"of the brown pelican. In the 1993 film ""The Pelican Brief"", based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham, a legal brief speculates that the assassins of two supreme court justices were motivated by a desire to drill for oil on a Louisiana marshland that was a habitat of the endangered brown pelican. In the same year, ""Jurassic Park"" showed a flock of Brown pelicans at the end of the film. In 1998, American conductor David Woodard performed a requiem for a California brown pelican on the seaward limit of the berm of a beach where the"
"in ""Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"" in 1969, with Natalie Wood. Another memorable role came as another gunslinger, Thomas Luther Price, in ""Hannie Caulder"" (1971) opposite Raquel Welch. A year later, ""Hickey & Boggs"" reunited him with Cosby for the first time since ""I Spy"". Culp also directed this feature film, in which Cosby and he portray over-the-hill private eyes. In 1986, he had a primary role as General Woods in the comedy ""Combat Academy"". Culp played the U.S. President in Alan J. Pakula's 1993 murder mystery, ""The Pelican Brief"". Culp appeared in the 1993 live action video"
"1988 and a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The book was the basis for the 1997 film ""Wilde"", directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry as the title character. Neil McKenna's 2003 biography, ""The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde,"" offers an exploration of Wilde's sexuality. Often speculative in nature, it was widely criticised for its pure conjecture and lack of scholarly rigour. Thomas Wright's ""Oscar's Books"" (2008) explores Wilde's reading from his childhood in Dublin to his death in Paris. After tracking down many books that once belonged to Wilde's Tite Street library (dispersed at the time of his trials),"
"revised and updated in 1993. A portion of the 1993 update was printed in the inaugural edition of the ""Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy"". A four-part television documentary based on the revised book was produced by KTEH, the PBS affiliate in San Jose, California, in 1996. The parts are entitled ""Mulholland’s Dream"", ""An American Nile"", ""The Mercy of Nature"", and ""The Last Oasis"". Additionally, Reisner's book inspired fictional works about the effects of climate change (so-called climate fiction), such as Paolo Bacigalupi's near-future thriller ""The Water Knife"" (2015), in which ""Cadillac Desert"" is frequently mentioned by several"
"Summer"" (1973), ""Summer of Fear"" (1976), and the controversial ""Killing Mr. Griffin"" (1978), have been adapted into films. In addition to her novels and children's books, Duncan published several collections of poetry and non-fiction, including ""Who Killed My Daughter?"" (1992), which detailed the 1989 unsolved murder of Duncan's teenage daughter, Kaitlyn. She received the 1992 Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her contribution to writing for teens. After her daughter's murder, Duncan would distance herself from the thriller and horror genres, shifting her focus to picture books and novels aimed for young children. Her last published work,"
"The Day of the Pelican The Day of the Pelican is a children's novel by Katherine Paterson, first published by Clarion Books on October 19, 2009. Critical reception for ""The Day of the Pelican"" has been largely positive. The ""Christian Science Monitor"" was more positive and wrote that it ""does double duty as both a gripping read and a lesson in compassion and global conflict. In her quiet way, Meli is a hero, and teen readers safe from conflict themselves may marvel at her humanity."" The University of Arizona's Worlds of Words was critical of the book and of Paterson's"
"work as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in ""Anything Goes"" (1988) and Terrence McNally's ""Love! Valour! Compassion!"" (1995). He also appeared in McNally's ""The Lisbon Traviata"" (1989), ""Inherit the Wind"" (1998), ""Deep Rising"" (1998), and ""Lips Together, Teeth Apart"" (1991). Heald has recorded over 60 audio books/books on tape, including works as varied as ""Where the Red Fern Grows"", ""The New York Times"" bestsellers such as ""The Pelican Brief"" (in the film adaptation of which he also played a villainous lawyer), ""Jurassic Park"" and ""Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"", several works by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, as"
"Wake"" was an immense riddle, and people find it too difficult to read. I have yet to meet anyone who has read and digested the whole of it—except perhaps my friend Richard Ellmann."" Ellmann quotes extensively from ""Finnegans Wake"" as epigraphs in his biography of Joyce. Ellman's biography ""Oscar Wilde"" won a Pulitzer Prize. In it he examined Wilde's ascent to literary prominence and his public downfall. Posthumously Ellmann won both a U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988 and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The book was the basis for the 1997 film ""Wilde"", directed by Brian"
"abandoned child along the way; she wrote it at night while pregnant with her first child and struggling with insomnia. Her next work of fiction, published in 1990, was ""Homeland and Other Stories"", a collection of short stories on a variety of topics exploring various themes from the evolution of cultural and ancestral lands to the struggles of marriage. The novel ""Animal Dreams"" was also published in 1990, followed by ""Pigs in Heaven"", the sequel to ""The Bean Trees"", in 1993. ""The Poisonwood Bible"", published in 1998, is one of her best known works; it chronicles the lives of the"
"men"". Such films included ""The Fisher King"" (1991) and ""The Shawshank Redemption"" (1994). The decade also saw new approaches to the genre. The 1991 film ""Thelma & Louise"" featured a female pairing of Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, and the 1993 film ""The Pelican Brief"" featured a male–female platonic pairing of Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. The 1998 film ""Rush Hour"" featured a nonwhite male pairing of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, which the ""Los Angeles Times"" said symbolized color blindness in American cinema. Biracial buddy films continued in the 1990s and 2000s and were combined with different genres, such"
"played Tinker Bell in the Steven Spielberg-directed fantasy adventure ""Hook"". Two years later, Roberts starred in the legal thriller ""The Pelican Brief"", an adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same name. During the late 1990s, she played the lead in the romantic comedies ""My Best Friend's Wedding"" (1997), ""Notting Hill"" (1999), and ""Runaway Bride"" (1999). She also played in the movie /Stepmom/ In 2000, Roberts became the first actress to earn $20 million for playing the eponymous environmental activist in the Steven Soderbergh-directed biographical film ""Erin Brockovich"". Her performance garnered her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the"
"(1992) and FBI agent Gavin Vereek in ""The Pelican Brief"" (1993). He starred with Samuel L. Jackson in 1997's ""One Eight Seven"" and was featured in the 2000 miniseries ""Perfect Murder, Perfect Town"". In 1990, Heard starred as Peter McCallister in the comedy ""Home Alone"". He played the part of Kevin's father who unwittingly leaves his son at home when making a Christmas trip to France. Heard chose to characterize the role with a combination of concerned dramatic acting of a father missing his son along with more classical comedic tropes. The film was one of the biggest hits of"
"at numerous film festivals around the world over the past two decades. She has received awards and grants including several Mid-Atlantic Emmys, an ITVS production grant, and Individual Artist Fellowships from the State Arts Councils of Pennsylvania, Florida, and Maryland. The Elephant's Song, 07:40, 2018 The Ballad of Holland Island House, 04:20, 2014 I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died 1.5 minutes, based on Emily Dickinson's poem of the same name. Paper Walls Mixed live action and multi-media animation, 1993, 6 mins. Spotlight film for WHYY, based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story. Cauldron Clay-on-glass, 1994, 5 mins. Funded by"
"adventures living under the sea with her sisters and father. The titles are: ""Green-Eyed Pearl"" and ""Nefazia Visits the Palace"" by Suzanne Weyn; ""Reflections of Arsulu"" and ""The Same Old Song"" by Marilyn Kaye; ""Arista's New Boyfriend"" and ""Ariel the Spy"" by M. J. Carr; ""King Triton, Beware!"", ""The Haunted Palace"" and ""The Boyfriend Mix-Up"" by Katherine Applegate; ""The Practical-Joke War"" by Stephanie St. Pierre; ""The Dolphins of Coral Cove"" by K. S. Rodriguez; and ""Alana's Secret Friend"" by Jess Christopher. The novels mostly focus on the domestic setting of Ariel and her sisters living together. In 1992 Disney Comics"
"The Day of the Dolphin (book) The Day of the Dolphin (""Un animal doué de raison"" – lit. ""A Sentient Animal"") is a 1967 science fiction thriller novel by French novelist Robert Merle. The plot concerns dolphins that are trained to communicate with humans, and their use in warfare. The central character is a government scientist with similar ideas to those of John C. Lilly. The English translation of the novel was published in 1969 with the title ""The Day of the Dolphin"", which is not a literal translation of the French title. The novel was the basis for the"
"The Day of the Dolphin The Day of the Dolphin is a 1973 American science-fiction thriller film directed by Mike Nichols and starring George C. Scott. Based on the 1967 novel ""Un animal doué de raison"" (lit. ""A Sentient Animal""), by French writer Robert Merle, the screenplay was written by Buck Henry. A brilliant and driven scientist, Jake Terrell, and his young and beautiful wife, Maggie, train dolphins to communicate with humans. This is done by teaching the dolphins to speak English in dolphin-like voices. Two of his dolphins, Alpha (""Fa"") and Beta (""Bea""), are stolen by officials of the"
"The Dolphin's Cry (film) The Dolphin's Cry () is 1986 Soviet science fiction film directed by Alexey Saltykov, based on the book by Nikolai Cherkashin ""The Mystery of Archelon"" ""(""The Dolphin's Cry""). The crew of the latest American strategic missile ""Archelon"" is struck by an unknown virus. The command must decide on removing the submarine from combat duty and sending people to quarantine. The cause of the disease is the depressurization of one of the warheads. There are no treatments and the crew is strongly advised to stay in office until the time the antidote is found. Symptoms of the"
"the Sistine Chapel. In 1988 he hosted and narrated an eight-part PBS documentary on the technical and social history of television, produced by PBS affiliates KCET and WNET. He was in demand to play himself in films and on television. Among his film credits were ""The Pelican Brief"", ""Spies Like Us"", and ""My Fellow Americans""; television appearances included episodes of ""Newhart"", ""Mr. Belvedere"", ""The Golden Girls"", ""Wings"", and ""Murphy Brown"". He lectured extensively on the English language and the news business. In 1990, he was a narrator for an Audio Renaissance dramatization of Ernest Callenbach's utopian novel ""Ecotopia"", reading the"
"Windsurf Boy"" (1983), ""The Anderson Question"" (1985), ""The Fourth of July"" (1988), ""Lost Footsteps"" (1993), ""Intimate Letters"" (1993) and ""The Invasion of Sand"" (2005). She is the author of the best-selling ""Kitty and Friends"" series of stories for young girls, including ""I Don't Want To!"" and ""So What?"", which were inspired by her own daughter, Katherine. There were 13 volumes in all, published 1985–2002. She then went on to write a series of six books inspired by her small dog Bonnie, with titles like ""Big Dog Bonnie"" and ""Brave Dog Bonnie"". In all, she published 26 books for children and"
"of fantasy and science fiction in novels that were considered mainstream. They included Buddhist astrology and folk prophecy in ""The Chequer Board""; the effective use of a ouija board in ""No Highway;"" a messiah figure in ""Round the Bend""; reincarnation, science fiction, and Aboriginal psychic powers in ""In the Wet."" Twenty-four of his novels and novellas have been published. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, including ""Lonely Road"" in 1936; ""Landfall: A Channel Story"" in 1949; ""Pied Piper"" in 1942, 1959, and as ""Crossing to Freedom,"" a CBS made-for-television movie, in 1990; ""On the Beach"" in"
"Mefisto in Onyx Mefisto in Onyx is a science fiction novella by American writer Harlan Ellison. The introduction and cover art was by Frank Miller. Originally published in ""OMNI"" Magazine October 1993, then released as a hardcover in December 1993, ""Mefisto in Onyx"" was later included in the Harlan Ellison's 1997 collection ""Slippage"". Ellison stated in an interview with ""Salon"" that he wrote ""Mefisto in Onyx"" to be adapted into a film starring Forest Whitaker. The story won the 1993 Bram Stoker Award, tied with ""The Night We Buried Road Dog"" by Jack Cady. It also won first place in"
"1997 children's book by Vivian Walsh, which borrows its title from a mondegreen of the line ""all of the other reindeer"" in the song ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"". The book was adapted into an animated Christmas special in 1999. A monologue of mondegreens appears in the 1971 film ""Carnal Knowledge"". The camera focuses on actress Candice Bergen laughing as she recounts various phrases that fooled her as a child, including ""Round John Virgin"" (instead of '""Round yon virgin..."") and ""Gladly, the cross-eyed bear"". The enigmatic title of the 2013 film ""Ain't Them Bodies Saints"" is actually a misheard lyric from"
"illustrations by Carl Burger in 1960. The story of three animal pets traveling in the wilderness won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1963 and the ALA Aurianne Award in 1963 as the best book on animal life written for children ages 8–14. It is marketed for children but Burnford has stated that it was not intended as a children's book. It was a modest success commercially and became a bestseller after release of the 1963 Disney film, ""The Incredible Journey"" (which was remade in 1993 as """"). Another book, ""Bel Ria"", about a"
"and his pelican and the relationships he has with his father, the pelican, and an outcast Aboriginal man called Fingerbone; the Sydney-based Victorian era time travel adventure ""Playing Beatie Bow"" (1980) by Ruth Park; and, for older children and mature readers, Melina Marchetta's 1993 novel about a Sydney high school girl ""Looking for Alibrandi"". Robin Klein's ""Came Back to Show You I Could Fly"" is a story about the beautiful relationship between an eleven-year-old boy and an older, drug-addicted girl. Jackie French, widely described as Australia's most popular children's author, has written about 170 books, including two CBCA Children's Book"
"have been referenced in movies, music and television productions. ""Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea"" is a 1963 novel by Arthur C. Clarke set in a strange and fascinating research community where a brilliant professor tries to communicate with dolphins. In the 1972 novel ""The Listeners"", Lilly and the other scientists who were members of the ""Order of the Dolphin"" are mentioned as pioneers. In the 1973 movie ""The Day of the Dolphin"", George C. Scott portrayed a Lilly-esque scientist, known to the dolphins as ""Pa"", who succeeds in teaching a dolphin to speak elementary English."
"Truman (book) Truman is a 1992 biography of the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman written by popular historian David McCullough. The book won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The book was later made into a movie with the same name by HBO. The book provides a biography of Harry Truman in chronological fashion from his birth to his rise to U.S. senator, vice-president, president, following his activities until death, exploring many of the major decisions he made as president, including his decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his meetings"
"throughout the 1990s, including ""Philadelphia"" (1993), ""The Pelican Brief"" (1993), ""Wolf"" (1994), Cameron Crowe's ""Jerry Maguire"" (1996), and James Cameron's ""Titanic"" (1997). She would later state: ""Voiceover work saved me. There's no question it came all around full circle, and I'm a better, more compassionate and stronger actor and artist."" In 2009, she signed on to the science fiction/horror film ""Psychic Experiment"", marking her first onscreen film appearance in 27 years. In 2012, she starred in the Welsh Christmas horror film ""Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming"", an unofficial sequel to the American horror film ""Silent Night, Bloody Night"" (1974)"
"and the Island of Hope""; ""The Nightingale""<br> 1992: ""Children of Paradise — Shooting a Dream""; ""The Ballroom""<br> 1993: ""Scapin""; ""Le Creation du Monde""; ""Facade""; ""The Green Bird""<br> 1994: ""Germinal""; ""Don Juan Giovanni""; ""Conversations After Burial""; ""The Juniper Tree""<br> 1995: ""Pelleas and Melisande""; ""Yang Zen Froggs""; ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" <br> 1996: ""Honeymoon China""; ""The Impresario""; ""The 3 Musketeers""<br> 1997: ""The Kitchen""; ""The Pursuit of Happiness""; ""Cinemamerica & LifeLiberty""<br> 1998: ""Twelfth Night""; ""Red Harviest""; ... Queen""<br> 1999: ""Cyrano""; ""Tartuffe""; ""The Golem""<br> 2000: ""The Magic Flute""; ""The Government Inspector""; ""Chez Pierre""<br> 2001: ""The Magic Flute""; ""Gulliver, A Swift Journey""; ""Hamlet""; ""The Description"
"Patty Dann Patty Dann (born October 30, 1953) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer, perhaps best known for ""Mermaids"", a coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl which was published in 1986. In 1990, it was made into a movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins and Christina Ricci. Her most recent novel is ""Starfish, ""which is a sequel to ""Mermaids."" Her newest book is ""The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir,"" which has been chosen by Poets & Writers as One of the Best Books on Writing. ""Sweet & Crazy"" (2003) is a novel about a 39-year-old woman who"
"The Pebble and the Penguin The Pebble and the Penguin is a 1995 American animated musical buddy comedy-drama film, starring the voices of Martin Short and Jim Belushi, based on the true life mating rituals of the Adélie penguins in Antarctica, produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. It centers around a timid, stuttering penguin named Hubie who tries to impress a beautiful penguin named Marina by giving her a pebble that fell from the sky. The film was released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on April 12, 1995 and internationally (Theaterical and VHS) by Warner Bros. Pictures under"
"exciting, clean, young, fresh and it's been very good to me."" His later work was mostly made-for-television miniseries, including ""The Martian Chronicles"" (1980), ""Sword of Gideon"" (1986), ""Young Catherine"" (1991), ""The Sea Wolf"" (1993), ""Rugged Gold"" (1994), ""Captain's Courageous"" (1996) and ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1997). His feature work done there included ""Murder by Phone"" (1982), the New Zealand film ""Second Time Lucky"" (1984), ""Separate Vacations"" (1986), ""Summer of the Monkeys"" (1998), and ""Millennium"" (1989) and ""The Grand Defiance"" (1993). He directed ""Bottega dell'orefice"" (""The Jeweler's Shop"", 1988), based on the 1960 play written by Karol Wojtyła who, by"
"At War"" as the lead, ""Helene Moskiewicz"", alongside Eric Stoltz. Plimpton played the starring role of ""Samantha"" in the film ""Samantha"" (1992). She appeared as an activist in the independent film ""Inside Monkey Zetterland"" released in 1993. She appeared with Cuba Gooding Jr., in the television film ""Daybreak"" (1993, HBO). She appeared in the Showtime television film ""Chantilly Lace"". She had a featured role in the film ""Josh and S.A.M."" (1993) as a runaway who takes care of the two boys. She played the lead in ""The Beans of Egypt, Maine"" of the Carolyn Chute novel ""The Beans of Egypt,"
"was released in 1993. The film became extremely successful. In 1992, Crichton published the novel ""Rising Sun"", an international best-selling crime thriller about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was adapted into the 1993 film directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, released the same year as the adaption of ""Jurassic Park"". His next novel, ""Disclosure"", published in 1994, addresses the theme of sexual harassment previously explored in his 1972 ""Binary"". Unlike that novel however, Crichton centers on sexual politics in the workplace, emphasizing an array of"