In his online column, Best of The Web Today, James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal often uses the phrase " Homer Nods " as the title of a retraction or correction.

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

* 1926 – James Best, American actor

There is currently a controversy regarding the role of Banting and Best in attempting to ' write out ' Macleod and his colleague James Collip from the history books.

The second Moroccan book came out last year and just won the James Beard Best International Cookbook of 2011.

He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 15 ( Quentin Tarantino has provided contradictory information about this-elsewhere, he claimed he was 16 when he dropped out ), to attend an acting class full time at the James Best Theater Company in Toluca Lake.

He grew bored with the James Best Acting School and quit after two years, although he made a point of keeping in touch with all his acting friends.

James Taranto's Best of the Web Today column at OpinionJournal. com uses the phrase as a tag for newspaper headlines that indicate something is still happening when it should be obvious.

In 2011, the prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef in Northwestern United States, was presented to Andy Ricker of restaurant " Pok Pok " in Portland, Oregon, and for Best Chef in Southwestern United States to Saipin Chutima of restaurant " Lotus of Siam " in Winchester, Nevada.

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** James Best, American actor ( The Dukes of Hazzard )

As well as its regular car chases, jumps and stunts, the show relied on character familiarity, with Deputy Cletus replacing Deputy Enos in the third and fourth season, and Coy and Vance Duke temporarily replacing Bo and Luke ( due to a salary dispute ) in the fifth season, being the only major cast changes through the show's run ( Ben Jones and James Best both left temporarily during the second season due to different disputes with producers, but both returned within a couple of episodes ).

* Rosco Purvis Coltrane ( James Best ) is the bumbling sheriff of Hazzard County and right-hand man and brother-in-law of its corrupt county administrator, Jefferson Davis " J. D.

When James Best briefly boycotted the show during the mid-second season, he was temporarily replaced several " one off " Sheriffs, the longest standing being Sheriff Grady Bird, played by Dick Sargent, who appeared in two episodes (" Jude Emery " and " Officer Daisy Duke ").

Flash was added at the start of the third season, after James Best suggested to the producers that Rosco have a dog.

James Best bought a share of Sandy, who was rescued from an animal shelter and was trained by Alvin mears of Alvin Animal Rentals.

In July 2012, Shepherd made her Broadway debut in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre alongside James Earl Jones, John Stamos, John Larroquette, Kristin Davis and Elizabeth Ashley to positive reviews.

* First African-American to win Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play: James Earl Jones for The Great White Hope in 1969.

* James Best as a C57-D crewman ( uncredited )

James Cagney with Gloria Stuart, who was Academy Award for Best Actress | Oscar-nominated sixty-three years later for another nautical epic, Titanic ( 1997 film ) | Titanic ( 1997 ).

Donat won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the lead role, beating Clark Gable, James Stewart, Laurence Olivier and Mickey Rooney.

* Academy Award for Best Art Direction-( Henry Bumstead and James W. Payne )

and James Russell Lowell and Edgar Allan Poe of nineteenth century American letters.

The day passed without incident in spite of the warning of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri: `` Baker, you will have the streets of our American cities running with blood on registration day ''.

This resulted in revisions of the King James Bible in 1881-85 as the English Revised Version and in 1901 as the American Standard Version.

* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

* 1988 – Jessie James, American singer-songwriter

* 1964 – Kent James, American singer-songwriter, actor, and actvist

* 1977 – Pell James, American actress

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1958 – James Lileks, American columnist

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1975 – James Carpinello, American actor

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist

* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian

* 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer

* 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author

* 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player

* 1940 – James Tyler, American guitarist, composer, and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1963 – James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Metallica, Spastik Children, and Leather Charm )

* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )

* 1915 – James Elliott, American track and field coach ( d. 1981 )

* 1946 – Susan Saint James, American actress