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Sweeney Todd has also been featured in several films, the most recent being 2007's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, based on the 1979 musical.
Sweeney had also said that the main goal of the programming on Disney Channel was not to entertain, but to solely make money, officially stating that Disney Channel would be " the major profit driver for the ( Walt Disney ) Company.
In Britain, Tony Hatch's theme tune to the long-running soap opera Emmerdale Farm was originally performed on the cor anglais, as was also the version of Harry South's theme tune played at the end of each episode of The Sweeney.
Among others, Sweeney also acquired the works of Alberto Giacometti, David Hayes, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.
The area has also produced a number of professional athletes such as Ryan Sweeney, Trent Green, Zach Johnson, and Kurt Warner.
The UnrealScript interpreter was programmed by Tim Sweeney, who also created an earlier game scripting language, ZZT-oop.
Sweeney also played for the Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, and Philadelphia Phillies.
The role of flight attendants received heightened prominence after the September 11 attacks when flight attendants ( such as Sandra W. Bradshaw and CeeCee Lyles of United Airlines Flight 93, Robert Fangman of United Airlines Flight 175, Renee May of American Airlines Flight 77 and Betty Ong and Madeline Amy Sweeney of American Airlines Flight 11 ) actively attempted to protect passengers from assault, and also provided vital information to air traffic controllers on the hijackings.
* Madeline Amy Sweeney, was also a flight attendant on board Flight 11, Sweeney was the first to describe the hijackers, and their actions.
The Tower of Bray is also referenced in the song Parlour Songs in the Stephen Sondheim musical, Sweeney Todd, although the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical.
In 1976 she was also made responsible for overseeing the work of Euston Films, Thames ' subsidiary film production company, at the time best known as the producers of The Sweeney.
Fleet Street is also famous for the barber Sweeney Todd, traditionally said to have lived and worked in Fleet Street ( he is sometimes called the ' Demon Barber of Fleet Street ').
Minor script rewrites were made to update it for the 21st century and also reference the main character as originating from Liverpool-like Claire Sweeney herself.
He also performed as Moonface Martin in a television version of Anything Goes with Ethel Merman reprising her role as Reno Sweeney and Frank Sinatra as Billy Crocker.
Sweeney also appears as a character in Neil Gaiman's novel, American Gods.
and Sweeney 2 have also been released on DVD.
The group has had several lineup changes over the years, and now features a rotating team of Neil Mullarkey, Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Richard Vranch ( a comedy improviser who also plays piano ), Jim Sweeney, Lee Simpson and Andy Smart, together with frequent guest appearances.
Newell also managed to bring in former loan stars Adrian Forbes and Peter Sweeney, as well as Nick Colgan, Michael Leary and Chris Jones to finish his squad refurbishing.
Sweeney retired from performing in 2008 but is still listed as a member and is also the group's President.
Sweeney also pushed for mergers with a number of other unions, absorbing the National Association of Government Employees ( NAGE ) and other public employee unions.
Sweeney also promised that more attention would be paid to these bodies, which the New Voice ticket saw as important in supporting locallabor actions and enlarging the federation's political capabilities.
Sweeney also called for a modification of labor's political tactics and withdrawal of support for Democrats who did not support labor's agenda.

Sweeney and proposed
When Sweeney had first been elected of the AFL-CIO in 1995, he had proposed a constitutional amendment which would bar anyone 70 years of age or older from seeking executive office.
The proposed amendment was never acted on, but Sweeney promised the convention he would not remain in office beyond the age limit he had proposed.
General Walter C. Sweeney, Jr., Commander of Tactical Air Command ( TAC ), proposed an operational plan which called first for an air attack on the surface-to-air missile ( SAM ) sites in the vicinity of known medium range ( MRBM ) and intermediate range ballistics missile ( IRBM ) launchers by eight fighter-bombers per SAM site.
Sweeney proposed to Ford in September 2003 and married her in 2004.
On June 1, 2006, Senator Sweeney and two Assembly Democrats, Paul Moriarty ( D, 4th legislative district ) and Jerry Green ( D, 22nd legislative district ), held a press conference to announce their support for cuts of as much as 15 % to New Jersey state worker salaries and benefits, as part of an effort to avoid a one-point increase in the state's sales tax proposed by Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine that had been supported by unions representing state government workers.
In 2011, Sweeney proposed sweeping reforms to the public employee pension and health benefits systems that he estimates will save taxpayers over $ 120 billion over a 30-year period.
In tune with his many collaborations, an unlikely combination of Sweeney and Neil Diamond was proposed by seminal producer Rick Rubin in 2008 to follow-up Diamond's Rubin-produced 2005 album " 12 Songs.

Sweeney and creating
Classical Comics, a UK publisher creating graphic novel adaptations of classical literature, has produced a full colour paperback Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd ( 176 pages, November 2010, Original Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-79-2, Quick Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-80-8, forthcoming ) with script adaptation by Sean M. Wilson, linework by Declan Shalvey ; colouring by Jason Cardy & Kat Nicholson and lettering by Jim Campbell.
Despite creating a number of hugely popular musicals in the late 1970s and 1980s such as The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, and Evita, Prince had his first artistic failure with Stephen Sondheim in 1981 with Merrily We Roll Along.
Sweeney called for a major expansion of the federation's role in organizing by: spending $ 20 million a year on hiring and training thousands of new organizers ; mobilizing over 1, 000 college students for summer organizing ; creating a " Sunbelt Organizing Fund " to sponsor organizing in the South and Southwest ; and establishing a separate Organizing Department.
Sweeney recommended creating a National Labor Political Training Center to recruit and train candidates and political campaign directors, and establishing a Labor Center for Economic and Public Policy that would develop policy analysis, support the federation's legislative agenda and expand the political activities of the state federations and central labor councils.
Sweeney told the press he would initiate an internal discussion of Stern's views after the November 2004 presidential election, with a goal of creating a proposal by July 2005.
Sweeney spent the 1970s in theatre productions, creating and touring shows with Steen, who was a friend from school.

Sweeney and Center
Madeline Amy Sweeney ( December 14, 1966 – September 11, 2001 ), known as Amy Sweeney, was an American flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11 which was hijacked and flown deliberately into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
* Madeline Amy Sweeney ( 1966 – 2001 ), flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 when it was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ; she was the first person to report the hijacking.
Antuofermo trained at the Police Athletic Leagues Sweeney Center in Brooklyn, New York.
She returned to Broadway in 1987 to star as nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Cole Porter ’ s Anything Goes.
LuPone has performed in numerous New York concert productions of musicals including Pal Joey with Peter Gallagher and Bebe Neuwirth, Annie Get Your Gun with Peter Gallagher, Sweeney Todd with George Hearn in both New York and San Francisco, Anything Goes with Howard McGillin, Can-Can with Michael Nouri for City Center Encores !, Candide with Kristin Chenoweth, Passion with Michael Cerveris and Audra McDonald and Gypsy with Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti for City Center Encores !.
* March 14, 1980 – Ex-Congressman Allard Lowenstein is assassinated in his law offices at Rockefeller Center by Dennis Sweeney, a deranged ex-associate.
Sweeney merged AIFLD with three other institutes to form the American Center for International Labor Solidarity.
( 2002 ), and Kismet ( 2006 ), and in the title role in the 2002 Kennedy Center revival of Sweeney Todd, part of Stephen Sondheim's 70th birthday celebration.
On December 29, 2007, at the Manhattan Center, in New York City, Puder made his debut in ROH, at Rising Above, attacking Claudio Castagnoli and aligning himself with Sweet and Sour Inc., led by Larry Sweeney.
* 2003 Sweeney Todd-The Kennedy Center
In response to heightened security warnings around potential targets such as chemical and nuclear plants since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, Senator Sweeney pushed to require potentially vulnerable facilities to implement security standards and to explore possible safer technologies.
Uggams replaced Patti LuPone as Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center revival of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes on Broadway in March 1989.
Since 2003, Sweeney has been a lecturer at the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, and since 2004, a faculty lecturer on socially responsible business at the Haas School of Business at his alma mater, UC Berkeley.

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