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14 hours ago · Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on P. L. Travers 's book series Mary Poppins. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie ...
14 hours ago · "The Sound of Silence" was a top-ten hit in multiple countries worldwide, among them Australia, Austria, West Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. Generally considered a classic folk rock song, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" in 2012, along with the rest of the Sounds of Silence album.
14 hours ago · Ismo Alanko (born 1960) – Taivaan tulet, Remontti. Mazhar Alanson (born 1950) – Everything's Gonna Be Great. Damon Albarn (born 1968) – Ordinary Decent Criminal, Ravenous, 101 Reykjavík. Charles Albertine (1929–1986) Bob Alcivar (born 1938) – Butterflies Are Free, The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder, Hysterical.
14 hours ago · Jean Giraud. Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (French: [ʒiʁo]; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius (/ ˈmoʊbiəs /; [1] French: [møbjys]) for his fantasy/science-fiction ...
14 hours ago · The decade also saw the Commonwealth influence British film, as Pressure and A Private Enterprise are considered the first Black British and British Asian films respectively. 1981's Chariots of Fire and 1982's Gandhi both won the Best Picture Oscar, the latter winning eight awards, prompting a resurgence in period films. 1982 also saw the creation of Channel 4, which had a remit to promote films for minority audiences. Films with racial and LGBT themes were produced, while Channel 4's ...
14 hours ago · Kabir Akhtar (born 1975) College class of 1996 [17] American television director and editor, who won an Emmy Award in 2016 and whose credits include work for Arrested Development, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Never Have I Ever, Behind the Music, and the Academy Awards [18] Elizabeth Alexander: poet who recited at the 2009 inauguration of President ...
14 hours ago · Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s / DEZ-i-DEER-ee-əs irr-AZ-məs, Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːrijʏs eːˈrɑsmʏs]; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
