Her extendibles were diverted, connected or augmented and the final, delicate-beyond-description brain taps were completed while Helva remained anesthetically unaware of the proceedings.

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

Her final feature, the comedy film With Six You Get Eggroll, was released in 1968.

Her final public appearance was at an after-party at the Sardi's restaurant in New York City, following the premiere of the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

Her final appearance aired Monday, May 5, 2008 (" Rock and a Hard Place ").

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

" Her final 2005 film was Don't Move playing Italia.

Her final screen appearance was in the 1991 film The Shepherd and the Women, directed by her ex-husband Ali Badrakhan.

Her final screen appearance was in 1991, with the movie Al Ra ' i We El Nissa.

Her second and final album for Arista was 1999's Love in the Real World, led off by the No. 29 " Never Been Kissed ", which was followed by " Little Bird.

Her health gradually deteriorated in the final two decades of her life ; a heavy smoker all her adult life, she had a lung operation in 1985, a bout of pneumonia in 1993, and at least three strokes between 1998 and 2001.

Her sixth and final pregnancy ended in tragedy when her infant son died after only a day of life.

" Her final commercial campaign was for American Express, in which she was photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

Her final words to the German Lutheran prison chaplain, Paul Le Seur, were recorded as, " Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe, and that I am glad to die for my country.

Her first performing experience on film was at age three where she appeared in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime.

Her final stage performance came in 1966 when she played Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals at the Haymarket Theatre, alongside Sir Ralph Richardson.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 films, television and theater roles to her credit.

Her fifth and final husband was director and producer William Marshall.

Her alleged pre-contract of marriage with King Edward IV of England was of great significance to the final fate of the Plantagenet dynasty and outcome of the Wars of the Roses.

Her final gig with the Airplane took place at the Fillmore on October 15, 1966.

A portion of the final production sequence is used near the end of the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters to give Allen's character a motivation to carry on with life.

Her husband was present for her final confession.

Her final appearance on Broadway was as Miss Tina in the 1962 production of Michael Redgrave's adaptation of The Aspern Papers, from the Henry James novella.

Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes ( 1997 ), The Hi-Lo Country ( 1999 ), The Girl of Your Dreams ( 2000 ) and Woman on Top ( 2000 ).

Her many credits include Picnic, The Bad Seed, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Family Affair, Barefoot in the Park, Butterflies Are Free, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, Ladies at the Alamo and The Cemetery Club.

Her nominations include a 1996 Drama Desk Award for Northeast Local and Tony nominations for Butterflies Are Free ( play ), Invitation to a March, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.

Her first professional recording with Ike Turner was singing background for him on Ike's record, " Box Top ".

Her streak of five consecutive gold Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 ended when the album's first single, " Something Better to Do ", stopped at No. 13 ( also No. 19 Country and No. 1 AC ).

Her Making a Good Thing Better album ( No. 34 Pop, No. 13 Country ) failed to be certified gold, and its only single, the title track ( No. 87 Pop, No. 20 AC ), did not reach even the AC Top 10 or the Country chart.

While both " White Rabbit " and " Somebody To Love " were US Top 10 hits, " The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil ", peaked at No. 43 and " Watch Her Ride " stalled at No. 61, though both were listed as being in the top forty in Cash Box.

Her 1979 single, " I Know A Heartache When I See One ", was a Top 10 Country hit and reached the Top 20 on both the Pop and Adult Contemporary charts.

Her second album, Martika's Kitchen, peaked at # 111 on the Billboard Top Albums chart, and the title track received only minor airplay and reached # 93 on Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

Get Close was released in 1986 ; the disc included the Top 10 singles " Don't Get Me Wrong " ( helped by a popular video homage to the television series The Avengers ) and " Hymn to Her " a No. 8 success in the UK.

While their next release, " Never to be Forgotten " brought a regional hit, the band ’ s next single, " Let Her Dance " brought the band ’ s first national hit, barely missing the Billboard Hot 100 at 133, though bringing in a Top 40 hit.

Produced by Pink Floyd / David Gilmour engineer Andy Jackson ( taking over from previous band producer Bill Buchanan ), the album was preceded by the single " For Her Light ", which clipped the British Top 40 in its first week of release.

Her first self-penned song to crack the Top Ten, 1966 ’ s " Dear Uncle Sam ”, was among the very first recordings to recount the human costs of the Vietnam War.

Her last Top 10 record as a soloist was " I Lie " in 1982, but her releases continued to chart until the end of the decade.

Her 1985 album, Just a Woman spawned a Top 40 hit.

Her first album for Arista, Coming Around Again ( 1987 ), gave Simon another international hit with the title track ( which was featured in the film Heartburn ), returning her to the Billboard Pop Top 20 and the U. K. Top 10 ( It also garnered her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ).

Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2. 3 million, with over a million singles sold, All seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 30 UK Album Chart, with two of the albums reaching number one.

Her 1961 recording of Sailor became her first No. 1 hit in the U. K., while such follow-up recordings as Romeo and My Friend the Sea landed her in the British Top Ten later that year.

It failed to generate any Top 40 singles in the United States, although " I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know " and " I Can't Quit Her " found some play on progressive rock radio.

Her popularity spread to other parts of the world when she competed in the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan, and won the musician's award for " Top Performer " as well as the gold medal for " Best Song " with " Tellement j ' ai d ' amour pour toi " (" I Have So Much Love for You ").

Her first single, Apartment No. 9 ( written by Bobby Austin and Johnny Paycheck ), was released in December 1966, and just missed the Top 40 on the Country charts, peaking at No. 44.

Her next solo album Desire ( 1987 ) was less successful although the single with her version of " Echo Beach " made it Top 50.

Her career accolades include Three Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards and five MTV Video Music Awards, in addition to having 17 Top 20 Hits on the Billboard charts.