Along with I Know What You Did Last Summer ( written by Kevin Williamson as well ) and Urban Legend, they re-ignited the dormant slasher film genre.

Examples of this genre include Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prom Night, Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hatchet, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Candyman, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

* Hermann Hesse's Demian ( 1919 ) and Klingsor's Last Summer ( 1920 )

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

She first had her major film role in the popular slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Gellar met her future husband Freddie Prinze, Jr., during filming of the 1997 teen horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer but the two did not begin dating until 2000.

* February 1 – Peter Sallis, English actor ( Last of the Summer Wine & Wallace and Gromit )

* January 4 – The pilot episode of the longest-running TV comedy series in the world Last of the Summer Wine is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

* In A. I., a science fiction film that is based on a short story entitled " Super-Toys Last All Summer Long " by Brian Aldiss, the story begins sometime in the 22nd century when androids with very high levels of artificial intelligence ( called mechas, short for " mechanisms ," i. e. synthetic life ) have become commonplace.

In 2001, he appeared in a Christmas Special episode of Last of the Summer Wine, " Potts in Pole Position ".

Gattaca was released in theaters on October 24, 1997, and opened at number 5 at the box office ; trailing I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Devil's Advocate, Kiss the Girls, and Seven Years in Tibet.

" Spiegel disliked O ' Toole, having worked with him on Suddenly, Last Summer ( where O ' Toole was an understudy for Montgomery Clift and considered to take over his part after Clift's alcoholism caused problems ), but acceded to Lean's demands after Finney and Brando dropped out.

* In Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play ), a wealthy woman named Violet Venable ( Katharine Hepburn ) wants her niece Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ) lobotomized to silence her talk about Violet's son Sebastian's homosexuality.

Roy Clarke's long-running Last of the Summer Wine began in 1973.

Characters such as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Sebastian in Suddenly, Last Summer were understood to represent Williams himself.

In addition, he used a lobotomy operation as a motif in Suddenly, Last Summer.

* Suddenly, Last Summer ( 1958 )

* Suddenly, Last Summer ( 1959 )

** Suddenly, Last Summer

" In Tennessee Williams's 1958 play, Suddenly, Last Summer, the protagonist is threatened with a lobotomy to stop her from telling the truth about her cousin Sebastian.

* Kathy Staff ( 1928 – 2008 ), English actress who portrayed Nora Batty in Last of the Summer Wine

Michael Aldridge, a character actor who appeared as Seymour in the television series Last of the Summer Wine, was born in Glastonbury.

** Last Breeze of Summer -- David M. Massey

Others were the responsibility of Jim Franklin, known for The Goodies, and two episodes in the second series were directed by Alan J. W. Bell, also known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Last of the Summer Wine.

Last of the Summer Wine a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was initially broadcast on BBC One, and is regularly broadcast on the television channel Yesterday.

Mary Renault's novels of ancient Greece, such as The Last of the Wine, implied suggestions of tolerance for homosexuality.

Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973.

The BBC confirmed on 2 June 2010 that Last of the Summer Wine would no longer be produced and the 31st series would be its last.

Last of the Summer Wine is the longest-running comedy programme in Britain and the longest-running sitcom in the world.

Last of the Summer Wine was set and filmed in and around Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England and centred around a trio of essentially harmless simpletons whose line-up changed several times over the years.

Although some feel the show's quality declined over the years, Last of the Summer Wine continued to receive large audiences for the BBC and was praised for its positive portrayal of older people and family-friendly humour.

Last of the Summer Wine inspired other adaptations, including a television prequel, several novelisations, and stage adaptations.

Clarke chose the original title, The Last of the Summer Wine, to convey the idea that the characters are not in the autumn of their lives but the summer, even though it may be " the last of the summer ".

Clarke switched back to his original preference shortly before production began, a title that was shortened to Last of the Summer Wine after the pilot show.

The Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of BBC's Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973.

Gilbert and Clarke then travelled to Holmfirth and decided to use it as the setting for the pilot of Last of the Summer Wine.

Under Alan J. W. Bell, Last of the Summer Wine became the first comedy series to do away with the live studio audience, moving all of the filming to Holmfirth.

Every episode of Last of the Summer Wine was written by Roy Clarke and every episode featured Peter Sallis as Clegg.

In 2008, Bell announced that he had quit as producer of Last of the Summer Wine.

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Despite numerous cast and production changes over the years, Last of the Summer Wine continued to be popular with viewers and was renewed year after year despite reports to the contrary.

However, on 2 June 2010, the BBC announced that it would not renew Last of the Summer Wine after its thirty-first series was broadcast during the summer of 2010.