the first recipient from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe's foundation for the performing arts.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 5) | Episode 25 (Arts Foundation)
In 1984, Pierce was appointed managing director of the Wang Center for the Performing Arts. The Celebrity Series, which had been affiliated with Boston University since 1954, became known as the Wang Celebrity Series. In 1989, the Celebrity Series ended its affiliation with the Wang Center; was incorporated as an independent, non-profit organization, Celebrity Series of Boston, and with Bank of Boston as its primary corporate sponsor, became the Bank of Boston Celebrity Series. A series of bank mergers resulted in a variety of name changes for the Series: Bank Boston Celebrity Series, Fleet Boston Celebrity Series, Bank of America Celebrity Series.
Walter Pierce (impresario) | Wang Center for the Performing Arts
Larry Cedar appeared in the sixth episode as Cornelius Hawthorne, the patriarch of the Hawthorne family and Pierce's father. In the same episode, Jerry Minor returned as the Greendale custodian who previously appeared in "English as a Second Language" and "For a Few Paintballs More". The season's Christmas-themed episode is a musical featuring all original music, with the storyline being the study group having to fill in for the school's glee club. The episode also features a guest appearance by "Saturday Night Live" cast member Taran Killam. Giancarlo Esposito appeared in "Digital Estate Planning" as Gilbert, a man who Pierce is surprised to learn was a longtime employee for his late, very racist father, and the study group needs to work with Gilbert and Pierce on an issue regarding Cornelius' Hawthorne's last will and testament.
Community (season 3) | Production
In 1971, the Celebrity Series merged offices with the Boston Opera Association. During this time, Pierce worked closely with Harriet O’Brien, managing director of the Boston Opera Association, sponsors of the annual one-week Boston engagement of the Metropolitan Opera. Following O’Brien’s death, he managed the Metropolitan Opera week in Boston until the company ceased touring.
Walter Pierce (impresario) | Creation of Project Discovery
On June 22, 1949, the DuMont Television Network adapted "The Timid Soul" to television as the premiere presentation of its anthology series "Program Playhouse". Caspar Milquetoast in that episode, now lost, was portrayed by Ernest Truex.
Caspar Milquetoast | Adaptation
Like the Tracy character, who dropped out of high school after being asked to dissect a frog, Morgan dropped out of DeWitt Clinton when his father became ill. Jack and Liz's scene, along with Tracy and Kenneth's, at the end where they watch the charity concert, was filmed the day before the musical number took place. "They were pretending to look at the singing", revealed Fey. They forced that shot in so that the episode not just end with the performance. Professor Milton Greene was played by guest actor Alan Alda, best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce from the television series "M*A*S*H".
Kidney Now! | Production
Simon collaborated with Eric Overmyer again on "Treme", a project about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans. Overmyer lives part-time in New Orleans, and Simon believed his experience would be valuable in navigating the "ornate oral tradition" of the city's stories. Simon also consulted with New Orleans natives Donald Harrison Jr., Kermit Ruffins, and Davis Rogan while developing the series. The show focuses on a working-class neighborhood, and is smaller in scope than "The Wire". The series premiered on April 11, 2010, on HBO and ran for four seasons. "Treme" is named after the Faubourg Treme neighborhood in New Orleans that is home to many of the city's musicians.
David Simon | "Treme"
Pierce has been in over 30 films, appeared in nearly 50 television shows, and has performed in dozens of stage productions. He worked on the HBO dramas "The Wire" and "Treme". He appeared in "" as "J. Jenks". For his role in "Treme", Pierce learned to play the trombone, though he relied on "sound double" Stafford Agee of the Rebirth Brass Band. Agee played off-camera for Pierce, syncing his trombone with Wendell's motions for authenticity. Pierce was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his portrayal of "Joe" in "Four", playing a married and closeted gay man who steps out on his family with a young white man he met online.
Wendell Pierce | Career
"Repilot" is the first episode of the fifth season of "Community", and the 85th episode overall in the series. It originally aired on January 2, 2014 on NBC; and was written by series creator Dan Harmon (after he was re-hired to run season 5) and Chris McKenna and directed by Tristram Shapeero. This is the final episode of the series to feature Chevy Chase and the character of Pierce Hawthorne. In this episode, Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) returns to Greendale one year after graduation to research a potential lawsuit after his practice goes under. While doing this, he finds out what has happened to his friends within the study group since his departure.
Repilot | Introduction
Program Playhouse was an anthology television series aired on the DuMont Television Network on Wednesdays from June 22 to September 14, 1949. The first program starred Ernest Truex as Caspar Milquetoast in "The Timid Soul". Others appearing included Earl Hammond in "Trouble, Inc", and Roscoe Karns in "Roscoe Karns and Inky Poo".
Program Playhouse | Introduction
Dan Harmon emphasized the importance of the cast to making the premise of the comedy work. "Casting was 95 percent of putting the show together," he said in an interview. He had worked with several of the cast members previously. Actor Chevy Chase had long been a favorite of Harmon. Though initially not partial to sitcoms, Chase was persuaded by the quality of the show's writing to take the job. Harmon saw similarities between Chase and the character he plays on the show. Though Chase has often been ridiculed for his career choices, Harmon believed this role could be redeeming: "What makes Chevy and Pierce heroic is this refusal to stop." Harmon had to warn Chase against playing a "wise-ass" the way he often does in his roles, since the character of Pierce is a rather pathetic figure who is normally the butt of the joke himself.
Community (TV series) | Casting
During that period, Pierce expanded the number of presentations from twenty-five to over forty each season.
Walter Pierce (impresario) | Celebrity Series of Boston
This episode introduces a plot line to explain Donald Glover's leaving the show. The name of Pierce’s boat, "Childish Tycoon", is a nod to Glover’s stage name, Childish Gambino. The subplot with Troy can be viewed as an overall metaphor for Glover’s rocket-trajectory career track. It also resolves the character arc of Pierce, played by Chevy Chase who left the show after the previous season. “Cooperative Polygraphy” is a bottle episode, with the entire episode, excluding the tag, taking place in the library study room, a primary set for the series. It also occurs in near real-time. The title is a reference to "Cooperative Calligraphy", another bottle episode set in the study room.
Cooperative Polygraphy | Production
In June 2007, the Celebrity Series began operating under its incorporated name Celebrity Series of Boston. When Pierce retired in 1996, Martha H. Jones was appointed Executive Director of the Celebrity Series of Boston.
Walter Pierce (impresario) | Wang Center for the Performing Arts
Pierce was honored at a tribute concert in Symphony Hall on April 26, 1998. A distinguished array of performing artists participated in the tribute concert including Emanuel Ax, William Bolcom and Joan Morris, Natasha Thomas-Schmitt of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Juilliard String Quartet, Robert Mann, Yo-Yo Ma, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Isaac Stern, and Dubravka Tomsic. Among those in attendance at Symphony Hall and the gala dinner following the performance were famed soprano Leontyne Price and Judith Jamison, Executive Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. It was announced at the tribute that seat P1 in Symphony Hall was endowed in Pierce’s name, and that the Celebrity Series inaugurated the Walter Pierce Annual Performance Fund to support main stage programming as well as activities in the community.
Walter Pierce (impresario) | Tribute concert
The sets also include four commentary tracks–"Accentuate the Positive" with director Anthony Hemingway, and actors Kim Dickens and Lucia Micarelli; "Carnival Time" with director Brad Anderson and music supervisor Blake Leyh; "What Is New Orleans?" with writer George Pelecanos and actors Clarke Peters and Rob Brown; and "Do Whatcha Wanna" with creator David Simon, executive producer Nina Kostroff Noble, and actor Wendell Pierce. Like the previous-season release, scene-specific commentaries for all music sections in each episode are done by WBGO's Josh Jackson and NPR Music's Patrick Jarenwattananon. The third season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1 on November 19, 2013, in region 2 on September 30, 2013, and in region 4 on October 23, 2013.
Treme (TV series) | DVD and Blu-ray
The show was highly publicized but soon plunged into ratings failure. Young Norman Lear, later a major television producer, and Larry Gelbart, who subsequently developed "M*A*S*H" for CBS television, joined the writing staff of "Honestly, Celeste!" but could not change the ratings. Jerry Fielding was the music director. "Honestly, Celeste!" aired at 9:30 p.m. Sunday after the premiere season of Ronald Reagan's anthology series, "General Electric Theater", and before the first season of Robert Young’s sitcom, "Father Knows Best". Its principal competition was the alternating NBC series, "The Philco Television Playhouse" and "Goodyear Television Playhouse"
Honestly, Celeste! | Production
Ever's Boys" performed at the ACT Theatre. Pierce is also a theater producer and produced the Broadway show, "Clybourne Park". The show was nominated for four Tony Awards; it won a Tony Award for Best Play in 2012.
Wendell Pierce | Stage
Rogers explains the size of things by having a tailor alter a suit jacket. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe donate things to the Appel family.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 5) | Episode 23 (Arts Foundation)
Since his acting career had been scaled down, later years have seen him involved with youth and charity work. Some of the events in relation to this have included the Multicultural Golf Association of America in which he has been involved in the Youth Empowerment Program. He is also a member of Speakers International. In August 2011, along with the basketball legend Lenny Wilkens, he was involved in the Lenny Wilkens Foundation fundraiser for the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic. In December 2011, with Johnny Bench, Sam Boghosian, Billy Erickson, Patrick Evans, Ron Fairley, Barry Jaeckel, Tom Kennedy, UCPIE board member Kris Long, Dan McGrath, Ron Masak, Bill Marx, Nolan North and Frankie Randall, Pierce was one of the celebrity golfers in the Dennis James Golf Classic's 16th annual tournament.
Stack Pierce | Later activities
Pierce continued working in production jobs at television stations in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas until 1969, when he moved to Texarkana, bought a 16 mm camera and started an advertising agency. He started a contract with Ledwell & Son Enterprises, a Texarkana-based firm that built 18-wheel trailers and farm equipment. Pierce developed commercials for the company that played throughout the Southwestern United States, using mostly footage he shot of trucks on the highway and farming equipment being used. He said the reputation he developed with those commercials later helped him launch his film career. Also during this time, Pierce played a character named Mayor Chuckles on "The Laffalot Club", a local Arkansas children's television show.
Charles B. Pierce | Early life
led a successful emergency effort to raise $300,000 in order for the 1966-1967 Playhouse season to continue.
Leon Falk Jr. | Pittsburgh Playhouse
It's just economic." However, Parker decided to "just [do] it anyway." As such, the episode was finished "at the last minute," in order to avoid network oversight. The finished episode aired with numerous references to the Subway restaurant and brand.
Jared Has Aides | Production
led a successful emergency effort to raise $300,000 in order for the 1966-1967 Playhouse season to continue.
Loti Falk Gaffney | Pittsburgh Playhouse
"The Late Captain Pierce" is an episode from "M*A*S*H". It was the fourth episode of the fourth season and aired on October 3, 1975 (first-run) and April 6, 1976 (repeat). It was written by Glen Charles and Les Charles and directed by Alan Alda. Guest cast is Richard Masur as Lt. "Digger" Detmuller, Eldon Quick as Captain Pratt, Sherry Steffens as Nurse Able and Kellye Nakahara as Nurse Baker.
The Late Captain Pierce | Introduction
Pierce also operated with his friend, Mackie Freeze, a small business in Monroe, Pierce's Dairy Delight. Prior to his mayoral tenure, Pierce served for twenty-six years as a member of the Ouachita Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body. He was the first African American to serve on the police jury and the first to be named president of the police jury. Pierce had been the president of the youth council of the Monroe branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was active in the civil rights movement. Pierce said that his political involvement began at his home church, the New Tabernacle Baptist Church in Monroe under the long-term pastor Roosevelt Wright.
Abe E. Pierce III | Background
Frequent episode directors and executive producers Anthony and Joe Russo also left the show in order to direct "". In early October 2012, NBC delayed the premiere of the fourth season, which had been scheduled for October 19, 2012, without announcing a new date. On October 30, 2012, NBC announced that the fourth season would premiere on February 7, 2013, returning to its original time slot of Thursdays at 8:00 pm. On November 21, 2012, it was announced that Chevy Chase left the show by mutual agreement between the actor and network. As a result of timing and the agreement made, Chase's character Pierce is absent for two episodes—he did not appear in the tenth episode (produced as ninth), "Intro to Knots", and the twelfth episode, "Heroic Origins".
Community (TV series) | Fourth season
During his second season at the South Shore Music Circus, Pierce was introduced to Boston impresario Aaron Richmond, who offered him a position with the Boston University Celebrity Series that Pierce accepted, working summers at the Music Circus and at the Celebrity Series the balance of the year. Pierce left the Music Circus in 1960 to work for the Celebrity Series on a full-time basis. Following Aaron Richmond’s death in 1965, Pierce briefly shared co-managing directorship of the Boston University Celebrity Series with Mrs. Richmond until her retirement a few years later. Following Mrs. Richmond’s retirement, Pierce assumed the sole managing directorship of the Celebrity Series and continued in that capacity until his retirement in 1996.
Walter Pierce (impresario) | Celebrity Series of Boston
"Football, Feminism and You" is the sixth episode of the first season of the American comedy television series "Community". It aired in the United States on NBC on October 22, 2009. The episode centers on Troy (Donald Glover) and his career playing football at Greendale Community College, while the B storyline concerns Britta (Gillian Jacobs) and her difficulty befriending other women. Pierce (Chevy Chase) works with Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) to create the school's mascot. The episode was watched by 5.18 million viewers upon its premiere and received polarizing reviews.
Football, Feminism and You | Introduction
During the filming of "Advanced Documentary Filmmaking", Chevy Chase became angry at the racist direction his character was heading. While venting his frustrations, he used the slur "nigger"; episode director Jay Chandrasekhar argued that Chase's use of the word was "political," and an attempt to point out how racist his character had become. Regardless, the slur upset cast members, and Chase walked off of the set. He later returned to film some additional scenes, but later announced on November 21, 2012 that he had left the show. As a result of timing and the agreement made, Chase's character Pierce is absent for two episodes—he did not appear in tenth episode, "Intro to Knots", or the twelfth episode, "Heroic Origins".
Community (season 4) | Chevy Chase's departure
Simon stated that the series would explore beyond the music scene to encompass political corruption, the public housing controversy, the criminal-justice system, clashes between police and Mardi Gras Indians, and the struggle to regain the tourism industry after the storm. One of the principal characters in the pilot script runs a restaurant. The series was filmed on location and was expected to provide a boost to the New Orleans economy. Simon's casting of the show mirrored that of "The Wire" in using local actors wherever possible. Wendell Pierce, who had previously played Bunk Moreland on "The Wire", stars in the series.
David Simon | "Treme"
Originally bought by CBS, the program debuted on UPN in January 1996, and soon became their most-watched show. While the sitcom managed to increase its audience every new season and spawned a spin-off titled "The Parkers", the network decided to cancel the show after six seasons on the air, leaving it ending with a cliffhanger for a scrapped seventh season. Norwood was awarded an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress for her performance. In 1997, Brandy, Ray J, and their parents started The Norwood Kids Foundation, which helps disadvantaged, at-risk youths in Los Angeles and Mississippi through the arts and self-help programs.
Brandy Norwood | 1993–1996: "Brandy" and "Moesha"
Two weeks later, Harmon and Stamatopoulos finished the script, and the art department began production on the sets and puppets. Animation began on October 18, though a week later they discovered Pierce was in a wheelchair and had to add a stop-motion wheelchair. One day prior to airing, the completed shots were handed in by 23D Films. Russo said about the project, "We wondered if we could do it. But we knew we'd regret it down the road if we weren't part of this, producing a special episode of a really cool show."
Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas | Production
A comedy about friendships and relationships, the show uses frequent pop culture references and meta-humor, as well as high-concept episodes including documentary spoofs, action movie homages and storylines inspired by movies. Despite being critically acclaimed and gaining a cult following, the show faced production issues and repeatedly came close to cancellation. The third season was subject to a mid-season replacement, its second half airing months later than originally planned. Dan Harmon was fired as showrunner for the fourth season, though he was rehired by the fifth season. The end of the fourth season and middle of the fifth season saw the departures of Chevy Chase as Pierce and Donald Glover as Troy, respectively.
List of awards and nominations received by Community | Introduction
As a philanthropist, Thomson donated $300 million to establish the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, which eventually opened in 2006. Under Thomson's patronage, the Center hosted such events as "Jazz Roots", AileyCamp, Florida Grand Opera, and Miami City Ballet. He and his daughter, Meg Daly, had collaborated along with Jorge A. Plasencia in a non-profit organization, Friends of the Underline. At the organization, Thomson served as director and was an advocate for transforming Miami-Dade Metrorail into a 10-mile neighborhood park.
Parker Thomson | Philanthropy
Treme ( ) is an American drama television series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer that aired on HBO. The series premiered on April 11, 2010, and concluded on December 29, 2013, comprising four seasons and 36 episodes. The series features an ensemble cast, including Khandi Alexander, Rob Brown, Chris Coy, Kim Dickens, India Ennenga, John Goodman, Michiel Huisman, Melissa Leo, Lucia Micarelli, David Morse, Clarke Peters, Wendell Pierce, Jon Seda, and Steve Zahn, and features musical performances by several New Orleans-based artists. The series takes its name from Tremé, a neighborhood of New Orleans. It begins three months after Hurricane Katrina as the residents, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians, try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane and the subsequent severe flooding of the city.
Treme (TV series) | Introduction
The film was released on September 13, 2013, around the same time that "The Michael J. Fox Show" debuted on NBC in which Pierce played Michael J. Fox's character's boss until the show's cancellation some five months later.
Wendell Pierce | Career
Garfield would also go down into his castle and type a note (viewers would hear the sound of a typewriter), bringing it up for Thomas to read aloud. The program was both entertaining and subtly educational. Guests from the Museum of Science and Industry, Lincoln Park Zoo, and the show's own viewers with their hobby projects made learning interesting and also fun. In 1968, the understated educational aspect of the program saved a four-year-old boy's life. He and his older brother had fallen through ice at a creek near their home. The boys' mother responded to her older son's cries for help; after rescuing them, her younger son was not breathing.
Garfield Goose and Friends | WGN
Pierce has been in numerous stage productions. He was lauded for his performance as Holt Fay in "Queenie" at the John F. Kennedy Center. He has performed on Broadway in staged productions of "The Piano Lesson", "Serious Money", and "The Boys of Winter". He has performed off-Broadway in "The Cherry Orchard" (for which he was nominated for a VIV Award for Lead Actor), "Waiting for Godot" (which was set on a New Orleans rooftop post-Hurricane Katrina), and "Broke-ology" performed at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Other performances include "Cymbeline" (at The Public Theater), "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "Two Gentlemen of Verona", "Tis Pity She's a Whore", and "Ms.
Wendell Pierce | Stage
"Romantic Expressionism" is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the U.S. television series "Community". It was originally aired on February 4, 2010, on NBC. In the episode, Jeff and Britta try to break up Annie's budding romance with Vaughn, whom Britta previously dated. However, their ploy fails and results in hurt feelings. Meanwhile, Pierce tries very hard to prove that he has a sense of humor. The episode was written by Andrew Guest and directed by Joe Russo. It received strong praise from critics.
Romantic Expressionism | Introduction
Rogers uses a pitch pipe at his television house and with François Clemmons. Mr. McFeely demonstrates one of his sitting-still exercises. The crisis in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is stopped in conjecture, as Rogers tells viewers they will have to decide the outcome on their own.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 5) | Episode 54
Leadership of the Celebrity Series has remained consistent over its lifetime. In 1958, Aaron Richmond hired Walter Pierce as a Programming Associate. Pierce later became Executive Director and guided the Series from an impresario-style presenter to a fully staffed, not-for-profit organization. In 1986, Mr. Pierce hired Martha H. Jones as the Series' Director of Marketing. Jones later became General Manager, and, in 1996, when Mr. Pierce retired his full-time post, Martha Jones was appointed Executive Director. Ms. Jones retired in 2011. She was succeeded by Gary Dunning. In 1971, the Celebrity Series merged with the Boston Opera Association. During this time, Walter Pierce worked closely with Harriet O’Brien, managing director of the Boston Opera Association, sponsors of the annual one-week Boston engagement of the Metropolitan Opera.
Celebrity Series of Boston | Leadership
Among other productions Pierce appeared in at Yale were "Waiting for Godot", "Saint Joan", and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
David Hyde Pierce | Early life
The fortune did not become a charitable trust until Jessie's death in 1970, which explains why $30 million in estate taxes were paid in 1935. The Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust's sole charitable beneficiary is the Nemours Foundation, which runs children's medical facilities in Delaware and Florida. Beginning in the 1970s, Delaware's Attorney General sued du Pont's brother-in-law Edward Ball and other trustees of the Nemours Foundation for failing to implement du Pont's mission for his Trust and for diverting its assets away from charitable needs in Delaware to fund Trust operations in Florida. The case has continued into the 21st century.
Alfred I. du Pont | Death and legacy
* Pierce Brosnan narrated the original cut of Series 12, but withdrew from the series, and his narrations left unreleased.
List of Thomas &amp; Friends voice actors | Specials
Bruce Franco makes balloon art, concentrating on animals. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the hydraulic platform is fixed. By chance, Robert Troll is seen with the King's two wooden birds.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 23) | Episode 5 (Up & Down)
Charles B. Pierce was born in Hammond, Indiana on June 16, 1938, one of the three sons of Mack McKenny Pierce and Mayven Bryant Pierce. His family moved to the southwestern Arkansas city of Hampton when he was just a few months old. There he was a childhood friend and neighbor of future film and television director Harry Thomason, and the two made home movies together in their backyards using an old 8 mm camera. His first professional foray into media entertainment was in the mid-1960s as an art director at KTAL-TV in Shreveport, Louisiana. He later became a weatherman and hosted a children's cartoon show for that channel.
Charles B. Pierce | Early life
His primary job is to keep Pierce in line and on task." Rachael Leigh Cook was next to be cast as Kate Rossi, "Pierce’s former student and the person responsible for recruiting him to work for the government." Kelly Rowan was the last actor to be cast, portraying Natalie Vincent, "Pierce’s best friend and every bit his intellectual equal." Along with the announcement that production had started on the series, the network announced that Levar Burton had joined the series as a recurring guest star; he portrays Paul Haley, "a dean at the university". TNT also announced that the character portrayed by Cook had been renamed Kate Moretti.
Perception (American TV series) | Casting
While tree-sitting for Mr. McFeely, Rogers draws a picture of a tiny oak tree. McFeely compliments the drawing, and later, he shows a video on how adult tricycles are made. Cousin Mary returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to show her videotape of various trees.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 31) | Episode 1 (Celebrate the Arts)
David Simon and Eric Overmyer first worked together as writers on the television series "" and became friends. They collaborated again on Simon's series "The Wire" when Overmyer joined the crew as a consulting producer and writer in 2006. "Treme" was put into development by HBO in 2008 shortly after the conclusion of "The Wire". The show was to focus on the working-class Tremé neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and is smaller in scope than "The Wire", which examined an entire city. Overmyer lived part-time in New Orleans and Simon believed his experience would be valuable in navigating the "ornate oral tradition" of the city's stories.
Treme (TV series) | Conception
Mills collaborated with Simon on "Treme", a series that premiered on HBO in April 2010. The final episode of the show's first season was dedicated to him.
David Mills (TV writer) | "Treme"
The episode begins in an imaginary version of Greendale Community College created in the mind of Abed, titled "Abed's Happy Community College Show", which features parody elements poking fun at sitcom cliches, including the use of multi-camera production, a laugh track and the character of "Pierce" being portrayed by a guest star (Fred Willard). Abed is using the fictional show as a coping mechanism to deal with fear of losing the study group following graduation. In the real world, the study group assembles at Greendale to take part in their new History class ("History of Ice Cream"), only to discover that the class was over-booked due to forgery.
History 101 (Community) | Plot
New Orleanians waited cautiously for the series premiere of "Treme", but quickly embraced the show as an accurate and honest representation of the city. "The Times-Picayune" writer Dave Walker expressed the city's collective sentiment that "Treme" is "the screen depiction that New Orleans deserves, has always desired, but has been denied." While Simon attempted to recreate post-Katrina New Orleans with precision, he did confess a willingness to include subtle anachronisms such as the inclusion of a Hubig's pie in the first episode when such pies were still unavailable. Simon prefaced the airing of the first episode with a letter in "The Times-Picayune" promising not perfect historical accuracy but a treatment "respectful of the historical reality." "Treme" includes many location-specific references, as did Simon's "The Wire".
Treme (TV series) | Local response
In 2008, HBO commissioned a pilot episode for the series, but did not "green-light" a complete series at that time. The pilot was announced at the 2008 Television Critics Association summer press tour. Simon initially hoped to film the pilot episode of the series in 2008 and to continue filming in 2009 if the series was commissioned. The series was planned to film on location and was predicted to be a boost to the New Orleans economy. The pilot did not actually begin filming in New Orleans until March 9, 2009. Award-winning Polish director Agnieszka Holland was hired to direct the pilot.
Treme (TV series) | Development
Though Chase has often been ridiculed for his career choices, Harmon believed this role could be redeeming: "What makes Chevy and Pierce heroic is this refusal to stop." Harmon had to warn Chase against playing a "wise-ass" the way he often does in his roles, since the character of Pierce is a rather pathetic figure who is normally the butt of the joke himself. McHale, known from the E! comedy talk show "The Soup", was also (like Chase) impressed by Harmon's writing. He commented that "Dan's script... was so head and shoulders above everything else that I was reading." McHale appealed to Harmon because of his likeable quality, which allowed the character to possess certain unsympathetic traits without turning the viewer against him.
Community (season 1) | Casting
Meanwhile, Glover would later portray Aaron Davis in "" (2017), and the shot of Troy in Spider-Man pajamas was later used in "" (2018), which featured the Miles Morales incarnation of the character. The group also discussed the 2010 film "Toy Story 3". Harmon said, "I try not to date the show, but I felt like ten years from now Toy Story 3 was so good that it will be one of those movies that everyone saw and everyone cried at." Troy's Twitter account which quoted Pierce's offensive remarks, @oldwhitemansays, was a jab at CBS's sitcom "$#*! My Dad Says" which premiered on the same day the episode aired.
Anthropology 101 | Cultural references
The idea of a pioneer museum that never breaks character started off as the idea for the Katrina episode that became "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow". "Super Phun Thyme" was based on Celebrity Sports Center which both Parker and Stone visited as kids.
Super Fun Time | Production
In spite of this, eight years later, she had Wiliam Owens, a representative of the National Organization for Marriage and opponent of same-sex marriage, as a guest on her program.
Jeanine Pirro | LGBT rights
Rogers makes a visit to 15-year-old Chainey Umphrey at the Neighborhood gym. Chuck Aber is also there working with his H.J. Elephant III puppet. Aber later appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe working the puppet. Together they visit Lady Elaine, who talks of a toy that no one has seen.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 17) | Episode 1 (Playthings)
Reception by television critics has been very positive. "The New York Times" critic Alessandra Stanley viewed the series as a sign of the city's inextinguishable "joie de vivre". "Salon"'s Heather Havrilesky remarked that "Treme" "epitomizes the sort of great storytelling we all thirst for on TV but rarely find." Adolph L. Reed Jr. (professor of political science at University of Pennsylvania) has criticized the series for its clichéd portrayal of the city and the issues around Katrina.
Treme (TV series) | Critical response
He became somewhat of a local celebrity playing at assemblies and school dances. Following graduation, he decided to make entertainment a profession, and for five years played the high school and college circuit throughout the United States and Canada. Knox played for the Ripley's Believe It Or Not program at the 1939-40 World's Fair in New York and later continued to tour many high schools and colleges to demonstrate that his blindness did not limit his musical ability and accomplishments. He soon achieved national recognition when he earned a place in the finals of the Horace Heidt Original Youth Opportunity radio show during the programs first year in 1947.
Pierce Knox | Biography
LeBlanc was recommended for the project by director Spike Lee, who had worked with her on the HBO Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke". Additionally, well-known New Orleans musician Kermit Ruffins appears as himself in the pilot and guests throughout the series. Other musical guests include Soul Rebels Brass Band, Allen Toussaint, Shawn Colvin, Spider Stacy, Dr. John, Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Eyehategod, Justin Townes Earle, Sammie "Big Sam" Williams, Donald Harrison Jr., Galactic, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Deacon John Moore, Jon Batiste, The Pine Leaf Boys, Paul Sanchez, Rebirth Brass Band, Treme Brass Band, Fats Domino, Red Stick Ramblers, saxophonist Joe Braun, bassist Matt Perrine, bassist Ron Carter, The Pfister Sisters (Holley Bendtsen, Debbie Davis and Yvette Voelker), clarinetist Bruce Brachman, bass drummer "Uncle" Lionel Batiste, percussionist Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, vocalist John Boutté, singer/guitarist Coco Robicheaux, pianist Tom McDermott, vocalists Lloyd Price and Irma Thomas and fiddler/accordionist Cedric Watson.
Treme (TV series) | Casting
Walter Pierce (born November 1, 1930 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a performing arts impresario who, from 1965 until 1996, presented, managed, and promoted over 1500 music, dance, and theater events in Boston under the auspices of the Celebrity Series of Boston. Pierce also served as president of the International Society for the Performing Arts in 1976 and 1977.
Walter Pierce (impresario) | Introduction
He became the first active NFL player to serve on the National Board of Directors for Pop Warner Little Scholars Football. Vincent and his family founded Love Thy Neighbor, a Foundation dedicated to fostering positive change in young people’s lives through character, athletics and academics, serving as a not-for-profit Community Development and Opportunity Corporation. He is recognized for his Philanthropic efforts to build community and increase the overall well-being of humanity. Vincent partnered with Feed The Children to help families in need over the 2010 holiday season. His efforts resulted in Feed The Children supplying one semi tractor-trailer full of food and essentials to Trenton on December 22, 2010.
Troy Vincent | Community involvement and philanthropic efforts
David Mills died of a brain aneurysm on March 30, 2010, at the Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, twelve days before the premiere of "Treme". Two weeks after his death, 80 members of the cast and crew of the show dedicated a tree in New Orleans' City Park in Mills's memory. As the Rebirth Brass Band played, the group ate apple-filled Hubig's Pies from wrappers on which the lines "David Mills 1961–2010/Won't Bow, Don't Know How" had been stamped.
David Mills (TV writer) | Death
A mini episode was released at the beginning of season six that announced Never Not Funny would be doing a live, streaming podcast on their website to raise money in benefit of Smile Train. The first annual Pardcast-A-Thon took place on Black Friday 2009. Pardo, Belknap and Creator and Co-Founder Pat Francis welcomed guests such as Chris Hardwick, Jon Hamm and Rich Sommer from Mad Men and Oscar Nunez. By the end of the night, they raised over $12,000. The next year at Pardcast-A-Thon 2010, they changed the venue to the Acme Comedy Theater and went 12 hours instead of 9 to give even more of a telethon vibe (and raise more money).
Never Not Funny | Pardcast-A-Thon
In 2006 Satre founded The Voice Project for LGBTQI Equality, Support & Inclusion, an internet outreach program for GLBT/Q youth which also promotes civic participation among teens for equality. (TVP formed as a national web and community-based organization which sponsors the online network project known as Equality Myspace.) In 2006 and 2007, Satre worked with the Creative Youth Theater Foundation and Loudoun Youth Initiative in an original production about bullying. The development of the show was covered in an article in The Washington Post, which highlighted Satre's involvement with the play: "Tully Satre, 17, says he knows what it's like to be bullied.
Tully Satre | Other
"Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde" was the 29th episode of the television series "M*A*S*H", and the fifth episode of season two.
Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde | Introduction
Episode One aired April 29, 2013. Thom Tuck presented the Beta Males, Shirley & Shirley, and Jonny & the Baptists. Episode Two aired May 6, 2013. Thom Tuck presented So On and So Forth, That Pair and Sheeps. Episode Three aired May 13, 2013. Thom Tuck presented sketch groups McNeill & Pamphilon, Barbershopera and Wittank.
Sketchorama | Series 2
Thomas had the idea for Garfield Goose from attending bazaars as a boy. The local Catholic nuns used a sock puppet made into the form of a goose to ask children for charity donations. The children would "feed" the goose their pennies. He came up with the idea to use a goose puppet on his television show for giving prizes to children. The name of the goose was taken from the telephone number of the television station; at the time, all telephone exchanges had names as well as numbers. The name of the telephone exchange for the television station was Garfield.
Frazier Thomas | Garfield Goose
Each show benefits a charity of Apatow's choosing and past charities have included St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 826LA and Alzheimer's Association.
Judd Apatow | Philanthropy
Sincerely, Willis Wayde was an American television play broadcast on December 13, 1956, as part of the CBS television series, "Playhouse 90". It was the 11th episode of the first season of "Playhouse 90".
Sincerely, Willis Wayde (Playhouse 90) | Introduction
There will be no expenses of any kind deducted." The organization gained more visibility in 1949 when Milton Berle, a long-time friend of both Runyon and Winchell, hosted the first-ever telethon, raising $1.1 million for the foundation over 16 hours. In its first three decades, the foundation was a popular cause among celebrities from Hollywood to Broadway and the sports world. Marlene Dietrich, Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and many of their contemporaries served as supporters and board members.
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | History
After his behavior became merciless in Season 2, the study group put Pierce on a "diet" with a strict limit on when and how often he can say offensive things.("Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy") Although he has occasionally made negative comments about Jews, he has also said that Annie Edison (the only Jewish member of the group) is his favorite person in it ("Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking"). It is also suspected that he has subdued feelings for the second youngest female in the group, Britta Perry. Given his age and his eccentricity, Pierce occasionally surprises his friends with wise insight and advice when they truly need it.
List of Community characters | Pierce Hawthorne
(For several years while he was with the White Sox, they had also maintained a summer residence in the south side's landmark Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments, where teammate Jim Rivera and his family also lived.) He remained a member of the White Sox community relations department into his late 80s, making frequent public appearances in the Chicago area. In addition, beginning in 1993 he headed the not-for-profit Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities, a cause he began supporting after Nellie Fox's death in 1975 at age 47. On June 29, 2013, the White Sox gave out souvenir statuettes of Pierce to fans at that day's game against the Cleveland Indians, and he threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
Billy Pierce | Retirement
Which is what made Community Season 5 Episode 4 the perfect tribute to Pierce – from weirdo religious cult to gross-out semen jokes, the episode played with Pierce as a concept, and served as a reminder to me of just how damned funny that concept was."
Cooperative Polygraphy | Reception
Following Ms. O’Brien’s death, Mr. Pierce managed the Metropolitan Opera week in Boston until the company ceased touring. In 1998, a gala concert in honor of Walter Pierce was staged at Boston's Symphony Hall. It was announced during the festivities that seat P-1 in Symphony Hall had been endowed in Pierce's name and that the Celebrity Series had formed the Walter Pierce Annual Performance Fund. Among the performers were pianist Dubravka Tomsic, who played Liszt's Mephisto Waltz; flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal with pianist John Steel Ritter, who played Beethoven's Three National Airs with Variations, Opus 107; William Bolcom and Joan Morris, who performed Billy Desmond and Walter Dore's song, "When Are You Going to Lead Me to the Altar, Walter?"; the Juilliard String Quartet, a trio of pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Isaac Stern, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Nasha Thomas-Schmitt of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, who danced Alvin Ailey's solo piece "Cry.".
Celebrity Series of Boston | Leadership
In 2009, Pierce became the host of the nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-winning radio program, Jazz at Lincoln Center which features live recordings from Jazz at Lincoln Center's House of Swing.
Wendell Pierce | Radio
The pilot episode of the NBC sitcom "Community" aired on Thursday, September 17, 2009. Written by Dan Harmon, the show's creator, the episode was directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. The episode introduces Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a debarred lawyer who is forced to attend community college to get his license back. He tries to exploit his friendship with one of the faculty members for easy credits, but fails, and is forced to join a Spanish study group. The members of this study group make up the main cast of the series, which includes Chevy Chase as retired entrepreneur Pierce Hawthorne.
Pilot (Community) | Introduction
Mr. McFeely brings a videotape of how bicycle helmets are made. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is surprised to see "Sir Thomas T. Tune".
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 18) | Episode 14 (Kindness and Unkindness)
Don Williamson shows his remote-control model airplane at Rogers' television house. Rogers forgets that the Brown Marionette Company was performing The Three Little Pigs today. Fortunately, it will be held again tomorrow. An airplane salesman visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday purchases a plane and wants Handyman Negri to be the pilot.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 6) | Episode 27
As underwriters fund public broadcasting shows and are recognized in the show credits, ARNAN.com was the show's first carded underwriter when production moved to KTCA. Early funding assistance came from the Lutheran Brotherhood, a fortune 500 non-profit life insurance company that is now part of Thrivent Financial, and from PBS. Seeking broader funding, the show suspended production for 2003-2004, and returned to public TV in 2005.
Mental Engineering | Funding History
"Debate 109" is the ninth episode of the first season of "Community". It originally aired in the United States on NBC on November 12, 2009. In the episode, Jeff teams up with Annie to take on City College in a debate, while Pierce tries to help Britta quit smoking using hypnotherapy. Meanwhile, the study group attempts to figure out if Abed's student films are predicting their futures. The episode received mostly positive reviews, with many critics singling out Abed's subplot for praise.
Debate 109 | Introduction
It wouldn't be as fun for me. You guys meant the world to me. The city and this organization means the world to me. So today as sadly as it feels for me right now, I hope it will be a good day for everyone here."
Hines Ward | 2011 season
Thomas created Garfield Goose for a local television program he hosted in Cincinnati. Thomas, who was an Indiana native and had worked on Cincinnati local radio since before World War II, said he got the idea when he saw Catholic nuns with a sock puppet in the form of a goose, with which they invited children to "feed the goose" with donations for charity. He wanted to do something special to award prizes to children on his television show, so he created a Garfield Goose puppet for that purpose. "Garfield" was the television station's telephone exchange. In Cincinnati, Garfield Goose lived in a cuckoo clock, since he had always wanted to be a cuckoo bird.
Garfield Goose and Friends | Cincinnati
Instead of being Abed's roommate for their sophomore year, Troy decides to live in Pierce's mansion ("Pascal's Triangle Revisited"). While living with him over the summer, Troy starts up a Twitter account documenting unintentionally funny/horrible things Pierce says at "old-whitemansays," which Pierce was originally angry about, but embraced after learning the account had 600,000 followers. Because Pierce has old-school, homogenizing racism issues, Troy initially needs to assert that Shirley is not his mother, but later asserts that Shirley isn't his cousin.
List of Community characters | Troy Barnes
Pontchartrain Park was developed after World War II. It was one of the first suburban-style subdivisions developed by and for middle class African Americans during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation in Louisiana. It has been home to such prominent New Orleanians as mayors Dutch Morial and Marc Morial, political activist Philip M. Baptiste and district attorney Eddie Jordan; as well as nationally known figures such as Lisa P. Jackson, EPA Administrator under President Barack Obama, actor Wendell Pierce, and jazz musician Terrence Blanchard. In the 1970s, urban renewal projects were undertaken with funding from the federal New Town Program.
Pontchartrain Park, New Orleans | History
In 2012, a fundraiser campaign to allow Rodney full dedication to the show for at least three months raised $8000, $3000 more than its target.
Watch It Played | Fundraiser
Starting in 2009, Chase returned to NBC in the sitcom "Community", as aging moist-towelette tycoon Pierce Hawthorne. The series also starred Joel McHale, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, Danny Pudi and Donald Glover. The series received critical acclaim for its acting and writing, appeared on numerous critics' year-end "best-of" lists and developed a cult following. Chase starred in the first four seasons, leaving the show in 2013. He returned for a cameo appearance in the season-five premiere. Although he had sometimes been involved in conflicts with creator Dan Harmon over the direction of the show, the role was arguably his most prominent in many years.
Chevy Chase | "Community" (2009–2014)