It is a sitcom about an earthy, one-hit wonder disco queen named Regina Gallant ( MacDonald ) who is recommended for appointment as Governor General by a conniving Prime Minister anticipating she will become a national embarrassment in the job, allowing him to move ahead in eliminating the position, along with the Canadian Monarchy.

As a politician, he excited bitter opposition, and was charged, apparently with justice, with corruption and venality in conniving at, and sharing, the profits of illicit trade with the Confederates carried on by his brother at New Orleans and by his brother-in-law in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, while General Butler was in command.

" Cavell draws a comparison of themes between Trading Places and the opera The Marriage of Figaro, stating that " what Trading Places wants from its reference to Figaro is mostly the idea of resourceful and sociable young and poor overcoming with various disguises the conniving of the unsociable old and rich but with no sense that the old may be redeemed by a recognition of their faults and no revolutionary desire to see the world formed on a new basis.

Other notable cast members in the series included Pam Ferris as Connie's conniving stepsister Nesta, George Costigan as her ex-husband Arnie, Richard Morant as her new love interest Jamieson, Brenda Bruce as her stepmother Bea and Paul Rogers as " Hot Pants " Hector, Connie's father.

In 1195, while Isaac II was away hunting in Thrace, Alexios was acclaimed as emperor by the troops with the conniving of Alexios ' wife Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera.

The conniving lawyer Tulkinghorn is killed in his office late one night, and the crime is investigated by Inspector Bucket of the Metropolitan police force.

The conniving and wrangling over wills and inheritances reflect the expertise gained by the author as a young law clerk.

* Robert Cecil was portrayed as the unsympathetic, conniving antagonist of the play, Equivocation, written by Bill Cain, which first premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2009.

The Second Branch of the Mabinogi names Bran, Branwen, and Manawydan as her children by Llŷr, and ascribes to her two additional sons by Euroswydd: Nisien, a good man, and Efnysien, a conniving troublemaker.

Her mother's remarriage introduces a conniving stepbrother from New York named Eric ( played by Joshua Hoffman ) in a two-part episode, although neither her mother nor stepfather are featured.

The divorce action would fail if the citizen's intervention showed that the Simpsons had colluded by, for example, conniving in or staging the appearance of his adultery so that she could marry someone else.

Famed for their heavy use of naval assets as well as their conniving and efficient nature, the Snow Raven Clan, despite being mistrusted and misunderstood by other Clans has nonetheless risen to power as one of the more powerful Clans in the past decade.

Keating perceived the gallery system to be rotten – dominated, he said, by American " avant-garde fashion, with critics and dealers often conniving to line their own pockets at the expense both of naïve collectors and impoverished artists ".

Mohr's first major film role was in 1996 when he played the conniving Bob Sugar, a sleazy sports agent in Jerry Maguire, followed in 1997 by a starring role in Picture Perfect.

The May 1989 series finale of Dynasty had left Forsythe's oil tycoon Blake Carrington shot by a corrupt policeman, his beloved wife Krystle ( Evans ) in an off-screen coma, and his conniving ex-wife Alexis Colby ( Collins ) plunging from a balcony.

These incidents are viewed by some in Sri Lanka as Norwegians conniving with the LTTE.

However, most striking was the high-pitched, rasping voice Collins employed for both roles, which made the characters always seem duplicitous and conniving regardless of what they were saying, as well as adding an element of a running gag when they inevitably threw a tantrum or when they were humiliated by their superiors ( Starscream getting slapped around by Megatron for his disobedience and Cobra Commander getting himself routinely countermanded by Serpentor ).

Throughout his time on the soap, he turned from a conniving fraudster into a fully-fledged serial killer, becoming known as ' Killman ' Hillman by the press.

* Hauntleroy ( voiced by Howard Morris ): A rotund, conniving and selfish two-faced sissy kid in a sailor suit who was often the primary foil for Batso's and Ratso's tricks.

It is the recollection of Phillip Carver, a middle aged editor from New York City, who is summoned back to Memphis by his two conniving unmarried sisters to help them prevent the marriage of their elderly father to a younger woman.

Although initially perceived as cynical and conniving in the beginning, the viewer's sympathy for McGee increases as the series progresses, as McGee gradually comes to realize the Hulk may not be as dangerous as he initially thought, particularly following several instances in episodes such as " The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas " in which he has his own life saved by the creature.

As the bitch goddess, Erica started out as " a conniving teenage vixen " and transformed into " the femme fatale incarnate.

Harris beat out two other actors for the role of conniving, cowardly agent Dr. Zachary Smith on Lost In Space for CBS.

In Shrek 2, the fairy godmother turns out to be a conniving, crooked businesswoman ( with a personality rather like that of the Stepmother in Cinderella ), who is quite willing to resort to blackmail and / or murder to further her own interests.

This suitor is actually a con man out to steal the dowager's diamond necklace with the help of his conniving partner Penelope ( Kay Francis ).

During opening statements Hill called Nichols a " conniving, vicious, cold-blooded, remorseless, evil and extremely dangerous killer " who carefully planned the attack and methodically sought out his targets.

Jessica and her conniving friends do everything they can to keep Robin out and Liz does her best to make sure Robin is accepted by the club.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

* " In a Mirror, Darkly "-The Sato of the parallel universe is promiscuous, conniving and ambitious, who ultimately declared herself as Empress Sato of Earth.

From 1959 to 1977, he had a long-running role as the conniving Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark on BBC Radio.

It has all those things, all wrapped around a cast of characters who are conniving, paranoid, dysfunctional, and often heartless.

The 1830s American stage, where blackface first rose to prominence featured similarly comic stereotypes of the clever Yankee and the larger-than-life Frontiersman ; the late 19th-and early 20th-century American and British stage where it last prospered featured many other, mostly ethnically-based, comic stereotypes: conniving, venal Jews ; drunken brawling Irishmen with blarney at the ready ; oily Italians ; stodgy Germans ; and gullible rural rubes.

* Fagin, a conniving career criminal, takes in homeless boys and teaches them to pick pockets for him.

In contrast, Ken Follett's historical novel The Pillars of the Earth and that TV mini-series depict Stephen as a conniving villain.

She had plenty of material to be written about the " rebellious sons and disgruntled brothers and conniving kings and willful queens " of the Plantagenets and hoped to write as many as a dozen books on the subject.

Delilah is portrayed as a manipulative, conniving, ruthless woman bent on revenge.

Meanwhile, Razumikhin and Raskolnikov manage to keep Avdotya from continuing her relationship with Luzhin, whose true character is exposed to be conniving and base.

Positive assessors of Chan argue that he is portrayed as intelligent, benevolent and honorable — in contrast to the adverse depictions of evil or conniving Chinese then current on page and screen.

In the animated television series Gargoyles he is depicted as a weak and conniving king who assassinates those who he believes threaten his rule.

Her first film appearance was in the film Gaslight ( 1944 ) as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

At one of the parties that her mother hosted for British émigré performers in their Laurel Canyon home, Lansbury met the casting director for the upcoming film Gaslight ( 1944 ), and he offered her the part of Nancy Oliver, Ingrid Bergman's conniving maid.

The males are generally thuggish, conniving brutes, and the females are usually lecherous, scheming vamps.

He thus gives his conniving Chamberlain, Marinelli, the right to do anything in his power to delay the previously arranged marriage between Emilia and Count Appiani.

Supporting historical characters include the old Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his conniving favorite wife Tiy, the wife of Akhenaten Nefertiti, the listless young Tutankhamun ( King Tut ) who succeeded as Pharaoh after Akhenaten's downfall, and the two common-born successors who were, according to this author, integral parts of the rise and fall of the Amarna heresy of Akhenaten, the priest and later Pharaoh Ay, and the warrior-general and then finally Pharaoh Horemheb.