This was denied by Stephen Toulouse, writing officially on behalf of Microsoft ,, and also by Microsoft employee Mark Russinovich, who explained what he said were several misunderstandings in Gibson's analysis.

Because of the great effort involved in writing two full-length novels every month, several guest writers were hired to write occasional installments in order to lighten Gibson's work load.

Gibson's writing was positively received by science fiction writers Dennis Danvers, Candas Jane Dorsey, and Rudy Rucker.

The Matrix Trilogy was heavily influenced by Gibson's writing.

The term was first used in Graeme Gibson's Eleven Canadian Novelists ( 1973 ) to recognize an existing tendency to apply aspects of the Gothic novel to writing based in and around Southern Ontario.

The film critics of the New Times LA and the Riverfront Times of St. Louis, Missouri recognised the film as the best documentary of 2001, with the latter commenting " Gibson's writing is often tedious, but the man proves articulate and compelling, especially when seated in the back of a car that appears to be driving across different dimensions.

Gibson's use of name-dropping brands to create a sense of " in-group style … of those in the know " is traced back to Thomas Pynchon's 1963 novel V..

In Australia, examples of the Brutalist style are Robin Gibson's Queensland Art Gallery, Ken Woolley's Fisher Library at the University of Sydney ( his State Office Block is another, High Court of Australia by Colin Madigan in Canberra and WTC Wharf ( World Trade Centre in Melbourne ).

Set in the Sprawl, the same period and universe as Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, it is solidly cyberpunk in its style and vision.

* Ecological Psychology The journal Ecological Psychology publishes experimental studies and theoretical discussion related to Gibson's style of direct perception research.

Because Gibson's trilogy is central to the cyberpunk style, having an illustration of his work enhances the scholarly utility of the article.

Gibson's routine was so memorable that John Wayne actually performed it once in his own inimitable style: " The Sky — by John Wayne.

Many people had compared Gibson's similar voice and style to both Wonder and Jackson.

Among Gibson's successors as commander was Group Captain Leonard Cheshire V. C., and the book describes Cheshire's unorthodox leadership style and innovative target marking techniques.

* William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy features various arcologies, namely the " projects ", which is a megastructure constructed with electricity, heat, oxygen, and food that it produced.

One of the cyberpunk genre's prototype characters is Case, from Gibson's Neuromancer.

In 2006, Leary and Lenny Clarke appeared on television during a Red Sox telecast and, upon realizing that Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of Mel Gibson's antisemitic comments .< ref >

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

It is often discussed along with William Gibson's novel Neuromancer as initiating the cyberpunk genre.

Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ) included an episode of Veronica wiping Jesus ' face, although she is not referred to by name in the film ( she is credited in the film as " Seraphia ").

He is most famous for his call in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series of Kirk Gibson's game-winning home run, and his disbelief at the feat by Gibson, who at the time had two injured legs.

The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".

Several characters are based on real country music figures: Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton is a composite of Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, and Porter Wagoner ; Ronee Blakely's Barbara Jean is based on Loretta Lynn ; the black country singer Tommy Brown ( played by Timothy Brown ) is based on Charley Pride ; and the feuding folk trio is based on Peter, Paul and Mary ; within the trio, the married couple of Bill and Mary were inspired by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who later became Starland Vocal Band .< ref >

In Mel Gibson's 2006 film Apocalypto, human sacrifice is done to appease the gods.

The character Chrome appears in the film as an AI who confers with zaibatsu antagonist Takahashi, but is transformed from her original security challenge-response program nature in Gibson's short story to a conscience figure.

His son is also an actor, having been prominently featured as Mel Gibson's kidnapped son in Ransom.

* In Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ), Pilate is played by Bulgarian actor Hristo Shopov.

A less-expensive version of the Gibson Les Paul guitar is also manufactured for Gibson's lower-priced Epiphone brand.

Gibson's Federal-style house remains near Gibsonville, and is recognized as a Guilford County landmark property.

In 1994, Garner played Marshal Zane Cooper in a movie version of Maverick, with Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick ( in the end it is revealed that Garner's character is the father of Gibson's Maverick ) and Jodie Foster as a gambling lass with a fake southern accent.

In 2003 and 2004 some people compared Mel Gibson's recent film The Passion of the Christ to these kinds of passion plays, but this characterization is hotly disputed ; an analysis of that topic is in the article on The Passion of the Christ.

When asked about the film's faithfulness to the account given in the New Testament, Father Augustine Di Noia of the Vatican's Doctrinal Congregation replied: " Mel Gibson's film is not a documentary but a work of artistic imagination " and " Gibson's film is entirely faithful to the New Testament.

Downey defended Gibson during the controversy surrounding The Passion of the Christ, and said " nobody's perfect " in reference to Gibson's DUI.

" Gibson's character was supposed to be a moth in the flame ," said Towne.

After the studio cart crashes, Gibson says to Homer, " I'm getting too old for this crap ," a reference to a line said by Danny Glover's character Roger Murtaugh to Gibson's character Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon film series.

Another depiction can be found in William Gibson's 1986 novel Count Zero.

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

In July 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio had pulled out of a Viking movie to be directed by Mel Gibson amid controversy over Gibson's rage-fueled rant tapes and domestic violence probe.

The series disappeared from CBS airwaves on March 27, 1935, due to Street & Smith's insistence that the radio storyteller be completely replaced by the master crime-fighter described in Walter B. Gibson's ongoing pulps.

" Writer Colin Escott proclaims Jim Reeves ' " Four Walls ", recorded February 1957, to be the " first ' Nashville sound ' record ", and Chet Atkins, the RCA-based producer and guitarist most often credited with being the sound's primary artistic brainchild, pointed to his production of Don Gibson's " Oh Lonesome Me " late that same year.

From the early pre-production stages of Lethal Weapon, Richard Donner wanted Mel Gibson's final fight sequence to be unique, yet also to make a strong statement about the characters involved.

Pattern Recognition is Gibson's eighth novel and his first one to be set in the contemporary world.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette review commented that the " constant, unadulterated " hipster-technocrat, cyber-MTV " lingo overdone and inappropriate " On the technology, Cory Doctorow found Gibson's use of watermarks and keystroke logging to be hollow and has noted that " Gibson is no technologist, he's an accomplished and insightful social critic ... and he treats these items from the real world as metaphor.

Another statue of Gibson will be erected outside Werner Park in Gibson's home city, Omaha, Nebraska.

If the murder weapon was one of a matched pair of pistols, why couldn't the other one be found in Mr. Gibson's collection?

Other treatises, such as the Apologetical Vindication of the Church of England, are to be met with in Edmund Gibson's Preservative against Popery.

In Gibson's example, then, the programmer is not necessarily placing purple and green pixels to increase the perceived resolution of a white line ; he may also be seen as simply drawing a line two pixels wide so as to make it appear white, and this latter mental model is arguably the one that most programmers of the time used.

Gibson's individuality was too strongly marked to be affected by any outward circumstances.

With Weaver's departure, Furler played drums, while Gibson's departure meant Hartman would be Petra's full-time guitarist for the first time since 1994.

The 1100 is considered by many enthusiasts to be among the finest guitar pickups ever produced, others being the Charlie Christian model and the P-90, both produced by Gibson, as well as Gibson's legendary patent applied for ( PAF ) double coil " humbucker " pickup, originally developed by Seth Lover.

The J. T. M. Gibson Award for Excellence was created in 2007 to be given to old boys who have, consistent with Jack Gibson's ideals, made a difference to society.

* Tilo-Mentioned once and is currently believed to be Gibson's brother who built / programmed the first android.

Gibson's Cut was bought for £ 840, but in order to entend it to join the main line at Tattershall, part of the terminal warehouse had to be demolished, as it obstructed the line of the extension.

It was first published in the horror anthology Shadows 4 in 1981, later to be included along with several other stories in Gibson's collection Burning Chrome.

Cartman informs him that in Mel Gibson's The Passion, Jews are stated to be evil, and dares Kyle to see it.

In 1968, led by Gibson's all-time record 1. 12 earned run average, the Cardinals repeated as NL champions and held a three games to one lead in the World Series against the Detroit Tigers, but lost the final three contests to be denied back-to-back world titles.

Results of Gibson's study found that implicit attitudes, or those that people may not be conscious of and able to verbally express, predicted product choice only when participants were presented with a cognitive task, suggesting that implicit product attitudes may play a greater role in product choice when the consumer is distracted or making an impulse purchase.