* Remembering Les ( an obituary at the NLL website )

Despite the apparent evils of Baudelaire, author of Les fleurs du mal, he had once remarked, in regard to the artist, that " The more a man cultivates the arts, the less randy he becomes ... Only the brute is good at coupling, and copulation is the lyricism of the masses.

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Kelly reveals that he has a partner named Les Harmon ( actually fellow con man “ Kid Twist ”) in the Chicago Western Union office, who will allow them to win bets on horse races by past-posting.

The Gibson Les Paul, one of the world's most popular electric guitars, was named after the man who invented it.

Convinced that it had a potential leading man under contract, the studio decided to produce a version of Les Miserables as a vehicle for him.

In this issue, Les Taylor, another member of the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry during the war, stated that Joe Ekins was the man who was responsible for the death of Wittmann.

Johnson is also a good friend of Willie Nelson and Robert Tepper, and was briefly a part of the " Thailand Pack ", alongside Tommy Morrison, and British TV funny man Les Dennis.

Moreover, guitar virtuoso Les Paul and his musical partner Mary Ford were regular visitors at the Miller house and Dr. and Mrs. Miller were best man and maid of honor at their December 1949 wedding.

In July 2012 Bangor City forward Les Davies made the 32 man longlist for UEFA's best player in Europe award

The fighters are from a mixture of social classes, ranging from the bourgeoisie represented by the young man in a top hat, to the revolutionary urban worker, as exemplified by the boy holding pistols ( who may have been the inspiration for the character Gavroche in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables ).

Zoblazo, pioneered from 1990 by Freddy Meiway, the former front man to the bands Les Genitaux, Defense d ' Ivoire, and Zo Gang, integrated traditional rhythms of southern Ivory Coast with electronic instruments and party lyrics.

Caudle was joined by a rotating host of co-hosts ( everyone from Les Thatcher to Dr. Tom Miller ) before David Crockett stepped out of the ring after a short, uncelebrated career as a wrestler to become Caudle's color man.

One man, Air Gunner Les Wilkins, lost his face and hands and McIndoe had to recreate his fingers by making incisions between his knuckles.

He was still closely watched by the Romanian secret police ( Siguranţa Statului ), and he had written an article ( dated April 8, 1933 ) in the French magazine Les Nouvelles Littéraires, aptly titled L ' homme qui n ' adhère à rien (" The man who will adhere to nothing ").

Their first collection, Les Contes Fantastiques Tales ( 1847 ), includes the classic short story L ' Araignée Crabe Crab-Spider, about a blood-sucking lake monster with the body of a spider and the head of a man.

As Les Charles observed, Sam was a " straight man " to Diane ; after Long's departure, he became more " carefree " and a " goof-off.

Because of the story of an impossible love between a Christian man and a Jewish woman, the work has been seen by some as a plea for religious tolerance, in much the same spirit as Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots which premiered in 1836, a year after La Juive, as well as the 1819 novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott which deals with the same theme.

* Les amants criminels: the main male character is gay and in the closet ; he kills his ( male ) object of desire out of jealousy and enjoys his relationship with an ogre-like man who's kidnapped him and his female friend who was, more or less, his beard

Les Sylphides has no plot, but instead consists of many white-clad sylphs dancing in the moonlight with the poet or young man dressed in white tights and a black top.

* The man introducing Umeed to the agency is M. Hulot, a character which seems to be based on Jacques Tati's character from the movie Les Vacances de M. Hulot.

He met a young man who volunteered to guide him back to his group, but instead led him deep into the mountains of Le Forez, to the village Les Noes, where deserters had gathered.

In November, it was revealed that Ritchie would appear in the second series of Underbelly, as Judi Kane, the wife of slain 1970s standover man Les Kane.

" Einstein " and " Newton " are both spies, representatives of two different countries, and they have penetrated Les Cerisiers in order to secure Möbius ' documents and, if possible, the man himself.

Fleming's wife Ann had joined him in Les Avants and the couple then moved on to Naples, where Fleming interviewed Lucky Luciano, finding him " a neat, quiet, grey-haired man with a tired good-looking face.

He showed an issue of the magazine to director and screenwriter Marc Allégret who offered Bardot the opportunity to audition for " Les lauriers sont coupés " thereafter.

When her friend Margaret Bush-Brown insisted that Les Derniers was good enough to be exhibited at the famed Paris Salon, Beaux relented and sent the painting abroad in the care of her friend, who managed to get the painting into the exhibition.

His half-brother Jim was a successful guitarist who worked with the Les Paul Trio in New York.

Best afield in the grand final in what was officially his swansong as a player was captain-coach Dick Reynolds, who received sterling support from the likes of Norm McDonald, ruckman / back pocket Wally May, back pocket Les Gardiner, and big Bob McLure.

Cheney began racing motocross and became one Britain's best riders, along with his travelling companion Les Archer, who went on to become European champion.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

* Charles Baudelaire — A member of the club mentioned above, who in Les paradis artificiels ( 1860 ) described the effects of opium and hashish.

In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 in Les Prix Nobel ( winners of the prizes are requested to provide such essays ), Lorenz credits his career to his parents, who " were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals ," and to his childhood encounter with Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which filled him with a great enthusiasm about wild geese.

Les Steckel, who was an offensive assistant with the Vikings for 5 seasons, was then named the 3rd head coach in franchise history.

Guitarists who influenced him include Jimi Hendrix, Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, and George Harrison.

The poet Joachim du Bellay, who lived in Rome through this period in the retinue of his relative Cardinal Jean du Bellay, expressed his scandalized opinion of Julius in two sonnets in his series Les regrets ( 1558 ).

The Impressionists had used a double point of view, and both Les Nabis and the Symbolists ( who also admired Cézanne ) flattened the picture plane, reducing their subjects to simple geometric forms.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

In 1967, she reunited with director Demy for the musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort with her sister Dorléac — who was killed in a car accident shortly before the film's release.

George Bernard Shaw wrote that Gilbert, who had earlier adapted Offenbach's Les brigands, drew on that work also for his new libretto.

Rostand was married to the poet and playwright Rosemonde Etienette Gerard who, in 1890, published Les Pipeaux: a volume of verse crowned by the Academy.

According to Altena, a thousand years ago, a group of people who had survived a bloody war that cost numerous lives, formed a group called Les Soldats to protect the weak and take revenge on the world.

Most episodes included one or more firing squad sketches, where Les would play the part of a Latin American military officer with a sword in hand preparing to order a firing squad to execute one of the children actors, who were standing in front of a post.

Most episodes featured sketches with the kids eating at Barth's, a fast-food burger restaurant ran by Barth ( played by Les Lye ), a chain-smoking, unpleasant, disgusting cook who used unsanitary and questionable methods of creating burgers.

This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £ 15 million.

Jean Valjean ( c. 1769 – 1833 ) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.

Nicolas Poussin's early biographer was his friend Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who relates that Poussin was born near Les Andelys in Normandy and that he received an education that included some Latin, which would stand him in good stead.