Singer Rihanna using the V sign as a peace and friend sign.

In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

Cecilia Beaux ( May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 ) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.

Director Bryan Singer stated at the 2006 Comic-Con that he favored the three-persona concept, stating that there was Clark Kent on the farm, the bumbling Metropolis Clark, and Superman, the Last Son of Krypton.

She was frequently cast in romantic comedies such as Wishful Thinking ( 1997 ), The Wedding Singer ( 1998 ), and Home Fries ( 1998 ).

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

It was clear that Edison originally intended to create a sound film system, which would not gain worldwide recognition until the release of " The Jazz Singer " in 1927.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

Singer was born in Vienna, Austria, where his father was a jeweler and his mother a homemaker.

Singer was one of the first scientists to urge the launching of earth satellites for scientific observation during the 1950s.

In 1962, on leave from the university, Singer was named as the first director of meteorological satellite services for the National Weather Satellite Center, now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and directed a program for using satellites to forecast the weather.

In December 1965, The New York Times reported on a conference Singer hosted in Miami Beach during which five groups of scientists, working independently, presented research identifying what they believed was the remains of a primordial flash that occurred when the universe was born.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway say that Singer was involved in the Reagan administration's efforts to prevent regulatory action to reduce acid rain.

" As early as 1992, Singer was charged publicly by a CO < sub > 2 </ sub > scientist from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of unethical conduct in certain publications, which same charge was reiterated in 2006.

ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said he is not on the payroll of the energy industry, but he acknowledged that SEPP had received one unsolicited charitable donation of $ 10, 000 from ExxonMobil, and that it was one percent of all donations received.

Singer said that his connection to Exxon was more like being on their mailing list than holding a paid position.

The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was not only the first film with synchronized dialogue, but the first feature film that was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face ;" " Toot, Toot, Tootsie ", " Blue Skies " and " My Mammy ".

Although myth was traditionally transmitted through the oral tradition on a small scale, the technology of the film industry has enabled filmmakers to transmit myths to large audiences via film dissemination ( Singer, “ Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film ”, 3-6 ).

Singer Kenny Hagood was added for one track during the recording

Singer was perhaps the most publicly notable scholarly proponent of " cult " brainwashing theories, and she became the focal point of the relative demise of those same theories within her discipline.

Benjamin Zablocki and Alberto Amitrani interpreted the APA's response as meaning that there was no unanimous decision on the issue either way, suggesting also that Singer retained the respect of the psychological community after the incident.

Later on, those systems running TOPS-20 ( on the KL10 PDP-10 processors ) were labeled DECSYSTEM-20 ( the block capitals being the result of a lawsuit brought against DEC by Singer, which once made a computer called " system-10 ").

They were unaware that, although Singer believes that some lives are so blighted from the beginning that their parents may decide their lives are not worth living, in other cases, once the decision is made to keep them alive, everything that can be done to improve the quality of their life should, to Singer's mind, be done.

The castle on the island was once a monastery but is now a hotel and tourist attraction known as Singer Castle originally built in the late 1800s by the founder of the Singer Company.

Singer Frank Sinatra once visited Cohen at his home and begged him to tell Stompanato to stop dating Sinatra's friend and ex-wife, actress Ava Gardner.

Only two other directors have won the award more than once: Peter Jackson ( three times ) and Bryan Singer ( two times ).

Of his composition " Street Singer ", Rosenthal wrote that it is " an authentic hard-bop classic " where " pathos, irony and rage come together in a performance at once anguished and sinister.

New York magazine once described him as the “ Sexiest Lead Singer.

The New Guinea Singing Dog ( also known as the New Guinea Dingo, Hallstrom Dog, Bush Dingo ,, New Guinea Wild Dog, and Singer ) is a wild dog once found throughout New Guinea.

Singer Michael Stipe once said that he hoped everyone had enough sense of humor to realize that he was " kind of taking the piss of everyone ," himself included.

Eventually the band split ; Jeff Huang returned to the United States and started an internet company that later merged with a Japanese software company in a 60 million dollar deal before once again returning to Taiwan and fronting hip-hop group Machi ; brother Stanley went on to establish a successful solo career, winning Best Mandarin Male Singer in the 2005 Golden Melody Awards ( the Taiwanese music industry's equivalent to the Grammys ); Lin returned to California becoming an orthopedic surgeon.

In 1998, Brian May released his third solo album, Another World, which Murray and Powell had once again played on, but Powell's death meant a tour with Eric Singer ( KISS, Alice Cooper, Lita Ford, Black Sabbath ) instead.

This is because he was once one of the Zars, the army of the Morah ( the " spirit " of all evil ), and is one of the Singer people too, as he has been trained in their ways.

Singer Mel Carter recorded the song in two different versions, once in 1965 and again in 1966.

Singer Dusty Springfield once worked at Bentalls in Ealing and singer Petula Clark gave her first public performance as a child at Bentalls in Kingston upon Thames.

Also, in the mid-1980s, psychologist Margaret Singer stopped being accepted as an expert witness after the APA declined to endorse the DIMPAC report.

Singer argued that it would rise to then be rained out after a few days.

Singer set up the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change ( NIPCC ) after a 2004 United Nations climate conference in Milan.

In December 2009, after the release of thousands of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit — a controversy that came to be known as " Climategate "— Singer wrote an opinion piece for Reuters in which he said the scientists had misused peer review, pressured editors to prevent publication of alternative views, and smeared opponents.

Singer comments that defenders of abortion attack the second premise, suggesting that the fetus becomes a " human " or " alive " at some point after conception ; however, Singer finds this argument flawed in that that human development is a gradual process, and it is nearly impossible to mark a particular moment in time as the moment at which human life begins.

** Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

One week after the marriage, The Jazz Singer was released.

Singer strongly pleaded for understanding in Hearst's behalf before, during and after the trial.

No studio beside Warner Bros. released even a part-talking feature until the low-budget-oriented Film Booking Offices of America ( FBO ) premiered The Perfect Crime on June 17, 1928, eight months after The Jazz Singer.

Australia's first tournament after the World Cup was the Singer World Series in Sri Lanka.

Singer Jay Aston lived in Streatham after leaving Bucks Fizz.

Singer Billy Joel lived in Highland Falls in the 1970s after he moved back to New York.

Singer Elliott Smith moved to Duncanville after his parents divorced and stayed till age 14 when he went to live with his father in Portland, Oregon.

He filmed that sequence four days after the release of ' The Jazz Singer ' ( the first successful talkie ) in New York.

) The popularity of " Sarah Jackman " ( as well as the album My Son, the Folk Singer ) was enhanced after President John F. Kennedy was spotted in a hotel lobby singing the song.

The children were in the car with their nurse, returning home after lunch with Isadora and Paris Singer.

* January 13 – Singer Donny Hathaway dies after falling 15 stories from his hotel room in New York City.

In 1927, after the successful release of the first full-length talking picture, The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), he nevertheless felt that talking pictures were a fad.

However, in a later edition of " Practical Ethics " after the work of Næss and Sessions, Singer admits that, although unconvinced by deep ecology, the argument from intrinsic value of non-sentient entities is plausible, but at best problematic.

Singer / guitarist Brett Scallions joined the group after Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie saw him in a bar in Jackson, Tennessee in 1993.

When Norris downed the champion for the count with a right to the jaw, Mugabi received the dubious distinction as the second fighter, after Al Singer, to both win and lose a world title by first round knockout when he was defeated by Norris.

Originally made by Singer in the US and Europe for supplying the demand of heavy duty clothing for the troops, for many years after the war this class was not available as new because the market was filled.

Singer Chris Bailey deliberately mimed the lyrics out of time before continuing to sing after allowing the microphone to fall out of his hand.