After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man ( 1980 ), from which he gained mainstream success.

As " Ashes to Ashes " hit number one on the UK charts, Bowie opened a three-month run on Broadway on 24 September, starring in The Elephant Man.

Bowie took the title role in the Broadway theatre production The Elephant Man, earning high praise for an expressive performance.

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* 1976 – Elephant Man, Jamaican singer and DJ

As a result of the strong anti-homosexual culture in Jamaica, many reggae and dancehall artists, such as Buju Banton, Elephant Man, Sizzla, have published song lyrics advocating violence against homosexuals.

" A song by Elephant Man proclaims: " When you hear a lesbian getting raped / It's not our fault ... Two women in bed / That's two sodomites who should be dead.

Just about every notable figure of the period is connected with the events in some way, from " Elephant Man " Joseph Merrick to Oscar Wilde, from the Native American writer Black Elk to William Morris, the artist Walter Sickert to Aleister Crowley, who makes a brief appearance as a young boy in short trousers, sucking on a candy cane, and lecturing the police about magic.

Joseph Merrick, the so-called " Elephant Man ", was one of the patients whom she met.

Helen Ryan also portrayed her in the 1980 film The Elephant Man, and Julia Blake played her in the 1999 film Passion.

In 2002, Burton was nominated for Best Actress in Play for Hedda Gabler and Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Elephant Man.

Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, was once considered to have been affected with neurofibromatosis type I.

This has produced a common misconception that neurofibromatosis and the " Elephant Man disease " are one and the same.

The competitive category was created in 1981 as the Academy Award for Best Makeup, after the Academy received complaints that the make-up work in The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) was not going to be honored.

No award was given to The Elephant Man however, but an entire category dedicated to honoring make-up effects in film was created for subsequent ceremonies.

* Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Bt ( doctor, treated King Edward VII and Joseph Merrick, " The Elephant Man ")

Brecht's one-act play The Elephant Calf ( 1926 ) is a play-within-a-play performed in the foyer of the theatre during his Man Equals Man.

Other notable roles included a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi Germany with her dying husband in Voyage of the Damned ( 1976 ) and the formidable London Hospital matron in The Elephant Man ( 1980 ).

Baker's other films include The Elephant Man, Time Bandits ( also with Purvis ), Amadeus and Jim Henson's Labyrinth.

Joseph Carey Merrick ( 5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890 ), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man.

Torr agreed, and arranged for a group of men to manage Merrick, whom they named the Elephant Man.

In 1979, Bernard Pomerance's play about Merrick called The Elephant Man débuted, and David Lynch's film, also called The Elephant Man, was released the following year.

Using this essay as his guideline, Howard began plotting " The Tower of the Elephant ", a new Conan story that would be the first to truly integrate his new conception of the Hyborian world.

* " Juno ", song by Tokyo Police Club on the album Elephant Shell

This incident appears to have inspired his locked room story, " The Suicide of Kiaros ", first published in the literary journal, The White Elephant.

The inhabitants of Warsaw still commonly use nicknames to refer to the palace, notably Pekin ( Beijing in Polish, because of its abbreviated name PKiN ( Pałac Kultury i Nauki ), Pajac (" clown ", a word that sounds close to Pałac ), Stalin's syringe, the Elephant in Lacy Underwear, or even the Russian Wedding Cake.

In early 1988 the band played at Dingwalls in London, a show attended by representatives of Zomba and Rough Trade's Geoff Travis, and both subsequently wanted to sign the band, Rough Trade even funding studio time to record a single, " Elephant Stone ", with Peter Hook producing.

The first single for Silvertone, " Elephant Stone ", made little impact, and in early 1989 the band's performances outside the north-west were still attracting small audiences.

An alternative tune is " Nellie the Elephant ", which has the same tempo.

*" Judas ", a 2008 song by Cage the Elephant from Cage the Elephant

* 1973 Ham ( Same as " Dream On Dreamer ", but with 3 different songs and 6 alternate versions, Pink Elephant )

Some of their best-known comedy routines and songs include " Earache My Eye ", " Basketball Jones ", " Santa Claus and His Old Lady ", and " Sister Mary Elephant ".

Musical cues used throughout the game include " Baby Elephant Walk ", " The Pink Panther Theme ", and " The Entertainer ".

Among his best-known guitar playing is the riff to Tom Tom Club's " Genius of Love ", the overdriven solos on Talking Heads ' " The Great Curve ", the wild slide melodies on his own Top 10 hit " Oh Daddy " and the careening elephant impressions on King Crimson's " Elephant Talk ".

At the Villa Madama, in the garden facing the loggia, the Elephant Fountain designed by Giovanni da Udine depicts " Annone ", whose tomb was designed by Raphael himself.

They recorded three songs, " Twilight ", " Deeply ", and " Elephant " in London, with producer Darren Allison ( Spiritualized, The Divine Comedy ) at the Red Bus studions in London.

Moscow, model 1927 / 1932, a hull from T-28 in Museum " Sestroretsk Boundary " at industrial complex-1 " Elephant ",

It is the first film of Van Sant's " Death Trilogy ", three films based on deaths that occurred in real life, and is succeeded by Elephant and Last Days.

So André Previn was " Andrew Preview ", Ian Carmichael was Hoagy Carmichael, Elton John was Elephant John, and Vanessa Redgrave was " Vanilla Redgrave ".

According to his 2011 autobiography The Elephant to Hollywood, Caine had been signed to a seven-year contract by Joseph E. Levine, whose Embassy Films was distributing Zulu.

Hurt is known for his leading roles as Joseph Merrick ( billed as John Merrick ) in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal, Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York, and Caligula in I, Claudius.

John Hurt won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his titular role as 19th century Englishman Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man ( 1980 ).

In 1971, Ashley Montagu suggested in his book The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity that Joseph Merrick suffered Neurofibromatosis type 1, and this has continued to be reported.

* Joseph Merrick, " the Elephant Man ", worked as a haberdasher's assistant before being a freak show act

Image: Botany Sir Joseph Banks Park 5. JPG | Elephant sculptures

Philip Charles Anglim ( born February 11, 1953 ) is an American actor best known for his performance as Joseph Merrick in the stage and television versions of The Elephant Man, a role for which he received a Best Actor nomination in the 1979 Tony Awards.

* The Elephant Man ( film ), 1980 David Lynch film, the story of Joseph Merrick, who was known as the Elephant Man

* Proteus syndrome, a very rare congenital disorder known mostly for its most famous sufferer Joseph Merrick ( the Elephant Man )

* The Elephant Man – Joseph Merrick

When Quiroga was in the Emergency Ward, he had learned that a patient was shut up in the basement with hideous deformities similar to those of the infamous English Joseph Merrick ( the " Elephant Man ").

* Joseph Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ), the Elephant Man ; early biographies inaccurately give his first name as " John ", and this name was used in the 1980 film The Elephant Man

* Knocking out the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick during a visit to a fairground freak show after accusing him of " looking at his bird "

* When Nelson's father is explaining what happened to him on the way to get his cigarettes, his appearance after the peanut allergy swelling and subsequent enlistment as a freak for the traveling freak show parodies the life of Joseph Merrick, otherwise known as the Elephant Man, whose story is made famous by the David Lynch film The Elephant Man.

* Joseph Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ), the Elephant Man

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