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50-607: The first edition of The World Almanac was published by the New York World newspaper in 1868 (the name of the publication comes from the newspaper itself, which was known as the World ). Published three years after the end of the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln , its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson . Publication

100-613: A Linotype . In time the more sensational approach to news, advertising, and content triumphed. On May 16, 2011, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced that it was launching an online publication named The New York World, in honor of the original newspaper published by Joseph Pulitzer, who founded the graduate school. The university said the mission of the publication would be "to provide New York City citizens with accountability journalism about government operations that affect their lives." It

150-832: A publicity stunt for the paper, inspired by the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days , she traveled around the planet in 72 days in 1889–1890. In 1890, Pulitzer built the New York World Building , the tallest office building in the world at the time. In 1889, Julius Chambers was appointed by Pulitzer as managing editor of the New York World; he served until 1891. In 1890, Pulitzer, Chambers, et al. were indicted for posthumous criminal libel against Alexander T. Stewart for accusing him of "a dark and secret crime", as

200-424: A business partnership with Billy where they will hustle other players by setting them up to pick Billy as Sidney's teammate. At first, their system is very successful, but when they unexpectedly lose a game, it turns out that Sidney had double-crossed Billy by deliberately playing badly to avenge his earlier loss to him. Gloria and Billy go to Sidney's apartment and appeal to his wife, Rhonda. The women agree to share

250-414: A color supplement , which featured The Yellow Kid cartoon Hogan's Alley . It joined a circulation battle with William Randolph Hearst 's New York Journal . In 1899 Pulitzer and Hearst were the cause of the newsboys' strike of 1899 , which led to Pulitzer's circulation dropping by 70%. The World was attacked for being "sensational", and its circulation battles with Hearst's Journal gave rise to

300-496: A comeback with a pet topic, "Foods That Begin With the Letter Q". She wins $ 14,100 on her first episode. Billy sings Gloria a song he has composed and wins her back. As Billy and Gloria discuss their future, Sidney approaches Billy for help: His apartment was burglarized and his winnings were stolen. Gloria is expecting Billy to get a steady job, but Sidney informs him that two hoops legends of

350-516: A culture of consumption for working men. He believed they saved money to enjoy life with their families when they could, at Coney Island , for example. By contrast, the long-established editor Charles A. Dana , of The Sun , held to a traditional view of the working man as one engaged in a struggle to better his working conditions and to improve himself. Dana thought that readers in the 20th century followed fewer faddish illustrations and wished newspapers did not need advertising. Dana resisted buying

400-545: A half-million "habitual users," The World Almanac changed its name to The World Almanac and Encyclopedia . This was the title it kept until 1923, when it became The World Almanac and Book of Facts , the name it bears today. In 1906, the New York Times , reporting on the publishing of the 20th edition, said that "the almanac has made for itself a secure position, second only to the forty-year-old Whitaker's Almanac of London , with which alone it can be compared." In 1923,

450-550: A precisely worded resignation. Cobb had it printed in every New York paper—except the World . Joseph Pulitzer raged at the insult, but slowly began to respect Cobb's editorials and independent spirit. Exchanges, commentaries, and messages between them increased. The good rapport between the two was based largely on Cobb's flexibility. In May 1908, Cobb and Pulitzer met to outline plans for a consistent editorial policy. Pulitzer's demands for editorials on contemporary news led to overwork by Cobb. The publisher sent his managing editor on

500-662: A regular at YMCA pickup games in Hollywood for the script. Shelton said he "love[d] the theater of [basketball], the posturing and the rituals." Shelton put aside work on the Blue Chips script to concentrate on White Men Can’t Jump . Bob Lanier , Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks player and Hall of Famer, was hired as the basketball coach for the film. Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, and other cast members attended an intensive month-long basketball camp to prepare for filming. During camp and film production, Lanier noted that between

550-505: A six-week tour of Europe to restore his spirit. Shortly after Cobb's return, Pulitzer died. Cobb then finally published Pulitzer's resignation from 1907. Cobb retained the editorial policies he had shared with Pulitzer until he died of cancer in 1923. When Pulitzer died in 1911, he passed control of the World to his sons Ralph, Joseph and Herbert. The World continued to grow under its executive editor Herbert Bayard Swope , who hired writers such as Frank Sullivan and Deems Taylor . Among

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600-484: A supporting role as Raymond, who loses a game to Snipes and Harrelson. Johnson was a star player for UCLA's 1974–75 national championship team coached by John Wooden and later played for the NBA's Bucks, Clippers, and Warriors. According to Johnson, former NBA player Reggie Harding was the inspiration for the character of Raymond. Freeman Williams , who played "Duck" Johnson, also had a distinguished NBA career, playing for

650-630: Is distributed by Simon & Schuster . In the mid-1980s, The World Almanac was put together by a ten-member staff. Twenty percent of the book was rarely updated (for example, the text of the Constitution of the United States ), fifty percent was updated at least to some extent each year, and thirty percent of the content was completely new each year. Lists published in The World Almanac include: New York World The New York World

700-521: Is white. Sidney Deane is a talented but cocky player who is twice beaten by Billy. Billy and his live-in girlfriend, Gloria Clemente, are on the run from the Stucci brothers, mobsters to whom he owes a gambling debt. Gloria's goal is to be a contestant on the television game show Jeopardy! and make a fortune. Sidney wants to buy a house for his family outside the rough Baldwin Village neighborhood. He proposes

750-543: The 1876 presidential election , sold the paper after the election to a group headed by Thomas A. Scott , the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad , who used the paper "as a propaganda vehicle for his stock enterprises." But Scott was unable to meet the newspaper's growing losses, and in 1879 he sold it to financier Jay Gould as part of a deal that also included the Texas & Pacific Railroad . Gould, like Scott, used

800-534: The World ' s noted journalists were columnists Franklin Pierce Adams (F.P.A.), who wrote "The Conning Tower"; Heywood Broun , who penned "It Seems to Me" on the editorial page; and future hardboiled fiction writer James M. Cain . C. M. Payne created several comic strips for the newspaper. The paper published the first crossword puzzle in December 1913. The annual reference book called The World Almanac

850-478: The $ 5,000 on his ability to dunk but fails. When he tells Gloria, she leaves him. Desperate to get her back, Billy goes to Sidney for help. Sidney has a friend who works as a security guard at the TV studio that produces Jeopardy! His friend agrees to use his connections to get her on the show if Billy can sink a hook shot from beyond the half-court line, which he does. Gloria initially stumbles over sports questions but makes

900-579: The Clippers, Jazz, and Bullets from 1978–86. NBA player Gary Payton made an uncredited appearance as an unidentified street baller . Two soundtracks were released by Capitol Records. The first soundtrack using the film title was released on March 24, 1992, and consisted mostly of R&B. The soundtrack peaked at number 92 on the Billboard 200 and number 48 on the Top R&;B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and features

950-554: The EP soundtrack was " Fakin' the Funk " by Main Source . White Men Can't Jump soundtrack White Men Can't Rap White Men Can't Jump grossed $ 14,711,124 in 1,923 theaters in its opening weekend, with a total gross of $ 76,253,806 in the U.S. and $ 90,753,806 worldwide and was the 16th highest-grossing movie of 1992. The film received positive reviews. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes ,

1000-446: The L.A. streetball scene, "The King" and "The Duck", are playing downtown. Sidney asks Billy to partner with him to play against them. Billy agrees, offering to gamble his share of Gloria's take. Gloria warns that if Billy gambles with her money, they are through, even if he and Sidney win. Billy sides with Sidney, feeling he must honor the obligation he owes him for getting Gloria on Jeopardy! . They play against King and Duck and prevail,

1050-788: The assets of The Sun in 1950, and officially became the New York World-Telegram and The Sun . Ownership of the Almanac passed to the Newspaper Enterprise Association (another Scripps-owned business) in 1966, when the World-Telegram merged with the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Journal-American . During World War II, The World Almanac could boast that it was read by GIs all over

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1100-517: The book was then produced by the World Almanac Education Group, which was owned by The Reader's Digest Association . The World Almanac was sold to Infobase in 2009. In 2018, The World Almanac published its 150-year anniversary edition. The World Almanac , together with the "World Almanac Books" imprint used since the closing years of Scripps ownership, was sold to Skyhorse Publishing in 2020. As with other Skyhorse imprints it

1150-575: The city for reform. Hearst reproduced Pulitzer's approach in the San Francisco Examiner and later in the Journal . Charles Chapin was hired in 1898 as city editor of the Evening World . He was most known for embracing the sensational and showing little empathy in the face of tragedy, only taking a more solemn tone when reporting on the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. He controlled

1200-498: The country beginning around 1905. With Scripps' acquisition of the World newspaper and its syndication assets in February 1931, the World 's most popular strips were brought over to Scripps' United Feature Syndicate . Janet E. Steele argues that Joseph Pulitzer put a stamp on his age when he brought his brand of journalism from St. Louis to New York in 1883. In his New York World , Pulitzer emphasized illustrations, advertising, and

1250-426: The court where they first met to play a one-on-one game, this time as friends. Ron Shelton conceived of the idea for the film while he was working on a script for another movie, Blue Chips . He had been writing a scene that takes place on a playground and became interested in the "wonderful craziness that goes on behind those chain link fences". Shelton drew on his experiences as a former college basketball star and

1300-528: The development of the American comic strip. Notable strips that originated with the World included Richard F. Outcault 's Hogan's Alley (featuring The Yellow Kid ), The Captain and the Kids , Everyday Movies , Fritzi Ritz , Joe Jinks , and Little Mary Mixup . Under the names World Feature Service and New York World Press Publishing the company also syndicated comic strips to other newspapers around

1350-409: The film White Men Can't Jump ; and Will Smith checks it for the exact time of sunset so he can set his digital watch in I Am Legend . The World Almanac For Kids was published annually since 1995 until 2014. In 1993 Scripps sold The World Almanac to K-III (later Primedia ). The World Almanac was sold to Ripplewood Holdings ' WRC Media in 1999. Ripplewood bought Reader's Digest and

1400-487: The film holds an approval rating of 75% based on 106 reviews, with an average score of 6.40/10. The website's critical consensus reads, " White Men Can't Jump provides a fresh take on the sports comedy genre, with a clever script and a charismatic trio of leads." On Metacritic , the film received a score of 65 based on 28 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave

1450-428: The film three and a half stars, saying it was "not simply a basketball movie", praising Ron Shelton for "knowing his characters". Janet Maslin from The New York Times praised Wesley Snipes for his "funny, knowing performance with a lot of physical verve". The film was a favorite of director Stanley Kubrick . The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The category "Foods that start with

1500-581: The letter 'Q ' " was an actual category on an October 1997 episode of Jeopardy! In 2009, Nike teamed up with the filmmakers of White Men Can't Jump to assemble the package of shoes inspired by the characters Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane. A video game based on the film for the Atari Jaguar console was released in 1995. In January 2017, Kenya Barris was developing a White Men Can't Jump remake with NBA star Blake Griffin and NFL player Ryan Kalil producing. In March 2022, rapper Jack Harlow

1550-427: The man who "invited guests to meet his mistresses at his table", and as "a pirate of the dry goods ocean." The charges were dismissed by the court. This sort of criminal action was common at the time and both Pulitzer and Chambers were indicted in a number of cases, in some of which they were acquitted, in others convicted. In 1896, the World began using a four-color printing press; it was the first newspaper to launch

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1600-408: The money, provided Sidney and Billy team up for a major two-on-two outdoor tournament. Despite their constant bickering, Sidney and Billy win the grand prize of $ 5,000, largely due to Billy's ability to disrupt his opponents' concentration. Sidney is pleased with the outcome, but he cannot help mocking Billy about his inability to slam dunk . Billy insists that he can indeed dunk and bets his share of

1650-625: The name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts . Calvin Coolidge 's father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource. In 1931 The New York World merged with the Scripps -owned Telegram to form the New York World-Telegram . The World-Telegram subsequently acquired

1700-429: The newsroom with an iron fist, and was commonly despised by the journalists who worked for him. Chapin fired 108 newspaper men during his tenure. However, Stanley Walker still referred to him as "the greatest city editor that ever lived." His time at the World ended when, after falling into financial ruin, he murdered his wife in 1918. He was sentenced to Sing Sing Prison and died there in 1930. Frank Irving Cobb

1750-426: The paper for his own purposes, employing it to help him take over Western Union . But Gould, like Scott, could not turn the financial state of the newspaper around, and by the 1880s, it was losing $ 40,000 a year. Joseph Pulitzer bought the World in 1883 and began an aggressive era of circulation building. Reporter Nellie Bly became one of America's first investigative journalists , often working undercover. As

1800-471: The paper to eliminate its competition. He closed the World and laid off the staff of 3,000 after the final issue was printed on February 27, 1931, then merely replaced the word "Evening" on his afternoon paper, the Evening Telegram , renaming it the New York World-Telegram . The New York World was one of the first newspapers to publish comic strips , starting around 1890, and contributed greatly to

1850-722: The sales noted below. Over the decades The World Almanac has been featured in several Hollywood films. Fred MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity ; Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve ; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt about it in Love in the Afternoon ; it is featured in Miracle on 34th Street when a trial is held to see if Santa Claus really exists; Rosie Perez continually reads it in

1900-606: The single "White Men Can't Jump" by Riff , which peaked at number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The accompanying music video featured Harrelson, Snipes and Perez. AllMusic rated it two and a half out of five stars. The second album, titled White Men Can't Rap , was released on April 7, 1992, and consisted entirely of hip hop. It reached number 79 on the Billboard Top R&;B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. AllMusic rated it two out of five stars. The only single coming out of

1950-522: The term yellow journalism . The charges of sensationalism were most frequently leveled at the paper by more established publishers, who resented Pulitzer's courting of the immigrant classes. And while the World presented its fair share of crime stories, it also published damning exposés of tenement abuses. After a heat wave in 1883 killed a disproportionate number of poor children, the World published stories about it, featuring such headlines as "Lines of Little Hearses". Its coverage spurred action in

2000-407: The two of them, Harrelson actually was the better player. The character of Gloria was originally conceived as "an upper-class white girl at Smith or Barnard who runs away with a bad boy." However, actress Rosie Perez left a lasting impression on Shelton when she said she could not audition because she was "having a bad hair day", and he reconfigured the character to cast her. Marques Johnson has

2050-596: The video game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? , published in 1985, included a copy of The World Almanac in the purchase. From the 1968 to 1986 editions the Almanac bore the imprints of local newspapers (in New York, the Daily News for most of the time) in various markets while published by NEA. Thereafter it was branded with "World Almanac Books", initially as an imprint of Pharos Books, another Scripps-owned entity, until

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2100-439: The winning point coming when Sidney lobs an "alley-oop" pass to Billy, who dunks it. Billy returns home and is crushed to find that Gloria has left him. The mobsters who are after Billy find him, and he pays his debts. Billy asks Sidney to set him up with a real job, and Sidney remarks that Billy and Gloria may be better off without each other. The film ends as Billy and Sidney launch into another basketball argument and return to

2150-429: The world: between 1944 and 1946, at the request of the U.S. Government, The World Almanac had special print runs of 100,000 to 150,000 copies for distribution to the armed forces. In late December 1984, the 1985 edition reached first place in the category of paperback Advice, How- To and Miscellaneous books, on the New York Times best-seller list, with more than 1,760,000 copies sold at the time. The first version of

2200-527: Was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 to 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers as a leading national voice of the Democratic Party . From 1883 to 1911 under publisher Joseph Pulitzer , it was a pioneer in yellow journalism , capturing readers' attention with sensation, sports, sex and scandal and pushing its daily circulation to the one-million mark. It

2250-498: Was employed on a trial basis by Pulitzer as the editor of the World in 1904. Cobb was a fiercely independent Kansan who resisted Pulitzer's attempts to "run the office" from his home. The elder man was so invested in the paper that he continually meddled with Cobb's work. The two found common ground in their support of Woodrow Wilson , but they had many other areas of disagreement. When Pulitzer's son Ralph took over administrative responsibility of The World in 1907, his father wrote

2300-460: Was founded by the newspaper, and the name World Almanac is directly descended from the newspaper. The paper ran a twenty-one article series that was an exposé on the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan , starting September 6, 1921. In 1931, Pulitzer's heirs went to court to sell the World . A surrogate court judge decided in their favor; Scripps-Howard chain owner Roy W. Howard purchased

2350-406: Was released in the United States on March 27, 1992, by 20th Century Fox . The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success. A loose video game adaptation was released in 1995, while a remake film was released in 2023. Billy Hoyle is a former college basketball player who makes his living by hustling streetballers who assume he cannot play well because he

2400-408: Was sold in 1931 and merged into the New York World-Telegram . The World was founded in 1860. From 1862 to 1876, it was edited by Manton Marble , who was also its proprietor. During the 1864 United States presidential election , the World was shut down for three days after it published forged documents purportedly from Abraham Lincoln . Marble, disgusted by the defeat of Samuel Tilden in

2450-472: Was suspended in 1876, but in 1886, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer , who had purchased the World and quickly transformed it into one of the most influential newspapers in the country, revived The World Almanac with the intention of making it "a compendium of universal knowledge." The World Almanac has been published annually since. From 1890 to 1934, the New York World Building was prominently featured on its cover. In 1894, when it claimed more than

2500-557: Was to be staffed mainly by those who have completed master's or doctoral degrees, and other affiliates of the school. The online publication focuses on data journalism and collaborated with a number of local and national news outlets. The World lists contributors and an editor, but has not published new content since 2016. White Men Can%27t Jump White Men Can't Jump is a 1992 American sports comedy film written and directed by Ron Shelton . It stars Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as streetball hustlers . The film

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