Some of the most famous Top 40 stations have been Musicradio 77 WABC / New York City, Boss Radio 93 KHJ / Los Angeles WLS / Chicago, 1050 CHUM / Toronto, Famous 56 WFIL / Philadelphia, and The Big 68 WRKO / Boston.

Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.

* Notably, this allowed Paramount to have some involvement in the Superman franchise for the first time since selling off the Fleischer / Famous cartoons.

* Dead Famous ( 2001 ) is a comedy / whodunit novel, also by Ben Elton, in which a contestant is murdered while on a Big Brother-like show.

ABC-Paramount subsequently purchased more labels from the Famous Music division of Gulf + Western – Dot, Steed, Acta, Blue Thumb, and Paramount, along with legendary Country and R & B label Duke / Peacock in 1974.

* Super Target, Pier 1 Imports, Marshall's, Justice-Just For Girls, Famous Footwear, Yankee Candle, Wendy's, Chili's, Panera Bread, Chase Bank, US Cellular, CVS Pharmacy, Nancy's Pizza, T Mobile, Bank of America, Steak ' n Shake, Pearle Vision, Starbucks Coffee, Hair Cuttery, UPS Store, Subway Sandwiches, GameStop, Jimmy John's, Taco Bell, Arby's, 5 / 3 Bank, and Great Clips.

Restaurants along the Route 47 corridor include McDonald's, Taco Bell, Culver's, Subway ( 3 locations ), Baskin-Robbins / Dunkin ' Donuts, Papa Saverio's Pizza, Rosati's Pizza, Honey Fluff Donuts, China Palace, Goodfella's Beef, Alvaro's Tacos & Pizza, Jimano's Pizzeria, Dairy Mart, Papa G's, Famous Red Hots, and Del-Toro's Tex Mex Grill.

Famous alumnae include actress Yvonne Perry, actor, writer and make-up artist Thom Cammer, pop singer Nikki Cleary, UMaine basketball player Ethan Mackey, and upcoming rapper / chef KMillz ( Kevin Miller ).

* Tony Casillo Aka ( Tony. c ) ( Famous internet Broadcaster / Web show Host )

* Chung Li-ho 鐘理和 / 钟理和 ( 1915-1960 ; Kaohsiung, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Tsung Lee Foh ), Famous Taiwanese novelist, stayed in Manchuria before WWII ends

** Leslie Cheung 張國榮 / 张国荣 ( 1956-2003 ; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Hong Kong ; Hakka pronunciation: Zhong Guet Rhin ), Famous singer / actor

** Lim Pey Yeng 林佩盈 ( born in Malaysia ; Hakka pronunciation: Lim Pui Rhin ), First Runner Up, Miss Astro Chinese International Pegeant 2000, Famous TV / Event Host

In 1983, McLaren released Duck Rock, an album that, in collaboration with producer and co-writer Trevor Horn and The World's Famous Supreme Team ( a duo of Hip-Hop radio disc jockeys from New York City – See Divine, The Mastermind and Just Allah, The Superstar – who then hosted a prominent Hip-Hop / classic R & B show on WHBI 105. 9 FM and who were also among the first DJs to introduce the art of scratching to the world ), mixed up influences from Africa and the Americas, including hip-hop.

Famous people from Conisbrough include the singer Tony Christie, Groove Armada / Faithless bass guitarist Jonathan White and playwright Justin Scott.

Famous people: 2012 Emmy winner for ' Spot News ' about the Good Friday Tornadoes in 2011: Justin Emge, KMOV-Photographer / TV Engineer

The issue of rights to the Fleischer / Famous Studios cartoon library is complicated.

* World Famous ( ワールドフェイマス )-( 06 / 21 / 1991 Epic Records )

Many of those houses may be observed as being in direct contrast to the display of some of the more informed or more tastefully executed residences presented by Robin Leach on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

Although he did not direct Cooper's second starring western, The Last Outlaw, the new star's third lead western, Nevada, was once again assigned to Waters, along with another Cooper vehicle, the French Foreign Legion saga, Beau Sabreur, a sequel to Famous Players ' biggest hit of 1926, Beau Geste, which starred Ronald Colman.

* Famous residents have included Lord Moyola, a direct descendant of the Dawsons, who was the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1971.

Famous Spaniards like the cinema directors Pedro Almodóvar and José Luis Cuerda, painters Antonio López and his uncle Antonio López Torres, footballer Andrés Iniesta, music band Angelus Apatrida and actress Sara Montiel were born in La Mancha.

Famous elements of Italian culture are its opera and music, its iconic gastronomy and food, which are commonly regarded as amongst the most popular in the world, its cinema ( with classic films such as La Dolce Vita, Life is Beautiful, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly etc.

Famous actresses of the classic cinema era, such as Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Clara Bow, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and Jean Harlow, depended heavily upon mascara for their glamorized appearances, which the average woman sought to mimic.

Télévision de Québec was a consortium of cinema chain Famous Players and Quebec City's three privately-owned radio stations, CHRC, CKCV and CJQC.

In 1988 Famous Players closed the cinema when the chain moved to multiplexes.

Scarborough Town Centre currently includes The Bay, Sears, Walmart, Sportchek, Old Navy, and a Famous Players Coliseum cinema as its anchors, and Dollarama as a mini-anchor.

For a while initially, he worked as a film editor in a cinema laboratory at Famous Studios, in Tardeo, Mumbai.

The following day, on May 31, 1986, with the assistance of a bailiff and paid security, Cineplex Odeon seized control of the north half of the Imperial Six, effectively locking Famous Players out of their flagship downtown Toronto theatre, including the theatre offices, all the lobby space, 4 out of the 6 projection booths, all of cinema 2, and the back half of cinemas 5 and 6.

With the successful acquisition of Famous Players ' remaining portions of the theatre, it was announced that the cinema would close and be restored to its former 1920 glory.

Opened in 1913, the theatre has operated under many guises, including cinema ( 1917 – 1981 ; operated during some of that time by Famous Players ), opera, and concerts.

While at Paramount McGrath led the development of stadium-seated cinemas building 800 + stadium screens in Canada at Famous Players, eventually achieving a 50 % market share ; while spurring the re-birth of the contemporary international cinema business building some 1, 300 screens in stadium " megaplexes " in 13 countries at United Cinemas International ( UCI ).

Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon ( Famous Love Affairs ; Spirits of the Dead ); Jean Gabin ( In Case of Adversity ); Sean Connery ( Shalako ); Jean Marais ( Royal Affairs in Versailles ; School for Love ); Lino Ventura ( Rum Runners ); Annie Girardot ( The Novices ); Claudia Cardinale ( The Legend of Frenchie King ); Jeanne Moreau ( Viva Maria!

Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.

In 1914 the Lasky company and Famous Players were amalgamated into Famous Players-Lasky, with distribution of their films handled by the new Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Hawks was the Story Editor at Famous Players ( later Paramount Pictures ) almost two years, and occasionally edited such films as Heritage of the Desert.

With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time ( leading to the slogan " Famous Players in Famous Plays ").

By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.

After an unsuccessful expansion into feature films, as well as the fact that Max and Dave Fleischer were no longer speaking to one another, Fleischer Studios was acquired by Paramount, which renamed the operation Famous Studios.

This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.

After quitting Metro, Valentino took up with Famous Players-Lasky, a studio known for films that were more commercially focused.

Famous Players produced four more feature length films over the next 15 months.

With his contract fulfilled, Valentino was released from Famous Players but still obligated to Ritz-Carlton for four films.

He became quite popular with baby boomers after Universal released its back catalog of horror films to television in 1957 ( Shock Theater ) and Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine regularly focused on his films.

Compson worked for the Christie Company as a newcomer in films, followed by Famous Players-Lasky.

* September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several completed but unreleased silent films which are later remade.

The deal would require two films to fulfill his obligations to Famous Players, and then four films that he and Rambova could make as they pleased at Ritz Carlton.

Other organizations, such as the UCLA Film and Television Archive, have also preserved and restored films ; a major part of UCLA's work includes such projects as Becky Sharp and select Paramount / Famous Studios and Warner Bros. cartoons whose credits were once altered due to rights taken over by different entities.

* Hollywood: The Continental Hyatt Hotel ( now Andaz West Hollywood ) was in the movie Almost Famous starring Kate Hudson ( 2000 ), and its pool has featured in several films including This is Spinal Tap ( 1984 ), and the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City ( now rebranded as InterContinental Hotel ) was the scene of the " 6th floor into swimming pool " scene in the 1989 movie Lethal Weapon 2 starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.

The pictures for Famous Players-Lasky were not as successful as their previous films, partly because they starred Broadway headliners not adept at screen acting.