That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.

Freas was twice honored as a Guest of Honor at the Worldcon, the first time in 1982 at Chicon IV and again in 2003 at Torcon 3, although a fall suffered shortly before that convention precluded him from attending.

MacLean received a Nebula Award in 1971, for her novella " The Missing Man " ( Analog, March, 1971 ) and she was a Professional Guest of Honor at the first WisCon in 1977.

An earlier opera by Joplin, A Guest of Honor, has been lost.

Le Guin was the Professional Guest of Honor at the 1975 World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, Australia.

Often there are ribbons to signify rank, division, and department or specialized functions ; ribbons are also used to identify program participants, other noteworthy members ( for example " Past Worldcon Guest of Honor ", " Hugo Award Nominee ", etc.

He was to have been the Guest of Honor at Marcon that weekend.

* In 1986, Steven Brust was a Guest of Honor at the Per Ardua Ad Astra science fiction convention in Toronto, and he contributed the Vlad Taltos short story " A Dream of Passion " to the convention chapbook.

Curtis was Guest of Honor at the 11th annual Gala and Fundraiser in 2003 for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, twelve-step program of rehabilitation for women in need.

He was the Toastmaster at the very first ArmadilloCon ( 1979 ) and again at # 29 in 2007 ; he was Guest of Honor at ArmadilloCon 5 ( 1983 ).

* The only known copies of the score of the 1903 Scott Joplin opera A Guest of Honor were believed to be confiscated during a dispute between Joplin and the owner of a theatrical boarding house.

He is a frequent Guest of Honor at SF conventions, including Arisia, Boskone and Albacon.

* Magic Carpet Con, 1996-Co-Filk Guest of Honor

* Albacon 2012-Fan Guest of Honor

* Guest of Honor, San Diego Comic Con

Cherry was the Artist Guest of Honor at ConJosé, the 60th World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, California in 2002.

In 2012, he appeared at Chicon 7, the 70 ' th World Science Fiction Convention, as the " Astronaut Guest of Honor.

In 1998, when the California Department of Transportation ( Caltrans ) and the California Highway Patrol opened their Freeway Traffic Center in Los Angeles, Sigmon attended as their special Guest of Honor.

He was a member of science fiction fandom as well, attending science fiction conventions, and was eventually a Guest of Honor at Philcon II, the 1953 World Science Fiction Convention.

4: Voices of WisCon ISBN 978-1-933500-40-9 edited by Sylvia Kelso ; and The WisCon Chronicles: Volume 5: Writing and Racial Identity ISBN 978-1-933500-73-7, edited by Nisi Shawl and released at WisCon 35 ( May 27 – 30, 2011 ), where Shawl was Guest of Honor.

* Bankier, Amanda, " Guest of Honor Speech at Wiscon 1 "

* Gomoll, Jeanne, " Guest of Honor Speech at Wiscon 24 "

In 2007, German-Americans celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this affair and welcomed former U. S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as Grand Marshal and former German chancellor Helmut Kohl as Guest of Honor.

* A Guest of Honor

In January 1977, she was injured in an automobile accident while going to pick up Gordon R. Dickson, who was to be a Guest of Honor at that year's ConFusion.

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

Guest is married to the actor and author Jamie Lee Curtis.

Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would.

Guest holds an honorary doctorate from and is a member of the board of trustees for Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances ( having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, " rude, condescending and intolerable "), as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour.

This Is Spinal Tap and other mockumentary films of director Christopher Guest are created with a mix of scripted and unscripted material and Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster created in part by the improvisations filmed during the production of their movie Smoke.

* WWF Raw is War ( Musical Guest, 2000 )

Guest authorship ( where there is stated authorship in the absence of involvement, also known as gift authorship ) and ghost authorship ( where the real author is not listed as an author ) are commonly regarded as forms of research misconduct.

This musical work, while touted as " P. D. Q. Bach's Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest ," is actually the work of Peter Schickele.

The title is a play on the subtitle of Don Giovanni by Mozart, " The Stone Guest ", as well as the opera The Stone Guest by Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomïzhsky.

He is best known for his novel 1985, and The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin.

Murder at the Windmill ( 1949 ), ( known in the U. S. A. as " Mystery at the Burlesque ") directed by Val Guest is set at the Windmill Theatre, London and features Diana Decker, Jon Pertwee and Jimmy Edwards.

Guest hosts have included Khloé Kardashian Odom, Ryan Lochte, Scott Disick, Jay Manuel, Nicki Minaj, Aubrey O ' Day, Ali Fedotowsky, Nicole " Snooki " Polizzi, Ciara, Melanie Brown, Tori Spelling, Kimora Lee Simmons, Chelsea Kane, Mischa Barton, Kylie Minogue and Joan's daughter Melissa Rivers, who is also executive producer.

In " Father, Son and Holy Guest Star " there is a fight between churches, Protestantism and Catholicism.

She is married to actor, screenwriter, and director Christopher Guest.

The most coincidental thing is both Farrell and Morgan were big fans of the M * A * S * H series during its early seasons before they both joined the cast, with Morgan having also appeared as " General Bartford Hamilton Steele " in the season-three episode " The General Flipped at Dawn " ( for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Guest Role in a Primetime Comedy Series ).

Norton is located at, along the Powell and Guest Rivers.

Michael John McKean ( born October 17, 1947 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Squiggy's friend, Leonard " Lenny " Kosnowski, on the sitcom Laverne & Shirley ; and for his work in the Christopher Guest ensemble films, particularly as David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap.

After leaving Laverne and Shirley in 1982, McKean played David St. Hubbins in the cult spoof documentary movie This is Spinal Tap with both Guest and Shearer, and appeared in the soap opera spoof Young Doctors in Love.

The Guest House Museum is the repository of artifacts and records telling the story of Fort Bragg.

Madison is the home of Southern Cross Guest Ranch.

Southern Cross Guest Ranch is the only dude ranch in Georgia.

The Osage Mission Infirmary & Guest House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is managed under the name, St. Ann's Bed and Breakfast.