On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.

He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.

He had a small mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large flat nose, and penetrating blue eyes.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

The small shaft of blue had drifted down and come to rest at his feet.

at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.

Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

The dog refused to be scared off, so Kahler had purchased some small firecrackers.

The colony had been small until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 drove many Jews into Rome.

Both of them had known the feeling of the small life in her waiting, ready, for the two of them to run up her sails.

An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

), had listed himself for Mormon Beard roles at the instigation of his fourth murder victim who had said: `` With your beard, dear, you ought to be in movies ''!!

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

Apollo, like other Greek deities, had a number of epithets applied to him, reflecting the variety of roles, duties, and aspects ascribed to the god.

Nancy Allen had acting roles in Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out.

( Previously, the actives and inactives — see Progression below — had significantly different roles ).

Love also had a career in acting, originally landing small roles in Alex Cox films in the 1980s.

Although female roles were performed by castrati in some of the papal states, this was increasingly rare ; by 1680, they had supplanted " normal " male voices in lead roles, and retained their position as primo uomo for about a hundred years ; an Italian opera not featuring at least one renowned castrato in a lead part would be doomed to fail.

In early modern times, cardinals often had important roles in secular affairs.

After others had lamented the roles they played in the executions of nineteen and imprisonment of hundreds, Mather remained the chief defender of the trials, which diminishes the view of him as a moderate influence.

He has had recurring roles in television series such as The X-Files playing Brad Follmer and Psych playing Pierre Despereaux.

The clerics had other roles and did not rank the highest in the social hierarchy.

In the 1980s, movie roles and other ventures caused Parton to tour less than she had done during the previous decade.

Thus the dragoon regiments of the Imperial German Army wore the pickelhaube ( spiked helmet ) of the same design as those of the infantry and the British dragoons wore scarlet tunics, In other respects however dragoons had adopted the same tactics, roles and equipment as other branches of the cavalry and the distinction had become simply one of traditional titles.

During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.

Cast in the role of Davros was Michael Wisher, who had previously appeared in several different roles on Doctor Who and had provided Dalek voices in the serials Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks.

In the modern wilderness preservation movement, important philosophical roles are played by the writings of John Muir who had been activist in the late 19th and early 20th century.

This polytheistic system was very complex, as some deities were believed to exist in many different manifestations, and some had multiple mythological roles.

On November 22, 2010, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Warner Bros. had picked up the movie rights to the remake.

He had a cameo role as Dylan, a smarmy pedestrian, in the 1986 musical remake of The Little Shop of Horrors, that also featured his SNL co-star, Steve Martin.

Castaneda had appeared in the first Mutiny on the Bounty film in 1935, some 27 years before the 1962 remake with Brando as Fletcher Christian.

In May 2007 it was announced that Rodríguez had signed on to direct a remake of Barbarella for a 2008 release.

Bruce Springsteen ended his concerts with Orbison songs and Glen Campbell had a minor hit with a remake of " Dream Baby ".

A remake miniseries, in the works since 2005, premiered on 15 November 2009 on American cable TV channel AMC, made in cooperation with British broadcaster ITV after AMCs original production partner Sky1 had pulled out.

In 2006, he had a prominent role in the remake of The Pink Panther and its sequel, playing Gilbert Ponton, the partner of Inspector Clouseau opposite Steve Martin, and also portrayed Captain Bezu Fache in the Ron Howard film The Da Vinci Code.

The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.

The film is technically a remake of L. A. Takedown, a 1989 made-for-television film which was also written and directed by Mann ; the director had been trying to get Heat made for over a decade, and created L. A Takedown as a simplified version after his efforts were unsuccessful.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).

Crawford then starred as a facially disfigured blackmailer in A Woman's Face ( 1941 ), a remake of a European film which had starred Ingrid Bergman in the lead role three years earlier.

He similarly gave the Adam Sandler-starring remake of The Longest Yard a positive rating of three stars, but in his review, which he wrote soon after attending the Cannes Film Festival, he recommended readers not see the film because they had access to more satisfying cinematic experiences.

1996 also saw the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack, on which White had a duet with Chris Rock, called " Basketball Jones ," a remake of Cheech & Chong's " Basketball Jones " from 1974.

While that version ( which did not air ) had a much greater departure from the game's original format, the producers significantly retooled the format to create a somewhat more faithful remake of the program, which was picked up in syndication and began in fall 1998.

The British producer Graham King revealed that he had hired Towne to write a remake of The Battle of Britain in a December 2011 interview.

She also starred in 1968 with Steve McQueen in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair ( and had a small role in the 1999 remake with the same title with Pierce Brosnan ).

A notable example is Three's Company, a US remake of the British Man About the House: not only was the original show re-created ( with very few character or situation changes made, at least initially ), but both series had spin-offs based on the Ropers ( in the UK, George And Mildred, in the US, The Ropers ), and both series were eventually re-tooled into series based on the male lead ( in the UK, Robin's Nest, in the US, Three's a Crowd ).

In 2009 it was reported that Carl Erik Rinsch might direct a 2010 remake that would be produced by Marc Abraham, Eric Newman and Gary Ross, however, a project featuring this ensemble had been abandoned by 2011.

Peck, Mitchum, and Martin Balsam all had roles in the 1991 remake of Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese.

These included a remake of the 1960s episode Sykes and a Stranger, which had originally featured Leo McKern but the new version saw Peter Sellers taking the role of a childhood sweetheart of Hattie's who arrives on the Sykes's doorstep claiming Hattie as his fiancé.

Another remake was released for the NES ( dubbed Mario Bros. Classic Series ) in 1993 exclusively for Europe in which the game had a more refined control and stage intermissions.

While retaining the red necktie he's had since the 1994 Game Boy remake of Donkey Kong, he also donned a distinct physical appearance featuring heavy brows and a peaked lock of hair on top of his head.

In 2008 Verónica Castro returned to the stage with Chiquita Pero Picosa, a remake of a production in which she had appeared in the 1980s.

In 1984, Plant formed a short-lived all-star group with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck called The Honeydrippers, who had a No. 3 hit with a remake of the Phil Phillips ' tune, " Sea of Love " and a followup hit with a cover of Roy Brown's " Rockin ' at Midnight ".

Anastasia, a musical remake of the 1956 film with Ingrid Bergman, did far better than any Bluth film since All Dogs Go To Heaven, but the 2000 release of Titan A. E., a film far different from the ones Bluth had been making up until then, was a flop.