He continued working steadily, varying between dramatic roles, as in The Bride ( 1985 ) with Sting and Jennifer Beals, to the Academy Award-winning Glory ( 1989 ), and comedic roles, as in Hot Shots!

Singer-songwriter Sting has also played lute and archlute, in and out of his collaborations with Edin Karamazov, and Jan Akkerman released two albums of lute music in the 1970s while he was a guitarist in the Dutch rock band Focus.

Subsequently the motion picture The Sting brought ragtime to a wide audience with its soundtrack of Joplin tunes.

Finally, with the release of the motion picture The Sting in 1973, which had a Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack of Joplin tunes originally edited by Gunther Schuller, ragtime was brought to a wide audience.

In addition to her own work, Crow has performed with The Rolling Stones and has sung duets with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Luciano Pavarotti, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, Tony Bennet and Sting among others.

The album got a new boost in 2006 when the second single was announced as " Always on Your Side ," re-recorded with British musician Sting and sent off to radio, where it was quickly embraced at Adult Top 40.

The collaboration with Sting resulted in a Grammy-nomination for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.

Sting famously grew a thin moustache for the role, and when it closed after 65 performances he shaved it off onstage with a straight razor.

He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ) and The Sting ( 1973 ).

Singer-bassist Sting ( Gordon Sumner ) and guitarist Henry Padovani began rehearsing with Copeland in January 1977, and they recorded the first Police single " Fall Out " the following month.

Sting was from a jazz-rock background, and wasn't very familiar with the punk music, so the bulk of the song writing fell on Copeland, who penned the majority of the band's early repertoire, including " Fall Out ", " Nothing Achieving ", " Landlord " and " Dead End Job ".

In May, ex-Gong musician Mike Howlett invited Sting and former Eric Burdon and the Animals guitarist Andy Summers to form a project band with him for a Gong reunion, which they named Strontium 90.

The line-up of Copeland, Sting, and Summers was an unusual trio at a time when progressive rock, symphonic rock, and other sound trends lent themselves to musical ensembles with support players.

Paralleling these developments, in 1977 / 78, Sting and Summers recorded and performed ( alongside other invited musicians ) with German experimental composer Eberhard Schoener ; Copeland also joined for a time.

Meanwhile, both Sting's and Summers ' marriages failed ( Sting settled down with new partner Trudie Styler, whom he later married, while Summers, after a brief relationship which produced a son, Andrew Jr., re-married his second wife Kate ).

After the Synchronicity tour ended in March 1984, the band went on hiatus while Sting recorded and toured in support of his successful solo debut LP, the jazz-influenced The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, Copeland recorded and filmed The Rhythmatist ( 1985 ) and Summers recorded another album with Robert Fripp ( Bewitched, 1984 ) and the theme song for the film 2010.

In 2004, Henry Padovani released an album with the participation of Stewart Copeland and Sting on one track, reuniting the original Police lineup for the first time since 1977.

Sting with the group at Madison Square Garden, August 2007

According to Sting, " There will be no new album, no big new tour, once we're done with our reunion tour, that's it for the Police ".

The league began with eight teams: the Charlotte Sting, Cleveland Rockers, Houston Comets and New York Liberty in the Eastern Conference ; and the Los Angeles Sparks, Phoenix Mercury, Sacramento Monarchs and Utah Starzz in the Western Conference.

Sting was useful in Shelob's Lair when it cut though Shelob's webs with ease.

In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Sting is depicted as vaguely leaf-shaped, with gentle curving edges.

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.

Sting operations are fraught with ethical concerns over whether they constitute entrapment.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

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Others such as department store magnate James Cash Penney, Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, actor / martial artist Chuck Norris, wrestlers Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, AJ Styles, Ted DiBiase and wrestler Sting, and actors Jesse McCartney, Kirk Cameron, and Mr. T are also mentioned as being born again.

Such competitions include the Polar Bear Invitational in Winnipeg, the Sting in Victoria, and the Alberta Provincial Championships in Edmonton or Calgary.

Sting has purchased the film rights to the Gormenghast novels.

) it also features archival footage of Billy Idol, Sting, Shane McGowan, and a young teenaged girl who would grow up to be Siouxsie Sioux, among others.

This has been done by Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII, by Sting many times in WCW and TNA, and has gained major controversy over its role in the death of wrestler Owen Hart at Over the Edge.

Scorpion anatomy: 1 = Cephalothorax or Prosoma ; 2 = Abdomen or Mesosoma ; 3 = Tail or Metasoma ; 4 = Claws or Pedipalp s 5 = Legs ; 6 = Mouth parts or Chelicerae ; 7 = pincers or Chelae ; 8 = Moveable claw or Tarsus ( zoology ) | Tarsus ; 9 = Fixed claw or Manus ( skeleton ) | Manus ; 10 = Sting or Telson ; 11 = Anus.

* A 1989 Broadway production, billed as 3 Penny Opera, translated by Michael Feingold starred Sting as Macheath.

By his naming the blade " Sting " we see Bilbo's acceptance of the kinds of cultural and linguistic practices found in Beowulf, signifying his entrance into the ancient world in which he found himself.

Among others, Lemmy Kilmister will invariably be referred to as " Lemmy out of Motörhead ", Bono as " Bonio " ( a brand of dog biscuit ) and Sting as " Sting ( real name Gordon Sting )", mixing the singer's birth and stage names.

By the late 1980s, complete Synclavier systems were selling for upwards of $ 200, 000, to famous musicians such as Sting, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, and to major studios the world over.

*** Air-dropped Mk. 46 torpedoes, Sting Ray torpedoes

* Sting ( Middle-earth ), a sword belonging to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

However, Robert Rines, who previously made two underwater photographs allegedly showing the monster, countered with the fact that they can also be arranged into " Yes, both pix are monsters, R ."

Following the 1947 season, the American League countered with a rule change that fixed the distance of an outfield wall for the duration of a season.

The Boys countered with rules of their own, forbidding anyone in the Grants from holding " any office of honor or profit under the colony of N. York ".

In the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Soviets countered the U. S .– backed Mujahideen with a policy of scorched earth, driving over one third of the Afghan population into exile ( over 5 million people ), and carrying out widespread destruction of villages, granaries, crops, herds and irrigation systems, including the deadly and widespread mining of fields and pastures.

An open row of three ( one that is not blocked by an opponent's stone at either end ) has to be blocked immediately, or countered with a threat elsewhere on the board.

The " White ", or right-wing faction, inclined to cooperate with the Russian authorities, countered with partial reform proposals.

These ideas can be countered by the fact that during the winter, the time of year in which UV light is most scarce at northern latitudes, the ground is often covered with white snow.

Ehrlich countered with a challenge to bet that temperatures would increase in the future.

Some have countered this finding by saying that the angle of the film from the horizontal along with sun's angle on that day made shadows underwater unlikely.

Internalists countered with various arguments: that brain states will eventually be directly observable with advanced technology, that most cultural anthropologists agree that culture is about beliefs and not artifacts, or that artifacts cannot be replicators in the same sense as mental entities ( or DNA ) are replicators.

The effects of morphine can be countered with opioid antagonists such as naloxone and naltrexone ; the development of tolerance to morphine may be inhibited by NMDA antagonists such as ketamine or dextromethorphan.

Abuses committed by Alzuru's short-lived administration were countered by military forces under the command of Colonel Tomás de Herrera, resulting in the defeat and execution of Alzuru in August, and the reestablishment of ties with New Granada.

This position is countered by fellow philosopher Tom Regan, who writes that the same argument could be used to justify having sex with children.

Most states maintained a weak executive without veto or appointment powers, elected annually by the legislature to a single term only, sharing power with an executive council, and countered by a strong legislature.

Encompassing more than 1, 300 pages ( including 1, 150 pages of text ), the work countered earlier biographies such as Albert Goldman's Elvis from 1981 with an in-depth, scholarly examination of Presley's life and music.

Richard countered Philip's offensive with a counterattack in the Vexin, while Mercadier led a raid on Abbeville.

They taught that every argument could be countered with an opposing argument, that an argument's effectiveness derived from how " likely " it appeared to the audience ( its probability of seeming true ), and that any probability argument could be countered with an inverted probability argument.

The Astros submitted an offer of $ 13. 5 million, and Clemens countered with a record $ 22 million demand.

At the time, Soviet helicopters countered the threat from RPGs at landing zones by first clearing them with anti-personnel saturation fire.

France countered in 1866 with its superior Chassepot rifle, also a paper-cartridge bolt action.