The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

* Jessica Van Sack is an award-winning reporter who covers local innovation, worldwide technology trends and social media.

Chicano performance art blends humor and pathos for tragi-comic effect as shown by Los Angeles ' comedy troupe Culture Clash and Mexican-born performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Nao Bustamante is a Chicana Artist known internationally for her conceptual art pieces and as a participant in Work of Art: The next Great Artist produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Mohiam's second child with the Baron is Jessica.

The Baron, Duke Leto, and Jessica herself are unaware that Jessica is secretly the Baron's daughter or that he has even fathered one ; in the year 10, 176, the Baron's grandson Paul is born to Leto and Jessica.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

Elin's older sister, Jessica, who comes with her, dares her to kiss Agnes, who is rumoured to be a lesbian.

Elin's sister Jessica sees that she is in love and pushes her to figure out who it is.

The film ends with Elin and Agnes sitting in Elin's bedroom drinking chocolate milk and Elin explaining that she often adds too much chocolate until her milk is nearly black so then she must fill another glass with milk and mix it, and that her sister Jessica often gets mad that she finishes the chocolate.

Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja AM ( born 9 September 1969 ) is an Australian former politician and former leader of the Australian Democrats.

* The Tree of Life is a Terrence Malick film released in May 2011, starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain.

The last two paragraphs of Church's editorial are read by actor Sam Elliot in the 1989 film Prancer, about Jessica Riggs, a little girl who believes the wounded reindeer she is nursing back to health belongs to Santa.

The 2008 Macy's Believe holiday commercial featured Jessica Simpson, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart and others quoting various popular lines from " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

* October 14 – October 16 – The United States is caught up in a drama that unfolds on television as a young child, Jessica McClure, falls down a well in Midland, Texas, and is later rescued.

One seminal book on the process of working together from a distance is Virtual Teams by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps.

The son of Duke Leto Atreides I and the Lady Jessica, Paul Atreides is the heir of House Atreides, a nuclear-armed aristocratic family that rules the planet Caladan.

Jessica is a Bene Gesserit and an important key in the Bene Gesserit breeding program.

The university is also featured prominently in the film Smart People, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Dennis Quaid, and in the anime Summer Wars.

Jones married his second wife, Anita Pollinger, on 24 January 1981, and also had two daughters with her: Jessica Lillian ( born 4 September 1981 ) and Annabel Charlotte ( born 26 June 1988 ).

Jones married for a third time, on 30 August 2009, to Jessica Pacheco, 32 years his junior.

A $ 279, 000 payoff for the silence of Jessica Hahn, a staff secretary at the church, was paid with PTL's funds to Hahn through Bakker associate Roe Messner, who later married Tammy Fay Bakker.

However, the engagement was called off, possibly due to his affair around this time with the journalist Adela Rogers St. John, and in 1928 he married Jessica Stewart Sargent.

From 1949 until their divorce in 1963, he was married to producer Sybil Williams, by whom he had two daughters, Katherine " Kate " Burton ( born 10 September 1957 ) and Jessica Burton ( born 1961 ).

The Bene Gesserit had also placed their acolyte Jessica ( herself the product of a secret Bene Gesserit liaison with the Baron Harkonnen ) as the concubine to Duke Leto Atreides, and married the Bene Gesserit Margot to Shaddam's close friend and minion Count Fenring.

Jessica and Deborah married nephews-by-marriage of prime ministers Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, respectively.

They married on 30 January 1929, her sisters Jessica and Deborah were too ill to attend the ceremony.

The wimpish smiling Frank, sporting his trademark beret and trench coat, is married to ( apparently normal ) Betty ( Michele Dotrice ) and in later series they have a baby daughter, Jessica, which offered scope for even more slapstick humour.

Faykan had married Jessica Boro-Ginjo, a descendant of both the first Grand Patriarch Iblis Ginjo and also of the last Emperors of the Old Empire.

After their divorce, he married Susan Shepard, with whom he has a daughter, Jessica.

Scantlin married Jessica Nicole Smith in January, 2008.

Cronyn married the actress Jessica Tandy in 1942, and appeared with her in many of their more memorable dramatic stage, film and TV outings, including The Green Years, The Seventh Cross, The Gin Game, Foxfire, * batteries not included, Cocoon and Cocoon: The Return.

Nick Lachey married singer Jessica Simpson and released two solo albums, SoulO and What's Left of Me.

McCarthy married Jessica Kress in March 2008 at a private ceremony in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Simon went to college, Mary went to live with her grandparents ( see Jessica Biel's departure ), and Matt married and pursued his career as a doctor far away from the family.

Doyle is married to Jessica Laird Doyle, niece of former Congressman Melvin R. Laird, and great-granddaughter of William D. Connor, who was Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1907 – 1909.

In 2007, John Hewson married publicist Jessica Wilson.

He is married to Shary and has one daughter, Jessica.

On nine occasions since 1985, awards have been presented to duos or trios, including three married couples: lyricist Alan Jay Lerner & composer Frederick Loewe, actors Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy, musical-comedy duo Betty Comden & Adolph Green, the Nicholas Brothers ( Fayard & Harold ), actors Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Kander and Ebb ( John Kander & Fred Ebb ), actors Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, musicians Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey of The Who and the members of Led Zeppelin.

In August 2009, Ralston married Jessica Trusty ; his first child, Leo, was born in February 2010 .< ref >

Jenny and Lionel became a couple, were married in December 1976, and later became the parents of a daughter, Jessica ( played in later seasons by Ebonie Smith ).

He is survived by his fourth wife, the former Betsy Ann Langman, and four of his five children: Victoria ( by first wife, Virginia Ray, known as Jigee, who subsequently married Peter Viertel ), Stephen and David ( by second wife, Victoria ; David was a Vietnam veteran who predeceased his father ), Benn and Jessica ( by fourth wife ).

Madison's wealthiest citizen, mother of Steve Aldrich and Jason Aldrich ; Formerly married to Winston Croft ; Grandmother of Billy, Erich, Stephanie ; Great-grandmother to Jessica Aldrich and LeeAnn Powers.