Critic Danél Griffin remarked, " Romero freely admits that his film was a direct rip-off of Matheson's novel ; I would be a little less harsh in my description and say that Romero merely expanded the author's ideas with deviations so completely original that of the Living Dead is expelled from being labeled a true ' rip-off '".

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

George A. Romero, creator of the Dead Series, and Tom Savini pioneered effects that removed the need for cutaways in horror films.

The game's designer, John Romero, has pointed out that this is so the player feels more involved in the game: " There was never a name for the DOOM marine because it's supposed to be YOU.

On October 11, 2006, John Romero released the original map files for all of the levels in Quake under the GPL.

After the departure of Romero, the remaining id employees chose to change the thematic direction substantially for Quake II, making the design more technological and futuristic rather than Lovecraftian fantasy.

King partly dedicated his book Cell to film director George Romero, and wrote an essay for the Elite DVD version of Night of the Living Dead.

Gellar is featured as a playable character in the new Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack Escalation, and also the second female playable character in the whole " Call of Duty " series, in which she appears as herself shooting a movie for George Romero, fighting off a horde of zombies.

The FDN ’ s ( Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, the main opposition group of those armed organizations referred to as ' Contras ') chief of intelligence, Ricardo Lau, had, according to the former Salvadoran intelligence chief Col. Roberto Santivanez, ‘ received payment of $ 120, 000 ’ for organizing the murder of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador in 1980.

At the time, it was atypical for an African-American man to be the hero of a film when the rest of the cast was composed of whites ; but Romero said that Jones " simply gave the best audition ".

According to Romero, they wanted to capitalize on the film industry's " thirst for the bizarre ".

Romero revealed the power behind exploitation and setting horror in ordinary, unexceptional locations and offered a template for making an " effective and lucrative " film on a " minuscule budget ".

Case gained repute for defeating Quake designer John Romero in a Quake deathmatch.

John Romero was later contacted by Scott Miller of Apogee, who, after seeing some of id's work, advanced the team $ 2, 000 for the development of Commander Keen, starting a profitable business relationship that would last until id Software self-published Doom.

A few days later, Blake – in the role of Judge Manville – announces he is planning a gala reception for Louise, Carlos, and Count Romero before they return to Spain, and he enlists Dave's guys and Missouri's dolls to pose as Annie's society friends.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

Moreover, Keitel has worked for other acclaimed directors such as: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Dario Argento, Luc Besson, Fernando Colomo, Brian De Palma, Stanley Donen, Philip Kaufman, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Jack Nicholson, Robert Rodriguez, George A. Romero, Paul Schrader, Ettore Scola, Luis Sepúlveda and Bertrand Tavernier ; and for TV productions with Stephen Frears, Clint Eastwood, and Joel Schumacher.

The origin of the term deathmatch in the context of video games is disputed, especially as it is not well-defined ; for pointers, the term might have been coined by game designer John Romero while he and lead programmer John Carmack were developing the LAN multiplayer mode for the video game Doom, another source to investigate is the fighting game World Heroes 2, also developed and released in the early 1990s as an early use of the term.

During the Salvadoran civil war, death squads ( known in Spanish by the name of Escuadrón de la Muerte, " Squadron of Death ") achieved notoriety when far-right vigilantes assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero for his social activism in March 1980.

The film Knightriders ( 1981 ) by George A. Romero starring Ed Harris used scenes shot in Fawn Township ( 1980 ) for the movie.

* 1917 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

* 1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop ( b. 1917 )

* 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.

** Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

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During the Salvadoran civil war, death squads achieved notoriety when a sniper assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero during Mass in March 1980.