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 Peckinpah considered many actors for the Pike Bishop role ; Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Sterling Hayden, Richard Boone and Robert Mitchum were all considered before William Holden was cast.

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 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.

A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.

A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.

Perhaps this meal was like the 1932ish Baghdad tea, where she stares " unbelievingly ", horrified by the first hint of the future, when her host Dr Jordan, Director of Antiquities, pausing while playing Beethoven, says " Our Jews are perhaps different from yours.

Debus was named the LOC's first Director.

IEEE Executive Director Daniel J. Senese stated that approval voting was abandoned because " few of our members were using it and it was felt that it was no longer needed.

From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

The little hamlet of Anderson was named for Mr. John Anderson who was a Director in the South Western Railroad at the time it was extended from Oglethorpe to Americus in 1853.

Hoffberger's first action was installing J. Frank Cashen, the Director of Advertising for the National Brewery, as Senior Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer for the Orioles.

The film won five Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, and was nominated for an additional five.

It was during that period that current City Planning Department Director Amanda Burden worked on Battery Park City.

The British Museum was run from its inception by a ' Principal Librarian ' ( when the book collections were still part of the Museum ), a role that was renamed ' Director and Principal Librarian ' in 1898, and ' Director ' in 1973 ( on the separation of the British Library ).

Thus he sought a position in astronomy, and in 1807 was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Director of the astronomical observatory in Göttingen, a post he held for the remainder of his life.

Felix Dzerzhinsky ( the Iron Felix ) was appointed as Director and invited the participation of the following individuals: V. K. Averin, V. N. Vasilevsky, D. G. Yevseyev, N. A. Zhydelev, I. K. Ksenofontov, G. K. Ordjonikidze, Ya.

From 1972 to 1981, Sagan was the Associate Director of the Center for Radio Physics and Space Research at Cornell.

He was promoted to full-time lecturer and Director of Surgical Research at the University of Cape Town.

Director Bryan Singer stated at the 2006 Comic-Con that he favored the three-persona concept, stating that there was Clark Kent on the farm, the bumbling Metropolis Clark, and Superman, the Last Son of Krypton.

The responses to this six month experimental conservation program were enthusiastic, and on 1 October 1933 Director Fechner was instructed to arrange for a second period of enrollment.

Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U. S. Congressman from Illinois ( 1962 – 1969 ), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity ( 1969 – 1970 ), Counsellor