In a 2008 interview on College Hour, Malkovich revealed that he has been discussing making a motion picture adaptation of the Arnon Grünberg novel The History of My Baldness.

In a 2008 interview on the Late Show with David Letterman, Malkovich said he had just spent five weeks that summer living in France.

Malkovich lost millions to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme when it collapsed in 2008.

A film adaptation of Disgrace starring John Malkovich had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008, where it won the International Critics ' Award.

In a 2008 performance, actor John Malkovich portrayed Unterweger's life in a performance for one actor, two sopranos, and period orchestra entitled Seduction and Despair, which premiered at Barnum Hall in Santa Monica, CA.

* In the 2008 HBO television movie Recount, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ( portrayed by Laura Dern ) compares herself to Queen Esther, of whom she says " was willing to sacrifice herself to save the lovely Jewish people.

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

In 2008, the BBC created a television series, also called Merlin, where Merlin is portrayed by Colin Morgan.

* In the 2008 television documentary Menzies and Churchill at War, he was portrayed by Matthew King.

* Saladin was portrayed by Milind Soman in the Swedish 2007 film Arn – The Knight Templar and 2008 sequel Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End.

In 2008, Wiegand portrayed TR in the White House at TR's 150th Birthday.

" The Politics of Fear ", a cartoon by Barry Blitt featured on the cover of the July 21, 2008 issue, depicts then presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in the turban and salwar kameez typical of many Muslims, fist bumping with his wife, Michelle, portrayed with an Afro and wearing camouflage trousers with an AK-47 assault rifle slung over her back.

Boies was portrayed by actor Ed Begley, Jr. in the 2008 film Recount.

A less sympathetic picture is given in Sandra Worth's Lady of the Roses ( 2008 ) as well as in Marjorie Bowen's 1929 novel Dickon where she is portrayed as a schemer who is at the very heart of the various conspiracies against Richard III.

In 2008, he portrayed a version of Uncle Ben for Superhero Movie, a spoof of superhero films.

* Kathy Staff ( 1928 – 2008 ), English actress who portrayed Nora Batty in Last of the Summer Wine

Sun Quan is portrayed by Chang Chen in John Woo's 2008 film Red Cliff.

Soap & Skin portrayed Nico in the theatre play Nico-Sphinx aus Eis in 2008, written by Werner Fritsch.

* Thalia was portrayed by Actress Penelope Lagos in the 2008 TV pilot " Muse " written by Rudy Cecera.

In the seventh season ( 2007 – 2008 ) of the CW's hit show Smallville, Kara is introduced into the cast and was portrayed by Laura Vandervoort.

Late in 2008, Schreiber portrayed Jewish resistance fighter, Zus Bielski in the film Defiance, alongside Daniel Craig.

Lilburne was portrayed by Tom Goodman-Hill in the 2008 television drama The Devil's Whore.

Fox featured as a character in the 1994 movie The Madness of King George, portrayed by Jim Carter ; in the 2006 movie Amazing Grace, played by Michael Gambon ; and in the 2008 movie The Duchess, played by Simon McBurney.

In 2008, James was portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the film, Cadillac Records, loosely based on the rise and fall of James ' label of 18 years, Chess Records, and how label founder and producer Leonard Chess helped the career of James and other label mates, though it was noted that James was successful prior to her signing with Chess Records.

Chess was the focus of 2008 movies Cadillac Records ( portrayed by Adrien Brody ) and Who Do You Love?

The February 23, 2008 telecast of Saturday Night Live featured Will Forte impersonating Ramos in a Hillary Clinton / Barack Obama debate sketch, in which he is portrayed as an " Obama Stalker ".

In the 2008 miniseries John Adams, Rutledge was portrayed by Clancy O ' Connor.

Katherine Harris was the subject of some popular skits on Saturday Night Live, in which she was played by Ana Gasteyer ; she was also portrayed by actress Laura Dern in the 2008 film Recount, which won Dern a Golden Globe for the role.

He portrayed a Chinese badminton player in a Vitamin Water commercial starring David Ortiz and Brian Urlacher and played in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

Their story was later recounted in the books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and Miracle in the Andes as well as the film Alive, by Frank Marshall, and the documentaries Alive: 20 Years Later ( 1993 ) and Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains ( 2008 ).

* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

* The 2008 documentary film called Frederick Douglass and the White Negro tells the story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland and the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War.

This has been restarted from 2008 onward with Matthew J. Costello's ( a story consultant for Doom 3 and now Rage ) new Doom 3 novels: Worlds on Fire and Maelstrom.

" At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle ", The Boston GLobe, Boston, December 28, 2008.

In a 2008 story from the Daily Telegraph ( London ), writer David Gritten offered the following observation on " Forever Changes " while discussing a documentary on Love.

A story in The Sunday Telegraph ( London ) from 2008 listed the " 120 essential pop albums " in history, a list that included " Forever Changes.

A 2008 draft mathematics standard proposed that Kindergartners multiply to 30 by skip counting ( also known as counting by twos: 2, 4, 6, 8 ...), and that second graders solve simple algebra story problems.

" In 2008, Cruz appeared in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the Philip Roth story The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo.

Gellar graced the cover of Gotham and featured as their main story in the March 2008 issue, in which she spoke about how passing 30 has evolved her style.

* In an untitled story by Gary Russell featured in the first issue of IDW Publishing's Doctor Who comic book ( published February 2008 ), the Tenth Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to destroy a sword and later sacrifices it in order to defeat a Sycorax hunter.

In an August 2008 Observer interview, Gorillaz band members Albarn and Hewlett revealed the nature and title of the project, Journey to the West, a movie adaptation of the opera of the same name based on a 16th-century Chinese adventure story also known as Monkey.

* Tristan da Cunha: The story of Asthma Island, part 1 & part 2, BBC Four ( 2008 )

* Wilma Rudolph's story on the website of the 2008 Summer Olympics

Notable story arcs of this decade are " Revolution " ( 2000 ), " Eve of Destruction ," " E Is For Extinction " ( 2001 ), " Planet X ," " Here Comes Tomorrow ," " Gifted ," ( 2004 ) X-Men: Phoenix-Endsong, " House of M ," " Decimation " ( 2005 ), Deadly Genesis ( 2005 – 2006 ), " Endangered Species " ( 2007 ), " Messiah Complex " ( 2007 – 2008 ), " Divided We Stand " ( 2008 ), " Manifest Destiny " ( 2008 – 2009 ), X-Infernus, " Messiah War ," " Utopia ," " Nation X " and " Necrosha " ( 2009 ).

* Cloverfield ( 2008 ): On 22 May, the events of the story take place.

( Note that the earliest episodes took place in 2099, though most following stories have taken place in the 22nd century, usually 122 years after real-world publication ( so a story published in the comic in 2008 would take place in 2130 ).

In November 2008, NBC announced that the series had been picked up for a complete 22-episode season but that several cast members would be leaving and the story lines revamped after the original 13-episode order.

Eastwood next directed Changeling ( 2008 ), based on a true story set in the late 1920s.

David Foster Wallace ( February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008 ) was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

* The story of the Battle of Carrhae is the centrepiece of Ben Kane's novel The Forgotten Legion ( 2008 ).

* 2008: Staff of The Washington Post, " for its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, telling the developing story in print and online.