Puccini's work, in turn, became source material for Jonathan Larson's musical Rent.

Larson's work with Commander Cody had led to her being signed to the C & W division of Warner Bros. Records.

Larson's further session vocal credits comprised work with Paul Barrere and the Bluesbusters, Jimmy Buffett, Carlene Carter, Robert Forman, the Georgia Satellites, Marc Jordan, Troy Newman, Dolly Parton, Guthrie Thomas and " Weird Al " Yankovic.

The performance attracted the attention of a young producer named Jeffrey Seller, who became a fan of Larson's work.

However, a former vice president of BLM ( Bob Larson Ministries ), Lori Boespflug, claimed that much of Dead Air, though presented as Larson's work, is actually her own.

The characters and settings are all common to Larson's work, such as aliens, anthropomorphic animals and other objects, and cowboys in the Old West.

The article has been cited as a reference used for background on Scientology in books which take a critical look at cults such as Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality and Insane Therapy: Portrait of a Psychotherapy Cult, those that analyze new religious movements including Understanding New Religious Movements and The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements, and in a work that includes researchers from both schools of thought, Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field.

( 1960 ), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1962 ), Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante's A Chorus Line ( 1976 ), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ), Jonathan Larson's Rent ( 1996 ), and Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal ( 2010 ).

Sunday comics were double-sized, done in watercolor or colored pencils, with captions handwritten in Larson's own cursive.

The set was released in two volumes ( 1980 – 1986 and 1987 – 1994 ), with a foreword by Steve Martin and an introduction by Larson's long-time editor Jake Morrisey.

In one of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips, captioned " Hell's Video Store ", the entire store is stocked with nothing but copies of the movie Ishtar.

Interest in Holmes's crimes was revived in 2003 by Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, a best-selling non-fiction book that juxtaposed an account of the planning and staging of the World's Fair with Holmes's story.

The All-New Press Your Luck which reunited the two contestants who competed against Michael Larson with Larson's brother, James, for a grudge match ( Michael Larson had died in February 1999 of throat cancer ).

Larson's next prominent series was Knight Rider, which featured science-fiction elements with a light-hearted action-adventure scenario and limited violence.

These basic elements characterized much of Larson's output throughout the 1980s with Automan, Manimal, and The Highwayman, though all of these series were unsuccessful and none lasted more than a single season.

Larson's popularity declined, though he made a brief comeback in the 1990s with an adaptation of the Ultraverse comic Night Man, which lasted two seasons.

Larson's involvement with Universal had begun in the 1970s, and his contractual agreement had secured him net profits from the revenues generated by the shows he worked on as a producer, including The Six Million Dollar Man, Quincy, M. E., Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Magnum, P. I., and Knight Rider.

Rolling then went upstairs, taped Larson's mouth shut and her wrists together behind her back, and threatened her with a knife as he cut her clothes off of her.

Popular culture, such as Gary Larson's cartoon The Far Side, Brian Wilson's song " Mrs. O ' Leary's Cow ", the song " The Chicken or the Egg " from The Easter Bunny Is Comin ' To Town, and Rita Hayworth's song " Put the Blame on Mame " from the movie Gilda and even Quentin Tarantino's debut film Reservoir Dogs have referred to the story with the expectation that the populace will understand the reference.

Several of their books have won the Eisner Award including: Bryan Lee O ' Malley's Scott Pilgrim, Rick Spear & Chuck BB's Black Metal, Hope Larson's Grey Horses, and Greg Rucka's Whiteout: Melt and Queen & Country, with many more receiving nominations.

Her father's employment with the U. S. Treasury Department necessitated frequent relocation for Larson's family.

Larson's " Lotta Love " peaked at No. 8 the week of 10 February 1979, the same week the single off Comes a Time: " Four Strong Winds " a duet with an unbilled ( on the single ) Larson, debuted on the Hot 100 on its way to a No. 61 peak.

Don Shewey in Rolling Stone opined: " Larson's rough-edged, down-home tone is definitely appealing — especially when she backs up the likes of Neil Young and Steve Goodman High and Outside album featured a duet with Larson: " The One That Got Away " — but as a soloist, her limited vocal resources are " severely taxed " — " It's symptomatic of Nicolette Larson's problems as a performer that the finest singing on In the Nick of Time is by Michael McDonald.

Larson's recording of the Burt Bacharach / Carole Bayer Sager song " Fool Me Again " was featured on the bestselling soundtrack album for the 1981 film Arthur despite not being heard in the film: Larson was also featured on the soundtrack album for National Lampoon's Vacation ( 1983 ) with the track " Summer Hearts ".

In fact Larson's MCA debut ... Say When was not released until 1985 and the C & W career it ushered in proved anti-climactic with only one of Larson's six MCA single releases becoming a significant hit: her duet with Steve Wariner entitled " That's How You Know When Love's Right " — taken from the April 1986 album release Rose of My Heart — reached No. 9 C & W.

The following week Ronstadt and Larson cut their vocals for Young's American Stars ' n Bars album at Young's La Honda ranch — the two women were billed on the album as the Saddlebags — and in November 1977 Young invited Larson to Nashville to sing on the sessions for his Comes a Time album, an assignment which led to Larson's being signed to Warner Brothers, an affiliate of Young's home label Reprise.

Larson's MCA albums — produced by Emory Gordy, Jr. and Tony Brown — attracted little critical attention: in a Stereo Review critique headed " No No Nicolette " which characterized Larson as a faded Pop star for whom C & W music represented " the Last Chance Saloon ", Alanna Nash opined Larson sounded as if she were reading lyrics off cue cards.

Nash's review of Rose of My Heart — in which Nash stated her earlier review had drawn a response from Larson's manager implying Nash had taken " etiquette lessons from the Marquis de Sade " — granted that Larson's interpretive skills showed improvement.

Larson also contributed vocals to the Doobie Brothers ' Minute by Minute whose producer Ted Templeman would be responsible for Larson's debut album Nicolette.

Like Maria Muldaur, Larson would be unable to consolidate the commercial success augured by her debut: the second single off Nicolette, " Rhumba Girl "< sup > 1 </ sup > just missed becoming a major hit for Larson at No. 48 and her second album In the Nick of Time released November 1979 failed to showcase Larson's voice attractively.

However without the boost of a major hit Larson's commercial decline was evidenced by the muted impact of her 1981 and 1982 album releases: Radioland, which was her last album produced by Templeman, and All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go even though both releases showed Larson back in strong vocal form.

Larson's final mainstream album release was Shadows of Love a 1988 recording made for the Italian CGD label and produced by Carlo Stretti and Ernesto Taberelli.

Larson's final album was the self-produced Sleep, Baby, Sleep comprising music for children and released on Sony in 1994.

In the early 1980s, Larson was engaged to Andrew Gold, an affiance which ended soon after the completion of Larson's 1982 album release All Dressed Up and No Place to Go which Gold had produced.

In the spring of 1977 Larson was at Ronstadt's Malibu home when neighbor Neil Young phoned to ask Ronstadt if she could recommend a female vocal accompanist, and Ronstadt suggested Larson, becoming the fifth person that day to put Larson's name forward to Young.

The story is autobiographical, as stated by Larson's father in the liner notes of the cast recording – Larson had been trying to establish himself in theatre since the early 1980s.

The Rocky character made an appearance in Gary Larson's " The Far Side " comic strip, causing Larson to comment " I've discovered an interesting phenomenon.

In 1961 a friend of Larson's drew some sketches of members of King Arthur's court eating pizza, and Mr. Larson then adopted the King Arthur theme for his restaurants.

Supporting these claims is a letter from Larson's lawyer that warns Larson of his " potential liability to Lori ", anticipating that " the role Lori has played " would lead her to " demand recognition and / or profit participation " in respect to Dead Air and its sequels.

Gary Larson's Tales From the Far Side is an animated short film created in 1994 by Gary Larson, based on his The Far Side comic strip.

The interlocking frame we built at the model railroader workshop and then installed on Paul Larson's railroad follows the Fig. 1 scheme and is shown beginning in Fig. 7, page 65, and in the photos.

As detailed in Erik Larson's popular history The Devil in the White City, extraordinary effort was required to accomplish the exposition, and much of it was unfinished on opening day.

* Kirby Larson's young adult novel, Hattie Big Sky, explores one woman's attempts to " improve " on her family's homestead before the deadline to retain her rights.

Most of Larson's comics relied on some combination of a visual and verbal gag, rather than just one or the other.

MGA immediately filed an appeal, seeking appeal of the 2008 judgement, claiming numerous errors on Larson's part during the initial trial.

A benefit concert was held in Larson's honor the following February, with tribute concerts staged on the tenth anniversary of her death in December 2007 and also the following year.

In the 1960s, the focus of Larson's preaching centered mainly on the leftist political ideology, sexually suggestive lyrics, Eastern religious mysticism, and antisocial behavior of many of the era's rock musicians.

Following several guest roles in episodic television, including two separate roles in Glen A. Larson's series Battlestar Galactica and a role on his series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Ortiz auditioned for the role of spoiled, selfish vineyard heiress Melissa Agretti on Falcon Crest as a replacement for actress Delores Cantú who had played Melissa for one episode in early 1982.

While some specialists, including paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa, supported the conclusion, others, including Eric Delson of Lehman College, City University of New York, pointed out that the recent sample of H. floresiensis individuals is too small and that Larson's research was based just on one shoulder bone.

Larson's first job was performing in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

As a representative of the Church of Satan, Gilmore has been interviewed on numerous television and radio programs dealing with the topic of Satanism, including appearances on The History Channel, BBC, The Sci-Fi Channel, Point of Inquiry, and Bob Larson's Christian radio show.