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Douglas Rye (actor)
Douglas Rye is an American voice actor who has done Narration for such notable companies as Bank of America, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, NBC, The Playboy Channel, Qwest, Carl's Jr. and DaimlerChrysler. Rye has been acting since he was a child, he beat out Christopher Reeve for a role in a summer production at The Lawrenceville School, during his four years there. He studied at New York University with the likes of Olympia Dukakis and Lloyd Richards, and during his time there worked alongside Jason Robards III, Melissa Manchester, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest. He also worked behind the scenes for many great and classic musical acts. He toured with the Grateful Dead as part of the behind the scenes crew for nine years. He also was a stage hand at the historic Woodstock Festival in 1969. He has even performed as an opening act for Carlos Santana. Douglas has also been a crew member for such famous musical acts as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Read Or Die
is a Japanese light novel series written by Hideyuki Kurata, published under Shueisha's ''Super Dash Bunko'' imprint. ''Read or Die'' follows Yomiko Readman, codename "The Paper", an agent for the (fictional) Special Operations Division of the British Library. There are currently 11 ''Read or Die'' novels. In volume 11, a note stated that the series would end with the upcoming volume 12. In June 2016, it was announced via Twitter that volume 12 would be released in August, and that there would be a volume 13. Along with the novels, Kurata scripted the official ''R.O.D'' manga illustrated by Shutaro Yamada, which was originally published in ''Ultra Jump'' magazine and later printed into four paperback volumes, and ''Read or Dream'', a manga illustrated by Ran Ayanaga set in the same universe as ''Read or Die.'' The popularity of the ''Read or Die'' novels and manga resulted in the production of an OVA adaptation in 2001, which was directed by Koji Masunari and produced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. Billed as "an Age of Aquarius, Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000 attendees. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite sporadic rain. It was one of the largest music festivals held in history. The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the Counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture generation. The event's significance was reinforced by Woodstock (film), a 1970 documentary film, an accompanying Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, soundtrack album, and a Woodstock (song), song written by Joni Mitchell that became a major hit for b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Code Geass R2
The second and final season of the ''Code Geass'' anime series, titled , is produced by Sunrise, Mainichi Broadcasting System, and Project Geass. The series was directed by Gorō Taniguchi who has also worked with Ichirō Ōkouchi on the script. The characters were conceived by Clamp and designed by Takahiro Kimura. ''R2'' takes place a year after the events of the first series. The coup d'état by the Black Knights, led by the protagonist, Lelouch vi Britannia, ended in failure and resulted in Lelouch's capture and brainwashing. Since then, the coup has been referred to as the Black Rebellion. ''R2'' was first announced in the April 2007 edition of ''Newtype''. Early screening for the first episode was held in March 2008 in Tokyo Dome City and Osaka Mido Hall. The series premiered on April 6, 2008 on MBS TV and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television; it was later broadcast on sixteen other stations. The third episode was partly leaked four days before its intended air date due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Ruin
''Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin'' is a platform-adventure game developed and published by Konami. The game was released on November 16, 2006 in Japan, and in North America on December 5, 2006 for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. ''Portrait of Ruin'' is the first ''Castlevania'' to feature a cooperative multiplayer gameplay mode and the first handheld ''Castlevania'' to have English voice-overs, outside of its original Japanese release. ''Portrait of Ruin'' is set in 1944 Europe during World War II, and is a continuation of the story from '' Castlevania: Bloodlines''. The game introduces protagonists and antagonists to the ''Castlevania'' series as well as expand on the two character gameplay found in the previous Nintendo DS Castlevania title, '' Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow''. ''Portrait of Ruin'' has met with an overall positive critical response and has received high ratings from reviews, along with several awards. Gameplay ''Portrait of Ruin'' features a 2D side-sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
