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Wilder and whole
* A spelling bee features as pioneer family entertainment in Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, in which Pa ' spells down ' the whole town.
Exposure to large stadium crowds and the intensity of the whole rock-and-roll business provided a stimulus for the group to start to develop a more rock-oriented sound to its razor-sharp electronic dance music, and 1991's As Is EP ( produced by Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman, Flood, Depeche Mode's Alan Wilder, and Barry Adamson ) saw the band adopt a more traditional songwriting approach, and it paved the way for the aforementioned Ebbhead.

Wilder and chapters
Revised versions of these chapters that were purported to have existed, along with " A Severe Insult to the Brain ", " Yachts and Things ", " And Audrey Wilder Sang " and " Father Flannagan's ...", have not been located ( if they indeed do exist ) as of 2008.

Wilder and only
* Stalag 17 ( 1953 ) ( acting only, directed by Billy Wilder )
Wilder was dissatisfied with the theatre of his time: " I felt that something had gone wrong .... I began to feel that the theatre was not only inadequate, it was evasive.
Wilder learned that he could not introduce an act allowing only for the incorporation of Hickory Withe as this would be rejected by the courts as unconstitutional, so it was necessary for any act to help Hickory Withe to incorporate to be worded in a broad enough fashion to allow any similar area in Tennessee which also desired to incorporate to do so as well.
In spite of the name, William Rockwood played only a minor role in Roane Iron's affairs, and the early development of the town was largely the work of Wilder and Chamberlain.
A controversy ensued upon his death when the local library in Mansfield, Missouri, contended that Wilder's original will gave her daughter ownership of the literary estate for her lifetime only, and that all rights were to revert to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Library after her death.
Wilder later said, " The idea of Mae West was idiotic because we only had to talk to her to find out that she thought she was as great, as desirable, as sexy as she had ever been.
Little House on the Prairie, published in 1935, is the third of the series of books known as the Little House series, but only the second book to focus on the life of the Ingalls family ( the second book in the series, Farmer Boy focused on the childhood of Laura's future husband, Almanzo Wilder ).
Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder wrote about in her books ( although it is the only town she did not mention by name ) because Michael Landon's television series Little House on the Prairie of the 1970s and 1980s was set here.
Rose Wilder Lane was the first child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder ( and their only child to survive into adulthood ).
It remains unclear whether Laura Ingalls Wilder was a naturally skilled novelist who never discovered her talents until her sixties, with Lane's only contribution to her mother's success her encouragement and her established connections in the publishing world, or if Lane essentially took her mother's unpublishable raw manuscripts in hand and completely ( and silently ) ghostwrote the series of books we know today.
Controversy came after MacBride's death in 1995, when the local library in Mansfield, Missouri, contended that Wilder's original will gave her daughter ownership of the literary estate for her lifetime only, all rights to revert to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Library after her death.
Douglas Wilder became the first elected and only the second African-American Governor of any U. S. state.
The athletic facilities include an indoor pool and three gymnasiums, as well as, around the campus, the William P. Wilder sports complex ( containing an NHL and an Olympic sized rink, one of only four in Ontario.
He would appear only in cameo roles in the Doug Wilder and Jerry Brown campaigns in 1992, but even in these less-engaged roles, he managed to, along with Joe Costello, introduce the successful interactive use of the 800 number in politics for the first time.
Johnny Depp was the only actor Burton considered for the role, who signed on without reading the script under the intention on going with a completely different approach than what Gene Wilder did in the 1971 film adaptation.
The Seven Year Itch was filmed between September 1 and November 4, 1954, and was the only Billy Wilder film released by 20th Century Fox.
Saul Bass created the opening animated title sequence for the film, his only title sequence for a Wilder movie.
Bond, however, uses his enhanced abilities to escape the cell and the estate by finding a underwater entrance to Loch Silverfin and swimming through, with the help of Wilder Lawless ( who kisses him at some point ), only to return shortly later with George Hellebore as an ally to destroy Lord Randolph's lab.
Mann is also the only director other than Billy Wilder and Roman Polanski to win an Oscar for his direction and a Cannes Palme d ' Or for the same film.
" Black Day " is an acoustic, alternate version of " Black Celebration " sung by Martin Gore, and is co-written by him, Alan Wilder, and producer Daniel Miller-the only Depeche Mode song where Miller receives a writing credit.
The only sections of M-13 that have been listed on the National Highway System ( NHS ) are along the M-84 concurrency and Euclid Avenue south of Wilder Road in the Bay City area.
The only section of the freeway that has been listed on the National Highway System ( NHS ) is from the southern terminus to the Wilder Road interchange.
In his review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther called it " a masterly film " but added, " Mr. Wilder has let imagination so fully take command of his yarn that it presents not only a distortion of journalistic practice but something of a dramatic grotesque.

Wilder and six
Van Zandt also co-wrote six songs for the album with Monroe and Jude Wilder.
Married September 29, 1857 to Samuel Gardner Wilder ( 1831 – 1888 ) from Leominster, Massachusetts, six children.
With the support of all 15 Republicans in the chamber, and six dissenting Democrats, Wilder won the vote 21 – 15 and then proceeded to organize the Senate on a " bipartisan " basis, awarding a majority of the committee chairmanships to his Democratic loyalists with the remainder going to the Republicans.

Wilder and artists
His songs have been recorded by several artists, including Rosanne Cash, Keith Urban, Marty Stuart and Webb Wilder.
Bynner and Hunt had numerous parties at their house, hosting many notable writers, actors, and artists, which guests included Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, Igor Stravinsky, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Clara Bow, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Christopher Isherwood, Carl Van Vechten, Martha Graham, Georgia O ' Keeffe and Thornton Wilder.
In one 1972 study of the canon, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, songwriter and critic Alec Wilder provided a list of the artists he believes belong to the Great American Songbook canon, as well as his ranking of their relative worth.
Wilder believed that the grand story of American art could be interpreted as the history of many artists at different times working on “ successive frontiers ” in the great pageant of American history.

Wilder and Jerome
Among the many individuals he photographed were Judith Anderson, Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead, Barbara Bel Geddes, Thomas Hart Benton, Jane Bowles, Marlon Brando, Paul Cadmus, Erskine Caldwell, Truman Capote, Bennett Cerf, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Ruby Dee, Jacob Epstein, Ella Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lynn Fontanne, John Hersey, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Horst P. Horst, Mahalia Jackson, Philip Johnson, Frida Kahlo, Gaston Lachaise, Sidney Lumet, Alfred Lunt, Norman Mailer, Alicia Markova, Henri Matisse, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Miller, Joan Miró, Ramon Novarro, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Leontyne Price, Diego Rivera, Jerome Robbins, Paul Robeson, Cesar Romero, George Schuyler, Beverly Sills, Gertrude Stein, James Stewart, Alfred Stieglitz, Ada " Bricktop " Smith, Bessie Smith, Alice B. Toklas, Prentiss Taylor, Gore Vidal, Evelyn Waugh, Orson Welles, Thornton Wilder, and Anna May Wong.
Publications: ' The Works ' ( John Murray 1978 ) ' Private View ' ( John Murray 1980 ) ' Seven Years and a Day ' ( Collins 1980 ) ' One Man Show ' ( John Murray 1981 ) ' Bertie and the Big Red Ball ' ( John Murray 1982 ) ' My Granny was a frightful bore ' ( Chrysalis Books 1983 ) ' Beryl Cook's New York ' ( John Murray 1985 ) ' Beryl Cook's London ( John Murray 1988 ) ' Bouncers ' ( Gollancz 1992 )' Happy Days ' ( Gollancz 1995 ) ' Cruising ' ( Gollancz 2000 ) ' Beryl Cook: ' The Bumper Edition ' ( Gollancz 2000 )' The World of Beryl Cook ' by Jess Wilder & Jerome Sans ( Prestel 2007 ) revised by Jess Wilder in 2008 ( Prestel ) ' Rude Britannia-British Comic Art, Catalogue Tate Britain 2010.

Wilder and Kern
Unbeknownst to the friends, two of Gavin's redneck neighbors, Zerk Wilder ( Justin Long ) and Shirts Joachim ( Joey Kern ) planted some fake evidence as a plan to gain profits and pay off Zerk's credit card bill.

Wilder and Irving
Billy Wilder was rewarded The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Wilder and Berlin
In 1981 Paul joined The Mau-Mau's, a famous LA punk band which was fronted by Rick Wilder of The Berlin Brats.
* People on Sunday, 1930-Avant-garde look at daily life in Berlin, screenplay by Billy Wilder and Curt Siodmak

Wilder and George
In 1906 construction began on the Post Office, with local cricketer George Wilder laying an inscribed brick.
Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.
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.
The collection includes: over 3, 000 textile items from the 1920s through the 1990s, including film and stage costumes as well as over a thousand items from Dietrich's personal wardrobe ; 15, 000 photographs, by Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell, Lord Snowdon and Edward Steichen ; 300, 000 pages of documents, including correspondence with Burt Bacharach, Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevalier, Noël Coward, Jean Gabin, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Lagerfeld, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Erich Maria Remarque, Josef von Sternberg, Orson Welles, and Billy Wilder ; as well as other items like film posters and sound recordings.
* 1966 ( CBS ): Starring Lee J. Cobb, Gene Wilder, Mildred Dunnock, James Farentino, Karen Steele and George Segal and directed by Alex Segal.
The book contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others.
Later recipients include Arthur Compton ( 1954 ), Hermann Hesse ( 1954 ), Albert Schweitzer ( 1954 ), Thomas Mann ( 1955 ), Oskar Kokoschka ( 1955 ), Carl Orff ( 1956 ), Erwin Schrödinger ( 1956 ), Thornton Wilder ( 1956 ), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( 1956 ), Werner Heisenberg ( 1957 ), Gerhard Ritter ( 1957 ), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( 1957 ), Percy Ernst Schramm ( 1958 ), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ( 1961 ), Karl Jaspers ( 1964 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1967 ), Carl Zuckmayer ( 1967 ), Henry Moore ( 1972 ), Raymond Aron ( 1973 ), George F. Kennan ( 1976 ), Friedrich Hayek ( 1977 ), Karl Popper ( 1980 ), Eugène Ionesco ( 1983 ), Hans Bethe ( 1984 ), Gordon A. Craig ( 1990 ), Rudolf Mößbauer ( 1996 ), Umberto Eco ( 1998 ), Hans Magnus Enzensberger ( 1999 ), and Wim Wenders ( 2005 ).
Richard Harris, Jon Pertwee, Joan Collins, Leslie Thomas, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kenneth Williams, Billy Connolly, Gene Wilder, Ewan McGregor, Freddie Starr, David Bowie, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Dave Allen, Michael Crawford, Gary Glitter, John Lennon, Miss Piggy, Noel Gallagher, Tom Cruise, Edith Evans, Mark Knopfler, Luciano Pavarotti, Cher, Madonna, Elton John, David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Shane Warne, Thierry Henry, Ricky Hatton, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Justin Timberlake, Robbie Williams, Ray Winstone, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Michael Palin, Richard Attenborough, David Attenborough, Mel Gibson, Viggo Mortensen, George Michael, Pierce Brosnan, k. d.
Saying he " just wanted to be bored ", book editor George Caldwell ( Wilder ) travels from Los Angeles to Chicago for his sister's wedding aboard a train called the Silver Streak.
* Gene Wilder as George Caldwell
He reprised his role of Willy Loman in the 1966 CBS television adaptation of Death of a Salesman, which included Gene Wilder, James Farentino, Bernie Kopell and George Segal.
The original characters of the show included the survivors of the murder storyline on Loving, including Ally Alden ( played by Laura Wright ), Steffi Brewster ( Amelia Heinle ), Alex Masters ( Randolph Mantooth ), Angie Hubbard ( Debbi Morgan ), Tess Wilder ( Catherine Hickland ), Buck Huston ( Philip Brown ), Danny Roberts ( Ted King ), Jocelyn Roberts ( Lisa Lo Cicero ), Jacob Foster ( Darnell Williams ), Frankie Hubbard ( Alimi Ballard ), Richard Wilkins ( Corey Page ), and Tony Soleito ( George Palermo ).
* TCM Remembers 2002: William Warfield, director George Sidney, Signe Hasso, Brad Dexter, producer Lew Wasserman, Ted Ashley, Lawrence Tierney, Leo McKern, Kim Hunter, John Agar, Jeff Corey, Dolores Gray, producer J. Lee Thompson, Eddie Bracken, Katy Jurado, animator Chuck Jones, Harold Russell, Eileen Heckart, Jack Kruschen, Buddy Lester, Adolph Green, director André de Toth, producer Richard Sylbert, Milton Berle, director Billy Wilder, director John Frankenheimer, Dudley Moore, Richard Harris, Rod Steiger and James Coburn.
Our Town is a 1940 film adaptation of a play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs.
Other key figures of this era include George S. Kaufman, George Kelly, Langston Hughes, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Robert E. Sherwood, and a set of playwrights who followed O ' Neill's path of philosophical searching, Philip Barry, Thornton Wilder ( Our Town ) and William Saroyan ( The Time of Your Life ).
From 1990 – 98 he served as the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia as a Democrat during the gubernatorial administrations of Democrat Doug Wilder ( 1990 – 1994 ) and Republican George Allen ( 1994 – 1998 ).
His pallbearers included Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Billy Wilder and George Cukor and his eulogy was read by Jack Warner.
* Macross Frontier ( Narrator, Jeffrey Wilder, Elmo Kridanik, George Yamamori )
In the field of musical theatre, the Guild has promoted works by Richard Rodgers, teamed with both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, George and Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne, and Meredith Willson, all of which have become classics. Under President John F. Kennedy, the Guild was engaged to assemble a US theatre company, headed by Helen Hayes, to tour the capitals of Europe and South America with works by Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and William Gibson.
There were few escapes but a song was written about one famous escapee, George Wilder.
Pat Boone's song ' Speedy Gonzales ' was rewritten by the Howard Morrison Quartet and became ' George The Wilder Colonial Boy '.

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