Jeff Vice of the Deseret News commented that " unfortunately, casting Cruz as a tough girl is a hilariously bad ..." and Michael Miller of the Village Voice writing that " as Satan's helper Carmen, Penélope Cruz doesn't hold a candle to her cocaine-huffing enabler in Blow.

In 1986, the television series Moonlighting produced an episode entitled " Atomic Shakespeare ", written by Ron Osborn and Jeff Reno ( with a writing credit for William ' Budd ' Shakespeare ), and directed by Will Mackenzie.

Jeff Hawkins also envisioned a single area for writing letters on top of each other.

" Guitarist Jeff Hanneman has since said that South of Heaven was the only album the band members discussed before writing the music.

In July 2005, Jeff Gannon began writing editorials for the paper.

Jeff followed his father's footsteps upon the latter's death, writing historical fiction and documenting the American wars and their most historically relevant characters.

Jeff Rice, writing in M / C Journal, says that Tom Wolfe calls Murray " the original hysterical disk jockey "

Aherne is currently writing a sitcom to be aired on ITV called The Security Men alongside Jeff Pope with whom she collaborated to write The Fattest Man in Britain.

Hammer started off 1999 by writing, performing and producing a tune, " Even Odds " for Jeff Beck ’ s latest album Who Else!

In July 2002, Russo joined Jeff and Jerry Jarrett's NWA-TNA promotion as a creative writer and would assist in the writing and production of the shows.

Jeffrey " Jeff " Wall, OC, RSA ( born September 29, 1946 ) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art history writing.

The writing was done by David " Zeb " Cook, Jeff Grubb, Harold Johnson, and Douglas Niles, following the Hickmans ' outline.

They used the skillful Brill Building husband-and-wife songwriting team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, who had been writing most of Phil Spector's first hits.

Jeff Zaleski has reviewed Balzac as a " moving, often wrenching short novel ". Dai Sijie has been praised as a " captivating, amazing, storyteller " whose writing in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is " seductive and unaffected ".

Had the band stayed together, Chuck and Jeff would have done most of the writing and gone in a much darker direction ( with a sound similar to Kreator ).

Roth and cowriter Jeff Rendell won a 2007 Spike TV Scream Award for best " screamplay " for their writing in Grindhouse, sharing the honor with Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Rob Zombie and Edgar Wright.

Jeff Evans, writing in the The Penguin TV Companion, observed that " Slatt is certainly keen, but regrettably he is also unbalanced, tactless, clumsy, snobby, sarcastic, at times pointlessly aggressive and always prone to appalling errors of judgment ( an academic version of Basil Fawlty, it was widely noted )".

" Trouser Press journalist Jeff Chang called it " an amazing debut " and complimented Kool Keith's " shifty rhyme patterns ", while writing that Ced-Gee " pushes sampling technology to its early limits, providing sonics that are less bassy and more breakbeat heavy than most of their contemporaries.

" Variety held a similar view, writing that the " film itself tries sometimes too hard for laughs and at other times strains for shock ," while also praising the performance of Jeff Goldblum, " nonetheless enjoyable as he constantly tries to figure out just what he's doing in all of this.

He became friendly with Ellie Greenwich, and did drop-in visits to her and her writing partner ( later husband ) Jeff Barry when they were working at New York songwriters ' ' Mecca ', the Brill Building.

Recorded at A & M with the backing, writing, producing, and arranging of Jeff Barry, " Sister James " became one of the first instrumental disco records to reach the national charts.

Jeff Jaworski will still be a big part of the band and helping with the writing process on the new record.

Jeff Eastin acknowledged on his live Twitter feed during the airing of that episode that the dialogue is a deliberate reference this episode, and a " shout out " to Jane Espenson, who is now part of the White Collar writing staff.

* More Troops Are Nice, but More Intelligence Needed to Save Afghan War – Jeff Stein writing for CQ Politics ( October 31, 2008 )

In 2007 Agassi, Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Warrick Dunn, Jeff Gordon, Mia Hamm, Tony Hawk, Andrea Jaeger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mario Lemieux, Alonzo Mourning and Cal Ripken, Jr. founded the charity Athletes for Hope, which helps professional athletes get involved in charitable causes and aims to inspire all people to volunteer and support their communities.

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the U. S. to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

Currently, WBBM ( 780 AM / 105. 9 FM ) airs the Bears games with Jeff Joniak doing the play-by-play, along with color commentator Tom Thayer, who played for the Bears from 1985 – 1992, and sideline reporter Zach Zaidman.

The late Jeff Sarli, a blues upright bassist, said that, " Starting in the 1950s, they began to reset the necks on basses for steel strings.

In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

By 1983 Bevan was expressing a desire to join Black Sabbath permanently and Lynne and Tandy were recording tracks for the Electric Dreams soundtrack under Jeff Lynne's name.

In June 2007, Jeff Vogel released the source code and game content for Blades of Exile, which is currently under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

The 2003 season was notable for the firing of manager Jeff Torborg after thirty-eight games.

Gygax worked on rules for more miniatures and tabletop battle games, including Cavaliers and Roundheads ( English Civil War, with Jeff Perren ), Classic Warfare ( Ancient Period: 1500 BC to 500 AD ), and Warriors of Mars.

She later married for a third time, to a Liberal party colleague of Holt's, Jeff Bate, and was then known as Dame Zara Bate.

A trade acquiring Jeff Bagwell in exchange for Larry Andersen would become one of the biggest deals in Astros history.

On October 31, the Astros declined a contract option on Jeff Bagwell for 2007, ending his 15-year Astros career and leading to his retirement.

A writer in Seattle, researching an article on Jeff Bezos, the founder of the then-fledgling Amazon. com, came across the " Hapworth " publication date, told his sister, a journalist for the Washington Business Journal, who wrote an article about the upcoming book.

Numerous game developers were recruited to produce games for the system, including Jeff Minter's Llamasoft, Electronic Arts, Psygnosis, Ocean, Palace and U. S. Gold, with Konix promising 40 games to be available by Christmas.

After spending a considerable time searching for Wakefield's replacement, Xero recruited Arizona vocalist, Chester Bennington, who was recommended by Jeff Blue, the vice president of Zomba Music in March 1999.

After facing numerous rejections from several major record labels, Linkin Park turned to Jeff Blue for additional help.

Nike also altered Minor Threat's logo ( designed by Jeff Nelson ) for the same campaign, as well as featuring Nike shoes in the new picture, rather than the combat boots worn by Ian MacKaye's younger brother Alec on the original.

He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company ( funded by Jeff Bezos ) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad.

As NCS president for two consecutive terms, Jeff Keane, cartoonist for the Family Circus and son of comic creator, Bil Keane, returned to the charter and spirit of the NCS by extending the society's outreach to the military by visiting and cartooning for vets who served in the Iraq War and Afghanistan War, during the years 2007-2011.

One of the Nuon's main software developers was Jeff Minter, who created a version of Tempest entitled Tempest 3000 for the system, and the built-in VLM-2 audio visualizer.

Jeff Dairiki was the next major contributor, and soon headed the project for the next few years.

" Bassist Jeff Jensen of Boston's Real Kids reports of a show that year, " A reviewer for one of the free entertainment magazines of the time caught the act and gave us a great review, calling us a ' punk band.

In 1997, after his sponsorship with Coca-Cola ended, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon signed a long term contract with Pepsi, and he drives with the Pepsi logos on his car with various paint schemes for about 2 races each year, usually a darker paint scheme during nighttime races.