In rare instances, such as Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Blake Edwards ' Darling Lili, scenes have been deleted instead of added, creating a shorter, more compact cut.

He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), and in a number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness ( 1985 ) and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film a " captivating romantic bonbon " and added, " Don't look for the originality and grit that distinguished Weir's Australian films Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, Green Card has all the heft of a potato chip.

* Paris, fictional Australian town, setting for the Peter Weir's 1974 film The Cars That Ate Paris

Lady Lindsay was interested in the development of a national identity, and her novel Picnic at Hanging Rock-in Peter Weir's hands-was hailed as initiating a Renaissance in Australian film.

* Peter Weir's The Last Wave and Picnic at Hanging Rock dealt with Dreamtime.

Peter Weir's 2003 film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is loosely based on the novel The Far Side of the World from the Aubrey – Maturin series for its plot, but draws on a number of the novels for incidents within the film.

He had significant roles in Rob Reiner's coming of age picture Stand by Me ( 1986 ) which first brought Phoenix to public prominence ; Peter Weir's The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), where Phoenix played the son of Harrison Ford's character ; A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon ( 1988 ); and Little Nikita ( 1988 ) alongside Sidney Poitier.

Bettany's next major project saw him starring again alongside Russell Crowe in Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

In Australia, she is remembered for her performance as Mrs Appleyard in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Although probably best known as a comic actor, and especially for his appearances in Hancock's Half Hour, he has since played a number of serious roles, notably in Peter Weir's films Picnic At Hanging Rock ( 1975 ), Gallipoli ( 1981 ) and The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ).

* In Peter Weir's mystery film Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 ), three girls and one of their teachers on a school outing mysteriously disappear.

" The movie is an almost psychedelic, psychological, anthropological, and mythological cosmic adventure drawing from sources like Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung, similar to Peter Weir's " The Last Wave.

The battle is depicted in the climax of Peter Weir's 1981 movie, Gallipoli, where it inaccurately portrays the offensive as a diversion to reduce Ottoman opposition to the landing at Suvla Bay.

* It was one of the inspirations for the crash in Peter Weir's 1993 film version of Fearless, adapted from a novel by Rafael Yglesias.

Two years later, she co-starred as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously, Peter Weir's film adaptation of the novel of the same name.

Other notable films produced by Stigwood include The Fan ( 1980 ), Grease 2, Peter Weir's well received Gallipoli ( 1981 ), produced under the R & R Films banner, and the 1997 Golden Globe Awards best film winner, Evita, starring Madonna.

Pérez was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Peter Weir's 1993 film Fearless.

An instrumental version features in Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Sections from the soundtrack have been featured in other films, perhaps most notably the piece ' Mishima / Opening ', which was used to score the end credits of Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show.

He played an unnamed mayor of Gotham City in Batman Returns and sleazy journalist Pete Curtis in Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously.

There were also semi-regular appearances by nervous folk-singing duo Errol and Neil ( Grahame & Rory ), the obnoxious Kid Eager ( McDonald ), a parodic amalgam of characters like Dennis the Menace and Ginger Meggs, the extrovert rock ' n ' roll butcher Kev Kavanagh ( Grahame ), a character that Bond had already performed ( as " Mr Kevin ") in Peter Weir's Homesdale.

Walt Disney's alleged antisemitism is spoofed in the character of Roger Meyers, Sr. Homer's Amish flashback recalls Peter Weir's 1985 film Witness.

The term ballad opera has also been used to describe musicals using folk music, such as The Martins and the Coys in 1944, and Peter Bellamy's The Transports in 1977.

* Peter Gabriel ( 1977 album ), one of four albums named Peter Gabriel, often referred to as " Car " because of the photograph on the album cover

The 1977 edition also lists Peter G. Dowdeswell of Earls Barton for drinking two pints of beer from a single vessel in 2. 3 seconds on June 11, 1975 and two litres in 6. 0 seconds on 7 February 1975.

* 1977 – Peter van der Vlag, Dutch footballer

* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer ( d. 1977 )

* 1977 – Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union footballer

Roughly half of these advisors have since died, including some of the Outline's chief architects: Rene Dubos ( d. 1982 ), Loren Eiseley ( d. 1977 ), Harold D. Lasswell ( d. 1978 ), Mark Van Doren ( d. 1972 ), Peter Ritchie Calder ( d. 1982 ) and Mortimer J. Adler ( d. 2001 ).

Ironically, Peter Hain had served as president of the Young Liberals when they called for the impeachment of Mr. Murray in 1977.

In 1977, together with Peter Scott, he received the UN International Environment prize.

* Gerald Graff ( 1973 ) The Myth of the Postmodernist Breakthrough, TriQuarterly, 26 ( Winter, 1973 ) 383 – 417 ; rept in The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction Malcolm Bradbury, ed., ( London: Fontana, 1977 ); reprinted in Proza Nowa Amerykanska, ed., Szice Krytyczne ( Warsaw, Poland, 1984 ); reprinted in Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology, Manfred Putz and Peter Freese, eds., ( Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984 ), 58 – 81.

* 1977 – Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer

Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner were members of the post-punk band Joy Division, often featuring heavy production input from producer Martin Hannett.

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.

Preference utilitarianism was first put forward in 1977 by John Harsanyi in Morality and the theory of rational behaviour but it is more commonly associated with R. M. Hare, Peter Singer and Richard Brandt.

Other long-term members of the group included Peter Baumann ( 1971 – 1977 ), who later went on to found the New Age label Private Music, to which the band was signed from 1988 to 1991 ; Johannes Schmoelling ( 1979 – 1985 ); Paul Haslinger ( 1986 – 1990 ); and, most recently Froese's son Jerome Froese ( 1990 – 2006 ).

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

* Soap ( 1977 ) – as " Peter Campbell "

In 1974 he starred in the title role in The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs and in 1977 he played the main character of Peter Barnes in A Sharp Intake of Breath.

* Peter Gabriel 1 ( Car ) ( 1977 )

His daughter Catharine made headlines after serial killer Kenneth Bianchi confessed to police investigators after his arrest that he and his cousin and fellow " Hillside Strangler " Angelo Buono had stopped Catharine Lorre disguised as police officers with the intent of abducting and murdering her in 1977, but after learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre, the pair let her go.

The Penguins missed the playoffs in 1977 – 78 when their offense lagged, and Larouche was traded for Peter Mahovlich and Peter Lee.