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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 ...
Alien Nation
1. Film (1988). Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Graham Baker. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Richard Kobritz. Written by Rockne S O'Bannon. Cast includes James Caan, Mandy Patinkin and Terence Stamp. 90 minutes. Colour. / Los Angeles (see California), 1991. The Newcomers, or "Slags", are 300,000 humanoid Aliens, Genetically Engineered for hard ...
Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan
(1950- ) US teacher, editor, academic and critic, with DePauw University from 1983, full professor from 1997; he initially signed his name Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr, but began not to do so after the death of his father Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (1917-1990), also an author, who published in Hungarian. His overall involvement in sf, over and above his teaching activities, may be divided into two broad categories: his work as an editor, particularly as a founding editor of ...
Friggens, Arthur
(1920-2001) UK author known only for his collaboration with Eric Burgess (whom see for details) on several titles for Robert Hale Limited. [JC]
Millennium [tv]
US tv series (1996-1999). 20th Century Fox Television/Ten Thirteen Productions for the Fox Television network. Created and Executive Produced by Chris Carter. Directors included Ralph Hemecker, Winrich Kolbe, David H Little, Paul Shapiro and Thomas J Wright. Writers included Chip Johannessen, Glen Morgan, Frank Spotnitz and James Wong. Cast includes Megan Gallagher, Lance Henriksen, Terry O'Quinn, Sarah-Jane Redmund, Klea Scott and Brittany Tiplady. 67 ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...