* Sportswriter and columnist Max Mercy ( played by Robert Duvall ) wrote for the New York Daily Mirror in the 1984 film The Natural.

Sportswriter Lenny Weinrib ( Woody Allen ) is married to career-driven wife Amanda ( Helena Bonham Carter ).

Independence Day is a 1995 novel by Richard Ford and the sequel to Ford's 1986 novel The Sportswriter.

Sportswriter Eddie Willis is broke after the newspaper he works for goes under.

Sportswriter Henry Chadwick is generally credited as the inventor of baseball scorekeeping.

Sportswriter Walter Camp ranked Pollard as " one of the greatest runners these eyes have ever seen.

Sportswriter Frank Graham called Bancroft " the greatest shortstop the Giants ever had and one of the greatest that ever lived.

The Baltimore Sun said on April 21, 2008, " There's just a glimpse of the Bromo Seltzer Tower's crenellated top just to the right of the new Hilton Baltimore Convention Center hotel ... something's drastically different at Oriole Park this year ... the sweeping view of downtown Baltimore that fans have enjoyed for the past 16 seasons has changed considerably ..." Sportswriter Peter Schmuck complained, " the big, antiseptic convention hotel ... looms over Camden Yards ... has blocked out the best part of the Baltimore skyline ".

The Baltimore Sun said on April 21, 2008, " There's just a glimpse of the Bromo Seltzer Tower's crenellated top just to the right of the new Hilton Baltimore Convention Center hotel ... something's drastically different at Oriole Park this year ... the sweeping view of downtown Baltimore that fans have enjoyed for the past 16 seasons has changed considerably ..." Sportswriter Peter Schmuck complained, " the big, antiseptic convention hotel ... looms over Camden Yards ... has blocked out the best part of the Baltimore skyline ".

He was chosen the Georgia Sportswriter of the Year on sixteen occasions, and recognized by the Associated Press for the best Georgia story of the year over twenty times.

Sportswriter Harry Stein released his " All-Time All-Star Argument Starter " article which consisted of five different ethnic-based baseball teams.

In March 2008, Martin Samuel, then the chief football correspondent of The Times, was named British Sportswriter of the Year, the first time any journalist had managed to win the award three years in succession.

* Michael Y. Sokolove Sportswriter and author.

Sportswriter Mel Ellis ' memoir Run, Rainey, Run, explores the extraordinary relationship he had with an extremely intelligent and versatile hunting German shorthaired pointer.

Sportswriter Henry Chadwick covered that in the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, August 17, 1870.

According to author Mark Inabinett in his 1994 work, Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s, Rice very consciously set out to make heroes of sports figures who impressed him, most notably Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and Knute Rockne.

* Inabinett, Mark, Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s.

He was voted the National Sportswriter of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 1993 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

Sportswriter Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe reported that Gammons was expected to be in intensive care for 10 to 12 days.

* In 2000 he was the AP National Sportswriter of the Year.

* The New York Times, Jul 7, 1976, p. 20: Paul Gallico, Sportswriter And Author, Is Dead at 78 by Molly Ivins

Sportswriter Jayson Stark described Inge as a " super-utility dervish.

Reilly has been voted NSSA National Sportswriter of the Year eleven times.

" Sportswriter Hal Middlesworth told me that I led the team in game-winning hits in 1956 and 1957, even though other guys hit for higher averages.

Sportswriter Greg Wyshynski named it the second-worst idea in North American sports history, trailing only the infamous Ten Cent Beer Night promotion that baseball's Cleveland Indians threw in 1974, in his book Glow Pucks and Ten-Cent Beer.

Sportswriter Bert McGrane wrote, " I can't recall a single break that favored Iowa ... You'd think Iowa would win the toss by accident once in a while.

Rushin was named the 2005 National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, and has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards.

But the legend of Cobb as a Southern white Protestant who despised blacks, Catholics and anyone who wasn't like him was fanned by sportswriter Al Stump, his first biographer, whose veracity has been called into question.

In interviews with Al Stump, Cobb told of studying Crawford ’ s base-stealing technique and of how Crawford would teach him about pursuing fly balls and throwing out base runners.

It was written and directed by Ron Shelton and was based on a book by Al Stump.

* Robert Wuhl as Al Stump

In 2010, an article by William R. " Ron " Cobb ( no relation to Ty Cobb ) in The National Pastime, official publication of the Society for American Baseball Research, accused Al Stump of extensive forgery of Cobb-related documents and diaries and even of having falsely claimed to possess a shotgun used by Cobb's mother to kill his father.

" ( Al Stump, " Cobb: The Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball " ( 1994 ), pp. 373 – 374.

Coppola successfully managed to get Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, and Talia Shire to return to the franchise, but Robert Duvall refused to reprise his role as Tom Hagen over salary disagreements.

Many artists have cited Schwitters as a major influence, including Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Damien Hirst, Al Hansen, and Arman.

At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.

However, he was far from alone, as the Broncs ' rosters included Rick Monday, manager John McNamara, Vearl (" Snag ") Moore, Thorton (" Kip ") Kipper, Antonio Perez, Ron Koepper, Delmer Owen, Dick Green, Bud Swan, Bert Campaneris, John Israel, Dave Duncan, Al Heist, and as a player, later coach-manager Robert (" Gabby ") Williams.

Dustin Hoffman commented that he " doubted whether he, Robert De Niro, or Al Pacino, would have become actors without Mr. Kazan's influence.

It stars Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer.

* Journalism and ' the words of power ': Robert Fisk address to the fifth Al Jazeera annual forum on 23 May

Strasberg's students included many of America's most famous actors of the latter half of the 20th century, including Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, and many others.

One sign of this was the clash between Bahraini government minister Majeed Al Alawi and US Defence Secretary Robert Gates at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Manama Dialogue security summit in December 2007.

* Members of Sturges's unofficial " stock company " of character actors who appear in Sullivan's Travels include George Anderson, Al Bridge, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Robert Greig, Harry Hayden, Esther Howard, Arthur Hoyt, J. Farrell MacDonald, Torben Meyer, Charles R. Moore, Frank Moran, Jack Norton, Franklin Pangborn, Emory Parnell, Victor Potel, Dewey Robinson, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Robert Warwick.

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime epic that Francis Ford Coppola produced, directed, and co-wrote with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro.

* Many members of Sturges ' unofficial " stock company " of character actors appear in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, among them Al Bridge, Georgia Caine, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Esther Howard, Arthur Hoyt, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Melford, Torben Meyer, Frank Moran, Jack Norton, Emory Parnell, Victor Potel, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Max Wagner.

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Robert Alda played Al Manheim and Sally Ann Howes played Kit Sargent.

Cast members included cartoonist Timothy Birdsall, political commentator Bernard Levin, and actors Lance Percival, who sidelined in topical calypsos, many improvised to suggestions from the audience, Kenneth Cope, Roy Kinnear, Willie Rushton, Al Mancini, Robert Lang, Frankie Howerd, David Kernan and Millicent Martin.

* Robert Davi as Al Torres

Common contributors included bandleader Paul Shaffer, Chris Elliott, Calvert DeForest as " Larry ' Bud ' Melman ," announcer Bill Wendell, writer Adam Resnick, scenic designer Kathleen Ankers, stage manager Biff Henderson, producer Robert Morton, director Hal Gurnee, associate director Peter Fatovich, stage hand Al Maher, camera operator Baily Stortz and the " production twins ," Barbara Gaines and Jude Brennan.

It stars Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, Michel Piccoli, and Al Waxman.

Several well-known performers have performed at the festival, such as Robert Cray, Coco Montoya, Elvin Bishop, Sista Monica, Clarence “ Gatemouth ” Brown, Charlie Musselwhite, Bonnie Raitt, and Al Green.

: Many Italian Americans actors became well known in movies and TV, such as: Don Ameche, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anne Bancroft ( Anna Italiano ), Ernest Borgnine ( Ermes Borgnino ), Robert Alda, Alan Alda, Lou Costello, Frank Langella, Frankie Avalon ( Avallone ), Annette Funicello, James Darren ( Ercolani ), Jimmy Durante, Anthony Franciosa, Sal Mineo, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Aldo Ray ( DaRe ), Richard Conte, Bernadette Peters ( Lazzara ), Connie Stevens ( Concetta Ingoglia ), Richard Crenna, Dom DeLuise, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Joe Mantegna, John Travolta, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Rene Russo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage ( Coppola ), Stanley Tucci, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro and Sylvester Stallone.

Some notable musicians who were members of the orchestra include violinists Samuel Antek, Henry Clifton, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet ( concertmaster 1952-54 ), Harry Lookofsky, Mischa Mischakoff ( concertmaster 1937-1952 ), Albert Pratz, David Sarser, Oscar Shumsky, Herman Spielberg and Andor Toth ; violists Carlton Cooley, Milton Katims, William Primrose, and Tibor Serly ; cellists Frank Miller, Leonard Rose, Harvey Shapiro and Alan Shulman ; double bassists Homer Mensch and Oscar G. Zimmerman ; flutists Carmine Coppola, Arthur Lora and Paul Renzi ; clarinetists Augustin Duques, Al Gallodoro, David Weber and Alexander Williams ; saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer ; oboists Robert Bloom and Paolo Renzi ; bassoonists Elias Carmen, Benjamin Kohon, William Polisi, Leonard Sharrow and Arthur Weisberg ; French horn players Arthur Berv, Harry Berv, Jack Berv and Albert Stagliano ; and tuba player William Bell, among others.