Since Reeves didn't know the protocol of Motown's auditions, Reeves said she showed up to Motown's Hitsville USA studios the following day, and was apprehended by Stevenson for showing up earlier than expected.

A subsequent investigation showed that the small airplane had become caught in the storm and Reeves suffered spatial disorientation.

When she fails, she dresses up as Superman herself, only to have Reeves turn up in costume at the last minute and rescue her after she traps herself on the ledge of her apartment.

Founded in 1960 by friends Annette Beard, Rosalind Ashford and Gloria Williams, the band eventually included Martha Reeves, who moved up in ranks as lead vocalist of the group after Williams ' departure in 1962.

After living what she called " a rock & roll lifestyle " of prescription pills and alcohol, Reeves sobered up in 1977, overcoming her addictions and becoming a born-again Christian.

* Shane Falco # 16 ( QB ) ( Keanu Reeves ) — Former quarterback whose opportunities in football dried up after he choked during the 1996 Sugar Bowl during his senior year at Ohio State.

Tex Ritter and Jim Reeves both grew up in Panola County in East Texas.

Body builder Steve Reeves was also considered and DeMille lobbied long and hard to get the studio to pick up Reeves, but both DeMille and the studio wanted Reeves to tone down his physique, which Reeves, still young and new to the industry, ultimately refused to do.

After learning to surf for the film, Reeves took a liking to it and took it up as a hobby.

Reeves challenges the composition of the jury, which is made up of representatives who are prejudiced against the British.

At the 1986 Reykjavík Summit, Reagan told Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev that he could not give up the Strategic Defense Initiative because "'... the people who were the most outspoken critics of the Soviet Union over the years ’— he mentioned his favorite paper, Human Events ," according to Reeves, "‘ They ’ re kicking my brains out ’.

He continued working live all over England before joining up with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer for two tours and two series of Big Night Out.

The basic idea of Oboe was dreamt up by Alec Reeves of Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd, and implemented in a partnership with Frank Jones of the TRE and had as part of the team Dr Denis Stops who later became a leading physicist at the University College London.

Seaman Scholefield with two other seamen ( James Gorman and Thomas Reeves ) and two others who were killed during the action, mounted the defense work banquette and, under withering attack from the enemy, kept up a rapid, repulsing fire.

He was nicknamed Big Country by his college teammate Byron Houston after Reeves was amazed following his first airplane flight across the United States, having grown up in the small community of Gans, Oklahoma.

After beginning the season at 1 – 3, head coach Dan Reeves and quarterback Michael Vick led the Falcons to an NFL-best eight-game unbeaten streak ( 7 – 0 – 1 ).

Ferrigno started weight training at age 13, citing body builder and Hercules star Steve Reeves as one of his role models.

The Giants experienced a resurgent season with Reeves at the helm in 1993 however, and Simms and Taylor ended their careers as members of a playoff team.

" Although asked to rest for at least six weeks, Reeves returned to the sidelines for Week 17.

Mike Shanahan was hurt and angered by Reeves ' pregame assertion that Shanahan and Elway had conspired to have him fired during his stint at Denver.

At the end of the 20th century, " La Pausa " was partially replicated at the Dallas Museum of Art to welcome the Reeves collection and part of Chanel's original furniture for the house.

Sergeant Maylon Stark ( George Reeves ) has told Warden that Karen had many affairs at Fort Bliss, including with him.

According to biographers, the two met at a pub in Carmel, and conceived a son, Scott Reeves ( born March 21, 1986 ), at the premiere of Pale Rider.

Staines Rugby Football Club which used to play at the Lammas ( a recreation ground on Wraysbury Road, which was also known as the Ashby Recreation Ground ) relocated to The Reeves ( on Snakey Lane, near Hanworth ) in the 1960s but still proudly bears the name of the town with teams named Swans, Cobs and Mucky Ducks.

After the classic Hercules ( 1958 ) became a blockbuster sensation in the film industry, a 1959 Steve Reeves film Terrore dei Barbari ( Terror of the Barbarians ) was retitled Goliath and the Barbarians in the United States, ( after Joseph E. Levine claimed the sole right to the name of Hercules ); the film was so successful at the box office, it inspired Italian filmmakers to do a series of four more films featuring a beefcake hero named Goliath, although the films were not really related to each other.

Past performers at the week-long festival include: Diana Krall, Arturo Sandoval, Jean Carne, Phil Woods, Aretha Franklin, Freda Payne, Cassandra Wilson, Ethel Ennis, David Sanborn, Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ramsey Lewis, Patti Austin, and Ann Hampton Callaway

On 26 May, The Cure embarked on a 19-date summer festival tour of Europe, commencing at the Pinkpop Festival, joined by former Cure / COGASM collaborator Reeves Gabrels on guitar.

The " SummerCure " tour, featuring a five-piece line-up of Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Roger O ' Donnell, Jason Cooper and Reeves Gabrels, included headlining appearances at the 2012 Reading and Leeds Festivals, and concluded in Ireland on 1 September with a headline slot at the Electric Picnic.

* Northern Dancer's offspring at the Triple Crown database by Kathleen Irwin and Joy Reeves

In Akhenaten: Egypt &# 146 ; s False Prophet, Nicholas Reeves construes the pharaoh &# 146 ; s religious reformations as attempts at the centralization of his power and solidification of his role as &# 8220 ; divine monarch .&# 8221 ;

Staines Rugby Football Club plays at The Reeves ground in Snakey Lane.

Reeves also spent two months at Gold's Gym in Los Angeles to get in shape for the role.

Robert L. Frye, the Republican candidate for state education superintendent in 1972, began his educational career at Reeves High School in the late 1940s.

Reeves is located at ( 30. 520543 ,-93. 046888 ).

* Dr. Britton Chance ( 1913 – 2010 ), Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

*" Lucy and Superman ": Lucy tries to get George Reeves, star of the 1950s Adventures of Superman television series, to appear at little Ricky's birthday party.

* Martha Reeves ( born July 18, 1941 ) was the lead singer of the American Motown group Martha & the Vandellas.

Palmer was CSNY's first choice to play bass, but due to various personal problems was replaced by Motown prodigy Greg Reeves.

Whatever the true reason, Palmer was forced out of the band, and, at Rick James ' recommendation, nineteen-year-old Motown bassist Greg Reeves replaced him.

Martha and the Vandellas ( known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas ) were an American vocal group who found fame in the 1960s with a string of hit singles on the Motown Records label.

Briefly separated, Reeves returned to a solo career performing under the name Martha LaVaille, in hopes of getting a contract with emerging Detroit label Motown.

After Motown staffer Mickey Stevenson noticed Reeves singing at a prominent Detroit club, he offered her his business card for an audition.

Motown struggled to find good material for many of their acts after the exit of Motown contributor and Reeves ' mentor William " Mickey " Stevenson in 1967 and Holland – Dozier – Holland in early 1968, but after their former collaborators left the label, the Vandellas initially continued to find success with the Richard Morris produced singles " Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone " ( US # 25 ; R & B # 14 ) and " Honey Chile " ( US # 11 ; UK # 30 ; R & B # 5 ) added to their already extended list of charted singles.

At the same time, Motown Records moved its operations to Los Angeles ; when Reeves did not want to move, she negotiated out of her deal with Motown, signing with MCA in 1974, and releasing the critically acclaimed self-titled debut, Martha Reeves.

Despite critical rave reviews of her work, neither of Reeves ' post-Vandellas / Motown recordings produced the same success as they had the decade before.

In 1983, Reeves successfully sued for royalties from her Motown hits and the label agreed to have the songs credited as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas from then on.

That year, Reeves performed solo at Motown 25, which alongside some of their songs being placed on the Big Chill soundtrack, helped Reeves and the Vandellas gain a new audience.

Martha Rose Reeves ( born July 18, 1941 in Eufaula, Alabama ) is an American R & B and Pop singer and former politician, and was the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.

After a performance at Twenty Grand Club, Reeves was spotted by Motown A & R director Mickey Stevenson, who gave the singer, who was then going by the unusual surname LaVaille as her stage name, his business card for a possible audition.

( Reeves also did A & R work in addition to secretarial work for Motown.

In 1973, Martha planned to continue releasing solo work with Motown, but when the label moved from Detroit to Los Angeles, Reeves negotiated out of her contract with Motown, ending her 12-year association with the label.