Lantz signed again with Universal ( now Universal-International ) in 1950, and began production on two Woody Woodpecker cartoons that director Dick Lundy and storymen Ben Hardaway and Heck Allen had begun before the 1948 layoff.

So, which one of you signed up as " Major Woody " and " Private Parts?!

Produced by Columbia's legendary talent scout John H. Hammond, who signed Dylan to the label, the album features folk standards, plus two original compositions, " Talkin ' New York " and " Song to Woody ".

Soon after, Burdette left the team and the team signed Universal Studios / Woody Woodpecker as its primary sponsor.

In 2010, the group signed to Kedar Entertainment Group and released their fourth album, InDRUpendence Day, with new member Tao, after Woody left for the second time.

After Island merged with Def Jam to become The Island Def Jam Music Group in mid-1999, all four members, Woody included, signed new contracts with Def Jam's R & B imprint Def Soul, creating what was termed the " Dru World Order " project.

The Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League had signed the only other black players in pro football earlier that year: Kenny Washington and Woody Strode.

Following the season, Woody signed with the Detroit Lions, leaving Koppen as the Patriots ' starting center.

The Nudge is Christian Wood ( aka Woody ), a DJ from Salford, Greater Manchester, signed to Grand Central Records by Mark Rae.

The title track, featuring Woody Harrelson, was available for free with the pre-order of Ziggy's first comic book, " Marijuanaman.

According to Walter Lantz's press agent, the idea for Woody came during the producer's honeymoon with his wife, Gracie, in Sherwood Lake, California.

After the Sunset is a 2004 action comedy film starring Pierce Brosnan as Max Burdett, a master thief caught in a cat-and-mouse game with FBI agent Stan Lloyd played by Woody Harrelson.

With the two leads set, Woody Harrelson was cast in the role of Burdett ’ s nemesis, FBI agent Stanley Lloyd.

* Though its usage here is not a parody, in an episode of Cheers, Cliff aborts his plans to emigrate to Canada with his love interest when Sam, Woody, and Frasier appeal to his patriotic side by singing this song.

The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?

In May 2004, Woody Hearn of GU Comics called for all EverQuest gamers to boycott the Omens of War expansion in an effort to force SOE to address existing issues with the game rather than release another " quick-fire " expansion.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

In 1989 Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories.

Woody Guthrie is a great example of a songwriter and artist with such an outlook.

The 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig was an elaborate mix of real newsreel footage from the 1930s and fake footage mixed together with fake interviews with real actors playing themselves as well as actors playing roles to tell the story of the Allen character and presented as a documentary.

* An old German director with the demeanor of Lang appears during the filming of a bank robbery in Woody Allen's 1969 comedy Take the Money and Run.

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.

Woody Williams had retired after a 0-4 spring training and Jason Jennings was now with Texas.

Later, in Woody Allen's comic tribute to Bogart Play It Again, Sam ( 1972 ), Bogart's ghost comes to the aid of Allen's bumbling character, a movie critic with woman troubles and whose " sex life has turned into the ' Petrified Forest '".

She spoke Italian again as a flashy prostitute in Woody Allen's 2012 To Rome with Love and she is set to reunite with Italian director Sergio Castellitto in his war tale Venuto al Mondo as Gemma.

For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together.

The halftime show, featuring Woody Herman and the Michigan Marching Band along with The Citrus College Singers and Andy Williams, was titled " Happiness Is ".

Working for New York's WMCA in 1945, Barry Gray was bored with playing music and put a telephone receiver up to his microphone to talk with bandleader Woody Herman.

" In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either " The Honkies " or " The Crackers " ( which they used when backing Dylan for a January 1968 concert tribute to Woody Guthrie ), but these names were vetoed by their record label ; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as " the band " and it stuck.

" In a review for The New York Times, Caryn James called When Harry Met Sally ... an " often funny but amazingly hollow film " that " romanticized lives of intelligent, successful, neurotic New Yorkers "; James characterized it as " the sitcom version of a Woody Allen film, full of amusing lines and scenes, all infused with an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu ".

The Woody Guthrie Coalition commissioned a local Creek Indian sculptor to cast a full-body bronze statue of Guthrie and his guitar, complete with the guitar's well-known inscription: " This machine kills fascists ".

In the 1950s, his most important work in television involved writing for Red Buttons, Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, in Celeste Holm's Honestly, Celeste !, as well as with writers Mel Tolkin, Michael Stewart, Selma Diamond, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and ( on two Caesar specials ) Woody Allen.

* Most of the performers sing in their own voices, with two exceptions: Goldie Hawn, who was told by Allen to intentionally sing worse because she sang too well to be believable as a normal person just breaking into song, and Drew Barrymore, who convinced Woody Allen that her singing was too awful even for the " realistic singing voice " concept he was going for.

Hicks was drawn to comedy at an early age, emulating Woody Allen and Richard Pryor, and writing routines with his friend Dwight Slade.

After his trade ( which also included Ralph Terry, Woody Held, and Bob Martyn ) to the Kansas City Athletics ( see Altercations below ), Martin's career declined, with several short stints with six different teams over the final 4½ seasons of his playing career: the Athletics, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland Indians, the Cincinnati Reds, the Milwaukee Braves and the Minnesota Twins.

Damien Michael Woody ( born November 3, 1977 ) is a former American football offensive lineman and defensive end who played for the New England Patriots, Detroit Lions and New York Jets of the National Football League.

* March 12 – Woody Hayes, football coach at Ohio State ( b. 1913 )

By March 1987, however, the situation had improved, and the company was able to bask in the glow of a string of critically acclaimed hits, including Platoon, which would go on to win an Academy Award for best picture, Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, and the basketball epic Hoosiers.

Walter Benjamin Lantz ( April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994 ) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

Wayne Woodrow " Woody " Hayes ( February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987 ) was an American football player and coach.

* Hogeland, William ( March 14, 2004 ), Emulating the Real and Vital Guthrie, Not St. Woody, New York Times.

* March 8-The Fight of the Century: before a jet-set crowd that included Cher, Frank Sinatra, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Diana Ross and others, Joe Frazier drops Muhammad Ali in the fifteenth round and wins a unanimous decision to retain the world's Heavyweight title, at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Woodbridge Strong " Woody " Van Dyke, Jr. ( March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943 ) was an American motion picture director.

In March 1939, five years after Floyd's death, Woody Guthrie, a native of Oklahoma, wrote a song romanticizing Floyd's life, called " The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd.

* They took part in the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert, " This Land Is Your Land ", March 10, 2012 at the Brady Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma, performing classic Woody Guthrie songs with Arlo Guthrie, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash, Del McCoury Band, The Flaming Lips, Hanson, Tim O ' Brien, and Jimmy LaFave.

" Life and Basketball: The Redemption of Woody Sauldsberry ," Baltimore City Paper, March 28, 2001.

Haynes and Woody left the group in March 1997 to focus solely on their side project Gov't Mule.

Haynes and Woody initially split time between Gov't Mule and The Allman Brothers Band, but after The Allman Brothers ' last show of their 1997 run at New York's Beacon Theatre on March 26, 1997, both left the band to focus on Gov't Mule full-time.

On March 2, 2008, Woody and the Jets agreed to a five-year, $ 25 million contract with $ 11 million in guaranteed money.

Now devoted to such children's characters as Raggedy Ann and Andy, and such funny animal characters as the movie-based Felix the Cat, Oswald the Rabbit, and Woody Woodpecker, it lasted through issue # 288 ( April 1962 ), with its title changed to Walter Lantz New Funnies after 44 issues, beginning with issue # 109 ( March 1946 ).