Prior to directing the Spider-Man films, Raimi lobbied to direct Batman Forever when Tim Burton was ousted from the director's chair, but was rejected in favor of Joel Schumacher, whose reputation at the time outshone Raimi's.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

For he remembered too well how he had brought back the loaded drinks to Burton and then returned to the kitchen to get weaker drinks for himself.

In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".

In 1965 Lerner collaborated again with Burton Lane on the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which was adapted for film in 1970.

Burton Stephen " Burt " Lancaster ( November 2, 1913-October 20, 1994 ) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes and distinctive smile ( which he called " The Grin ").

Burton ’ s fictional detective relies on practical methods-dogged legwork, knowledge of the underworld and undercover surveillance-rather than brilliance of imagination or intellect, but it has been suggested this story may have been known to Poe, who in 1839 worked for Burton.

He has scored the majority of the films for his long-time friend Tim Burton.

In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

" About two-thirds of the soldiers were unmarried, and Burton noted a "... corps of prostitutes kept for the use of the Amazon-soldieresses.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

His visit to say goodbye to BBC producer Philip Burton, a few days before he left for New York, was interrupted by a blackout.

Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.

Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

The performance was set on a bare stage, conceived to appear like a dress rehearsal, with Burton in a black v-neck sweater, and Gielgud himself tape-recorded the voice for the Ghost ( which appeared as a looming shadow ).

In 1938, G. E. Taylor, a South African tourist, filmed something in the loch for three minutes on 16 mm colour film, which was in the possession of Maurice Burton.

In a 1982 series of articles for New Scientist, Dr Maurice Burton proposed that sightings of Nessie and similar creatures could actually be fermenting logs of Scots pine rising to the surface of the loch's cold waters.

Avicenna suggests, in remarkable similarity with Robert Burton, many causes for melancholy, including the fear of death, intrigues surrounding one's life, and lost love.

14 March 1321 / 1322 ), died following the Battle of Burton Bridge, then was posthumously executed for treason by Edward II

Several rings were built in Europe during the five years that it took to obtain funding for the project, but the extensive project revisions resulted in a superior design that was quickly constructed and paved the way for Nobel Prizes in 1976 for Burton Richter and in 1995 for Martin Perl.

The argument that the textures achieved with CGI cannot match the way real textures are captured by stop motion also makes it valuable for a handful of movie makers, notably Tim Burton, whose puppet-animated film Corpse Bride was released in 2005.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )

The explorer, Richard Francis Burton, in his study of Thule points out that it has had many definitions over the centuries.

Burton made many changes to the Penguin which would subsequently be applied to the character in both comics and television.

" Burton bought the first of many cars and celebrated by increasing his drinking.

Though it didn't do well commercially ( many critics felt Burton, at 33, looked too old for the part ) and Burton's Hollywood box office aura seemed to be diminishing, Burton was proud of the effort and wrote to his mentor Philip Burton, " I promise you that there isn't a shred of self-pity in my performance.

The 1988 biography of Burton by Melvyn Bragg provides a detailed description of the many health issues that plagued Burton throughout his life.

Greg Mills became Young Talent Time's Musical Director after assisting previous Director Ross Burton for many years, and continues to work in the music industry.

The Burton film, in particular, greatly expanded Willy Wonka's personal back-story borrowing many themes and elements from the sequel.

Due in large part to unfavourable UK tax laws for inward investment in the UK film industry, the 1990 ′ s were precarious and witnessed an all-time low in British film production generally, but many large-scale productions such as Tim Burton ’ s Batman Returns and three further Bond films ( GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies & The World Is Not Enough ) kept Pinewood ticking over.

Like many other early settlements in the Connecticut Western Reserve, Burton has a town square patterned after the village greens of New England.

He remained an ardent fan of the Munster Rugby and Young Munster teams then until his death, and attending many of its matches, and there are numerous stories of japes at rugby matches with the actors and fellow rugby fans Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton.

Among the many guest performers were Duane Eddy, Eric Carmen, Lonnie Mack, Jennifer Batten, Jeff " Skunk " Baxter, Dennis Coffey, James Burton, Billy Gibbons, Lenny Kaye, Steve Lukather, Barbara Lynn, Katy Moffatt, Alannah Myles, Richie Sambora, The Ventures and Slash.

The original notebooks passed from Henry Cheke to Humphrey Purefoy, and so ( following his death in 1598 ) to Humphrey's son Thomas, who divided many of them between his two cousins John Hales and the antiquary, William Burton.

Nelson worked with many musicians of repute, including James Burton, Joe Osborn, and Allen " Puddler " Harris, all natives of Louisiana, and Joe Maphis, The Jordanaires, Scotty Moore and Johnny and Dorsey Burnette.

Gielgud directed other actors in many of the Shakespearean roles that he was famous for playing, notably Richard Burton as Hamlet ( 1964 ), Anthony Quayle as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing ( 1950 ), and Paul Scofield as the title role in Richard II ( 1952 ).

During his studies at Cambridge, Jacobi played many parts including Hamlet, which was taken on a tour to Switzerland where he met Richard Burton.

In recent years, historians such as Harry Jaffa, Herman Belz, John Diggins, Vernon Burton and Eric Foner have stressed Lincoln's redefinition of republican values.

Burton was less than two years old in 1927 when his mother, Edith Maude ( née Thomas ), died at the age of 43 after giving birth to her 13th child.

Philip could not legally adopt Burton because their age difference was one year short of the minimum twenty years required.

In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton ( who had now taken his teacher's surname but would not change it by deed poll for several years ), was allowed into Exeter College, Oxford for a special term of six months study, made possible because he was an air force cadet obligated to later military service.

In the years of his marriage to Sybil, Burton appeared in the West End in a highly successful production of The Lady's Not for Burning, alongside Sir John Gielgud and Claire Bloom, in both the London and NewYork productions.

In 1954, Burton took his most famous radio role, as the narrator in the original production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, a role he would reprise in the film version twenty years later.

After his Hamlet, Burton did not return to the stage for twelve years until 1976 in Equus.

He was also a heavy smoker from the time he was just eight years old ; and by his own admission in a December 1977 interview with Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Burton was smoking 60 – 100 cigarettes per day.

In 1921 they joined the Birmingham & District League and three years later the club became known as Burton Town and were league champions in 1928.

After World War II the club was not revived and Burton was without a senior football team for a number of years until 1950 when the present day Burton Albion was formed.

The county is located in Indiana's 5th congressional district, which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R + 20 and has been represented by Dan Burton for over 25 years.

Four years later, Conklin and Burton Rascoe published The Smart Set Anthology ( 1934, reissued as The Bachelor's Companion in 1944 ), the first collection of stories from that important literary magazine.

Eighteen-year-old electric guitarist James Burton was the first signed and lived in the Nelson home for two years.

* For the 25th anniversary of Nelson's death, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James Burton, Nelson's original guitarist for nearly ten years, spoke about his friendship and experiences with the singer in an extensive series of interviews for Examiner. com.

Uttoxeter has a football club called Uttoxeter Town FC, also based at the aforementioned Oldfields sports and social club which for many years has been successful in the Burton and District Sunday Football League.

by Hill Burton, and published 1860, though written in his closing years and not extending beyond the year 1770, is interesting as a picture of Scottish life, social and ecclesiastical, in the 18th century.

Hot Gossip spent two years performing in a London night club where Phillips and manager / producers Michael Summerton and Iain Burton developed the group's dance act.

Phillips, Summerton and Burton continued to work together for eight years during which time Hot Gossip continued to enjoy wide popularity and success.

He was suspected by the Scottish historian John Hill Burton of inventing that battle but, Walter Bower writing in his Scotichronicon around 1440, some 87 years before Boece first published his Scotorum Historia, refers to the battle briefly.

Paar's prime time show aired for three years, including guests such as Brother Dave Gardner, Peter Ustinov, Lawrence of Arabia's brother, Richard Burton, Oscar Levant, Lowell Thomas, Muhammad Ali reciting his poetry to piano accompaniment by Liberace, an occasionally funny Judy Garland, Jonathan Winters, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby ( whose nickname for Paar was " The Boss "), Bette Davis, Robert Morley, Cliff Arquette ( as Charlie Weaver ), Dick Gregory and many others.

During an enclosure dispute with a neighbour a few years later he met the Leicestershire antiquary William Burton, who acted as arbitrator.