Wright's later film appearances included a major role in Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ), the role of the grandmother in The Good Mother ( 1988 ) with Diane Keaton, and the role of Miss Birdie in John Grisham's The Rainmaker ( 1997 ), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

His efforts, however, did not go unnoticed ; director Francis Ford Coppola was so impressed by Damon's dedication to method acting that he offered him the leading role in The Rainmaker ( 1997 ).

* The Rainmaker ( 1997 ) ( directed by Francis Ford Coppola )

* " Legend of a Cowgirl ", a 1997 single by Imani Coppola

Madsen appeared in a small but key role in the Francis Ford Coppola drama The Rainmaker ( 1997 ) starring Matt Damon.

In 1997, The Rainmaker was adapted into a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, and Danny Glover.

In 1997, the Britain based Odinic Rite ( OR ) founded a US chapter ( ORV ).

In New York, the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief was founded in 1997 and is led by Dan Halloran, but in 2009 many members split off and formed the Arfstoll Church of Theodish Belief, White Marsh Theod, and Álfröðull þjóð.

The Pakistan Cave Research & Caving Federation was founded in Pakistan in 1997.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

Petr Mach, an economist, a close associate of president Václav Klaus and a member of the Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 2007, founded the Free Citizens Party in 2009.

The Air Wing of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces was founded in 1987, had a base at the airport in Nausori, but was abolished in 1997.

Scott Kurowski wrote the Internet PrimeNet Server that supports the research to demonstrate Entropia-distributed computing software, a company he founded in 1997.

In 1997 the Fundación Isaac Albéniz was founded in his name to promote Spanish music and musicians and to act as a research centre for Albéniz and Spanish music in general.

Spacey played an egomaniacal district attorney in A Time to Kill ( 1996 ), and founded Trigger Street Productions in 1997, with the purpose of producing and developing entertainment across various media.

In order to make money for his newly founded company, he made The Kingdom ( Riget, 1994 ) and The Kingdom II ( Riget II, 1997 ), a pair of miniseries recorded in the Danish national hospital, the name " Riget " being a colloquial name for the hospital known as Rigshospitalet ( lit.

* Convergence Party ( Convergencia, CV ), founded in 1997 ;

Raël founded Clonaid ( originally Valiant Venture Ltd Corporation ) in 1997, but then handed it over to a Raëlian bishop, Brigitte Boisselier in 2000.

In 1997 Brennan founded the " Cheap & Cheerful Chip Company " which later went on to become Global Silicon Limited

In 1970, the Vindolanda Trust, a registered charity, was founded to administer the site and its museum, and in 1997, the Trust took over the running of the Roman Army Museum at Carvoran, another Hadrian's Wall fort, which it had acquired in 1972.

JGI was founded in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in genome mapping, DNA sequencing, technology development, and information sciences pioneered at the three genome centers at University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), and LANL.

* The Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team, was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.

The station was founded in Dover as Neptune Radio in September 1997 but moved to Folkestone in 2003 and was consequently rebranded after a takeover by the KM Group.

The Yitzhak Rabin Centre was founded in 1997 by an act of the Knesset, to create " Memorial Centre for Perpetuating the Memory of Yitzhak Rabin.

It was founded in 1997 by the University of Pavia, the Borromeo College and the Ghislieri College, supported by the Italian Minister of Education.

The old city of Porvoo was formally disestablished and the new city of Porvoo founded in 1997 when the city of Porvoo and the Rural municipality of Porvoo were consolidated.

Twenty one Roma political organizations were founded between 1997 and 2003 in Bulgaria.

* Berkeley Systems in Berkeley, California, founded in 1987, acquired in 1997, closed 2000.

It was founded in 1997 under the name the Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company ( AVESCO ).

In 1997, she headed the congressional committee that was responsible for compensating lumber workers laid off because Headwaters Forest Reserve was founded.

* Buddy ( 1997 ; co-production with American Zoetrope and Columbia Pictures )

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

* Since 1997 Mantua has hosted the Festivaletteratura, one of the most renowned literary events in Europe.

In her essay " What Nature Allows the Jealous Laws Forbid " literary critic Mary Aswell Doll compares the love between the two male protagonists of Annie Proulx ' book Brokeback Mountain ( 1997 ) with the love Myrrha has for her father in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

* Hans Egon Holthusen ( 1913 – 1997 ), lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar

In 1997, Hachette Livre won a string of literary prizes, including the Prix Goncourt and the Prix de l ' Académie française with La Bataille ( The Battle ) by Patrick Rambaud ().

Aozora Bunko was created on the Internet in 1997 to provide broadly available, free access to Japanese literary works whose copyrights had expired.

Tripp reported these conversations to literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, who advised her to secretly record them, which Tripp began doing in September 1997.

Among the most decorated American writers of his generation, he has won every major American literary award, including the Pulitzer Prize for his major novel American Pastoral ( 1997 ).

Poems Coming Home From Home ( 2000 ), were short-listed for the 1997 CBC / Saturday Night literary competition.

During his days as political leader, he pursued his literary interests as well, and in 1997, he published a collection of short stories, Nokkrir góðir dagar án Guðnýjar, which became a best-seller in Iceland.

In Australia, a minor literary scandal erupted in 1997 when it emerged that award-winning author Helen Darville plagiarised this list for her regular column in Brisbane's Courier-Mail newspaper, which led to her being fired.

* Charles Dowsett, ( 1997 ), Sayatʻ-Nova: an 18th-century troubadour: a biographical and literary study, ISBN 90-6831-795-4

In 1997 Daisy Rubiera Castillo's testimonial biography of her mother, Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century, was a finalist in Casa de las Américas ' literary competition.

The F. Marion Crawford Memorial Society was founded in 1975 and published the literary review The Romantist from 1977 until 1997.

James Laughlin ( October 30, 1914 – November 12, 1997 ) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing.

* The Cortland Review An online literary magazine in text, audio and video, founded in 1997.

Her novels include Furu Hausu ( フルハウス, " Full House ", 1996 ), which won the Noma literary prize for best work by a new author ; Kazoku Shinema ( 家族シネマ, " Family Cinema ," 1997 ), which won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize ; Gōrudo Rasshu ( ゴールドラッシュ, " Gold Rush " 1998 ), which was translated into English as Gold Rush ( 2002 ); and Hachi-gatsu no Hate ( 8月の果て, " The End of August ," 2004 ).

Hecht won a number of notable literary awards including: the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ( for the volume The Hard Hours ), the 1983 Bollingen Prize, the 1988 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 1997 Wallace Stevens Award, the 1999 / 2000 Frost Medal, and the Tanning Prize.

She was first noticed by literary agencies after her short story Private Tutor appeared in the 1997 collection.

Swan also criticized literary critic David Staines as " a tweedy pooh-bah mired in 19th century literary traditions " when he allegedly disparaged novels by Barbara Gowdy and other Canadian writers chosen by Swan and other jurors for Canada ’ s 1997 Governor General's Award.

The poet received the following literary awards: " Milan Rakić " ( 1974 ), " Isidora Sekulić " ( 1982 ), " Branko Miljković " ( 1989 ), " Laza Kostić " ( 1995 ), " Kočić's pen " ( 1997 ), " Jovan Dučić " ( 1998 ), " Gold Link " ( 1998 ) and " Prince Lazar's Gold Cross " ( 1998 ).

as " Archaic Works " ( Componimenti Arcaici ): " such are labeled the first literary works in the Italian vernacular, their dates ranging from the last decades of the 12th century to the early decades of the 13th " ( Segre: 1997 ).

* Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Encyclopedia of feminist literary theory, Taylor & Francis, 1997, ISBN 0-8153-0824-8, p. 190