Gary Desmond's Candy's Room, coming from Liverpool, was the first in 1980, quickly followed by Dan French's Point Blank, Dave Percival's The Fever, Jeff Matthews ' Rendezvous, and Paul Limbrick's Jackson Cage.

He then recruited Charles McCall ( who followed Jeff Wilkins as CEO, and later became CEO of HBOC ), Maury Cox ( who became CEO after the departure of McCall ), and Robert Massey ( who was the last CEO of CompuServe ).

Bergen continued performing until his death in 1978, and his popularity inspired many other famous ventriloquists who followed him, including Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson, Jeff Dunham, Shari Lewis, Willie Tyler and Jay Johnson.

Other appearances included The Twilight Zone episodes " A Hundred Yards Over the Rim " ( 1961 ) and " The Dummy " ( 1962 ) followed by guest-starring roles in such series as the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour ( 1963 ) in the role of Jeff Dillon, " The Man Who Came Home Late ".

Next, Anoushka Shankar and Jeff Lynne performed " The Inner Light ", followed by a Ravi Shankar composition " Arpan " ( Sanskrit for ' to give '), specially written for the occasion.

A spin-off, The Colbys, debuted in 1985 as Fallon " returned from the dead " and ex-husband Jeff followed her to Los Angeles, where they became embroiled in the family intrigues of Jeff's wealthy California relatives.

In 2005 Gerrard collaborated with Ennio Morricone for Fateless followed by a collaboration with Jeff Rona on the score for the feature film " A Thousand Roads " and the song On an Ocean for the Henry Poole Is Here score.

Cuban followed up his intentions by organizing " HDNet Fights ", a mixed martial arts promotion which airs exclusively on HDNet and premiered on October 13, 2007 with a card headlined by a fight between Erik Paulson and Jeff Ford as well as fights featuring veterans Drew Fickett and Justin Eilers.

He then made his film debut ( with about fifteen seconds ' screen time ) in A Kiss Before Dying, followed by his first substantial role as Jeff Goldblum's son in Fathers & Sons.

Emerging pace bowler Jeff Thomson followed the next year.

On Mondays to Thursdays this is followed by international reports from UCB correspondents Steve Johnson ( United States ), Ruth Price ( Australia ), Jeff Fountain ( Europe ) and James Totton ( Asia ); on Fridays Aaron uses this timeslot to speak to David Sliver from the Israel-based Out of Zion Christian ministry.

" This was followed by a specially produced pre-recorded introduction tape that introduced everybody employed by the radio station on its launch day, from engineers, administration, management like Travis Baxter and John Catlett, and the station's personality music presenter lineup including ex-Laser 558 presenter Charlie Wolf, MaryEllen O ' Brien, Andrew Turner, Nicky Schiller, Henry Owens, Al Dunne, Tony West, John Ryan and Jeff Graham.

Jeff Blauser followed with a bunt single to score Lopez, and after Neagle bunted to advance Jones and Blauser Marquis Grissom doubled them in to give Atlanta an early 4 – 0 lead.

** Side Effect by Matt followed by a Whisper in the Wind by Jeff

Begun in the late 1980s by Jeff Mills and " Mad " Mike Banks, UR related the aesthetics of early Detroit Techno to the complex social, political, and economic circumstances which followed on from Reagan-era inner-city economic recession, producing uncompromising music geared toward promoting awareness and facilitating political change.

Brown was 19 when he made his first major screen appearance in Halls of Anger ( 1970 ), followed by The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid ( 1972 ) and his breakthrough role as the American Civil War draft dodger Drew Dixon in Robert Benton's critically acclaimed Bad Company ( 1972 ), co-starring with Jeff Bridges.

The Production class was won by a Ford Escort GT driven by Tad Ohtake and Bob Martin followed by a Honda Civic driven by Jay Kowalik and Jeff Wheeler.

They were followed, in 2003, by Jeff Singer's Spruce Mountain.

The original DJ lineup on 105 KITS consisted of program director Jeff Hunter 6 – 9am, followed by Doug Ritter 9am – 12pm, Gary Robbins 12 – 3pm, Todd Parker 3 – 7pm, Richard Sands 7 – midnight, and Rick Neal ( George Fryer ) midnight – 6am, Mark Van Gelder was 105 KITS first Production Director, Annette Parks ( daughter of pioneer broadcaster and Miss America Pageant Host Bert Parks ) was the station's news director, and Michele Meisner ( formerly of San Francisco's Fantasy Studios ) was music director.

This was followed by two games based on Jeff Smith's Bone comic book series.

Although this film originally aired on HBO, it was later broadcast by PBS and followed with a panel discussion by journalist Jeff Greenfield.

Backstage, Goldberg and then-WCW CEO Ric Flair watched Totally Buffed's arrival followed by " Mean " Gene Okerlund interviewing Jeff Jarrett.

While a listener could hear an occasional Country record by Jerry Jeff Walker or a Reggae tune by Peter Tosh, they knew it would be followed by a rock record, seamlessly followed by a casual back announcement from knowledgeable air talent.

He was growing as a musician, gaining practice by regularly playing at dances with his father's half-brother Jeff Guthrie, a fiddle player.

Harrison debuted as a professional musician assisting in recording his father's final album, Brainwashed, and completing it with the assistance of Jeff Lynne after his father's death in November 2001.

In the 1962 – 63 television season, Bridges, along with his brother, Jeff, appeared on their father's CBS anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show.

Porpora's daughter said she had never heard of her father's actions but that it fit in with his mischievous nature ; but Jeff Jerome of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum pointed out that the details of Porpora's story seemed to change with each telling.

Jeff loves to dance although his father is drilling him to go to trade school and is following his heart instead of his father's wishes.

As the women are packing to leave for Jeff's father's island, however, Jack overhears them talking about their scheme and threatens to tell Jeff.

On the night of a party that Jeff is throwing for Kay, Barbara encourages Jeff to accept a challenging job in South America to escape from under his father's shadow, while Phil admits to Kay that he loves her.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

Jeff is terrible at talking to women, often stumbling and unintentionally making up lie upon lie in an attempt to avoid looking stupid.

Firaxis Games is an American video game developer founded in 1996 by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Brian Reynolds upon leaving MicroProse.

In addition, two key individuals on Lewis ' staff ( Letitia White and Jeff Shockey ) went to work for Copeland Lowery, earning millions of dollars for themselves ; Richard White, Letitia's husband, has seen a steep increase in his income since he switched to being a lobbyist for defense firms ; Lewis ' stepdaughter has benefited from his ties to the lobbyists ; and Jeff Shockey, upon returning to work for Lewis in 2005, was paid two million dollars by Copeland Lowery as " severance ", based upon projected revenues of the lobbying firm for the eleven months following his departure.

" Jeff's brother, Beau Bridges, was then shown the script, although he admitted he was a " little reluctant since Jeff had initiated it and I didn't want anyone to feel that big brother had been forced upon them.

Raines was traded to the Chicago White Sox on December 20, 1990, along with Jeff Carter and a player to be named later ( Mario Brito would eventually be agreed upon ), in exchange for Iván Calderón and Barry Jones.

Toril was the name of Jeff Grubb's campaign world, and it was adopted as the name of the planet upon which the continent of Faerûn existed when he and Ed Greenwood were designing the original Forgotten Realms Boxed Set in 1987 ( the Old Grey Box ).

Laswell retained the Material name and was calling upon a large group of musicians with, at its core, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, keyboardist Jeff Bova, percussionist Aiyb Dieng, former Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and bassist Bootsy Collins, plus Jamaican reggae duo Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare ( Sly and Robbie ).

Blanc had died shortly before the production, and Jeff Bergman was called upon to recreate the voices.

" " Under the Bridge " became the album's second single in March 1992 ; upon release, journalist Jeff Apter noted that it " was the bona fide, across-all-formats radio hit that the band had been working towards for seven years.

He was then moved into the hitting coach position on June 9, 2008 upon the dismissal of Jeff Pentland.

In the Bruins 4-3 game 7 victory over the Montreal of the same series, Ference drew much ire for a questionable collision to the head of Canadiens ' Jeff Halpern, but upon a disciplinary hearing it was ruled that the hit did not warrant any sort of disciplinary action.

** Adventure Gamers review the computer game based upon the Bone comic book series by Jeff Smith.

After initially working on the Crude Oil desk, Arnold moved over to the Natural Gas Desk upon the departure of Jeff Bussan.

The band draws upon a diverse set of influences including ATB, American singer Jeff Buckley and bands like Radiohead, Counting Crows.