Among the notable alumni of AFI are: Darren Aronofsky, Jon Avnet, Keith D. Black, Wally Pfister, Stuart Cornfeld, Bill Duke, Edward James Olmos, Carl Colpaert, Rodrigo García, Steve Golin, Patrick Creadon, Amy Heckerling, Marshall Herskovitz, Janusz Kamiński, Matthew Libatique, Mimi Leder, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, John McTiernan, Paul Schrader, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Waters, Gary Winick, Edward Zwick, and Susannah Grant.

* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer-songwriter ( Pixies, Frank Black and the Catholics, and Grand Duchy )

* Black or African American ?, Frank Newport.

In 2010, the Catastrophic Theatre Company collaborated with Frank Black on a rock opera based on the Bluefinger album.

Black Francis renamed himself Frank Black, and he released several solo albums, including a string of releases with Frank Black and the Catholics.

Santiago played lead guitar on multiple Frank Black albums, as well as on other artists ' albums.

Lovering went on to become a magician and made occasional appearances as " The Scientific Phenomenalist ", performing experiments on stage and occasionally opening for Frank Black and The Breeders.

Meanwhile, in 2002 material from the band's original 17-track demo tape was released as an EP, Pixies, on Cooking Vinyl in the U. K. and SpinArt Records in the U. S .; Frank Black has also used these labels to release solo work and albums with The Catholics.

From left to right, Frank Black, David Lovering ( back ) and Kim Deal.

Though Frank Black steadfastly dismissed them, he did begin to incorporate an increasing number of Pixies songs in his sets with The Catholics, and occasionally included Santiago in his solo work and Lovering's magic show as an opening act to concerts.

The songwriter and musician Frank Black ( alias Black Francis of the Pixies ) penned an homage to Zubrin, " Robert Onion ", on the album Dog in the Sand.

Roosevelt's nomination speech was delivered by former governor Frank S. Black of New York and seconded by Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana.

In the American crime drama television series Millennium ( 1996 – 1999 ), the main character Frank Black ( Lance Henriksen ) uses the phrase " Soylent Green is people " as a login to the Millennium Group Database.

He was called Frank Black as a solo performer, and again called Black Francis in a reunited Pixies.

Singer Frank Black announces, " Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme " before singing it with vocal distortion.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

The most notable Robin Hood films are the lavish Douglas Fairbanks 1922 silent film, the 1938 triple Academy Award winning Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn as Robin ( which contemporary reviewer Frank Nugent links specifically with Ivanhoe ), and the 1991 box-office success Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner ).

Frank Joslyn Baum, in his biography, To Please a Child, claimed that this was following an incident described as a heart attack, though there is no contemporary evidence of this ( and much evidence that material in Frank J.

More recent buildings like Frank Gehry's Stata Center ( 2004 ), Steven Holl's Simmons Hall ( 2002 ), Charles Correa's Building 46 ( 2005 ), Fumihiko Maki's Media Lab Extension ( 2009 ) stand out among the Boston area's classical architecture and serve as examples of contemporary campus " starchitecture ".

Among the 50 contemporary American painters whose works shown were Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Ben Shahn, and Frank Stella, as well as Northwest painters Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, Paul Horiuchi, and Mark Tobey.

Like his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, Mackintosh's architectural designs often included extensive specifications for the detailing, decoration, and furnishing of his buildings.

His songs have been performed by many popular contemporary singers, including Glen Campbell, The 5th Dimension, Thelma Houston, The Supremes, Richard Harris, Johnny Maestro, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, America, Linda Ronstadt, R. E. M., Michael Feinstein, Donna Summer, and Carly Simon.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.

Housed in the former city library, the museum contains an exhibit of the geological history of Sylacauga marble along with works by the Italian sculptor and quarry investor Giuseppe Moretti, his assistant Geneva Mercer, and contemporary artists Frank Fleming and Craigger Browne.

George Akropolites, the contemporary 13th century Greek historian, notes that Henry " though a Frank by birth, behaved graciously to the Romans who were natives of the city of Constantine, and ranked many of them among his magnates, others among his soldiers, while the common populace he treated as his own people.

Associating with other contemporary photographers such as Robert Frank and Saul Leiter, Arbus helped form what Jane Livingston has termed The New York School of photographers during the 1940s and 1950s.

Critics such as Frank Webster argue that these approaches stress discontinuity, as if contemporary society had nothing in common with society as it was 100 or 150 years ago.

As a traveling merchant in textile and precious stones he often visited Ottoman territories, where he earned the nickname " Frank ", a name generally given in the East to Europeans, and lived in the centers of contemporary Sabbateanism: Salonica and Smyrna.

* The Visitation ( book ), a 1999 contemporary Christian novel by Frank Peretti

Peter Cormack, director of London's William Morris Gallery, said regarding the critical neglect of Cram's work that it was " a phenomenon which has significantly distorted the study of America's modern architectural history ... ( Cram ) deserves the same kind of international -- and domestic -- recognition accorded ( all too often uncritically ) to his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright ".

His work, with its overt humour, poignant reflections on contemporary urban life, and interest in the mistakes of the imagination, reveals an affinity with Frank O ' Hara, John Ashbery and the New York School of the 1950s, as well as the Beat writers of the 1960s -- Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti most obviously.

* The work of contemporary authors such as Erich von Däniken, Barry Fell, Zecharia Sitchin, Robert Bauval, Adrian Gilbert, Frank Joseph, Graham Hancock, Colin Wilson, Michael Cremo, Immanuel Velikovsky, Andrew Tomas, and David Hatcher Childress.

Disco Volante included influences from contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Krzysztof Penderecki and European film music of the 1960s and 1970s, such as those composed by Ennio Morricone and Peter Thomas.

Harvard Divinity School Professor Frank Moore Cross refers to this theory as the " Jebusite Hypothesis ," criticizes it extensively, but terms it the dominant view among contemporary scholars, in Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel.

Frank found a tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth over race and class differences, which gave Frank's photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques.

Frank's divergence from contemporary photographic standards gave Frank difficulty at first in securing an American publisher.

Earlier in his career, however, he was a devoted interpreter of the contemporary music of such composers as Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Olivier Messiaen, Frank Martin, György Ligeti, and Edgard Varèse.

He sang a good deal of the output of Stanford and Arthur Somervell, a few Sullivan vocal warhorses, and a select range of items by contemporary composers such as Percy French, Peter Warlock, Liza Lehmann, Granville Bantock, Eric Coates, Roger Quilter, Thomas Dunhill, Edward German, George Butterworth, Gustav Holst, Landon Ronald, Michael Head, Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax and W. A.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

* 1993 – Frank Zappa, American musician and composer ( b. 1940 )

* 1958 – Frank Gambale, Australian musician

* 1946 – Aynsley Dunbar, English musician ( Frank Zappa )

Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, the son of Sally ( née Cranmer ), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar & grill called Greer's Place.

* 1981 – Frank Iero, American musician ( My Chemical Romance, Pencey Prep )

In a mockery of William Brevard Hand, a federal judge in Alabama, who ruled secular humanism as a religion, the musician Frank Zappa, who was also a free speech advocate, established the " Church of American Secular Humanism ".

* December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist ( d. 1993 )

* November 27 – Frank Christian, American musician ( b. 1887 )

* March 1 – Frank Teschemacher, American musician ( b. 1906 )

* September 3 – Frank Christian, American jazz musician ( d. 1973 )

Rock musician Frank Zappa wrote a composition named " Mr. Green Genes " on his album Uncle Meat and a sequel, " Son of Mr. Green Genes " on his album Hot Rats.

It starred poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, artists Larry Rivers ( Milo ) and Alice Neel ( bishop's mother ), musician David Amram, actors Richard Bellamy ( Bishop ) and Delphine Seyrig ( Milo's wife ), dancer Sally Gross ( bishop's sister ), and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-young son.

100 years earlier, the " New Image Supermarket " building housed Frank Early's bar ( establishment ) | saloon, where Tony Jackson ( jazz musician ) | Tony Jackson regularly played.

The late entertainer Des O ' Connor was born in Stepney, as were actors Steven Berkoff, Terence Stamp and Craig Fairbrass, playwright Arnold Wesker, artist Frank Paton, drummer Kenney Jones, musician and writer Jah Wobble, and singer Charles Coborn.

* Frank Edwards ( blues musician )

As the choir sings " In the Garden ", Wayne passes communion to Margaret and communion is passed from person to person living and dead: the banker, the wealthy, the musician, Moze who has had to flee, Will, Possum, Frank, Edna, Royce, and the black boy who killed him sitting by his side.

* Frank Zappa, musician, lived in Aberdeen for a short period, father worked at APG.

* Frank Zappa, American composer, musician, and film director, lived in the area from the late 1940s to the early 1950s

* Frank Stokes, blues musician

* Nelson Riddle ( 1921 – 1985 ), musician and arranger for various artists such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

* Frank Carillo, rock musician

* John G. Blowers, Jr., Humble Oil heir, musician, closely associated with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Billie Holiday among others, philanthropist

In 1970, Nyle Frank, now a musician but then a graduate student in political science at the nearby University of North Carolina, organized an alternative " Invisible University ," and announced plans to have himself crowned as the institution's new " King " in Carrboro.