For the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Tina Turner is said to have been wearing an actual mail and she complained how heavy this was.

The song's title derives from the line " when two great warrior tribes go to war ", from the film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior ( the line is also spoken by Holly Johnson at the beginning of the session version ).

In 1990 Franco Zeffirelli, whose Shakespeare films have been described as " sensual rather than cerebral ", cast Mel Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies — in the title role of his 1990 version, and Glenn Close — then famous as the psychotic " other woman " in Fatal Attraction — as Gertrude.

Samurai, Terminator 2, The Matrix, Total Recall, Minority Report, The Island, Star Trek, Aliens, I, Robot, Transformers, Equilibrium, District 9, Serenity, Akira, Paycheck, Predator, Robocop, Avatar, Mad Max 2 and The Fifth Element.

Gallipoli was instrumental in making Mel Gibson ( Mad Max ) into a major star, although his co-star Mark Lee, who also received high praise for his role, has made relatively few screen appearances since.

* Mad Max aka Jochen Hippel ( musician ).

* An autogyro was heavily featured in the second Mad Max ( The Road Warrior ) film, released in 1981, appearing in several scenes with its pilot, the Gyro Captain, as a major character.

It is this post-apocalyptic setting which has drawn comparisons between Car Wars and the Mad Max movies.

* Mad Max ( 1979 ) and The Road Warrior ( 1981 ) – Key cinematic inspirations for Car Wars and similar games.

* Battlecars ( 1983 ) – A Games Workshop, Mad Max inspired road combat game using 1: 60 scale miniature cars.

* Roadwar 2000 ( 1986 ) – A video game inspired by the Mad Max film franchise.

* Market Forces ( 2005 )-A novel by Richard K. Morgan heavily inspired by Mad Max and thus, Car Wars.

Examples include The Postman and the Mad Max series, and the computer game series Fallout.

The 1970s and 80s are regarded by many as a ' golden age ' of Australian cinema, with many successful films, from the dark science fiction of Mad Max ( George Miller, 1979 ) to the romantic comedy of Crocodile Dundee ( Peter Faiman, 1986 ) and the emergence of such film directing auteurs as Gillian Armstrong, Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford.

These are combined with futuristic post-apocalyptic themes in the Mad Max series.

As a member of The Exceptions, using the handle Mad Max, he wrote most of the music for their demos including the B. I. G.

* Max Rockatansky, the main character from the Mad Max films

* Mad Max ( disambiguation )

The clear blue skies and the magic light feature in movies including Mad Max 2 ( a. k. a. The Road Warrior ) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

He is best known for his Mad Max trilogy, but has been involved in a wide range of projects.

Miller's background in medicine is reflected in the main character in his Mad Max movies, Max Rockatansky.

Miller wrote and directed the Mad Max movies starring Mel Gibson ( Mad Max, Mad Max 2 ( subtitled in the United States as The Road Warrior ), and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ); co-wrote Babe and wrote and directed its sequel ; and co-wrote ( with Nick Enright ) and directed Lorenzo's Oil.

Each high note had the crowd in ecstasy so that it stopped the show midway in the `` Mad Scene '', but the real reason was a realization of the extraordinary performance unfolding at the moment.

Schultz ' breakthrough role was the mentally unstable Captain " Howling Mad " Murdock on The A-Team.

The Discovery of Dawn was published in 2007, and That Mad Ache was published in 2009, bound together with Hofstadter's essay Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation.

" Babylon " was performed in the Mad Men episode of the same name Babylon_ ( Mad_Men )# ep6 despite the fact that the song would not be released until 10 years after the time in which the episode is set.

In place of less easily available tin, arsenic was added to copper in the Bronze Age to harden it ; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired Lewis Carroll's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would have suffered from chronic poisoning as a result of their livelihood.

In 1996 European governments banned British beef over claims that it was infected with " Mad Cow Disease " – the British government withheld cooperation with the EU over the issue, but did not succeed in getting the ban lifted.

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

When Feldstein retired in 1984, he was replaced by the team of Nick Meglin and John Ficarra, who co-edited Mad for the next two decades.

Gaines was named a Kinney board member, and was largely permitted to run Mad as he saw fit without corporate interference.

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

Basically everyone who was young between 1955 and 1975 read Mad, and that ’ s where your sense of humor came from.

" While the original image was a popular humorous graphic for many decades before Mad adopted it, the face is now primarily associated with Mad.

According to Mad writer Frank Jacobs, a letter was once successfully delivered to the magazine through the U. S. mail bearing only Neuman's face, without any address or other identifying information.

Within the industry, Mad was known for the uncommonly prompt manner in which its contributors were paid.

" Another lure for contributors was the annual " Mad Trip ," an all-expenses-paid tradition that began in 1960.

Although Mad was an exclusively freelance publication, it achieved a remarkable stability, with numerous contributors remaining prominent for decades.

" The magazine's art director, Sam Viviano, has suggested that historically, Mad was at its best " whenever you first started reading it.

Mad contributor Tom Richmond has tweaked critics who say the magazine's decision to accept advertising would make late publisher William Gaines " turn over in his grave ", pointing out this was impossible because Gaines was cremated.

When a comic strip satirizing England's royal family was reprinted in a Mad paperback, it was deemed necessary to rip out the page from 25, 000 copies by hand before the book could be distributed in Great Britain.