Sporting Life
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Sporting Life may refer to:
- A character in Gershwin musical Porgy and BessPorgy and BessPorgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward...
- Sportin' LifeSportin' LifeSportin' Life is the twelfth studio album by Weather Report, released in 1985. Although featuring many more vocal performances than any of their previous albums, words are rare and most vocals are chants from Bobby McFerrin or Carl Anderson...
, an album by Mink DeVille - The Sporting Life (1918 film)The Sporting Life (1918 film)The Sporting Life is a 1918 silent film drama directed by Maurice Tourneur. It is the first film for sisters Faire Binney and Constance Binney, from the Broadway stage. Tourneur would re-film this story again in 1925...
, 1918 silent directed by Maurice TourneurMaurice TourneurMaurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the... - The Sporting Life (1925 film)The Sporting Life (1925 film)The Sporting Life is a 1925 comedy drama directed by Maurice Tourneur and a remake of Tourneur's 1918 film of the same title based on Seymour Hicks's popular play. Universal Pictures produced and released the film. It is now lost...
, 1925 silent film directed by Maurice TourneurMaurice TourneurMaurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the... - Sporting Life (film), a 1936 film directed by J. Elder WillsJ. Elder WillsJames Ernest Elder Wills was a British person who had a lengthy career in the film industry.He mainly worked as an art director, but he also worked in other roles, including director....
- The Sporting Life (album)The Sporting Life (album)The Sporting Life is an album by singer Diamanda Galás and multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones, recorded in London and released in 1994.- Track listing :#"Skótoseme" – 6:27#"Do You Take This Man?" – 6:09...
, an album by avante-garde singer Diamanda Galas - Sporting Life (retailer), a sporting goods retailer based in Toronto, Canada
- The Sporting Life (newspaper)Sporting Life (newspaper)The Sporting Life was a British newspaper published between 1859 and 1998 that was best known for its coverage of horse racing. Latterly it has continued as a multi-sports website....
, a defunct British racing newspaper - The Sporting Life (sports journal), a defunct US newspaper
- "The Sporting Life", a song on The Decemberists' album PicaresquePicaresque (album)Picaresque is an album by The Decemberists released in 2005 on the Kill Rock Stars record label. It was produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie....
- This Sporting Life, a 1960 novel by David Storey
- This Sporting LifeThis Sporting LifeThis Sporting Life is a 1963 British film based on a novel of the same name by David Storey which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. It tells the story of a rugby league footballer, Frank Machin, in Wakefield, a mining area of Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting...
, a 1963 film by Lindsay Anderson - This Sporting Life (radio program)This Sporting Life (radio program)This Sporting Life was a culturally iconic Triple J radio comedy programme, created by award-winning actor-writer-comedians John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver, who performed as their characters Roy and HG. Broadcast from 1986 to 2008, it was one of the longest-running, most popular and most successful...
, a radio program in Australia