What type of media does John Boorman and Janez Lapajne have in common?
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John Boorman John Boorman ( ; born 18 January 1933) is an English filmmaker who is best known for his feature films such as "Point Blank", "Hell in the Pacific", "Deliverance", "Zardoz", "Excalibur", "The Emerald Forest", "Hope and Glory", "The General", "The Tailor of Panama", and "Queen and Country". He has directed 22 films and received five Academy Award nominations.
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Janez Lapajne Janez Lapajne [yannez la-pie-nay] (born 24 June 1967 in Celje, Slovenia) is a Slovenian film director, producer, writer, editor and production designer.
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The Mentalist The Mentalist is an American police drama/mystery television series that ran from September 23, 2008 until February 18, 2015, broadcasting 151 episodes over seven seasons, on CBS. The show was created by Bruno Heller, who is also its executive producer. The show follows former "psychic" Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), who is a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), using the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to "read" people's minds.
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Tad Low Tad Low (born Josiah Orne Low IV on September 26, 1966) is an American businessman and media entrepreneur. He is the creator and producer of television shows, including "Pop-Up Video" and "Pants-Off Dance-Off". He currently helms Spin The Bottle, a multimedia content company based in New York City. Low’s work has been noted in the press for its ironic sensibility, and his shows simultaneously critique and celebrate popular culture in all of its banal and sublime incarnations. The paradoxical nature of Low's aesthetic was articulated by "New York" magazine when it dubbed "Pants-Off Dance-Off" both "brilliant and lowbrow."
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John Fiske (media scholar) John Fiske (born 1939) is a media scholar who has taught around the world. He was a Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His areas of interest include cultural studies, popular culture, media semiotics and television studies. He is the author of eight books, including "Power Plays, Power Works" (1993), "Understanding Popular Culture" (1989), "Reading the Popular" (1989), and the influential "Television Culture" (1987). Fiske also acts as a media critic, examining how cultural meaning is created in American society, and how debates over issues such as race are handled in different media. In May 2008, Fiske received an Honorary Degree from the University of Antwerp.
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Janusz Kamiński Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński, A.S.C. (] ; born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and film director who started his career in the United States. He rose to fame in the 1990s with his innovative work on "Schindler's List" (1993). He has established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer on his movies since 1993. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). In recent years, Kamiński has also moved into the field of directing, first with the horror film "Lost Souls", and later television series like "The Event" and "The Divide".
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Abel Ferrara Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known films include "Ms. 45" (1981), "King of New York" (1990), "Bad Lieutenant" (1992) and "The Funeral" (1996).
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John Waters John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films.
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Ted Baehr M. Robert E. Theodore Baehr (born May 31, 1946) is an American media critic and Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, a division of Good News Communications, Inc. He is publisher and Editor-in-Chief of "Movieguide", a website and biweekly journal that evaluates motion pictures and other entertainment products from a conservative Christian perspective on suitability for family consumption. He also hosts nationally and internationally syndicated "Movieguide" radio and television programs. The organization's mission is "to redeem the values of the mass media of entertainment, according to biblical principles, by influencing industry executives and artists and by informing and educating the public about the influence of the entertainment media and about how to train their families to become media-wise, so they can choose the good and reject the bad."
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Glass Elevator Media Glass Elevator Media is an American media company, started by entrepreneur Adrienne Becker. In 2014, Glass Elevator merged with Killer Films and acquired technology company Viewur to form Killer Content, Inc. Union Editorial joined with a group of private investors to fund Killer Content." As of 2014, Glass Elevator has about a dozen Web, TV, and film projects in the works including a film based on the best-selling novel, "This Beautiful Life", by Helen Schulman, to be co-produced with Killer Films.
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Soulz at Zero Soulz at Zero (SAZ) was a lit group formed in 1994 by Jack Flack (Rob O'Hara) and The Stranger (Stephen Alba). SAZ released 25 monthly packs over a period of two years, beginning in September 1994 and ending in September 1996. The group took its name from a Souls at Zero poster Flack had in his bedroom at the time, with the trailing "s" in "Souls" changed to a "z". Soulz at Zero was so well known that their name was added to the "Elite Acronym List," which was used to separate "lamers" from "elite users."
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Balazs Szabo Balazs Szabo is a Hungarian-born artist and author who has lived in the United States since 1956. He is best known as a fine artist influenced by the Viennese "fantastic realists" style. He derives his artistic inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs among others. His portraits, large murals and surrealist works are internationally-known and can be found in private and in corporate collections throughout Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Europe and the United States. Balazs Szabo's selected works are in the museums of Hawaii, New Jersey and North Carolina. Mr. Szabo's first published art book THE EYE OF MUSE (1985)) won the 1987 USA Print Design Excellence Award was selected out of 40,000 contestants. His historical autobiography KNOCK IN THE NIGHT published by Refugee Press (2006) has been translated into the Hungarian from the original English in 2008.
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Starz Distribution Starz Distribution (previously IDT Entertainment and Starz Media) is the motion picture, animation, television, and home video operating unit of Starz Inc., a subsidiary of Lionsgate. Starz Distribution develops, produces, and acquires original programming content (Starz and AMC), feature films (Anchor Bay Films), anime (Manga Entertainment) and other filmed entertainment. Distribution methods include DVD, digital formats and traditional television.
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The Fourth Kind The Fourth Kind is a 2009 American science fiction horror film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and featuring a cast of Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Corey Johnson, Will Patton, Charlotte Milchard, Mia Mckenna-Bruce, Yulian Vergov, and Olatunde Osunsanmi. The title is derived from the expansion of J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the fourth kind denotes alien abductions.
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John Lavin (artist) John Lavin is a production designer, art director and painter from Seattle, Washington. He works mainly in film, music videos, commercials, and photography.
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Charley Boorman Charley Boorman (born 23 August 1966) is an English TV presenter, travel writer and actor. He is known for his enthusiasm for motorbikes, as demonstrated in several documentaries of his travels, including two with his friend, actor Ewan McGregor.
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Jane Joritz-Nakagawa Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (中川ジェーン ) , born in 1960, is an avant-garde, expatriate American poet and essayist who resides in Japan. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, poetry chapbooks, and a poetry broadside. Hundreds of her poems appear in print and online journals and anthologies published in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Her work is archived in the University of Chicago library's special collection of poetry from Japan.
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Elliot Mintz Elliot Mintz (born February 16, 1945) is an American consultant. In the 1960s and early 1970s Mintz was an underground radio DJ and host. In the 1970s he became a spokesperson for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and took on other musicians and actors as clients as a publicist, including Bob Dylan. He later became the publicist for Paris Hilton.
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CBS News Sunday Morning CBS News Sunday Morning is an American newsmagazine television program that has aired on CBS since January 28, 1979. Created by Robert Northshield and original host Charles Kuralt, the 90-minute program currently airs Sundays from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Eastern, Pacific Time from 7:00 to 8:30 a.m. and 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. in all other time zones (live in the Eastern and Central time zones, and on tape delay elsewhere). The show is hosted by Jane Pauley, who succeeded Charles Osgood on October 9, 2016. Osgood was the host for twenty-two years, taking over from Kuralt in April 1994. Substitute host is Lee Cowan.
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Richard Lerman Richard Lerman (Dec 5, 1944 in San Francisco, CA) is a composer and sound artist whose, "work...centers around his custom-made contact microphones of unusually small size," including, "piezo disks and other transducers". He studied with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor.
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Darkroom (TV series) Darkroom is an American television thriller anthology series produced by Universal Television which aired on ABC from November 27, 1981 to January 15, 1982. As an anthology horror/thriller series it was similar in style to Rod Serling's "Night Gallery." Each 60-minute episode featured two or more stories of varying length with a new story and a new cast, but each of the episode wraparound segments was hosted by James Coburn. Among the performers who appeared on the series were Steve Allen, Esther Rolle, Helen Hunt, Claude Akins, Richard Anderson, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Carole Cook, David Carradine, Billy Crystal, Pat Buttram, Brian Dennehy, Lawrence Pressman, Dub Taylor, Rue McClanahan, Lloyd Bochner, Ronny Cox, R. G. Armstrong, and June Lockhart.
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Jonathan Meath Jonathan Meath (born September 16, 1955) is an American TV producer based in Boston who is notable for children's television production. He was Senior Producer of the TV game show "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" He produced "Zoom (1999)" and "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss." He co-founded a production company called Andanzura. In addition, he is notable for having a dual career as a professional Santa Claus. He made numerous appearances in various media as Santa, including ABC's "Good Morning America" show, and at New York's Radio City Music Hall with The Rockettes. He appeared on the cover of "Boston Magazine" as "Father Christmas". He was described by "National Public Radio" and "Time Magazine" as a "top Santa", and appeared as Santa in a Delta Airline's in-flight safety video. He is featured as Santa in Coca-Cola’s worldwide 2016 holiday advertising campaign both in print and commercials titled “A Coke for Christmas."