Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Some reviewers criticized the casting of Coppola's daughter Sofia, who stepped into a role abandoned by Winona Ryder just as filming began.

The film centers on 17-year-old Veronica Sawyer ( Winona Ryder ), an intelligent teenager who is one of the most popular girls at Westerburg High School in Sherwood, Ohio.

Winona Ryder, who was 16 at the time of filming and badly wanted the part, begged Waters to cast her.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

McVeigh, an American militia movement sympathizer who was a Gulf War veteran, had detonated an explosive-filled Ryder truck parked in front of the building.

As he drove toward the Murrah Federal Building in the Ryder truck, McVeigh carried with him an envelope containing pages from The Turner Diaries — a fictional account of white supremacists who ignite a revolution by blowing up the FBI headquarters at 9: 15 one morning using a truck bomb.

McVeigh was also identified by Lea McGown of the Dreamland Motel, who remembered him parking a large yellow Ryder truck in the lot ; McVeigh had signed in under his real name at the motel, using an address that matched the one on his forged license and the charge sheet at the Perry Police Station.

One of the notable popularizers of Speciesism is Australian philosopher Peter Singer – who had known Ryder from his own time as a postgraduate philosophy student at Oxford – in his Animal Liberation ( 1975 ).

The platoon leader was 1st Lieutenant William T. Ryder, who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA from a B-18 Bomber.

It was at that first race that Bell first met her future coach Gus Ryder, who was coach of the Lakeshore Swimming Club.

* In Beetlejuice, Lydia ( Winona Ryder ) tells Adam and Barbara ( Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis ) that her stepmother ( Catherine O ' Hara ), who is shown in a semi-drugged stupor, is " sleeping with Prince Valium.

The Ryder Cup is also the name of the trophy, after the person who donated it, English entrepreneur Samuel Ryder.

There is some debate over who suggested the idea for the Ryder Cup.

Present at the 1926 match, held on the East Course at Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey, was Samuel Ryder, a seed merchant who traded from St Albans, Hertfordshire.

Under Ryder Cup rules, the team that does not currently hold the Cup must win the contest to win the Ryder Cup, so that if the contest is a tie ( 14 points each ) the Ryder Cup is retained by the team who held it before the contest.

* Sergeant Robert Edward Ryder VC ( 1895-1978 ), who served in World War I in the Middlesex Regiment, was born and is buried in Harefield.

James Ryder Randall, an English professor who wrote the poem " Maryland, My Maryland " in April 1861, at nearby Poydras College on False River.

As Cavendish was begun as a home for concentration camp survivors the charity holds some records of the people who were rescued by Sue Ryder.

The first known resident of Valley Cottage was John Ryder, who owned a large farm which comprised all or most of the area's school district.

The first charity to introduce Gift Aid on donated goods-where the tax is reclaimed on the value of the goods when sold-was Sue Ryder Care.

At the same event he was awarded the 1st place trophy for best mascot in parade and a £ 50 cheque which he donated to Sue Ryder cancer care.

A gold plaque in the Royal British Legion Hall honours the exceptional bravery of both Goodlake VC and Ryder VC.

Roger took part in the 2012 Sue Ryder gold cup mascot race at Wetherby race course on the 31st of May, crossing the line in 15th place.

Martin Kaymer struck the putt that retained the cup for Europe and Francesco Molinari's halving of the 18th hole against Tiger Woods secured the final half-point to win the Ryder Cup outright.

Another controversial move was to play Sergio García and Lee Westwood, the two most experienced and successful Ryder cup players on his team, for only one session on the Saturday.

James represented Great Britain & Ireland or Europe in the Ryder Cup seven times including 1989 when Europe tied the match and retained the cup they had won in 1987, and 1995 when they won it outright.

That one singles win came in a crucial match against Tiger Woods in the 1997 Ryder Cup at Valderrama, which Rocca won 4 & 2 to help Europe claim the cup.

Commentating for Sky Sports at the 1997 Ryder cup, Harmon was asked about the negative press Nick Faldo was receiving from the media in the build up to the event.

On June 2, 2009, Entertainment Weekly reported that Ryder had claimed that there will be a sequel to Heathers with Christian Slater coming back " as a kind of Obi-Wan character ".

At 8: 57 am CST the Regency Towers Apartments ' lobby security camera that had recorded Nichols ' pickup truck three days earlier recorded the Ryder truck heading towards the Murrah Federal Building.

Michael revealed that McVeigh had chosen the date, and Lori testified that she created the false identification card McVeigh used to rent the Ryder truck.

In addition to Michael assisting McVeigh in scouting the federal building, Lori had helped McVeigh laminate a fake driver's license which was later used to rent the Ryder truck.

Ryder had written three letters to The Daily Telegraph in April and May 1969 with criticisms of animal experiments, based on incidents he had witnessed in laboratories, and thereafter joined a group of intellectuals and writers in Oxford – the nascent animal rights community, now known as the Oxford Group.

The operator of the Dreamland Motel testified that two Ryder trucks had been parked outside her Grandview Plaza motel where McVeigh stayed in Room 26 the weekend before the bombing.

As the remote property had no electricity or television sets, Ryder began to devote her time to reading, and became an avid fan of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

Many of the American players believed the Europeans ' response was hypocritical ; they argued that European players – in particular Seve Ballesteros – had been guilty of excessive celebration and gamesmanship as far back as the 1985 Ryder Cup Matches, without attracting the same opprobrium from the European media.

During that year Carnival Cruise Lines, Ryder, and Univision had operations in Doral.

At one time Ryder had its headquarters in Doral.

His son, Charles Wolcott Ryder, Jr. was USMA class of 1941 who had a distinguished career and rose to the rank of Major General.

She had three children, one by Conway, one by Brooks Clift ( brother of Montgomery Clift ) while she was married to Conway, and one by Ryder.

Among its most expensive flops were Great Balls of Fire !, starring Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as his teenage bride ; She-Devil, a domestic horror comedy featuring Meryl Streep and Roseanne Arnold ; and Valmont, a remake of Les Liaisons dangereuses, an eighteenth-century novel and twentieth-century play that already had been adapted and released as Dangerous Liaisons just a few months earlier.

It was especially weak in the Commons, where Perceval had only one cabinet member – Home Secretary Richard Ryder – and had to rely on the support of backbenchers in debate.

For the record, Nicklaus played in 23 official worldwide events in 1971, won eight, had 17 top-five finishes, 20 top-10 finishes, and compiled a 5 – 1 – 0 record in that year's Ryder Cup competition.

Paul Ryder himself had a cameo role in the film as a gangster and Rowetta Satchell ( who sang for the band on Pills ' n ' Thrills and Bellyaches and Yes Please!

This was sparked in part after it was discovered that the driver of the Ryder van used to blow up the World Trade Center in the 1993 terrorist attack in New York, Eyad Ismoil, had entered the country on a student visa to attend Wichita State but had dropped out of college and gone underground, only to resurface in the attack.