Colbert studied at Washington Irving High School where her speech teacher, Alice Rossetter, encouraged her to audition for a play she had written.

On the December 13, 2010 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen reads a passage of A Modest Proposal in support of Ted Turner's suggestions on reducing overpopulation by having poor people sell ( to rich people ) their right to bear a single child per family.

Rush was interviewed by Stephen Colbert and they performed " Tom Sawyer " on The Colbert Report on July 16, 2008.

One of the few bright spots on the team during the early years was first baseman and slugger Nate Colbert, an expansion draftee from the Houston Astros and still the Padres ' career leader in home runs.

* In December 2010, Stephen Colbert wrote and performed an " extended ending " to ' Send in the Clowns ' to composer Stephen Sondheim when he appeared on Colbert's program, The Colbert Report.

The New Yorker Obama cover was later parodied by Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the October 3, 2008 cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine, with Stewart as Obama and Colbert as Michelle, photographed for the magazine in New York City on September 18.

This shield continues to have a place on The Colbert Report set.

Capra understood their dissatisfaction and tried to lighten the mood by having Gable play practical jokes on Colbert, who responded with good humor.

Colbert, however, continued to show her displeasure on the set.

Simon performed the song live on The Colbert Report on December 16, 2010.

On November 18, 2008, Simon was a guest on The Colbert Report promoting his book Lyrics 1964 – 2008.

In 1683 the Society of Suriname was set up, modelled on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert to profit from the management and defence of the Dutch Republic's colony.

Colbert received theatre awards from the Sarah Siddons Society, a lifetime-achievement award at the Kennedy Center Honors, and, in 1999, the American Film Institute placed her at number twelve on their " AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Stars " list of the " 50 Greatest American Screen Legends ".

After signing a five-year contract with the producer Al Woods, Colbert played ingenue roles on Broadway from 1925 through 1929.

Colbert was a stickler for regarding the way she appeared on screen.

The bulk of Colbert's estate, estimated at $ 3. 5 million, was left to a friend, Helen O ' Hagan, a retired director of corporate relations at Saks Fifth Avenue, whom Colbert had met in 1961 on the set of the her last film.

Irene Dunne commented that she had lacked Colbert's " terrifying ambition " and noted that if Colbert " finished work on a film on a Saturday, she would be looking for a new project by Monday ".

Number 1 ranked Mike Colbert was knocked out in the twelfth and also had his jaw broken by Hagler.

On October 1, 2009, Wendt appeared on the The Colbert Report the day before the IOC announced which city will host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Colbert was signed by the Detroit Lions on December 1, 2008 after wide receiver Mike Furrey was placed on injured reserve.

" Colbert " received 230, 539 votes out of nearly 1. 2 million cast.

In 2005, after getting several celebrities to donate, the director launched a petition drive along with the help of Stephen Colbert to get the credits of The 1 Second Film listed on the Internet Movie Database.

North Alabama is a region of the U. S. state of Alabama, generally considered to include 12 counties: Cherokee, Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan, and Winston, with a combined population of 1, 000, 985, or 20. 94 % of the state's population as of 2010 Census.

Additionally, the show was nominated for two Television Critics Association Awards: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Comedy ( Stephen Colbert ), and Outstanding New Program of the Year.

Colbert also lost Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program to Barry Manilow, who was nominated for a one-time PBS special, as Colbert jokingly noted while presenting a Primetime Emmy Award later that night.

* Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Stephen Colbert

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

Ashcroft composed a paean called " Let the Eagle Soar " which he sang at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in February 2002, which was satirically featured in Michael Moore's 2004 movie Fahrenheit 9 / 11 and has been frequently mocked by comedians such as David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and David Cross, to name a few.

Colbert made her stage debut at the Provincetown Playhouse in The Widow's Veil at the age of 15.

Goddard further commented that Colbert " flipped " and " was at Paulette's eyes at every moment ," and said that they continued their feud throughout the duration of filming.

In December of that year, Colbert married Dr. Joel Pressman, a surgeon at UCLA.

Other actors noted Colbert's comic timing ; David Niven related in his biography that Gary Cooper was " terrified " at the prospect of working with Colbert in his first comedy, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, because he considered Colbert to be an expert in the genre.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Claudette Colbert has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6812 Hollywood Blvd.

When France colonised America, the territory it conquered was immense, including the whole Mississippi River ( whose first European name was the River Colbert ), from its mouth to its source at the borders of Canada.

Colbert was under the command of Éamonn Ceannt at Watkins Brewery, while Heuston was given the task of commanding the Mendicity Institution.

During Louis XIV's reign, his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert brought French luxury industries, like textile and porcelain, under royal control and the architecture, furniture, fashion and etiquette of the royal court ( particularly at the Château de Versailles ) became the preeminent model of noble culture in France ( and, to a great degree, throughout Europe ) during the latter half of the seventeenth century.

On October 30, 2010, he gave the benediction at the Rally to Restore Sanity and / or Fear hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

These include The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (" Return of the Nanobots "); SpongeBob SquarePants ; The Drew Carey Show (" Y2K You're OK "); Family Guy ( at the end of the season 2 episode " Wasted Talent "); Futurama ( during an episode of " The Scary Door " Twilight Zone-style TV show that airs in the year 3000 on " A Head in the Polls "); Stephen Colbert's A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!

Sheffield, at the Spring Creek boat launch and park area was also recognized as one of the Colbert County sites of embarkation, by riverboat and barge from the southern side of the Tennessee River en route to Waterloo, Alabama, on the north side, during the historical relocation of Eastern and Southern United States Indian Tribes, known as " The Trail Of Tears ".

Colbert is located at ( 34. 037600 ,-83. 213900 ).

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Supported by the young king Louis XIV, Colbert aimed the first blow at the man accused of being the greatest of the royal embezzlers, the superintendent Nicolas Fouquet.

Colbert has the honour of having founded the Academy of Sciences ( now part of the Institut de France ), the Paris Observatory, which he employed Claude Perrault to build and brought Giovanni Domenico Cassini ( 1625 – 1712 ) from Italy to superintend, the Academies of Inscriptions and Medals, of Architecture and of Music, the French Academy at Rome, and Academies at Arles, Soissons, Nîmes and many other towns.