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Their first two picks ( Stefan and Sellars ) were called two of the biggest disappointments in draft history ; NHL. com listed Stefan as the worst first overall pick of all-time and Sellars ( who played only one NHL game ) as the worst thirtieth overall pick in NHL history.
" Since there is a lapse of about two years for which no records of any kind have been found it is presumed that practically all settlers were driven out of what is now Mineral County except those who were protected by forts Ashby and Sellars.
Sonia's old friend Jack Sellars ( Tom Oliver ) and his new girlfriend, flight attendant Diana Moore ( Rebecca Gilling ) who has moved in to flat 6, worry about Sonia's increasingly erratic and apparently deranged behaviour.
Adams, who had not previously attempted an opera, was initially skeptical, assuming that Sellars was proposing a satire.
Sellars persisted, however, and Adams, who had interested himself in the origin of myths, came to believe the opera could show how mythic origins may be found in contemporary history.
Sellars, a U. S. Marine who had been reported missing on July 12, 1973, had been killed by four gunshot wounds to the chest fired from a rifle, whereas all of Corll's other known victims had either been shot with the same pistol that Henley had used to kill Corll or strangled.
* Police had been led to Sellars ' body on August 13, 1973 by a trucker who recalled conversing with a youth he believed to be Henley after he had observed a car stuck in the sand close to where Sellars ' body was subsequently found.
Rodney Sellars created the shoegaze revivalist outfit, The Year Zero, who released their debut album in mid-2006.
Summoned to an audience with Atasco and his wife, they meet a mysterious man named Sellars, who claims to have gathered them.
Sellars gives them a mission: they are to find Paul Jonas, who is at large somewhere within Otherland's many simulation worlds.
* Christabel Sorensen — a girl of approximately 5 or 6 years who has a special friendship with the strange old man Mr. Sellars.
* Cho-Cho — a 10-year-old street boy of Mexican descent who sneaks onto the army base while Christabel is trying to help Mr. Sellars.
The fountain was built in 1872 to a design by James Sellars, who later designed the nearby St. Luke's Orthodox Cathedral and Kelvinside Academy.
They meet the enigmatic Mr. Sellars, who tells them that the network is somehow built from the minds of catatonic children worldwide, and he calls upon the small group of adventurers to stop the Grail Brotherhood.
Sellars gives the adventurers some brief instructions: they are to search along the river for Paul Jonas, who is at large within Otherland's many simulation worlds, then he too vanishes.
* Mr. Sellars: an elderly man imprisoned on an army base in North Carolina, who ' recruits ' Orlando and the others by leaving clues about the Otherland scattered across the net.
* Christabel Sorensen: a young girl living on the army base, who secretly becomes friends with Mr. Sellars and helps him escape from the army base.
His latest play is in the hands of effeminate director Brian Sellars ( David Krumholtz ), who is obsessed with Petula Clark ; his wife Melanie ( Robin Wright Penn ) is determined to have a baby ; he finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter ( Suzi Hofrichter ) who has mild cerebral palsy ; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger ( Jared Harris ) who claims to be Peter McGowan and develops a friendship of sorts with him.
The concept of the opera originated with theatre director Peter Sellars, who was a major collaborator, as was the choreographer Mark Morris.
Again, the invitation to serve as guest director is very prestigious, evidenced by the renown of those who have accepted the post ; these include Errol Morris, Peter Bogdanovich, Bertrand Tavernier, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Peter Sellars, Stephen Sondheim, Buck Henry, and Michael Ondaatje.

Sellars and was
Wilfrid Sellars, an influential figure in the so-called " Pittsburgh school " ( Robert Brandom, John McDowell ) had been a student of Marvin Farber, a pupil of Husserl, and was influenced by phenomenology through him:
It was directed by Peter Sellars.
Fellow Traveler ( 2007 ): This piece was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet by Greg G. Minshall, and was dedicated to opera and theater director Peter Sellars for his 50th birthday.
In 1991, the film was loosely remade as The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez by director and writer Peter Sellars.
The concept for the opera was suggested by director Peter Sellars and it featured a libretto by Alice Goodman.
When Sellars approached Adams with the idea for the opera in 1985, Adams was initially reluctant, but eventually decided that the work could be a study in how myths come to be, and accepted the project.
Sellars was intrigued by Nixon's decision to make the visit, seeing it as both " a ridiculously cynical election ploy ... and a historical breakthrough ".
Sellars was test flying the aircraft after it had been serviced for engine problems.
It has a large main building, which is category A listed and was designed by James Sellars, with a number of more modern additions.
* Michael Sellers-guitar ( Sellars was previously in Swedish band The Sinners )
In honor of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, a production of Zaide directed by Peter Sellars debuted at the Wiener Festwochen in 2006 ; it was later presented at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and the Barbican Centre in London.
Sellars took the remaining fragments of Zaide and added excerpts from the composer's incidental music to the play Thamos, King of Egypt, which, like Zaide, was written when Mozart was 23.
On July 7, a 15-year-old named Homer Garcia, whom Henley had met at his driving school, phoned his mother to say he was spending the night with a friend ; he was shot and left to bleed to death in Corll's bathtub before he was also buried at Lake Sam Rayburn and on July 12, a 17-year-old Orange County youth named John Sellars was shot to death and buried at High Island Beach.
Sellars was shot in the chest and buried at High Island Beach.
* At Henley's trial in 1974, the Harris County medical examiner raised questions as to whether John Sellars was actually a victim of Dean Corll.

Sellars and engaged
has also engaged a collection of world famous stage directors throughout the years, including JoAnne Akalaitis, Andrei Belgrader, Anne Bogart, Steven Bogart, Lee Breuer, Robert Brustein, Liviu Ciulei, Ron Daniels, Liz Diamond, Joe Dowling, Michael Engler, Alvin Epstein, Dario Fo, Richard Foreman, David Gordon, Adrian Hall, Richard Jones, Michael Kahn, Jerome Kilty, Krystian Lupa, John Madden, David Mamet, Des McAnuff, Jonathan Miller, Tom Moore, David Rabe, François Rochaix, Robert Scanlan, János Szász, Peter Sellars, Andrei Şerban, Sxip Shirey, Susan Sontag, Marcus Stern, Slobodan Unkovski, Les Waters, David Wheeler, Frederick Wiseman, Robert Wilson, Robert Woodruff, Steven Mitchell Wright, Yuri Yeremin, Francesca Zambello, and Scott Zigler.

Sellars and at
I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky ( 1995 ): A stage piece with libretto by June Jordan and staging by Peter Sellars.
In 1756, Washington ordered Colonel Adam Stephen at Fort Cumberland to keep forts Ashby and Sellars completely supplied with food and ammunition.
The work premiered at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987, in a production by Peter Sellars with choreography by Mark Morris.
Sellars invited Alice Goodman to join the project as librettist, and the three met at the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C. in 1985 to begin intensive study of the six characters, three American and three Chinese, upon whom the opera would focus.
Stranraer were the opponents in the play off final and in undoubtedly the best performance of the season, the Lichties ran out 2 0 winners in the home tie 1st leg at Gayfield thanks to a Robbie Raeside header and a Barry Sellars strike.
* Prehistoric peoples of Tennessee and artifacts found during the building of dams in the state in the 1930s and 1940s, with examples including the " Sandy " statue found at the Sellars Mound and the cache of ceramic figurines found at the Brick Church Mound and Village Site.
She has worked with the director Peter Sellars many times, including his staging of Händel's Theodora at Glyndebourne, his Paris production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress ( as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen's month-long residency at the Théâtre du Châtelet ) ( 1996 ), a staging of Bach's cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199, presented in the 1995-96 season at New York's 92nd Street Y, and the Salzburg Festival production of Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d ' Assise ( 1998 ).
The first performance took place at the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium, on 19 March 1991, directed by Sellars.
Sellars is professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action.
Peter Sellars at the Ojai Festival, California, 2011
In 2007, Sellars delivered the " State of Cinema " address at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival on April 29.
In early 2009, Sellars co-curated a contemporary art exhibition of work by Ethiopian artist Elias Simé at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, a kunsthalle in Santa Monica, California.
* Interview with Peter Sellars at PBS

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