Before the end of his first season on Ally McBeal, over the Thanksgiving 2000 holiday, Downey was arrested when his room at Merv Griffin's Hotel and Givenchy Spa in Palm Springs, California was searched by the police, who were responding to an anonymous 911 call.

Before joining Reno 911 as a main cast member, Birdsong made a guest appearance in season 2 as Lisa, a Caucasian woman disguised as a Japanese masseuse.

Before calling 911, they hid the evidence, redressed Tammy, who had a chemical burn on her face, and moved her into her basement bedroom.

Before the production closed it recouped its initial investment.

" Before the production of written languages, dance was one of the methods of passing these stories down from generation to generation.

Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

Before General Motors invited Bel Geddes to submit a proposal for the exhibit, they had planned to put in another production line as was featured at their exhibit in the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 in Chicago.

Before his production, it had a short run ( 11 – 23 April ) at the University Theatre, Manchester.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

Before production started, a film-student protégé of Ogilvie, Steve Wallace, hired Crowe for the film Blood Oath ( 1990 ) ( aka Prisoners of the Sun ), which was released a month earlier than The Crossing, although actually filmed later.

Before leaving Hollywood for Europe in 1952, following the problematic production The Crimson Pirate for Warner Bros., his third and last film with Burt Lancaster, Siodmak had directed some of the era's best film noirs, more than any other director who worked in that genre, twelve in all.

Before Ellison could begin work on the show's production bible, a writers ' strike began, running from March 6 to June 24.

Before the production of the pilot episode was completed, Ellison invoked a clause in his contract to force the producers to use his alternative registered writer's name of " Cordwainer Bird " on the end credits.

Before the Soviet Union collapsed, a supersonic VTOL aircraft was developed as the Yak-38's successor, the Yak-141, which never went into production.

Before Buran, no project of the program reached production.

Before this the main stay of the infant colony's economy was the growth export of tobacco, but tobacco prices eventually fell in the 1630s as Chesapeake production expanded.

Before his war service with the Royal Air Force, he starred as Professor Higgins in a YMCA production of Pygmalion.

The retrospective show Before the Fringe, broadcast during the early years of BBC 2, took its title from this production.

Before the TCDD risk was well understood, early production facilities lacked proper temperature controls.

Before production started, Colbert severely injured her back, while filming a scene for Three Came Home.

Before production, John Ford shopped the project around to several Hollywood studios, all of which turned him down because big budget Westerns were out of vogue, and because Ford insisted on using John Wayne in a key role in the film.

Before the boom in thymidine use caused by the need for thymidine for the production of the antiretroviral drug azidothymidine ( AZT ), much of the world's thymidine production came from herring sperm.

He was also the voice of Father Mouse in the 1974 Christmas special Twas the Night Before Christmas, and sang the song Give Your Heart a Try in that production.

Before production began, Bakshi and Zaentz insisted that the Tolkien estate receive residuals from the film.

Before 1920, the Holton Instrument Company took features from existing production model saxophones and marketed them as the " Rudy Wiedoeft Model ".

Before cocoa production, the local economy has been based on beer breweries, jenever distilleries, production of Weesper porcelain, and trade, due to its location on a branch point of waterways.

Before filming of the remake commenced, Wray died in her sleep of natural causes on August 8, 2004, in her Manhattan apartment.

Before filming commenced, Samuel Goldwyn and other Jewish film executives approached Darryl Zanuck and asked him not to make the film, fearing that it would " stir up trouble ".

Before they could complete the turn, they were sighted by British destroyers who commenced firing.

Before testing commenced, the U. S. exhumed the bodies of United States servicemen killed in the Battle of Enewetak and buried there and returned them to the United States to be re-buried by their families.

Before the match commenced, Inter had lost Esteban Cambiasso and Sulley Muntar

Before work on the Mersey commenced, Victoria Park was under the River Mersey, in an area that was considered dangerous by even the most experienced seamen.

Before the season commenced, manager Dexter Adams made two astute signings.

Before the Second World War building work commenced on what had been Green Belt land.

Before filming commenced, actors attached to the lead male roles included Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges.

Before leaving Scotland for Jamaica, Macneill had commenced a poem, founded on a Highland tradition ; and to the completion of this production he assiduously devoted himself during his homeward voyage.

Before his studies were complete, his father died and he was unable to continue studying ; he commenced work as a clerk at the Kawasaki Bank.

Before he commenced the siege, Trebonius collected labourers and cattle from the Province, ordered timber and wood suitable for wattle-work to be brought up, and then proceeded to construct the principal terrace.

Before the game commenced, a set of PC students unfurled a large banner inscribed with “ Beat H ... Out of Newberry !” on the wall of the gymnasium behind the PC student section.

Before any touring commenced, Bruce left and was replaced with Mark Nosler, leaving Motograter with no original / consistent members.

Before building work commenced, the ' lost ' theatre was featured in an article in the UK trade journal ' New Civil Engineer '.

Before the planned crusade commenced, Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror () decided to march against Hungary and Albania.

Before recording sessions for their next album commenced, guitarist Rikk Agnew left D. I.

Before play commenced the next day, Collins said to his profligate leg spinner, " You're going straight on to get Hobbs if we're to have a chance ".

Before the production off Ray of Light commenced, Madonna started taking vocals lessons in preparation of her lead role in Evita ( 1996 ).

The lack of a reliable water outlet for this new lake forced one of the largest mobilizations of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers ever commenced in the western U. S. Before the new landslide was breached by the quickly rising waters, a spillway was constructed to ensure erosion and potential failure of the natural dam would be minimized.

-- Before sunrise we commenced our descent.

Before the BR & W commenced operations on the Flemington Branch, small local freights would switch off the mainline at Lambertville to deliver and load wood products at lumber yards in Copper Hill, New Jersey and Lambertville.