According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

This work was collected by Dark Horse Comics in a four-volume hardcover series entitled Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

Al Capp's life and career are the subjects of a new life-sized mural commemorating his 100th birthday.

At the San Diego Comic Con in July 2009, IDW announced the upcoming publication of Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays as part of their ongoing Library of American Comics project.

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick: His Life and Deaths ( 1956 ) Simon & Schuster

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Bald Iggle: The Life it Ruins May Be Your Own ( 1956 ) Simon & Schuster

* Capp, Al, Life Magazine ( January 14, 1957 ) " The Dogpatch Saga: Al Capp's Own Story "

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years — 4 volumes ( 2003 – 2004 ) Dark Horse Comics

* Al Capp Studios, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books ( 2008 ) Dark Horse ISBN 1-59307-901-X

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo Vol.

The fictional Elbonia has some visual and thematic similarities to the fictional country of Lower Slobbovia in Al Capp's long-running strip Li ' l Abner, where the impoverished citizens, who suffered under corrupt government, were perpetually seen in waist-deep snow.

With Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Li ' l Abner ( 1940 ), an adaptation of Al Capp's comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat.

The name was taken from Al Capp's comic strip Li ' l Abner.

The term " Skunk Works " came from Al Capp's satirical, hillbilly comic strip Li ’ l Abner, which was immensely popular in the 1940s and ' 50s.

From a recommendation, writer Jerry Caplin, a. k. a. Jerry Capp, brother of Li ' l Abner creator Al Capp, invited Adams to draw samples for Capp's proposed Ben Casey comic strip, based on the popular television medical-drama series.

Daisy Mae ( née Scragg ) Yokum: Beautiful Daisy Mae was hopelessly in love with Dogpatch's most prominent resident throughout the entire 43-year run of Al Capp's comic strip.

The Jazz Three displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns & Leon James, the superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution of the blues to a spot on the evening program.

Al Capp drew his own autobiography, the 34-page Al Capp by Li ' l Abner ( 1946 ), distributed to returning WWII amputee veterans.

" Walt would say to Al, ' Of course, Al, this is really how you should draw Daisy Mae, I'm only showing you this for your own good.

Some, such as Mario Bava's Hercules in the Haunted World ( Italian: Ercole Al Centro Della Terra ) are considered seminal works in their own right.

* Al Joad – The second youngest son, a " smart-aleck sixteen-year-older " who cares mainly for cars and girls ; looks up to Tom, but begins to find his own way.

In 2006, the label denied " Weird Al " Yankovic permission to release " You're Pitiful ", a parody of James Blunt's " You're Beautiful ", despite Blunt's own approval of the song.

In an interview with Al Jazeera in 2009 Bouterse said that the trial is being used by his political opponents to prevent him from running for office again and for their own political gain.

When friend and fellow Army Scout Al Sieber learned what Schieffelin was up to, he is quoted as telling him, " The only rock you will find out there will be your own tombstone ".

Al insists on choosing his own material, including his signature tune, " Mammy ", and he becomes so popular that he becomes the leading player and takes the show on tour.

At first he tried to imitate Al Jolson by smearing his face with black paint, but later separated himself to form his own identity as an impoverished slum dweller with baggy pants, a rope for a belt, and a distinctive mustache.

With Season 4, Al Molinaro was added as Al Delvecchio, the new owner of Arnold's, after Pat Morita's character of Arnold moved on after his character got married ( Morita had left the program to star in a short-lived sitcom of his own, Mr. T and Tina, which was actually a spin-off of Welcome Back, Kotter.

It featured a cover of the Motown classic " Little Darling ( I Need You )", " Echoes Of Love " ( written for, but not recorded by, Al Green by James Mitchell, then of the Memphis Horns, and Earl Randle, both of whom had worked with Green a good bit, to which Simmons added some music and lyrics co-writing the finished version with Mitchell and Randle ; the song was later covered by the Pointer Sisters and ex-New Seekers vocalist Lyn Paul ), and " You Belong To Me " ( co-written by McDonald and Carly Simon, who had a hit with her own version of the tune ).

The Weather Channel introduced its own morning show, Wake Up With Al, featuring Today weatherman Al Roker, which supplements its regular weather-information program, Your Weather Today.

The field developed its own cadre of widely known advocates, such as Al Jonsen at the University of Washington, John C Fletcher at the University of Virginia, Ruth Faden at Johns Hopkins University, and Arthur Caplan at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

His chief rival in the Arabian peninsula was the king of the highlanders on the highland of Najd named Ibn Saud, who annexed the Hejaz in 1925 and set his own son, Faysal bin Abdelaziz Al Saud, as governor.

The Ringlings had their own band, with Al playing the bass drum, John the cornet, and Charles and Otto the trombone and tuba.

* Kepel, Gilles ; & Jean-Pierre Milelli ( 2010 ), Al Qaeda in its own words, Harvard University Press, Cambridge & London, ISBN 978-0-674-02804-3.

Through MBC, Abdulaziz bin Fahd and his maternal uncle Waleed bin Ibrahim al Ibrahim own and have control over Al Arabiya.

The article also belied many impressions the film gave of Van Doren: it portrayed him as a bachelor when he was actually engaged ; it suggested he had a fascination with the burgeoning, popular television quiz shows when in fact he did not even own a television set ; that the only reason he became even mildly acquainted with Twenty-One was because co-producer Al Freedman shared a mutual acquaintance with one of Van Doren's friends ; and, that he had been offered his job with The Today Show promptly after losing to Vivien Nearing when, in fact, NBC was not sure at first what to do with him, until he did work for Dave Garroway's Sunday afternoon cultural show, Wide Wide World, which then led to the invitation to join Today.

he served as the third in command of Al Qaeda, from the 2003 capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to his own capture in 2005.

The Yom Kippur confessional consists of two parts: a short confession beginning with the word Ashamnu ( אשמנו, " we have sinned "), which is a series of words describing sin arranged according to the aleph-bet, and a long confession, beginning with the words Al Cheyt ( על חטא, " for the sin "), which is a set of 26 double acrostics, also arranged according to the aleph-bet, enumerating a range of sins.

* Journalism and ' the words of power ': Robert Fisk address to the fifth Al Jazeera annual forum on 23 May

The Big Pond gave Chevalier his first big American hit songs, " Livin ' in the Sunlight, Lovin ' in the Moonlight " with words and music by Al Lewis and Al Sherman, plus " A New Kind of Love " ( or " The Nightingales ").

Bassist Al McKibbon, who had known Monk for over twenty years and played on his final tour in 1971, later said: " On that tour Monk said about two words.

In the film Casino Jack, Kevin Spacey plays infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff who is depicted in one scene, while before a senate hearing, repeating Al Pacino's famous words in the movie.

According to this interpretation, which appears to be Crowley's as well, the purpose of the Comment is allow others to interpret Liber Al vel Legis for themselves ; in other words, no one is to preach its contents or tell you their understanding of it is the one true understanding.

In other words, Prince Faisal was backed by the religious establishment, which is headed by the Al Shaykh the descendants of Muhammad bin Abd al Wahab.

... Mr. Kidd has caught the spirit of Dogpatch civilization brilliantly enough to suggest that ballet is a more suitable medium than words for animating Al Capp's cartoon drawings ".

" In other words, I knew something no one else knew, but I got no recognition for it ," Sklansky is quoted as saying in Al Alvarez's The Biggest Game in Town.

Other popular songs have included " Hiawatha ’ s Melody of Love ", by George W. Meyer with words by Alfred Bryan and Artie Mehlinger ( 1908 ), and Al Bowlly's " Hiawatha ’ s Lullaby " ( 1933 ).

After a long, intense and suspenseful 10 minutes, the clock ticked down the final few seconds, in which commentator Al Michaels said his now famous words, " Do you believe in miracles?

" Al Roker, Jasmine Guy, Denyce Graves and Jane Seymour have made appearances to read words to the viewers as well as some athletes

The song was a 1934 hit song by Al Dubin ( words ) and Harry Warren ( music ).

) Al Qaeda in its own words, HUP, 2008.

Al Amarjan patois ( called ' Marjan ) has numerous loan words from just about any other language in the world.

According to news reports by France 24 and Al Jazeera, the words and actions of the Dalai Lama constitute a ban on the practice.

In the 1983 American epic crime film Scarface, Tony Montana ( Al Pacino ) sees the Goodyear blimp showing the words " The World Is Yours.

But certain words of more recent origin or coining do not have the change and retain short vowels, including Al, alcohol, bal, Cal, calcium, doll, gal, Hal, mal -, Moll, pal, Poll, Sal, talc, and Val.