Dolly Parton in a Press Conference ( Australia, 2011 ).

On January 6, 2011, Parton announced her new album would be titled, Better Day.

" In October 2011 he self-released his second solo album titled Piety & Desire — featuring the Felice Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Jolie Holland, Ketch Secor, and Samantha Parton ( of the Be Good Tanyas )— where he " creates a whole film and stereo hi-fi noir milieu " by realizing " a dozen rootsy, ambient and mostly catchy hardscrabble southwestern tinged originals.

Several scenes from the 2011 video for " Together You and I " by Dolly Parton were filmed on the bridge.

Parton appeared for the June 3, 2011 opening " clad in pink-sequined pirate's garb ", and the South Carolina General Assembly declared June 3, 2011 Dolly Parton Day.

In December 2011 the UK's Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb, voiced concern that children can become " too dependent " on the use of calculators.

In December 2011, Viz produced three animated shorts with Baby Cow for Channel 4's Comedy Blaps, voiced by Steve Coogan, Sarah Millican, Simon Greenall and Gavin Webster.

In December 2011, Viz produced three animated shorts for Channel 4's Comedy Blaps with Baby Cow, voiced by Steve Coogan, Sarah Millican, Simon Greenall and Gavin Webster.

Ebert's most recent show, Ebert Presents: At the Movies, premiered on January 21, 2011, with Ebert contributing a review voiced by someone else in a brief segment called " Roger's Office ".

Smaug will appear in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, and on 16 June 2011, it was announced that he will be voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch.

He voiced Finn McMissile in Pixar's 2011 film Cars 2 and also voiced a supporting role in the animation, Gnomeo and Juliet.

He has voiced Piglet in Kingdom Hearts II, Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie ( only for the newest material since much of the dialogue is still voiced by Fielder ) the My Friends Tigger & Pooh television series, and the 2011 film Winnie the Pooh.

* The Looney Tunes Show ( 2011 ), voiced by Jeff Bergman

In May 2011 Speedy Gonzales appears in The Looney Tunes Show episodes " Best Friends ", " Monster Talent ", " Devil Dog ", " That's My Baby ", " Sunday Night Slice ", " The DMV ", " French Fries ", " Beauty School ", " The Shelf " and " The Muh-Muh-Muh-Murder " voiced by Fred Armisen.

Also in 2011, Buffett voiced Huckleberry Finn on Mark Twain: Words & Music, which was released on Mailboat Records.

Pink voiced the character of Gloria in Happy Feet Two, which premiered on November 18, 2011 in the United States.

He was also the voice of Satan on Neighbors from Hell. In December 2011, Coogan voiced Roger Mellie and Tracey Tunstall of the Fat Slags in three Viz Comedy Blaps for Channel 4.

Also in 2011, Sheen starred in Beautiful Boy, an independent drama focusing on the aftermath of a school shooting, voiced a character in a Doctor Who episode written by his friend Neil Gaiman and made cameo appearances in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Resistance.

To coincide with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, a projection of Captain Blackbeard from the film ( voiced by original actor Ian McShane ) temporarily replaced the 2006 projection of Davy Jones in the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom version of the attraction beginning on May 20, 2011.

* In a 2011 televized speech, Nasrallah voiced support for the popular uprisings which took place in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain ; he was more outspoken towards the Bahraini issue, expressing strong support for the popular movements, a feat which fueled tensions between Lebanon and Bahrain.

Castafiore invariably sings her signature aria in Hergé's books, in the 2011 Spielberg / Jackson film The Adventures of Tintin, the character ( voiced by soprano Renée Fleming ) presents a different aria, " Je veux vivre ..." from Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.

Freddy Krueger later appeared as an extra playable character for Mortal Kombat ( Komplete Edition ) in 2011 / 2012, where he was voiced by Patrick Seitz.

In 2011, she voiced the character of Jaesa Willsaam in the MMO game, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

More recently, Dec 2011, Darrow has voiced the character of Overseer Tremel in the Bioware MMORPG release Star Wars: The Old Republic.

During the Syrian uprising which began in 2011 UNESCO voiced concerns that the conflict might lead to the damage of important cultural sites such as Krak des Chevaliers.

* Lovelace, voiced by Robin Williams in the 2006 and 2011 films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two is a Rockhopper

* In the 2011 direct-to-DVD animated film Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz, the Wizard is voiced by Joe Alaskey.

In April 2011, a representative for Andrews McMeel received a package from a " William Watterson in Cleveland Heights, Ohio ", which contained a 6 " x 8 " oil-on-board painting of Cul De Sac character Petey Otterloop, done by Watterson for the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson's Disease.

" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

2011 also showed the introduction of the character Kirsty Soames.

Flockhart's character was significant throughout the series ' first four years, but her appearances were reduced for the 2010 – 2011 season, coinciding with the departure of TV husband Rob Lowe.

She is a playable character in X-Men Legends ( 2004 ), X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse ( 2005 ), Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 ( 2009 ), and Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds ( 2011 ), and appeared as an enemy in the first Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.

* In October 2011, Toshiba announced 2560 × 1600 pixels on an 6. 1-inch LCD panel, suitable for use in a tablet computer, especially for Chinese character display.

His translation work has also led him to appear as a character in three plays dealing with the King James Bible, Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn ( 2010 ), Jonathan Holmes ' Into Thy Hands ( 2011 ) and David Edgar's Written on the Heart ( 2011 ).

" Brando's powerful ' Wild One ' image was still as of 2011 being marketed by the makers of his Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle in a range of clothing inspired by his character from the film and licenced by Brando's estate

In the 2011 film Seeing Heaven, Narcissus is depicted in a painting-the character of the film also replicates the myth of Narcissus gazing at his own reflection.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

In the 2011 film Island, the character Max is a re-imagining of Piggy and is played by actor Robbie Curran.

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

Godwin is also the lead character of Justin Hill's novel, Shieldwall ( 2011 ).

On 15 December 2011 the Spelthorne Borough Council voted 25-4, with 6 abstentions ( including all of those from Staines ward itself ), to change the name of the town to Staines-upon-Thames with the aim of promoting its riverside location so boosting the local economy and, reportedly, to attempt to discourage association with the fictional character Ali G.

In 2011, however, Liam Neeson was cast in the part for a " next generation " rerecording, and subsequently also replaced Burton as the hologram character in the stage show.

This, and the ultimate portrayal of her character, caused her great emotional trauma, and to her death on 3 February 2011, she still had not forgiven Bertolucci for what she considered an emotional rape of her being and identity.

Caine also plays the spy character Finn McMissile in the 2011 film Cars 2, though this is more in a smooth James Bond style than Palmer's downbeat, ' ordinary ' personality.

The 2011 Martin Scorsese film Hugo initially focuses on a mysterious notebook taken from the main character and his struggle to retrieve it ; " The notebook, of course, is just another storytelling device ( the McGuffin ) that ultimately proves irrelevant.

On January 24, 2011, it was confirmed that Jon would be cast in the film New Year's Eve, released later that year, as a successful rock star who is connected with Katherine Heigl's character.

* A character named " Marshal " ( played by James Purefoy ), based loosely on the historical William Marshal, is the central character in the 2011 film Ironclad.

Dissatisfied with that status, Depp turned to film for more challenging roles ; he played the title character of Edward Scissorhands ( 1990 ) and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy Hollow ( 1999 ), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ), Rango ( 2011 ) and the Pirates of the Caribbean film series ( 2003 – present ).

Von Sydow voices the character of Esbern in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which was released on November 11, 2011.