While up in the air, Ray decided to do a parachute jump ( being an avid amateur parachutist ) but, just before he could disembark, the plane began to sputter, and the pilot told Milland not to jump as they were running low on gas and needed to land.

When asked why, he told Ray that the parachute he had worn up in the plane was " just a prop ", and that there had been no parachute.

According to Ray Manzarek, the band was told, " Mr. Sullivan liked you boys.

" I was so nervous I couldn't sing ," he told the journalist Ray Connolly, " but I like the lyrics.

Subsequently told that his style was " sweet as sugar " by future manager George Gainford, Smith Jr. became known as " Sugar " Ray Robinson.

HBO commentator Barry Tompkins told his broadcasting partner Sugar Ray Leonard, " You settled a case out of court here.

Seymour told reporter Dick Osgood that there was a verbal agreement that he would be cut in on the three-way deal in the management of Ray.

" Major-General Ray Barker told him that Browning was " an empire builder ", an assessment that Gavin came to agree with.

In the move to television, Leslie dropped his last name of " Stott " while working at the Edinburgh nightclub The Amphitheatre, after being told by nightclub DJ Ray Hollis that many people might have a problem pronouncing it.

* Watson, Charles as told to Ray Hoekstra.

Will You Die For Me ?, Watson's autobiography, as told to " Chaplain Ray " ( Ray Hoekstra ), was published in 1978.

The WBA investigated the fight, and during the investigation, it was revealed that Curtis had been told by the Nevada Athletic Commission to be mindful of the condition of the fighters after the November 18 death of Duk Koo Kim as the result of a fight with Ray Mancini in Las Vegas on November 13.

The story of the Hawkins legacy continues to be told today, during tours of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Museum, by Ray Reach ( Director of Student Jazz Programs ) and Dr. Frank Adams, ( Director of Education, Emeritus ) at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.

In Ray Bradbury's novel Dandelion Wine, the story of his death told by an eyewitness who calls him " Ching Ling Soo " and remembers him as having been shot in the face at Boston's Variety Theater in 1910.

Although the cover-up at first seems successful, Ray is told by Patrolmen's Defense Association President Vincent Lassaro ( Vincent ) that without a body, the case will not stay cold.

Steve Perry is the Daddies ' sole lyricist, and writes the majority of his songs in a fictional narrative format he credits as being influenced by Randy Newman and Ray Davies, often told about or through the unreliable perspective of downtrodden characters struggling against adversity.

" Hagar eventually backed away from the outright vulgarity after he was told by his friend, former world lightweight boxing champion Ray " Boom Boom " Mancini, that the word " fuck " was an acronym for the phrase " for unlawful carnal knowledge " ( though this is a false etymology ).

Her fleet's sensors picked up the IR signature of the firing of the Solar Ray, but she was unaware of the death of her father until Gihren told her, also claiming that the firing of the weapon was an accident.

He told WWF TV commentator Ray Morgan that he was the nephew of Ray Steele ( kayfabe ) and had an extensive amateur background.

( As told by Eric J. Ray, the list's founder )

( As told by Deborah S. Ray, the site's founder )

In the time-travel sequence of the movie, lead character Ray Kinsella goes back to the year of Graham's death, and is told that his appearance was at the end of the season, rather than the middle.

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

The movie Chasing 3000 was created based on a true story of two children named Mickey ( played by Ray Liotta, Trevor Morgan and Blake Woodyard ) as they travel across the United States to see Roberto Clemente's 3, 000th hit.

* In 2006 an award-winning stop-motion animated adaptation of the story was produced under the ' Ray Harryhausen Presents ' banner.

The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists.

Category: Short story collections by Ray Bradbury

* " There Will Come Soft Rains ", a short story by Ray Bradbury, is set on August 4.

Once on the ground and in the hangar, Ray began to tell his story of how he had wanted to jump.

In 1946, Addams met science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury after having drawn an illustration for Bradbury's short story " Homecoming " in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts.

In 1946, Addams met science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury after having drawn an illustration for Mademoiselle magazine's publication of Bradbury's short story " Homecoming ", the first in a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois vampires named the Elliotts.

Little Fugitive is a 1953 film written and directed by Raymond Abrashkin ( as " Ray Ashley "), Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin, that tells the story of a child alone at Coney Island.

It's written / directed by the team of Morris Engel and Ray Ashley and Ruth Orkin ... The dialogue was sparse, the story was unambitious, the film lacked drama, the children were very ordinary and their problem was only a minor one, nevertheless this beautifully realized film caught the world through the innocent eyes of a curious and scared child and left an impression that was hard to shake.

Ray Bradbury's short story The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair from the collection The Toynbee Convector features the stairs prominently as the catalyst for the beginning of a love affair between a couple who affectionately refer to each other as ' Stan ' and ' Ollie '.

According to biographer Kelley, the 1964 Time appearance came because " Barry Farrell, who wrote the cover story, wanted to write about a jazz musician and almost by default Monk was chosen, because they thought Ray Charles and Miles Davis were too controversial.

And so it is with the story " The Diary of Sophronia Winters " and the performances of Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins, we again hope to keep you in ...

" He played it like Ray would have, kicking it heavy on the bass foot pedals, and shouting his own encouragement: ' Tell the story, son!

The film tells the story, set in the 1930s, of a fictional jazz guitarist named Emmet Ray ( played by Sean Penn ) who regards himself as the second greatest guitarist in the world ( after jazz icon Django Reinhardt ) who falls in love with a mute woman ( Samantha Morton ).

* The short story " On the Orient, North " by Ray Bradbury

First published in 1998, it mocks the aspects of time travel such as the grandfather paradox and the Ray Bradbury short story " A Sound of Thunder ".

" By-Tor & the Snow Dog " was inspired by Rush roadie Howard Ungerleider's story of him staying at Anthem records owner Ray Danniels ' house, where Danniels ' German Shepherd growled at him, and a tiny dog also owned by Danniels tried to jump on him.

* " Homecoming ", a 1946 short story by Ray Bradbury

While in production, the filmmakers learned that a long-time friend of Harryhausen, writer Ray Bradbury, had sold a short story called " The Beast from 20, 000 Fathoms " ( retitled " The Fog Horn ") to The Saturday Evening Post, about a dinosaur drawn to a lone lighthouse by its foghorn.

* Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, based on a true story, tells how Henry Hill ( played by Ray Liotta ) eventually ends up in the Witness Protection Program.

Also, aside from the openings and story recap / preview episode, Amuro Ray does not make an appearance in the series either.

In one story he shows knowledge of how to construct a Growth Ray that makes someone 100 feet tall.

* The 1976 book The Jersey Devil and its 1998 sequel, Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil by James McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. tell the story of the Jersey Devil, and were the basis of the independent film, 13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil, Volume I.