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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 ...
Van Gelder, Gordon
(1966- ) US editor, publisher and author who published his first story "Santa's Tenth Reindeer" in 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (anth 1984) edited by Isaac Asimov, Terry Carr and Martin H Greenberg, though the majority of his career has been spent as an editor. After a brief internship at Bluejay Books in 1986, ...
BoJack Horseman
US animated online tv series (2014-2020). Tornante Company and ShadowMachine for Netflix. Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Executive producers include Bob-Waksberg, Noel Bright, Steven A Cohen, Blair Fetter and Jane Wiseman. Directors include JC Gonzales and Amy Winfrey. Writers include Elijah Aron, Bob-Waksberg, Peter Knight, Alison Tafel and Jordan Young. Voice cast includes Will Arnett, Alison Brie, Aaron Paul, Amy Sedaris and Paul F Tomkins. 77 25-minute episodes to date. Colour. / ...
Eerie, Indiana
US tv series (1991-1992). Cosgrove/Meurer Productions for NBC-TV. Created by José Rivera. Produced by Rivera, Walter Barnett, Michael Cassutt. Directors included Bob Balaban, Joe Dante, and Mark Goldblatt. Writers included Cassutt, Matt Dearden. Cast includes Julia Condra, Francis Guinan, Mary-Margaret Humes, Omri Katz and Justin Shenkarow. Nineteen 30-minute episodes. Colour. / When the Tellers (Guinan and Humes) move to the small town of Eerie, ...
Gelman, Peter
(? - ) US author whose Flying Saucers over Hennepin: A Novel about an Avenue (1997), is a spoof of Alien Invasion tales like The Body Snatcher (1955) by Jack Finney, famously filmed (twice) as The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Here, parts of Minneapolis are taken over secretly by ...
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 ...