Steven Spielberg initially refused to release a pan-and-scan version of Raiders of the Lost Ark but eventually gave in ( although he successfully ordered the letterboxed format for the home video releases of The Color Purple and Always ); Woody Allen refused altogether to release one of Manhattan, the letterbox version is therefore the only version available on VHS and DVD.

Other notable artists who recorded early Diamond songs were Elvis Presley, who interpreted " Sweet Caroline " as well as " And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind "; Mark Lindsay, former lead singer for Paul Revere & the Raiders, who covered " And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind "; the English hard-rock band Deep Purple, which interpreted " Kentucky Woman "; Lulu, who covered " The Boat That I Row ", and Cliff Richard, who released versions of " I'll Come Running ", " Solitary Man ", " Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon ", " I Got The Feelin ' ( Oh No No )", and " Just Another Guy ".

On December 15, 2007 in Salem, Virginia the UW – Whitewater men's football team won their first NCAA Division III national championship at the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl in a 31-21 victory over the Mount Union College Purple Raiders.

This was the third consecutive year that the Warhawks faced the Purple Raiders in the Stagg Bowl, losing the previous two meetings.

The teams are nicknamed Purple Raiders, and the school's mascot is MUcaw, a purple macaw.

Many other Rock and Roll drummers have switched to or began with Ludwig drums during their careers: Brian Bennett of the Shadows, Ian Paice of Deep Purple, Simon Kirke of Bad Company, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Ronnie Tutt with Elvis Presley, Aynsley Dunbar of Journey, Jefferson Starship, Peter Criss ( before switching to Pearl ) and his successor, Eric Carr of KISS, Lars Ulrich of Metallica ( before switching to Tama ), Herman Rarebell of Scorpions, Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues, Roger Pope of Hookfoot, Elton John and Hall and Oates, Scott Rockenfield of Queensryche, Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia, Alan White of Yes, Matt Frenette of Loverboy, Steve Negus of Saga, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, Will Berman of MGMT, Rob Bennett of The Pacific Raiders, Carlton Barret ( Bob Marley and the Wailers ) and Baxter Mawoza of Synthesisare.

* The ONU varsity football team defeated Mount Union College in 2005 to snap the Purple Raiders 110-game regular season winning streak.

* The Evansville Purple Aces have won five national championships in the NCAA College Division ( now known as Division II ): 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965 ( 29-0 record ), and 1971.

Aided by the " Purple People Eaters " defense, led by future hall of fame defensive linemen Carl Eller and Alan Page, and future hall of fame safety Paul Krause, the Vikings won the NFC Central for the sixth time in the previous seven seasons.

That same year, she won a part in the movie Purple People Eater opposite Ned Beatty and Neil Patrick Harris.

Prince won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for Purple Rain, and the album is ranked 72nd Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

* Ray E. Porter-World War II general who won the Purple Heart and the Legion of Merit

Chylak was also a War Hero in the Battle of the Bulge who won the Purple Heart and Silver Star for valor in combat.

The Munday High School Purple Cloud Band has won the Texas 1A Honor Band Competition twice, in 1994 and 2000.

In the 2002 general election the tide had turned against the Purple government, and the right-wing populist Pim Fortuyn List ( LPF ) had won considerable ground.

The Centre has won many awards, including two awards for innovative events at the ICSC maxi awards 2006, held in Chicago and two awards for its Retail Bonding Programme ( in best Retail Partnership category ) and also for its commercialisation, ( adding value to the customer shopping experience ) at the BCSC Purple Apple Awards in London.

She then played the part of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, for which she won a 2007 Theatre World Award.

The Purple Knights won the game, which was the basis for the 1999 motion picture Passing Glory.

* The Purple, or Team Player's badge ( a white ship on a purple shield ): Introduced in September 2006, this was originally awarded to 12 children a month who won the chance to spend a day working with the Blue Peter team by having ideas for the programme.

He was not present on any of the occasions when Kerry won his medals, including his Purple Hearts.

Prince's hugely successful 1984 film and album Purple Rain cemented his stardom, selling more than thirteen million copies in the U. S. and spending twenty-four consecutive weeks at # 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, while the Purple Rain film won the Academy Award for " Best Original Song Score " and grossed more than $ 80 million in the US.

:" A Times review of Navy injury reports and awards from that period in Kerry's Swift boat unit shows that many other Swift boat personnel won Purple Hearts for slight wounds of uncertain origin.

Bennett won the Distinguished Service Cross as well as two Purple Hearts for his service.

Christopher kills Urslup in mortal combat but the issue ends with news that Shah Hi Mung's Mongol troops, having invaded America has won a number of battles against American forces are now marching on New York, and worse, Charleston has been shelled, Purple soldiers landed and all residents put to the sword.

His mother, Charlena Rector, worked as a clerk at a local Safeway supermarket, while his father, Milton Bradley Sr, was a veteran of the Vietnam War, and won a Purple Heart for his service.

He won two Purple Hearts and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.

During a mayoral campaign, Peterson had claimed he won a Silver Star, a Bronze Star With Valor and two Purple Hearts.

The band achieved two number-one Billboard 200 albums ( Purple Rain and Around the World in a Day ), six top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and won three Grammy Awards.

* September 3 – nearly 110, 000 fans pack Englishtown Raceway in Old Bridge, New Jersey for an eleven hour concert by Grateful Dead, Marshall Tucker Band and New Riders of the Purple Sage.

The Civic Center is served by numerous Metro buses, most of which run to adjacent Union Station, the 101 and 110 freeways, and the Metro Red Line and Purple Line's Civic Center Station are also in the vicinity.

The Vikings were led by quarterback Fran Tarkenton and the Purple People Eaters defense ; they advanced to their second consecutive Super Bowl and third overall after finishing the regular season with a 10-4 record and defeating the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Rams in the playoffs.

Prince's 1984 album Purple Rain sold more than thirteen million copies in the U. S. and spent twenty-four consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Purple uniforms are used for road games and gold uniforms are used for home games.

For several years, southbound afternoon Purple Line Express trains stopped at the Addison Red Line station before weekday evening Chicago Cubs baseball games, in order to provide direct service to Wrigley Field for passengers from northern Chicago, Evanston, and Skokie.

The school has about six houses that compete in the inter-house games, namely Dan-Fodio ( Red House ), Obasa ( Blue House ), Obi ( Yellow House ), Emotan ( Green House ), Efunjoke ( Purple House ) and Obong ( Orange House ).

Another case where they are used is when it is not desirable to make rigorous links to parties, particularly when coalitions and alliances are formed between political parties and other organizations, for example: Red Tory, " Purple " ( Red-Blue ) alliances, Red-green alliances, Blue-green alliances, Traffic light coalitions, Pan-green coalitions, and Pan-blue coalitions.

Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.

Tourism is distributed between the Ionian coast ( Costa Jonica ), the Tyrrhenian coast ( the Costa Viola, Purple Coast ) and the Aspromonte mountain behind the city, containing the natural reserve of the Aspromonte National Park where, at 1, 300-1, 950 metres above sea level, there is a panoramic view of the Strait of Messina from the snowy mount Etna to the Aeolian Islands.

Deep Purple had originally agreed to open the entire U. S. leg of the tour, but Cream's management removed them after only three shows, in spite of favourable reviews and good rapport between the bands.

* For the 2010 Dutch cabinet formation, after coalition meetings between People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, Labour Party, Democrats 66 and GreenLeft failed to form a new Purple government Lubbers was asked again to become Informateur tho seek possibilities for a new coalition.

Each horizontal circle Munsell divided into five principal hues: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple, along with 5 intermediate hues ( e. g., YR ) halfway between adjacent principal hues.

* September 24 – Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform the Concerto for Group and Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London, in the first elaborate collaboration between a rock band and an orchestra.

" by Black Crowes producer George Drakoulias – and featuring a guest appearance on keyboards from Jon Lord of Deep Purple, the album was split between songwriters Gardener and Bell, with the former's songs making up the first half of the album and the latter's the second.

Hybrids between the Pyramidal Orchid and the Early Purple Orchid ( Orchis mascula ), found in Cumbria ( UK ) in 1997, proved short-lived because of the highly divergent genomic lineages of the parents.

However, due to differences between the band's manager Ken Goes and The Purple Tape producer Gary Smith, the Pixies ended up looking for a new producer and recording studio.

Deep Purple released a sequence of albums between 1971's Fireball and 1975's Come Taste the Band.

" Purple Parallelogram ," a song written by Dando and Oasis's Noel Gallagher, was originally included on promotional copies of Car Button Cloth between " Something's Missing " and " Knoxville Girl ," but was reportedly removed at Gallagher's request.

The documentary Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways, directed by former Runaway bassist Vicki Blue ( aka Victory Tischler-Blue ) revealed that each girl patterned herself after her idols: Currie patterned her look after David Bowie, Jett after Suzi Quatro and Keith Richards, Ford as a cross between Jeff Beck and Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, West after Queen drummer Roger Taylor, and Fox after Kiss bassist / vocalist Gene Simmons.

Apparent hybrids between this species and the White-rumped Sandpiper as well as with the Purple Sandpiper have been reported from the Atlantic coasts of North America ( McLaughlin & Wormington, 2000, and external link below ) and Europe ( Millington, 1994 ), respectively.

Outside of Baltimore the MTA is also studying the Purple Line between Bethesda and New Carrollton, and the Corridor Cities Transitway between Gaithersburg and Clarksburg.

: The Purple Line ( opened in 1993 ) is a subway line running between Downtown Los Angeles and the Mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles.

** Purple is also unofficially used in the United States to denote a " swing state " ( i. e., one contested frequently between the Republican Party, whose unofficial colour is red, and the Democratic Party, whose unofficial colour is blue.

On April 26, 1998, the Green Line, like the Purple Line and the Douglas branch of the Blue Line lost its 24 hour service due to budget shortfalls and operates only between the hours of 4 a. m. and 1 a. m weekdays.

If a problem occurs between the Loop and the Fullerton station, the Purple Line is generally routed into the subway, following the Red Line to the Roosevelt station before returning north.

Express operation would be a day-to-day decision ; if the Red Line was deemed too crowded, Purple Line Express trains would make all local stops between Howard and Belmont, resuming the regular route at that station.

Beginning April 2, 2007, operation on the Purple, Brown, and Red Lines between Addison and Armitage was restricted to three tracks, down from the previous four, due to construction at the Fullerton and Belmont stations.

In addition, the Purple Line Express routing was changed to the Outer Loop, rather than along the Inner Loop, in order to provide riders more options for accessing stations between Belmont and the Loop.

This obsession caused him to disregard anything else, such as the war between the Purple Dragons and the Foot clan, as unimportant.

After forming a new production company, Hexagon Films, he produced, directed and co-wrote ( with Alan Hopgood ) his next feature, Alvin Purple, which was a huge hit with Australian audiences, held the record as Australia's most successful film release between 1971 and 1977, and is one of the key works in the revival of Australian cinema in the ' 70s.