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Length: 02:40
Posted: 7/23/2009

Sharpshooter and star of Colonel Buffalo Bill's Show, Frank Butler (Howard Keel) falls for the spirited Annie Oakley (Betty Hutton) until she provokes him into a clay pigeon shooting competition. Unfortunately, Annie is left to realize a man isn't always interested in a woman who can beat him at his own game. The film is based on Irving Berlin's play and contains the songs "Anything You Can Do," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." Winner of the 1951 Academy Award for Best Music and Scoring of a Musical Picture. It should be noted that Judy Garland was originally cast to star in Annie Get Your Gun, but fell ill and was replaced by Betty Hutton. watch

Pilot News: Simpsons Execs to Sit Down, Shut Up

Former Simpsons executive producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein are teaming up to take on the same roles on Fox's new animated comedy Sit Down, Shut Up.The series, yet to receive a firm placement on the Fox schedule, is based on a live-action Australian sitcom about staffers at a dysfunctional high school. The U.S. version of the comedy will take place in a northeastern fishing town.Also part of the show's DNA is Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, who wrote the show's first script. — J.R. Whalenread more

VIDEO: Tall Tales & Legends - Annie Oakley

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Tall Tales & Legends - Annie Oakley
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Posted: 2/23/2008

Shelley Duvall narrates this tale of the surest shot in the west. Annie joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and becomes one of the most celebrated performers of all time. watch

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Year Title Description
2000 Cyberworld Movie, Exec. Producer
1999 Mission Hill TV Show Series, Producer
1999 Mission Hill TV Show Series, Voice

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In the Works: Simpsons Vets Fly Business Class

Per Variety, Simpsons scribes Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley are developing Business Class, a single-camera NBC comedy about two sales reps on a nonstop business trip, as well as reworking 22 Birthdays, a CBS dramedy about the parents of first-graders enrolled at an exclusive private school.... Bravo has ordered a second, six-episode season of Work Out, which follows spa owner Jackie Warner and her team of trainers. read more

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