The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

* 1980 – John Lennon, an English musician ( former member of The Beatles ), and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.

Chapman and John Cleese wrote professionally for the BBC during the 1960s, primarily for David Frost, but also for Marty Feldman.

Chapman also co-wrote several episodes with Bernard McKenna and David Sherlock.

In David Morgan's book Monty Python Speaks, Cleese asserted that Chapman, although officially his co-writer for many of their sketches, contributed comparatively little in the way of direct writing.

In 1978, Chapman co-wrote ( with Bernard McKenna ) and starred in The Odd Job alongside David Jason who had previously appeared on Do Not Adjust Your Set with Idle, Jones, and Palin.

Chapman's memoir, A Liar's Autobiography, was published in 1980 and, unusually for a work of this type, had five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop and Douglas Adams.

* 1980 – Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.

The concept of emission and transmission tomography was introduced by David E. Kuhl, Luke Chapman and Roy Edwards in the late 1950s.

Vincent Irizarry, Sharon Case, Genie Francis, Maura West, Eden Riegel, Billy Miller, Elizabeth Hendrickson, Marcy Rylan, Amelia Heinle Luckinbill, Sarah Brown, Laura Wright, Veleka Gray, Robin Mattson, Lenore Kasdorf, Roscoe Born, Judith Chapman, David Canary, and Michael Sabatino have all played multiple soap roles.

Twain worked with music producers David Foster and Nathan Chapman on the new song.

When they returned to The Dakota, their home in New York City, Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had been stalking Lennon for two months.

* August 24 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, after being convicted of murdering John Lennon in Manhattan 8 months earlier.

** Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon

* 1916 – Sydney Chapman and David Enskog systematically develop the kinetic theory of gases.

Script-writers included John Albery, John Antrobus, John Betjeman, John Bird, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Roald Dahl, Richard Ingrams, Lyndon Irving, Gerald Kaufman, Frank Muir, David Nobbs, Denis Norden, Bill Oddie, Dennis Potter, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Tynan, and Keith Waterhouse.

It was written mainly by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, with contributions by Michael Knowles and John Chapman.

star David Lee Murphy, the hometown of baseball's Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman, and the hometown of San Diego State University men's basketball coach Steve Fisher, as well as Medal of Honor recipient Joseph William Ozbourn.

Such men as Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon —" The result ," said Chapman, " would be that I would be famous ; the result would be that my life would change and I would receive a tremendous amount of attention.

( See Mark David Chapman: Motivation and mental health for further details.

The college had its own science laboratories from 1907 to 1947, which were overseen ( for all but the last three years ) by the physical chemist David Chapman, a fellow of the college from 1907 to 1944.

They were led by Knoxville businessman Colonel David C. Chapman, who, as head of the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission, was largely responsible for raising the funds for the purchase of the property that became the core of the park.

He hired a surveyor named David Chapman, and laid out the town of Westminster on June 11, 1818.

David Crookes continues to write about the Amstrad as a freelance writer for Retro Gamer magazine.

They made a surprise reappearance in the 2012 annual, drawn by David Sutherland, along with a reprint in the weekly comic's Retro Beano section in issue 3597, dated 6 August 2011.

** Retro Puppet Master, a 1999 film directed by David DeCoteau

His own published work since then has included essays, interviews, poetry and translations that have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Harvard Review, Poetry, Rolling Stone, Jacket ( Australia ), Verse and on the BBC Radio literary program The Verb He also edited One More River to Cross: The Selected Poems of John Beecher ( introduction by Studs Terkel ), and co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry with David Rigsbee, which was selected as one of the " Best of the Best from the University Presses " and featured on C-SPAN's " Book TV ".

Rolling Stone editor David Fricke wrote that if one wanted to play a single recording that would " epitomize and encapsulate the famed Muscle Shoals Sound ", that record would be " I'll Take You There " by The Staple Singers.

The members of the Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section were Pete Carr ( lead guitar ), Jimmy Johnson ( guitar ), Roger Hawkins ( drums ), David Hood ( bass guitar ) and Barry Beckett ( keyboards ).

* David Prosho as Muscle Man

The album included a surplus recording from The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, " Open Your Heart ", and the new tracks featured drummer Roger Hawkins and bassist David Hood, from the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio house band.

* David Homel and Fred A. Reed, The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle

* Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section-renowned studio band, consisting of Jimmy Johnson, guitar, Roger Hawkins, drums, David Hood, bass, and Barry Beckett, keyboards

White's first album, 1969's Black and White, was recorded with Muscle Shoals / Nashville musicians David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and Jerry Carrigan, and featured " Willie and Laura Mae Jones " and " Polk Salad Annie ", along with covers of Jimmy Webb's " Wichita Lineman ".

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section comprising Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, and Jimmy Johnson, also known as The Swampers, is another well-established group of session musicians.

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He won the World Muscle Power championship in 1987, and has been ascribed two World Muscle Power championships by the creator of the event, David Webster, although other sources suggest the 1987 victory was the only one.

Drive-By Truckers was co-founded by Patterson Hood ( son of bassist David Hood of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section ) and longtime friend, former room-mate, and musical partner Mike Cooley in Athens, Georgia, in 1996.

" The first time the piece was performed it was entitled The Mind is a Muscle, Part 1, and was performed by a set of three simultaneous solos by Rainer, Steve Paxton, and David Gordon.

He is the author of " That Movie In Your Head ", about these efforts. In the 1970s, David Shepherd and Howard Jerome created the Improvisational Olympics, a format for competition based improv.

Production was supported by dedicated demo-processing software, such as Uwe Girlich's Little Movie Processing Center ( LMPC ) and David " crt " Wright's non-linear editor Keygrip ; the latter became known as " Adobe Premiere for Quake demo files ".

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

In his review of The Powerpuff Girls Movie, movie critic Bob Longino of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said that, " the intricate drawings emanate 1950s futuristic pizazz like a David Hockney scenescape ," and that the show is " one of the few American creations that is both gleeful pop culture and exquisite high art.

" On the other hand, David Shipman, in his book The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years, said " Laughton was a total actor.

It also includes " The Greatest Movie Ever Made: a commentary by David Schmader ".

* David Balaban, The Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz ( Arcadia Publishing, 2006 )

* The Postman: The Movie, An Impression by the Author of the Original Novel by David Brin

In February 2008, towards the end of the TV Movie Knight Rider 2008 ( AKA Knight Rider SG ), David reprised his career-making role as Michael Knight as he walked on to introduce himself to his on-screen son, Mike Traceur ( Justin Bruening ).

According to David Ragan's " Movie Stars of the ' 30s ", Crabbe even owned a Southern California swimming pool building company in later years.

In Kung Fu: The Movie, Lee played Chung Wang, the suspected son of Kwai Chang Caine ( David Carradine ).

He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's " An Old Fashioned Love Song ", Helen Reddy's " You and Me Against the World ", David Bowie's " Fill Your Heart ", and the Carpenters ' " We've Only Just Begun " and " Rainy Days and Mondays ", as well as his contributions to films such as " Evergreen " from A Star Is Born and " Rainbow Connection " from The Muppet Movie.

See David Shipman's ' The Great Movie Stars-The International Years '

* The Fatal Glass of Beer, by Harold Bloom, in The Movie That Changed My Life ;, edited by David I. Rosenberg ; Viking Penguin, 1991.

" Daisy " aired only once, during a September 7, 1964 telecast of David and Bathsheba on The NBC Monday Movie.

* David Williamson at the Internet Movie Database

* Ragan, David Movie stars of the ' 30s: A complete reference guide for the film historian or trivia buffStars of the ' 30s, 1985, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-604901-X

David Harold Yost ( born January 7, 1969 ) is an American actor and producer known for his role of Billy Cranston on the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and Power Rangers Zeo.

He starred in the Lifetime Movie Network television miniseries The Capture Of The Green River Killer in which he portrayed King County sheriff David Reichert.

Head premiered on television across-the-board as a CBS Late Movie on December 30, 1974 ( Michael Nesmith's 32nd birthday, and David Jones ' 29th ), at 11: 30pm ( EST ); the network rebroadcast the film on July 7, 1975 ( the 35th birthday of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, who is mentioned in the film ).

In 2005, two New York City screenwriters, David Price and Ashoka Thomas, filed suit in federal court against Fox and Thurber, claiming copyright infringement of an unproduced screenplay they had written, DodgeBall: The Movie, by Thurber and Fox.

* David Renwick at the Internet Movie Database.

Scary Movie 3 is a 2003 American science fiction horror comedy parody film, which parodies the horror, sci-fi, and mystery genres, directed by David Zucker.

More recently, he acted as Uncle Smackers, a character in The Onion Movie, a feature film produced by David Zucker, renowned for Airplane!