American Beauty (1999 film) "American Beauty" to the fledgling DreamWorks studio, which bought the script for $250,000, outbidding several other production bodies. DreamWorks financed the $15 million production and served as its North American distributor. "American Beauty" marked theater director Mendes' film debut; courted after his successful productions of the musicals "Oliver!" and "Cabaret", Mendes was only given the job after 20 others were considered and several A-list directors turned down the opportunity. Spacey was Mendes' first choice for the role of Lester, though DreamWorks urged him to consider better-known actors; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes
Burnham Without the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. Burnham Without Burnham Without is the parish in the main located to the east of Burnham-on-Sea, the Motorway/M5 and north & north east east of Highbridge in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. The parish includes the villages of Watchfield, Southwick and Edithmead. The developed fringes of eastern Burnham itself are also in the parish. The parish in 2011 had a population of 796. Mostly rural Burnham Without consists of drained, low-lying agricultural land between the coast at Burnham