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Alfred Alvarez (born 5 August 1929) is an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.
Alfred Alvarez was born in London. He was educated at The Hall School in Hampstead, London, and then Oundle School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took a First in English. After teaching briefly in Oxford and the USA, he became a full-time writer in his late twenties. From 1956 to 1966, he was the poetry editor and critic for The Observer, where he introduced British readers to John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Zbigniew Herbert, and Miroslav Holub.
Alvarez is the author of many non-fiction books. He is best known for his study of suicide, The Savage God, which gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath. He has also written on divorce (Life After Marriage), dreams (Night), and the oil industry (Offshore), as well as his hobbies of poker (The Biggest Game In Town) and mountaineering (Feeding the Rat, a profile of his frequent climbing partner Mo Anthoine). His 1999 autobiography is entitled Where Did It All Go Right?
Heaven, the heavens or seven heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, or transcendent place where heavenly beings such as gods, angels, jinn, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or to live. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to earth or incarnate, and earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife, or in exceptional cases enter Heaven alive.
Heaven is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to Hell or the Underworld or the "low places", and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply the will of God. Some believe in the possibility of a Heaven on Earth in a World to Come.
Another belief is in an axis mundi or world tree which connects the heavens, the terrestrial world, and the underworld. In Indian religions, Heaven is considered as Svarga loka, and the soul is again subjected to rebirth in different living forms according to its karma. This cycle can be broken after a soul achieves Moksha or Nirvana. Any place of existence, either of humans, souls or deities, outside the tangible world (Heaven, Hell, or other) is referred to as otherworld.
Actors: Art Roberts (actor), Randal Malone (actor), Phil Messerer (writer), Phil Messerer (director), Phil Messerer (editor), Phil Messerer (actor), Phil Messerer (producer), Kenichi Iwabuchi (actor), Tony Tarantino (actor), Tony Tarantino (producer), Lauren Byrnes (actress), Emilee Wilson (actress), Gary A. Kauffman (actor), Wade Cordts (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Cronin (actor),
Plot: Uforic, a cowardly gangster rapper, hitches a ride with York, a redneck who takes him out to the desert to execute him for fun. But before York is able to pull the trigger, Uforic tells him about a secret transaction involving a mysterious briefcase and a large amount of cash. This sets into motion a series of events that will inevitably involve much of the L.A. underworld and may just bring down corporate America. York tells Queel, a dirty cop, who tells Lucy, a homicidal stripper and is overheard by Carl Mauve, the greasy club owner, who hires Smith and Wesson, a pair of bungling thugs, who have it stolen from them by Norman, a pickpocket with a Jewish Dominatrix mother, who brings it to Dr. Zeus, a local Meth cook, who might just be able to solve the secret of the briefcase. Meanwhile an insane, bloodthirsty hit man named Versetti, working for a large multinational corporation, will stop at nothing to get it back.
Keywords: bank, black-men, blood, blues, briefcase, catfight, club, cocaine, contraband, corrupt-agentActors: Gavin ap' Morrygan (producer), Richard Lackey (editor), Richard Lackey (producer), Richard Lackey (writer), Pascale Neuschafer (actress), Leon Laubscher (actor), St. John Alexander (actor), Leon Laubscher (writer), Leon Laubscher (director), Carin Bowman (actress), Tarryn Saunders (actor), Carin Bowman (composer), Warrick Mcleod (actor), Johan Verwey (actor), Delaney Carpenter (actress),
Genres: Crime, Short,Actors: Al Thompson (actor), Rick Poli (actor), Craig muMs Grant (actor), Chris DePierro (actor), Stephen Hill (actor), Aaron F. Schnore (writer), Aaron F. Schnore (producer), Bridget Barkan (actress), Dani Marco (actress), Jorge Rivera (writer), Jorge Rivera (producer), Billy Fox (writer), Philippe Roc (director), Billy Fox (producer), Gia Henderson (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Joel D. Wynkoop (actor), Chris Woods (editor), Cyndi Crotts (actress), Rod Grant (actor), Kevin Anthony Brooks (actor), Michael Kenneth Fahr (actor), Jillian Kinsman (actress), Ryan Justice (miscellaneous crew), Krista Grotte (actress), Kevin Joseph McCarthy (miscellaneous crew), Andy Lalino (producer), Andy Lalino (writer), Rob Elfstrom (actor), Andrew Allan (writer), Andrew Allan (producer),
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi,Actors: André Des Rochers (miscellaneous crew), Al Thompson (actor), Rick Poli (actor), Craig muMs Grant (actor), Chris DePierro (actor), Jim Czarnecki (producer), Stephen Hill (actor), Zairi Malcolm (miscellaneous crew), Aaron F. Schnore (writer), Aaron F. Schnore (producer), Peter Gluck (miscellaneous crew), Michael Hampton (composer), Bridget Barkan (actress), Dani Marco (actress), Jorge Rivera (producer),
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Jimmy Walker Jr. (actor), Joseph Marcell (actor), Joseph Marcell (director), Roy Lee Jones (actor), Donnell Turner (actor), Ozborne A. Williams (actor), Lynne Burnett (writer), Lynne Burnett (producer), Lynne Burnett (actress), Millicent Burnett (producer), Abdullah Rasheen Hall (actor), Scotti Austin (actress), Millicent Burnett (producer), Kessha Manjean (miscellaneous crew), Columbia (actress),
Plot: what happens when you put together a crazy receptionist and a bunch of greedy real estate agents? You get Diamond Real Estate. Ain't noting Diamond about this bunch of hilarious nuts all fighting for the big sale. Slapstick humor all the way!
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Dalila Ali Rajah (actress), Stephanie Wynne (producer), Stephanie Wynne (writer), Stephanie Wynne (director), Dante Korina (miscellaneous crew), E'Yama (actress), Janice Camp (actress),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Martin Donovan (actor), Patrick Malahide (actor), Richard Schiff (actor), Kate Walsh (actress), Harvey Weinstein (producer), Bob Weinstein (producer), Karl Urban (actor), Wynter Blathwayt (miscellaneous crew), Fran Walsh (miscellaneous crew), Joanna Going (actress), Liz DiFiore (miscellaneous crew), Dianne Moffatt (miscellaneous crew), Vance Hartwell (miscellaneous crew), Jared Connon (miscellaneous crew), Victoria Kelly (composer),
Plot: A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual stripper who is bothered by accurate, but extremely violent visions of future events. The increasingly violent visions start including the architect, who doesn't believe in the prophesy. One who does however is a psychiatrist who is seeing both the stripper and the architect and is sleeping with the ex-wife. He uses the prophecies for his own financial gain. Finally the scenes from the vision move into reality amidst many plot turns.
Keywords: alleyway, ambulance, anal-intercourse, anger, anxiety, architect, arson, audio-cassette, bar, bartenderActors: Uschi Digard (actress), Edward L. Montoro (producer), Edward L. Montoro (director), Edward L. Montoro (writer), Phyllis Stengel (actress), James Somich (producer), Jennie Lynn (actress), Scott Cameron (actor), Miles White (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy,Actors: Earl St. John (producer), Philip Green (composer), Lynne Roberts (actress), David McCallum (actor), Robert Raglan (actor), Michael Relph (producer), John Slater (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Clifford Evans (actor), Moultrie Kelsall (actor), Melvyn Hayes (actor), Jeremy Bulloch (actor), Stanley Baker (actor), Basil Dearden (director), Joan Ellacott (costume designer),
Genres: Crime, Drama,(Difford/Tilbrook)
Bar illuminations shiver
Shadows on the street
The Cypriot sailors
Find the world back at their feet
Endless days of tobacco nights by the radio
I wonder if they'll ever go to heaven
The beer mats are wading
In a table of froth
The bar girl is serving
With a check drying cloth
She'll bend over backwards even though she's knackered
I wonder if there'll have her up in heaven
Like the sailors I walk home, it's six a.m.
Heaven's round the corner in a comfortable bed
And I love her.
The officers and seamen
Elbow places at the bar
Words that tempt the goddess
Don't leave beats upon the heart
But she'll service his pleasure
And never know the treasure
That his wife keeps forever up in heaven
The first light of the morning
Proves too much for the street
No one sees each other
Just their presence there to meet
Your chin takes to stubble at the sight of a funnel
And the gangplank is no trouble up to heaven