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'''O Cangaceiro'''<br />
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'''''Oklahoma!'''''<br />
159; Brazilian bar; ''O Cangaceiro'' is a 1954 Brazilian film by director Lima Barreto, inspired by American westerns (but losing none of its cultural integrity) about Cangaceiro (bandit) Teodoro who falls in love with a small town school teacher who his gang has kidnapped. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canga%C3%A7o#Cangaceiro_style]
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151, The 1955 film adaptation of the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Here's Gloria Grahame singing "I Cain't Say No" from the film:
  
'''Ochoa, Eddie'''<br />
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174; driver's ed teacher at Leuzinger High
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'''Ohio Express'''<br />
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'''O'Hara, Scarlett'''<br />
The Ohio Express (including their best scoring single, "Yummy Yummy Yummy") were actually the work of an assemblage of studio musicians working out of New York, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine. The "band" recorded from 1967-1970; Herb Alpert cover of "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (1968) 332
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207 who famously says, at the end of the film ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), "After all... tomorrow is another day!"
  
'''Olympics, The'''<br />
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'''O'Neal, Shaquille'''<br />
125; The Olympics were a Los Angeles doo-wop group formed in 1957 by lead singer Walter Ward (1940-2006). The group included Eddie Lewis (tenor, Ward's cousin), Charles Fizer (tenor), Walter Hammond (baritone) and Melvin King (bass) and except for Lewis were friends in a Los Angeles, California high school. Their song "Good Lovin'" was a big hit for The Young Rascals in 1966.
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198
  
'''Omarr, Sidney'''<br />
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'''Ofeq satellite'''<br />
34
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104
  
'''Ondas Nudosas Community College'''<br />
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'''Old Sod'''<br />
51; Translation from Spanish, "Naked Waves"
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55, technically Irish bar where March and Axine go after coop demonstration
  
'''O-O'''<br />
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'''Omega Diner'''<br />
77; Once Over
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136, where Maxine meets Rocky;
  
<div id="oof">'''Oof, Scott'''</div>
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'''open-outcry era'''<br />
43; Doc's cousin, in the Corvairs; he also is a character in Pynchon's 1990 novel [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_23 ''Vineland'']; 115; 296; at Surfadelic Freak-In, 363
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94
  
'''Orbison, Roy'''<br />
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'''Ophelia'''<br />
69; "Oh Pretty Woman" reference
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129 Kennedy's babysitter
  
'''Oriole'''<br />
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'''OSS'''<br />
353; Elmira's friend who teaches junior high and with whom Elmira gets high
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66
  
'''Oscar's'''<br />
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'''Otis'''<br />
37; in San Ysidro, famous for druggy bathrooms
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1, Maxine's son; 32
  
'''Osgood'''<br />
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'''Otto Kugelblitz School'''<br />
226; "natural-born pussy hound" who grabs Trillium for a Texas Two-Step in Curly's in Las Vegas
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2, MT's kids school
  
'''Ostracizer'''<br />
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'''Outfield, Eric'''<br />
196; he means Osterizer, a blender
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10, Stuyvesant genius and Ice's IT maven; 57; 81; 143;
 
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'''Ouija Board'''<br />
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163; Doc & Shasta; where to score? 164; "the thick and sorrowful catalogs of human desire" 165;
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'''Oxide Pang'''<br />
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140 The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, ''The Eye'', which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.
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Revision as of 10:22, 7 September 2013

Oklahoma!
151, The 1955 film adaptation of the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Here's Gloria Grahame singing "I Cain't Say No" from the film:

O'Hara, Scarlett
207 who famously says, at the end of the film Gone with the Wind (1939), "After all... tomorrow is another day!"

O'Neal, Shaquille
198

Ofeq satellite
104

Old Sod
55, technically Irish bar where March and Axine go after coop demonstration

Omega Diner
136, where Maxine meets Rocky;

open-outcry era
94

Ophelia
129 Kennedy's babysitter

OSS
66

Otis
1, Maxine's son; 32

Otto Kugelblitz School
2, MT's kids school

Outfield, Eric
10, Stuyvesant genius and Ice's IT maven; 57; 81; 143;

Oxide Pang
140 The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous. packet monkey - 58

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