Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

Nick Rogers condemned the film: " Sean Penn gives the most professionally shameful, cruelly wrongheaded performance ever nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, while Jessie Nelson Kristine Johnson's script lives down to Penn's ugly ineptitude with idiotic catchphrases and product placement.

The match with Ketchel was originally thought to have been an exhibition, and in fact it was fought by both men that way, until the 12th round, when Ketchel threw a right to Johnson's head, knocking him down.

Johnson's force was originally intended to join General William Hull at Detroit, but Hull surrendered Detroit on August 16 and his army was captured.

Johnson City, originally known as Johnson's Depot, was a major railway center for the southeastern states, connecting the region for freight transportation and passengers.

It was originally known as Doctor Johnson's island, being included in the patent granted to him in 1680.

A " Rollie TV " skit had originally aired in 1993 on Toth & Johnson's Chicago cable TV show " Color TV " and was then adapted in to segments for radio.

William Johnson's paternal grandfather was originally known as William MacShane, but changed his surname to Johnson, the English translation of the Gaelic Mac Seáin.

Lana was originally written for Virgil Johnson's The Velvets, based in Odessa.

The brand was originally developed by Johnson's, owners of the Johnson's Foot Soap brand.

Johnson's volumes were originally titled Prefaces, Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets.

This and other concession areas along the Turner Turnpike were originally Howard Johnson's restaurants and full-service Phillips 66 stations, but changed to their current configurations in the 1980s as was the case with concession areas along other Oklahoma turnpikes.

According to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, the term was " originally the name of a street ... much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet.

" Johnson's appearance was broadcast on CNN's Sports Tonight the day before the episode originally aired, and host Fred Hickman stated that he did not find it humorous.

The building featured in two hugely influential books of the time: Hitchcock and Johnson's The International Style published in 1932 and F. R. S. Yorke's The Modern House published in 1934, as well as the second volume of Corbusier's own series The Complete Works.

Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess ' Stardust was released by Vertigo as a heavily illustrated novel, rather than a regular comic, and Vertigo has also experimented with the dimensions of their OGNs, releasing several that are of a non-comic-book-standard size, including Dave Gibbons ' The Originals and Mat Johnson's Incognegro ( which also featured somewhat experimental artwork, namely art-by Warren Pleece-that was fully black and white, with no " halftones or grays ").

In 1986, Stone was featured on a track from The Time member Jesse Johnson's solo album Shockadelica called " Crazay ".

The first Howard Johnson's restaurant featured fried clams, baked beans, chicken pot pies, frankfurters, ice cream, and soft drinks.

* Johnny Johnson's Spitfire IX featured the Canadian maple leaf.

The song " Mr. Johnson's Head " was re-recorded in 1997 and was intended to be featured on the group's fourth studio album The Great Milenko.

The 1979 NCAA Championship Game featured Magic Johnson's Michigan State University team facing off against Larry Bird's Indiana State University team.

Johnson is the sole character featured in The Halo Graphic Novel story, " Breaking Quarantine ," which details Johnson's escape from the Flood in Halo: Combat Evolved, and a main character in the 2007 novel Halo: Contact Harvest.

One of Johnson's original songs, " Dream About You ", was featured in the episode " Carnival.

In early 1998, Ratliff created a website, Ryan Johnson's Star Wars Prequel Rumors, which featured journal entries from the fictional Ryan, who described his day-to-day activities and often wrote at length about his wife and best friend.

As of 1932, he was considered one of the four greatest modern architects ( along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier ), and was prominently featured in Philip Johnson's International Style exhibition.

On 25 April 2007 it was announced that having not featured under manager Nigel Worthington Leicester had begun talks to terminate Johnson's contract early, and he was eventually released in May 2007.

In this alternate history the corrupt US President Ferris F. Fremont ( FFF for 666, ‘ F ’ being the 6th letter in the alphabet, see Number of the Beast ) becomes Chief Executive in the late Nineteen-Sixties following Lyndon Johnson's administration.

Originated by Edmond Malone in 1790 as an alternate to Johnson's memorial report theory.

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

Beginning in 1830, there arose a groundswell of public support for Johnson's " pet project " of ending debt imprisonment.

The closing date was extended to August 20, 1866, date of President Johnson's Proclamation ending the war.

However, since his discussions with NBC, Warner Bros ( who hold the television rights to the V franchise ) have opted to produce a remake of V ( written by Scott Peters ) for the ABC Network, thus ending any prospect of Johnson's sequel being produced for television.

Johnson's divorce was finalized on October 7, 2010, ending the marriage.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

The campaign included fierce debates ; Johnson's primary issue was the passage of the Homestead bill, which Haynes contended would facilitate abolition.

" Biographer Trefousse indicates that Johnson's drinking on the occasion was the result of ill health which began before his arrival in Washington, though the exact nature of the ailment is not specified.

In a second effort at compromise, Trumbull presented for Johnson's signature the first Civil Rights Bill, which sought to grant citizenship to the freedmen.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

In Samuel Johnson's 1828 dictionary, his definition of " pall mall " clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: " A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring ".

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

" A further theory is that it derives from Johnson's word skavoovie, with which he was known to greet his friends.

The first was in 1910 when a man called Jim Johnson accused him of cheating at dice and threw him off the boat on which they were traveling ( and which Thompson had recently won when gambling with its previous owner-a friend of Johnson's ).

Johnson's expedition was better organized than Shirley's, which was noticed by New France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil.

Later examples can be seen in Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia and Samuel Butler's Erewhon, which uses an anagram of " nowhere " as its title.

In his memoirs, Wilson writes of " selling LBJ a bum steer ", a reference to Johnson's Texas origins, which conjured up images of cattle and cowboys in British minds.

As Johnson's biographer Robert Caro observes, " Johnson's ambition was uncommon — in the degree to which it was unencumbered by even the slightest excess weight of ideology, of philosophy, of principles, of beliefs.

Johnson's brilliant handling of the press, the efficiency with which his committee issued new reports, and the fact that he ensured every report was endorsed unanimously by the committee all brought him headlines and national attention.

At 10: 15 a. m. he went to Johnson's suite to discuss a mutual ticket ; the two men were alone for about 30 minutes during which time Johnson said Kennedy would have trouble with those who were strongly against him.

Johnson's second major education program was the Higher Education Act of 1965, which focused on funding for lower income students, including grants, work-study money, and government loans.

In 1964, upon Johnson's request, Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1964 and the Economic Opportunity Act, which was in association with the war on poverty.

Johnson's speech repeated the theme that " dramatized Hanoi / Ho Chi Minh as the aggressor and which put the U. S. into a more acceptable defensive posture.

Associate Justice Abe Fortas, who was secretly Johnson's top adviser, brokered the deal in which Fortas would become chief justice.

Several hip-hop activists have also reflected on Johnson's legacy, most notably in the album The New Danger, by Mos Def, in which songs like " Zimzallabim " and " Blue Black Jack " are devoted to the artist's pugilistic hero.

In the trenches of World War One, Johnson's name was used by British troops to describe the impact of German 150 mm heavy artillery shells which had a black colour.

After a subpar stretch in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the team had a brief resurgence with coach Karl, culminating in a famous 1987 Western Conference Semifinal match against Magic Johnson's Lakers, which is still shown on TV in the NBA's Greatest Games series.