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Blake Nelson (born August 31, 1965) is an American author of adult and children's literature. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Wesleyan University and New York University. He lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area.
Nelson began his career writing short humor pieces for Details magazine in the mid-nineties. These articles, with titles like "How to Date a Feminist" and "How to Live on $3600 a year", explored the slacker west coast lifestyle.
His first novel Girl was excerpted in Sassy magazine in three successive issues. The mail Sassy received in response was key to the eventual publication of Girl.Girl has since been published in eight foreign countries and made into a film of the same name. The novel was reissued as a young adult novel by Simon & Schuster young adult imprint Simon Pulse in October 2007.
Nelson's novel Paranoid Park was made into a film of the same name by Gus Van Sant. The book won the prestigious Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy. The film won a special 60th Anniversary prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
Timothy 'Tim' Blake (born 6 February 1952, in Shepherd's Bush, London) is a Keyboardist, Synthesist, Vocalist, and Composer working with both Gong and Hawkwind.
Blake is also known for his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Patrice Warrener.
They were sometimes joined on keyboards by the young prodigy Jean-Philippe Rykiel.
Working as a sound engineer in the summer of 1969, Blake gave a group of musicians their first chance to play together during a concert at All Saints Hall in London, and so Hawkwind was born..
It was as an engineer, too, that Blake met Daevid Allen at Marquee Studios, where the latter was recording his first solo album Bananamoon in 1971. At the end of the sessions Allen had invited Blake to come back to France to be Gong's sound mixer, but Blake rapidly moved on to work on his own music, using synthesisers. He eventually joined Gong full-time in September 1972 as the band's synthesizer player, being among the first to bring the synthesizer out of the studio and on to the stage. He appears on all 3 albums of the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy; Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg, and You, in fact Blake is the only composer, apart from the Allen/Smyth partnership, to have written for all three of the "Trilogy" Albums, making him one of Gong's most important composers.
Actors: Sesh Evans (miscellaneous crew), Ariel Fisher (actor), Dutch Haling (actor), Ashley Hubbard (miscellaneous crew), Mary Carrig (actress), Chuck Marra (actor), James Bane (actor), Ronald Morris (writer), Ronald Morris (producer), Ronald Morris (director), Parker Morris (editor), Daniel Rodriguez (actor), Kimberly Everhart (actress), Camille Hartmetz (actor), Jackie Ulmer (producer),
Plot: In this dramatic portrayal of a young teen's struggle to become a country singer, Lexi plays Blake Nelson, a fourteen year-old girl with a lifetime of family tragedy. Against all odds, Blake steals away to a country venue long forgotten but held together by Miley Rawls, once a country hopeful herself. In this one fateful day, Blake's heartfelt original songs tell the story of her family's battle to stave off homelessness, and her mother's fight to live long enough to see her daughter perform.
Genres: Drama, Music, Short,Actors: Alan Hale (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor), Martin Faust (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Herbert Anderson (actor), Richard Crane (actor), Ross Elliott (actor), Dan Dailey (actor), Murray Alper (actor), John Daheim (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Charles Butterworth (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Richard Irving (actor), Eddie Hall (actor),
Plot: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Keywords: based-on-stage-musical, basic-training, blackface, famous-song, man-dressed-as-woman, military, minstrel-show, orchestral-music-score, patriotism, show