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The Jacket is a 2005 American science-fiction psychological thriller film directed by John Maybury and starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It is partly based on the 1915 Jack London novel The Star Rover , published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket . [ 4 ]
Rabbit Bandini Productions is a film and television production company founded in 2003 by actors/filmmakers James Franco and Vince Jolivette. The name comes from combining the titular hero from John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy with the hero of John Fante's Ask the Dust, Arturo Bandini. [1]
Roderick, or The Education of a Young Machine is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer John Sladek. It was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award and was followed in 1983 by Roderick at Random, or Further Education of a Young Machine .
A silent film based on The Star Rover was released in 1920, starring Courtenay Foote, a well-known stage and screen actor of the time, as Dr. Hugh Standing. [1] [2]The 2005 movie The Jacket has a story credited to Marc Rocco and Tom Bleecker.
"The Suit" is a short story by the South African writer Can Themba. [1] It was first published in 1963 in the inaugural issue of The Classic , [ 2 ] a South African literary journal founded by Nat Nakasa and Nadine Gordimer . [ 3 ]
A Louisiana police officer was killed this week during a hostage and standoff situation, the Lafayette Police Department said Friday. The husband and father of five joined the department in ...
The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon's mate in the Royal Navy , especially during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741.
Roderick is galvanized by the offer, but he fears his highly protective mother's disapproval and urges Mallet to meet with and reassure her. Mallet does so, eventually overcoming the woman's doubts. At the meeting, Mallet is also introduced to Mary Garland, a distant poor cousin of the Hudsons who has been living with them as a companion to Mrs ...