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V (science Fiction)
''V'' is an American science fiction franchise created by American writer, producer and director Kenneth Johnson about a genocidal invading alien race known as the "Visitors"—reptilian humanoids disguised as human beings—trying to take over Earth, and the human reaction to this, including the Resistance group attempting to stop them, while others collaborate with the aliens for power and personal wealth. The two-part television miniseries '' V'' aired in 1983, written and directed by Johnson. It had cost US$13 million to produce. It was followed in 1984 by a three-part miniseries, '' V: The Final Battle'', and a nineteen-episode weekly television series, '' V'' (sometimes referred to as ''V: The Series'') during the 1984–85 television season. ABC ran a remake series, produced by Warner Bros. Television, which ran for two seasons totalling 22 episodes from November 3, 2009, to March 15, 2011. In the original series, the title refers to the "V for Victory" sign. A group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Johnson (producer)
Kenneth Culver Johnson (born October 26, 1942) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He is known as the creator of the ''V'' science fiction franchise as well as ''The Bionic Woman'' (1976–78), '' The Incredible Hulk'' series (1977–82), and the TV adaptation (1989) of '' Alien Nation''. His creative efforts are almost entirely concentrated in the area of television science fiction. Early life A native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Johnson is a graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Career 1970s His early TV work includes ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''The Bionic Woman'' and '' The Incredible Hulk''. Johnson created the character of Jaime Sommers and ''The Bionic Woman'', an American television series starring Lindsay Wagner that aired for three seasons between 1976 and 1978 as a spin-off from ''The Six Million Dollar Man''. 1980s In 1983, he wrote and directed the original miniseries '' V'', about an invasion of Earth by reptilian aliens, ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somtow Sucharitkul
S. P. Somtow (a rearrangement of his real name Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; ; ; born December 30, 1952) is a Thai-American musical composer and conductor, and a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English as both Somtow Sucharitkul and S. P. Somtow. He has both Thai and American citizenship. He served as a musical consultant on the Todd Field film '' Tár''. Youth A descendant of the Royal Chakri dynasty (his grandfather's sister was a cousin and consort of King Vajiravudh), Somtow was born in Bangkok. He moved to England with his parents in 1953 at the age of six months. English was his first language. Somtow was educated at Eton College and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He returned to Thailand in the early 1960s for a five-year period, during which he became fluent in the Thai language. At age 11, he wrote a poem called "Kith of Infinity", which was published in the English-language ''Bangkok Post''. Shirley MacLaine saw it, and thinking that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wyatt Proctor
George Wyatt Proctor (Dec. 8, 1946 - Aug. 3, 2008) was an author, journalist, and lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington. Proctor worked at ''The Dallas Morning News'' for five years before becoming a science fiction and Western author. Of his 96 published works, three were recognized by writers' associations and many were nominated for or won awards. A part of the College of Liberal Arts' Department of Communication for over 12 years, Proctor lectured on topics such as advertising, communication technology and journalism at the University of Texas at Arlington. After his death, the George W. & Lana B. Proctor Endowed Scholarship was established for advertising, communication technology, journalism or pre-law students. Personal life A Lampasas, Texas, native and Arlington resident, Proctor grew up on a horse training and operating farm near Gilmer, Texas. One of five children, Proctor decided that, unlike his father and brothers, he would not be a horse trainer, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Weinstein
Howard M. Weinstein (born 1953) is an American bridge player from Chicago, Illinois. He is a graduate of University of Minnesota. He is related to Josh (J. Elvis) Weinstein from ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1997 ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1996 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1998 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 2006 ** Grand National Teams (1) 1991 ** Vanderbilt (1) 1993 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (2) 2012, 2019 ** Reisinger (2) 1997, 2001 Runners-up * Bermuda Bowl (1) 2007 * North American Bridge Championships ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (3) 1988, 1989, 2007 ** Grand National Teams The Grand National Teams (GNT) North American bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Grand National Teams is a team knockout event. The event is broken into ... (2) 1986, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann C
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie and Ana. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'.See entry on "Anne" in th''Behind the Name'' databaseand th"Anne"an"Ane"entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018). It has also been used for males in France ( Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton). In Ireland the name is used as an anglicized version of Áine. Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: . As a feminine name Anne * Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary * Anne, Queen of Great Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New English Library
The New English Library was a United Kingdom book publishing company, which became an imprint of Hodder Headline. History New English Library (NEL) was created in 1961 by the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, with the takeover of two small British paperback companies, Ace Books Ltd and Four Square Books Ltd, as a complement to its 1960 acquisition of New American Library in the United States. NEL's top bestseller of the 1960s was ''The Carpetbaggers'' by Harold Robbins. The imprint was sold in 1981 to Hodder & Stoughton, and became part of the merged Hodder Headline in 1993. It has published genres such as fantasy, science fiction, mystery and suspense. They have published the works of Stephen King, Harold Robbins, James Herbert and science fiction authors have included Brian Aldiss, Frank Herbert, Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Moorcock and Christopher Priest. New English Library titles were particularly popular in the early 1970s, when hack writers were hired to work unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. The magazine also sponsors and hosts major industry events. History Foundation and early years ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Wars
''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and Cultural impact of Star Wars, quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into List of Star Wars films, various films and Star Wars expanded to other media, other media, including List of Star Wars television series, television series, Star Wars video games, video games, List of Star Wars books, novels, List of Star Wars comic books, comic books, List of Star Wars theme parks attractions, theme park attractions, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, themed areas, comprising Universe of Star Wars, an all-encompassing fictional universe. ''Star Wars'' is one of the List of highest-grossing media franchises, highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The original 1977 film, retroactively subtitled ''Star Wars (film), Episode IV: A New Hope'', was followed by the sequels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: ''Main Street (novel), Main Street'' (1920), ''Babbitt (novel), Babbitt'' (1922), ''Arrowsmith (novel), Arrowsmith'' (1925), ''Elmer Gantry'' (1927), ''Dodsworth (novel), Dodsworth'' (1929), and ''It Can't Happen Here'' (1935). Several of his notable works were critical of American capitalism and economic materialism, materialism during the interwar period. Lewis is respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Can't Happen Here
''It Can't Happen Here'' is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis. Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany), and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who sees Windrip's Fascism, fascist policies for what they are ahead of time and who becomes Windrip's most ardent critic. The novel was adapted into a play by Lewis and John C. Moffitt in 1936. Premise ''It Can't Happen Here'' was published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, which was reported on by Dorothy Thompson, Lewis's wife. The novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a demagogue who is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Generation
''The Second Generation'' is a collection of five novellas in the fantasy genre by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It is part of the Dragonlance series. Plot introduction This book is in fact five novellas by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. They relate the stories of the children of the Heroes of the Lance. The first, ''Kitiara's Son'', relates the story of Steel Brightblade. The second, ''The Legacy'', is about Palin Majere, Caramon Majere's son. The third, ''Wanna Bet?'', is an adventure of Palin and his two brothers Tanin and Sturm. The fourth, ''Raistlin's Daughter'', tells a myth of Raistlin Majere's daughter. The fifth, ''The Sacrifice'', is about Gilthas, Tanis Half-Elven's son. Three of the novellas (''The Legacy'', ''Wanna Bet?'', and ''Raistlin's Daughter'') were first printed in the ''Dragonlance Tales'' trilogy. Explanation of the novel's title "The Second Generation" refers to the nature of the stories, being that they are the "Second Generation" of heroes, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
