Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career ( 1979 ) featured Judy Davis and Sam Neill in early lead roles.

* James Joyce's play " A Brilliant Career " ( which he burned ) and the first half of his novel Stephen Hero ( which may yet turn up )

Novelists of classic Australian works include Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ), Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ), Mary Durack ( Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country ) and Jeannie Gunn ( We of the Never Never ).

* Miles Franklin-My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel written by Miles Franklin.

Shortly after the publication of My Brilliant Career, Franklin wrote a sequel, My Career Goes Bung, which would not be published until 1946.

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Davis first came to attention for her role as the fiery Sybylla Melvyn in the 1979 film My Brilliant Career.

First coming to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the coming-of-age saga My Brilliant Career ( 1979 ), for which she won BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer, Judy Davis also played the lead in the Australian New Wave classics Winter of Our Dreams ( 1981 ) ( as a waif-like heroin addict ) and Heatwave ( 1982 ) ( as a radical tenant organizer ).

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin ( 14 October 187919 September 1954 ) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901.

Her best known novel, My Brilliant Career, tells the story of an irrepressible teenage feminist growing to womanhood in rural New South Wales.

New South Wales State Librarian, Dagmar Schmidmaier, said that " Miles increasingly feared that nothing she wrote matched the success of My Brilliant Career and resorted to writing under different names, including the bizarre pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin, to protect herself from poor reviews.

A revival of interest in Franklin occurred in the wake of the Australian New Wave film My Brilliant Career ( 1979 ), which won several international awards.

* My Brilliant Career ( 1901 )

* Miles Franklin: A Brilliant Career?

* MP3 audiobook of My Brilliant Career from LibriVox

* Coleman, Verna ( 1981 ) " Her Unknown ( Brilliant ) Career: Miles Franklin in America " Angus and Robertson

In 1996, he was the subject of a BBC documentary, My Brilliant Career.

The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin ( 1879 – 1954 ), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ( published in 1901 ) and for bequeathing her estate to fund this award.

His early film roles included appearances Breaker Morant, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Newsfront, My Brilliant Career and The Shiralee He also had a cameo in the 1979 war comedy The Odd Angry Shot.

* My Brilliant Career ( 1979 ) .... Mailman

Novelists of classic Australian works include Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ), Henry Handel Richardson ( The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ), Joseph Furphy ( Such Is Life ), Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ) and Ruth Park ( The Harp in the South ).

Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ) and Jeannie Gunn ( We of the Never Never ) wrote of lives of European pioneers in the Australian bush from a female perspective.

Miles Franklin struggled to find a place for herself as a female writer in Australia, fictionalising this experience in My Brilliant Career ( 1901 ).

" Arthur Laurents called her Rose " Brilliant, original, totally unlike any of the others.

Fishel called Madame Nhu " Brilliant, vivacious, bitchy and brutal in her Borgia-like fashion ", claiming that she and her husband were evil influences corrupting the regime.

Duke survived to become a television star ( The Patty Duke Show ) in the early-to-mid -' 60s, before moving on to more film and television work ( including a memorable role in Valley of the Dolls ), becoming an activist in the Screen Actors Guild, writing two memoirs ( Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness ) describing her troubled child acting career and her lifelong battle with manic depression, and becoming an advocate for better protection and benefits for child actors.

Charlene Kaye also recorded this version for her The Brilliant Eyes EP.

Following the success of My Brilliant Career, which was nominated for an Academy Award in Best Costume Design, Armstrong directed the Australian rock-musical " Starstruck ( 1982 )" which proved her ability to tackle more contemporary and experimental subject matter and styles.

In October 1995 MacLean went to San Francisco to record her debut album Silence at Brilliant Studios with producer Norm Kerner ( American Music Club, Sky Cries Mary, Spain ) with additional recording in Vancouver.

* In Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events ( video game ), Violet invents various things, such as the Smasher, the Lobber, the Lucky Lockpick, the Sprayer, the Lever Yanker, the Reptile Retriever, the Brilliant Bopper ( Klaus's weapon ), the Fruit Flinger ( her own weapon ), the Baby Booster ( which helps Sunny jump ), the Steady Stilts ( so that Violet can reach high places ) and the Levitating Loafers ( which can make Klaus fly ).

This led to Parlophone repackaging Mazelle's debut album as Brilliant with remixes of her singles, two new tracks and a remix of " No One Can Love You More Than Me ".

Along the way, Violet invents things-Klaus's weapon — the Brilliant Bopper ; her own weapons — the Fruit Flinger, the Reptile Retriever, and the Peppermint Popper ; the Baby Booster, which helps Sunny jump ; the Steady Stilts, which help Violet reach high places ; the Uplifting Umbrella, which helps Violet Fly ; and the Levitating Loafers, which can make Klaus fly.

She incorporated most of her songs into this live format, which lasted for an hour and a half, complete with her now regular backing band, and even her band mates from The Brilliant Green made guest appearances for some songs.

She is best known for her portrayals of Liz Holt in Strictly Ballroom, Susy Connor in Brilliant Lies, and Cousin Nikki in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

An authorised biography, Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams, by Christopher Stevens, was published in October 2010.

Brilliant and the embodiment of antagonism and artistic temperament ," ( Ralf Dahrendorf in his biography of Gerd Bucerius ), stood politically on the right and was steering Die Zeit into a current " farther right than the CDU " ( the German Christian Democratic Union ).

Kazaa, including the domain name, was then sold off to Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. Kazaa now operates as a monthly music subscription service allowing users to download unlimited songs.

( When shown in the United States on BBC America, the show was titled Brilliant.

Brilliant Pebbles was a non-nuclear system of satellite-based interceptors designed to use high-velocity, watermelon-sized, teardrop-shaped projectiles made of tungsten as kinetic warheads.

It was designed to operate in conjunction with the Brilliant Eyes sensor system and would have detected and destroyed missiles without any external guidance.

Though regarded as one of the most capable SDI systems, the Brilliant Pebbles program was canceled in 1994 by the BMDO.

It was designed to work in conjunction with BSTS, but was later scaled down in favor of the Brilliant Eyes program.

Brilliant Eyes was a simpler derivative of the SSTS that focused on theater ballistic missiles rather than ICBMs and was meant to operate in conjunction with the Brilliant Pebbles system.

Brilliant Eyes was renamed Space and Missile Tracking System ( SMTS ) and scaled back further under BMDO, and in the late 1990s it became the low earth orbit component of the Air Force's Space Based Infrared System ( SBIRS ).

The starship combat resolution system was fairly well detailed, supported by two published modules: Brilliant Lances for small battles and Battle Rider for large battles.

" The piece was furnished with a comment by A. J. P. Taylor simply saying: " Brilliant analysis.

The present Town of Brilliant was incorporated as Boston, Alabama and was named for the City of Boston, Massachusetts and in part for early settlers of the area, the Bostick family.

In the late part of the 19th century, the discovery of coal led to the development of the Brilliant Coal Company, which was located adjacent to the town of Boston.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Brilliant and Boston area was the most densely populated part of Marion County.

In 1957 due to declines in industry and population the post office at Boston, Alabama was absorbed into the Brilliant, Alabama post office.

From 1987 until 2000 the town was home to Brilliant Homes Ltd. a well known manufactured housing producer in the southeast and parts of the southwest.

The episode was shown during Trio's 2003 Brilliant But Cancelled series of failed TV shows.

A Block II variant ( initially designated MGM-140C or, previously, M39A3 ) was designed to carry a payload of 13 Brilliant Anti-Tank ( BAT ) munitions manufactured by Northrop Grumman.

Brilliant Blue ( BBG ) food coloring was cited in a recent study in which rats that had suffered a spinal injury were given an injection of the dye immediately after the injury, and were able to regain or retain motor control.

On June 29, 2010 Indigo Girl's 2nd full length live album ' Staring Down the Brilliant Dream ' was released on IG Recordings / Vanguard Records.