Each week, Gleason would begin his monologue and be surprised by the flamboyant jackets worn by bandleader Sammy Spear.

Instead, it was 1927 Le Mans winner, S. C. H. " Sammy " Davis who was brought in as a track design advisor in July 1946 although the layout was partly dictated by the existing roads.

One of the most impressive performances came from Sammy Baugh, who had a completion percentage of. 703.

According to Sammy Davis who met him there, Nuvolari showed a great sense for dark humour and seemed to enjoy situations when everything went wrong.

The actor interpreted the testimony of Sammy (" The Bull ") Gravano, Gotti's underboss, against Gotti as " a friend who betrays a friend.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

It is a rags to riches story chronicling the rise and fall of Sammy Glick, a Jewish boy born in New York's Lower East Side who very early in his life makes up his mind to escape the ghetto and climb the ladder of success by deception and betrayal.

Told in first person narrative by Al Manheim, drama critic of The New York Record, this is the tale of Sammy Glick, a young uneducated boy who rises from copy boy to the top of the screenwriting profession in 1930s Hollywood by backstabbing others.

Once there, Manheim for the first time witnesses a self-conscious, desperate, and suffering Sammy Glick who cannot stand being alone in his big house.

World champions whom Chávez defeated include Jose Luis Ramírez, Rafael Limón, Rocky Lockridge, Meldrick Taylor, Roger Mayweather, Lonnie Smith, Sammy Fuentes, Héctor " Macho " Camacho, Juan Laporte, Edwin Rosario, Greg Haugen, Tony López, Giovanni Parisi, Joey Gamache and Frankie Randall, who had taken the WBC Light Welterweight belt from Chávez just four months earlier.

Samuel Serrano ( born November 17, 1952 ), nicknamed Sammy and El Torbellino, is a Puerto Rican who won boxing's world junior lightweight championship twice.

In the meantime, a bloody brawl between Murray and Sammy Capulet catches the attention of Detective Ernie Scalus, who gathers the heads of the two families together and declares that they will be held personally accountable for any further breaches of peace.

The Memorial also honors Sammy Lee Davis, who received the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam.

These plots often featured Guy Caballero ( Joe Flaherty ), the cheap, tyrannical owner and president of SCTV, who was in a wheelchair only so that people would " respect " him ; weaselly, sweating station manager Maurice " Moe " Green ( Harold Ramis ), who was succeeded by flamboyant, leopard-skin clad station manager Mrs. Edith Prickley ( Andrea Martin ); vain variety star Johnny La Rue ( John Candy ); washed-up entertainers like singer Lola Heatherton ( Catherine O ' Hara ) and " funnyman " Bobby Bittman ( Eugene Levy ); news anchors Floyd Robertson ( Flaherty ) and Earl Camembert ( Levy ), talk-show host Sammy Maudlin ( Flaherty ), beer-addled brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie ( Moranis and Thomas ), plus many other characters, all played by the SCTV cast.

In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins, who suggested that he change his name to Dean Martin.

* Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award: for songwriters who have done a lot to increase the success of songs

In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group, after Bogart's death, that called itself " the summit " or " the clan ," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, who appeared together on stage and in films in the early-1960s, including the movie Ocean's 11.

* El Juez, a character modeled after Pigmeat Markham and Sammy Davis, Jr .' s " Here Come Da Judge " character ( more Davis ' than Markham's ) who had a huge mallet and would use it against a defendant's head if necessary during trials

Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. was shown in a 1964 photograph watching the Huntley-Brinkley Report on a television backstage in his dressing room in Life magazine, who quoted him saying, " My only contact with reality.

In the series, Sasami Kawai ( 河合砂沙美 ) is a cute young Japanese girl who is asked by magical queen-to-be Tsunami of Juraihelm to become " Magical Girl Pretty Sammy ", a champion of justice.

Ryo-Ohki ( who is a male in both of the Pretty Sammy series, but a female in Tenchi Muyo!

Other new characters of the season are the psychiatrist Nick Toscanni ( James Farentino ), who tries to seduce Krystle while bedding Fallon and plotting against Blake, and Krystle's greedy niece Sammy Jo Dean ( Heather Locklear ), who marries Steven for his money.

Most arrangements for large ensembles, big bands, in the swing era, were written down, however, and credited to a specific arranger, as were later arrangements for the Count Basie big band by Sammy Nestico and Neal Hefti.

Many original television theme songs of the era also showed a strong disco influence, such as " Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow " ( theme from Baretta, performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and later a hit single for Rhythm Heritage ), Theme from " S. W. A. T.

The Rangers later added reliever Éric Gagné and veteran outfielders Kenny Lofton and Sammy Sosa on short-term deals.

The romance theme was later given lyrics, and became the pop standard " Smile ", first recorded by Nat King Cole and later covered by artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Trini Lopez, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Petula Clark, Liberace, Judy Garland, Madeleine Peyroux, Plácido Domingo and Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson and Robert Downey, Jr. ( included on the soundtrack for the film Chaplin ).

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.

His first win came later that year, beating Sammy Burns by a decision in six.

Investment capital came primarily in the form of business loans from the Bank of America and from the formation of partnerships and private investment from select parties, including The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson and entertainers Roy Clark and Sammy Davis, Jr .. Money was also gained later through a dealer investment program in which those dealerships offering DeLorean's cars for sale were made shareholders in the company.

Canseco was at one time the all-time leader in home runs among Latino players ; he was later surpassed by Manny Ramirez, Carlos Delgado, Rafael Palmeiro, Alex Rodriguez, and Sammy Sosa.

In 1992, Sammy Strain left the group, and returned to the Imperials, to be replaced by Nathaniel Best, and later, by Eric Grant.

That and the other Planet Us song written for the band, " Peephole ," were later released on the 2008 Sammy Hagar solo album Cosmic Universal Fashion.

The radio cast included Roslyn Silber and Alfred Ryder as children Rosalie and Sammy, Menasha Skulnik as Uncle David, Arnold Stang ( later famous as the voice of Top Cat ) as Seymour Fingerhood, Garson Kanin as Eli Edwards, and Zina Provendie as Sylvia Allison, among others.

* Sammy Joe Odom ( 1941 – 2001 ), a football star at NSU in 1962 and 1963, later played with the Houston Oilers.

Krystina receives a heart transplant but is later kidnapped ; Sammy Jo's marriage to Clay Fallmont ( Ted McGinley ) crumbles and she falls into bed with Steven ; Amanda leaves town, and Ben's daughter Leslie Carrington ( played by Terri Garber ) arrives.

In, a group of Yankees met at the famous Copacabana nightclub to celebrate Martin's 29th birthday ; the party ultimately erupted into a much publicized brawl when Martin, Hank Bauer, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra challenged a few drunks who were hurling racial slurs at performer Sammy Davis, Jr. A month later, general manager George Weiss — believing Martin's nightlife was a bad influence on teammates Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle — exiled him to Kansas City.

It was not until seven years later, however, that he directed his next film, Salt and Pepper ( 1968 ), with Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford.

González was signed by the Texas Rangers as an amateur free agent in Puerto Rico on May 30, 1986, at the age of 16 ( after signing Sammy Sosa and before signing Iván Rodríguez two years later ).

Sammy Sosa hit his 62nd home run just days later on September 13.

The other man, Sammy, was later identified as Mohd Mansour Jabarah, a Canadian national of Arab descent, who was in US custody ( as of 2003 ) and sentenced to life in prison in 2008.

The success of hard rock act Van Halen spanned throughout the entire decade, first with singer David Lee Roth and later with Sammy Hagar.

They also performed regularly at B St Bar in Belleville with bands such as The Newsboys ( later Sammy and the Snowmonkeys ), Charlie Langrehr, and The Symptoms.

This promotion was later tainted by life-time suspensions handed out to players Brian Phillips and Sammy Chapman for bribing opponents, including players of Hartlepools United in a vital match which Mansfield won 4 – 3.

Samuel " Sammy " Herman Reshevsky ( born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1911, Ozorków near Łódź, ( then Russian Empire, today Poland ) – died April 4, 1992, New York City ) was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster.