After Rothman's father Abe — a chauffeur who sometimes drove for The Mike Douglas Show — was able to pass a spec script of theirs to Tony Randall, the two got a try-out writing gig on Randall's hit TV show The Odd Couple.

He directed A Little Family Business on Broadway in 1982, which starred Angela Lansbury and John McMartin, and Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in The Flowering Peach for Tony Randall's National Theatre, on Broadway.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

He played the role in London and then on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award.

Tony Perez resigned and returned to his previous role as the front-office Baseball Operations assistant.

On 25 August 2004, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price announced his intention to move for the impeachment of Tony Blair for his role in involving Britain in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1998 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played Will Smith's stalwart antagonist from the NSA.

On April 18, 2010, Grammer made his Broadway musical debut playing the role of Georges in a revival of the Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

Left communists like C. L. R. James and the Italian autonomists, as well as unorthodox Trotskyists like Tony Cliff, described Stalinism as " state capitalism " i. e., a form of capitalism where the state takes over the role of capital.

Tony Todd played the role of Ben.

* In 1956, Lotte Lenya won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Blitzstein's somewhat softened version of The Threepenny Opera, which played Off-Broadway at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village for a total of 2, 707 performances.

He was nominated for his first Tony Award ( Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play ) for this role, but lost out to his co-star Ian McKellen, who played Antonio Salieri.

Though she was still beset by bouts of depression, she continued to work in the theatre and, in 1963, won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Tovarich.

Originally, when considering the cast, Laurents wanted James Dean for the lead role of Tony, but the actor had died before hearing of it.

Featured performers were George Chakiris, who won an Academy Award as Bernardo in the 1961 film version, as Riff, Marlys Watters as Maria, Don McKay as Tony, and Chita Rivera reprising her Broadway role as Anita.

* The movie soundtrack, with Marni Nixon singing Maria's role ( played in the film by Natalie Wood ) and Tony ( played in the film by Richard Beymer ) sung by Jimmy_Bryant_ ( singer ).

Her next major success was in the role of Peter in the Broadway production of Peter Pan in October 1954, with Martin winning the Tony Award.

" In 1955 and 1956, she received, first, a Tony Award for Peter Pan, and then an Emmy for appearing in the same role on television.

* 20 June 1997: Tony Blair appointed Peter Mandelson to the role of Minister for the Millennium after his announcement that the beleaguered £ 580 million dome would go ahead

His first film appearance was a role in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer ( 1960 ), with Laurence Olivier, but he made his breakthrough with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film version of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard, for which Close won a Tony Award, playing the role on Broadway in 1994.

Her most famous English-speaking role was as a bisexual Manhattan vampire in her third Hollywood film, the 1983 Tony Scott cult favorite The Hunger, which brought her a significant lesbian following due to her love scene with Susan Sarandon.

) His performance as psychiatrist Martin Dysart won him both a special Tony Award for his appearance, but he had to make Exorcist II: The Heretic – a film he hated – before Hollywood producers would allow him to repeat his role in the 1977 film version.

Then in 1958, he was offered the part of Jimmy Porter, " an angry young man " role, in the film version of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, a gritty drama about middle-class life in the British Midlands, directed by Tony Richardson, and again with Claire Bloom as co-star.

Rossiter had met Raine when he played the lead role of Fred Midway in a play called Semi-Detached, directed by Tony Richardson.

Following another playoff upset in 1953 at the hands of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups in 1954 ( over Montreal, when Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net ) and 1955 ( also over Montreal in the full seven games ).

The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) produced a two-hour color version in 1968 featuring Laurence Harvey as Tony, Diane Cilento as Margot and Hugh O ' Brian as Max.

Harvey Forbes Fierstein ( born June 6, 1952 ) is an American actor and playwright, noted for the distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the award-winning book to the musical La Cage aux Folles.

Others in the cast included Tony Randall as history teacher Harvey Weskit ; Georgann Johnson as Harvey's wife, Marge ; Patricia Benoit as county nurse Nancy Remington, later married to Peepers ; Marion Lorne as often confused English teacher Mrs. Gurney ; Jack Warden as athletic coach Frank Whip and Ernest Truex and Sylvia Field as Nancy's parents.

Other substitutes for Harvey have included his son, Paul Harvey, Jr., Doug Limerick, Paul W. Smith, Gil Gross, Ron Chapman, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Mort Crim, Scott Shannon, and Tony Snow.

John Karlen also co-stars as Lacey's husband, Harvey, and Tony La Torre and Troy Slaten played their sons Harvey Lacey, Jr. and Michael Lacey, respectively.

This consisted of the two producers ( Cantor and Harvey ), a scratch DJ Jason Tunbridge ( Mad Doctor X ), a guitarist ( Tony Ayiotou ), drummer ( Clive Jenner ), bass guitarist ( Joe Henson ), two MCs ( MC Navigator and Tenor Fly ) and three breakdancers ( Coza, Marat, Tim ).

In April 1993, the Saw Doctors ' keyboard and accordion player Tony Lambert, who had previously played with Bonnie Tyler and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, won £ 852, 000 ( Irish punts ), or approximately € 1 million ( euro ) in today's currency, when he hit the jackpot in the Irish National Lottery's Lotto game.

The original line-up consisted of Glover on bass, Andy Ross on vocals, siblings Sheila Carter-Dimmock on keyboards and vocals and Graham Carter-Dimmock on guitar and vocals, plus Tony Lander on guitar, and Harvey Shields ( b. Harvey Shieldkraut ) on drums.

It featured 20 men including the WWF wrestlers and NFL superstars ; NFL stars included Jimbo Covert, Bill Fralic, Russ Francis, Ernie Holmes, Harvey Martin and William " The Refrigerator " Perry, while WWF stars included André the Giant, Ted Arcidi, Tony Atlas, The Hart Foundation ( Bret " Hitman " Hart and Jim " The Anvil " Neidhart ), The Killer Bees ( B. Brian Blair and Jim Brunzell ), Hillbilly Jim, The Iron Sheik, King Tonga, Pedro Morales, Bruno Sammartino, Danny Spivey and Big John Studd.

His cases include Hawley Harvey Crippen, the Seddon case and Major Armstrong poisonings, the " Brides in the Bath " murders by George Joseph Smith, Louis Voisin, Jean-Pierre Vaquier, the Crumbles murders, Norman Thorne, Donald Merrett, the Podmore case, the Sidney Harry Fox matricide, Alfred Rouse, Elvira Barney, Tony Mancini and the Vera Page case.

In late 2007 Mel presented and produced the 2nd Producer Series for Triple J, which featured: Steve Albini ( Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom ), Michael Beinhorn ( Hole, Marlilyn Manson, The Bronx ), Trina Shoemaker ( Queens Of The Stoneage, Something For Kate ), Jim Abbiss ( Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian ), Tony Cohen ( Nick Cave, Beasts of Bourbon ), Squeak E Clean ( Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ben Lee ), Ewan Pearson ( The Rapture ), Dave Catching ( Rancho De La Luna-The Desert Sessions ) Tim Whitten ( Architecture In Helsinki, The Panics ) and John Agnello ( Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The Living End ).

The first night of the summer brings the revelation that the original owners of Camp Hope, Harvey ( Jerry Stiller ) and Alice Bushkin ( Anne Meara ), have entered bankruptcy and the camp has been bought by fitness entrepreneur Tony Perkis ( Ben Stiller ), who announces his plan to make the camp's new exercise regimen into the top weight loss infomercial in the country.

Well-known names in radio associated with the superpirates Sunshine Radio, Radio Nova, Nova's sister stations, Magic 103, Q102 or Energy 103 include: now retired broadcaster Bob Gallicoe, 2FM's Colm Hayes and John Clarke, Today FM's Tom Hardy, Phil Cawley and Tony Fenton, FM104's Dave Kelly, Alan Hunter ( now consulting in Broadcasting and online radio ), licensed Q102's Scott Williams, Gerry Stevens, Liam Coburn and Aidan Cooney, licensed Sunshine 106. 8's David Dennehy and Jim Kenny, licensed Radio Nova's Greg Gaughren and Pat Courtenay, Radio 1's John Kenny, East Coast FM's Declan Meehan ( also on Sundays on Today FM ), 4FM's Gareth O ' Callaghan ( ex-2FM and Galway Bay FM ), David Harvey and Jim Cotter of Philadelphia's WRTI.

Other major characters introduced during the first series are Kate Harvey ( Dulcie Gray ), Jan's sensible and supportive mother, the suave, scheming millionaire businessman Charles Frere ( Tony Anholt ) and the wealthy but unhappy Urquhart family.

Artists who worked on comics published by Dell included Fred Harman, Alex Toth, John Carey, Russ Manning, Jesse Marsh, Alberto Giolitti, Paul Murry, Tony Strobl, Harvey Eisenberg, Tom Gill, Ken Hultgren, Dick Moores, Jack Bradbury, Gil Turner, Fred Fredericks, Roger Armstrong, Jack Manning, Kay Wright, Bill Wright, Phil DeLara, Pete Alvarado, Dan Spiegle, Lynn Karp, Ellis Eringer, Paul Norris, Frank Bolle, Artie Saaf, Dan Noonan, John Ushler, Sam Glanzman, Bill Ziegler and John Buscema.

He starred alongside Harvey Fierstein ( who won a Tony Award for writing the Book of the musical ) as Albin / Zaza and Broadway veteran Christopher Sieber as Georges.

In January 2007, he took over the lead role of Edna Turnblad in the Broadway production of Hairspray ( the role created by Divine in the John Water's film and then by Tony winner Harvey Fierstein on Broadway ).

The film includes interviews with surviving superstars Holly Woodlawn, Penny Arcade and Joe Dallesandro ; as well as Paul Morrissey, the director of the Warhol films Flesh and Women In Revolt that Jackie appeared in ; and Tony Award winners Harvey Fierstein, and Lily Tomlin who also narrates.

* Harvey Keitel as Tony " Speed " Malatesta