* 1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( b. 1884 )

Alfred Damon Runyon ( October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946 ) was an American newspaperman and author.

To New Yorkers of his generation, a " Damon Runyon character " evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde.

Damon Runyon was born as Alfred Damon Runyan to a family of newspapermen in Manhattan, Kansas.

In present-day Pueblo, Runyon Field, the Damon Runyon Repertory Theater Company and Runyon Lake are now named in his honor.

In his first New York byline, the American editor dropped the " Alfred " and the name " Damon Runyon " appeared for the first time.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

The family plot of Damon Runyon is located at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY.

* After Runyon's death, his friend and fellow journalist, Walter Winchell, went on his radio program and appealed for contributions to help fight cancer, eventually establishing the “ Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund ” to support scientific research into causes of, and prevention of cancer.

* The first ever telethon was hosted by Milton Berle in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

* Each year the Denver Press Club assigns the Damon Runyon Award to a prominent journalist.

* Damon Runyon Elementary school in Littleton, Colorado, is named after him.

* The Damon Runyon Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run every December at Aqueduct Race Track.

* Damon Runyon Favorites ( 1942 )

* The Damon Runyon Omnibus ( 1944 )

* Damon Runyon from First to Last ( 1954 )

* A Treasury of Damon Runyon ( 1958 )

* Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball ( 2005 ; Jim Reisler, editor )

The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 ( with reruns until 1951 ).

The two later worked together again in the 2008 Damon Albarn sessions for the fifth proper studio album.

Her first marriage broke up and she moved with her two children, Damon and Latanne, to Dallas, Texas, where she modeled for Neiman Marcus and worked as a cocktail hostess, intending to move on to New York City from there.

These include Schwarzenegger's then-wife Maria Shriver, Little Richard, Entertainment Tonight host Leeza Gibbons, James Belushi ( who starred with Schwarzenegger in Red Heat ), Damon Wayans, Chevy Chase, Timothy Dalton and Jean-Claude Van Damme ( who worked with John McTiernan on the film Predator as the original Predator before dropping out )

On the big screen, Valentine has worked alongside such Hollywood heavyweights as Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear ( Stuck on You ), and Adam Sandler ( I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry ).

The artwork for the Nascente-released ' Beginner's Guide ' series ( particularly ' Beginner's Guide to Africa ') may have provided inspiration for similar artwork used by Blur on their 2009 EMI collection Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur ; this may have come about as Damon Albarn is a noted fan of African music and has worked with African musicians on a number of occasions.

Damon has also worked with Howard Gardner and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the Good Work Project ( GWP ).

Williams worked in the studio with several musical collaborators, including Scott “ Shavoni ” Parker, Damon Elliott, Warren Campbell and gospel producer HR Crump.

There, he continued to teach special education classes and worked as a writer for many comics, including Damon Wayans and George Lopez.

In 1999, Damon started teaching audio engineering part-time, and worked with local school districts to offer high-school students a chance to work in a real recording studio environment.

The lead singer and guitarist, Ran Shem-Tov is a versatile producer, who worked with artists such as Yehudit Ravitz, Anat Damon and Dikla and recorded soundtracks.

In the meantime, Damon worked in the Dick Turpin Burger Bar in Coney Street, managed by Lettuce ( Siobhan Maher ).

They then moved to Bradford, where Damon worked as a groundsman at Valley Parade ( reflecting, in an interior monologue, upon the fire there a year earlier ).

She worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, a law firm in New York, and then clerked for Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before beginning her media career, earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

Copeland also wrestled briefly as Damon Striker against Kevin Sullivan and Meng on separate episodes of WCW Pro.

Hasford associated with various science fiction writers of the 1970s ( including Arthur Byron Cover and David J. Skal ), had works published in magazines and anthologies such as Space and Time and Damon Knight's Orbit series, and briefly shared an apartment with author Harlan Ellison.

He was briefly in a band with his son Damon Shulman and recorded several pieces with him.

This was partly because Damon was a well-established star in the US by this time, and partly because " The Interrogation " is essentially a two-hander between Damon and Colin Blakely, with the rest of the regular cast appearing only briefly.

* Paul M. Embree, Damon Danieli: C ++ Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-179144-3

Not always annually there are also the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award since 1975 for lifetime achievement in science fiction or fantasy, the Bradbury Award since 1992 for best dramatic presentation, the Author Emeritus title since 1995 to a senior writer whose major impact was long ago or overlooked.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

After his departure, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum, Alexander Skarsgård, Ewan McGregor, Robert Pattinson, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Michael Fassbender, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Kinnaman, Russell Crowe, Chris Pine, Ryan Reynolds, and Jon Hamm were considered for the lead role.

Eisner said that on one occasion a man who Eisner described as " a Mob type straight out of Damon Runyon, complete with pinkie ring, broken nose, black shirt, and white tie, who claimed to have ' exclusive distribution rights for all Brooklyn " asked Eisner to draw Tijuana bibles for $ 3 a page.

In his " Books " column for F & SF, Damon Knight listed The Martian Chronicles on his top-ten science fiction books of the 1950s.

Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

Bassist Alex James later summarised, " After being the People's Hero, Damon was the People's Prick for a short period ... basically, he was a loser – very publicly.

US actor Matt Damon, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his sensitive portrayal of a math genius working as a janitor in Good Will Hunting, metamorphosed into an action hero with the car-chase and gunfire-filled Jason Bourne franchise.

In his " Books " column for F & SF, Damon Knight selected the novel as one of the 10 best SF books of the 1950s.

Other musicians, and at least one comedian, who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Noel Fielding and Afrika Bambaataa, who spoke of the influence Numan's music had on the fledgling American DJ scene: " In the late 70s and early 80s Gary had the rhythms that DJs wanted to get hold of and people waited for his records on the dance floor.

Bridges received his sixth Academy Award nomination for his role in True Grit, a collaboration with the Coen brothers in which he starred alongside Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and Hailee Steinfeld.

In his " Books " column for F & SF, Damon Knight selected The Man Who Sold the Moon as one of the 10 best sf books of the 1950's.

She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the Frank Capra film A Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ) ( a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady for a Day ), based on a story by Damon Runyon.

In February 2002, he signed as a free agent with the Boston Red Sox, where at age 43 he became the oldest player to play center field in major league history when he replaced Johnny Damon for three games in April and another in July

Free agent Damon Jones opted for a bigger contract offered by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

In the 2008 off-season, the team made a major change to its lineup, trading G Damon Jones and Smith ( who later in the season rejoined the Cavs after being released by Oklahoma City ) for point guard Mo Williams.