" Aside from his famous crack about not liking furniture that talked, Allen observed that television allowed " people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

By the late 1990s Allen was in semi-retirement, though he made occasional chat show appearances and presented the six-part The Unique Dave Allen ( BBC, 1998 ), in which he talked about his career in between clips and extracts from his past series for the BBC.

Gossage talked about how Dick Allen had worked with him to learn more about the league's hitters, to help make him a more effective pitcher.

Under Knobler, Crawdaddys editors often assigned artists to write about other artists ; Al Kooper profiled Steve Martin, Martin Mull interviewed Woody Allen, William S. Burroughs talked magic and mysticism with Jimmy Page.

During the same 2006 interview Haynes talked about his realization of how much the blues had influenced his one-time employer, David Allen Coe.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

He selected Gordon Willis as his cinematographer — for Allen " a very important teacher " and a " technical wizard ," saying, " I really count Annie Hall as the first step toward maturity in some way in making films.

Interviews with experts on the authenticity of the film include Oscar-winning special effects make-up artist Stan Winston, cinematographer Allen Daviau, and noted forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, who considered the autopsy procedures in the film to be authentic but stopped short of declaring the being an alien.

To provide an authentic look to his scenes, Allen and cinematographer Gordon Willis used a variety of techniques, including locating some of the antique film cameras and lenses used during the eras depicted in the film, and even going so far as to simulate damage, such as crinkles and scratches, on the negatives to make the finished product look more like vintage footage.

Haskell Wexler was the original cinematographer, but was fired by Woody Allen after a week of filming as they couldn't agree on how to film certain shots, Wedigo von Schultzendorff replaced Wexler

* TCM Remembers 2006: Marian Marsh, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Anthony Franciosa, Tamara Dobson, cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Red Buttons, Alida Valli, Mickey Spillane, director Gordon Parks, director Gillo Pontecorvo, Robert Donner, Darren McGavin, Mako Iwamatsu, Robert O. Cornthwaite, Richard Bright, producer Joseph Stefano, Barnard Hughes, Adrienne Shelly, Chris Penn, Vincent Schiavelli, Arthur Hill, art director Henry Bumstead, Jane Wyatt, Jack Wild, Paul Gleason, composer Malcolm Arnold, songwriter Betty Comden, director Vincent Sherman, Fayard Nicholas, Moira Shearer, Ken Richmond, writer Peter Benchley, Robert Earl Jones, Dennis Weaver, director Richard Fleischer, Don Knotts, Jack Palance, Peter Boyle, Maureen Stapleton, Bruno Kirby, director Robert Altman, June Allyson, Glenn Ford and Shelley Winters

* TCM Remembers 2010: director Arthur Penn, editor Dede Allen, Jean Simmons, director Roy Ward Baker, Lynn Redgrave, producer David Brown, editor Sally Menke, Harold Gould, director Dino De Laurentiis, Dennis Hopper, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Culp, James Mitchell, James MacArthur, Johnny Sheffield, Corey Haim, director Clive Donner, Kevin McCarthy, Cammie King, Eddie Fisher, director Éric Rohmer, John Forsythe, producer Irving Ravetch, art director Robert F. Boyle, Robert Ellenstein, producer Tom Mankiewicz, editor Suso Cecchi d ' Amico, Fess Parker, Baby Marie Osborne, Lena Horne, Lionel Jeffries, Kathryn Grayson, Tony Curtis, Doris Eaton Travis, writer Joseph Stein, director Ronald Neame, Claude Chabrol, Gloria Stuart, June Havoc, Glenn Shadix, Peter Graves, Barbara Billingsley, Leslie Nielsen, director Blake Edwards, Zelda Rubinstein, cinematographer William A. Fraker, producer David L. Wolper, Meinhardt Raabe, director Irvin Kershner and Patricia Neal.

Allen had cinematographer Carlo Di Palma rely on hand-held cameras, " swiveling restlessly from one room to another, or zooming in abruptly for a close look " in a style one reviewer called " meaningless affectation.

In addition to Travolta and Allen, De Palma filled the film's cast and crew with a number of his frequent collaborators: Dennis Franz ( Dressed to Kill, The Fury, Body Double ); John Lithgow ( Obsession ); cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond ( Obsession ); editor Paul Hirsch ( Hi, Mom !, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, Carrie, The Fury ); and composer Pino Donaggio ( Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill ).

Paul " Lucky " Goldberg, director, producer and cinematographer for ThunderVision Media Ltd and president of Hollywood New York International since 1993, worked with producer and partner Paul Allen of ThunderVision Media Ltd, based in New York at Kaufman Astoria Studios to capture the action.

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

Reprinted on pp. 92 – 119 in Bell, C. Gordon and Newell, Allen ( 1971 ), Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.

Reprinted on pp. 92 – 119 in Bell, C. Gordon and Newell, Allen ( 1971 ), Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.

J. H. Allen, Richard Reader Harris, Lawrence Graeme Allan Roberts, ‎ Edward Faraday Odlum, William Gordon Mackendrick, William Henry Fasken, Charles Marston, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, F. F. Bosworth, Alexander James Ferris, William Bond, Frank Sandford, Samuel Thornton, David Davidson, Errol Manners and Charles Fox Parham.

The first that had a lasting effect was described in 1971 in C. Gordon Bell and Allen Newell's text Computer Structures.

During the early years, the University had among its faculty a number of noted writers, such as Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon,

( 1964 ), directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, starring Connie Mason, William Kerwin and Jeffrey Allen

Burns and Allen had several regulars on radio, including Toby Reed, Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Gracie's real-life friend Mary " Bubbles " Kelly, Ray Noble, singers Jimmy Cash and Tony Martin and actor / writer / director Elliott Lewis.

Ball had initially wanted both actors to reprise their roles on television, however, both were unavailable at the time the show went into production as Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on Burns and Allen, and Gordon was under contract by CBS to play Mr. Conklin on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks.

His high-profile estrangement and then divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey ended up marrying the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then ex-wife Allen married the opposing lawyer, William Dwight Whitney.

Allen again made a few changes, including the singing DeMarco Sisters, to whom he'd been tipped by arranger-composer Gordon Jenkins.

Many soon-to-be-famous faces pop up, including: Lionel Jeffries (" Murder Ahoy " and " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", Leslie Philips, Jane Asher, Anne Reid ( Coronation Street and Dinnerladies ), Edward Mulhare ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Knight Rider ), Patrick Troughton ( the Second Doctor ), Irene Handl, Desmond Llewelyn ( Q in the Bond films ), Sam Kydd, Sid James, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw ( Carry On films ), Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ), Alfie Bass ( The Army Game ), Sylvia Kay ( Just Good Friends ), Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ( Steptoe and Son ), Barbara Mullen ( Dr Finlay's Casebook ), Richard O ' Sullivan ( Man About the House ), Geoffrey Bayldon ( Catweazle ), Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Allen, Gordon Jackson.

His students include Samuel Adler, Leroy Anderson, Arthur Berger, Leonard Bernstein, Gordon Binkerd, Elliott Carter, John Davison, Irving Fine, John Harbison, Karl Kohn, Ellis B. Kohs, Gail Kubik, Billy Jim Layton, Noël Lee, Robert Middleton, Robert Moevs, Conlon Nancarrow, William P. Perry, Daniel Pinkham, Frederic Rzewski, Allen Sapp, Harold Shapero, and Claudio Spies.

* Gordon P. Allen ( 1929 – 2010 ), U. S. Democratic politician

On July 14, 1978, a panel, with Gordon Cooper, J. Allen Hynek, and Jacques Vallée among its members, held a hearing to inform the UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim about the matter.

Sir Stewart Duke-Elder founded the Institute of Ophthalmology ( now an integral part of University College London ), and many key individuals, such as Sir Harold Ridley, Charles Schepens, Norman Ashton, Shomi S. Bhattacharya, Allen Foster, Gordon Johnson and Raymond Lund have carried out their research at Moorfields and the Institute.

* District 22: Gordon P. Allen ( Dem ); James W. Crawford, Jr. ( Dem )

Gordon Phillip " Joe " Allen ( April 29, 1929 – December 23, 2010 ) was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly and an insurance professional from Roxboro, North Carolina.

In all, the astronauts who trained at the planetarium were Buzz Aldrin, Joseph P. Allen, William A. Anders, Neil A. Armstrong, Charles A. Bassett II, Alan L. Bean, Frank Borman, Vance D. Brand, John S. Bull, M. Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr, Eugene A. Cernan, Roger B. Chaffee, Philip K. Chapman, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, R. Walter Cunningham, Charles M. Duke Jr., Donn F. Eisele, Anthony W. England, Joe H. Engle, Ronald E. Evans, Theodore C. Freeman, Edward G. Givens Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Fred W. Haise Jr., Karl G. Henize, James B. Irwin, Joseph P. Kerwin, William B. Lenoir, Don L. Lind, John A. Llewellyn, Jack R. Lousma, James A. Lovell Jr., Thomas K. Mattingly Jr., Bruce McCandless II, James A. McDivitt, F. Curtis Michel, Edgar D. Mitchell, Story Musgrave, Brian T. O ’ Leary, Robert A. Parker, William R. Pogue, Stuart A. Roosa, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Russell L. Schweickart, David R. Scott, Elliot See, Alan B. Shepard Jr., Donald K. Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford, John L. Swigert Jr., William E. Thornton, Paul J. Weitz, Edward H. White, Clifton C. Williams Jr., Alfred M. Worden, and John W. Young.

There was nothing written about Alvy's childhood home lying under a roller coaster, but when Allen was scouting locations in Brooklyn with Willis and art director Mel Bourne, he " saw this roller-coaster, and ... saw the house under it.

" At the time, it was considered an " odd pairing " by many, Keaton among them, for Willis and Allen to work together.

Among the studio musicians responsible for the " Motown Sound " were keyboardists Earl Van Dyke, Johnny Griffith, and Joe Hunter ; guitarists Joe Messina, Robert White, and Eddie Willis ; percussionists Eddie " Bongo " Brown and Jack Ashford ; drummers Benny Benjamin, Uriel Jones, and Richard " Pistol " Allen ; and bassists James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt.

While in Marion, he studied law under Judge Willis Allen and served as deputy clerk for John M. Cunningham, Williamson County's County Clerk and Circuit Clerk.

Needing an opening sequence about dinosaurs, Allen hired premier model animator Willis O ' Brien to animate the dinosaurs, but then gave him an impossibly short production schedule.

# " Lady Strange " ( Willis, Clark, Rick Allen, Elliott ) – 4: 39

Reviewers have also made comparisons with other authors, including Woody Allen, Sara Paretsky, and Connie Willis.

Early members included bandleader Joe Hunter and Earl Van Dyke ( piano ); James Jamerson ( bass guitar ); Benny " Papa Zita " Benjamin and Richard " Pistol " Allen ( drums ); Paul Riser ( trombone ); Robert White, Eddie Willis, and Joe Messina ( guitar ); Jack Ashford ( tambourine, percussion, vibraphone, marimba ); Jack Brokensha ( vibraphone, marimba ); and Eddie " Bongo " Brown ( percussion ).

In addition to bassist James Jamerson, The Funk Brothers consisted of the following musicians: Jack Ashford ( percussion ); Bob Babbitt ( bass ); Joe Hunter ( keyboards ); Uriel Jones ( drums ); Joe Messina ( guitar ); Eddie Willis ( guitar ); " Pistol " Allen ( drums ); " Papa Zita " Benjamin ( drums ); " Bongo " Brown ( percussion ); Johnny Griffith ( keyboards ); Earl Van Dyke ( keyboards ); and Robert White ( guitar ).

Albert attended the independent fee-paying Sylvia Young Theatre School, and shared lessons with Lee Ryan, Matt Willis, Billie Piper, Gem Allen ( Stonefoxx ) and Amy Winehouse.