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Powerpuff Girls, The
US animated tv series (1998-2005). Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (1998-2001); Cartoon Network Studios (2002-2005). Created by Craig McCracken. Directors include John McIntyre, Craig McCracken, Randy Myers and Genndy Tartakovsky. Writers include John McIntyre, Amy Keating Rogers and Chris Savino. Voice cast includes Catherine Cavadini, Elizabeth Daily, Roger L. Jackson, Tom Kane, Tom ...
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Belgium/US animated film (1965). Belvision Studios. Based on the character and story Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi. Directed by Ray Goossens. Written by Fred Ladd (from an idea by co-producer Norm Prescott). Voice cast includes Jess Cain, Conrad Jameson, Kevin Kennedy, Peter Lazer, Mavis Mims, Ray Owens, Minerva Pious and Arnold Stang. 70 minutes. Colour. / The audience is assured that ...
Keshishian, John M
(1923-2021) Greek-born surgeon, academic, archaeologist and author, in US from 1931, whose Near Future sf novel, with Jacob Hay (whom see for details), is Autopsy for a Cosmonaut (1969; vt Death of a Cosmonaut 1970). The Mayan Shard Caper (2006) focuses on the speculative assumption that there may have been a second Mayan race, perhaps distinct in some ways from Homo sapiens. [JC]
Hawes, James
(1960- ) UK screenwriter and author whose first novel, the slapdash Satire A White Merc With Fins (1996), stirs a pot of story adjacent to Fantastika but subsides agitatedly. Dead Long Enough (2000) dramatizes death-panic, an abstraction that seems to take literal shape. Hawes of some sf interest for Speak for England (2005), whose protagonist, last survivor of a ...
Went the Day Well?
Film (1942). Ealing Studios. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Written by John Dighton, Angus MacPhail and Diana Morgan from a Graham Greene story, "The Lieutenant Died Last" (29 June 1940 Collier's Weekly). Cast includes Leslie Banks, Muriel George, Thora Hird, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sydney, Valerie Taylor. 92 minutes. Black and white. / This effective World War Two film is narrated ...
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 ...