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Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English novelist, whose first novel, ''The Eyre Affair'', was published in 2001. He is known mainly for his ''Thursday Next'' novels, but has published two books in the loosely connected ''The Big Over Easy, Nursery Crime'' series and the first books of two other independent series: ''The Last Dragonslayer'' and ''Shades of Grey 1: The Road to High Saffron, Shades of Grey''. Fforde's books abound in literary allusions and wordplay, tightly scripted plots and playfulness with the conventional, traditional genres. They usually contain elements of metafiction, parody, and Fantasy literature, fantasy. Early life Fforde was born in London on 11 January 1961, the son of John Standish Fforde, the Chief Cashier#Chief Cashiers of The Bank of England, 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England. He is a grandson of the Polish political activist, Joseph Retinger, and a great-grandson of the journalist E. D. Morel. Fforde was educated at the progres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Chief Cashier
The Chief Cashier of the Bank of England is the person responsible for issuing banknotes at the Bank of England and is the director of the divisions which provide the Bank of England's banking infrastructure. This person is known to the general public because since 1870 the Chief Cashier's signature is printed on all bank notes issued by the Bank of England. In 2004 a new post was created, Executive Director of Banking & Chief Cashier, incorporating the title. The post is currently held by Sarah John who was appointed in June 2018. She is the 33rd Chief Cashier since the Bank was founded in 1694. Responsibilities The position has the following responsibilities: * The security and effective operation of real-time gross settlement in the UK’s high value payment systems (CHAPS and CREST). * Along with the Bank’s Sterling Markets Division they are also responsible for the provision of liquidity to the market and settlement banks. * The issuing and effective distribution of ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something Rotten
''Something Rotten'' is the fourth book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. It continues the story some two years after the point where ''The Well of Lost Plots'' leaves off. Plot introduction The book sees Thursday return from the world of fiction to the alternative Swindon that Fforde introduced in ''The Eyre Affair''; she is accompanied by Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ..., whose excursion from the world of fiction with Thursday forms the main sub-plot. The title is taken from ''Hamlet'' I.iv: "Something is rotten in the State of Denmark". Plot summary The story opens with Thursday still in the world of fiction in her job as the Bellman, head of the literary police force Jurisfiction. She is still hunting the Minota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Well Of Lost Plots
''The Well of Lost Plots'' is a novel by Jasper Fforde, published in 2003. It is the third book in the Thursday Next series, after ''The Eyre Affair'' and ''Lost in a Good Book''. Plot summary Apprentice Jurisfiction agent and SpecOps-27 operative Thursday Next is taking a vacation inside ''Caversham Heights'', a never-published detective novel inside the titular Well of Lost Plots, while waiting for her child to be born. In the book, she encounters two Generics, students of St Tabularasa's who have yet to be assigned to a book, and DCI Jack Spratt, a detective who partners with her in investigating a murder. Since Thursday is an "Outlander", a "real" person rather than a fictional character, Spratt hopes that she will help them appeal to the Council of Genres to prevent the disassembling of ''Caversham Heights'', a fate inevitable for books which languish unpublished in the real world. Using a ''Caversham Heights'' as her base of operations, Thursday continues her apprentice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost In A Good Book
''Lost in a Good Book'' is an alternate history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. It won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association 2004 Dilys Award. It is the second in the Thursday Next series. Synopsis ''Lost in a Good Book'' is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the first adventure of literary detective Thursday Next, ''The Eyre Affair''. ''Lost in a Good Book'' uses a variety of literary allusions as it follows Thursday through a vast government conspiracy. Plot summary Three months after the events of ''The Eyre Affair'', Thursday Next is happily married to Landen Parke-Laine and working as a literary detective in Swindon. One day, Thursday meets her father, a renegade ChronoGuard, who informs her that the world's going to end in a flood of an unknown pink chemical. This is a result of one of her uncle Mycroft's inventions going out of control. Mycroft has destroyed his Prose Portal after the events of ''The Eyre Affair'' and retired, leaving the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entrapment (film)
''Entrapment'' is a 1999 caper film directed by Jon Amiel and written by Ronald Bass. It stars Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones and includes Will Patton, Ving Rhames and Maury Chaykin. The film focuses on the relationship between investigator Virginia "Gin" Baker and professional thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal as they attempt a heist at the turn of the New Millennium. Simon West and Antoine Fuqua were both in talks to direct before Amiel was hired. The film was released theatrically in the United States on 30 April 1999 and in the United Kingdom on 2 July 1999. Plot Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is an investigator for "Waverly Insurance". Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery) is a professional thief who specialises in international art. A priceless Rembrandt painting is stolen from an office building in New York one night, and Gin is sent undercover to investigate Mac as the chief suspect. She tries to entrap him with a proposition, claiming that she is a prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mask Of Zorro
''The Mask of Zorro'' is a 1998 American swashbuckler film based on the character of the masked vigilante Zorro created by Johnston McCulley. It was directed by Martin Campbell and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stuart Wilson (actor), Stuart Wilson. The film features the original Zorro, Don Diego de la Vega (Hopkins), escaping from prison to find his long-lost daughter (Zeta-Jones) and avenge the death of his wife at the hands of the corrupt governor Rafael Montero (Wilson). He is aided by his successor (Banderas), who is pursuing his own vendetta against the governor's right-hand man while falling in love with de la Vega's daughter. Executive producer Steven Spielberg had initially developed the film for TriStar Pictures with directors Mikael Salomon and Robert Rodriguez, before Campbell signed on in 1996. Salomon cast Sean Connery as Don Diego de la Vega, while Rodriguez brought Banderas in the lead role. Connery dropped out and was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GoldenEye
''GoldenEye'' is a 1995 spy film, the seventeenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Martin Campbell, it was the first in the series not to utilize any story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming. It was also the first ''James Bond'' film not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, following his stepping down from Eon Productions and replacement by his daughter, Barbara Broccoli (along with Michael G. Wilson, although Albert was still involved as a consultant producer; it was his final film project before his death in 1996). The story was conceived and written by Michael France, with later collaboration by other writers. In the film, Bond fights to prevent a rogue ex-MI6 agent (Sean Bean) from using a satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial meltdown. The film was released after a six-year hiatus in the series caused by legal disputes, during w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quills (film)
''Quills'' is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning 1995 play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, ''Quills'' re-imagines the last years of the Marquis's incarceration in the insane asylum at Charenton. It stars Geoffrey Rush as de Sade, Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine "Maddie" LeClerc, Joaquin Phoenix as the Abbé du Coulmier, and Michael Caine as Dr. Royer-Collard. Well received by critics, ''Quills'' garnered numerous accolades for Rush, including nominations for an Oscar, BAFTA and a Golden Globe. The film was a modest art house success, averaging $27,709 per screen its debut weekend, and eventually grossing $17,989,277 internationally. Cited by historians as factually inaccurate, ''Quills'' filmmakers and writers said they were not making a biography of de Sade, but exploring issues such as censorship, pornography, sex, art, mental illness, and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trial (1993 Film)
''The Trial'' is a 1993 film made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) based on Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of Franz Kafka's 1925 novel ''The Trial''. Directed by David Jones and produced by Jan Balzer and Louis Marks, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan and has cameo appearances by several prominent British actors including Anthony Hopkins, Juliet Stevenson, Alfred Molina, David Thewlis, and Michael Kitchen. Cast Production The film was shot in Prague and Kutná Hora. Reception The film grossed £58,000 in the United Kingdom. In the United States and Canada it grossed $119,267. See also * ''The Trial'', 1962 film directed by Orson Welles George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential f .... References External links * * 1993 films 1993 drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Focus Puller
A focus puller or first assistant camera (1st AC) is a member of a film crew's camera department whose primary responsibility is to maintain the camera lens's optical focus on whatever subject or action is being filmed. "Pulling focus" refers to the act of changing the camera lens's focus distance to a moving subject's distance from the focal plane, or the changing distance between a stationary object and a moving camera. For example, if an actor moves from 8 m to 3 m away from the focal plane within a shot, the focus puller will change the distance setting on the lens in precise relation to the changing position of the actor. Additionally, the focus puller may shift focus from one subject to another within the frame, as dictated by the requirements of the shot. This process is called "rack focusing". Focus pulling There is often very little room for error, depending on the parameters of a given shot. The role of a focus puller is extremely important to a film producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartington Hall
Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "one of the most spectacular surviving domestic buildings of late Medieval England", along with Haddon Hall and Wingfield Manor. The medieval buildings are grouped around a huge courtyard; the largest built for a private residence before the 16th Century, and the Great Hall itself is the finest of its date in England. The west range of the courtyard is regarded as nationally one of the most notable examples of a range of medieval lodgings. The medieval buildings were restored from 1926 to 1938.Buildings of England - Devon. Authors - Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry. Published 1989 The site is the headquarters of the Dartington Trust, which currently runs a number of charitable educational programmes, including Schumacher College, Darting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
