Francisco Lupica
Francesco Lupica is an American, California-based musician. Frank Lupica went to play with the likes of the Sound Machine, Lee Michaels, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Travel Agency, Shanti, and the Steven Seagal Band, before goes solo too. Once part of the band Shanti, he moved into a solo career, releasing one album, ''Francesco's Cosmic Beam Experience''. Lupica is the first musician to widely make use of the Cosmic Beam Experience, first in live shows, then composing and performing Cosmic Beam Experience Music, Sound Design and Additional Music for film scores such as Terrence Malick's '' The Thin Red Line'', '' The New World'', ''Tree of Life'' (winner of The Palm dOR at Cannes Film Festival 2011), ''To the Wonder'', '' Knight of Cups'' and ''Voyage of Time'', ''Last Hours'' and ''Carbon'', plus Martin Scorsese's ''Silence'', Jordan Vogt-Roberts's '' Kong: Skull Island'', and Andrew Wakefield Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) is a British fraudst ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an international border with the Mexico, Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With almost 40million residents across an area of , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, largest state by population and List of U.S. states and territories by area, third-largest by area. Prior to European colonization of the Americas, European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following Mexican War of Independence, its successful war for independence, but Mexican Cession, was ceded to the U ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Charles Vogt-Roberts (born September 22, 1984) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. His feature directorial debut, '' The Kings of Summer'', screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film also won the Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 2013 Dallas International Film Festival. In 2017, Vogt-Roberts directed the MonsterVerse film '' Kong: Skull Island''. Career Jordan Vogt-Roberts's first directorial credit was a 2007 documentary, ''Twit: Robert Buscemi, Live at the Subterranean''. Vogt-Roberts continued his career producing and directing episodes of two web series, ''Memoirs of a Manchild'' (2009-2010) and ''Book Club'' (2009-2013), and directing most episodes of the web series ''Single Dads'' (2009-2011). After turning an episode of ''Memoirs of a Manchild'' into the short film ''Mint in a Box'' (2009), in 2010, he wrote and directed the short film ''Successful Alcoholics.'' The film screened at the Sundance Film ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Musicians From California
A musician is someone who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate a person who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters, who write both music and lyrics for songs; conductors, who direct a musical performance; and performers, who perform for an audience. A music performer is generally either a singer (also known as a vocalist), who provides vocals, or an instrumentalist, who plays a musical instrument. Musicians may perform on their own or as part of a group, band or orchestra. Musicians can specialize in a musical genre, though many play a variety of different styles and blend or cross said genres, a musician's musical output depending on a variety of technical and other background influences including their culture, skillset, life experience, education, and creative preferences. A musician who records and releases music is often referred to as a recordin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Male Singers
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Living People
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Vaxxed
''Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe'' is a 2016 American pseudoscience propaganda film alleging a cover-up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism. According to Variety (magazine), ''Variety'', the film "purports to investigate the claims of a senior scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who revealed that the CDC had allegedly manipulated and destroyed data on an important study about autism and the MMR vaccine". Critics derided ''Vaxxed'' as an vaccine hesitancy, anti-vaccine propaganda film. The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from academics and critics. The film was directed by discredited anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield, who was struck off the medical register in the United Kingdom in 2010 due to ethical violations related to his Lancet MMR autism fraud, fraudulent research into the role of MMR vaccine, vaccines in autism. It was scheduled to premiere a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andrew Wakefield
Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) is a British fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and disgraced former physician. He was struck off the medical register for "serious professional misconduct" due to his involvement in the fraudulent 1998 ''Lancet'' MMR autism study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. The publicity surrounding the study caused a sharp decline in vaccination uptake, leading to a number of outbreaks of measles around the world and many deaths therefrom. He was a surgeon on the liver transplant programme at the Royal Free Hospital in London, and became a senior lecturer and honorary consultant in experimental gastroenterology at the Royal Free and University College School of Medicine. He resigned from his positions there in 2001 "by mutual agreement", then moved to the United States. In 2004, Wakefield co-founded and began working at the Thoughtful House research centre (later renamed the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Skull Island
Skull Island may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Skull Island (King Kong) Skull Island is the name most often used to describe a fictional island that first appeared in the 1933 film ''King Kong'' and later appearing in its sequels, the three remakes, and any other King Kong-based media. It is the home of the eponymou ..., fictional island in the ''King Kong'' franchise. * '' Kong: Skull Island'', 2017 American film * Skull Island (''Braindead''), in the 1992 film ''Braindead'' * Skull Island (''The Curse of Monkey Island''), in the 1997 video game ''The Curse of Monkey Island'' * ''Skull Island'' (TV series), 2023 animated series * Skull Island: Reign of Kong, attraction at Universal's Islands of Adventure * '' Skull Island: Rise of Kong'', 2023 video game Geography * Skull Island, a former island in Tulare Lake, California, US * Skull Island, name given to Aureed Island, Queensland, Australia, in the 19th century * Skull Island (Australia), in the Northern Territor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Silence (2016 Film)
''Silence'' is a 2016 epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Jay Cocks and Scorsese, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Shūsaku Endō, marking the third filmed adaptation of the novel. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds and Liam Neeson. The plot follows two 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel from Portugal to Edo period Japan via Macau to locate their missing mentor and spread Catholic Christianity. It is the third of Scorsese's films about religious figures struggling with challenges of faith, following ''The Last Temptation of Christ (film), The Last Temptation of Christ'' (1988) and ''Kundun'' (1997). The pre-production phase of the filmmaking for ''Silence'' went through a cycle of over two decades of setbacks and reassessments. After filming of ''The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film), The Wolf of Wall Street'' concluded in January 2013, Scorsese committed to following it up with ''S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shanti (band)
Shanti was a world music band who played a fusion of Indian and rock music in the United States in the early 1970s. The band formed in the San Francisco area in about 1970, as a collaboration between classical Indian musicians Zakir Hussain (tabla, dholak, naal), Aashish Khan (sarod), and Pranesh Khan (tabla, naal); and American rock and jazz musicians Neil Seidel (lead guitar), Steve Haehl (lead vocals, guitar), Steve Leach (bass), and Frank Lupica (drums). The stated intention at the time, according to Seidel, was to highlight the beauty of Indian music by showing it in a rock context.freight trains">/nowiki>freight trains/nowiki> for 14 years off and on..", adding "I've been married to this one girl for 25 years, so I’m a litt ...."The Tremens", ''EarPollution'', April 2001 Retrieve ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |