Sweeney Todd has also been featured in several films, the most recent being 2007's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, based on the 1979 musical.

Sweeney had also said that the main goal of the programming on Disney Channel was not to entertain, but to solely make money, officially stating that Disney Channel would be " the major profit driver for the ( Walt Disney ) Company.

In Britain, Tony Hatch's theme tune to the long-running soap opera Emmerdale Farm was originally performed on the cor anglais, as was also the version of Harry South's theme tune played at the end of each episode of The Sweeney.

Among others, Sweeney also acquired the works of Alberto Giacometti, David Hayes, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.

The area has also produced a number of professional athletes such as Ryan Sweeney, Trent Green, Zach Johnson, and Kurt Warner.

The UnrealScript interpreter was programmed by Tim Sweeney, who also created an earlier game scripting language, ZZT-oop.

Sweeney also played for the Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, and Philadelphia Phillies.

The role of flight attendants received heightened prominence after the September 11 attacks when flight attendants ( such as Sandra W. Bradshaw and CeeCee Lyles of United Airlines Flight 93, Robert Fangman of United Airlines Flight 175, Renee May of American Airlines Flight 77 and Betty Ong and Madeline Amy Sweeney of American Airlines Flight 11 ) actively attempted to protect passengers from assault, and also provided vital information to air traffic controllers on the hijackings.

* Madeline Amy Sweeney, was also a flight attendant on board Flight 11, Sweeney was the first to describe the hijackers, and their actions.

The Tower of Bray is also referenced in the song Parlour Songs in the Stephen Sondheim musical, Sweeney Todd, although the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical.

In 1976 she was also made responsible for overseeing the work of Euston Films, Thames ' subsidiary film production company, at the time best known as the producers of The Sweeney.

Fleet Street is also famous for the barber Sweeney Todd, traditionally said to have lived and worked in Fleet Street ( he is sometimes called the ' Demon Barber of Fleet Street ').

Minor script rewrites were made to update it for the 21st century and also reference the main character as originating from Liverpool-like Claire Sweeney herself.

He also performed as Moonface Martin in a television version of Anything Goes with Ethel Merman reprising her role as Reno Sweeney and Frank Sinatra as Billy Crocker.

Sweeney also appears as a character in Neil Gaiman's novel, American Gods.

and Sweeney 2 have also been released on DVD.

The group has had several lineup changes over the years, and now features a rotating team of Neil Mullarkey, Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Richard Vranch ( a comedy improviser who also plays piano ), Jim Sweeney, Lee Simpson and Andy Smart, together with frequent guest appearances.

Newell also managed to bring in former loan stars Adrian Forbes and Peter Sweeney, as well as Nick Colgan, Michael Leary and Chris Jones to finish his squad refurbishing.

Sweeney retired from performing in 2008 but is still listed as a member and is also the group's President.

Sweeney also pushed for mergers with a number of other unions, absorbing the National Association of Government Employees ( NAGE ) and other public employee unions.

Sweeney also proposed creating a Center for Strategic Campaigns to coordinate all national contract campaigns ; creating a Strategic Campaign Fund to provide grants to unions in difficult organizing and contract fights ; creating a Strike Support Team of organizers that could be deployed to help support strikes ; and establishing a Pension Investment Clearinghouse to provide information on how pensions are invested and to help mobilize investments in support of organizing.

Sweeney also called for a modification of labor's political tactics and withdrawal of support for Democrats who did not support labor's agenda.

The proposed amendment was never acted on, but Sweeney promised the convention he would not remain in office beyond the age limit he had proposed.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

By taking off like the scissors, but extending his back and flattening out over the bar, Sweeney achieved a more economic clearance and raised the world record to in 1895.

This version of the story was the first to give Todd a more sympathetic motive: he is a wrongfully imprisoned barber who returns to London after 15 years in an Australian penal colony under the new name Sweeney Todd, only to find that the judge responsible for his imprisonment has raped his young wife and driven her to suicide, and adopted his daughter.

When Giambi showed reluctance, they gave the job to Sweeney, who responded by posting the highest fielding percentage by a regular first baseman in more than 20 years.

BBC reporter John Sweeney asked a Russian editor: “ Is Mr Abramovich more powerful than the gangsters ?” The Russian paused, then smiled: “ Good observation .”

On February 8, 2007 at the Disney Investor Conference, Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney, announced that they would rebrand Touchstone Television to ABC Television Studio in order to tie its successful productions more closely with the ABC brand.

Sweeney has guest-starred on various TV series, including House ( 2006 ) as Crandall, an ex-bandmate of Dr. Gregory House ; Jericho as John Goetz ( 2006 – 2008 ); Castle as an LA detective ( 2011 ), and more.

The police in The Sweeney were far removed from the cosy BBC world of Dixon of Dock Green, or even from the BBC's slightly more realistic Z-Cars ( which itself had been co-created by Troy Kennedy-Martin ).

Boxer John Kraynak ( December 15, 1894, Plymouth, Pennsylvania – June 14, 1961, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA ) used the name Bob " KO " Sweeney because it was a more " Irish-sounding " name that would result in a bigger draw for his fights.

Soon after taking office, Sweeney initiated several programs intended to reverse the decline in union membership and recruit more new members, especially younger people.

Sweeney kept acting until he died, appearing in numerous television shows, more than twelve the year he died.

The following year he wrote Kelly's Heroes, and he scripted two more films during the 1970s-The Jerusalem File ( 1971 ) and Sweeney 2 ( 1978 ).

Many celebrities assist the organization, including Jerry Lewis, Ed McMahon, Tom Bergeron, Jann Carl, Ace Young, Cynthia Garrett, Billy Gilman, Norm Crosby, Alison Sweeney, Maureen McGovern, Don Francisco, John Ondrasik, and many more.

According to EMILY's List, Sweeney has taken more campaign contributions from special interests than any other of New York's 29 Representatives.

This team is responsible for Watermill productions of ' Pinafore Swing ', ' A Star Danced ' and ' Ten Cents a Dance ', and more recently with the highly successful Sweeney Todd and Mack and Mabel both of which have gone on from the Watermill to tour the UK and transfer to the West End.

The series has been compared to the series Special Branch ( 1969 – 74 ), but it bears more similarity to The Sweeney ( 1976 – 78 ).

Euston had already scored major successes with Van der Valk, their revamped version of Special Branch, and The Sweeney, but these were larger-scale, glossier and more ' action-packed ' operations.

" Notable in the large and excellent cast of Eight Men Out are D. B. Sweeney, who gives Shoeless Joe Jackson the slow, voluptuous Southern naivete of the young Elvis ; Michael Lerner, who plays the formidable gangster Arnold Rothstein with the quietest aplomb ; Gordon Clapp as the team's firecracker of a catcher ; John Mahoney as the worried manager who senses much more about his players ' plans than he would like to, and Michael Rooker as the quintessential bad apple.

Senator Sweeney also co-sponsored the law providing health benefits to New Jersey National Guard members who serve for 30 days or more on state active duty.

His most notable recurring character was a portrayal of then-First Lady Nancy Reagan ; Sweeney was told by Ron Reagan, who hosted one of that season's episodes, that he was " more like his mother than she is.

Sweeney defended his scoring title, while Kilrea placed fourth and Anderson tenth, and Paille led the league in goaltending once more.

* August 9, 1945 – Second, and more powerful, atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped on Nagasaki from a B-29 named Bockscar, flown by Maj. Charles Sweeney

The theatre company strives to be integral part of the cultural life of the city, and has sought to develop new writing through its biennial Corcadorca Playwright Award, and by commissioning new work from more established writers (" Disco Pigs ", Enda Walsh, and " Bruen's Twist ", Eamonn Sweeney ).