In 1976 he appeared in the screen adaptation by Tom Mankiewicz of the Jack Higgins novel The Eagle Has Landed as Oberst ( Colonel ) Kurt Steiner, the commander of a Luftwaffe paratroop brigade disguised as Polish paratroopers, whose mission was to kidnap or kill the then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, alongside co-stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter and Donald Pleasence.

* TCM Remembers 2010: director Arthur Penn, editor Dede Allen, Jean Simmons, director Roy Ward Baker, Lynn Redgrave, producer David Brown, editor Sally Menke, Harold Gould, director Dino De Laurentiis, Dennis Hopper, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Culp, James Mitchell, James MacArthur, Johnny Sheffield, Corey Haim, director Clive Donner, Kevin McCarthy, Cammie King, Eddie Fisher, director Éric Rohmer, John Forsythe, producer Irving Ravetch, art director Robert F. Boyle, Robert Ellenstein, producer Tom Mankiewicz, editor Suso Cecchi d ' Amico, Fess Parker, Baby Marie Osborne, Lena Horne, Lionel Jeffries, Kathryn Grayson, Tony Curtis, Doris Eaton Travis, writer Joseph Stein, director Ronald Neame, Claude Chabrol, Gloria Stuart, June Havoc, Glenn Shadix, Peter Graves, Barbara Billingsley, Leslie Nielsen, director Blake Edwards, Zelda Rubinstein, cinematographer William A. Fraker, producer David L. Wolper, Meinhardt Raabe, director Irvin Kershner and Patricia Neal.

They offered the script to screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz, who had by that time written several screenplays including three of the James Bond films.

Benchley co-wrote the screenplay for the 1977 film release, along with Tracy Keenan Wynn and an uncredited Tom Mankiewicz.

* Ladyhawke ( with Tom Mankiewicz, Michael Thomas and Edward Khmara ) ( 1985 )

* Tom Mankiewicz ( 1942 – 2010 ): The Deep ( 1977 ), The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 ), Superman ( 1978 ), Moonraker ( 1979 ), and Superman II ( 1980 ).

* In the original script for 1989's Batman, written by Tom Mankiewicz, crime boss Rupert Thorne hires Joe Chill to murder Thomas Wayne, who is running against Thorne for city council.

* In the original script for the 1989 film Batman, written by Tom Mankiewicz, Rupert Thorne hires Joe Chill to murder Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas, who is running against Thorne for city council.

His work was popularised by an article in the Analog Science Fiction and Fact publication, where Tom Ligon ( who has also written several science fiction stories ) described how the fusor would make for a highly effective fusion rocket.

" Media analyst Tom Alderman wrote, " There is a sub-set of Reality TV that can only be described as Shame TV because it uses humiliation as its core appeal.

Following Bildt's appointment as EU's special envoy to Yugoslavia, Tom Warrick from the Coalition for International Justice described Bildt as " dangerously misinformed about his own job description " and largely ignorant about the region.

In the seventies, other orchestral themes, with less creative arrangements in relation to the other described above, were used in 1973 to the eighties, including 1975's Tom and Jerry seasons, new series as Hong Kong Phooey, Jabberjaw, Scooby Doo and Flintstones ~~ 70's and 80's production.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times described the play as " Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion " but many New York reviews were mixed or unfavourable, citing anachronisms and a lack of realism in Stoppard's conception.

Layout artist Tom Codrick created what Dick Huemer described as " brilliantly colored thumbnails " from preliminary storyboard sketches using gouache paints, which featured bolder use of color and lighting than any previous Disney short.

In an interview with writer Tom Miller, Smith described the reach of the XERF signal: " We had the most powerful signal in North America.

" Likewise, Tom Drummond described the band's thinking on its third major album, " We thought the third album was a very important record, because generally a band either makes or breaks on the third record.

Tom Lewis, in the Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, described NBC's plan for cultural programming and the origin of the NBC Symphony:

" He also described former Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota as trustworthy.

Wyly, along with Pierre Sprey, Ray Leopold, Franklin ' Chuck ' Spinney, Jim Burton, and Tom Christie were described by writer Coram as Boyd's Acolytes, a group who, in various ways and forms, promoted and disseminated Boyd's ideas throughout the modern military and defense establishment.

Allegations made by Balkan media sources of corruption and improper conduct by Ahtisaari were described by US State Department spokesman Tom Casey as " spurious ", adding that Ahtisaari's plan is the " best solution possible " and has the " full endorsement of the United States ".

In Tom Brown's Letters from the Dead to the Living, Staggins is described as ' bandy legged and contemptuously regarded '.

" David McClintick described him as, " a modern Tom Paine, a possible precursor to millions of town criers using the Internet to invade the turf of bigfoot journalists.

In 2006, Tom Byers, Faculty Director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program, described it as " still the bible for entrepreneurial marketing 15 years later ".

Tom Keeley approximated about 90 % of the audience would leave before their set, and described the tour as an " awful experience.

McMurtry and Kesey remained friends after McMurtry left California and returned to Texas, and Kesey's famous cross-country trip with his Merry Pranksters in a day-glo painted schoolbus ' Further ' included a stop at McMurtry's home in Houston, described in Tom Wolfe's New-Journalistic book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

" In 1970 Tom Wolfe described it as " the chief theoretical organ of Radical Chic ".

In Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography ( 2008 ), Andrew Morton described it as a " fraternal paramilitary organization ," and wrote that members are instructed to read The Art of War by warfare expert Sun Tzu, and On War by General Karl von Clausewitz.

" A New York Times editorial described the OAM as " Tom Harkin's folly ".

" Politico described the forthcoming race between Boswell and Tom Latham, both incumbents will be facing off against each other as a result of redistricting, as one of ten bellwether races.

The Cornsweet illusion, also known as the Craik – O ' Brien – Cornsweet illusion and the Craik – Cornsweet illusion, is an optical illusion that was described in detail by Tom Cornsweet in the late 1960s.

The video was removed on 13 October by his friend Tom Watson MP, who he described as a " proppa blogga ".

* In the 1979 book The Right Stuff, the author Tom Wolfe described Sally Rand fan-dancing for the first American astronauts and other dignitaries and referred to the astronauts observing this sixtyish woman's " ancient haunches ".

" In the Esquire review, Tom Carson called her performance " terrific.

The fellow whose nickname made up the title was played by Tom Ewell, and the female lead, Susan Oliver, won the Theatre World Award for her performance, while the Irwin Shaw adaptation opened at Henry Miller's Theatre on 28 October 1958 and closed on November 1.

The win hinged on Bannerman ’ s century and a superb bowling performance by Tom Kendall who took of 7 for 55 in England ’ s second innings.

This is most evident during live shows when Lee must play bass, supply lead vocals, manipulate keyboards, and trigger pedals during the course of a performance, as in the song " Tom Sawyer ".

Tom Waits and the Nocturnal Emissions toured the United States and Europe extensively from October 1976 until May 1977, including a performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking " on cult BBC2 television music show the Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1976.

After leaving Asylum, the label released the first Tom Waits " Best of " album in 1981, a collection called Bounced Checks, notable for including an alternate, stripped down version of " Jersey Girl " and the otherwise unreleased " Mr. Henry ", as well as an alternate master of " Whistlin ' Past the Graveyard " and a live performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking ".

Cheek by Jowl's 2007 production, directed by Declan Donnellan, featured an Olivier Award winning performance by Tom Hiddleston.

This remains Hanks's only New York stage performance to date ; as a high profile Off Off Broadway showcase, the production helped Tom land an agent, Joe Ohla with the J. Michael Bloom Agency.

A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), and Under the Volcano ( 1984 ); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

The story of a man's rise to prosperity, written by Preston Sturges, Tracy's performance as railroad tycoon Tom Garner received uniformly strong reviews.

Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times stated: " No more convincing performance has been given on the screen than Spencer Tracy's impersonation of Tom Garner.

He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.

Its gruff captain, Lieutenant Commander William H. DeVriess ( Tom Tully ), has almost completely discarded discipline, and the crew has become slovenly and superficially undisciplined – although their performance is, in fact, excellent.

In the same year, his performance with the Brazilian composer / artist Tom Jobim in the song " How Insensitive " was featured in the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Chats Palace has presented and encouraged a wide variety of music, comedy, theatre, photography, carnival, disability arts, dance and transgressive performance, including Clifford Jarvis, Tom Hunter, Miniscule of Sound, Red Saunders, Asian Dub Foundation and Graeae Theatre Company.

This performance featured featured Palin, Cleveland, Idle, Jones, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes and special guest Tom Hanks.

The play opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 9 November 1981 and ran for 200 performances, with Tom Courtenay repeating his performance as Norman and Paul Rogers as " Sir ".

In his review for Time, Richard Corliss praised William Hurt's performance: " Hurt is neat too, never standing safely outside his character, always allowing Tom to find the humor in his too-rapid success, locating a dimness behind his eyes when Tom is asked a tough question -- and for Tom, poor soulless sensation-to-be, all questions are tough ones ".

Tom Three Persons, of the Blood ( Kainai ) tribe, emerged as one of the Stampede's first heroes, amazing spectators with a winning performance in the saddle bronc competition.

Robert Zemeckis ' film The Polar Express, starring Tom Hanks in five roles, was completely CGI animation, but used performance capture technology to animate the characters.

On May 21, 2007 the Moodies released a forty-one track, two-disc compilation of sessions recorded at BBC Studios, various television appearances, and a previously ' lost ' performance done on the Tom Jones show titled Live at the BBC: 1967-1970.

Tom Bosley presented an introduction before each performance live on stage, and pop group Human Nature played a ' 50s-style rock group.