Cinematographer Conrad Hall complemented Mendes ' style with peaceful shot compositions to contrast with the turbulent on-screen events.

" Aware that he was a novice, Mendes drew on the experience of Hall: " I made a very conscious decision early on, if I didn't understand something technically, to say, without embarrassment, ' I don't understand what you're talking about, please explain it.

Conrad Hall was not the first choice for director of photography ; Mendes believed he was " too old and too experienced " to want the job, and he had been told that Hall was difficult to work with.

Hall was recommended to Mendes by Tom Cruise, because of Hall's work on Without Limits ( 1998 ), which Cruise had executive produced.

Hall was involved for one month during pre-production ; his ideas for lighting the film began with his first reading of the script, and further passes allowed him to refine his approach before meeting Mendes.

A shot where Lester and Ricky share a cannabis joint behind a building came from a misunderstanding between Hall and Mendes.

Mendes asked Hall to prepare the shot in his absence ; Hall assumed the characters would look for privacy, so he placed them in a narrow passage between a truck and the building, intending to light from the top of the truck.

The DVD release included a behind-the-scenes featurette, film audio commentary from Mendes and Ball and a storyboard presentation with discussion from Mendes and Hall.

Turan agreed that Mendes ' choice of collaborators was " shrewd ", naming Hall and Newman in particular.

Sam Mendes inaugurated his transatlantic " Bridge Project " directing The Winter's Tale with a cast featuring Simon Russell Beale ( Leontes ), Rebecca Hall ( Hermione ), Ethan Hawke ( Autolycus ), Sinéad Cusack ( Paulina ), and Morven Christie ( Perdita ).

Hall received three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ), American Beauty ( 1999 ), and Road to Perdition ( 2002 ) ( the last two directed by friend Sam Mendes, who dedicated Road to Perdition to Hall ).

Hanks and cinematographer Conrad Hall requested Mendes to limit violence in the film to meaningful acts, rather than gratuitous carnage.

Mendes collaborated with costume designer Albert Wolsky, production designer Dennis Gassner, and cinematographer Conrad Hall to design the film's style.

Mendes and cinematographer Conrad Hall sought to convey similar atmospheric lighting for the film's scenes, applying a " less is more " mantra.

It marked the first time Alpert, Mendes and Hall had all performed together on the same song.

Among the notable artists he worked with personally are Chris Montez, The Carpenters, Sérgio Mendes and Brasil ' 66, Bill Medley, Lani Hall ( Alpert's second and current wife ), Liza Minnelli and Janet Jackson ( featured vocalist on his 1987 hit single " Diamonds ").

Since 1974, Alpert has been married to recording artist Lani Hall, who is best known as one of the singers of the Sérgio Mendes band Brasil ' 66.

Sam Mendes directed the production with a cast including Simon Russell Beale, Sinéad Cusack, Richard Easton, Rebecca Hall and Ethan Hawke.

An alternate title song composed by Legrand was eventually used for the film and performed by singer Lani Hall, formerly of Sérgio Mendes and Brasil ' 66.

The 50-50 ( Fifty-fifty ) guard is a position popularized by Roberto “ Gordo ” Correa and extensively used by the Mendes Brothers, Rafael and Guilherme Mendes, Bruno Frazzato, Ryan Hall and Ramon Lemos from the Atos Jiu-Jitsu Team.

He did not neglect his wife in Cromwell Hall, but telephoned her and wrote her with assurances of his continuing interest and of his wish to `` stand behind '' her in their separation and of his hope that there would be no bitterness between them.

The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.

Designer Tom Hall wrote an elaborate design document called the Doom Bible, according to which the game would feature a detailed storyline, multiple player characters, and a number of interactive features.

In 2008, Julian Bleach appeared live as Davros at the Doctor Who Prom, announcing that the Royal Albert Hall would become his new palace, and the audience his " obedient slaves ".

The doctors would look at the immigrants as they climbed the stairs from the baggage area to the Great Hall.

On August 25, 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Lucas would be one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees in The California Museum's yearlong exhibit.

In New York, the Tammany Hall Democrats, after vacillating, decided that they would gain more from supporting a Democrat they disliked than a Republican who would do nothing for them.

All seven would eventually be elected to the Hall of Fame.

The Colts, however, did receive eventual Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson as a result of a trade during the 1987 season and would go onto compile a 9 – 6 record, good enough to win the AFC East and advance to the postseason for the first time in the franchise's history in Indianapolis, where they would eventually lose to the Cleveland Browns.

Hall has frequently commented that if he could obtain the rights to Commander Keen, he would immediately develop another Keen title.

" This wish was fulfilled only after Robinson's death: following the 1974 season, the Cleveland Indians gave their managerial post to Frank Robinson ( no relation ), a Hall of Fame-bound player who would go on to manage three other teams.

Williams signed a baseball for him which predicted that the young catcher would be " A Hall of Famer for sure!

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.

The Giants ' 1956 championship team not only included players who would eventually find their way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but a Hall of Fame coaching staff, as well.

Tarkenton would go on to lead the Vikings to three Super Bowls and earn a place in the Hall of Fame, while the Giants suffered through one of the worst stretches in their history, winning only 23 games from 1973 – 79.

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

The Monty Hall paradox demonstrates that a decision which has an intuitive 50-50 chance in fact is heavily biased towards making a decision which, given the intuitive conclusion, the player would be unlikely to make.

would be one of the five inductees to the Rock Hall.

Ironically ( if fittingly, given the media's frequent-and unwelcome-Americanization of Clemente's given name during his life ), his Hall of Fame plaque read " Roberto Walker Clemente "; in 2000, the plaque would finally be recast to express his name in the proper Hispanic format, " Roberto Clemente Walker ".

In a more bittersweet bit of irony, Roberto would enter the Hall, albeit posthumously, alongside both his boyhood hero, Monte Irvin, and one of his most respected adversaries, Warren Spahn ( called by Clemente the toughest left-handed pitcher he'd ever faced, outside of Sandy Koufax ).

The 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich led Steiner to give up his residence in Berlin, saying that if those responsible for the attempted coup and others came to power in Germany, it would no longer be possible for him to enter the country ; he also warned against the disastrous effects it would have for Central Europe if the National Socialists came to power.