More impressive, it captures the decade's distinct, decadent glamour ... also succeeds at something very difficult: re-creating the ethos and mentality of an era ... Paul Thomas Anderson ... has pulled off a wonderful, sprawling, sophisticated film ... With Boogie Nights, we know we're not just watching episodes from disparate lives but a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors.

His discourses contain sections on the origins of philosophy, on the lives of Plato and Aristotle, the origin of One Thousand and One Nights, thoughts on the pyramids, his opinions on magic, sorcery, superstition, and alchemy etc.

Nights into Dreams was introduced alongside an optional game controller, included with most copies of the game, called the Saturn 3D controller.

His final role was on Baywatch Nights alongside former Knight Rider co-star David Hasselhoff in 1997.

Also notable in his film work throughout the 1990s was his supporting role alongside Mark Wahlberg in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film Boogie Nights, in which he played the pornographic film star Reed Rothchild.

He appeared in Adam McKay's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby in 2006, as Cal Naughton, Jr., the title character's best friend, alongside Will Ferrell.

In 1989, she starred alongside Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, and Arsenio Hall in the theatrical release movie Harlem Nights, in which she performed a fight scene with Eddie Murphy.

In October 2006 Will Ferrell became the first man to appear on the cover of Stuff magazine, alongside his Talladega Nights co-star Leslie Bibb.

One is the film " Pound of Flesh " ( 2010 ) alongside Malcolm McDowell which revolves around a corrupt college professor, and the other is the crime thriller " Shadows of the White Nights " alongside Christian Slater.

Nights also makes a cameo appearance in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing as the flagman, and has been announced to be a playable character alongside Reala in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.

Marids are mentioned in pre-Islamic Arabian mythology and inside the One Thousand and One Nights alongside the Jinn in the story of The Fisherman and the Jinni.

He starred alongside Jon Hall and Maria Montez in three films for Universal Pictures: Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), White Savage ( 1943 ) and Cobra Woman ( 1944 ).

Owl: Nights shows disrespect for Owl on a regular basis, but also shows a sort of friendship with the bird.

They release Nights, who tells them about dreams, and Wizeman and his plans, and the three begin a journey to stop Wizeman and restore peace to Nightopia.

Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.

A well-known story in the collection One Thousand and One Nights describes a genie who had displeased King Solomon and was punished by being locked in a bottle and thrown into the sea.

In other stories which are found in One Thousand and One Nights, protagonists who had to leave their homeland and travel to the unknown places of the world saw signs which proved that Solomon had already been there.

Still, even scholars who deny this version the exclusive status of " the only real Arabian Nights " recognize it as being the best source on the original style and linguistic form of the mediaeval work and praise the Haddawy translation as " very readable " and " strongly recommended for anyone who wishes to taste the authentic flavour of those tales ".

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

Clarence Rook, in his 1899 book, Hooligan Nights, claimed that the word came from Patrick Hoolihan ( or Hooligan ), an Irish bouncer and thief who lived in London.

The notorious Prohibition play Ten Nights in a Barroom portrays the inevitable fall into destitute drunkenness of a person who dared to take that " Fatal Glass of Beer ", the title of another period drama working this vein.

Several tales of the Arabian Nights focus on eunuchs, who were part of the society in which the tales were composed.

It is a central theme and framing device of the collection of stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, wherein the queen Scheherazade, who is facing a morning execution on the orders of her husband, King Shahryar, devises the solution of telling him a story but leaving it at a cliffhanger, thus forcing the king to postpone her execution to hear the rest of the tale.

Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad.

He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, preserving fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today.

In Delirium's story in Endless Nights, " Going Inside ", she has retreated into her realm so deeply that no one can retrieve her, save five insane human individuals gathered together by Daniel, Matthew and Barnabas, as only those who are already deeply insane can enter her realm unscathed.

Bakshi received a call from Krantz, who questioned him about Harlem Nights.

However, no medieval Arabic source has been traced for Aladdin, which was incorporated into The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Arab Syrian Christian storyteller from Aleppo.

The composing credits were listed on the sleeve as: " Redwave-Knight ", when in fact Hayward wrote " Nights ..." and " Tuesday Afternoon ", Thomas provided " Another Morning " and " Twilight Time ", Lodge penned " Peak Hour " and " Evening ( Time To Get Away )", and Edge contributed the opening and closing poems ( the first ' Morning Glory ' and the latter titled " Late Lament ") read by Mike Pinder who composed both " The Sun Set " and " Dawn is a Feeling " ( sung by Hayward, with Pinder himself singing the bridge section ).

No Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into the book One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Syrian Arab storyteller from Aleppo.

As he got closer to finishing the film, he started writing down material for his new project After the critical and financial success of Boogie Nights, New Line Cinema, who backed that film, told Anderson that he could do whatever he wanted and the filmmaker realized that, " I was in a position I will never ever be in again ".

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, " The result is a hard-striving, convoluted movie, which never quite becomes the smoothly reciprocating engine Anderson ( who did Boogie Nights ) would like it to be ".

Like the 1001 Nights the Sinbad story-cycle has a frame story, which goes as follows: in the days of Haroun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad, a poor porter ( one who carries goods for others in the market and throughout the city ) pauses to rest on a bench outside the gate of a rich merchant's house, where he complains to Allah about the injustice of a world which allows the rich to live in ease while he must toil and yet remain poor.

" ( One Thousand and One Nights has the more restrained formula they lived happily until there came to them the One who Destroys all Happiness ( i. e. Death )).

Another collaboration from this period, Quiet Nights ( 1962 ) was issued later, against the wishes of Davis, who broke with his then-producer Teo Macero for a time as a result.

; TCG: In September 2005, Spirit Group sold its " City Nights " portfolio of in excess of 180 pubs and clubs, en-bloc, to Alchemy-the financial backers behind the newly-formed Tattershall Castle Group ( TCG ) who created the brand, " the1440 ".

The film was a thirty-minute mockumentary shot on video called The Dirk Diggler Story ( 1988 ), about a well-endowed male porn star ( inspired by John Holmes, who also served as a major inspiration for Boogie Nights ).

In 1861, Reyer composed an opéra-comique in three acts and six scenes, La statue (" The Statue "), whose plot was inspired by " One Thousand and One Nights " ( also knowns as: " Arabian Nights ") with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier.

Mississippi Nights was a music club in St. Louis, Missouri that achieved national recognition for the number of big-name acts and performers it hosted.

Also acts as Pavel-In the popular Neverwinter Nights PC release.

Nights acts childish, never for a moment thinking of the consequences of their actions.

Der Barbier von Bagdad ( The Barber of Baghdad ) is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German libretto by the composer, based on The Tale of the Tailor and The Barber ’ s Stories of his Six Brothers in A Thousand and One Nights.

Prussian Nights describes the Red Army's march across East Prussia, and focuses on the traumatic acts of rape and murder that Solzhenitsyn witnessed as a participant in that march.

During the Summer, Fourth Street Live hosts Miller Lite's Hot Country Nights, which is a series of free concerts featuring top national acts.