Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

Of the hundreds of roles he played, he is probably most well known as Al Capone in the TV show The Untouchables and again in the movie The George Raft Story.

The first episode actually broadcast, " Two on a Raft ", is sometimes wrongly referred to as the series pilot.

The " Ready to Raft 2012 " campaign is a project that will create 700 new jobs and is estimated to bring in $ 42 million annually to the Columbus area.

Gould is even given credit for supporting the removal of the Red River Raft and the subsequent decline of Jefferson as a river port.

The Ouse Summer Raft Race is held annually, and organised by the Lewes & District Round Table.

Each July the Chester Raft Race is held on the River Dee in aid of charity.

" Reflecting on the overall result of her rewritten scenes, Raft is said to have remarked, " She stole everything but the cameras.

Sometimes the parallel universe bears no historical relationship to any other world ; instead, the laws of nature are simply different than those in our own, as in the novel Raft by Stephen Baxter, which posits a reality where the gravitational constant is much larger than in our universe.

MacLaine played a Hindu princess who is rescued by, and falls in love with, original Rat Pack member David Niven, and Sinatra had a non-speaking, non-singing role as a piano player in a saloon, whose identity is concealed from the viewer until he turns his face toward the camera during a scene featuring Marlene Dietrich and George Raft.

Having threaded the maze of bayous at the river's confluence, and the " Great Raft " of lodged driftwood, the expedition, was stopped by the Spanish near what is now New Boston, Texas.

* Traditional House of Palembang is Limas House and House Raft

In New Avengers # 2, Carnage is one of several supervillains trying to escape from The Raft.

* Riff Raff, also voiced by Allen Swift, is an anthropomorphic wolf gangster based on noted actor George Raft.

In this version, the story is reformulated as a gangster tale in the style of the Hollywood films that Raft had once acted in.

Bugs then poses as Mugsy, another gangster ( flipping a coin like George Raft ), who threatens that " It's curtains for you, Rocky " as if he is going to execute Rocky, and then pulls an actual set of curtains from inside his jacket and hangs them over Rocky's head (" Aw, they're adorable ", Rocky purrs ).

The Raft of the Medusa () is an oil painting of 1818 – 1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault ( 1791 – 1824 ).

An early study for The Raft of the Medusa in watercolour, now in the Louvre, is much more explicit, depicting a figure gnawing on the arm of a headless corpse.

Copley had also painted several large and heroic depictions of disasters at sea which Géricault may have known from prints: Watson and the Shark ( 1778 ), in which a black man is central to the action, and which, like The Raft of the Medusa, concentrated on the actors of the drama rather than the seascape ; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 ( 1791 ), which was an influence on both the style and subject matter of Géricault's work ; and Scene of a Shipwreck ( 1790s ), which has a strikingly similar composition.

Goya also produced a painting of a disaster at sea, called simply Shipwreck ( date unknown ), but although the sentiment is similar, the composition and style have nothing in common with The Raft of the Medusa.

Based on the book Pretending the Bed Is a Raft by Nanci Kincaid, it tells a story of a 23-year-old woman, with a husband and two daughters, who finds out she is going to die soon.

The Raft is a horror short story by Stephen King first published as a booklet included with Gallery in November 1982, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.

On hearing about the rumor of the hit, George Raft made a call, and the hit was supposedly canceled.

Heyerdahl's book about the expedition, The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, has been translated into over 67 languages.

Travellers left the Snake River and followed Raft River about southwest past present day Almo, Idaho.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

Walsh directed The Bowery ( 1933 ), featuring Wallace Beery, George Raft, Fay Wray and Pert Kelton ; the energetic movie recounts the story of Steve Brodie ( Raft ), the first man to supposedly jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and live to brag about it.

Raft later made a semi-autobiographical film called Broadway ( 1942 ) about this period in which he plays himself.

On hearing about the rumor of the hit, George Raft made a call, and the hit was supposedly canceled.

Clearwater has two schools: Raft River Elementary with approximately 300 students and Clearwater Secondary School with about 225 students.

( The Raft is not floating in the middle of the lake, in fact it is only about 25 yards off shore and is a cottage's private property.

The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Méduse in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.

The Raft River's drainage basin includes four divisions of Sawtooth National Forest, and is approximately in area, of which approximately 95 % of the overall area is in Idaho.

Johnson's Hollywood career began in 1952, with the college fraternity hazing exposé For Men Only, and with Loan Shark, also released in 1952 and starring George Raft.

During the " Scared Straight " crossover between Thunderbolts and Avengers Academy, the Purple Man is revealed to be incarcerated in the Raft Maximum Security Penitentiary, as Tigra warns her Academy students not to look at his face or read his lips.

When the gangsters, led by " Spats " Colombo ( George Raft ), spot them, the two have to run for their lives.

The two meet for the first time, when Ben visits his friend, the actor George Raft, on a movie-studio set.

The two men appeared in nine films together, including Casablanca ( 1942 ) as crooked club owner Signor Ferrari ( for which he received a salary of $ 3, 750 per week for seven weeks ), as well as Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ), Passage to Marseille ( 1944 ), reteaming him with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains, The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, receiving top billing ), The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ), Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ), Three Strangers ( 1946, receiving top billing ) and The Verdict ( 1946, with top billing ).

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

Raft has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for contributions to Motion Pictures at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard, and for Television at 1500 Vine St.

During the late 1970s WOKI-FM also carried University of Tennessee Volunteers football games and for two years sponsored the " Ramblin ' Raft Race " on the Clinch River.