Charles Seife of Slate magazine, however, pointed out in a July 2012 article that no such disclaimer was made during an episode that aired a week earlier on gastric bypass surgery, despite a Los Angeles Times article questioning the propriety of Pinsky's role as a spokesperson for a firm that did marketing for lap-band surgery.

In Pinsky's The Gospel According to the Simpsons, one of the show's writers recounted to the author that the producers of The Simpsons had vetoed a planned episode on Scientology in fear of the Church's " reputation for suing and harassing opponents ".

As The New York Times described it in February 2008, Pinsky's dual career in medicine and the mass media has required him to " navigat a precarious balance of professionalism and salaciousness.

" Sex Rehab alumnus Duncan Roy, however, has criticized Pinsky's competence.

The two had a natural chemistry, in which Carolla's jocular tone emphasized Pinsky's reasoned expertise.

On July 23, 2006, KROQ-FM disc jockey Stryker was hired as Pinsky's co-host.

Perhaps the most notable examples are Robert Pinsky's version of the Inferno, Laurence Binyon's version of the entire Divina Commedia, Dorothy L. Sayers's and the recent version by Peter Dale.

) Der Zinger … and The Deluge were followed by successful Bucharest productions of David Pinsky's Melech David un Zaine Froien ( King David and His Women ) and Tolstoy's The Living Corpse.

Parvin's The Gospel According to the Simpsons: Leader's Guide for Group Study is a group study guide companion to Pinsky's The Gospel According to the Simpsons.

In Pinsky's book itself, he noted that Lisa faced the difficult task of confronting religious hysteria and blind faith, and also attempted to reconcile science within her own belief system.

Michael Pinsky's artwork ' Weather Cluster ' consists of a series of flat screen monitors suspended from the ceiling of the school's dining hall, showing video sequences of weather across the world, which change according to the local weather conditions around the school.

Legally named Sean Morton Downey, Jr., he dropped " Sean " from his stage name, as his father, Morton Downey had.

Morton Downey, Jr .' s parents were also in show business ; his father, Morton Downey, was a popular singer, and his mother, Barbara Bennett, was a singer and dancer.

* Lord Morton — the father of Miss Morton.

Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.

* Morton Grossman, known as the " father of modern gastrointestinal endocrine physiology "

After Morton Sobell, at age 91, confessed in 2008, they acknowledged their father had been involved in espionage, but not passing secrets of the bomb.

Morton Downey was the father of the right-wing television personality Morton Downey, Jr., by his first wife, actress Barbara Bennett ( 1906 – 1958 ), the sister of actresses Constance and Joan Bennett, and with whom he ultimately had five children, four sons and a daughter: Michael, Sean ( Morton Downey, Jr ), Lorelle, Anthony and Kevin.

Sterling Morton, father of Arbor Day, was born in Adams village.

After the divorce Thelma Morgan Converse was rumored to be engaged to the American actor Richard Bennett, the matinée-idol father of Hollywood film stars Constance Bennett, Joan Bennett, and Barbara Bennett ( the third was the mother of talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr .).

His father, Morton Pinsky ( 1925 – 2009 ), was a physician.

* Robert Douglas of Lochleven, husband of Margaret Erskine, father of William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton

Cruise biographer, Andrew Morton, alleged that Mimi's father had been declared a Suppressive Person after leaving the church in the early 1980s during a cull of Mission Holders.

The 4th Lord Dalkeith succeeded to his estates upon the resignation of his father c. 1457 and in 1458 was raised to the peerage as Earl of Morton, prior to his marriage to Joanna, the deaf and dumb daughter of King James I. Lord Dalkeith was then a subsidiary title held by the Earls of Morton, and used as a courtesy title for the eldest son and heir, until the title and estates of Dalkeith were sold to the Earl of Buccleuch by the 7th Earl in 1642.

Morton says that back in 1940 his father decided, with a heavy heart, to change their family name to Morton to be able to join the then anti-Semitic labor union.

As such, she is an aunt of the half-blood to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall ( née Shand, formerly Parker Bowles ), whose father Bruce Shand was son of P. Morton Shand by a previous marriage.

Though his father was a " Bourbon " ( i. e. conservative ) Democrat, Paul Morton was a Progressive Republican.

Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and later graduated from Yale University in 1937, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ( Phi chapter ); like his father, Moore worked to become a physician, and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

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Alp Arslan died four days later from this wound on 25 November 1072 in his 42nd year, and was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father Chaghri Beg.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

In 59 BC, when he was four years old, his father died.

His father, for example, was guillotined during the French Revolution and his wife died shortly after their marriage.

" He died three days later on March 4 ; Louisa May died only two days after her father.

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

After the sojourn in Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily where Aeneas organizes funeral games to honor his father, who had died a year before.

In 12 BC, Agrippina ’ s father died.

Alexander's father died on 8 July 1249 and he became king at the age of seven, inaugurated at Scone on 13 July 1249.

The young Alexios IV was strangled in prison, while his father Isaac died shortly afterwards, his death variously attributed to fright, sorrow, or foul play.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

Jackson's father died in an accident in February 1767, at the age of 29, three weeks before his son Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area.

On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, taking full revenge on his brother.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

Amyntas III ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Γ ΄, died 370 BC ), son of Arrhidaeus and father of Philip II, was king of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC.

In 1320, Andronikos accidentally murdered his brother Manuel, whereupon their father died of grief.

His father died when he was two years old and he remained under the guardianship of his cousin, Guillaume Jourdain, count of Cerdagne ( d. 1109 ), until he was five.