Written and directed by James Dearden, Rogue Trader stars Ewan McGregor ( Nick Leeson ) and Anna Friel ( Lisa Leeson ) and was executive produced by Sir David Frost.

The film could also be seen in its original black and white form on the short-lived " Golden Jubilee " video collection of the mid-1980s, Cartoon Network's installment show Late Night Black and White, and Nick at Nite's version of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon.

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

Nick wondered if Elaine had bought them, but he said nothing.

His works are sometimes even said to have contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words politics and politician, and it is sometimes thought that it is because of him that Old Nick became an English term for the Devil and the adjective Machiavellian became a pejorative term describing someone who aims to deceive and manipulate others for personal advantage.

New neighbours Derek and Betty McVitie replaced the Trenches for the 1997 special " Endgame ", however this turned out to be their only appearances in the series and they were said to have emigrated by the penultimate episode which caused Nick Swainey to leap straight in with the offer for their old house.

Most of Wallace's inventions look not unlike the designs of W. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg, and Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Nick Park says: " We are a nation of dog-lovers and so many people have said: ' My dog looks at me just like Gromit does!

The Robertson interview apparently predated the Muroc scenario said by Nick Spark ( American Aviation Historical Society Journal 48 ( 2003 ) p. 169 ) to have occurred in or after June, 1949.

: Defendant Nick du Toit said he was introduced to Thatcher in South Africa last year by Simon Mann, the leader of 70 men arrested in Zimbabwe in March suspected of being a group of mercenaries heading to Equatorial Guinea.

Asked by BBC political editor Nick Robinson whether people caught carrying knives illegally could expect a lesser punishment, Clarke said ministers would not insist on " absolute tariffs ".

It is said that Fitzgerald modeled West Egg — the fictional town in which Nick lives — after his own Great Neck ( specifically Kings Point ) and the atmosphere and lifestyle there ; and he modeled East Egg after Great Neck's eastern neighbor, Port Washington, or, more specifically, Sands Point.

Concurring with this, the historian Nick Higham said that " Stigand was a seasoned politician whose career had been built on an accurate reading of the balance of power.

* The fictional secret agent, Nick Carter, owns a pearl-handled 400-year old stiletto said to have been made by Cellini, which is featured regularly in the 260 + novels in the series.

* In Ernest Hemingway's short story A Way You'll Never Be, Captain Paravicini says to Nick, the protagonist who is suffering from psychological instability following a head wound, " I said it should have been trepanned.

Rolling Stone said in its review that " Harvey sings the blues like Nick Cave sings gospel: with more distortion, sex and murder than you remember.

Decibel Magazine contributor Nick Terry said " To call As Daylight Dies addictive would be an understatement.

As Nick Catalano points out, Brown's trips to Philadelphia grew in frequency after he graduated highschool and entered Delaware State University ; it could be said that, although his dorm was in Dover, his classroom was in Philadelphia.

His experimentation and research was done for the FBI / CIA ( both organizations are said to be behind it in different issues ) in order to find a way to create super soldiers so the U. S. Government wouldn't have to be reliant on Nick Fury's monopoly on the Ultimates.

Following the 2004 federal election, at which the Liberal-National coalition government won a majority in both Houses, a senior minister, Senator Nick Minchin, said that he favoured the abolition of compulsory voting.

'" In a blog post, WORLD publisher Nick Eicher said " there are no hard feelings " between Olasky and The King's College.

That said, the show included appearances from Frank Skinner, Alan Carr, Graham Norton, Sean Lock, Kristen Schaal, Fearne Cotton, Matt Berry, Katherine Parkinson, Mitchell and Webb, Jason Manford, Shappi Khorsandi, Russell Howard, Katy Brand, Tim Minchin, Sarah Millican, Kayvan Novak, Meera Syal, Sean Williamson, Sharon Horgan, Nick Mohammed, Dan Clark, David Armand, Eddie Izzard, Ed Byrne, Deborah Meaden, Jon Culshaw, Gok Wan, and Mike Fenton Stevens.

Nick Makin, Martin's solicitor, said: " It is appalling that the family of someone who has a criminal record for burglary and assault should attempt to claim any damages of criminal injury when he was shot while burgling the dwelling of an innocent person ...

Referring to the Fury miniseries, based on the character Nick Fury, which he co-created, Lee said, " I don't know why they're doing that.

Kimberly said that producers would attempt to mollify Nicole by giving her a new reality show of her own, a Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica-styled effort focused on her then-upcoming wedding to Adam Goldstein, known professionally as DJ AM.

" My father said, ' Nick, get a trade, be a barber or something.

" When production was wrapped, Dean said in another press release, " I now regard Natalie, Nick and Sal as co-workers ; I regard them as friends ... about the only friends I have in this town.

I don't know which one of them said this-it was Nick or Dennis-but he said, " We're gonna hang on to her bra straps.

On August 9, 1988, in a move that heralded significant change in the NHL, the Oilers traded Gretzky, along with McSorley and Krushelnyski, to the Kings for Carson, Martin Gelinas, $ 15 million in cash, and the Kings ' first-round draft picks in 1989 ( later traded to the New Jersey Devils – New Jersey selected Jason Miller ), 1991 ( Martin Rucinsky ), and 1993 ( Nick Stajduhar ).

( Early on, it is revealed that Nick's father, Dr. Bertram Charles, has never been overly impressed with his son's unusual career choice, so this gives Nick an opportunity to change his father's mind.

He had a change of heart and was going to confess all to Nick, but was killed before he could.

During 2005, bassist Hobson left and was replaced by Nick Wilkinson, marking the band's first line-up change in thirteen years.

Although by the time the video for their single " The Flame " was made in early 1986, Nick Rhodes had changed his hair colour to golden blond and Simon Le Bon returned to his regular highlighted hair style — this subsequent change of hairstyle anticipated the promotion of the forthcoming Duran Duran album, Notorious, released later that same year.

Then-Representative Nick Smith ( R-MI ) claimed he was offered campaign funds for his son, who was running to replace him, in return for a change in his vote from " nay " to " yea.

The show saw considerable development and change in the lives of its characters, seeing Janey turn from teenage rebel to mother, Nick turn from prat to a responsible-for-himself prat, Abi become Roger ’ s wife and Michael turn from schoolboy to student and beyond.

Almost forty years later, writer Peter Guralnick wrote that Presley found it " good running around with Nick ... – there was always something happening, and the hotel suite was like a private clubhouse where you needed to know the secret password to get in and he got to change the password every day.

Simon Pegg guest-starred as Bill Bailey's boss in one episode, an inversion of their roles in Spaced ; Nick Frost appeared at the beginning of the episode " The Big Lockout " to install a new security system for the shop, though lost Manny's attention when he spotted a Subbuteo player in his hair ; Jessica Stevenson made an appearance as a friend of Fran's, who was trying to help her live a healthier lifestyle with attempts to change her diet and get her to exercise more ; while Peter Serafinowicz played a radio broadcaster whose dulcet tones reading the shipping forecast drive Fran wild with desire.

Produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, the album constituted a change of style for the band, featuring synthesizers and a strong ' 80s influence.

In December 2009 Davies appeared on the The Politics Show North West alongside Nick Griffin on a debate regarding climate change and the then forthcoming 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which both men were attending as part of the EU Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

On September 28, 2009, the network's logo changed as part of Nickelodeon's universal rebranding effort that also saw Nickelodeon's first logo change in 25 years, and name changes for sister networks: The N to TeenNick and Noggin to Nick Jr.

The candy was then rebranded as Fun Dip, a brand change instituted by Jared Allen and Fredrick Nick, and added to the Willy Wonka product line.

Around the same time, while recording their second full album, the band was prompted to change their name by producer Nick Venet's comment that the name The Staccatos sounded " dated ".

As with fellow psych rocker Nick Saloman's The Bevis Frond, Sun Dial has always been an instrument of its frontman Gary Ramon ; the band's lineup tends to change from album to album.

After the editorial change in 2012 longtime writers such as Maureen O ' Connor ( journalist ) | Maureen O ' Connor and Brian Moylan ( above ) stopped writing for GawkerIn November 2011, Nick Denton announced that Deadspin editor-in-chief A. J.

The reason for the change is yet unknown, but could possibly due to the fact the Nick Jr brand is more well known in the United Kingdom than Noggin.

He juggles the raising of their two young sons, Nick and Joe, with encouraging Senator Phil Chase and Chase's chief of staff, Roy, to badger the conservatives in Congress about passing legislation to convert America to a non-anthropogenic global warming society, to construct carbon sinks, and to work for international cooperation for amelioration of climate change.

David Cameron's government at first supported the proposal, but later changed its mind, reportedly because Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was opposed to the change.

Nick McCave's research looks at perturbations in the deep oceans, using evidence from micro-fossils combined with carbon dating, to obtain information on pre-historical climate change.

Ben-Horin described his impressions of Change Nation and of related discussions with American Ambassador to Romania, Mark Gitenstein ; Aga Khan Development Network official Nick McKinlay ; and Central and Eastern European activists such as Vlad Atanasiu in a post on the blog entitled, “ Tension and possibility — The new dynamics of change.

The aforementioned Rafael Dominic C. Agbayani may be given an unofficial nickname such as Paeng, Domeng, Raffy, Nick, or Ranic that he could later change or keep for life.

Another personnel change occurred when Nick stopped playing drums at live shows to concentrate on his lead singing.

Kevin Rudd used part of the 2007 election debate to argue that the Liberal Party was being influenced by the H. R. Nicholls Society to make further reforms to industrial relations, citing Nick Minchin's attendance to last year's H. R. Nicholls Society conference, where he told the audience that the coalition knew its reform to Work Choices were not popular but the process of change must continue, and that " there is still a long way to go ... awards, the IR commission, all the rest of it ..." The Australian Labor Party stated that " We know the HR Nicholls society supports the abolition of awards, supports the abolition of the minimum wage, supports the abolition of the independent umpire, the Industrial Relations Commission ".