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K-PAX
''K-PAX'' is an American science fiction novel by Gene Brewer, the first in the ''K-PAX'' series. The series deals with the experiences on Earth of a being named Prot. It is written in the first person from the point of view of Prot's psychiatrist. ''K-PAX'' was adapted into a theatrical film of the same name, released in 2001. Series * ''K-PAX'' (1995) * ''K-PAX II: On a Beam of Light'' (2001) * ''K-PAX III: Worlds of Prot'' (2002) * ''K-PAX IV: A New Visitor from the Constellation Lyra'' (2007) * ''K-PAX V: The Coming of the Bullocks'' (2014) Synopsis In 1990, a man is picked up by the New York Police after being found bending over the victim of a mugging at Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan. After responding to the police questions with somewhat strange answers, he is transferred to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation. Although not physically ill, he is found to harbor the strange delusion that he is from a planet called K-PAX in the Lyra constellation. The patien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-PAX (film)
''K-PAX'' is a 2001 science fiction mystery film based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel of the same name. An American-German co-production, it was directed by Iain Softley, starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, and Alfre Woodard. The film is about a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. During his treatment, the patient demonstrates an outlook on life that ultimately proves inspirational for his fellow patients and especially for his psychiatrist. Plot After claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', 1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, prot (not capitalized and pronounced with a long O, rhyming with ''boat'') is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. There, psychiatrist Dr. Mark Powell attempts to cure him of his apparent delusions. However, prot is unwavering in his ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX, and its civilizations. His medical examination only reinfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Brewer
Gene Brewer (born Eugene N. Brewer, July 4, 1937) is an American writer, the author of the ''K-PAX'' book series, about a man who claims to be a visiting extraterrestrial from a planet called K-PAX: ''K-PAX'' (1995), ''On a Beam of Light'' (2001), ''K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot'' (2002), '' K-PAX IV'' (2007) and ''Prot's Report'', a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in ''K-PAX: The Trilogy'', an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books. The first book in the series was made into a film in 2001; it stars Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. Biography Brewer was born in Muncie, Indiana. He was educated at DePauw University and University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he studied DNA replication and cell division, then became a novelist. Brewer currently lives in New York City and Vermont with his wife. Bibliography * ''K-PAX: The Trilogy'' (2003). New York: Bloomsbury USA, . (Omnibus featuring "Prot's Report") * ''En un Rayo de Luz'' (2003) Umbriel, . (Spanish tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Softley
Iain Declan Softley (born 28 October 1956) is an English film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films include ''Backbeat,'' ''Hackers, The Wings of the Dove'', ''K-PAX'', ''The Skeleton Key'', ''Inkheart'' and the BBC adaptation of Sadie Jones's novel ''The Outcast''. Career Softley was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, London, and Queens' College, Cambridge University, where he directed a number of highly-praised theatrical productions. He worked for Granada TV and the BBC in the 1980s before moving on to music videos and film. Softley's first film, the Stuart Sutcliffe biopic, ''Backbeat'', which he wrote and directed, was released in 1994. It opened the Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive a BAFTA Award nomination for Best British Film. For his work on the film, Softley received Best Newcomer Awards from The London Film Critics Circle and Empire Magazine. Following Backbeat, Softley directed the cyber thriller ''Hackers'', starring Angelina Jolie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Facing Southeast
''Man Facing Southeast'' ( es, Hombre mirando al sudeste) is a 1986 Argentine science fiction drama film written and directed by Eliseo Subiela, starring Lorenzo Quinteros and Hugo Soto. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The themes and story of the 2001 American film '' K-PAX'' share a strong resemblance with ''Man Facing Southeast'', and the former has been referenced or claimed as an uncredited remake of the latter. In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 10th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines ''La vida útil'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 40th position. Also in 2022, the film was included in Spanish magazine '' Fotogramas' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor. He has received various accolades throughout his career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Bridges comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series ''Sea Hunt'' (1958–1960) alongside his father, Lloyd Bridges, and brother, Beau Bridges. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as an alcoholic singer in the 2009 film ''Crazy Heart''. Other Oscar-nominated roles include ''The Last Picture Show'' (1971), ''Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'' (1974), ''Starman'' (1984), '' The Contender'' (2000), ''True Grit'' (2010), and '' Hell or High Water'' (2016). Bridges has also starred in other roles such as ''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' (1989), ''The Fisher King'' (1991), ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998) and ''Bad Times at the El Royale'' (2018), along with the commercially successful films ''King Kong'' (1976), ''Tron'' (1982), '' I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles before gaining a leading man status in film and television. Spacey has received various accolades for his performances on stage and screen including two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received nominations for a Grammy Award as well as twelve Primetime Emmy Awards. Spacey received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999, and was named an honorary Commander and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2010 and 2015, respectively. His first film roles were Mike Nichols's ''Heartburn'' (1986) and ''Working Girl'' (1988). He continued to act in independent films such as '' Glengarry Glen Ross'' (1992) and ''Swimming with Sharks'' (1994). Spacey gained prominence for his villainous roles in 1995 crime thriller films ''Seven'' and ''The Usual Suspects'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station or simply as Grand Central) is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand Central is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines, serving the northern parts of the New York metropolitan area. It also contains a connection to the New York City Subway at Grand Central–42nd Street station. The terminal is the second-busiest train station in North America, after New York Penn Station. The distinctive architecture and interior design of Grand Central Terminal's station house have earned it several landmark designations, including as a National Historic Landmark. Its Beaux-Arts design incorporates numerous works of art. Grand Central Terminal is one of the world's ten most-visited tourist attractions, with 21.6 million visitors in 2018, excluding train and subway passengers. The terminal's Main Conco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star-Begotten
''Star Begotten'' is a 1937 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human race being altered, by genetic modification, by Martians to replace their own dying planet. The first (British) edition of this novel gives the title as two words: ''Star Begotten''. The title is hyphenated in the first U.S. edition: ''Star-Begotten''. The book readdresses the idea of the existence of Martians, which Wells had written about in ''The War of the Worlds'' (1898). The dialogue of ''Star Begotten'' makes brief references to Wells's earlier novel, referring to it as having been written by "Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, one of those fellows". Plot introduction The protagonist of the story Joseph Davis, who is an author of popular histories, becomes overtaken with suspicion that he and his family have already been exposed and are starting to change. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Planets
Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media of the science fiction genre as story-settings or depicted locations. Planet lists For planets from specific fictional milieux, use the following lists: Literature * ''Alliance–Union Universe'' by C. J. Cherryh: planet list * The works of Hal Clement: planet list * ''Childe Cycle'' by Gordon R. Dickson: planet list * ''Demon Princes'' by Jack Vance: planet list * ''Known Space'' by Larry Niven: planet list * ''Noon Universe'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: planet list * ''The Three Worlds Cycle'' by Ian Irvine: planet list * ''Time Quintet'' by Madeleine L'Engle: planet list * ''Uplift'' by David Brin: planet list *Various works by Kurt Vonnegut: Tralfamadore (different planets with the same name) Comics * DC Comics: planet list * Marvel Comics: planet list Film and television * Marvel Cinematic Universe: planet list * ''Star Wars'': planet list Animation * ''Teenage Muta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 American Novels
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers; Gravestone, Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft for Personal computer, PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is Oklahoma City bombing, bombed by Domestic terrorism in the United States, domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 O. J. Simpson murder case rect 200 0 400 200 Great Hanshin earthquake, Kobe earthquake rect 400 0 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utopia
A utopia ( ) typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book ''Utopia (book), Utopia'', describing a fictional island society in the New World. However, it may also denote an intentional community. In common parlance, the word or its adjectival form may be used synonymously with "impossible", "far-fetched" or "deluded". Hypothetical utopias focus on—amongst other things—equality, in such categories as economics, government and justice, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying based on ideology. Lyman Tower Sargent argues that the nature of a utopia is inherently contradictory because societies are not homogeneous and have desires which conflict and therefore cannot simultaneously be satisfied. To quote: The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia or cacotopia. Utopian and dystopian fiction has become a popular literary catego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, governments, nation states, and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies or other forms of free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, usually placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, it is usually described alongside communalism and libertarian Marxism as the libertarian wing (libertarian socialism) of the socialist movement. Humans lived in societies without formal hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires. With the rise of organised hierarchical bodies, scepticism toward authority also rose. Although traces of anarchist thought are found throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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