While making June Bride ( 1948 ), Davis clashed with co-star Robert Montgomery, later describing him as " a male Miriam Hopkins ... an excellent actor, but addicted to scene-stealing ".

However, The Cosby Show had African-American themes, such as the Civil Rights Movement, and it frequently promoted African-American and African culture represented by artists and musicians such as Jacob Lawrence, Miles Davis, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Miriam Makeba.

Kyle Gass, Sarah Silverman, Richard Moll, Tom Davis, Jerry Trainor, Miriam Flynn, Caroline Reitman and John Cho have cameo appearances.

Although she was ideal for the part, Miriam Hopkins was not considered because of the many problems she had created while co-starring with Davis in The Old Maid.

* 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright ( d. 2008 )

* 1942 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician ( d. 2008 )

* Davis, K. 2008.

Health and medical propaganda films include The Pace That Kills ( 1935, cocaine ), The Terrible Truth ( 1951, Sid Davis, anti-marijuana / heroine ), Case Study series by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation ( 1969, amphetamines, barbituates, heroine, LSD ), Hoxsey: Quacks Who Cure Cancer ( 1988 ) about the Hoxsey Therapy, The Beautiful Truth ( 2008 ) about the Gerson method for treating cancer, the anti-vaccine The Greater Good, Burzynski The Movie: Cancer Is Serious Business ( 2010 ), and Michael Moore's Sicko ( 2007 ) about the health care industry.

* Russell Davis ( 2008 – 2010 )

Charles Davis also served as color commentator from 2007 to 2008.

In Davis v. Federal Election Commission, 554 U. S. 724 ( 2008 ), the Supreme Court declared the " Millionaire's Amendment " provisions of the BCRA to be unconstitutional.

* August 29 – Luther Davis, American screenwriter ( d. 2008 )

** Larry Davis, American criminal ( d. 2008 )

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the " erosion of civil liberties " by the then Labour government, and successfully won re-election on a civil liberties platform ( although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties ).

* Davis, Michael ( 2008 ).

The United States Postal Service honored Davis with a commemorative postage stamp in 2008, marking the 100th anniversary of her birth.

The First Day of Issue celebration took place September 18, 2008, at Boston University, which houses an extensive Bette Davis archive.

Villeneuve racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in early 2008. In a subsequent interview with Autosport magazine, Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock confirmed that Villeneuve's Formula One career was over It was announced on August 24, 2007 that Villeneuve would run the remaining seven races in the Craftsman Truck Series driving a Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing and undertake a full-time Sprint Cup schedule in 2008.

On April 28, 2008, the Utah Transit Authority opened the FrontRunner commuter rail line from Salt Lake City north to Ogden, serving the length of Davis County with stations in Woods Cross, Farmington, Layton, and Clearfield.

The team also traded Ricky Davis and Mark Blount to the Miami Heat in exchange for the Heat's Antoine Walker, Michael Doleac, Wayne Simien, and a 2008 protected first-round draft pick.

Although Innu have been only in Sheshatshiu since fur trading posts were established by the Hudson's Bay Company in Northwest River in the mid-1700s and only in Davis Inlet / Natuashish since the Moravians set up along the Inuit Coast in 1771, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams struck a deal on September 26, 2008, with Labrador's Innu to permit construction of a hydroelectric megaproject to proceed on the proposed Lower Churchill site.

In 2008, she was a surprise guest at the Centennial Tribute to Bette Davis.

On November 13, 2007, it was announced that Paige Davis would be returning as the host of Trading Spaces beginning in January 2008.

The first episode with Davis as host aired on January 26, 2008.

* Paige Davis ( 2001 – 2004, 2008 )

School Board Chairwoman Ericka Davis announced her resignation on April 2, 2008, amidst the allegations.

More contemporary renditions include samples from such popular artists as Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers ( 1963 ), The Byrds ( 1970 ), Elvis Presley ( 1971 ), Skeeter Davis ( 1972 ), Mighty Clouds of Joy ( 1972 ), Amazing Rhythm Aces ( 1975 ), Willie Nelson ( 1976 ), and The Lemonheads ( 1992 ).

In recent years, the tea has been popularized by Wade Davis ( The Serpent and The Rainbow ), English novelist Martin Goodman in I Was Carlos Castaneda, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, writer Kira Salak, author Jeremy Narby ( The Cosmic Serpent ), author Jay Griffiths (" Wild: An Elemental Journey "), and radio personality Robin Quivers.

It consisted of LF Matthews (. 291 14 – 82 101 runs 17 SB ), C Jody Davis (. 256 19 – 94 ), RF Keith Moreland (. 279 16 – 80 ), SS Larry Bowa (. 223 10 SB ), 1B Leon " Bull " Durham (. 279 23 – 96 16SB ), CF Dernier (. 278 45 SB ), 3B Ron Cey (. 240 25 – 97 ), Closer Lee Smith ( 9 – 7 3. 65 33 saves ) and 1984 NL MVP and Ryne Sandberg (. 314 19 – 84 114 runs, 19 triples, 32 SB ).

Many years later in a letter to Davis ( ca 1965 ), Gödel would confess that " he was, at the time of these lectures, not at all convinced that his concept of recursion comprised all possible recursions ".

Many original television theme songs of the era also showed a strong disco influence, such as " Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow " ( theme from Baretta, performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and later a hit single for Rhythm Heritage ), Theme from " S. W. A. T.

Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: Owen Chamberlain ( Physics, 1959 ), K. Barry Sharpless ( Chemistry, 2001 ), and George Davis Snell ( Physiology or Medicine, 1980 ).

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna ( Walter Denton ), Gloria McMillan ( Harriet Conklin ), and Jane Morgan ( landlady Margaret Davis ) played the same roles on television.

In December 1998, Nimmo attended a National Treasures celebrity lunch in the boardroom of the Daily Express newspaper along with Sir Peter O ' Sullevan, Joan Collins, Dame Beryl Bainbridge, Dickie Davis and Sue MacGregor amongst others.

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

* Tannhäuser ( 1972 ) Director: Götz Friedrich, Conductor: Sir Colin Davis, Soloists: Spas Wenkoff, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Bernd Weikl, Hans Sotin, Label: Deutsche Grammophon / Unitel.

Through her interviews, she introduced the work of Vaginal Davis, Dame Darcy, Cindy Dall, Boyd Rice, Costes ( her ex-husband with whom she performed as Suckdog ), Nick Zedd, GG Allin, Kate Landau, Queen Itchie & Liz Armstrong to many.

In season six, this contest pitted two USC alumni-former football players Anthony Davis and Charles White-against two Notre Dame alumni.

The charity ’ s Board of Trustees is chaired by Councillor Robert Davis DL, and includes Sir Peter Rogers, Pippa Ailion, Suzy Graham-Adriani, Robert Noble, William Village and Dame Judi Dench.

In 1946, Layne finished 8th in Heisman Trophy balloting to Glenn Davis of Army and in 1947 he finished 6th to John Lujack of Notre Dame, and was voted the Outstanding Back in the 1948 Sugar Bowl victory over # 6 Alabama.

McClurg's literature comprises five books, including humorous writings ; twenty-one law review articles, including those at Northwestern University, Boston University, University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, American University, Cincinnati, Colorado, Oregon, UC Davis, UC Hastings, and Wake Forest ; and roughly seventy-five other articles.

Naked in the Streets ( Red Seal, 1952 ), Lady in Dread ( Gold Medal, 1955 ); under the joint pseudonym Matthew Blood ( together with Davis Dresser ) The Avenger ( Gold Medal, 1952 ), Death Is a Lovely Dame ( Gold Medal, 1954 ); under Dresser's pseudonym Brett Halliday Dolls Are Deadly ( Torquil / Dodd, 1960 ), Killers from the Keys ( Torquil / Dodd, 1961 ) and more under the house name Robert Wallace.

The NCAA saw another variation of the fumblerooski on September 22, 2007 when Michigan State Spartans ' quarterback Brian Hoyer pretended to fumble the ball and then passed to tight end Kellen Davis for a touchdown against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

However, the " Hoyer-rooski " worked to perfection and the Notre Dame linebackers bought the trick play, allowing Hoyer to find an open Davis in the endzone.