His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

It was produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, the producers of Top Gun and Crimson Tide.

For another example, the U. S. Navy objected to elements of Crimson Tide, especially mutiny on board an American naval vessel, so the film was produced without their assistance.

In the " Crimson Tide " example, the French Navy ( Marine Nationale ) assisted the production team with the French aircraft carrier Foch and one SNLE.

* Van Tiffin, former Alabama Crimson Tide placekicker

* Alabama Crimson Tide, the athletic program of the University of Alabama

Julio Jones-former wide receiver of the Alabama Crimson Tide and current wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL.

During the early and mid 1990s, Washington starred in several successful thrillers, including The Pelican Brief and Crimson Tide, as well as in comedy Much Ado About Nothing and alongside Whitney Houston in the romantic drama The Preacher's Wife.

The film was directed by Tony Scott, and was the fifth and final collaboration between the two, after previous films Crimson Tide ( 1995 ), Man on Fire ( 2004 ), Déjà Vu ( 2006 ) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 ( 2009 ).

* B ' Ho Kirkland, born in Columbia, played for the Alabama Crimson Tide and went on to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers ( NFL ).

City leaders adopted the moniker " The City of Champions " after the Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the BCS National Championship game in 2010 and again in 2012.

* Cornelius Wortham, former National Football League and Alabama Crimson Tide player.

* Veterans ' Memorial Stadium ( Home of Pottsville Crimson Tide Football )-N. 16th & Elk Avenue ( Behind Pottsville Area High School ).

Pottsville Area High School has several sports teams including, Pottsville Crimson Tide football, basketball, volleyball, water polo, wrestling, baseball, soccer and golf.

The Pottsville Crimson Tide football team is one of the oldest prep football programs in the country.

The height of the Pottsville Crimson Tide football team's success recently came between the years on 2004 through 2006.

In his first full game, Smith promptly broke Florida's 40-year old all-time single game rushing record, carrying 39 times for 224 yards and two touchdowns as the Gators upset the Crimson Tide.

At age 29 on September 17, 1960 he put his vision into reality with ABC's first NCAA college football broadcast from Birmingham, Alabama, between Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs won by Alabama, 21 – 6.

He has composed music for over 100 films, including award winning film scores for The Lion King ( 1994 ), Crimson Tide ( 1995 ), Gladiator ( 2000 ), The Last Samurai ( 2003 ), The Dark Knight ( 2008 ) and Inception ( 2010 ).

Zimmer's score for Crimson Tide ( 1995 ) won a Grammy Award for the main theme, which makes heavy use of synthesizers in place of traditional orchestral instruments.

During the scoring of The Last Samurai in early 2003, Zimmer was approached by the producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with whom he had worked previously on Crimson Tide, The Rock and Pearl Harbor.

* 1996: Crimson Tide

* 1971 NCAA Division I-A national football championship – Nebraska Cornhuskers win 38 – 6 over the University of Alabama Crimson Tide to claim back-to-back National Championship titles on 1 January 1972.

** Crimson Tide -- George Watters

" Their sophomore album, Crimson, was released in January 2012.

* On October 4, 1906, Harvard defeated Bowdoin 10 – 0 " in a hard-fought contest that was featured by a newfangled and daring forward pass that Crimson worked in the closing minutes of play.

Crimson Skies was originally developed by Zipper Interactive under the FASA Interactive brand in late 2000 and used under license by FASA ; FASA Interactive had been purchased by Microsoft, so rights to Crimson Skies stayed with Microsoft.

2003's The Dharma at Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives was well-received, particularly at Adams's alma mater's publication, the Harvard Crimson.

Those " different types " of films he had made-The Great Sinner ( 1949 ) for MGM, Time Out of Mind ( 1947 ) for Universal ( which Siodmak also produced ), The Whistle at Eaton Falls ( 1951 ) for Columbia Pictures-all proved ill suited to his noir sensibilities ( although The Crimson Pirate, despite the difficult production, was a surprising and pleasant departure ).

In a Spec-Ops mission revolving around the Hellfire Club, Crimson Dynamo was hired by the Hellfire Club to build them Sentinels that obey their every command.

He has not neglected to work in French productions either — e. g., Les Visiteurs ( 1993 ) ( which was later remade in English as Just Visiting in 2001 ), The Crimson Rivers ( 2000 ) and Jet Lag ( Décalage horaire ) by Danièle Thompson ( 2002 ), which was also a box-office success in France.

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

The band was labeled a supergroup as it included former members of several veteran progressive rock bands, namely bassist / vocalist John Wetton ( formerly in Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, U. K. and Wishbone Ash ), guitarist Steve Howe ( formerly, and subsequently in Yes ), keyboardist Geoff Downes ( of Yes and The Buggles ) and drummer Carl Palmer ( formerly in The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster and Emerson, Lake & Palmer ).

Ex-King Crimson and ELP front man Greg Lake replaced Wetton for the highly publicised " Asia in Asia " concert at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan on 6 December 1983, which was the first concert broadcast over satellite to MTV in the U. S. and later made into a home video.

Asia's set included only " An Extraordinary Life " from Phoenix, the rest of the songs coming from the first two albums plus one cover each from The Buggles (" Video Killed the Radio Star " with Wetton on lead vocals and Downes on vocoder ), King Crimson (" The Court of the Crimson King ", which was recorded by a previous incarnation of that band with Greg Lake on lead vocals ) and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (" Fanfare for the Common Man ").

On January 3, 2009, a new website LotusFlow3r. com was launched, streaming some of the recently-aired material (" Crimson and Clover ", "( There'll Never B ) Another Like Me " and " Here Eye Come ") and promising opportunities to listen to and buy music by Prince and guests, watch videos and buy concert tickets for future events.

One of Europe's first two feature-length dramatic talkies was created in still a different sort of twist on multinational moviemaking: The Crimson Circle was a coproduction between director Friedrich Zelnik's Efzet-Film company and British Sound Film Productions ( BSFP ).

It was recently announced that the band is nearly finished recording a cover album of King Crimson's album, In the Court of the Crimson King with bands New Fumes, Linear Downfall and Stardeath and White Dwarfs contributing.

* 1922 " Produced in the All-Colored City of Boley, Okla ." The Crimson Skull ; Baffling Western Mystery Photo-Play, starring Bill Pickett, was an example of the race movie genre.

In May 2012, it was announced that original members Wilton, Rockenfield and Jackson, along with Parker Lundgren and Crimson Glory frontman Todd La Torre had formed a band called Rising West, playing songs from the first five Queensrÿche albums only.

He edited the Harvard student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, and recalls in his memoirs entitled In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century two specific interviews of which he was most pleased: one with the highly decorated soldier Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and another with Alabama-born actress Tallulah Bankhead.