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Ashby was in London, England meeting with Peter Sellers about doing Being There when he received a phone call from Jones who told him that Columbia was fed up with the time it was taking for the film to be assembled.
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During the war, an Army base, Camp Ashby, was temporarily sited in Berkeley.
An Astros lead was lost when Bob Boone hit a two out single in the second, but the Astros tied the game in the sixth with an Alan Ashby single scoring Denny Walling.
The novel was made into a 1979 movie directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role and Melvyn Douglas, who won the award for Best Supporting Actor.
David Ashby was ' outed ' by his wife after sleeping with men.
See album This was probably influenced by the ambitious 1970 album by jazz-soul harpist Dorothy Ashby, " The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby ," which has become something of a cult classic.
Staines Rugby Football Club which used to play at the Lammas ( a recreation ground on Wraysbury Road, which was also known as the Ashby Recreation Ground ) relocated to The Reeves ( on Snakey Lane, near Hanworth ) in the 1960s but still proudly bears the name of the town with teams named Swans, Cobs and Mucky Ducks.
The screenplay was reshaped significantly by the circle of talent who would eventually bring it to the screen: Fonda, Ashby, Wexler, Jon Voight, producer Hellman and screenwriters Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones.
He was replaced by Hal Ashby.
For director Ashby, this was his second film about the 1960s since his 1975 film Shampoo: where in ' Shampoo ' he dealt with the beautiful people of the 1960s immersed in the good life and not thinking about Vietnam, Coming Home found others dealing with the horrors of the war and its tragic after effects.
It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor ( Bruce Dern ), Best Supporting Actress ( Penelope Milford ), Best Director ( Hal Ashby ), Best Film Editing ( Don Zimmerman ), and Best Picture ( Jerome Hellman ).
Ashby was first settled in 1676 and was officially incorporated in 1767.
Ashby is on the eastern fringe of the Red River Valley, which was carved out by ancient glaciers.
Ashby was the boyhood home of author / illustrator Charles Smith-Dewey, aka Uncle Hyggly, who penned a regional favorite about a dairy farmer who filled in one Christmas for an ailing Santa Claus -- " Mr. Gonopolis And His 12 Holsteins -- A Christmas Story.
This was built at the present site of Fort Ashby village and is still in use as a dwelling, being owned and occupied by Mr. Thomas F. Pyles.
The only really important battle at Fort Ashby occurred in 1756 when Lieutenant Robert Rutherford and his company of rangers was defeated there by a band of French and Native Americans.
It was during this siege that Colonel John Ashby while out of the fort on what is now Cemetery Hill was attacked by the Native Americans and made a most remarkable escape to the fort.
Colonel Ashby was later put in command of the fort and seems to have remained there until the Revolutionary War or after.
On April 22, 1756, Washington wrote to Ashby that if he was attacked by Native Americans to wait for the cover of darkness then blow up the fort and retreat to Fort Cumberland, taking what ammunition they could.
Wilkins was likely born at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire.
Ashby was coming off the disappointing commercial and critical failure of Harold and Maude and was in pre-production on Three Cornered Circle at MGM when Jack Nicholson told him about The Last Detail, his upcoming film at Columbia.
Ashby and London
It was nearly 30 years later that serious railway competition arrived, when the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway jointly opened the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway from Overseal to Nuneaton in 1873.
W. Ross Ashby ( London, 6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972 ) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of complex systems.
William Ross Ashby was born in 1903 in London, where his father was working at an advertising agency.
Ross Ashby started working in 1930 as a Clinical Psychiatrist in the London County Council.
In 2003, these journals were given to The British Library, London, and in 2008, they were made available online as The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive.
* W. Ross Ashby ( 1956 ): An Introduction to Cybernetics, ( Chapman & Hall, London ): available electronically, Principia Cybernetica Web, 1999
The Ebeneezer Baptist Church on Ashby Road was built in 1881 by a body of men and women who had previously belonged to the London Road Baptist Church ( now demolished ).
* Platner, Samuel Ball ( as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby ): A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome ( London: Oxford University Press, 1929 ) ( e-text )
The couple divorced in 1951 and had one child, Rashid Suhrawardy ( aka Robert Ashby ), who is an actor living in London ( He played Jawaharlal Nehru in film jinnah ( film )).
In 1890 Thomas Ashby arrived to Rome as Director of " British School in Rome ": he was an expert of ancient monuments topography and studied the Tusculum monuments, reporting the results in The Roman Campagna in Classical Times published in London in 1927.
Its founder was a clergyman, Ashby Haslewood, who was vicar of St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood, north London.
Ashby and England
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, often shortened to Ashby, is a small market town and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, within the National Forest.
The UK government's swine flu help-line centre for England was based at Ashby.
Ashby de la Zouch Castle is in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England ().
* Canons Ashby ( Northamptonshire, England ) A 16th-century garden revised in 1708
* The Ashby Canal, the longest contour canal in England, passes through the town.
The town also has a number of primary schools including All Saints Church of England Primary School situated on Ashby Road, Broom Leys Primary on Broom-Leys Road and Belvoirdale Primary on Scotland Road.
* Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby ( 1267 – 1314 ), governor of Rockingham Castle and steward of Rockingham Forest, England
Born in Ashland, Kentucky, England moved with her family to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, when she was two years old.
After serving her sentence, England returned to Fort Ashby, West Virginia and stayed with friends and family.
Falling A Records is a Essex, England based independent record label founded in the late 1970s by Barry Lamb and Peter Ashby.
Ashby St Ledgers is a village in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire, England, although the postal address is Rugby in Warwickshire.
Canons Ashby is a small village and civil parish in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire, England.
Canons Ashby House is an Elizabethan manor house located in Canons Ashby, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.
Canons Ashby Priory was an Augustinian monastic establishment in Northamptonshire, England.
Cold Ashby is a village and civil parish in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England.
Image: Hahafront. JPG | The front of a ha-ha, still blending in well into the surroundings at Castle Ashby, England.
Ashby by Partney is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.
Ashby de la Launde is a small village, part of the civil parish of Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
Ashby Puerorum is a small village in the in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, situated to the west of Bag Enderby and north of the A158, north-west from Partney and east from Horncastle.
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