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You also see the advent of the nerd. screech: hey lisa, my horoscope says that were destined to dance together. lisa: my horoscope says, beware of dorks. alice leppert: but theres sort of this lost puppy aspect to screech that takes him from a caricature of you know, just the nerd, to someone that the viewer actually roots for. jacqueline coley: then with fresh prince, carlton was the first one of the first black nerds on screen. carlton: wait till we come downstairs in those tuxes. people may n...

You also see the advent of the nerd. screech: hey lisa, my horoscope says that were destined to dance together. lisa: my horoscope says, beware of dorks. alice leppert: but theres sort of this lost puppy aspect to screech that takes him from a caricature of you know, just the nerd, to someone that the viewer actually roots for. jacqueline coley: then with fresh prince, carlton was the first one of the first black nerds on screen. carlton: wait till we come downstairs in those tuxes. people may n...

And i yelled out, "is anybody home?" ♪ at that point, one of my siblings yelled out, "charlie, come quick! mom and dad are playing a bad trick on us." ♪ i saw my brother and my sister, daniel and carmen, with my parents bodies, and my heart -- it just felt like somebody had ripped my chest wide open and pulled my heart out. we tried to use the phone, it didnt work, so i took carmen and danny outside. and we stayed out in the front yard, and danny went next door to use a phone, called the pol...

♪ january 15, 1974 started out different. i asked my dad to take me to school early that day so that i could get an extra study hall in. my brother and sisters, danny and carmen, they went with me. joe drops those three older kids at school, and he returns back home and joins his wife, julie, in getting the two younger kids ready for school. theyre doing typical stuff -- making school lunches, gathering backpacks, getting ready for julie to drop those kids off, when the unthinkable happens. �...

Have made their homes in scotland. and they are being driven there by friends chris harrison and danny ralph who took on refugees last year. ralph who took on refugees last ear. ~ ., ., ., , year. we thought, we got a big house, year. we thought, we got a big house. so _ year. we thought, we got a big house. so we _ year. we thought, we got a big house, so we could _ year. we thought, we got a big house, so we could do - year. we thought, we got a big i house, so we could do something to help pe...

Despite the backlash after the announcement of his appointment as Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) chief executive, Anele Qaba is determined to regain ground on what he called the agency’s five lost years.

Werent sure what would happen when he got on stage, just to see that big smile and him raising his hands when he saw the crowd. what was it like to watch that? >> yeah, i got to watch it in the wings as he went out. it was incredible. wow was a word that, you know, in the midst of the ravages of the disease, that was a word he used a lot to sort of get through conversations, he could say, wow, there were phrases he used. but, that wow, was, that was a different kind of a wow, i mean, you could t...

Show. ♪ >> reporter: the crooners unique voice and timeless style helped him win a total of 19 grammys and two emmys throughout his career. >> maybe the best pop singer in the whole world. >> i asked him why do you think we stayed around so long? and he said we stayed with good songs. >> reporter: but the classics werent always hits. in the 70s, bennett found himself without a recording contract, he was in debt and battling a drug problem. >> i realized that i thought i was doing well with the...

♪ i never bother with people that i hate thats why this chick is a tramp ♪ >> his voice never failed him. prominent musicians have been paying their reports to tony bennett with touching messages about what the singer meant to them. billy joel says, "tony bennett was one of the most important interpreters of american popular song ding the mid to late 20th century. he championed songwriters who might otherwise have remained unknown to many millions of music fans." eln john said, quote, so sad...

>> reporter: bennett had a string of hits in the 50s but the best was yet to come. he won his first grammy award in 1963 for his song "i left my heart in san francisco" and performed it on the judy garland show ♪ i left my heart ♪ >> reporter: the crooners unique voice and timeless style helped him win a total of 19 grammys and two emmys throughout his career. >> tony bennett, ladies and gentlemen. maybe the best pop singer in the whole world. >> you know, i asked sinatra why do you think we...