In the mid 1960s Baba became concerned with the increasingly prevalent drug culture in the West and began a correspondence with several Western academics, including Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, in which he strongly discouraged the use of all hallucinogenic drugs for spiritual purposes.

And when I first began working at the little editorial office up on Filbert and Grant, people that Lawrence had known through the whole decade of the ' 60s were dropping in all the time, like Paul Krassner, Tim Leary, people who were working with underground presses and trying to provide an alternative to mainstream media.

It began in 1844 as the Chicago Evening Journal ( which was the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O ' Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire ).

She also began experimenting with drugs and was reportedly introduced to LSD by friends from Cambridge who knew Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert.

In an attempt to fight against typecasting after her Bond girl performance, Janssen began seeking out more intriguing support roles, appearing in John Irvin's City of Industry, Woody Allen's Celebrity, Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man, and Ted Demme's Monument Ave. Denis Leary, her co-star in Monument Ave., was impressed by how easily she blended in, initially not recognizing her as she was already in character.

Spin-off shows that co-existed with the Channel 4 series were presented by Dermot O ' Leary, Russell Brand, George Lamb and Emma Willis, who returned to present the only spin-off show Big Brother's Bit on the Side alongside Jamie East and Alice Levine when the show began on Channel 5.

Dr. Leary began conducting experiments with psilocybin in 1960 on himself and a number of Harvard graduate students after trying hallucinogenic mushrooms used in Native American religious rituals while visiting Mexico.

The first of these was the Concord Prison Experiment which began in 1961 under the supervision of principal researchers Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert.

Soon the lines between legitimate research and personal experimentation began to blur for some, and as early as 1962 fellow faculty members at Harvard openly criticized Leary and Alpert for abandoning scientific principles and experimenting with LSD outside official research settings.

In the 1960s, John Lilly, M. D., prolific writer and explorer of consciousness via the isolation tank ( his invention ), and contemporary and associate of Timothy Leary, began experiments in the Virgin Islands aiming to establish meaningful communication between humans and the bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ).

According to David O ' Leary, Australian Consul-General in Hong Kong, the ABC AP programmes shown on TVB Pearl would be well received by the Australians working and living in Hong Kong and on the other hand help promote both Australian culture and the use of the English language to Hong Kong people.

For unknown reasons, this plan came to nothing and after some months giving lectures on his war service and working in a publishing house, O ' Leary joined the Ontario Provincial Police, charged with enforcing the prohibition laws.

Although his family sailed on the SS Leticia, O ' Leary remained in Ontario, working with the attorney general's office.

In an interview, given at the time of the book's release, he said that he had liked working with David O ' Leary and Peter Ridsdale at Leeds ; " I loved working with David.

The founding board of the project consisted of Leary, Aldous Huxley, John Spiegel ( later president of the American Psychiatric Association ), Leary's superior at Harvard University David McClelland, Frank Barron, Ralph Metzner, and two graduate students who were working on a project with mescaline.

A well known folk song, " The Galbally Farmer ", ( with a tune also known as " Thank God we're surrounded by water "), tells of the trials suffered by a hired labourer working for the miserly farmer of the title, Darby O ' Leary.

Rogers started her television career behind the scenes working as a researcher on shows including Johnny Vaughan's The Fall Guy, The Girlie Show, Absolutely Animals and Light Lunch with fellow researcher Dermot O ' Leary.

Denis Colin Leary ( born August 18, 1957 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and film producer.

* Dennis Leary, actor, musician and comedian

** Denis Leary, American comedian and actor

MTV Raps and directed other projects for them, including the infamous black-and-white rants starring then-unknown chain-smoking comedian Denis Leary.

For many years, Hicks was friends with fellow comedian Denis Leary.

It also features the well-known comedian Denis Leary, who carries his humorous nature over into the show.

After Ted Demme directed comedian Denis Leary in No Cure for Cancer, a stand-up comedy special for Showtime, they got the script for The Ref and decided to do it.

Dré and Ed Lover participated in the Comedy Central roast of comedian Denis Leary.

Among the dead was the cousin of comedian Denis Leary, Firefighter Jerry Lucey, and his close childhood friend, Lt. Tommy Spencer.

In response, the comedian founded the Leary Firefighters Foundation, which has since distributed over $ 2. 5 million ( USD ) to fire departments in the Worcester, Boston, and New York City areas for equipment, training materials, and new vehicles and facilities, since its creation in 2000.

Adam later worked on musical endeavors with comedian Denis Leary and recorded with Jim Carroll, David JoHanson and Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando.

Leary is a graduate of Emerson College, in Boston.

Leary and Clarke both spoke about their early affiliations and influences in the Boston comedy scene in the documentary film When Standup Stood Out ( 2006 ).

* In early 2004, HBO produced a documentary called The Curse of the Bambino, featuring commentary from native Boston celebrities such as Denis Leary, narrated by Ben Affleck.

The DVD release When Standup Stood Out ( 2006 ) details Clarke's early career and affiliations with other famous Boston comics, such as Steven Wright and Denis Leary, his good friends.

In 1980, Clarke wrote and starred in a local television show Lenny Clarke's Late Show featuring Wright and Leary, in collaboration with Boston comedy writer Martin Olson.

Clarke and Olson were roommates, and their apartment, known by comedians as " The Barracks ", was a notorious " crash pad " for comics visiting Boston, and the subject of a documentary film as Clarke and Leary explain in When Standup Stood Out.

Troy Franklin O ' Leary ( born August 4, 1969 in Compton, California ) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the Milwaukee Brewers (-), Boston Red Sox (-), Montreal Expos () and Chicago Cubs () and also in the Australian Baseball League for the Daikyo Dolphins.

Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer to construct a fake war with Albania.

She co-starred with actor Kevin Spacey in the 1994 comedy film The Ref, portraying a married couple whose relationship is on the rocks, with actor-comedian Denis Leary as their marriage counsellor.

* Underworld ( 1996 film ), a comedy / thriller film starring Denis Leary and Joe Mantegna

In explaining her reasons for switching from journalism to comedy, Lampanelli stated not only for the pay raise, but because “ I get to say the n-word word on stage and get paid money .” She made her break at the 2002 New York Friars ' Club roast of Chevy Chase, and went on to participate in the roasts of Denis Leary, Pamela Anderson, Jeff Foxworthy, Flavor Flav, William Shatner, and Donald Trump and to serve as Roastmaster for Larry the Cable Guy.

The Ref ( Hostile Hostages in some countries ) is a 1994 American black comedy film directed by Ted Demme and starring Denis Leary, Judy Davis, and Kevin Spacey.

He also recorded half-hour specials for HBO and Comedy Central Presents, as well as comedy showcases like the Cam Neely Foundation fundraiser, which also featured performers like Jon Stewart, Denis Leary and Steven Wright.

( In his comedy special No Cure For Cancer, Denis Leary incorrectly mentions, in passing, Kermit singing the song at the Henson funeral as well.

The Job is a single-camera television comedy drama about a New York City police officer named Mike McNeil ( Denis Leary ) -- who indulges in adultery, alcohol, cigarettes and prescription drug abuse — and his fellow ' bumbling detective ' pals.

Byers has made several appearances on the FX drama / comedy Rescue Me with well-known Bruins fan Denis Leary, as well as fellow former Bruins Cam Neely and Phil Esposito.