Later Eminem himself claimed that the stunt had been planned and rehearsed beforehand ; Cohen had discussed the idea with Eminem, who is a fan of Cohen's work and agreed to do the stunt.

The video stars Madonna and her longtime backup singer Niki Haris and actress Debi Mazar as well as comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, as his famous character Ali G. Her manager, Caresse Norman, said about Baron Cohen's collaboration: " We came up with the video idea, and she thought he would be great in it.

The film, in which a number of New York citizens embark on a killing spree because God Told Them To, is called ' one of his most ambitious movies ' that is ' cemented in an interesting idea ' by QNetwork Entertainment, who find Cohen's ideology of the existence of God interesting: ' cynical at best ' and ' sacrilegious at worst '.

The idea for the Academy grew out of Cohen's other nonprofit organization, Lift For Life Gym which was once a garage, an after-school center for at-risk children located on the north side of St. Louis, 14th & Cass.

* Leonard Cohen's poem " Prayer for Sunset " compares the setting sun to the raving Absalom, and asks whether another Joab will arrive tomorrow night to kill Absalom again.

" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

An " enduring and powerful product " of Cohen's work on the Continuum Hypothesis, and one that has been used by " countless mathematicians " is known as " forcing ", and it is used to construct mathematical models to test a given hypothesis for truth or falsehood.

From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of demo recordings for Cohen's Bizarre / Straight label, including many songs for which he would later become known.

A few years later, he visited Paris, just after finishing shooting on McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and rediscovered Cohen's album ; he had it transferred and used the music to maintain a rhythm for the film ( in effect using it as a " temp " track ).

Altman didn't expect to be able to procure rights for Cohen's music since McCabe was a Warner Brothers film and Cohen's album was released through Columbia Records.

One of Cohen's inspirations for the character of Dr. Zoidberg was the fact that Star Trek character Bones, the ship's doctor ( Leonard McCoy ) frequently administered medical treatment to aliens such as Mr. Spock, so Cohen wished human characters in Futurama to be in the uneasy situation of being treated by an alien doctor.

Immediately after finishing the recording of the Taxi Driver soundtrack on December 23, 1975, Herrmann viewed the rough cut of what was to be his next film assignment, Larry Cohen's God Told Me To, and dined with Cohen, after which he returned to his hotel for the night.

Cohen's proof developed the method of forcing, which is now an important tool for establishing independence results in set theory.

Of his solo work, Cale is perhaps best known for his album Paris 1919, and his cover version of Leonard Cohen's " Hallelujah ", plus his mid-1970s Island Records trilogy of albums: Fear, Slow Dazzle, and Helen of Troy.

Hoping to put international pressure on Syria to spare Cohen's life, the Israelis approached many governments to press for clemency, and even appealed to the Soviet Union to intercede.

Requests by Cohen's family for his remains to be returned to Israel have been denied by the Syrian government ( as of September 2012 ).

In February 2007 a Turkish official confirmed that his government was ready to act as a mediator for the return of Cohen's remains to his family from Syria.

* Cohen's widow asks for his remains to be returned Israel National News

* The music video for Leonard Cohen's song " In My Secret Life " was filmed at the complex

This film features one of Baron Cohen's other character, Borat Sagdiyev, in a meeting with Ali G, where a double was used for different shots.

While some hailed it as a successful low culture comedy, it inspired little of the strong fan enthusiasm associated with Da Ali G Show and with Baron Cohen's subsequent film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. It currently holds a 56 % ' Rotten ' rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Cohen's home was recreated on a soundstage at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach for filming during the rest of the series ; the pool was only 4-feet deep meaning that the cast had to act on their knees.

Cohen's girlfriend Liz Renay herself spent three years in prison for refusing to inform on him.

According to Cohen's own account, his friend Bowen provided much of the " organizing energy " for the event, and Bowen's personal connections also strongly influenced its character.

A number of composers wrote music specifically for her, including John Ireland, Béla Bartók, Ernest Bloch and E. J. Moeran, and particularly Sir Arnold Bax ( Cohen's lover ), who wrote most of his piano pieces for her.

Through the 1980s, Moriarty starred in such Larry Cohen movies as Q, The Stuff, It's Alive 3, and A Return to Salem's Lot ( much later, he appeared in Cohen's Masters of Horror episode " Pick Me Up "), as well as Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider and The Hanoi Hilton.

Jenkins appeared in episode 3 of the fifth series of The Apprentice, performing Leonard Cohen's " Hallelujah " as part of a private recital to winning team Ignite.

Two alternate original titles for the episode were Cohen's " Lisa and Burns " and Swartzwelder's " Burns Goes Broke ".

Cohen's output after the 1990s was less prolific and concentrated solely on scriptwriting, except for a brief return to directing with the Masters of Horror episode " Pick Me Up " ( 2006 ).

The final script of the episode was " very close " to Cohen's first draft.

Cohen's colleagues started calling him Ma Kun, and he soon became one of Sun's main protectors, shadowing the Chinese leader to conferences and war zones.

It is in reference to the Fischer-Trendelenburg quarrel and Cohen's work that Hans Vaihinger started his massive commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason.

She starred on the big screen one final time, playing Dr. Brockton in Herman Cohen's science fiction horror film Trog ( 1970 ), rounding out a career spanning 45 years and over 80 motion pictures.

Altman had immensely liked Cohen's debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen ( 1967 ), buying additional copies of it after wearing each one out.

Cohen's land had previously formed part of a larger parcel known as " Hyde Park " that had been given to the magistrate and parliamentarian Henry Grattan Douglas in 1833 and subsequently leased out.

Cohen's most famous Jewish works include: Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums ( Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, 1919 ), Deutschtum und Judentum, Die Naechstenliebe im Talmud, and Die Ethik des Maimonides.

Cohen's training in the alleyways of London came in handy, and he knocked out the thief and tossed him out into the street.

The first salvage excavation took place in 1972 under Aharoni and Rudolph Cohen's direction, but much of the work was carried out by Cohen, Yigal Yisrael, and recently Tali Erickson-Gini, following the 1986 involvement of " Blossoming Rose " in partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority, Jewish National Fund and Tamar Regional Council.

Cohen's next project with Moriarty was The Stuff ( 1985 ) in which an alien substance of sorts is found bubbling out of the ground.

Horror author and movie critic, Kim Newman, praises Cohen's plot originality and canny use of characters in Empire, pointing out the director's use of an oddball as lead-Jimmy Quinn-who would ordinarily be a secondary character or warrant solely a cameo appearance ; Newman also explains how Cohen has relegated all the usual plot devices-in movies such as King Kong-to the background.

Black Hole nevertheless points out that ' hile the drama is consistent, it's less successful as a seventies monster movie, and especially lacking now ': whereas Jaws ( 1975 ) revealed the shark slowly, Cohen's film ' barely ever shows us the goods '.