|
Twisted Chern Class
Twisted may refer to: Film and television * ''Twisted'' (1986 film), a horror film by Adam Holender starring Christian Slater * ''Twisted'' (1996 film), a modern retelling of ''Oliver Twist'' * ''Twisted'', a 2011 Singapore Chinese film directed by Chai Yee Wei * ''Twisted'' (2004 film), a thriller starring Ashley Judd and Andy Garcia * ''Twisted'' (TV series), 2013 * "Twisted" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), a television episode Software and games * '' Twisted: The Game Show'', a 1994 3DO game * Twisted (software), an event-driven networking framework * '' WarioWare: Twisted!'', a 2004 game for the Game Boy Advance Books * ''Twisted'' (short story collection), a short story collection by crime writer Jeffery Deaver ** ''More Twisted'', a second short story collection by Deaver * Twisted (Anderson novel), a novel by Laurie Halse Anderson * ''Twisted'', a ''Pretty Little Liars'' novel by Sara Shepard Brands * Creme Egg Twisted, a chocolate bar Music * Twisted (musical)">''Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisted (1986 Film)
''Twisted'' is a 1985 horror and psychological thriller directed by Adam Holender and starring Christian Slater, Lois Smith, and Tandy Cronyn. The screenplay by Christopher Coppola and Nick Vallelonga is based on Jack Horrigan's play ''Children! Children!'', which ran one night on Broadway in 1972. Plot One evening, the Collins, Phillip and Evelyn, a married couple with two children, discover their maid, Mrs. Murdock, dead at the end of their steps; her neck is broken. Evidently, she had an accident; now they need a new babysitter for an upcoming party. The sensible Helen meets little Susan Collins at the discount market and likes her, so she offers to do the job. She does not know Susan's teenage brother Mark (Christian Slater): technically skilled and good in school, but restive and cunning. Mark also listens regularly to German marching music from the Third Reich. As soon as the parents have left, he psychologically terrorizes Helen and his sister with electronic tricks. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisted (1996 Film)
''Twisted'' is a 1996 film written and directed by Seth Michael Donsky in his debut. The film, a Don Quixote and Miravista Films production, is a retelling of Charles Dickens' classic 1838 novel ''Oliver Twist,'' set in a New York City contemporary underground populated by drag queens, drug abusers and hustlers. The film was an official selection and debuted in 1997 at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also screened as an official selection at the Seattle International Film Festival. Donsky's film was made prior to Jacob Tierney's similar film '' Twist'', starring American actor Nick Stahl. Donsky's ''Twisted'' was re-discovered by the Museum of Modern Art in 2013, included in their Charles Dickens bicentenary film series and subsequently accepted into their permanent film collection. Synopsis William Hickey stars as Andre, a lecherous brothel owner who trades in young men. Exploiting his young charges through paternalism and drugs, Andre sets his sights on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chai Yee Wei
Chai Yee Wei (born 21 June 1976) is a Singaporean film director, writer and producer. He is also the founder of Mocha Chai Laboratories and A Little Seed, an authorised Apple Inc., Apple iTunes aggregator. He also founded production company Hot Cider Films, Japanese curry specialty restaurant Curry Favor, as well as an IT company and wedding photography businesses. Career Chai's debut feature film ''Blood Ties (2009 film), Blood Ties'', which premiered on 10 September 2009, was funded under the Singapore Film Commission's New Feature Film Fund. Chai had also made countless comedy shorts, such as ''Loser, Lau Sai (Diarrhoea)'' and ''My Blue Heaven'', amongst others. ''Twisted'', released in Malaysia in 2011, is Chai's second feature film. It won "Best Feature" at the 2012 Detroit Nightmare Film Festival and was selected for the 2012 Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival, 2012 Grimm Up North International Horror Film Festival, and 2012 Focus on Asia Fukuoka Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisted (2004 Film)
''Twisted'' is a 2004 American psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman, written by Sarah Thorp, and starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, and Andy García. The film is set in San Francisco. Plot Having solved a high-profile case involving serial killer Edmund Cutler that ended with her being taken hostage by Cutler but managing to overpower and arrest him, officer Jessica Shepard of the San Francisco Police Department is transferred to the homicide division and promoted to the rank of inspector. SFPD Commissioner John Mills, her foster father and her deceased father's former partner, also serves as her proud mentor. Shepard is an alcoholic and nymphomaniac, carrying the emotional burden of her father murdering some of her mother's extra-marital lovers, then Shepard's mother and himself. When one of Shepard's former one-night stands is brutally murdered, Shepard and her new partner, Mike Delmarco, are assigned to the case. Shepard admits that she had slept with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisted (TV Series)
''Twisted'' (stylized as ''twiƨted'') is an American teen drama mystery- thriller television series. The pilot episode aired on March 19, 2013, and the show's remaining 10 episodes resumed airing on June 18, 2013. On July 30, 2013, ''Twisted'' was picked up for a full season of 19 episodes and the second half of season one started airing on February 11, 2014. The season finale aired on April 1, 2014. On August 13, 2014, ABC Family announced that ''Twisted'' would not be renewed for a second season. Plot The series focuses on charming sixteen-year-old Danny Desai (Avan Jogia) who confessed to killing his aunt when he was eleven. Having spent five years in juvenile detention, he is released and returns to his hometown of Green Grove, New York. While trying to rekindle old friendships and facing the challenges of dealing with his judgmental peers, a classmate is murdered and Danny becomes the prime suspect. Realizing the town does not care about the truth and only wants to see hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Game Show
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisted (software)
Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License. Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP multicast, Unix domain sockets, many protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others), and much more. Twisted is based on the event-driven programming paradigm, which means that users of Twisted write short callbacks which are called by the framework. Core ideas Separation of protocols and transports Twisted is designed for complete separation between logical protocols (usually relying on stream-based connection semantics, such as HTTP or POP3) and transport layers supporting such stream-based semantics (such as files, sockets or SSL libraries). Connection between a logical protocol and a transport layer happens at the last possible moment — just before information is passed into the logical protocol instance. The logical protocol is informed of the transport layer instance, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisted (short Story Collection)
''Twisted'' () is a 2003 in literature, 2003 collection of short stories by crime (genre), crime writer Jeffery Deaver. The book was published by Simon & Schuster in 2003 and features 16 short stories, including one featuring Deaver's fictional detective Lincoln Rhyme. Stories # Without Jonathan # The Weekender # For Services Rendered # Beautiful # The Fall Guy # Eye To Eye # Triangle # All The World's A Stage # Gone Fishing # Nocturne # Lesser-Included Offense # The Blank Card # The Christmas Present (an original Lincoln Rhyme story) # Together # The Widow of Pine Creek # The Kneeling Soldier More Twisted A second collection of stories entitled ''More Twisted'' was published in 2006 in literature, 2006 by Simon & Schuster. This collection contains fifteen previously published stories together with another new Lincoln Rhyme mystery. References * Deaver, Jeffery: Twisted () External links * 2003 short story collections Works by Jeffery Deaver American short st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
More Twisted
''More Twisted'' () is a 2006 collection of short stories by American crime writer Jeffery Deaver. The book was published in 2006 by Simon & Schuster and is a follow-up to Deaver's 2003 '' Twisted''. ''More Twisted'' contains fifteen previously published stories together with a new Lincoln Rhyme Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He late ... mystery. Stories # Chapter and Verse # The Commuter # The Westphalian Ring # Surveillance # Born Bad # Interrogation # Afraid # Double Jeopardy # Tunnel Girl # Locard's Principle (an original Lincoln Rhyme story) # A Dish Served Cold # Copycat # The Voyeur # The Poker Lesson # Ninety-eight Point Six # A Nice Place to Visit Publication details * References External links Jeffery Deaver's Official site 2006 short story coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisted (Anderson Novel)
''Twisted'' is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson published March 20, 2007 by Viking Books. Reception Reviews ''Twisted'' was generally well-received by critics, including a starred review from ''Kirkus Reviews''. ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote, "This dark comedy gives a chillingly accurate portrayal of the high-school social scene, in which morals, perceptions and conceptions of truth are continually being challenged." They further indicated that "readers will respect he main character'sintegrity, which outshines his mistakes." Awards Controversy ''Twisted'' is listed on the American Library Association's (ALA) "Frequently Challenged Young Adult Books" list. The list is created via ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, which "receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country," then "compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
