Though much of the dialogue in Curb Your Enthusiasm is improvised, the plot was scripted, and the Seinfeld special that aired within the show was scripted and directed by Seinfeld regular Andy Ackerman, making this the first time since Seinfeld went off the air that the central cast appeared together in a scripted show.

Though this process is no longer commercially used, at the time of its invention it was of enormous industrial importance because it lowered the cost of production steel, leading to steel being widely substituted for cast iron.

Though he did well in the popular film Forever Amber ( 1947 ), Greene found himself cast in a series of swashbuckling roles.

Though the cast ultimately proved to be one of the film's greatest strengths, Friedkin had problems with casting choices from the start.

Though Hill did not figure prominently in the cast, he benefited from being part of an Oscar-winning film.

Though doubts have been cast on the historiographic reconstructions of this school ( particularly the notion of oral traditions as a primary ancient source ), much of its critique of biblical historicity found wide acceptance.

Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation.

Though Flower Drum Song is often called the first musical with an all-Asian cast, it was the 2002 revival of the play which was finally produced with an all-Asian cast of actor-singers.

" ( Though when confronted with the vampire's inexplicable inability to cast a reflection, she allows, " Maybe a little magic .... Just a touch.

Though this musical did not achieve the popularity of the team's five most famous musicals, it was nevertheless a success, and broke new ground by using a mostly Asian cast.

Though it went somewhat less far than the UFA would have liked — for example, it made no provision for recall of elected officials — it did allow for Albertans to call a referendum directly by submitting a petition including the names of eligible voters totalling ten percent of the votes cast in the previous provincial election, including at least eight percent in each of eighty-five percent of the province's ridings.

Though beautiful to behold, it too was evil at heart, being too eager to rush towards battle, and so, Ilmarinen broke the magic boat apart and cast back the pieces once more.

Though it was clad in white marble to look like a Renaissance palazzo, the building's cast iron construction permitted large plate glass windows.

Though often mistaken for or deceptively sold as elephant ivory, items made from the two-to-three-inch nut have none of the striations common to animal ivory, and sometimes the ivory-like nut flesh has a light yellow cast under a rough coconut-shell-like external covering.

Though they were happy together, the troubled political situation and constant threats of assassination cast a shadow over their lives together.

Though the rebellion is cast by many historians as a religious uprising, this does not address the issues of the discontent from the famine and overtaxation.

Though the film is never dull, and playing by the cast is spirited, it's actually a surprisingly gentle movie, with no big Full Monty-like finale to send auds buzzing into the street.

Though the universal use of iron was one shared feature among Dark Age settlements, it is still uncertain when the forged iron weapons and armour achieved superior strength to those that had been previously cast and hammered from bronze.

Though this seems to impress Hacker initially, the machine eventually gets unplugged by Inez, resulting an angry Hacker to cast Ledge away for his failure.

Though taking a 4 year break, Chris has been on the show the longest of the current cast and outstayed all of his family who either died or left.

Though he was hardly ever cast as the villain, notable exceptions were his roles as ' Old Man Clanton ' in the 1946 film My Darling Clementine opposite Henry Fonda, the 1962 Cinerama production How the West Was Won as the murderous Colonel Jeb Hawkins, and as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner, for which he won his third best supporting actor Academy Award, in 1940.

Though Jungwirth originally designed The Spartan as a bronze statue, it had to be cast in terra cotta due to World War II rationing of bronze.

Though they were headed for marriage, the relationship ended when Leeves joined the cast of Frasier as Martin Crane's physiotherapist and Niles ' love interest, Daphne.

" Though this season pales for a lot of people because some of the supporting cast are either minimized or gone entirely, I appreciated the return to dealing with the core cast of characters after all this time.

Though Americans usually lived in groups segregated by national origin or religious belief, they liked to work and shop in the noise and vitality of downtown.

" Though he liked the new French music, during his youth Ravel still felt fond of the older French styles of Franck and the Romanticism of Beethoven and Wagner.

Though not universally liked by the townspeople, the Earps tended to protect the interests of the town's business owners and residents, although Virgil's brother Wyatt helped keep a Cowboy from being lynched after he accidentally killed Tombstone Marshal Fred White.

Though it is said that Bill was married many times, he never liked the others as much as Sue, and the other relationships didn't work out.

Though the footage was originally intended to serve as a promo for the Bosstones debut on Mercury, the label liked the footage and turned it into a single.

Though he liked being an X-Man and thought of them as his family, Spyke at times acted selfishly and inconsiderate of others.

Though wealthy, she chooses to hide her family's monetary success ( for quite some time ) in favor of being liked for who she is.

Though reviewers liked the cel-shaded and colorful look of the game, Phil Theobald of GameSpy noted that " most of the environments tend to be rather bland and end up looking a lot alike.

( Though he hadn't liked the Peter Benchley book upon which the film was based, Guber later commented that the wet T-shirt clinging to curvaceous star Jacqueline Bisset " made me a rich man.

Though a romantic relationship between Donna and Hyde was never established, Hyde initially liked Donna and would have been interested in her if Eric had not kissed her first ( as stated in the episode " It's a Wonderful Life ").

Though Bumblebee had previously been upgraded in size and strength with a new name of Goldbug, Ratchet restored him to his original Bumblebee configuration because he " always liked better ".

Though Jean liked the story, he turned it down because the staff was already working on a similar episode where Homer gives up beer —" Duffless " ( 1993 ).

Though he worked closely with movie professionals that he liked such as Billy Wilder and Huston, Viertel said there was always creative tension.

Though he liked the pilot, he was hesitant to commit to his first TV starring role until meeting with Garcia, after which he signed on to play Earl Hickey.

Though many casual players liked it because of the enormous Avatar and Winds cycle, both of which had a big effect at a big cost, it had relatively little impact on Standard tournaments.

Harold Clurman wrote: " Though the show offers a number of attractive features, only a few of them are actually congruent with its theme ... There are ... a few charming numbers: one of them is called ' Enterprise ' derisive of our national fetish ... The Swados music is utilitarian rather than lyrically or dramatically expressive-it is employed, as in the Japanese or Chinese theatres, as sound to call attention to signal moments ... Even if I had liked more of the numbers than I did, I would still have thought ' too much show!

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

Though the film saw her play a role similar to the one she played in Saathiya, her new " tanned " look was appreciated and her portrayal earned her a second nomination for Best Actress at the Filmfare awards.

Though it has been re-released to U. S. theatres several times, and the Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and Tar Baby segments have been shown on television, Song of the South has never been released on VHS or an authorized DVD in the U. S., due to the company's unease over the portrayal of Uncle Remus, a key black character in the film.

Though Bogart's slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett's vision of Spade ( blond, well-built & mischievous ), his portrayal was well-received, and is generally regarded as an influence on both film noir & the genre's archetypal private detective.

Though for most viewers Nigel Bruce formed their vision of Dr. Watson, Holmes purists have long objected that the Watson of the books was intelligent and capable ( although not an outstanding detective ), and that Bruce's portrayal made Watson far dimmer and more bumbling than his literary original.

Though best known for his portrayal of Gomer Pyle, Nabors became a popular guest on variety shows in the 1960s and 1970s ( including two specials of his own in 1969 and 1974 ) after revealing a rich baritone voice.

Though there is some recognition that Polybius was to an extent following an Achaean bias in his portrayal of the League thus, many modern historians have accepted this portrayal as in the main justified.

Though his portrayal brought on raucous applause from the audience in the performance, these comments were retracted by Eddie Murphy in an interview several years later.

Though the Mini-Cons ' plight in the Dreamwave comic books was similar to the cartoon, their portrayal and actions were considerably different.

Though there is no doubting Fénelon's skill as a writer and her unsparing analysis of the concentration camp experience, many of the surviving members of the orchestra took issue with her portrayal of Alma Rosé, who appeared in Fénelon's memoir as a cruel disciplinarian and self-hating Jew who admired the Nazis and courted their favor.

Though the portrayal of Arabs is stereotypical ; Valentino tried his best to distance the character from a stereotypical portrayal of an Arab man.