* In 2006 NOFX frontman Fat Mike was making fun of Underoath and their religious beliefs and criticizing their stance on gay marriage, but emphasised that he befriended Underoath's band members at the start of the tour, had very civilized conversations with various members right up to Underoath's departure.

In 2009 The Sunday Times reported that Adrian Radford, a former soldier and gay rights activist, had befriended Natasha Avery and had been informing the police about the activity of senior SHAC members between 2004 and 2007.

While making the transition from professor to tattoo artist during the 1950s, Steward befriended a number of gay artists and writers including Paul Cadmus, George Platt Lynes, Julien Green, Fritz Peters, and Glenway Wescott.

While at Madrid he befriended the young French playwright Beaumarchais, whose experiences in Spain later formed the basis of his play ‘ The Marriage of Figaro ’.

During that summer, he befriended the playwright Hartley Manners and his wife, the eccentric actress Laurette Taylor.

He also first met and befriended Portuguese playwright José Régio during this time period.

During this time, Chaney befriended the husband-wife director team of Joe De Grasse and Ida May Park, who gave him substantial roles in their pictures, and further encouraged him to play macabre characters.

" At about age 16, while at Glenville, he befriended his later collaborator, Joe Shuster.

He also befriended songwriter Billy Joe Walker Jr. and producer Kyle Lehning, the latter of whom helped him sign a contract with Asylum Records in 1994.

* Robert Joe Wagner was befriended by Bunting in 1991.

He breaks in and, coming face to face with Joe, discovers that his friend has outgrown him and, worse, befriended Phillip Nugent.

But the words of those Joe had befriended in his adventures enabled Joe's confidence to return and fight Blue back.

A horrible reign of terror ensued, in the course of which the ex-tsaritsa Eudoxia was dragged from her monastery and publicly tried for alleged adultery, while all who had in any way befriended Alexei were impaled, broken on the wheel and otherwise lingeringly done to death.

By age twenty, she had met and befriended the important, and pivotal, landscape painter of the Barbizon School, Camille Corot, who excelled in figure painting as well.

He is often described as a tireless self-promoter and master networker, who married into wealth and befriended Hollywood celebrities, yet who preferred to work by himself.

The party at last reached Massawa on April 9, 1520, and reached the court of Lebna Dengel where he befriended several Europeans who had gained the favor of the Emperor, which included Pêro da Covilhã and Nicolao Branceleon.

He also met and befriended the Irish nationalist Daniel O ' Connell who was to prove to be a great inspiration.

He also befriended the archaeologist and practicing Pagan Alexander Keiller, known for his excavations at Avebury, who would encourage Gardner to join in with the excavations at Hembury Hill in Devon, also attended by Aileen Fox and Mary Leakey.

Gibbs was offered a motorbike ride by the attackers who at first insidiously befriended the group.

Returning to America, Parsons befriended Emmylou Harris, who assisted him on vocals for his first solo record, GP, released in 1973.

Some myths state that in the end, Hera befriended Heracles for saving her from Porphyrion, a giant who tried to rape her during the Gigantomachy, and that she even gave her daughter Hebe as his bride.

While living at Arrowhead, he befriended the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who lived in nearby Lenox.

The Impressionists learned much from the work of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Eugène Boudin, who painted from nature in a style that was similar to Impressionism, and who befriended and advised the younger artists.

Returning to Paris, the penniless Rousseau befriended and became the lover of Thérèse Levasseur, a seamstress who was the sole support of her mother and numerous ne ' er-do-well siblings.

It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Théodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school ; Honoré Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects ; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer.

On the return trip in the team bus, Lalkin denied his 13-year-old son, who had befriended weightlifter Yossef Romano and wrestler Eliezer Halfin, permission to spend the night in their apartment — an innocent refusal that probably saved the boy's life.

Allen attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle, and befriended Bill Gates, who was almost three years younger and shared a common enthusiasm for computers.

Cook befriended and supported Australian comedian and actor Barry Humphries, who began his British solo career at the club.

As a young man, he befriended Pargalı Ibrahim, a slave who later became one of his most trusted advisers.

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Early in her professional career, Amos befriended author Neil Gaiman, who became a fan after she referenced him in the song " Tear in Your Hand " and also in print interviews.

The President was by habit fiercely loyal and protective to those he befriended and complacently trusted ; effectively reformers who desired integrity in the federal government became hostile to the Administration and caused a party split in 1872.

In 1927 he befriended Johanna Ey, who as " Mutter Ey " became well known for her stewardship of young and upcoming artists of the day.

However, one of the mourners was his Russian language publisher Marc Slonim, who had befriended the Zamyatins.

Bodeck befriended them, and Campion wrote a song dedicated to Bodeck.

Later that summer, Crane met and befriended author Hamlin Garland, who had been lecturing locally on American literature and the expressive arts ; on August 17 he gave a talk on novelist William Dean Howells, which Crane wrote up for the Tribune.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Taylor befriended Lord Beaverbrook and later wrote his biography in 1972.

He notes that something bad always happens to the pets in Graves's books, and when he wrote back to Pete, he seemed especially interested in spending some " quality time with the pets ," particularly Bunnicula, whom Chester has now befriended.

Lewis Carroll wrote the children he befriended picture-puzzle rebus letters, nonsense letters, and looking-glass letters, which had to be held in front of a mirror to be read.

In college, Hooker began broadening his musical vision: He wrote a paper on Alban Berg, and befriended some members of Funkadelic.

Another eminent member of the family was Samuel of Seville, of whom Menahem b. Zerah wrote that he was " intelligent, loved wise men, befriended them, was good to them and was eager to study whenever the stress of time permitted.

Journalist Larry Kane, who befriended Lennon in 1964, wrote a comprehensive biography of Lennon which detailed the " Lost Weekend " period.

During the 1970s he wrote articles for the National Review, and befriended its editor William F. Buckley.

There he befriended Yehuda Amichai and wrote a poem about him.

He already was acquainted with Richard Henry Horne, he befriended James Smith and wrote a little for the local press.

A clergyman whom Bury had befriended, Edward John Gough, minister of St Paul's Episopalian Church in Dundee, also wrote to Lothian asking for a reprieve.

At various times, he frequented the studio of John Singer Sargent, befriended Mrs. Patrick Campbell, visited and corresponded with Percy Grainger and worked closely with George Bernard Shaw, who wrote the role of the Dauphin in Saint Joan for him.

Gershwin and DeSylva wrote the work in five days and five nights, and soon after completion it was orchestrated by Will Vodery, a very talented but relatively unknown African-American composer who had befriended Gershwin.

In there, he also befriended Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa, and wrote a poem named " Deusa incruenta ", based on Sousa's work " Terribilis Dea ".