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Steve Cosson Steve Cosson is a writer and director specializing in the creation of new theatre work inspired by real life, as well as a free-lance director of new plays, musicals, and classics. He is the founding Artistic Director of the New York-based investigative theater company The Civilians. Cosson won an Obie awa...
Gordon Dahlquist Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright and novelist. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dahlquist has lived and worked in New York City since 1988. His plays, which include "Messalina" and "Delirium Palace" (both Garland Playwriting Award winners), have been performed in New York and Los Angeles. G...
List of Jewish American entertainers Persons listed with a double asterisk (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play. Those listed with a triple asterisk (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play. Those listed with a quadruple ast...
Brian Stokes Mitchell Brian Stokes Mitchell (born October 31, 1957) is an American stage, film and television actor and singer. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the early 1990s. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2000 for his performance in ...
Nigel Hawthorne Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'CBE', '4': "} (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor. He portrayed Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom "Yes Minister" and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, "Yes, Prime Minister". For this role, he won fo...
Eddie Vedder Eddie Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson; December 23, 1964) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Pearl Jam, with whom he performs lead vocals and is one of three guitarists. He is known for his powerful baritone vocals. He also appeared as a guest vocalist...
New Dramatists New Dramatists is an organization of playwrights in New York City who participate in seven-year residencies to build up their skills and career. The organization was opened in New York City's Theater District in 1949. In addition to housing resident playwrights, New Dramatists also holds workshops for yo...
Harvey Fierstein Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play "Torch Song Trilogy" (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Music...
People Get Ready (The Impressions album) People Get Ready is an album by American soul music group the Impressions, released in 1965. It contains Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready", which was a successful single that had a significant impact on the civil rights movement. The album reached number one on the Billboard ...
PJ & Duncan discography PJ & Duncan, who were later rebranded as Ant & Dec, began their musical career in 1993 with the release of the single "Tonight I'm Free". This was followed in 1994 by their successful debut album "Psyche", which included the single "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble". Their second album "Top Katz" ...
Get Ready (New Order album) Get Ready is the seventh studio album by English rock band New Order. Recorded between 2000 and 2001 and released on 27 August 2001 by record label London, "Get Ready" was the group's first album in eight years, following 1993's "Republic". This was the last New Order album featuring the cla...
Psyche (album) Psyche is the debut studio album released by British recording duo PJ & Duncan, now better known as Ant & Dec. Recording on the album began in 1993, following the release of a track the duo performed during their time on Byker Grove, "Rip it Up". The song was then re-worked into their debut single, "Toni...
Ain't Too Proud to Beg "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is a 1966 song and hit single by The Temptations for Motown Records' Gordy label, produced by Norman Whitfield and written by Whitfield and Edward Holland, Jr. The song peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Pop Chart, and was a number-one hit on the Billboard R&B charts fo...
Let's Get Ready to Rhumble "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" is a 1994 song by British duo Ant & Dec, who at the time were known as PJ & Duncan. The song was released in the United Kingdom on 11 July 1994 as the third single from their debut studio album "Psyche". The song was written by Nicky Graham, Deni Lew and Mike Olto...
Get Ready (The Temptations song) "Get Ready" is a Motown song written by Smokey Robinson, which resulted in two hit records for the label: a U.S. No. 29 version by The Temptations in 1966, and a U.S. No. 4 version by Rare Earth in 1970. It is significant for being the last song Robinson wrote and produced for the Tempt...
Let's Get Ready (organization) Let's Get Ready (LGR) is a non-profit organization that provides low-income high school students with free SAT preparation, admissions counseling and other support services needed to gain admission to and graduate from college. Programs are based at colleges, staffed by college student vo...
I Guess I Like It Like That "I Guess I Like It Like That" is a 1991 promotional single written by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue and British producers Mike Stock and Pete Waterman for Minogue's fourth album "Let's Get to It". The song samples 2 Unlimited's "Get Ready For This" written by Phil Wilde, Jean-Pa...
Get Ready (Virtue album) Get Ready is the second album of gospel group, Virtue. The album features the singles, "Get Ready", "Love Me Like You Do", "Angels Watching Over Me" and "Put Your War Clothes On". Member Shavonne Sampson would depart the group and would be replaced by members Ebony & Karima's younger sister Hea...
Schumann–Runge bands The Schumann–Runge bands are a set of absorption bands of molecular oxygen that occur at wavelengths between 176 and 192.6 nanometres. The bands are named for Victor Schumann and Carl Runge.
Runge's theorem In complex analysis, Runge's theorem (also known as Runge's approximation theorem) is named after the German mathematician Carl Runge who first proved it in the year 1885. It states the following:
Da Crime Posse Da Crime Posse was one well-known group in the genre of Oriental Hip Hop in Germany. The group was composed of two Turkish people (M.Ali and InceEfe), one German person (Olcay/Ole), and one Cuban person (Babalu). In his essay addressing the development of hip-hop in Germany, author Timothy S. Brown sugge...
HMS Ivanhoe (D16) HMS "Ivanhoe" was an I-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, the ship enforced the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides as part of the Mediterranean Fleet. Before the start of World War II, the ship was modified so th...
Max Coyne Max Coyne was a young man who ran messages through Bordeaux for the French Resistance during the Second World War. One day he was stopped by German soldiers whilst carrying messages. He managed to steal a gun and shoot one German, injuring him. The soldiers gave chase, caught and shot Max. He was seventeen ye...
Combat Commander's Badge (Philippines) The Combat Commander's Kagitingan (K) Badge is awarded by the Commanding General, PA to PA officers and enlisted personnel who have commanded combat and combat support units for at least one cumulative year; all other PA military personnel who have rendered at least one cumulative...
Robert Schumann in Three Pieces Robert Schumann in Three Pieces is the collective title given to three works, composed for the "Avenue A" ensemble by the British composer, Matthew King. Together, they constitute a musical portrait of the German Romantic composer, Robert Schumann. The first piece, entitled "Ash on the G...
Mollie's Nipple Mollie's Nipple or Molly's Nipple is the name given to as many as seven peaks, at least one butte, at least one well, and some other geological features in Utah. Some sources claim there are eleven geological features in Utah that bear this name. At least some of those names are attributed to John Kitch...
List of New Zealand national cricket captains This is a complete list of all of New Zealand's national cricket captains at official international level. As such it includes details of all the men who have captained at least one Test match or One Day International, all boys who have captained in at least one Youth Test ...
HMS Beagle (H30) HMS "Beagle" was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy (RN) around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936. During World War II, the ship spent the bulk of the war on escort duty, participating in the Norwegian Campaign, the Battle of th...
Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life is a dance show created for Living as a tribute to "Dirty Dancing"'s 20th anniversary in 2007. Due to the success of the show, a second series was shown in 2008.
Patsy Swayze Yvonne Helen "Patsy" Swayze (nee Karnes; February 7, 1927 – September 16, 2013) was an American film choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor. Her credits included the choreography for "Urban Cowboy", "Liar's Moon" and "Hope Floats". Her five children included the actors Patrick Swayze and Don Swayze. S...
She's Like the Wind "She's Like the Wind" is a 1987 power ballad from the film "Dirty Dancing", performed by Patrick Swayze. Though Swayze is the primary vocalist on the single, it was billed as being performed by "Patrick Swayze featuring Wendy Fraser"; Fraser is heard throughout much of the song, specifically in the ...
Dirty Dancing Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, and featuring Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach.
The Phoenix and the Carpet The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with "Five Children and It" (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb....
Los Debutantes Los Debutantes is a 2003 Chilean film directed by Andres Waissbluth and starring Antonella Rios and Alejandro Trejo. It tells the story of two brothers from a small town, played by Nestor Castillana and Juan Pablo Miranda, who move to Santiago and visit a nightclub to celebrate the younger brother's 17th...
More Dirty Dancing More Dirty Dancing (full title: More Dirty Dancing: More Original Music from the Hit Motion Picture) is a 1988 follow-up album released after the huge commercial success of the 1987 motion picture "Dirty Dancing" and 1987 its soundtrack. David Handelman of "Rolling Stone" gave the album one star out ...
Joshua Rosa Rosa is the younger of two children. His older brother Daniel Rosa, Jr. is five years his senior. His parents are Raquel and Daniel Rosa, Sr. Rosa's entire family is of Puerto Rican descent and he was born in Brooklyn, New York. The Rosa family moved to Florida in the early 1990s so that he and his older br...
Dirty Dancing (1988 TV series) Dirty Dancing is an American Comedy-drama television series that ran for 11 episodes on CBS from October 29, 1988 until January 21, 1989. It is based on the film "Dirty Dancing" but had none of the original cast or staff. It stars Patrick Cassidy as Johnny (Patrick Swayze's character in t...
Dirty Dancing (soundtrack) Dirty Dancing is the original soundtrack of the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing". The album became a huge commercial success. It went on to sell 32 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling albums of all time.
Joe Orton John Kingsley "Joe" Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967) was an English playwright and author. His public career was short but prolific, lasting from 1964 until his death three years later. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective ...
Simon Bent Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, notable for work including BBC TV drama "" (2006), the screenplay for the feature film "Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry" (2000), and the Joe Orton biographical play "Prick Up Your Ears" based on John Lahr's book.
The Henry James Review The Henry James Review is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1979 and is the official publication of the Henry James Society. It is dedicated to the scholarly, critical, and theoretical study of the American writer Henry James. Each issue focuses on a specific theme of inte...
Prick Up Your Ears (play) Prick Up Your Ears is a play by Simon Bent, based on the life of playwright Joe Orton. Produced by Sonia Friedman it opened at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End on 30 September 2009 following previews from 17 September. It starred Chris New as Joe Orton and Matt Lucas as Orton's lover an...
Henry James Henry James, OM ((1843--)15 1843 – (1916--)28 1916 ) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of renow...
What the Butler Saw (play) What the Butler Saw is a farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was premièred at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969. It was Orton's final play and the second to be performed after his death, following "Funeral Games" in 1968.
Plain Clothes Theatre Productions Plain Clothes Theatre Productions is a Bristol-based theatre company producing contemporary plays from around the globe. Formed in 2003 by artistic director Sam Berger, the company has produced work in London, Bristol, Cheltenham, Toronto and Vancouver. Their work has included plays by...
Prick Up Your Ears Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the biography by John Lahr. The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell, Wallace Shawn as Lah...
The Ruffian on the Stair The Ruffian On the Stair is a play by British playwright Joe Orton which was first broadcast on BBC Radio in August 1964. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives. It was based o...
Julie Rivkin Julie H. Rivkin (born 1952) is an American literary critic and professor of English at Connecticut College since 1982. She is best known for her publications on literary theory and Henry James, and has published several works on both subjects. Rivkin received her B.A. and PhD from Yale University and is cu...
Playa cativo Playa Cativo is located in the Golfo Dulce, in Costa Ricas' south Pacific. Its name, Cativo, comes from a tree: Prioria Copaifera. The surrounding waters are part of the Piedras Blancas National Park to protect the needle-fish spawning grounds. A former extension of Corcovado National Park, Piedras Blancas...
Concinnia spinosa Concinnia spinosa, the Nangur spiny skink or Nangur skink, is a lizard known from two patches of dry-rainforest in South East Queensland, Australia. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus "Nangura" but was moved to "Concinnia" following the molecular phylogenetic studies of O'Connor & Moritz (2...
Kavir National Park Kavir National Park is a protected ecological zone in northern Iran. It has an area of 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 mile²). The park is located 120 kilometers south of Tehran and 100 kilometers east of Qom, and it sits on the western end of one of Iran's two major deserts, the Dasht-e Kavir (Great...
Rainforest Ecological Train The Rainforest Ecological Train or Waterfalls Train ("Tren Ecológico de la Selva" or "Tren de las Cataratas") is an environmentally friendly, narrow gauge train that runs through the forest inside Iguazú National Park in the north of the province of Misiones of Argentina.
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. It comprises three Indonesian national parks on the island of Sumatra: Gunung Leuser National Park, Kerinci Seblat National Park and the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. Th...
Biak-na-Bato National Park Biak-na-Bato National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located almost entirely within Barangay Biak-na-Bato in San Miguel, Bulacan from where it derives its name. The park also extends to the nearby municipalities of San Ildefonso and Doña Remedios Trinidad covering a total area of...
List of National Park Service areas in Maryland This list of National Park System areas in Maryland includes the lands, trails, or park networks maintained by the National Park Service of the United States within the U.S. State of Maryland. The National Park Service controls 24 units in the state of Maryland. They rang...
Sajama National Park Sajama National Park is a national park located in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. It borders Lauca National Park in Chile. The park is home to indigenous people, known as the Aymara, whose influential ancient culture can be seen in various aspects throughout the park. The park contains unique cultu...
Guanacaste National Park (Costa Rica) Guanacaste National Park, in Spanish Parque Nacional Guanacaste , is part of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site, is a National Park in the northern part of Costa Rica, from the slopes of the Orosí and Cacao volcanoes west to the Interamerican Highway where it i...
IND Fulton Street Line The IND Fulton Street Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, running from the Cranberry Street Tunnel under the East River through all of central Brooklyn to a terminus in Ozone Park, Queens. The IND Rockaway Line branches from it just east of Rockaway Boule...
Arsenal F.C. league record by opponent Arsenal Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Royal Arsenal before it was renamed Woolwich Arsenal in 1893. They became the first southern member admitted into the Football League in...
List of Arsenal F.C. managers Arsenal Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Dial Square before it was shortly renamed to Royal Arsenal, and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1893. They became the first southern member admitted int...
Arsenal Football Club Museum The Arsenal Football Club Museum is a museum in Holloway, London, run by Arsenal Football Club and dedicated to the history of the club.
List of Arsenal F.C. players (25–99 appearances) Arsenal Football Club, an association football club based in Holloway, London, was founded in 1886 as Royal Arsenal. They became the first southern member admitted into the Football League in 1893, having spent their first four seasons solely participating in cup tournam...
List of Arsenal F.C. records and statistics Arsenal Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Dial Square before being renamed as Royal Arsenal, and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1893. In 1914, the club's name was shortened to Ars...
Arsenal W.F.C. Arsenal Women Football Club, formerly known as Arsenal Ladies Football Club, is an English women's association football club affiliated with Arsenal Football Club. Founded in 1987, they are the most successful club in English women's football having won 43 major trophies to date; which are 2 FA WSL title...
Arsenal F.C. Academy Arsenal Football Club Academy is the youth team setup of Arsenal Football Club based in Hale End, London, England. The academy plays within the Professional Development League, the highest level of youth football in England. The club as well features within the FA Youth Cup and the UEFA Youth Leagu...
List of Arsenal F.C. players (1–24 appearances) Arsenal Football Club, an association football club based in Holloway, London, was founded in 1886 as Dial Square. They became the first southern member admitted into the Football League in 1893, having spent their first four seasons solely participating in cup tournament...
List of Arsenal F.C. seasons Arsenal Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Holloway, London. The club was formed in Woolwich in 1886 as Dial Square before it was shortly renamed to Royal Arsenal, and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1893. They became the first southern member admitted into...
List of Arsenal F.C. players Arsenal Football Club, an association football club based in Holloway, London, was founded in 1886 as Royal Arsenal. They became the first southern member admitted into the Football League in 1893, having spent their first four seasons solely participating in cup tournaments and friendlies....
Mike Clark (guitarist) Mike Clark (born October 28, 1964) is an American heavy metal and punk rock guitarist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist with Suicidal Tendencies, a band he played with from 1987 to 2012, and was the only member besides Mike Muir to return to the band when it reunited. He originally...
Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies (also known as S.T. or simply Suicidal) are an American crossover thrash band founded in 1980 in Venice, California by vocalist Mike Muir, who is the only remaining original member of the band. Along with D.R.I. and S.O.D., they are often credited as one of "the fathers of crosso...
Di'Anno (album) Di'Anno is the 1984 self-titled album of the band of the same name. The lead singer Paul Di'Anno had been the frontman of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden for three years, before being dismissed for his erratic behaviour. The band bearing his name and playing very commercial heavy rock was his f...
List of songs recorded by Iron Maiden Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed by bassist Steve Harris in 1975. The band's first album, 1980's "Iron Maiden", was written primarily by Harris, with vocalist Paul Di'Anno co-writing two tracks and guitarist Dave Murray contributing "Charlotte the Harlot". The 198...
Di'Anno Di'Anno was a band featuring former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno, whom the band was named after.
Gogmagog (band) Gogmagog were a British supergroup put together by British record producer Jonathan King that featured former Iron Maiden members Paul Di'Anno and Clive Burr, former White Spirit and Gillan guitarist Janick Gers, Def Leppard guitarist Pete Willis, and bassist Neil Murray (Whitesnake and other bands). Tw...
Icarus Witch Icarus Witch is a heavy metal band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, formed in 2003 by bassist Jason Myers. The band has 5 CDs on Cleopatra Records. They were founding members of the "New Wave of Traditional Metal" according to Metal Hammer U.K. Magazine and have since progressed into a melodic...
Year of the Cycos Year of the Cycos is a compilation album of bands featuring vocalist Mike Muir, released in 2008. It features new and previously released songs by Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Cyco Miko, and No Mercy.
Killers Live at the Whiskey Killers Live at the Whiskey is a live album by the former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno and his band Killers. The album was apparently recorded at the Whisky a Go Go club in Los Angeles however it is suspected that it was recorded in the studio with crowd noise mixed in the recording. The ...
Welcome to Venice Welcome to Venice is a compilation album that features local Venice Beach punk and metal bands. It was released in 1985 on Suicidal Records. It was produced by Mike Muir and features cover art by Michael Seiff, who would go on to do art for the three other original Suicidal Records releases.
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16, in 1912 and completed it in 1913. But this concerto is lost; the score was destroyed in a fire following the Russian Revolution. Prokofiev reconstructed the work in 1923, two years after finishing his Third Con...
Trapeze (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev's Trapèze Ballet is scored for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass. The ballet, closely related to Prokofiev's Quintet, Op. 39 (1924), contains eight movements (in five parts) and lasts 20–25 minutes. The complete ballet in eight movements was first performed in Gotha, a s...
Violin Sonata No. 2 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a (sometimes written as Op. 94bis), was based on the composer's own Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94, written in 1942 but arranged for violin in 1943 when Prokofiev was living in Perm in the Ural Mountains, a remote shelter for Soviet art...
String Quartet No. 2 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92 (1941) was first performed by the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow on 7 April 1942. A later concert in Moscow, on 5 September 1942, was delayed by a Nazi air raid and started late. Prokofiev thought it "an extremely turbulent success...
Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé (Russian: Поручик Киже , "Poruchik Kizhe") music was originally written to accompany the film of the same name, produced by the Belgoskino film studios in Leningrad in 1933–34 and released in March 1934. It was Prokofiev's first attempt at film music, and h...
Visions fugitives Visions fugitives, Op. 22, are a series of short piano pieces composed by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) between 1915 and 1917. They were premiered by Prokofiev on April 15, 1918 in Petrograd, Soviet Union. They were written individually, many for specific friends of Prokofiev's, and he...
Peter and the Wolf Peter and the Wolf (Russian: «Петя и волк» ; ] ), Op. 67, a 'symphonic fairy tale for children', is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a children's story, while the orchestra illustrates it. It is Prokofiev's most frequently performed work, and one of the mo...
Semyon Kotko Semyon Kotko (Russian: Семён Котко ), Op. 81, is an opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Valentin Katayev based on Katayev's 1937 novel "I, Son of Working People" (Russian: Я, сын трудового народа… ). It was premiered on 23 June 1940 at the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre...
Sergei O. Prokofieff Sergei Olegovich Prokofieff (16 January 1954 – 26 July 2014) was a Russian anthroposophist. He was the grandson of the composer Sergei Prokofiev and his first wife Lina Prokofiev, and the son of Oleg Prokofiev and his first wife Sofia Korovina. Born in Moscow, he studied fine arts and painting at t...
Flute Sonata (Prokofiev) The Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94, was completed in the summer of 1943 by Sergei Prokofiev. At that same time, Prokofiev was working on music for "Ivan the terrible". The flute sonata in D was first performed in Moscow, Russia on December 7, 1943 by Nicolai Kharkovsky (flute) and Sviatoslav Richter...
The Peeler "The Peeler" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It was first published in "Partisan Review" in 1949. It later appeared in the 1971 collection "The Complete Stories". It was eventually incorporated into her novel, "Wise Blood".
Shajoon Kariyal Shajoon Kariyal is an Indian film director and producer working in Malayalam cinema. Shajoon was born in 1963 in Kozhikode, Kerala and had his primary education from Govt. Ganapath High School, Chalappuram. He started his film career in 1984, at the age of 18, as an assistant director to I. V. Sasi. He ...
Wise Blood (film) Wise Blood is an American 1979 drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1952 novel "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor. It was filmed mostly in and around Macon, Georgia, near O'Connor's home Andalusia in Baldwin County, using many local residents as extras. Though largely faithful to O'Conno...
Tony Huston Walter "Tony" Antony Huston (born April 16, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and assistant director. He is known for his work on "The List of Adrian Messenger" (1963), "The Dead" (1987), "Wise Blood" (1979), "" (2010), "" (2008), "Look Up and Wave Your Glove" (2005), "Great Performances" (2002), "" (2001...
Wiseblood (Corrosion of Conformity album) Wiseblood is the fifth album by Corrosion of Conformity. Its name comes from the novel "Wise Blood", written by Southern Gothic author Flannery O'Connor. Metallica's lead vocalist, James Hetfield, provides his voice as backup on the album's ninth track, "Man or Ash". The song "...
7 Wise Dwarfs 7 Wise Dwarfs (aka Seven Wise Dwarfs and Walt Disney's 7 Wise Dwarfs) is a 1941 four-minute educational short animated film made by the Walt Disney Studios, for the National Film Board of Canada. The film was released theatrically on December 12, 1941 as part of a series of four films directed at the Cana...
The Train (short story) "The Train" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis "The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories" and was published in "The Sewanee Review" in 1948. It later appeared in the 1971 collection "The Co...
Wise Blood Wise Blood is the first novel by American author Flannery O'Connor, published in 1952. The novel was assembled from disparate stories first published in "Mademoiselle", "Sewanee Review" and "Partisan Review". The first chapter is an expanded version of her Master's thesis, "The Train", and other chapters are...
Benedict Fitzgerald Benedict Fitzgerald (born 1949) is an American screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for "The Passion of the Christ" with Mel Gibson. His other writing credits include a television screenplay of "Moby-Dick" in 1998 (uncredited) and "Wise Blood" in 1979.
Amy Wright Amy Wright (born April 15, 1950 in Chicago) is an American actress and former model. She has appeared in such films as "The Deer Hunter", "Breaking Away", "The Amityville Horror", "Heartland", "Wise Blood", "Stardust Memories", "The Accidental Tourist", "Hard Promises", "Crossing Delancey" and "Miss Firecrac...
Everett, New Jersey Everett is an unincorporated community located along the border of Holmdel and Middletown townships in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The community is located on Everett Road (County Route 52), along which the township line runs, at its intersection with Stillwell Road and Sunnyside Roa...
Turner Historic District The Turner Historic District encompasses the 19th-century core of the small community of Cypert in rural Phillips County, Arkansas. Located at the junction of Arkansas Highway 318 and County Road 606, south-southwest of Marvell, the district includes a store and house, both built and operated b...