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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Donnell, A J
(1905-1991) US jazz drummer, advertising manager and illustrator who served in the US Army during World War Two; while there are reports that he did some uncredited interior illustrations for Startling Stories during the late 1930s and 1940s, Donnell is otherwise known exclusively as the one of the four founders of the small press Fantasy Press. For three years, he worked as the company's ...
VR.5
Tv series (1995; vt VR5). Samoset Productions with Rysher Entertainment for the Fox Television Network. Created by Jeannine Renshaw. Produced by Adam Cherry, Jack Clements, others. Directors include Rob Bowman, Jim Charleston and Michael Katleman. Writers include Naomi Janzen, Renshaw and John Sacret Young. Cast includes Michael Easton, Louise Fletcher, Anthony Head, David McCallum, Tracy Needham, Will Patton and Lori Singer. 13 45-minute episodes. Colour. / The central ...
Whitehouse, J Howard
(1873-1955) UK politician, educationist, scholar and author of Visit to Utopia (1939 chap), a lightly fictionalized description – initially presented as a talk in his role as Warden to the boys of Bembridge School – of a benign Utopia where War and other evils have been eliminated through social justice, high Technology, and due attention to the beauty of the world. As a Liberal member ...
Thor, Rosiee
(? - ) US author of Young Adult novels, the first being Tarnished Are the Stars (2019), whose young protagonist, cursed or blessed with a clockwork heart, must solve problems of Gender and destiny in a Steampunk-like planet (see Colonization of Other Worlds), whose population had long ago fled from the ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...