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 The Panhandle : Music and Culture Fanzine
News - Read news from The Panhandle along with music, art, film and general news from around the world.
Join The Panhandle mailing list to recieve news and gossip about what's going on here and in the world at large.
By combining recognised and not so well known artists together without the need for segmentation, smaller acts can raise their profiles and network on a grander scale whilst larger acts gain from the extra publicity.
www.panhandle.co.uk   (307 words)

  
 August 19th, 1995
The town lies in the farthest South part of the Alaskan panhandle between Juneau and Ketchikan and is a small but busy fishing port founded on salmon canneries that billow clouds of steam 24 hours a day.
The panhandle of Alaska is a flooded mountain range so we see our whales against a backdrop of 15,000 foot, snow capped mountains rising straight out of the sea.
Petersberg is the closest town to a protected fjord called Steven's passage, a major feeding ground for humpback whales and an excellent place to observe and film them.
www.whalesfilm.com /aug19.htm   (135 words)

  
 Cinequest—San Jose Film Festival
These heroes come from Rolla, Missouri; the plains of the Texas Panhandle; upscale Connecticut suburbs; and even the mansions of Yorba Linda.
From all over America, they come to take part in the National Spelling Bee, a mammoth contest that packs a ton of excitement in a high-stakes gamble in which there is only one winner.
Maybe a titan of industry would do-if you can find one that's not on trial.
www.cinequest.org /cgi-bin/cq_2003/event.cgi?event=Spellbound_w-_The_Freak   (175 words)

  
 Film and Video Festivals in the USA and Canada compiled by SHOOTS.com
The Panhandle Picture Show is open to all film and videomakers in Alaska and beyond, as well as to any genre of film provided that they are 20 minutes in length or less.
Award-winning films in the Festival are eligible for consideration for the Genies and the Academy Awards.
Heartland Film Festival, a nonprofit organization, was established in 1991 to recognize and honor filmmakers whose work explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life.
www.shoots.com /crew/a/fest1.html   (5389 words)

  
 Spider (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Spider is a 2001 film by (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian director (additional info and facts about David Cronenberg) David Cronenberg.
The film premiered at the 2002 (additional info and facts about Cannes Film Festival) Cannes Film Festival, and enjoyed significant awards-buzz before being dumped into a few theaters at the years' end by its distributor, (additional info and facts about Sony Pictures Classics) Sony Pictures Classics.
Gradually, it is revealed that (An electronic memory device) memory and (The state of being actual or real) reality can be pliable, unstable (An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances) concepts and that events might not have unfolded as first appeared.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spider_(movie).htm   (455 words)

  
 Interview: Peter Fonda - interview with movie actor - Interview
Fonda is having a banner year, partly as a result of the critical acclaim that's come his way since his latest film, Victor Nunez's Ulee's Gold, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Deservedly so: Fonda is magnificently understated in the movie as Ulee Jackson, a beekeeper, widower, and Vietnam vet in the Florida Panhandle who is forced to overcome his emotional reticence and protect his imprisoned son's wife and two daughters when danger looms.
GRAHAM FULLER: When you were applauded at Sundance for your performance in Ulee's Gold, it reminded everyone that - as Captain America in Easy Rider- you once symbolized the spirit of Independent film.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n6_v27/ai_19661477   (1383 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Oklahoma
Oklahoma's natural terrain is very diverse, ranging from oak and hickory mixed forest in the wetter eastern part of the state, to the post oak and blackjack oak savannah territory of the Cross Timbers, to the plains and semi-arid regions of western Oklahoma and the panhandle.
The Oklahoma Panhandle is the panhandle region of the state of Oklahoma, comprising its three westernmost counties; Cimarron County, Texas County, and Beaver County.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Oklahoma   (9888 words)

  
 FILM SUMMARY:The Plow that Broke the Plains, a film by Pare Lorentz
This is a record of the land, of soil, rather than people, a story of the great plains, 400,000,000 acres of windswept grass lands that spread up from the Texas panhandle to Canada--a high, treeless continent, without rivers, without streams.
CU of shining plow blade as it begins to move through the soil.
By 1890 we had cleared the Indian, and with him, the buffalo, from the Great Plains, and established the last frontier.
www.tc.umn.edu /~yahnk001/filmteach/plow-v.htm   (1605 words)

  
 Chicken Magnate's Promototion Horns In On Cattle's Country
behind a Panhandle chuckwagon, poultry czar Bo Pilgrim invaded cattle country to film a recent commercial promoting his products.
He just gets a kick out of the Dallas ad agency making the commercial choosing to bring cowboys down from Kansas into the Texas Panhandle to move the cattle.
Chicken may be what's for supper, but it was cattle, cowboys, cameramen, soundmen, directors, account executives and the white-haired Bo Pilgrim, who, when not on camera sports a broad smile, that rustled up the television advertisement last week north of Pampa.
www.livestockweekly.com /papers/04/06/03/whlpilgrim.asp   (1605 words)

  
 Little Boy Blue (1997)
Little Boy Blue is not a great film but it is a good film and worth watching.
Plot Summary: Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a...
Decent performances attempt to tell a rather complex story but the results are slightly offset by below average direction.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0119547   (230 words)

  
 Encyclopedia topic: Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne is a fictional character (An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)) in a series of novels by Robert Ludlum (additional info and facts about Robert Ludlum) and later Eric Van Lustbader who picks up where Ludlum left off.
The character, currently, has since been in three more novels and one other film.
This woman named Marie St. Jacques, as it turns out is an employee of the Canadian (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) government.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jason_bourne.htm   (1389 words)

  
 FilmStew.com • Edwards to Receive Honorary Oscar
Edwards also produced Panhandle and went on to begin his directing career with the television series Four Star Playhouse in 1952.
Beginning his entertainment career as an actor in 1942's Ten Gentelmen from West Point, Edwards wrote his first film, Panhandle, in 1948.
Edwards' honor, presented in the form of an Oscar statuette, will be bestowed upon the filmmaker at the 76th annual Academy Awards ceremony on February 29th.
www.filmstew.com /Content/DailyNews/Details.asp?ContentID=7475&Pg=1   (1389 words)

  
 Business Wire: Veteran Filmmaker Blake Edwards to Receive Hono... @ HighBeam Research
Edwards acted in two dozen films prior to launching his filmmaking career as co-author and producer of Panhandle for Monogram Pictures.
Veteran filmmaker Blake Edwards has been voted this year's honorary Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award by the Executive Board of the Art Directors Guild, it was announced today by Art Directors Guild President Jack De Govia and Awards Chairman Michael Baugh.
In 1992 Edwards was honored by the 45th Annual Cannes Film Festival with a 10-film retrospective that included his receiving the coveted French Legion of Honor award for Cinematic Achievement.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:59241753&refid=ink_tptd_g1   (1389 words)

  
 Blake Edwards to Receive Honorary Academy Award®
He wrote his first film, "Panhandle" (which he also produced) in 1948, and debuted as a director with the television series "Four Star Playhouse" in 1952.
Writer-director Blake Edwards has been selected by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Honorary Award in recognition of his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen.
Beverly Hills, CA - Filmmaker Blake Edwards has been selected to receive an Honorary Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2003/03.12.11.html   (1389 words)

  
 Jane Adams
In 1945, producer Walter Wanger invited cover girl Poni Adams to come to Universal to screen test for a role in his upcoming film, "Salome, Where She Danced." While she didn’t land the lead, the already successful Conover model was awarded a contract by the studio.
They were paired twice more in 1950, appearing together in "Law of the Panhandle" and "Outlaw Gold." Wallace Fox served as director for both "Outlaw Gold" and "Western Renegades." Fox had produced and directed all five of her Kirby Grant westerns at Universal a few years earlier.
Universal subsequently sold the film to Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) for distribution.
www.angelfire.com /movies/spotter/Biographies/adams.htm   (1398 words)

  
 Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Day By Day - March 16, 1939
On this day in 1939, Carol O'Brien Sobieski, television and film writer, was born in Chicago, Illinois.
When she was five the family moved to the Frying Pan Ranch in the Texas Panhandle near Amarillo.
Despite ranchhands' desperate rides, Panhandle cattleman dies of smallpox (1883)
www.tsha.utexas.edu /daybyday/03-16-001.html   (182 words)

  
 fahrenheit fact
In fact, the networks which called Florida for Gore did so early in the evening—before polls had even closed in the Florida panhandle, which is part of the Central Time Zone.
That film, with its satire of Roman Catholicism, also was disavowed by Disney.
We would encourage all of our regular readers to support this film exposing Moore's lies, distortions, and misrepresentations.
fahrenheit_fact.blogspot.com   (12190 words)

  
 Jennifer Holt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Holt made her final film in 1949 then in 1950 co-hosted a (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) television show called "Panhandle Pete and Jennifer" which ran for one season.
During the remainder of the 1950s she made occasional guest appearances on television western series such as " (Click link for more info and facts about The Gabby Hayes Show) The Gabby Hayes Show" and "Tales of Wells Fargo".
Although the popularity of western films had faded by the mid 1950s, during the 1970s western (A cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year)) film festivals became popular with fans of the genre and she occasionally participated as a guest star.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jennifer_holt.htm   (313 words)

  
 McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Michael Chabon
It's set in the Alaskan panhandle, in the present day, in the territory that was opened to the Jewish refugees of Europe, after Congress passed the King-Havenner Bill of 1940, for settlement during WWII."
He has written the script for the film version of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which is yet to be completed.
Chabon is currently working on a novel set in the Alaskan panhandle, where a territory was opened to European Jewish refugees for settlement during WWII.
www.mcsweeneys.net /authorpages/chabon/chabon.html   (1034 words)

  
 chalke
In the show, Rich Hobson (played by Montreal native Yannick Bisson) and his socialite wife Gloria, (Chalke) are head-over-heels in love while partner "Panhandle" Phillips (Ted Atherton) is an ambitious, scheming cowboy intent on furthering the ranch's growth ­ driving the Hobsons mad in the process.
During Nothing Too Good For a Cowboy's (hereafter called Cowboy) hiatus -- a one­week holiday in late September -- Chalke took some time to film a role in a feature film tentatively titled Y2K which was being shot in Vancouver starring Roddy MacDowell and Lou Gossett Jr.
Chalke doesn't hesitate when asked if she second guesses her decision to return to work in B.C. "I'm glad I did because this job's great," the Handsworth grad says while eating salad in her dressing room trailer between scenes.
www.nsnews.com /issues99/w101199/chalke.html   (1155 words)

  
 New Films and Videos on West Virginia and Appalachia
Combining the Biblical tale of David and Goliath with a mountain feud, this film was one of the early sources for the negative stereotype of the Mountaineer.
Jefferson County is the easternmost county in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, and is also one of the state's most historic and picturesque.
Originally called Amy On the Lips, this film has recently been re-released on home video.
www.wvculture.org /goldenseal/spring02/video.html   (1701 words)

  
 United for Peace : Events
The March is followed by a showing of "The Fog of War", a documentary film at the Panida Theater at 4:00pm.
The event is a benefit for Panhandle Community Radio, a soon-to-be local, non-commercial, democratic radio outlet for the community of Sandpoint.
The film is followed by the Community Forum on War and Peace at the Community Hall (on 1st Ave.
www.unitedforpeace.org /calendar.php?calid=13566   (254 words)

  
 Welcome to The Orion Pictures Drive In
Acclaimed filmmaker Victor Nuñez' first film since the highly praised Ruby in Paradise, "Ulee's Gold" stars Peter Fonda in the poignant story of Ulee Jackson, a stubborn, solitary beekeeper in the tupelo marshes of the Florida panhandle who must abandon his isolating routine in order to save his family and ultimately, himself.
A Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Sergei Bodrov's captivating human comedy follows the experiences of two Russian soldiers who are captured and held hostage in a mountain community by a Chechen villager in this adaptation of a Tolstoy novella.
Welcome to The Orion Pictures Drive In Welcome to the Metromedia Entertainment Group
www.orionpictures.com /orion   (276 words)

  
 Screen Picks
Back for a 16th year, WHYY’s showcase of independent short films includes such standouts as Kimi Takesue’s Rosewater (Friday) and I Witness (Thursday), which traces the history of abortion-related violence in the Florida panhandle.
Framed as a year in the life of the wildly popular Philly event — held monthly to raise money for AIDS charities — the slickly produced film lauds the fabulousness of Carlota Ttendant (a.k.a.
The week in repertory film, TV and video.
www.citypaper.net /articles/091400/mov.screenpicks.shtml   (248 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Errol Morris DVD Collection [IMPORT]: DVD
Very few critics will argue against the point that Errol Morris is one of the most innovative and original documentary film directors of all time.
These are the three films that first made Errol Morris's name as a documentary filmmaker, defining a unique artist with an unsparing eye for the truth--the truth of human behavior or legal authority.
The characters that populate his films, especially "Gates Of Heaven" and "Vernon, Florida", seem absurd and comical at first.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00094AS8G   (841 words)

  
 Listings West Virginia: Northern Panhandle Region: Arts & Crafts
Images of the landscape - frozen moments in time - captured on film and digitally reproduced here for...
USA: West Virginia: Northern Panhandle Region: Arts and Crafts
Listings West Virginia: Northern Panhandle Region: Arts & Crafts
listingsus.com /West-Virginia/Northern-Panhandle-Region/Arts_and_Crafts   (113 words)

  
 Panhandle Pundit: July 2005
When Burton Kendall Wheeler, a Democrat from Montana and Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Comission wanted to start investigating "interventionists" in the motion picture industry (Jews, in other words), the film industry hired Wendell Willke, Roosevelt's Republican opponent in 1940 to beat back the America First Committee and it's little Senator from Montana.
Frank is an educated man of course, and I think that he should have realized that he was making a drastic mistake in confusing today's Republican party with Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee.
rynemcclaren.typepad.com /blog/2005/07/index.html   (12900 words)

  
 Cracker
Cracker (UK) Is one of the most brilliant bodies of work ever brought to film.
If not for the bits where Fitz and Panhandle finally sleep together plus the throwaway scene where Beck is still wallowing in guilt over Bilborough's death, this episode could easily vanish off the face of the earth and all of the main character stories that came before and after it wouldn't suffer a single bit.
As much as I hate to say it, as Cracker is my all time favourite TV series, it probably “jumped the shark” at ‘Brotherly Love’ which marked the end of Jimmy Beck and the end of Jimmy McGovern writing the series.
www.jumptheshark.com /c/cracker.htm   (2250 words)

  
 2004 - Bronson Urges Closer Consideration
Florida is outside the natural range of the brown recluse spider, except possibly the westernmost panhandle counties – yet bites are routinely reported throughout the state.
Once certain the spider is dead, using tweezers, place it in a tightly sealed, leak proof container (such as a 35mm film canister) along with a cotton ball dipped in rubbing alcohol.
Recluse spiders are medium-sized (6-12 mm body length), with uniformly colored abdomens that can vary from a tan to dark brown.
www.doacs.state.fl.us /press/2004/11152004.html   (1058 words)

  
 SF Station - San Francisco City Guide
This year's event is hosting over 40 films and events, many of which are North American premiers, and almost all of which have never been screened in San Francisco including: Red Dust, the latest South African film by dir.
The book selection is China Boy, a novel about a young Chinese American boy growing up in SF's Panhandle district during the 1950s.
San Francisco Singles events hosted by Table for Six Total Adventures are the best way to meet and mingle with people just like you.
sfstation.com   (1058 words)

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