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Mercy Point
US tv series (1998-1999). Columbia TriStar Television/Mandalay Television for UPN Network. Created by Trey Callaway, Milo Frank and David Simkins. Produced by Brent V Friedman, Scott Sanders, Deborah Starr Siebel and others. Directors include Lee Bonner, Michael Katleman and Joe Napolitano. Writers include Gary Glasberg, Jonathan Robert Kaplan and Simkins. Cast includes Trey Callaway, Maria del Mar, Jordan Lund, Brian McNamara, Joe Morton, Julia Pennington and Alexandra Wilson. Eight ...
Stepford Wives, The
Film (1974). Fadsin Cinema Associates/Columbia. Directed by Bryan Forbes. Written by William Goldman, based on The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin. Cast includes Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Patrick O'Neal, Paula Prentiss and Katharine Ross. 115 minutes. Colour. / In this black but rather crude Satire on the role of women in US society, the men of Stepford, a sleepy, attractive Connecticut town, take part ...
Field, Marlo
(? -? ) US author of whom nothing is known beyond his (her?) Hollow Earth tale, Astro Bubbles (1928), based on Cyrus Reed Teed's hypothesis that we live within a hollow cylinder, rather as though we inhabited a Generation Starship or World Ship. Field's world is, in fact, far more complex than that, though his/her compulsive didacticism ( ...
Kritzer, Naomi
(1973- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Faust's SASE" in Scavenger's Newsletter for September 1999; during her early career she published mostly fantasy, including the Eliana's Song sequence beginning with the Young Adult Fires of the Faithful (2002), set in a fantasy land oppressed by Religious fundamentalism, but saved by the versatile young protagonist; ...
Barber Westchester
US animated film (2022). Herbert Sorbet Studios. Directed and written by Jonni Peppers. Voice cast includes Maddie Brewer, Lindsey DeMars, Zach Dorn, Chris Kim, Sam Lane, Grace Milk, Jonni Peppers, Frankie Tamaru and Victoria Vincent. 90 minutes. Colour. / DeSabla is a town located in a mountainous region of California; Barber Westchester (Kim) – her head a mass of blue hair with two large eyes protruding – is Mayor Wisconsin's (Peppers/Brewer) official astronomer (see ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...