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Jeff Bridges Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor, singer and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series "Sea Hunt" (1958–60), with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis ...
Speaker of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Speaker of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. He is elected by the members of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The speaker is a...
Ho Ion Sang Ho Ion Sang (; born 2 September 1961 in Macau) is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Macau. He ran for Legislative Assembly in the 2009 legislative election. He is a member of Union for Promoting Progress a pan-establishment party in Macau.
Legislative Assembly of Macau The Legislative Assembly (AL; Portuguese: "Assembleia Legislativa"; Traditional Chinese: 立法會; Simplified Chinese: 立法会) is the organ of the legislative branch of Macau. It is a 33-member body comprising 14 directly elected members, 12 indirectly elected members representing functional const...
Durai Ramasamy D. Ramasamy is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He joined the congress under the then mass leader K. Kamaraj. He rose to power steadily being the Vellakovil Panchayat board president for a period of 10 yrs and then the union chairman for 15 yrs and member ...
Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) The Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), also known as NSW Labor, is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the members of the party caucus, comprising all party members in the Legislative Asse...
S. T. Adityan S. T. Adityan (27 May 1904 – 1981) was an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu belonging to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. A native of Kayamozhi, he was born in Perumalpuram in Tirunelveli district. He studied in England and was a lawyer by profession. He married Govindammal in 1933, who was the daughter o...
Ho Iat Seng Ho Iat Seng (; born 12 June 1957 in Macau) is a member of Legislative Assembly of Macau. He is also a member of the 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a Member of the Chief Executive of Macau from 2004 to 2009.
Women in the Victorian Legislative Assembly There have been 87 women in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since its establishment in 1856. Women have had the right to vote in Victoria, Australia since 1908 and the right to stand as a candidate for the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1923. As at November 2015, the...
Executive Council of Alberta The Executive Council of Alberta, or more commonly the Cabinet of Alberta, is the Province of Alberta's equivalent to the Cabinet of Canada. The government of the province of Alberta is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy with a unicameral legislature—the Legislative Assem...
Ho Teng Iat Ho Teng Iat () (born 1950 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China) is a Macau entrepreneur and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Macau. She is the daughter of Ho Tin (), the founder of Sociedade Industrial Ho Tin S.A.R.L, and she acts as the managing director and CEO of her father's company. She is also the ...
1989 World Series The 1989 World Series was the 86th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series, and the conclusion of the 1989 Major League Baseball season. A best-of-seven playoff, it was played between the American League (AL) champion Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco...
1997 Cincinnati Reds season The 1997 Cincinnati Reds season consisted of the Cincinnati Reds attempting to win the National League Central. The Reds were managed by Ray Knight and Jack McKeon.
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are a minor league baseball team of the Midwest League, and the Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. The team is located in Appleton, and are named for the timber rattlesnake, which is indigenous to the area. The team plays its home games at Neuroscience Gr...
2015 World Series The 2015 World Series was the 111th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series, a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion New York Mets and the American League (AL) champion Kansas City Royals. The series was played between October 27 and November 1, with the Royals...
2000 World Series The 2000 World Series was the 96th edition of Major League Baseball (MLB)'s championship series, and the conclusion of the 2000 Major League Baseball season. A best-of-seven playoff, it featured a crosstown matchup between the two-time defending World Series champions and American League (AL) champion...
Jim Tracy (baseball) James Edwin Tracy (born December 31, 1955) is a former professional baseball manager and player. He has managed the Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Colorado Rockies. Tracy was named Manager of the Year in 2009, only the second manager to win the award after being hired mid-season, join...
2005 Florida Marlins season The Florida Marlins' 2005 season started off with the team trying to improve on their season from 2004. Their manager was Jack McKeon. They played home games at Dolphin Stadium. They finished with a record of 83-79, 3rd in the NL East.
San Diego Padres Hall of Fame The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team in Major League Baseball (MLB) based in San Diego, California. The club was founded in 1969 as part of the league's expansion. The team's Hall of Fame, created in 1999 to honor the club's 30th anniversary, recognizes players, ...
2004 Florida Marlins season The Florida Marlins' 2004 season started off with the team trying to improve on their season from 2003. Their manager was Jack McKeon. They played most of their home games at Pro Player Stadium.They played two against the Montreal Expos at Chicago's U.S. Cellular Field due to Hurricane Ivan....
La vacanza La vacanza (AKA Vacation) is a 1971 Italian drama film by Tinto Brass. It stars Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 4 September 1971 where it was awarded the 'Best Italian Film' prize. This was followed by a theatrical release in Italy on 5 April 1972. A year earlier...
Il disco volante Il disco volante is a 1964 Italian comic science fiction film with mockumentary elements directed by Tinto Brass and starring Alberto Sordi. The film features the renowned comedian in four distinct roles as a dim-witted Carabinieri "brigadiere", a cheesepairing accountant, a decadent count, and an alco...
Trasgredire Trasgredire (Transgressing or Cheeky) is a 2000 sex comedy directed by Tinto Brass, with Yuliya Mayarchuk in the lead role. Certain parallelisms are drawn between "Nerosubianco" (1969), another Tinto Brass film set in London.
Tinto Brass Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian filmmaker. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work in the erotic genre, with films such as "Caligula", "Così fan tutte" (released under the Englis...
Dropout (1970 film) Dropout is a 1970 Italian romantic drama directed by Tinto Brass. It stars real-life couple, Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave. They also worked with Brass a year later on the drama, "La vacanza". "Dropout" was released in France on December 18, 1970, followed by a theatrical release in Italy on Febr...
Fermo posta Tinto Brass Fermo posta Tinto Brass is a 1995 Italian comedy film-erotic film directed by Tinto Brass and set in vignettes.
Contraband (2012 film) Contraband is a 2012 American crime thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna and J. K. Simmons. The film is a remake of the 2008 Icelandic film "Reykjavík-Rotterdam" which Baltasar...
Baltasar Breki Samper Baltasar Breki Samper (born 22 July 1989), sometimes referred to as Baltasar Breki Baltasarsson, is an Icelandic actor. He is the son of Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur. Before graduating from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 2015 Samper helped his father on several films as second assist...
Everest (2015 film) Everest is a 2015 British-American biographical adventure film directed and co-produced by Baltasar Kormákur, co-produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Tyler Thompson and Brian Oliver and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy, adapted from Beck Weathers' memoir "Left for...
Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur Samper (born 27 February 1966) is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films "101 Reykjavík", "Hafið", "A Little Trip to Heaven" (starring Julia Stiles and Forest Whitaker), a film based on the book "Mýrin" "(Jar City)" ...
Tom Coburn Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburn (born March 14, 1948) is an American politician and medical doctor. A member of the Republican Party, he was the junior United States Senator from Oklahoma.
Kirk Humphreys Kirk Humphreys (born September 13, 1950) is an American politician who served as Mayor of Oklahoma City from April 9, 1998 to November 3, 2003. He was considered a favorite candidate of the Republican party establishment for U.S. Senator in 2004, losing to former Congressman Tom Coburn, MD in the primary...
The Guns (band) The Guns are a four-piece rock band from South Wales. The current line-up consists of Alex Wiltshire (vocals and guitar), Adam Turner (lead guitar), Tom Coburn (bass guitar) and Chris 'Stix' Davies (drums). The band have stated that they would like to remain independent and have turned down numerous rec...
O. W. Coburn School of Law The O. W. Coburn School of Law was the law school of Oral Roberts University. The school was named after donor Orin Wesley Coburn, the founder of Coburn Optical Industries and the father of future US politician Tom Coburn.
United States Senate election in Oklahoma, 2004 The 2004 United States Senate election in Oklahoma took place on November 2, 2004. The election was concurrent with elections to the United States House of Representatives and the presidential election. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Don Nickles decided to retire inste...
Kevin Ogle Kevin Ogle is a news anchor for KFOR-TV (channel 4), the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Kevin anchors the station's weeknight 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts with Linda Cavanaugh, does occasional reports including the "Bottom Line" financial segments seen during the station's 6:30 p.m. newscast, and occas...
Mike Schwartz (activist) Michael Schwartz (1950-February 3, 2013) was an American leader in the United States pro-life movement, a co-founder of the March for Life, and founding chairman of the Planned Parenthood watchdog organization Life Decisions International. He was a member of Operation Rescue and Chief of Staff ...
Sarah Coburn Sarah Coburn is an American operatic soprano (born August 4, 1977) who was born in Petersburg, Virginia and is the daughter of former United States Senator from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn.
Jim Rogers (Oklahoma politician) Jimmie Hugh Rogers Sr. (March 25, 1935 – November 11, 2014) was an American perennial political candidate. He ran for various offices and in 2010 was the Democratic Party nominee for the United States Senate in Oklahoma in a race against incumbent Senator Tom Coburn.
Pierre Pellizza Pierre Pellizza (1917 – 1974) was a French tennis player in the years before and after World War 2. In 1948 he settled in America. His younger brother was tennis and badminton player Henri Pellizza. Allison Danzig of The New York Times said of Pierre Pellizza "Pellizza was a bulldog for tenacity. He sho...
Field of Dreams Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama sports film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, who also wrote the screenplay, adapting W. P. Kinsella's novel "Shoeless Joe". It stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster in his final role. It was nominated for three ...
Robert Earl Jones Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006), sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and prizefighter. One of the first prominent African-American film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes ear...
Lying Lips Lying Lips is a 1939 American melodrama race film by Oscar Micheaux, starring Edna Mae Harris, and Robert Earl Jones (the father of James Earl Jones). "Lying Lips" was the thirty-seventh film of Micheaux.
Lorraine Broderick Lorraine Broderick (born 1948) is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on "All My Children" as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon. She went on to serve four different stints as its Head Writer, ultimately earning her four Daytime Emmy awards in that capacity. Broderic...
David X. Cohen David Samuel Cohen (born July 13, 1966), better known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He has written for "The Simpsons" and served as the head writer and executive producer of "Futurama".
Jimmie Walker James Carter Walker, Jr. (born June 25, 1947), known professionally as Jimmie Walker, is an American actor and comedian. Walker is best known for portraying James Evans, Jr. (J.J.), the oldest son of Florida and James Evans, Sr. on the CBS television series "Good Times" which originally ran from 1974–1979...
Alice (Moby song) "Alice" is a song by American musician Moby, released as the first single from his 2008 album "Last Night". It features guest vocals from the British MC Aynzli Jones and members of the Nigerian group 419 Squad. The music video was directed by Andreas Nilsson and features a collage of footage intersper...
Africa: The Serengeti Africa: The Serengeti is a 70mm American documentary film released in 1994 to IMAX theaters. It is narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor James Earl Jones, and directed by George Casey. It was shot on location in Tanzania and Kenya.
Das Bus "Das Bus" is the fourteenth episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> ninth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 15, 1998. In an extended parody of "Lord of the Flies", Bart, Lisa and other children from Springfield Elementary School are stranded on an island and are...
Marina Kamen Marina Kamen (aka MARINA), is a Director/Producer/Casting Director/Vocalist/Choreographer & Musician best known for her music in the advertising industry & fitness/health/dance music communities and has a large online catalogue of workout music, treadmill workouts and audio workouts including 50 albums, 45...
Michael Crafter Michael Crafter is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and entertainment manager. His music career began as lead vocalist for I Killed the Prom Queen. He is the vocalist of Confession, and former vocalist of Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. Crafter runs a clothing apparel business, Mistake Clothing.
Die anderen Bands Die anderen Bands (] , "the other bands") is a term combining alternative music bands of 1980s GDR (East Germany). They shared a more or less open criticism of their country's political system, and a high degree of creativity which was lacking from the more established music scene of East Germany. Man...
Patsy O'Brien Patsy O'Brien is an Irish songwriter and musician. He has played with punk rock bands, country music bands, big band, swing and jazz ensembles and Irish folk music groups . He currently performs as a solo guitarist and singer.
Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You is the second EP released by Australian metalcore band I Killed the Prom Queen in 2005. It is also the last album to feature Michael Crafter on vocals, besides the re-issue of Music for the Recently Deceased. The EP features a reworked version of "To B...
The Long Way Home (Confession album) The Long Way Home is the second full-length studio album by Australian hardcore/metalcore band Confession, released on 23 September 2011, through Resist Records. This is the last album to feature guitarists Dan Brown and Adam Harris, bassist Tim Anderson and drummer Shane O'Brien, l...
Confession (band) Confession was an Australian melodic hardcore band from Melbourne, Victoria. The band was formed in 2008 by frontman Michael Crafter, who is best known as the former lead vocalist of metalcore bands I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. They have released one EP entitled "Can't Live,...
Rock music in Estonia The Estonian rock music scene saw its beginnings in the mid-sixties during Nikita Khrushchev's thaw in the Soviet Union and the rise of British bands all over the world. The first Estonian rock-groups were primarily high school bands playing cover versions of the current UK Top 10. Despite the lac...
Life and Death (album) Life And Death is the third full-length studio album by Australian hardcore/metalcore band Confession, released on 13 June 2014, through Lifeforce Records. This is the first album to feature the lineup of guitarists Russell Holland and Lyndsay Antica, bassist Steven French, and drummer Jake Darga...
1981 WAFU Club Championship The 1981 WAFU Club Championship was the fifth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won by Stella Club d'Adjamé in two-legged final victory against AS Police of Dakar, Sene...
Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese: "República da Guiné-Bissau" , ] ), is a country in West Africa. It covers 36125 km2 with an estimated population of .
1985 WAFU Club Championship The 1985 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won by Africa Sports in two-legged final victory against Ifodje Atakpamé.
1994 WAFU Club Championship The 1994 WAFU Club Championship was the 17th football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up or third place of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Nigeria's Bendel Insurance after defeating Plateau United in ...
Paul Bérenger Paul Raymond Bérenger GCSK, MP (born 26 March 1945) is a Mauritian politician who was Prime Minister of Mauritius from 2003 to 2005. He has been Leader of the Opposition on several occasions — from 1983 to 1987, 1997 to 2000, 2005 to 2006, 2007 to 2013, October 2013 to 15 September 2014, and again since D...
Umaro Sissoco Embaló Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló (born 23 September 1972) has been the Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau since 18 November 2016.
Ali Badjo Gamatié Ali Badjo Gamatié is a Nigerien politician and civil servant who served as Prime Minister of Niger from October 2009 to February 2010. He was Finance Minister of Niger from 2000 to 2003 and then served as Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) before being appointed as Prime ...
1987 WAFU Club Championship The 1987 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Africa Sports after defeating Asante Kotoko from Ghana 6-5 in penalty shoot...
1986 WAFU Club Championship The 1986 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Africa Sports after defeating Asante Kotoko from Ghana 6-5 in penalty shoot...
Mahammed Dionne Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne (born 22 September 1959) is a Senegalese politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Senegal since 6 July 2014. He is the third prime minister appointed by President Macky Sall. Dionne served at the Central Bank of West African States, the United Nations Industrial D...
Ashley Young Ashley Simon Young (born 9 July 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
George Young (Scottish footballer) George Lewis Young (27 October 1922 – 10 January 1997) was a Scottish footballer, best remembered for his association with Rangers and for being the first player to receive more than 50 caps for the Scotland national team.
Yasuhito Endō Yasuhito Endō (遠藤 保仁 , Endō Yasuhito , born 28 January 1980 in Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture) is a Japanese footballer, who currently plays for the J. League team Gamba Osaka. His older brother Akihiro, who retired in 2008, is also a former professional footballer, and was selected as one of Japan un...
Scott Young (American football) Scott Lewis Young (born July 15, 1981) is a retired American football guard. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Brigham Young.
Vanda &amp; Young Vanda & Young were a songwriting/producing duo composed of Harry Vanda and George Young. They performed as members of 1960s Australian rock group The Easybeats where Vanda was their lead guitarist and backing singer and Young was their rhythm guitarist and backing singer. Vanda & Young co-wrote most o...
Lewis Young (Australian footballer) Lewis Young (born 20 December 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Western Bulldogs with their third selection and forty-ninth overall in the 2016 national draft. He made hi...
Lewis Young Lewis Jack Young (born 27 September 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays for Crawley Town. He can play either as a striker, as a right winger or as, most recently, a right back. He is the younger brother of Manchester United footballer Ashley Young.
Rick Clausen Richard James Clausen (born June 29, 1982) is the current offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Calabasas High School. He is also a former American football player who played college football for Louisiana State University and University of Tennessee. During his two years at LSU (2001 Redshirt and 20...
Bob Young (American football) Robert Allen Young (September 3, 1942 – June 17, 1995) was an American football offensive guard who played 16 seasons in the National Football League, mainly for the St. Louis Cardinals, where he and other Cardinal offensive linemen are credited with introducing modern weightlifting/powerl...
Jumpers for Goalposts: Live at Wembley Stadium Jumpers for Goalposts: Live at Wembley Stadium is a home video by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, released on Blu-ray on 13 November 2015. It features the footage taken from Sheeran's x Tour, when he became the first solo artist to take the stage at Wembley Stadium i...
Drunk (Ed Sheeran song) "Drunk" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released as the fourth single lifted from the debut studio album "+" on 17 February 2012. The song was written by Ed Sheeran and Jake Gosling and produced by Gosling. The single entered the UK Singles Chart at number 63. The week ...
Moments (One Direction song) "Moments" is a song by English-Irish boy band One Direction from their debut studio album, "Up All Night" (2011). It was written by Ed Sheeran, and Si Hulbert, the song's producer. In 2011, as One Direction member Harry Styles told Sheeran that the boy band did not have enough songs for the...
÷ (album) ÷ (pronounced "divide") is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released on 3 March 2017 through Asylum Records and Atlantic Records. "Castle on the Hill" and "Shape of You" were released as the album's lead singles on 6 January 2017.
Songs I Wrote with Amy Songs I Wrote with Amy is an extended play, independently released by Ed Sheeran on April 4, 2010. After the success of +, Sheeran re-released five of his EPs, including "Songs I Wrote with Amy", which was released a second time on December 9, 2011. All of the songs were written collaboratively b...
Photograph (Ed Sheeran song) "Photograph" is a song recorded by the English singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran, for his second studio album, "×" (2014). Sheeran wrote the song with Snow Patrol member, Johnny McDaid, who had a piano loop from which the composition developed. After recording several versions with other produc...
One (Ed Sheeran song) "One" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for his second studio album, "x" (2014). Sheeran wrote the song immediately after releasing his debut album, "+" (2011). It marked the last occasion wherein Sheeran wrote about his former girlfriend, who inspired all the romantic com...
Sing (Ed Sheeran song) "Sing" is a song by English singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran. It was written by Sheeran and Pharrell Williams, who also produced it and provided uncredited background vocals. The song was released on 7 April 2014, serving as the lead single from Sheeran's second studio album, "×" (2014). The song be...
J Farell Justin Farell Alamar (born April 23, 1982), better known as J Farell, is an American music producer from Cherry Hill, NJ. He graduated from Rutgers University where he was first exposed to music production. J Farell broke into the recording industry in 2010 and is best known for producing remixes for artists s...
Castle on the Hill (song) "Castle on the Hill" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released as a digital download on 6 January 2017 as one of the double lead singles from his third studio album "÷" (2017), along with "Shape of You". "Castle on the Hill" was written and produced by Ed Sheeran and B...
Oscar (TV serial) Oscar is a British TV serial first transmitted by BBC 2 in March 1985. Michael Gambon portrayed Oscar Wilde while other actors included Robin Lermitte as Lord Alfred Douglas, Tim Hardy as Alfred Taylor, Emily Richard as Constance Wilde and Norman Rodway as the Marquis of Queensberry. The serial concen...
Oscar Wilde (play) The play Oscar Wilde, written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, is based on the life of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character. The play, which contains much of Wilde's actual writings, starts with Wilde's lite...
Harold Sherwood Spencer Harold Sherwood Spencer (born 1890, date of death unknown) was an American-born British anti-homosexuality and antisemitic activist during and after World War I. He was closely associated with Noel Pemberton Billing and Lord Alfred Douglas.
Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 187020 March 1945), nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet, translator, and political commentator, better known as the friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from ...
Salome's Last Dance Salome's Last Dance is a 1988 film by British film director, Ken Russell. Although most of the action is a verbatim performance of Oscar Wilde's 1893 play "Salome", which is itself based on a story from the New Testament, there is also a framing narrative written by Russell himself. Wilde (Nickolas ...
John Francis Bloxam John Francis Bloxam (1873 – 1928) was an English Uranian author and churchman. Bloxam was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford when his story, "the Priest and the Acolyte", appeared in the sole issue of "the Chameleon: a Bazaar of Dangerous and Smiling Chances", a periodical which he also serv...
De Profundis (letter) De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to "Bosie" (Lord Alfred Douglas).
The Judas Kiss (play) The Judas Kiss is a 1998 British play by David Hare, about Oscar Wilde's scandal and disgrace at the hands of his young lover Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas).
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was a prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigram...
Maxim Mazumdar Maxim Mazumdar (27 January 1952 – 28 April 1988) was an Indo-Canadian playwright and director. He is known for his one-man show, "Oscar Remembered", which tells the story of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde as seen from the perspective of his lover and nemesis, Lord Alfred Douglas.
Stuck (EP) Stuck is Puddle of Mudd's debut EP. The band had played a local battle of the bands competition and won the grand prize, the chance to record an EP. It was recorded at Red House in Lawrence, KS in 1993, and was released on Mudd Dog/V&R Records in 1994. The MuddDog version is among the rarest collectibles in ...
Come Clean (Puddle of Mudd album) Come Clean is the second studio album by the rock band Puddle of Mudd. Released on August 28, 2001, the album's music was responsible for breaking Puddle of Mudd into the mainstream music scene. It features the singles "Control," "Blurry," "Drift & Die" and "She Hates Me". Various trac...
!!! !!! ( ) is an American dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, United States, in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. They are currently based in New York City. The band's seventh album, "Shake the Shudder", w...