" Sayers herself disliked the novel, which she wrote quickly in order to fulfill her publisher's contract, and was unsure whether it would ring true with the reading public.

The film told of how Piccolo helped Sayers recover from a devastating knee injury to return to his status as one of the league's best players, and how Sayers in turn helped the Piccolo family through Brian's fatal illness.

A 1940 film of Busman's Honeymoon or The Haunted Honeymoon ( US title ), starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Lord and Lady Peter was released but the characters and events bore little resemblance to Sayers ' writing.

In 2010, the film Black Swan tells a story about Nina Sayers, a dancer who lands the role as Swan Queen in Swan Lake ; the film contains scenes of the character who sees a double of herself whenever she feels insecure of herself.

In " Black Swan ( film )", the protagonist Nina Sayers, played Natalie Portman, faces her alter ego represented by the character of the Black Swan.

Darrow's other TV appearances include: Emergency Ward 10, The Saint, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1975 BBC series The Legend of Robin Hood, as Mr. Tallboy in the 1973 TV adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers ' Murder Must Advertise, as Thomas Doughty in the TV film Drake's Venture, Dombey and Son, Maelstrom, Making News, Pie in the Sky,

Operation Mincemeat inspired a similar plan in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, in Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy, in Body of Lies by David Ignatius, in the film version of You Only Live Twice, in the Dorothy Sayers / Jill Paton Walsh novel " A Presumption of Death ", and in the science fiction series Space: Above and Beyond and the Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode " In the Pale Moonlight ".

The film Brian's Song, loosely based on Gale Sayers ' autobiography, tells the story of the friendship between Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and their time during football with the Chicago Bears up until Brian Piccolo's death.

The case could also be made that Nina Sayers ( Natalie Portman ) from the film Black Swan experienced this, perceiving the people around her as different versions of herself.

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

** James Sayers, English caricaturist ( d. 1823 )

* Dorothy L. Sayers ( 1893 – 1957 ) lived at 24 Great James Street from 1921 – 1929.

He was often caricatured as Oliver Cromwell and Guy Fawkes during this period, as well as Satan, " Carlo Khan " ( see James Sayers ) and Machiavelli.

* Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography ( 1981 ) by James Brabazon.

The cavity magnetron was developed at the university in the Physics Department by John Randall, Harry Boot and James Sayers.

His lean and awkward figure was extensively caricatured by James Sayers and James Gillray, reflecting his political opinions and his relationship with his children.

James Sayers ( or Sayer ) ( 1748-April 20, 1823 ) was an English caricaturist.

Other noted champions were Jack Broughton, Daniel Mendoza, Jem Belcher, Hen Pearce, John Gully, Tom Cribb, Tom Spring, Jem Ward, James Burke, William " Bendigo " Thompson, Caitlin " Swan " McDonald, Ben Caunt, Tom Sayers and Jem Mace.

James Ritson ( Engraving by James Sayers, published in 1803 )

He rose to stardom after starring in the critically lauded blockbuster biographical TV movie, Brian's Song ( 1971 ), in which he played Chicago Bears star football player Gale Sayers, who stood by his friend Brian Piccolo ( played by James Caan ), during his struggle with terminal cancer.

James Ritson, whose Gammer Gurton's Garland contains one of the earliest versions of the rhyme ( Engraving by James Sayers, published in 1803 )

It first aired on ABC in 1971, starring James Caan as Brian Piccolo and Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers, and was such a success on television that it was later shown in theaters.

P. D. James ( The Murder Room, 2004 ), Dorothy Sayers, and Anthony Berkeley Cox ( writing as Francis Iles ) have written fiction based on their story.

House helped to make four men governor of Texas: James S. Hogg ( 1892 ), Charles A. Culberson ( 1894 ), Joseph D. Sayers ( 1898 ), and S. W. T. Lanham ( 1902 ).

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" Other authors whom Niffenegger has cited as influencing the book include Richard Powers, David Foster Wallace, Henry James, and Dorothy Sayers.

Famous fighters of prize ring include William " Bendigo " Thompson, Tom Cribb, Jack Broughton, James " Deaf " Burke, " Professor " Mike Donovan, Tom Allen, Samuel " Dutch Sam " Elias, John " Gentleman " Jackson, the " Benicia Boy " John Carmel Heenan, Daniel Mendoza, Tom Molineaux, John " Old Smoke " Morrisey, Tom Sayers, Owen Swift, the " Trojan Giant " Paddy Ryan, Joe Goss, and James " Yankee Sullivan " Ambrose, Arhan Deshmukh.

In August, Blair moved into a flat in Kentish Town, which he shared with Michael Sayers and Rayner Heppenstall.

The lecturers of Shrewsbury College are veterans of the prolonged struggle for academic degrees to women, which Oxford granted only reluctantly ( Sayers herself took part in this struggle ).

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries ; usually, but not always, murders.

A character in the Dorothy L. Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise appears at a fancy-dress party as a member of the Vehmgericht, which allows him to wear a hooded costume to disguise his identity.

Most of the action takes place in an advertising agency, a setting with which Sayers was very familiar.

Albourne, Ansty, Bolney, Clayton, Ditchling, Ditchling Common, East Chiltington, Goddards Green, Hickstead, Jacob's Post, Keymer, Plumpton, Plumpton Green, Sayers Common, Streat, Twineham, Westmeston, Wivelsfield ( which has given its name to a railway station in Burgess Hill ), and Wivelsfield Green are other nearby villages.

is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey.

Following this Sayers became involved in another relationship which resulted in an unwanted pregnancy.

Some editions include as a foreword a letter written by Sayers " To my friend Joe Dignam, the kindliest of landlords ," from which it becomes evident that she herself was in the habit of having holidays in Galloway-a habit attributed to Wimsey in the book-and that on one of them she promised her landlord to write a detective novel set in this area, of which the book was a fulfilment.

Have His Carcase is a 1932 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and her second novel in which Harriet Vane appears.

" Dorothy L. Sayers incautiously entered the closed world of bell-ringing in The Nine Tailors on the strength of a sixpenny pamphlet picked up by chance -- and invented a method of killing which would not produce death, as well as breaking a fundamental rule of that esoteric art by allowing a relief ringer to take part in her famous nine-hour champion peal.

Busman's Honeymoon first saw the light of day as a stage play by Sayers and Muriel St. Clare Byrne, which opened in December 1936.

Thrones, Dominations is a Lord Peter Wimsey murder mystery novel that Dorothy L. Sayers began writing but abandoned, and which remained as fragments and notes at her death.

Sayers had charted the developing relationship between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane over four published novels, culminating in Busman's Honeymoon, the action of which takes place immediately following the couple's marriage.

According to Sayers ' friend and biographer Barbara Reynolds, Sayers had begun work in 1936 on Thrones, Dominations, a murder mystery novel in which the Wimsey marriage was to be contrasted with those of two other couples.

She was also able to refer to a typescript which had been found in a safe at Sayers ' former literary agents and which differed in some respects from the manuscript version.

First published in 1972 ( ISBN 0-380-01694-X ), it includes all the short stories about Lord Peter written by Dorothy L. Sayers, most of which were published elsewhere soon after they were written, and some related writings.

Chronologically between the two are " The Wimsey Papers ", a series of epistolary articles written at the beginning of World War II, which Sayers wrote for The Spectator.