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Scott Heim
Scott Heim (born September 26, 1966) is an American novelist from Hutchinson, Kansas, currently living in Massachusetts. Heim's first novel, ''Mysterious Skin'', was published in 1995. Biography Scott Heim was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1966. He attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, earning a B.A. in English and Art History in 1989 and an M.A. in English Literature in 1991. He attended the M.F.A. program in Writing at Columbia University, where he wrote stories that evolved into his first novel, ''Mysterious Skin''. HarperCollins published that book in 1996, and Heim followed it with another novel,'' In Awe'', about a makeshift family of Kansas misfits, in 1997. ''Kirkus Reviews'' called it a "disappointing follow-up to ''Mysterious Skin''." ''In Awe'', however, won the 1998 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Fiction. In 2008, his novel ''We Disappear'' was published. ''Publishers Weekly'' described it as "Taut and beautifully clear, the writing at times recal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress. She has starred in films such as '' The Karate Kid'' (1984), '' Adventures in Babysitting'' (1987), ''Cocktail'' (1988), ''Back to the Future Part II'' (1989), '' Back to the Future Part III'' (1990), ''Soapdish'' (1991), '' Leaving Las Vegas'' (1995), '' The Saint'' (1997), '' Hollow Man'' (2000), ''Piranha 3D'' (2010), '' Battle of the Sexes'' (2017), '' Death Wish'' (2018), and ''Greyhound'' (2020). For her performance in ''Leaving Las Vegas'', she was nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for Best Actress. On television, Shue played Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama thriller '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' (2012–2015) and Madelyn Stillwell in the Amazon Prime Video satirical superhero series '' The Boys'' (2019–2020), a role she reprised in the animated series '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' (2022) and the spin-off series '' Gen V'' (2023). She als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** Georgia House of Representatives, The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. * January 15 – 1966 Nigerian coup d'état: A bloody military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. * January 17 ** The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic45
epic45 are a British indie/post-rock band. Core members Rob Glover and Benjamin Holton who grew up in Wheaton Aston, Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ..., formed the band in 1995 when the two school friends were only 13 years old. The band have released albums across various labels including Where Are My Records, Make Mine Music and their own Wayside and Woodland Recordings label. Side projects Holton has released three albums under the name My Autumn Empire (''The Village Compass'', 2010 ''ii'', 2012 and ''The Visitation'', 2014). Glover also records as The Toy Library and Field Harmonics (''Walls'', 2013). Discography Studio albums *''Secrets, Signs and Threats'' (2001) *''Reckless Engineers'' (2002) *''Against the Pull of Autumn'' (2004) *''Sli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hood (band)
Hood are an English post-rock band from Wetherby, formed in 1990, but have been on an indefinite hiatus since 2005. The band consists of brothers Chris and Richard Adams, and friends (including, at times, Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson of The Remote Viewer, and Nicola Hodgkinson of Empress).Hsieh, Christine, 1 February 2005Hood Remix.Umile, Dominic, 8 February 2005Hood ''Outside Closer'' PopMatters. History Hood's first releases were very limited vinyl singles on various small independent record labels. In 1994, record labels Fluff and Slumberland Records released Hood's first full length album, ''Cabled Linear Traction''. Slumberland also released 1996's ''Silent '88'', and the following year Happy Go Lucky Records released ''Structured Disasters'', a compilation of tracks from singles. All featured a large number of short tracks (many of less than a minute), a mixture of indie rock, noise experiments reminiscent of Sonic Youth or Pavement (band), Pavement, and an inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hilliard (photographer)
David Hilliard (born 1964 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American photographer. A fine arts photographer who works mainly with panoramic photographs, he draws inspiration from his personal life and those around him for his subject matter. Many of the scenes are staged, evoking a performative quality, a middle ground between fact and fiction. He received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1992 and his MFA from Yale University in 1994. Hilliard has served as assistant professor in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and as Artist-in-Residence in the Photography Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He has also taught at Harvard University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Education *1994 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut *1992 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts Exhibitions Recent Solo Exhibitions * 2017 David Hilliard - Provincetown Art Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Del Howison
Del Howison (born June 3, 1953) is an American horror author, editor and actor. Life and career Howison was born in Detroit, Michigan but moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting; with his distinctive long white hair, he was a natural for low-budget horror films, and has since played the character Renfield on four separate occasions (making him the actor who has portrayed this iconic character from Dracula more than any other). In 1995, Howison and wife Sue Duncan started Dark Delicacies, a store devoted entirely to horror books, films and gifts. Dark Delicacies, located in Burbank, California, is dedicated solely to horror. The store has also published a number of charity anthologies, including ''The Altruistic Alphabet'' and ''Conjuring Dark Delicacies'' (a horror-themed cookbook). In 2005, Howison and co-editor Jeff Gelb published ''Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre'' (Carroll and Graf), which included stories by Ray Bradbury, Clive Barke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Wallace
Amy Wallace (July 3, 1955 – August 10, 2013) was an American writer. She was the daughter of writers Irving Wallace and Sylvia Wallace and the sister of writer and populist historian David Wallechinsky. She was co-author of the bestselling book ''The Book of Lists'' (1977). Career Wallace is best known for her books of lists, with topics that ranged from the rare, curious and unusual to crime and horror. In 1977, she lived in Berkeley on her brother's commune and during school breaks, worked with him and their father on what was to become a bestseller, ''The Book of Lists''. The book ran to three versions. Wallace used the lists format in two other books: ''The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists'' with Handsome Dick Manitoba (2007) and ''The Book of Lists: Horror'' (2008) co-written with Del Howison and her boyfriend Scott Bradley (b. 1972). She also wrote ''The Prodigy'', a biography of William James Sidis, published in 1986, and an erotic novel, ''Desire'' (1990). Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Gambone
Philip Gambone (born July 21, 1948) is an American writer who has published both fiction and non-fiction. Biography Philip Gambone was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, on July 21, 1948. He earned a BA from Harvard College and an MA from the Episcopal Divinity School. His writing has covered many genres, including novels and short stories, personal reminiscence, non-fiction, and scholarly essays, as well as book reviews and interviews. He has published 4 book-length works, beginning with a collection of short stories titled ''The Language We Use Up Here'' in 1991. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and a review in ''Harvard Magazine'' called it "quietly inspired". Other short stories have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies. ''Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers'' appeared in 1999. ''Publishers Weekly'' said his "carefully probing interviews provide insight into the working methods and aesthetic, personal and social concerns of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller is an American author and editor. Early life Born and raised in New York City, Beller has remained a resident of his native city, which often features in his stories. He is a first generation American, the son of documentary filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller, who was born in Berlin and raised in an Israeli Kibbutz. After attending Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York, he received his AB from Vassar College, and his MFA from Columbia University Writing Program. Career While still studying for his MFA, ''The New Yorker'' published Beller's short story "A Different Kind of Imperfection", which was chosen for the '' Best American Short Stories'' volume of 1992. Since, his work has appeared in such publications as ''The New York Times'', ''ELLE'', ''Spin'', ''Vogue'', ''Slate'', and ''The Village Voice''. He spent a year as a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'', and later worked for ''The Cambodia Daily'' newspaper, where he remains a contributing editor. He is a contri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Nursery
In the Nursery are an English neoclassical dark wave and martial industrial band, characterized by their cinematic sound. The duo has provided soundtracks to a variety of TV programmes and films, and is known for its rescoring of silent films. History Twin brothers Klive and Nigel Humberstone were brought up in a small village west of London. After completing secondary school, the twins relocated to Sheffield where they went to separate college campuses. By 1981 they had joined with guitar player Anthony Bennett to form In the Nursery. Influenced by Joy Division, the trio emerged alongside the UK's industrial music scene. In June 1983 the band released the six-track ''When Cherished Dreams Come True'' followed by the "Witness (To a Scream)" single, both on Paragon Records, and the ''Sonority'' EP on New European Recordings. In 1985 the band moved to the Sweatbox label, releasing the ''Temper'' EP. ''Temper'' displayed a heavily industrial influenced sound, replete with scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Mordden
Ethan Mordden (born 1947) is an American author and musical theater scholar. Biography Mordden was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Venice, Italy, and Long Island, New York. He is a graduate of Friends Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He first sought a career in show business, working as a music director on off-Broadway and in regional theatre, and enrolling in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop run by Lehman Engel. As both composer and lyricist, Mordden wrote musicals based on William Shakespeare's ''Measure For Measure'' and on Max Beerbohm's ''Zuleika Dobson'', but he ultimately ended up earning his living as a writer of English prose. In the 1970s, he was assistant editor to Dorothy Woolfolk on DC Comics such as '' The Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love''. Works Mordden, along with Andrew Holleran, Armistead Maupin, Gordon Merrick, and Edmund White, was among the first generation of openly gay authors to have their books considered mainstream rather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
