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In an episodic fashion, the film covers a full day, during which all manner of strange visitors make appearances, including Lorraine Gary as a hysterical wealthy woman from Beverly Hills dealing with a carsick son, Richard Pryor as a hustling, flamboyant, money-hungry evangelist whose pseudo-gospel of prosperity theology is beloved by most ( including his female entourage, played by The Pointer Sisters ) but loathed by one ( the one being Abdullah ( Bill Duke ), a young and frustrated Black Power revolutionary ); there's also a man (" Professor " Irwin Corey ) whose strange actions and dress fit the profile of the notorious " pop bottle bomber " being sought that day by the police, causing all the employees, customers and Mr. B to fear for their lives, but the strange man's pop bottle " bomb " is none other than a urine sample as he is on his way to the hospital.
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These ages are very recent in geological terms, suggesting that the mountain may still be volcanically active, though in a very quiescent and episodic fashion.
The company subsequently released Sam & Max Save the World in episodic fashion from late 2006 to early 2007.
The book is written in episodic fashion, each chapter self-contained with minimal narrative link to the others.
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The cast was young and relatively new, though the stars Sissy Spacek and John Travolta had gained considerable attention for previous work in, respectively, film and episodic sitcoms.
" Dave Kehr, in his review for the Daily News, criticized the film's premise as a " tired idea, and it produces an episodic, unstrung film.
He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes ( The Travelling Players, for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film ).
His best work was in the 1960s: the critical quality of the films in which he took part diminished from the mid 1970s, with poorly regarded made-for-television films and episodic television making up the majority of his appearances, except in The Saviour, directed in 1971 by the French film critic Michel Mardore.
He said of Crabtree's work on Brisco, " Her horses sounded so natural and real – their hooves, the sound of their hooves on the texture of the ground, the sound of saddle movement, bridle jingles – it was as good as anything I would want for a feature film, and this was episodic television.
Although most of the films produced using the original three-strip Cinerama process were full feature length or longer, they were mostly travelogues or episodic documentaries such as This Is Cinerama ( 1952 ), the first film shot in Cinerama.
Following numerous episodic guest starring television roles including Streets of San Francisco, he was cast by Clint Eastwood in the film Magnum Force.
Takahata had difficulty adapting the episodic manga into a feature film, and he therefore invented the framing narrative wherein the adult Taeko journeys to the countryside and falls in love with Toshio.
As this compilation also survived in the BBC archives, these film sequences were able to be digitally remastered and inserted into the newly-restored episodic version for the DVD release.
Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).
Muggavan ), with episodic roles filled by television, radio, and film stars such as Eve McVeagh, and such radio actors as Irene Tedrow, Barney Phillips, Virginia Gregg, Anthony Barrett, Herb Butterfield, Lamont Johnson, Herb Ellis, Hy Averback, Edgar Barrier, Betty Lou Gerson, Harry Bartell, Sheldon Leonard, Martha Wentworth, Lawrence Dobkin and Mary Jane Croft.
He also appeared in guest spots in episodic television and had a role in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning before landing the role of Eddie Winslow in Family Matters the following year.
The episodic film contains three short films based on literary works by Helder Prista Monteiro ( Os Immortais ), António Patrício ( Suzy ) and Agustina Bessa-Luís ( Mãe de Um Rio ).
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James Kendrick of Q Network Film Desk said that the film " feels episodic and slight, little more than a slasher film in which the slasher is a lycanthrope.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang did not, however, restart her film career or launch a career for her in episodic television despite several guest-starring roles in Mission: Impossible, Marcus Welby, M. D., and Branigan and The Men From Shiloh.
Like the film, the episode's plot is episodic, though the stories are interconnected.
He is also a writer with numerous published novels and produced episodes of episodic television and feature film scripts.
The Los Angeles Times has called Paul Bishop ‘ the closest equivalent of Joe Wambaugh yet ,’ and stated Hot Pursuit ‘ could hardly be better .’ The New York Times proclaimed him a ‘ first-class writer ,’ and called Deep Water a ‘ lively, bloody adventure .’ Publishers Weekly cited Croaker: Kill Me Again, as ‘ gripping, intense, labyrinthine, complex, and compelling .’ And author Dominick Dunne declared Croaker: Grave Sins to be a ‘ tough, taut, terrific tale !’ Bishop has also written feature film scripts and numerous episodic scripts for television.
The play abandoned some of the experimental nature of the earlier Living Newspapers, using a very realistic set to display the filth and dangers of a tenant slum, but retained the episodic format and multimedia ( sound, film, and image ) displays that characterized the form.
Ross has appeared in over 100 film and episodic television projects throughout his career, including such films as the fifth installment of the Friday the 13th movie series Friday the 13th: A New Beginning in 1985 as " Reggie ".
He was the director of the 1993 TV series and 1999 film Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman which starred his wife, Jane Seymour, and other episodic television.
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, Dan Wool is a San Francisco, California, based composer who has worked in New York, Los Angeles, London and Mexico City creating scores for more than 45 feature film and broadcast television projects, including seven films for celebrated cult filmmaker Alex Cox ( Repo Man, Sid & Nancy ) Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Searchers 2. 0, Death and the Compass, and Repo Chick among others, as well as television movies and episodic series for all major U. S. networks ( ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC ) and HBO.
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Debuting with much fanfare ( Show was on the covers of both TV Guide and People immediately after the series ' debut ), the series ' ratings in its first season were not up to expectations, and the show was revamped in the middle of the first season from an episodic straight-laced drama format to a melodramatic soap opera serial format in the tradition of Dynasty, one of Spelling's earlier hits.
It is at this time that the band started to become more free form, and detached with the rigidness of its structure, and would routinely stretch out its Skatalite covers into 15 minute episodic affairs.
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The full, unedited, episodic version of the serial was released on DVD by BBC Worldwide in 2005, as part of The Quatermass Collection box set.
In 2010, Ubisoft announced Rayman Origins, first an episodic video game designed by Michel Ancel and developed by a small team of five people, but then it was announced that it transformed into a full game ..
Many of the games that have been developed by Telltale Games follow an episodic system ; the full game is split into several episodes which are released periodically through a certain timeframe, often up to a year after the initial release.
The plot of the book concerns Yambo ( full name: Giambattista Bodoni, just like the typographer Giambattista Bodoni ), a 59-year-old Milanese antiquarian book dealer who loses his episodic memory due to a stroke.
The full episodic version was released in 2009 by Reader's Digest.
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A patient with amnesia will not be able to remember events of the previous day ( episodic memory ,) but they will still remember how to tie their shoes ( procedural memory ,) remember a series of numbers for a few seconds ( working memory ) and be able to recall historical events they have learned in school ( semantic memory.
As a result of anterograde amnesia, Wearing repeatedly “ wakes up ” every day in 30-second intervals until his wife stops him, because his episodic memory is nonfunctional ( so he does not consciously recall having woken up 30 seconds prior ).
The classic presentation ( in 40-50 % of the cases ) is episodic frank hematuria which usually starts within a day or two of a non-specific upper respiratory tract infection ( hence synpharyngitic ) as opposed to post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis which occurs some time ( weeks ) after initial infection.
The classic presentation ( in 40-50 % of the cases ) is episodic frank hematuria which usually starts within a day or two of a non-specific upper respiratory tract infection ( hence synpharyngitic ) as opposed to post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis which occurs some time ( weeks ) after initial infection.
Starring Franklyn Ajaye, Bill Duke, George Carlin, Irwin Corey, Ivan Dixon, Antonio Fargas, Jack Kehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters and Richard Pryor, Car Wash is an episodic comedy about a day in the lives of the employees and the owner, Mr. B ( Sully Boyar ), of a Los Angeles, California car wash ( filmed at a Westlake car wash at the corner of Rampart Blvd.
Other radio acting jobs included multiple roles in Norman Corwin's VE day special On a Note of Triumph, frequent appearances on Jack Webb's shows Dragnet and Pete Kelly's Blues, and episodic parts on The Modern Adventures of Casanova ( starring Errol Flynn ), My Favorite Husband, The Saint, Suspense, and Lux Radio Theater,
The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend ( Woodlawn ).
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" The story was intentionally episodic so that passers by on the street could easily join the audience during a performance ( Crone 1058 ).
Concerning this last typology, Kintsch, Patel and Ericsson consider that every reader is able to form an episodic text structure during text comprehension, if the text is well written and if the content is familiar.
The onset of bulimia nervosa is often during adolescence, between 13 and 20 years of age, and many cases have previously suffered obesity, with many sufferers relapsing in adulthood into episodic binging and purging even after initially successful treatment and remission.
The findings suggest that dividing attention during encoding influences the probability of engaging the encoding operations that support later episodic memory, but does not alter the nature of the operations themselves.
Acts of Thomas is a series of episodic Acts ( Latin passio ) that occurred during the evangelistic mission of Judas Thomas (" Judas the Twin ") to India.
This low level of genetic variation could be attributed to population “ bottlenecks ” associated with periods of range contraction, probably during the Pleistocene, and in recent times during the periods of episodic or prolonged drought that are known to reduce some reaches of these river systems.
After various guest appearances on episodic television series such as The Nurses, Rhoda, Harry O and Kaz, Lavin landed a recurring role on Barney Miller during the first and second seasons ( 1975-1976 ).
Many muricids have episodic growth, which means that the shell grows in spurts, remaining the same size for a while ( during which time the varix develops ) before rapidly growing to the next size stage.
Birdsong has an episodic structure which moves between three different periods of time before, during and after the war.
In other words, in gastropods whose shells have varices, the shells are characterised by episodic growth-the shell grows in spurts, and during the resting phase the varix forms.
This was dropped during development, and the show became more conventional and episodic.
Geologists like Émile Haug and Hans Stille saw the Caledonian orogeny as one of several episodic phases of mountain building that had occurred during the Earth's history.
According to Lombroso and Scahill, 2008, "( f ) ive diagnostic criteria were proposed for PANDAS: ( 1 ) the presence of a tic disorder and / or OCD consistent with DSM-IV ; ( 2 ) prepubertal onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms ; ( 3 ) a history of a sudden onset of symptoms and / or an episodic course with abrupt symptom exacerbation interspersed with periods of partial or complete remission ; ( 4 ) evidence of a temporal association between onset or exacerbation of symptoms and a prior streptococcal infection ; and ( 5 ) adventitious movements ( e. g., motoric hyperactivity and choreiform movements ) during symptom exacerbation ".
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