Kelly continued to make frequent TV appearances and, in 1980, appeared in an acting and dancing role opposite Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu ( 1980 ), an expensive theatrical flop which has since attained a cult following.

Much of his adult life has been devoted to working on Xanadu and advocating it.

Coleridge's description of Xanadu has echoes of the works of both Marco Polo and Samuel Purchas.

Kira then enters the discussion, saying the emotions she has toward Sonny are new to her -- if only they could have one more night together, Sonny's dream of success for the nightclub Xanadu could come true.

Even if not as precisely as Madame Xanadu, Zatanna has proven herself able to call upon tarot reading for insight or divination.

Kane has enough wealth to build Chicago's fictional opera house, as well as his cavernous, unfinished mansion, Xanadu.

The success of Madrid Xanadú prompted The Mills to embark on the $ 1 billion + Meadowlands Xanadu complex in 2004, which was first planned as " Meadowlands Mills ," but the project has caused numerous delays and costed the company financially.

However, this version of Xanadu was successfully demonstrated at The Hackers Conference and generated considerable interest.

Fleming had assigned his interest in the film to McClory and Bryce's company Xanadu and would make no more money from the project.

Scientists are also investigating the boundary between Xanadu and Shangri-la, a dark region to the west.

According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

The land is constructed as a paradisical garden, but like Eden after Man's fall, Xanadu is isolated by walls.

Charles S. Smith, the founder of a company called Memex ( named after a hypertext system proposed by Vannevar Bush ), hired many of the Xanadu programmers and licensed the Xanadu technology, though Memex soon faced financial difficulties, and the then-unpaid programmers left, taking the computers with them ( the programmers were eventually paid ).

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) named a continent-sized area of Saturn's moon Titan as Xanadu after it was referred from Coleridge's poem.

Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Can't Stop the Music and Xanadu.

In the summer of 1958 Fleming and his friend, Ivar Bryce, began talking about the possibility of a Bond film ; in the autumn of 1958 Bryce introduced Fleming to a young Irish writer and director, Kevin McClory, and the three of them, together with Fleming and Bryce's friend Ernest Cuneo, formed the partnership Xanadu Productions, named after Bryce's Bahamian home, but which was never actually formed into a company.

The band contacted Bluth after having recalled fond memories of the sequence from Xanadu.

It eventually opened in 1983, after several years of research into the concepts Xanadu would use.

Shortly after the Xanadu Houses were built and opened as visitor attractions, tourism companies began to advertise them as the " home of the future " in brochures encouraging people to visit.

Shortly after writing this article, he took over development of Project Xanadu, the hypertext system envisioned by Ted Nelson.

This film starred Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John and was widely considered a big-budget flop, but its soundtrack spawned several hit singles for Ms. Newton-John, such as the # 1 hit " Magic ", a duet with Cliff Richard called " Suddenly ", and, with Electric Light Orchestra accompaniment, the title song " Xanadu ".

The title is a reference to the nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China.

To this end, his new studio, Don Bluth Productions, demonstrated its ability in its first production, a short film titled Banjo the Woodpile Cat, and this led to work on an animated segment of the live-action film Xanadu ( 1980 ).

Xanadu ( often called " Xanadu Regio ", though this is not its official name ) is a highly reflective area on the leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan.

The Xanadu soundtrack and all its singles by both ELO and Newton-John were released on MCA Records in the USA and Canada, and on Jet Records elsewhere in the world.

Directly east of the Square off of Stockton Street is Maiden Lane, a short and narrow alley of exclusive boutiques and cafes that leads to the Financial District and boasts the Xanadu Gallery, San Francisco's only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — with its interior most notable for being the predecessor for New York City's Guggenheim Museum.

The Kissimmee Xanadu, designed by Roy Mason, was the most popular, and at its peak was attracting 1000 visitors every day.

This image taken on Oct. 24, 2004, reveals Titan's bright " continent-sized " terrain known as Xanadu.

# This image helps in explaining the subject of matter in both the Roy Mason ( architect ) and Xanadu House articles.

The text about Xanadu in Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which Coleridge admitted he did not remember exactly, was: " In Xandu did Cublai Can build a stately Pallace, encompassing sixteen miles of plaine ground with a wall, wherein are fertile Meddowes, pleasant Springs, delightfull streames, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure, which may be moved from place to place.

# Every Xanadu server can be operated independently or in a network.

On the live release Exit ... Stage Left, Lee can be heard manually " tweaking " the dials to produce unusual sounds in the space between songs " The Trees " and " Xanadu ".

He will be part of a team including Shade, The Changing Man, Deadman and Madame Xanadu.

In the Japanese light novel and anime series Shakugan no Shana, Xanadu is the name of the paradise to be created by the God of Creation ( Snake of the Festival ).

Don Rosa wrote a sequel to the story, Return To Xanadu, in which Tralla La is revealed to be the valley of Xanadu.

His reprisal of the character in ' Xanadu ' was to be his final film appearance.

Rush's songs Xanadu from their 1977 album A Farewell To Kings and The Trees from their 1978 album Hemispheres also use temple blocks-the blocks that Neil Peart is striking in these tracks can be heard very clearly.

However this incarnation of Vandal Savage is less a threatening, scheming villain and more a likeable, roguish thug, still a force to be reckoned with but bound to a deep-seated respect for " his fellow immortals " Etrigan and Madame Xanadu, even taking a place among the assembled heroes.

The 1980 release of the movie musical Xanadu brought renewed hopes the building might be saved when the auditorium's facade was used to portray a dilapidated building which became a sparkling, brightly lit roller disco nightclub, but the movie was critically panned and not an economic success.

Fox can be seen skitching in the 1985 film Back to the Future, as can Michael Beck in the 1980 film Xanadu and Christian Slater in the 1989 film Gleaming the Cube.

Similar to the succeeding Code Lyoko, Garage Kids was intended to be a 26-episode series detailing the lives of four French boarding school students who have discovered the secret of Xanadu, a virtual world created by a research group headed by the Professor.

He was living in isolation in a " huge mansion ", which is said to be influenced by Xanadu from Orson Welles's Citizen Kane.

There exists one additional contribution to the series ; " Return to Xanadu " by Lawrence Watt-Evans, which revisits the world of Kubla Khan and transfers a minor character appearing therein to that of The Arabian Nights by the agency of an unnamed magician who appears to be intended to represent L. Sprague de Camp himself.

While in a pub, s / he meets Vandal Savage, Madame Xanadu and Jason Blood ; s / he shows early ( but hidden ) contempt for Jason and Xanadu saying they were at Camelot, believing them to be liars ( their incarnation of Camelot was the 6th century one of Sir Justin but she's unaware ).

Before conceiving the Xanadu House concept, Masters designed and created inflatable balloons to be used in the construction of houses.

Nevertheless, " Zanna, Don't is a loving tribute to pop culture, and I thought a reference to Xanadu would be appropriate.

Both the design described in Liskov and Shrira's paper, and the implementation of promise pipelining in Xanadu, had the limitation that promise values were not first-class: an argument to, or the value returned by a call or send could not directly be a promise ( so the example of promise pipelining given earlier, which uses a promise for the result of one send as an argument to another, would not have been directly expressible in the call-stream design or in the Xanadu implementation ).