Recent additions to the subgenre of the whodunit include the novels of Simon Brett, the Thackery Phin novels of John Sladek, Lawrence Block's The Burglar in the Library ( 1997 ) ( which is a spoof set in the present in an English-style country house ), Kinky Friedman's Road Kill ( 1997 ), Ben Elton's Dead Famous ( 2001 ), and Gilbert Adair's The Act of Roger Murgatroyd ( 2006 ).

* Boris Pecker, a fictional character in Ben Elton's bestseller Dead Famous

* Ben Elton's Dead Famous ( 2002 )

The statue of Freddie Mercury above the West End's Dominion Theatre where Queen ( band ) | Queen and Ben Elton's musical We Will Rock You ( musical ) | We Will Rock You has been performed since 2002.

She is also mentioned as one of the Bohemians in Ben Elton's musical We Will Rock You.

Also in 2000, she appeared opposite Hugh Laurie in Maybe Baby, Ben Elton's film adaptation of his book Inconceivable.

Glaister appeared in the title role in a stage production of Oliver Twist, alongside long-time friend Ben Elton's Artful Dodger.

Dreyfus has created some memorable comedy characters, particularly on British television, including Constable Kevin Goody in Ben Elton's sitcom The Thin Blue Line and Tom Farrell, the gay flatmate of Linda ( Kathy Burke ) in Gimme Gimme Gimme.

Plumb also appeared in the mini-series Stark, based on Ben Elton's novel of the same name.

In the same year she appeared in Ben Elton's Maybe Baby as Melinda.

Just as Ben Elton's Thin Blue Line does not reflect the modern police force nor The Vicar of Dibley the Church of England today, Chalk was never intended to reflect life in British schools.

He has also been seen in Peter Nichols ' Blue Murder, Happy as A Sandbag, the award Winning Dead Funny, Ben Elton's Gasping and The Woman in Black with Frank Finlay.

He also played the title role in An Inspector Calls at the Garrick Theatre as well as playing the role of Pop in Queen and Ben Elton's musical, We Will Rock You at London's Dominion Theatre.

Along with a young American writer, Dragojević came up with an adapted screenplay from Ben Elton's story set in West Belfast during the 1970s about a group of Protestants and Catholics playing on the same football team as sectarian tensions surround them.

* Dead Famous ( 2001 ) is a comedy / whodunit novel, also by Ben Elton, in which a contestant is murdered while on a Big Brother-like show.

While his demeanor is typically mild and polite, Giles is not above using raw violence to solve a problem, such as physically threatening Principal Snyder into readmitting Buffy to school after her expulsion (" Dead Man's Party "), pummeling Angelus senseless with a flaming baseball bat and burning down his hideout upon discovering that he had killed Jenny Calendar (" Passion "), manhandling Spike while ordering him to get over his feelings for Buffy (" I Was Made to Love You "), forcing Glory's minion Slook to talk by inflicting a painful-sounding injury offscreen (" Tough Love "), severely beating up Ethan Rayne for information (" Halloween "), and suffocating a critically injured Ben with his bare hands to keep Glory from awakening in his body.

During the 1990s, West's status as a pop culture icon led to appearances as himself in the film Drop Dead Gorgeous and in several television series, including NewsRadio, Murphy Brown, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, The Ben Stiller Show and The Drew Carey Show.

Love declared in an interview in the Los Angeles zine Ben Is Dead that she took the style from Amphlett.

She has contributed writing to many publications, including Glue ( in which she had a column called " Because I Said So "), UR Chicago, Ben Is Dead, J. D. s, and the LA Weekly.

As a keyboardist, Ted has recorded and performed with Michael Powers, Albert King, Wilson Pickett, Ben E King, Dr. John, Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer, Gordon Waller ( Peter and Gordon ), Paul Jones, Odetta, Bill Chinook, Ray Draper, Gary Stewart, and Loudon Wainwright III ( Ted played piano on Dead Skunk ).

Currently, they have two pilots in development ; I'm Not Dead Yet starring Ben Falcone and Brothers-in-Law starring Josh Cooke.

Ben Mink was also responsible for the movie soundtrack to Fifty Dead Men Walking. which has since received numerous awards and nominations including a 2010 Genie Award nomination for Best Achievement in Music – Original Score, and a 2009 Leo Award for Best Musical Score for a Feature Length Drama.

At an intimate gig in Brighton's Concorde 2 on May 29th 2012, Ben revealed that the band's fifth studio album, entitled Dead Silence, was released September 4 and will be followed up by a full UK tour over the course of October and November 2012.

He is also well known for his voice-work on Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Codename: Kids Next Door, Cow and Chicken, Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, Batman: Arkham City, the Ben 10 franchise, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Halo, Gears of War, Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead 2.

Formerly the singer of a now defunct project Unity, she came onto the radar of Everything But The Girl producer Ben Watt who released their EP Love in the Dead of Night on his Buzzin Fly label ( 2004 ).

*" Nights of the Living Dead " on the compilation Ben Eberbaugh: A Rockin ' Tribute ( 2003 )-Die Slaughterhaus Records-CD-UK No. 158

Ben Is Dead was a Los Angeles-based zine published from 1988 through 1999.

Romeo would later write that during the magazine's early days Ben found the title amusing, and would introduce himself to people as " Ben, from Ben is Dead.

Eventually Ben Is Dead had a circulation in the tens of thousands and was being sold in Borders and Tower Records across the USA.

Romeo regularly interviewed her cantankerous father in Ben Is Dead, and in one interview she told him she couldn't imagine publishing a zine after she turned 30.

The last issue of Ben is Dead featured the theme of " Celebrity.

Today Ben Is Dead is perhaps best known for the three-part series of " Retro " issues, in which dozens of writers looked back at the trends and fads of their childhoods with a mix of nostalgia and horror.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

By March 1957, a full year after the release of " Please, Please, Please ", most members of the Famous Flames had left the group after the group's new manager, Universal Attractions Agency Chief Ben Bart, insisted that the group's billing be " James Brown and The Famous Flames ".

Ben Jonson's poem On the Famous Voyage ( discussed in Andrew McRae's article, cited below ) provides a mock-epic account of a journey along the excrement-lined ditch during the early seventeenth century.

"" On the Famous Voyage ": Ben Jonson and Civic Space.

Famous landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Big Ben and the White House are common subjects.

Famous alumni of Unto These Hills include Michael Rosenbaum, best known for his portrayal of Lex Luthor on Smallville and actor and former U. S. Representative Ben L. Jones of Georgia, a regular on CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard.

Films include All about Evil with Thomas Dekker ; Abel Ferrara ’ s 4: 44 Last Day On Earth with Willem Dafoe ; and upcoming projects Imogene with Kristen Wiig, Darren Criss, Matt Dillon and Annette Bening ; The Rambler with Dermot Mulroney ; Clutter with Carol Kane and Kathy Najimy ; He ’ s Way More Famous Than You written by Halley Feiffer directed by Michael Urie with Ben Stiller and Jesse Eisenberg.

Famous actors from this era are now legendary: Ben Turpin, Mabel Normand, Edna Purviance, Roscoe " Fatty " Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy ( the duo of Laurel & Hardy were among those who made a commercially successful transition into talking pictures ), and many others.

Maroulis ( supported by Ben Phillips, guitarist / vocalist for the NYC-based bands Famous and The Pretty Reckless ) embarked on another solo tour in February 2008, playing to sold-out venues in various cities including Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Annapolis, and Hollywood, California.

In 2003, Ben Taylor recorded the song for his album Famous Among the Barns, featured on the soundtrack and of the opening sequence of the horror film Prom Night.

Famous cinematic portrayals of circus trains include 1941's Dumbo by Ben Sharpsteen, starring Verna Felton and Margaret Wright, 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston, 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and 2011's Water for Elephants.

Famous celebrity victims of Himber's pranks included Ben Blue, the chanteuse Hildegarde and Charles Laughton.