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" In her early teens, she had her first major exposure to art during visits with Willie to the nearby Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, one of America's foremost art schools and museums.
In 1910, her beloved Uncle Willie died.
Upon leaving Wagoner's organization in 1974, Parton formed her own " Travelin ' Family Band ", made up largely of siblings, cousins and other family members, and touring with a number of other acts, including Willie Nelson and Mac Davis.
She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit " Fever " written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport, to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics (" Romeo loved Juliet ," " Captain Smith and Pocahontas ") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's " Is That All There Is ?".
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.
* Marty ( played by Natalie Portman ) — Conway family's neighbor, who is more forward in her approach to Willie.
She tells him that two bullies, Richie O ' Meara and Willie Shearman, held her down while a third, Harry Doolin, beat her badly with a baseball bat.
Their loans were called in, local stores refused to sell them food and gasoline, Willie Causey was cut off from his employment as a woodcutter, and Mrs. Causey was fired from her job as a teacher.
Willie is unprepared for her adventure with Indy and Short Round, and appears to be a damsel in distress.
Spielberg wanted Willie to be a complete contrast to Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark, so Capshaw dyed her brown hair blonde for the part.
* Teeny, also known as " Little Girl " and " Sis " ( Marian Jordan )-a precocious youngster who frequently tried to cadge loose change from Fibber ( often in cahoots with her rarely heard best friend Willie Toops ).
Willie Toops is most often mentioned in conjunction with Teeny, who sometimes refers to him as her boyfriend or future husband.
Through this and her husband's legal practice, she was involved in a number of civil rights campaigns, notably the failed attempt to stop the execution of Willie McGee, an African-American accused of raping a white woman.
Molly talks to the police about her concerns but they confirm that Oda Mae is a known confidence trickster with a lengthy record whereas Willie Lopez has none.
He and Willie then go to Oda Mae's apartment to find her.
Her current vocal influences are Sade, Kim Burrell, Boyz II Men, The Clark Sisters, Enya, and her father Willie Norwood.
" According to her co-star Willie Aames, " she will have nothing to do with the film.
Willie at first makes it clear that he does not want her there.
However, Willie soon begins to enjoy her company.
After ten days, Eva leaves, and Willie is clearly upset to see her go.
But when they get back, Eva is gone, and Willie reads her note and they go to the airport to stop her from leaving.

Willie and Berniece
The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who wants to sell the piano to buy the land ( Sutter's land ) that his ancestors had toiled on as slaves while the sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping it.
Doaker Charles: The owner of the Charles household ; the uncle of Berniece and Boy Willie.
In the last scene of the book, after Berniece calls to the ancestors, Boy Willie finally understands that there is no escape from living his ancestral legacy and the only way to benefit from it is to learn from it.
Blaming Boy Willie for Crawley's death, Berniece questions Boy Willie's foolish actions more than others.
While Boy Willie represents an opposing figure to their father Boy Charles by wanting to be a property owning man, Berniece draws similarities to her mother Mama Ola who never seemed to recover from the mourning of her husband either.
Against his better judgement and Uncle Doaker's insistence, Boy Willie calls awake his sister Berniece, whom he has not seen in three years due to his sentence in the Parchment Prison Farm.
To annoy her further, Boy Willie calls upon Maretha, Berniece's daughter, in the middle of the night to stir her from her sleep, causing Berniece to run back up the stairs.
Doaker insists that Berniece will not agree to selling the piano and Willie insists that he will convince her.
Avery and Berniece reenter the room and Willie casually asks his sister if she might still have the protective buyer's name.
Berniece commands Willie to stop and informs him that he is selling his soul for money.

Willie and death
In 1974 Bill Oddie was replaced by Willie Rushton, and the personnel remained constant from this point until Rushton's death in 1996.
* 13th Series ( 1986 )-26 July-27 September episodes ( Willie predicts his own death in 1996.
Willie Davenport was a U. S. Army private at the time of his first Olympic participation, he climbed up to Colonel of the United States National Guard at the time of his death.
Dweezil Zappa dedicated the song " Willie the Pimp " to Beefheart at the " Zappa Plays Zappa " show at the Beacon Theater in New York City on the day of his death, while Jeff Bridges exclaimed " Rest in peace, Captain Beefheart!
As he climbs down, Mickey and Goofy chop the beanstalk and send Willie plummeting to his apparent death.
Bergen continued performing until his death in 1978, and his popularity inspired many other famous ventriloquists who followed him, including Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson, Jeff Dunham, Shari Lewis, Willie Tyler and Jay Johnson.
* In North Towards Home, Willie Morris quotes Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial from memory as he walks up Park Avenue with William Styron: "' And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes …' At that instant I was almost clipped by a taxicab, and the driver stuck his head out and yelled, ' Aincha got eyes in that head, ya bum?
His father, Willie Goreed, left the family early on, but Williams ' mother, Anne Beatrice Gilbert, who was 18 when she had her only child, provided a strong emotional bond until her death in 1968.
Upon the horse's death, Bob Farrington, his retired Hall of Fame driver and trainer, was asked what he had seen in Willie that others missed during the early part of his career.
* December 12 – death of Ed Sanders ( 30 ), American heavyweight soon after a fight with Willie James in which he lost consciousness
To fill the now empty cells, a mass transfer from Barnhurst after a riot there had burnt out a cellblock ( and had ended in the off-screen death of Bea Smith ) introduced five new inmates to the series – Nora Flynn ( Sonja Tallis ), a reformed triple murderess, ageing cat burglar May Collins ( Billie Hammerberg ) and her partner in crime, former fence Willie Beecham ( Kirsty Child – who had played a corrupt prison officer who was later incarcerated and murdered in the prison in early episodes ), garden-loving misfit Daphne Graham ( Debra Lawrance ) and shy but highly intelligent thief Julie Egbert ( Jackie Woodburne ).
Sessions has taken the role of narrating the popular Asterix stories for audio book, since the death of Willie Rushton.
Éamon de Valera of Sinn Fein had recently won the East Clare by-election ( caused by the death of Willie Redmond ) and on a visit to Currygrane ( his first in eight years ) everyone Wilson spoke to – judges, landowners, police officers, a Redmondite local politician and “ some natives ” agreed on the need for conscription.
It was revealed through these proceedings that Van Zandt's annual income in the years before his death had climbed to over $ 100, 000, thanks in large part to the royalties accrued from his songs being covered by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Cowboy Junkies, and other major music stars.
After Barbara Gray's death, Jacob married Hannah Salter, and they had five children, though only two lived to maturity: Willie and Sharp.
* BBC reports of death of William Winter " Willie " Hamilton
Her death prompted the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, held on 9 February 2006, in which her former seat was won by Willie Rennie for the Liberal Democrats.
Willie MacRae ( May 18, 1923 – April 7, 1985 ) was a Scottish nationalist politician and lawyer, best remembered for the mystery surrounding his death.
The death of Willie MacRae received further attention when the events surrounding it formed the basis of a broadcast of the STV show " Unsolved ", originally broadcast in November 2006.
* Call for new probe of SNP activist Willie McRae's death
She appealed the case of Willie McGee, a black man convicted in 1945 of raping a white woman in Laurel, Mississippi and sentenced to death by an all-white jury who deliberated for only two-and-a-half minutes.
Two months later, Willie Mak was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
On January 8, 1991 U. S. District Judge William Dwyer overturned Willie Mak's death sentence, saying Mak's attorneys failed to present evidence on their client's background that could have saved his life.
His son Willie soon died, and Henry was to join him in death, of consumption, in 1867.
Willie accidentally throws Erica off the second floor landing, causing her to fall to her death.

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