Weaver has earned notoriety for frequently bypassing the US Secret Service and shaking the hand of the United States President.

Sigourney Weaver and Jodie Foster have also earned Academy Award nominations for their work in Apted-directed films.

Weaver earned decent grades in school and played baseball and football in high school.

After one year's teaching at North Carolina State University, Weaver joined the English department at the University of Chicago, where he spent the rest of his career ( Young 3-4 ), and where his exceptional teaching earned him that university's Quantrell Award in 1949.

Weaver went on to Harvard University, where he earned his B. S., M. A., and Ph. D. in economics, completing his doctorate in 1934.

The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.

With the December 18, 2010 episode, Bridges beat Sigourney Weaver's record for longest gap between hosting appearances on SNL ( Weaver had a 24-year gap between her first time hosting in 1986 and her second time hosting in 2010, while Bridges had a 27-year gap between his first appearance in 1983 and his most recent one, also in 2010 ).

She finds the motel, which Menzies recommended to her, has no other guests and is staffed only by a mentally challenged night manager ( Dennis Weaver ).

Weaver progressively received fame for her numerous contributions to the science fiction film history ( including minor roles in successful works such as Futurama, WALL-E and Paul ) and gained the nickname of " The Sci-Fi Queen ".

Weaver attended Sarah Lawrence College as well as Stanford University where she first began her involvement in acting, by living in Stanford's co-ed Beta Chi Community for the Performing Arts.

Weaver later acted in original plays by her friend and classmate Christopher Durang.

Weaver with her father Sylvester " Pat " Weaver | Pat Weaver in 1989

By the end of the decade Weaver appeared in two of her most memorable and critically acclaimed performances in 1988 as Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist.

Weaver won Golden Globe awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for her two roles that year.

By the early 1990s Weaver appeared in several films including Ang Lee's The Ice Storm, earning her another Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and winning a BAFTA Award, followed by Dave opposite Kevin Kline and Frank Langella.

Weaver also concentrated on smaller and supporting roles throughout the decade such as Jeffrey ( 1994 ), Galaxy Quest ( 1999 ), and A Map of the World ( 1999 ) earning her another Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

In 2009, Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in her first made-for-TV movie, Prayers for Bobby, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.

Ivan Reitman has confirmed that Weaver will reprise her role as Dana Barrett in the rumored third Ghostbusters movie due for release in 2012.

" Even Joyce's patron Harriett Weaver wrote to him in 1927 to inform him of her misgivings regarding his new work, stating " I am made in such a way that I do not care much for the output from your Wholesale Safety Pun Factory nor for the darknesses and unintelligibilities of your deliberately entangled language system.

If it weren't for the smart-funny twist she gives to her lines — they're the best in the film — the air on that bus would have been stifling ... she emerges as a slightly softer version of the Linda Hamilton-Sigourney Weaver heroines: capable, independent, but still irresistibly vulnerable ".

When her boss, Katharine Parker ( Sigourney Weaver ), breaks her leg skiing, Tess uses Parker's absence and connections, including her errant beau Jack Trainer ( Harrison Ford ), to put forward her own idea for a merger deal.

Tricked by her boss ( Oliver Platt ) into a date with his lascivious colleague ( Kevin Spacey ), she gets into trouble by publicly insulting him and is reassigned as secretary to a new financial executive, Katharine Parker ( Sigourney Weaver ).

Robert Byrne's first Master event was Ventnor City 1945, where he scored a respectable 4 / 9 to place 8th ; the winner was Weaver Adams.

* Piper Richardson Statue ( Master Sculptor John Weaver was commissioned to create a life size bronze sculpture of Piper Richardson in Chilliwack, BC, Canada )

Since his Broadway debut in " Yentl " Shea has continued to work in Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre productions, starring in Arthur Kopit's End of the World with Linda Hunt, directed by Hal Prince, Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive with Molly Ringwold, Anne Meara's Down the Garden Paths with Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Eugene O ' Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night ( Joseph Jefferson Award nom., Best Actor ), the original production of A. R. Gurney's The Dining Room, Peter Parnell's The Sorrows of Stephen, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Poliakoff's American Days, for which he received a " Best Actor " nomination from the Drama Desk Awards, Romeo and Juliet, Philip Barry's The Animal Kingdom with Sigourney Weaver, Nancy Hasty's The Director, directed by Evan Bergman, and Israel Horowitz's The Secret of Madame Bonnard's Bath in 2007.

When he graduated in May 1973, he simultaneously received two degrees, Master of Divinity and Master of Theology, as well as the William Benton Greene Prize in apologetics and a Richard Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

In 1987, Weaver assisted in the development of the AI for the computer game Earl Weaver Baseball, which was published by Electronic Arts.

An alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he is probably best known for his co-starring role of Chief Peter B. Clifford in the television series McCloud with Dennis Weaver from 1970 until 1977, for his role as a prisoner in the film Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ), and for his role as the witness who cleared Dr. Richard Kimble ( David Janssen ) in " The Judgment ", the series finale of The Fugitive ( TV series ).

The architectural firm Schultze & Weaver designed the Biltmore's exterior in a synthesis of the Spanish-Italian Renaissance Revival, Mediterranean Revival, and Beaux Arts styles, meant as an homage to the Castilian heritage of Los Angeles.

A more sophisticated version of the system was used in the first commercial video game to simulate an entire baseball season, Earl Weaver Baseball, designed by Daglow and Eddie Dombrower and published by Electronic Arts in 1987.

Earl Weaver Baseball is a baseball computer game ( 1987 ), designed by Don Daglow and Eddie Dombrower and published by Electronic Arts.

Daglow and Dombrower went on to create the hit Earl Weaver Baseball game at Electronic Arts in, where they more fully implemented the ideas behind Intellivision World Series Baseball.

Warren Weaver posited in 1948 that the complexity of a particular system is the degree of difficulty in predicting the properties of the system-given the properties of the system's parts.

As Weaver waited for deployment to Vietnam, his future wife, Vicki Jordison, was finishing her college studies, earning a two-year degree in business and getting a job at the United Way of America.

After a year of graduate study at Kentucky, Weaver began a master's degree in English at Vanderbilt University.

While doing a master's degree in English at Vanderbilt University, Weaver discovered ideas related to the Southern Agrarians there ( Young 69 ).

The three victims, Stevie Edward Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore, were in the second grade at Weaver Elementary School ; each had achieved the rank of " Wolf " in the local Cub Scout pack ; and they were best friends.

The day after the NFL awarded the expansion team to Jacksonville, a triumphant Wayne Weaver held up the Jaguars ' proposed silver helmet and teal jersey at the NFL owners ' meeting in Chicago.

Mike Muuss ( left ) at the Ballistic Research Laboratory, using BRL-CAD to develop an M1 Abrams | M1 prototype, with Earl Weaver ( right ).

They expressed anger at the federal government's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege — a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight ( it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot ) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.

McVeigh later said he considered " a campaign of individual assassination ," with " eligible " targets including Attorney-General Janet Reno, Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. of Federal District Court, who handled the Branch Davidian trial, and Lon Horiuchi, a member of the FBI hostage-rescue team who shot and killed Vicki Weaver in a standoff at a remote cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992.

* August 21 – August 22 – Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.

Charles Weaver, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor and one of the most vocal critics of the Polanyi Center, commented: " In academic arguments, we don't seek utter destruction and defeat of our opponents.

He helped T. S. Eliot in a practical way, by persuading Harriet Shaw Weaver to appoint Eliot as his successor at The Egoist ( helped by Pound ), and later in 1919 with an introduction to the editor Bruce Richmond of the Times Literary Supplement, for which he reviewed French literature.

The first of such groups was headed by Dr. James DeWitt Mills who, along with four associate physicians ; Dr. Chalmers A. Loughridge, Dr. William Weaver, Dr. John McDade, and Dr. Steven Bednar at Alexandria Hospital, VA established 24 / 7 year round emergency care which became known as the " Alexandria Plan ".

For instance, Cliff Arquette ( Charley Weaver ), a history buff, excelled at American history questions.

Dennis Weaver plays a mentally unbalanced night clerk at an isolated motel.

Weaver took his own life at age 71 on January 17, 1983, via a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In 1967, at the age of 18, Weaver visited Israel and volunteered on a kibbutz for several months.

Sigourney Weaver at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Baby Mama ( film ) | Baby Mama ; she played a role in the film.

Also in 2006, Weaver narrated " A Matter of Degrees ", a short film that plays daily at The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks ( The Wild Center ) in Tupper Lake, New York.

Weaver at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Joyce wrote to Weaver in late 1929 that he had " explained to all about the book, at least a great deal, and he promised me that if I found it madness to continue, in my condition, and saw no other way out, that he would devote himself heart and soul to the completion of it, that is the second part and the epilogue or fourth.

The commercial takes a light-hearted look at a family relationship with Morris playing the grandfather, PopPop, and Weaver as his grandson.

Weaver is located at 33 ° 45 ' 20. 524 " North, 85 ° 48 ' 30. 748 " West ( 33. 755701 ,-85. 808541 ).

* Blayne Weaver at the Internet Movie Database ( IMDB )

Peeples Valley is named for prospector A. H. Peeples, who was the leader of the group that discovered Rich Hill, a gold deposit at Weaver, Arizona, in 1863.