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  Christopher Walken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ronald Walken (born March 31, 1943), known professionally as Christopher Walken, is an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) film, television, and theatre actor (A theatrical performer) best known for playing menacing or psychologically damaged characters.
His first video role was as Madonna (United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958)) 's guardian angel in her 1993 "Bad Girl" video, and the second appearance was in Fatboy Slim (additional info and facts about Fatboy Slim) 's Weapon of Choice video in 2001.
This Oscar winning film directed by Woody Allen (United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)) is often cited by Walken and others as the first film that brought the actor and his unusual qualities to the attention of the mainstream viewing public.
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 ARTSEDGE: Chivalry and Courtly Love
Encourage students to brainstorm and storyboard, share their ideas as a group, and write down all their ideas, before they start writing the scene.
Show students one or two pre-selected scenes from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), a hilarious satire of King Arthur (King of the Britons), and his knights, in quest for The Holy Grail.
Ask them: "Does this film make us consider the ideas we have been studying in a way that the more serious films did not?" Ask students how the ideas of chivalry, honor, and courtly love hold up when seen through the lens of modern times.
artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/3707   (1836 words)

  
 THE LOUISE FLETCHER APPRECIATION PAGE
Louise is working on a new film, Fat Rose and Squeaky, with Cicely Tyson and Julie Brown.
The director of Brainstorm speaks about the film's special effects, including the afterlife sequence, as well as the impact of the death of co-star Natalie Wood on the movie.
Nurse Ratched placed fifth on the American Film Institute's list of the 50 all-time greatest movie villains, behind only The Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lechter, Psycho's Norman Bates, Star Wars' Darth Vader and The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West.
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 "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" light version
Brainstorm originated from Baden-Baden (in South West Germany), as the eccentric Mothers Of Invention inspired combo with the unlikely name Fashion Prick.
The music on both Brainstorm albums was a highly inventive blend of songs and instrumentals, with a touch of Zappa, and Canterbury inspired certainly, akin to Caravan, Hatfield and The North, Soft Machine, etc., but also with a style all of their own.
Brainstorm lived up to their name, and both albums are classics of the genre.
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 Penguin Classics | Classics Teachers' Guides
Have groups brainstorm for 4 to 5 minutes, writing down everything they know about their topic.
Have the groups move the papers clockwise to the next group and continue with brainstorming until each group has had an opportunity to work on each topic.
In the presentation use short film clips to illustrate the different approaches of several directors.
us.penguinclassics.com /static/cs/us/10/nf/teachersguides/tempest.html   (9065 words)

  
 Center for the Study of the American South
In January the Center’s esteemed new Faculty Board of Advisors met to discuss the Center’s ongoing projects and initiatives and to brainstorm future paths and goals.
The new Board is a mix of faces old and new to the Center from a number of different departments and affiliations.
His films include "Mississippi Blues" (1983), which was featured at the Cannes Film Festival.
www.unc.edu /depts/csas/news/index.html   (3279 words)

  
 J676 - Spring 2004
Films are an important educational resource and should be treated with the same seriousness as lectures and texts, meaning:
Told without narration, the film chronicles a tumultuous year in the lives of two young activists grappling with rapid social change and the meaning of globalization on their own doorsteps." — from the distributor
You might also want to try Altered States (1980), Brainstorm (1983), WarGames (1983), Videodrome (1983), The Lawnmower Man (1992), The Net (1995), Virtuosity (1995), Strange Days (1995), Dark City (1998), Existenz (1999),The Cell (2000), and a whole slew of other B-movie cyberspace romps.
www.journalism.wisc.edu /~gdowney/courses/j676-cyber-2004-01/index.html   (3782 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock BI-BY
BAS had one album titled Terminal Velocity in 1983, and there is as the 3 song EP from it titled Astropop.
The last track is a 23 minute piece called "To a Random"; a *very* sparse and atmospheric piece written to accompany a film of the same name.
They both appear in Fred Frith's movie (and accompanying soundtrack), "Step Across the Border." Everyone I know who's seen this film has immediately tried to seek any Bittova CD's they can get their hands on.
www.gepr.net /bi.html   (14929 words)

  
 Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Louise Fletcher
After winning an Oscar for playing that part in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Fletcher brought her act to science fiction film, most prominently as the Martian-controlled schoolteacher in Tobe HOOPER's inept Invaders from Mars.
Her other genre-related films, such as Exorcist II: The Heretic, Mamma Dracula, and Firestarter, also tended (by some curious coincidence) to be wretched bombs, though she was at least adequate as the chain-smoking research scientist in Douglas TRUMBULL's adequate Brainstorm, forced into a major climactic role by the untimely death of Natalie Wood.
In the 1990s, she drifted into television with a recurring role as a transparently treacherous Bajoran priestess in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, never quite managing to make her character sympathetic or persuasive.
www.sfsite.com /gary/flet01.htm   (250 words)

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