Being one of the first film hyphenates ( film director, editor and engineer ) Porter also invented and utilized some of the very first ( albeit primitive ) special effects such as double exposures, miniatures and split-screens.

Being There was adapted as an Academy Award-winning film in 1979.

In film there has been an adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and also the movie Pelíšky from director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský, which depicts the events of the Prague Spring and ends with the invasion by the Soviet Union and their allies.

He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich ( that gave him an Academy Award for Best Director nomination ) and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer / director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.

He has directed three videos for her and she contributed the theme song for Jonze's Being John Malkovich film.

* Being Osama, an award-winning 2004 documentary film of five men named Osama

Produced by Saul Zaentz, producer of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the film reunited Juliette Binoche with Ralph Fiennes, Heathcliff to her Cathy four years previously.

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

She reprised her stage roles of the headmistress alongside Alastair Sim in The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ) and Miss Prism in Anthony Asquith's film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

Especially as titles of works, but also as nicknames and the like, some proper names contain no noun and are not formed as noun phrases ( the film Being There ; Hi De Ho as a nickname for Cab Calloway and as the title of a film about him ).

She won the role of Cecily in Anthony Asquith's 1952 film version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest ( BAFTA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer ).

Being a part of the film had a lasting impression on her and made her dream of becoming an entertainer.

* Stephen Chbosky, novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower

During the same visit to Knole Park, Goldman produced the promotional film for " Penny Lane ", the reverse side of the " Strawberry Fields Forever " single ( during this same stay in Sevenoaks, John Lennon wandered into an antiques gallery and purchased the poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal that would inspire the song " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !").

In 1981, he portrayed the Supreme Being in a cameo appearance near the end of the Terry Gilliam film Time Bandits.

Ashby was in London, England meeting with Peter Sellers about doing Being There when he received a phone call from Jones who told him that Columbia was fed up with the time it was taking for the film to be assembled.

Being in the biggest grossing film of all time attracted attention to his career, as Hill became more sought-after for more prominent parts.

Being There is a 1979 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby.

Being There was the last Peter Sellers film to be released while he was alive.

Being a star of his age, he would frequently say deceptive things to the public.

* John Inman, actor, star of Are You Being Served ?, location of ashes unknown

Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo was an avid scholar of astronomy, and improved the designs of several astronomical instruments: the gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra clock, and sighting tube fixed to observe the pole star indefinitely.

Being a new variable star, it was designated V838 Monocerotis, the 838th variable star of Monoceros.

Being inspired by the Red Army, the new Ministry of Defence decided to create a crest for the club, along with the change of name to CSCA, consisting in an A-labeled red star ( symbol of the Red Army ) on a blue disc.

Being in a dinner meeting in a very short visit made to Santiago de Cuba during the " Fruitful Truce ", he was invited to make a toast and a phrase was said by a young man for a wish to annex Cuba to the United States and turn Cuba into "... another star into the constellation of the United States ...".

Being a star means specializing in the seemingly lived ; the star is the object of identification with the shallow seeming life that has to compensate for the fragmented productive specializations which are actually lived.

Being almost exactly on the celestial equator the star is visible everywhere in the world except for the North Pole.

Being a star the main decoration of the tympanum, as it can be seen on the Augustan coins, this way the whole temple had the function to be the representation of the Comet ( Star ) that announced the deification of Julius Caesar and the princedom of Augustus ( see Pliny the Elder ).

He is also star of the US / Canadian remake of BBC's supernatural drama series Being Human on Syfy in the US and Space in Canada.

Thomas is also the author of 1994's Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit, a biography of the renowned martial artist and movie star, and 1991's The Body of Time ( and the Energies of Being ), ISBN 0-14-019301-4, a short book about metaphysics.

* Muggled – Being caught by a non-geocacher while retrieving / replacing a cache ; also, a muggled cache has been removed or vandalized by a non-geocacher, usually out of misunderstanding or lack of knowledge.

Walking tour of the historic area of Ambridge, Pennsylvania: Being the former village of Economy, 1824 – 1902.

* 1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.

* 1794 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

Being on a constant dose of say 100 mg. for one year, can take 18 – 24 months for safe detoxification.

In his Nihilism as Determined by the History of Being ( 1944 – 46 ), Heidegger tries to understand Nietzsche ’ s nihilism as trying to achieve a victory through the devaluation of the, until then, highest values.

In opposition to the classical model of change as purely accidental and illusory ( as by Aristotle ), process philosophy regards change as the cornerstone of reality – the cornerstone of the Being thought as Becoming.

Translated as The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship " Gjøa " 1903 – 1907, 1908.

Richard Ellmann says that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had been building since the 1880s – the languor of aesthetic poses was well established and Wilde takes it as a starting point for the two protagonists.

* The Importance of Being Earnest – full text and reviews.

* The Importance of Being Earnest – Audio Book on LibriVox

* The Importance of Being Earnest study guide and teaching guide – themes, quotes, analysis, multimedia

* Martin Heidegger – philosopher ( Being and Time )

* February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest is first shown at St. James ' Theatre in London.

* February 14 – The event that inspired the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

* Manchee, W. H. ( 1924 ), The Westminster City Fathers ( the Burgess Court of Westminster ) 1585 – 1901: Being some account of their powers and domestic rule of the City prior to its incorporation in 1901 ; with a foreword by Walter G. Bell and 36 illustrations which relate to documents ( some pull-outs ) and artefacts.

Image: Jacques-Louis David-Mars desarme par Venus. JPG | Mars Being Disarmed by Venus ( 1822 – 25 ) by Jacques-Louis David

Puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names – such as The Importance of Being Earnest ( Earnest being both a name and an adjective ) – are common examples of word play.

He returned to London for the 1933 – 34 Old Vic Season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles ( as Macbeth and Henry VIII, Angelo in Measure for Measure and Prospero in The Tempest ) and also as Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Tattle in Love for Love.

* Best Screenplay – Original ( Almodóvar, nominated – lost to Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman )