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The 2090s decade will begin on January 1, 2090 and will end on December 31, 2099.

Notable predictions and known events[link]

2090[link]

• September 23 – Total Solar Eclipse in the UK. The next total eclipse visible in the UK follows a track similar to that of August 11, 1999, but shifted slightly further north and occurring very near sunset. Maximum duration in Cornwall will be 2 minutes and 10 seconds. Same day and month as the eclipse of September 23, 1699.
• The European Energy Council and Greenpeace believes that the entire world can be powered by renewable energy by 2090.
• On July 8 or August 7 (depending on date notation), at 12:34:56, the time and date will read 12:34:56 7/8/90.

2092[link]

• Work on cleaning up the site of the Oldbury Nuclear Power Station near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England, which was decommissioned on 29 February 2012, is scheduled to be complete no earlier than 2092 (and possibly as late as 2101).^[1]

2094[link]

• April 7 – Mercury occults Jupiter; it will be very close to the Sun and impossible to view with naked eye.
• March 19 – A time capsule sealed exactly hundred years before is scheduled to be opened at the Denver International Airport.

2099[link]

• 2099 is the maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Operating Systems.
• According to one study, 83% of the Amazon rainforest may be destroyed.^[2]

Fictional events[link]

2090[link]

• The racing game Ballistics is set in 2090.
• In the Star Trek universe, the Orpheus Mining Colony on Luna is established. (From Star Trek Enterprise: "Terra Prime").

2091[link]

• Back to the Future: The Animated Series episode "Solar Sailors" is set on December 15 of this year.

2092[link]

• The Mary Shelley novel The Last Man focuses on a deadly pandemic that breaks out in the year 2092.
• Fictional character Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise is born this year.
• Fictional character Nemo Nobody from Mr. Nobody wakes up and experiences the Big Crunch.
• BTA pilot Willis E. Davidge from Enemy Mine is reported MIA (Missing In Action) on July 11, 2092.

2094[link]

• Events of the First Man-Machine War from The Matrix saga begin.
• The Tiny Tank of Tiny Tank: Up Your Arsenal is first destroyed.
• World Unification Phil of the Future
• First manned landing on Mars in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge

2095[link]

• Electric Light Orchestra's 1981 concept album Time partially takes place in 2095.
• Time Warp Trio book 2095 takes place in 2095.
• 2Pac's music video for California Love is based in 2095.
• Operation Dark Storm is executed in 2095.
• BTA pilot Willis E. Davidge from Enemy Mine is rescued from Fyrine IV on September 6, 2095.

2096[link]

• Events in the children's novel Tommy Storm take place.
• Events in Leprechaun 4: In Space take place.
• Events in the SimCity video game Las Vegas scenario where extraterrestrial attack the town take place in this year.
• The character Cy-5 from the video game, War Gods, comes from this year.

2097[link]

• The film The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell is set in this year.
• Events in Mary Shelley's The Last Man take place.
• Events in the PC fighting game, One Must Fall: 2097 take place.
• Events of the futuristic racing game Wipeout 2097 take place.
• Events of Crystalis take place.
• Events in X-Kaliber 2097 take place.
• Disney's Recess has Old Rusty survive to this date.
• Events in Star Ocean 4 take place.

2099[link]

• In 1992, Marvel Comics released several future-based comic book series as part of its Marvel 2099 line. Spider-Man 2099, the lead title in the line, was accompanied by other books such as X-Men, Punisher, Doom, Ghost Rider and many others, each including "2099" in the title.
• Beginning date of Judge Dredd stories in British comic 2000 AD. Judge Dredd stories are set 122 years into the future and progress forward in 'real time' (so stories from 1977 are set in 2099, and stories from 2007 are set in 2129).
• The 2099 series by John Peel are set in this year.
• The science fiction radio sitcom Nebulous is set in this year.
• In 1996, Marvel Comics and DC Comics teamed up to create Amalgam Comics it released several future-based comic book series called Legion of Galactic Guardians 2099
• This is the setting of the music video "Boyfriend" from Big Time Rush.

References[link]

Martin Landau
Landau in 2010
Born	(1928-06-20) June 20, 1928 (age 84)[1] Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, producer
Years active	1956–present
Spouse	Barbara Bain (m. 1957–1993) «start: (1957)–end+1: (1994)»"Marriage: Barbara Bain to Martin Landau" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Martin_Landau); divorced
Children	Susan Landau, Juliet Landau

Martin Landau (born June 20, 1928)^[1] is an American film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). He played continuing roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations) and Space:1999. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture and his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). His performance in the supporting role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994) earned him the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe. He continues to perform in film and television and heads the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio.

Early life[link]

Landau was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Selma and Morris Landau.^[2] His family was Jewish, and his father, an Austrian-born machinist, scrambled to rescue relatives from the Nazis.^[3] He attended James Madison High School and The Pratt Institute before finding full-time work as a cartoonist.^[4]

Career[link]

[edit] Cartoonist on The Gumps

At the age of 17, he began working as a cartoonist for the Daily News, illustrating Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" column and assisting Gus Edson on The Gumps comic strip during the 1940s and 1950s, eventually drawing the Sunday strip for Edson.^[5] (Some sources have confused him with the comic book artist Kenneth Landau and incorrectly claim that Martin Landau drew for comic books using the name Ken Landau as a pseudonym.)^[6] When he was 22, he quit the Daily News job in order to concentrate on theater.

Films, theater and TV[link]

Influenced by Charlie Chaplin and the escapism of the cinema, he pursued an acting career. He attended the Actors Studio, became good friends with iconic actor James Dean, and later was in the same class with Steve McQueen. In 1957, Landau made his Broadway debut in Middle of the Night. In 1959, Landau made his first major film appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

Landau took the role of master of disguise Rollin Hand in Mission: Impossible, becoming one of the TV show's better-known stars. According to The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier, by Patrick J. White (Avon Books, 1991), Landau initially declined to be contracted to the show as he did not want it to interfere with his film career; instead, for the first season he was credited in "special guest appearances by" him. He became a "full-time" cast member with the second season, although the studio agreed to only contract him on a year-by-year basis rather than the then-standard five years. The role of Rollin Hand required Landau to perform a wide range of accents and characters from dictators to thugs, and several episodes saw Landau playing dual roles—not only Hand's impersonation but also the person Hand is impersonating. He co-starred in the series with his then wife, Barbara Bain.

Landau (left) with Patrick Swayze, March 29, 1989

In the mid-1970s, Landau and Bain, teamed with Barry Morse, returned to television in the British science fiction series, Space: 1999, produced first by Gerry Anderson in partnership with Sylvia Anderson and then by Fred Freiberger. Although it remains a cult classic for its high production design values, the series was critically derided during its run and was cancelled after two seasons. Landau himself became very critical of the show's scripts and storylines, especially during its second season, but he praised the cast and crew. He wrote forewords for Barry Morse's 2006 theatrical memoir Remember with Advantages and for Jim Smith's critical biography of Tim Burton.

After Space: 1999, Landau appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and television shows of varying quality, including The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island, which again co-starred Bain. This was the last time the two acted together on screen, as of December 2007.

Landau at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

In the late 1980s, Landau staged a major career comeback by winning an Academy Award nomination for his role in Tucker: The Man and His Dream. He later received a second nomination for Crimes and Misdemeanors and won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his uncanny portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood. Upon accepting the award, he was visibly frustrated by the orchestra's attempt to cut short his speech. When the music level rose, he pounded his fist on the podium and yelled "No!"^[7] He later stated that he had intended to thank Lugosi and dedicate the award to him and his frustration was that he did not get to mention the man whom he portrayed.^[8] Landau received a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe, and a Saturn Award for the role, as well as awards from several critics groups.^[9] When Landau won the Academy Award, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times said that "the award goes to Martin Landau; its shadow goes to Bela Lugosi." Landau admitted, on the Ed Wood DVD, to having been very impressed by the comment.

In 2006 Landau made a guest appearance on the TV series Entourage, playing a washed-up, but determined and sympathetic, Hollywood producer attempting to relive his glory days. Landau received a 2007 Emmy Award nomination for his performance in this role.

In June 2011 Landau began filming the Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-TV movie of Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith, in which he plays Rabbi Albert Lewis.^[10] The film had a "world premiere charity screening" November 16, 2011, in Royal Oak, Michigan, near Detroit.^[11] All ten theaters within the Emogine multiplex theater showed the film, with proceeds benefiting the "A Hole in the Roof Foundation" and the "Rabbi Albert Lewis Fund."^[11] The film premiered on ABC Sunday November 27, 2011, the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend.^[12][13]

Acting coach[link]

Encouraged by his mentor Lee Strasberg, Landau also taught acting. Actors he has coached include Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston. In 2009, Landau, working with director Mark Rydell and screenwriter/playwright Lyle Kessler teamed up to produce an educational seminar, The Total Picture Seminar. It was an unusual two-day event covering the disciplines of acting, directing and writing for film. The three have worked together as a team for many decades at the Actors Studio teaching and coaching professional actors, writers, and directors.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Martin Landau has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6841 Hollywood Boulevard.

Personal life[link]

Landau has two daughters, Susan and Juliet, from his marriage to actress and former co-star Barbara Bain. Landau and Bain married on January 31, 1957, and divorced in 1993. Landau lives in West Hollywood, California.

Filmography[link]

Selected television[link]

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1999.
• Hellmann, Paul T. Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Florence, Ky.: Taylor and Francis, 2005.
• Laufenberg, Norbert. Entertainment Celebrities. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005.
• Riggs, Thomas. Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Detroit, Mich.: Gale/Cengage Learning, 2004.
• Stewart, John. Italian Film: A Who's Who. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1994.
• Welsh, James Michael; Phillips, Gene D.; and Hill, Rodney. The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010.
• Who's Who in Entertainment. Wilmette, Ill.: Marquis Who's Who, 1989.
• Willis, John and Monush, Barry. Screen World 2005 Film Annual. New York: Applause, 2006.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Martin Landau

• Martin Landau at the Internet Movie Database
• The Total Picture Seminar - A Seminar with Martin Landau, Mark Rydell, and Lyle Kessler covering filmmaking.