Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: " He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence.

Studying avant-garde theatre and mime under Lindsay Kemp, he was given the role of Cloud in Kemp's 1967 theatrical production Pierrot in Turquoise ( later made into the 1970 television film The Looking Glass Murders ).

An early Kemp tax reform attempt was an unsuccessful 1979 proposal to index tax brackets for cost of living fluctuations, which was incorporated in Reagan's 1980 package.

The reversal was controversial and stimulated opposition by Kemp.

By 1985, Kemp was a leading contender for the 1988 Presidential nomination.

" Kemp has compared his speech to George Carlin's 1984 comedy routine on the differences between baseball and American football and has written that his " tongue was firmly planted in cheek " when making the speech.

By early 1988, the moderates ( Bush and Dole ) were clearly the front-runners and Kemp was battling with Pat Robertson as the conservative alternative to the moderates.

As a so-called " bleeding-heart conservative ", Kemp was a logical choice for Bush as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, whose job would be to foster public sector and private sector methods to meet the demands of public housing.

However, the scandals of Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce and the neglect of the president were obstacles from the start, and Kemp was unsuccessful at either of his major initiatives: enacting enterprise zones and promoting public housing tenant ownership.

Although Kemp was unable to procure money for his visions, he was among the administration's leading users of first class corporate jets.

In 1992, with H. Ross Perot mounting a formidable campaign, Kemp was again considered a Vice Presidential candidate.

Kemp was partly at fault for not achieving either of his primary goals because he did not get along with the rest of the Cabinet.

At one point, Kemp told James Baker, White House Chief of Staff, that Bush's best chance to win reelection was to dump his economic advisors in dramatic fashion.

Kemp was respected within the party for opposing Bush, and towards the end of Bush's administration insiders recognized his value.

Kemp was a bit of a surprise to stay in the Bush Cabinet for the duration of his presidency, and he was described as one of the few Bush Administration members who would take tough stands.

Kemp was considered the star of the 1992 Republican National Convention.

In 1992 and 1993, Kemp was considered the favorite or co-favorite for the 1996 Presidential nomination.

At the time of the 1994 mid-term elections, Kemp was widely anticipated to announce his candidacy for 1996, and his supporters wanted a formal announcement by the end of the year.

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

In 1995, Gloria Borger noted Kemp was not in step with the 1994 Contract with America.

The Marlins had garnered serious interest from the Los Angeles Angels and Los Angeles Dodgers and both had major league-ready and minor league prospects to offer among the likes of Howie Kendrick ( Angels ), Ervin Santana ( Angels ), Matt Kemp ( Dodgers ), and Clayton Kershaw ( Dodgers ).

" Kemp was among the prominent leaders who pledged to raise money in 2005 for Scooter Libby's defense when he was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in a case regarding the release of Central Intelligence Agency information.

Mr. Kemp is among a rioting crowd at a food storage depot who are dispersed by tear gas.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

Defenders of Reagan's statement pointed out that political speeches from local, state, and national politicians at the fair had been a long-standing tradition dating back to 1896, and that Jack Kemp, John Glenn, and Michael Dukakis among other politicians had spoken there.

Managed by Gene Griffin, Riley's work with Guy pioneered the New Jack Swing style of R & B, which had been showcased previously in Riley's productions for Keith Sweat ( I Want Her ), Johnny Kemp (" Just Got Paid "), Bobby Brown (" My Prerogative ") and among others.

Along with Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Kemp Long, Claiborne was among the first thirteen inductees into the Hall of Fame.

This position has been held by J. C. Watts, Dick Cheney and Jack Kemp, among others.

The best international players routinely skip college entirely, many American stars skip college ( Shawn Kemp, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Dwight Howard, Amar ' e Stoudemire and LeBron James ) or only play one year ( Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, Kevin Durant, Greg Oden ) and only a dozen or so college graduates are now among the 60 players selected in the annual NBA Draft.

During Piers Morgan's editorship of the paper he became show business editor before becoming head of news in 2000. Notable among Wallace's scoops was the news that actor Ross Kemp was leaving the BBC soap opera EastEnders in favour of working for rival channel ITV.

Powell also expressed post-retirement regret over his majority opinion in McCleskey v. Kemp ( 1987 ), where he voted to uphold the death penalty against a study that demonstrated that – except as punishment for the most violent of crimes – people who killed whites were significantly more likely to receive the death penalty as punishment for their crimes than people who killed blacks.

" The Big Bad Horns " (" Big " Dave Kemp on saxophone, Frank Mizen on trombone and Grant Kirkhope on trumpet ) had become synonymous with the ' Angels ' sound over the years, contributing to a large majority of their recorded output, and appearing live with the band more often than not.

( He did, however, donate his services as a speaker at a $ 100-a-plate fundraiser for Republican Congressman Jack Kemp.

At several Republican National Conventions, Kemp has delivered speeches.

During the 1984 Convention, with Trent Lott as Republican Party Platform Committee Chairman, Congressmen Kemp and Newt Gingrich claimed control of the party platform to the consternation of G. O. P.

Kemp as he leaves a meet-the-candidates rally for 1988 Republican presidential candidates in County Stadium in Union, South Carolina, on October 3, 1987.

In fact, most of the Republican electorate found themselves unfamiliar with Kemp early in his campaign.

Before the 1992 Republican National Convention, Kemp and six prominent Republican conservatives prepared a controversial memo urging Bush to revise his economic policy.

In late 1991, 81 of the 166 Republican Congressmen signed a letter co-authored by Curt Weldon and Dan Burton requesting that Bush cede some domestic authority to Kemp as a " domestic policy czar.

After stepping down from his $ 189, 000 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development job, Kemp personally earned $ 6. 9 million in the next three years, primarily for speaking on behalf of local Republican candidates.

" In 1994, Kemp and Bennett opposed California ballot Proposition 187, a measure to bar illegal immigrants from obtaining public services, in direct opposition to first-term Republican California Governor Pete Wilson, one of its endorsers who was running for re-election.

Kemp had a reputation as the highest-profile progressive Republican.

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kemp, along with allies such as Gingrich and Lott, added a plank to the party platform that put President Reagan on record as ruling out tax increases.

However, Farrakhan is perceived as being anti-Semitic, and Kemp is considered an ally of Republican Jews.

During the campaign, Kemp expressed the opinion that the Republican party leaders did not stand behind the ticket wholeheartedly.

Congressman Paul Ryan cites Kemp as a mentor, and mentioned him in his acceptance speech as the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee in 2012.

In 1997, when Gingrich was embroiled in a House ethics controversy, Kemp served as an intermediary between Dole and Gingrich to save the Republican Party leader.

On January 6, 2008, Kemp endorsed McCain in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries shortly before the New Hampshire primary, which surprised conservative Republican tax cutters.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.