In the past 50 years, entertainment such as Matt Dillon, Festus, Dennis Weaver and from the popular Western series on television in the 1950s and 1960s have appeared at the rodeo as have some of today's top country music stars including Alabama, Lonestar, Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Travis Tritt, Tracy Lawrence, Sammy Kershaw, Doug Stone, Lorrie Morgan, Tanya Tucker, Pam Tillis, and many more.

Georgia Ellis appeared in the first episode " Billy the Kid " ( April 26, 1952 ) as " Francie Richards ," a former girlfriend of Matt Dillon and the widow of a criminal.

In 1981, she appeared as a feature player on the first Dick Ebersol-produced episode of Saturday Night Live following the firing of Jean Doumanian and her cast ( save for Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo, Denny Dillon, and Gail Matthius ).

She first appeared in the USA in 1897, but she was refused entry in 1913 for " moral turpitude " when " Mr. and Mrs. Dillon " arrived together, but unmarried.

Dillon has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin Dillon, is also an actor and appeared on the hit TV series Entourage, which earned him several Emmy nominations in the supporting actor comedy category.

Dillon appeared in several music videos during his career.

In 1983, he appeared as Johnny Cade in The Outsiders alongside many young actors who had yet to become major stars, such as C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and Matt Dillon.

A number of other well-known actors and actresses appeared in F. I. S. T., including Kevin Conway, Brian Dennehy, Rod Steiger, Melinda Dillon, Richard Herd and Peter Boyle.

She appeared the same year in City of Ghosts with Matt Dillon.

He was also the principal commercial announcer for the radio version of Gunsmoke, frequently introducing " Matt Dillon " himself, William Conrad, who appeared out of character after the episode, and would then thank George and extoll the virtues of L & M or Chesterfield cigarettes.

In 2010 he appeared with Lisa Dillon and Tom Burke in the Old Vic production of Noël Coward's Design for Living.

Kroton first appeared in the comic strip Throwback — The Soul of a Cyberman, published in Doctor Who Weekly # 5 -# 7 ( as it then was ), written by Steve Moore and drawn by Steve Dillon.

Once a model for the Elite modeling agency, Lynch appeared in the film Drugstore Cowboy which starred Matt Dillon, and the film Road House which starred Patrick Swayze.

Dillon did voiceover work in the 1987 documentary film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.

He is a former Chairman of the Board of Dillon Read & Co. Inc. ( investment banking ) ( 1970 – 1988 ) and a former Chairman of Purolator, Inc. ( filtration products ) ( 1971 – 1987 ).

Arness has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five separate decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge ( 1987 ) and four more made-for-TV Gunsmoke movies in the 1990s.

* Heels ( 1986 – 1987 ): Ric Flair, Ole Anderson, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Baby Doll ( valet ), James J. Dillon ( manager )

* Heels ( 1987 ): Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Dark Journey ( valet ), James J. Dillon ( manager )

* Paddy Dillon ( 1987 – 88 )

* " Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism ," 1987, Richard Drinnon.

As the 1987 Great American Bash tour got under way, the feud between Koloff, Rhodes, The Road Warriors, and Paul Ellering versus The Four Horsemen and J. J. Dillon was booked as the centerpiece.

Although primarily a manager, Ellering has stepped between the ropes as a competitor, notably at the 1987 NWA Great American Bash in which he joined the Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff, and Dusty Rhodes to face The Four Horsemen and their manager James J. Dillon in the first ever WarGames match.

Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 American film directed and produced by William Dear, and starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Lainie Kazan and Don Ameche.

Walker began his career in 1987 working on Future Shocks in 2000 AD, and followed this up with work on some of the anthology comic ’ s most popular long-running stories, including Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper ( inking Steve Dillon ’ s pencils ), the ABC Warriors and Judge Anderson.

* James Dillon Shrouded Mirrors ( 1987 )

The fictional band's music was done by a real band named " Swamp Baby " with vocals by Dillon.

James is well respected in his own right on the UK music scene – his other projects include being a member of The Cara Dillon Band and heavy metal English Ceilidh band The Glorystrokes.

Tennessee whiskey is the source of the name of the country music song " Tennessee Whiskey " by Dean Dillon, a hit for George Jones in 1983.

However, Dillon had been pursuing a career in music since her teenage years, progressing through folk bands Óige and Equation and spending time working with her husband Sam Lakeman under the duo name Polar Star.

Dillon comes from an area steeped in Irish traditional music.

See Martin Dillon for the musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music

Lyrics by Michael Turner and music by Hugh Dillon and Swamp Baby, except where noted.

Reviewers of Dillon ’ s music have repeatedly noted his arresting ideas, technical skill, lyricism and wit.

In a review of his fourth string quartet, the Washington Post cited the work ’ s “ jewel-like craftsmanship ,” saying, “ Dillon ’ s control of time was a conspicuously imaginative element throughout .” Gramophone called his recording Insects and Paper Airplanes “ Sly and mysterious … just when you thought the string quartet may have reached the edge of sonic possibilities, along comes a composer who makes something novel, haunting and whimsical of the genre … Each score is an arresting and appealing creation, full of fanciful and lyrical flourishes … Highly recommended .” And Musicweb International commented on “ music that is often profound without being pretentious, sometimes light-hearted but never ' lite ', humorous without being arch, and immensely appealing but never frivolous.

Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.

Bethany Dillon ( born Bethany Joy Adelsberger on September 22, 1988 in Bellefontaine, Ohio ) is a Contemporary Christian music artist.

Dillon released her second album titled Imagination in August 2005 – the CD which prompted CCM Magazine to label her as the ‘ future ’ of contemporary Christian music .< ref name =" CCM_Magazine1 ">

In 2007, the band Dinosaur Jr. hired Dillon to direct the video for their single " Been There All The Time " from the album Beyond.

The video featured Matt Dillon as the NYPD patrolman who arrests the intoxicated MacGowan.

Although he did not get the job, he did get a small film part and had the lead in an MTV video documentary called Wild Rides, narrated by Matt Dillon.

Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next year, paving the way for lower taxes.

* 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $ 146 million plus $ 50 million for charity.

Mike Dillon ( Richard Childress's son-in-law ) was brought in to relieve Earnhardt for the remainder of the race.

Austin Dillon and his younger brother Ty Dillon drove # 3's in various lower level competitions for several years, including the Camping World East Series.

These included major roles for Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, and C. Thomas Howell.

The first entirely Catholic English language publication published in Buenos Aires, The Southern Cross is an Argentine newspaper founded on January 16, 1875 by Dean Patricio Dillon, an Irish immigrant, a deputy for Buenos Aires Province and president of the Presidential Affairs Commission amongst other positions.

In Dillon v. Gloss ( 1921 ), the Supreme Court affirmed that Congress — if it so desires — could provide a deadline for ratification, writing:

That year, the Dodge Brothers company was sold by the widows to the well-known investment group Dillon, Read & Co. for no less than US $ 146 million ( at the time, the largest cash transaction in history ).

Despite all this, Dodge Brothers ’ sales had already dropped to seventh place in the industry by 1927, and Dillon, Read began looking for someone to take over the company on a more permanent basis.

Dillon v. Gloss was later modified by Coleman v. Miller, a decision also cited as a basis for the three state strategy.

" Khris Dillon The Curry Secret ISBN 0-710-0809-2 </ ref > for instance, vindaloo is often rendered as lamb in a Madras sauce with extra chilli, rather than the original pork marinated in wine vinegar and garlic.

The President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, a post held under Eisenhower by Cutler, Dillon Anderson, William Harding Jackson, and finally Gordon Gray, oversaw the flow of recommendations and decisions up and down the policy hill, and functioned in Council meetings to brief the Council and summarize the sense of discussion.

* Epitaph for George Dillon, George Dillon, Royal National Theatre, London ( 2005 )||( 2006 )

Eventually Dillon had to leave Northern Ireland for his safety, an indication that his writing and the people he referred to but couldn't name, accurately represented at least some of the gang's activities.

Murphy's inner circle consisted of two people whom Dillon was unable to name for legal reasons but whom he called Murphy's " personal friends ".

Founded in 1910 from a portion of Marion County, both Dillon County and its county seat, the city of Dillon, were named for prosperous local citizen James W. Dillon ( 1826-1913 ), an Irishman who settled there and led a campaign to bring the railroad into the community.

The group favoring Dillon, approximately 600 of them, signed a petition of protest citing the fact that only two of the three commission members had met to consider the possible sites for the county seat.

From 1955 to 1975 Gunsmoke ran on CBS, about Matt Dillon, a U. S. Marshal for Dodge City, Kansas.

: Auxiliary Field 10 is the western-most of the wartime Eglin airfields, located in Santa Rosa County, and is named Dillon Field for Capt.

Diana Daniels-former Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the Washington ( D. C .) Post, born in Dillon ; sister of John Eric Daniels