It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

These films should not be confused with comedic cult movies like The Toxic Avenger, Bad Taste, Army of Darkness, Murder By Death, Spaceballs, and the films of John Waters, which purposely utilize elements from films " so bad they're good " for comedic effect.

He also appeared in The Great Muppet Caper, The Princess Bride, Murder By Death, The Cheap Detective, Vibes, Made, and ( as himself ) in Wim Wenders ' 1987 film Wings of Desire and its 1993 sequel, Faraway, So Close !.

By contrast, other games such as Werewolf and How to Host a Murder are role-based, with each player being given a character or other role to play in the course of the game.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

Depicted in Carol Pogash's book, " Seduced By Madness: The True Story of The Susan Polk Murder Case ".

Bloomington is also the hometown of dark folk rockers Murder By Death.

By 1930, he had branched out into writing with works such as A Murder Has Been Arranged and The Late Christopher Bean.

* Murder By Experts — 1947

The horror film Willard ( 1971 ) was highly successful, and one of her last roles was in Murder By Death ( 1976 ).

By the late 1950s, increasingly explicit films began to appear, such as Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 ), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs ( 1961 ).

By the end of the 1994 – 95 season, Murder, She Wrote < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s eleventh, Lansbury began to consider ending the series, as her advancing age became a concern ( she had just turned seventy ).

Silver is the main character in Silver — My Own Tale As Told By Me With A Goodly Amount Of Murder by Edward Chupack ( ISBN 978-0-312-53936-8 ).

" By March 1959, Billboard noted that the popularity of the film and of Mandel's and Mulligan's albums " prompted a rush of jazz film scores ", and cited the signing of Duke Ellington to do the score for that year's Anatomy of a Murder, the release of The Five Pennies ( a biopic about the jazz band leader Red Nichols ), and a 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day,.

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* Murder By Death ( 1976 )

These hitmen were mainly Jewish and Italian-American hoodlums from Brooklyn, By 1934, all the Cosa Nostra families were using Murder, Inc. As time progressed, Capone spent considerable energy mediating disputes between the two gang leaders.

* Christopher Plummer and Murder By Decree

By the late 1940s, Murder Inc. and most of its non-Italian components were defunct.

By the end of 1996, Murder Loves Si We Dem Nuh Know We received a Juno nomination for Best Reggae Recording.

The two later joined forces for a Broadway revival of the musical Little Me and the films Murder By Death, The Cheap Detective, and Only When I Laugh, for which he was Oscar-nominated.

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* Murder By Rock!

Before the Act was passed, on February 8, 1914 The New York Times published an article entitled " Negro Cocaine ' Fiends ' Are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks " by Edward Huntington Williams which reported that Southern sheriffs had increased the caliber of their weapons from. 32 to. 38 to bring down Negroes under the effect of cocaine.

It was retitled The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary in the United States and Canada.

* Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, HarperPerennial, New York, 1998, hardback and trade paperback, ISBN 0-06-017596-6.

He appeared again as Poirot in three made-for-television movies: Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ).

* A Murder is Announced ( 1985 )

Early in 1985 the band released their second album, Meat Is Murder.

* Meat Is Murder ( 1985 )

His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award – winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ).

With her health stable, she traveled to England to film the Agatha Christie mystery Murder with Mirrors ( 1985 ).

Executive producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove were responsible for both Matlock and Jake and the Fatman as well as Diagnosis: Murder, created by Joyce Burditt ( which itself was a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman ) in 1993, also on CBS ; Father Dowling Mysteries in 1988 on NBC, CBS, ABC ; and the 30 Perry Mason made-for-TV movies from 1985 until 1995 on NBC.

* Murder in the Market ( 1985 )

* Murder in the Family ( 1985 ) ( Miniseries )

* Murder with Mirrors ( 1985, TV film )

* A Murder Is Announced ( 1985, TV film )

* 1985: Murder, She Wrote – CBS

* Murder, She Wrote ( 1985 & 1989 )

The film he and Wise wanted to make – Night Train To Murder – was eventually screened on New Year's Day 1985.

Hastings has been portrayed on film and television by several actors, including Robert Morley in The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ); Jonathan Cecil in three TV films-Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ); and most notably, Hugh Fraser, who has portrayed Hastings alongside David Suchet's Poirot in 41 of the 49 episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot broadcast up until 2003.

He made limited television appearances including a recurring role in Sara ( 1985 ), appeared in Max Headroom ( 1987 ), two separate appearances on Murder, She Wrote ( 1989, 1990 ), a recurring role in Charlie Hoover ( 1991 ) and other productions.

* Mask of Murder ( 1985 )

Kojima has cited Shigeru Miyamoto's Super Mario Bros. ( 1985 ) and Yuji Horii's The Portopia Serial Murder Case ( 1983 ) as the games that inspired him to make this decision.

* Murder, She Wrote ( Murder Takes the Bus ) ( 1985 )

In 1985, he appeared in the television film Murder with Mirrors opposite Bette Davis, John Mills and Helen Hayes and in 1984, Roth played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears ' The Hit with Terence Stamp and John Hurt, earning an " Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer ".

* Murder, She Wrote TV episode Paint Me a Murder ( 1985 ) as Sir John Landry

* 1985 documentary, The Murder and the Movement: The Story of the Murder of Emmett Till