The name is mainly associated with Morton who has been credited as an influence by Spike Milligan amongst others.

In Flanders, the two-tier strip is the standard publication style of most daily strips like Spike and Suzy and Nero.

The crew is made up of four unique characters: Jet Black, a former ISSP police officer who retired following a mob hit that cost him his arm, Spike Spiegel, a laid-back exiled hitman of the ruthless Red Dragons ' Syndicate, Faye Valentine, a beautiful amnesiac con artist who awakened into the future world after a lengthy period of cryogenic hibernation, and Radical Edward, a hyperactive and barefooted preteen girl with a reputation as a prolific computer hacker.

Spike Spiegel is a former member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate.

Like Spike, he too is haunted by the memory of a woman, Alisa, his longtime girlfriend who left him without reason.

In ‘ Stray Dog Strut ’ the final fight between Spike and Hakim is influenced by Bruce Lee ’ s Game of Death while in ‘ Waltz for Venus ’, Spike ’ s kung fu lesson is eerily similar to a scene from Lee ’ s Enter the Dragon.

Spike Lee's character is called " Shorty ".

* May 10 is Golden Spike Day ( 1869 – Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad – Promontory Summit, Utah )

The supporting cast included Olga Sosnovska, Stephen Fry and Eric Sykes and the series is also notable as the last screen performance by comedy legend Spike Milligan ( as the Headmaster ).

Shelton Jackson " Spike " Lee ( born March 20, 1957 ) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

Spike Lee is a fan of the American baseball team the New York Yankees, basketball team the New York Knicks, and the English football team.

Spike Jonze ( born Adam Spiegel ; October 22, 1969 ) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.

In the closing credits montage of Yeah Right !, Spike is shown doing a nollie heelflip in loafers.

Lynsey De Paul is a patron of the Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund.

There is a plaque and bench located at the Wadestown Library, Wellington New Zealand in an area called " Spike Milligan Corner ".

* Milligna ( or Your Favourite Spike ) ( 1972 ) The title is based on Milligan's introduction in The Last Goon Show of All as " Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error ".

Spike Jones, Jr., whose father's orchestral recordings had a deep and indelible effect on me as a child, said once in an interview, ' One of the things that people don't realize about Dad's kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.

The Legend of Zelda franchise is the inaugural recipient of Spike TV's first ever Video Game Hall of Fame award.

It was here on May 10, 1869, that Stanford drove The Last Spike ( or golden spike ) which is now on display at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, that joined the rails of the transcontinental railroad.

Existence of a master military contingency plan ( of which REX-84 was a part ), " Garden Plot " and a similar earlier exercise, " Lantern Spike ", were originally revealed by journalist Ron Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in an article in CounterSpy.

The acquisition also included the Recto, Spike master, Amebic and Dishwasher brands for use on any products and the Jensen, Advent, Acoustic Research and Road Gear brands for electronics products in 2003.

Spike introduces him to his captor, Marcus, a master torturer with a taste for ( eating and torturing ) children.

Drusilla's technique in combat, although awkward-looking, has allowed her to hold her own in a fight against Angel ( in " Reunion ") and Spike ( in " Becoming, Part Two "), along with besting Kendra the Vampire Slayer ( in " Becoming, Part One ") before using the hypnosis technique and then killing her.

In the episode " Time Bomb ", she managed to single-handedly kill Spike, Wesley, Lorne and Angel in a matter of seconds, a testament of her prowess in combat.

Their sparring sessions are mutually satisfactory ; Spike hones his fighting techniques and Illyria is able to regularly inflict pain and dominate Spike in combat.

Dana is seen holding her own against Spike without having any previous combat training.

Giles is practicing his singing when Spike surprises him by showing up in his apartment.

Do the Right Thing ( 1989 ), Spike Lee's debut film, and The Color Purple ( 1985 ) were full character studies of African American culture and history.

It was the theme song of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.

At the time, Public Enemy enjoyed unprecedented mainstream attention with the single " Fight the Power " from the soundtrack of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.

Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who is also a featured actor in the film.

Law episode " Do the Spike Thing ", a mill worker sues a logging company and a radical environmentalist group when he is injured by a saw blade that breaks upon striking a spike.

This would sometimes lead to publicized tensions with customers as dramatized in movies such as Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, and the LA Riots of April 1992.

He invited Rockapella to perform on the PBS " Great Performances " TV special Spike Lee & Company – Do It A Cappella, which would put them into the national spotlight.

Spike Lee liked Turturro's performance in Five Corners so much that he chose to cast him in Do the Right Thing.

His breakthrough role was as Cee in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing.

Following on the album's success, the band contributed the song " My Fantasy " to the soundtrack to Spike Lee's film Do The Right Thing in 1989.

When he was compared to Spike Lee because the film was being compared to Lee's Do the Right Thing, he noted the irony:

Sports jerseys have always been popular in hip-hop fashion, as evidenced by Will Smith's early 90s video " Summertime ", and Spike Lee wearing a throwback Brooklyn Dodgers jersey in the film " Do the Right Thing.

In 1989, the group contributed I Can't Stand it to the soundtrack of Spike Lee's film Do The Right Thing.

Illyria uses an ancient fighting style that Spike compares to Tae Kwon Do and ( fictional ) Brazilian Ninjitsu.

They recorded for the soundtracks of Dick Tracy, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Boyz n the Hood, and the theme song to the TV series Martin.

Davis found recognition late in his life by working in several of director Spike Lee's films, including Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, She Hate Me and Get on the Bus.

Pérez was first noticed in a dance club by Spike Lee in 1988, who hired her for her first major acting role in Do the Right Thing.

The events were alluded to in Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing, in which a scene showed a brick wall bearing the graffiti message " Tawana told the truth ".

The young black protagonist Mookie in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing declares that " slave days are over, my name ain't Kunta Kinte " while complaining about his boss and his job delivering pizza.

Director Spike Lee has prominently featured the streets and brownstone blocks of Bedford-Stuyvesant in his films, including Do the Right Thing ( 1989 ), Crooklyn ( 1994 ), Clockers ( 1995 ), and Summer of Sam ( 1999 ).

In 2007, Jordan Brand collaborated with director Spike Lee to release a limited pair of Air Jordan IIIs in a colorway that resembled the Do The Right Thing movie poster.

Spike Lee had featured the Air Jordan IV in his movie Do The Right Thing.

The group went on to produce the anti-drug song " White Lines ( Don't Don't Do It )" ( the unofficial music video starred up-and-coming actor Laurence Fishburne and was directed by then unknown film student Spike Lee ).

* Various Artists: Spike & Co. Do It A Cappella ( 1990 ; Elektra )