The film opens with Buddy Holly's beginnings as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas and his emergence into the world of rock and roll with his fictional good friends and bandmates, drummer Jesse Charles ( Don Stroud ) and bass player Ray Bob Simmons ( Charles Martin Smith ), soon to be known as The Crickets.

She was such a well-rounded teenager, having been a twirler, Future Farmers sweetheart, and secretary of Future Homemakers.

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.

As a teenager he was his father ’ s amanuensis and was regularly seen debating theological issues with the learned men of the area.

The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was an international success.

" 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.

Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

Although many of his works appeared in print while a teenager, it was the publication of " Light breaks where no sun shines ", published in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

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.

She was introduced anonymously while still a teenager in the third book in the series and plays a larger role in several of the titles of the 1930s and 1940s.

He later stated on They Think It's All Over that as a teenager he idolised former England captain David Gower, who was playing for Leicestershire at the time.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

As a teenager, Cukor frequently was taken to the New York Hippodrome by his uncle.

Chapman met Tomiczek when the teenager was a runaway from Liverpool.

* 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.

He was a main character in the first volume of X-Factor, and a star in flashback stories when he was a teenager in X-Men: The Hidden Years and X-Men: First Class.

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.

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.

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.

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

In addition, Sadassa Silvia is a character who claims that Ferris Fremont is actually a communist covert agent recruited by Sadassa's mother when Fremont was still a teenager.

Deal named the band The Breeders, after the folk band she formed with Kelley as a teenager, and they recruited Carrie Bradley, violinist and vocalist in Ed's Redeeming Qualities, to record a short demo tape.

One teenager was recruited by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the other by the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades.

It is said that he was recruited by the ruthless Spanish general José Tomás Boves ( José Tomás Rodríguez ) when as a young teenager he had been forcibly recruited from the ranks of the defeated independence forces abandoned by a fleeing Simón Bolívar at the city of Valencia.

In an April 2005 episode of Veronica Mars, Clark played an openly gay teenager recruited by the title character ( Kristen Bell ) to publicly humiliate the prejudiced ex-boyfriend ( Jeff D ' Agostino ) of one of her friends ( Natalia Baron ).

One teenager told interrogators that he was recruited to act as a couriers by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the second by the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades.

He took part in his first concert while a teenager and in 1976, he made his recording debut as a backup singer with the Mario Ortiz Orchestra ; soon afterwards he was recruited by La Grande Orchestra, where he became the lead singer.

Consequently, as they do not represent their American counterparts, they are known by completely different names-Nightbeat is Minerva, Siren is Go Shooter, Hosehead is Cab, Fangry is Wilder, Horri-Bull is Bullhorn and Squeezeplay is Cancer, each of them a human teenager recruited by the Autobots or Decepticons in the battle.

Hopwil is only a teenager when he is recruited by Mazrim Taim.

Born James McCleese in Weldon, North Carolina, he performed gospel music as a teenager, later scouted by Frank Guida and recruited to sing songs handpicked for one of Guida's other hit artists, Gary U. S. Bonds.

He was scouted and recruited by the Turkish professional team Ülkerspor when he was a teenager.

As a teenager, she found it difficult to deal with her rising fame, and for a period she blamed her mother for pushing her into acting as a child.

The story has similarities to the 2001 television series Smallville, which follows Clark Kent's life as a teenager and into early adulthood.

* Shannon's law ( Arizona ), a law that was established after the 1999 death of teenager Shannon Smith, to punish those who fire gunshots into the air, risking the lives of others

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.

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.

Emo music has been blamed for the suicide by hanging of teenager Hannah Bond by both the coroner at the inquest into her death and her mother, Heather Bond, after it was claimed that emo music glamorized suicide and her apparent obsession with My Chemical Romance was said to be linked to her suicide.

Educated at the original Trinity College School in Weston Ontario, as a teenager William Osler's aim was to follow his father into the Anglican ministry and to that end he entered Trinity College, Toronto ( now a constituent college of the University of Toronto ) in the autumn of 1867.

Gaye branched out into secular music as a teenager, joining the doo-wop group The Marquees, after returning from an honorable discharge from the United States Air Force, before the group was hired by Harvey Fuqua to be Harvey & The Moonglows.

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.

As a result, Superman ( both as an adult and a teenager ) and the current version of Supergirl have been reincorporated into Legion history.

Then later, when I was a teenager, I got really hard into cult fiction: Hubert Selby, Jr., Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac.

By the time she was a teenager, Pebbles was noted for getting her boyfriend Bamm-Bamm and their friends, Wiggy, Moonrock, and Penny, into various misadventures, mostly due to sharing her dad's penchant for schemes that would inevitably backfire ( such as causing a strike by Bedrock's city employees when she was elected honorary mayor for a week ).

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.

His parents died whilst he was still at Cambridge, and as a teenager he was taken into the household of Gilbert Burnet, later bishop of Salisbury.

Fairs contain a mixture of attractions which can be divided into the categories of adult, teenager and child ; usually including thrill rides, children's rides, sideshows and sidestalls.

Suffering from dyslexia, which, by her own admission, turned her into an " angry, rebellious " teenager, she achieved just one O-level pass in music.

Several stories suggest that Dick Turpin may have followed his father into these trades ; one story hints that as a teenager he was apprenticed to a butcher in the village of Whitechapel, and another suggests that he ran his own butcher's shop in Thaxted.

She broke into the comic book industry when still a teenager, in the 1980s.

As a teenager, Blassie went to McKinley High School ; after graduating he got a job at a meatpacking plant, which his family hoped he would turn into a lucrative meat cutting job with the local trade union.

As a teenager, Copperfield became fascinated with Broadway and frequently snuck into shows, especially musicals featuring Stephen Sondheim or Bob Fosse.

Benjamin McKenzie portrays Ryan Atwood, a troubled teenager from Chino who is thrust into the privileged community of Newport Beach, California after his mother, Dawn Atwood, throws him out of their family home.

The ad featured actor Chazz Palminteri, in which he and another man pull a teenager into an alley after catching him peering into a hole.