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* He appeared in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn.
There have been several conflicts in the past between the director and the studio, sometimes leading to the use of the " Alan Smithee " credit signifying when a director no longer wants to be associated with the final release.
This was a signal to anyone who knew him to show how disgusted he was with the whole business ( see Alan Smithee for the motion picture industry equivalent ).
Some stage names are used to conceal a person's identity, such as the pseudonym Alan Smithee, which is used by directors in the Directors Guild of America ( DGA ) to remove their name from a film they feel was edited or modified beyond their artistic satisfaction.
Alan Smithee ( also Allen Smithee ) was an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968.
Following its coinage, the pseudonym " Alan Smithee " was applied retroactively to Fade-In ( also known as Iron Cowboy ), a film starring Burt Reynolds and directed by Jud Taylor, which was first released before the release of Death of a Gunfighter.
I got Alan Smithee on them both.
The spelling " Alan Smithee " became the standard, and the Internet Movie Database lists about two dozen feature films and many more television features and series episodes credited to this name.
In 1998, the film An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn was released, in which a man named Alan Smithee ( Eric Idle ) wishes to disavow a film he has directed, but is unable to do so because the only pseudonym he is permitted to use is his own name.
The film was directed by Arthur Hiller, who reported to the DGA that producer Joe Eszterhas had interfered with his creative control, and successfully removed his own name from the film, so " Alan Smithee " was credited instead.
* In the Jimmy Neutron episode " Lights, Camera Danger ", Alan Smithee is parodied as Quenton Smithee, who is really a disguised Professor Calamatus trying to kill Jimmy and his friends.
* Alan Smithee was credited as the director and included in the title of three adult movies in the early 2000s.
* Alan Smithee was also used as a director's name in The Simpsons episode " D ' oh-in in the Wind ", as the direction of a commercial goes awry and Mr. Burns refuses to take credit.
* Hideo Kojima used Alan Smithee as a director's name in the E3 2005-trailer of Metal Gear Solid 4.
* In the loose-leaf 1990's run of Who's Who in the DC Universe, the art for Elasti-Girl is partially credited to Alan Smithee.
* When the Russian film Jack Frost was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, one of the first comments on the credits was " These names are Russian for Alan Smithee!
* The Super Nintendo action RPG " Equinox " ( also known as Solstice 2 ) credits Alan Smithee as director.
David Agnew is the credited writer of The Invasion of Time, and the use of the Alan Smithee name for The Elusive David Agnew is a joke ; " David Agnew " is a pseudonym, and The Elusive David Agnew is a mockumentary.
* Americanizing Shelley ( 2007 ) has a minor character who is named Alan Smithee, and who is a film director.

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`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.
The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.
Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.
The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.
In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.
The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.
It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.
Alan ’ s philosophy was a sort of mixture of Aristotelian logic and Neoplatonic philosophy.
In his third theological textbook, Regulae Caelestis Iuris, he presents a set of what seems to be theological rules ; this was typical of the followers of Gilbert of Poitiers, of which Alan could be associated.
Alan of Lille was not the author of a Memoriale rerum difficilium, published under his name, nor of Moralium dogma philosophorum, nor of the satirical Apocalypse of Golias once attributed to him ; and it is exceedingly doubtful whether the Dicta Alani de lapide philosophico really issued from his pen.
Alan Ayckbourn said that his relationship with Christine became easy once they agreed their marriage was over.
One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.
Both characters feel themselves in trouble, and there was speculation that Alan Ayckbourn himself may have felt himself to be in trouble.
The team had posted 3 podiums and was operated by Alan Docking Racing.
The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.
This topic was further developed in the 1930s by Alonso Church and Alan Turing, who on the one hand gave two independent but equivalent definitions of computability, and on the other gave concrete examples for undecidable questions.
Alan Jay Lerner ( August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986 ) was an American lyricist and librettist.
Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School in England, The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, ( where he wrote " The Choate Marching Song ") and Harvard.
Some observers speculate that Alan Jay Lerner's pride was so badly bruised by Muselli's much-publicized rejection of him ( due to his drug addiction and neglect of their son ) that in revenge he portrayed her as a gold-digging spendthrift.
Alan Jay Lerner's pattern of financial mismanagement continued until his death from cancer in 1986, when he reportedly owed the US Internal Revenue Service over US $ 1, 000, 000 in back taxes, and was unable to pay for his final medical expenses.
The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

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