One of Smith's artistic patrons was businessman Albert N. Bender.

The team's owner and manager for its first 50 years was Connie Mack, and its Hall-of-Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank " Home Run " Baker, Jimmie Foxx and Lefty Grove.

The term “ dihaploid ” was coined by Bender to combine in one word the number of genome copies ( diploid ) and their origin ( haploid ).

Nicolas Cage was considered for the role of John Bender.

This was following a serious head injury to young defender Thomas Bender in the initial tie.

* Lou Bender ( 1910 – 2009 ), pioneer player with the Columbia Lions and in early pro basketball, who was later a successful trial attorney.

In the afterglow of The Hoople ( 1974 ), a live album Live was quickly released, after which Mick Ronson replaced Bender.

During the encore of the Ian Hunter Band's 17 April performance, Hunter was joined onstage by Bender and Allen for a version of " Walkin ' With A Mountain "; Allen performed on the original studio version of the song, whilst Bender performed an extended solo during performances of the song on Mott The Hoople's 1973-74 tours.

Bender was the most difficult character to cast, as the show's creators had not decided what a robot should sound like.

* In an episode of Futurama called " Godfellas ", the robot Bender finds himself doomed to drift through space, during which time he etches a modified version of the Pioneer plaque, with himself towering menacingly over the human figures, so that " When I'm found in a million years, people will know what the score was.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

The prototype of Ostap Bender was Osip Shor, a brother of a Russian poet-futurist Natan Shor.

Shortly after that, the novel was adapted to film twice in the USSR: first in 1971 by Leonid Gaidai with Archil Gomiashvili as Bender, and then in 1976 by Mark Zakharov, featuring Andrei Mironov as Bender.

The Little Golden Calf was filmed by Mikhail Shveytser in 1968, with Sergey Yursky as Bender.

In 1993, it was adapted as " Mechty Idiota " ( Idiot's Dreams ) by director Vasili Pichul, starring pop singer Sergei Krylov as Bender.

According to the character's back-story, Bender was built in Mexico, with the other characters making reference to his " swarthy Latin charm " throughout the overall narrative.

Bender, an industrial metalworking robot, was built in 2997 at Fábrica Robotica De La Madre ( Spanish: " Mom's Robot Factory "), a manufacturing facility of Mom's Friendly Robot Company in Tijuana, Mexico.

At the factory Bender was programmed for cold-bending structural steel and later attended Bending State University, where he majored in bending and minored in Robo-American Studies.

At the university he was a member of Epsilon Rho Rho, a robot fraternity, where he became something of a fraternity hero for his many shenanigans: one night he chugged an entire keg of beer, streaked across campus and stuffed 58 people into a telephone booth ( although Bender admits they were mostly children ).

The name Bender was chosen by series creator Matt Groening in homage to the character John Bender from The Breakfast Club.

Bender uses his chest cavity as a locker, which seems to store much more than is physically possible ; it is often used to store heads in jars, small children, alcohol, money, loot, and the world's last darkroom.

When the oil, which was predicted to last only four and a half weeks, lasts for 500 million years, Bender declares it a Robanukah miracle.

Chief Bender, who received 72 votes, had played his last regular season in 1917 ; he was technically still eligible due to a single inning pitched in 1925, though it is unknown whether voters were aware of this.

Chief Bender, who last played regularly in 1917, received 5 votes ; he was technically eligible due to a single inning pitched in 1925, but the drop from his 1947 total of 72 votes suggests either that most voters were unaware of that fact or that they viewed it as irrelevant regarding the spirit of the rules.

The last segment was completed when the Memorial Tunnel and Bender Bridge were bypassed with a massive road cut.

In March 2006, The new lineup of the band embarked on what would be their last tour, with Kevin Sant ' angelo replacing Gary Bender on bass, Mike Cipriano replacing Steve Weir on drums and Heiner rejoining for the last 4 shows of the tour.

For most of the remaining issues of Volume Two, he shared the artist credit with others, usually Jack Bender, until his last appearance in the issue of May 1943.

Jonathan Rene Bender ( born January 30, 1981 in Picayune, Mississippi ) is an American former professional basketball player who last played for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

After closing, the two return to the building, entering through a window Bender secretly unlocked earlier so they can open up the last chair in peace.

Capriciously, in a last-ditch effort to keep Bender from leaving, Vorobyaninov flings the remains of the last chair into the air, and collapses to the ground feigning an epileptic seizure as an unspoken invitation for Bender, the inveterate swindler, to rip off the crowd, a reprise of an earlier event in the story.

Editors under the last two owners were Albert Gallatin Lanier ( 1930 ), May Lamberton Becker ( 1930 – 32 ), Eric J. Bender ( 1932 – 34 ), Chesla Sherlock ( 1935 ), Vertie A. Coyne ( 1936 – 40 ), and Juliet Lit Sterne ( 1943 ).

Emilio Estevez originally auditioned for the role of John Bender.

Hughes eventually cast Cusack to play John Bender, but Hughes decided to replace Cusack with Nelson before shooting began because Cusack didn't look threatening enough for the role.

After his retirement as an active player, Jackson returned to his color commentary role covering the 1988 American League Championship Series ( alongside Gary Bender and Joe Morgan ).

Alan Ruck had previously auditioned for the Bender role in The Breakfast Club which went to Judd Nelson, but Hughes remembered Ruck and cast him as the 17-year-old Cameron Frye.

DiMaggio originally auditioned for the role of Professor Farnsworth, using the voice he uses to perform Bender, and also auditioned for Bender using a different voice.

He originally auditioned using his Bender voice for the role of Professor Farnsworth and used a voice later used for URL the police robot for Bender.

In fact, Bender intends to commit suicide in " Space Pilot 3000 " due to his role in the creation of suicide booths.

In 2009, he was cast in the recurring role of Roy Bender, a steak salesman, who is Karen McCluskey's love interest on the ABC series Desperate Housewives.

It was during this time that he had a minor guest role in a first-season episode of The X-Files called " Gender Bender ".

The character Bender makes a cameo appearance when Homer and Bart pass through a quantum tunnel ; voice actor John DiMaggio reprised his role voicing Bender.

Her next role was as Detective Elaine Bender in Blue Murder in 2004.