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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 ...
Invisible Avenger
Film (1958; vt The Invisible Avenger; vt Bourbon Street Shadows; vt Terror in the Night). Republic Pictures. Produced by Emanuel Demby and Eric Sayers. Directed by James Wong Howe, Ben Parker and John Sledge. Written by George Bellak and Ruth Jeffries from a story by Walter B Gibson (uncredited). Cast includes Mark Daniels, Steve Dano, Richard Derr, Dan Mullin and Helena Westcott. 60 minutes. Black and white. / Expatriate ...
Addeo, Edmond G
(1936- ) US engineer, science journalist and author of nonfiction and historical works in addition to his two sf novels in collaboration with Richard M Garvin (whom see for details), The FORTEC Conspiracy (1968) and The Talbott Agreement (1968). [DRL]
Racina, Thom
Working name of US author Thomas Frank Raucina (1946- ), extremely prolific under various names at the beginning of his career (Racina states that he published 157 books under various pseudonyms before his first acknowledged title), some of this output being soft pornography, though there is nothing (apparently) of genre interest; mostly during the 1980s, he also wrote for a number of television serials, some of them high-rating soap operas. His first signed book, ...
Invasion, The
Film (2007). Warner Bros, Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, additional sequences by James McTeigue (uncredited). Written by David Kajganich, based on The Body Snatchers (10-24 December 1954 Collier's Weekly; 1955; vt Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1973; rev 1978) by Jack Finney; additional material by Lana ...
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 ...