Alan Smithee is the name used by directors when they do not want to be associated with a film.

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The caller to the force's non-emergency number who reported the murder of Carl King in Emmerdale gave his name as "Alan Sugar".

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Spectators cheered not just for family members but for every "Dan" or "Alan" smart enough to write his name on his shirt.

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Alan Ayckbourn wrote for Hark at Barker under the name of Peter Caulfield because he was employed as a BBC radio drama producer at the time and was not supposed to work elsewhere.

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Regarded as one of the nation's most acclaimed and fiercely intelligent directors, Sir Jonathan made his name with Peter Cooke, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett in Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s.

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They include David Halberstam, a reporter who made his name in the Vietnam war, and two historians, Alan Brinkley and Patricia Nelson.

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The Nigerian-born striker has spent almost a decade in the shadows of a string of big-name forwards, with limited cameos alongside players such as Alan Shearer, Craig Bellamy and expensive signings such as Obafemi Martins.

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The automaker even killed off the Taurus name in 2006, but it was brought back to life shortly after Alan Mulally arrived from Boeing as Ford CEO.

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As for Arthur Hiller: Supposedly he was so disgusted with this movie that he had his name removed from the credits and replaced with, you guessed it, Alan Smithee.

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"There are already several companies using the name iPhone for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) products, " said Apple spokesman Alan Hely.

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