The unlikely collaboration performed the song live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in promotion of Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, and despite its hard-rock appeal, Brooks's version did appear on the country charts.

Garth Brooks's eponymous first album was released in 1989 and was a critical and chart success.

The album also reached number 3 on the pop chart, and eventually became Brooks's highest-selling album, with domestic shipments of 17 million.

Brooks's third album, Ropin ' the Wind, released in September 1991, had advance orders of 4 million copies and entered the pop album charts at number-one, a first for a country act.

In the United Kingdom, one of Brooks's most committed fan bases outside the United States, country music disc jockeys, such as Martin Campbell and John Wellington, noted that many fans were buying the album on import.

Brooks's final album, Scarecrow, was released on November 13, 2001.

The album did not match the sales levels of Brooks's heyday, but still sold comfortably well, reaching number-one on both the pop and country charts.

The role reflected Brooks's decision to move to Los Angeles to enter the film business.

Straczynski announced on February 23, 2007 that he had been hired to write the feature film adaptation of Max Brooks's New York Times-bestselling novel World War Z for Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

The first film was James L. Brooks's romantic comedy How Do You Know, which starred Witherspoon as a thirty-something former national softball player who struggles to choose between a philandering baseball star boyfriend ( Owen Wilson ) and a business executive being investigated for white collar crime ( Paul Rudd ).

* One Froggy Evening was referenced in Mel Brooks's 1987 film SpaceBalls, in a scene where John Hurt plays a man who collapses as a small alien bursts from his stomach, recreating a similar scene Hurt performed in the 1979 movie Alien.

He is perhaps best known for the film adaptations of his work, especially Hud ( from the novel Horseman, Pass By ), starring Paul Newman and Patricia Neal ; the Peter Bogdanovich – directed The Last Picture Show ; James L. Brooks's Terms of Endearment, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture ( 1984 ); and Lonesome Dove, which became a popular television mini-series starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall.

* This was Brooks's first starring role in a film ; referring to himself as actor-director, Brooks said, " I'm not going to tell myself how much I like me or I'll ask for more money.

He appeared as the grand theatre director Roger DeBris in Mel Brooks's 1968 film comedy The Producers.

* In a scene deleted from Mel Brooks's film Young Frankenstein, the Monster encounters a cowardly English highwayman somewhat inexplicably named Jack Sprat.

Ryan's breakthrough film role was as an anti-Semitic killer in Crossfire ( 1947 ), a film noir based on Brooks's novel.

Among the films which use Murphy beds as comic props are Charlie Chaplin's 1916 One AM, several Three Stooges shorts, the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, and Mel Brooks's Silent Movie.

* In Lord Jim, Richard Brooks's film interpretation of Conrad's book, the character Gentleman Brown says:

* When Stewie is testing out his mind control device on Chris, they sing a part of Irving Berlin's " Puttin on the Ritz ," a parody of Mel Brooks's film Young Frankenstein.

They did begin dating after Brooks's divorce, and married on December 10, 2005, at their home in Oklahoma, marking the second marriage for Brooks and the third for Yearwood.

Truman Capote, who toured Brooks's studio in the late 1940s, may have been exaggerating when he called it " the all-time ultimate gallery of all the famous dykes from 1880 to 1935 or thereabouts ", but she did paint Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre ; Barney's lover Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux ; her own lover Renata Borgatti ; Una, Lady Troubridge, the partner of Radclyffe Hall ; and the artist Gluck ( Hannah Gluckstein ).

With a further extension of the franchise in 1885, the much larger National Liberal was aimed at these new electors, and the Devonshire came to possess neither the prestige of Brooks's or the Reform, nor the broader appeal of the National Liberal.

That same year " The Red Strokes " became Brooks's first single to make the pop top 40 in the UK, reaching a high of No. 13 ; it was followed by " Standing Outside The Fire ", which reached No. 23.

The London coffeehouse clubs in increasing their members absorbed the whole accommodation of the coffeehouse or tavern where they held their meetings, and this became the clubhouse, often retaining the name of the original innkeeper, e. g. White's, Brooks's, Arthur's, and Boodle's.

John McBride joined Garth Brooks's sound crew and later became his concert production manager.

He therefore chose another approach while waiting in the lobby of Brooks's office for the pitch meeting, hurriedly formulating his version of a dysfunctional family that became the Simpsons.

His Almack's Coffee House, opened at the same time, was bought in 1774 and became the gentlemen's club, Brooks's.

It became a solid pillar in the New Criticism, which was sweeping American literary culture, placing it firmly alongside Cleanth Brooks's Southern Review and John Crowe Ransom's Kenyon Review.

Cronin became a member of Brooks's, a political club in St James's Street, in 1984 having been proposed as a member by Roy Jenkins.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

While Brooks's musical style placed him squarely within the boundaries of country music, he was strongly influenced by the 1970s singer-songwriter movement, especially the works of James Taylor ( whom he idolized and named his first child after ) and Dan Fogelberg.

Dan Castellaneta described how, after he prepared something for Homer to say in response to Brooks's new Scorpio lines, Brooks would deliver totally different lines in the next take.

Both of Brooks's programs can remove IE after the installation of the operating system.

In 1969, Burns began a partnership with James L. Brooks after being impressed with the television pilot for Brooks's show Room 222.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

Its first single was also Brooks's first duet, " In Another's Eyes " with friend and popular country singer, Trisha Yearwood.

In its later years, the Hellfire was closely associated with Brooks's, established in 1764.

However, his position was attacked by Jody Rosen in her article which debunks Brooks's belief that the French hip hop scene is no more than a carbon copy of earlier American work.

" For Fox, politics was the extension of his activities at Newmarket and Brooks's to Westminster.

Perhaps one great testament to Fox's character is that subscriptions to the old Whig club of Brooks's would decline on the rare occasions when he was called away to government office, because one of the prime entertainments would no longer be available.

The Fox Club was established in London in 1790 and held the first of its Fox dinners – annual events celebrating Fox's birthday – in 1808 ; the last recorded dinner taking place at Brooks's in 1907.

Considering this was Simon's first original screenplay, parallels can be drawn with fellow Sid-Caesar-staff-writer Mel Brooks's first screenplay, The Producers, satirizing the Broadway aspect of show business and also featuring con-men and a final courtroom scene followed by a jail scene.

" This was in retaliation for insulting language Sumner used against Brooks's relative in a speech Sumner made that denounced Southerners for proslavery violence in Kansas.

In 1993, country singer Garth Brooks's second concert special This Is Garth Brooks II was recorded at the stadium.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights was not one of Brooks's best grossing films.

He was a member of Brooks's ( since 1940 ), the Special Forces Club, the Ski Club of Great Britain and was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.

The most important and interesting event in Shirley Brooks's life was his connection with Punch, which took place in 1851.