She returned to the studio in 1981 to record a country album with Mel Tillis called Mel & Nancy.

Many artists made their mark with pop standards, particularly interpreters like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Frankie Laine, Nat King Cole ( originally known for his jazz piano virtuosity ), Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Eydie Gormé, Andy Williams, Nancy Wilson, Jack Jones, Rita Reys, Steve Lawrence and Cleo Laine.

Mel Coplin and his wife, Nancy, live in New York, near Mel's neurotic, Jewish, adoptive parents, Ed and Pearl Coplin.

Tina, the sexy but highly incompetent adoption agency employee, decides to accompany Mel, Nancy, and the newborn on a trip to San Diego to meet Mel's biological mother.

Meanwhile, Nancy becomes jealous as Tina and Mel begin to flirt.

While Mel and Tina become close, Nancy finds herself flirting with Tony, who returns the compliment, causing friction.

Not realizing what has happened Mel recounts the stories from dinner to Nancy and they agree to name the baby Garcia.

They all still have their troubles but Mel and Nancy are happy together.

What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic comedy film, written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.

Also in 2000, Midler made an uncredited cameo appearance in Nancy Meyers ' fantasy rom – com What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.

Over decades, Manne recorded additional albums, or sometimes just sat in on drums here and there, with renowned vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Ernestine Anderson, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Blossom Dearie, and Nancy Wilson.

From 1989-90, he directed a gallery in SoHo ( New York ) where he curated a dozen exhibitions of both emerging and established artists, including Carolee Schneemann, Nancy Grossman, Hung Liu, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Muntadas, and Max Ernst.

Founded by Florida businessmen Mel Sembler and Joseph Zappala, the program was praised by prominent figures such as President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Nancy Reagan, but was also subject to multiple accusations of abusive practices.

Other influential early interpreters of the Great American Songbook include Fred Astaire, Mildred Bailey, Tony Bennett, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Nat " King " Cole, Perry Como, Barbara Cook, Chris Connor, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Doris Day, Blossom Dearie, Billy Eckstine, Alice Faye, Helen Forrest, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Eydie Gorme, Johnny Hartman, Dick Haymes, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Joni James, Jack Jones, Al Jolson, Cleo Laine, Frankie Laine, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Dean Martin, Tony Martin, Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Mabel Mercer, Helen Merrill, Anita O ' Day, Patti Page, Dinah Shore, Bobby Short, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, Barbra Streisand ( particularly in her earlier work ), Maxine Sullivan, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, Joe Williams and Nancy Wilson.

His client list included: Frankie Laine, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Mel Tormé, Peggy Lee, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Keely Smith, Sammy Davis Jr., Trini Lopez, Nancy Wilson, Leslie Uggams, Roy Clark, and Julie Andrews.

Newspaper syndicates have also distributed single-panel gag cartoons by Mel Calman, Bill Holman, Gary Larson, George Lichty, Fred Neher and others.

In 1990 Franco Zeffirelli, whose Shakespeare films have been described as " sensual rather than cerebral ", cast Mel Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies — in the title role of his 1990 version, and Glenn Close — then famous as the psychotic " other woman " in Fatal Attraction — as Gertrude.

Past winners have included Angela Lansbury ( 1988 ), Ray Charles ( 1991 ), Mel Tormé ( 1994 ), Bernadette Peters ( 1995 ), Frank Sinatra ( 2000 ), Stevie Wonder ( 2002 ), k. d.

During their history, the Giants have featured 15 Hall of Fame players, including NFL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) award winners Mel Hein, Frank Gifford, Charlie Conerly, Y.

According to Mel Hein, " If he hadn't been killed, he could have been the greatest tackle who ever played football.

Rakim, Biggie, and Eminem have flipped the flow, but Melle Mel ’ s downbeat on the two, four, kick to snare cadence is still the rhyme foundation all emcees are building on ".

Several filmmakers have paid homage to the comedies of the silent era, including Jacques Tati with his Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot ( 1953 ) and Mel Brooks with Silent Movie ( 1976 ).

One writer ( whom Williams thought was Mel Webb, who Williams called a " grouchy old guy ", although the identity of the writer remains unknown ) completely left Williams off his ballot, who would have tied DiMaggio or won if one writer who had voted Williams as second had voted him first.

Recent visiting artists have included Richard Tuttle, Andrea Fraser, Omer Fast, Rirkrit Tiravanija, DJ Spooky, Kalup Linzy, Elizabeth Peyton, Mel Chin, Thomas Hirschhorn, Raymond Pettibon, Rodney Graham, Isaac Julien, Dave Hickey, Vito Acconci, and many others.

Also, in one scene from Mel Brooks ' Spaceballs, Princess Vespa also appears to have the hairstyle, but reveals that she is actually wearing a large pair of headphones.

On the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cites factors that may have contributed to Feldman's death: thumb " He smoked sometimes six packs of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products ".

" Mel Gibson himself remarked that “ I think I would have made him a slave holder.

Mays is one of five National League players to have had eight consecutive 100-RBI seasons, along with Mel Ott, Sammy Sosa, Chipper Jones and Albert Pujols.

As a result of its success, all but two of Mel Brooks movies in Swedish have been given similar titles: " Springtime For Mother-In-Law " ( The Twelve Chairs ); " Springtime For The Sheriff " ( Blazing Saddles ); " Springtime For Frankenstein " ( Young Frankenstein ); " Springtime For The Silent Movies " ( Silent Movie ); " Springtime For The Lunatics " ( High Anxiety ); " Springtime For World History " ( History of the World, Part I ); " Springtime For Space " ( Spaceballs ); and " Springtime For The Slum " ( Life Stinks ).

Mel Brooks's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles leaves its Western setting when the climactic fight scene breaks out, revealling the setting to have been a set in the Warner Bros studio lot ; the fight spills out onto an adjacent musical set, then into the studio canteen, and finally onto the streets.

The practice of hiring singers to " fill in " for voice actors in a singing role has also seen change, as both Jeremy Irons and Mel Gibson have done singing in the respective films The Lion King and Pocahontas, rather than have a singer as substitute ( However, the former did most of his own singing, but due to straining his vocal cords, he didn't finish ; instead, Jim Cummings did his partial singing voice for the rest of the song ).

", although " Ándele arriba " may have been intended as meaning " hurry up ") courtesy of Mel Blanc, Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance.

More recently, singers Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, and Ray Charles have performed.

Malverne's groundhogs, Malverne Mel and Malverne Melissa, have been making weather prognostications every year on Groundhog Day since 1996.

There have also been a number of films telling the passion story, with a prominent recent example being Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

Versions have been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke with The Glenn Miller Orchestra ( Recorded in New York City on February 1, 1947 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalogue number 20-2016B and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number BD 5968 ), Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Jan Garber, Fumio Nanri, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé, Connie Francis, Jean Sablon, Keely Smith, Terumasa Hino, Harry Connick Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Olavi Virta, The Peanuts, Django Reinhardt, Barry Manilow, John Coltrane, Earl Grant, Willie Nelson, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, George Benson, Mina, Ken Hirai, Los Hombres Calientes and many others.

So Mel Chandler set out to sell him on the spirit of Garryowen, just as he himself had been sold a short time before.

Names such as Christy Mathewson, Iron Man Joe McGinnity, Bill Terry, Jim Thorpe, Mel Ott, Casey Stengel, and Red Ames are just a sample of the many players who honed their skills under McGraw.

Pacifico just won against another American, Mel Hennessey, at 110 kg, both with enormous benches of 260 kg and 255 kg.

McDowall was quite forthcoming about those who dealt with him: Rock Hudson, Dick Martin and Mel Tormé were just a few of the celebrities interested in his film reproductions.

Sarah Brown is not involved with this tour: it's just Jim, Charlie, Mel, Andy and Ged.

" Do what they did except just stretch it half an inch ," Mel Brooks said of the methods of this TV series.

* On November 30, 2000, Roger Cossack interviewed John Ashcroft, who had just been defeated by Mel Carnahan.

Mel Parnell named the pole after Pesky in when he won a game with a home run just inside the right field pole.

Besides all three waitresses suddenly leaving simultaneously, by an amazing coincidence Mel has just sold the diner for a large amount of money to a real estate developer, and must close within days.

In the finale, Professor Oglevee finally realizes his true feelings for Nikki just as she is about to marry another man ( Mel Jackson ).

Although Mel B was a big fan of R & B, she agreed with me that these versions just didn't work so we exercised our Spice veto!

Nader accused Congressman Mel Watt of twice uttered an " obscene racial epithet " towards him ; it was alleged that Watt said: " You're just another arrogant white man – telling us what we can do – it's all about your ego – another f — king arrogant white man.

He was the father of Mel Carnahan, who went on to become the Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000 ; his daughter-in-law ( Mel's wife ) was appointed a United States Senator following Mel's death just before his election to that body.

According to Pesky, former teammate and Sox broadcaster Mel Parnell named the pole after Pesky won a game for Parnell in with a home run down the short right field line, just around the pole.

" The joke about him was that he was so pushy that advertisers used to buy airtime from Mel just to get him out of their office ," according to a Fortune magazine article.

Mel Edison, the main character, has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age.

The Seventh Doctor and Mel visit ancient Pompeii just before the Vesuvius tragedy is due to occur.

In 1974, Athletic Director Mel Sheehan studied the possibility of lowering the field to add additional seats on each side closer to the sidelines, but the plan did not move forward due to a prevalence of bedrock just below the playing surface.

After co-host Mitchell Harding departed from Hour 25 in 1981 to take a position at KCRW-FM, Hodel co-hosted the show with science fiction and television writer Mel Gilden, who was just beginning his career.

He was dubbed " Old Reliable " – after a train which ran from Ohio to Alabama – by Yankees broadcaster Mel Allen for his knack of getting a hit just when it was needed.