Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

Wonder Mike ( born Michael Anthony Wright on April 30, 1957 ) is an old school rapper, famous for being a member of The Sugarhill Gang, the first hip hop act to produce a record, " Rapper's Delight ".

Although he had been called " crazy " for railing against Ronald Reagan's deep cuts to social programs on the Congress floor, Associated Press political reporter Mike Robinson noted that Washington worked " quietly and thoughtfully " as the time came to pass the act.

In 2003, Gillett School District came under former Governor Mike Huckabee's rural school consolidation act.

* In the 2009 theatrical adaption by Joseph Bologna " Lansky " is portrayed by Mike Burstyn in a one act play.

* Eric Carmen charted many times in his prior career with Raspberries, and as a solo act, although he was far more successful in his native U. S. A decade after " All By Myself ", he returned to prominence through his work on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, charting with " Hungry Eyes " and also writing " Almost Paradise ", a hit for Mike Reno and Ann Wilson.

Mike Chester, a friend of Kiedis ', invited the band to open for his act Mike and Neighbor's Voices at The Rhythm Lounge, as he felt that Kiedis had potential as a frontman.

Hendrie continues to act and has since had roles on several television shows such as Giants of Radio, The Replacements, Three Strikes, Mike Birbiglia ’ s Secret Public Journal, David Mamet ’ s The Unit, Fox ’ s Napoleon Dynamite, ABC ’ s Modern Family and Fox ’ s New Girl.

When working a club, the other comedians, such as Mike Royce ( a producer / writer on Everybody Loves Raymond ), David Juskow ( a performer on TV Funhouse ), Kevin Brennan ( from Saturday Night Live and HBO's One Night Stand ) and Jon Stewart, would come in to watch his act.

Outside Joe's house, Mike is killed by a car bomb, after giving Joe an assignment to act as bodyguard for a stripper named Cory ( Halle Berry ).

* Another source says that baseball player Mike Donlin and comedian Tom Lewis created the expression as part of their vaudeville act.

The opening bands CKY and Mixmaster Mike performed, but the main act, Guns N ' Roses, never appeared, fueling a riot in the arena and causing about $ 30, 000 to $ 40, 000 in damage.

The Sun-Diamond decision played a pivotal role in the later acquittal of Mike Espy because Independent Counsel was unable to link gifts received by Espy to any official act.

They recruited boxer Mike Tyson to act as the " Special Enforcer " in the main event of the night featuring Michaels against Steve Austin.

The first recorded mountainboarding act occurred in the summer of 1978, when local skateboarder Mike Motta residing in Medford Massachusetts navigated down a hill known as Seven Bumps in Malden Massachusetts on a bet, using a standard Franklin skateboard.

They also played as an opening act for Dream Theater ; Mike Portnoy even joined the band on stage playing drums for one song.

Valauskas, Jackson and Caldes formed The Gentlemen, a hugely popular hard-rock act, with Mike Gent of the Figgs.

Second guitarist Mike Amish was later added, which was followed by a tour supporting popular alternative rock act Creed.

From late in 1986 to early 1987, Mental As Anything were the opening act on the multi-group Australian Made concert tour where they were joined by former Dynamic Hepnotics keyboardist Mike Gubb.

Though he is primarily a regional blues act in the midwest, McBee gained national attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his work with Mike Morgan and the Crawl and for his band the Passions.

Mike Starr went on to act in Dumb and Dumber, as the pill-popping ulcer-afflicted thug tracking down Lloyd and Harry.

In 1998, Wesley and ex-White Lion frontman Mike Tramp were the opening act for the Peter Frampton / Lynyrd Skynyrd tour.

Hovercraft's first tour of the United States was as the opening act for the Foo Fighters and Mike Watt.

`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Mike Smith ’ s 43-21 regular-season record in that span is the fifth-best in the league.

For example, if James's will states that he is leaving his $ 500, 000 yacht to his brother Mike, the yacht would be a specific devise.

Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created and designed by Mike Judge.

Beavis is voiced by Mike Judge.

Voiced by Mike Judge, McVicker is the principal of Highland High School and hates the duo.

His voice is based on a band director Mike Judge had in 9th grade.

Daria is not featured in the newer episodes, but she will make a cameo, according to an August 2011 Rolling Stone interview with Mike Judge.

Originally voiced by Mike Judge in " The Crush ", later by Rottilio Michieli, Todd is a trashy deadbeat and a violent criminal.

Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and Generation X. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, cite the show as an influence and compared it to the blues, and met Mike Judge before the show aired.

Mike Judge himself is highly critical of the animation and quality of earlier episodes, in particular the first two --" Blood Drive "/" Give Blood " and " Door to Door "-- which he described as " awful, I don't know why anybody liked it ...

On July 14, 2010, a spokesperson for MTV Networks informed a New York Post reporter that Mike Judge is creating a new Beavis and Butt-Head series, that Judge will reprise his voice-acting roles for the show, and that the animation will be hand-drawn.

Later, in a Rolling Stone interview, Mike Judge was asked if Daria is coming back and he said, " No. There's sort of a cameo in one episode.

Veteran sportscaster Gary Thorne is the current lead television announcer, with Jim Hunter as his backup along with Hall of Fame member and former Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer and former Oriole infielder Mike Bordick as color analysts.

Rose, along with his close friend and former teammate Mike Schmidt ( who is a strong supporter of Rose's reinstatement into baseball ), met with Selig in 2002, where Rose privately admitted to Selig ( two years before going public with his admission ) about betting on baseball.

The film is directed and produced by his friend Mike Richardson.

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

The Chief Executive is Mike Benner.

Mark Bortz holds the record for most Bear playoff appearances, with 13 between 1983 and 1994, and is followed by Kevin Butler, Dennis Gentry, Dan Hampton, Jay Hilgenberg, Steve McMichael, Ron Rivera, Mike Singletary, and Keith Van Horne, who have each played in 12 playoff games.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Sociologists such as Mike Savage suggest there is not simple decline of social strata identities, but rather a subtle reworking of how the strata is articulated.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!