Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.

" Morris wanted Tom Waits and Mickey Rourke to play the brothers, and he wrote the script, but the project eventually failed.

Previous guest designers include Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, Marjane Satrapi, Guillermo del Toro, David Bowie, David Byrne, and Dennis Hopper.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

This had been followed three years later by " Twins ", a segment featuring actors Steve Buscemi and Joie and Cinqué Lee, and then in 1993 with the Short Film Palme d ' Or-winning " Somewhere in California ", starring musicians Tom Waits and Iggy Pop.

Musicians appear frequently in key roles – John Lurie, Tom Waits, Gary Farmer, Youki Kudoh, RZA and Iggy Pop have featured in multiple Jarmusch films, while Joe Strummer and Screamin ' Jay Hawkins appear in Mystery Train and GZA, Jack and Meg White feature in Coffee and Cigarettes.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

They were joined by Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes, and k. d.

The Pet Shop Boys, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs have recorded " The Second Threepenny Finale " under the title " What Keeps Mankind Alive?

* Tom Waits ( The Fisher King, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus )

In October 2007, Dreams confirmed that this would be Gilliam's next project and was slated to star Christopher Plummer and Tom Waits.

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

Later in 1973, Tim Buckley released the album Sefronia, which contained a cover version of Waits ' song " Martha " from Closing Time, the first-ever cover of a Tom Waits song by a known artist.

This cover later appeared in the 1995 compilation Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits.

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 ".

Edwards was extremely complimentary of Waits ' contributions, saying: Tom Waits is the one who got me my contract with PolyGram.

Critic Steve Huey calls it " perhaps Tom Waits's most cohesive album ... a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental ' 80s classics to stunningly evocative — and often harrowing — effect ... Waits ' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible.

In 1998, after Island Records released the compilation Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Waits left the label for Epitaph, whose president, Andy Kaulkin, said the label was "... blown away that Tom would even consider us.

Tom Waits in Prague in 2008

On May 20, 2008, Scarlett Johansson's debut album, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head, featured covers of ten Tom Waits songs.

In early 2011, Tom Waits completed a set of 23 poems entitled Seeds on Hard Ground, which were inspired by Michael O ' Brien's portraits of the homeless in his upcoming book, Hard Ground, which will include the poems alongside the portraits.

* Discography at the Tom Waits Library

Syndicated programs such as Tom Kent or Delilah are popular in this shift.

Tom Laliberty of Raytheon said that President Barack Obama was forced to shift from a land based missile defense system to a sea based one because of the difficulties of coordinating with partner nations.

Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who played Kate the shrew, recalled the beginning of the shift in fortune ( in an autobiography published posthumously as a collaboration with Tom Viola ): " With Brooks Atkinson's blessing, our world changed overnight.

Seacrest interned on the night show with Tom Sullivan, who trained him in all areas of broadcasting then gave him his first " on air " shift of his career, before moving to weekends.

* Daryl Gates -- the former Los Angeles Police Department chief replaced Tom Leykis as part of the station's shift toward conservative politics.

In modern-day Barthomley Tom notices some red colour on the Rector's undergarment — again a " shift ".

Meg Yetmein, the cleaning lady, " gets hers back " by smuggling out steaks under her clothing toward the end of her shift ; Tom Earlshore, the fired bartender, does much the same by " skimming " liquor.

Tom Dixon hosted the afternoon shift.

and Turk modify shift schedules so that Doctors Turner and Hooch are teamed up as a surgical team in the episode " My Faith in Humanity " ( Doctor Turner was played by Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks ' brother ).

A less flattering review came from Rolling Stone reviewer Tom Graves, who discussed the singer's shift from rock to alternative music, commenting that the Indian orchestra in " Come to Me " and " Venus as a Boy " " more intrusive than galvanizing ".

The station's main line up of The Adam Carolla Show, Frosty, Heidi, and Frank, Danny Bonaduce ( in a solo spot known as Broadcasting Bonaduce ), The Tom Leykis Show, The Tim Conway Jr. Show and The John and Jeff Show were all given advance notice of the format shift and afforded the opportunity to host final shows to explain the situation and say their goodbyes.

An opposing view is taken by film critic Tom Shone, who considers that Lucas and Spielberg's reinvention of blockbusters as fast-paced entertainment reinvigorated the US film industry and deserves greater artistic and critical recognition.

The collection stresses significant American artistic movements, including regionalism ( with paintings by Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton ) and Abstract Expressionism ( with work by Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, and Helen Frankenthaler ) and Pop Art ( with work by George Segal and Tom Wesselmann ).

He played Stanley in two consecutive New York Classic Stage Company ( CSC ) productions of Pinter's 1957 play The Birthday Party, directed by Carey Perloff ( since 1992 artistic director of the American Conservatory Theatre ), in 1988 and 1989 ; the dual roles of prison Officer and Prisoner in Pinter's 1989 play Mountain Language ( in a double bill with the second CSC Rep production of The Birthday Party ); Edwin Booth in a workshop production also featuring Angela Goethals of Booth: A House Divided by W. Stuart McDowell at The Players in 1989 ; Kerner, in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood ( 1994 ); and Devlin, opposite Lindsay Duncan's Rebecca, in Pinter's 1996 two-hander Ashes to Ashes in the 1999 New York premiere by the Roundabout Theatre Company.

In February 2009 the company announced that Tom Morris, at that time an associate director at the Royal National Theatre and formerly artistic director at Battersea Arts Centre, had been appointed as artistic director.

Adler was survived by her daughter Ellen, her sister Julia, and two grandchildren, including Tom Oppenheim, current president and artistic director of Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York City.

He wrote several plays, none of which had notable artistic or commercial success, and gave several of his best interpretations ( according to Anthony Aston ) in the 1690s, including Serringe the doctor in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse ( 1696 ) and the original Tom Errand in George Farquhar's immensely popular The Constant Couple ( 1699 ).

She gained widespread popularity on the Internet after appearing on Lisa Boyle's website, Foxes, Mystique Magazine, and on BlueNudes where she appeared in artistic nudes taken by photographer Tom Ruddock.