He jammed it this spring and has had to rest it, but he says the old injury hasn't bothered him.

Boys no longer bothered learning to bunt and even school kids scorned to `` choke up '' on a bat as Willie Keeler and the famous hitters of another day had done.

if Mike had had a finger in it, he had gotten away with it -- and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at all as long as he wasn't bothered.

On August 28, Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi reportedly bothered a Delray Beach resident, Maria Siscar Simpson, to let them through her apartment to retrieve a towel that had fallen off their balcony onto hers.

Nobody had bothered to say.

Not much of a mousetrap, but a helluva spitball launcher .... I realized why mousetrap analogy had bothered me.

" Hayes had only one tackle, but had the left side of the field covered so effectively that Theismann hardly bothered to throw there.

" Williams responded that he was not bothered about being labelled as a gay man, and he would have taken the same action had it been regarding a heterosexual relationship.

Although Falcone had been threatened before, this failed attempt bothered him extremely because it had all the signs of an inside job.

Gloucester, who according to some accounts had not bothered to don his surcoat, was killed in the forest of Scottish spears, along with some of the other knights.

Matthau was visibly banged up during the Oscar telecast, having been involved in a bicycle accident, nonetheless he scolded actors who had not bothered to come to the ceremony, especially the other major award winners that night: Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis and Paul Scofield.

When Buffy rejects his advances, Spike attempts to prove his love by kidnapping her so that she can witness him killing Drusilla for her, to little avail ; in her disgust, Buffy un-invites him from her house ( something she had not bothered to do in the almost three years since their alliance against Angelus ) and alienates him from the group.

) The brothers had driven off the monsters from their torment of the prophet Phineus, but did not kill them upon the request of Iris, who promised that Phineas would not be bothered by the Harpies again.

Prior to the annulment, she had been socially very active and this bothered both her and her husband considerably, although many in society were still prepared to receive her and to press her case sympathetically.

New Rome had typically not even bothered with elections in the past, and many officials, including past mayors, had simply " reappointed themselves.

There have been examples of Uncle Ben remaining alive in alternative timelines, including stories featured in Marvel's What If ( one of which he forces Peter to unmask in front of J. Jonah Jameson ), and a storyline of the 1994 Spider-Man animated series featured a universe where Uncle Ben had never died, and Peter Parker became a successful industrialist, having never really bothered to use his powers responsibly as everything always seemed to work out for him.

... Then one day somebody from the L. A. Times actually bothered to call me up and ask me how I felt, and I finally had a chance to talk about it.

For the first two years of his career, Jackson had some trouble adjusting to life with the Athletics ; reports conflict as to whether he just did not like the big city, or if he was bothered by hazing from teammates.

Too early and too independent, Ornstein had little desire to participate in the modernist movement by the time it caught hold in the United States .... seemed little bothered by the publicity or the lack of it.

Steven Spielberg had previously filmed The Color Purple in Wadesboro, and the large white farmhouse used as an exterior location in that film became the production office for Evil Dead II.

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In June 2012, it was announced that producer Kathleen Kennedy, a long-term collaborator with Steven Spielberg and a producer of the Indiana Jones films, had been appointed as co-chair of Lucasfilm Ltd.

Within a year, she had been cast by Steven Spielberg to appear in his World War II drama, Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ).

Steven Spielberg said, " I learned more about acting from him at that early stage of my career than I had from anyone else.

Spielberg had already demonstrated his interest in World War II themes with the films 1941, Empire of the Sun, Schindler's List, and the Indiana Jones series.

Spielberg — who visited the set a few times — also advised Mendes not to worry about costs if he had a " great idea " toward the end of a long working day.

Lucas and Spielberg had intended to make a trilogy of Indiana Jones films since Lucas had first pitched Raiders of the Lost Ark to Spielberg in 1977.

Spielberg rejected the idea because of the similarity to Poltergeist, which he had co-written and produced.

Spielberg hired Menno Meyjes, who had worked on Spielberg's The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun, to begin a new script on January 1, 1986.

It included the prologue that was eventually filmed ; Lucas had to convince Spielberg to show Indiana as a boy because of the mixed response to Empire of the Sun, which was about a young boy.

Spielberg — who was later awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award — had the idea of making Indiana a Boy Scout.

Spielberg originally had planned the chase to be a short sequence shot over two days, but he drew up storyboards to make the scene an action-packed centerpiece.

Spielberg intended to have Connery cameo as Henry in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ), but Connery turned it down as he had retired.

Directed by Steven Spielberg and co-starring Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken, the film was shot in 147 different locations in only 52 days, making it " the most adventurous, super-charged movie-making " DiCaprio had experienced yet.

Spielberg was interested in her, as he had seen her performance in National Lampoon's Animal House.

Spielberg had originally offered the role to Roman Polanski, who was intrigued at the opportunity to work with Spielberg but decided to turn down the role because he wouldn't be able to make the trip to Tunisia .< ref >

A number of filmmakers have had their movies honored for their achievements in visual effects ; i. e., five films produced by George Pal, five by producer George Lucas, five by director James Cameron ( who began his career in Hollywood as an effects technician ), four by directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, and three by director Robert Zemeckis.

Spielberg felt Drew Barrymore had the right imagination for mischievous young Gertie after she impressed him with a story that she led a punk rock band.

These included Spielberg ; Debra Winger ; Burtt's sleeping wife, who had a cold ; a burp from his USC film professor ; and raccoons, sea otters, and horses.

Columbia Pictures, which had been producing Night Skies, met Spielberg to discuss the script.

It had drawn them together, and since his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly to effect this night's escape.

He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

Wiley Lynn, a self-styled prohibition officer, had hit town the previous day and had been drinking ever since.

Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.

it had been a long, hot while since he'd seen anything as nice as this within grabbin' distance.

It had a bucolic atmosphere that it has lost long since.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

Mama didn't know what to do -- whether to tell on Rob Roy or not -- since she had the ear of Mrs. Coolidge more than the other maids.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

In 1687 the Turks, who had been in control of the city since the fifteenth century, with a truly shattering lack of prudence used the Parthenon as a powder magazine.

The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.