Mahalia Jackson's 1947 version received significant radio airplay, and as her popularity grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she often sang it at public events such as concerts at Carnegie Hall.

Lee Jackson's theme song Grabbag has elicited many spin-offs and remixes over the years by both fans and professional musicians, including an officially sanctioned studio version by the popular thrash metal outfit Megadeth.

Several of Michael Jackson's videos show the unmistakable influence of the dance sequences in classic Hollywood musicals, including the landmark " Thriller " and the Martin Scorsese-directed " Bad " which was influenced by the stylised dance " fights " in the film version of West Side Story.

The USA 97 minute version is Peter Jackson's preferred version, as he was given the opportunity to " apply some additional spit and polish " to it.

In Peter Jackson's version of King Kong ( 2005 ), the cargo hold of the ship has a box reading Sumatran Rat Monkey — Beware the bite !.

In 1990, thrash metal band Anthrax recorded a cover version of Jackson's " Got the Time " for their Persistence of Time album.

In Peter Jackson's film version of The Two Towers, he was played by New Zealand actor Paris Howe Strewe.

Tolkien's description of the physical layout of the city of Minas Tirith itself is followed relatively faithfully in Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, ( the city also has a cameo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, when Gandalf goes there to discern the identity of Bilbo's ring, and it also can be seen in the distance for a few seconds when Faramir takes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ) Jackson's version interprets the top of the rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of Aragorn.

Kravitz worked on two songs for Michael Jackson's Invincible album released in 2001 ; a snippet of " Another Day " has leaked, and the full version was officially released on the album Michael in 2010.

In Peter Jackson's film version, Frodo attempts to reach out and touch the face of one of the corpses ; he falls into the water and the spirit of a dead Elf-king tries to drag him down.

* The Best, title of the international version of Janet Jackson's Number Ones compilation album ( 2009 )

During the War of the Ring Isengard was Saruman's base of operations against the Rohirrim, and he defiled the valley, cutting down its trees ( and, in Peter Jackson's film version, damming the Isen ).

In 2004, the Jungle Brothers joined with British producer Mr On to produce " Breathe ( Don't Stop )", a version of " Breathe and Stop " by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, combined with a sample of Michael Jackson's " Don't Stop ' Til You Get Enough " ( the idea was taken from a bootleg remix combining vocals from " Breathe and Stop " and music from " Don't Stop ' Til You Get Enough ").

In 1988, Ladysmith Black Mambazo appeared in Michael Jackson's movie Moonwalker, where they performed " The Moon Is Walking " ( an abridged version of the song " Lindelani ", which appears on Journey of Dreams ) over the end credits.

The album featured a remixed version of Jackson's successful " Centipede ".

The Rankin Bass animated version of the Hobbit portrayed the eagles as similar in physique and appearance to Harpy, crowned or monkey-eating eagles of the tropics, while Jackson's trilogy provided a more traditional interpretation, with birds similar to the Golden Eagle.

The print version of the Urban Dictionary describes it as " an accidental or supposedly accidental failure of clothing to cover parts of the body intended to be covered, made famous by Justin Timberlake during a Super Bowl halftime when he tore off Janet Jackson's clothes ".

In tribute, Marti Webb released a version of Michael Jackson's " Ben ".

Two of the nominated music videos had connections to Michael Jackson: " Fat " was a parody cover version of Jackson's song " Bad ", and the video for " This Note's for You " contained a Jackson look-alike's hair catching fire ( a parody of an incident that occurred to Jackson during a shoot for a Pepsi commercial in 1984 ).

The choir's version features a rap break and an interpolation of Janet Jackson's " What Have You Done for Me Lately " and Naughty by Nature's O. P. P.

* " Starlight " ( also titled " Give Me Some Starlight " and " Starlight Sun "), an early version of the hit that became Michael Jackson's " Thriller " ( song )

* Michael Jackson's version of the song Ben, which was played during the ending credits of the original sequel, Ben, is also played during one of the scenes in the 2003 film when the rats attack a cat.

Peter Jackson's 1995 film Forgotten Silver was billed and introduced as a serious documentary, purporting to tell the story of ' forgotten ' New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie.

Storyspace 2. 0, a professional level hypertext development tool, is available from Eastgate Systems, which has also published many notable works of electronic literature, including Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story, Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, and Judy Malloy's its name was Penelope, Forward Anywhere.

* 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.

Publication of Shirley Jackson's " The Lottery " drew more mail than any other story in the magazine's history.

Their story is referenced in several of Jackson's songs, including " She Likes It Too " and " Remember When ".

The story of the murder was adapted into the 1971 French film Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal ( Don't Deliver Us From Evil ) and into Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures ( 1994 ).

Shirley Jackson's short story collection, The Lottery & Other Stories, includes excerpts from Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus.

In a critique of infotainment, Bonnie Anderson of News Flash cited a CNN lead story on February 2, 2004 following the exposure of Janet Jackson's breast on national television.

She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders ( based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures ) and other works.

Jackson claimed he made up the story, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development stated that Jackson's statement was not literally true but instead " anecdotal ," and meant only to " explain to this group how politics works in D. C ." An inspector general's report later said that Jackson " personally intervened with contractors whom he did not like ... these contractors had Democratic political affiliations ," however no direct proof was found that Jackson's staff obeyed.

" She stated additionally that she considered Jackson's interpretation of the film, with a desire to stick as closely as possible to the original story, was partially responsible for what she considered the lackluster quality of the finished product.

According to one story, at the age of 95 she waved the Union flag in the middle of the street to block, or at least antagonize Stonewall Jackson's troops, as they passed though Frederick in the Maryland Campaign.

* The Tall Man in the Blue Suit: Witchcraft, Folklore, and Reality in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, or the Adventures of James Harris: A Study of the use of Child ballad 243 in Shirley Jackson's story collection The Lottery by Norwegian scholar Håvard Nørjordet

Some names have been changed, but many of the older characters and names are the same as in Jackson's short story.

The fact that Springfield's citizenry also miss the point of Jackson's story completely [...] can perhaps be seen as an indication of a more general misrepresentation of Jackson and her work.

Jackson's first article for SLAM appeared in the January 1995 issue titled " The Large Professor ", a story about Shaquille O ' Neal.

She soon learns that Jackson's story of his father's death isn't quite accurate, that news reports stated he landed on a nail puller at the bottom of the stairs in a freak way, crushing his sternum.

Some reviewers noted references to Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harry Potter and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings lauded film trilogy ( whose final film was released in December later the same year ) throughout the story.

The film tells the story of a scary Maestro with supernatural powers, who is being forced out of a small town by its mayor, pictured as a comically arrogant, plump man who bears more than a passing resemblance to Thomas Sneddon ( the main prosecutor in Jackson's infamous child sexual abuse case from three years earlier ).