According to critic David Ehrenstein, the term " Creative Accounting " was first used in 1968 in the film The Producers by Mel Brooks.

According to Brooks, he initially wanted the character's name to be " Brooks " spelled backwards.

According to Brooks, late on the night before shooting began, Hoffman begged Brooks to let him out of his commitment to do the role so that he could audition for the starring role in The Graduate.

According to Brooks, after the film was completed, Embassy executives refused to release it as being in " bad taste "; however, Peter Sellers saw the film privately and placed an advertisement in Variety in support of the film's wider release.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Brooks has a total area of, of which, of it is land and 0. 25 % is water.

According to Mabry's son Brooks, he and his brother furnished water for the momentous event.

According to Cora Davis Brooks, author of " History of Morristown 1787-1936 ":

According to Brooks, she had been doing Alston's leads in their live shows for a while.

According to Brooks, the character of Rookie Carroca also was based on a real person, a Filipino sailor in the U. S. Navy who was his neighbor in Brooklyn.

According to Mark Brooks ( an online personals and social networking expert ), " you can actually find people who are compatible, and this is a major advance that is going to keep the industry alive for the upcoming 50 years ".

According to David Thomson " if she had made only one film – Angel Face – she might now be spoken of with the awe given to Louise Brooks.

According to Brooks himself, the law is an " outrageous oversimplification ", but it captures the general rule.

According to his statement in the episode " Defiant ", Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) was in charge of the shipyard where the Defiant was built and helped design it during his assignment to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards.

According to The New York Times, Brooks " was constantly experimenting, constantly reshooting, constantly re-editing " the film, changing its ending five times and allowing the actors to improvise the film's tone.

According to writer Jon Vitti, Brooks contributed more to the episode " Lisa's Substitute " than to any other in the show's history.

According to Schneider, the editing for Days of Heaven took so long that " Brooks cast Gere, shot, edited and released for Mr. Goodbar while Malick was still editing ".

According to the short statement released on their web site, Brooks & Dunn intend to release a greatest hits album, tour throughout the rest of 2009, and have a farewell tour in 2010.

According to Brooks ' study, the Fraser Institute's methods of accounting excluded several important forms of income and inflated tax figures, moving the date nearly two months later in the year.

According to Dunn and co-writer Terry McBride, it was inspired by Gretchen Wilson, who was touring with Brooks & Dunn and Big & Rich on the Deuces Wild tour at the time.

According to Brooks, the decision to split was on good terms ; he told CMT that he and Dunn are " still good friends ", while Dunn said that " We've ended up more like brothers.

According to Brooks, Henley was ' especially sadistic ' in his participation of the murders committed at 925 Schuler: before Corll vacated the address on June 26, Henley assisted Corll and Brooks in the abduction and murder of two youths named Billy Baulch and Johnny Delone.

According to Henley, these three abductions were the only three that occurred after his becoming an accomplice to Corll in which David Brooks was not a participant.

According to Carl Barks, Donald's parents are Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck.

According to Diodorus, he was father of six sons by Cyane, daughter of Liparus ( the eponym of the island Lipara, whom Aeolus assisted in conquering lands above Surrentum, Italy ).

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, " I couldn ’ t recognize my father when I saw him that evening.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, his father would have been exiled had it not been for Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who telephoned Khrushchev and threatened to found a Committee for Pasternak ’ s protection.

According to one, his gifts became very apparent at the age of three when he corrected, mentally and without fault in his calculations, an error his father had made on paper while calculating finances.

According to Bancroft, Mather had been influential in gaining politically unpopular Stoughton his appointment as lieutenant governor under Phips by appealing to his politically powerful father, Increase Mather.

According to the prevalent view, Montesquieu is regarded as the ' father ' of comparative law.

According to Pissarro ’ s son Lucien, his father was impressed by Van Gogh ’ s work and had “ foreseen the power of this artist ”, who was 23 years younger.

According to Pissarro ’ s son, Lucien, his father painted regularly with Cézanne beginning in 1872.

According to one Rabbinic tradition, David was raised as the son of his father Jesse and spent his early years herding his father's sheep in the wilderness while his brothers were in school.

According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured.

According to Jesuit scholar Joseph Fitzmyer, the book, " overwhelms the reader by the density and sublimity of the topic with which it deals, the gospel of the justification and salvation of Jew and Greek alike by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, revealing the uprightness and love of God the father.

According to the pseudo-historical Kojiki and Nihonshoki ( collectively known as ), Sujin was the second son of Emperor Kaika Sujin's mother was Ikagashikome no Mikoto, a stepmother of his father.

According to the Kojiki and Nihonshoki, he was the father of Emperor Ōjin.

According to Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, his father was Hikoushi no Kimi and his mother was Furihime.

According to Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, he " had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed.

According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia to already prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, since the father was Zeus.

According to Livy, Hannibal much later said that when he came upon his father and begged to go with him, Hamilcar agreed and demanded that he swear that as long as he lived he would never be a friend of Rome.

According to the Sekishū Masuda family-tree diagram ( 石州益田家系図 ) from the Shoshikechō ( 諸氏家牒 ), his father was Kakinomoto no Ooba ( 柿本大庭 ) and his brother's name was Kakinomoto no Saru ( 柿本 猨 / 佐留 ).

According to B. Boy Omega, a writer for The Source, the first Latino in hip hop music was DJ Disco Wiz, a product of a Puerto Rican father and a Cuban mother who was born in The Bronx.

According to an interview in The Source, he blamed the heart attack on stress brought on by his worries about being a good father.

According to Genesis 46: 11, Amram's father Kehath immigrated to Egypt with 70 of Jacob's household, making Moses part of the second generation of Israelites born during their time in Egypt.

According to Slavonic custom, a father was expected to divide his legacy among all his sons.

According to Cheong Seong-chang of Sejong Institute, speaking on June 25, 2012, there is some possibility that the new leader Kim Jong-un, who has greater visible interest in the welfare of his people and engages in greater interaction with them than his father did, will consider economic reforms and regularization of international relations.

According to the Jordanes ' Getica, around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their name from this " father of the Ostrogoths ", but modern historians often assume the converse, that Ostrogotha was named after the people.