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.

Roberta had an acting experience as a mentally disturbed teenager in Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

Rousseau's choice of a Catholic vicar of humble peasant background ( plausibly based on a kindly prelate he had met as a teenager ) as a spokesman for the defense of religion was in itself a daring innovation for the time.

As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

Andy is interviewed for the story and explains that, as a teenager, he had used escapist novels in order to cope with his alienating school and home life in Buffalo, NY.

On March 25, 1969, Orbison married German teenager Barbara Jakobs, whom he had met several days before his sons ' deaths.

The viewer had to read Rachel's and Lorcán's blogs as well as watch video diaries detailing the thoughts of each character to solve the mystery of missing teenager, Ciara.

His father described Salem as a quarrelsome teenager who had problems with alcohol and petty theft.

The piece, titled " My Mummy Was Beautiful ", was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, who had died when Lennon was a teenager.

" Smith had bulimia since she was a teenager.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

As we have seen, Byrd had begun setting Latin liturgical texts as a teenager, and he seems to have continued to do so at Lincoln.

By his senior year in high school, Fonda had grown to more than six feet tall, but remained a shy teenager.

Born in New Jersey, Solanas said that she was the victim of sexual abuse by her father ; and, after her parents ' divorce, she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather as a teenager with her unruly behavior.

In December 2007 the Associated Press reported on a story concerning the Church of Satan, in which a teenager had sent an e-mail to High Priest Gilmore stating he wanted to " kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan ".

However, as the Governor of Illinois he was told about a teenager who had survived an automobile accident while his friend was killed.

" At the time of the apparent appointment Subh-i-Azal was still a teenager, had never demonstrated leadership in the Bábí movement, and was still living in the house of his older brother, Bahá ' u ' lláh.

On that documentary was a young teenager, Amit Ghose, who had decided for himself to have corrective surgery at the age of 14.

By the time he was a teenager, Orff was writing songs, although he had not studied harmony or composition ; his mother helped him set down his first works in musical notation.

By the time he was a teenager, Scheele had learned the dominant theory of gases in the 1770s, the phlogiston theory.

Though Findley had declared his homosexuality as a teenager, he married actress / photographer Janet Reid ( born 1930 ) in 1959, but the union lasted only three months and was dissolved by divorce or annulment two years later.

Early attempts to get into the police force when he was a teenager were unsuccessful on account of his asthma, so when it had been cured, he could then pursue his ambition to become a professional police officer.

Francis II had a brief reign, becoming king as a teenager without experience, when the kingdom was struggling with religious troubles.

As a teenager, Dillinger was frequently in trouble with the law for fighting and petty theft ; he was also noted for his " bewildering personality " and bullying of smaller children.

Trachtenberg says she was thrust into the role without knowing much about Dawn's personality ; she describes her initial meeting with Joss Whedon as " Alright, welcome to the cast, you're a teenager, you're a Key, have fun.

Described by Wilson and friend Jesse Greer as having been a generally happy if somewhat mischievous and sassy teenager, Ballard experienced a change in personality, from which she seemingly never recovered, as the result of an incident that occurred in the summer of 1960.

Placid and easygoing as a child and teenager, the maturing Kennedy became increasingly assertive in her personality.

As a teenager with an innocent personality, she was a student at the academy twelve years ago.

His coach Nick Bollettieri remarked as to his personality when he was a teenager: " Aaron was brought up in a Jewish background and babied for 16 years.

* Jacqueline Hyde, a villain in the game show Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego ?, is a teenager with ( as usual ) a sweet, innocent personality and an insane, evil personality.

As a teenager he developed personality problems and turned to petty crime.

At the same time, another host of a Shinji Nishizono personality ( a teenager named Tetora Nishizono, who can temporarily transfer his Shinji Nishijono personality template to others ) escapes from the Gakuso organization and runs into Miwa.

* Mel Barker ( Danielle McCormack ) ( 1999 – 2004, 2005 ): Mel is a teenager who has a sarcastic personality ; the oldest of the Barker children, she has a protective and motherly nature towards her younger siblings since the death of their parents.

Grant made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as " Father's Eyes ", " El Shaddai ", and " Angels ".

" But the teenager made an impact on his first night at the London Coliseum, winning more laughs in his small role than the star, and he was quickly signed to a contract.

There are many anecdotes about his precocity while a toddler, and he made his first ground-breaking mathematical discoveries while still a teenager.

Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

This led to Wray being contracted to Paramount Pictures as a teenager, where she made more than a dozen movies.

The school and community look on Heather Chandler's apparent suicide as a tragic but admirable decision made by a popular but sadly troubled teenager.

While Paganini was still a teenager in Livorno, a wealthy businessman named Livron lent him a violin, made by the master luthier Giuseppe Guarneri, for a concert.

Kripke has made influential and original contributions to logic, especially modal logic, since he was a teenager.

Born in Paris, he made his name as a star of musical comedy, appearing in public as a singer and dancer at an early age before working in four menial jobs as a teenager.

Wright made his home in Portadown from the time he transferred there as a teenager

The most traditional of his novels, made into an unsuccessful cult film, it tells the story of a bright, egotistical teenager ( which Amis acknowledges as autobiographical ) and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to university.

* Thomas Hart Benton, painter and muralist ; as a teenager made cartoons for the Joplin American

As a teenager in Toronto, Hinn converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Pentecostalism, eventually joining a singing troupe made up of young evangelicals.

As a teenager, Jones made her acting début on an episode of Fireside Theatre.

Sean also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of Michael Jackson's 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of various M. C. Escher paintings in Sony's 1990 promotional short-film Infinite Escher.

His £ 10, 000-a-week deal made him the highest paid teenager in the history of British football.

When Consuelo – a docile teenager whose only notable characteristic at the time was abject obedience to her fearsome mother – made plans to elope, she was locked in her room as Alva threatened to murder Rutherfurd.

As a teenager, Von Teese's mother took her to buy her first bra, made from plain white cotton, and gave her a plastic egg containing a pair of wrinkly, flesh-colored tights.

Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella ( aka The Most Beautiful Wife ).

Émile was transferred to the less-exclusive Ecole Turgot, but his lessons were soon forgotten as the teenager wandered the streets of Paris to watch history being made.

In 1960, in light of the payola scandal, Freberg made a two-sided single entitled " Old Payola Roll Blues ," which had a corrupt recording studio promoter ( Jesse White ) who gets a teenager who cannot sing to record a song called " High School OO OO ," as well as the flip side, " I Was on My Way to High School.

He also made trips to Hawaii for winter on the North Shore as a teenager.

Read was made a ward of the state by the age of 14 and was placed in several mental institutions as a teenager, where, he later claimed, he was subjected to electroshock therapy.

Some sources recount Adams made money as a teenager by hustling pool games.