Big movies of this sub-genre would be " The Big Lebowski ", Dude, Where's My Car, Big Nothing, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, and Pineapple Express.

The leading players were Hardy Richardson, Jack Rowe, Deacon White, Charlie Getzein and Hall of Famers " Big Sam " Thompson and Dan Brouthers.

1977 also saw the debut album from Hamburg's Big Balls and the Great White Idiot, arguably West Germany's first punk band.

The White Russian is the favorite drink of Jeffrey " The Dude " Lebowski, the main character of the 1998 film The Big Lebowski.

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

:: Keen returns to Earth only to find the Vorticon mothership hovering above with its deadly X-14 Tantalus Ray cannons locked on to eight of Earth's greatest landmarks: Big Ben ( London ), the Sphinx ( Cairo ), the Sydney Opera House ( Sydney ), the Statue of Liberty ( New York ), the Eiffel Tower ( Paris ), the Colosseum ( Rome ), St Basil's Cathedral ( Moscow ), and the White House ( Washington D. C .).

In an Astaire-Rogers picture, the Big White Set — as these Art Deco-inspired creations were known — took up the largest share of the film's production costs, and Top Hat was no exception.

Miller's friend Emil White founded the nonprofit Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur in 1981.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

White teenagers and young adults were the principal fans of the Big Bands in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

** " Stuck Between A Rock And A White Face ", single, Big Cat Records

Musicians Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode and Recoil, Nick Midson ( formerly of Threshold ), actress Daniela Denby-Ashe, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Mick Jones of punk band The Clash, the highly influential Big Audio Dynamite and latterly Carbon / Silicon, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, Robert Smith of The Cure, Pete Doherty, of The Libertines and Babyshambles, Dave Kerr-Clemenson ( Edison Lighthouse / White Plains ) as well as Matador Records founder Gerard Cosloy, are all fans of the club.

In May 1871, Kiowa medicine man Satank ( Sitting Bear ), and Kiowa chiefs Satanta ( White Bear ), Addo-etta ( Big Tree ) and Maman-ti ( Skywalker ) led a force of over 100 Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apaches, Arapaho, and Cheyenne warriors from the Oklahoma Fort Sill Reservation into Texas.

The rulers of the four seas, Blue Heron, Frog, White Thunder, and Big Water Creature could stand it no more, and told the beings of the island that they must all leave this world.

* Big Four ( White Star Line ), a quartet of British ocean liners of the early 20th century

* White Horse District serves Camden County ( formerly Big Timber and Cooper Districts )

* British artist Stella Vine chose the White Horse as her favourite artwork in a video filmed in May 2008 as part of Artangel's The Big Pix project, in which artists were filmed talking about their favourite artwork or destination.

Big Pine is located in the Owens Valley of California between the Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains, just west of the Owens River upstream of its diversion into the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

The racial makeup of Big Pine was 1, 192 ( 67. 9 %) White, 3 ( 0. 2 %) African American, 438 ( 24. 9 %) Native American, 13 ( 0. 7 %) Asian, 1 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 52 ( 3. 0 %) from other races, and 57 ( 3. 2 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Big Bear City was 10, 252 ( 83. 3 %) White, 83 ( 0. 7 %) African American, 202 ( 1. 6 %) Native American, 103 ( 0. 8 %) Asian, 31 ( 0. 3 %) Pacific Islander, 1, 089 ( 8. 9 %) from other races, and 544 ( 4. 4 %) from two or more races.

This inspired him to create the world's second bus line from San Bernardino to Big Bear Valley using White trucks with several rows of seats.

The racial makeup of Big Bear Lake was 4, 204 ( 83. 8 %) White, 22 ( 0. 4 %) African American, 48 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 78 ( 1. 6 %) Asian, 10 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 491 ( 9. 8 %) from other races, and 166 ( 3. 3 %) from two or more races.

Indicate location-Establishing shots may use famous landmarks to indicate the city where the action is taking place or has moved to, such as the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty to identify New York, the London Eye or Big Ben to identify London, the Sydney Opera House to identify Sydney, the Eiffel Tower to identify Paris, or the Las Vegas Strip to identify Las Vegas.

* Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams ( 2008, Nintendo DS )-an adventure game published by Empire Interactive developed by Sanrio Digital.

In 2006, over 68, 000 passengers embarked and disembarked through the historic Whitefish Depot, a stop on Amtrak's Empire Builder line, with some percentage of those being headed to the ski resort on Big Mountain.

It has been featured as a plot device in numerous TV shows, including The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Skins, Hall Pass, Grounded for Life, (" Henry's Working for the Drug Squad "), Arrested Development (" Afternoon Delight "), Taxi, Laverne & Shirley, Barney Miller, Frasier, Family Guy, American Dad !, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Glee, Gilmore Girls, The Young And The Restless, Weeds, The L Word, Degrassi: The Next Generation, My Name is Earl, I Love Keith Allen, 90210, Swingtown, The Big Bang Theory and Frasier (" High Holidays "), as well as in movies such as Love and Other Disasters, EuroTrip, Next Friday, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Never Been Kissed, Adventureland, Grandma's Boy, Can't Hardly Wait, Life as We Know It, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Empire Records.

In 2008, Big was selected by Empire Magazine as one of " The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.

The Big Red One ranks 483rd on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.

The guests included the band Green Day, Steve Buscemi, star of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, Vincent Pastore, aka " Big Pussy " from the The Sopranos, actor and director Tim Robbins, and singer Debbie Harry of the group " Blondie.

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

The Megali Idea ( Megáli Idéa, the " Big Idea ") was an irredentist concept of Greek nationalism that expressed the goal of establishing a Greek state that would encompass all ethnic Greek-inhabited areas, including the large Greek populations that after the restoration of Greek independence in 1830, from the Ottoman Empire, still lived under Ottoman occupation.

Following the bankruptcy and liquidation of Marx Toys in the early 1980s, the Big Wheel brand name and molds were sold to Empire Plastics, makers of the Power Cycle brand, which was Marx's biggest competitor.

", Richard Ashcroft and Big Life Management commissioned Giorgio Testi for the promo – to be created out of live footage from a show at Shepherd ’ s Bush Empire.

In addition to the annual team-up episodes, Power Rangers Wild Force also had a special episode commemorating it as the tenth incarnation, Forever Red, by having Cole team up with the nine Red Rangers before him, ( in order of incarnations, Jason Lee Scott, Aurico, Tommy Oliver, Theodore J. Jarvis Johnson, Andros, Leo Corbett, Carter Grayson, Wesley Collins and Eric Myers ), in order to prevent the remaining generals of the Machine Empire ( the costumes used were actually from Big Bad Beetleborgs and Beetleborgs Metallix ) from unearthing and reactivating Lord Zedd's zord, Serpentera, which had been left buried on the moon.

* Vic Reeves Big Night Out-The Goldsmiths Tavern and Albany Empire, pre-1990

The Downtown Skyline features various skyscrapers such as the World Trade Center, Sears Tower, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, IDS Center, MetLife Building, Sydney Opera House, the Hollywood sign, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Fernsehturm Berlin, Big Ben, Red Square, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower and many other landmarks.

He also played the part of Kalendorf in the Big Finish Productions Dalek Empire series.

By 1910, although local terms like Palouse, Walla Walla Country, Big Bend, Umatilla Country, and Camas Prairie, continued to be common, many people of the region began to regard themselves as living in the Inland Empire, the Wheat Belt, the Columbia Basin, or simply Eastern Washington, Oregon, or North Idaho.

Empire magazine voted Big Trouble in Little China the 430th greatest film in their " 500 Greatest Movies of All Time " list.

* In the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who spin-off miniseries Dalek Empire, the Daleks launch a full scale invasion of the Milky Way in the year 4162.

* 1999-The Offspring, Garbage, Powderfinger, Suede, Spiderbait, Mercury Rev, Frenzal Rhomb, You Am I, Sebadoh, Not From There, Fountains of Wayne, Coloured Stone, Gerling, Ben Lee, Alex Lloyd, Something for Kate, Shihad, Violetine, Toothfaeries, Drag, Taxi, Suicidal Tendencies, Reel Big Fish, Supersuckers, Area 7, Less Than Jake, 28 Days, John Lee Spider, Rebecca's Empire, Deadstar, Kellie Lloyd & Tim Steward, Jimmy Little, Merrick & Rosso, Josh Abrahams, Groove Terminator, Sonic Animation

* The Empire State ( audio play ), audio play by Big Finish productions

It should also be noted that the Machine Empire Remnants are really recycled Big Bad Beetleborgs / Beetleborgs Metallix costumes.

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

*- Official New York State Arm Wrestling Association Featuring the NYC Big Apple Grapple International, NY Golden Arm Series and Empire State Golden Arm Tournament of Champions

Thetford's real-life ' Palace Cinema ' doubled as Walmington-on-Sea's ' Empire Cinema ' in two episodes-The Big Parade ( 1970 ) and A Soldier's Farewell ( 1972 ).