An album featuring 19 tracks from Newman's score was released on January 11, 2000, and won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album.

Similarly, he served as narrator for the 2007 film Dale, about the life of the legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, which turned out to be Newman's final film performance in any form.

He contributed $ 20, 857, 000 for the year of 2008 to the Newman's Own Foundation, which distributes funds to a variety of charities.

Newman's first professional event as a racer was in 1972, in Thompson, Connecticut, and he was a frequent competitor in Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) events for the rest of the decade, eventually winning four national championships.

Toy Story was nominated for two Golden Globes, one for " Best Motion Picture — Comedy / Musical ", and one for " Best Original Song — Motion Picture " for Randy Newman's " You've Got a Friend in Me ".

Rodgers wrote the music for musicals and revues including Once Upon a Mattress ( 1959 ), From A to Z ( 1960 ), Hot Spot ( 1963 ), The Mad Show ( 1966 ), Working ( 1978 ), and Phyllis Newman's one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West ( 1979 ).

Though Wilson was present for the Dutch recordings, he yielded to his bibulous tendencies ( primarily hashish and hard cider ) and rarely participated, confining himself to work on " Funky Pretty " ( a collaboration with Mike Love and the band's manager, Jack Rieley ), a one-line sung intro to Al Jardine's " California Saga: California ", and " Mount Vernon and Fairway ( A Fairy Tale )", a children's narrative suite musically inspired by Randy Newman's Sail Away that was promptly rejected by the band ; eventually, Carl Wilson capitulated and ensured that the suite would be released as a bonus EP with the album.

The Vardy Community School, which provided state-mandated education for Melungeon children in the early 20th century, is now a historic site located in the Newman's Ridge area.

Newman's idea was to encourage an audience for concert hall music who, though not normally attending classical concerts, would be attracted by the low ticket prices and more informal atmosphere.

With financial backing from the otolaryngologist Dr George Cathcart, Newman hired Henry Joseph Wood as the conductor for this series of concerts, called " Mr Robert Newman's Promenade Concerts ".

Newman's cousins Thomas and David, and nephew Joey are also composers for motion pictures.

Two decades later, The Fleetwoods ' founder and manager, female lead vocalist / songwriter / arranger Gretchen Christopher selected, from their recordings, two more of Newman's songs to be included among 10 previously unreleased masters, for their 13th album.

That album was a success, and it paved the way for Newman's 1970 release, 12 Songs, a more stripped-down sound that showcased Newman's piano.

In 2003 Newman's song " It's a Jungle Out There " was used for season 2 of the USA Network's show Monk.

Newman's Faust project had been many years in the making, and it suffered for it ; a central joke was Newman's depiction of Faust as a shallow heavy metal music fan in thrall to Satan, and this had to be modified to accommodate the less-than-devil obsessed age of grunge rock that was in fashion by 1995.

Newman's vampires do need to drink blood for sustenance, though the taking of blood need not be fatal and is often voluntary.

However, for the most part, vampires are the center-stage of Newman's paranormal setting.

She played Newman's crippled girlfriend, Sarah Packard, and for her performance she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

In 1852 he gave Newman the disastrously misleading legal advice that he was unlikely to be sued for libel by Giacinto Achilli, advice that led to Newman's criminal conviction for defamatory libel.

After an awkward meeting between Amy and Newman's wife at the party, she and Oscar go to a bar, but Amy leaves in frustration after she nearly kisses him, prompting a brief argument between her and Oscar where Oscar states that her relationship with Newman has no future, with the only reason they haven't argued after over a year being that Newman doesn't care enough to fight with her, while Amy counters that Oscar is hardly in a position to give her advice on romance, having simply been playing it safe by spending time with her as he hasn't been on a date since she met him.

In December another EP set of instrumentals, Instrumental Assassination, was released but an instrumental version of Tommy Roe's " Sweet Pea " only reached # 36 when issued as a single and the follow-up, Randy Newman's " So Long, Dad ", with its intricate keyboard arrangement, missed the top twenty altogether, making 1967 an unsuccessful year in the charts with no album as Mann and Hugg explored other avenues of their career.

Nor are vampires the only supernatural beings to inhabit Newman's universe.

The Foundation not only functions as his official Estate, but also serves " to encourage the study and understanding of Barnett Newman's life and works.

Writing in 2000, the television historian John Caughie stated that " Newman's insistence that the series would use only original material written for television made Armchair Theatre a decisive moment in the history of British television drama.

As Lambert became the youngest — and only female — drama producer at the BBC, there were some doubts as to Newman's choice, but she became a success in the role.

The most well-known song on the album is " It's Money That Matters ", which rose to the top of the Mainstream Rock chart for two weeks, to become Newman's only number one hit on any U. S. chart.

It features only two of composer David Newman's pieces from Jingle All the Way, but features many of the songs by other artists included in the film, as well as other Christmas songs and new tracks by the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

This would be Newman's only contribution to Doctor Who, and indeed his last credit for British television.

Newman's only other de-facto solo outing was the mid-1990s release Bastard, an almost entirely instrumental release with tracks largely built from guitar loops and samples.

In a post-credit sequence, Newman's wife convinces him to go with Oscar and Peter's design despite his own claims to go with the other firm, revealing that she knew about him and Amy and informing him bluntly that Oscar and Peter did the better job.

He also turned down Ocean's Eleven, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( his attorneys and agents could not agree with Paul Newman's attorneys and agents on who got top billing ), The Driver, Apocalypse Now, California Split, Dirty Harry and The French Connection ( he did not want to do another cop film ).

" The academic Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh has criticised some of the eulogistic views of Newman's time at the BBC, writing that: " When archive and press material emanating from the 1964 – 65 period is examined, an interesting gap appears between what Newman seemed likely to accomplish and what he finally did accomplish ... Also relevant to the mythology that has sprung up around Newman is the fact that his favoured dramatic material was interpreted by some as being rather less radical than it seemed.

After also initiating other popular series such as Adam Adamant Lives !, at the end of 1967 Newman's five-year contract with the BBC came to an end, and he did not remain with the Corporation.

Applying this knowledge, Newman's team looked for points on the body where stretching motions did not take place by painting a series of circles over a portion of the body and then watching their deformations as the wearer walked around or performed various tasks.

Technically, McQueen has top billing and is mentioned first in the film's trailers ; however, at the end of the movie, as the cast's names roll from the bottom of the screen, Newman's name is fully visible first, something McQueen apparently did not catch.

Although modernist intellectuals such as George Tyrrell and Alfred Loisy did at times cite the influence of Newman's ideas on their thinking, their goal was not so much to understand the ancient roots of Church doctrine but to make it evolve according to their own ideas in the liberal spirit of the times.

Unfortunately, Penske decided not to keep the 12 team going, forcing Wallace out of a ride ( Penske did keep the number 12 for Ryan Newman's team the following year, replacing the 02 Newman had used in a few races in ' 01 ).

After more attacks on him midway through 2005, new calls were made to have him taken off the streets, Lord Mayor Campbell Newman insists, just as his predecessor did, that Ziggy is breaking no laws and will not be forced to move, despite Newman's personal hopes that he could be moved to a " proper place ".

In Kim Newman's The Hound of the D ' Urbervilles, a collection of short stories featuring meetings between characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories and their literary contemporaries, one chapter revolves around a struggle for supremacy between Doctor Mabuse and Professor Moriarty.

In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology.

In the cast list rolling from top to bottom at the end of the film, McQueen and Newman's names were arranged diagonally as at the beginning.

While travelling by train to play under Wood at a music festival in the north of England in May 1904, soon after Newman's announcement, some of his leading players discussed the situation and agreed to try to form their own orchestra.

Land of Dreams included one of his most well-known songs, " It's Money That Matters ", and featured Newman's first stab at autobiography with " Dixie Flyer " and " Four Eyes ", while Bad Love included " I Miss You ", a moving tribute to his ex-wife.

A revue of Newman's songs, titled Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong, was performed at the Astor Place Theater in New York City in 1982, and later at other theaters around the country.

Although Lambert was not Newman's first choice to produce the series — Don Taylor and Shaun Sutton had both declined the position — he was very keen to ensure that Lambert take the job after his experience of working with her at ABC.

As vice principal of the theological college at Cuddesdon ( 1854 – 1859 ) he wielded considerable influence, and, on returning to Oxford as vice-principal of St Edmund Hall, became a force among the undergraduates, exercising his influence in opposition to the liberal reaction against Tractarianism, which had set in after John Henry Newman's conversion to Catholicism in 1845.

On his return he became, with Newman, one of the foremost promoters of the Tractarian movement at Oxford and entirely in Newman's confidence.

Although Newman's paintings appear to be purely abstract, and many of them were originally untitled, the names he later gave them hinted at specific subjects being addressed, often with a Jewish theme.

* Newman's page at the Tate Gallery ( includes images of the 18 Cantos and other works )

In December 1979 Newman's pregnant wife, Mary, and five-year-old son, David, were killed in an automobile accident at Bossley Park.

One of Newman's reports on outside broadcasting was seen and admired by executives at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ), and in 1952 he joined the Corporation as their Supervising Director of Features, Documentaries and Outside Broadcasts.

Newman's principal tool for shaking up this established order was a programme which had been initiated before he had arrived at ABC, Armchair Theatre.

Newman's great success at ABC had been noted by the British Broadcasting Corporation, whose executives were keen to revive their own drama department's fortunes in the face of fierce competition from ITV.

Newman's biography at the Museum of Broadcast Communications website points out that much of the work Newman is credited for at the BBC was little different to that which had been undertaken by his predecessor Michael Barry, who " also attracted new young original writers ... and hired young directors ...

During this period he enjoyed a very large practice at the bar, being instructed in many causes célèbres including the Swynfen will case and Cardinal Newman's criminal prosecution for his libel of Giacinto Achilli.

In 1991, the alternative rock act Claytown Troupe used a sample of Michael Newman's ( Matt Craven ) quote " it's a fast trip ..." at the beginning of the track " Rainbow's Edge " in their ( EMI ) album Out There, which is the earliest recorded use of a quote from the film.

A sampling of grantees is available at the Newman's Own Foundation website along with the distribution of funds by program area.