Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance.

Spader's first major film role was in 1981 as Brooke Shields ' brother in Endless Love, and his first starring role was in Tuff Turf alongside good friend Robert Downey, Jr.

Morton Downey, Jr. ( December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001 ) was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the " trash TV " format on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.

In the 1980s, Downey was a talk show host at KFBK-AM in Sacramento, California, where he employed his abrasive style.

Downey headed to Secaucus, New Jersey, where his highly controversial television program The Morton Downey Jr. Show was taped.

During one controversial episode Downey introduced his gay brother, Tony Downey, to his studio audience and informed them Tony was HIV positive.

During the episode Downey stated he was afraid his audience would abandon him if they knew he had a gay brother, but then said he did not care.

Some inconsistencies in Downey's account ( e. g., the swastika was painted in reverse, suggesting that Downey had drawn it himself in a mirror ), and the failure of the police to find supportive evidence, led many to suspect that the incident was a hoax and a plea for attention.

In 1990, Downey resurfaced on CNBC with an interview program called Showdown, which was followed by three attempted talk radio comebacks: first in 1992 on Washington, D. C. radio station WWRC ; then in 1993 on Dallas radio station KGBS, where he would scream insults at his callers.

The following year he returned to CNBC with a short-lived television show, Downey, that was similar in theme to his earlier, more popular show.

Downey was sued for allegedly appropriating the words and music to his theme song from two songwriters.

Morton Downey, Jr .' s parents were also in show business ; his father, Morton Downey, was a popular singer, and his mother, Barbara Bennett, was a singer and dancer.

Downey was married four times and had four children from three of those marriages.

According to Terry Pluto's book, Loose Balls, Downey was one of the owners of the New Orleans Buccaneers basketball team in the American Basketball Association in the late 1960s.

Downey was also president and co-founder of the proposed World Baseball Association in 1974.

In 1996, Downey was diagnosed with lung cancer and had one of his lungs removed.

Settling in Charles County, Maryland, the Downeys joined two stepsisters who had already settled in the U. S. Dwindling family finances forced Downey to halt his education at age 16 and start working to become independent.

Robert Downey, Jr. was originally cast to voice the Devil, but was forced to pull out because of his relapse into drug addiction.

Hamilton vowed that if the " Downey report " found against him, he would resign.

The success of the show made Downey a pop culture celebrity, leading to an appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1988, WrestleMania V in 1989 in which he traded insults with Roddy Piper and Brother Love on Piper's Pit, and later roles in movies such as Predator 2 and Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation.

In one episode, Downey claimed to have had a psychic communication with O. J.

Notable pioneering video artists also emerged more or less simultaneously in Europe and elsewhere with work by Domingo Sarrey ( Spain ), Juan Downey ( Chile ), Wolf Vostell ( Germany ), Slobodan Pajic ( France ), Wolf Kahlen ( Germany ), Peter Weibel ( Austria ), David Hall ( UK ), Paul Wong ( Artist ) ( Canada ), Lisa Steele ( Canada ), Colin Campbell ( Canada ), Miroslaw Rogala ( Poland ), Danny Matthys, Chantal Akerman ( Belgium ), Akram Zaatari ( Lebanon ), Mireille Astore ( Lebanon / Australia ) and others.

** Ian Brady and Myra Hindley appear in court, charged with the murders of Edward Evans ( 17 ), Lesley Ann Downey ( 10 ), and John Kilbride ( 12 ).

* Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television by Gregory J. Downey ( ISBN 978-0-8018-8710-9 )

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She starred in Chances Are ( 1989 ) with Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan O ' Neal, receiving excellent reviews.

Morrissey subsequently established a friendship with Ann West, the mother of victim Lesley Ann Downey, who is mentioned by name in the song.

* On December 4, 2008, about 11 newsroom employees were laid-off, with one sports columnist, Mike Downey, having departed several weeks earlier when his contract was not renewed.

: Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to a makeshift 1960s and 1970s genre called the acid Western, associated with Dennis Hopper, Jim McBride, and Rudy Wurlitzer, as well as films like Monte Hellman's The Shooting, Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre experimental film El Topo ( The Mole ), and Robert Downey Sr .' s Greaser's Palace.

In the United States, many Hispanic immigrants from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean concentrated in barrios located in cities with large Hispanic populations such as East Los Angeles, California ; Boyle Heights, California, Orange County, California, Anaheim, Baldwin Park, Chino, El Centro, El Monte, Fresno, Huron, Hemet, Indio, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Modesto, Monrovia, Moreno Valley, San Fernando Valley, National City, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cincinnati, Compton, Downey, South Central, Inglewood, South Los Angeles, Oakland, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, Berkeley, East San Jose, Santa Ana, California and Temecula ; Alexandria, Virginia, Langley Park, Maryland, Wheaton, Maryland, Dallas, Houston, El Paso, and San Antonio, Texas ; north of Philadelphia, PA and Phoenix, Tucson, and Yuma, Arizona ; Denver ; Oklahoma City ; New York City ; Brentwood, New York ; Chicago ; Sterling, Illinois.

* In October 2009, Due Date with Robert Downey, Jr. filmed the car crash scene off the Rinconada bridge ; and the overpass of I-25 and Highway 70 for the escape from Mexico.

Downey built a log cabin at 100th Avenue NE and NE 12th Street with the help of neighbors.

By 1888, Downey had built an 18 ' X 27 ' log house one story high with shake roof.

He followed his loss against Downey with a knockout win and two draws versus Johnny Sudenberg in Nevada.

Thin Lizzy boasted some of the most critically acclaimed guitarists throughout their history, with Downey and Lynott as the rhythm section, on the drums and bass guitar.

Lynott and Downey were aware of Bell's good musical reputation, and agreed with the condition that Lynott play bass guitar as well as sing, and that they perform some of his own compositions.

After the tour, and with the contract with Decca coming to an end, a disillusioned Downey quit the band and had to be begged to return.

He had collaborated with Lynott and Downey on his 1978 album Back on the Streets and the hit single " Parisienne Walkways " before leaving Thin Lizzy, and in 1985 he and Lynott teamed up again on the UK no.

With the group now composed of Lynott, Gorham and Downey with Sex Pistols Jones and Cook, the single reached no.

Like many who heard about the California Gold Rush, Downey decided to go West.

He was an influence on other major talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Wally George, Alan Burke, Morton Downey, Jr., Bob Grant, and Michael Savage.