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Balaban:

  • Balaban in Afghanistan
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  • Balaban in Kocaeli Province, Marmara Region, Turkey
  • Balaban, a double reed wind instrument related to the duduk

Balaban is a village on the hillside of Kartepe mountain near Ä°zmit, Kocaeli province, Turkey. ... A duduk player The duduk (pronounced ) is a traditional woodwind instrument popular in the Caucasus region. ...

Personal last name

Ukrainian, Belorussian, Romanian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from a Russian word meaning ‘hawk’, probably usually applied as a descriptive nickname, although it could also be an occupational name for a falconer. In Ukrainian and Belorussian balaban also means ‘chatterer’. In patronymic form (Balabanov) it is also found as a Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian surname.

Bob Balaban (born August 16, 1945 in Chicago) is an American actor and director. ... Boško Balaban (born October 15, 1978) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a striker. ... John Balaban is a professor at North Carolina State University. ... Liane Balaban (born June 24, 1980) is a Canadian actress most famous for her role as Agnes-Marie Moonie Pottie in New Waterford Girl(1999). ... Meir Balaban, Majer Balaban (1874, Lviv - 1941, Warsaw Ghetto) - one of the most outstanding historians of Polish and Galician Jews. ... The first incarnation of the Balaban and Katz corporation appeared in 1916 in Chicago by A.J. Balaban, Barney Balaban, Sam Katz and Morris Katz. ... Barney Balaban was one of five Balaban brothers from Chicago who founded the Balaban and Katz Theatre Chain. ...

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Bob Balaban Interview Transcript (Aug '01) - Interview - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About ... (2791 words)
BOB BALABAN: I studied at the Second City while I was in high school in the teenage workshop led by the fabulous originator of Second City Viola Scolin.
BOB BALABAN: And it?s interesting because they were both fantastic in their roles and absolutely right for their parts and they weren?t like elephants sitting on the movie.
BOB BALABAN: I?m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
Bob Balaban: Information from Answers.com (966 words)
Balaban's major contribution to the industry in the 1980s was as a director, first of the disappointing Showtime movie The Brass Ring (1983) and then of the macabre weekly TV series Tales of the Darkside (1984) and Amazing Stories (1985).
Balaban scored a major art-house and critical successes producing and playing one of the main characters in Robert Altman's murder-mystery Gosford Park, and appearing as an ineffective father in Ghost World.
Balaban's most regarded film-directing credit is Parents starring Randy Quaid; a satire of the values and prejudices of Eisenhower-era America.
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