This format was later handed to writers Norm Liebman and Ed Haas, who wrote a pilot script, Love Thy Monster.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

The author Evan Hunter ( which itself was a pseudonym ) wrote his crime fiction under the name of Ed McBain.

Bob Dylan was slated to make his first nationwide television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 12, 1963, and intended to perform " Talkin ' John Birch Paranoid Blues ", a song he wrote lampooning the John Birch Society and the red-hunting paranoia associated with it.

According to one widely reported account, newsman Ed Lahey wrote this lead for the Chicago Daily News: " Richard Loeb, despite his erudition, today ended his sentence with a proposition.

In 1980, dismayed by what he saw as the abject failure of the Jimmy Carter presidency ( later he would say, " he was the worst president we ever had " ), he appeared in a campaign ad for Libertarian candidate Ed Clark, and also wrote the introduction to Clark's campaign book.

In an October 16, 2007 Op Ed published in the New York Times, he wrote of the reluctance among politicians to address comprehensive reform in the U. S. health care system.

The Coens wrote the part of Ed for Holly Hunter.

He also implemented the Logo programming language for the Commodore Amiga, managed the software OS development for CDTV, one of the first CD-ROM TV set-top boxes, and wrote the OS for Viscorp Ed, one of the first Internet TV set-top boxes.

In 1983, she wrote the music and lyrics for a theatrical musical, Ace of Diamonds, with a book by Ed Kelleher and Seymour Vall, based on a series of letters written by Annie Oakley.

Animator Ed Gombert wrote a satirical interoffice memo, allegedly by studio executive Peter Schneider, which gave other Disney films generic titles such as Seven Little Men Help a Girl, The Girl with the See-through Shoes, and Puppies Taken Away.

In 1992, Dr. Ed Murphy wrote a modern 600 page book on the subject, “ The Handbook of Spiritual Warfare “, from the point of view of deliverance ministry.

He hired programmers John Lyons, who wrote Computer Bismarck — later claimed to have been the first " serious wargame " published for a microcomputer — and Ed Williger, who wrote Computer Ambush.

Among those who wrote a column was former New York City Mayor Ed Koch.

Australian rock music journalist, Ed Nimmervoll, wrote the following description of the band: " history is littered with legendary stories, perhaps true, perhaps exaggerations, but stories which fuel and match their song and album titles.

Ed McBain, the pseudonym of Evan Hunter, wrote dozens of novels in the 87th Precinct series beginning with Cop Hater, published in 1956.

In 1967, Murray produced and wrote " Murray the K in New York " which expanded on the music video-style approach he began in It's What's Happening, Baby and featured an eclectic line-up of stars, including The Doors, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Spanky & Our Gang, and The Four Tops with guest appearances by Ed Sullivan and Joe Namath.

In The Daily Telegraph, Ed West wrote of Hitchens, " I ’ m a great admirer of Peter, a decent, kind and deeply compassionate man with the air of a prophet about him ; and like all prophets, doomed to be scorned by so many.

And it is Ed Offley of DefenseWatch who wrote:

Ed played with and wrote for the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra ( now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra ) from 1981 to 1999.

Durocher, with Ed Linn, wrote a memoir titled Nice Guys Finish Last, a book that was recently re-published by the University of Chicago Press.

Veeck wrote three autobiographical works, each a collaboration with journalist Ed Linn:

Ed Cobb wrote the song after a visit to Boston, during which he was robbed on a bridge over the Charles River.

" However, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that " Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka may be a stone freak, but he is also one of Burton's classic crackpot conjurers, like Beetlejuice or Ed Wood.

Bill Kunkel, Bob Hartman and Ed Keegan did the mound chores for the club down from West Palm Beach to play the game before 767 paying customers in Miami Stadium.

In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.

Four plays later, on the first play of the second quarter, a pass interference penalty on Vikings defensive back Ed Sharockman nullified Dawson's third down incompletion and gave Kansas City a first down at the Minnesota 31-yard line.

Ransohoff gave Tate small parts in Mister Ed and The Beverly Hillbillies to help her gain experience but was unwilling to allow her to play a more substantial role.

In a scene near the end of the film, Ed Wood ( Johnny Depp ) is complaining to Orson Welles ( Vincent D ' Onofrio ) about how producers always want the wrong actors to play certain parts in their movies.

As the Bullies had put intimidation to good use the past three years, the Flyers ' rugged style of play led the Soviets to leave the ice midway through the first period, protesting a hit on Valeri Kharlamov, whom Clarke had slashed on the ankle in the famous Summit Series ' 72, by Ed Van Impe.

Although the play has never received serious praise as either literature or history, its publisher Ed Keating and journalist Warren Hinckle, who themselves considered it " dramaturgically flawed ," organized a committee to defend the play as a matter of free speech.

Actors Paul Shaffer, Fred Willard, Fran Drescher, Bruno Kirby, Howard Hesseman, Ed Begley, Jr., Patrick Macnee, Anjelica Huston, Vicki Blue, Dana Carvey and Billy Crystal all play supporting roles or make cameo appearances in the movie.

When Daniel Amos heard it they enlisted Franco to play the pedal steel and Mike and Ed to add the CB radio voices on the recording.

This avoids the anachronisms and gives teachers play a useful indication of technological advances each time, allowing campaigns to make more realistic, ongoing concern which the authors, Ed Simbalist and Wilf Backhaus, are attached.

In addition, Flaherty recruited former Bulldog football stars, Ed Justice, George " Automatic " Karamatic and Max Krause to play in the Redskin backfield.

Teams play for the Ed Chynoweth Cup, with the winner moving on to play for the Memorial Cup, Canada's national junior championship.

After leaving Coleman, Don Cherry eschewed the trend towards funk / fusion and continued to play sparse jazz, often in small groups and duets ( many with ex-Coleman drummer Ed Blackwell ) during a long sojourn in Scandinavia and other locations.

D ' Onofrio continued to play a wide variety of roles, including director Orson Welles in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, farmer Edgar and the evil " Bug " that possesses him from Men in Black, the father of a saint in Nancy Savoca's Household Saints, Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie, a time traveler from the distant future in Happy Accidents, and opposite Jennifer Lopez as serial killer Carl Stargher in The Cell.

Ed Flanders ( once considered for the role of Karras in The Exorcist ) was also cast ; Michael Moriarty was set to play Captain Billy Cutshaw but dropped out of the production ( he was replaced by Scott Wilson, who was originally cast in a different role ).

She had been asked by director Ed Bye to play the part.

The village was also the focus of the 1996 play Sahmatah by Hanna Eady and Ed Mast.

* Hemingway: On the Edge, a play by Ed Metzger and Laya Gelff-Metzger

In 2010, Osment signed for a leading role in the comedy film Sex Ed from MPCA ; he's to play a college graduate who wants to teach algebra, but ends up as a sex education teacher while a virgin himself.

* Episode 48: Mike bets Ed ten bucks to play song A55 on the jukebox at the bar.

Talent scouts at 20th Century Fox saw Ed in the production and invited him to play the Native American Mingo on the television show Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, and Veronica Cartwright.

Five teams went so far as to acquire nicknames: the Detroit Gladiators ( who planned to play at the Pontiac Silverdome, a venue that had never hosted hockey before ); the Dallas Americans ( who introduced Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Ed Belfour as goalie / co-owner ); the Quebec Nordiks ( a tweaking of the old Quebec Nordiques nickname ); the Toronto Toros ( adopting the nickname of the original WHA team of the same name ); and the Halifax IceBreakers.

Zimbabwe – Tinotenda Mawoyo, Elton Chigumbura, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Tafadzwa Mufambisi, Tinashe Panyangara, Ed Rainsford, Prosper Utseya, Sean Williams and Brendan Taylor ( Colin de Grandhomme also represented Zimbabwe but went on to play international cricket for New Zealand )