* 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate ( 1, 077 performances ), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

A prime example is Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ); based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, the best-selling of all the hardboiled authors, here the protagonist is a private eye, Mike Hammer.

Four were independent productions distributed by United Artists, the " studio without a studio ": Gun Crazy ; Kiss Me Deadly ; D. O. A.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

( 1930 ), The King of Jazz ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1930 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1930 ).

When ordered by temperature and when duplicate classes were removed, the spectral types of stars followed, in order of decreasing temperature with colors ranging from blue to red, the sequence O, B, A, F, G, K and M. ( A popular mnemonic for memorizing this sequence of stellar classes is " Oh Be A Fine Girl / Guy, Kiss Me ".

In 2004 she collaborated with former Los Angeles neighbour Morrissey to record a version of his song " Let Me Kiss You ", which was featured on her autumn release Nancy Sinatra.

and its first three singles, two more singles were released in the second half of 2003 with up-tempo " Thank You Baby " (# 11 in the UK, Top 20 in Germany ) and just before Christmas the romantic, acoustic ballad " When You Kiss Me ", at least a minor hit in both territories.

A useful mnemonic for remembering the spectral type letters is " Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me ".

Stephen Duffy, lead singer of Duran Duran before they struck fame, had a UK number 4 hit with " Kiss Me " under the name Stephen " Tintin " Duffy ; he had to drop the nickname, however, under pressure of a copyright infringement suit.

Warner Bros. released a large number of color films from 1929 to 1931, including The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1931 ), Woman Hungry ( 1931 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ), Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ), and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ).

* December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1, 077 performances

# " Kiss Me Red "

Keel had risen to fame in MGM film musicals, starring in Annie Get Your Gun, the 1951 Show Boat, and Kiss Me Kate, among others.

( On the Australian stage she had played the lead roles in hit shows including " Annie Get Your Gun ", " Kiss Me, Kate ", " Oklahoma!

In 1987, The Cure released the double LP Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, which reached number six in the UK, the Top 10 in several countries and was the band's first entry into the U. S. Top 40 at number 35 ( where it was certified platinum ), due to the combination of the band's rising popularity and the success of lead single, " Why Can't I Be You ?".

* Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me ( 1987 )

Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 film noir drama produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker.

Bezzerides, based on the Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer mystery novel Kiss Me, Deadly.

Kiss Me Deadly is often considered a classic of the noir genre.

Kiss Me Deadly marked the film debuts of both actresses Cloris Leachman and Maxine Cooper.

* Kiss Me Deadly remains one of the great time capsules of Los Angeles ; the Bunker Hill locations were all destroyed when the downtown neighborhood was razed in the late 1960s.

Film critic Nick Schager wrote, " Never was Mike Hammer's name more fitting than in Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich's blisteringly nihilistic noir in which star Ralph Meeker embodies Mickey Spillane's legendary P. I.

In 1999, Kiss Me Deadly was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

* Kiss Me Deadly trailer at YouTube

* Kiss Me Deadly: The Thriller of Tomorrow, an essay for Criterion adapted from an extract from J. Hoberman's book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War

* Photos from the set of Kiss Me Deadly

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Comparing Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly and Orson Welles ' Touch of Evil, Brian Neve found a sense of disillusionment rather than straightforward messages, with all three films being " less radical in any positive sense than reflective of the decline of screenwriters ' great liberal hopes ".

# " Kiss Me Deadly "-Generation X

Non-Hitchcock thriller of the 50's include, the film-noirish Niagara ( 1953 ) by Henry Hathaway, with Marilyn Monroe as the trashy femme fatale who schemes to kill her unstable husband ( Joseph Cotten ), director Robert Aldrich's violent and fast-paced film Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ) featured Ralph Meeker as fictional detective Mike Hammer encountering nuclear apocalypse, The Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ), director Charles Laughton's only film, with Robert Mitchum playing a Bible-thumping, homicidal preacher victimizing two young children with a secret about the location of stolen money.

The album features a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, " Close My Eyes Forever ," as well as " Kiss Me Deadly ," another hit for Ford.

The track " Kiss Me Deadly " was named the 76th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.

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* Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 )

Private detectives hired to solve a crime are in such films as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ), The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), and Chinatown ( 1974 ).

She made her feature film debut as an extra in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall, but had her first real role in Robert Aldrich's film noir classic Kiss Me Deadly, released in 1955.

Mickey Spillane's equally rugged Mike Hammer character was adapted to film with I, the Jury ( 1953 ), My Gun is Quick ( 1957 ), and the influential Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ).

Under Anderson, Wired has produced some widely noted articles, including the April 2003 " Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy " story, the November 2003 " Open Source Everywhere " issue ( which put Linus Torvalds on the cover and articulated the idea that the open source method was taking off outside of software, including encyclopedias as evidenced by Wikipedia ), the February 2004 " Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye " issue ( which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives ), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term " Long Tail.

According to a January 4, 1977, L. A. Times article entitled HOMEGROWN PUNK by Robert Hilburn, Rodney Bingenheimer saw Van Halen at the Gazzarri club in the summer of 1976, so he took Gene Simmons of Kiss to see Van Halen.

According to a 1925 newspaper article, he also made a solo appearance in the Adolphe Menjou comedy A Kiss in the Dark, but no copy of the film is known to exist, and it is not clear if he actually appeared in the finished film.

* Crime Library article about Béla Kiss

A March 31, 1985 article in Circus by Ben Liemer states that Gene Simmons of Kiss was influenced by Blackie Lawless of W. A. S. P.