He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Like his contemporary, director John Ford, Capra defined and aggrandized the tropes of mythic America where individual courage invariably triumphs over collective evil.

* " John Wyndham: No Place Like Earth ", programme on BBC Radio 4, 11. 30 am, 12 November 2010

Like previous kings, John managed a peripatetic court that travelled around the kingdom, dealing with both local and national matters as he went.

* John Locke: Like Hobbes, described a social contract theory based on citizens ' fundamental rights in the state of nature.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

" ( The two had co-starred in the film Spies Like Us, another film in which Aykroyd had hopes, which Belushi's death had dashed, that John Belushi would co-star with him.

*" Number 12 Looks Just Like You " ( co-written with John Tomerlin )

Like Garrick before him, John Philip Kemble had introduced more of Shakespeare's text, while still preserving the three main elements of Tate's version: the love story, the omission of the Fool, and the happy ending.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

Like Body and Soul, the film starred John Garfield.

At this time New Recruits Like Inchicore Republican John McGrath Joined Fianna Eireann, He would go on to be a high Ranking Member of Fianna Eireann. There was no one place that Na Fianna could claim as their Headquarters, and they depended on the use of old buildings that were in Republican ownership, or owned by Republican sympathisers.

She joined the Bristol Old Vic Company in January 1950, appearing as Phebe in As You Like It, Anni in Denis Cannan's Captain Carvallo and Belinda in John Vanbrugh's The Provok'd Wife.

Early blackface minstrels often said that their material was largely or entirely authentic to African-American culture ; John Strausbaugh, author of Black Like You, said that such claims were likely to be untrue.

Other related artists include The Bran Flakes, Emergency Broadcast Network, Escape Mechanism, Negativland, John Oswald, People Like Us and The Tape-beatles.

Like Captain John Mason, not all these men actually lived on their land.

Like many other towns, this one went through name changes before its incorporation in 1781: " Saville " in 1768, " Corey's Town ", and then " Wendell ", for one of the Masonian Proprietors, John Wendell.

* John Howard Griffin ( 1920-1980 ), civil rights activist, author of the award-winning book, Black Like Me.

*" A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody " by John Steel

They recorded a session for BBC Radio 1's John Peel, which was released on Paul Smith's Blast First and Steve Shelley ’ s record label Smells Like Records.

Like Mike is a 2002 film fantasy sports-comedy film, directed by John Schultz and starring Lil ' Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki and Brenda Song.

* John Howard Griffin, who darkened his skin and travelled in the American South as a black man in 1959 to write Black Like Me.

And John Duttine played David Powlett-Jones in BBC TV's To Serve Them All My Days ( 1980 ), adapted by Andrew Davies from the eponymous novel and as Archie Carver in London Weekend Television's People Like Us ( 1977 ), adapted from the Avenue novels.

The band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in the Festive Fifty that year, with " Dreams Burn Down " and " Like a Daydream " at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and " Taste " at number 25.

* Major George Ashley Wilkes: The gallant Ashley married his cousin, Melanie, because " Like must marry like or there'll be no happiness.

Like most postwar former prime ministers, Major turned down a peerage when he retired from the House of Commons in 2001.

Like Major League Baseball, all NFL teams still played in the Northeast and Midwest, but the AAFC seized the opportunity to place teams in open cities in Florida and California.

Major supporting roles in the comedy Legally Blonde and the romantic comedy A Lot Like Love led her to lead roles as the titular character in Marigold and in the 2009 thriller Obsessed.

Like Messier 54 ( the other extragalactic globular on Messier's list ), it is thought that M79 is not native to the Milky Way galaxy at all, but instead to the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy which is currently experiencing a very close encounter with the Milky Way — one it is unlikely to survive intact.

Like many black barnstormers of the time, Donaldson faced white Major Leaguers and fared well enough to prompt New York Giants manager John McGraw to say, " I think he is the greatest I have ever seen.

Like the appointment of Drum Major, the position of Pipe Major is derived from British Army traditions.

* Grand Slam: Like the Grand Slam in golf or the Triple Crown in American thoroughbred racing, the Grand Slam means winning all four Major tournaments in a calendar year.

Like Oshii's films, the series suggests romantic tension between the Major and Batou.

Like their British counterparts, the Royal Australian Corps of Signals ' flag and hat badge feature Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, affectionately referred to by members of the corps as " Jimmy " ( the origin dates back to the merge with Engineers when the Engineer's band's Drum Major had a " Jimmy " on his staff ).

Like many others, Ullrich found himself out of the Major Leagues.

Like the rest of the " Army of Africa ", the Foreign Legion took part in the campaign of Italy.

Like President Clinton, Israel and the Likud party now formally agreed that the objectionable clauses of the charter had been abrogated, in official statements and statements by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Sharon, Defense Minister Mordechai and Trade and Industry Minister Sharansky.

Like most German conservatives, Goerdeler favoured Germany's traditional informal alliance with China, and was strongly opposed to the volte-face in Germany's Far Eastern policies effected in early 1938 by the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who abandoned the alliance with China for an alignment with Japan.

Like all Tuvalu Prime Ministers, Toafa also became Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Like all members of the Foreign Service, DSS agents cannot remain posted in the United States for more than five consecutive years and must eventually be assigned to an overseas post.

Like many other Wallenberg relatives, Knut Agathon Wallenberg was also involved in Swedish politics and diplomacy becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs 1914 – 1917, and member of the Riksdags first chamber ( Parliament of Sweden ) 1907 – 1919.

Like the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this award does not require that an eligible film be released in the United States.

Like her husband, she served on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and also on the Civil Service Committee and the Committee on Veterans ' Affairs.

Like other villages on the South Shore the area was originally founded by the Foreign Protestants.

Like other ministers, the Foreign Minister is formally appointed by the President on the nomination of the Prime Minister, and is responsible to both the Prime Minister and the House of Representatives.

Like most senior officials at the Foreign Office he was bitterly critical of the appeasement policies of the 1930s, whilst accepting that until British rearmament was better advanced, there were few other options.