For several seasons, Oscar was frequently shown with his friend and pet Slimey, an orange worm.

Richard Strauss's 1905 opera Salomé, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, uses a subject frequently depicted by symbolist artists.

In partnership with Oscar winner Peter Allen and Marsha Melamet, he wrote his most famous song, " Love Don't Need a Reason ", which he sang frequently at gay pride and AIDS-related events around the country.

Throughout his time at São Paulo, he and Oscar, who was also a centre-back, became a line of defence that is frequently remembered as one of the best in that club's history.

Later the jaded looking O ' Connell was frequently cast as fortyish losers and alcoholics ; in the latter capacity he appeared as James Stewart's boozy attorney mentor in Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), and the result was another Oscar nomination.

Many big bands played here, including the Oscar Rabin Band which performed frequently.

The video was memorable, and the song itself – somewhat unusual in its musical approach, and even more so in its lyrics, which led off with a quotation from Oscar Wilde and ran through an extensive roster of famous artists from various fields, all dead, with years of births and deaths specified – stabilized the band as a cult favorite among indie lovers, and is the paradigm of the surprisingly successful " list " style of song which Couse has frequently used ( the first example of this style had been the title track on I Want Too Much ).

Additionally, fifth year ( redshirt ) senior linebacker Oscar Lua, running back Ryan Powdrell and offensive lineman Kyle Williams were expected to either start or play frequently in 2006.

In 1976 Oscar Peterson played ( with Joe Pass on acoustic guitar ) songs from Porgy And Bess on the clavichord.

Examples include swing era players such as Jimmy Blanton, who played with Duke Ellington, and Oscar Pettiford, who pioneered the instrument's use in bebop.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

In 1992, he played the sadistic sheriff " Little " Bill Daggett in the western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor.

That role eventually went to Oscar winner Sean Connery, who played James Bond to Brandauer's Largo in Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ).

In the 1997 Oscar winning film As Good as It Gets, the misanthropic character played by Jack Nicholson sings " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " as evidence of the character's change in attitude.

* Polyphemus was featured in the 1955 film Ulysses where he was played by Oscar Andriani, as well as the 1997 TV miniseries The Odyssey where he was played by Reid Asato.

After two years in the role, he played the same part in the 1951 film version, this time playing opposite Vivien Leigh, where he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

The film also won Linda Hunt ( who played a man in the film ) an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

* Maurice Ravel is played as a " bit role " by actor Oscar Loraine in the 1945 Gershwin film biography Rhapsody in Blue.

Other notable jazz pianists who occasionally played the celesta include Meade " Lux " Lewis, Willie " The Lion " Smith, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Sun Ra, and Herbie Hancock.

He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), in which he played Marlon Brando's character's brother.

Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies.

He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost in 1944.

She won her second Oscar in 1978 for Coming Home, as a Marine officer's wife who volunteers at a veterans ' hospital and becomes involved with a disabled Vietnam War veteran ( played by Jon Voight ).

In 1960, Garson received her seventh and final Oscar nomination for Sunrise at Campobello, in which she played Eleanor Roosevelt, this time losing to Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8.

He is seen as a minor character in The Trials of Oscar Wilde ( 1960 ) played by Paul Rogers.

When Miss Piggy threw a truck driver ( played by Peter Ustinov ) into a pile of boxes and a pile of trash cans, Oscar emerged from his trash can and demanded " Hey, what's all the racket?

The 1991 comedy film Oscar played a direct homage to the scene, recreating it on its poster, where the main character ( played by Sylvester Stallone ) hangs from a clock.

In 1944 he directed Going My Way, a story about an enterprising priest, the youthful Father Chuck O ' Malley, played by Bing Crosby, for which he won his second Best Director Oscar.

A kind of official recognition was when the King Oscar II rose in honour when the song was played, the first time in 1893.

* Oscar Polk-Broadway actor who played a slave in Gone With the Wind

According to Sesame Streets Robert W. Morrow, Oscar was created to indirectly demonstrate racial and ethnic diversity.

* Oscar Handlin ( 1915-2011 ), American ethnic

About this time, Hasbro introduced Oscar the Orange and Pete the Pepper, a plastic orange and green pepper with attachable face parts similar to Mr. Potato Head's.

Her 1890s ' repertory consisted primarily of lyric-coloratura parts such as Violetta, Philine, Oscar, Gilda and Lucia.

After numerous small movie parts, O ' Connell returned to Broadway, where he appeared as the erstwhile middle-aged swain of a spinsterish schoolteacher in Picnic-a role he'd recreate in the 1956 film version, earning an Oscar nomination in the process.

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

Starting in 1887, a large English-speaking Black community arose in Little Burgundy, attracted from the United States, other parts of Canada, and the Caribbean by jobs in the railways whose stations lay nearby ; the area became famed for musical figures such as Oscar Peterson.

He made his West End debut in The Guinea Pig at the Criterion Theatre in 1946, before parts in plays such as the comedy Ring Round the Moon, The Mortimer Touch, A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde at the Savoy Theatre in 1953 and Charley's Aunt.

Kristel briefly apepars as Agent 34 ; an established cinematographer in the alternative film scene, Curaçao-born Robby Müller has repeatedly worked with Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Jim Jarmusch ; a director at the start of his career, Kees van Oostrum has moved to US to become a prolific cinematographer on various TV-movies and miniseries ; two-time Academy Awards nominated production designer Jan Roelfs, who worked with Andrew Niccol and Oliver Stone ; George Sluizer, who made an American remake of his popular culthit Spoorloos and currently works mostly on pan-European co-productions, will make a US-comeback with the Rob Schneider-comedy The Chosen One ( 2009 ); cameraman Rogier Stoffers, who shot a number of US box office hits in the 2000s, most notably Disturbia ; tall man Carel Struycken, whose physique landed him the parts of Lurch in Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family films and The Giant in Twin Peaks ; Jany Temime was costume designer on the last three Harry Potter films, In Bruges and Children of Men ; Arjen Tuiten, a special make-up effects artist working for the Stan Winston Studio, with El Laberinto del fauno as one of his prominent credits ; Dutch born costume designer Elsa Zamparelli, who received an Oscar nomination for Dances with Wolves.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

As well, Haeckel served as a mentor to many important scientists, including Anton Dohrn, Richard and Oscar Hertwig, Wilhelm Roux, and Hans Driesch.

The film was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture ( Drama ) and the Oscar for Best Film Editing.

Halpin was involved with several men at the time, including Cleveland's friend and law partner, Oscar Folsom, for whom the child was also named.

The film was a success, securing three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Supporting Actor for Lemmon, who won.

He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".

Editors using Lightworks have produced numerous internationally renowned and Oscar and Emmy Award award-winning feature films and television programs, including The King's Speech, Martin Scorsese's Hugo and The Departed, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart and Batman.

Nancy Reagan's wardrobe consisted of dresses, gowns, and suits made by luxury designers, including James Galanos, Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta.

In 1926, Amundsen and 15 other men ( including Ellsworth, Riiser-Larsen, Oscar Wisting, and the Italian air crew led by aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile ) made the first crossing of the Arctic in the airship Norge designed by Nobile.

The scene of Sigyn assisting Loki has been depicted on a number of paintings, including " Loke och Sigyn " ( 1850 ) by Nils Blommér, " Loke och Sigyn " ( 1863 ) by Mårten Eskil Winge, " Loki och Sigyn ( 1879 ) by Oscar Wergeland, and the illustration " Loki und Sigyn ; Hel mit dem Hunde Garm " ( 1883 ) by K. Ehrenberg.

Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess.

Several theatrical and film productions have been based on her works, including Show Boat, Giant, Ice Palace, Saratoga Trunk, Cimarron ( which won an Oscar ) and the 1960 remake.

Individual athletes such as swimmer Natalie du Toit and track athlete Oscar Pistorius have competed as equals against able bodied athletes at various events including the Olympic Games.

It received 8 Oscar nominations and 3 wins, including Kazan's first for Best Director.

* lead architect for the United Nations Headquarters complex, coordinating the work of an international cadre of designers, including Sven Markelius, Le Corbusier, and Oscar Niemeyer, 1962

Hart also wrote some screenplays, including Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ) – for which he received an Oscar nomination – Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ) and A Star Is Born ( 1954 ).

As Slovenia's most popular music band, the group has won countless awards including eight consecutive television competitions, twelve from German network television, eighteen as Germany's most popular band, the recording industry's " European Oscar " in 1975, the Golden Rose Award ( most requested on Austrian radio ) in 1979, the Linhart plaque ( Slovenia ), and the " Hermann Löns " award from the German Minister of Culture.

Stanley Kubrick won his only Oscar ever, in this category, in 1969, for 2001: A Space Odyssey ( The film's credits list four effects contributors, including Douglas Trumbull.

The description of des Esseintes ' " alluring liaison " with a " cherry-lipped youth " was believed to influence other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde.

Serling wrote many of the teleplays, including " Camera Obscura ", " The Caterpillar " ( based on a short story by Oscar Cook ), " Class of ' 99 ", " Cool Air " ( based on a short story by H. P.