Mercer did not know what an `` Earth-week '' was, since he had not been a well-read man before his conviction, but he got nothing more from the half-man at that time.

Since the movie omits the religious and mythical elements of Dick's original novel ( e. g. empathy boxes and Wilbur Mercer ), it falls more strictly within the cyberpunk genre than the novel does.

By 1980, he began a more active film career having appeared as a soldier in Steven Spielberg's big-budget comedy 1941 and had a supporting role as Burton Mercer, " Joliet " Jake's probation / parole officer in The Blues Brothers.

This trend failed to hold true during the most recent 2004 Presidential election and 2008 Presidential election, in which Mercer County voted more conservatively than the rest of the state.

Mercer left the show to devote more time to Made in Canada ; after that show ended he launched Rick Mercer Report, a series similar to 22 Minutes.

Mercer has received more than 20 Gemini Awards for his television work.

The compilation features Rick Mercer " Talking to Americans ", and eating burgers and fries with then-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ; Marg Delahunty ( Mary Walsh ) as she " smites " Mike Harris, Lucien Bouchard and Sheila Copps as " Marg, Princess Warrior "; Cathy Jones ' blooper about a " Massitusits " case ; Jerry Boyle ( Greg Thomey ) at Parliament Hill ; classic ad parodies, sketch comedy, and more.

At the 2010 general election, Mercer more than doubled his majority to 16, 152 to make Newark one of the safest Conservative seats in the country.

Seventeen individuals had already lived or worked in more than one state or colony: Baldwin, Bassett, Bedford, Dickinson, Few, Franklin, Ingersoll, Hamilton < includeonly > First lived and studied in New Jersey, then moved to New York to attend college </ includeonly >, Livingston, Alexander Martieno, Luther Martin, Mercer, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, Read, Sherman, and Williamson.

Nevertheless, Jones seems to have directed the school more autocratically after 1953, when the assistant of Bob Jones, Sr., Theodore Mercer, was fired, apparently for trying to lead a faculty rebellion against the Joneses.

That same year he began a relationship with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, directed by Duke ’ s son Mercer, a relationship that lasted more than15 years.

90 % of Orthodox Jews in Seattle are said to live within a mile of one of the synagogues, though more recent arrivals have been settling north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in View Ridge, Wedgwood, Hawthorne Hills, and Ravenna and in nearby communities such as Mercer Island.

Mercer failed to convince him otherwise, and when he telegraphed to Washington governor Pickering to ask for more money, the governor could not afford it.

The collaboration was much more successful than expected and Strays Don't Sleep was formed with Neilson Hubbard, Brian Bequette, Billy Mercer and Steve Latanation.

( Two members of this same lodge, Washington and James Monroe, would later become American Presidents, and at least eight members were generals of the American Revolution ( Washington, Mercer, George Weedon, William Woodford, Fielding Lewis, Thomas Posey, Gustavus Wallace, and the Marquis de Lafayette ( honorary in 1824 ) – far more than any other group, institution or organization save the pre-Revolution British Army.

Mercer left 22 Minutes in 2000 to devote more time to his other series, Made in Canada.

One of her sanitarium mates, widowed Wanda Rittenhouse ( Marian Mercer ) would become more prominent, when she married Merle Jeeter, the mayor of Fernwood.

One of the more well-known Confederate patents ( at least based on the results ) was Patent No. 100, granted to John Mercer Brooke for the design of the Confederate ironclad ship Merrimack, more properly known as the CSS Virginia.

Doyle King, David Webb, and other guest announcers ( including former World Class announcers Bill Mercer and Marc Lowrance ) were brought introduced as the show became more of a theatrical presentation.

Making things even more complicated was his friendship with Mercer Hayes, an older college student who is secretly a serial rapist terrorizing campus.

During the close season, he succeeded Joe Mercer as Arsenal captain, but relinquished the armband soon after, saying Mercer deserved the honour more.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

Johnny Mercer practically grew up with the sound of jazz and the blues in his ears.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

both were obviously on the way to the Mercer home.

Young Mercer showed a remarkable lack of aptitude for both instruments.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

Some years later the bank handling the Mercer liquidation received a check for $300,000, enough to clear up the debt.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When the troupe traveled to New York to participate in a one-act-play competition -- and won -- Mercer, instead of returning with the rest of the company in triumph, remained in New York.

But Mercer hung on, living, after a fashion, in a Greenwich Village fourth-flight walk-up.

A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.

For him Mercer produced the lyric to `` Out Of Breath Scared To Death Of You '', introduced in that most successful of all the Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway.

The Mercers took up residence in Brooklyn, and Mercer found a regular job in Wall Street `` misplacing stocks and bonds ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

While with the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen.