The Darwin Awards site does try to verify all submitted stories, but many similar sites, and the vast number of circulating " Darwin awards " emails, are largely fictional.

Unlike many fictional universes, the component tales of Known Space were largely released as short stories or serials in various science fiction anthology magazines.

Robert is largely fictional by this time.

The Ancient Greece depicted in the show is largely derived from historical locations and customs, modifying known places and events – battles, trading routes, towns, and so on – to generate an attractive fictional world.

Bangor or its alter ego Derry are the fictional settings for so many novels and stories by Stephen King that the city has become the capital of Transylmainia, a gothic horror-scape King invented largely by himself ( with some help from the 1960s television show Dark Shadows ).

Debo's only fictional work, Prairie City, the Story of an American Community, was largely based on Marshall.

While the show's scripts were largely fictional, the use of realistic dialogue and Crawford's convincing portrayal of a hard-as-nails police chief helped make the show an instant success.

Thereafter, he lives as a country squire in the fictional village of Smallbridge, Kent, largely satisfied but longing for the sea.

Amelia Barr is fictional, but largely based on Margaret Brooke, wife of the second Rajah, and her book " My Life in Sarawak ".

Movie swashbuckler Errol Flynn was a guest on one episode, and this real-life occurrence inspired Dennis Palumbo's largely fictional screenplay.

Perhaps the most influential fictional treatment of Kasper Hauser was Jakob Wassermann's 1908 novel Caspar Hauser oder Die Trägheit des Herzens (" Caspar Hauser or the Inertia of the Heart "), which was largely responsible for its popularization in Germany.

The fictional town of Framley in the newspaper satire The Framley Examiner is largely based on Chelmsford, along with surrounding areas such as Writtle ( called Wripple ).

It is a fictional work, largely based on Smart's affair with Barker up until that point.

The Weekly World News was a largely fictional news tabloid published in the United States from 1979 to 2007, renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on supernatural or paranormal themes and an approach to news that verged on the satirical.

Samhain is based largely on eighteenth century ideas of a fictional ' Celtic ' ' god of the dead '.

When it was released this film was advertised as a purportedly true account of actress Frances Farmer's life but the script was largely fictional and sensationalized.

In 1908, after Captain Mahoney ( of the New York City Police Department ) crashed one of Goldman ’ s lectures in Chicago, newspaper headlines read that every popular anarchist had been present for the spectacle, “ with the single exception of Lucy Parsons, with whom Emma Goldman is not on the best of terms .” Goldman reciprocated Parsons ’ s absence by endorsing Frank Harris ' book The Bomb, which was a largely fictional account of the Haymarket Affair and its martyrs road to death.

Some historians assert that Stewart's pamphlet was largely fictional, and that Murrell ( and his brothers ) were at best inept thieves, having bankrupted their father over the years for bail money.

Rosamunde Pilcher's last novel Winter Solstice is largely set in and around the fictional Sutherland town of Creagan, located somewhere to the northwest of the Black Isle.

In Hiaasen's subsequent novel Native Tongue, the fictional " Amazing Kingdom " theme park carries heavy influence with South Florida politicians, largely because they blame Disney World for siphoning tourists ' custom from South Florida to Orlando.

His rule in the south is associated with the " Potemkin village ", a largely fictional method of ruse involving the construction of painted façades to mimic real villages.

Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae describes how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first baths.

According to Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Potemkin's most comprehensive English-language biographer, the tale of elaborate, fake settlements with glowing fires designed to comfort the monarch and her entourage as they surveyed the barren territory at night, is largely fictional.

* The text of Mark Z. Danielewski's novel House of Leaves consists largely of the fictional book The Navidson Record by Zampanò ( possibly based on Jorge Luis Borges ), and commentary upon it by its discoverer and editor Johnny Truant.

Until recently, androids have largely remained within the domain of science fiction, frequently seen in film and television.

The film premiered in January 1967, to largely negative reviews in Britain and the United States.

Although Blade Runner was largely unsuccessful in its first theatrical release, it found a viewership in the home video market and became a cult film.

An R-rated romantic comedy about a couple dealing the ups and downs of a long distance relationship while commuting between New York City and San Francisco, the largely improvised film garnered generally mixed reviews by critics, who summed it as " timelier and a little more honest than most romantic comedies.

In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.

The film is largely set in Hong Kong.

Though they had only recently received the funding necessary to produce the film, the script had been written for some time, having been composed largely during the production of Crimewave.

The film's production was not nearly as chaotic or strange as the production of the original, largely because of Raimi, Tapert and Campbell's additional film making experience.

It largely evolved from the works of directors like Germaine Dulac, Louis Delluc, Jean Epstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, and Dziga Vertov and film theorists like Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer.

It also exemplifies the problem of classification: one of the first American films to be described as a film noir, it has largely disappeared from considerations of the field.

It is one of the seven classic film noirs produced largely outside of the major studios that have been chosen for the United States National Film Registry.

Agfa began to produce motion picture film in 1913, but remained a largely local supplier until World War I boycotts of popular French, American and Italian film stocks allowed the UFA film studio to flourish, boosting Agfa's orders.

Similar panchromatic film stocks were manufactured by Agfa and Pathé, the shift to panchromatic stocks had largely been completed by 1928, and Kodak discontinued orthochromatic stock in 1930.

In the second new scene, Anguirus appears largely as he did in the previous film, Godzilla vs. Gigan.

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

While it never baldly advocates the case for broader societal acceptance of homosexuality or for the abandonment of elements of the Jewish religious tradition, those causes are subtly evident in the stark, simplistic picture the film presents of sincere, conflicted and victimized men and women confronted by a largely stern and stubborn cadre of rabbis.

Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team.

A striking depiction of Malmö was made by Bo Widerberg in his engaging debut film Kvarteret Korpen ( Raven's End ) ( 1963 ), largely shot in the shabby Korpen working-class district in Malmö.

He notes, " The possibility of a very clever fake cannot be ruled out on the evidence of the film " but also writes that his analysis hinges largely on the question of filming speed.

Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows.

The screwball format arose largely as a result of the major film studios ' desire to avoid censorship by the increasingly enforced Hays Code.

Enraged, Aubrey severely cut Peckinpah's film from 124 to 106 minutes, resulting in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid being released in a truncated version largely disowned by cast and crew members.

It was soon derided, largely in the mainstream media, as " Star Wars ," after the popular 1977 film by George Lucas.