Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.

Brooks ' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity.

Brooks has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, breaking records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s.

Since 1989, Brooks has released 19 records in all, which include ; 9 studio albums, 1 live album, 4 compilation albums, 3 Christmas albums and 2 box sets, along with 77 singles.

In 2005, Brooks started a partial comeback, and has since given several performances and released two compilation albums.

Brooks has claimed that of all the songs he has recorded, " The Dance " is his favorite.

Brooks has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1990.

The countdown show, ranking the top songs of the previous week, has been a staple of weekend radio programming since 1970 ; current hosts of countdown shows in various formats include Rick Dees, Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Foxworthy, Kix Brooks, Bob Kingsley, Crook & Chase, Randy Jackson, Walt Love, Al Gross, Dick Bartley, and ( via reruns ) Casey Kasem.

He also has a small role as a past Knight of the Word and a ghost who serves the Lady in Terry Brooks ' Word / Void trilogy.

He felt that they could achieve a " deeper vein " of comedy in an episode where Marge has a nervous breakdown, and James L. Brooks quickly approved.

The novel has been adapted by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio Four.

Here is a hard-hitting film on Richard Brooks ' novel, The Brick Foxhole whose whodunit aspects are fundamentally incidental to the overall thesis of bigotry and race prejudice ... Director Edward Dmytryk has drawn gripping portraitures.

Sander's paper on mismatching has been criticized by several law professors, including Ian Ayres and Richard Brooks from Yale who argue that eliminating affirmative action would actually reduce the number of black lawyers by 12. 7 %.

Mel Brooks played a comic version of Louis XVI in The History of the World Part 1, portraying him as a libertine who has such a distaste for the peasantry he uses them as targets in skeet shooting.

The problems encountered in the development of the OS / 360 are legendary, and are described by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month — a book that has become a classic of software engineering.

In recent decades, the Opry has hosted such contemporary country stars as Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Josh Turner, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and the Dixie Chicks.

Terry Brooks himself has expressed frustration and a desire to see an adaptation.

Since 2006 the Australian born author Geraldine Brooks, writer of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel March, has lived there with her husband and two sons.

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times praised the musical's integration, stating, " For once, the modest label " musical play " has a precise meaning.

Planet Spaceball, led by President Skroob ( Brooks ), has wasted all of its air.

It has also been widely reported that " the Schwartz " is a reference to Mel Brooks ' lawyer, Alan U. Schwartz.

Brooks has adapted the story twice more, a Broadway musical ( The Producers, 2001 ) and a film based on the musical ( The Producers, 2005 ).

Brooks released Fresh Horses, his first album of new material in two years, in November 1995 ; within six months of its release, it had sold over three million copies.

In 1997, Brooks released his seventh studio album, Sevens.

" I remember finding myself in an elevator with Brooks and his wife, actress Anne Bancroft, in New York City a few months after The Producers was released.

On June 15, 1984 Norman performed a concert at the Dallas Brooks Hall in Melbourne, Australia, which was recorded and released as his 1985 album Stop This Flight, with all new songs.

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 episode was also included on The Simpsons season one DVD set, which was released on September 25, 2001. Groening, Brooks, and Silverman participated in the DVD's audio commentary.

Warner Bros. Records released a single in 1990 titled " Tomorrow's World ", written by Kix Brooks ( who would later become one-half of Brooks & Dunn ) and Pam Tillis.

Despite the fact that the song was not officially released as a single, it became the highest-charting nonseasonal album cut ( not available in any retail single configuration or released as a promotional single to radio during a chart run ) to appear on Hot Country Singles & Tracks in the Broadcast Data Systems era, beating the record previously held by Garth Brooks ' " Belleau Wood.

The Charlie Daniels Band ( whose earlier tune " The South's Gonna Do It Again " uses boogie-woogie influences ) released " Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues " in 1988, and three years later in 1991 Brooks & Dunn had a huge hit with " Boot Scootin ' Boogie ".

:* In 1948, Supreme recorded in Los Angeles and released A Little Bird Told Me, written by Harvey Oliver Brooks ( 1899 – 1968 ), sang by Paula Watson ( 1927 – 2003 ), who is African American, accompanied by guitarist Mitchell " Tiny " Webb, and others.

May, Povey, Alan, Tolson and Stuart Brooks signed with Warner Bros. Records, and released Freeway Madness at the end of 1972.

Silent Movie is a 1976 satirical comedy film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976.

In 1999, Brooks released one album as Gaines ; the album produced three charting Billboard singles, including the Top 5 pop hit " Lost in You.

Brooks ' promotion of the album and the film did not seem to stir much excitement and the lack of success of the Chris Gaines experiment became fairly evident mere weeks after the album was released.

" However, Erlewine gave the album a 3-out-of-5 stars rating and in the same review later writes " Judged as Brooks ' first pop album, it's pretty good, and if it had been released that way, it likely would have been embraced by a wide audience.

* Randy Brooks and his orchestra ( recorded March 22, 1946, released by Decca Records as catalog number 29479, with the flip side " Thunder Rock ")

His next film, entitled How Do You Know, was released December 17, 2010 ; Brooks produced, directed and wrote it.

The Orioles experienced their greatest success from 1964 – 1983, as well as 1996-1997, winning eight Division Championships ( 1969 – 1971, 1973 – 1974, 1979, 1983, 1997 ), six pennants ( 1966, 1969 – 1971, 1979, 1983 ), three World Series Championships ( 1966, 1970, 1983 ), one wild card berth ( 1996 ), and five Most Valuable Player awards ( 3B Brooks Robinson 1964, OF Frank Robinson 1966, 1B Boog Powell 1970 and SS Cal Ripken Jr. 1983 & 1991 ).

On the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cites factors that may have contributed to Feldman's death: thumb " He smoked sometimes six packs of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products ".

He is also one of six Star Trek actors ( the other actors being Kate Mulgrew, Michael Dorn, George Takei, Avery Brooks and Majel Barrett ) to lend their voices to the video game Star Trek: Captain's Chair reprising his role as Commander William T. Riker when users visit the Enterprise-D bridge featured in the game.

The city of Atlantic City is protected by the full-time, paid firefighters of the Atlantic City Fire Department ( ACFD ), which operates out of six fire stations, located throughout the city, under the command of Chief Dennis J. Brooks.

In November and December 2010, as part of the Classic Serial strand, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of six hour-long episodes of a dramatization of both novels, adapted by Robin Brooks and directed by Jonquil Panting.

Thornley also claimed that " Kirstein " and Brooks had accurately predicted Richard M. Nixon's accession to the presidency six years before it happened, as well as anticipating the rise of the 1960s counterculture and the subsequent emergence of Charles Manson and what became his cult following.

Major bodies of water include Canoe Brook Lake, Pinewood Lake, Tashua Hills Golf Club Pond, and the six Twin Brooks Park ponds.

Santo continued to lead the National League in assists every year through 1968, breaking Ned Williamson's major league record of leading the league six times ; Brooks Robinson went on to lead the American League eight times.

Dorn is also one of six actors ( the other actors being Jonathan Frakes, Kate Mulgrew, George Takei, Avery Brooks and Majel Barrett ) to lend his voice to Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising his role of Lieutenant Commander Worf.

By the end of 1925, when she was 17, Brooks had broken six world records.

At this point, Brooks saw a group of five or six white youths on the opposite side of the street.

Filming took six months, ending in June with three days of additional filming in October ; Brooks produced three endings for the film, shooting several scenes in " 15 to 25 takes " as he did not feel the film was tonally complete, although the script did not change much during filming.

The movie was dedicated to Hitchcock, who sent Brooks a case containing six magnums of 1961 Château Haut-Brion wine, to show his appreciation.

) The King Ranch is a ranch, founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis, includes portions of six Texas counties, including most of Kleberg County and much of Kenedy County, with portions extending into Brooks, Jim Wells, Nueces, and Willacy Counties.

Gretna also illustrates the danger of relying on a single large investor — after its owner, Brooks Mileson, withdrew his support in February 2008 due to what eventually proved to be a fatal illness, the club went bankrupt and was liquidated within six months.

He married Alice Wesselhoeft ( 1893 – 1981 ) in 1916, and together they had six children, including Emily ( 1920 – 2006 ), at one time the daughter-in-law of Richard Byrd and a former WAVE ; Peter Brooks Saltonstall, killed in action on Guam on August 13, 1944 ; William L. Saltonstall ( 1927 – 2009 ), a former member of the Massachusetts Senate ; and Susan ( 1930 – 1994 ), a horse breeder.

From the twelve, the judges selected six finalists for review by the National Bicentennial Coin Design Competition Committee, consisting of Brooks, Representative Wright Patman, Senator John Sparkman, Commission of Fine Arts Secretary Charles H. Atherton and Eric P. Newman, chairman of the ARBC's coins and medals advisory committee.

Others buried in the plot are his father, Major General William Butler, his mother, Behethland Foote Moore Butler, a sister, five of his six brothers, Colonel Zachariah Smith Brooks, grandfather of Preston Brooks, and two children of his brother William, the only sibling not buried there.

The 1938 Phi Sigma Kappa Convention adopted the six-degree membership structure to honor the six Founders, especially as a tribute to Founder Brooks, who had died only a few weeks earlier.

Following a one-day delay caused by a rainout, the Orioles took a 2 – 0 lead by pounding six Pirate pitchers for fourteen hits and eleven runs, led by three hits and four RBIs by Brooks Robinson.

Brooks won six races for Vanwall and Ferrari, secured four pole positions, achieved ten podiums, and scored a total of 74 championship points.