" I stopped making documentaries after discovering Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, and Alice Walker.

Bentt knocked Morrison down three times, and the fight was stopped in the first round in front of a live HBO Boxing audience.

On September 16, 1999, the police stopped Morrison for driving erratically and found drugs and weapons in his car, which resulted in various drug and firearms charges.

Inactive for about a year Trevino excepted a nationally televised bout on ABC Wide World of Sport matched against Brenda Rouse a fighter from the stable of well known professional boxer Tommy Morrison the bout being stopped in the first round after Rouse against the ropes failed to respond to a flurry of punches.

Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with his band The Mixers, writing the occasional Starblazer for D. C. Thompson and contributing to various UK indie titles.

Morrison was part of her touring band for most of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In 2011 Blake Morrison wrote We are Three Sisters, a re-working of Chekhov's Three Sisters based on the lives of the Brontë sisters and featuring Branwell and Mrs Robinson, which premiered in Halifax on 9 September before touring.

After doing some touring in Australia with partner Sleepy Williams, Morrison returned to the United States, and was chosen by Sam Katzman to be one of the East Side Kids.

Chanter was part of the touring bands for both Roger Waters and Van Morrison in 1984.

While touring, Naimee has shared the stage with and opened up for artists such as Van Morrison, Susanne Vega, Jackson Browne, 10, 000 Maniacs, Sinéad O ' Connor and Sting.

Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black president, because of his warm relations with African Americans, his poor upbringing and also because he is a jazz musician.

This put him into conflict with many of the leaders of the London Labour Party, including Herbert Morrison.

However, Herbert Morrison argued that the party would not accept this, and the Labour National Executive Committee agreed with him.

Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

By 1948, after design modifications and experimentation with several prototypes, Morrison and business partner Warren Franscioni began producing the first plastic discs, renamin it the Flyin-Saucer in the wake of reported unidentified-flying-object sightings.

On March 3, 2003, Lindh was tackled by inmate Richard Dale Morrison, who assaulted Lindh as he knelt in prayer and then ran away, leaving Lindh with bruises on his forehead.

On July 2, 2003, Morrison was charged with a misdemeanor count of assault.

Certain colours of lighting have been associated with specific wrestlers ; for instance, blue lighting for Undertaker, green lighting for Triple H, D-Generation X, and Shane McMahon, red and orange lighting for Kane, multicoloured lighting for John Morrison, gold lighting for Goldust, pink lighting for Val Venis, and so forth.

They scored another hit with songwriter, Alan O ' Day's " Rock and Roll Heaven ", a paean to several deceased rock singers: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Jim Croce and Bobby Darin are among the mentioned ( Croce and Darin died within three months of each other in late 1973, shortly before the song was released ).

Cahoots included tunes such as Bob Dylan's " When I Paint My Masterpiece ," " 4 % Pantomime " ( with Van Morrison ), and " Life Is A Carnival ," the last featuring a horn arrangement from Allen Toussaint.

Other guests they admired ( and in most cases had worked with before ) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond.

Lois Marshall formed a close bond with the baby, who was named Clarence Ignatius Morrison, and offered to take him and help him find treatment.

" Morrison lived with the Marshalls for the rest of his life.

In Grant Morrison ’ s stories of the early 2000s, mutants are portrayed as a distinct subculture with " mutant bands ," mutant use of code-names as their primary form of self identity ( rather than their given birth names ), and a popular mutant fashion designer who created outfits tailored to mutant physiology.

In the Morrison Incident, he is turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire.

Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

The fact that Mandelson's grandfather was Herbert Morrison who as a minister had been involved with the Festival of Britain often was drawn on for negative comparisons.

Patricia Kennealy Morrison, in her science-fantasy series The Keltiad, has a 1986 novel The Throne of Scone, in which the Stone has been transmuted into a throne that her starfaring Kelts have brought with them from Earth.

Alan Morrison from Empire Online gave Amélie five stars and called it " one of the year ’ s best, with crossover potential along the lines of Cyrano De Bergerac and Il Postino.

In 1999 Jones released the album Reload, a collection of cover duets with artists such as The Cardigans, Natalie Imbruglia, Cerys Matthews, Van Morrison, Mousse T, Portishead, Stereophonics, and Robbie Williams.

The first institution with the name of Ying Wa College was founded in Malacca in 1818 by Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society, the first Protestant missionary to China.

* Alexander Morrison, Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910: A Comparison with British India ( Oxford, OUP, 2008 ) ( Oxford Historical Monographs ).

The performance was recreated with Gene Morrison Orchestra as the Glenn Miller Band and the Nicholas Brothers ( doing a memorable dance ) in the 1942 movie Orchestra Wives.

He is one of the pioneers of the modern field of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with Giuseppe Cocconi, Philip Morrison, Iosif Shklovsky, and Carl Sagan.

" Mr. Morrison enquired of Lieutenant-colonel Malcolm if there was anything else, and being answered in the negative, Elepoo immediately and with great tact closed the negotiation by saying, " all shall be granted — it is settled — it is finished.

Although composition credit went to the band as a whole, the album's primary writers were Morrison and Krieger.

" The End "' s Oedipal climax was first performed live at the Whisky A Go Go ; the band was thrown out as a result of Morrison screaming " Mother ... I want to fuck you!

A year later, when he was twelve years old, Morrison formed his first band, a skiffle group, " The Sputniks ", named after the recently launched Soviet satellite, Sputnik 1.

In 1958, the band played at some of the local cinemas, and Morrison took the lead, contributing most of the singing and arranging.

The roots of Them, the band that first broke Morrison on the international scene, came in April 1964 when Morrison responded to an advert for musicians to play at a new R & B club at the Maritime Hotel – an old dance hall frequented by sailors.

The new R & B club needed a band for its opening night ; however, Morrison had left the Golden Eagles ( the group with which he had been performing at the time ), so he created a new band out of The Gamblers, an East Belfast group formed by Ronnie Millings, Billy Harrison, and Alan Henderson in 1962.

Morrison has stated that " Them lived and died on the stage at the Maritime Hotel ," believing that the band did not manage to capture the spontaneity and energy of their live performances on their records.

In that period, they released two albums and ten singles, with two more singles released after Morrison departed the band.

Morrison concentrated on writing some of the songs that would appear on Astral Weeks, while the remnants of the band reformed in 1967 and relocated in America.

" " That was the type of band I dig ," Morrison said of the Moondance sessions.

Many of Taylor's early bands opened for many of the popular bands and artists of the ' 60s and ' 70s including Van Morrison, Janis Joplin's band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service.

* Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison ( January 7, 1919-November 17, 2008 ) grew up in Leesburg and was the father of Jim Morrison ( James Douglas Morrison ) ( December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971 ) of The Doors ( 60's Rock band )

* Travis Morrison, musician and frontman of the band The Dismemberment Plan

CBS network censors demanded that lead singer Jim Morrison change the lyrics to their hit single Light My Fire by altering the line, " Girl, we couldn't get much higher ", before the band performed the song live on September 17, 1967.

The south of the county is particularly noted with such musical luminaries as James Morrison, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran, Fred Finn, Peter Horan, Joe O ' Dowd, Jim Donoghue, Martin Wynne, Oisín Mac Diarmada ( of Téada ), tin-whistle player Carmel Gunning and the band Dervish.

" Jim Morrison of The Doors called the group " The single most powerful band I've ever seen.

The band was formed in October 1967, comprising Brendan ' Brush ' Shiels on bass guitar ( born in 1946, Dublin, Ireland-formerly of The Uptown Band ), Noel ' Nollaig ' Bridgeman on drums ( born in 1947, Dublin-currently with Van Morrison ), Bernard ' Bernie ' Cheevers on lead guitar ( born in 1948, Dublin-formerly of The Intruders ), and Phil Lynott on vocals.

" Van Morrison, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix were major influences during the early days of the band, and later influences included the pioneering twin lead guitars found in Wishbone Ash and American artists Little Feat and Bob Seger.

The band also worked with directors such as William Morrison and Jim Van Bebber on a number of music videos, the themes and style of which typically mirrored their live performances.

Sullivan had requested that the line " Girl we couldn't get much higher " be changed for the show, but Jim Morrison performs it the way it was written and the band is banned from the show as a result.