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Cultural Depictions Of Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan has been variously depicted in popular culture since he was elected president in 1980. Reagan also appeared numerous times in popular fiction, particularly in his role as U.S. president in the 1980s. Film and television * '' Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card'', a satirical depiction of Reagan's presidency aired as a Cinemax Comedy Experiment * ''Spitting Image'', a satirical British puppet show featuring Reagan * ''The Day Reagan Was Shot'', a 2001 film about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan * ''The Reagans'', a 2003 television film about Ronald Reagan and his family * ''Reagan'', a 2011 documentary film about the presidency of Ronald Reagan * ''The Butler'', a 2013 film about an African-American butler who bore witness to the presidency of Ronald Reagan * ''Killing Reagan'' (film), a 2016 television film about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan * ''Reagan'', a 2022 film starring Dennis Quaid Reagan appeared as one of the fictional supporting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inhumanoids
''Inhumanoids'' is the title of an animated series and the name of a Hasbro toy property that were both released in 1986. In the tradition of other Hasbro properties such as ''Transformers'', and ''G.I. Joe'', the show was produced by Sunbow Entertainment and Marvel Productions and animated in Japan by Toei Animation. ''Inhumanoids'' tells the story of the scientist-superhero group, Earth Corps, as they battle a trio of subterranean monsters called the Inhumanoids with the aid of elemental beings, the Mutores. ''Inhumanoids: The Movie'' The ''Inhumanoids'' series did not begin as a conventional 22-minute cartoon, but rather as a slate of six-to-seven-minute shorts that aired as part of the collective '' Super Sunday'' half-hour block alongside other Marvel/Sunbow series, ''Jem and the Holograms'', ''Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines'' and ''Robotix''. Although ''Bigfoot'' had only nine episodes, the other shows ran to 15 episodes, telling a complete story across their numerous insta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Quaid
Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the late 1970s, some of his notable credits include ''Breaking Away'' (1979), '' The Right Stuff'' (1983), '' The Big Easy'' (1986), ''Innerspace'' (1987), '' Great Balls of Fire!'' (1989), ''Dragonheart'' (1996), '' The Parent Trap'' (1998), ''Frequency'' (2000), '' The Rookie'' (2002), '' In Good Company'' (2004), '' Yours, Mine & Ours'' (2005), and '' Vantage Point'' (2008). His other film credits include ''Any Given Sunday'' (1999), ''Traffic'' (2000), '' The Alamo'' (2004), ''The Day After Tomorrow'' (2004), '' Flight of the Phoenix'' (2004), ''American Dreamz'' (2006), ''Battle for Terra'' (2007), '' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' (2009), ''Footloose'' (2011), ''Soul Surfer'' (2011), ''Beneath the Darkness'' (2012), '' Playing for Keeps'' (2012), ''Truth'' (2015), ''The Pretenders'' (2018), '' Midway'' (2019), '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strontium Dog
''Strontium Dog'' was a long-running British comics series starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter who lives in Earth's future. The series was created in 1978 by writer John Wagner (under the pseudonym T. B. Grover) and artist Carlos Ezquerra for '' Starlord'', a short-lived weekly science fiction comic. When ''Starlord'' was cancelled, the series transferred to the British science fiction weekly '' 2000 AD''. In 1980, Wagner was joined by co-writer Alan Grant, although scripts were normally credited to Grant alone. Grant wrote the series by himself from 1988 to 1990. Wagner revived the series after a ten year hiatus in 2000. After Ezquerra's death in October 2018, the series was put in indefinite hiatus with no current plans for its continuation (other than some single-episode stories in special issues aimed at younger readers). The series takes place in an imagined future after the Great Nuclear War of 2150. Due to nuclear fallout of strontium-90, humanity has an increas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Optimus Prime (Transformers)
Optimus Prime, , is a fictional character in the ''Transformers'' franchise. The Transformers characters were developed for an American market after Hasbro representatives visited the 1983 Tokyo Toy Show. The characters were modified and the coloring was changed; notably, Optimus Prime was colored red, white, and blue. The popularity of the Transformers toys resulted in comics, movies, and a TV series. In the Transformers mythology, Optimus Prime is a Cybertronian, an extraterrestrial species of sentient self-configuring modular robotic lifeforms (e.g.: cars and other objects), a synergistic blend of biological evolution and technological engineering. In almost every version of the mythos, Optimus is the leader of the Autobots, a faction of Transformers who are rivals of the Decepticons, another faction. He is defined by his strong moral character and is almost always portrayed as the primary hero of the story, opposing the Decepticon leader Megatron. Over the history of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Universe
The New Universe is an imprint (trade name), imprint from Marvel Comics that was published in its original incarnation from 1986 to 1989. It was the first line produced by Marvel Comics utilizing a pre-conceived shared universe concept. It was created by Jim Shooter, Archie Goodwin (comics), Archie Goodwin, Eliot R. Brown, Jack Morelli, John Morelli, Mark Gruenwald, Tom DeFalco, and edited by Michael Higgins. In 1986, in honor of Marvel Comics' 25th anniversary, Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter launched the New Universe line of comics. This was to be a distinctly separate world, fully divorced from the mainstream continuity of the Marvel Universe, consisting of its own continuing characters and stories in a more realistic setting. There would be no Hidden Races (Marvel Comics), hidden races, gods, Legendary creature, mythological beings, Magic (paranormal), magic, or supertechnology (a rule immediately broken by ''Justice (New Universe), Justice)''. Superhuman characters and powers woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Comics'' in 1951 and its predecessor, ''Marvel Mystery Comics'', the ''Marvel Comics'' title/name/brand was first used in June 1961. Marvel was started in 1939 by Martin Goodman (publisher), Martin Goodman as Timely Comics, and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas Comics (1950s), Atlas Comics. The Marvel era began in June 1961 with the launch of ''The Fantastic Four'' and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. The Marvel brand, which had been used over the years and decades, was solidified as the company's primary brand. Marvel counts among List of Marvel Comics characters, its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor (Marvel Comics), Thor, Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain America
Captain America is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the character First appearance, first appeared in ''#Golden Age, Captain America Comics'' #1 (cover dated March 1941) from Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics. Captain America was designed as a patriotic supersoldier who often fought the Axis powers of World War II and was Timely Comics' most popular character during the wartime period. The popularity of superheroes waned following the war, and the ''Captain America'' comic book was discontinued in 1950, with a short-lived revival in 1953. Since Marvel Comics revived the character in 1964, Captain America has remained in publication. The character wears a costume bearing an Flag of the United States, American flag motif (visual arts), motif, and he carries a Captain America's shield, nearly-indestructible shield that he throws as a projectile. Captain America is the alter ego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back To The Future
''Back to the Future'' is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis, and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. Set in 1985, the story follows Marty McFly (Fox), a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean automobile built by his eccentric scientist friend Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd). While in the past, Marty inadvertently prevents his future parents from falling in love—threatening his existence—and is forced to reconcile the pair and somehow get back to the future. Gale and Zemeckis conceived the idea for ''Back to the Future'' in 1980. They were desperate for a successful film after numerous collaborative failures, but the project was rejected over 40 times by various studios because it was not considered raunchy enough to compete with the successful comedies of the era. A development deal was secured with Universal Pictures f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fargo (1996 Film)
''Fargo'' is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide that takes place after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell). The film was an American-British co-production. Filmed in the United States during the end of 1995, ''Fargo'' premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where Joel Coen won the festival's '' Prix de la mise en scène'' (Best Director Award) and the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or. The film was both a commercial and critical success, earning particular acclaim for the Coens' direction and script and the performances of McDormand, Macy, and Buscemi. ''Fargo'' received seven Oscar nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor and director. He is known for portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's ''Evil Dead'' franchise, beginning with the 1978 short film ''Within the Woods''. He has starred in many low-budget cult films such as ''Crimewave'' (1985), ''Maniac Cop'' (1988), '' Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat'' (1989), and ''Bubba Ho-Tep'' (2002). In television, Campbell had lead roles in '' The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.'' (1993–1994) and '' Jack of All Trades'' (2000), and a recurring role as Autolycus, King of Thieves, in ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' and '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' (1995–1999). He played Sam Axe on the USA Network series '' Burn Notice'' (2007–2013) and reprised his role as Ash Williams on the Starz series ''Ash vs. Evil Dead'' (2015–2018). Campbell started his directing career with '' Fanalysis'' (2002) and '' A Community Speaks'' (2004), and then with the horror comedy feature films '' Man w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fargo (TV Series)
''Fargo'' is an American black comedy crime drama television series created and primarily written by Noah Hawley. The show is inspired by the 1996 film of the same name, which was written and directed by the Coen brothers, and takes place within the same fictional universe. The Coens were impressed by Hawley's script and agreed to be named as executive producers. The series premiered on April 15, 2014, on FX, and follows an anthology format, with each season set in a different era and location, with a different story and mostly new characters and cast, although there is minor overlap. Each season is heavily influenced by various Coen brothers films, with each containing numerous references to them. The first season, set primarily in Minnesota and North Dakota from January 2006 to February 2007 and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, and Martin Freeman, received wide acclaim from critics. It won the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Miniseries, Outs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
