Atkins's own biggest hit single came in 1965, with " Yakety Axe ", an adaptation of his friend saxophonist Boots Randolph's " Yakety Sax ".

In 2004, Indian director Vishal Bharadwaj directed his own adaptation to Macbeth, titled Maqbool.

Among his producing credits are the horror film Hostel ( which included numerous references to his own Pulp Fiction ), the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot ( for which Tarantino was credited as an executive producer, although he was no longer associated with the film after its 2009 release.

In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress.

In the adaptation of his novel Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, he was played by Jim Dale, while Milligan himself played his own father.

In the wake of the successful Universal Studios ad hoc syndicated package Operation Prime Time, which featured first a miniseries adaptation of John Jakes ' novel The Bastard and went on to several more productions, Paramount had earlier contemplated its own television network with the Paramount Television Service.

Susanna Kaysen, well known for her novel, Girl, Interrupted, and its film adaptation, has also published The Camera My Mother Gave Me, a novel concerning her own experience with vulvodynia and its debilitating symptoms.

Mussorgsky augmented his adaptation of Pushkin's drama with his own lyrics, assisted by a study of the monumental History of the Russian State by Karamzin, to whom Pushkin's drama is dedicated.

Based on Scott McPherson's screenplay adaptation of his own 1991 stage play of the same name, the film revolves around two sisters, played by Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, who are reunited through tragedy after 17 years of estrangement.

Red Sonja received her own comic book title and eventually a series of novels by David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney, as well as Richard Fleischer's unsuccessful film adaptation in 1985.

Beaumont wrote many scripts for the Twilight Zone, including an adaptation of his own short story, " The Howling Man ", starring John Carradine, and the hour-long " The Valley of the Shadow ," in which a newspaper reporter stumbles upon a cloistered technological Utopia, disguised as an ordinary small town in the middle of nowhere, which refuses to allow its startlingly-advanced science discoveries to be given to the outside world, citing humanity's previous misuse of another scientific formula E = mc2 as their cautious rationale.

In 1964, he established his own firm to undertake Habitat 67, an adaptation of his McGill thesis.

Perhaps even more radical was Ong Keng Sen's 1997 adaptation of King Lear, which featured six actors each performing in a separate Asian acting tradition and in their own separate languages.

For example, Medicare promoted the adaptation of prospective payments based on DRG ’ s, which prevents unscrupulous providers from setting their own exorbitant prices.

For him, adaptation includes exact quotation, imitation and incorporation of his own additions.

" As such, Miller rejects the bad quarto theory, the early draft theory, the Ur-Shrew theory and the source theory in favour of his own adaptation theory.

However, these positive reports may be cases of desensitizing, wherein the " hairless " cat gave the owner optimism to try to own a cat, eventually leading to the positive situation of their own adaptation.

In 2010, it was announced that long-time supporting cast members Ken Kitson and Louis Emerick would spin their characters off into their own stage adaptation, titled An Arresting Night.

Reorganization at Paramount Pictures brought fears that money due the Brothers would never be paid ; as a result, the Brothers threatened to leave Paramount and start their own company, Marx Bros., Inc. Their first planned independent production was a film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Of Thee I Sing, with Norman McLeod leaving Paramount to direct.

British television company ABC-TV produced its own adaptation for the Armchair Theatre series which was transmitted on 30 March 1958.

Smith's adaptation of the Moondog theme was to call himself Wolfman Jack and add his own sound effects.

* Brad Mays directed his own adaptation of the play at the Complex in Los Angeles in 1997, where it broke all box office records and was nominated for three LA Weekly Theater Awards: for Best Direction, Best Musical Score and Best Production Design.

* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.

He soon grew tired of working on an adaptation and began planning his own creation.

At the same time, Roosevelt's Federal Housing Administration, coupled with Henry Morgenthau's cheap-money policy, permitted ordinary lower-middle-class families to build their own homes.

Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

A related argument is from conscience ; John Henry Newman argued that the conscience supports the claim that objective moral truths exist because it drives people to act morally even when it is not in their own interest.

Henry II developed the practice of sending judges from his own central court to hear the various disputes throughout the country.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

Henry IV alienated the Church of Rome and many of the magnates in his own kingdom.

The group's keyboardist Rick Wakeman released many concept albums on his own, most notably The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Henry then went about his own business outside Aquitaine, leaving Earl Patrick ( his regional military commander ) as her protective custodian.

Henry II was elsewhere, attending to his own affairs after escorting Eleanor to Poitiers.

Both proved unenthusiastic, and in 1565 Mary married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who carried his own claim to the English throne.

But just as quickly, late in 1580 he denounced a group of Catholics, among them Charles Arundel, Francis Southwell and Henry Howard, for treasonous activities and asking the Queen's mercy for his own, now repudiated, Catholicism.

According to his own desire his remains were carried to Toledo, where Henry of Castile had them to be entombed with almost royal honours.

These writings, in the words of Henry Cadbury, Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and a leading Quaker, " contain a few fresh phrases of his own, are generally characterized by an excess of scriptural language and today they seem dull and repetitious ".

After him all kings and emperors relied on the lands of their own family ( Hausmacht ): Louis IV of Wittelsbach ( king 1314, emperor 1328 – 47 ) relied on his lands in Bavaria ; Charles IV of Luxembourg, the grandson of Henry VII, drew strength from his own lands in Bohemia.

There is some evidence suggesting Henry was unsure of his own hopes and the oath to make Matilda his heir.

Matilda and her own son stood for direct descent by heredity from Henry I, and she bided her time in France.

Henry genuinely mourned her death, and at his own passing nine years later, he was buried next to her.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis reports that the old king had declared to Henry: " You in your own time will have all the dominions I have acquired and be greater than both your brothers in wealth and power.

King Henry allowed Harnec to blind and mutilate Eustace's two daughters, who were also Henry's own grandchildren.

Literal Christian interpreters like Henry M. Morris say that the stranger was " God Himself and, therefore, Christ in His preincarnate state ", citing Jacob's own evaluation and the name he assumed thereafter, " one who fights victoriously with God ", and adding that God had appeared in the human form of the Angel of the L < SMALL > ORD </ SMALL > to eat a meal with Abraham in Genesis 18.

The Empire, however, was inherently fragile: although all the lands owed allegiance to Henry, the disparate parts each had their own histories, traditions and governance structures.

Henry the Young King was allowed to travel widely in Europe with his own household of knights, Richard was given Aquitaine back, and Geoffrey was allowed to return to Brittany ; only Eleanor was imprisoned for her role in the revolt.

Flynn later articulated his own views on the Close Up television programme in an interview with Paul Henry, suggesting that the Sunday Star-Times had grossly misrepresented his opinions.