Two years later, Brooks repaid the favor by appearing as a special guest ( with Nanci Griffith ) on McLean's first American TV special, broadcast as the PBS special Starry Starry Night.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

It was in The Mythical Man-Month that Brooks made the now-famous statement: " Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Scores of Brooks fans later wrote to complain about his treatment on the show.

Three months later, Brooks and Wal-Mart issued The Limited Series, a six-CD box set containing past material and a Lost Sessions disc with eleven previously unissued recordings.

Decades later, Albert Brooks attempted to coax her out of acting retirement by offering her the title role opposite himself in his 1996 film Mother.

Several made-for-TV movies based upon the series followed in the early 1990s featuring Robert Urich and Avery Brooks, with Barbara Williams and later Wendy Crewson as Susan.

It featured Richman and bassist Ernie Brooks with drummer David Robinson ( later of The Cars ) and keyboardist Jerry Harrison ( later of Talking Heads ).

Despite the original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed the seminal Real Kids, Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads, David Robinson co-founded the Cars, and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen, Arthur Russell, Elliott Murphy, and Gary Lucas.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that " adding manpower to a late software project makes it later ".

These two plays were later filmed, with great success, by noted directors Elia Kazan ( Streetcar ) with whom Williams developed a very close artistic relationship, and Richard Brooks ( Cat ).

Even a leading role in a Mel Brooks comic horror parody, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, failed to generate much box office excitement, although it did gain somewhat of a following on its later release to video.

It later became a cult classic on video and one of Brooks ' most popular films.

Dark Helmet frequently breaks the fourth wall with Colonel Sandurz, in one scene referring to the actual VHS tape of Spaceballs to find the location of Lone Starr ( note that during the scene, the case design for VHS tape of the movie does not resemble that of the later real video release at all, and the rental shelves are filled with Mel Brooks films, like Blazing Saddles and Silent Movie ).

Brooks, in the role of Yogurt, later says in the film that ' merchandising is where the real money from the movie is made '.

The film was later remade successfully by Brooks as an acclaimed Broadway stage musical which itself was adapted as a film.

Its name was changed from Union Alternative in 2006 following the retirement of former principal Larry Brooks, who later became the principal of the Cowee Elementary school.

In 2000, Kirkpatrick released a solo project entitled The Maple Room that included " Wrapped Up in You ", a song that would later become a hit for Garth Brooks, and " My Armageddon ", which was originally slated for Brooks ' Garth Brooks in ...

The sports were played at the Olympic Center ( later renamed Herb Brooks Arena ), Whiteface Mountain, Mt.

Garth Brooks presented the award and said " Don McLean: his work, like the man himself, is very deep and very compassionate.

New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson said of the play, " a peach ... a roaring Western melodrama ... Humphrey Bogart does the best work of his career as an actor.

After two years of experimental work with morphologist William Keith Brooks and writing several publications, Morgan was eligible to receive a master of science from the State College of Kentucky in 1888.

In the 1950s, his most important work in television involved writing for Red Buttons, Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, in Celeste Holm's Honestly, Celeste !, as well as with writers Mel Tolkin, Michael Stewart, Selma Diamond, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and ( on two Caesar specials ) Woody Allen.

Andy's work assignment is shifted from the laundry to the prison's small library, previously under the stewardship of Brooks Hatlen, one of the few other prisoners with a college degree.

This seemed to support literary critics like Van Wyck Brooks and Vernon Parrington who had condemned James's expatriation and criticised his work as effeminate and deracinated ; Leon Edel used it as the premise of his influential biography which held the field for many years.

James's work has remained steadily popular with the limited audience of educated readers to whom he spoke during his lifetime, and remained firmly in the British canon, but after his death American critics, such as Van Wyck Brooks, expressed hostility towards James's long expatriation and eventual naturalisation as a British citizen.

Besides construction, much of the economy of the citizens of Brooks come from the city in which the people drive to work in metro areas such as Fayetteville or even in Atlanta.

Mirkin lists Woody Allen and James L. Brooks as his writing inspirations and Stanley Kubrick and the work of the comedy group Monty Python as developing his " dark sense of humor.

DeCruz kills Brooks by running him over with the getaway truck, but then finds that the brakes no longer work and barely escapes before the vehicle crashes into a ravine.

:# approximately 70 % of teachers who work with students with behavioral disabilities use a type of physical restraint ( Goldstein & Brooks, 2007 )

The collection includes the official British photographic record of the two world wars ; the First World War collection includes the work of photographers such as Ernest Brooks and John Warwick Brooke.

She was singled out by The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work.

Being focused on " reaction-based " behaviors ( as originally inspired by the work of Rod Brooks ), BEAM robotics attempts to copy the characteristics and behaviors of natural organisms, with the ultimate goal of domesticating these " wild " robots.

Her other television work includes Broken Glass ( Arthur Miller, 1996 ); Tales from the Crypt ; The Changeling ; Tales from Hollywood ; the HBO series Men and Women ; The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt ; Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre (" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "); and If Not For You ( CBS 1995, own series ).

He did not receive on-screen credit for his narration ( this was so that he could do the job for scale rather than charge his usual minimum fee ); as compensation for Meredith's uncredited work, his name was inserted into the dialogue in a scene between Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks.

Critic Brooks Atkinson, in his review for The New York Times wrote of the original 1949 Broadway production that Maxwell Anderson and Mr. Weill had encountered " obvious difficulty " in transforming " so thoroughly a work of literary art " into theatre, and was sometimes " skimming and literal where the novel is rich and allusive.

Brooks moved into feature film work when he wrote and co-produced the 1979 film Starting Over.

Brooks did occasionally work for Wolper's company again, including on a National Geographic insect special.

Brooks left Room 222 as head writer after one year to work on other pilots and brought Burns in to produce the show.

In 1978, Brooks began work on feature films.

Brooks was fearful of the attention Oscar success would bring as he would be " deprived of a low profile ", finding it " hard to work with the spotlight shining in your eyes.

Brooks began work on the film in 2005, wishing to create a film about a young female athlete.