Not long after news of his passing went public, Apple fans and users everywhere started using the Apple logo as a simple, one-character memorial to the man who made it all possible.
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Others gave up when one well-known character, Maude Flanders, was killed off.
Like a down-and-out character in one of his Boston-based films, all he can do is keep on keeping on.
Might the lost 20 years be tossed aside - in true soap style - as one character's bad dream?
This is now gospel for action movies in which, after a high-speed chase scene, a character cracks a cheap one-liner to defuse the audience.
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Han Solo is one of the best-known character from the Star Wars franchise.
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Coleman played a surprise role in last September's season premiere -- as Oswin, a different character from Clara, but one connected to her -- and takes on full companion duties in "The Snowmen" Christmas episode, airing December 25 at 9 p.m.
But a 17-year-old, even one with a clean record, is a high-risk character.
The Nutty character anchors a one-minute review of the day's testimony after the human reporters have had their say.
Anna turns records into undecipherable but unique character strings called one-way hashed data.
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 8, 000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years.
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Calls to the 101 non-emergency number included one reporting a character in an ITV soap opera as a murderer.
Mr. Phoenix's prank underscores one of the main risks of the in-character promotional strategy, marketing executives say.
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When one soap - Family Ties - dealt with a character who needed a bone marrow transplant after getting leukaemia, the Brazilian attitude towards organ donation was completely changed.
The players are invited to one-on-one sessions with coaches and team executives, which give teams the chance to evaluate character and temperament up close and personal.
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The new owners have not altered the old-style-hospitality character of Brown's one jot.
Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff is just one character who has used money from tax-exempts to get the attention of legislators.
Alec Baldwin's self-transformation into a character actor is one of the most sensible and honorable things that a fading movie star has ever done.
One character spoils the good work, though - Don Cheadle plays the excruciatingly grating "cockney" explosives expert Basher, who has the most over-egged English accent since Daphne on Frasier.
Sea Axe Damen shipyardsIn the Christopher Guest-directed comedy, Best in Show, one character is continuously approached by men she once slept with.
"I had my head in the clouds, was mad, neurotic and self-destructive, a very different character to the one you see today, " she said.
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Mr. Willis's character is explaining one of the ironclad rules of time-travel movies: Don't get too bogged down with scientific details.
Taylor's Richards is a hoot yet she almost gets upstaged by another character, which is hard to do in a one-woman show.
In just one audition, she won a career-making role: the title character of David Ives's provocative play Venus in Fur at the Classic Stage Company, off-Broadway.
Not every ballet needs this level of character analysis: "Don Q" is one crowd-pleasing moment of virtuosity after another.
Tony Blair described him as "a complete one-off, an amazing mixture of writer, journalist, polemicist, and unique character".
So while Superman: Unbound is a fine piece of character-driven action entertainment, the next feature will be the one to watch for signs of the future.
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However unfounded those emotions may be - dealing with a sense of blame and shame is one part of the unique character of life with HIV.
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