Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Sam the Assassin and offered a position with the label.

by Dr. Sam Thomas, Ph. D., Director of Research and Development at BluFin.

Director Sam Peckinpah considered My Darling Clementine his favorite Western, and paid homage to it in several of his Westerns, including Major Dundee ( 1965 ) and The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ).

* DOI Secretary Ken Salazar's Statement on the Passing of Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sam Hamilton

Director Sam Wood pushed hard to cast Lupino, saying that she " has a natural something that Cassie should have.

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

In episode 4 of season 2 of The West Wing entitled " In This White House ", Deputy White House Communications Director Sam Seaborn references Kirkwood in a television program debate about school funding, though he mistakenly states that Kirkwood is located in Oregon.

Sam Houston High School boasts among its alumni Academy Award winning Art Director Ralph Eggleston ( Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc .) and David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !.

In 1918, Sam was Director and Vice-President of General Motors Corporation.

* 1917 Sam McLaughlin Director Dominion Bank of Canada until 1959

* 1930 Sam McLaughlin was Director of Canadian Pacific Rail Road

Director Sam Forrest was replaced by George Abbott at the request of Jeanne Eagels ( Roxie Hart ); but Eagels quit the show within a few days, and Francine Larrimore replaced Eagels.

* Director: Sam Nicholson

On the south bank of the River Thames in London, near where the modern recreation of Shakespeare's Globe stands today, is a plaque that reads: " In Thanksgiving for Sam Wanamaker, Actor, Director, Producer, 1919 – 1993, whose vision rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside in this parish ".

Director Sam Mendes has described Sheen as " a stage creature " and attributed that to the actor's Welsh roots.

Director Sam Peckinpah was working on The Ballad of Cable Hogue when screenwriter and long-time friend Frank Kowalski told him an idea for a film: " I got a great title: ' Bring Me the Head of ...,'-and he had some other name-' and the hook is that the guy is already dead '.

* Director of the Spider-Man films, Sam Raimi, has stated that Ock was intended to appear in the first film, teaming up with Green Goblin, but wasn't included because Raimi thought it " wouldn't do the movie justice to have a third origin in there.

On December 17, 2009, The Maxx became available on DVD exclusively through Amazon. com's CreateSpace " Manufacture-on-Demand " program which contains every episode of the television show and also includes audio commentary on each episode plus interviews with Creator Sam Kieth & Director Gregg Vanzo.

Under the direction of current Director of Bands Dr. Sam " Mac " McIlhagga, the band has increased in size to approximately 80 members.

Director Sam Balcomb defended in an interview with IGN. com that Link was right-handed in the Wii version of Twilight Princess and that Killigrew didn't have time to train left-handed.

Having asked reluctant Kim to come to KCIA " for the sake of the country ", Director Kim warned that Park's hostility toward him reached the point where it might not end with just expulsion or arrest and literally begged Kim Young Sam to just say that there was miscommunication with the interview.

According to Kim Young Sam, when he refused, Director Kim appealed that it would bring misfortune to the country, to Kim Young Sam and to President Park.

Director Peckinpah noted it was allegoric of the American war in Vietnam, whose violence was nightly televised to American homes at supper time.

William Reginald Hall, British Director of Naval Intelligence criticized the agreement on the basis that " the Jews have a strong material, and a very strong political, interest in the future of the country " and that " in the Brown area the question of Zionism, and also of British control of all Palestine railways, in the interest of Egypt, have to be considered ".

* Director or Member of the Board of Directors – high-level official with a fiduciary responsibility of overseeing the operation of a corporation and elects or removes officers of a corporation ; nominally, Directors, other than the Chairman are usually not considered to be employees of the company per se, although they may receive compensation, often including benefits ; in publicly held companies.

The Director is considered to be a separate entity, not within the departmental structure.

Usually it is considered to include several sub-departments: the Art Department proper, with its Art Director, Set Designers and Draughtsmen ; Set Decoration, under the Set Decorator ; Props, under the Propmaster ; Construction, headed by the Construction Coordinator ; Scenic, headed by the Key Scenic Artist ; and Special Effects.

Presidents Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy each considered dismissing Hoover as FBI Director, but ultimately concluded that the political cost of doing so would be too great.

He won as Best Director for Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ) and for On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), which is considered " one of the greatest films in the history of international cinema.

During his years at the Conservatoire, Ravel tried numerous times to win the prestigious Prix de Rome, but to no avail ; he was probably considered too radical by the conservatives, including Director Théodore Dubois.

The decision must be authorized by the Director of Civil Status, and requires a valid reason for changing the name, including long-term use of the new name ( in the Montreuil case cited below, the Quebec appeals court has considered five years ' use to be a sufficient reason ), difficulty of use due to spelling or pronunciation, or bearing a name that another person has made infamous.

Director Peter Cotes agreed, adding, " he had depths unrealised through the mechanical pieces in which he generally appeared "; while Philip Oakes considered that, " single-handed, he has made more films watchable, even absorbing than anyone else around ".

Cooke sent a telegram to the Director of Talks, asking if he would be considered for the post.

Lord Beveridge, considered an authority on unemployment insurance from early in his career, served under Winston Churchill on the Board of Trade as Director of the newly created labour exchanges and later as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Food.

Director Ken Loach, spotting him in a London pub in 1966, considered him perfect for the role of a rough husband in the film, Poor Cow, released the next year.

A report issued at the end of a conference held by the Director ( Air ) of the War Office in January 1946 confirmed that the Locust design was considered obsolete ; any light tanks to be used in post-war airborne formations would be made from completely new designs.

Bandini was the tenth highest grosser of the year and was declared a ' Semi Hit ' at the Indian Box Office, though it received not just critical acclaim but also sweeped that year's Filmfare Awards, winning six awards in all including the top awards of Best Film and Best Director, as well as Best Actress, and is still considered a landmark movie of the 1960s, especially being last directorial venture of Bimal Roy, a master of realism.

Some analysts considered it to be an attempt to undermine FSB Director Nikolay Patrushev's influence, as it was Patrushev's team from the Karelian KGB Directorate of the late 1980s – early 1990s that had suffered most and he had been on vacations during the event.

She considered Composer of these songs, Khawaja Khurshid Anwar as her favorite Music Director for whom she sang just thirteen songs during 1943 to 1949.

Students who enter the program with more than 30 credits may be considered for exemption from one seminar after consultation with the Program Director, Professor Gary Schwartz.

By the mid-80s, CIA Director William Casey had taken the practice to the next level: an organized, covert " public diplomacy " apparatus designed to sell a " new product "- Central America-while stoking fear of communism, the Sandinistas, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, and anyone else considered an adversary during the Ronald Reagan presidential administration.

* Director Mike Nichols and actress Natalie Portman considered doing a film about Edie and Andy Warhol, but instead decided to film an adaption of Patrick Marber's play Closer, released in 2004.

An Art Director may only be considered eligible for an Oscar when there is no Production Designer credited.

Coughlan acted to clean up years of wasteful spending by executives at the state training and employment agency, FÁS, and was considered to have taken a tough line with Director General, Rody Molloy, who was forced to resign in November 2008.

Margaret Thatcher was said to have told the BBC Director General, Sir Iain Trethowan, soon after she became Conservative Party leader that she considered World in Action to consist of " just a lot of Trotskyists.