Although Hulce largely retired from acting in the mid-1990s, he had bit parts in the recent movies Jumper ( 2008 ) and Stranger Than Fiction ( 2006 ).

Max, Lauren, and Nan meet with attorney Steven Brillstein ( Tom Hulce ), who encourages Max to exaggerate his testimony in order to increase Nan's compensation settlement offer from the airline.

It opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York on November 15, 1989, in a production directed by Don Scardino, with Tom Hulce as LTJG Kaffee, Megan Gallagher as LCDR JoAnne Galloway and Stephen Lang as Col Jessep.

His mother, Joanna ( née Winkleman ), sang briefly with Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra, and his father, Raymond Albert Hulce, worked for the Ford Motor Company.

* Shadow Man ( 1988 film ), a Dutch-British film with Tom Hulce

He was branded with the callsign " Pinto " because of his likeness to actor Tom Hulce who played " Pinto " in the 1978 movie Animal House.

In 1985, the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including the double nomination for Best Actor with Hulce and Abraham each being nominated for their portrayals of Mozart and Salieri, respectively.

Parenthood is a 1989 comedy-drama film with an ensemble cast that includes Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, and Dianne Wiest.

Thomas Edward " Tom " Hulce (; born December 6, 1953 ) is an American actor and theater producer.

Larry ( Hulce ), Gil's brother, is the black sheep of the family, but is Frank's favorite.

The internationally acclaimed film starred Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge and F. Murray Abraham.

Farrell and Minoff also executive produced two feature films during their partnership, Dominick and Eugene, a 1988 Orion Pictures film which earned actor Tom Hulce a Golden Globe nomination for best actor.

It starred Tom Hulce as LTJG Kaffee, Megan Gallagher as LCDR JoAnne Galloway, Stephen Lang as Col Jessep, and Robert Hogan as Capt.

The Broadway production earned Megan Gallagher a 1990 Theatre World Award and a Best Actor nomination for Tom Hulce at the 44th Tony Awards.

Hulce retired from acting in the mid-1990s in order to focus upon stage directing and producing.

Hulce made his acting debut in 1975, playing opposite Anthony Perkins in Equus on Broadway.

In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense competition ( which included David Bowie and Mikhail Baryshnikov ) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus.

Hulce remained active in theater throughout his entire acting career.

Hulce shepherded two major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play.

Hulce was a lead producer of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening, which won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including one for Best Musical.

Tom Hulce portrayed Michael Schwerner.

Quasimodo was voiced by Tom Hulce and animated by James Baxter.

Hulce reportedly used John McEnroe's mood swings as a source of inspiration for his portrayal of Mozart's unpredictable genius.

The film was nominated for six Golden Globes ( Hulce and Abraham were nominated together ) and won four, including awards to Forman, Abraham, Shaffer, and Golden Globe Award for Best Picture — Drama.

It was directed by Paul Bogart and starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Hulce in the leading roles.

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).

" He had the touch ," Frazetta said of Capp in 2008.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.

Ecuador's president Rafael Correa said March 3, 2008 that a deal to release political prisoners — including former Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt -- was nearly complete before the March 1, 2008 Colombian raid into his country.

However, writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father José Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, said in 2008 that intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.

ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said he is not on the payroll of the energy industry, but he acknowledged that SEPP had received one unsolicited charitable donation of $ 10, 000 from ExxonMobil, and that it was one percent of all donations received.

This greatly improves the viability of the Galileo project: " The EU's executive had previously said that if agreement was not reached by January 2008, the long-troubled project would essentially be dead.

On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

Club said of the 2008 competition, " Once again, the IF Competition delivers some of the best writing in games.

John Carmack said in an interview at QuakeCon 2007 that there will be a Doom 4, it has been in development since May 7, 2008.

" I make more use of my experience now and try to work more efficiently so that my efforts aren't wasted ", she said in 2008.

In 2008, in an interview on Melbourne radio, Lewis said he had signed composer Marvin Hamlisch and dramatist Rupert Holmes to write the show.

He also said that the team will continue to wear teal jerseys at home even on hot days, saying that the practice of choosing to wear white on hot days which ended in 2008 had also diluted the team's image.

In June 2008, the Kiribati president Anote Tong said that the country has reached " the point of no return "; he added: " To plan for the day when you no longer have a country is indeed painful but I think we have to do that.

" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.

In August 2008 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed an agreement to pay Libya $ 5 billion over 25 years – this was a " complete and moral acknowledgement of the damage inflicted on Libya by Italy during the colonial era ", the Italian prime minister said.

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

" Studio Ghibli said the production time would be about 20 months, with release slated for Summer 2008.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.