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Doorways Magazine
''Doorways'' is a proposed science fiction series from writer George R. R. Martin. A pilot was shot in May 1992, starring George Newbern, Anne Le Guernec, Robert Knepper, Kurtwood Smith, Hoyt Axton, Max Grodenchik, and Carrie-Anne Moss, but was not picked up, and the project was shelved. In 2010, IDW Publishing developed an adaptation of the TV pilot into comic book format. Plot A mysterious feral woman, known only as Cat (Anne Le Guernec), appears in the middle of a motorway, causing some cars to crash. She fires a weapon at a truck, which explodes, and she is injured by a fragment of the resulting shrapnel. She is taken to a hospital where she is cared for by Dr. Thomas Mason (George Newbern). After he finishes work, Thomas visits his girlfriend Laura (Carrie-Anne Moss), with whom he discusses his mysterious new patient. Meanwhile, three dark-clad beings and a floating podium (containing a Dark Lord) appear on the motorway at the same location where Cat appeared. The next day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Grodénchik
Max Grodénchik (born November 12, 1952), also known as Michael Grodénchik, is an American stage, film, and television actor, best known for his role as Rom, a recurring character on the television series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. Biography Born to a Jewish family in New York City, Grodénchik worked in theater during the 1980s as Michael Grodénchik, where his performances received notice. Of his 1980 performance in John O'Keefe's ''All Night Long'', ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune'' art reviewer Marcia Corbino wrote that Grodénchik was an intriguing actor who had "an enchanting, mobile comic face on which aberrant emotions flicker, spread, retreat, retrench and explode with a single instant." Television Grodénchik is best known for his portrayal of the character Rom in '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. He had previously auditioned for the role of Rom's brother Quark, but the role was given to Armin Shimerman. Grodénchik was instead hired to play the "Pit Boss" in charg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Tormé
Tracy Tormé (April 12, 1959 – January 4, 2024) was an American screenwriter and television producer, known for his work on the science fiction series '' Sliders'' and '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', and the film '' Fire in the Sky''. Early life Tracy Tormé was born on April 12, 1959, in Los Angeles, to Arlene Miles and singer Mel Tormé. He was educated at the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University, where he studied film. Career Tormé began his career in the 1970s, as a writer on '' SCTV''. From 1982 to 1983, he was a writer for ''Saturday Night Live''. Later in the decade, he was a story editor and writer on the first two seasons of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', but left over creative differences. In 1991 with Barry Oringer, Tormé wrote the screenplay for the miniseries '' Intruders'' which ran on CBS in May 1992. ''Intruders'' was based on the book of the same name by Budd Hopkins. With Robert K. Weiss he co-created the tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn C
Evelyn may refer to: Places Australia * Evelyn County, New South Wales, a cadastral division * Electoral district of Evelyn, an electoral district in Victoria * Evelyn, Queensland, a locality in the Tablelands Region Canada * Evelyn, Ontario United Kingdom * Evelyn, London * Evelyn Gardens, a garden square in London United States * Evelyn, Michigan * Evelyn, Texas * Evelyn, Wirt County, West Virginia * Evelyn (VTA), former light rail train station in Mountain View, California Schools * Evelyn College for Women, or Evelyn College, the former women's college of Princeton University * Evelyn High School, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Entertainment * ''Evelyn'' (2002 film), a film starring Sophie Vavasseur and Pierce Brosnan * ''Evelyn'' (2018 film), a documentary * '' Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl'', 2002 short film and black comedy directed by Brad Peyton * ''Evelyn'' (play), a 1969 radio play by Rhys Adrian * ''Evelyn'' (EP), an EP by The Mess Hall * "Evely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sliders (TV Series)
''Sliders'' is an American science-fiction and fantasy television series created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé. It was broadcast for five seasons between 1995 and 2000. The series follows a group of travelers as they use a wormhole A wormhole is a hypothetical structure that connects disparate points in spacetime. It can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, different points in time, or both). Wormholes are base ... to "slide" between parallel universes. Weiss, Tormé, Leslie Belzberg, John Landis, David Peckinpah, Bill Dial, and Alan Barnette served as executive producers at different times of the production. For its first two seasons, it was produced in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was filmed primarily in Los Angeles, California, in the last three seasons. The first three seasons were broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. After being canceled by Fox, the series moved to Sci-Fi Channel for its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
