Klaatu (band) Albums
Klaatu may refer to: * Klaatu (''The Day the Earth Stood Still''), the protagonist in the 1951 science fiction film and its 2008 remake * Klaatu (band), a Canadian progressive-rock group formed in 1973 ** ''Klaatu'' (album), the U.S. name for their first album, ''3:47 EST'' * Klaatu (comics), a Marvel Comics alien * Klaatu (''Star Wars''), a minor character in the original trilogy * ''The Klaatu Diskos'', a young-adult book series by Pete Hautman * Klaatu, alien antagonists in ''Starfleet Orion'', a 1978 science-fiction strategy game See also * Klaatu barada nikto "''Klaatu barada nikto''" is a phrase that originated in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. The humanoid alien protagonist of the film, Klaatu ( Michael Rennie), instructs Helen Benson ( Patricia Neal) that if any ha ...

Klaatu (The Day The Earth Stood Still)
Klaatu () is a fictional humanoid alien in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' and its 2008 remake. Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!". Michael Rennie as Klaatu Klaatu (Michael Rennie) arrives in a flying saucer in Washington, D.C., accompanied by Gort (Lock Martin), as a peaceful ambassador from an extraterrestrial confederation; but when he presents a harmless device as "a gift for he AmericanPresident... to study life on other planets", his intentions are misinterpreted by one of the soldiers that form his welcoming committee, who shoots him. To protect Klaatu, Gort destroys the surrounding artillery. Klaatu is taken to a hospital, where he quickly recovers. On learning that the government does not expect other nations to be willing to meet him, he takes residence in a boarding house, using the surname "Carpenter", the name found on the clothes and suitcase obtained by him at the hospital, and befriends Bobby ...
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Klaatu (band)
Klaatu () was a Canadian rock group formed in 1973 by the duo of John Woloschuk and Dee Long. They named themselves after an ambassador, Klaatu, from an extraterrestrial confederation who visits Earth with his companion robot Gort in the film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. After recording two non-charting singles, the band added drummer Terry Draper to the line-up; this trio constituted Klaatu throughout the rest of the band's recording career. In Canada, the band is remembered for several hits, including "California Jam" (1974), " Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" (1976) and "Knee Deep in Love" (1980). In the U.S. "Calling Occupants" backed with "Sub-Rosa Subway" was a minor double-sided hit and their only chart entry, peaking at No. 62 in 1977. Internationally, the group's pop-influenced style of progressive rock has led to them being known as the "Canadian Beatles". Musical style Klaatu has variously been described by critics and journalists as progressive ...
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Klaatu (album)
''3:47 EST'' is the debut album by the Canadian progressive rock group Klaatu, released in August 1976. The album was renamed ''Klaatu'' when released in the United States by Capitol Records. The album is notable for its Beatlesque psychedelia. The Juno-nominated album cover was painted by a friend of Klaatu's members, a Canadian graphic artist, Ted Jones. Rumours spread in the wake of the album's release that Klaatu were, in fact, a secretly reunited Beatles. The album was moderately successful in the United States, largely as a result of the Beatles rumours. Capitol Records seized the opportunity by giving elusive answers to press inquiries regarding the rumour, which further fueled media attention and publicity. A remastered version of the album was released on Klaatu's indie record label "Klaatunes" in 2011. To accompany this release, a music video was made for the remastered version of "Calling Occupants". Origin of the title In the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the ...
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Klaatu (comics)
Klaatu is a fictional alien appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in ''The Incredible Hulk'' vol. 2 #136-137 (Feb.-March 1971), a two-part story which credits Roy Thomas as sole writer, but was in fact scripted by Thomas over a plot by Gerry Conway and Herb Trimpe. Klaatu's character was a thinly veiled pastiche of Moby Dick. Moby Dick is considered to be a symbol of a number of things, among them God, nature, fate, the ocean, and the very universe itself. The name Klaatu was borrowed from the central character of ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. Fictional character biography Klaatu was once attacked by the Andromeda Starship, in a manner reminiscent of terrestrial whaling. Klaatu destroyed the craft carrying a young "oarsman" who was badly burned as a result, requiring nearly half his body to be reconstructed with cybernetics. This young man grew up to become the obsessed Captain Cybor, who would stalk Klaatu for the rest of his life ...
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Klaatu (Star Wars)
Klaatu may refer to: * Klaatu (''The Day the Earth Stood Still''), the protagonist in the 1951 science fiction film and its 2008 remake * Klaatu (band), a Canadian progressive-rock group formed in 1973 ** ''Klaatu'' (album), the U.S. name for their first album, ''3:47 EST'' * Klaatu (comics), a Marvel Comics alien * Klaatu (''Star Wars''), a minor character in the original trilogy * ''The Klaatu Diskos'', a young-adult book series by Pete Hautman * Klaatu, alien antagonists in ''Starfleet Orion'', a 1978 science-fiction strategy game See also * Klaatu barada nikto "''Klaatu barada nikto''" is a phrase that originated in the 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. The humanoid alien protagonist of the film, Klaatu ( Michael Rennie), instructs Helen Benson ( Patricia Neal) that if any ha ...

Pete Hautman
Peter Murray Hautman (born September 29, 1952) is an American author best known for his novels for young adults. One of them, '' Godless'', won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The National Book Foundation summary is, "A teenage boy decides to invent a new religion with a new god." Biography Hautman was born in Berkeley, California on September 29, 1952 and moved to St. Louis Park, Minnesota at the age of five. He graduated from St. Louis Park High School and attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota during the next seven years without receiving a degree from either institution. After working at several jobs for which he calls himself "ill-suited", Hautman's first novel, ''Drawing Dead'', was published in 1993. He lives with novelist and poet Mary Logue in Golden Valley, Minnesota and Stockholm, Wisconsin. Awards and honors * Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2011, ''The Big Crunch'' * N ...
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Starfleet Orion
''Starfleet Orion'' is a 1978 science fiction strategy game written and published by Epyx, Automated Simulations (who would become Epyx in 1983). It appears to be the first space-themed strategy game sold for microcomputer systems. The game was originally written in BASIC for the Commodore PET, but later ported to other early home computer platforms including the TRS-80 and Apple II series, Apple II. The game was something of a success, leading to a string of successes for the company, notably the major hit ''Temple of Apshai''. Development The game came about in a roundabout fashion when Jon Freeman (game designer), Jon Freeman joined a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game being hosted by Dungeon Master, dungeon master Jim Connelly. Freeman was an experienced gamer, a regular contributor to ''Games (magazine), Games'' magazine and author of ''A Player's Guide to Board Games''. Connelly had purchased a PET computer to handle bookkeeping during his D&D games, and was interested in finding wa ...
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