Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

The festival was founded by Schreiner's Iris Gardens, one of the country's largest retail iris growers, and has been facilitated by the Keizer Chamber of Commerce since 1987.

Wilton's film career includes roles in The French Lieutenant's Woman ( 1981 ), Cry Freedom ( 1987 ), Iris ( 2001 ), Calendar Girls ( 2003 ) and Shaun of the Dead ( 2004 ), Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ( 2005 ), in Woody Allen's film Match Point ( 2005 ) and in The History Boys ( 2006 ).

The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987.

* Sweeney Todd ( 1928 ) a silent film starring Moore Marriott as Sweeney Todd and Iris Darbyshire as Mrs. Lovett.

* Iris ( film ), a 2001 biopic of Iris Murdoch

Buñuel was fired ( or resigned ) from his position at the Museum of Modern Art ( MOMA ), supposedly after Cardinal Spellman of New York went to see Iris Barry, head of the film department at MOMA.

This was followed by the romantic drama Stanley & Iris ( 1990 ), which was her final film for 15 years.

His daughters were Viola, an actress, Felicity and Iris, a poet ; and his illegitimate children included film director Carol Reed.

When she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he wrote the book Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, which was made into the 2001 film Iris by Richard Eyre.

She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown ( 1997 ), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ), Chocolat ( 2000 ), Iris ( 2001 ), Mrs Henderson Presents ( 2005 ) and Notes on a Scandal ( 2006 ), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2001 ).

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

In 1991, Plimpton appeared in the Robert De Niro film Stanley & Iris in a supporting role.

His film career has continued with roles in a number of well known films, such as Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, Notting Hill, Iris and Van Helsing.

Halfway during the filming of Surviving Iris Burton contacted him about a possible role in the film Explorers.

The film would later serve as the basis for the successful drama series Iris, starring Lee Byung-hun and Kim Tae-hee.

* The 2002 film Minority Report features extensive use of casual Iris / Retina scanning techniques for both personal Identification and Point Of Sale transaction purposes.

The success of Dizzy Up the Girl can arguably be attributed to the rock ballad " Iris ", which was also included in the soundtrack album of the film City of Angels.

Notable alumni of the newspaper include ABC News political director Hal Bruno, Rape of Nanking author Iris Chang, Simpsons producer / writer Larry Doyle, film critic Roger Ebert, novelist Dave Eggers, folk singer Dan Fogelberg, High Times editor Steven Hager, Playboy founder / CEO Hugh Hefner, attorney Albert E. Jenner, Jr., columnist Robert Novak, Coast to Coast Live radio host Ian Punnett, advice columnist Dan Savage, film critic Gene Shalit, and several Pulitzer Prize winners.

Many species in the iris family have a great economic importance in ornamental horticulture and the cut flower industry, especially Gladiolus, Freesia, Sparaxis, Iris, Tigridia ( tiger lily ), Ixia ( corn lily ), Romulea, Neomarica, Moraea ( butterfly lily ), Nemastylis, Belamcanda, Sisyrinchium ( blue-eyed grass ), Crocosmia and Trimezia.

Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).

* Iris ( anatomy ), part of the eye

* Iris ( given name ), a feminine given name

* Iris ( mythology ), a Greek goddess

* Iris ( plant ), a genus of flowering plants

* Iris ( American band ), a synthpop group

* Iris ( British / French band ), an instrumental rock group

* Iris ( Romanian band ), a hard rock group

* Iris ( singer ), a female singer from Belgium

* Iris ( Iris album ),

* Iris ( EP ), by Miranda Sex Garden

* Iris ( opera ), by Pietro Mascagni

* " Iris " ( Goo Goo Dolls song ), 1998

* " Iris " ( Split Enz song ), 1981

* " Iris " ( Emmy the Great song ), 2011

Although renowned for their commercially successful 1998 single " Iris ", they have had several other notable and popular singles include " Name " from 1995's A Boy Named Goo, " Broadway ", " Black Balloon " and " Slide " from 1998's Dizzy Up The Girl, which produced five top-10 singles, and " Here Is Gone ", " Sympathy " and " Big Machine " from 2002's Gutterflower.

With Nesbit, he produced three children: Paul ( 1880 – 1940 ), Iris ( 1881 -?

These were directed by Iris Lemare ( 1902 – 1997 ) and produced by Geoffrey Dunn ( 1903 – 1981 ), a prominent impresario, actor and cinematographer, and included several first British performances of operas.

After making a direct hit on Saint Lucia and Martinique on August 26, steering currents produced by a trough forced Iris north-northwestward ; this caused it to brush Dominica and Guadeloupe and make landfall in Antigua and Barbuda on August 27.

While crossing through the Leeward Islands, Iris produced heavy rainfall.

Jobs he considered included a proposed John Schlesinger screen adaptation of the Iris Murdoch novel A Severed Head, and a project called The Marriage Game, to be directed by Peter Yates and produced by the James Bond team of Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli.

The Young Lords, produced by Young Lord Iris Morales, aired on PBS in 1996.

In 2009, she played the role of Iris in the radio drama Leaves in Autumn written by Susan Casanove, produced by the Wireless Theatre Company.

In 1982, they included their 18-year-old brother James into the lineup and worked on their sophomore album, All This Love, produced by El and Iris Gordy.

In 1951 Carrillo produced a concert in the Esperanza Iris Theatre of Mexico City to demonstrate the musical metamorphosis laws.

Prints produced by an IRIS printer are commonly called " IRIS prints ", " IRIS proofs " or simply " IRISes " ( and often miscapitalized " Iris ", like the flower ).

The music was composed, performed and produced by John Mitchell, David Iris and Tom Keenlyside at Anitunes Music.