McQuarrie was born and raised in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South with director Bryan Singer, actor Ethan Hawke and musician James Murphy.

McQuarrie spent the next several years dividing his time between rewriting studio movies ( such as Singer ’ s X-Men ) and developing a screenplay on the life of Alexander the Great, written with Peter Buchman, for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Keyser Söze ( ) is a fictional character based upon Matt Kenyon in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer.

Neither McQuarrie nor Singer realized this at the time and they " borrowed it from people who were quoting Baudelaire themselves.

Singer wrote the concept for Public Access with high school friend Christopher McQuarrie, and fellow USC student Michael Feit Dougan wrote the first draft in ten days about a supposedly idyllic small town.

While attending the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, Singer and McQuarrie began discussing an idea that McQuarrie had for a story where " five criminals meet in a police line-up ".

Rejecting all the scripts and storylines that were developed over a decade of failed production attempts, Singer developed the story for the film with DeSanto in a week and then worked on the script with writers Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie, Joss Whedon, and finally David Hayter ( who had started out as Singer's driver ).

In late 2006, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie presented to Singer a story that took place in World War II, Valkyrie.

Singer Markus Acher also collaborated with Anticon and rapper / producer Alias on the song " Unseen Sights ".

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

After a fellowship at the Museum d ' Histoire Naturelle in Paris, Singer again moved, this time to Leningrad, where he was Senior Scientific Expert at the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

But again, Jacob retreated from the growing interest and fame and took nine months off, spending most of her time reading Tolstoy, Balzac, Singer, and several autobiographies.

Burke won Readers ' Awards for Most Outstanding Blues Singer again in 2006 and 2008.

He was named Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2002, and again in 2005 when he also won the award for Best Traditional Track for ' Famous Flower of Serving Men '.

Paar was nominated for an Emmy for Best Performance by a Continuing Character in a Musical or Variety Series in 1951, and again nominated in 1958 for an Emmy for Best Continuing Performance in a Series by a Comedian, Singer, Host, Dancer, M. C., Announcer, Narrator, or Panelist.

" Pharonnida was reprinted by S. W. Singer in 1820 and again in 1905 by George Saintsbury in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period ( vol.

Singer Mona Mur appeared as a featured guest to perform songs from 120 Tage-The Fine Art of Beauty and Violence, a collaboration album between Mur and Esch .. Mur accompanied the band in 2010 and 2011 on two full Canada tours, and again in 2012 on the " Slick Idiot vs Mona Mur & En Esch Classick Tour 2012 " with Dan Simoes on guitar and Ethan Moseley on drums.

There were Singer Gazelle and Sunbeam Rapier variants of all these Hillman Minx models, and the names were again used on derivatives in the later Rootes Arrow range.

She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 as part of the Bendik Singers group with the song It's Just A Game and again as backing vocalist for fellow Bendik Singer Anne-Karine Strøm in 1974 before competing in her third consecutive Eurovision this time as a solo artist in 1975 with Touch My Life With Summer.

Singer did not see any playing time in 2004, as Adin Brown and Matt Reis were too formidable a player to break through, but again saw significant time with the Phantoms.

Singer was replaced again by Criss in 2003 but returned to the band by the end of the year after Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley opted not to renew Criss ' contract.

Eventually the band split ; Jeff Huang returned to the United States and started an internet company that later merged with a Japanese software company in a 60 million dollar deal before once again returning to Taiwan and fronting hip-hop group Machi ; brother Stanley went on to establish a successful solo career, winning Best Mandarin Male Singer in the 2005 Golden Melody Awards ( the Taiwanese music industry's equivalent to the Grammys ); Lin returned to California becoming an orthopedic surgeon.

On the third album, I'm Just a Rock & Roll Singer, they changed direction again, this time in the straightforward rock style popularized by such groups as Grand Funk Railroad, and gritty " life on the road " themes in the lyrics.

In 1998, Brian May released his third solo album, Another World, which Murray and Powell had once again played on, but Powell's death meant a tour with Eric Singer ( KISS, Alice Cooper, Lita Ford, Black Sabbath ) instead.

Bjørn Hansen was again New Hampshire's top scorer, with 16 goals on the season, while Kyle Singer posted 1. 223 GAA goalkeeping stats.

In 2010, the song was performed live for the first time with Eric Singer on acoustic guitars during their Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour and again on their The Hottest Show on Earth Tour in 2011.

However, when Criss was again let go in 2001 ( replaced by Eric Singer, who assumed Criss ' catman persona ), the song was again dropped from the setlist until the Sonic Boom Over Europe tour in 2010.

During and following the tour, Kiss has again replaced the song on the setlist ; however, the song is now sung by Eric Singer on vocals and Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer on acoustic guitars.

Singer / author John Potter declares in his book Tenor: History of a Voice ( Yale University Press, 2009, p. 31 ) that: " For much of the 18th century castrati defined the art of singing ; it was the loss of their irrecoverable skills that in time created the myth of bel canto, a way of singing and conceptualizing singing that was entirely different from anything that the world had heard before or would hear again.

Singer Mel Carter recorded the song in two different versions, once in 1965 and again in 1966.

In June 2002 filming began on X2 in Canada with Singer again directing, this time from a screenplay written by David Hayter, Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty.

In a raucous take-off on radio commercials, Singer Ray Stevens hawks a cure-all for neuritis, neuralgia, head-cold distress, beriberi, overweight, fungus, mungus and water on the knee.

* Singer James Kilbane, also known for his research on traditional Achill watercraft, lives on the island.

In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

Blues Singer # 4 shows a female singer on stage with a white flower on her shoulder and a bold red dress, reminisecent of Ella Fitzgerald.

Director Bryan Singer stated at the 2006 Comic-Con that he favored the three-persona concept, stating that there was Clark Kent on the farm, the bumbling Metropolis Clark, and Superman, the Last Son of Krypton.

* Singer, P. ( 2000 ), Writings on an ethical life, Harper Collins Publishers, London.

Singer Neil Hannon also provided Ted's vocal in the " enhanced " version of My Lovely Horse, which later appeared as a B-side on the band's single Gin Soaked Boy.

When the Nazis invaded, the family fled, Singer leaving on a children's transport train with other Jewish children.

After his masters, Singer joined the Armed Forces, working for the United States Navy on mine warfare and countermeasures from 1944 until 1946.

Singer said that the firings placed " the exploration of outer space with high altitude rockets on the same basis, cost-wise and effort-wise, as low atmosphere measurements with weather balloons.

In 1960, Singer commented in an article in Astronautics on the hypothesis of Iosif Shklovsky ( later mentioned in a 1966 book by Carl Sagan and Shklovsky ) that the orbit of the Martian moon Phobos suggests that it is hollow, which implies it is of artificial origin.

In 1962, on leave from the university, Singer was named as the first director of meteorological satellite services for the National Weather Satellite Center, now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and directed a program for using satellites to forecast the weather.

In December 1965, The New York Times reported on a conference Singer hosted in Miami Beach during which five groups of scientists, working independently, presented research identifying what they believed was the remains of a primordial flash that occurred when the universe was born.

Singer accepted a professorship in Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia in 1971, a position he held until 1994, where he taught classes on environmental issues such as ozone depletion, acid rain, climate change, population growth, and public policy issues related to oil and energy.

Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.

In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.

According to Singer, he serves on the advisory board of an anti-smoking organization, and has never been paid by Philip Morris or the tobacco lobby, or joined any of their front organizations.

After the 1991 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the Earth Summit, Singer started writing and speaking out to cast doubt on the science.

A 1990 article for the Cato Institute identifies Singer as the director of the science and environmental policy project at the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, on leave from the University of Virginia.