A different version of the film was eventually made by Paul Verhoeven.

Bowie's song " I'm Afraid of Americans " from the Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls was re-recorded for the album, and remixed by Trent Reznor for a single release.

* 1938 – Paul Verhoeven, Dutch director, screenwriter, and producer

Starship Troopers was made into a 1997 film written by Ed Neumeier and directed by Paul Verhoeven.

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* 2006: Zwartboek ( Black Book ) directed by Paul Verhoeven

His career began in 1969 with the title role in the popular Dutch television series Floris, directed by Paul Verhoeven.

He went on to join an experimental troupe, with which he remained for five years before Paul Verhoeven cast him in the lead role of the very successful 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action drama.

Hauer's career changed course when Paul Verhoeven cast him as the lead in Turkish Delight ( 1973 ) ( based on the Jan Wolkers book of the same name ).

Showgirls ( 1995 ) was directed by Paul Verhoeven and starred Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon.

* Basic Instinct, a 1992 erotic thriller by Paul Verhoeven, starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone

Some Dutch films have received international distribution and recognition, such as Turkish Delight (" Turks Fruit ") ( 1973 ), Soldier of Orange (" Soldaat van Oranje ") ( 1975 ), Spetters ( 1980 ) and The Fourth Man (" De Vierde Man ") ( 1983 ) by director Paul Verhoeven.

Paul Verhoeven (; born 18 July 1938 ) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, and producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the United States.

His father Wim Verhoeven became head teacher on the Van Heutszschool in The Hague and Paul Verhoeven attended this school.

Paul Verhoeven was a fan of the Dutch comic Dick Bos, where the character Dick Bos is a private detective who fights crime using jujutsu.

The plot was loosely adapted into the 1990 film Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Showgirls is a 1995 American drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring former teen actress Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, and Gina Gershon.

The film's gratuitous nudity, simulated sex, and $ 2 million screenplay ( written by Joe Eszterhas, who had worked with director Paul Verhoeven before ) did not lend itself to what might have been a provocative film.

The film was the winner of a then-record seven 1995 Golden Raspberry Awards ( from a record thirteen nominations, a record that still stands ) including Worst Picture, Worst Actress ( Elizabeth Berkley ), Worst Director ( Paul Verhoeven ), Worst Screenplay ( Joe Eszterhas ), Worst New Star ( Elizabeth Berkley ), Worst Screen Couple (" any combination of two people ( or two body parts )") and Worst Original Song ( David A. Stewart and Terry Hall for " Walk Into the Wind ").

Paul Verhoeven himself and many other people have stated that the reason why the film failed at the box office was because audiences were alienated by the film's misanthropic attitude not only toward its characters and subject matter, but of the general human existence.

English film critic Mark Kermode, a dissenting voice amongst Showgirls positive critical reevaluation, has stated, " If Showgirls had any appeal at all, it was that it was so spectacularly vulgar and crude ," and " I still think it's just rubbish, and I like Paul Verhoeven.

Category: Films directed by Paul Verhoeven

SIFF was instrumental in the entry of Dutch films into the United States market, including the first major American success for director Paul Verhoeven.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

He travels across the desert and confronts the Preacher who does, in fact, prove to be his father, Paul Atreides.

His father was Paul M. W. Linebarger, a lawyer and political activist with close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911.

As a stylistic forerunner of Impressionism, he is today considered a " father figure not only to the Impressionists " but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

* The novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis, mentions the movie in an impersonation by Daniel Watson, the father of the family.

* 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2. 9 million USD.

The grandson of the younger Leupichis was Warnefrid, who by his wife Theodelinda became the father of Paul.

His father Francesco Sfondrati, a senator of the ancient comune of Milan, was created Cardinal-Priest by Pope Paul III in 1544.

Paul I was particularly proud to be great-grandson of the illustrious Russian monarch, although his German-born mother, Catherine II ( of the House of Anhalt-Zerbst ), insinuated in her memoirs that Paul's natural father had been her lover Serge Saltykov.

It was founded in 1907 by Henri La Fontaine, the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

** Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul.

Paul Lincke, father of the Berlin operetta

Belmondo's father, Paul Belmondo, was a sculptor who was born in Algeria of Italian descent.

When Numan was 15 years old, his father bought him a Gibson Les Paul guitar, which he regards as his most treasured possession.

He had been named after his father, Dr. Paul Foucault, as was the family tradition, but his mother insisted on the addition of the double-barrelled " Michel "; while he would always be referred to as " Paul " at school, throughout his life he always expressed a preference for " Michel ".

In Dune ( 1965 ), Paul is fifteen years old ; the Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV orders the family to leave Caladan and govern the desert planet Arrakis ( known as Dune ), though Paul's father Duke Leto is in full knowledge that the Emperor is colluding with House Harkonnen to destroy the Atreides as a perceived threat to the throne.

He was named after his father ; " Paolo " was in honor of Giuseppe's favorite saint, Saint Paul.

However, former Republican Congressman Paul " Pete " McCloskey, Jr., who served with Robertson in Korea, wrote a public letter which said that Robertson was actually spared combat duty when his powerful father, a U. S. Senator, intervened on his behalf, and that Robertson spent most of his time in an office in Japan.

His father died in 1754, and Paul was legally too young to officially be the master of the family silver shop.

At the age of nine, Gilbert's family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was raised by his mother after his father died.

His father is U. S. Representative Ron Paul.

In 1972, Lynde starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom, The Paul Lynde Show, playing an uptight attorney and father at odds with his liberal-minded son-in-law.