Kevin Spacey stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela ( Mena Suvari ).

* Lester Burnham, in 1999's American Beauty ( film )

* Burnham, John C. Lester Frank Ward in American thought.

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The studio suggested several alternatives, including Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner or John Travolta to play Lester, and Helen Hunt or Holly Hunter to play Carolyn.

In week 5, the team replaced Lester with the former Notre Dame Quatrerback Kevin McDougal and the team went 5-1 in the rest of the season ( winning their last four in a row ), coming from behind to make the XFL playoffs at 2nd place in the Eastern Division.

" " Director Kevin Connor and I arranged a lunch, not an audition ," said executive producer Lester Persky.

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The choreographers who plotted out the dancers ' routines over the years included Kevin Carlisle, Anita Mann and Lester Wilson ; the last of these had also staged and choreographed the musical numbers for Saturday Night Fever.

* Kevin Killey and Gary Lester, The Devil's Meridian, Lester-Townsend, 1980, ISBN 0-949853-01-1

* 2011: The Story of Cathy and Me ( Challenge Records ) with Lester Walker, Daniel V Bauerkemper Sr., Akeem Marable, Heny Conerway III, Clarence Levy, Nick Rosen, Kenny Banks Jr, Brandy Brewer, Kevin Smith, Tia Michelle Rouse

* Kevin James and Nick Cannon as Officers Landers and Lester.

Among those who served at WMBA are Bob Pompeani, Jim Merkel, Guy Junker, Ted Ruscitti ( who owned WMBA during the 80's ), Jim Ladd, Kevin Maguire, Ray Fallen, Woody Lester, Dave Stevens ( Posmoga ), Rick Pantale ( Pantaleo ), Dave Justice ( Benard ), T. J. Jamison ( Jim Green ), Dave Denniston, Roy Angst, Frank Greenlee, Sam Siple, John Poister, Tim Herrera, Rick Bergman, Julie Bologna, Randy Cosgrove, Don Shields and John Mehno.

Spacey was Mendes ' first choice for the role of Lester, even though DreamWorks had urged the director to consider better-known actors ; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes offered the part to Bening without DreamWorks ' knowledge.

Spacey and Bening worked to create a sense of the love that Lester and Carolyn once had for one another ; for example, the scene in which Lester almost seduces Carolyn after the pair argue over Lester's buying a car was originally " strictly contentious ".

Mendes encouraged some improvisation ; for example, when Lester masturbates in bed beside Carolyn, the director asked Spacey to improvise several euphemisms for the act in each take.

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

Lester Markel is on the right track in his article `` Interpretation Of Interpretation '' ( SR, Mar. 11 ).

Technique pure and simple, rendition, is not of major importance, but it is interesting that Parker, following Lester Young, was one of the leaders of the so-called saxophone revolution.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

West of the Lower Houses is the new Lester B. Pearson Garden of Peace and International Understanding and the E. J.

There are also several newly filmed shots and many new visual effects, and Richard Donner is credited as director of the film instead of Richard Lester.

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

Future Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson is at right front.

The chemist Ernest Lester Smith wrote a book Intelligence Came First ( 1975 ) in which he claimed that consciousness is a fact of nature and that the cosmos is grounded in and pervaded by mind and intelligence.

* In Police Your Planet ( 1975 ) by Lester Del Rey, a disgraced, embittered Earth cop is exiled to a Mars that has been thoroughly corrupted by domed city life-he who controls the air machinery, makes the rules.

" Musically the group is intentionally crude and aggressively raw ," wrote critic Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone:

In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and highly personal styles, Guralnick's writing is characterized by a colloquial approach that is clean and understated by comparison.

Richard Hell ( born Richard Lester Meyers ; October 2, 1949 ) is a singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.

" Lester del Rey wrote, " Even the devoted aficionado — or fan — has a hard time trying to explain what science fiction is ", and that the reason for there not being a " full satisfactory definition " is that " there are no easily delineated limits to science fiction.

Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific is an international school, in Metchosin, a municipality to the west of Victoria.

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* January 10 – Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of Georgia.

** Champion English jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for three years after being convicted of tax evasion.

In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of many prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith and P. J. O ' Rourke.

Lester Bromberg ( former Ring magazine editor ) called the decision a " travesty ".

Rolling Stones Lester Bangs described Master of Reality as " monotonous " in an ambivalent review published in the magazine.

The Mathematical Association of America has also awarded him both the Lester R. Ford prize which was "... established in 1964 to recognize authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly ...", and the Carl Allendoerfer prize which was established in 1976 for the same reasons, however for a different magazine, the Mathematics Magazine.

In a review for Rolling Stone magazine, rock critic Lester Bangs felt Sabbath was " just like Cream!

He then began corresponding with Lester Bangs, who had left the Door to become editor at the national rock magazine Creem, and soon he was also submitting articles to Creem as well as Circus.

The film's title is possibly a reference to famous music critic Lester Bangs ' 1970 two-part review of The Stooges ' Fun House for Creem magazine, where Bangs quotes a friend who had said the popularity of The Stooges signaled " the decline of Western civilization ".

The Sargasso Sea was the venue for the Doc Savage adventure " The Sargasso Ogre " written by Lester Dent under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson and published in the October 1933 issue of the Doc Savage pulp magazine.

The satirical magazine Private Eye showed a picture of her talking on a telephone, asking for Lester Piggott.

Punk magazine was home to ( many of whom were being published for the first time ) writers Mary Harron, Steve Taylor, Lester Bangs, Pam Brown, artists Buz Vaultz, Anya Phillips, and Screaming Mad George, and photographers Bob Gruen, Barak Berkowitz, Roberta Bayley and David Godlis.

Editor Lester Markel, an " intense and autocratic " journalist who oversaw the Sunday Times from the 1920s through the 1950s, encouraged the idea of the magazine as a forum for ideas.