Hoop Dreams. Originally intended to be a 30-minute short produced for the Public Broadcasting Service, it eventually led to five years of filming and 250 hours of footage. It premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Despite its length (171 minutes) and unlikely commercial genre, it received high critical and popular acclaim. It ended its run in the box office with $11,830,611 worldwide. Synopsis[edit] Agee and Gates are both from poor, African-American neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois. Gates lived in Cabrini–Green while Agee and his family resided in West Garfield Park.
Taking 90-minute commutes to school, enduring long and difficult workouts and practices, and having to acclimatise to a foreign social environment, Gates and Agee struggle to improve their athletic skills in a job market with heavy competition. Funding[edit] Filming[edit] Reception[edit] The film was universally acclaimed by critics. Awards[edit] Aftermath[edit] References[edit] Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes. The book follows a rather fantastic and paranoid plot, very different from the stark realism of Clowes' later more widely known Ghost World. It contains nightmarish imagery, including dismemberment, deformed people and animals, and sexual fetishism. Clowes has talked about how the story was inspired by his dreams, as well as a recurring dream of his ex-wife's: "A lot of it is just daydreams, where ...
I can just have these thoughts that are uncontrolled by common logic, and then I start to see things in a different way. The book's title is a quote from the Russ Meyer film Faster, Pussycat! Publication history[edit] Velvet Glove has since been reprinted many times, and is currently in its sixth edition. Plot[edit] The happy-face icon of "Mr. In other media[edit] Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is one of very few graphic novels to have inspired an official soundtrack album.
Notes[edit] References[edit] Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro in 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒一雄; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-born British novelist. He was born in Nagasaki and his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative-writing course in 1980. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day.
In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[1] Early life and career[edit] He co-wrote four of the songs on jazz singer Stacey Kent's 2009 Breakfast on the Morning Tram.[5] He also wrote the liner notes to Kent's 2003 album, In Love Again.[6] Literary characteristics[edit] Ishiguro's novels often end without any sense of resolution. Awards[edit]
All the things. Cooking. Methods, Thinking and Existing. Work Related. Tropes. Main/Anti-Villain. Main/The Masochism Tango. Main/Deconstruction. Main/Wham Line. Main/Gainax Ending. Main/Ascended Fridge Horror. Good Morning, Vietnam. Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American war-comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with what they call his "irreverent tendency". The story is loosely based on the experiences of AFRS radio DJ Adrian Cronauer.[2] Most of Williams' radio broadcasts were improvised.
Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The film is number 100 on "AFI's 100 Years…100 Laughs". Plot[edit] In 1965, Airman First Class Adrian Cronauer (Williams) arrives in Saigon from Crete to work as a DJ for Armed Forces Radio Service. Cronauer meets Trinh (Sukapatana), a Vietnamese girl, and follows her to an English class.
Dickerson reprimands Cronauer for this incident, but his broadcasts continue as before. Cast[edit] Production[edit] Awards and honors[edit]
Webcomics. Paper Comics. Main/Strangers in Paradise. Runaways. Forced to fight their parents at various points, the group was even framed for the murder of the girl whom they had earlier witnessed their parents sacrificing. Taking an old abandoned mansion which they called the Hostel as their new home, the Runaways set about clearing their name. Breaking up a robbery, the group welcomed a new member, a teen named Topher who claimed his parents forced him to help them with their crimes. Topher, in actuality a vampire born at the turn of the 20th century, set about seducing both Sister Grimm and Lucy in the Sky, but was killed when he attempted to drink Lucy's solar-irradiated alien blood.
The Pride then exposed his followers to sunlight, killing them as well. Using their more legitimate connections the Pride convinced Cloak and Dagger to come to California and collect their kids. After a misunderstanding, most of the Runaways ended up inside of Cloak's cloak dimension, leaving only Bruiser and Arsenic to rescue them. Nico Minoru aka Sister Grimm.
We Make Zines - a place for zinesters - writers and readers. The Queer Zine Archive Project - Home. Juggling the Rainbow | A zine of personal writing on non-monogamous relationships. I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I read? Fanfiction. Brian Randall's fanfiction: Kyon -- Big Damn Hero. Whirlpool of Depravity Contact Kyon -- Big Damn Hero A Tvtropes website/Haruhi crossover. Kyon with a beam saber. In Media Res Prologue Exactly What it Says on the Tin (text) Obligatory Anachronic Order Explanation Arc Straightforward Flashback and Exposition Arc Heroic Antics Begin Arc Filler Arc Chapter Thirteen: Close of Business (text) Chapter Fourteen: Loose Threads (text) Fanservice Arc Gearing Up Arc Initial Conflict Arc Chapter Twenty Four: Thus Solving The Problem Forever (text) Chapter Twenty Five: Sequences (text) Chapter Twenty Six: Introductions (text) Chapter Twenty Seven: Legacies (text) Chapter Twenty Eight: Meetings (text) Thwarted Lull Arc Calm Before the Storm Arc Chapter Thirty Four: Whispering Winds (text) Chapter Thirty Five: Tedious Politicking (text) Chapter Thirty Six: Brigade Review (text) Chapter Thirty Seven: A Charged Atmosphere (text) Chapter Thirty Eight: Distant Thunder (text) The Storm Begins Arc The Open Battle Arc The Laying Low Arc The Resolution Arc.
Games. Mostly Unseen Films. Tv shows.