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Shearer directed the 2002 film Teddy Bears ' Picnic and appeared in several films, including A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, The Simpsons Movie, The Truman Show, and Godzilla among many others.
The music from Anthem: Part 2 was used in the 1998 film The Truman Show and several film trailers, including Dead Man Walking.
* The Truman Show ( 1998 ) is a film about a man ( Jim Carrey ) who discovers that his entire life is being staged and filmed for a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show.
In 1981, Art Carney portrayed Truman in the docu-drama film St. Helens.
Truman was the subject of the book Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain written by his niece Shirley Rosen and was portrayed by Art Carney in the 1981 docu-drama film St. Helens.
" It is not known whether the writer of the film had Truman in mind when creating this character.
Wesley Morris of the San Francisco Examiner called the film " a romantically labyrinthine tribute that piles layers of inter-textual shout-outs to All About Eve, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Federico García Lorca and Alfred Hitchcock, and beautifully assesses the nature of facades.
* In the 1951 film Quo Vadis, based on the novel, Tigellinus ( played by Ralph Truman ) is ( unhistorically ) stabbed to death by a soldier spectator at the cry of A sword from Plautius!
* Tony Goldwyn portrayed Clifford in the HBO television film Truman ( 1995 ).
Both the play and film are a one-man show about former President of the United States Harry S. Truman.
The film opened in second place at the box office behind The Truman Show, taking $ 16, 615, 704 during its first weekend.
The Truman Show is a 1998 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol.
Carrey, who is normally paid $ 20 million per film, agreed to do The Truman Show for $ 12 million.
Paramount was cautious about The Truman Show which they dubbed " the most expensive art film ever made " because of its $ 60 million budget.
" He deemed it an eerie coincidence that Big Brother made its debut a year after the film's release, and he also compared the film to the 2003 program The Joe Schmo Show: " Unlike Truman, Matt Gould could see the cameras, but all of the other contestants were paid actors, playing the part of various reality-show stereotypes.
Simone Knox, in her essay " Reading The Truman Show inside out " argues that the film itself tries to blur the objective perspective and the show-within-the-film.
Based on 99 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, The Truman Show received an average 95 % overall " Certified Fresh " approval rating, including a 90 % among 20 critics in Rotten Tomatoes ' " Top Critics " poll ; the websites consensus states " A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show is all the more noteworthy for its remarkably prescient vision of runaway celebrity culture and a nation with an insatiable thirst for the private details of ordinary lives.
Gold named the syndrome " The Truman Show Delusion " after the film and attributed the delusion to a world that had become hungry for publicity.
The 1998 film The Truman Show utilized the concept, although in a manner different than other films.
Similarly, the original Truman Capote novella on which Breakfast at Tiffany's was based ended with Holly Golightly's going off to Brazil and disappearing from the protagonist's life — while in the film it was changed to her accepting the love he offered her and their famous kiss in the rain.
Among his novels were The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, Jericho Road, and Beat the Devil ( originally under the pseudonym James Helvick ), which was made into a film directed by John Huston with script credit to Truman Capote ( the title was later used by Cockburn's son Alexander for his regular column in The Nation ).

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* 1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
For his film A Night in the Show ( 1915 ), Chaplin directly transferred the Karno sketch Mumming Birds onto the screen.
Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.
Though she later appeared in films Naked in New York ( 1993 ) and Getting In ( 1994 ), her first substantial speaking part in a film was in Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford.
Visiting Kids also appeared on the soundtrack to the film Rockula, as well as on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Show Me Love is a 1998 Swedish film directed by Lukas Moodysson, the title for non-English speaking countries is Fucking Åmål.
Based on 39 reviews collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 90 % of critics gave Show Me Love a positive review.
Mr. Stuff gives Gumby all the goodies he can hold in " Pigs Is Pigs ( 1937 film )# The Gumby Show | Grub Grabber Gumby ".
" The Curtain Dress ", from the Carol Burnett Show worn in the Gone with the Wind ( film ) | Gone with the Wind ( film ) parody, " Went with the Wind " ( 1976 ).
Whale directed over a dozen films in other genres, including what is considered the definitive film version of the musical Show Boat ( 1936 ).
The 1936 Show Boat, faithfully adapted from the original stage production, is considered the definitive film version of the musical, but became unavailable following the 1951 remake.
Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.
In 1956, Cotten left film for years for a string of successful television ventures, such as the NBC series On Trial ( renamed at mid-season The Joseph Cotten Show ).
Show, a historic concert film directed by Steve Binder.
Show set the standard for all succeeding music film and video work, including many of the early videos shown by Music Television 17 years later.
In the DVD commentary for the film, Michael Palin says that their use of the word was derived from The Goon Show.
He also appeared in the Goon Show film Down Among the Z Men.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O ' Brien.
The song " Show Me Love " was prominently used in the 1998 Lukas Moodysson film Fucking Åmål, and the song's title was used as the film's title in English-speaking countries.
The film itself has been widely sampled: Punk band Big Audio Dynamite used an audio clip from the movie in its song " Medicine Show "; the audio was taken from the scene in which a judge, after reading a long list of criminal charges, sentences Tuco to be " hanged from the neck until dead.
Curry first became well known with his breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, reprising the role he played in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show, then later for his supporting roles as Rooster in the film adaption of Annie ( 1982 ), Lord of Darkness in the film Legend ( 1985 ), Wadsworth in the film Clue ( 1985 ) as well as a starring role as Pennywise the Clown in the horror TV miniseries It ( 1990 ), which is one of Curry's most acclaimed performances aside from Rocky Horror.

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