In the April 2012 issue of Playboy, long time Batman writer Grant Morrison said that " Gayness is built into Batman.

In both " JLA " and " 52 ," Grant Morrison states that Luthor's ego leads him to believe that the only reason Superman commits good deeds is to somehow strike at Luthor and prove who is better, arguing that it is impossible for Superman to be as good as he appears to be.

When Chief Justice Chase died, Grant initially delayed in making the replacement, and after muddling through two failed nominations, the ultimate choice, Morrison Remick Waite was finally confirmed by the Senate.

X-Men had its title changed at this time to New X-Men and new writer Grant Morrison took over.

In Grant Morrison ’ s stories of the early 2000s, mutants are portrayed as a distinct subculture with " mutant bands ," mutant use of code-names as their primary form of self identity ( rather than their given birth names ), and a popular mutant fashion designer who created outfits tailored to mutant physiology.

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Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

Grant, however, appointed Morrison R. Waite.

Also in 1990, comic book writer Grant Morrison created the Polari-speaking character Danny the Street ( based on Danny La Rue ), a sentient transvestite street, for the comic Doom Patrol.

With issue # 140 ( March 1994 ), the title was handed over to Grant Morrison for a four-issue arc, co-written by the then unknown Mark Millar.

Dream originally began as a mainstream DC character able to interact with DC superheroes, and Gaiman's versions of Dream have appeared in DC superhero titles written by Keith Giffen and by Grant Morrison, as well as in Gaiman's own The Books of Magic series and in a Rick Veitch-authored issue of Swamp Thing ( where he meets Matthew Cable ).

The title was relaunched from issue # 1 by the creative team of writer Grant Morrison and artist Rags Morales.

In order to concentrate on the 1994 Spawn / Batman crossover ( with Miller writing ), he brought on Grant Morrison ( as writer ) and Greg Capullo ( penciller ) from issues # 16 -# 18.

The concept of the Alpha Lantern Corps was conceived by Grant Morrison.

Based on comments by Grant Morrison, this alternate universe is not the pre-Crisis Earth-2.

These included Neil Gaiman, whom she met in 1987 on a talent-scouting trip, as well as Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison.

Having spearheaded the " British invasion ," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was already editing many of the series which would form the core of the early Vertigo output.

Nor were any of the initial launch titles written by Grant Morrison, who had similarly finished his seminal runs on both Animal Man and Doom Patrol under the DC logo.

" Joining Mystery Theatre in February ( cover-dated April, 1993 ) was J. Marc DeMatteis ( and Paul Johnson )' s 64-page one-shot Mercy, while other initially talked about Vertigo projects included Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's 3-issue steampunk miniseries Sebastian O-another ex-Touchmark project.

* The Filth # 9-13 ( Apr-Oct ) by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston

Berger included in the initial Vertigo line-up the five titles she had had some hand in creating or editing ( Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Animal Man, Sandman and Shade ) as well as Doom Patrol which she " decided to include ... because Grant Morrison was working on it and the sensibility was very much like the other series.

Although the " mature reader " works of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison ( with Jamie Delano and Neil Gaiman ) under the DC imprint paved the way for Vertigo's launch, neither author was part of the initial line-up.

Duncan Fegredo < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s first major American work was on the 1991 Kid Eternity miniseries with Grant Morrison.

* New Line Cinema announced in June 2005 that it had optioned We3, with that comic's writer, Grant Morrison, then in negotiations to write the screenplay.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

Both Grant and Lee, whose armies had suffered enormous casualties in the Overland Campaign, received reinforcements.

Characters are often betrayed by family and friends – especially Avon, whose former lover Anna Grant is eventually revealed to be a Federation agent.

But there ’ s nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman ( Sweet Smell of Success ), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

Bond's killer is to be SMERSH executioner Red Grant, a psychopath whose homicidal urges coincide with the full moon.

Ulysses S. Grant commented, " I believe at some future day, the nations of the earth will agree on some sort of congress which will take cognizance of international questions of difficulty and whose decisions will be as binding as the decisions of the Supreme Court are upon us ".

His songs have been recorded by Little Big Town, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, Babyface, Amy Grant, Joe Cocker, Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Ashton, Michael W. Smith, Jill Phillips, Michael Crawford, Peter Frampton, Casting Crowns and Eric Clapton, whose version of Kirkpatrick's " Change the World " won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

Batfish and War Memorial Park, whose major attraction is the submarine USS Batfish ; the Three Rivers Museum, dedicated to the history of the Three Rivers area and the railroads that helped create it ; the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, honoring Oklahoma musicians since 1997 ; the Thomas-Foreman Historic Home, an 1898 farm house preserved with the furnishings of the Indian Territory Judge John R. Thomas and his daughter and son-in-law Grant and Carolyn Foreman, Oklahoma historians and authors ; and Ataloa Lodge, on the campus of Bacone College.

Other characters were based on well-known film stars, such as Captain Troy Tempest in Stingray who was based on James Garner, Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, who was modelled on Sean Connery, and Captain Scarlet in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, whose voice and appearance were modeled on Cary Grant.

* Grant Mitchell ( actor ) ( 1874 – 1957 ), American character actor in the 1930s and 40s whose full name was John Grant Mitchell

" O God, by whose grace thy servants the Holy Abbots of Cluny, enkindled with the fire of thy love, became burning and shining lights in thy Church: Grant that we also may be aflame with the spirit of love and discipline, and may ever walk before thee as children of light ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth, one God, now and for ever.

In 1913 he founded the Omega Workshops, a design workshop based in London's Fitzroy Square, whose members included Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

Cheung Wut Hoi, his father, was a fairly well known tailor, whose customers included American actors William Holden, Marlon Brando, and Cary Grant.

Grant, reacting to the political commotion caused by the invasion, organized the Middle Military Division, whose field troops were known as the Army of the Shenandoah.

Some American critics said that there was no Hollywood star in the movie — no Bergman, no Grant ; the cast did however include renowned international film stars ( Jade, Piccoli, Noiret ), whose previous successes had been primarily in France.

His first Hollywood job was as a personal secretary to Cary Grant, whose ex-wife, actress Dyan Cannon, Theiss cited as having considerable influence on his career.

Notorious is a 1946 American thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.

He was " kicked upstairs " to be chief of staff of the Army when Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Halleck's former subordinate in the West, whose battlefield victories did much to advance Halleck's career, replaced him in 1864 as general-in-chief for the remainder of the war.

Gen. John B. Floyd at Donelson, whose army fought under poor leadership and was surrendered to Grant on February 16.

Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson ( 14 June 1885 – 21 May 1970 ) was a writer and biologist whose works combine the scrutiny of a scientist with the insight of the poet.

Grant is a fifth generation Floridian whose family has lived in North Florida since before statehood.

Parker contacted his colleague and friend Ulysses S. Grant, whose forces suffered from a shortage of engineers.

Despite this, Grant was traded in 1974 in a surprising deal for defensive forward Henry Boucha ( whose attraction to the franchise may have been that he was a Minnesota native ), and the trade backfired badly: Grant had his best season that season, scoring 50 goals for the Detroit Red Wings while on a line with superstar centre Marcel Dionne, and becoming only the 12th player in NHL history to accomplish that feat.