The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

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.

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

Ralph Meeker plays Mike Hammer, a tough Los Angeles private eye who is almost as brutal and corrupt as the crooks he chases.

* Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer

I, The Jury ( 1947 ) is Mickey Spillane's first novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer.

None of the guests at Williams's party has a watertight alibi, but to both Pat Chambers, the cop investigating the murder, and Mike Hammer, a friend of his and private investigator, none of them has a motive either.

When Mike Hammer sees Williams's body (" For the first time in my life I felt like crying "), he makes a solemn vow: He promises that he will find the murderer and execute him himself, avoiding the U. S. judicial system altogether.

After a four-picture contract was signed with Spillane, the movie was filmed, in 3-D, featuring Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer, Preston Foster and Peggie Castle.

In 1982, the story was made into a movie again by director Richard T. Heffron with Armand Assante as Mike Hammer.

* 1959 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer ( as Eddie Robbins in episode " I Ain't Talkin '")

Julian Symons, in The Times Literary Supplement, considered that it was Fleming's " tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale ", that the author " brings the thriller in line with modern emotional needs ", and that Bond " is the intellectual's Mike Hammer: a killer with a keen eye and a soft heart for a woman ".

After production of Fire and Ice wrapped, Bakshi attempted several projects that fell through, including adaptations of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes.

In 1970, Quincy Jones convinced Johnson to move from New York to California to compose for cinema and television, where he eventually scored movies such as Across 110th Street, Cleopatra Jones, Top of the Heap and Willie Dynamite, as well as TV series such as Starsky & Hutch, Mike Hammer and The Six Million Dollar Man.

* Mickey Spillane – author of Mike Hammer novels

Mickey Spillane, Ed Robbins and Joe Gill's From the Files of ... Mike Hammer ( January 31, 1954 ).

Michael " Mike " Hammer is a fictional character created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury ( made into a movie in 1953 and 1982 ).

The actor most closely identified with the character in recent years has been Stacy Keach, who portrayed Hammer in a CBS television series, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, which ran from 1984 – 1987 and had a syndicated revival in 1997 – 1998.

Mike Hammer is a no-holds barred private investigator who carries a. 45 Colt M1911A1 in a shoulder harness under his left arm.

* The film The Hebrew Hammer makes a reference to Mike Hammer as well.

* The Japanese TV series Detective Mike stars a young detective called ' Hama Mike ' ( Japanese pronunciation of ' Mike Hammer ').

After recording " Private Doberman " for inclusion on a Coyote Records compilation entitled Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood, Rick left the band and was replaced by Mike Lewis, the founding bass player of Boston garage-punk bands DMZ and Lyres, who was also a member of Brooklyn garage rock band The A-Bones throughout his tenure in YLT.

Six of Snafu's shorts actually end with him being killed due to his stupidity: Spies ( blown up by enemy submarine torpedoes ), Booby Traps ( blown up by a bomb hidden inside a piano ), The Goldbrick ( run over by an enemy tank ), A Lecture on Camouflage ( large enemy bomb lands on him ), Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike ( malaria ), and Going Home ( run over by a street car ).

' Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike ', 1944

She had a recurring role as Mike Hammer's secretary Velda in the television series Mike Hammer, Private Eye and made guest appearances on such shows as

* Mike Hammer, Private Eye ( 1997-1998 ), Velda ( Mike Hammer's secretary )

After the election, he served on the House of Commons Procedures Select Committee until 2006 and served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Solicitor General Mike O ' Brien until 2007.

He returned to the role of Hammer in Mike Hammer, Private Eye, a new syndicated series that aired from 1997 to 1998.

* Menendez, Lyle ; Novelli, Norma ; Walker, Mike ; and Spreckels, Judith ( 1995 ) The Private Diary of Lyle Menendez: In His Own Words!

She also guest-starred on TV series including Max Headroom and Mike Hammer, Private Eye.

* Mike Hammer, Private Eye ( 1998 ) ( TV series )

*" I was overshadowed today by Private Beharry, and quite rightly so – it was an honour to stand alongside him "— General Sir Mike Jackson, who was being invested by the Queen on the same day that Private Beharry received his VC.

* Faye Resnick reveals in the book Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted ( 1994 ), which she co-wrote with Mike Walker, gossip columnist for The National Enquirer, that she learned about Brown's murder three days after Brown and her friends forced Resnick to enter a rehab clinic for drug and alcohol abuse.

* Mike Hammer, Private Eye as Sheryl Weathersby ( 1 episode, 1997 )

The many novels influenced by the Ripper include: A Case to Answer ( 1947 ) by Edgar Lustgarten, The Screaming Mimi ( 1949 ) by Fredric Brown, Terror Over London ( 1957 ) by Gardner Fox, Ritual in the Dark ( 1960 ) and The Killer ( 1970 ) by Colin Wilson, Sagittarius ( 1962 ) by Ray Russell, A Feast Unknown ( 1969 ) by Philip José Farmer, A Kind of Madness ( 1972 ) by Anthony Boucher, Nine Bucks Row ( 1973 ) by T. E. Huff, The Michaelmas Girls ( 1975 ) by John Brooks Barry, Jack's Little Friend ( 1975 ) by Ramsey Campbell, By Flower and Dean Street ( 1976 ) by Patrice Chaplin, The Private Life of Jack the Ripper ( 1980 ) by Richard Gordon, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings ( 1987 ) by Iain Sinclair, Anno Dracula ( 1992 ) by Kim Newman, A Night in the Lonesome October ( 1993 ) by Roger Zelazny, Ladykiller ( 1993 ) by Martina Cole, Savage ( 1993 ) by Richard Laymon, The Pit ( 1993 ) by Neil Penswick, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem ( 1994 ) by Peter Ackroyd, Pentecost Alley ( 1996 ) by Anne Perry, and Matrix ( 1998 ) by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry.

* " A Private, Restful Place ", Mike Shayne ’ s Mystery Magazine, May 1974.

Based on such State programs, Lockyer also sponsored federal legislation ( H. R. 3525 ,“ Private Activity Bonds for Clean Energy Projects ”) introduced in July 2009 by California Congressman Mike Thompson to provide tax-exempt bond financing nationally for private sector Renewable Energy projects, Zero-emission vehicle purchases, and " green " manufacturing facilities.

Founding Genesis members Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford were handed a CD of the Stiltskin album The Mind's Eye from Virgin Records executives.

* Mike Hama Set Report at Midnight Eye

When acting as the ombudsman on Red Eye w / Greg Gutfeld in 2011, Mike Baker presents a graph of the " wanker gap " for the first half of the program.

The final scenes show Mike and his robot friends sometime later, now living together in a ground level apartment in Wisconsin, where Mike enjoys a bowl of rice as he sits down to watch The Crawling Eye, which had been the featured movie for the very first nationally-syndicated episode of MST3K.

He has starred in advertisements for Bird's Eye frozen food products, and also joined the cast of All Saints in June 2006 as Mike Vlasek, the new head of surgery.

On one such story, related by Jo Ann Castle on the Mike Douglas Show, has him introducing a medley of World War I tunes as " songs from World War Eye ".

She appeared on episodes of Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, The Rifleman, 77 Sunset Strip, Bewitched, Mike Hammer, Batman, The Untouchables, and Hawaiian Eye.

Mike and the Bots move into an apartment nearby, and are last seen starting to watch and riff The Crawling Eye, the movie which provided the first nationally broadcast episode of the series.

KKOB is the local outlet for nationally syndicated talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Red Eye Radio, Moneytalk with Bob Brinker and The Mutual Fund Show with Adam Bold as well as Mike Huckabee.

* 2009: The Dreamstone / Rapid Eye Movement ( exclusive to the Mike Batt Music Cube as of 2011 )

These include " Wrapping the Bear " ( 1985 Mike Elliott and Bud LaTour doing a Teddy Ruxpin parody ), " Hit Me Baby " ( original ), " School's Back " ( 1986 parody of School's Out by Alice Cooper ), " Nightmare on Sesame St ." ( 1986 original by Mike Elliott and Bud LaTour ), " Puka " ( 1987 parody of Suzanne Vega's " Luka " by Bud LaTour and Chicago radio deejay Scott Childers ), " The Way You Make Me Squeal " ( 1988 parody of Michael Jackson's " The Way You Make Me Feel "), and " You Always Poke My Eye " ( 1989 parody of The Pet Shop Boys " You Are Always On My Mind ").

The band has also had several musicians make guest appearances both live and in the studio, including Yamatsuka Eye, Buckethead, Mike Patton, Makigami Koichi, Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green of Godflesh, and Keiji Haino of Fushitsusha.

A short segment taken from the Mike Oldfield music video Let There Be Light from his album The Songs of Distant Earth is included in the Oceanic Celebration video from Odyssey Into the Mind's Eye.

Lee appeared on numerous television shows such as Wagon Train, Gray Ghost, Cheyenne, Playhouse 90, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Bonanza, The Virginian, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, The Lineup, M Squad, Hawaiian Eye, The Wild Wild West, Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Perry Mason, Temple Houston, Burke's Law, The Andy Griffith Show, The Lucy Show, The Flying Nun, and Hogan's Heroes.