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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

The voice of the skeleton in the film was provided by Candy Candido, who briefly became Abbott's partner in the 1960s after Costello had died.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man was filmed between October 3 and November 6, 1950 and is a modified remake of the 1940 film The Invisible Man Returns.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Freddie utters "I shoulda never left Paterson," which references Paterson, New Jersey, Lou Costello's real-life hometown.

All This Useless Beauty

Instead, Costello hired the Attractions, and recorded the songs at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin and Westside Studios in London with Geoff Emerick producing.

Australia II

The crew of Australia II for the America's Cup races was John Bertrand (Skipper), Colin Beashel, Will Baillieu, Peter Costello, Damian Fewster, Ken Judge, Skip Lissiman, John Longley, Brian Richardson, Phil Smidmore, Grant Simmer, Hugh Treharne.

Australian Government Future Fund

On 11 September 2004, the Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, announces that the Future Fund will be established following the 2004 federal election.

Barbara Demick

Along with photographer John Costello, she produced a series of articles that ran 1994-1996 following life on one Sarajevo street over the course of the war in Bosnia.

Brian Costello

Performing with Ken Kagawa, the show features interviews with an assortment of guests ("People who are interesting" as Costello described them in the Chicago Tribune) and live music.

Costello's comedy talk show, "The Brian Costello Show with Brian Costello" is performed live from The Empty Bottle in Chicago to an audience of between 30 and 50 regulars.

Carol Costello

As a reporter and anchor, Costello has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and George H. W. Bush.

Cuil

The Irish ancestry of Anna Patterson's husband Tom Costello sparked the name Cuil, which the company states is taken from a series of Celtic folklore stories involving a character, Fionn mac Cumhaill, they erroneously refer to as Finn MacCuil .

Gary Costello

Gary Costello was a fictional character in UK soap opera Family Affairs, played by Gary Webster from 2003 until the final episode of the series 2005.

Helene Costello

Although she had been appearing on screen since her early childhood, Costello was selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1927, a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored thirteen young women each year who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Costello also covered "The End of the Rainbow" as did Barbara Manning.

Il Sogno

An abridged version of this album was included as a bonus disc with the initial release of Costello's 2005 album My Flame Burns Blue.

In Society

It was the first of five Abbott and Costello films to be directed by Jean Yarbrough.

Jerry Costello

In 1997, the Congressional Accountability Project filed an ethics complaint requesting investigation of Costello which resulted in no action.

Jocelyn de Angulo

He is the ancestor of the Costello/Mac Goisdelbach, Mac Jordan Duff, Mac Phillip, de Bhaldraithe/Mac Bhaldrin/Waldron clans of County Mayo.

John M. Costello

Costello was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1945).

John Stromberg

Stromberg also wrote "Ma Blushin' Rosie" (also sometimes called "Rosie You Are My Posie") which was part of the repertoire of the legendary Al Jolson, the theme song of the Rosemary Clooney TV variety show in the 1950s, and even performed in an Abbot and Costello film, The Naughty Nineties.

Josh Frydenberg

After his defeat, Frydenberg was encouraged to run for preselection in the Division of Chisholm by Peter Costello, a marginal electorate neighbouring Kooyong; the seat was held by Anna Burke of the ALP, and was previously held by one of Frydenberg's mentors, Michael Wooldridge.

Larry Costello

Costello was featured in the book, Basketball History in Syracuse, Hoops Roots by author Mark Allen Baker published by The History Press in 2010.

With 42 games into the season, Costello ripped his Achilles tendon on January 6, 1967 and was replaced by Wali Jones.

Le Samouraï

In the same manner that Jef Costello has a huge ring of keys that enables him to steal any Citroën DS, the hitman Ghost Dog has an electronic "key" to break into luxury cars.

Magherastephana

The closest parallels to other gaelicised Norman names in baronies would be Bharóideach (Barretts) and Choistealach (Costello).

Martha Wentworth

Having had a long radio career since the early 1920s, listeners recognised her as The Wintergreen Witch on The Cinnamon Bear radio program (1937), Annie Wood and Mrs. Littlefield on Crime Classics (1953), Ma Danields on The Gallant Heart (1944), as well several semi-regular roles on Broadway Is My Beat, On Stage, The Abbott and Costello Show.

Michael A. Costello

While he was a student at Salem State College (now Salem State University), Costello spent three years organizing and leading a program that resulted in student's building desperately needed housing for some of the poorest Americans living in Appalachia.

Mondo Guerra

Guerra was the winner of the 2012 series Project Runway: All-Stars, beating out Season 1 designer Austin Scarlett and fellow Season 8 designer Michael Costello.

My Aim Is True

The label then suggested that he share a debut album with Wreckless Eric, but Costello had written enough songs, most of them at home late at night so as not to wake his wife and young son or on the Underground while commuting to work, to have an entire album of his own.

Out of Our Idiot

The album was credited to "Various Artists" rather than to Costello because the tracks were recorded and credited under a variety of names, including The Costello Show, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Elvis Costello and the Confederates, the Coward Brothers, Napoleon Dynamite, The Emotional Toothpaste and The MacManus Gang, and with a variety of collaborators, including Jimmy Cliff, Nick Lowe and T-Bone Burnett.

Radio Radio

The 10th season of SNL poked fun at the Costello incident with Martin Short (who was a cast member at the time) as Costello; a part of this sketch was briefly shown in the 15th anniversary show in 1990.

Rich Costello

Costello represented the USA at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Richard Costello

In 2002 after 8 more years as president of the FOP Costello decided not to seek re-election, citing his desire to allow a new generation to move up.

Captain Richard (Rich) Barry Costello (born April 4, 1951) is a 34 year Philadelphia police veteran and the former President of the Philadelphia Lodge of the FOP.

Ron Hargrave

Ron Hargrave, after hanging out with Costello's daughter, met with Abbott and Costello and eventually was managed by Lou Costello in one film, "Dance With Me Henry", released in 1956.

Ronald Forfar

Other parts include a tax inspector, Costello The Second, in Alan Bleasdale's The Muscle Market (a Boys from the Blackstuff prequel) and The Soothsayer in Herbert Wise's BBC television adaption of Julius Caesar.

Sidney Fields

Fields was part of an ensemble cast that included Hillary Brooke as a neighbor and love interest of Lou Costello's, Gordon Jones as Mike the Cop, who was a dimwitted comedic foil for the boys, Joe Besser as Stinky Davis, a 40-year-old man dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit, and Joe Kirk as Mr. Bacciagalupe, an Italian immigrant caricature who ran a bakery store.

Spoonie Gee

He then recorded for Robinson's Enjoy! Records, his first release for the label being the similarly minimalistic "Love Rap" (on which he was accompanied on Congas by his brother Pooche Costello), issued on the B-side of the Treacherous Three's "New Rap Language" (on which he also featured), leading to his early nickname of 'The Love Rapper'.

Stephen Flemmi

Flemmi is the basis of Frank Costello's chief enforcer and contract killer "Arnold French" portrayed by Ray Winstone in the 2006 crime thriller The Departed.

The Beautiful Wild

Guest musicians on the album include Ledwell, Erin Costello, Old Man Luedecke, Tanya Davis and Rose Cousins.

The Maxes

During shows, Max wore an Elvis Presley Las Vegas '75 costume complete with cape. The band performed Costello albums in their entirety such as My Aim Is True, This Year's Model and King of America.

The Time of Their Lives

As in the previous Abbott and Costello film, Little Giant, the duo plays separate characters instead of partners, due to tensions between them that led to their splitting up for a while in 1945.

Thomas W. Costello

Amid a low turnout Costello won with 61% of the vote but lost to incumbent Republican Brian Dubie in the general election.

Transvision Vamp

Wendy James launched her solo career in 1993 with the Elvis Costello-written album Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears.

William Howard Taft III

His task as ambassador was made easier by the fact that John A. Costello, Taoiseach 1954-57 was a personal friend; Taft described Costello as "pleasant and unassuming" whereas he had found Éamon de Valera "formal and aloof".

Yvonne Lime Fedderson

Lime's first television appearance was on her future husband's The Millionaire as the character "Eileen" in "The Story of Joy Costello." She appeared in 1956 as Mary Lou Carter in the episode, "The Select Females," of the CBS/Desilu series, The Adventures of Jim Bowie starring Scott Forbes.


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