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Topic: Dennis Morris


In the News (Fri 24 May 13)

  
  STLtoday - News - Special Reports
Dennis Morris has a son in the Army and a grandson.
Dennis Morris said the last four months had taught him how his own parents must have felt when he was an Army MP in Vietnam.
Dennis Morris plans to string a welcome-back banner across the front of their house and gather relatives and close friends.
www.stltoday.com /stltoday/news/special/war.nsf/0/F89B325A6087065486256E4F0065EC17?OpenDocument   (642 words)

  
  Morris, Dennis I. - botanical collector
Dennis served in the British and Indian Armies from 1942 to 1947 before migrating to Australia in 1950.
On the 30th January 1985 Dennis was appointed as an Honorary Botanist at the Tasmanian Herbarium.
Dennis is an Honorary Research Associate with the School of Plant Science, and Honorary Research Associate and part time lecturer with the School of Agricultural Science at the University of Tasmania.
www.anbg.gov.au /biography/morris-dennis.html   (445 words)

  
 100 Great Black Britons - Dennis Morris
A camera fanatic since the age of 8, Dennis was known around his East End neighbourhood as Mad Dennis, due to his preference for photography over football.
After inadvertently stumbling across a particularly feisty demonstration by the PLO one Sunday, the sharp young Dennis took his film to a photo agency on Fleet Street who promptly sold it to the Daily Mirror for £16.
Still in his teens, Dennis was the same age as the Pistols and they soon learned to trust him completely, allowing him unrestricted access to their strange and chaotic existence.
www.100greatblackbritons.com /dennis_morris.html   (439 words)

  
 The Crucifix Lane Project: Dennis Morris
A camera fanatic since the age of 8, Dennis was known around his East End neighbourhood as Mad Dennis', due to his preference for photography over football.
Still in his teens, Dennis was the same age as the Pistols and they soon learned to trust him completely, allowing him unrestricted access to their strange and chaotic existence.
The only photographer to put the Sex Pistols fully at ease in front of the lens, Dennis' work with the band established, not only their public image, but also Dennis' position as one of the most exciting and striking music photographers in the country.
www.crucifixlaneproject.com /bio_dennis.html   (642 words)

  
 Dennis Morris Pro Portfolio - ePHOTOzine.com
Dennis Morris is not only well known for his work with Bob Marley and also The Sex Pistols, but is also renowned for other iconic images such as his shots of Marianne Faithfull - seen as an important contributor to the success of her career re-launch.
Dennis Morris: I was a choir boy in St Marks Church Choir, Hackney from the age of nine, they had a photo club that was run by Donald Paterson of Paterson photographic.
Dennis Morris' "This Happy Breed" photographic exhibition, in association with Olympus, launches on the 28th April with a month long exhibition from 29th April - 30th May. The exhibition is showing at InsideSpace, 14-18 Great Titchfield Street, W1.
www.ephotozine.com /photo/pro-portfolio/Dennis-Morris   (1048 words)

  
 Dennis Morris
Dennis Morris worked closely with Marley, from 1973 until the Reggae legend's death in 1981.
The only photographer to put the Sex Pistols fully at ease in front of the lens, Dennis' work with the band established, not only their public image, but also Dennis' position as one of the most exciting and striking music photographers in the country.
With the permission of the Elders, Dennis and family were welcomed openly by the community to interpret and capture the contemporary and traditional landscapes of living Indigenous Culture.
www.dennismorris.com /printsales.html   (506 words)

  
 Dennis Morris Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
In this book, Morris celebrates this great performer who reached past stardom to become a spiritual avatar to millions of people.
Margaret Thatcher's departure from office and the arrival of her successor, John Major, have had a profound impact on the way Britain is governed.
In 1995 photographer Dennis Morris accompanied Oasis, one of the most famous rock bands in the world, to Japan.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Morris%2C%20Dennis   (658 words)

  
 The Rookie Movie Review at Hollywood Video
The kids are so impressed by his heat-throwing prowess that Morris makes a bet with them: If his cellar-dwelling team can manage to win the rest of their games and go from last to first place, he'll try out for the major leagues.
Morris' quest begins with a lesson to his team — he challenges them because he is trying to teach them the value of following their dreams.
Morris struggles with himself, his family, his school, and the world of baseball, and is predictably skeptical...
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=133802   (2045 words)

  
 Fodderstompf | PiL Interviews | Dennis Morris interview
Dennis: Yeah, I've got a lot of PiL stuff, I did all their photography for them up to the point they went to America in 1980.
Dennis: Yeah, again that was a pretty big breakthrough, because it was the first time a band had really booked a venue on that scale, and organised the whole thing, and the big thing about it was that it was on Christmas and Boxing day.
Dennis: The album was called 'Metal Box', that's what they wanted to call it, and my job was to come up with a concept, so basically...
www.fodderstompf.com /INTERVIEWS/morris.html   (634 words)

  
 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Morris was fired on May 18 after refusing to resign.
Morris in the legal venue of the courtroom, as we are confident that both of these terminations were fully warranted and properly handled.
Cochran and Morris are seeking re-instatement of their jobs, double their back pay plus interest along with compensatory damages.
www.kolr10.com /news?mode=shownews&id=3159   (514 words)

  
 Jim Morris - The Rookie
In an interview Jim Morris addressed this by saying, "You know, one of the things that (writer) Mike Rich (fictionalized) in the script was the radar on the side of the road.
What happened in my father's life was, he was supposed to sign a contract with the Mets, and two weeks before he was to go to spring training, he hurt his shoulder playing football in the front yard - I mean to the point where he couldn't throw again.
Thirty-five-year-old highschool science teacher and baseball coach Jimmy Morris (Dennis Quaid) learns that childhood dreams can come true no matter old you are, as he agrees to try out for the majors if his team makes the playoffs.
www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/therookie.php   (784 words)

  
 channel 4 - yr1: a snapshot of britain
Morris' astonishingly intimate pictorial biography of Marley, which ran from 1973 until the musician's death in 1981, recently drew huge crowds in Proud Galleries.
Morris is currently showing Growing Up Black, a series of haunting, beautiful and candid shots of the life he led in as a fl teenager in Seventies London.
Morris talks about his approach to photography and some of his work - such as his time with Marley, the Sex Pistols and the Sikh community in London.
www.channel4.com /culture/microsites/Y/yr1/year1/morris_intro.html   (216 words)

  
 Greenland Kayaking Forum - Message Index
Dennis Asmussen -- Monday, 24 December 2001, at 4:06 p.m.
Dennis Asmussen -- Tuesday, 1 January 2002, at 6:00 p.m.
Dennis Asmussen -- Thursday, 21 February 2002, at 7:18 p.m.
qajaqusa.org /cgi-bin/GreenlandTechniqueForum_config.pl/noframes/...   (10117 words)

  
 Morris Ardoin Creole Quartet
It was Amede Ardoin (a cousin of Dexter and his father Morris) who recorded Cajun and Creole Music in the 1920s and gave other Louisiana musicians the basis for the many styles of French music heard today.
Morris, who has been a respected and sought after musician for over 60 years, carries on the tradition of his family.
Morris is signed to Maison de Soul Records featuring his new cd with Dennis entitled "Le Tracas de Morris." Morris Ardoin and Dennis Stroughmatt are available to present both performances and workshops of Louisiana French Creole Music and Culture.
www.geocities.com /ardoin20   (423 words)

  
 wedge :: dennis morris : growing up black
In a career spanning more than twenty years, Dennis Morris has photographed many leading musicians of our time.
He was born in Jamaica, but moved with his mother to England at age 5.
Over the years, Dennis Morris has documented various communities of inner city London, exposing them to an international audience.
wedgegallery.netfirms.com /dennismorris.html   (210 words)

  
 Shots show the Sex Pistols were thoroughly Rotten to the core - smh.com.au
Morris might have a body clock spectacularly unsuited to rock star hours but it did not stop him from documenting the life and anarchic times of the founders of punk.
He photographed the boredom of the hours spent in seedy hotel rooms with overpatterned wallpaper and chenille bedspreads and the chaos when Morris, in front of the stage, would pogo along with the band so his images wouldn't blur.
Morris describes Rotten, with whom he is still in contact, as a dynamic performer and a man drawn to life's finer pleasures.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/13/1044927736957.html   (681 words)

  
 Destroy: Sex Pistols 1977 by Dennis Morris | Gallery | Guardian Unlimited
In 1973, at the age of 14, Dennis Morris was invited by Bob Marley to photograph the reggae star's UK tour.
Four years later, his pictures caught the eye of Johnny Rotten, and Morris was asked by the Sex Pistols' frontman to be the band's official photographer.
Dennis Morris lives in London, and is still taking photographs.
www.guardian.co.uk /gall/0,,724129,00.html   (512 words)

  
 Destroy: Sex Pistols 1977 byDennis Morris | PopMatters Book Review
At the tender age of eighteen, Dennis Morris landed the job of preserving that face as the Pistols' official photographer, his work captured in the book Destroy: Sex Pistols 1977, newly rereleased to coincide with Punk's Silver Jubilee and exhibitions of Morris's photographs in the UK and New York.
Morris captures that day's short-lived Pistols gig but not the police raid where everyone except the band was hauled off for disturbing the peace, an omission that reinforces the Pistols' image as Kings of the Moment.
The latter addictive agent was not allowed on the tour and Sid's response, as Morris abruptly shows us in the next chapter, was to take his frustrations out on his hotel rooms and his own skin.
www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/d/destroy.shtml   (1335 words)

  
 Genealogy.com: Dennis Morris of the Eastern Shore of Maryland/Virginia
Genealogy.com: Dennis Morris of the Eastern Shore of Maryland/Virginia
Dennis Morris of the Eastern Shore of Maryland/Virginia
Currently, I am finishing a project to trace all of James Morris' descendants on the 1850 to 1920 Census.
www.genealogy.com /users/m/o/r/L-paul-Morris-jr/TREE/index.html   (268 words)

  
 Welcome to Haight Brown & Bonesteel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Morris has litigated commercial and business torts, product/premises liability cases, patent, trademark, and copyright infringement and related license disputes, and trade secret misappropriation.
Morris is also a frequent lecturer and author in the field of litigation and intellectual property, having served as adjunct professor at Southwestern School of Law and Whittier Law School.
Morris earned his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA in 1986, and his J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1993 where he served on the Interschool Moot Court Team.
www.hbblaw.com /search_bios.asp?rs_id=149   (328 words)

  
 Re: Morris' rib   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Dennis Asmussen -- Sunday, 17 November 2002, at 9:10 p.m.
Dennis Asmussen -- Tuesday, 19 November 2002, at 9:20 p.m.
Dennis Asmussen -- Monday, 18 November 2002, at 3:20 p.m.
www.qajaqusa.org /cgi-bin/GreenlandTechniqueForum_config.pl/noframes/read/7434   (426 words)

  
 The_Rookie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
It concerns a middle age guy named Jimmy Morris, who, in the span of a few months, went from teaching high school science at a small, dusty West Texas town to pitching in the major leagues.
Brian Cox, as Jim Morris, Sr., is chillingly effective as the father who is too busy for his son and never even tries to understand his son's dreams.
Morris, when he isn't teaching science, coaches a high school baseball team that has won only three games in the last three years.
filmprism.com /Drama/Rookie,_The.htm   (696 words)

  
 BBC - London - Entertainment - News - Marley snapper captures Jamaica's jukebox of music and colour, Dennis Morris's ...
Dennis Morris's photographs of reggae's superstars and daily life in the ghettos of Kingston go on show in London as part of the celebrations marking 40 years of Jamaican Independence...
Morris, who got his first career break by skipping school to take photos at a gig, is the guiding hand behind a series of iconic images of Bob Marley that still adorn student walls across the world.
Morris was speaking to BBC London at a private view of "Reggae" at the InsideSpace gallery, which features many of his classic portraits of musicians alongside photographs of daily life in the ghettos of downtown Kingston.
www.bbc.co.uk /london/entertainment/news/reggae_240702.shtml   (517 words)

  
 Morris Family St. John's to Bay St. George, Newfoundland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
MORRIS that she was insane, but, not knowing Miss PROWSE, he was still in doubt.
MORRIS and his wife did all possible without being violent, persuaded her to sit down in an easy chair, and summoned Messrs.
Morris is an honorary member of the Entomological Society of Canada, an inductee into the Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame, and a recipient of the Canada Silver Jubilee Medal.
www.angelfire.com /nf/paynetree/morris.html   (11622 words)

  
 The Projectionist - Review for June 16, 2002
Specifically, it's the story of Jimmy Morris (Dennis Quaid), who gets a second chance to live his dream of playing in the major leagues.
Dennis Quaid is perfect for the role of Jim Morris.
Trivia: Dennis Quaid did his own pitching, but as his pitching isn't as fast as the real Jim Morris, special effects were done to enhance it.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/9679/61602.html   (600 words)

  
 Morris & Chapman - Testimonials
Morris and Chapman understood how much we value long-standing relationships with our suppliers and has invested a significant amount of time and efforts to build such a relationship with us."
They have a good understanding of the type of event and atmosphere we are trying to create and always have useful and innovative suggestions.
At Morris and Chapman we agree that relationships and attitude make the difference between excellent and mediocre communication projects.
www.morris-chapman.com /testimonials.html   (807 words)

  
 Morris
Dennis Morris being charged with concealing tithes in 1696, pleads that he was living in the Govt.
1689 Dennis Morris gave to his eldest son John, 200 acres in land section A138, patented to Nicholas Millechops, part sold to Morris Dennis (Dennis Morris) in 1674.
DENNIS MORRIS s will was probated 14 May 1794, Sussex Co., DE.
www.goldenlyon.com /morris.html   (779 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career.
Dennis Quaid: Jim Gott, a major league pitcher with the Dodgers, trained me. I never put myself on a radar gun, because I didn't want to be disappointed.
Dennis Quaid: I find Jim to be a person who possesses true humility.
www.usatoday.com /community/chat/2002-03-26-quaid.htm   (772 words)

  
 Morris Ardoin with Dennis Stroughmatt
Dennis Stroughmatt has produced a wonderful CD containing gems of Creole music played by a member of the truly legendary Creole family headed by Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin.
The CD Le Tracas de Morris, released in November 2004, now gives everyone a chance to hear his mastery of the Creole accordion and also listen to him sing some great old songs that have been part of Creole culture for many decades.
Morris bemoans mistreatment by a woman who has left him and protests that what has happened is not his fault.
www.lsue.edu /acadgate/music/mardoin2.htm   (423 words)

  
 AboutFilm.com - The Rookie (2002)
It was enough for Morris, who had yet another operation in 2000 and retired once again shortly thereafter (presumably to consider offers for the movie rights to his remarkable story).
Morris really was a high-school science teacher and baseball coach in a dusty corner of Texas.
Morris tried out for the Devil Rays at one of those open-call workouts designed to identify any talent missed by traditional scouting (which rarely, if ever, rustle up any legitimate prospects).
www.aboutfilm.com /movies/r/rookie.htm   (792 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Specials / R.I. nightclub fire
"Dennis was very kind to my kids," Morris said.
Morris, who has lived next door to the Smith family in Pawtucket for 11 years, said he thought his friend had gotten a ticket for Thursday night's Great White show only at the last minute.
Smith worked odd jobs, Morris said, and was always able to offer a hand, whether it was helping his father build cabinets or assisting a neighbor in need.
www.boston.com /news/packages/nightclub_fire/victims/dsmith.htm   (118 words)

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