The scene was directed by David Mirkin and was the first time a Simpsons character had been in the real world in the series.

The Simpsons writer David Mirkin said that one of his favorite jokes on the show is the one where Grampa cycles down the street in high speed and shouts that he feels young again, and is then knocked flying from his bicycle after a doll's head flies into the spokes and falls into an open grave.

The character's new addiction to coffee was suggested by writer-producer David Mirkin, who has friends who stopped drinking alcohol and became addicted to coffee.

Grammer usually joins the show's " table readings " ( wherein cast members read each script together for the first time ), and former executive producer David Mirkin described working with Grammer as very pleasant, due to his lively sense of humor.

David Mirkin has noted that " he can do anything, and it fits perfectly.

Created by Brown, Charlie Coffey, and director and executive producer David Mirkin, it was a comedy about actress Julie Robbins ( Brown ), who in this initial story, goes to great lengths to land an interview with teen singer Kiki ( played by Kim Walker ) in the hopes of getting hired as a tabloid-TV celebrity journalist.

David Mirkin ( born September 18, 1955 ) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer.

Still hoping to work on Cheers, Mirkin sent a spec script of an episode of Taxi to Cheers writers Ken Levine and David Sacks.

A. O. Scott notes that " several veterans recall the ' crazy David Mirkin years ' as a time of wild inventiveness.

Additionally, Resnick co-created and wrote for Get A Life with David Mirkin and Chris Elliott.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a 1997 comedy film starring Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim, and Alan Cumming directed by David Mirkin.

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David Mirkin recalled that more writers came to her recording session than any other.

Heartbreakers is a 2001 caper-romantic comedy film directed by David Mirkin.

Cher became attached and brought in David Mirkin to direct and rewrite the script.

The film was set in Palm Beach, Florida ( specifically the Breakers Hotel ); according to the DVD commentary by director David Mirkin, only a few external shots were actually shot in Palm Beach, with the rest utilizing Los Angeles locations as stand-ins.

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The idea for the episode came from James L. Brooks, who called David Mirkin and pitched the idea as traveling to the future and Lisa meeting the perfect guy, who in turn cannot stand her family.

According to David Mirkin, this is a joke about how " huge " Carrey's movies were at the time, and how he was not garnering much respect as an actor.

Although " Homer the Great " was written by John Swartzwelder, the story was suggested by executive producer David Mirkin.

Matt Groening, Mike Scully, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Tim Long, Matt Selman, David Mirkin, Max Pross and Lance Kramer participated in the audio commentary for the episode.

David Mirkin had the initial idea for the episode, Steve O ' Donnell was the lead writer, and Steven Dean Moore directed.

The episode was the second and last episode written by Steve O ' Donnell and was based on an idea from David Mirkin.

The writers had particular fun writing over the top, melodramatic lines " tortured metaphors ," many of which were penned by producer David Mirkin.

The Simpsons executive producer David Mirkin, who produced the episode, responded to the criticism in an interview with The Newcastle Herald by saying: " We like to have the Simpsons, the entire family, travel and this was the beginning of that.

Notable examples of this are David Ahenakew, who was tried a second time after being acquitted and Guy Paul Morin who was wrongfully convicted in his second trial after the acquittal in his first trial was vacated by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The French Navy tried to stop the protest in several ways, including assaulting David McTaggart.

David Hume tried to give such an account when he proposed that concepts are merely the faded memories of sensory experiences had over and over again, like writing on a page which eventually sinks through to the underlying pages.

In Scorsese on Scorsese, edited by David M. Thompson and Ian Christie, the director talks about how much of the film arose from his feeling that movies are like dreams, or like taking dope and that he tried to induce the feeling of being almost awake.

Brian David Sweeney tried calling his wife, Julie, at 08: 58, but ended up leaving a message, telling her that the plane had been hijacked.

Many others also contributed, with their approaches flavouring the many models of the day, including: Tony Wasserman and Peter Pircher with the " Object-Oriented Structured Design ( OOSD )" notation ( not a method ), Ray Buhr's " Systems Design with Ada ", Archie Bowen's use case and timing analysis, Paul Ward's data analysis and David Harel's " Statecharts "; as the group tried to ensure broad coverage in the real-time systems domain.

In a February 1975 interview with his friend David Lewin he said he " tried " homosexuality.

Dr. William David McCain, the college president, tried to prevent his enrollment by appealing to local black leaders and the segregationist state political establishment.

Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale.

Young was also one of the first who tried to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, with the help of a demotic alphabet of 29 letters built up by Johan David Åkerblad in 1802 ( 14 turned out to be incorrect ), but Åkerblad wrongly believed that demotic was entirely alphabetic.

Bryant's father had tried to purchase a Bed and Breakfast property called Seascape, but David and Noelene ( also known as Sally ) Martin bought this property before his father could ready his finances, much to the disappointment of the father who often complained to his son of the " double dealing " the Martins had done to secure the purchase.

The British took the missionaries David Zeisberger and John Heckewelder under guard back to Fort Detroit, where the two men were tried ( but eventually acquitted ) on charges of treason against the British Crown.

Bolt's work for director David Lean garnered him particular acclaim and recognition, and Bolt tried his hand at directing with the unsuccessful Lady Caroline Lamb ( 1972 ).

While the Silver Age is considered to be the development of the 19th century Russian literature tradition, some avant-garde poets tried to overturn it: Velimir Khlebnikov, David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

David Hall Sr. harvested nearly 2, 000 bushels of corn in 1883, which Mr. McMinn tried to purchase for the mill, offering Mr. Hall 60 cents per bushel.

This style of kingship was very different from his predecessor's — David tried to dominate his nobles whereas Robert's strategy was to delegate authority to his powerful sons and earls and this generally worked for the first decade of his reign.

In the eighteenth century the ecclesiastical authorities tried to give a less profane aspect to the composition, by engraving the name of David under the Apollo, and of Judith under the Minerva " ( Rodolfo Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Rome 1896, ch.

Kris Nelson threatened to sue the Nelson clan for her former husband's life insurance money and tried to wrest control of his estate from David Nelson, its administrator.

" In another song called " Fancy ", which contains the lyrics " You always tried to compete with me, girl ... find your own identity ", was interpreted by critic David Browne, in his review of the album for Entertainment Weekly magazine, as a response to the lawsuit.

Laurents ' screenplay allegedly was unsatisfactory, and newly hired director David Lean tried to improve it with associate producer Norman Spencer and writers Donald Ogden Stewart and S. N.

This has been disputed by David Konig, who points out that between charters, according to the Records of the Court of Assistants, a group of 14 pirates were tried and condemned on January 27, 1690, for acts of piracy and murder committed in August and October 1689.

In the fall of 2009, Spike showed live Australian rugby league semi finals games from the National Rugby League and also showed the grand final, as David Niu tried to bring professional rugby league ( National Rugby League USA ) to the United States.

The light punishment came after the committee found “ no substantial evidence ” that Domenici tried to influence attorney David Iglesias when he contacted him to inquire about the status of a 2006 investigation into corruption charges on a state Democratic official.

The heavy rain caused low visibility, and Michael Schumacher ran into the back of David Coulthard, an event that angered Schumacher so much he stormed into the McLaren garage to confront Coulthard, claiming he had tried to kill him.

David Letterman tried out the OGO in the studio before his guest Joseph Gordon-Levitt rode inside the OGO on 53rd Street outside the CBS studios in New York.