However, when Prince was interviewed in 2010, journalist Peter Willis said he believed the rumors of Prince needing double hip surgery to be unfounded and untrue as Prince appeared to be agile.

Willis has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman several times throughout his career.

Willis also appeared on Japanese Subaru Legacy television commercials.

Willis has appeared in four films with Samuel L. Jackson ( National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Pulp Fiction, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Unbreakable ) and both actors were slated to work together in Black Water Transit, before dropping out.

Willis appeared in the music video for the song " Stylo " by Gorillaz.

Rachel Herbert appeared as Lady Mary, Gwen Taylor as Pamela Dean, Christopher Timothy as Mr. Willis, John Hallam as Mr. Ingleby, and Fiona Walker as Miss Meteyard.

He appeared in the 1962 episode of Route 66, " 1800 Days to Justice ", and " The Clover Throne " as Willis.

As well as his successful career on Friends, Perry has appeared in films such as Fools Rush In ( alongside father John Bennett Perry and Salma Hayek ), Almost Heroes, Three to Tango, The Whole Nine Yards ( alongside Bruce Willis ) and its sequel The Whole Ten Yards, and Serving Sara.

Osment first achieved stardom in 1999, when he appeared in The Sixth Sense, co-starring Bruce Willis.

Jason Donovan was born in Malvern, Melbourne, is the son of actor Terence Donovan, who also appeared in Neighbours as Doug Willis, and Sue Menlove ( now Sue McIntosh ).

Garbutt toured the United States with Orbital, Moby and Aphex Twin, whilst Willis appeared on the dance music radio station Kiss 105 in Yorkshire, hosting a Sunday night show.

Urban next appeared as CIA agent William Cooper in RED, adapted from the DC Comics graphic novel of the same name and co-starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren.

Subsequently, he appeared in the Bruce Willis blockbuster Armageddon ( 1998 ).

* Russ Conway appeared as Willis Turner, with Chris Alcaide as Brutus Traxel in " The Silent Witness " ( 1959 ).

Cochrane played major roles in the films Empire Records and Dazed and Confused, with Jason London and Ben Affleck, and appeared in Hart's War starring Bruce Willis & Colin Farrell.

Horn also costarred with Bruce Willis in the 2005 feature Hostage, and appeared on Loving Annabelle and as Eliza Pinchley on Family Guy.

Other television movies and miniseries in which Smith appeared include George Washington, The Night They Saved Christmas, Florence Nightingale, Lies Before Kisses, The Rape of Dr. Willis, In the Arms of a Killer, and several TV versions of Danielle Steel novels, including Family Album.

Rollins also attended the same high school ( Encinal High School ) as pitcher Dontrelle Willis, and appeared in several MC Hammer videos in the late 80s.

He has also appeared as Bruce Willis ' father in the weekly series Moonlighting, and the " Lamont " counterpart in the never-aired original pilot for Sanford and Son.

This appeared to be closely modeled on The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan ( though Willis and Shaw denied having read it beforehand ).

A copy of the Viz edition of the book appeared in a scene with Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element.

The Southern Literary Messenger first appeared in August 1834 with Thomas Willis White as publisher.

Middlesex appeared to be coasting to victory when they reached 240 – 3, but Willis turned the game, and they collapsed and finished on 272 – 9.

Mr. Willis bought Zenith Plastic Products, a skeleton corporation of sorts which had undergone many vicissitudes and whose principal assets were a couple of electronics plants on Long Island engaged in working out government contracts, and installed Freddy in an executive position.

Mr. Willis, eager to have him allied with the family, wanted advice beyond the confines of his field, and William set out on a serious study of the situation, including trips to Wisconsin and Washington.

There is no economic activity ( except for a significant but as yet unquantified charter fishing and diving industry ), and only a staff of three or four people to run the meteorological station on Willis Island ( South Islet ), established in 1921.

In that period, Niels Bohr was on a lecture engagement at the Princeton University and I remember one afternoon Willis Lamb came back very excited and said that Bohr had leaked out great news.

While Cabrera, Willis, and several others posted very good first-half numbers, Lowell was one of the least productive regular major-league starters, and Leiter went 3 – 7 with an ERA of 6. 64 before being traded to the New York Yankees on July 15 for a player to be named later.

However, after increasing demand of salary in their arbitration years and uncertainty of stadium situation, the Marlins pulled the trigger on dealing slugger Miguel Cabrera and southpaw Dontrelle Willis to the Detroit Tigers for outfielder Cameron Maybin, southpaw Andrew Miller, reliever Burke Badenhop among the six players received by Florida.

In the offseason, the Marlins also pulled the plug on their returns from the disastrous Cabrera / Willis trade dealing Andrew Miller to the Red Sox for a minor league prospect and Cameron Maybin to the Padres for a pair of reliever to aid a struggling bullpen from the 2010 season.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

According to castmate Todd Bridges ' autobiography Killing Willis, Coleman was made to work long hours on the set of Diff ' rent Strokes despite his age and health problems, and this contributed to his being unhappy and separating himself from the cast.

As writer and editor Nathaniel Parker Willis wrote, " With his cigar and his Spanish eyes, he talks Typee and Omoo, just as you find the flow of his delightful mind on paper ".

With able support from Dilley ( 56 ) and Chris Old ( 29 ), Botham hit out and by the close of play was 145 not out with Bob Willis hanging on at the other end on 1 not out.

On the final day's play there was time for just four more runs from Botham before Willis was out and Botham was left on 149 not out.

The most recent premier to die was Eric Willis on 10 May 1999 at age 77.

Ellen Willis hypothesized in 1984 that this was, at least in part, because " most black and working-class women could not accept the abstraction of feminist issues from race and class issues "; the resulting narrow demographic base, in turn, limited the validity of generalizations based on radical feminists ' personal experiences of gender relations.

Also, Willis, although very much a part of early radical feminism and continuing to hold that it played a necessary role in placing feminism on the political agenda, later criticised its inability " to integrate a feminist perspective with an overall radical politics ," while viewing this limitation as inevitable in the historical context of the times.

Michigan Governor Woodbridge Nathan Ferris and Ohio Governor Frank B. Willis shake on a truce over state line markers erected in 1915. Differences of opinion about the exact boundary location continued until a definitive re-survey was performed in 1915.

After he decided to settle on the origin story aspect of his outline, Shyamalan began to write the screenplay as a spec script with Bruce Willis already set to star in the film and Samuel L. Jackson in mind to portray Elijah Price.

With Willis and Samuel L. Jackson specifically in mind for the two leading characters, Shyamalan began to write Unbreakable as a spec script during post-production on The Sixth Sense.

Willis and Jackson had previously worked together on Die Hard with a Vengeance and Pulp Fiction.

Die Hard with a Vengeance ( 1995 ) featured a scene where villain Simon Peter Gruber ( Jeremy Irons ) required NYPD Lt. John McClane ( Bruce Willis ) to wear a sandwich board reading " I hate niggers " while standing on a street corner in predominantly-black Harlem, resulting in McClane meeting Zeus Carver ( Samuel L. Jackson ) as Carver rescued McClane from being attacked by neighborhood toughs.

* In 1954 William Willis sailed alone from Peru to American Samoa on the small raft Seven Little Sisters.

The lighting commonly matches the nighttime lighting on the antenna of Willis Tower, the John Hancock Center and the upper floors of the Merchandise Mart.

Herschel originally discovered the platinum process on the basis of the light sensitivity of platinum salts, later developed by William Willis.