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Finale Ligure
Finale Ligure is a comune on the Gulf of Genoa in the Province of Savona in Liguria, Italy. It is considered part of the Italian Riviera.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. Frequently described as the best comic writer in history, he has also been described as "one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years". He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon.
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Amy Tan
Amy Tan (; born February 19, 1952) is a Chinese American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. The book has been translated into 35 languages.
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Andre Norton
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Avram Davidson
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
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Batman
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Betty Ballantine
Betty Ballantine (born September 25, 1919) is a publisher who, with her husband Ian Ballantine, formed Bantam Books in 1945 and Ballantine Books in 1952. They became freelance publishers in the 1970s. Their son Richard is an author and journalist specialising in cycling topics.
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Bram Stoker
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Brian Grazer
Brian Thomas Grazer (born July 12, 1951) is an American film and television producer who founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 with partner Ron Howard. Together they have produced many acclaimed films, including A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13.
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Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English horror fiction writer.
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Burton Hatlen
Burton Norval Hatlen (April 9, 1936 - January 21, 2008) was an American literary scholar and professor at the University of Maine. Hatlen worked closely with Carroll F. Terrell, an Ezra Pound scholar and co-founder of the National Poetry Foundation, to build the Foundation into an internationally known institution.
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C. L. Moore
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Carol Emshwiller
Carol Emshwiller (born 1921) is a writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction." Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her most recent novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.
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Chris Claremont
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Clint Eastwood
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Dave Barry
David "Dave" Barry (born July 3, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels.
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Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (born London 16 August 1934) is a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction. Some of her better-known works include the Chrestomanci series and the novels ''Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm''.
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Donald A. Wollheim
Donald Allen Wollheim (1 October 1914 – 2 November 1990) was an American science fiction writer, editor, publisher and fan. As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell.
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Donald M. Grant
Donald Metcalf Grant (April 3, 1927-August 19, 2009) was an American publisher. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1927 and graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1949. Grant's interest in fantasy and science fiction started when he began reading the stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs at age 10. He married in 1956 and has two children. Grant was involved in the founding of several science fiction and fantasy small press publishers. He co-founded Grant-Hadley Enterprises in 1945, The Buffalo Book Company in 1946 and Centaur Press in 1970. He also founded Grandon, Publishers in 1949 and Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1964.
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Donald Wandrei
Donald Albert Wandrei (April 20, 1908–October 15, 1987) was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei. He had fourteen stories in Weird Tales, another sixteen in Astounding Stories, plus a few in other magazines including Esquire.
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E. F. Bleiler
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E. Hoffmann Price
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Edd Cartier
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edward L. Ferman
Edward Lewis Ferman (born March 6, 1937) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction editor and magazine publisher.
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Ellen Asher
Ellen Asher is an American science fiction editor. She was the editor in chief of the Science Fiction Book Club for thirty-four years, from February 8, 1973 through June 1, 2007.
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Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925), better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.
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Evangeline Walton
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Forrest J Ackerman
Forrest J Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan. He was, for over seven decades, one of science fiction's staunchest spokesmen and promoters.
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Frank Belknap Long
Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 - January 3, 1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977).
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Frank Frazetta
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Fritz Leiber
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Gahan Wilson
Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations.
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Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the field.
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George A. Romero
George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American-Canadian film director, screenwriter, and editor best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed Grandfather of the Zombie.
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George H. Scithers
George H. Scithers (May 14, 1929-April 19, 2010) was a science fiction fan, author, and Hugo Award winning editor.
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George Romero
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Glenn Beck
Glenn Lee Beck (born February 10, 1964) is an American conservative radio and television host, political commentator, author, and entrepreneur. He is currently the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks; He is also the host of a self-titled cable-news show on Fox News Channel. As an author, Beck has had six New York Times-bestselling books, with five debuting at #1. Beck is also the founder and CEO of Mercury Radio Arts, a multi-media production company through which he produces content for radio, television, publishing, the stage, and the Internet.
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Greg Iles
Greg Iles (born 1960) is an American bestselling novelist who lives in Natchez, Mississippi.
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H. P. Lovecraft
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H.P. Lovecraft
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of unique but controversial theories of poetic influence, and for advocating an aesthetic approach to literature against feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, poststructuralist (deconstructive and semiotic) literary criticism. Bloom is a 1985 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Hugh B. Cave
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Italo Calvino
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J. J. Abrams
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jack Finney
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Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance (born
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Jack Williamson
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Jae Lee
Jae Lee is an American comic book artist best known for his work on Inhumans and The Sentry, both with Paul Jenkins.
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Jane Yolen
Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She wrote the Nebula Award-winning ''Sister Emily's Lightship (short story) and Lost Girls (novelette), as well as Owl Moon and The Emperor and the Kite, Caldecott Medal winners, the Commander Toad series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight''.
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Jeaniene Frost
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Joe Hill (writer)
Joseph Hillstrom King (born June 4, 1972, Hermon, Maine), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. He has published two novels Heart Shaped Box and Horns, and a collection of short stories entitled 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the author of the comic book series Locke & Key. Hill's parents are authors Stephen and Tabitha King.
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John Clute
John Frederick Clute (born 1940) is a Canadian born author and critic who has lived in Britain since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history."
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John Crowley
John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom.
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John D. MacDonald
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American author.
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John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Joseph Payne Brennan
Joseph Payne Brennan (December 20, 1918 – January 28, 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Brennan's first professional sale came in December 1940 with the publication of the poem, "When Snow Is Hung", which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor Home Forum, and he continued writing poetry up until the time of his death.
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Kathi Kamen Goldmark
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L. Sprague de Camp
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Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier (; born Lars Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches. He is known for his female-centric parables and his exploration of controversial subject matter.
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Leo and Diane Dillon
Leo and Diane Dillon are an American husband and wife team of illustrators. Among their awards are two consecutive Caldecott Medals for the children's books ''Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and ''.
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Lloyd Alexander
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Madeleine L'Engle
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Manly Wade Wellman
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Matt Groening
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama.
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels.
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Michael R. Collings
Michael Robert Collings (born 1947) is an author, poet, literary critic, and bibliographer, and a former professor of creative writing and literature at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He was Poet in Residence at Pepperdine's Seaver College from 1997-2000. After graduating with a Master's degree in English from the University of California, Riverside in 1973, Collings received his Ph.D. in English literature from UCR in 1977, specializing in Milton and The Renaissance.
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Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism, formerly working for over 30 years as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy before devoting all his work to a fine art career.
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Mitch Albom
Mitchel David "Mitch" Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have sold over 28 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for his sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known now for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays and films. He is also well-known for his philanthropic work in Detroit, Michigan where he founded four charities.
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Naomi King
Rev. Naomi Rachel King (born 1970), is an American Unitarian Universalist minister. She is the daughter of author Stephen King, and his wife Tabitha King.
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Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game.
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Nyarlathotep
Nyarlathotep, also known as the Crawling Chaos, is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos fictional universe created by H. P. Lovecraft. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop roleplaying games making use of the Cthulhu Mythos. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods.
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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American author, critic, public speaker and conservative political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel ''Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead'' (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both of American science fiction's top prizes in consecutive years. He is also known as a political commentator and as an advocate for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Patricia A. McKillip
Patricia Anne McKillip (born February 29, 1948) is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels. Her novels have been winners of the World Fantasy Award, Locus Award, and Mythopoeic Award, and have received numerous nominations for a variety of awards; in 2008, she was a recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.She lives in Oregon and is married to David Lunde, a poet.
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Peter David
Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956), often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning, 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, Supergirl, and Fallen Angel.
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Peter Nichols
Peter Nichols (born 31 July 1927) is an English writer of stage plays, film and television.
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Peter Straub
:This article is about the novelist. For the German statesman, see Peter Straub (politician).
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Phil Hale
Philip Oliver Hale, born in 1963, is an American figurative painter who currently resides in London, England.
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Philip José Farmer
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R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, In a Green Tree; a history book, The Fall of Rome; and a number of novels that could be more or less loosely called historical fiction.
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Ray Bradbury
Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into television shows or films.
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Ray Russell
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Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, Duel, and I Am Legend, all four of which have been adapted as major motion pictures. Matheson has also written for several The Twilight Zone television show episodes such as Nightmare at 20,000 feet.
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Rick Scott
Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott (born December 1, 1952) is an American political candidate, businessman, former healthcare industry executive, attorney, founder of Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR) and candidate for Governor of Florida. Having defeated Bill McCollum in the Republican primary election, Scott is in a close race against Democrat Alex Sink in the 2010 Florida gubernatorial election.
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Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson, born on March 13, 1953 in Glen Cove, New York, is an American writer. Pearson has historically written suspense and thriller novels for an adult audience, but has also begun branching out by writing adventure books for children.
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Roald Dahl
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert Bloch
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Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
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Rocky Wood
Rocky Wood is an award-nominated writer known for his books about horror author Stephen King. Wood is based in Melbourne, Australia and has been a freelance writer for 30 years. His writing career began at university, where he wrote a national newspaper column in New Zealand on UFO-related phenomena and published other articles about the phenomenon worldwide; and had articles on the security industry published in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and South Africa.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and screenwriter. Forbes has described him as "the most powerful pundit in America".
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Ron Howard
Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American film director and producer, as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing the son of sheriff Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith), Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show (credited as Ronny Howard), and later in the 1970s as Howard Cunningham's son and Arthur Fonzarelli's best friend (played by Tom Bosley and Henry Winkler respectively), Richie Cunningham, on Happy Days (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). Since retiring from acting, he has directed many films including Splash, Cocoon, Backdraft, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Frost/Nixon, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.
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Roy Blount, Jr.
Roy Alton Blount, Jr. (born October 4, 1941; ) is an American writer. Best known as a humorist, Blount is also a reporter, actor, and musician with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed entirely of writers. He is also president of the Authors Guild.
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Roy Krenkel
Roy Gerald Krenkel (11 July 1918 – 24 February 1983), often referred to as simply RGK, was an American illustrator who specialized in fantasy drawings and paintings.
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S. T. Joshi
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Scott Snyder
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Scott Turow
Scott F. Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies. Movies have been based on several of his books.
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Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone (; January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.
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Shooter Jennings
Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings (born May 19, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter formerly active in the country music and Southern rock genres before switching to hard rock in 2009. The only child of country singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Jennings signed his first recording contract, with Universal South Records, in 2005, releasing his debut album Put the "O" Back in Country that year. This album produced his only entry on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in its lead-off single "Fourth of July", which peaked at #26. Jennings has since followed Put the "O" Back in Country with three more albums: Electric Rodeo, Live at Irving Plaza 4.18.06 (both 2006), and The Wolf (2007). In 2009, he formed a new band Hierophant and toured with them on the Warped Tour. They released their debut album Black Ribbons in 2010.
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Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
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Stephen Fabian
Stephen Emil Fabian, Jr. (born in 1930) is an American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration and cover art for books and magazines. He was self-taught, two of his primary influences being Virgil Finlay and Hannes Bok. His work is usually signed Stephen Fabian or Stephen E. Fabian.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been made into many movies. He is known for novels such as Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, It, Misery, and the seven-novel series The Dark Tower, which King wrote over a period of 27 years. As of 2010, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories including Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, and ''Everything's Eventual''. Many of his stories are set in his homestate of Maine. He has collaborated with authors Peter Straub and Stewart O'Nan. Some of his novels have been also been turned into comic books, such are The Stand, The Talisman, and The Dark Tower series.
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Stewart O'Nan
'''Stewart O'Nan''' (born February 4, 1961) is an American novelist.
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Tabitha King
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Terry Gross
Terry Gross (born 1951) is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio. Gross has won praise over the years for her low-key and friendly yet often probing interview style and for the diversity of her guests. She has a reputation for researching her guests' work, largely the night before an interview, often asking them unexpected questions about their early career.
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Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948), more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (The Colour of Magic) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average.
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The Ramones
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Theodore Sturgeon
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Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty (born April 23, 1936) is an American publisher, and the founder of Tor Books. After working as a book salesman in the 1950s and 1960s, Doherty became publisher of Tempo Books in 1972; in 1975, he became, in addition, publisher of another company also owned by Grosset & Dunlap, the science fiction imprint Ace Books. In 1980 he left Ace to found his own company, Tor Books.
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Tom Gordon
Thomas Gordon (born November 18, 1967, in Sebring, Florida), nicknamed "Flash", is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played with the Kansas City Royals (1988–95), Boston Red Sox (1996–99), Chicago Cubs (2001–02), Houston Astros (2002), Chicago White Sox (2003), New York Yankees (2004–05), Philadelphia Phillies (2006–08) and the Arizona Diamondbacks (2009).
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. First published in the 1960s, her works explore Taoist, anarchist, ethnographic, feminist, psychological and sociological themes.
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- Madeon
- Miss Saigon
- Milk & Honey
- John Kander
- Annie
- Anthrax
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Chaostar
karaoke
Oh God, I'm bleeding
Oh God, I'm bleeding
Oh God, you're bleeding
Oh God, I'm dying
Oh God, I'm dying
Oh God, you're dying
Oh God, I'm dead
Oh God, I'm dead
Oh God, you're dead
Oh God, you're dead
Long live God, long live God
Long live God, long live God
Long live God, long live God
Prepare ye, the way of the Lord (Long live God, long live God)
Prepare ye, the way of the Lord (Long live God, long live God)
[Instrumental]
[Verse 1 - Gudda Gudda]
They call me Young Gudda,
I'm all about the dough still,
And anybody in my way, roadkill,
Everything my hands touch turn to gold,
Money, knots and jewels with no records sold, (Yeah)
I'm manhandling rappers with no effort,
So imagine what'll happen when I start applying pressure,
Guillotine flow who ready to get severed nogga
In or out the booth you could get leveled nigga
[Verse 2 - Jae Millz]
Yo, we are Young Money,
Nigga you can't chocha,
It's about to get real ugly, Amarosa,
YM vultures, there ain't a family doper,
We done changed the way the game looks, Sammy Sosa, (Ha ha)
This is life this ain't a job, Audemare and Shapor,
Just symbolize I go hard,
Navy on navy Camaro I did it all for the Yankees,
Did it all for New York and this love no need to thank me, Millz
[Verse 3 - Tyga]
Uhh, fast money I don't slow dance,
Young Money muthafucka till the world end,
Money over weight, bitch, Rosanne,
I don't listen to these kids, grown man,
Skinny nigga dubbed up, Lohan,
Lindsey the white Benz, same color Mike skin,
Make ya soul spin when the ping load in,
Au revoir, goodbye, now applaud
[Verse 4 - Lil' Chuckee]
Young money lil' G,
Battle juice in my blood,
Jumpin' at ya boy,
Man, you better have ya bungee cord,
Since Wayne took me off the leash,
I ain't lose a fight yet,
Now come drag ya dog out the ring how he love that,
Yung wid a attitude, watch how ya talk to me,
Keep playin' Freddy boi, I'll leak on ya Elm Street,
Trouble is what you want dog, pain is what you gon' get,
It's Young money till the bone grizzle, ya dig?
[Verse 5 - Lil' Twist]
Young money good night,
And yeah I'm gonna shine like an ultraviolet light,
Lil' Twist cold cellar like it's open tonight,
31st nigga to write, You need a telescope sight,
To try to see me, I'm so far gone,
Even though I'm goin' out kids, I'm so far on
I gotta house full of chicks like the Playboy home,
Wrappin' up my lifestyle and I smash this song
Twizzy
[Verse 6 - Nicki Minaj]
I'm in that cotton pink Bent',
Puttin' mass on the guts,
White on white whips,
Kunta Kinte on the clutch,
You at the bottom of the pole, Totem,
Like Lamar Odom, I ball, scrotom,
Flyer than a cricket so they call me Nicki Jim-any,
And It's going down like Santa in a chimney,
You don't ball break ya baby back ribs,
You need more assist than the handicap kids (Oh shit)
[Verse 7 - Shanell]
Young Money we rockstars,
So fuck wit' ya Magnum on,
And hold on we go long,
You feel that? We get that,
We in that, we run that, we bus' back,
We hit 'em when we see 'em comin' back for more,
Back for more..
[Verse 8 - Mack Maine]
Michael Wade family in the building you can't hold us,
Me, Taz and Wayne be the three new moguls,
Buffet around here y'all boys scrape the plates,
And we don't eat up in our whispa they got paper plates,
Soon as we leave the club damn let the models go,
One word I forgot to say on his album, Hollygrove!,
This track the finale, nah this the genesis,
Young Money murderers, we killin' shit,
Forever
[Verse 9 - Drake]
Alright I got this, you can never get this
I built it up from nuthin' you would think I'm playin' Tetris,
Thousand dollar sweater on but I don't ever sweat shit,
Swear the beats they give me got a mafuckin' death wish,
Yeah, tell me who controls kings,
I don't follow rules, stupid old things,
I'm flying through the city in a coupe with those wings,
And my team deserves some muthafuckin' Superbowl rings, Young Money
[Verse 10 - Lil' Wayne]
I'm so in this bitch, CEO in this bitch,
Lil' Weezy stand tall, tippytoe in this bitch
Blood gang muthafucka da da doe in this bitch,
Make ya girl get Barry Manilow in this bitch,
In the body of the World, money is the blood,
And everyday I be back and forward to the blood bank,
Uhh making deposits till I fuckin' faint,
New Orleans, nigga how about them fuckin' Saints,
It's tight on our end call that Bubba Franks,
Matter fact it's too tight add a couple links,
I'm the barstender you a women drink,
Yeah it's Young Money but the money ain't,
Gudda tough, Nelly nice, Nick nasty,
Streets bad, Tyga ill, Drake magic,
Millz Harlem, Chuck wild, Twist Dallas,
And Mack Maine rap, sing and manage,
Uhhhh
[Instrumental]
Ensemble:
If they could see me now,
That little gang of mine,
I'm eating fancy chow
And drinking fancy wine.
I'd like those stumble bums to see for a fact
The kind of top drawer, first rate chums I attract.
All I can say is "Wow-ee!
Looka where I am.
Tonight I landed, pow!
Right in a pot of jam.
What a set up! Holy cow!
They'd never believe it,
If my friends could see me now!
All I can say is "Wow-ee!
Looka where I am.
Tonight I landed, pow!
Right in a pot of jam.
What a set up! Holy cow!
They'd never believe it,
If my friends could see me now!
[LEADING PLAYER]
Think about the sun, Pippin
Think about her golden glance
How she lights the world up
Well, now it's your chance
With the guardian of splendor
Inviting you to dance
Pippin
Think about the sun
[LEADING PLAYER]
Think about your life, Pippin
[PLAYER]
Days are tame and nights the same
[LEADING PLAYER]
Now think about the beauty
[LEADING PLAYER AND PLAYER]
In one perfect flame
And the angels of the morning
Are calling out your name
[ALL]
Pippin
[LEADING PLAYER]
Think about the
[ALL]
Sun
Think about your life, Pippin
Think about the dreams you planned
Think about the moment
That's so close at hand
When the power and the glory
Are there at your command
Pippin
Think about your life
Think about the sun, Pippin
Think about her golden glance
How she lights the world up
Well, now it's your chance
With the guardian of splendor
Inviting you to dance
Pippin
Think about the sun
Think about your life, Pippin
Think about the dreams you planned
Think about the moment
That's so close at hand
When the power and the glory
Are there at your command
When the power and the glory
Are there at your command
When the power and the glory
Are there at your command
Pippin, think about your life
Rivers belong where they can ramble
Eagles belong where they can fly
[PIPPIN]
I'm not a river or a giant bird
That soars to the sea
And if I'm never tied to anything
I'll never be free
I wanted magic shows and miracles
Mirages to touch
I wanted such a little thing from life
I wanted so much
I never came close, my love
We never came near
It never was there
I think it was here
They showed me crimson, gold and lavender
A shining parade
But there's no color I can have on earth
That won't finally fade
When I wanted worlds to paint
And costumes to wear
I think it was here
'Cause it never was there
I wanted magic shows and miracles
Mirages to touch
I wanted such a little thing from life
I wanted so much
On s’est vus pour la première fois
Et j’espère que l’on se reverra
C’est toute une histoire
Qui se joue entre nous
C’est toute une histoire
D’amour
We saw each other for the first time
And I hope we’ll meet again
That’s quite a story
That takes place between us
That’s quite a story
Of love
Et quand le théâtre s’éteindra
Et quand rentrera chez soi
Dans la salle vide
Restera la rumeur
De nos rires ensemble
De nos larmes ensemble
Et de nos battements de coeur
And when the theatre will switch off
And when each will go to his own home
In the empty room
Will still have the rumour
Of our laughs together
Of our tears together
And of our heart beats
[Instrumental]
CELEBRANTS
No one mourns the Wicked
Now at last she's dead and gone
Now at last there's joy throughout the land
ALL
Good news!
Good news:
GLINDA
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better
But:
ELPHABA AND GLINDA
Because I knew you:
CROWDNo one mourns the Wicked:
GLINDA
Because I knew you:
ELPHABA AND GLINDA
I have been changed:
CROWD
No one mourns the Wicked
Wicked:
Wicked!
COMPANY
Food, glorious food!
Hot sausage and mustard!
While we're in the mood
Cold jelly and custard!
Pease pudding and saveloys
"What next?" is the question
Rich gentlemen have it boys
Indigestion!
Consider yourself at home
Consider yourself one of the family
We've taken to you so strong.
It's clear we're going to get along.
Consider yourself well in
Consider yourself part of the furniture
There isn't a lot to spare
Who cares what ever we've got we share
If it should chance to be we should see some harder days
Empty larder days.
Why grouse?
Always a chance we1ll meet somebody to foot the bill
Then the drinks are on the house.
Consider yourself our mate
We don't want to have no fuss.
For after some consideration we can state
Consider yourself one of us!
I'd do anything
For you, dear, anything
For you mean ev'rything to me.
I know that I'd go anywhere
For your smile, anywhere
For your smile ev'rywhere I'd see.
Let the clouds of grey come along
Never mind if they come along
Surely they won't stay very long
If you'll only say
You're mine alone.
I'd risk ev'rything
For this bliss ev'rything
Yes I'd do anything, anything for you!
CURTAIN
Instru
[Instrumental, music: C. Claps]
[instrumental]
[PSEUDOLUS]
Lovers divided
Get co-incided.
Something for everyone--
[HERO & PHILIA]
A comedy tonight!
[PSEUDOLUS]
Father and mother
Get one another.
[DOMINA]
Something for everyone--
[SENEX]
A tragedy tonight!
[MILES]
I get the twins, they get the best.
[ERRONIUS]
I get a family.
[HYSTERIUM]
I get a rest.
[SOLDIERS]
We get a few girls.
[LYCUS]
I get some new girls.
[PSEUDOLUS]
I get the thing I want to be:
Free!
[ALL]
Free! Free! Free! Free! Free!
Nothing for kings, nothing for crowns.
Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns!
What is the moral?
Must be a moral.
Here is the moral, wrong or right:
[PSEUDOLUS]
Morals tomorrow!
[ALL]
Comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy,
Comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy tonight!
NARRATOR:
Good Lord! This time, the water really is coming out of the rock! I can see it. Can't you?
COMPANY:
Crazy business this, this life we live in-
Can't complain about the time we're given-
With so little to be sure of in this world,
Hold me.
Hold me.
ROBERTA: They say that love is blind.
They say that love can't see.
But that don't matter at all ?
All it needs to do is stop
And listen to me.
Don't you wish we could be in love?
MIKE: Don't you wish we had a choice?
ROBERTA: Hey, Cupid ? we're over here!
MIKE: Just follow the sound of my voice.
ROBERTA: Cupid aim, Cupid pull, Cupid shoot.
Cupid, c'mon, wake up, babe, you got two lovers on the loose.
M/R: Cupid, please, Cupid now, I beg I plead I implore ?
Can't I be in love with her/him and not the one that I love more?
KATE: Here I am, the busy bee,
runnin? around to keep love from me.
So far so good ? I'm pretty fast.
But how much longer can my heart last?
Think how perfect she is.
STEVE: How perfect he is.
KATE: Why can't I be happy with this?
STEVE: Why can't I be happy with this?
KATE: She's everything I could dream.
STEVE: He's all I could dream.
BOTH: Tell me what's wrong with me. Please.
M,R: Cupid aim, Cupid pull, Cupid shoot
Cupid, c'mon, wake up, babe, you got two lovers on the loose.
M,R,S,K: Cupid, please, Cupid now, I beg I plead I implore ?
Can't I be in love with her/him and not the one that I love more?
ZANNA: Go away, love; go away, love.
Just pack your bags, you can't stay, love.
Boil, bubble, you're causin' trouble.
So have a heart and just go away.
La la la la la la la I'm not listenin? to you. Ow!
La la la, cut it out, or you and I are through.
I'm sorry, pal, I know you want what's best for me.
But he loves someone else ? so please just let me be.
KATE: I've learned to ride a bull.
STEVE: I've learned to hide feelings inside
and get straight A's
I've learned to win a thousand ways.
Oh, I've got my pride
And so I'll learn how to forget.
And so I'll learn how to forget
K,S: Problem solved ? no one's upset..
ZANNA: Just forget it, just forget it, just forget it
STEVE: Why can't I stop thinking of her?
K,Z: Just keep busy, just keep busy, just keep busy
STEVE: I want things the way they once were.
K,Z: I'll learn not to love him in time
STEVE: I'll learn not to love her.
K,Z,S: And then, everything will be fine.
K,S,Z,: So I ain't gonna think about love no more.
out of sight, out of mind, and out the door.
STEVE: I've got him.
KATE: I've got her.
ZANNA: I've got you.
K,S,Z: And that's enough.
Do I really need to be in love?
MIKE: Don't you wish we could be in love?
STEVE: Don't you wish we could be in love?
ROBERTA: Don't you wish we could be in love?
KATE: Don't you wish we could be in love?
ZANNA: Don't you wish we could be in love?
ALL: Don't you wish we could be in love?
STEVE: Yes...
KATE: Yes...
ZANNA: Yes...
ZANNA: No!
KATE: No!
STEVE: No!
M/R: Cupid aim, Cupid pull, etc.
KATE: Here I am, the busy bee, etc.
ZANNA: Go away, love, etc.
STEVE: La la la la la la I'm not listenin? to you, etc.
ALL: So I ain't gonna think 'bout love no more.
Just go back to the way life was before.
I've got you, and that's enough.
Do I really need to be in love?
ROBERTA: So you cheered up yet?
MIKE: No. But man we look good.
STEVE: I'm gonna love him, and that's that.
MIKE: You think Kate and Steve hang out like we do?
ROBERTA: No.
KATE: I'm gonna love her and that's that.
ROBERTA: If it weren't for us, they wouldn't be friends.
K,S: I'm gonna love you...
ZANNA: I'm not gonna love him?
M,R: What was that for?
S,K: No reason.
S/K/Z: And that's that.
Violet:
Daisy, can you hear what I'm thinking?
Daisy:
Yes, clearly as though you spoke
Violet:
Give me strength
I feel my spirits sinking
Daisy:
Try to laugh
This is the biggest joke
We have seen the world
Violet:
And it's seen us
Daisy:
We have caused a scene
Violet:
We have made a fuss
Are we ever to learn why we lived as two?
Daisy:
Probably not
But I'm thankful
Daisy & Violet:
It's been with you
Daisy:
Come look at the freaks
Violet:
Before they're antiques
Daisy & Violet:
Come and give them a stong ovation
An acclamation
But no critiques
Daisy:
See what Hollywood seeks
Daisy & Vioet:
Come look at the freaks
The Boss:
Good people, we are gathered here today to join two souls as one.
If there be anyone present who knows of a reason these two should
Not be joined together, let him speak now or forever hold his peace
Come look at the freaks
Company:
See the bride
Curiosity satisfied
Come and give them a strong ovation
An acclamation
But no critiques
See love glorified
See love glorified
See love glorified
See love glorified
Come hear how love speaks
Come look at the freaks!
[Instrumental]
The Street - Midnight
(Tony is calling for Chino to kill him too. Maria
steps out of the darkness. Then another figure
appears: Chino. As Maria and Tony run to each
other, Chino shoots Tony, and he stumbles.
Maria watches him and cradles him in her arms.
Other Jets, Sharks and girls run on).
MARIA:
Hold my hand and we're halfway there.
Hold my hand and 1''ll take you there.
Somehow,
Some day...
TONY:
Hold my hand and I'll take you there,
Somehow ...
(He dies. After a moment Maria gently rests him
on the floor and lightly brushes his lips with
her fingers. Krupke, Doc and other adults have
entered).
MARIA (softly, privately): Te adoro, Anton.
(She kisses him gently. Two Jets and two Sharks
lift up Tony's body and carry him out. The others
fall in behind to make a procession. Maria sits
quietly. At last, she gets up and, despite her
tears, lifts her head proudly and turns to follow
the others. The adults are left alone.)
The Street - Midnight
(Tony is calling for Chino to kill him too. Maria
steps out of the darkness. Then another figure
appears: Chino. As Maria and Tony run to each
other, Chino shoots Tony, and he stumbles.
Maria watches him and cradles him in her arms.
Other Jets, Sharks and girls run on).
MARIA:
Hold my hand and we're halfway there.
Hold my hand and 1''ll take you there.
Somehow,
Some day...
TONY:
Hold my hand and I'll take you there,
Somehow ...
(He dies. After a moment Maria gently rests him
on the floor and lightly brushes his lips with
her fingers. Krupke, Doc and other adults have
entered).
MARIA (softly, privately): Te adoro, Anton.
(She kisses him gently. Two Jets and two Sharks
lift up Tony's body and carry him out. The others
fall in behind to make a procession. Maria sits
quietly. At last, she gets up and, despite her
tears, lifts her head proudly and turns to follow
the others. The adults are left alone.)
[Instrumental]
Red Light Stop
Green Light Go
I'm hearing voices
on my stereo
they wanna tell me something
right now:
we're the girls with the bad reputations
we're the girls gonna make you pay
we're the girls with the bad reputation
we are gonna have our say
Time to go
Time to go
Time to Go
[CHORUS]
La, la, la (etc)
Jack's OK, and he's back, OK
[CORPSE KID & CHORUS]
He's all right
[MAYOR & CHORUS]
Let's shout, make a fuss
Scream it out, wheee
[CHORUS]
Jack is back now, everyone sing
In our town of Halloween
[CORPSE KID]
What's this?
[MUMMY]
What's this?
[HARLEQUIN DEMON]
I haven't got a clue
[MR. HYDE]
What's this?
[CLOWN]
What it's completely new
[OFF-SCREEN VOICE]
What's this?
[WEREWOLF]
Must be a Christmas thing
[OFF-SCREEN VOICE]
What's this?
[MAYOR]
It's really very strange
[CHORUS]
This is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
What's this?
What's this?
[Repeat]
[JACK]
My dearest friend, if you don't mind
I'd like to join you by your side
Where we can gaze into the stars
[JACK & SALLY]
And sit together, now and forever
For it is plain as anyone can see
We're simply meant to be
MARY
PEOPLE NEED LOVE,
THAT'S WHAT WE LIVE FOR.
NOW IS THE TIME IT'S
NOT TOO LATE.
WE HAVE TO LOVE,
TRY TO FORGIVE MORE.
NO CHILD WAS EVER BORN
TO HATE.
NO CHILD WAS EVER BORN
TO HATE.
I WILL STRIVE FOR PEACE WITH ALL MY MIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT'S RIGHT.
ALL KINDS OF LOVE
BRING US TOGETHER.
CAUSES THE BROKEN
HEARTS TO MEND.
PEOPLE MUST LOVE,
NOW AND FOREVER.
THERE'S ONLY ONE LOVE IN THE END.
FULL COMPANY
THERE'S ONLY ONE LOVE IN THE END.
ALL:
We'll raise a family
A boy for you
And a girl for me
Can't you see
How happy we would be?
LARRY:
[Spoken]
I still think that song stinks!
DR. MARK:
Hear my voice through the dim.
Feel the waves on your skin.
Like a call from within, come back to me!
Leave behind all you own.
Tell your flowers you will phone.
Let your dog walk alone, come back to me!
Let your tub overflow.
If a date waits below
Let him wait for Godot.
Ride a rail,
Come by mail, COD!
Hang a sign on your door
Out to lunch ever more.
Don't get lost at Korvette's
Or get signed by the Mets
Don't give up cigarettes, come back to me!
Come back to me!
Come back -
CHORUS:
On a clear day
Rise and look around you
And you'll see who you are
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being
Outshines every star
You'll feel part of every mountain sea and shore
You can hear
From far and near
A word you've never, never heard before...
And on a clear day...On a clear day...
You can see forever...
And ever...
And ever...
And ever more...
GABEY:
New York, New York.
CHIP:
The lights are out.
OZZIE:
It's six o'clock.
C'mon fella, let's get back to the ship.
HILDY:
Chip!
CLAIRE:
Ozzie!
IVY:
Gabey!
HILDY, CLAIRE, IVY:
Pitkin understood.
He really understood!
(Enter three new sailors.)
THREE NEW SAILORS:
New York, New York!
It's a helluva town!
We've got one day here and not another minute
To see the famous sights!
We'll find the romance and danger waiting in it
Beneath the Broadway lights,
SAILORS, GABEY, OZZIE, CHIP:
But we've hair on our chest
So what we like the best
Are the nights.
Sights! Lights! Nights!
ALL:
New York, New York, a helluva town.
The Bronx is up, but the Battery's down.
The people ride in a hole in the groun'.
New York, New York it's a helluva town!!
All:
How did she stay awake?
That Pea was awf’ly small.
Jester:
But it wasn’t the pea!
Studley:
It wasn’t the pea!
All:
It wasn’t the pea at all!
Oh life is grand, it’s very interesting
We think we understand,
We think we think we know, it’s very interesting
Thank you princess, and princess we love you so.
Ladies and Men:
For a princess is a delicate thing
Oo___ Oo___ Oo___
Delicate and Dainty as a Dragonflies wing
All:
You can recognize a lady by her elegant air,
But a genuine princess,
(Snore)
Is exceedingly rare!
...And even when you say goodbye,
If your voice has
"I don't want to go" in it,
Say goodbye with a little "hello" in it...
Shalom, Shalom,
You'll find Shalom
The nicest greeting you know;
It means bonjour, salud, and skoal
And twice as much as hello.
It means a million lovely things,
Like peace be yours,
Welcome home.
And even when you say goodbye,
You say goodbye with Shalom.
This is the land of Milk and Honey
This is the land of sun and song and
This is the world of good and plenty
Humble and proud and young and strong and
This is the place where the hopes of the homeless
and the dreams of the lost combine
This is the land that heaven blessed and
This lovely land is mine
This lovely land is mine
This lovely land is mine
This lovely land is mine!
Mame:
Open a new window,
Open a new door,
Travel a new highway,
That's never been tried before;
Chorus:
Dance to a new rhythm,
Whistle a new song,
Toast with a new vintage,
The fizz doesn't fizz too long.
There's only one way to make the bubbles stay,
Simply travel a new high way,
Dance to a new rhythm,
Open a new window ev'ry day!
There's a "thank you" you can give life,
If you live life all the way.
Call the cops out,
Raise the rocket,
Pull the stops out,
It's today!
Haul out the holly;
Put up the tree before my spirit falls again.
Fill up the stocking,
We may be rushing things,
But deck the halls again now.
For we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute,
Candles in the window,
Carols at the spinet.
Yes, we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute.
Need a little Christmas now!
You coax the blues right out of the horn, Mame,
You charm the husk right off of the corn, Mame,
You came, you saw, you conquered
And absolutely nothing is the same.
You're special fascination'll prove to be inspirational,
We think you're just sensational, Mame.
Mame! Mame! Mame! Mame!
PETRUCHIO:
Come on and kiss me, Kate,
KATE:
Caro!
PETRUCHIO:
And twice and thrice,
KATE:
Carissimo!
PETRUCHIO:
Ere we start
KATE:
Bello!
PETRUCHIO:
Living in paradise.
KATE:
Bellissimo!
PETRUCHIO & OTHERS:
Oh, kiss me (him), Kate,
KATE:
Presto!
PETRUCHIO & OTHERS:
Darling angel, divine!
KATE & ENSEMBLE:
For now I shall ever be thine
All thine!
We play it the company way;
Executive policy is by us okay.
Though for the departed we shed
A mournful tear,
Whoever the company fires,
We will still be here!
Horace:
Hello, Dolly!
Well, hello, Dolly!
It's so nice to have you here
Where you belong
I never knew Dolly
Without you, Dolly
Life was awfully flat
And more than that
Was awfully wrong
Dolly:
Here's my hat, Horace!
I'm staying where I'm at, Horace!
Dolly will never go away...
Horace:
Wonderful woman!
Both:
Again...
Townspeople:
Hello, Dolly!
Well, hello, Dolly!
It's so nice to have you back
Where you belong
You're looking swell, Dolly!
We can tell, Dolly!
You're still glowin'
You're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
Take the someone whose arms you're in
Hold onto her tight and spin
And one two three, one two three, one two three
Look, I'm dancing!
As around and around you go
Your spirits will hit the top
And now that we're dancing
Who cares if we ever stop
He held her for an instant
But his arms felt sure and strong
It only takes a moment
To be loved a whole life long...
Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out
Strut down the street and have your picture took
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about
That Sunday shine is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!
Beneath your parasol, the world is all a smile
That makes you feel brand new down to your toes
Get out your feathers
Your patent leathers
Your beads and buckles and bows
For there's no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!
Well, well, well
Hello, Dolly!
Well, hello, Dolly!
It's so nice to have you back
Where you belong
So...
Dolly:
Wow, wow, wow, fellas.
Look at the old girl now, fellas!
All
Dolly'll never go away again.
YOUNG BUDDY:
Hey. up there!
YOUNG BEN:
Way up there!
BOTH:
Whaddaya say. up there!
YOUNG SALLY:
Hi...
YOUNG BEN:
Girls...
YOUNG PHYLLIS:
Ben...
YOUNG BUDDY:
Sally...
BUDDY:
Waiting around for the girls upstairs
After the curtain came down.
BEN:
Money in my pocket to spend.
BOTH:
"Honey, could you maybe get a friend for my friend?"
SALLY:
Holding our ground for the boys below,
Fussing around with our hair.
PHYLLIS:
Giggling, wriggling out of our tights,
BOTH:
Chattering and clattering down all of those flights-
ALL FOUR:
God, I'd forgotten there ever were nights
Of waiting for the girls,
Waiting for the girls,
Waiting for the girls,
Waiting for the girls,
Waiting for the girls
Upstairs.
COMPANY:
Hats off,
Here's the home of
Beautiful girls,
Where your
Reason is undone.
Beauty
Can't be hindered
From taking its toll.
You may lose control.
Faced with these Loreleis.
What man con moralize!
Caution,
On your guard with
Beautiful girls.
Flawless charmers
Every one.
This is how Samson was shorn;
Each in her style a
Delilah
Reborn,
Each a gem.
A beautiful diadem
Of beautiful--welcome them--
ROSCOE:
These beautiful
COMPANY:
Girls!
Woody-
Sharon, where is Glocca Morra?
Sharon-
Well, it's not on the map, Woody. It's just a far off place, in father's heart.
So to ev'ry weepin' willow,
To each brook along the way,
To each lad that comes awistlin'
Tooralay.
Company-
Tooralay.
Ensemble-
May we meet
in Glocca Morra
one fine day.
COMPANY:
Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!
Fremder, Etranger, Stanger,
Glücklich zu sehen,
Je suis enchanté,
Happy to see you,
Bleibe, reste, stay.
M.C.:
Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!
Im Cabaret, Au Cabaret, To Cabaret!
Meine Damen und Herren-
Mes dames et Messieurs-
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Where are your troubles now?
Forgotten, I told you so!
We have no troubles here
Here life is beautiful.
The girls are beautiful.
Even the orchestra is beautiful.
[The Band plays]
HERR SCHULTZ:
Meeskite means-
Meeskite, Meeskite
Once upon a time there was a
Meeskite, Meeskite
Looking in the mirror
And he would say 'what an awful shock,
I've got a face that could stop a clock'
Meeskite, Meeskite
COMPANY:
Glücklich zu sehen,
Je suis enchanté,
Happy to see you--
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER:
For the sun will rise and the moon will set,
And you'll learn how to settle for what you get,
It'll all go on if we're here or not,
So, who cares--
So, who cares, so what?
COMPANY:
Fremder, Etranger, Stranger,
Glücklich zu sehen,
Je suis enchantй--
SALLY BOWLES:
I made my up back in Chelsea
When I go, I'm going like Elsie,
...Go cradle to tumb
Isn't that a longer stay
Life is a cabaret old chum
Life is a cabaret old chum
Life is a cabaret old chum
M.C.:
Aufwiedershen!
А bientôt!
Good night!
Tess
Drop that long face. Have your fling.
Mingo, Wyatt and Billy
Why keep nursing the blues?
Patsy, Zangler and Tess
If you want this old world on a string.
Lank, Everett, The Fodors, Irene and Mother
Put on your dancing shoes --
Stop wasting time!
Put on your dancing shoes --
The Company
Watch your spirits climb!
The Boys
I'm up among the stars;
On earthly things I frown.
The Company
I'm throwing off the bars
That held me down.
Who could ask for anything more?!
The Boys
Let me give you the low down:
I'm k-ra-zy for you.
When it comes to show down --
I'm k-ra-zy for you.
And so, though love may not inspire my lingo.
Still it's making my heart go
Bango! Bingo!
The Company
Embrace me,
My sweet embraceable you,
Embrace me
You irreplaceable you
Don't be a naughty baby;
Polly
Come to Polly --
Bobby
Come to Bobby --
Polly and Bobby
Do!
The Company
My sweet embraceable you.
Old man trouble
I don't mind him --
You won't find him
I got starlight
I got sweet dreams,
I got my man/gal --
Who could ask for anything more?
Who could ask for anything more?!
Who could ask for anything more?!!
Velma:
Thank you. Roxie and I would just like to thank you - for
you faith and your belief in our innocence.
Roxie:
Yes, it was letters, telegrams, and words of encouragement
that helped see us through this terrible ordeal of ours.
Velma:
You know, a lot of people has lost faith in America.
Roxie:
And for what America stands for.
Velma:
But we are the living examples of what a wonderful country this is.
Roxie:
So we'd just like to say thank you and God Bless you.
Velma and Roxie:
God bless you.
Thank you and God bless you... Chorus:
God be with you. No,
God walk with you always. I'm no one's wife
God bless you. But, oh,
God bless you. I love my life...
Velma, Roxie et al.:
And all that jazz
Company:
THAT JAZZ!
CHRISTINE
Y'know, boys,I cleared over five
million dollars last year, but I gotta
tell you- your fifty thousand was the
most fun I ever had.
It was a ball
It was a blast.
'Cause I was haning with the boys
And that's a plus.
You've got teh class,
You've got the cheek,
LAWRENCE
You've got he brains.
CHRISTINE
Let's get that Greek.
FREDDY
I guess we're dirty rotten crooks...
LAWRENCE
Dirty rotten shnooks...
CHRISTINE
Dirty rotten guys...
ALL
It was a trip,
It was a ball,
It was a kick,
I loved it all,
'Cause it was almost too prodigious
to discuss-
CHRISTINE
And though two aces beat you blind,
They'll never beat three of a kind-
ALL/ENSEMBLE
Filthy,
Shamelss,
Lyin',
Cheatin',
Dirty rotten guys...
Like us!
ALL
At the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
We grew up undeniably
BOYS
And though our hair is thinning
ALL
Our past caught up with us at last
It was a very nice, very nice
Very, very, very nice
Very nice, very nice
Very, very, very nice
Very
Beginning!
MS. PERETTI
25th Annual
SPELLERS
25th Annual
ALL
Putnam County
Spelling Bee!
(In KIM'S room she has dressed TAM in his best clothes.)
now Tam, my brave boy
our long wait has ended
smile Tam
for you have a father at last
he has come
to take you home
all I dreamed for you
he'll do
you're still mine
but I can't go along
don't be sad
though I'm far away
I'll be watching you
this is the hour
I swore I'd see
I alone can tell now
what the end will be
they think they'll decide your life
no, it will be me
look at me one last time
don't forget what you see
one more kiss
and then say goodbye
(THE ENGINEER comes in and takes TAM to CHRIS. KIM prays before the shrine of her parents, blows out the candles and disappears behind the bed curtain. A gunshot. KIM's body falls to the floor.)
CHRIS
Kim! Kim!
(CHRIS picks up KIM and cradles her in his arms.)
CHRIS
what have you done, Kim? Why?
the gods have guided you to your son
CHRIS
please don't die
hold me one more time
(CHRIS holds her)
how in one night have we come... so far
(KIM'S embrace becomes lifeless. CHRIS sobs, holding her.)
THE CURTAIN FALLS
END ACT II
Nellie and kids:
Dites-moi
Pourquoi
La vie est belle,
Dies-moi
Pourquoi--
Emile:
La vie est gai,
Dites-moi
Pourquoi,
Chere Mad'moiselle,
Est-ce que
Parce que
Vous m'aimez?
Nellie:
Born on the opposite sides of the sea,
We are as diff'rent as people can be.
Emile:
It's true
Nellie:
And yet you want to marry me.
Emile:
I do!
Nellie:
I've known a few short weeks and yet
Somehow you made my heart forget
All other men I have ever met of view, but you...
Emile:
Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
Across a crowded room,
Then fly to her side,
And make her your own
For all through your life you
May dream all alone.
Nellie:
Once you have found her,
Never let her go.
Emile:
Once you have found her,
Never let her go!
[JESUS]
Oh God, I'm bleeding
Oh God, I'm bleeding
[CHORUS]
Oh God, you're bleeding
[JESUS]
Oh God, I'm dying
[CHORUS]
Oh God, you're dying
[JESUS]
Oh God, I'm dying
[JESUS]
Oh God, I'm dead
[CHORUS]
Oh God, you're dead
Oh God, you're dead
Oh God, you're dead
Long live God, long live God [Repeat 6 times]
Prepare ye, the way of the Lord
(Long live God, long live God)
[Repeat many times]
It's getting late, so I suppose
We should be drawing to a close
Besides, my voice is sounding horse
And even my rhymes are getting worse
Poor Wendy's feeling in the dumps
She's worn her fingers down to stumps
And so, farewell, this record's through
Now go find something else to do
COMPANY
Food, glorious food!
Hot sausage and mustard!
While we're in the mood
Cold jelly and custard!
Pease pudding and saveloys
"What next?" is the question
Rich gentlemen have it boys
Indigestion!
Consider yourself at home
Consider yourself one of the family
We've taken to you so strong.
It's clear we're going to get along.
Consider yourself well in
Consider yourself part of the furniture
There isn't a lot to spare
Who cares what ever we've got we share
If it should chance to be we should see some harder days
Empty larder days.
Why grouse?
Always a chance we1ll meet somebody to foot the bill
Then the drinks are on the house.
Consider yourself our mate
We don't want to have no fuss.
For after some consideration we can state
Consider yourself one of us!
I'd do anything
For you, dear, anything
For you mean ev'rything to me.
I know that I'd go anywhere
For your smile, anywhere
For your smile ev'rywhere I'd see.
Let the clouds of grey come along
Never mind if they come along
Surely they won't stay very long
If you'll only say
You're mine alone.
I'd risk ev'rything
For this bliss ev'rything
Nellie and kids:
Dites-moi
Pourquoi
La vie est belle,
Dies-moi
Pourquoi--
Emile:
La vie est gai,
Dites-moi
Pourquoi,
Chere Mad'moiselle,
Est-ce que
Parce que
Vous m'aimez?
Nellie:
Born on the opposite sides of the sea,
We are as diff'rent as people can be.
Emile:
It's true
Nellie:
And yet you want to marry me.
Emile:
I do!
Nellie:
I've known you a few short weeks and yet
Somehow you made my heart forget
All other men I have ever met but you, but you
Emile:
Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
Across a crowded room,
Then fly to her side,
And make her your own
Or all through your life...
Nellie:
Once you have found her,
Never let her go.
Emile:
Once you have found her,
[Nicki Minaj]
I'm in that cotton pink bent,
putin mass on the guts,
white on white whips,
Kunta Kinte on the clutch,
You at the bottom of the pole, Totem,
Like Lamar Odom, I ball, scrotom,
Flyer than a cricket so they call me Nicki Jim-any,
and Its going down like Santa in the chimney,
You don't ball break ya baby back ribs,
You need more assist than the handicap kids
[Shanell]
Young money we rockstars,
So f-ck wit ya magnum on,
and hold on we go long,
You feel that, We get that,
we in that, we run that, we bus back,
we hit em when we see em coming back for more,
[Spoken]
COLIN:
Mary, what is it?
MARTHA:
Mary, come quickly!
MARY:
Wait 'till you see it!!
COLIN:
Mary, what is it?
MARY:
It's spring!
COLIN:
But where did it come from?
MARTHA:
From all your hard work, where do you think?
COLIN:
Mary, look at the roses!
MARY:
There are fountains of them!
COLIN:
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
MARY:
Colin! That's not fair!
NEVILLE:
Archie, why didn't you cable us you were coming?
ARCHIBALD:
I didn't know myself, Neville.
What on earth is all that noise?
COLIN:
Oh, no, you don't! I'm lots faster than you are!
MARY:
Colin Craven, not so fast!
NEVILLE:
Mary Lennox!!
COLIN:
Father?
ARCHIBALD:
Oh, Colin!
COLIN:
Look at me, Father! I'm well!
ARCHIBALD:
Oh, Colin, my fine, brave boy!
Can you ever forgive me?
COLIN:
It was the garden that did it, Father.
And Mary, and Dickon, and Martha.
Some kind of charm, it came right out of the ground!
ARCHIBALD:
Yes? Oh, Colin. Colin, look at you!
COLIN:
It was Ben that kept the garden alive, Father, until...
BEN:
I knew it was against your orders sir, but I...
COLIN:
And it was Dickon, who taught us how...
ARCHIBALD:
Yes, I can just imagine.
Dickon, if there is ever anything we can do...
MARTHA:
Sir, what is to become of our Mary?
ALBERT:
[Sings]
Clusters of crocus
ARCHIBALD:
Why, Mary, I'd nearly forgotten you in all this.
MARY:
It's hard to remember everybody, sir.
ARCHIBALD:
No, it isn't. Three isn't very many people at all.
I should be able to remember three people quite easily!
MARY:
Would I be one of them?
ARCHIBALD:
Mary Lennox, for as long as you will have us, we are yours,
Colin and I, and this is your home, and this, my lovely child,
is your garden!
DREAMERS:
[Sing, fading]
Come to my garden, nestled in the hill.
There I'll keep you safe beside me.
Come to my garden. Rest there in my arms.
There I'll see you safely grown
ALBERT and LILY:
And on your way.
Stay here in the garden,
As days grow long and mild.
LILY:
Come to my garden,
Performed by Danny Elfman, Catherine
O'Hara,
and the Citizens of Halloween
CHORUS
La, la, la, (etc.)
jack's OK, and he's back, OK
CHILD CORPSE AND CHORUS
He's all right
MAYOR AND CHORUS
Let's shout, make a fuss
Scream it out, wheee
CHORUS
jack is back now, everyone sing
In our town of Halloween
CHILD CORPSE
What's this?
CYCLOPS
What's this?
HARLEOUIN DEMON
I haven't got a clue
MR. HYDE
What's this?
CLOWN
Why it's completely new
OFF-SCREEN VOICE
What's this?
WOLFMAN
Must be a Christmas thing
OFF-SCREEN VOICE
What's this?
MAYOR
It's really very strange
CHORUS
This is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
What's this?
What's this?
(Repeat)
JACK
My dearest friend, if you don't mind
I'd like to join you by your side
Where we can gaze into the stars
JACK AND SALLY
And sit together, now and forever
For it is plain as anyone can see
We're simply meant to be
Music and Lyrics by Danny Elfman
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
How time flies
When compassion dies
No stocking, no candy canes
No gingerbread, no safety net
No loose change, no change, no
Santa Claus is coming
'Cause Santa Claus ain't coming
No room at the Holiday Inn again
Well, maybe next year or when
December twenty-fourth, ten p.m.
Eastern standard time
I can't believe a year went by so fast
Time to see, what we have time to see
Turn the projector on first shot roger
With the fender guitar he just got out of hock
When he sold the car
That took him away and back
I found my song
He found his song
If he could just find Mimi
I tried you know I tried
Fade in on mark
Who's still in the dark
But he's got great footage
Which he's cut together
To screen tonight
In honor of Benny's wife
Muffy, Alison
Pulling Benny out of the east village location
Then again, maybe we won't screen it tonight
I wonder how Alison found out about Mimi?
Maybe a bird told her or an angel
I had a little hunch you could use, a little 'flow
Tutoring again? Negative
Back at you? No, no you, no
I rewired the ATM at the food emporium
To provide an honorarium to anyone with the code
The code, well
A N G E L
Yet robin hooding isn't the solution
The powers that be must be undermined
Where they dwell in a small exclusive
Gourmet institution
Where we overcharge the wealthy, clientèle
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
With a private corner banquette in the back
We'll make it yet, we'll somehow get to Santa Fe
But you'd miss New York before you could unpack
Mark, Roger, anyone? Help
Maureen?
It's Mimi, I can't get her up the stairs
No, she was huddled in the park in the dark
And she was freezing and begged to come here
Over here, oh, god
Got a light, I know you, you're shivering
She's been living on the street
We need some heat
I'm shivering
We can buy some wood and something to eat
I'm afraid she needs more than heat
I heard that
Collins will call for a doctor, honey
Don't waste your money on mimi, me, me
Hello-911? I'm on hold
Cold, cold, would you light my candle
Yes, we'll, oh God, find a candle
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
Benny wasn't any
Shh, I know
I should tell you why I left
It wasn't, 'cause I didn't
I know, I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you, I love you
Who do you think you are?
Leaving me alone with my guitar
Hold on there's something you
Should here
You can be cautious
or just a rebel
Until the day the Lord
kicks your bell
Angel or devil
who can unravel
So just blow it all to hell
You can be lovely
You can be ugly
It aint no matter
if you sing or bark
'Cos where we all go
Just poison ivy
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ALL SEVEN HOMELESS
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
How time flies
When compassion dies
No stockings
No candy canes
No gingerbread
No safety net
No loose change
No change no
ONE HOMELESS MAN
"Santy Claus is coming"
Santy Claus ain't coming
No room at the Holiday Inn - Again
Well, maybe next year -- or -- when
MARK
December 24th, Ten P.M. Eastern Standard Time
I can't believe a year went by so fast
Time to see - What we have - Time to see
Turn the projector on
First shot Roger
With the Fender guitar he just got out of hock
When he sold the car
That took him away and back
ROGER
I found my song
MARK
He found his song
If he could just find Mimi
ROGER
I tried - You know I tried
MARK
Fade in on Mark
Who's still in the dark
ROGER
But he's got great footage
MARK
Which he's cut together
ROGER
To screen tonight
MARK
In honor of Benny's wife
ROGER
Muffy
MARK
Alison
Pulling Benny out of the East Village location
ROGER
Then again.
Maybe we won't screen it tonight
MARK
I wonder how he found out about Mimi?
ROGER
Maybe a little bird told her.
COLLINS
Or an angel
I had a little hunch that you could use a little flow
ROGER
Tutoring again?
COLLINS
Negative
MARK
Back at N.Y.U.?
COLLINS
No, no, no
I rewired the ATM at the Food Emporium
To provide an honorarium to anyone with the code
ROGER & MARK
The code -
Well. . .?
COLLINS
A-N-G-E-L
Yet Robin Hooding isn't the solution
The powers that be must be undermined
Where they dwell in a small, exclusive gourmet institution
Where we overcharge the wealthy clientele
ALL THREE
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
With a private corner banquette in the back
COLLINS
We'll make it yet, we'll somehow get to Santa Fe
ROGER
But you'd miss New York before you could unpack
Ohh--
MAUREEN
Mark!
Roger!
Anyone - Help!
MARK
Maureen?
MAUREEN
It's Mimi - I can't get her up the stairs
ROGER
MAUREEN
She was huddled in the park in the dark
And she was freezing
And begged to come here
ROGER
Over here
Oh, God -
MIMI
"Got a light - I know you - You're shivering. . ."
JOANNE
She's been living on the street
ROGER
We need some heat
MIMI
I'm shivering
MARK
We can buy some wood and something to eat
COLLINS
I'm afraid she needs more than heat
MIMI
I heard that
MAUREED
Collins will call for a doctor honey
MIMI
Don't waste your money on Mimi, me, me
COLLINS
Hello - 911?
I'm on hold
MIMI
Cold. . .Cold. . .Would you light my candle
ROGER
Yes - we'll oh God - Find a candle
MIMI
I should tell you
I should tell you
ROGER
I should tell you
I should tell you
MIMI
I should tell you
Benny wasn't any--
ROGER
Shhh - I know
I should tell you why I left
It wasn't cause I didn't --
MIMI
I know
I should tell you
ROGER
I should tell you
MIMI
I should tell you
I love you--
ROGER
Who do you think you are?
Leaving me alone with my guitar
Hold on there's something you should hear
(Aahoo hoo hoo)
Brace yourself
Brace yourself
(Whoo hoo hoo)
Your last chance,
last summer,
your last dance,
beating your own drummer.
Go out fighting.
Go out young.
A flash of lighting.
Brace yourself.
(2x)
Brace yourself, brace yourself.
Brace yourself, brace yourself.
(Brace yourself for the grand finale!)
Your last chance, last summer, your last dance, beating your own drummer.
Go out fighting.
Go out young.
A flash of lighting.
Brace yourself.
Brace yourself,
(The ENGINEER leads CHRIS,
JOHN and ELLEN into a little room where TAM is playing on the bed)
(A gunshot, KIM's body falls out from behind the curtain)
[CHRIS]
KIM! KIM!
(CHRIS picks up KIM and cradles her in his arms)
What have you done, Kim - why?
[KIM]
The Gods have guided you to your son
[CHRIS]
Please don't die!
[KIM]
Hold me one more time
(CHRIS holds her)
How in one night have we come...so far
...And even when you say goodbye,
If your voice has
"I don't want to go" in it,
Say goodbye with a little "hello" in it...
Shalom, Shalom,
You'll find Shalom
The nicest greeting you know;
It means bonjour, salud, and skoal
And twice as much as hello.
It means a million lovely things,
Like peace be yours,
Welcome home.
And even when you say goodbye,
You say goodbye with Shalom.
This is the land of Milk and Honey
This is the land of sun and song and
This is the world of good and plenty
Humble and proud and young and strong and
This is the place where the hopes of the homeless
and the dreams of the lost combine
This is the land that heaven blessed and
This lovely land is mine
This lovely land is mine
This lovely land is mine
EMCEE:
Meine Damen und Herren—Mesdames et Messieurs—Ladies and
Gentlemen.
Where are your troubles now? Forgotten? I told you so! We
have no troubles here.
Here life is beautiful—the girls are beautiful —
even the orchestra is beautiful.
EMCEE:
Auf wiedersehen!
A bientot!
WARBUCKS AND ANNIE
Together at last!
Together for ever!
We're tying a knot,
They never can sever!
ANNIE
I don't need sunshine now,
To turn my skies at blue --
WARBUCKS AND ANNIE
I don't need anything but you!
WARBUCKS
You've wrapped me around
That cute little finger.
You've made life a song .....
You've made me the singer!
ANNIE
And what's the bathtub tune
You always "Bu-Bu-Boo?"
WARBUCKS
Bu-Bu-Bu
Anything but you
ANNIE
Yesterday was plain awful
WARBUCKS
You can say that again
ANNIE
Yesterday was plain awful
WARBUCKS
But that's
ANNIE
Not now
WARBUCKS AND ANNIE
That's then
ANNIE
I'm poor as a mouse,
WARBUCKS
I'm richer than Midas.
WARBUCKS AND ANNIE
But nothing on earth
Could ever divide us!
And if tomorrow, I
'm an apple seller, too--
I don't need anything but you!
SERVANTS
Annie Annie Annie
Everything's humming now
Annie Annie Annie
Good times are coming now
Since you came our way
It's Christmas,
Christmas everyday
We dismiss
Bad times, sad times
Now they're all yesterday news
Since Annie
Kicked out
The blues
Annie Annie Annie
Look what you've done for us
Annie Annie Annie
Turned on the sun for us
GRACE
Have they sent the cheese?
DRAKE
Yes and ice camemberts and bries
GRACE
Judge Brandeis
Annie Annie
You filled our life with a song
They're two of a kind
The happiest pair now
Like Fred and Adelle, they're floating
On air now
And what's the title of the dream
WARBUCKS
I don't need anything
ANNIE
Anything
Anything
I don't need anything
Life can be so wonderful
Real love this time you fool
And then you wake up
And you'd chew off your own arms
Or face the only graduate from Satans school of charm !
I hear your mama callin' you
I hear your mama callin' you
You'd better stand and face the truth boy
I hear your mama callin' you
I drink three six packs, just so I can look at your face
Finally !
You give respect, you get respect
And you just don't know your place
Finally !
You never learn, you always burn
Now I've got you off my case
Finally !
I drank three six packs, just so I could look at your face
Finally !
See ya !
Over, finished, gone, done, out !
She's not the one your married
Not the one who cared
Maybe it's her evil twin that's got you by the shorthairs
Can you live without it ?
Can you be a man ?
Can you tell her take a walk and stick it up her can !
I hear your mama callin' you
I hear your mama callin' you
You'd better stand and face the truth boy
I hear your mama callin' you
I drink three six packs, just so I can look at your face
Finally !
You give respect, you get respect
And you just don't know your place
Finally !
You never learn, you always burn
Now I've got you off of my case
Finally !
I drank three six packs, just so I could look at your face
Finally !
See ya !
Over, finished, gone, done, out !
I hear your mama callin' you
I hear your mama callin' you
Now go and pack your bags we're through
I hear your mama callin' you
Rape my mind let down the wrong path
One to many rides and you crashed
Had the looks but had no class
Steal my life and taint my past
Sorry I don't mean to laugh (take it Sam)
How long have you been waiting to be set free ?
Don't you know it's easy as 1,2,3
Don't be a faggot now that's the key
Don't you know it's easy as 1,2,3
Now I'm free, now I'm free, me me me, finally !!!
Phantom:
Masquerade,
paper faces on parade
masquerade
hide your face
so the world will never find you
Christine, I love you.
Christine:
Say youll share with me
one love, one lifetime
Phantom:
Say the word
and I will follow you
Christine:
Share each day with me
each night, each morning
Phantom:
You alone can make my song take flight
[A hooded one:] "We are passing now to phase VI. The sequence is complete."
Cendor looked at the screen making a strange grimace as he pushed the button.
[Cendor:] "Farewell my friends. Your path is cleared now".
[Mayon O:] "At last we can move"!
[Gaia:] "This planet seems so wild and primitive. I suspect life has already manifested here, before us.
I wonder how we are going to appear in the optic sensors of a creature from this place"?
[Cendor thought:] "Soon Mayon O and Gaia will realize that we won't bring them back,
At least as soon as they were expecting to.
Maybe they will think that we had a problem on the laboratory.
Anyway, they won't remain alone. Soon millions will follow, to keep company
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Madeon - Finale
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- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
FINALE Out everywhere 22nd of July. Pre-order/iTunes : smarturl.it Featuring vocals by Nicholas Petricca from Walk The Moon.
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Madeon Teaser (FINALE)
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Madeon - Finale Out now, you can buy it here : itunes.apple.com Featuring vocals from Nicholas Petricca. facebook.com soundcloud.com youtube.com twitter.com Shot in Nantes, France, at Scoptione festival 2011. © Filmed & Edited by Chivteam vimeo.com facebook.com twitter.com
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Funeral Party - Finale
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Music video by Funeral Party performing Finale. (C) 2010 RCA Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment Taken from the debut album Golden Age of Knowhere, released in the UK on the 24th January. Pre-order at HMV and get a free ltd ed 7" tinyurl.com Pre-order at Play.com (and get a free FP plectrum) tinyurl.com Pre-order now at iTunes: tinyurl.com Pre-order at Amazon tinyurl.com
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"Newhart" - Series Finale
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- Duration: 9:20
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
The best ending to a series... ever! This is the final scenes from "Newhart".
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Battlefield Friends - Colonel 100 (Season Finale)
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- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
www.youtube.com Click here to watch Battlefield Friends: Claymore Specialist BATTLEFIELD FRIENDS - Colonel 100 (Season Finale) The BFFs trade in the Noob for a Colonel 100. DIRECTOR'S CHANNEL: www.youtube.com Machinima Happy Hour is home to the best animation and shorts Machinima has to offer. Check back every weekend for updates on all your favorite shows like Sanity Not Included, Two Best Friends Play, Freeman's Mind, Sonic For Hire and more! www.youtube.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This video will show you: How to play Battlefield 3 How to become a colonel 100 How to fly a MAV How to use M26 Dart How to MAV squad - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FOR MORE MACHINIMA, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE SPORTS GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE MMO & RPG GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE ANIMATIONS & SHORTS, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE TRAILERS, GO TO: www.youtube.com TAGS: yt:quality=high "Battlefield 3" EA Digital Illusions CE Electronic Arts BF3 Frostbite Engine 2.0 Microsoft Windows PC "PlayStation 3" Xbox 360 first person shooter fps 1st fighter jets prone position tanks jeep 64 24 player ANT animation technology singleplayer multiplayer machinima "how to" MACHHappyHour "happy hour" "Hank and Jed" Hankandjed maps HJBFFs First Flight Colonel 100 MAV Squad M26 dart shit bucket BF3 Kharg Island close quarters Season Finale
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Madeon - Finale (Longer Version)
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- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
Ripped from the BBC Radio 1 Show with Pete Tong (01st June 2012). Hugo Pierre Leclercq, known by his stage name Madeon, is a 18-year old DJ and producer from Nantes, France. Here's his new track entitled "Finale" featuring vocals by Nicholas Petricca. "Finale", which is out on the 22nd July 2012, is now available to pre-order on iTunes worldwide: bit.ly Become a fan of Madeon: www.facebook.com Follow Madeon on Twitter: twitter.com Visit Madeon's Soundcloud: soundcloud.com www.facebook.com twitter.com soundcloud.com
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The Good, the Bad & the Ugly Finale
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- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
The 3 way final shootout between Tuco, Angel Eyes and Blondie.
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Madeon - Finale (Netsky Remix)
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- Duration: 4:54
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Available to buy now: smarturl.it Become a fan of Netsky: www.facebook.com Follow Netsky on Twitter: twitter.com Available now on Madeon's label 'Popcultur'. Original available here: bit.ly Become a fan of Madeon: www.facebook.com Follow Madeon on Twitter: twitter.com www.facebook.com www.ukfmusic.com http www.twitter.com
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Stephen King "IT" Finale
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- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Final Part of the movie
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Madeon - Finale (Dillon Francis Remix)
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- Duration: 4:43
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Available to buy now: www.beatport.com Become a fan of Dillon Francis: www.facebook.com Follow Dillon Francis on Twitter: twitter.com Available now on Madeon's label 'Popcultur'. Original available here: bit.ly Become a fan of Madeon: www.facebook.com Follow Madeon on Twitter: twitter.com www.facebook.com www.ukfmusic.com http www.twitter.com
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Riverdance Finale
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Riverdance finale, featuring Michael Flatley, Jean Butler and lots of extremely talented irish dancers. Truly amazing! I want to see that show so badly :(
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Notis Sfakianakis - To Finale Tis Kardias..
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- Duration: 3:03
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Το φινάλε της καρδιάς - To finale tis kardias (The end of my heart) Στίχοι: Τασούλα Θωμαΐδου Lyrics: Tasoula Thomaidou Μουσική: Τάκης Σούκας Music: Takis Soukas Πρώτη εκτέλεση: Νότης Σφακιανάκης First perf: Notis Sfakianakis Πάλι θα πάρω τον αριθμό πάλι θα κλάψω και θά 'σαι αιτία πάλι χαμένος εγώ θα βγω απ' τη δικιά μας την ιστορία. Φινάλε της καρδιάς μου κι έρωτά μου σου το 'λεγα πως θα 'σαι μόνο εσύ κι αν στάζεις δηλητήριο βαθιά μου εγώ σου αφιερώνω μια ζωή. Πάλι σε ψάχνω σαν τον τρελό λες και μου λείπει το οξυγόνο κι αν τριγυρίζω χωρίς σκοπό φτάνει που υπάρχω για σένα μόνο. Φινάλε της καρδιάς μου κι έρωτά μου σου το 'λεγα πως θα 'σαι μόνο εσύ κι αν στάζεις δηλητήριο βαθιά μου εγώ σου αφιερώνω μια ζωή (2X) ----------------------------------------------------------- Το φινάλε της καρδιάς - To finale tis kardias (The end of my heart) Once again I face the count Once again I will cry and you will be the cause Once again lost I will go out from our own story. The end of my heart and of my love I told you that it will only be you and if you spill poison in the deepest part of my being I dedicate a life to you. Once again I look for you as a crazy man as if I needed oxygen and if I go in circles without reason it's enough with saying I exist only for you. The end of my heart and of my love I told you that it will only be you and if you spill poison in the deepest part of my being I dedicate a life to you. (2X)
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Madeon - Finale (Evan Duffy Piano Cover)
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- Duration: 3:28
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Finale by Madeon Hello! So I somehow just came across Madeon last week, and I am 1) very surprised I'd never heard of him before, and 2) upset that it took me this long to hear his work. This dude is unstoppable. I decided to arrange his new track "Finale" and put a slightly jazzy spin on it (the main melody has so much soul in it as is, it was actually a pretty easy transition). The arrangement isn't all jazzy though, so don't let that scare you non-jazz-enthusiasts :) - Evan Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: www.twitter.com mp3: soundcloud.com
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Sia - Breathe Me (Six Feet Under Finale)
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London 2012 3D - The Who / Finale
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- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
London 2012
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Mahler's 8th symphony Finale
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- Updated: 03 Nov 2012
greates and most powerfull finale ver writtren in the history of music
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Aladdin: Finale - PART 5 - Game Grumps
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- Duration: 26:14
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Jon and Arin beat another game? What?! Game Grumps are: Egoraptor: www.YouTube.com JonTron: www.YouTube.com
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"Finale" - The Controller: Medal of Honor Warfighter - Episode 13
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- Duration: 16:42
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
This is it! Who walks away with 50000 dollars? Answer: SHOCKING. Subscribe to Machinima Prime for the best of Machinima's new shows! www.youtube.com "Finale" - The Controller: Medal of Honor Warfighter - Episode 13 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FOR MACHINIMA'S BEST HIGH QUALITY SERIES, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE MACHINIMA, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE SPORTS GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE MMO & RPG GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE TRAILERS, GO TO: www.youtube.com
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Les Miserables: Encore Finale - The Company
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- Duration: 11:35
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
No copyright infringement intended. (LM.25A.O2.101003) Encore performed by the entire Les-Mis Company for the 25th Anniversary Concert of Les Miserables Live @ The O2 in London, on Oct. 03, 2010. This is just a segment from the whole show. Buy the dvd copy and experience this once in a lifetime performances by world-class artists together in one stage. This is totally and way better than the 10th Anniversary Concert, a thousand times more magical and emotional night.
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GREAT SCENE - The Graduate (finale)
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- Duration: 4:51
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From "The Graduate" (1967) Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) gets in the church where Elaine Robinson (Katharine Ross) is going to get married and they both run away. *Copyright owner: Embassy Pictures Corporation *No copyright infringement intended. Uploaded videos are made purely for entertainment.
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Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Finale)
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Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture Finale.
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Melanie Amaro & R. Kelly - Finale Night 1 - Duet - THE X FACTOR USA 2011
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Melanie Amaro and R. Kelly perform "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly. www.thexfactorusa.com bit.ly (Official Site) bit.ly ('Like' on Facebook) bit.ly (Follow on Twitter)
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Suzy - Only Hope (Finale)
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- Duration: 4:25
- Updated: 03 Nov 2012
Episode 16 - Ending Cut. That's it for the show :) Thanks everyone for subscribing, watching and commenting. Sorry I haven't been as interactive and all because of certain commitments I just didn't have the time.
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Short-handed Hawks impress with win over Thunder
05 Nov 2012
The Miami Herald
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Breaking down the vote in Western Virginia
05 Nov 2012
The Roanoke Times
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City council election could be Bedford's last
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The Roanoke Times
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As retirement gifts go, it sure beats a rocking chair. It took two sudden-death overtime periods to do it, but Roanoke College men's soccer coach Scott Allison got to hoist the ODAC championship trophy Sunday. And now he will get to end his coaching career in the NCAA tournament. With just 59...(size: 4.4Kb)
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Finale may refer to:
Pieces of music[link]
- Finale (music), the last movement of a piece
- Finale (album), a 1977 album by Loggins and Messina
- "Finale B", a song from the rock opera Rent
- "Finale", a song by Anthrax from State of Euphoria
- "Finale", a song by Bikini Kill from Reject All American
- "Finale", a piece of film music by John Williams from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (soundtrack)
- "Finale", a song by Patrick Wolf from The Magic Position
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- Finale Emilia, a municipality in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Finale Ligure, a municipality in Liguria, Italy
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- Finale (film), a 2009 film
- Finale (software), a music notation software
- Season finale, the last episode of a single season of a television show
- Series finale, the last episode of a television show
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| Pen name | Richard Bachman, John Swithen |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, columnist, actor, television producer, film director |
| Alma mater | University of Maine (B.A., English, 1970) |
| Genres | Horror, fantasy, science fiction, drama, gothic, genre fiction, dark fantasy |
| Notable work(s) | Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, It, and The Dark Tower |
| Spouse(s) | Tabitha King |
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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies[7] and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.
King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee,[8] and in 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.[9] He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).[10]
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King's father, Donald Edwin King, who was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, was a merchant seaman.[11] King's mother, Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury; March 13, 1913 – December 28, 1973) was born in Scarborough, Maine.[11] They were married July 23, 1939, in Cumberland County, Maine.[11]
Stephen King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When King was two years old, his father left the family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes," leaving his mother to raise King and his adopted older brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connecticut. When King was eleven years old, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where Ruth King cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged.[12] King was raised Methodist.[13]
As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless and seemingly in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend's death. Some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of King's darker works,[14] but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing.[15]
King's primary inspiration for writing horror fiction was related in detail in his 1981 non-fiction Danse Macabre, in a chapter titled "An Annoying Autobiographical Pause". King makes a comparison of his uncle successfully dowsing for water using the bough of an apple branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. While browsing through an attic with his elder brother, King uncovered a paperback version of an H.P. Lovecraft collection of short stories entitled The Lurker in the Shadows that had belonged to his father. The cover art—an illustration of a yellow-green Demon hiding within the recesses of a Hellish cavern beneath a tombstone—was, he writes, the moment in his life which "that interior dowsing rod responded to.” King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, "I knew that I'd found home when I read that book."[16]
Education and early career[link]
King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine. He displayed an early interest in horror as an avid reader of EC's horror comics, including Tales from the Crypt (he later paid tribute to the comics in his screenplay for Creepshow). He began writing for fun while still in school, contributing articles to Dave's Rag, the newspaper that his brother published with a mimeograph machine, and later began selling stories to his friends which were based on movies he had seen (though when discovered by his teachers, he was forced to return the profits). The first of his stories to be independently published was "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber", serialized over three published and one unpublished issue of a fanzine, Comics Review, in 1965.[17] That story was published the following year in a revised form as "In a Half-World of Terror" in another fanzine, Stories of Suspense, edited by Marv Wolfman.[18]
From 1966, King studied English at the University of Maine, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. That same year his first daughter, Naomi Rachel, was born. He wrote a column for the student newspaper, The Maine Campus, titled "Steve King's Garbage Truck", took part in a writing workshop organized by Burton Hatlen,[1] and took odd jobs to pay for his studies, including one at an industrial laundry. He sold his first professional short story, "The Glass Floor", to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967.[12] The Fogler Library at the University of Maine now holds many of King's papers.
After leaving the university, King earned a certificate to teach high school but, being unable to find a teaching post immediately, initially supplemented his laboring wage by selling short stories to men's magazines such as Cavalier. Many of these early stories have been published in the collection Night Shift. In 1971, King married Tabitha Spruce, a fellow student at the University of Maine whom he had met at the University's Fogler Library after one of Professor Hatlen's workshops.[1] That fall, King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. He continued to contribute short stories to magazines and worked on ideas for novels.[12] It was during this time that King developed a drinking problem, which would plagued him for more than a decade.[citation needed]
Bibliography[link]
Main articles: Stephen King bibliography and Stephen King short fiction bibliography
1970s–1980s work[link]
In 1973, King's novel Carrie was accepted by publishing house Doubleday. King threw an early draft of the novel in the trash after becoming discouraged with his progress writing about a teenage girl with psychic powers. His wife retrieved the manuscript and encouraged him to finish it.[19] His advance for Carrie was $2,500, with paperback rights earning $400,000 at a later date. King and his family moved to southern Maine because of his mother's failing health. At this time, he began writing a book titled Second Coming, later titled Jerusalem's Lot, before finally changing the title to 'Salem's Lot (published 1975). In a 1987 issue of The Highway Patrolman magazine, he stated, "The story seems sort of down home to me. I have a special cold spot in my heart for it!"[20] Soon after the release of Carrie in 1974, his mother died of uterine cancer. His Aunt Emrine read the novel to her before she died. King has written of his severe drinking problem at this time, stating that he was drunk delivering the eulogy at his mother's funeral.[15]
After his mother's death, King and his family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where King wrote The Shining (published 1977). The family returned to western Maine in 1975, where King completed his fourth novel, The Stand (published 1978). In 1977, the family, with the addition of Owen Phillip (his third and last child), traveled briefly to England, returning to Maine that fall where King began teaching creative writing at the University of Maine. He has kept his primary residence in Maine ever since.[citation needed]
In 1985 King wrote his first work for the comic book medium,[21] writing a few pages of the benefit X-Men comic book Heroes for Hope Starring the X-Men. The book, whose profits were donated to assist with famine relief in Africa, was written by a number of different authors in the comic book field, such as Chris Claremont, Stan Lee, and Alan Moore, as well as authors not primarily associated with that industry, such as Harlan Ellison.[22] The following year, King wrote the introduction to Batman #400, an anniversary issue in which he expressed his preference for that character over Superman.[23][24]
[edit] The Dark Tower books
Main article: The Dark Tower (series)
In the late 1970s, King began what became a series of interconnected stories about a lone gunslinger, Roland, who pursues the "Man in Black" in an alternate-reality universe that is a cross between J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and the American wild west as depicted by Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone in their spaghetti westerns. The first of these stories, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, was first published in five installments by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction under the editorship of Edward L. Ferman, beginning in 1977 and the last in 1981. The Gunslinger was continued as a large 7-book epic called The Dark Tower, which were written and published infrequently over four decades.
In 1982, the fantasy small-press Donald M. Grant (known for publishing the entire canon of Robert E. Howard) printed these stories for the first time together in hardcover form with color and black-and-white illustrations by fantasy artist Michael Whelan, as The Gunslinger. Each chapter was named for the story previously published in magazine form. King dedicated the hardcover edition to his editor at F&SF, Ed Ferman, who "took a chance on these stories". The original print-run was only 10,000 copies, which was, by this time, a comparatively low run for a first printing of a King novel in hardcover. His 1980 novel, Firestarter, had an initial print-run in trade hardcover at 100,000 copies, and his 1983 novel, Christine, had a trade hardcover print-run of 250,000 copies, both by the much larger publisher Viking. The Gunslinger's initial release was not highly publicized, and only specialty science-fiction and related bookstores carried it on their shelves. The book was generally not available in the larger chain stores, except by special order. Rumors spread among avid fans that there was a King book out that few readers knew about, let alone had actually read. When the initial 10,000 copies sold out, Grant printed another 10,000 copies in 1984, but these runs were still far short of the growing demand among fans for this book. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger was the beginning of his magnum opus fantasy epic. Both the first and second printings of The Gunslinger garner premium prices on the collectible book market, notably among avid readers and collectors of Stephen King, horror literature, fantasy literature, American western literature, and fans of the artwork of Michael Whelan.[citation needed]
In 1987, King released the second installment, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, in which Roland draws three people from 20th-century United States into his world through magical doors. Grant published The Drawing of the Three with illustrations by Phil Hale in a slightly larger run of 30,000 copies, which was still well below King's typical initial hardcover print-run of a new book. (It, published in 1986, had an initial print-run of 1,000,000 copies, King's largest to date.) King had believed that the Dark Tower books would only be of interest to a select group of his fans, and he had resisted releasing it on a larger scale. Finally, in the late 1980s, bowing to pressure from his publishers and fans who were searching for the books (at this point fewer than 50,000 of his millions of readers would have been able to own any of the Dark Tower books), King agreed to release The Gunslinger and all subsequent Dark Tower books in trade paperback and mass market formats.[citation needed]
In the early 2000s King revised the original book, The Gunslinger, because he felt the voice and imagery of the original stories of the late 1970s did not seem to fit the voice of the final installment of 2004. King felt the style of the work had markedly changed during the intervening 27 years. The revised version was published in 2003 by his former hardcover publisher Viking. Grant published its hardcover limited edition of the revised version of The Gunslinger along with a prequel story set in the Dark Tower world called "The Little Sisters of Eluria" (originally published in 1998 in the collection Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy) in 2009.
Adaptations[link]
In October 2005, King signed a deal with Marvel Comics to publish a seven-issue, miniseries spin-off of the series called The Gunslinger Born. The series, which focuses on a young Roland Deschain, is plotted by Robin Furth, with dialogue by Peter David, and illustrated by Eisner Award-winning artist Jae Lee. The first issue was published on February 7, 2007, and King, David, Lee and Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada appeared at a midnight signing at a Times Square, New York comic book store to promote it.[25][26] The work had sold over 200,000 copies by March 2007. The success of The Gunslinger Born led to an ongoing series of miniseries published by Marvel, with Furth and David continuing to collaborate, featuring both adapted material from the Dark Tower books and new material approved by King; it also led to a second series of King adaptations in the same format, serializing the events of The Stand.
Although The Hollywood Reporter announced in February 2007 that plans were underway for Lost co-creator J. J. Abrams to do an adaptation of King's epic Dark Tower series,[5] Abrams stated in a November 2009 interview with MTV that he would not be adapting the series.[27]
Akiva Goldsman, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will produce a feature film based on The Dark Tower series, with Howard slated to direct.[citation needed]
Richard Bachman[link]
Main article: Richard Bachman
In the late 1970s-early 1980s, King published a handful of short novels—Rage (1977), The Long Walk (1979), Roadwork (1981), The Running Man (1982) and Thinner (1984)—under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The idea behind this was to test whether he could replicate his success again and to his fears that his popularity was an accident. An alternate explanation was that publishing standards at the time allowed only a single book a year.[28] He picked up the name from the hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, of which he is a fan.[29]
Richard Bachman was exposed as King's pseudonym by a persistent Washington D.C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, who noticed similarities between the works and later located publisher's records at the Library of Congress that named King as the author of one of Bachman's novels.[30] This led to a press release heralding Bachman's "death"—supposedly from "cancer of the pseudonym."[31] King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to "the deceased Richard Bachman", and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel Desperation was released, the companion novel The Regulators carried the "Bachman" byline.
In 2006, during a press conference in London, King declared that he had discovered another Bachman novel, titled Blaze. It was published on June 12, 2007. In fact, the original manuscript had been held at King's alma mater, the University of Maine in Orono, for many years and had been covered by numerous King experts. King completely rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication.[citation needed]
King has used other pseudonyms, such as John Swithen for The Fifth Quarter.[citation needed]
Car accident and thoughts of retirement[link]
On June 19, 1999 at about 4:30 p.m., King was walking on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine. Driver Bryan Smith, distracted by an unrestrained dog moving in the back of his minivan, struck King, who landed in a depression in the ground about 14 feet from the pavement of Route 5.[15] According to Oxford County Sheriff deputy Matt Baker, King was hit from behind and some witnesses said the driver was not speeding, reckless, or drinking.[32]
King was conscious enough to give the deputy phone numbers to contact his family but was in considerable pain. The author was first transported to Northern Cumberland Hospital in Bridgton and then flown by helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center, in Lewiston. His injuries—a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp laceration and a broken hip—kept him at CMMC until July 9. His leg bones were so shattered doctors initially considered amputating his leg, but stabilized the bones in the leg with an external fixator.[33] After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, King resumed work on On Writing in July, though his hip was still shattered and he could only sit for about forty minutes before the pain became worse. Soon it became nearly unbearable.[34]
King's lawyer and two others purchased Smith's van for $1,500, reportedly to prevent it from appearing on eBay. The van was later crushed at a junkyard, much to King's disappointment, as he dreamed of beating it with a baseball bat once his leg was healed. King later mentioned during an interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he wanted to completely destroy the vehicle himself with a pickaxe.[35]
During this time, Tabitha King was inspired to redesign his studio. King visited the space while his books and belongings were packed away. What he saw was an image of what his studio would look like if he died, providing a seed for his novel Lisey's Story.[36]
In 2002, King announced he would stop writing, apparently motivated in part by frustration with his injuries, which had made sitting uncomfortable and reduced his stamina. He has since resumed writing, but states on his website that:
"I'm writing but I'm writing at a much slower pace than previously and I think that if I come up with something really, really good, I would be perfectly willing to publish it because that still feels like the final act of the creative process, publishing it so people can read it and you can get feedback and people can talk about it with each other and with you, the writer, but the force of my invention has slowed down a lot over the years and that's as it should be."[37]
2000s work[link]
In 2000, King published a serialized novel, The Plant, online, bypassing print publication. At first it was presumed by the public that King had abandoned the project because sales were unsuccessful, but he later stated that he had simply run out of stories.[38] The unfinished epistolary novel is still available from King's official site, now free. Also in 2000, he wrote a digital novella, Riding the Bullet, and has said he sees e-books becoming 50% of the market "probably by 2013 and maybe by 2012." But he also warns: "Here's the thing—people tire of the new toys quickly."[39]
In August 2003 King began writing a column on pop culture appearing in Entertainment Weekly, usually every third week. The column is called "The Pop of King", a play on the nickname "The King of Pop" commonly given to Michael Jackson.[40]
In 2006, King published an apocalyptic novel, Cell. The book features a sudden force in which every cell phone user turns into a mindless killer. King noted in the book's introduction that he does not use cell phones.
In 2007, Marvel Comics began publishing comic books based on King's Dark Tower series, followed by adaptations of The Stand in 2008 and The Talisman in 2009.
In 2008, King published both a novel, Duma Key, and a collection, Just After Sunset. The latter featured 13 short stories, including a novella, N., which was later released as a serialized animated series that could be seen for free, or, for a small fee, could be downloaded in a higher quality; it then was adopted into a limited comic book series.
In 2009, King published Ur, a novella written exclusively for the launch of the second-generation Amazon Kindle and available only on Amazon.com, and Throttle, a novella co-written with his son Joe Hill, which later was released as an audiobook Road Rage, which included Richard Matheson's short story "Duel". On November 10 that year, King's novel, Under the Dome, was published. It is a reworking of an unfinished novel he tried writing twice in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and at 1,074 pages, it is the largest novel he has written since 1986's It. It debuted at #1 in The New York Times Bestseller List.[41]
2010s work[link]
On February 16, 2010, King announced on his website that his next book will be a collection of four previously unpublished novellas. The book is called Full Dark, No Stars. In April of that year, King published Blockade Billy, an original novella issued first by independent small press Cemetery Dance Publications and later released in mass market paperback by Simon & Schuster. The following month, DC Comics premiered American Vampire, a monthly comic book series written by King with short story writer Scott Snyder, and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque, which represents King's first original comics work.[42][43][44]
King's next novel, 11/22/63, was published November 8, 2011,[45][46] and the eighth Dark Tower volume, The Wind Through the Keyhole, was published in 2012.[47] King's next novel is the upcoming sequel to The Shining (1977), titled Dr. Sleep, scheduled to be published in 2013, and King is currently working on Joyland, a novel about "an amusement-park serial killer", according to an article in The Sunday Times published on April 8, 2012.[48]
Collaborations[link]
King has written two novels with acclaimed horror novelist Peter Straub: The Talisman and a sequel, Black House. King has indicated that he and Straub will likely write the third and concluding book in this series, the tale of Jack Sawyer, but has set no time for its completion.
King also wrote the nonfiction book, Faithful, with novelist and fellow Red Sox fanatic Stewart O'Nan.
In 1996 King collaborated with Michael Jackson to create Ghosts, a 40-minute musical video in which the singer portrays a recluse living in a mansion confronting an unwelcoming group of townsfolk initially calling for his exodus from their community.
"Throttle", a novella written in collaboration with his son Joe Hill, appears in the anthology He Is Legend: Celebrating Richard Matheson, (Gauntlet Press, 2009).[49]
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, was a paperback tie-in for the King-penned miniseries Rose Red. The book was published under anonymous authorship, and written by Ridley Pearson. This spin-off is a rare occasion of another author being granted permission to write commercial work using characters and story elements invented by King.
King wrote a musical play with John Mellencamp titled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.
King played guitar for the rock band Rock-Bottom Remainders, several of whose members are authors. Other members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Sam Barry, and Greg Iles. None of them claim to have any musical talent.[citation needed] King is a fan of the rock band AC/DC,[citation needed] who did the soundtrack for his 1986 film, Maximum Overdrive. He is also a fan of The Ramones,[citation needed] who wrote the title song for Pet Sematary and appeared in the music video. King referred to the band several times in various novels and stories[citation needed] and The Ramones referenced King on the song "It's Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World)", which is on 1981's Pleasant Dreams. In addition he wrote the liner notes for their tribute album We're a Happy Family. In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of their 1974 song "Astronomy". The single released for radio play featured a narrative intro spoken by King.[50]
On Sunday, October 25, 2009 the DC Comics/Vertigo announced King's collaboration with short story writer Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque for the monthly Vertigo comic book series American Vampire, which debuted in March 2010.[42] King wrote the background history of the very first American vampire, Skinner Sweet, in the first five -issues story arc. Scott Snyder wrote the story of Pearl.[51]
In 2010, King collaborated with musician Shooter Jennings and his band Hierophant, providing the narration for their most recent album, Black Ribbons.
Analysis[link]
Writing style[link]
King's formula for learning to write well is: "Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer." He sets out each day with a quota of 2000 words and will not stop writing until it is met. He also has a simple definition for talent in writing: "If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."[52]
Shortly after his accident, King wrote the first draft of the book Dreamcatcher with a notebook and a Waterman fountain pen, which he called "the world's finest word processor."[53]
When asked why he writes, King responds: "The answer to that is fairly simple—there was nothing else I was made to do. I was made to write stories and I love to write stories. That's why I do it. I really can't imagine doing anything else and I can't imagine not doing what I do."[54] He is also often asked why he writes such terrifying stories and he answers with another question: "Why do you assume I have a choice?"[55]
King often uses authors as characters, or includes mention of fictional books in his stories, novellas and novels, such as Paul Sheldon who is the main character in Misery and Jack Torrance in The Shining. See also List of fictional books in the works of Stephen King for a complete list. In September 2009 it was announced he would serve as a writer for Fangoria.[56]
Influences[link]
King has called Richard Matheson "the author who influenced me most as a writer."[15] Both authors casually integrate characters' thoughts into the third person narration, just one of several parallels between their writing styles. In a current edition of Matheson's The Shrinking Man, King is quoted: "A horror story if there ever was one...a great adventure story—it is certainly one of that select handful that I have given to people, envying them the experience of the first reading."
King refers to H. P. Lovecraft several times in Danse Macabre. "Gramma", a short story made into a film in the 1980s anthology horror show The New Twilight Zone, mentions Lovecraft's notorious fictional creation Necronomicon, also borrowing the names of a number of the fictional monsters mentioned therein. "I Know What You Need" from the 1976 collection Night Shift, and 'Salem's Lot also mention the tome. In On Writing, King is critical of Lovecraft's dialogue-writing skills, using passages from The Colour Out of Space as particularly poor examples. There are also several examples of King referring to Lovecraftian characters in his work, such as Nyarlathotep and Yog-Sothoth.
King acknowledges the influence of Bram Stoker, particularly on his novel 'Salem's Lot, which he envisioned as a retelling of Dracula.[57] Its related short story "Jerusalem's Lot", is reminiscent of Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm.[citation needed]
King has also referenced author Shirley Jackson. 'Salem's Lot opens with a quotation from Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and a character in Wolves of the Calla references the Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
King is a fan of John D. MacDonald, and dedicated the novella "Sun Dog" to MacDonald, saying "I miss you, old friend." For his part, MacDonald wrote an admiring preface to Night Shift, and even had his famous character, Travis McGee, reading Cujo in one of the last McGee novels and Pet Sematary in the last McGee novel, The Lonely Silver Rain.
In 1987 King's Philtrum Press published Don Robertson's novel, The Ideal, Genuine Man. In his forenote to the novel, King wrote, "Don Robertson was and is one of the three writers who influenced me as a young man who was trying to 'become' a novelist (the other two being Richard Matheson and John D. MacDonald)."[58]
Robert A. Heinlein's book The Door into Summer is repeatedly mentioned in King's Wolves of the Calla.
In an interview with King, Published in the USA Weekend in March 2009, the author stated, "People look on writers that they like as an irreplaceable resource. I do. Elmore Leonard, every day I wake up and – not to be morbid or anything, although morbid is my life to a degree – don't see his obituary in the paper, I think to myself, "Great! He's probably working somewhere. He's gonna produce another book, and I'll have another book to read." Because when he's gone, there's nobody else."[59]
King partly dedicated his book Cell to film director George Romero, and wrote an essay for the Elite DVD version of Night of the Living Dead.
Critical response[link]
Although critical reaction to King's work has been mostly positive, he has occasionally come under fire from academic writers.
Science fiction editors John Clute and Peter Nichols[60] offer a largely favorable appraisal of King, noting his "pungent prose, sharp ear for dialogue, disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciation of human stupidity and cruelty (especially to children) [all of which rank] him among the more distinguished 'popular' writers."
In his analysis of post-World War II horror fiction, The Modern Weird Tale (2001), critic S. T. Joshi[61] devotes a chapter to King's work. Joshi argues that King's best-known works (his supernatural novels), are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to deus ex machina endings. Despite these criticisms, Joshi argues that since Gerald's Game (1993), King has been tempering the worst of his writing faults, producing books that are leaner, more believable and generally better written. Joshi suggests that King's strengths as a writer include the accessible "everyman" quality of his prose, and his unfailingly insightful observations about the pains and joys of adolescence. Joshi cites two early non-supernatural novels—Rage (1977) and The Running Man (1982)—as King's best, suggesting both are riveting and well-constructed suspense thrillers, with believable characters.
In 1996, King won an O. Henry Award for his short story "The Man in the Black Suit".[62]
In his short story collection A Century of Great Suspense Stories, editor Jeffrey Deaver noted that King “singlehandedly made popular fiction grow up. While there were many good best-selling writers before him, King, more than anybody since John D. MacDonald, brought reality to genre novels. He’s often remarked that 'Salem's Lot was “Peyton Place meets Dracula.” And so it was. The rich characterization, the careful and caring social eye, the interplay of story line and character development announced that writers could take worn themes such as vampirism and make them fresh again. Before King, many popular writers found their efforts to make their books serious blue-penciled by their editors. ‘Stuff like that gets in the way of the story,’ they were told. Well, it’s stuff like that that has made King so popular, and helped free the popular name from the shackles of simple genre writing. He is a master of masters.”[63]
In 2003, King was honored by the National Book Awards with a lifetime achievement award, the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, with his work being described thus:
Stephen King’s writing is securely rooted in the great American tradition that glorifies spirit-of-place and the abiding power of narrative. He crafts stylish, mind-bending page-turners that contain profound moral truths–some beautiful, some harrowing–about our inner lives. This Award commemorates Mr. King’s well-earned place of distinction in the wide world of readers and book lovers of all ages.
Some in the literary community expressed disapproval of the award: Richard Snyder, the former CEO of Simon & Schuster, described King's work as "non-literature", and critic Harold Bloom denounced the choice:
The decision to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for "distinguished contribution" to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I've described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind. He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. What he is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis.[64]
However, others came to King's defense, such as writer Orson Scott Card, who responded:
Let me assure you that King's work most definitely is literature, because it was written to be published and is read with admiration. What Snyder really means is that it is not the literature preferred by the academic-literary elite."[65]
In Roger Ebert's review of the 2004 movie Secret Window, he stated, "A lot of people were outraged that [King] was honored at the National Book Awards, as if a popular writer could not be taken seriously. But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery."[66]
In 2008, King's book On Writing was ranked 21st on Entertainment Weekly list of "The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008".[67]
Appearances and adaptations in other media[link]
Main article: Media based on Stephen King works
King and his wife Tabitha own Zone Radio Corp, a radio station group consisting of WZON 103.1 FM and 620 AM.[68]
King has stated that his favorite book-to-film adaptations are Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Mist.[69]
King's first film appearance was in George Romero's Knightriders as a buffoonish audience member. His first featured role was in Creepshow, playing Jordy Verrill, a backwoods redneck who, after touching a fallen meteorite in hopes of selling it, grows moss all over his body. He has since made cameos in several adaptations of his works. He appeared in Pet Sematary as a minister at a funeral, in Thinner as a pharmacist, in Rose Red as a pizza deliveryman, as a news reporter in The Storm of the Century, in The Stand as "Teddy Wieszack," in the Shining miniseries as a band member, in The Langoliers as Tom Holby and in Sleepwalkers as the cemetery caretaker. He has also appeared in The Golden Years, in Chappelle's Show and, along with fellow author Amy Tan, on The Simpsons as himself. In addition to acting, King tried his hand at directing with Maximum Overdrive, in which he also made a cameo appearance as a man using an ATM that is on the fritz.
King produced and acted in a miniseries, Kingdom Hospital, which is based on the Danish miniseries Riget by Lars von Trier. He also co-wrote The X-Files season 5 episode "Chinga" with the creator of the series Chris Carter.
King made an appearance as a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy! in 1995, playing to benefit the Bangor Public Library.
King provided the voice of Abraham Lincoln in the audiobook version of Assassination Vacation.
In 2010, King appeared in a cameo role as a cleaner named Bachman (a reference to his pen name Richard Bachman) on the FX series Sons of Anarchy.[70]
The Syfy TV series Haven is based on King's novella, The Colorado Kid.[71]
Political activism[link]
In April 2008, King spoke out against HB 1423, a bill pending in the Massachusetts state legislature that would restrict or ban the sale of violent video games to anyone under the age of 18. Although King stated that he had no personal interest in video games as a hobby, he criticized the proposed law, which he sees as an attempt by politicians to scapegoat pop culture, and to act as surrogate parents to others' children, which he asserted is usually "disastrous" and "undemocratic". He also saw the law as inconsistent, as it would forbid a 17-year-old, legally able to see Hostel: Part II, from buying or renting Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which is violent but less graphic. While conceding that he saw no artistic merit in some violent video games, King also opined that such games reflect the violence that already exists in society, which would not be lessened by such a law, and would be redundant in light of the ratings system that already exists for video games. King argued that such laws allow legislators to ignore the economic divide between the rich and poor, and the easy availability of guns, which he felt were the more legitimate causes of violence.[72] Regarding video games, he later stated that he enjoys playing light gun shooter arcade games such as Time Crisis.[73]
A controversy emerged on May 5, 2008, when a conservative blogger posted a clip of King at a Library of Congress reading event. King, talking to high-school students, had said: "If you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that."[74] The comment was described by the blog as "another in a long line of liberal media members bashing the military," and likened to John Kerry's similar remark from 2006.[75] King responded later that day, saying, "That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt...I live in a national guard town, and I support our troops, but I don’t support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career—military or otherwise." King again defended his comment in an interview with the Bangor Daily News on May 8, saying, "I’m not going to apologize for promoting that kids get better education in high school, so they have more options. Those that don’t agree with what I’m saying, I’m not going to change their minds."[76]
King's website states that he is a supporter of the Democratic Party. During the 2008 presidential election, King voiced his support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.[77] King was quoted as calling conservative commentator Glenn Beck "Satan's mentally challenged younger brother."[78]
On March 8, 2011, King spoke at a political rally in Sarasota aimed against Governor Rick Scott (R-FL), voicing his opposition to the Tea Party movement.[79]
In November 2011, King donated $70,000 in matched funding via his radio station to help pay the heating bills for families in need in his home town of Bangor, Maine, during the winter.[80]
On April 30, 2012, King published an article in The Daily Beast calling for rich Americans, including himself, to pay more taxes, citing it as "a practical necessity and moral imperative that those who have received much should be obligated to pay ... in the same proportion".[81]
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King and his wife own and occupy three different houses, one in Bangor, one in Lovell, Maine, and they regularly winter in their waterfront mansion located off the Gulf of Mexico, in Sarasota, Florida. He and Tabitha have three children, Naomi, Joe and Owen, and three grandchildren.[12]
Shortly after publication of The Tommyknockers, King's family and friends staged an intervention, dumping evidence of his addictions taken from the trash including beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, dextromethorphan (cough medicine) and marijuana, on the rug in front of him. As King related in his memoir, he then sought help and quit all forms of drugs and alcohol in the late 1980s, and has remained sober since.[15]
Tabitha King has published nine of her own novels. Both King's sons are published authors: Owen King published his first collection of stories, We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories, in 2005. Joseph Hillstrom King, who writes under the professional name Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, in 2005. His debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published in 2007 and will be adapted into a feature film by director Neil Jordan.[82] King's daughter Naomi is a Unitarian Universalist Church minister in Plantation, Florida with her same-sex partner, Rev. Dr. Thandeka.[83]
King is a fan of baseball, and of the Boston Red Sox in particular; he frequently attends the team's home and away games, and occasionally mentions the team in his novels and stories. He helped coach his son Owen's Bangor West team to the Maine Little League Championship in 1989. He recounts this experience in the New Yorker essay "Head Down", which also appears in the collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. In 1999, King wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which featured former Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon as the protagonist's imaginary companion. In 2004, King co-wrote a book titled Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season with Stewart O'Nan, recounting the authors' roller coaster reaction to the Red Sox's 2004 season, a season culminating in the Sox winning the 2004 American League Championship Series and World Series.[84] In the 2005 film Fever Pitch, about an obsessive Boston Red Sox fan, King tosses out the first pitch of the Sox's opening day game.
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Additional reading[link]
See also: Books about Stephen King
- Brooks, Justin (2008). Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author. Cemetery Dance. ISBN 1-58767-153-0.
- Collings, Michael R. (1985). The Many Facets of Stephen King. Starmont House. ISBN 0-930261-14-3.
- Collings, Michael R.; David A. Engebretson (1985). The Shorter Works of Stephen King. Starmont House. ISBN 0-930261-02-X.
- Collings, Michael R. (1985). Stephen King as Richard Bachman. Starmont House. ISBN 0-930261-00-3.
- Collings, Michael R. (1986). The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America’s Premier Horror Writer. Starmont House. ISBN 0-930261-80-1.
- Collings, Michael R. (1986). The Films of Stephen King. Starmont House. ISBN 0-930261-10-0.
- Collings, Michael R. (1987). The Stephen King Phenomenon. Starmont House. ISBN 0-930261-12-7.
- Collings, Michael R. (2003). Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000. Overlook Connection Press. ISBN -892950-45-6.
- Spignesi, Stephen (1991). The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia. Contemporary Books. ISBN 978-0-8092-3818-7.
- Spignesi, Stephen (1998). The Lost Work of Stephen King. Birch Lane Press. ISBN 978-1-55972-469-2.
- Spignesi, Stephen (2001). The Essential Stephen King. Career Press. ISBN ISBN 978-1-56414-710-3.
- Wood, Rocky; David Rawsthorne, Norma Blackburn. The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King,. Kanrock Partners,. ISBN 0-9750593-3-5.
- Wood, Rocky (2006). Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished. Cemetery Dance. ISBN 1-58767-130-1.
- Wood, Rocky; Justin Brooks. The Stephen King Collector's Guide. Kanrock Partners. ISBN 978-0-9750593-5-7.
- Wood, Rocky; Justin Brooks (2008). Stephen King: The Non-Fiction. Cemetery Dance. ISBN 1-58767-160-3.
- Collings, Michael R. (2008). Stephen King Is Richard Bachman. Overlook Connection Press. ISBN 1-892950-74-X.
- Gary Hoppenstand, ed. (2010). Stephen King. Salem Press. ISBN 978-1-58765-685-9.
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| Notis Sfakianakis Νότης Σφακιανάκης |
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 Notis Sfakianakis performing live. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Panagiotis Sfakianakis |
| Born | (1959-11-02) 2 November 1959 (age 52) Herakleion, Crete, Greece |
| Origin | Athens, Greece |
| Genres | Laïka |
| Occupations | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels | Sony Greece, Minos EMI, Universal Greece |
| Website | www.NotisSfakianakis.gr |
Panagiotis (Notis) Sfakianakis (Greek: Νότης Σφακιανάκης; born 2 November 1959) is a Greek singer of laika music, who is one of the most commercially successful artists of all time in Greece and Cyprus. Sfakianakis began his career in 1985, opening at nightclubs for other artists. He was discovered by Sony Greece and released his debut album Proti Fora (1991). For his second album Eisai Ena Pistoli (1992), he moved to Minos EMI.[1] While his firsτ three releases were commercially successful, beginning in the mid-1990s, Sfakianakis released a series of multi-platinum albums that are among the best selling albums of all time in Greece — including Notioanatolitika Tou Kosmou (1994) with 120–150 thousand copies sold,[1][2] 5o Vima (1996) which has been recognized as the best selling album of all time in Greece with 200 thousand copies sold,[1][2][3] I Notes Einai 7psyhes with 132.5 thousand copies (265 thousand units) sold,[2] the EPs Pro-Dia-Fimin (1997) with 100 thousand copies sold,[2] and Around the World with 15 thousand copies shipped,[1] XXX Enthimion (1999), which is the best selling live album of all time in Greece in terms of unit sales with 180 thousand copies (360 thousand units) sold,[2] Polihroma Kai Entona (2000) that shipped 100 thousand copies and As Milisoun Ta Tragoudia (2002) which faired similarly.[3] His signature song "O Aetos" is one of the most popular songs in Greek music history.[1] Sfakianakis was the best selling artist of the 1990s[4] and stands as the best selling Greek artist of his generation.[2] However, in the 2000s he faced a significant commercial decline.[2] Me Agapi O,ti Kaneis (2004) and Ana...Genisis (2005) shipped 40 thousand copies each.[3] Nihtes... Magikes (2007) and Mnimes (2008) sold 30 thousand copies each,[2] while the EP Kinonia Ora 07:00 sold 15 thousand copies.[2] He then embarked on the Matomeno Dakry album trilogy (2009–2011). He has sold over 5 million records in Greece alone and in addition to these he has sold over 900 thousand copies of his albums as newspaper covermounts.[3] Sfakianakis is also known for his controversial image and outspoken manner and opinions.[5]
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Early life and career[link]
Notis Sfakianakis and his family moved to the island of Kos when he was seven. Notis became a disc jockey in his early 20s. He supported himself by working as an electrician, plumber, waiter, and labourer. In 1985 he formed a band and played in clubs in Kos. Due to the lack of success, the band broke apart after less than year of being formed. In 1986 Notis moved back to Crete to start his solo singing career.
Notis began opening for national acts like Poly Panou. He was discovered by Bourmas, the general manager of Sony in Greece. Bourmas signed Sfakianakis to the label, and Notis recorded his debut album Proti Fora (First Time) which made it into the Greek top ten. He is one of the most successful singers of his era in Greece.
Notis is on top of his game more than ever before. He knows how to change his music style to make his listeners want more. In his new live cd Nihtes... Magikes (Magical Nights) he once again displays his magical voice and again proves why he is one of the greatest performing talents in Greece. His ability to shift between traditional Greek music, such as the Zeimbekiko and Hasapiko, and more modern variations, is unmatched in the contemporary Greek music scene.
Of his early works, his most notable release was "Opa Opa" which was written by Giorgos Alkaios and later covered by Despina Vandi and Antique. In 1994 he released the album Notioanatolika Tou Kosmou (Southeast of the World), which included "O Aetos" (The Eagle). It is widely agreed that this album was the catalyst for his achievement of superstardom in the Greek-speaking world. He followed this with high profile tracks such as "Den Se Hreiazome" (I Don't Need You), "Soma Mou" (My Body), "Gyftissa Mera" (Gypsy Day), "Na Hareis" (Cherish) and "Oi Skies" (Shadows).
One of the more popular of his 21st century tracks is "Genethlia" (or "Gennethleia" as it was spelled when it featured on later albums and compilations). This song (the title of which translates as 'Birthday') was originally performed by Cretan lyra player and singer Stelios Mpikakis.
In November 2007 Sfakianakis released a new album, Mnimes (Memories). The songs which have become hits are "Ta Klemmena" (The Stolen), a grim reflection on the hardships faced by Greeks in Asia Minor, and "Par' Ta" (Take Them). In late 2009 and early 2010, after more than two years break, Sfakianakis released Kinonikon, the first part in a proposed trilogy of 7 song discs called Matomeno Dakry. The most popular songs from Kinonikon are "Den Ypohoro", "Akou file" and "Mpogias". The second part, Erotikon was released in early 2010 and includes several successful songs, in particular "Kleinw tis kourtines", "Esti Ine O Erotas" and "Akouse Me Kala". The third part, Horeutikon, focusing on upbeat dance songs which released in December 2010. The most popular songs are "Ellinas" and "Den Yparxeis".
Personal life[link]
Sfakianakis is married and has two children; the family lives in Athens. In 2003, Sfakianakis had an operation on his vocal cords, leading to a two-year gap between his last album, As Milisoun Ta Tragoudia, and his next one, Me Agapi O,ti Kaneis.
The year 2004, in which Sfakianakis released the aforementioned album, was marred by the death of his brother Giorgos due to cancer.[3]
Recent Performances[link]
In November 2009, Sfakianakis had his first North American tour since 1999 when his popularity was soaring. It was on this tour that he performed in Atlantic City, NJ, Chicago, IL, and Canada. Many in the Greek community believe that this 10-year period between Sfakianakis' last US visit was due to politically oriented comments he made during a concert in his prior visit that caused some displeasure among Greek-Americans. However, during his 2009 concert in Atlantic City, Sfakianakis expressed his gratitude to the audience for their devotion and affection over the years and wished to give them a concert that "we will all remember after 10 years." Sfakianakis made good on his word, as the crowd gave him numerous ovations during the concert.
Controversies and opinion[link]
The rare interviews that Sfakianakis gives to the press are always memorable; he has a reputation for being very outspoken and uses the press to air his opinions on various matters. When he has appeared on live television, he has drawn praise and criticism in equal measure - on the one hand, some have praised his disarming honesty and applauded him for addressing hard-hitting issues. On the other hand, he has been heavily criticised for being argumentative and confrontational; some critics claim he lacks the capacity to be diplomatic.
In 2002 he released the song Provata (Sheep), which was in essence a barely concealed criticism of George W. Bush. Although the then-United States President was not mentioned by name, the lyrics make several implicit references to him - there are mentions of the resident of a white house. In the song he compares the peoples of the world to sheep, that must be wary of the threat of a wolf (implied to be Bush). Despite the implicit nature of the lyrics, Bush's image is used openly in the video accompanying the song. In an interview that was recorded for a special release of the album Ana...Genissis, Sfakianakis was more direct in his criticism of Bush:
- "The word 'bush' in English is apt. A bush does not have the capacity to think - it is not an intelligent plant."
During a live performance in New York in 1999, Sfakianakis caused consternation amongst his audience after airing his critical opinions about America's foreign policies. As a result, certain members of the audience (composed mainly of Greek-Americans) attempted an unsuccessful boycott of Sfakianakis' concerts and productions.
In 2006, Sfakianakis released "To Systima" (The System), which was a scathing attack on the Greek music industry. In the song, Sfakianakis bemoaned the emergence of 'Tragoudistakia' - 'Little singers' - who are loosely defined in the lyrics as 'talentless kids with the same public image'. Since the release of the song Sfakianakis has also been critical of the emergence of TV talent shows such as The X-Factor, claiming that such shows trivialize the entire notion of music production. This stance has drawn criticism, with some claiming that Sfakianakis is afraid of facing competition. Fellow laiko singer Thanos Petrelis, who began his career after finishing third in the 2003 edition of Fame Story, gave his take on Sfakianakis' criticism:
- "Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I have no problem with him doing so. He does make some valid points, and I agree with him to an extent. But [Sfakianakis] should acknowledge that these are exceptions - those who lack talent are in the minority. My mantra is that it is better to be envied than to be pitied."
In the late nineties, Sfakianakis appeared in a television interview, during which he argued that cannabis should be legalised in Greece. When asked if he had ever used the drug, Sfakianakis admitted that he had been habitually smoking cannabis for the last ten years.[6]
He has also used his position to improve awareness of music piracy.
Discography[link]
- Studio albums
- Proti Fora (1991) (First time)
- Eisai Ena Pistoli (1992) (You are a gun) (Platinum)
- Me To N Kai Me To S (1993) (With the N to the S) (Platinum)
- Notioanatolitika Tou Kosmou (1994) (Southeast of the world) (2× Platinum)[1]
- 5o Vima (1996) (Fifth step) (4× Platinum)[3]
- I Notes Einai 7psyhes (1998) (The notes are immortal) (5× Platinum)[1][3]
- Polihroma Kai Entona (2000) (Multi-coloured and intense) (2× Platinum)[3]
- As Milisoun Ta Tragoudia (2002) (Let the songs speak) (Platinum)[3]
- Me Agapi O,ti Kaneis (2004) (With love whatever you do) (Platinum)
- Ana Gennisis (2005) (Rebirth) (2× Platinum)[3]
- Mnimes (2007) (Memories) (Platinum)[2]
- 21+4 Matomena Dakrya (2011) (Bloody teardrops) (4× Platinum)[2]
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- Compilations
- Ta Zeïbekika Tou Noti Stis 9/8 (2002) (Notis' zeibekika at 9/8)
- 32 Megales Epitihies (2002) (31 big hits)
- Notis: Deka Me Tono (2003) (Notis: ten with an accent) (Gold)[2]
- Evaisthites Notes (2004) (Sensitive notes)
- I Oraioteres Balantes (2005) (The most beautiful ballads)
- 14 Megala Tragoudia (2007) (14 big songs)
- The Collection: The EMI Years (2007)
- Opa Opa...Ta Horeftika (2010) (Opa Opa...the dance songs)
- 25 Hronia (2010) (25 years)
- Video albums;
- 'Hits on DVD: Notis Sfakianakis — 1992–2001 (2004)
- Ta Horeftika Tou Noti (2005) (Notis' dance songs)
Notes[link]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Nickson, Chris. "Notis Sfakianakis". AllMusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/notis-sfakianakis-p457248/biography. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Savvopoulou, Despina (18 April 2009). "Tα "αστέρια" πέφτουν, οι έντεχνοι αντέχουν" (in Greek). Eleftheros Typos.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Evfraimidou, Maria (2 November 2010). "Νότης Σφακιανάκης: γεννήθηκε σαν σήμερα το 1959" (in Greek). Tralala. http://www.tralala.gr/specials/musichistory/item/8067-san-simera-notis-sfakianakis-bio. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ Develegas, Cosmas (23 October 1999). "A Sampling of Veteran Artists And Newcomers Who Help Define The Athens Music Scene". Billboard. pp. 54. http://books.google.ca/books?id=dwgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54&dq=sakis+rouvas#v=onepage&q=sakis%20rouvas&f=false. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
- ^ "Νότης Σφακιανάκης: "Από τότε που γεννήθηκα ήμουν αντιδραστικός κι αυτό μου κόστισε πάρα πολύ"." (in Greek). Tralala. 19 November 2010. http://www.tralala.gr/music-news/item/8866-notis-sfakianakis-ekpompi. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Error: no
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External links[link]
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| Name | Sfakianakis, Notis |
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| Date of birth | 2 November 1959 |
| Place of birth | Herakleion, Crete, Greece |
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