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Tical (album)

Tical (1994) is Method Man's debut solo album and the first Wu-Tang Clan solo release after Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), produced almost entirely by RZA on Def Jam, certified platinum in 1995.

Tichina Arnold

Tichina Arnold (born 1969, Queens, New York) is an American actress and singer known as Pam on Martin, Rochelle on Everybody Hates Chris, and Tina Butler on CBS's The Neighborhood, with three NAACP Image Awards.

Tick, Tick... Boom!

Tick, Tick... Boom! is Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, begun as the 1990 one-man rock monologue Boho Days, reworked by David Auburn into a three-actor Off-Broadway show in 2001, and adapted into a 2021 Netflix film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda starring Andrew Garfield.

Tick, Tick... Boom! (film)

tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) is Lin-Manuel Miranda's feature directorial debut, a Netflix film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, starring Andrew Garfield as composer Jon in 1990 New York, with Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Editing.

Ticket (티켓)

Ticket (티켓, Tiket) is a 1986 South Korean drama by Im Kwon-taek about women in a Seokcho 'ticket dabang'; Kim Ji-mee's first film as producer for Jimee Films, censored at release, later restored by KOFA.

Ticket to Heaven (เด็กชายไม่ไปสวรรค์) (TV series)

Ticket to Heaven (เด็กชายไม่ไปสวรรค์) is a 2026 Thai drama series by GMMTV, set in 1996 at a Catholic boys' school, where a devout student's faith is shaken by love for a classmate.

Ticket to Paradise (2022 film)

Ticket to Paradise is a 2022 romantic comedy directed by Ol Parker, in which George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a divorced couple who travel to Bali.

Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster: American ticketing company founded 1976, wholly owned by Live Nation Entertainment since the 2010 merger; dominant in US primary concert ticketing (about 80% of major venues) and subject of major DOJ and FTC antitrust actions.

Tickets to My Downfall

Tickets to My Downfall is Machine Gun Kelly's fifth studio album, a pop-punk record produced by Travis Barker, released September 25, 2020 on Interscope; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Tickle Me Elmo

Tickle Me Elmo: motorized laughing, shaking plush of Sesame Street's Elmo by Tyco Preschool, released July 1996 at $29.95; 1996's must-have toy, over 1 million sold by Christmas, sparked by Rosie O'Donnell giveaways.

Tickled

Tickled (2016) is a New Zealand documentary by David Farrier and Dylan Reeve investigating competitive endurance tickling videos, Jane O'Brien Media, and David D'Amato's harassment and blackmail operation; Sundance premiere, dismissed defamation suits, HBO follow-up The Tickle King.

Tico Torres

Tico Torres (Hector Samuel Juan Torres, born 1953) is the American drummer of Bon Jovi since 1983, formerly a first-call session player with Pat Benatar, Cher, and Alice Cooper, also a painter.

TID

TID, the stage name of Khalid Mohamed, is a Tanzanian Bongo Flava singer born in Dar es Salaam in 1981, known for "Kiuno", "Nyota Yako", and "Zeze".

Tidal (album)

Tidal (1996) is Fiona Apple's debut album on Epic Records, produced by Andy Slater, 10 songs in 51 minutes, featuring "Criminal". It went platinum within a year, sold about 3 million copies, and shaped later artists including Kanye West.

Tidal Wave (해운대)

Tidal Wave (해운대, Haeundae) is a 2009 South Korean disaster film by Yoon Je-kyoon in which a mega-tsunami hits Busan's Haeundae beach; it drew 11.3 million admissions, the first Korean film past ten million since The Host.

Tideland (film)

Tideland (2005) is Terry Gilliam's dark fantasy drama, adapted from Mitch Cullin's novel, about orphaned Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) escaping into fantasy in rural Texas. FIPRESCI winner at San Sebastián, but a critical and commercial failure in North America.

Tidelands (TV series)

Tidelands is Netflix's first Australian original series, a supernatural crime drama (2018) created by Stephen M. Irwin for Hoodlum Entertainment, filmed in Queensland, starring Charlotte Best and Elsa Pataky; one season of 8 episodes, ended without renewal.

Tides

Tides is a 1993 epistolary novel by the Nigerian writer Isidore Okpewho, telling through exchanged letters of Niger Delta communities resisting oil exploitation with state complicity.

Tides from the West

Tides from the West (西潮) is Chiang Monlin's English autobiography, written in Kunming during WWII air raids and published by Yale University Press in 1947, covering China from the 1842 Treaty of Nanking to Pearl Harbor in 1941; Chiang translated it into Chinese himself for a 1950s Taiwan edition.

Tidying Up with Marie Kondo

Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, also known as the KonMari Netflix show, is an 8-episode 2019 reality series where Marie Kondo declutters Los Angeles homes using her spark-joy method; Emmy-nominated, one season, produced by The Jackal Group.

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree

"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree," written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and recorded by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando, was the Billboard #1 single of 1973 and the origin of the yellow-ribbon homecoming custom.

TIE fighter

TIE fighter (Twin Ion Engine fighter, TIE/ln): fictional Galactic Empire single-pilot starfighter in Star Wars, 8.99 m, Sienar Fleet Systems, twin ion engines with solar-array panels, no shields or hyperdrive; designed by Colin Cantwell and Joe Johnston for the 1977 film.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Átame!) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1989 Spanish dark comedy in which ex-psychiatric patient Ricky (Antonio Banderas) kidnaps actress Marina (Victoria Abril). Its US X-rating lawsuit helped create NC-17.

Tie Ning

Tie Ning (铁凝, born 1957) is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer, president of the China Writers Association, known for "Oh, Xiangxue" and the novel Rose Gate.

Tie Your Mother Down

Tie Your Mother Down: Queen hard rock song written by Brian May, opening track and second single of A Day at the Races (1976); UK peak No. 31, US No. 49, and Queen's most frequent concert opener.

Tie-dye

Tie-dye is a mechanical resist-dyeing technique that folds, ties, stitches, or clamps fabric before dyeing so bound areas resist color. Known as bandhani, shibori, and adire regionally, it dates back over a millennium and became a 1960s counterculture icon.

Tie-in

A tie-in, also called a product tie-in, is a work of media that draws on a better-known work, such as licensed Star Wars novels or film novelizations.

Tieguanyin (铁观音)

Tieguanyin (铁观音), also Iron Goddess of Mercy, is a semi-oxidized oolong tea and tea cultivar from Xiping, Anxi County, Fujian, China; known for orchid aroma, "Guanyin rhyme" flavor, three aroma styles, EU PGI and intangible heritage status, and Taiwan Muzha descendant.

Tiếng hát con tàu

"Tiếng hát con tàu" ("The Song of the Train") is a Vietnamese poem by Chế Lan Viên marking his turn toward the people as the source of art.

Tiếng thu

"Tiếng thu" ("The Sound of Autumn") is a 1939 poem by the Vietnamese poet Lưu Trọng Lư, an emblematic work of the Thơ mới movement.