Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

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.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

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Alia attempts to assassinate Jessica who escapes into the desert with Duncan Idaho's help, precipitating a rebellion among the Fremen.

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.

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.

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 script was about a jazz disc jockey named Dave ( Eastwood ), who has a casual affair with Evelyn ( Jessica Walter ), a listener who had been calling the radio station repeatedly at night, asking him to play her favorite song — Erroll Garner's " Misty ".

Set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle, the show chronicles the life of Max Guevara ( X5-452 ), a genetically enhanced super-soldier, portrayed by Jessica Alba as an adult and Geneva Locke as a child, who, after escaping from a covert government biotech / military facility as a child, tries to lead some semblance of a normal life and constantly tries to elude capture by government agents, while searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters scattered in the aftermath of their escape.

In 2009, a genetically enhanced, 9-year-old female super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara ( Jessica Alba ), escapes along with eleven others like herself from a secret government institution, codenamed Manticore, where they were born, raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins.

Between 2006 and 2007, he replaced Jared Leto in Awake, with Jessica Alba, which tells the story of a man who remains awake but paralyzed during heart surgery, and in Factory Girl, opposite Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce.

The story is told from the viewpoint of the elder two daughters, Ginny played by Jessica Lange and Rose played by Michelle Pfeiffer, who were sexually abused by their father as teenagers.

In 2003, he also purchased nude photographs of Private Jessica Lynch, who was captured by Iraqi forces, rescued from an Iraqi hospital by US troops and celebrated as a hero by the media.

Jessie Alice " Jessica " Tandy ( 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994 ) was a British-born stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67-year career in the United States.

Most recently, in several high profile divorces, females such as Britney Spears, Victoria Principal, and Jessica Simpson have paid multi-million dollar settlements in lieu of alimony to ex-husbands who were independently wealthy.

The couple had a second child, Jessica, who was born in 1971 and also went onto become an artist.

When Damon and Jessica were growing up, they originally lived in Leytonstone, East London with their parents who had decided to move there when they had met each other, in order to experience Londons wide cultural-scene.

The Bene Gesserit super-being – whom they refer to as the Kwisatz Haderach – arrives a generation earlier than expected in the form of Paul Atreides, who is free from their direct control though his mother is the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica.

Lady Jessica teaches it to her son Paul, who uses it in Dune when faced with Mohiam's test of his ability to withstand excruciating pain.

While scenes for Murder, She Wrote were being filmed in Mendocino, residents say that it was not uncommon to see Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher, stop to speak with a toddler, or for Tom Bosley to sign his autograph on a Glad Bag box presented by a shopper stepping out of the local grocery store.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

It was late, we were playing kissing games, and Jessica and I were called on to kiss in front of the others.

I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??

Fuller was portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker in Tim Burton's 1994 Wood biographical film Ed Wood, a portrayal of which she disapproved due to the image of her smoking in the film.

It was founded by alumni of Chicago's Second City, Alan Myerson and his wife Jessica.

Jean was able, through telepathic therapy with the comatose Jessica Jones, to grant Jessica immunity to the Purple Man's mind control abilities, despite his powers being chemical in nature rather than psychic.

However, Jessica Winter of The Village Voice complimented Dunst, stating that her performance was " as sprightly and knowingly daft as her turn in Dick.

His co-star was Jessica Lange.

However, his first major stage success was his role as an awkward suitor of Jessica Tandy in " A Streetcar Named Desire ," which also helped make Brando a star on stage.

His last, Blue Sky, was released posthumously and won a Best Actress Oscar for Jessica Lange.

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 ).

His only child, Jessica Rains, was born to him and Proper on 24 January 1938.

Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice, a biography by David J. Skal and Rains ' daughter Jessica Rains, was published in 2008.

Lovejoy sent her to boarding school in an attempt to curb her tendencies, but Jessica was expelled, having shown no improvement.

During the 2001 Big Day Out festival in Sydney, Jessica Michalik was crushed in a mosh pit during a performance by the band Limp Bizkit.

Later in January 2007 Timberlake was linked to Jessica Biel when pictures surfaced of the two snowboarding in Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival.