Has anyone else seen Wag the Dog? Was this movie a wink to Stanley Kubrick?
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Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla as Science Fiction Characters
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Peaky Blinders’ Shining Easter Egg Hints At Tommy’s Dark Fate
Peaky Blinders’ Shining Easter Egg Hints At Tommy’s Dark Fate https://screenrant.com/peaky-blinders-season-6-shining-reference-tommy-suicide/amp/The ghosts of Tommy's past are coming for him.
Prosopography
Prosopography (idea) See all of Prosopography, no other writeups in this node. Prosopography From the Greek prospon, character and graphy, writing. Prosopography has been defined as the historical study of individuals as groups and groups as individuals.1 an independent science of social history embracing genealogy, onomastics and demography.2 a study that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or li...
Logan's Run (thing) by Dhericean - Everything2.com
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Logan's Run (thing) See all of Logan's Run, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Dhericean Thu May 25 2000 at 12:01:29 First there came the book "Logan's Run" (1967) by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It was a very different story from the movie. In the book society was not restricted to domes and Logan was trying to find a mythical person (whose name I cannot remember) and Sanctuary where people over 21 do not...
Karmalink - Andrew Robertson - 17480
"This film bears strange and delightful fruit without affecting its sweetness, its surprise." | Photo: Robert Leitzell/Courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival The machinery upon the red carpet recalls Bacon's triptych, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. I was minded of them having seen Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988) at the Royal Academy earlier this year. I was minded of them because those paintings appear in Memory: The Origins Of Ali...
Space Navy (thing) by Kesper North - Everything2.com
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Space Navy (thing) See all of Space Navy, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Kesper North Sat Nov 04 2000 at 0:11:16 A frequently-seen concept in science fiction, wherein a military force in interplanetary or interstellar space is patterned off of the old navies of Earth's oceans. Ship classes are typically organized into categories correspoding to so-called "wet navy" types -- cruisers, destroyers, frigates, et cetera -- a...
The Use of the Number Three in Fairy and Folk Tales | Storyteller.net
Storyteller.net Connecting Stories, Storytellers and Audience for Great Storytelling. Two Plus One is Greater than Three: The Presence of the Number 3 in Fairytales and Folklore Posted on December 29, 2017 by Storyteller.net (1+2) By: K. Sean Buvala As storytelling has moved from its perceived position of folk art to more mainstream recognition, the inevitable attempts to classify, catalog and define it b...
Rosa Lyster: At the V&A
In the first room of the new Fabergé exhibition at the V&A (until 8 May), there is a display case containing a pinkish columnar table-portrait of Tsar Nicholas II. It is made of variegated gold, in laurels and garlands, with a gold double-headed eagle on top and a gold frame, accommodating more huge diamonds than one would think permissible or even possible, encircling a vague-looking Nicholas and culminating in a crown. It sits on little gold feet. The eagle is wearing a little gold cro...
Mars Blackmon (person) by Billy - Everything2.com
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Mars Blackmon (person) See all of Mars Blackmon, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Billy Sun Apr 20 2003 at 18:44:06 Spike Lee character from Lee's 1986 film She's Gotta Have It, but more known for a series of Nike commercials with Michael Jordan in the late '80s and early '90s. In the movie, Blackmon is one of the three men battling for the attention of Nola Darling. Blackmon is a bike messenger from Brooklyn who talks...
‘Hawkeye’ Finale Recap: Hawkeye’s Home for Christmas
Disney/Ringer illustration The sixth and final episode of ‘Hawkeye’ delivers a lot of action, sets up future MCU series, and passes an important torch (or two), though it also leaves some loose ends untied Between all the damage to the newly reconstructed Statue of Liberty in Spider-Man: No Way Home and the destruction of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in this week’s final episode of Hawkeye, New York City’s landmark sites have been subjected to a lot of dram...
Narcissus Flower Meaning Symbolism & Facts | Interflora
Clip source: Narcissus Flower Meaning Symbolism & Narcissus: Ultimate Flower Guide(commonly known as the Daffodil) - Meaning, Symbolism, Varieties and Care Tips. On this page you'll find everything you need to know about the narcissus - commonly known as the daffodil. Packed with meaning, symbolism, myth, legend and superstition, there's a lot to learn about these beautiful springtime flowers. THE MEANING OF NARCISSUSDaffodils are some of the first flowers we see in springtime and are a...
JB - Jeder Baum - Every tree
See translation of Jeder Baum It means I’m German ‘every tree’. Interesting to me as a possible reference to or intertext with James Bond and the other jb inquiries of mine. -zas 6 Dec 2021
The Curious Symbolism of Autumn in Literature and Myth
Autumn is at once symbolic of plenty, ripening, harvest, and abundance; and, at the same time, a symbol of decay, decline, old age, and even death, with associations of things being past their prime. To understand this we need to look at how writers have depicted autumn in poetry and other literature. In classical Greek mythology, the goddess of autumn was Carpo, who was part of the Horae or Hours, three goddesses who were the offspring of Zeus and Aphrodite and represented the three se...
27 hidden references and clever jokes in 'Hercules' you probably missed as a kid
Disney's "Hercules" (1997) is a beloved animated retelling of the classic Hellenic myth, but even die-hard fans may not have caught all these hidden gems. The film is full of references to Hellenic mythology, including the tale of the Titans and the divine guests at Zeus and Hera's party. There are also jokes related to more recent cultural phenomena, like "Buns of Bronze" and the Marilyn Monroe constellation. Did you catch them all? Insider did! One of the ...
Melvyn Minnaar: Bacchus, Barthes and the Bible - winemag - Wine Magazine
It was a Bacchus-inspired moment. Revival of spirit was in the air, spring-like in our garden of delights, and the wine had been poured around the cheerful table of friends. The heady subject: "What is wine today?"The question had oozed out of discussions about prices, prizes, preferences and philosophies about why we love wine. Why we constantly talk about it, whether in purple prose as judges, or simply communicating with one another the enjoyment experience. We are drinkers and thinkers – ...
Top 10 Robots in Pop Culture History - Analytics Insight
Technology was never able to keep up with storytellers’ imaginations, and every medium’s history is littered with fantastically designed robots of different forms, sizes, and purposes. This interest is understandable. The robot notion is so broad that it allows for an infinite variety of designs and concepts. Perhaps more intriguing is the fact that robots are frequently employed, paradoxically, to cut through to a bigger truth about humans. Others, on the other hand, just feed our primo...
Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. ‹ Literary Hub
Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. By Book Marks October 18, 2021, 3:11pm On the occasion of its 170th publication anniversary, here are the very first reviews of Herman Melville’s leviathan-sized opus of obsession, revenge, and meticulously detailed whaling practices. * "To convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of Typee and Omoo has here placed before the reading public, is impossible i...
The Death of the Editor: Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"
There is a moment, deep within the maze of Wes Anderson’s latest film, when art takes on the power to set a prisoner free. We are in France, in the time of de Gaulle (or someone like him). At the police station in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) has been in a holding cell called the Chicken Coop for some days. An anonymous American, still in the eveningwear from the clandestine gay bar where he was picked up, his only contact is a number on the polite rejection le...
Wallace Wood - Lambiek Comiclopedia
Also "Wally Wood" c.f. Hollywood and Wally World in the film 'Vacation' with Chevy Chase. -zas Lambiek Comiclopedia Weird Science #14. Wallace Wood was a versatile American comic artist, who excelled both in high-tech science fiction artwork and in humorous satire. He is also referred to as "Wally Wood" (although the utterly disliked the nickname "Wally"), while he signed some of his work with "Woody". His work for EC "New Trend" comic books such as 'Weird Science' and 'Weird Fantasy' ear...
Doctor Octopus (person) by disarmed42 - Everything2.com
Doctor Octopus (person) See all of Doctor Octopus, no other writeups in this node. There have been two Doctors Octopus in the Marvel Comics universe. The better known of the two, Dr. Otto Octavius, first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #3, written by Stan Lee with art by Steve Ditko.Dr. Otto Octavius was a brilliant nuclear physicist who had invented a four-armed device that he used to manipulate radioactive elements. The arms telescoped to varying lengths and were incredibly stron...