" Likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is " certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way.

In 2010, Brand took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

* Gala Brand, a fictional character of Ian Fleming's James Bond series novel, Moonraker ( did not appear in the film version )

He then attacks the eastern Numidians ( the Massylii ) ruled by Gala, who is an ally of the Carthaginians.

After collaborating with German Dadaist Max Ernst, who had entered France illegally, in 1921, he entered into a menage a trois living arrangement with Gala and Ernst in 1922.

Apart from the MoD and DOS sites on the south side of the A3, Gala Cosmetics had a large production facility as did Andre Rubber ( who specialised in bonding rubber to metal and made components for cars, docks, armoured fighting vehicles, hospitals, warships and diving helmets )-now the site of the Hook Rise South Industrial Park.

Mytholmroyd Community Centre hosts the annual Dock Pudding Championships in April, attended in 2007 by Robbie Coltrane who entered the competition and came second, and the Mytholmroyd Gala takes place every July.

Rubio performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Gala in Oslo, Norway, alongside Rihanna, John Legend, and Lionel Richie, who also lined up to honor the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Muhammad Yunus.

Merv was renamed Antiochia Margiana, by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus Soter, who rebuilt and expanded the city at the site presently known as Gyaur Gala ( Turkish Gayur Kala ) ( Fortress ).

Matthews and his wife Kathleen Matthews | Kathleen at the 2010 Time 100 Gala. Liberal blogger Glenn Greenwald has called Matthews " the most vivid example of all that is wrong with political coverage ," saying " e ’ s endlessly obsessed with personality-based politics and likes to promote the strong, masculine tough guy who you can have a beer with, versus the nerdy loser.

An affair quickly developed between Gala and Dalí, who was about 10 years younger than she.

Although the area was quite remote, graphic images of the disaster were soon shown on television due to BBC and Yorkshire Television film crews who had been covering the Appleby-Frodingham Gala in Scunthorpe that afternoon.

The preceding year at the National Opera Association Gala Banquet and Concert honoring Mattiwilda Dobbs, Todd Duncan, Camilla Williams and Robert McFerrin, Verrett said: " I'm always so happy when I can speak to young people because I remember those who were kind to me that didn't need to be.

who play at Gala Parc

Dashan once expressed a view in CCTV New Year's Gala ( 2011 ) made very good sense: "... but the people who can't speak any Chinese are truly Laowai (... 不会说汉语的外国人那才叫老外呢 )"

Elena, who was Jewish, avoided the first wave of official anti-Semitic persecutions at the end of the 1930s ( under the Octavian Goga government ) by converting to the Romanian Orthodox Church ( she was baptized by the socialist sympathiser Gala Galaction ).

Awards are sponsored by the Electronic Retailing Association ( ERA ) who honor both short-form and long-form DRTV advertising at their ERA Annual Awards and Gala at the ERA D2C Convention.

He finds the egg of the Ra-Seru,, who is affiliated with lightning, and Gala is subsequently excommunicated after it hatches.

Rhodes played for Gala Cricket Club in 1896 and 1897, as an all-rounder who opened the batting and bowled medium paced seamers.

Amateur club, Gala Rovers, who play in the Border Amateur Football League also play their home games at Netherdale.

A lot of noise is required to awaken Sun Loong who will slowly rouse himself from his year long slumber to walk in the Gala Parade.

* Died: Sir Thomas Beecham, 81, English conductor who founded the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras ; and Gala Galaction, 81, Romanian author

On 31 December 2008 it was announced that Fraser Lothian, Ally McCulloch, Garry Fraser and Stuart Robertson would head up the new Management team for the Fairydean for the remainder of the campaign, however by the end of the 2008 / 09 season Gala had sunk to a mid table finish at which point, with some players reported to be unsettled, two of them left for local rivals Selkirk, who play in the East of Scotland Premier Division.

Gala Videnović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Гала Виденовић ; born June 27, 1969 in Belgrade ) is Serbian actress who gained fame by appearing in some of the most popular films and TV shows in mid 1980s.

Highlights in 2002 included the premieres of several major works, including View From Olympus a double concerto for piano, percussion and orchestra performed by Evelyn Glennie, Philip Smith and the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder at the Royal Gala finale of the Commonwealth Games ' Pulse ' music festival in Manchester, UK.

The station continues to broadcast lengthier works in the evenings with programs entitled " Gala Concerts "

In 2001, Spacey co-hosted, with Judi Dench, the Unite for the Future Gala, a UK fundraiser for the British Victims of 9 / 11 and Médecins Sans Frontières at London's Old Vic Theatre, produced by Harvey Goldsmith and Dominic Madden.

* The California Alumni Association of the University of California, Berkeley now annually awards the outstanding achievement of a young alumnus or alumna with the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement at its Charter Gala each spring.

The 2010 honoree was Angela Lansbury, with Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones as honorary hosts for the Gala Benefit held on April 12, 2010.

In that year, Dalí and Gala also attended a masquerade party in New York, hosted for them by heiress Caresse Crosby.

In 1940, as World War II tore through Europe, Dalí and Gala retreated to the United States, where they lived for eight years.

The company's 50th anniversary was celebrated in 2006 with a Gala Concert in which tributes were paid to Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, the principal artists, the chorus, production staff and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra ( the AOBO ) for their ' artistry and talent ' and the ' ensemble nature ' of the company.

In 1929 he had another bout of tuberculosis and separated from Gala when she left him for Salvador Dalí, with whom she remained for the rest of her life.

Curtis was Guest of Honor at the 11th annual Gala and Fundraiser in 2003 for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, twelve-step program of rehabilitation for women in need.

The CCTV New Year's Gala ()— a yearly special program for the Chinese New Year — is the most-watched CCTV programme.

In January 1961 Prima was invited by Frank Sinatra to perform in the Inaugural Gala for President John F. Kennedy They played “ Old Black Magic ”, one of his favorite songs.

In December 2003 the Choir performed “ African Portraits ” with the Baltimore Symphony at the Gala Concert for the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture.

This Blackadder also appeared in an introductory sequence for Charles, Prince of Wales ' fiftieth birthday Gala Performance, in which he was supposedly organising a birthday show for Charles II ( also Fry ).

The village has an annual Gala, usually held in June and since 2009 it has hosted an annual Beer Festival ( usually in February ) in the Village Hall to raise money for St Mary's CE Primary School and the Village Hall.

All three releases were eventually combined into the Gala compilation album which was produced mainly for the US and Japanese markets.

Gala Dalí, the painter's wife, whom he often depicted as the Virgin Mary, poses the for role of The Blessed Virgin ( or according to some commentators Saint Helena ) on the banner in the right hand of Columbus.

In April 2012 one of the lines original engines No. 2 Dolgoch departed from Talyllyn metals, and for 9 days run on a temporary track at the Llangollen Railway during the popular Steel Steam and Stars Gala.

In October 2010, The Scaffold re-united for a Gala Concert in Shanghai, to celebrate the end of the Liverpool Pavilion as part of the World Expo.

It won a number of awards, such as Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, Special Award from the Political Film Society, In the Spirit of Freedom Award at the Jerusalem International Film Festival and the Gala Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

* 2008 – Honoured at the 2008 Youth AIDS Gala, for her contribution in helping the fight against HIV and AIDS