Under Diaghilev's guidance, Prokofiev chose his subject from a collection of folktales by the ethnographer Alexander Afanasyev ; the story, concerning a buffoon and a series of confidence tricks, had been previously suggested to Diaghilev by Igor Stravinsky as a possible subject for a ballet, and Diaghilev and his choreographer Léonide Massine helped Prokofiev to shape this into a ballet scenario.

When Santosh Sivan, a well-known cinematographer, wanted to make a film on terrorism and about a terrorist, he chose the above events as the inspiration for his story.

Lucas is quoted as saying that he chose Christensen because he " needed an actor who has that presence of the dark side " that was essential to solidify the story that Lucas was trying to tell: The tragic fall of Anakin Skywalker and the rise of Darth Vader.

He chose not to run for re-election in 1992, citing in a front page cover story in the Sunday New York Times Magazine ( August 9, 1992 ), frustration with the ever increasing role of money in politics to the exclusion of focus on public policy.

Another short story ( found in The Early Asimov anthology ), " Mother Earth ", is set about a thousand years before the robot novels, when the Spacer worlds chose to become separated from Earth.

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

Poe chose a raven as the central symbol in the story because he wanted a " non-reasoning " creature capable of speech.

Barks came out of retirement to provide a script for this story and he chose William Van Horn to write this story for him.

Moore and Bissette chose Campbell as illustrator for his down-to-earth approach which gave the story a convincing realism and did not sensationalise the violence of the murders.

She chose to write Richard's character in such a way after becoming fascinated with his story and researching his life, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom, which led her to believe that " his was a classic case of history being rewritten by the victor.

In another documentary, Orwell Rolls in His Grave, one of the responders, Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity said that his organisation brought this controversy on April 4, 2000, 7 months before the 2000 U. S. presidential election, but the mainstream media " chose not to report the story ".

During later years Hergé had grown more and more interested in modern art, even attempting it a few times himself as a hobby ; so he chose to incorporate his love of avant-garde artwork into the new story.

Although the actual town involved in the real story of the " Chicken Ranch " is located a few miles north of Hallettsville on Highway 77, film makers chose the town's historic Lavaca County Courthouse square to serve as backdrop for the city scenes in " The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ," the 1982 musical starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.

The story follows Michael Steven Donovan, nicknamed " Blueberry ", a name he chose when fleeing from his Southern enemies ( which was inspired when he looked at a blueberry bush ), starting with his adventures as a lieutenant in the United States Cavalry shortly after the American Civil War.

However, Fox chose to air the episode for the first time on March 28, a full month after Arturo had been written off the show, requiring a new opening scene be added to frame the story as a flashback.

On 5 December, having in effect been told that he could not keep the throne and marry Simpson, and having had his request to broadcast to the Empire to explain " his side of the story " blocked on constitutional grounds, Edward chose the third option.

Instead, Mizoguchi chose for his source Mayama Chūshingura, a cerebral play dealing with the story.

" The moral of this story is the duality of human nature, although some believe that Jordaens chose this story not for his interest in its moral lesson, but for his interest in rendering a peasant scene.

* Phil Ochs wrote and recorded a different, original song called " Joe Hill ", using a traditional melody found in the song " John Hardy ", which tells a much more detailed story of Joe Hill's life and death, and includes the lines that have since been associated with Ochs ' own life and death, " It's the life of a rebel that he chose to live ; It's the death of a rebel that he died ".

However, this changed when The Independent chose the story for a front-page headline written by their environment correspondent, Michael McCarthy, that ran " Shifting Sands Reveal ' Stonehenge of the Sea '" on Saturday 9 January.

In order to do something non-traditional, Levy chose to tell the story in a diary format, watching many episodes of the television series to get a hold on the natural cadence of her voice.

In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

`` It's getting so chilly we've lighted a fire, and we're going to tell a round robin story -- a nice, scary one.

Those which tell a story of the earth's formation in each area can add geological interest to the recreation sites.

Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.

In a series of fairy tales and fantasies, Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story, with beginning, middle and end, complications, resolutions, climaxes, and conclusions.

`` There are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.

All this near tragedy, which to us borders on comedy, enables us to tell the story over and over again, always warming ourselves with a glow of complacency.

Martin guessed that Dolores would not be so eager to tell the next installment of her story.

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

The most common myths are the creation myths, that tell a story to explain how the earth was formed.

The " shock ending " finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen, split-diopter and slow motion shots tell the story visually rather than through dialogue.

That is, while the events may not be historically accurate the book itself was written to tell a story of a time in history, in this case the origin of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

The history of comic strips also includes series that are not humorous, but tell an ongoing dramatic story.

These novels tell the story of a U. S. President who approves the assassination of the leader of an oil-rich Arab nation who has acquired nuclear arms and intends to pass them onto a terrorist organization.

" teaching "), both written and oral, tell the story of this covenant, and provides Jews with the terms of the covenant.

Dance can embody or express ideas, emotions or tell a story.

Hesiod and Stesichorus tell the story according to which after her death Iphigenia was divinised under the name of Hecate, fact which would support the assumption that Artemis Tauropolos had a real ancient alliance with the heroine, who was her priestess in Taurid and her human paragon.

In Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre Diana appears to Pericles in a vision, telling him to go to her temple and tell his story to her followers.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

The poet prays to the Muses to provide him with divine inspiration to tell the story of a great hero.

The 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig was an elaborate mix of real newsreel footage from the 1930s and fake footage mixed together with fake interviews with real actors playing themselves as well as actors playing roles to tell the story of the Allen character and presented as a documentary.

Peter Jackson's 1995 film Forgotten Silver was billed and introduced as a serious documentary, purporting to tell the story of ' forgotten ' New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie.

The 2006 film The Death of a President was filmed in the style of a television documentary, filmed years after the event, to tell the story of the fictional assassination of U. S. President George W. Bush, and the aftermath, to realistic effect.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter opens with an account of the author himself finding the letter and records which tell the story of Hester Prynne, which is narrated in the rest of the book.