He has since directed a number of high-visibility films, including Splash, Cocoon, Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director ), Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code, and Angels & Demons.

* Cocoon ( film ), a 1985 science fiction film

* Cocoon ( Alexis Strum album ), 2006, or the title song

* Cocoon ( Meg & Dia album ), 2011

* Cocoon ( band ), A French band

During these years, she appeared in films such as Cocoon ( 1985 ), also with Cronyn.

* Daisy ( software ), a Java / XML open-source content management system based on Apache Cocoon

He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet ( 1966 ), Batman ( with Batgirl theme, 1967 ), and Naked City ( 1960 ) and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven ( 1981 ), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among others.

Ameche's next role, in Cocoon ( 1985 ), won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Studio insiders expected Romancing the Stone to flop ( to the point that, after viewing a rough cut of the film, the producers of the then under development Cocoon fired Zemeckis as director of that film ), but the film became a surprise hit.

Guttenberg has starred in three film franchises: Police Academy ( 1984 ), Cocoon ( 1985 ), and Three Men and a Baby ( 1987 ).

Her more recent appearances included Johnny Dangerously ( 1984 ), Cocoon ( 1985 ) and its sequel Cocoon: The Return ( 1988 ).

the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 ), while his work as the conceptual artist on the 1985 film Cocoon earned him the Academy Award for Visual Effects.

Several new colours ( Cocoon White ( pearl ), Astral Blue ( metallic ), Lugano Green ( pearl ) and Burra ( pearl )) were introduced during the later production of the TF range and the final unit built came out in December 1998.

Three new colours were added to the TL Magna range: Tanami ( metallic gold ), Grange, and from September 2003 production onwards, Starlight ( pearl white ), which replaced Cocoon White.

Guttenberg also mentioned how he would like to make another Police Academy and Cocoon movie saying they are surefire hits if they were to be made.

Extensive analyses include those by: George Toles, "' Cocoon of Fire: Awakening to Love in Murnau's Sunrise "; Diane Stevenson, " Three Versions of Stella Dallas "; and Jonah Corne's " Gods and Nobodies: Extras, the October Jubilee, and Von Sternberg's The Last Command.

*" Cocoon ", a short story by Greg Egan in his collection Luminous

* Cocoon, an album by Yorico

*" Cocoon ", a song by The Decemberists from Castaways and Cutouts

*" Cocoon ", a song by Guster from Parachute

*" Cocoon ", a song by Jack Johnson from On and On

*" Cocoon ", an instrumental by Timerider, the original theme music for the UK TV programme The Hit Man and Her

Her next single, " Cocoon ", was also banned by MTV as it featured a nude Björk ( which the nude body was actually a fitted body suit rigged with red string ).

Howard was at Industrial Light & Magic during the post-production phase of Cocoon, when he was first approached by Lucas to direct Willow.

*" Breakdown ", a song by Meg & Dia from Cocoon

The tracks " Sun in My Mouth " and " Heirloom " are missing, of which " Heirloom " received its first performance on the subsequent 2003 Greatest Hits Tour, and " Sun in My Mouth " was performed live at the Icelandic television in February 2011 in a celesta version of the song, played by Jónas Sen. Track 1 is mistitled as " Frosti ", which is on the album too, but it is actually the music box version of Pagan Poetry found on the Cocoon single. Tracks 3 & 7: Original versions on HomogenicTracks 2 & 8: Original versions on SelmasongsTrack 16: Original version on the It's in Our Hands single.

The components within Cocoon are grouped by function.

Upon Cocoon processing, these directives are replaced by generated content so that the resulting, augmented XML document can be subject to further processing ( typically an XSLT transformation ).

The music to Cocoon: The Return was composed and conducted by James Horner who had scored Cocoon.

Thereafter, the pair were credited as producers or executive producers of more than a dozen films, including the courtroom drama The Verdict ( 1982 ), directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Paul Newman ; the science-fiction Cocoon ( 1985 ), directed by Ron Howard ; and the comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ), directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman.

* " From a Silk Cocoon " ( A film about Itaru and Shizuko Ina and segregation at Tule Lake ), 2004, produced and directed by Satsuki Ina.

* Coma ( on the dance floor ) by Cocoon

* Coma ( on the dance floor ) by Cocoon

* Coma ( on the dance floor ) by Cocoon

* Raw Confessions by Cocoon

* Raw Confessions by Cocoon

* Cocoon sitemaps allow, among other functionality, the declaration of XML pipelines.

as The Sting, Jaws, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, as well as other motion pictures.

A new version of Cocoon appeared on iTunes temporarily ( alongside other digital retailers in the UK, such as Woolworths. co. uk ), in April, featuring both the original and new album versions of " Go My Own Way ", the single version of " It Could Be You ", and the previously unreleased " The Starting Line ".

A silk spinning moth, the Ailanthus silkmoth ( Samia cynthia ), lives on Ailanthus leaves, and yields a silk more durable and cheaper than mulberry silk, but inferior to it in fineness and gloss.

Animal fibers include silk, but generally are long hairs of animals such as sheep ( wool ), goat ( angora, or cashmere goat ), rabbit ( angora ), llama, alpaca, dog, cat, camel, yak, and muskox ( qiviut ).

The finest Chinese kites are made from split bamboo ( usually golden bamboo ), covered with silk, and hand painted.

In the latter painting on silk ( image and description provided in the link ), bald-headed Buddhist Luohan are depicted in a practical setting of washing clothes by a river.

The earliest ( surviving ) examples of Chinese painted artwork date to the Warring States Period ( 481-221 BC ), with paintings on silk or tomb murals on rock, brick, or stone.

Animal fibers include silk, but generally are long hairs of animals such as sheep ( wool ), goat ( angora, or cashmere goat ), rabbit ( angora ), llama, alpaca, dog, cat, camel, yak, and muskox ( qiviut ).

As Chief Astronomer, Zhang Heng earned a fixed salary and rank of 600 bushels of grain ( which was mostly commuted to payments in Chinese coins | coinage currency or bolts of silk ), and so he would have worn a specified type of robe, ridden in a specified type of carriage, and held a unique emblem that marked his status in the official hierarchy.

* Caravans make regular departures from Luoyang with Chinese ginger, cassia ( a type of cinnamon ), and silk to be bartered in Central Asia for gold, silver, glassware, pottery, cloth, and intaglio gems from Rome.

They produced silk and pottery ( chiefly the Yangshao and the Lungshan cultures ), wore hemp clothing, and domesticated pigs and dogs.

The IWW was involved in over 150 strikes, including the Lawrence textile strike ( 1912 ), the Paterson silk strike ( 1913 ) and the Mesabi range ( 1916 ).

Lingerie may include undergarments incorporating flexible, stretchy, sheer, or decorative materials like Lycra, nylon ( nylon tricot ), polyester, satin, lace, silk and sheer fabric or simply be functional, cotton or synthetic undergarments.

Handkerchief: A handkerchief in linen ( traditional ), silk, or cotton is usually worn in the breast pocket.

* In Around the World in 80 Days ( 1972 – 1973 cartoon ), in Episode 10, Zenobia's ghost is described as wearing a golden helmet and purple silk gown, and riding a white camel.

Today silk is mainly produced in Bhoodhan Pochampally ( also known as Silk City ), Kanchipuram, Dharmavaram, Mysore, etc.

These materials come from four main sources: animal ( wool, silk ), plant ( cotton, flax, jute ), mineral ( asbestos, glass fibre ), and synthetic ( nylon, polyester, acrylic ).

Extending 4, 000 miles ( 6, 500 km ), the Silk Road gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade along it, which began during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – 220 AD ).

' Intense trade with the Roman Empire soon followed, confirmed by the Roman craze for Chinese silk ( supplied through the Parthians ), even though the Romans thought silk was obtained from trees.