A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

Doubts concerning Atkins's testimony were strengthened when a cell-mate claimed that Atkins had confessed to him that he had shot Nesbitt.

The state's witness, Dr. Stanton Samenow, countered the defense's arguments that Atkins was mentally retarded, by stating that Atkins's vocabulary, general knowledge and behavior suggested that he possessed at least average intelligence.

Although Atkins's case and ruling may have saved other mentally retarded inmates from the death penalty, a jury in Virginia decided in July 2005 that Atkins was intelligent enough to be executed on the basis that the constant contact he had with his lawyers had intellectually stimulated him and raised his IQ above 70, making him competent to be put to death under Virginia law.

Eileen Atkins ' London stage debut was as Jaquenetta in Robert Atkins's staging of Love's Labour's Lost at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park.

At the age of 13, jazz guitarist Earl Klugh was captivated watching Atkins's guitar playing on The Perry Como Show.

Atkins's first hit single was " Mr. Sandman ", followed by " Silver Bell ", which he did as a duet with Hank Snow.

Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and ( Mother ) Maybelle Carter brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally.

Atkins's shy personality worked against him, as did the fact that his sophisticated style led many to doubt he was truly " country.

His mid-1970s collaborations with one of his influences, Les Paul, Chester & Lester and Guitar Monsters, had already reflected that interest ; Chester & Lester was one of the best-selling recordings of Atkins's career.

His love for numerous styles of music can be traced from his early recording of stride-pianist James P. Johnson's " Johnson Rag ," all the way to the rock stylings of Eric Johnson, an invited guest on Atkins's recording sessions who, when Chet attempted to copy his influential rocker " Cliffs of Dover ," led to Atkins's creation of a unique arrangement of " Londonderry Air ( Danny Boy ).

His award was presented by Marty Stuart and Brian Setzer and accepted by Atkins's grandson, Jonathan Russell.

Little credibility was given to Atkins's testimony in general, as it frequently contradicted known facts.

In Susan Atkins's grand jury testimony, she stated that on the night of August 8, 1969, while in the car, Watson told the group they were going to a home to get money from the people who lived there and to kill them.

The New York Times writes that it was PCRM who in 2004 passed Dr Robert Atkins's medical report to the Wall Street Journal.

During the penalty phase of the trial, the defense presented Atkins's school records and the results of an IQ test carried out by clinical psychologist Dr. Evan Nelson confirmed that he had an IQ of 59.

As a result, Atkins's death sentence was upheld.

She appeared in the pilot, but when Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, a regular from the original, opted to return, Atkins's character was written out.

The film marks Atkins's third appearance with Barbeau.

From Fred Dekker, writer of House ( 1986 film ) and director of The Monster Squad ( 1987 ), Night of the Creeps ( 1986 ) is Atkins's best loved film.

After working as a freelance choreographer for The Miracles, Atkins was hired by Berry Gordy to work as a Motown choreographer in 1964, and set about developing the routines that would later become the trademark moves of other Motown acts like The Supremes, The Temptations ( Atkins was also featured in the video for their hit single " Lady Soul "), The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & The Pips and others.

In June 2007, the company filed suit against an American Fork, Utah, restaurant named Chadder's for trademark infringement, claiming that the " look and feel " of the restaurant too closely mimicked In-N-Out, and that the restaurant violated trademarked menu items, such as " Animal Style ", " Protein Style ", " Double-Double ", and so forth.

Style ( James Brown Is Dead ( with Van Diepen doing the trademark megaphone catchphrase )), Nakatomi, and eventually worldwide phenomenons Alice Deejay and Vengaboys.

* cricketer Merv Hughes's trademark walrus mustache while playing for Australia between 1985-1994

Some of the trademark activities include senior citizens playing Chinese chess.

The publishers of playing cards trademark their jokers, which have unique artwork that can reflect contemporary culture.

Upon formation, The Mentors began to tour the Northwest, playing shows with their trademark executioner hoods and bawdy lyrics.

During the original broadcast of the show, a commercial faded in the Nine Inch Nails NIN logo on a black screen while playing a combination of music that started as a solo piano piece and morphed into an electronic / industrial beat ( which would later found out to be the songs " La Mer " and " Into the Void ," which share many melodic components and can be considered variations on a theme ) and ended with Trent Reznor screaming " Tried to save myself, but myself kept slipping away " and the word " ninetynine " in the trademark NIN reversed-N font.

Raven began playing mind games with the roster, starting with his former nemesis Sandman, and debuted his trademark Clockwork Orange House of Fun match, which Levy devised himself.

In high school, he was a popular student and the star of the basketball team ( according to his autobiography, Malden broke his nose twice while playing, taking elbows to the face and resulting in his trademark bulbous nose ).

Despite falling twice, he quickly stood up and finished his skate, the trademark black cap he wore back in his playing days held in his hand.

These experiments were represented most prominently in the guitar playing of East Bay Ray, who took cues from sources such as film music ( spy movie scores and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western scores ), instrumental surf rock ( the guitar stylings of Dick Dale and George Tomsco of The Fireballs ), as well as the psychedelic music of the 60s ( especially early Pink Floyd ) with his trademark echo effects.

In interviews East Bay Ray has cited the playing of Syd Barrett on Pink Floyd's first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, as well as the music of the Ohio Players, and the guitar playing of Elvis Presley side-man Scotty Moore ( with his trademark echo ), as influences.

A Ron Hardy trademark was playing a track backwards.

* Bargain is the registered trademark of a Tribute Band dressing like and playing the music of The Who

* He imitated and mocked the trademark pre-game ritual dance of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis after scoring a touchdown while playing against the Ravens in the 2004 season.

The humorous aprons also complemented his humour that consisted of spontaneous one-liners spoken with his trademark Cantonese accent or him playing with his food or cookware.

After telling his story to a sympathetic audience in first class which includes Billy Idol ( playing himself, sporting his ' 80s trademark spiked hairdo and biker attire ), Robbie learns that Glenn and Julia are on the same flight as he peeps through the curtain separating first class and coach.

Galway is best known for his soaring, anthemic compositions, for making heavy use of the SID chip's ring modulation feature, and for compositions which made unconventional changes to SID register settings while notes were playing ( producing his trademark echoey sound ).

With 121 Test wickets, Tufnell is as of 2009 35th in the list of most wickets by an England bowler, and his average of 37. 68 is considered high for a genuine bowler, however Tufnell's personality, trademark behaviour and " great control of flight " when playing made him a popular sports personality.

In addition to his widespread interest in playing musical instruments, including his trademark harp, Fleming helped foster her husband's interest in painting ; she would make elaborate frames for his paintings, as well as creating her own works of art.

The six-string bass guitar is a trademark of Perry's guitar sound ; instead of playing it like an ordinary bass guitar, he uses it like a regular guitar, playing riffs, chords, and solos.

This became the trademark of Jokerit that stuck all the way to the late 1990s and resulted in the way Jokerit played as being branded as " neitikiekko ", which roughly translates as " playing like women ".

He also had the memorable line " I am Calypso, and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal " which he would ironically say at the end of each character's endings while giving the same trademark grin.

Tim Capello makes a small cameo appearance in the movie playing the song at the Santa Cruz boardwalk, with his saxophone and trademark bodybuilder muscles on display.