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	Richard Lester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Lester (born January 19, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is a UK-based film director famous for his work with The Beatles.
		Lester was something of a child prodigy, and at 15 began studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he first developed an interest in British film, particularly Ealing comedies.
		In 1978, Lester was brought into the Superman fold after producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind brought him in as an uncredited producer for Superman: The Movie, which was being filmed at the same time as Superman II, much as the Musketeers films had been.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Lester (698 words)

	Salon People \| Richard Lester: A hard day's life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		To suggest that Richard Lester is an anonymous figure in film history would be far from correct -- his signature manic style still has his name attached (producers of the recent "Shooting Fish" described their movie as "son of Richard Lester").
		Richard Lester was a precocious child who could spell 250 words by the age of 2 and entered the University of Pennsylvania at 15.
		Lester's first movie was a 1962 cheapie about the resurgent traditional jazz movement, "It's Trad, Dad" (released in the United States as "Ring-a-Ding Rhythm").
	www.salon.com /people/rewind/1999/06/26/lester/index.html (670 words)

	Salon People Rewind \| Richard Lester: A hard day's life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lester's next film was 1965's "The Knack," a hip (and now oh-so-dated) sexual comedy that enthralled the Cannes jury and took home the Palm d'Or.
		Lester may also have locked up the dubious distinction of inaugurating the term "prequel" in 1979 when he directed "Butch and Sundance: The Early Days." While not exactly a two-gun smash, the movie at least lacked any big-eared sidekicks named Gun-Gun.
		Lester was still at the helm for the less successful third installment, and happily bowed out before "Superman IV" scraped the critical and box office bottom.
	www.salon.com /people/rewind/1999/06/26/lester/print.html (1637 words)

	AMA Exposes Richard Lester
		Lester has a list of attorneys all over the country, and when motorcyclists get injured, he offers them legal representation through an attorney in their state who will sue to collect damages.
		Lester did not realize was that I had already spoken with a long-time friend who was the leader of ABATE in a nearby state and had met with Lester previously.
		Lester and his colleagues were actively involved in as many as 20 suits alleging that riders had suffered unnecessary leg injuries in part because manufacturers had negligently failed to incorporate leg protectors into their motorcycle designs.
	www.bikersrights.com /ncom/lester2.html (1315 words)

	Richard Donner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg on April 24, 1930) is an American film director and also producer through the production company, The Donners' Company, he and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler-Donner, own.
		Some Richard Lester footage will be used to tie in loose ends.
		Richard Donner's cousin is actor Steve Kahan, who played the policeman tracking Otis in Superman: The Movie, and played Captain Ed Murphy in all the Lethal Weapon movies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Donner (723 words)

	Amazon.com: Petulia: Video: Richard Lester,Julie Christie,George C. Scott,Richard Chamberlain,Arthur Hill,Shirley ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		George C. Scott as Archie Bollen, Richard Chamberlain as David Danner, Arthur Hill as Barney, Shirley Knight as Polo, Kathleen Widdoes as Wilma, Roger Bowen as Warren, Richard A. Dysart as Motel Receptionist, Ruth Kobart as Nun, Lou Gilbert as Mr.
		Richard Lester's dazzling arsenal of jump-cuts, flash-forwards and flash-backs--used to comic effect in A Hard Day's Night and The Knack--are harnassed to a scathing and ahead-of-its-time analysis of various San Franciscans during the Summer of Love.
		Lester is aided by top-notch craftsmen in lensman Nic Roeg, a haunting score by John Barry, and also of note is the contribution of associate art director Dean Tavalouris who later worked extensively with Francis Ford Coppola.
	www.amazon.com /Petulia-Richard-Lester/dp/6301008618 (3450 words)

	SPECIAL FEATURES - Director Richard Lester
		Lester at the request of the fab four, (all of whom were great fans of his work with Sellers), was commissioned to direct a day in the life of' film to cash in on the Beatle's popularity.
		Richard Donner's 'Superman' had been a labour of love, one of which lead to the producers firing him while he was preparing the sequel.
		Lester isn't viewing the US from an alien perspective as he had done in 'Petulia', as his Houston is entirely fictional, played for laughs with comic caricatures and cartoon violence.
	www.supermancinema.co.uk /special_features/special_features_dir_lester1.htm (2929 words)

	SPECIAL FEATURES - Director Richard Donner
		Richard Donner is a metteur en scene; a director who doesn't impose a personality across his work or hold onto a signature style.
		Lester even brought in his comedian regular BobTodd to portray a pedestrian hit in the face with a custard pie, left bewildered staring at the camera in a moment of Lesterian sprung tempo rhythm.Lester is the author of this sequence, he illustrates a pattern in his work.
		Auteur Lester may be the most high profile director associated with Superman film series, but it was not Lester who obliterated the modern conventions of the filmed superhero, redefined the comic book film genre, set the standard for superhero casting and gave the world the most under-rated and over-ambitious motion picture EVER made.
	www.supermancinema.co.uk /special_features/special_features_dir_donner.htm (3333 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Superman Films of Richard Lester
		Lester parallels this story with the burgeoning romance between Lois and Clark, culminating with Clark's revelation to Lois that what she suspected all along is true — he is indeed Superman.
		Lester's stated aim with this third installment was to inject a newfound sense of real-world grittiness into the series.
		Richard Pryor's presence as Gus Gorman — an unemployed loser with a knack for hacking into computers — can easily be written off as a sad attempt to cash in on the stand-up comic's early-80s popularity, but it works with Lester's overall conception.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /36/lester1.html (2286 words)

	MIT Industrial Performance Center - Richard K. Lester
		Richard Lester is a professor of nuclear science and engineering and the director of the Industrial Performance Center (IPC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		As director of the IPC, Dr. Lester works with faculty and students from all five MIT Schools on a broad range of multidisciplinary research projects concerning the uses of science and technology in industry and the implications of these developments for society and the global economy.
		In a related project, the IPC Globalization Study, he and his colleagues are investigating the consequences of globalization and industrial re-organization for employment and innovation in North America, Europe, and Asia.
	web.mit.edu /ipc/www/richard_lester.html (362 words)

	Richard Lester - Films as Director:, Other Films:
		Lester made a mark on cinema through his innovative utilisation of the techniques of television advertisements and pop shows.
		One does not doubt Lester's sincerity in his aim of making his audience ashamed of watching men die for their entertainment, but his lack of judgement is disconcerting.
		Where Lester's major strength as a director lies is in his ability to produce personal works within the confines of an established genre, such as the swashbuckler (The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers), the western (Butch and Sundance: The Early Days), and the fantasy (Superman II).
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Ku-Lu/Lester-Richard.html (1094 words)

	Richard Lester - Interesting Motherfucker
		Lester's great misfortune is that he is credited with creating a style of filmmaking which was tremendously popular for about three and a half weeks in the early sixties and looks more and more horrible as the years go by.
		Richard Lester was born in 1932 in Philadelphia and was so intelligent he could spell two hundred and fifty words at age two, graduated from high school at age fifteen, and got a degree from the University Of Pennsylvannia at age nineteen.
		Lester was The Director Of The Time, unfortunately The Time was The Sixties and everything he did after "A Hard Day's Night" is as dated as anything else from that horrible decade.
	www.acidlogic.com /im_richard_lester.htm (2224 words)

	village voice > news > The Right to Be Wrong by Richard Hell
		Lester was this big, swaying, cross-eyed, reeking drooler, smiling and smiling through his crummy stained mustache, trying to corner me with incessant babble somewhere in the dark at CBGB's, 1976 or so.
		Lester was lovable and perceptive, but the writing is wired thinking-aloud; it's pure process, and my feeling is that Lester had too many blind spots and neuroses for writing that depends so much for its value on the shapeliness of his mind and reasoning.
		Lester was large and he was interested in doing what was right—which sometimes entailed willfully offending those whose values he opposed—not merely being right in his taste and musical standards.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0333/hell.php (1042 words)

	Richard Lester
		Looking back on the career of Richard Lester is a little like receiving the rarest of glimpses of an all but unimaginable period in Hollywood history.
		If the Lester film seems impossibly slight by comparison, I still think there is a good case to be made that it is his most plainly ambitious film and that its ambition was made possible by Lester having been emboldened by his previous string of critical and commercial successes.
		Incidentally, Lester's reputation for having foreshadowed the MTV era with his supposed quick cutting and "frenetic" camera angles is largely unfounded for the simple reason that only a handful of his films might be said to bear this "style".
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/lester.html (2834 words)

	Lester Family Genealogy
		John Lester was the son of William Lester, I don't have a birthdate.
		There are additional Lesters in Lyon County that I noted in 1860 including a William Lester aged 34 married to Cora M., 30 and a James M. Lester 50, married to a Mary J. from Indiana.
		James Lester was born in Kentucky in 1811 (according to the 1860 census data).
	perso.wanadoo.fr /rancho.pancho/Lester.htm (4420 words)

	Richard Lester
		Richard K. Lester is the founder and director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center and a professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		As director of the Industrial Performance Center, Dr. Lester works with faculty and students from all five MIT Schools on a broad range of multidisciplinary research projects concerning the uses of science and technology in industry and the implications of these developments for society and the global economy.
		Professor Lester serves as an advisor or consultant to corporations, governments, and private foundations and non-profit groups, and lectures frequently to academic, business and general audiences throughout the world.
	www.uri.edu /iep/colloquia/2004/bios/lester.htm (364 words)

	Beatle Films of Richard Lester, © Copyright 1988, Glenn Chase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lester's editing style of cutting to the beat of the music today is seen in every MTV video, and his pioneering influence is documented when you see Beatle "videos" that are nothing more than excerpts of the musical sequences from "Help!" and "Hard Day's Night."
		Lester's targets of satire are primarily show business and the older generation, with every adult character the object of parody or ridicule.
		Lester's auteurist style was a fortuitous match for the cheeky charm of the Liverpool foursome that infected Great Britain and later most of the world with a new way of looking at life through the eyes of the young.
	members.aol.com /seabiscuit/Lesters_Beatle_Films.html (2405 words)

	AMA Exposes Richard Lester
		Lester, who had established the Confederation of Clubs in California -- another promotional device to advance the financial goals of AIM (and the political agenda of Lester) -- spoke at one of their meetings regarding BOLT.
		Lester used the forum of NCOM, and the tactic of hiring well known rights activists to promote AIM, to spread his baseless poison throughout the United States, causing more harm to the fight for bikers' rights than all the bureaucratic forces combined.
		The most damaging part of the article, to Lester, came in the form of a letter of resignation written by Pepper Massey-Swan, Lester's Executive Assistant for years, in which Pepper explained the reasons why she was resigning her position with AIM and NCOM.
	usff.com /hldl/archives/aim/0896onlester.html (1703 words)

	dick lester senate member (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mr Lester was the principal founder in 1981, majority shareholder and CEO of Growth Equities Mutual Limited (GEM), through which he established the Growth Equities Mutual Property Trust and the Growth Equities Mutual Property Securities Fund and several other public property trust investment programs.
		In 1988 Mr Lester was appointed an inaugural member of the Companies and Securities Advisory Committee, established by the federal Attorney General to provide advice from the financial, banking and investment communities on Securities Laws.
		Mr Lester is a member of the board of the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, and Chairman of the Murdoch University Veterinary Trust.
	senate.murdoch.edu.au /members/lester.html (274 words)

	Amazon.ca: Juggernaut: DVD: Richard Lester,Richard Harris,Omar Sharif,David Hemmings,Anthony Hopkins,Shirley Knight,Ian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of director Richard Lester's least-known films, Juggernaut was part of the wave of disaster movies of the early 1970s--and one of the only ones with a sense of intelligence.
		Richard Harris, in one of his most controlled performances, plays a bomb expert called aboard a luxury liner in midocean; the ship has been commandeered by an anonymous terrorist, demanding money before he starts setting off bombs he has planted around the vessel.
		Richard Harris plays the quasi-heroic bomb defuser, Omar Sharif the beleaguered captain and a young Anthony Hopkins has a one-note performance as a stressed out Scotland Yarder.
	www.amazon.ca /Juggernaut-Richard-Lester/dp/B000092Q5E (1398 words)

	Comedy Central: Richard Lester
		Lester was born January 19, 1932, in Philadelphia, PA. After graduating high school at the precocious age of 15, he studied clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, but his central focus became music and the theater, and after graduating in 1951, he went to work as a stagehand at Philadelphia television station WCAU.
		While Lester's own program was axed after only one episode, it so impressed Goon Show alum Peter Sellers that he reformed the troupe for a series of specials, which he then tapped Lester to direct.
		Lester next journeyed to Spain to film an adaptation of the Broadway hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; two years later, he suffered his first critical setback with How I Won the War, a deeply personal fl satire which later earned a cult following.
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/person/87883/bio.jhtml (722 words)

	Richard Lester Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Even more than his New Wave contemporaries, Lester freed the camera to join the action, and freed filmmakers from conventions that had become tired and restrictive by that time.
		Lester sat out the next four years, busying himself with witty TV commercials.
		The Richard Lester of the 60s remains one of the most influential filmmakers of the last 30 years as the anarchic techniques he pioneered have become staples of the contemporary pop video lexicon.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/194219 (534 words)

	New DVD's: Richard Lester's 'Petulia' - New York Times
		Lester was still best known as the director of the first two Beatles films, "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) and "Help" (1965), and his pop instincts had not abandoned him.
		Lester had introduced several of the revolutionary techniques of the French New Wave to his work, including jump cuts, subjective flashbacks, accelerated action and pop-culture references.
		Lester is interested in sociology only as far as it affects his characters' behavior.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/07/04/movies/04dvd.html?ex=1309665600&en=8bcd59a31d8a7f0f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1007 words)

	Richard Lester Motorsport
		Richard was himself a prominent driver on New Zealand’s motor racing scene, but chose to cut back on racing himself to focus on building the profile of his business.
		Richards’ father Rob was the most successful Formula Vee driver in New Zealand History with over 80 race wins and three National Titles, not to mention being the driving force behind the erection and management of the Manfeild circuit for over thirty years.
		Richard Lester Motorsport can take pride in the fact that many of its past drivers have now moved onto the World Stage, where they can more than hold their own against the best in the business.
	lestermotorsport.co.nz /history.shtml (1281 words)

	Amazon.ca: Cuba (Widescreen): DVD: Richard Lester,Sean Connery,Brooke Adams,Jack Weston,Hector Elizondo,Denholm ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of Sean Connery's least-seen films, this Richard Lester vehicle manages to be both politically astute and darkly funny at the same time.
		Lester's style--playing dramatic scenes while subverting them with comic business in the background--is in top form here.
		I think this mixture of relevant-to-the-plot background comic bits throughout a film must be Richard Lester's forte, since he does it so well in all of his movies.
	www.amazon.ca /Cuba-Widescreen-Richard-Lester/dp/B00005V9HJ (1270 words)

	Dick Lester Biography
		Philadelphia, U.S.A. Since the fifties Dick Lester has been domiciled in England, and sprang to attention in the early days of ITV with his work in connection with the Goons (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe).
		During the 70's and 80's Lester made mainly unoriginal comic book action films like Robin and Marian (1976), Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) and Superman II (1980).
		Lester did direct one film of note, arguably the definitive adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1974).
	www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/l/003.html (157 words)

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