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LeVar Burton Levardis Robert Martyn "LeVar" Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, presenter, director and author. He is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children's series "Reading Rainbow", Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in "" and the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries "Roots". He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of "Star Trek", among other programs.
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Kunta Kinte Kunta Kinte ( 1750 – 1822; ) is a character in the novel "" by American author Alex Haley. Haley claimed that Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America and who died in 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in "Roots" was a mixture of fact and fiction. The extent to which Kunta Kinte is based on fact is disputed.
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Exposure (Peet novel) Exposure is a sports novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books in 2008. Inspired by William Shakespeare's Othello, the story follows Otello, a black association football player and his high-profile relationship with Desmerelda, a white celebrity. It also has a parallel plot about three street kids trying to live life in abject poverty.
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Winds of Sinhala The Winds of Sinhala is a historical novel, written by Sri Lankan novelist Colin De Silva, and published in 1982. The story is set in Sri Lanka in the 2nd century BC and is a fictionalized take on the historical events surrounding the Sri Lankan King Dutugemunu's campaign to defeat the foreign Chola King Elara, and reunify Sri Lanka under native rule.
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The Andalite Chronicles The Andalite Chronicles is a science-fiction novel, and is the first companion book to the "Animorphs" series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the timeline of the series, this book takes place before the first book in the series, "The Invasion". The book was published in late 1997, and was followed the next year by the second companion book in the "Chronicles" series, "The Hork-Bajir Chronicles". Before its wide release, however, the story was offered in the form of 3 separate volumes to school book clubs, which some considered a "typically savvy" marketing move.
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Chander Pahar (franchise) Chander Pahar is an Indian Bengali language franchise consisting of novels, graphic novels and a film series. The original work is a 1937 novel named "Chander Pahar", written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. It was translated to English in 2002 by Santanu Sinha Choudhuri and Pradeep Kumar Sinha, published by Orient Blackswan. The English version of the novel was titled "Mountain of the Moon". Bandyopadhyay’s story was adapted into a Graphic novel and a live-action film in 2013. A sequel to the 2013 film "Amazon Obhijaan", written by the director of the first film Kamaleswar Mukherjee, will be released in 2016.
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The Call of the Wild (1976 film) The Call of the Wild is a 1976 American television film based on Jack London's 1903 novel "The Call of the Wild". The film, starring John Beck, was directed by Jerry Jameson from a script by the poet and novelist James Dickey. One of several adaptations of London's novel, this version was produced following the success of the 1972 film "Deliverance", an adaptation of Dickey's novel of the same title. The author's son, Christopher Dickey, wrote in his 1998 memoir, "Summer of Deliverance", that "[t]he Hollywood concept [for the 1976 film] was James Dickey meets Jack London; sort of "Deliverance" in the Klondike."
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Who Will Remember the People... Who Will Remember the People... (French: Qui se souvient des hommes... ) is a 1986 novel by the French writer Jean Raspail. It tells the history of the Alacalufe people, a largely extinct South American tribe, throughout the centuries. The two main characters reappear in each generation. The native name of the Alacufs is "Kaweskar", which means "the people". Raspail had met members of the tribe in the early 1950s which had made an impression that stayed with him.
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Tara Road (film) Tara Road is a film based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy.
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Empire Falls (miniseries) Empire Falls is a two-part miniseries that aired on HBO in 2005. It is based on the eponymous 2001 novel by Richard Russo. The miniseries was nominated for and won multiple awards, including various Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. It is directed by Fred Schepisi.
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It (miniseries) It is a 1990 American supernatural horror drama mini-series directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and adapted by Lawrence D. Cohen from the Stephen King novel of the same name.
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Raylan Raylan is a 2012 novel by Elmore Leonard, the author's final work before he died in 2013. The novel is based on the FX television series "Justified", which was in turn based on Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole" and the character of Raylan Givens, who appeared in that short story as well as the novels "Pronto" and "Riding the Rap." "Raylan" is not a direct sequel to any of these novels, nor is it a direct sequel to the television series. Elements from both are changed: Boyd Crowder, who died in "Fire in the Hole" but is still alive in "Justified" is alive and a major character in "Raylan," while characters original to "Justified" such as Dickie and Coover Bennett return in repurposed forms, as Dickie and Coover Crowe. Several plotlines in "Raylan" were adapted by the writers of "Justified" into episodes of the show's third season, most notably with the episode "Thick as Mud."
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Blind Faith (book) Blind Faith is a 1989 true crime novel by Joe McGinniss, based on the 1984 case in which American businessman Robert O. Marshall was charged with (and later convicted of) the contract killing of his wife, Maria. The book was adapted into an television miniseries of the same name in 1990.
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Foreign Affairs (novel) Foreign Affairs is a 1984 novel by Alison Lurie, which concerns itself with American academics in England. The novel won multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985, was nominated for the 1984 National Book Award, and was made into a television movie in 1993.
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Amerika (miniseries) Amerika is an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987 on ABC. The miniseries inspired a novelization entitled "Amerika: The Triumph of the American Spirit". "Amerika" starred Kris Kristofferson, Mariel Hemingway, Sam Neill, Robert Urich, and a 17-year-old Lara Flynn Boyle in her first major role. "Amerika" was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union. Not wanting to depict the actual takeover, ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard set the miniseries ten years after the event, focusing on the demoralized U.S. people a decade after the Soviet conquest. The intent, he later explained, was to explore the U.S. spirit under such conditions, not to portray the conflict of the Soviet coup.
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Elphaba Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in "" by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway and West End adaptations, "Wicked".
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Jonah (miniseries) Jonah is a 1982 Australian mini series based on the novel of the same name by Louis Stone. It is about Jonah, leader of a street gang who goes into business.
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The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck is a 1984 television film directed by Simon Langton. The film, starring Marlo Thomas and Kris Kristofferson, is based on the 1974 novel "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum" by Heinrich Böll, and has been released on VHS under the title Act of Passion.
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Andrew Taylor (author) Andrew Taylor (born 14 October 1951) is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and historical novels such as the best-selling "The American Boy" and "The Ashes of London". His accolades include the Diamond Dagger, Britain's top crime-writing award.
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Blindsight (Watts novel) Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It garnered nominations for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed 'Burns-Caulfield' that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the solar system, followed by their subsequent first contact. The novel explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology. "Blindsight" is available online under a Creative Commons license. Its sequel "Echopraxia" came out in 2014.
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A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book.
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Kala (Tarzan) Kala is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, "Tarzan of the Apes", and in movies based on it.