Her initial intelligence tests registered above normal and her adaptation index was unusually high.

In 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by Inge Langen in a West German television adaptation of The Murder at the Vicarage ( Mord im Pfarrhaus ).

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

Although filmed in color, instead of black and white as the earlier 1930 film adaptation was, the wasted and desolated landscapes and environment are very effectively conveyed.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.

The use of two pistols simultaneously was even used in the movie adaptation of the Spider character ( a contemporary of the Shadow ), the Spider's Web.

Lerner and Loewe's first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conners's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company.

This adaptation was produced at the Princess Theatre, 3 March 1884.

A 1974 West German television adaptation, titled Nora Helmer was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role.

The movie adaptation was released in 1996 starring Pamela Anderson as Barb Wire.

In 2012, a graphic adaptation of the Book of Esther was illustrated by J. T. Waldman and appeared in volume one of The Graphic Canon, edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press.

In 2003, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the BCP was published called the Book of Divine Worship.

A 2002 adaptation of its Resident Evil series faced similar criticism but was also successful in theaters.

This name was used in Turkish side by side with Kostantiniyye, the more formal adaptation of the original Constantinople, during the period of Ottoman rule, while western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as Constantinople until the early 20th century.

As a result, an exaptive explanation of consciousness has gained favor with some theorists that posit consciousness did not evolve as an adaptation but was an exaptation arising as a consequence of other developments such as increases in brain size or cortical rearrangement.

This was a result of the adaptation to the Bologna process that started in 2004 at Chalmers ( as the first technical university in Sweden ).

In 2011, it was announced rights for a miniseries adaptation passed to HBO and BBC2.

Carnivory was a natural transition from insectivory for medium and large tetrapods, requiring minimal adaptation ( in contrast, a complex set of adaptations was necessary for feeding on highly fibrous plant materials ).

* A more-or-less faithful adaptation starring Christopher Lee was produced in Italy in 1964 under the title La cripta e l ' incubo ( Crypt of the Vampire in English ).

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added appropriate songs for the characters of Henry Higgins and Liza Doolittle, played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

Schumacher claims he originally had in mind an adaptation of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One.

The adaptation, originally thought to begin filming in 2012, seems to be on hold.

In 1985, a television adaptation of the original stage play was created, directed by Albert Finney and originally aired in the US through HBO in 1985.

Additionally, Amos is currently writing the music for Samuel Adamson's musical adaptation of the George MacDonald story The Light Princess for the Royal National Theatre, which was originally expected to debut in spring 2012 but has now been deferred.

Computer display systems use a technique called chromatic adaptation transforms to emulate the correlated color temperature of illumination sources, and cannot perfectly reproduce the intricate spectral combinations originally seen.

Bertolucci's next feature film will be an adaptation of Niccolò Ammaniti's young-adult's book Io e te ( You and Me ), originally set to be filmed in 3D.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, was a huge hit in New York and London.

Charles Addams originally named the character Grandma / Granny Frump in his notes for the cartoon characters's adaptation to television in 1965, thereby making her Morticia's mother.

On 14 July 2007 BBC Radio 7 broadcast an adaptation by John Foley originally aired on the BBC World Service, starring Bob Peck as Inspector Goole, John Woodvine as Arthur Birling and Maggie Steed as Sybil Birling.

* The Bertolt Brecht play, Round Heads and Pointed Heads, was originally written as an adaptation of Measure for Measure.

A radio adaptation of the film was originally broadcast on February 1, 1937 on Lux Radio Theater.

* The Internet Archive holds a radio adaptation of the film, originally broadcast on November 23, 1936 by Lux Radio Theater.

Director Stanley Kubrick was originally interested in a film adaptation of the novel in the 1960s, but blacklisted director Abraham Polonsky had already optioned it.

* pétanque originally evolved from boule lyonnaise as an adaptation for a player confined to a wheel chair.

His Girl Friday was originally supposed to be a straightforward adaptation of The Front Page, with both the editor and reporter being men.

* Admiration for Richard and the Montreal Canadiens was the main plot point of the popular heritage story " The Hockey Sweater ", originally published in 1979 by native Quebecker and acclaimed author Roch Carrier., as well as its 1980 National Film Board of Canada ( NFB ) adaptation, The Sweater.

This physical isolation of the flower from the traps was originally thought to be an adaptation meant to avoid trapping potential pollinators ; a recent study, however, indicated Drosera species attract distinct types of insects as pollinators and prey, with little overlap.

A film adaptation of The Vampire Lestat was originally planned to go right into development after the filming of Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, with a theatrical release that was said to have been marked for the late 1990s.

The film was originally meant to be an adaptation of the 1927 Broadway musical, however, only two songs were retained for the film, the title song, and " The Ranger Song ," which was performed by Grayson.

Jeff Noon says Vurt originally began as an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden, an anti-authoritarian novel written at the turn of the 20th century.

However, in the 2005 radio adaptation of the fifth novel in the series, Mostly Harmless, in which Marvin did not originally appear, he has a cameo at the end of the last episode alive and well.

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

Bolger's M-G-M contract stipulated that he would play any part the studio chose ; however, he was unhappy when he was originally cast as the Tin Woodman in the studio's 1939 feature film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

These result from the adaptation of sand dollars, in the course of their evolution, from creatures that originally lived their lives on top of the seabed ( epibenthos ) to creatures that burrow beneath it ( hyperbenthos ).