High-ranking politicians and top level government officials that dominate global political scene and foreign affairs, headline major current events, play a pivotal role in domestic and international politics have a tremendous impact in day-to-day media have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

The pivotal scene in which Drake McHugh wakes up to find his legs amputated posed an acting challenge for Reagan, who was supposed to say " Where's the rest of me?

The famous and pivotal scene described in Chapter 10, in which Pilar describes the execution of various fascist figures in her village is drawn from events that took place in Ronda in 1936.

* A pivotal scene ( toothpicks ) in the movie Rain Man was filmed in Newport at Pompilio's, a local restaurant.

* The 1954 film White Christmas features a pivotal scene that occurs on " The Ed Harrison Show ", which was intentionally similar to Sullivan's show.

( Episode 1. 5 – " The Outsider "); The Devil Wears Prada ( Although it is uncredited an instrumental version of the song is played at nearly every pivotal moment in the film, as well as during the end credits ); One Tree Hill ( Episode 1. 17-" Spirit in the Night "); Duane Hopwood ; Friday Night Lights ( TV Series ) – song provides inspirational back-drop in scene where back-up Matt Saracen takes the field and excels

It is featured in countless movies / trailers including a pivotal scene in the motion picture American Graffiti.

Fuqua insisted that the Wise Men scene was pivotal in establishing that at least some of Alonzo's illegal actions were sanctioned by his superiors who regarded unethical behavior as a necessary evil.

Having gained his law degree, he became a trainee ( 1881 – 1884 ) with Edmond Picard, a renowned criminal lawyer, who also played a pivotal role on the Brussels artistic scene.

Bathory, who would subsequently become a primary influence for the black metal scene, were a pivotal group in Swedish extreme metal.

The pre-war operation of the station features in a pivotal scene in Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, when the pursuit of the protagonist by an enemy agent sees them repeatedly using the shuttle service on the branch line.

Janie has the idea that marriage must involve love, forged in a pivotal early scene where she sees bees pollinating a pear tree, and believes that marriage is the human equivalent to this natural process.

Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi, who was born the year of Burgos ' death, pays homage to her poetry and legend in a pivotal scene of the Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!

The hardcore punk scene grew with The Replacements and Hüsker Dü, who started too early to profit from, but were pivotal in, the development of alternative rock.

* A pivotal scene in Sidney Ayers ' paranormal romance novel Demons Prefer Blondes takes place in Hell, Michigan.

Dorothy does appear on the stage during a pivotal scene, but the audience sees only her silhouette.

In the Ken Russell 1967 film Billion Dollar Brain, music from the Leningrad Symphony accompanies the failed military invasion of the then Latvian Soviet Republic by Texas millionaire Midwinter ( a pivotal scene reflecting the Battle of the Neva from Aleksandr Nevsky ).

Like Géricault, Homer makes a black man the pivotal figure in the scene, though here he is the vessel's sole occupant.

Crichton's social betters at first resist his growing influence and go their separate ways, but in a pivotal scene they return, showing their acquiescence by accepting the food Crichton alone has been able to find and cook.

1963's Le Petit Soldat, about the Algerian War, features the technique during " a pivotal scene " of the film.

Mercutio's death in Act III, scene I is the pivotal turning point of the play, which up to this point is relatively light-hearted.

Amongst the locations used Layer Marney Tower in Essex plays a pivotal role for a party scene.

Another example is seen in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, where the significance of an early scene becomes apparent at the end, necessitating a different interpretation of all that has happened in between ; in this case, it is not a physical device but an action which is pivotal to the outcome.

* A pivotal scene in Dark City occurs in an automat.

In the mid to late ' 80s, indie pop was criticized for its associations with so-called " shambling " ( a John Peel-coined description celebrating the self-conscious primitive approach of some of the music ) and underachievement, but the C86 indie pop scene is now recognized as a pivotal moment for independent music in the UK, as is recognized in the subtitle of that compilation's 2006 extended reissue: CD86: 48 Tracks from the Birth of Indie Pop.

The novel was written shortly after two pivotal events of the 1970s, the resignation of Richard Nixon and the overthrow of the Chilean President Salvador Allende.

* In Carolyn Parkhurst's novel The Dogs of Babel, ( also known as Lorelei's Secret in the UK ), a section of Tam Lin plays a pivotal role in the story.

American author Tom Wolfe in his novel A Man in Full, a pivotal black character named Fareek " The Cannon " Fanon, who resists authority figures, and standards of conduct, and is also suspected of sexual assault, but his case never comes to trial.

The novel and play concerned a pivotal moment in the life of an American banker, but they also explicitly referenced how the original expression was used in World War II aviation.

As such, he is a pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas ' novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne, where he is depicted sympathetically.

The two-volume historical novel saga White as Bone, Red as Blood: The Fox Sorceress ( 2009 ), and White as Bone, Red as Blood: The Storm God ( 2011 ) depict in detail the pivotal years 1160 – 1185 in Japan, as seen through the eyes of protagonist Seiko Fujiwara.

In the Hugo-nominated science fiction novel Fallen Angels by LASFS members Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle ( with Michael Flynn ), LASFS ' unofficial motto " Death Will Not Release You " and its even more unofficial countersign "... even if you die " play a pivotal role in plot development.

The novel takes the form of a gradual revelation illuminating both Iris ' youth and her old age before coming to the pivotal events of her and Laura's lives around the time of the Second World War.

* In Gore Vidal's novel Creation, which takes place between 510 – 445 BC, Cathay is a pivotal setting.

In 2002, he played a pivotal role in the film I Am David from the Danish novel known as both David and North to Freedom, written by Ann Holm.

Michael Chabon's 2007 noir-ish alternate reality novel " The Yiddish Policemen's Union " contained a pivotal character called " The Boundary Maven " whose knowledge of orthodox Jewish rules regarding the ability of people to legitimately walk within their own property on the Sabbath allowed him to use string between lamp-posts to create expansive " personal " boundaries for those willing to pay him.

She made many appearances as a pivotal character in other writers ' fiction, Nancy Mitford based, " Lady Montdore ", a character in her novel Love in a Cold Climate on her.

Theodore Steinberg argues for the Fortunes of War to be seen as an epic novel, noting its broad scope and the large cast of interesting characters set at a pivotal point of history.

Although the action in the novel is not always seen from Jerry's point of view, he is clearly the pivotal character, and the one with whom the reader sympathizes.

The region, the smelter and the new facility are pivotal features in Michael McGarrity's Kevin Kerney novel " Nothing But Trouble " ( 2005 ).

In modern Japanese literature, treading on the fumi-e is a pivotal plot element of the novel Silence by Shusaku Endo.

The Hlinka Guards are a pivotal antagonist group in the 2006 novel by Colum McCann, Zoli.

* Tarot symbolism figures prominently in Shirley Jackson's novel Hangsaman ( 1951 ); in a pivotal scene the central characters debate whether a doll hanging in a store window resembles the Hanged Man.

Seeing a Large Cat is a pivotal novel in Ramses's development.

The jail is featured in pivotal scenes in the novel Old City Hall, by Robert Rotenberg.

* Robert Agar-A twenty-six-year-old screwsman ( criminal who is skilled with copying keys and picking locks ) at the beginning of the novel, Agar is pivotal to the eventual success of the Great Train Robbery, though he is also largely responsible for the culprits ' eventual capture.