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  Mick Foley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Foley, who became a professional wrestler in 1983, was noted for his hardcore matches, which frequently left him injured.
Foley received numerous injuries in the course of the match, including minor kidney damage, and took two dangerous and highly influential bumps.
Foley last appeared as Dude Love in 1998, but recently appeared as Dude Love on a October 2005 episode of RAW hyping a match "Pick the face of Foley" with Carlito at Taboo Tuesday 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mick_Foley   (1840 words)

  
 The Art of Foley - Jack Foley
Yes, Jack Foley was quite a man and his many contributions to the art of sound effects is a story in itself.
Jack was born in Yorkville, N.Y. in 1891, and was raised in the Seagate section of Coney Island.
Jack is reputed to have reversed a burp and looped it for the effect.
www.marblehead.net /foley/jack.html   (1539 words)

  
 Mick Foley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Foley, in his Mankind persona, was wrestling The Undertaker when he was choke-slammed through a steel cage into the wrestling ring, a 16-foot fall which knocked him unconscious for several minutes.
Foley and Orton then were booked in a feud that led to a 3-on-2 tag team match at WrestleMania XX, in which Orton's team of "Evolution" (himself, Ric Flair, and Batista) defeated "The Rock and Sock Connection" (The Rock and Foley).
Foley's final match was as Cactus Jack once more, losing a street fight for the WWE Intercontinental Championship against defending champ Randy Orton at WWE Backlash 2004.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mick_foley.html   (623 words)

  
 Mick Foley Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jack Foley made his debut in the WWF in 1985.
Foley did not defeat WWF champion Stone Cold Steve Austin at In Your House: Unforgiven and two week later he defeated his best friend Terry Funk on RAW to become the #1 contender at In Your House: Over The Edge against Stone Cold Steve Austin, Austin beat Foley.
Foley transformed back into Mankind and lost to the Undertaker in a "Hell In A Cell" match at King Of The Ring 98' in one of the most brutal matches ever.
www.angelfire.com /me2/foleysnutz/mickprof.html   (255 words)

  
 Team EXTREME's Hardcore Hall of Fame - CACTUS JACK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jack migrated to Japan, and competed in the International Wrestling Alliance, where he became an instant sensation, and was overjoyed by the shear lack of rules.
Jack gave a fantastic final interview, claiming ECW was "one screwed up place." He then brought out Stevie Richards and the Blue Meanie, and strutted out ot the ECW Arena to the tune of "New York, New York." That was the last time Jack ever appeared in ECW.
Foley and Austin lost the tag titles after Austin received a neck injury and was forced to forfeit the titles.
users.ntplx.net /~extreme/hhcactus.html   (1819 words)

  
 Jack Foley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack Donovan Foley (1891 April 12 Yorkville, New York–1967) was the developer of many sound effect techniques used in filmmaking.
He is attributed for inventing the art of Foley which is the process of adding sounds effects such as footsteps and enviromental sounds to films.
Those who work on sound effects in films are often called "Foley artists".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Foley   (128 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on ECW - The Best of Cactus Jack at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Foley was a regular performer at times in Japan where he frequently appeared as Cactus Jack in barbed wire death duels with the likes of Terry Funk among many others in the FMW and IWA promotions.
Cactus Jack and friend Shane Douglas(who was leaving ECW for the WWF) at this point started into a fued, which resulted in Jack being thwarted in his efforts to become the ECW heavyweight champion due to Douglas interfering in his matches.
Foley was perhaps one of the greatest wrestlers on the microphone ever, and he switched from being dead serious and extremely intense to joking and making hilarious comments, often within the same interview.
www.epinions.com /content_54155644548   (2054 words)

  
 Mick Foley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Michael Francis "Mick" Foley (born June 7, 1965) is an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (additional info and facts about professional wrestler) professional wrestler and (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) author.
Foley was noted for his hardcore matches, which frequently involved some kind of injury.
Foley's final match was as Cactus Jack once more, losing a street fight for the (additional info and facts about WWE Intercontinental Championship) WWE Intercontinental Championship against defending champ (additional info and facts about Randy Orton) Randy Orton at (additional info and facts about WWE Backlash) WWE Backlash 2004.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mick_foley.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Two by Jack Foley - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
The robust eclecticism of Foley's essays are united by a sense of urgency, a crisis in literature.
Foley also hosts a radio program on Berkeley's KPFA called Cover to Cover in which he interviews a wide variety of poets; six of those interviews, including one with Foley himself conducted by Sarah Rosenthal, are included in the two volumes.
Foley's uncannily thorough timeline gives a comprehensive view of the many disparate and clashing schools to emerge, morph, and/or mutate in the heterogeneous Xanadu that is California.
www.raintaxi.com /online/2000fall/foley.shtml   (1177 words)

  
 Jack Foley - Film's unsung hero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Foley got the idea of projecting the moving image in a sound stage and recording sounds in sync with the actors' movements, using different surfaces and an array of props.
Foley ran out to his car and retrieved a large ring of keys, which he then jangled in sync to the march step, creating the rhythmic "ching" of the armour and saving production the expense of a two-day shoot with soldier extras.
Powell, whose foley work is acknowledged in a Genie nomination this year for best sound editing on Rare Birds, put on a pair of leather-palmed gloves and guitar picks to demonstrate the sound of dog feet.
www.filmsound.org /foley/unsung-hero.htm   (1880 words)

  
 WWE_rulezzz
During this short stint, he wrestled as Jack Foley (the name of his father), but was only used as a jobber.
During the match, Foley's head was caught in the ropes and while he was trying to free himself; his ear got torn off.
Jack then had to make a decision, reattach the ear or go back to the States for his title shot at Slamboree, Jack chose the latter, and that is why Jack only has 1/3 of his right ear.
groups.msn.com /wwerulezzz/mickfoley.msnw   (1668 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Mick Foley
In 1989, Foley would arrive in the World Championship Wrestling area of the NWA, and was used mostly as a mid-carder and jobber over the next two years, including losing to Mils Mascaras at Clash of the Champions XX in February 1990.
With Cactus Jack now becoming noticed by promoters, he was soon back in WCW, where on September 5th, he jumped out of a large "gift box" and attacked fan favourite Sting, leading to a long series of matches between the two superstars.
Foley continues to be active on the independent circuit, mostly in a referee's capacity, including a stint as the referee for a Chris Sabin/Alex Shelley match at a Border City Wrestling show in January 2005.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/Bios/foley.html   (1803 words)

  
 Sound Ideas - "What is Foley?" by Skevos Mavros
Foley effects are sound effects added to the film during post production (after the shooting stops).
The Foley artists can clearly see a screen which displays the footage they are to add sounds to, and they perform their sound effects whilst watching this screen for timing.
Done poorly this type of "Foley" sounds bland and repetitive, and it is nowhere near as flexible as the real thing, but it is much cheaper than renting a Foley stage and paying Foley artists.
www.sound-ideas.com /foleymavart.html   (850 words)

  
 Dana Gioia Online - Foley's O Powerful Western Star
Foley has lived in the Bay Area for nearly four decades, and his insights grow from personal involvement as well as active research.
Foley’s speculative essays do so many things well that I cannot do them justice in so brief a space, but it may help to explain what they do not attempt.
Foley’s speculative essays, however, demonstrate the truth behind Pound’s famous assertion that "Artists are the antennae of the race." Artists are usually the first to pick up the vibrations of cultural change.
www.danagioia.net /essays/efoley.htm   (1328 words)

  
 Associate, Dr. Jack Foley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jack Foley is a professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Department of Leisure Studies and Recreation.
Previously, Jack was employed in a management capacity with the cities of Santa Monica, Long Beach and Culver City.
Jack has been active as a consultant including recent activity with the County of Los Angeles, and the cities of Los Angeles, Toronto, Oakland, and Watsonville.
home.inreach.com /kelley/AJFoley.html   (301 words)

  
 Repertoire Magazine (An MDSI Publication)
In 1982, when Jack Foley, then 48, and his brothers, Jim and Jerry, contemplated starting their own health care sales business, they had no misconceptions about what they were up against.
When the Foley brothers began their venture, neither the health care business, nor working together at the same company, were new to them.
Foley recalls how difficult it was to start a new company, with much to learn and some obstacles to hurdle that evolved out of their former relationship with Foster.
www.medicaldistribution.com /repnew/viewarticle.asp?articleno=839&issueid=89   (825 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Foley didn't want to go out like that, so he climbed back on top of the cage.
Foley got chokeslammed on top of them, and the Undertaker finally tombstoned the poor SOB for the win.
Meanwhile throughout all this, Mick Foley had managed to meet his beatiful wife Collette while handing out flyers for a show he was doing at a racetrack.
www.geocities.com /t_y_4life/bio.html   (824 words)

  
 FOLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Foleying is an excellent means of supplying the subtle sounds that production mikes often miss.
A steamy sex scene was probably created by a foley artist making dispassionate love to his or her own wrist.
The good Foley artist must "became" the actor with whom they are synching effects or the sounds will lack the necessary realism to be convincing.
www.filmsound.org /terminology/foley.htm   (265 words)

  
 Audio Theater - Foley Props
Foley is a motion picture term, named after Jack Foley, where sound effects are created by a foley artist as he or she watches the projected film.
Foley sounds are primarily those created to accompany the noisemaking movement of actors in real time.
Which ever terms you use, sound effects or foley, it is a performance art that when done right is hardly noticed and when done wrong, is all ways noticed.
www.audiotheater.com /foley.html   (549 words)

  
 The Art of Foley - What Is It?
Foley replaces or enhances that live sound; the result is a sword that rings like metal and floors that echo like marble!
Foley fills in the gaps between the live recording and studio ADR, smoothing out the sound and creating new sounds where they are missing.
Foley would recreate the sound of the leather jacket and jeans as the actor walks, footsteps (heavy cowboy boots!), the gun pickup and handling, handlebar grab and bike moves - and maybe some key sounds as he puts them in the lock.
www.marblehead.net /foley/whatisitman.html   (820 words)

  
 76098 -- In The Matter of the Estate of Jack V. Foley -- Knudson -- Kansas Court of Appeals
KNUDSON, J.: This is an interlocutory appeal by Rebecca Foley from the order of the district court denying her petition to dismiss the claim of Greta Holsinger filed in the estate proceedings of Jack V. Foley, deceased.
Greta filed a proof of claim, alleging that Foley was her biological father.
In her written claim filed with the court, Greta asserted that she was Foley's daughter and "a comparison of her DNA with Jack V. Foley's DNA will conclusively show that Jack V.
www.kscourts.org /kscases/ctapp/1996/19961101/76098.htm   (1104 words)

  
 Northwest SPLAB!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jack Foley is a widely-published poet/critic who performs his work frequently with his wife Adelle.
Jack & Adelle Foley showcase their work and will perform pieces having to do with "the current state of poetry"--followed by a talk with participants about their own writing.
Jack & Adelle, Sharon Doubiago, Nico Vassilakis and Robin Schultz will participate in a round-table discussion on their poetics and reason for writing and after a break will read their work.
www.splab.org /sbop99.html   (354 words)

  
 Business Wire: AMFM Names Jack Foley Senior Vice President of Sales for Boston
AMFM Inc. (NYSE: AFM) named Jack Foley to the newly created position of Senior Vice President of Sales for the Company's Boston cluster, it was announced today by Jake Karger, AMFM's Boston Market Executive Vice President for Boston.
Foley will direct the cluster's overall sales strategy, overseeing all aspects of inventory control, key client relationships and sales personnel recruitment and development.
Foley is a graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Nov_19/ai_57641483   (600 words)

  
 NPR : Jack Foley: Feet to the Stars
In his 33 years on Stage 10 at Universal Pictures, Foley perfected a method of projecting a film and adding all these sound effects in sync with the moving picture, slamming a door when a heroine stormed out of the room, clanking swords when gladiators fought.
Despite all his years in front of the microphone, there's no recording of Jack Foley's voice; no picture of him on the sound stage.
Foley passed away in 1967, but he lives on in the craft that bears his name and in the backlot lore of the colleagues who watched him work.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3207126   (288 words)

  
 The Mick Foley FAQ
Vince McMahon didn't think that Cactus Jack would be a successful gimmick in the WWF, so he brainstormed and came up with a new gimmick for Mick Foley.....
In an attempt to give Mick Foley some mic time, the WWF decided to let Jim Ross interview him in some segments in which WWF fans would understand his background as Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and his inner feelings.
As a teenager, Mick Foley was obsessed with wrestling.
www.angelfire.com /nj/jackepstein/cactus.html   (3528 words)

  
 Father O'Fondle And Catholicism — Jack Foley
Foley, My name is Stephanie and I am a freshman at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg Virginia.
It is at that moment, I think, that Father O'Fondle is at his realest in the poem.
I am speaking the poem, and I am Jack the author: but at that moment I am transformed; I am, momentarily, Father O'Fondle.
www.alsopreview.com /columns/foley/jffondle.html   (1520 words)

  
 JACK FOLEY: BIO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Among Foley’s other publications are: Inciting Big Joy (1993), a monograph on the films and poetry of James Broughton, and “O Her Blackness Sparkles!” (1995), an essay on the Batman Art Gallery, a center of Beat art which flourished in San Francisco from 1960 to 1965.
Jack Foley’s film criticism has appeared in Bright Lights and Journal of Popular Film; his art criticism in Artweek, Poetry Flash and the East Bay Express.
At one point, Foley quotes the 17th century poet John Milton—“Books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them”—and, at another point, he repudiates the dead poet: “In our time, books have become, precisely, dead things,” insists Foley.
www.foleysbooks.com /_pgs/j_abio.html   (3273 words)

  
 DVD Talk Forum - WWE: Mick Foley's DVD - Complete Details
In anticpation of this set, I watched my VHS of the ECW Cactus Jack tape, and I've got to say it can be argued that those are perhaps the most important promos in the history of wrestling.
Here you had Foley addressing fans that obviously knew the business was a work and he played on the real aspects of the business and had them eating out of his hands.
For a guy like Foley it should be 3-discs, but I don't want to see a 3-disc Best Of Kevin Nash...hell, I don't even want to see 1 disc on him.
www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=337287   (966 words)

  
 KPFA Cover to Cover with Jack Foley Archives
Jack Foley reads excerpts from Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz (Viking).
"The Achievement of Dana Gioia": a speech delivered by Jack Foley at the West Chester University Poetry Conference in June, 2004.
An account of a trip Jack and Adelle Foley took to the City of Light.
www.kpfa.org /archives/index.php?show=106   (346 words)

  
 Poetry Santa Cruz By JACK FOLEY March 26, 2002
Jack and Adelle Foley will perform Jack’s work at 7:30 tonight at the Loudon Nelson Center, 301 Center St., downtown Santa Cruz.
Foley is a poet, critic, radio show host and long-time fixture in the Berkeley literary scene.
Jack Foley: Poetry brought me to a place in consciousness which I had arrived at in no other way.
www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2002/March/26/style/stories/05style.htm   (368 words)

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