* The novels of Rob Grant ( Colony, Incompetence and Fat ).

He starred in many made-for-TV movies, including Gramps ( 1995 ), co-starring with Andy Griffith, Rob Hedden's The Colony ( 1995 ) with Hal Linden, Stephen King's It, Danielle Steel's Heartbeat with Polly Draper, and It Came From the Sky in 1999 with Yasmine Bleeth, and made guest appearances on TV shows, such as " Felicity ", Ally McBeal, Scrubs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as an episode of Law & Order: SVU where the case involves the beating of a seven-months-pregnant woman, whose unborn child has been torn from her body via a primitive cesarean section.

Virginia Beach has many distinctive communities and neighborhoods within its boundaries, including: Acredale, Alanton, Aragona Village, Arrowhead, Bay Colony, Bayside, Blackwater, Brigadoon, Brighton on the Bay, Buckner Farms, Carolanne Farm, Castleton, Chesapeake Beach, College Park, Croatan Beach, Glenwood, Great Neck, Green Run, Greenwich, Heritage Park, Hilltop, Indian Lakes, Indian River Plantation, Kempsville, Kings Grant, Lago Mar, Landstown, Little Neck, London Bridge, Lynnhaven, Magic Hollow, Middle Plantation, Munden, the North End, Oceana, Ocean Lakes, Ocean Park, Oceanfront, Old Beach, Pembroke Manor, Pembroke Meadows, Pembroke Shores, Pine Meadows, Princess Anne, Pungo, Redwing, Salem, Sandbridge, Seatack, Thalia, Strawbridge, Thalia Shores, Thoroughgood, Windsor Woods, and Witchduck Point.

In 1841, the Republic of Texas chartered the Peters Colony Land Grant Company ( named for William Smalling Peters, publisher of the song " Oh!

Despite this, when the two rival companies merged in 1821 under the name the Hudson's Bay Company, the new governor, Sir George Simpson, requested Grant to head a Métis settlement of some 2, 000 people situated some 16 miles west of the Red River Colony on the Assiniboine River.

In 1932, Chapin was approached by Grant Wood and accepted a faculty position at the Stone City Art Colony, where he taught lithography for two summers.

He worked with Iowa painter Grant Wood for two summers ( 1932 and 1933 ) at the Stone City Art Colony, and then also studied at the Art Students League of New York ( 1933 – 34 ), where his teacher was Regionalist painter John Steuart Curry.

* One of two captains in the comedy science-fiction novel Colony.

This has been dubbed " Colony collapse disorder " ( CCD ); it is unclear whether this is simply an accelerated phase of the general decline due to stochastically more adverse conditions in 2006, or a novel phenomenon.

* One of the first was Cornelia Tuthill's 1840 novel Virginia Dare, or the Colony of Roanoke, in which Virginia marries a Jamestown settler.

Besides contributing various historical and critical essays to the North American Review, such as " life and Character of Peter the Great ", ( 1845 ) and a remarkable essay on the Polity of the Puritans, he published in 1849, again anonymously, a second novel, entitled Merry Mount, a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, based again on the odd history of Thomas Morton and Merrymount.

In 1998, Wayne Johnston's novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams presented a fictionalized portrayal of Smallwood.

* Spalding Gray worked on his novel The Impossible Vacation, and later chronicled his experiences at MacDowell Colony in his extended monologue, Monster in a Box.

* Colony ( Buffy novel ), based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series

Jacques had been working on a sequel to the novel, named Mabuse's Colony, in which Mabuse has died and a group of his devotees are starting an island colony based on the principles described by Mabuse's manifesto.

It is hinted at in the novel that the Brain Bug is telepathic and it is stated that the " brain " shares a symbiotic relationship with the Bug Colony and that if it dies, the colony dies.

In 1985, 1986, and 1988, she received MacDowell Colony fellowships, which helped enable her to write the novel Dogeaters, which illuminates many different aspects of Filipino experience, focusing on the influence of America through radio, television, and movie theaters.

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse was based on elements of author Norbert Jacques ' novel Mabuse's Colony.

This caused Jacques to start writing a new novel called Mabuse's Colony.

* Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's Red Dwarf

Leaders of the political force included Rob Grant and Jerry Falwell.

Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single " The Chicken Song " with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

The play was adapted for BBC television in 1993 under the direction of Royal National Theatre head Richard Eyre and starring Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe, Richard E. Grant, and Natasha Richardson.

Rob Grant and Doug Naylor were brought in as head writers to save the show.

Militant endorsed the decision with Ted Grant and Rob Sewell on the Militant executive opposing.

Barrie, who had originally auditioned for Lister, was familiar with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor having worked together on Son of Cliché and Spitting Image, and with the producers on Happy Families and various Jasper Carrott productions.

These sketch shows were scripted by Naylor along with another writer, Rob Grant.

However sometime between the airing of sixth series of Red Dwarf in 1993, and the writing of the seventh series in 1996, Rob Grant ended his partnership with Naylor after revealing he was tired of it and that he intended to quit and pursue other projects.

* Red Dwarf ( 1989 ), with Rob Grant ; published under the joint pseudonym Grant Naylor, and sometimes credited as Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers or just Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers.

* Better Than Life ( 1990 ), with Rob Grant, published under the joint pseudonym Grant Naylor.

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The writers for the pilot were Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, while the first and second series were written by Naylor and various co-writers, including Steve Punt and Paul Alexander.

His skills as a physical performer encouraged Rob Grant and Doug Naylor to write him additional characters for the series, namely Jim Reaper (" The Last Day "), The Data Doctor (" Back in the Red "), Human Kryten (" DNA "), Bongo (" Dimension Jump ") and Able (" Beyond A Joke ").

Current volunteers at HSN include Kim Church, Betty Leigh, and Julie Tello ( all from Shop at Home Network in Nashville, TN ) along with Karin Friedman, Bob Garson, Rob Kirkland, Charlie Hill, and Roger Frost ( who joined HSN as volunteers on November 10, 1996 ), Steve Mitchum, Diana Davis, Peter Lerner, Megan Fisher, Charlie Mendoza, Megan Polcino, Kelli Edwards, Matt Keller, Peter Grant, and Paul Cloud.

* Doug Naylor, Rob Grant and Ed Bye cite Silent Running as an inspiration for Red Dwarf, the British science fiction-comedy television series of the 1980s and 1990s.

In their original plan for the series, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor had specified that there would be no aliens and no robots.

Robert Llewellyn writes in his book The Man in the Rubber Mask that before settling on a Canadian accent, he, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor considered Swedish and American.

Other, more contemporary UK authors of this kind include Tom Sharpe, Kingsley Amis, Terry Pratchett, Richard Gordon, Rob Grant, Ian Ross, Douglas Adams, Evelyn Waugh, Nick Hornby, Eric Sykes, Leslie Thomas, Stephen Fry, Richard Asplin, Mike Harding, Joseph Connolly, and Ben Elton.

It was created and written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.

Dave Hollins: Space Cadet was a series of sketches on the BBC Radio 4 series Son of Cliché, produced by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.

He was cast as a stable boy turned swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiner's fantasy-comedy The Princess Bride, based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman.

* Rob Roy ( novel ), an 1817 novel by Walter Scott featuring Robert Roy MacGregor

There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

Cusack found that the greatest challenge adapting the novel was pulling off Rob Gordon's frequent breaking of the fourth wall and talking directly to the audience.

The novel was made into a film in 1984, directed by Tony Richardson and starring Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, and Beau Bridges.

Second, in 2006 Coogan starred with Rob Brydon in Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, a self-referential film of the " unfilmable " self-referential novel Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.

It features actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making in a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel Tristram Shandy, which is a fictional account of the narrator's attempt at writing an autobiography.

A 1990 American film, directed by Rob Reiner, was adapted from the novel.

Dalby is considered an expert in the study of the Japanese geisha community and has acted as consultant to novelist Arthur Golden and film-maker Rob Marshall for the novel Memoirs of a Geisha and the film of the same name.

These include a novel, Mission: Impractical by David A. McIntee and two Big Finish Productions audio plays, The Holy Terror and The Maltese Penguin, both written by Rob Shearman and featuring Robert Jezek as Frobisher.

A fictionalized version of Campbell at this time (" Rob McPhail ") appears in the novel Snooty Baronet by Wyndham Lewis ( 1932 ).

Rob Roy ( 1817 ) is an historical novel by Walter Scott.

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Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy gives an account of the kirk.

Rob Roy MacGregor | Rob Roy in the Crypt of Glasgow Cathedral ( more accurately, the Lower Church of Glasgow Cathedral ), by the Dalziel Brothers, after Sir Walter Scott's novel, Rob Roy.

Scott followed up with his 1817 historical novel Rob Roy romanticising the outlaw cattle thief Raibert Ruadh born by Loch Katrine and buried at nearby Balquhidder.

In 2005, film director Rob Marshall made a film version of the novel.

At the beginning of the novel, Ken has again angered his father by returning home from boarding school with failing grades, and will therefore have to repeat fifth grade, an expense Rob can ill afford.

Rob Thomas originally wrote Veronica Mars as a young adult novel for publishing company Simon & Schuster.

Scott returned to the first rising for his novel Rob Roy.

* Madhouse ( novel ), a novel by Rob Thurman