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Events with high posterior probability

Kenesaw Mountain Landis	In 1938, Yankee Jake Powell was interviewed by a Chicago radio station, and when asked what he did in the offseason, stated that he was a police officer in southern Illinois'' and I get a lot of pleasure beating up niggers and then throwing them in jail''.
Leonard Maltin	In 1998, Maltin settled a libel suit brought by former child star Billy Gray, of Father Knows Best fame, whom Maltin identified as a drug addict and dealer in his review of the film Dusty and Sweets McGee for his movie guide.
Joe Oriolo	In 1958, Joe became a business partner with William O. Sullivan, brother of Pat Sullivan, the original copyright owner of Felix the Cat.
Billy Conn	Conn, who appeared in a 1941 movie called'' The Pittsburgh Kid,'' maintained his boxing skills into his later years.
Terry Southern	During 1982 -- 83 Southern worked with Kubrick's former production partner James B. Harris on a naval drama called The Gold Crew (later retitled Floaters), but Southern was diverted from this when he began working with close friend Larry Rivers on an independent film project called At Z Beach.
Kerry Waghorn	Arnold, who died in 1997, would become Kerry's mentor, manager, car pool partner, best friend and fishing buddy.
Peter Grant (music manager)	In 1977, he was asked by Colonel Tom Parker to manage a proposed concert tour of Europe by Elvis Presley, but Elvis died on 16 August 1977, just as negotiations had commenced.
William Edward Hickman	Hickman kidnapped Parker on December 15, 1927, by appearing at her junior high school, claiming that her father, Perry Parker, was ill, and that he wanted to see his daughter.
Marc Randazza	In 1996, Randazza was inspired to attend law school by the film The People vs. Larry Flynt.
Richard Smart (actor)	After A. W. Carter died in 1949, Smart took a more active role in the ranch.
James Lipton	A 1944 graduate of Central High School in Detroit, Lipton portrayed Dan Reid, the Lone Ranger's nephew, on WXYZ Radio's The Lone Ranger.
Irna Phillips	In 1971, after actress Jane House did a nude scene in the Broadway play, Lenny, Phillips tried to kill off her character and drove House to quit, as well.
Kevin Johnson (ventriloquist)	In 1983, Johnson was introduced to Clyde the Buzzard in his native state of Colorado, and performed his first'' real'' show with his grandfather.
Jack Huddle	In 1953 Jack gave a young Buddy Holly a break when he let him perform with his friend Jack Neal as the Buddy & Jack duo on the talentshow'' Around Lubbock.''
Alex Paez	In 1991 he took over the role of Ritchie Valens in the national tour of Buddy -- The Buddy Holly Story.
Ralph Emery	The song Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man details a moderately unpleasant on-air exchange between Emery and Roger McGuinn, the lead singer of the 1960s rock group The Byrds, concerning their 1968 appearance at The Grand Ole Opry.
Tom Thurman	In a 2006 production for Starz, Thurman directed Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride : Hunter S. Thompson on Film.
Meryl Streep	Asked to comment on the script for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), in a meeting with the producer Stan Jaffee, director Robert Benton and star Dustin Hoffman, Streep insisted that the female character was not representative of many real women who faced marriage breakdown and child custody battles, and was written as'' too evil''.
Robert Mitchum	The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) saw the actor playing an aging Boston hoodlum caught between the Feds and his criminal friends.
Charles Bronson (prisoner)	He changed his name from Micky Peterson to Charles Bronson in 1987 on the advice of his fight promoter, Paul Edmonds, despite never having seen a film starring the actor Charles Bronson.
Muddy Waters	In the 2009 film The Boat that Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio in the U. S) about pirate radio in the UK, the cryptic message that late-night DJ Bob gives to Carl to give to Carl's mother is :'' Muddy Waters Rocks.''
Ed Wood	In 1998, Wood's previously unfilmed script I Woke Up Early the Day I Died was finally produced, starring Billy Zane and Christina Ricci, with appearances by Tippi Hedren, Bud Cort, Sandra Bernhard, Karen Black, John Ritter and many others.
Judy Spreckels	In a letter of August 25, 1958, Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker confirms that Judy Spreckels came'' to Memphis to be with Elvis for the Funeral -LSB-, -RSB- this was very kind of her also.
Terence Spinks	Author and sports historian Norman Giller, his long-time friend, said in the eulogy :'' Terry hung up his gloves in 1962 but we have never hung up our memories of one of the most accomplished fighters to come out of the East End boxing factory.''
Bob Dylan	In 1972, Dylan signed onto Sam Peckinpah's film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, providing songs and backing music for the movie, and playing the role of'' Alias'', a member of Billy's gang with some historical basis.
Jack Black	In 2011, Black starred in Linklater's black comedy Bernie as real-life murderer Bernie Tiede, a funeral director in a small East Texas town, who befriends and eventually murders a rich widow, played by Shirley MacLaine.
Marlon Brando	In a letter dated August 29, 1947, Williams confided to his agent Audrey Wood,'' It had not occurred to me before what an excellent value would come through casting a very young actor in this part.
Agnes Nixon	On December 19, 2008, Nixon appeared on All My Childrens tribute to long-time resident Myrtle Fargate, portrayed by Eileen Herlie, who died on October 8, 2008.
Talcott Parsons	At Parsons' retirement banquet held on May 18, 1973, Robert K. Merton was asked to preside, while John Riley, Bernard Barber, Jesse Pitts, Neil J. Smelser and John Akula were asked to share their experiences of the man with the audience.
Ed Masterson	In the 1959 MGM film, The Gunfight at Dodge City, Harry Lauter portrayed Ed Masterson, historically portraying him as killed, shot in the back by a man avenging his own brother's death.
Darwin Joston	Joston also worked on the transportation crews of two 1978 movies, The Buddy Holly Story and Ruby and Oswald.
Jack Nicholson	Following the death of Thompson in 2005, Nicholson and fellow actors Johnny Depp, John Cusack, and Sean Penn attended the private memorial service in Colorado.
Hugo Butler	Born in Calgary, Alberta, his father had acted and written scripts in silent film s. Hugo Butler worked as a journalist and playwright before moving to Hollywood in 1937 where he wrote the first of his thirty-four screenplays.
Truman Gibson	After helping Joe Louis with tax problems in 1949, Gibson took on the role of director and secretary of Joe Louis Enterprises, and entered the world of professional boxing as a manager and promoter.
Steven Long	He appeared in Saving America's Horse, a documentary about the controversial years' - long roundup of mustangs on federal land in the Southwest part of the country In mid 2010, Long interviewed actor Tony Curtis, a horse lover whose wife Jill runs a horse rescue center, for an article in Cowboys & Indians magazine.
Bob Schieffer	On November 22, 2013, Schieffer will be appearing in the film documentary'' You Must Be Weird or You Would n't Be Here'' in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Everly Brothers	Phil Everly was one of Buddy Holly's pallbearers at his funeral in February 1959, although Don did not attend.
Bill Mumy	According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show (which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams).
Dean Brooks	In the 1970s, he granted permission for the film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) to be shot in the Oregon Hospital, letting the film crew stay at the mental hospital ; Brooks also portrayed'' Dr. Spivey'' in the film.
James Dean	Dean originally intended to trailer the Porsche to Salinas behind his 1955 Ford Country Squire station wagon, driven by friend and movie stunt man, Bill Hickman, and accompanied by professional photographer Sanford H. Roth, who was planning a photo story of Dean at the races for Colliers Magazine.
Alfred Lennon	In 1966, Alf asked John if he could give Pauline a job, so she was hired to help, looking after Julian Lennon and also the piles of fan mail.
Andrew Haug	In 2002, Haug was convinced by notorious Australian media prank ster / comedian John Safran (a long-time friend of his and a former colleague at 3RRR) to appear on his SBS television series John Safran's Music Jamboree.
Nick Charles (sportscaster)	Nick Charles and former heavyweight contender George Chuvalo shared the Bill Crawford Award for perseverance in overcoming adversity in 2010 from the Boxing Writer's Association.
Charles Kuralt	According to court testimony, Kuralt had met Shannon while doing a story on'' Pat Baker Park'' in Reno, Nevada, that Shannon had promoted and volunteered to build in 1968.
Bonnie Raitt	In 1994 at the urging of writer Dick Waterman, Raitt funded the replacement of a headstone for one of her mentors, blues guitarist Fred McDowell through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund.
Tom Laughlin	However, the film was embraced by much of America's youth, leading Laughlin to claim in 1975 that'' The youth of this country have only two heroes, Ralph Nader and Billy Jack.''
J. Frank Dobie	In 1937, Dobie was visiting a friend in El Paso, prominent attorney, Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr., and after seeing the art work of Lea's son, Tom Lea, asked him to illustrate the book that he was working on then, Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver.
Emir Kusturica	Through his father's friendship with the well-known director Hajrudin'' Šiba'' Krvavac, 17-year-old Emir got a small part in Krvavac's 1972 Walter Defends Sarajevo, a partisan film funded by the Yugoslav state.
James Gleason	He played a milk cart driver who gives lessons in marriage to Judy Garland and Robert Walker in the 1945 film The Clock, while Lucille played his wife.
Lauren Holly	In 1992, Holly, her father Grant, and their families established the' A' Fund at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in memory of her brother, Alexander Holly, whom Holly said'' was a boy filled with dreams, hopes, and plans.
Martin Lewis (humorist)	Bill Maher referred to Lewis' reputation as a Beatles scholar on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher in March 2010 - jokingly referring to Lewis as'' the fifth Beatle''.
Howard Harris (writer)	Pat (Harris) Liberman was a talent agent and casting director who died in 1984 thewrap.
Hunter S. Thompson	As part of his research, in the spring of 1985 he spent evenings at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater striptease club in San Francisco and his experience there eventually evolved into a full-length novel tentatively titled The Night Manager.
Elia Kazan	When Kazan received an Honorary Academy Award in 1999, the audience was noticeably divided in their reaction, with some including Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Ian McKellen and Amy Madigan refusing to applaud, and many others, such as actors Kathy Bates, Meryl Streep and Warren Beatty and producer George Stevens, Jr. standing and applauding.
Raoul Coutard	Coutard and Truffaut fought heavily over the cinematography of The Bride Wore Black, reported TCM host Robert Osborne after the cable network's 2009 showing of the film.
Luther Standing Bear	In 1912, Standing Bear moved to California and was recruited as a consultant by motion picture director Thomas H. Ince because of his experience as a performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Bernard Seigal	Shortly before his death, Seigal reunited with Jerry Raney and Rolle Love of the Beat Farmers (Country Dick Montana died onstage of a heart attack in 1995) playing shows as The Farmers.
Robert Pattinson	In September 2013, he joined the cast of Anton Corbijn's Life as Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock about the friendship between James Dean and Stock.
Stan Moore	When a call came to work on a very low-budget film titled R. O. T. O. R in 1987, Moore found himself helping to cast and scout locations during pre-production and then fill in for the fired production manager.
Dennis Coffey	Coffey was interviewed in the 2002 film, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, which told the story of Funk Brothers and explained that he had sold his Fender Stratocaster to buy a Gibson Firebird after he heard Eddie Willis of Funk Brothers play it during a Motown session.
Roy Moore	Judge Roy Moore is Coming to Dinner by Tom Wofford is a 2004 play about two gay men who decide to marry in California and return home to Alabama to tell their families.
Flying Hawk	In 1898, Käsebier watched Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe parade past her Fifth Avenue studio in New York City, toward Madison Square Garden.
Davey Allison	On Monday, July 12, 1993, Davey Allison boarded his newly acquired Hughes 369HS helicopter to fly to Talladega Superspeedway to watch family friend Neil Bonnett and his son David test a car for David's Busch Series debut.
Ezra Meeker	In 1925, Meeker drove an ox team for several months while touring in J. C. Miller's Wild West Show.
Pete Seeger	On July 18, 2012, Pete Seeger appeared at Bryant Park in New York City to sign copies of his new (2012) biography,'' Pete Seeger : His Life in His Own Words,'' written with Rob Rosenthal and Sam Rosenthal.
Don Knotts	On September 12, 2003, Knotts was in Kansas City in a stage version of On Golden Pond when he received a call from John Ritter's family telling him that his former Three's Company co-star had died of an aortic dissection that day.
Clarence Gilyard	While working on plays at the Neil Simon festival, Gilyard received word that his longtime mentor, childhood television hero and TV lawyer, Andy Griffith, passed away July 3, 2012.
Jack Garner	Garner taught Dan Aykroyd, his co-star in the 1996 film, My Fellow Americans, to properly swing a golf club for a scene in that movie.
Frederick Manfred	According to his daughter Freya Manfred,'' Many of those who drank coffee with him, watched him, listened to him, learned from him, are now well-known national or regional writers : Pete Dexter, Michael Doane, Elly Welt, William Earls, Dan O'Brien, Linda Hasselstrom, Craig Volk, Bill Holm, John Calvin Rezmerski, and Joe and Nancy Paddock'' Manfred died in Luverne, Minnesota in 1994, of a brain tumor, at the age of 82.
Guy Mitchell	Mitch Miller, who was in charge of talent at Columbia Records, noticed Cernik in 1950, who joined Columbia, being given his new stage name at Miller's urging : Miller supposedly said,'' my name is' Mitchell' and you seem a nice' guy', so we'll call you Guy Mitchell''.
Amy Macdonald	What Happiness Means To Me'' is dedicated to her footballer fiancé Steve Lovell, while'' An Ordinary Life'' is inspired by the'' Z-list celebs'' she saw flocking around Scots-born Hollywood actor Gerard Butler at a party he held in Glasgow late 2009 to mark the opening of his film Law Abiding Citizen.
Victoria Williams	In May 2009 Williams and Olson reunited with fellow Creekdipper Mike Russell for a one-off performance at an exhibition opening being stage at the True World Gallery in Joshua Tree, California.
Paul Scofield	According to the DVD extras documentary for the film The Shooting Party (1985), in the very first shot of the very first day of filming, all the male lead actors, including Paul Scofield who was playing Sir Randolph Nettleby, were to come into shot on a horse-drawn shooting brake driven by the well-known film horse-master George Mossman.
Andy Dick	On July 17, 2007, at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Los Angeles, Dick was in an altercation with his former NewsRadio co-star Jon Lovitz, who claimed that, a year earlier, Dick had approached Lovitz at a restaurant and said,'' I put the Phil Hartman hex on you ; you're the next one to die,'' and demanded an apology from Dick.
Jay Jason	So on November 7, 1971, I stepped on a stage for the first time as a comedian...'' Jason's nephew, Sid Roth, host of a noted messianic radio and television show, also drove Jason to the hotels in the Catskills.
Sunset Carson	He played the lead role in a B-movie titled The Marshal of Windy Hollow in 1972, a film that costarred a host of old time actors, including Ken Maynard, Tex Ritter, and Bill Cody, Jr..
Leslie Henson	The actor Stanley Holloway dedicated a chapter in his 1967 autobiography to Henson, describing how Henson helped establish his career by signing him to perform in Nicely Thanks !
Oscar Zeta Acosta	Acosta has been twice portrayed in major motion pictures : The 1980 film Where the Buffalo Roam loosely depicts Acosta's life and his relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, and takes its name from Thompson's obituary to Acosta'' The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat'', which in turn is a reference to Acosta's book Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo.
Albert Gubay	In 1964 Gubay visited the United States with fellow director Ken Nicholson, and learnt about the'' baby shark'' method of retailing.
Robert De Niro	While promoting his movie The Good Shepherd with co-star Matt Damon on the December 8, 2006 episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews at George Mason University, De Niro was asked whom he would like to see as President of the United States.
Corey Jackson	jpg </gallery> In 1998, at the age of 19, Corey quit his job at Walmart and bought a one-way Greyhound bus ticket to a place he had never heard of, Ranger, Texas.
Tim Chapman	Timothy Charles'' Youngblood'' Chapman (born May 13, 1965 in Ventura, California, USA) is now a retired American Bounty Hunter, most noted for his role on A&E TV's Dog the Bounty Hunter, in which he along with Duane'' Dog'' Chapman and Dog's family track down and capture wanted fugitives.
John Lennon	The press conference was filmed, and would later appear in the 2006 documentary The U. S. vs. John Lennon.
William Frank Carver	His biographer wrote that Carver added the diving horse act to this show at Kansas City in August 1894.
Buffalo Bill	In December 1872, Cody traveled to Chicago to make his stage debut with friend Texas Jack Omohundro in The Scouts of the Prairie, one of the original Wild West show s produced by Ned Buntline.
Tom Zoellner	Zoellner is also the co-author of An Ordinary Man (Viking/Penguin, 2006), the autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life hotel manager whose story was featured in the film'' Hotel Rwanda.''
Jordan Ladd	In 2010, she starred as Cynthia in Wishing Well, a made-for-television film about a journalist from New York City who gets sent to a small town in Illinois to report on a legendary wishing well.
Helen Gibson	They taught her to ride, and she performed in her first 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show in St. Louis in April 1910.
Frank P. Armstrong	Lewis R. Freeman, a journalist, adventurer, movie-maker, and football coach, came to know Armstrong well in 1920 during a boat trip down the Columbia.
Kit Bond	In the last few days of his long political career, Kit Bond and his staff solved a mystery that had intrigued the press, Missouri politicians, and members of academia for much of 2010.
Tom Laughlin	Laughlin had sought funding for a fifth Billy Jack film since at least 1996, when he spoke about it during a lawsuit against a man who had (Laughlin claimed) illegally changed his name to'' Billy Jack'', and at one point Laughlin had plans to make a Billy Jack television series.
Oscar S. Stauffer	In 1935, Stauffer encountered Kansas City Star editor Roy Roberts and is reported to have asked him,'' Look here Roy, when are going to do something about getting Alf nominated ?''
Rex Bell	He appeared in the film with actress Marilyn Monroe, who died a month after Rex in the summer of 1962.
Charles Ray (actor)	Thomas Ince attempted to help Ray by casting him in Dynamite Smith (directed by Ince's brother Ralph), but Ince died a month after the film's release in November 1924.
William Jones (VC)	The play starts in 1887, at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in London, where the battle against the Zulus was restaged, with Private William Jones VC as presenter.
Rob Austin	Austin appeared in the Ron Howard film Rush (2013), portraying Brett Lunger and driving his Surtees TS19, which is owned by his father for racing in historic events.
Richard Brautigan	Twin Rocks, Oregon, a song appearing on singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins' 1998 platinum record Soul's Core, tells the story of meeting a man who looks'' just like Richard Brautigan'' whilst watching the sunset on bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Wild Bill Hickok	Hickok and Texas Jack eventually left the show, before Cody formed his Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1882.
Adolphe Menjou	In Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard Jack Webb (as Artie Green) upon seeing his friend in evening clothes, asks William Holden (as Joe Gillis)'' Judas E. Priest, who did you borrow that from ?
Stacia	As former Hawkwind manager Doug Smith said in the October 2000 issue of Classic Rock magazine,'' The last anybody heard, Stacia was married with children and living in Hamburg with her husband Roy Dyke, formerly of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke.''