Previous guest designers include Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, Marjane Satrapi, Guillermo del Toro, David Bowie, David Byrne, and Dennis Hopper.

According to director Gus Van Sant, the character of Bob in My Own Private Idaho was based upon Falstaff, and the character of Scott was based on Prince Hal.

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He has worked under major directors, such as Stephen Frears ( in the 1988 period drama Dangerous Liaisons ); Gus Van Sant ( in the 1991 independent film My Own Private Idaho ); and Bernardo Bertolucci ( in the 1993 film Little Buddha ).

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

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Gus made no appearances in DuckTales, but there is a background character in the series, Vacation Van Honk, who looks very much like Gus.

In 1996, Smith was tapped by director and fellow Portland resident Gus Van Sant to be a part of the soundtrack to his film, Good Will Hunting.

Some of the filmmakers who have been influenced by Fassbinder include: Pedro Almodóvar, Bela Tarr, Todd Haynes, Kathryn Bigelow, John Waters, François Ozon, Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine and Gus Van Sant.

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* In the Sex and the City season 6 episode " Out of the Frying Pan ", Smith Jerrod and Samantha Jones attend the movie premiere of a Gus Van Sant film called Needles, CA.

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Stellan Skarsgård.

Gus Van Sant used some of Rota's music in his 2007 film Paranoid Park and director Michael Winterbottom used several Rota selections in the 2005 film Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.

Film director Gus Van Sant also went to high school in Darien.

The two starred together for the first time ( along with Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman and Joan Plowright ) in 1990's I Love You to Death and again in Gus Van Sant's avant-garde film My Own Private Idaho.

Also in 1991 the Aleka's Attic track " Too Many Colors " was lent to the soundtrack of Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho a film which included Phoenix in a starring role.

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* " All The Boys Love Mary " Gus Van & Joe Schenck

* " Open Up The Golden Gates To Dixieland And Let Me Into Paradise " w. Jack Yellen m. Gus Van & Joe Schenck

* " Your Eyes Have Told Me So " w. Gus Kahn & Egbert Van Alstyne m. Walter Blaufuss

* " Sailin ' Away On The Henry Clay " w. Gus Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne

* " Pretty Baby " w. Gus Kahn m. Tony Jackson & Egbert Van Alstyne

Fellow film composer Danny Elfman adapted Herrmann's music for Psycho for use in director Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake and borrowed from Herrmann's " Mountaintop / Sunrise " theme, from Journey to the Center of the Earth, for his main Batman theme.

He is also known for his roles in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite ( 1995 ), Ahdar Ru ' afo in Star Trek: Insurrection ( 1998 ), and Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester ( 2000 ), where he once again played nemesis to Connery.

He has earned positive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For ( 1995 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in Oliver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts ( 1997 ), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ), a conflicted priest in Quills ( 2000 ), a washed-up baseball player in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs ( 2002 ), the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater in the widely panned It's All About Love in 2003, a lovestruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village ( 2004 ), a disillusioned cameraman in Terry George's Hotel Rwanda ( 2004 ), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 ( 2004 ).

She achieved greater recognition playing opposite Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ), a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award, among others.

The misunderstanding was mentioned at the end of Milk, Gus Van Sant's 2008 biopic of Harvey Milk.

Van Sant was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States ( US ), the son of Betty ( née Seay ) and Gus Green Van Sant, Sr ; Gus Van Sant's father was a clothing manufacturer and traveling salesman who rapidly worked his way into middle class prosperity.

Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is loosely based on Part 1 of Henry IV.

Lang contributed much of the music towards Gus Van Sant's soundtrack of the film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and also did a cover of " Skylark " for the 1997 film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

The joke references not only the recreation nature of the original short story, but also Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, which was released on December 4, 1998.

Phoenix's critically acclaimed performance as gay hustler Mikey Waters in Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho helped bring queer cinema to a mainstream audience.

Other Macy roles of the 1990s and 2000s included Benny & Joon, Above Suspicion, Mr. Holland's Opus, Ghosts of Mississippi, Air Force One, Boogie Nights, Pleasantville, Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Happy, Texas, Mystery Men, Magnolia, Jurassic Park III, Focus, Panic, Welcome to Collinwood, Seabiscuit, The Cooler, and Sahara.

In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.

* Actor Josh Brolin was nominated for an Academy Award for playing Dan White in Gus Van Sant's 2008 biographical film Milk, which opened with wide release from Focus Features.

For example, while some critics called Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho ( 1991 ) an " exercise in film experimentation " of " high artistic quality ", the Washington Post called it an ambitious mainstream film.

Affleck's first movie role was as a sociopathic teenager in Gus Van Sant's 1995 dark comedy To Die For, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Nicole Kidman.

The original screenplay for Gus Van Sant's Elephant ( 2003 ) was credited to LeRoy.

Howard has teamed up with her father to help produce Gus Van Sant's Restless, a dark coming of age movie about a teenage boy and girl who are engrossed with death.

Pitt next appeared in Asia Argento's The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and headlined Gus Van Sant's Last Days, playing a rock star " inspired " by Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain.

Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho ( 1998 ) followed Stefano's script punctiliously.

Frusciante remembers Van Sant's surprised, though favorable, reaction: " when I got the studio Gus Van Sant was just looking at me and going ' God I'm so glad you wore that hat.

Franco starred opposite Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Emile Hirsch in Gus Van Sant's Milk ( 2008 ).