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Tennis records

Where can I find a list of all-times highest ranked tennis player for each country? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.90.91.177 (talk) 12:38, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure how you rank a tennis player, but we do have Tennis players with most titles since 1968. ^Avic_ennasis @ 14:52, 2 Av 5771 / 2 August 2011 (UTC)

See ATP Rankings for men and WTA Rankings for women. --Jayron32 19:41, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Maybe I wasn't clear. What I'm looking for is a list which mentions, for each country in the world, who was/is the highest ranked player coming from there, according to the men/women world rankings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.90.91.177 (talk) 06:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

If you go to the ATP's ranking page here [1], you can look up the rankings by country by using the middle tab. It's not in a handy table format, but all the information is there. So, if I look up Bulgaria, to chose a random example, I see that Grigor Dimitrov is top ranked at number 57 in the world, and the next best player in the country is Dimitar Kutrovsky at number 545, and so on. You can do this for just about any country in the world. Happy compiling. --Xuxl (talk) 17:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

It's A Small World original

Which Disney movie feature this song? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.32.234 (talk) 15:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

According to our article on It's a Small World, it's sung in The Lion King.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 16:15, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

It might be sung in The Lion King, but that was decades after its origin, which was the "It's a Small World" exhibit at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. All or most of Disney's exhibits there ended up being transferred to Disneyland. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:31, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Holy frijoles, that article is a mess. I'll have to look at it again when I have nothing to do for about a month. --LarryMac | Talk 18:56, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

At least some of it reads as if it had been lifted from somewhere else. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:24, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

The song was orignally made for the atraction at the New York World's Fair created by Walt Disney Imaginenrriing later placed at all of the Disney Theme Parks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.176.137.161 (talk) 00:56, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Pretty much so. The one at the World's Fair was moved to Disneyland. It was later replicated for the other Disney parks. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:08, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Pitch a TV show

If someone wanted to pitch an idea for a television show to a given network (broadcast or cable), generally speaking to whom should they submit their proposal? Like a vice-president in charge of production? I doubt it would be practical to go through Human Resources or, worse yet, just leaving it with a receptionist. Also, since many channels are owned by the same company (such as all those owned by Discovery), it seems like you could pitch it once to several channels at the same time. Again, specifics aren't necessary (although assume this would be for a network based in the United States), and thanks in advance. --McDoobAU93 20:25, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

As a rule, film and TV companies do not read unsolicited manuscripts or pitch ideas. You have to get an agent, which itself is difficult, and then have the agent pitch the show. The reason they will not read your idea is (a) the fear that they are going to get sued for copyright infringement or sued on some other intellectual property claim if you send them an idea and, perhaps years later, they coincidentally decide to make a show that has any aspect in common with yours. These lawsuits are supposedly pretty common. (Buchwald v. Paramount was a related lawsuit, though that was a breach of contract suit rather than a you-stole-my-idea copyright infringement lawsuit. That article quotes John Landis as having claimed that there were "four or five" infringement lawsuits or lawsuit threats regarding his film Animal House, all of which were supposedly settled by Universal Pictures because it would, supposedly, save money compared to the cost of a trial.) If you send an idea to Disney, for example, they will go out of their way to have a paralegal write you a letter telling you they didn't read your idea, and that they have a policy of not reading ideas. (b) Ideas are cheap and execution is hard, and the studio executives don't care about your great idea, because without great execution, the show is going to suck. The cast and crew needed to make a hit show are way more important than the core idea; a merely OK idea executed excellently will be a hit, not a great idea executed in a merely OK fashion. Sorry! Comet Tuttle (talk) 22:28, 2 August 2011 (UTC)