He also experimented behind the camera with pre-filmed sketches, notably directing a documentary-style short starring Shearer and Short as synchronized swimmers.

While at KRLA, Shearer also interviewed Creedence Clearwater Revival for the Pop Chronicles music documentary.

Shearer also started writing for Martin Mull's television series Fernwood 2 Night.

A possible move for Shearer was being mentioned in the media during late autumn of 1991, but he rejected talk of a transfer ( Leeds United were also linked to Shearer ) and vowed to see out the season with Southampton.

Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the Saints, and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the summer of 1992.

Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal ; it came in a 4 – 0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November.

Shearer also had his first taste of European football in the UEFA Cup that season, and scored in the second leg as Blackburn went out in the first round, losing to Trelleborgs FF of Sweden.

Douglas Shearer also won the first Academy Award for Sound.

The film was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Actress for its star Norma Shearer.

The Divorcee was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 ( along with A Free Soul, also starring Norma Shearer ), as one of five Pre-Code films in the " TCM Archives-Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol.

It also spelled the end of many silent careers, and Shearer was determined hers would not be one of them.

Shearer was also one of the many actresses considered for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone With The Wind ( 1939 ).

Smithers is voiced by Harry Shearer, who is also the voice of Mr. Burns.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

There are also rumors of affairs with Norma Shearer and Myrna Loy ( during filming of The Animal Kingdom ).

A Free Soul was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 ( along with The Divorcee, also starring Norma Shearer ), as one of five Pre-Code films in the " TCM Archives-Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol.

The revue was written principally by Laurie and Fry, and the cast also included Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer.

At the start of the 2005 – 06 season, Milner scored in Newcastle's 3 – 1 away win against FK ZTS Dubnica in the Intertoto Cup, and also set up Shearer for the team's third goal.

Around this time, 120 Minutes, was moved to Sunday nights between 11 p. m. and 1 a. m. Jim Shearer also took over hosting duty from Kevin Dunn.

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

At this point the film begins to take a very dark and gothic turn as Johnny's tour guide, Mephisto ( Mr. D's chief lieutenant, also voiced by Shearer ), guides him through the sections of Hell where musicians who have sold their souls are violently tortured.

The film starred Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas, and also featured Florence Shirley, Lee Bowman and Lenore J.

He also has a brother named Matt Shearer.

Mel Blanc took Shearer " under his wing " during his early days in show-business.

" Shearer said in an interview that one person who " took him under his wing " and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble.

Despite the popularity of her subsequent early talking films, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney and Their Own Desire ( both 1929 ), Shearer feared the public would soon tire of her " good girl " image, and took the advice of friend and co-star Ramón Novarro to visit an unknown photographer named George Hurrell.

When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow.

During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media.

Major Shearer took over the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines for the wounded Berry.

His first political promotion came in 1943, when Sir Alexander Bustamante ( founder of the Jamaican Labour Party ) took over editorship of the paper and took Shearer under his wing.

Hank Azaria took over the voice of Moe, while Harry Shearer assumed the role of Mr. Burns.

Before the recording session took part, the main voice actors of the show ( Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, and Hank Azaria ) sat down with executive producer David Mirkin and a crew of writers at a table reading to determine what shape the script was in.

Alan Shearer took charge of the team in April, but left after the end of the season with the club exiting the Premier League.

Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Hawks and Athole Shearer finally married on May 28, 1928 and they honeymooned in Hawaii.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Shearer describes his experience on the show as a " living hell " and he did not get along well with the other writers and cast members.

Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy / music program Le Show on Santa Monica's NPR-affiliated radio station, KCRW.

He has received several Primetime Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominations and in 2008 it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.

According to Shearer, after graduating, he had " a very serious agenda going on, and it was ' Stay Out Of The Draft '.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.

Shearer describes his experience on the show as a " living hell " and " not a real pleasant place to work.

In 1984, while promoting the film This Is Spinal Tap, Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean had a performance on Saturday Night Live.

Shearer, Guest and McKean have since worked on several projects as their Spinal Tap characters.

The play was first heard on film in The Hollywood Revue of 1929, in which John Gilbert recited the balcony scene opposite Norma Shearer.

It releases in theaters, along with Eugene O ' Neill's experimental play Strange Interlude ( starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable ), and will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

In the same year, Crawford worked on Lady of the Night, starring Norma Shearer.

This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £ 15 million.

On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking on his most successful domestic season as a player to date.

Shearer's league-record 34 goals, coupled with Sutton's 15, helped the Lancashire club take the Premier League title from holders Manchester United on the final day of the season, and the duo gained the nickname " the SAS " ( Shearer And Sutton ).

Shearer made his league debut away at Everton, on 17 August 1996, and maintained his form during the rest of the season, finishing as Premier League top-scorer for the third consecutive season with 25 goals in 31 Premier League games, as well as winning another PFA Player of the Year accolade, despite a groin injury forcing him to miss seven matches.

Perhaps his best performance of the season came on 2 February 1997 when Newcastle went into the final 15 minutes of the game 3 – 1 down at home to Leicester City in the league, only for Shearer to win them the game 4 – 3 by scoring a late hat-trick.

Shearer is widely celebrated by some as one of cinema's feminist pioneers: " the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen ".

Still undeterred, Shearer risked some of her savings on a consultation with Dr. William Bates, a pioneer in the treatment of incorrectly aligned eyes and defective vision.

Early in 1923, after a successful meeting, Roach made Shearer an offer on behalf of Louis B. Mayer Pictures, run by mogul Louis B. Mayer.

The next morning, Shearer went to the Mayer Company on Mission Road to meet with the vice-president, Irving Thalberg.