In August 2007, it was widely reported that Morrissey had that summer declined an offer of $ 75 million – nearly £ 40 million at the time – from a " consortium of promoters " to reunite with Marr for a fifty-date world tour under the Smiths ' name in 2008 and 2009.

The play stars Toby Stephens as the King and David Morrissey as Becket, and was broadcast on 4 October 2009.

Subsequently, the programme was also made available as a podcast, beginning with the edition broadcast on 29 November 2009 which featured Morrissey.

Morrissey also chose Nomi's version of Schumann's " Der Nussbaum " (" The Walnut Tree ") as one his selections on BBC Radio 4's " Desert Island Discs " in November 2009.

The headquarters of the Boston Globe is located on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester ( 2009 ) Throughout its history, Dorchester has had periods of economic revival and recession.

" In 2009, Morrissey declined the opportunity to play Brown again in The Special Relationship, Morgan's third Blair film, as he did not want to get into the mindset of playing Brown for just one scene.

From November 2008 to January 2009, Morrissey returned to the theatre for the first time in nine years to appear in the Almeida Theatre's British premiere of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House.

In March 2009, Morrissey appeared as corrupt police detective Maurice Jobson in Red Riding, the Channel 4 adaptation of David Peace's Red Riding novels.

At the end of the year, Morrissey played Bobby Dykins in the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy ( Sam Taylor-Wood, 2009 ).

Although the scheme paid £ 23. 50 a week and took young people off unemployment benefits, Morrissey reflected in 2009 that many of the participants were just used as lackeys.

In 2009, Morrissey and Mark Billingham launched the production company Sleepyhead, which produced the Thorne television series.

Tens of thousands people have bought the poppy, and it has been worn by celebrities including Morrissey on stage in November 2009.

In an interview on Xfm on 13 February 2009, Morrissey said:

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.

Aon has sponsored the British Touring Car Championship team run by Arena Motorsport since 2009.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

On June 30, 2009, the Orioles rallied to score 10 runs against Boston Red Sox after facing a 10 – 1 deficit in the 7th inning, winning the game by 11 – 10, setting a Major League Baseball record for the largest comeback by a last-place team over a first-place team.

However, the team finished the 2009 season with 64 wins and 98 losses, making it the worst record in the 2009 American League season.

Centerfielder Adam Jones was named to the 2009 All Star team and awarded a Gold Glove award for his defensive play.

In 2007, 2008, and 2009, the women's table tennis team ( a club team ) competed in nationals.

In recent years, Craven Cottage has hosted several International Friendly matches, including the Republic of Ireland national football team who played Colombia and Nigeria there in May 2008 and May 2009 respectively and Oman in 2012.

The Korea Republic national football team have also used the ground twice in recent years for international friendlies, first against Greece in February 2007 and then against Serbia in November 2009.

The team announced on September 30, 2009, that Eric Wedge and all of the team's coaching staff would be released at the end of the 2009 season.

In June 2009, the team rapidly improved and by the end of June, the Rockies set a franchise record for victories in a month with 21 in a 28 game stretch ( one win better than the September 2007 Rocktober run ).

The team plays its home games at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, within the Dallas – Fort Worth metropolitan area, which finished construction in time for the 2009 season.

The team went back to wearing this uniform at home on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 while their opponent was the Oakland Raiders who wore their AFL Legacy Weekend throwbacks.

From 1996 to 2009, the IFF used a World Floorball Championship format where the last team in the A-Division was relegated to the B-Division, while the top team in the B-Division was promoted to the A-Division.

In 2009, a team of MIT physicists demonstrated that a lithium gas cooled to less than one Kelvin can exhibit ferromagnetism.

On September 6, 2009, Lucas was in Venice to present to the Pixar team the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 2009 Biennale Venice Film Festival.

In 2009, Simard introduced a filmmaker in residence program, bringing in leading Quebec filmmakers for two year terms, beginning with Paule Baillargeon and Philippe Baylaucq.

Cale represented Wales at the 2009 Venice Biennale, collaborating with artists, filmmakers, and poets, and focusing the artwork on his relationship with the Welsh language.

The lawsuit was dropped on October 15, 2009, and in November 2010 a court in Los Angeles found in favour of the movie crew making it possible to release the movie in the USA, and ordering Dole to pay SEK 1. 4 million ( roughly USD 200, 000 ) to the filmmakers.

The first Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize for work by female filmmakers was presented to Norwegian artist Inger Lise Hansen for Parallax ( 2009 ) at the Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival in June 2010.

In addition to various other grants, the Foundation annually sponsors the juried Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize for work by female filmmakers, which was first presented to Norwegian artist Inger Lise Hansen for Parallax ( 2009 ) at the Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival in June 2010.

The Swell has been used by Hollywood filmmakers as a location setting for alien planets, including the Planet Vulcan in the 2009 film Star Trek and the alien world in Galaxy Quest.

Jared Lawrence Hess ( born July 18, 1979 ) and Jerusha Elizabeth Hess ( née Demke ; born May 12, 1980 ) are husband-and-wife American filmmakers known for their work Napoleon Dynamite ( 2004 ), Nacho Libre ( 2006 ) and Gentlemen Broncos ( 2009 ), all of which they co-wrote and directed ( Nacho Libre was co-written with Mike White ).

Five novels had been published by 2009, and many filmmakers have bid for screen rights.

Introduced to the festival in 2009 is the " Mavericks " series, exhibiting the work of ten emerging filmmakers from around the world, culminating in the awarding of a $ 25, 000 prize to the selected filmmaker.

* Mike Figgis judged the Film of the Month competition in January 2009 on the independent filmmakers networking site Shooting People.

* Larry Charles judged The Film of the Month competition in July 2009 on the independent filmmakers networking site Shooting People.

In 2009, MOMA honored Strand Releasing with " Carte Blanche " a 20 year retrospective honoring select filmmakers from the Strand roster including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Fatih Akin, François Ozon and Jacques Nolot, adding their films into the MOMA permanent collection.

* Stuart Beattie judged The Film of the Month competition in March 2009 on the independent filmmakers networking site Shooting People.