McDermott was uncomfortable with himself as a teenager, saying he had a " Dorothy Hamill hairdo ".

As a teenager McDermott often helped his parents in their community work and was a member of the Marshfield High audio-visual club.

Mitchell Goosen ( McDermott ) is a teenager from California who loves to surf and rollerblade.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

Bruce Campbell began acting as a teenager and soon began making short Super 8 movies with friends.

* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.

It also appears in Lost Laysen, the novella Mitchell wrote as a teenager in 1916, and in Mitchell's last known novel, Gone with the Wind, which she began writing in 1926.

When Cruz was a teenager, she began having an interest in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up!

Limbaugh began his career in radio as a teenager in 1967 in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, using the name Rusty Sharpe.

Lardner was also a well-known sports columnist, who began his career as a teenager with the South Bend Tribune.

At the age of 12, she began writing songs, and as a teenager, she performed in a Portuguese marching band.

Growing up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group, the Kings of Rhythm as a teenager at high school.

He began his working career when he was a teenager as a clerk, although he abandoned the business world completely for art after suffering a nervous breakdown.

Lionel Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys ' Band ( led by Major N. Clark Smith ) while still a teenager in Chicago.

He began his wrestling career as a teenager in 1959 and continued through to the late 1980s.

Wilbur Sweatman's professional music career began in the late 1890s when, still a teenager, he toured with circus bands, first with Professor Clark Smith's Pickaninny Band from Kansas City, then with the P. G.

Using the stage name " Doc Pomus ," Felder began performing as a teenager, becoming a blues singer ; his stage name wasn't inspired by anyone in particular, he just thought it sounded better for a blues singer than the name Jerry Felder did.

As a teenager, Harvey began learning saxophone and joined an eight-piece instrumental group Boulogne, based in Somerset.

He began performing with his brothers while a teenager, with their father occasionally joining them on drums.

Onassis-Miranda began her equestrian career as a teenager, when she was still known as Athina Roussel.

For his longer stories, he also began creating stand-alone graphic novels, such as Sloth ( 2006 ), about a teenager from a small town who wills himself into a coma.

On television, Cannon began as a teenager on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild ' N Out, and America's Got Talent.

Procter's literary career began when she was a teenager ; her poems were primarily published in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round and later published in book form.

Hazlitt started his career at The Wall Street Journal as secretary to the managing editor when he was still a teenager, and his interest in the field of economics began while working there.

In 2006 Van Sant began work on Paranoid Park based on the book by Blake Nelson, about a skateboarding teenager who accidentally causes someone's death.

As a teenager, she attended the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts ; she soon began singing radio commercial jingles, and took part in ( and won many of ) local TV and radio talent shows.

Around 1908 a teenager by the name of Leo Lyons joined with the club as a player, and within two years began to manage, finance, and promote the team on a full-time basis.

As a teenager, he and two companions fled from a barbaric invasion, taking refuge in Constantinople possessing nothing more than the ragged clothes on their backs and a sack of bread between them.

She moved to the United States as a teenager, first studying to become a stockbroker, but after taking some abandoned kittens to a shelter in 1969, and appalled by the conditions she found there, she chose a career in animal protection instead.

Henson noted that he wished to " make the idea of taking responsibility for one's life-which is one of the neat realizations a teenager experiences-a central thought of the film.

A police misconduct hearing held in December 2011 found that the police had no legal power to prevent the teenager from taking pictures and that the police inspector involved in the incident had used abusive language in calling the boy " silly ", " gay " and " stupid ".

* In 2002, gay teenager Marc Hall was prohibited from taking his male date to his high school's dance ; Hall sued the school board and won.

He served as a general in the Egyptian army that his father established during his reign, taking his first command of Egyptian forces was when he was merely a teenager.

Fox's cocky side was more notable than his professional side in Star Fox Adventures, where he acted more like a teenager than compared to an adult, showing low enthusiasm when taking on difficult situations and showing a habit of grasping the back of his neck with his hand when he was put on the spot.

The film opens in the early 1980s where teenager Martin Asher ( Paul Dano ) is seen fleeing from home, taking a bus in Canada.

Dooley was born in Warrington, Northern England and played rugby league as a teenager, taking up rugby union aged 19.

As a teenager he was a local portrait painting prodigy and began taking acting lessons.

A security officer alleged that Kopassus ( special forces ) officers had ordered the burning down of a bank ; a taxi driver reported hearing a man in a military helicopter encouraging people on the ground to carry out looting ; shop-owners at a Plaza claimed that, before the riots, military officers tried to extract protection money ; a teenager claimed he and thousands of others had been trained as protesters ; a street child alleged that Kopassus officers ordered him and his friends to become rioters ; there was a report of soldiers being dressed up as students and then taking part in rioting ; eyewitnesses spoke of muscular men with short haircuts arriving in military-style trucks and directing attacks on Chinese homes and businesses.

Each segment is based on and include references to historical stories ; " D ' oh Brother, Where Art Thou " takes its story from the ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey, while taking its name from the movie Oh Brother, Where Art Thou ( also based on the Odyssey ), " Hot Child in the City " is based on the life and legend of Saint Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl who, as a teenager, led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years ' War, and " Do the Bard, Man " spoofs William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

Murphy moved to Detroit, Michigan as a teenager, taking the name Stoney for many years.

* Mackey used the pin from a murdered cop's badge to repeatedly stab an African American teenager whose death squad was ambushing cops and taking their badges as trophies.

Outhwaite attended the Stagestruck Theatre Company as a teenager, taking part in several productions during the mid-1980s.

He began playing in the Lancashire League as a teenager in 1945, and made his first-class debut in 1946 against Sussex at Hove, scoring 2 not out and taking one wicket.