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The Tubes ' live shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s were rife with allusions to mainstream film ( Dr. Strangelove, Rollerball, Saturday Night Fever, Grease ), then-forgotten B-movies ( Wild Women of Wongo, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman ), music ( Tom Jones, punk rock, a medley of Nelson Riddle television themes ), contemporary pop culture ( Patty Hearst, the Viking program ), television ( Let's Make a Deal, Fernwood 2Nite, the anime Raideen ), and literature ( Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side ), presaging the subcultural reverence and over-the-top theatricality of later groups like The World / Inferno Friendship Society.
* Nelson Algren's 1983 novel, The Devil's Stocking.
* In Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side ( novel ), the main character Dove Linkhorn is described as descending from " Forest solitaries spare and swart, left landless as ever in sandland and Hooverville now the time of the forests have passed.
He was famous for banning Nelson Algren's book Never Come Morning from the Chicago Public Library which remained in force for decades over the massive outcry by Chicago Polonia upon its release.
In the 2001 documentary Classic Albums: Lou Reed: Transformer, Reed says that it was Nelson Algren's 1956 novel, A Walk on the Wild Side, that was the launching off point for the song, even though the song grew to be inhabited by characters from his own life.
* McMahon, Jeff, " Nelson Algren's Secret Muse: The True Story Behind City on the Make ," in Newcity magazine, vol.
A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, most often quoted as the source for Algren's " three rules of life ": " Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Szarabajka has also contributed his voice to several audio books, notably " Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates " by Tom Robbins, for which he won the 2001 Audie Award for Best Fiction, unabridged, Fear Nothing and Seize the Night by Dean Koontz, several roles in a Grammy nominated audio dramatization of The Maltese Falcon, Rising Sun by Michael Crichton, Nelson Algren's Walk on the Wild Side, and the much lauded The Mark of Zorro opposite Val Kilmer.

Nelson and 1935
His article, " A Description of the Fall Activities of Beaver, with some remarks on Conservation ", was collected in Harper Cory's book Grey Owl and the Beaver ( London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1935 ).
They include Countee Cullen ( 1903 1946 ), Alice Dunbar Nelson ( 1875 1935 ), Gwendolyn Bennett ( 1902 1981 ), Langston Hughes ( 1902 1967 ), Claude McKay ( 1889 1948 ), Jean Toomer ( 1894 1967 ) and other African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
John Byron Nelson, Jr. ( February 4, 1912 September 26, 2006 ) was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.
Nelson waited until 1935 to post his first significant victory, at the New Jersey State Open.
He is perhaps best remembered for directing Myrna Loy and William Powell in four Thin Man films: The Thin Man ( 1934 ), After the Thin Man ( 1936 ), Another Thin Man ( 1939 ) and Shadow of the Thin Man ( 1941 ); and Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in six of their greatest hits, Naughty Marietta ( 1935 ), Rose-Marie ( 1936 ), Sweethearts ( 1938 ), New Moon ( 1940 ) ( uncredited because halfway through filming Robert Z. Leonard took over ), Bitter Sweet ( 1940 ) and I Married an Angel ( 1942 ).
Charles Preston Nelson ( 5 February 1877-16 November 1935 ) was an officer of the United States Navy.
Sydney Silverman, MP for Nelson & Colne, 1935 68, winning eight elections and sponsoring the abolition of hanging in 1965.
Helen also performed in at least 14 movies including Christopher Bean ( 1933 ) with Beulah Bondi and Marie Dressler, Naughty Marietta ( 1935 ) with Nelson Eddy and Frank Morgan, San Francisco ( 1936 ) with Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald, and Small Town Girl ( 1936 ) with Robert Taylor and James Stewart.
* Bears, illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, Nelson ( New York, NY ), 1935.
* Blake, Nelson, William Mahone of Virginia: Soldier and Political Insurgent Garrett and Maisie, 1935.
In 1935 Nelson joined Architectural Forum, where he was first associate editor ( 1935 1943 ), and later consulting editor ( 1944 1949 ).
* Ah, Sweet Mystery-Jeanette MacDonald / Nelson Eddy from ( Naughty Marietta ) 1935
* Blake, Nelson ( 1935 ) William Mahone of Virginia: Soldier and Political Insurgent Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie
* Justice Albie Sachs ( born 1935, appointed by Nelson Mandela in 1994, retired in 2009 )
* John E. Nelson ( born 1935 ), US political figure in Nebraska
The Fort Nelson Airport played a key role in developing Fort Nelson as a community, when in 1935 ; Yukon Southern Air Transport began completing charter flights to the regional airport.
Nelson was a federal electoral district that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1935.
# Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Conservative ( 1930 1935 )
He contested Liverpool Exchange without success at a 1933 by-election, but was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Nelson and Colne in the 1935 general election.
On Nelson Street offices and businesses were built while new shops and offices were built on London Road ( 55-57 ) in the Art-deco style in 1935.
He played in the first Masters in 1934 and won the Pasadena Open in 1935 ; the Canadian Open in 1939 ; and both the Los Angeles Open and the Phoenix Open in 1944 ( his only head-to-head win against Byron Nelson ).
* Blake, Nelson ( 1935 ) William Mahone of Virginia: Soldier and Political Insurgent Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie

Nelson and novel
The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.
* The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ): based on the novel by Nelson Algren, one of the first Hollywood films to deal with heroin addiction
* The Gold Coast ( DeMille novel ), 1990 novel by Nelson DeMille
Peter Ruber, 2000 ); The Far Side of Nowhere by Nelson Bond ( 2002 ); The Cleansing by John D. Harvey ( a horror novel, 2002 ); Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith ( ed.
There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.
* Rabun County is a prominent location in Larry Burkett's 1991 novel The Illuminati ( Thomas Nelson )-Clayton and Rabun County are the refuge of the book's protagonists once the powers that be begin to exert their control over the American economy-Clayton is safe due to the antiquated analog communications gear and general out-of-the-wayness that has fomented the popular perception of this remote area.
The novel was translated by Brian Nelson in 2012 under the Oxford Worlds Classics imprint.
The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a heroin addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world.
The movie was adapted by Harry Carr, Forrest Halsey, Agnes Christine Johnston, and Edwin Justus Mayer from the novel The Divine Lady: a Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton by E. Barrington.
* Nelson DeMille-Plum Island ( novel )
In the fifth Temeraire novel Victory of Eagles, it is the setting of a fictitious climactic battle in which Wellesley and Nelson drive Napoleon out of England in early 1808.
A second novel, Let It Come Down ( John Lehmann, London, February 1952 ), like The Sheltering Sky, was set in North Africa ( this time explicitly Tangier ) and dealt with the disintegration of an American ( Nelson Dyar ), who was unprepared for the encounter with an alien culture.
* Nelson DeMille's novel, Cathedral, ( 1981 ) concerns a fictional seizure and threatened destruction of Saint Patrick's Cathedral by members of the Irish Republican Army.
Similarly, Andros was featured as an antagonist in the 1879 novel Captain Nelson, described as a " romance of colonial days ".
* Night Fall, a 2004 novel by Nelson DeMille
The book was written by Richard Nelson, based on Joseph Roth ’ s novel The Tale of the 1002nd Night.
* Spencerville ( novel ), by Nelson DeMille
The Words on the Wall: Robert Nelson & the Rebellion of 1837, Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1998, 348 pages ( an historical novel )
Plum Island and PIADC are the subject of a murder-mystery novel, Plum Island, by Nelson DeMille.
* The General's Daughter ( 1999 ); based on the 1992 Nelson DeMille novel of the same name.
Since the series ended, Nelson has worked steadily as a writer, publishing several books ( as of March 2006 ): Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters and Mike Nelson's Death Rat !, the last being his first novel.

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