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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 ...
Bullwinkle Show, The
US animated tv series (1959-1964) for the ABC network (1959-1961) and NBC network (1961-1964); during its first season it was titled Rocky and His Friends; it was later syndicated using other titles, including The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Jay Ward Productions. Produced by Bill Scott and Jay Ward. Created by Alex Anderson, Scott and Ward. Directors: Gerald Baldwin, Frank Braxton, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, Paul Harvey, Jim Hiltz, William T Hurtz, Lew Keller, ...
Knittel, John
(1891-1970) Indian-born Swiss screenwriter and author, in the UK between 1908 and 1921, subsequently in Switzerland; at some point before he began publishing (always initially in English) after World War One, he gave up his birth name, Herman Emanuel Knittel. His first novel, Aaron West (1921), is a Robinsonade set on a tropical Island, where a yearning man seeks Transcendence. ...
After the Holocaust
Board and counter Wargame (1977). Simulations Publications Inc (SPI). Designed by Irad Hardy, Redmond Simonsen. / After the Holocaust is an unusual Wargame in which victory depends as much on cooperation as competition. The setting is the US twenty years after a devastating nuclear war; players adopt the roles of various factions expanding across the continent, with the aim of ...
Greenfield, Chatham
(? - ) US author, the protagonist of whose first novel, the Young Adult Time and Time Again (2024), becomes entangled in a Time Loop, where she lives through the same day (6 August), at first alone, then with her childhood sweetheart, who arrives by car crash. The two young women begin a fun spree. [JC]
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...