Schumacher claims he originally had in mind an adaptation of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One.

The fellow whose nickname made up the title was played by Tom Ewell, and the female lead, Susan Oliver, won the Theatre World Award for her performance, while the Irwin Shaw adaptation opened at Henry Miller's Theatre on 28 October 1958 and closed on November 1.

The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Frank Miller's 1998 comic book miniseries 300, and the 2006 film adaptation of the same name, portray Ephialtes as a severely deformed Spartan in exile who betrays the Spartan army after Leonidas, although sympathetic towards him, denies him the right to fight because he was unable to lift a shield high enough, thus compromising the integrity of the phalanx formation.

Scott excelled on television that year as well, appearing in an adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Price, an installment of the Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology.

In a review of the DVD critic Gary W. Tooze lauded Edward's direction and the acting, writing, " Blake Edwards's powerful adaptation of J. P. Miller's Playhouse 90 story, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in career performances, remains a variation in his body of work largely devoted to comedy ... Lemmon is at his best and ditto for Remick in this harrowing tale of people consumed by their mutual addiction.

Miller's adaptation earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay based on Previously Produced Material, his only nomination.

Schlöndorff then went to the United States to make a TV adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman and John Malkovich as Biff.

Another notable play in which he appeared was the 1974 adaptation of Arthur Miller's After the Fall, in which he played Quentin ( a part originated on Broadway by Jason Robards ) opposite Faye Dunaway's Maggie.

In the 1957 screen adaptation of Miller's piece, Proctor was depicted by Yves Montand.

Dewhurst appeared opposite her then-husband, Scott, in a 1971 television adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Price, on Hallmark Hall of Fame, an anthology series, and there is another television recording of them together when she played Elizabeth Proctor to his unfaithful John in Miller's The Crucible ( with Tuesday Weld.

In the 1957 screen adaptation of Miller's piece, he was depicted by Yves Brainville.

* Playing for Time, Linda Yellen 1980, TV-movie based on Arthur Miller's stage adaptation ; the source of much controversy for its choice of Vanessa Redgrave, a PLO sympathizer, to play Fania Fénelon ; Fénelon opposed the not-very-Jewish-looking Redgrave on the grounds that she was miscast as well as being anti-Israeli.

In particular, Robert Rodriguez did not use a screenplay for Sin City but utilized actual panels from writer / artist Frank Miller's series as storyboards to create what Rodriguez regards as a " translation " rather than an adaptation.

That same year, Gugino appeared as Lucille in the feature film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel, Sin City.

* The film adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City

Maillet appeared in the movie 300, released in 2007, an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name.

Macht played the title role in Frank Miller's 2008 adaptation of Will Eisner's comic creation The Spirit.

He also appeared in a few more pictures: In 1962 he went to Paris to appear in Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge.

Shelton gained more attention for a small role as The Customer in the film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

In a CNN interview, John Landis said the movie was " based on Chris Miller's real fraternity at Dartmouth ", Alpha Delta Phi.

On December 14, 1990, the first episode was released as shareware by Miller's company, Apogee, and orders began rolling in.

His prominence as a stage actor began in 1986, when he was cast opposite Jack Lemmon, Peter Gallagher and Bethel Leslie as Jamie, the eldest Tyrone son in Jonathan Miller's lauded production of Eugene O ' Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night.

Miller's experiment was therefore a remarkable success at synthesizing complex organic molecules from simpler chemicals, considering that all life uses just 20 different amino acids.

These include Will Scarlet ( or Scathlock ), Much the Miller's Son, and Little John – who was called " little " as a joke, as he was quite the opposite.

Some Millerites came to believe that Miller's calculations were correct but that his interpretation of Daniel 8: 14 was flawed as he assumed it was the ' earth that was to be cleansed ' or Christ would come to cleanse the world.

In celebration of his 80th birthday, the Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, and the The BBC Proms staged a concert in his honor.

A Broadway theatre at West 43rd Street in New York City, The Henry Miller's Theatre, was renamed The Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, in honor of his 80th birthday.

Marc Miller's Traveller ( 1996 – 1998 ) was published by Imperium Games after GDW dissolved and the rights to Traveller reverted to Marc Miller, the creator of the original game.

Miller's citizenship rights were taken away and was sentenced to eighteen months in prison with a $ 5, 000 fine.

Consisting of Gibbons, Lanier Greig on keyboards and Moving Sidewalks ' drummer Dan Mitchell, the group was signed to London Records by manager Bill Ham, and released two singles —" Salt Lick " and " Miller's Farm ".

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States ; an edition was printed by the Obelisk Press in Paris and copies were smuggled into the United States.

* Professor Ken Miller's claim that the Discovery Institute wrongly stated the Santorum Amendment was part of the Education Bill.

Martin Calle evolved the concept from Miller's New Ventures effort to launch a new dry beer at a time Miller Brewing was in danger of becoming a much-cloned light beer manufacturer.

Getting this balance right was an important part of the two year development process, led by Ronda Dannenberg and Jackie Lauman, specialists at Miller's flagship brewery in Milwaukee.

Miller's Crossing was a box-office failure at the time, making slightly more than $ 5 million, out of its $ 10 –$ 14 million budget.

Although it achieved popularity when the song " Charleston ", sung by Elisabeth Welch, was added in the production Runnin ' Wild, the dance itself was first introduced in Irving C. Miller's Liza in the spring of 1923.

Its New York City debut was on February 4, 1938 at Henry Miller's Theatre, and later moved to the Morosco Theatre.

Miller's correspondence with Durrell was later published in two books.