For a long time they continued their " flirtation act " with Burns as Allen's most persistent suitor.

Many years later, when he and Oscar Hammerstein II appeared as mystery guests on What's My Line ?, Rodgers recalled Allen's act, sitting on the edge of the stage, his legs dangling down, playing a banjo while telling jokes.

After the couple married, Allen began writing material for them to use together (" With a vaudeville act, Portland and I could be together, even if we couldn't find any work "), and the couple divided their time between the show business circuit, Allen's New England family home and Old Orchard Beach, Maine, in summers.

Allen's act was typified by a relaxed, rueful and intimate style ; he would sit on a high bar stool facing his audience, smoking and occasionally sipping from a glass of what he always allowed people to assume was whisky, but in fact was merely ginger ale with ice.

At the end of his act Allen would always raise his glass and quietly toast his audience with the words " Thank you, goodnight and may your God go with you ", an original and inclusive catchphrase that typified Allen's amiable style.

On the set of the 1999 country music mockumentary, Dill Scallion, Koechner struck a partnership with SNL friend David ' Gruber ' Allen, joining Allen's improvisational comedy act, The Naked Trucker Show.

Comedian Jimmy Walker saw Allen's stand-up act and was so impressed that he invited the 14 year-old comedian to join his comedy writing team alongside promising young comedians Jay Leno and David Letterman.

Allen's topical humor is sometimes thought an acquired taste for audiences curious about his generation of radio stars ; Dunning has written that when he " went into topical humor, he may have forfeited his only opportunity to be the Mark Twain of his century.

Rampling gained recognition from American audiences in a remake of Raymond Chandler's detective story Farewell, My Lovely ( 1975 ) and later with Woody Allen's Stardust Memories ( 1980 ) and particularly in The Verdict ( 1982 ), an acclaimed drama directed by Sidney Lumet that starred Paul Newman.

Allen's science-fiction series had earned a reputation for using nonsensical science and for catering to juvenile audiences.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Allen's exploits in those years introduced him to the wrong side of the justice system, which would become a recurring feature of his life.

According to Allen's account he was outraged, and left his visitors with veiled threats, indicating that attempts to enforce the judgment would be met with resistance.

The assembled men refused to acknowledge his authority, insisting they would only follow Allen's lead.

On September 24, he and Brown, whose company was guarding the road between St. John's and Montreal, met at Longueuil, and, according to Allen's account of the events, came up with a plan in which both he and Brown would lead their forces to attack Montreal.

By March 1987, however, the situation had improved, and the company was able to bask in the glow of a string of critically acclaimed hits, including Platoon, which would go on to win an Academy Award for best picture, Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, and the basketball epic Hoosiers.

Allen's and Harryhausen's paths would cross three years later, on Allen's sequel to this film.

Allen often mentioned his show-business friends on the air (" Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts " was Allen's way of saying hello to his pal Jack Haley ), and on the Canin broadcast Allen knew Benny would be listening.

He stated that earlier in the day the producers had considered replacing the regular game play with a special memorial episode, but Allen's wife Portland Hoffa stated that she preferred the show be conducted as it always had been, indicating that this is what Allen would have wanted.

Levy had thought he would be taking over George Allen's team when he took the job.

Randall ( 1990 ) claims that Easton took accounts written by both Arnold and Allen to the Massachusetts committee, but conveniently lost Arnold's account on the way, ensuring that Allen's version, which greatly glorified his role in the affair, would be preferred.

* December 17, 1977 – the Redskins defeat the Los Angeles Rams 17 – 14 in what would be head coach George Allen's final game with the team.

Upon Fred Allen's death in 1956, Cerf became the anchor panelist who would always introduce Daly.

Republican George Allen announced that he would try to win back the seat that he lost to Webb in 2006, but Erickson declined to endorse the " establishment " Allen, complaining of Allen's voting record.

Gleason would work again with Woody Allen in Crimes and Misdemeanors ( 1989 ), this time playing the wife of Allen's character.

If the latter was used, then Allen's patent would not have been relevant.

TVA management objected vehemently to Allen's proposal, stating that it violated provisions of the TVA Self-Financing Act of 1959 which required all of the agency's power operations to be self-financing and unsubsidized, and would further dissuade new large customers from moving into its service area as opposed to adjoining areas where they would not be subject to such a scheme.

The original purpose of Allen's hiring was to scout the Rams, whom the Bears would play twice during the season ; Allen was asked for insights into Gillman's, and the Rams ', offensive strategy and signals.

Halas would not be so magnanimous in an NFL meeting soon after when he attacked Allen's character.

It might have been expected that Allen's firing met with criticism by fans and reporters, but what was not anticipated was the Ram players ' reaction ; thirty-eight members of the team's forty-man roster, including such standouts as Gabriel, Jones, Olsen, Lundy, Dick Bass, Jack Snow, Bernie Casey, Tom Mack, Irv Cross, Ed Meador, and Jack Pardee, stated for the record that they would seek a trade or retire if Allen were not reinstated.

The next day he went to Arlington to see his family and his brother Ira, whose prominence in Vermont politics had risen considerably during Allen's captivity.

In one famous scene, Allen's character, in line to see a movie with Annie, listens to a man behind him deliver misinformed pontifications on the significance of Fellini and Marshall McLuhan's work.

Time film critic Frank Rich wrote at the time that Allen's film is " tightly constructed, clearly focused intellectually, it is a prismatic portrait of a time and place that may be studied decades hence to see what kind of people we were ".

At the beginning of the Woody Allen film Annie Hall, Allen's character refuses to see Face to Face after arriving a few minutes late for a showing.

These players played separately with their compatriots ( see the song list below ), but also joined to combine various styles in one group, such as Red Allen's group and the group backing Billie Holiday on " Fine and Mellow ".

The features in the gardens include a Palladian bridge ( one of only 4 left in the world ), Gothic temple, gravel cabinet, Mrs Allen's Grotto, ice house, lodge and three pools with curtain walls plus a serpentine lake.

He was asked to leave Northampton in July 1767 by the authorities ; while no official reason is known, biographer Michael Bellesiles suggests that religious differences and Allen's tendency to be disruptive may have played a role in his departure.

Several critics have compared the film favorably to Bergman's 1973 film, Scenes from a Marriage, including Joseph McBride in Variety, who found it Allen's " most three-dimensional film to date " with an ambition equal to Bergman's best even as the co-stars become the " contemporary equivalent of ...

Film critics have dubbed Allen's Bananas ( 1971 ), a film chronicling the humorous rise of an unlikely dictator, a " spiritual sequel to Duck Soup.

The reindeer from Svalbard are also relatively short-legged and may have a shoulder height of as little as, thereby following Allen's rule.

" This may have had something to do with Allen's influence, as he was heavily involved in the planning and participation of the Korean exhibit at Chicago.

* Several critics and commentators have compared elements of Woody Allen's film, Match Point ( 2005 ) to the central plot of the novel.

Human populations exhibit climatic variation patterns similar to those of other large-bodied mammals, following Bergmann's rule, which states that individuals in cold climates will tend to be larger than ones in warm climates, and Allen's rule, which states that individuals in cold climates will tend to have shorter, stubbier limbs than those in warm climates.

They also tend to have shorter limbs and broader trunks, consistent with Allen's rule.

* Allen's rule – populations have shorter appendages in colder climates

He should have played for England more, there was no doubting Allen's sheer skill.

A new translation by Timothy Allen of the opening section of the poem was awarded one of The Times Stephen Spender prizes for Poetry Translation in 2008 ; further extracts from Allen's translation have appeared in Cosmopolis, ( the Summer 2009 edition of Poetry Review '.

Lewis Allen's direction manages a smart piece where static treatment easily could have prevailed.

All Allen Carr's Clinics are run by dedicated therapists who were once smokers and have used Allen's method to quit smoking.

For various reasons, Allen's previous managers had shuffled him around on defense, playing him at first base, third base, and the outfield in no particular order — a practice which almost certainly weakened his defensive play, and which may have contributed to his frequent injuries, not to mention his perceived bad attitude.

Allen's ideas have also been popularized through the Internet, especially via blogs such as Lifehacker, 43 Folders, and The Simple Dollar.

The theory behind Allen's rule is that endothermic animals with the same volume may have differing surface areas, which will aid or impede their temperature regulation.

Steegman paralleled his findings with the " Arctic Mongoloids ", particularly the " Eskimo " and " Aleut ," by claiming these " Arctic Mongoloids " have similar features in accordance with Allen's rule: a narrow nasal passage, relatively large heads, long to round heads, large jaws, relatively large bodies, and short limbs.

The film's title may have been an homage to a lengthy sketch of the same title from the 1950s television show Caesar's Hour ; one of Allen's first jobs in television was writing for Sid Caesar specials after the initial run of the show.

Recently, models of Seaview have also begun turning up and can be located either at the show's ( and Allen's ) official Web site and under other sites featuring science-fiction models.