This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

" This sense of exclusion was articulated by Jonathan Lethem in an essay published in the Village Voice entitled " Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction.

Her uncle also appeared in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Sugarland Express, playing a police officer in both films.

The producers and writers have cited All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rashomon, The Thing, The Boys from Brazil, The Silence of the Lambs, and JFK as influences on the series.

In 2006 Williams entered the Guiness Book of World Records for selling 1. 6 million tickets of his Close Encounters Tour in a single day.

Williams kicked off his Close Encounters World Tour in South Africa in April 2006, when he finished his European leg of the tour.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

Limited use of 65 mm film was revived in the late 1970s for some of the visual effects sequences in films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, mainly because the larger negative did a better job than 35 mm negative of minimizing visible film grain during optical compositing.

That same year, Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind boasted a finale with impressive special effects by 2001 veteran Douglas Trumbull.

However, following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the planned pilot episode entitled " In Thy Image " was adapted into a theatrical production, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

* My Very Close Encounters With Florida Lightning Bolts By Thomas F. Giella, retired Meteorologist and Solar and Space Plasma Physicist

Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics.

Having worked with Cary Guffey on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg felt confident in working with a cast composed mostly of child actors.

He also thought about a follow-up to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and began to develop a darker project he had planned with John Sayles called Night Skies in which malevolent aliens terrorize a family.

Carlo Rambaldi, who designed the aliens for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was hired to design the animatronics of E. T.

Besides E. T., some believe that another earlier Spielberg film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), was also inspired by The Alien.

They included the episodes: Shake, Rattle and Goof, Close Encounters of the Weird Mime, Slightly Dinghy, Wrecks, Lies and Videotape, Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp and Tub Be or Not Tub Be.

* " Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State " By Norman Solomon, Foreword by Daniel Ellsberg, September 2007 – Publisher: Polipoint Press

** Close Encounters of the Third Kind-Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene Cantamessa

Portions of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind were filmed near the town's Louisville and Nashville Railroad depot ( now razed ) and Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood was filmed in rural portions of Baldwin County near Bay Minette.

* In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of the previously alien-abducted characters who was returned to earth at Devil's Tower is identified as " John DeLorean, Bisbee, Arizona ".

He was the first choice for director Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

According to Spielberg on a documentary on the Close Encounters DVD, Spielberg met him at a bar, where McQueen drank beer after beer.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( often referred to as Close Encounters or CE3K ) is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg.

The final issue of the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some length and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-called.

Several years after his death, a street on a new housing development in Tividale, West Midlands, was named Attlee Close in his memory.

That move was hinted at in their 1976 Top Ten hits " Sweet Love " and " Just to Be Close to You.

In 1998, the group Next released " Too Close ", in which the music of " Christmas Rappin '" was sampled.

Her custody status was " Close A ," which is reserved for inmates requiring the most supervision.

Close by is a Renaissance structure with six round arches, called La Loggia, which was started at the very end of the 14th century and finished in the early 15th, but which has undergone much restoration work over the subsequent centuries.

Close to the border with the Franks, it was effectively a crossroads between the cultures, until its eventual destruction by the Norwegians in an internecine dispute around 1050.

The film was followed by a sequel, Faraway, So Close !, in 1993.

Close to the time that PepsiCo spun off its restaurant business in 1997, the Border Bell in Mountain View was closed and converted to a Taco Bell restaurant, which is still open as of 2012.

Training for ATF included such subjects as Close Quarters Combat, and combat medical instruction, and a mock up of the Mount Carmel complex was constructed at Fort Hood, Texas for rehearsals.

* 1987: Con Onor Muore was played during a scene in the erotic thriller Fatal Attraction, in which Dan Gallagher ( Michael Douglas ) tells Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) the childhood memory of his father taking him to see the opera.

Close to 21 million tons of rubber were produced in 2005, of which approximately 42 % was natural.

A 40th anniversary Close to the Edge and Back tour was scheduled to begin in 2008 that was to feature Oliver Wakeman on keyboards, as his father was advised by his doctors not to tour.

In 2008, Jon Anderson was replaced with Canadian singer Benoît David of progressive rock group Mystery and a Yes tribute band called Close to the Edge.

Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of Bettine ( née Moore ) and William Taliaferro Close, a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to Congo / Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko.

Her father was a descendant of the Taliaferros of Virginia ; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association, was first married to Post Cereals ' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Close is also a second cousin once-removed of actress Brooke Shields ( Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore was a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr .).

When she was 22, Close broke away from MRA, attending The College of William and Mary, and majoring in theatre.

In an interview after her win, Close admitted her role of Patty Hewes in the series was the role of her life.