Some realistic references to ARPA in fiction are in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X ( DARPA consults on a technical threat ), in episodes of television program The West Wing ( the ARPA-DARPA distinction ), the television program Numb3rs ( DARPA research into creating the first self-aware computer ), and in the motion picture Executive Decision ( use of a one-of-a-kind experimental prototype in an emergency ).

Critic Steve Huey calls it " perhaps Tom Waits's most cohesive album ... a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental ' 80s classics to stunningly evocative — and often harrowing — effect ... Waits ' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible.

In 1967 and 1968 respectively, Mickey Hart and Tom Constanten joined the Grateful Dead, causing the band to take a stylistic turn from the blues toward full-blown experimental psychedelia influenced by avant-garde jazz, surrealism, and world music traditions.

Thomas Henry Corra ( September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998 ), better known as Tom Cora, was a United States cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock.

Skeleton Crew was a United States experimental rock and jazz group from 1982 to 1986, comprising core members Fred Frith ( guitar ) and Tom Cora ( cello ), with Zeena Parkins ( harp ) joining later.

Still, he was proud to be associated with the British New Wave ; the last film on which he worked as executive producer was Tom Jones ( 1963 ), after which he continued to encourage young directors, serving as chairman of the British Film Institute production board and funding low-budget experimental work.

He is also a member of the experimental electronica trio Tauchsieder ( along with Stuart McLean and Innes Smith ), who have so far released one CD album entitled ' Louder ' which features contributions from Colin Newman, Richard X, Tom Ellard and JD Twitch from Optimo.

As well, she has occasionally performed in musical theatre, most notably productions of Tom Waits ' experimental rock opera The Black Rider, stealing the show according to Pitchfork. com.

Many heartland rock artists continue to record today with critical and commercial success, most notably Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and John Mellencamp, although their works have become more personal and experimental and no longer fit easily into a single genre.

* Ewan McGregor as Lincoln Six Echo, a clone of Tom Lincoln, a Scottish automotive experimental designer, who sponsored his clone for a new liver since his viral hepatitis is destroying his liver.

Major Tom, and his partner ' The Action Man ', are used as the names of two minor characters in the television program The Venture Bros. Major Tom ( and later his ghost ) play an important role in the episode " Ghosts of the Sargasso " where a flashback reveals he was killed in the crashlanding of an experimental rocketship ).

He also wrote The Boundary ( 1975 ), with Tom Stoppard, for the BBC ’ s experimental series The Eleventh Hour.

Tom Marriott has been a longtime member of the Bollywood Brass Band and he also plays with experimental improv band Snorkel ( with releases through the label Slowfoot ), and has a solo techno project under the moniker ‘ Fedka The Irritant ’.

British playwright Tom Stoppard wrote Every Good Boy Deserves Favour about the relationship between a patient and his doctor in one of these hospitals.

* 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-English playwright

Rock ' n ' Roll, a play by award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard, references the Prague Spring, as well as the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

* Tom Murphy, Irish playwright

One of the playwright ’ s functions is that concerned with adaptations of existing traditional drama, such as Charles Marowitz ’ s collages of Hamlet and Macbeth and other re-interpretations of Shakespeare's works, as well as Tom Stoppard ’ s approaches in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth.

* Tom Hood 1835-1874, author, playwright and editor of " Fun " lived at 12 Queen Adelaide Road.

* Melon Cauliflower by NZ playwright Tom McCrory.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.

Our American Cousin is an 1858 play in three acts by English playwright Tom Taylor.

In Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing, the playwright protagonist, Henry, frets over his forthcoming appearance on Desert Island Discs, worrying about whether he should be honest and admit his admiration for pop music ( particularly pop music derided by critics ) or pretend to favour more conventionally admired music.

Impressed with Divine's performance in Women Behind Bars, playwright Tom Eyen decided to write a new play that would feature him in a starring role.

* Tom Hood, humourist and playwright, born at Lake House in 1835

British writer Tom Stoppard has won this award four times, more than any other playwright.

* Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, contemporary playwright, Shakespeare in Love

* A play entitled Dick Turpin & Tom King was written by Victorian playwright W. E. Suter in 1861.

The judges were Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles ; Jules Feiffer, playwright and social cartoonist ; Fay Kanin, President, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ; Victor Navasky, Editor, The Nation ; and Tom Wicker, Columnist and Associate Editor, The New York TImes.

Mathematician Robert Osserman has held a series of public " conversations " with prominent artists who have been influenced by mathematics in their work, such as composer Philip Glass, actor and writer Steve Martin, playwright Tom Stoppard, and actor and author Alan Alda.

She is the niece of the medical doctor Miriam Stoppard ( her mother's sister ) and her playwright husband Tom Stoppard.

* David W. Scott ( born 1965 ) Canadian playwright: " There's Nothing in the Paper ", " The Ballad of Stompin ' Tom "

In Paris, Americans, playwright Tom Chambers and artist George Curtis, both fall in love with Gilda, an American commercial artist.

Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root ( 1864 ), US Vice President James S. Sherman ( 1878 ), poet Ezra Pound ( 1905 ), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott ( 1909 ), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup ( 1919 ), psychologist B. F. Skinner ( 1926 ), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard ( 1948 ), civil rights leader Bob Moses ( 1956 ), novelist Terry Brooks ( 1966 ), playwright Richard Nelson ( 1971 ), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ( 1972 ), composer Jay Reise ( 1972 ), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner ( 1979 ), novelist Peter Cameron ( 1982 ), actor Tony Goldwyn ( 1982 ), author Garret Kramer ( 1984 ), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein ( 1989 ), actor Grayson McCouch ( 1991 ), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon ( 1997 ), and politician and author Matthew Zeller ( 2004 ).

* In Salt-Water Moon, by Canadian playwright David French, Jacob describes watching " The Lucky Horseshoe ", calling it " one of the best Tom ever made ," and tries to seduce Mary when describing it.

The piece was conceptualized by lyricist, Tom Burchinal, and offers an anti-apocalyptic viewpoint of the popularized end-date of the Mayan Long Count Calendar in 2012.

* Tom Austin, drummer and lyricist for the 1950s / 1960s rock band Royal Teens, best known for their one hit Short Shorts.

Many well-known figures attended Lancing College, including novelists Tom Sharpe and Evelyn Waugh, lyricist Tim Rice and singer Peter Pears.

* Bivouac Jaun in 1984 was a project featuring Anastasio, Phish lyricist Tom Marshall, and one-time Phish percussionist Marc Daubert.

Tom Marshall, a New Jersey computer systems professional and friend of Anastasio since his Princeton childhood, has been his primary songwriting collaborator, acting as lyricist.

** Henry Krieger ( composer ), Tom Eyen ( lyricist ), David Foster ( producer ) & various artists for Dreamgirls

In 1986, Moroder collaborated with his protégé Harold Faltermeyer ( of " Axel F .") and lyricist Tom Whitlock to create the score for the film Top Gun ( 1986 ) and Berlin's " Take My Breath Away ".

Most of Klee's lyrics and music are written by the group's three core members, but the band collaborates with lyricist Tom Liwa on some songs.

Tom Jones ( born in 1928 in Littlefield, Texas ) is a lyricist ( and often librettist ) of musical theatre.

All of Schmidt's major musicals were written with lyricist Tom Jones.

It was researched with the help of all official Phish sources, including band archivist Kevin Shapiro, bassist Mike Gordon, lyricist Tom Marshall, and others.

Phish lyricist Tom Marshall has called the Companion " Truly an epic piece of work.

* The comedian / lyricist Tom Lehrer penned a number of humorous and well known songs relating to nuclear weapons.

It was Novis who got Walt Disney to audition Boag for the Golden Horseshoe Revue, a 45-minute stage show which was written by its first pianist Charles LaVere and lyricist Tom Adair.

Stone has won several Emmy Awards for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Animaniacs and Histeria !, as well as Outstanding Original Song, shared with lyricist Tom Ruegger, for the main titles of Animaniacs and Freakazoid.

With lyricist Tom Adair he wrote songs for Haymes ' program.

Tom Marshall ( born November 12, 1963 ) is a lyricist, keyboardist and singer / songwriter best known for his association with Trey Anastasio and the rock band Phish.