Though Charlie also cares for her, he disapproves of Brian's relationship with her and very reluctantly decides to take her with them to Brazil.

Brian's relationship with the Griffin family is different with each member.

As she explains, " Both Clarke's and O ' Brian's stories are about a complicated relationship between two men bound together by their profession ; both are set during the Napoleonic wars ; and they share a dry, melancholy wit and unconventional narrative shape.

Brian's well-meaning attempts to ask her out while morphed as Josh apparently ruin any potential relationship.

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

The most controversial cuts were the scenes involving Otto, initially a recurring character, who had a thin Adolf Hitler-esque moustache and spoke with a German accent, shouting accusations of " racial impurity " at people whose conceptions were similar to Brian's ( Roman centurion rape of native Judean women ), and other Nazi-based phrases.

A screen adaptation from various episodes in Patrick O ' Brian's blockbuster adventure series set during the Napoleonic Wars, it was well received by critics, but only mildly successful with mainstream audiences.

* The Road to Samarcand is one of Patrick O ' Brian's early novels ( 1954 ) about an American teenage boy, the son of recently deceased missionary parents, who travels from China with a small party on the Silk Road en route to the West.

Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day ; bestsellers include Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

Brian's hard-won authority was seriously challenged in 1013 when his ally Máel Sechnaill was attacked by the Cenél nEógain king Flaithbertach Ua Néill, with the Ulstermen as his allies.

Brian's war against Máel Mórda and Sihtric was to be inextricably connected with his complicated marital relations, in particular his marriage to Gormlaith, Máel Mórda's sister and Sihtric's mother, who had been in turn the wife of Amlaíb Cuarán, king of Dublin and York, then of Máel Sechnaill, and finally of Brian.

In 964, Brian's older brother, Mathgamain, claimed control over the entire province of Munster by capturing the Rock of Cashel, capital of the ancient Eóganachta, the hereditary overlords or High Kings of Munster, but who in dynastic strife and with multiple assassinations had weakened themselves to the point they were now impotent.

Brian's most famous marriage was with Gormflaith, sister of Máel Mórda of Leinster.

Three days previously, Brian's father had bought him an electric bass and amplifier ; Brian had learned to play the instrument in that short period of time, with Al Jardine moving to rhythm guitar.

Although the book drew on interviews with Wilson and others ( by Todd Gold ) it is widely believed to be Landy's account of Brian's life.

Brian fled to London and, although Robinson deeply disapproved of the incident, he continued to provide Brian with money until his own death, though most of the allowance went to Brian's estranged wife.

For a few years after Brian's death, while Simpson still had influence at the BBC, there was a revival of interest with a number of recordings and performances ; two biographies and a three-volume study of his symphonies appeared.

Brian's music often includes a violin solo, like Vaughan Williams's music, but whereas with Vaughan Williams the solo violin writing is long, sustained and eloquent and usually sets the lyric seal to the music, with Brian the violin solos are often poignant and brief and swept aside by the turbulent currents of the music.

However, as with the music of Robert Simpson, Brian's great champion, in certain passages the music does suddenly verge on the pastoral, to the listener's great surprise.

In 1979, Cameo Classics embarked on a project to record all of Brian's orchestral music in collaboration with the Havergal Brian Society.

Brian's best friend, Charlie makes plans to flee to Brazil with him and the gang's savings.

" In light of this, Jones " discarded it and sat down with Brian's drawings and sifted through them and found the ones that I really liked, and started creating the story from them.

This campaign terminated with the sudden reversal of Brian's meticulous plans, at the hands of an alliance between B. A.

Gigli successfully convinces the young man, Brian ( Justin Bartha ), to go off with him by promising to take him " to the Baywatch ," which seems to be Brian's singular obsession, and turns out to just the beach.

He rose to stardom after starring in the critically lauded blockbuster biographical TV movie, Brian's Song ( 1971 ), in which he played Chicago Bears star football player Gale Sayers, who stood by his friend Brian Piccolo ( played by James Caan ), during his struggle with terminal cancer.

After an uncomfortable encounter with Wiley's girlfriend, Jenna ( Brian's ex-girlfriend ), Keyes tracks Wiley to a cabin in the Everglades, where he is abducted by Las Noches.

At a visit to Brown University ( Brian's alma mater ), Meg is deemed not to be Brown material due to her lack of extracurricular activities, prompting her to start writing for her high school's paper.

* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

One of the best known examples of coca's reference in fiction is Patrick O ' Brian's character, Stephen Maturin.

By recognising Brian's authority over Leth Moga, that is, the Southern Half, which included the Provinces of Munster and Leinster ( and the Hiberno-Norse cities within them ), Máel Sechnaill was simply accepting the reality that confronted him and retained control over Leth Cuinn, that is, the Northern Half, which consisted of the Provinces of Meath, Connacht, and Ulster.

Given the circumstances under which Máel Morda had been appointed, it is not surprising that he launched an open rebellion against Brian's authority.

This explanation is hardly credible, given Brian's style of engaging in war ; if he had found his opponent at a disadvantage he would certainly have taken full advantage of it rather than allowing his enemy the time to even the odds.

This work is thought to have been commissioned by Brian's great-grandson, Muirchertach Ua Briain, as a means of justifying the Ua Briain claim to the High-Kingship, a title upon which the Uí Neill had had a near-monopoly.

The exact cause of this hearing loss is unclear, though theories range from Brian's simply being born partially deaf, to a blow to the head from Brian's father, or a neighborhood bully, being to blame.

On July 27, 2011, Love announced that, " Where we're at right now is Brian's written some songs, I've written some songs.

In addition to this trait and to O ' Brian's distinctive literary style, his sense of humour is prominent ( see Humour in main article, Aubrey-Maturin series ).

The second is the first volume of a planned two-volume biography by O ' Brian's stepson.

* Aphra Behn is mentioned in Patrick O ' Brian's fifth Aubrey-Maturin novel, Desolation Island.

Fictional Naval Surgeon Stephen Maturin of Patrick O ' Brian's popular Aubrey – Maturin series series is a graduate of Trinity College.

The only music that Brian's could reasonably be mistaken for is some of the work of Arnold Bax, particularly Bax's violent early symphonies ( 1 and 2 ).

Directed by Randall Wood, it is a dramatised documentary of the trials and tribulations of staging Brian's Gothic Symphony in Brisbane, Queensland.

Here is a partial list of known recordings for Havergal Brian's symphonies ; many are out of print, others have never been released commercially ; some have been released in bootleg format or exist in BBC archives:

Brian's Song is the biography of Brian Piccolo, a Chicago Bears football player who died at a young age after battling cancer.

Lord Melville, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is present or a background character in several of Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.

Lord Melville, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is a background character in several of Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.

Brian's new performance, All By Myself, is available on CD exclusively on his website.