He was buried in the cemetery of St. Priscilla in the Via Salaria, but his body, subsequently moved, now lies in the Basilica di Santa Prassede.

" The threat of a filibuster removed, Republicans were able to force cloture on the three most conservative Bush appellate court nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor-no relation ), who subsequently passed a vote by the full Republican-controlled Senate.

She subsequently appeared in a number of films, including Not Another Teen Movie ( playing Priscilla, a high school cheerleader ) and Torque, as a crazed, motorcycle-riding criminal.

Weaving first received international attention in the hit Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994, and provided the voice of Rex the sheepdog and farm leader in the 1995 family film, Babe.

The Adventures of Priscilla, along with other contemporary Australian films Sweetie ( 1989 ), Strictly Ballroom ( 1992 ) and Muriel's Wedding ( 1994 ), provided Australian cinema with a reputation for " quirkiness ", " eccentricity " and " individuality " across the world.

Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which hold a commemoration for him, Aquila and Priscilla on February 13.

Of those seven times, Paul lists Priscilla first in five of those, suggesting that he may have viewed her as the more prominent of the two, but it is clear that he did not follow the tradition of always listing the male's name first for a married couple.

John Rogers ( sculptor ) | Rogers Group, depicting the courtship of John Alden and Priscilla Alden | Priscilla Mullins: " Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John?

John was not the only man who would fall for Priscilla.

T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people ( including Priscilla and a judge ), and a wrongful death lawsuit.

Among the other actresses considered for Cassandra were Katharine Hepburn, Adele Longmire, Marsha Hunt, Laraine Day, Susan Peters, Joan Leslie, Gene Tierney and Priscilla Lane.

Wife-to-be Priscilla Beaulieu also lived at Graceland for five years before she and Elvis married.

He is best known for his roles as Tick in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, Elrond in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, " V " in V for Vendetta, and performances in numerous Australian character dramas.

Stamp began his fourth decade as an actor wearing some of the choicest of Tim Chappel's Academy Award-winning costumes for the comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ) which co-starred Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving.

In 1766, Priscilla Macon arranged for the education of two of her sons, Nathaniel and John, along with the two sons of her neighbor Philemon Hawkins.

In 2002, he ( along with Priscilla López ) received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors ( HOLA ).

In 1982, Priscilla Rhoades, a journalist with the gay newspaper The Sentinel, wrote a feature story on " Lesbians for Lipstick ".

* The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas, edited by Priscilla J Bawcutt, Edinburgh, Blackwood for The Scottish Text Society, 1967 ( reprint 2003 )

Throughout August 2012, Ten launched 4 new local programmes, Don't Tell The Bride, Everybody Dance Now, I Will Survive: Priscilla and a TV remake of Puberty Blues, all but one of those new shows lead to Ten's ratings dropping to fourth place behind ABC1 for over thirty straight nights, which resulted in David Mott's resignation.

Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle stated, " With such recent hits as Strictly Ballroom and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Australia seems to be cornering the market for odd but delightful comedies laced with substance and romance.

The Gang-brokered compromise precluded further filibusters and the implementation of the nuclear option for the remainder of the 109th Congress ; under its terms, the Democrats retained the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee in an " extraordinary circumstance ," and nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor ) received a simple majority vote by the full Senate.

In 2004 Gyllenhaal returned to theater in a Los Angeles production of Tony Kushner's Homebody / Kabul as Priscilla, the Homebody's daughter, who spends most of the play searching for her elusive mother in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Davis ' wife, Priscilla Davis, had filed for divorce in 1974, but in 1976 the divorce proceedings were still ongoing and the divorce had not been made official.

In 1978, Davis was arrested again, this time for allegedly hiring a hitman to murder his wife Priscilla, as well as the judge overseeing their ongoing divorce litigation.

This position drew criticism from many Western environmental and animal advocate groups, including Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of Animals who called for a boycott of potatoes from Idaho.

On his death the barony of Willoughby de Eresby fell into abeyance between his sisters Lady Priscilla and Georgiana, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, who also jointly inherited the office of Lord Great Chamberlain ( the abeyance was terminated in 1780 in favour of Priscilla ; see the Baron Willoughby de Eresby for later history of this title ).

After switching narration back to Coverdale, the story proceeds to Eliot's Pulpit, a place of rest and discourse for the four main characters Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, and Zenobia.

* Oliver Thornton, West End actor-currently starring in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( musical ), was born and grew up in Abergavenny.

The Lemp sisters, Ann ( Priscilla Lane ), Kay ( Rosemary Lane ), Thea ( Lola Lane ), and Emma ( Gale Page ), are prodigies in a musical family headed by their father, Adam ( Claude Rains ).

Midler is one of the producers of the Broadway production of the musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert which opened in February 2011.

In 1966, he was cast opposite Mary Tyler Moore in the ill-fated Broadway musical Breakfast at Tiffany's, co-starring Priscilla Lopez, which, after an out-of-town tryout period, closed after only four previews.

The film was adapted into a stage musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and premiered 10 October 2006 at the Star City Casino, Sydney.

Featured in the film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ), and stage musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the Musical.

The theatre was home to the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which closed in June 2012.

* Official website for ' Priscilla ' the stage musical

One of the most successful of the 1990s generation of cult films was the Australian drag queen road saga The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ).

" may be further understood not only in the spiritual understandings of many in Indonesia but further in the light of numerous representations of the rooster or cock as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period including a painting from the Catacomb of St. Priscilla ( mentioned in all the ancient liturgical sources and known as the " Queen of the Catacombs " in antiquity ) reproduced in Giovanni Gaetano Bottari's folio of 1754, where the Good Shepherd is depicted as feeding the lambs, with a crowing cock on His right and left hand.

Stephan Elliott's 1994 film Priscilla Queen of the Desert mixed traditional outback cinematography and landscape with contemporary urban sub-culture: following three drag queens on a road trip to Central Australia.

In the United States, Showgirls is shown at midnight movies alongside such films as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

The clear blue skies and the magic light feature in movies including Mad Max 2 ( a. k. a. The Road Warrior ) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Comedies like the barn yard animation Babe ( 1995 ), directed by Chris Noonan ; Baz Lurhmann's Strictly Ballroom ( 1992 ); Rob Sitch's The Dish ( 2000 ); and Stephan Elliott's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ) all feature in the top ten box-office list.

Confidential, Adam Whitely aka Felicia Jollygoodfellow ( a drag queen ) in the The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours and King Edward VIII (" David ") in The King's Speech.

He made his first major film breakthrough shortly after, with his role as a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994.

It also parodies Australian people and aspects of Australian culture, such as the Crocodile Dundee, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max movies, the Australian beer XXXX, Vegemite, thongs, cork hats, the Peach Nellie, and the popular Australian songs " Waltzing Matilda " and " Down Under ".

Coober Pedy also features in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

His other major roles include butterfly collector Freddie Clegg in The Collector, arch-villain General Zod in Superman and Superman II, trans woman Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, tough guy Wilson in The Limey, Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, ghost antagonist Ramsley in The Haunted Mansion, Elektra's master Stick in Elektra, Pekwarsky in Wanted, Maxwell Smart's arch-villain Siegfried in Get Smart, council of high help Terrence Bundley in Yes Man, the Covenant Hierarch ' Prophet of Truth ' in Halo 3 and General Ludwig Beck in Valkyrie.

Playing against type, he appeared as a transsexual in the Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ).

Monty Python's Spamalot played at the theatre from 2006 until January 2009, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert opened at the Palace in March 2009 and closed in December 2011.

It was replaced by Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which played through 2011, and Singin ' In The Rain opened in February 2012.

* Priscilla Queen of the Desert ( 14 March 2009 – 31 December 2011 )

The area was home to two of Sydney ’ s most well-established gay and lesbian pubs, the Newtown Hotel on King Street and the nearby Imperial Hotel in Erskineville Road ( the famous drag show pub featured in the movie Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ).

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott.