He is famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 9 and Dark Shadows, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the twelfth highest-grossing film of all time.

* Big Planet ( 1957 ), by Jack Vance, depicts a world in which attempts by utopian misfits to set up new societies have gone haywire after many revert to savagery and violence.

Fry is also known for his voice-overs, reading all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the UK audiobook recordings, and as the narrator in the Little Big Planet series of video games.

Giamatti continued steadily in the early 2000s by appearing in major studio releases including Big Momma's House, Planet of the Apes, and Big Fat Liar.

In 2011 the Nine Network announced a new " Home of Comedy " line-up with comedy shows such as Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and other American sitcoms along with the launch of a live comedy show Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth which was cancelled after only three episodes due to low ratings.

* " The Big Picture: Ways to Mitigate or Prevent Very Bad Planet Earth Events " essay by Young

* Big Men Cry ( Planet Dog, 1997 )

On 11th June 2011 Tenth Planet Events hosted the first Big Finish Day in Barking with guests including Colin Baker, Sophie Aldred and Sarah Sutton.

He is best known for his voicework in Futurama as Kif Kroker, as Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Big Bob Pataki in Hey Arnold !, Dizzy Devil in Tiny Toons, The Brain in Animaniacs and Pinky and The Brain, and his portrayal of Mr. Freeze in Batman: Arkham City.

* a chapter from Life on Another Planet ( Chapter 7: The Big Hit ), originally published August 1980, demonstrating the use of the page as a metapanel, in this case supporting the narrative in following different threads in the story

Science at the Big Top, Grossology, My Home, Planet Earth, Big Dinos Return, and Candy Unwrapped.

In Bender's Big Score, Hermes limbos under one sword that nicks his belly, but as he begins to gloat he is accidentally decapitated by another sword ( which was crossed with the first one over the Planet Express ' fireplace ).

The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former Boomtown Rats and Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof.

At the end of that show she was approached by Planet 24 to present their new early-morning programme The Big Breakfast alongside Chris Evans on Channel 4.

* Turn Up the Heath w / Jimmy Heath Big Band ( 2006, Planet Arts )

* Cartoon Planet at Big Cartoon DataBase

‘’ Southeast Asia on a Shoestring: Big Trips on Small Budgets .’’ Lonely Planet.

Atwood and Burton worked together on over seven films in the next two decades, starting with Edward Scissorhands and including Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood, Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, and Sweeney Todd.

He worked with Tim Burton six times, producing Planet of the Apes ( 2001 ), Big Fish ( 2003 ), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 2007 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 2010 ), and Dark Shadows ( 2012 ).

* A Conversation with Alan Kay Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more.

" ( In fact, Fisher's brutish hillbilly character — Big Leviticus, created by Capp in Fisher's absence — bore little resemblance to Li ' l Abner.

The core ideas of the Big Bang — the expansion, the early hot state, the formation of helium, and the formation of galaxies — are derived from many observations that are independent from any cosmological model ; these include the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and the Hubble diagram for Type Ia supernovae.

The final Big Dig plan, then, combined several projects — the depression and improvement of the Central Artery, the construction of a third Harbor tunnel ( now known as the Ted Williams Tunnel ), and massive interchange improvements to the Massachusetts Turnpike and several other major routes in the area.

Sawmill owners used the canal to transport timber from Big Clam Lake to the mills and railroad sites — the G. R.

* The Big Street ( 1942 ) — Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball ( adapted from Runyon's story " Little Pinks ")

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

* Big Art Mob — a user-created pictorial map of graffiti and street art across the United Kingdom

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (: " The Theater of the Big Puppet ") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris ( at 20 bis, rue Chaptal ).

The character of Captain Queeg mirrored those Bogart had played in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Big Sleep — the wary loner who trusts no one — but with none of the warmth or humor of those roles.

( In a relativistic universe, presumably this means — at any point in spacetime — time measured from t = 0 at the Big Bang or end of inflation.

In 1992 the town of Echo Bay, Ontario, home of loonie designer Robert-Ralph Carmichael, erected a large loonie monument in his honour along the highway — similar to Sudbury's ' Big Nickel '.

Two entities founded in 1962: the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and the Findhorn Foundation — an intentional community which continues to operate the Findhorn Ecovillage near Findhorn, Moray, Scotland — played an instrumental role during the early growth period of the New Age movement.

They both postulated that if the stars in the universe were distributed in a hierarchical fractal cosmology ( e. g., similar to Cantor dust )— the average density of any region diminishes as the region considered increases — it would not be necessary to rely on the Big Bang theory to explain Olbers ' paradox.

Roosevelt's 1901 saying " Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick " is still quoted by politicians and columnists in different countries — not only in English but also in translation to various other languages.

Failing to raise funds for the project in San Francisco, he succeeded in signing up four Sacramento merchants — the " Big Four ": Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.

I'm saying if I had to sit down in a room and put on an X record — which I don't generally do — I have recently listened to some X records but I generally don't listen to myself — the record I would pick to listen to would be Under the Big Black Sun.

That summer, MC5 toured the U. S. east coast, which generated an enormous response, with the group often overshadowing the more famous acts they opened up for: McLeese writes that when opening for Big Brother and the Holding Company audiences regularly demanded multiple encores of the MC5, and at a memorable series of concerts, Cream — one of the leading hard rock groups of the era — " left the stage vanquished " by the Detroit upstarts.

While on Earth they travel in a tire-shaped vehicle capable of enormous speeds called the Big Wheel, which can travel on both land and water ( and, with modifications, through the air ).

Some of the largest installed IVR platforms are used for televoting on television game shows, such as Pop Idol and Big Brother, which can generate enormous call spikes.

Big Boi, Andre 3000 and many other Atlanta rappers played an enormous part in bringing Southern hip hop to the popularity level it has reached today.

* Superhuman strength: Glory possesses enormous physical strength far beyond that of most, if not all, vampires, demons, or Slayers ; in fact, she is considered to be the most physically powerful Big Bad in the series, shown to be able to inflict massive damage on her opponents through pure brute force and physical strength alone.

First airing on January 10, 1984, the Wendy's commercial portrayed a fictional fast-food competitor entitled " Big Bun ", where three elderly ladies are served an enormous novelty hamburger bun topped with a minuscule hamburger patty.

In the 1770s the two parts of the house at Bowood ( the " Big House " and the " Little House ") were joined together by the construction of an enormous drawing room.

By contrast, Leigh-Mallory, the commander of the neighbouring 12 Group to the north, was a powerful advocate of the Big Wing policy, causing enormous friction in his working relationship with Park.

A grove of enormous incense cedars has established itself near Diamond Lake, and there is a forest of ponderosa pine at the nearby Emile Big Tree Trail.

* Visit Big Bend-an enormous resource on the Big Bend region and attractions.

The Big Bang is a term coined initially in derision by Fred Hoyle on BBC Radio in 1950 to describe the cosmological model of the universe as expanding into its current state from a primordial condition of enormous density and temperature.

* Chumley, an enormous but quite gentle and erudite Troll whose professional persona is a monosyllabic muscle-for-hire called Big Crunch.

) or W3, features three agents from outer space who travel in a tire-shaped vehicle called the Big Wheel, which can travel at enormous speeds on both land and water ( and, with modifications, through the air ).

He was not considered one of the " Big Three " – Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Gary Player – who are widely credited with popularizing and bringing enormous commercial success to the sport around the world ; however, between 1964 and 1970, Casper won 27 tournaments on the PGA Tour — two more than Nicklaus and six more than Palmer and Player combined, during that time period.

In the recent Japanese production " Dai-Nippon-Jin " (" Big Man Japan ") the protagonist is the latest in a dynasty of heroes who can grow to enormous size to fight equally huge monsters.

The design drew on recent experience with the enormous 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotives, and resulted in a locomotive in working order weighing some 317 short tons accompanied by a tender weighing 174 short tons when 2 / 3 loaded.

Although less well known for his work as an arranger, Ganley provided charts for many leading British jazzmen as well as for the BBC Radio Big Band, thus enhancing the enormous yet understated contribution he made to the British jazz scene over the years.