* Richard Farnsworth as Alvin Straight

The Straight Story was independently shot along the actual route taken by Alvin Straight, and all scenes were shot in chronological order.

He actually took the role out of admiration for Alvin Straight, and astonished his co-workers with his tenacity during production.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

* Alvin Straight, who inspired The Straight Story, was born here.

The 1999 movie The Straight Story includes aerial footage of Alvin Straight ( played by Richard Farnsworth ) driving a riding lawn mower across the bridge.

Alvin Ray Straight ( October 17, 1920 – November 9, 1996 ) was a resident of Laurens, Iowa, who gained fame for traveling on a 1966 John Deere riding lawn mower to visit his 80-year-old brother Henry in Blue River, Wisconsin who had recently had a stroke.

Alvin Straight was born in Scobey, Montana.

Straight's story was adapted into the film The Straight Story, directed by David Lynch, which starred Richard Farnsworth ( in an Oscar nominated role ) as Alvin Straight.

Reliabilism has been the main line of response to the Gettier challenge among philosophers, originating with work by Alvin Goldman in the 1960s.

The philosopher Alvin Plantinga has shifted his focus to justifying belief in God ( that is, those who believe in God, for whatever reasons, are rational in doing so ) through Reformed epistemology, in the context of a theory of warrant and proper cognitive function.

Moreover, a similar account can be given ( and an elaborate version of this has been given by Alvin Plantinga ) for such notions as ' warranted belief ' or ' epistemically rational belief '.

One greater good that has been proposed is that of free will, famously argued for by Alvin Plantinga in his free will defense.

As an example of the latter, Alvin Plantinga has famously suggested that natural evils are caused by the free choices of supernatural beings such as demons.

When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle ( Harry Dean Stanton ) has suffered a stroke, Alvin makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends before he dies.

Alvin then learns that his brother Lyle has suffered a stroke.

In conversation, Alvin astutely deduces that she is pregnant ( although this is not extremely physically obvious ) and has run away from home.

The next day Alvin emerges from the trailer to find that his hitchhiker friend has left him a bundle of sticks tied together, implying that she plans to return home to her own family.

Alvin replies that ' neither one of us has had a brother for quite some time.

Lyle looks at Alvin's mower-tractor contraption and asks if Alvin has ridden that thing just to see him.

While many networks followed the show's success by scheduling other cartoons in the early 1960s, including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You !, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and The Alvin Show, none of these programs survived more than a year ( save Scooby-Doo, which, despite not being a primetime cartoon, has managed to stay afloat for over four decades ).

Reuben Hersh has also promoted the social view of mathematics, calling it a " humanistic " approach, similar to but not quite the same as that associated with Alvin White ; one of Hersh's co-authors, Philip J. Davis, has expressed sympathy for the social view as well.

As of 2007, no other track and field athlete has won more gold medals in a single Olympics, although Alvin Kraenzlein ( 1900 ), Jesse Owens ( 1936 ) and Carl Lewis ( 1984 ) have also won four gold medals in one Olympics.

Kris learns that Sawyer has convinced a young, impressionable employee, Alfred ( Alvin Greenman ), that he is mentally ill simply because he is generous and kind-hearted ( Alfred plays Santa Claus at his neighborhood YMCA ).

The term was first popularized in 1970 by Alvin Toffler, and has since become often used in the theory of management of organizations ( particularly online organizations ), further developed by academics such as Henry Mintzberg.

The doctrine has been criticized by some Christian theologians, including Alvin Plantinga, who in his essay Does God Have a Nature?

Unlike other significant characters, he has no magical knack, but, prior to meeting Alvin, he was made invincible by means of a tattoo given to him at birth ( similar to Achilles ).

Contemporary jazz has had a following in New Orleans with musicians such as Alvin Batiste and Ellis Marsalis.

One such response is that of Alvin Goldman ( 1967 ), who suggested the addition of a causal condition: a subject's belief is justified, for Goldman, only if the truth of a belief has caused the subject to have that belief ( in the appropriate way ); and for a justified true belief to count as knowledge, the subject must also be able to " correctly reconstruct " ( mentally ) that causal chain.

Daniela Tortora has edited a book about his work, Alvin Curran Live in Roma ( Die Schachtel 2010 ).

One phrase in the chorus has Alvin wishing for a hula hoop, which was that year's hot new toy.

Since its 1934 debut at the Neil Simon Theatre ( at the time known as the Alvin ) on Broadway, the musical has been revived several times in the United States and Britain and has been filmed twice.

Often Brittany is happy to outdo others she dislikes, mainly this is shown when her arguments with Alvin grow into bets.

Reruns of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse were shown on Nickelodeon's Weinerville in the 1990s along with reruns of Batfink and both segments of The Alvin Show.

The process proved politically fraught, and the Government's Minister for Communications and Works, Alvin Christopher, ended up leaving the Government and joining the opposition party as a result of the furore.

His daughter Rose takes her reluctant father to see a doctor, who sternly admonishes Alvin to give up alcohol and tobacco.

Alvin arranges for his mower to be transported back home on a flatbed truck ( with him still perched on the mower's seat ), where he takes out his frustrations on the mower by blowing up its motor and gas tank with a well-aimed shotgun blast.

As the new Managing General Partner, Arison hired Dave Wohl as general manager, who fired head coach Kevin Loughery and replaced him with Alvin Gentry on an interim basis to try to shake up the 17 – 30 Heat.

A sub-plot in this episode sees Councilman Waters and Alvin Epp teaming up to keep Gillespie and Tibbs off the police force because Gillespie vehemently objects to them overtaking Sparta ’ s south side.

* Nolan Ryan, former Major League Baseball pitcher, grew up in Alvin, Texas.

More than a few pictorial photographers, including Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, and Sarah Choate Sears, were originally trained as painters or took up painting in addition to their photographic skills.

Newcleus recorded " Jam-On Revenge ", a block party favorite that featured vocals that were sped up to resemble Alvin and the Chipmunks.

According to this letter, when Smith dug up the plates a " salamander " appeared, which transformed itself into a spirit that refused to give Smith the plates unless his brother Alvin Smith was also present.

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it

The film suggests that Joseph Smith was required to dig up his brother Alvin ’ s body and bring a part of it with him to the hill Cumorah in order to obtain the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was said to be translated.

In fact, the film became the most successful locally made feature ever released in Australia up to that time, paving the way for the success of subsequent locally made feature films like Alvin Purple and Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Apparently dissatisfied with the car's speed, he quickly ordered them to pull up at a brightly lit house where the switchboard operator, Alvin Koerner, aware of the ongoing events, quickly phoned authorities at one of the involved lodges to report a suspicious vehicle in front of his home.

Alvin and his older brother Phil grew up in Downey, California.

Among the most well-known and longest-in-operation submersibles is the deep-submergence research vessel DSV Alvin, which takes 3 people to depths of up to 4, 500 metres ( 14, 800 ft ).

Alvin has just come to the age where he is considered grown up, and is putting all his energies into trying to find a way out.

Alvin Curran recalled that: " Scelsi ... came to all my concerts in Rome even right up to the very last one I gave just a few days before he died.

The main favourites were the 1903 and 1904 IC4A Champion in 120 yd hurdles Edwin Clapp, who didn't show up in the heats and Thaddeus Schideler, who had run under Alvin Kraenzlein's world record ( 15. 2 ) just a month before the Olympic final, but whose record ( 15. 0 ) wasn't registered because the time was taken only by two stoppers.

Nickelodeon picked up US broadcast rights to The Alvin Show sometime in 1994 and ran the episodes daily until early 1995.

Between 1977 and 1978, Isaacs again teamed up with Alvin Ranglin, recording a string of hits including " Border " and " Number One " for Ranglin's GG's label.