Garner was replaced in May 2003 by L. Paul Bremer, who was himself replaced by John Negroponte on April 19, 2004 who left Iraq in 2005.

However, within several years Garner himself had begun to find fault with his debut ; in a 1968 interview he referred to it as " a fairly bad book " whilst in 1970 he went further, deriding it as " one of the worst books published in the last twenty years ... technically ... inept ".

Philip himself would devote a chapter to both The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath in his book A Fine Anger: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Alan Garner ( 1981 ), which was based on his earlier Ph. D thesis awarded by the University of London the previous year.

James Garner claimed in a Season One DVD interview that he performed this stunt himself for the duration of the series.

He distinguished himself in the one-dayers, though, by savaging an attack comprising Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Winston Davis and Viv Richards for 127 not out off 140 balls at the SCG.

The actual level of driving ability of the actors varied wildly – Bedford couldn't drive at all, Sabàto was very slow and nervous, Montand himself scared very easily early in filming and was often towed rather than driving the car, but Garner was very competent and even took up racing and entering cars as a direct result of his involvement in the film.

He proposes to go himself, and he will not go without his old team, ' Team Dædalus ': Jerry O ' Neill ( Sutherland ), a skirt-chasing engineer who designs roller coasters since abandoning supersonic stealth aircraft ; former Air Force pilot-turned crop duster and stubborn risk-taker William " Hawk " Hawkins ( Jones ); and former navigator " Tank " Sullivan ( Garner ), who is now a Baptist minister.

In 2000, Eastwood directed and starred in Space Cowboys alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner.

The cult racing film Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer, left Garner with a fascination for car racing that he often explored by actually racing during the ensuing years.

In 2004, Garner starred in the movie version of Nicholas Sparks ' The Notebook alongside Gena Rowlands as his wife ( portrayed in flashbacks by Rachel McAdams, while the younger version of Garner's character was played by Ryan Gosling ), directed by Nick Cassavetes, Rowlands ' son.

Rowlands was seen in The Notebook, which was directed by her son Nick Cassavetes, opposite James Garner.

Boys ' Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon.

Nelson also both directed and briefly appeared in Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier.

Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ) with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty ; Lady Liberty ( 1971 ) with Sophia Loren ; Family Plot ( 1976 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; Marathon Man ( 1976 ) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ; Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ) with Tommy Lee Jones ; Red Alert ( 1977 ) with Ralph Waite, based on a novel by Harold R. " Hal " King ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ( 1977 ) with Jackie Earle Haley ; Yanks ( 1979 ) with Richard Gere ; Testament ( 1983 ) with Jane Alexander ; Timestalkers ( 1987 ) with Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski ; Forgotten Sins ( 1996 ) with John Shea ; Exception to the Rule ( 1997 ), with Kim Cattrall and Sean Young ; Payback ( 1999 ) with Mel Gibson ; Hollow Man ( 2000 ), with Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon ; and Space Cowboys ( 2000 ) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland.

Morrow wrote and directed a 1971 Spaghetti Western, produced by Dino DeLaurentis, titled A Man Called Sledge starring James Garner.

The picture was directed by John Frankenheimer with music by Maurice Jarre and stars James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford, and Antonio Sabàto.

* Romeo and Juliet ( directed by John Bell and starring Julian Garner and Chloe Armstrong )

* The book was adapted into a 1945 film directed by Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner, who won a Special Academy Award for Outstanding Child Actress of 1945.

" A remake called Something's Got to Give starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin, and directed by George Cukor, was partly filmed in 1962 before being stopped due to Monroe's studio management problems and her subsequent death, but was shot and released the following year as Move Over, Darling, with Doris Day and James Garner.

It was directed by John Erman, and starred James Garner and Joanne Woodward as Ira and Maggie Moran.

Garner and Rosen say that a common definition of " natural property " is one " which can be discovered by sense observation or experience, experiment, or through any of the available means of science.

Of note, Botham's first 202 wickets came at 21. 20 per wicket, while his final 181 cost on average 36. 43 apiece ; the first average is one that would make Botham one of the greatest bowlers of the modern era, ranking alongside the West Indian greats Curtly Ambrose ( career average 20. 99 ), Malcolm Marshall ( career average 20. 94 ), and Joel Garner ( career average 20. 97 ), but the second average depicts a player who, as a specialist bowler, would be unable to sustain a place in many Test teams.

Garner and Rosen say that answers to the three basic questions " are not unrelated, and sometimes an answer to one will strongly suggest, or perhaps even entail, an answer to another.

For instance, Govannon, one of the names with which Garner addresses Nastrond, has been adopted from the mythological character of Govannon ap Dun.

Although Garner avoided incorporating his story into Arthurian mythology, the benevolent wizard in the novel, Cadellin Silverbrow, does have a link to the Arthurian mythos, in that " Cadellin " is one of the many names by which Culhwch invoked Arthur's aid in the Mediaeval Welsh Arthurian romance about Culhwych and Olwen. Philip 1981. p. 23.

" Praise also came from Nick Lake, the editorial director of HarperCollins Children's Books, who proclaimed that " Garner is, quite simply, one of the greatest and most influential writers this country has ever produced.

One of the tallest bowlers ever to play Test cricket, Garner appeared in 58 Tests between 1977 and 1987 and took 259 wickets at an average of barely above 20, making him statistically one of the most effective bowlers of all time.

To date, he is one of only two Americans ( John Nance Garner in the 20th century being the other ) to have served as both House speaker and vice president.

Its importance, aside from its serving as a link between the small Garner community and the state capital, lay in the fact that it was a small section of what was to become one of the oldest and longest traveled corridors in North Carolina, the Central Highway.

James Garner ( born James Scott Bumgarner ; April 7, 1928 ) is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media.

Garner returned to his earlier TV role in 1981 in the revival series Bret Maverick, but NBC unexpectedly canceled the show after only one season despite reasonably good ratings.

He has one daughter: Greta " Gigi " Garner.

Goldsworthy writes that " It is certainly the case that Garner is someone whose work elicits strong feelings ... and people who dislike her work are profoundly irritated by those who think she is one of the best writers in the country ".

The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power by Helen Garner is a controversial non-fiction book about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne.

She appeared opposite James Garner in a comedy episode of the TV Western series Maverick entitled " Two Tickets to Ten Strike ," and after making several appearances on the Warner Bros. hit TV series 77 Sunset Strip, she recorded the hit novelty song " Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb " ( 1959 ), a duet with one of the stars of the program, Edward Byrnes, that reached # 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

This was mocked in the episode " Doc Small ", in which she welcomes Dr. Chris Garner, a doctor from an even smaller town than Dog River, to town, and Garner is shocked by Lacey's " slutty " top, which is actually one of her more conservative tops.

Called " one of the most distinctive of all pianists " by jazz writer Scott Yanow, Garner showed that a " creative jazz musician can be very popular without watering down his music " or changing his personal style.

Indeed, in a 2011 review of " I Want My MTV " by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum, Dwight Garner recalled: " Every sentient straight male in the country developed a schoolboy crush on Martha Quinn, one of the first V. J.

Garner was one of the last actors still doing schtick from vaudeville, and has been referred to as " The Grand Old Man Of Vaudeville.

Garner was one of over 20 comedians who worked as part of Ted Healy's stooge act with his cousin, Jack Wolf ( father of Warner Wolf ) and Richard Hakins between 1922 and 1936.

He was 2. 03 metres ( 6 feet 8 inches ) tall and along with Joel Garner, one of the tallest players ever to have played international cricket.