Though the 1986 movie The Golden Child implemented very crude morphing effects from animal to human and back, the first movie to employ detailed morphing was Willow, in 1988.

Murphy disliked the part, explaining he wanted to play an alien or a Starfleet officer, and chose to make The Golden Child — a decision Murphy later said was a mistake.

Much of the credit for Paramount's success was given to chairman Frank Mancuso, who moved The Voyage Homes release from Christmas to Thanksgiving after research showed that the film might draw filmgoers away from The Golden Child.

* Klein, Edward: " The Battle Over the Golden Child ," Vanity Fair, November 1997

* The Golden Child ( also co-produced the film )

Still, throughout the 1990s, Hwang continued to write for the stage, including short plays for the famed Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and Golden Child, which received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in 1996.

Hwang's work for the stage includes FOB, The Dance and the Railroad, Family Devotions, The House of Sleeping Beauties ( adapted from Yasunari Kawabata's novella House of the Sleeping Beauties ), The Sound of a Voice, As the Crow Flies, Rich Relations, M. Butterfly, Bondage, Face Value, Trying to Find Chinatown, Bang Kok, Golden Child, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt ( co-written with Stephan Muller ), the Humana Festival T ( ext ) Shirt play Merchandising, Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet, the children's play Tibet Through the Red Box ( based upon Peter Sis ' book ), The Great Helmsman, Yellow Face, A Very DNA Reunion, and Chinglish.

* Golden Child, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1998.

Delano's run ended with " The Golden Child ", where John is reunited with Marj and Mercury, who help him discover that he murdered his more perfect twin in the womb, culminating in an extended story, in which we are shown what would have occurred had the other twin survived in his place.

It then becomes apparent that he has been manipulated by the ' Golden Child ', his twin who did not survive childbirth, and has been manipulating events for the whole of the series, including his battle with cancer and many other events.

* Ivan van Sertima, author: They Came before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, African Presence in Early Europe ISBN 0-88738-664-4 ; Blacks in Science Ancient and Modern ; African Presence in Early Asia ; African Presence in Early America ; Early America Revisited ; Egypt Revisited: Journal of African Civilizations ; Nile Valley Civilizations ; Egypt: Child of Africa ( Journal of African Civilizations, V. 12 ); The Golden Age of the Moor ( Journal of African Civilizations, Vol.

One of Lowe's earliest roles came in the 1983 TV movie Thursday's Child, for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination for " Best Supporting Actor in a TV Movie / Miniseries ".

** Golden Child by David Henry Hwang

In 1986 she released a solo single from the movie " The Golden Child " called " The Best Man in the World " which reached number sixty-one in the U. S. She also had a hit in 1988-89 called " Surrender to Me " which was a duet with Cheap Trick singer Robin Zander, taken from the film Tequila Sunrise which reached number six in the U. S. singles chart.

* The Golden Child

Stephanie Zimablist's early television and movie appearances include Forever, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, The Long Journey Back ( TV 1978 ), The Awakening ( with Charlton Heston ), Tomorrow's Child ( TV 1982 ) and The Golden Moment, in which she played a Soviet Olympic gymnast.

It was also the same voice that Frank Welker used for Darkseid on Super Friends, Emperor Krulos in Dino-Riders, Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat, The Cave of Wonders in Disney's Aladdin and the voice of The Devil in both The Golden Child and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.

Welker performed as voice double for Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and provided voices for The Thing in 1986's The Golden Child, Sil in Species, and Malebolgia in 1997's Spawn.

" This process was portrayed in the movies Kundun and The Golden Child.

The film is an adaptation of the movie The Golden Child and has borrowed subplots from Bloodsport.

The studio hired Carpenter to direct the film and rushed Big Trouble in Little China into production so that it would be released before a similarly themed Eddie Murphy film, The Golden Child, which was slated to come out around the same time.

To compete with rival production The Golden Child ’ s casting of box office draw Eddie Murphy, Carpenter wanted a big star of his own and both Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson were considered but were busy.

Problems began to arise when Carpenter learned that the next Eddie Murphy vehicle, The Golden Child, featured a similar theme and was going to be released around the same time as Big Trouble in Little China.

( As it happened, Carpenter was asked by Paramount Pictures to direct The Golden Child ).

He was obliged to issue the Golden Bull confirming the privileges of the noblemen of Hungary and later he was also obliged to confirm the special privileges of the clergy.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

It settled on a location north of Oakland along the foot of the Contra Costa Range ( later called the Berkeley Hills ) astride Strawberry Creek, at an elevation about above the bay, commanding a fantastic view of the Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate.

But within a short time, Joe Shuster and his ghost artists began depicting Clark Kent ripping open his shirt to reveal the " S " insignia on his chest — an image which became so iconic that other superheroes, during the Golden Age and later periods, would copy the same type of change during transformations.

Don Quixote tells Sancho and the goatherds about the " Golden Age " of man, reminiscent of both Ovid and the later Rousseau in which property does not exist, and men live in peace.

This was arguably instrumental in Chan and Hung's further association with Golden Harvest studios, which later launched their careers.

Joseph Smith, Jr. ( who would later become the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ) said that on the night of September 21, 1823, Moroni appeared to Smith and told him about the Golden Plates that were buried ( in a stone box ) a few miles from Smith's home ; visited Smith various times over the course of the next six years ; and after Smith translated a portion of the writing on the plates ( either one-third or two-thirds ; accounts vary ) as the Book of Mormon, Smith turned the plates back over to Moroni.

Falk first appeared on television in 1957, in the dramatic anthology programs that later became known as the " Golden Age of Television.

The invaders, later known as Tatars, formed the state of the Golden Horde, which pillaged the Russian principalities and ruled the southern and central expanses of Russia for over two centuries.

Golden age hip hop ( cited as either just the late ' 80s or the late 80s to early 90s ) was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says " in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time " and Allmusic writes, " rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim basically invented the complex wordplay and lyrical kung-fu of later hip-hop ”.

Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).

He later won an Academy Award and Grammy Award for scoring The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), and has also won two Golden Globe Awards for his work as a film composer.

His score for The Sheltering Sky ( 1990 ) later won him his second Golden Globe Award, and his score for Little Buddha ( 1993 ) received another Grammy Award nomination.

* 1921 – 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy ; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

Even though Breton by 1946 responded rather negatively to the subject of music with his essay Silence is Golden, later Surrealists, such as Paul Garon, have been interested in — and found parallels to — Surrealism in the improvisation of jazz and the blues.

He later became heavily involved with the Theosophical Society and with hermeticism, particularly with the eclectic Rosicrucianism of the Golden Dawn.

* September 8 – Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy ; pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America.

Several railroads later, Ogden Flats, Utah, where the Golden Spike was driven, was named for him.

Although this film is not in continuity with the later television series, in 1999, author Christopher Golden adapted Joss Whedon's original script into a comic book entitled " The Origin ", which Whedon later confirmed to be " pretty much " canonical.

Three years later, The Golden Age was released, with " I Hate My Generation " as the lead single.

She raced around Hazzard with her cousins, first in a yellow and black 1974 Plymouth Road Runner ( later on it was a Plymouth Satellite ) and then, from the mid-second season, in her trademark white 1980 Jeep CJ-7 christened " Dixie " with a Golden Eagle emblem on the hood ( and the name " Dixie " on the hood sides ).

As a child, van Meegeren developed an enthusiasm for the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, and later set out to become an artist himself.

Korteling had rejected the Impressionist movement and other modern trends, as decadent, degenerate art, and his strong personal influence probably later led van Meegeren to rebuff contemporary styles and paint exclusively in the style of the Dutch Golden Age.

The 1636 punitive attack on Lamay Island in response to the killing of the shipwrecked crews of the Beverwijck and the Golden Lion ended ten years later with the entire aboriginal population of 1100 removed from the island including 327 Lamayans killed in a cave, having been trapped there by the Dutch and suffocated in the fumes and smoke pumped into the cave by the Dutch and their allied aborigines from Saccam, Soulang and Pangsoya.