Bertram Hayes-Davis, Davis's great-great grandson, was recently hired as executive director of Beauvoir, which is owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

As a Raider assistant, Walsh was trained in the vertical passing offense favored by Al Davis, putting Walsh in Davis's mentor Sid Gillman's coaching tree.

Part of the strip's broad appeal is due to its lack of social or political commentary ; though this was Davis's original intention, he also admitted that his " grasp of politics isn't strong ", remarking that, for many years, he thought " OPEC was a denture adhesive ".

Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis was around growing up ; he took his name and personality from Davis's grandfather James A. Garfield Davis, who was, in Davis's words, " a large cantankerous man ".

The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library was established at Beauvoir Plantation, the white-columned Biloxi mansion that was Davis's final home, in 1998, after its use for some years as a Confederate Veterans Home.

He was unsuccessful in this effort, reportedly because the sale would not give the purchaser any control of the Raiders, even in the event of Davis's death.

Although Davis's theory is not entirely accurate, it was absolutely revolutionary and unique in its time and helped to modernize and create Geography subfield of Geomorphology.

This is as much as I've ever talked about it ..." " Kill You " was written about Davis's experiences as a child with his step mother.

Davis's recording of Les Troyens was the first near-complete recording of that work.

She auditioned unsuccessfully for Yves Boisset's Bleu comme l ' enfer and Robin Davis's Hors la loi, but was eventually cast in My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister ( 1986 ) by Jacques Rouffio opposite the popular French stars Michel Serrault and Michel Piccoli.

At 17 Williams found considerable fame with Miles Davis, joining a group that was later dubbed Davis's Second Great Quintet.

Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis's criticism of the gas tax was used in the Liberals ' Ontario television ads, and the swing in support from the Tories to the Liberals in that province proved to be decisive in the campaign.

In 1932, she married Harmon " Ham " Nelson, who was scrutinized by the press ; his $ 100 a week earnings compared unfavorably with Davis's reported $ 1, 000 a week income.

The film was a success, and Davis's confronting characterization won praise from critics, with Life magazine writing that she gave " probably the best performance ever recorded on the screen by a U. S. actress ".

He mocked Davis's description of her contract as " slavery " by stating, incorrectly, that she was being paid $ 1, 350 per week.

Jezebel ( film ) | Jezebel ( 1938 ) was Davis's second Academy Award-winning performance

The film was a success, and Davis's performance as a spoiled Southern belle earned her a second Academy Award, which led to speculation in the press that she would be chosen to play a similar character, Scarlett O ' Hara, in Gone with the Wind.

Jezebel marked the beginning of the most successful phase of Davis's career, and over the next few years she was listed in the annual " Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars ", which was compiled from the votes of movie exhibitors throughout the U. S. for the stars that had generated the most revenue in their theaters over the previous year.

" Davis was not impressed by Morrison, but not out of disdain or any preconceived notions, but rather because Morrison's professional comportment generally did not meet Davis's expectations.

" Carl Laemmle, the head of Universal Studios, considered terminating Davis's employment, but cinematographer Karl Freund told him she had " lovely eyes " and would be suitable for The Bad Sister ( 1931 ), in which she subsequently made her film debut.

" Davis's counsel presented her complaints — that she could be suspended without pay for refusing a part, with the period of suspension added to her contract, that she could be called upon to play any part within her abilities regardless of her personal beliefs, that she could be required to support a political party against her beliefs, and that her image and likeness could be displayed in any manner deemed applicable by the studio.

On July 3, 1950 Davis's divorce from William Sherry was finalized, and on July 28 she married Gary Merrill.

After a short courtship, she married Hyman at the age of 16, with Davis's permission.

Davis's final completed role in The Whales of August ( 1987 ) brought her acclaim during a period in which she was beset with failing health and personal trauma.

Upon her return, she learned that Hyman had published a memoir, My Mother's Keeper, in which she chronicled a difficult mother-daughter relationship and depicted scenes of Davis's overbearing and drunken behavior.

Mike Wallace rebroadcast a 60 Minutes interview he had filmed with Hyman a few years earlier in which she commended Davis on her skills as a mother, and said that she had adopted many of Davis's principles in raising her own children.

* 1934: Davis's performance in Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) was widely acclaimed and when she was not nominated for an Academy Award, several influential people mounted a campaign to have her name included.

After Davis's death in 1957, she married the artist Russell Detwiler in 1962.

Judy Davis's doorstepping television interviews in the Jean-Georges restaurant where she encounters several well-heeled New Yorkers, including Donald Trump ( who is planning to buy St Patrick's Cathedral and knock it down ) are frankly risible ; a rehearsal scene in the Ziegfield Theatre where Winona Ryder is being coached in the art of seducing a woman ( gasp!

A tall ( 5 ' 10 "), gangling woman with a distinctive voice, Wickes would ultimately prove herself adept as a comedienne, but she first attracted attention in the film Now, Voyager ( 1942 ), as the wisecracking nurse who helped Bette Davis's character during her mother's illness.

She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Separate Tables ( 1956 ); she won another Tony in that category for The Night of the Iguana ( 1962 ), playing the luminous Hannah Jelkes ( a role played by Deborah Kerr on film ) opposite Bette Davis's Maxine Faulk.

In this movie, Davis's character is again haunted by guilt, though this time the ante is upped: instead of being responsible for a crippling, she is responsible for the murder of her lover.

" " It typifies Davis's method that her ' historical ' chapters reflect an inverse relationship between what available sources, documents, statistics, and the like allow us to know about women in a given period and the space she devotes to that period.

Davis's name became well-known to a younger audience when Kim Carnes's song " Bette Davis Eyes " became a worldwide hit and the best-selling record of 1981 in the U. S., where it stayed at number one on the music charts for more than two months.

Initially, the band's music featured a free, extended improvisational method ( similar to Miles Davis's Bitches Brew-period work ), but by the mid-1970s this had moved towards more groove-orientated and pre-structured music ( as epitomized by their hit single " Birdland ").

After a label change to Clive Davis's Arista Records, Monica mainstream success was boosted, when Diane Warren-written " For You I Will ", from the Space Jam soundtrack, became her next top ten pop hit.

His first album on Clive Davis's new label, entitled Luther Vandross, was released in 2001, and it produced the hits " Take You Out " (# 7 R & B /# 26 Pop ), and " I'd Rather " (# 17 Adult Contemporary /# 40 R & B /# 83 Pop ) Vandross scored at least one top 10 R & B hit every year from 1981-1994.

When the energy crisis settled down, Davis's administration was hit with a fund-raising scandal.

Already suffering from low approval ratings, Davis's numbers hit historic lows in April 2003 with 24 % approval and 65 % disapproval, according to a California Field Poll.

Barry Larkin and Billy Hatcher hit consecutive opposite field doubles and Hatcher would score on Davis's groundout.

Davis's version was popular and was followed by numerous other covers, including those of Bing Crosby and Gene Autry, whose versions made the number a big hit.

After a brief stint with the triple A Rochester Redwings, Davis's return to action was delayed when, while he was sitting in the dugout during an Orioles game on August 1, he was hit in the head by a line drive foul ball of the bat of teammate Jeffrey Hammonds.

Some of Davis's action-adventure titles include the $ 100 million-plus hit Chronicle ; the science fiction thriller I, Robot starring Will Smith ; The Firm, starring Tom Cruise ; Courage Under Fire, starring Denzel Washington ; Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner ; Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger ; Behind Enemy Lines, starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman ; Predator 2, starring Danny Glover ; the John Woo action film, Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, for Paramount ; Alien vs.