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2 unusual facts about Burroughs: the Movie


Burroughs: the Movie

In a collaboration between Burroughs and director Howard Brookner the film explores Burroughs’ life story along with many of his contemporaries including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and Lauren Hutton.

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

Like Howard Brookner’s earlier film Burroughs: The Movie, Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars features unique access to its subject, as well as an impressive host of interviewees, including Wilson’s long-term composer Phillip Glass, Heiner Müller, Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton, Ingrid Andree, Bénédicte Pesle, Gavin Bryars, Michel Guy, Isabel Eberstadt and Christopher Knowles.


Aaron's Party: Live in Concert

The video features Aaron in concert at Disney MGM Studios performing songs from his 2000 album, Aaron's Party (Come Get It) among two others; "Life Is a Party" (from the animated film Rugrats in Paris and on the international edition of the album) and a non-album track, "One for the Summer".

Anna Mercedes Morris

She has also completed stuntwork for the upcoming films Lonely Street and Bratz: The Movie, and is also the stunt double for Taryn Manning in the upcoming film Last Resort.

Atlantis to Interzone

The song references the mythical lost city of Atlantis and the short story collection Interzone by William S. Burroughs, which is itself Burroughs' concept of a "metaphorical stateless city".

Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again

Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again is the 2004 direct to video sequel to the film Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie.

Bobby Orlando

His music appears in numerous motion pictures, including: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Wigstock: The Movie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Valley Girl, Dark Mirror, Flying, High Risk, Rappin, Underground and others.

Bucky Lasek

Lasek made a cameo in the low-budget 2003 movie Haggard, in which he hands a skateboard to Bam Margera while he runs from the villain Hellboy.

Chris Cagle

In 2003, Cagle also performed "Don't Ask Me No Questions" for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie soundtrack, which also plays during the end credits of the film.

Claude Speed

He is portrayed by Scott Maslen in GTA2: The Movie.

CPC Gangbangs

In early 2003, guitarist and vocalist Paul Spence, (previously a member of a punk rock band, Lyle Sheraton and the Daylight Lovers), and newly famous for co-starring in the mockumentary cult classic FUBAR: The Movie, joined the band, renamed the CPC Gangbangs.

Edwin Lester Arnold

Marvel Comics did a brief comic version of Gullivar of Mars during the early 1970s, possibly as a reaction to DC gaining the rights to publish Burroughs' John Carter during this time.

Elzy Burroughs

Under contract with the young United States Government under President Thomas Jefferson, Elzy Burroughs built three lighthouses along the Virginia coast, at Old Point Comfort at Fort Monroe in 1802, at Smith Point in Northumberland County around 1803 (moved further inland and rebuilt by Burroughs in 1807), and at New Point Comfort, in Mathews County in 1804.

ESPOL

Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language - A systems implementation language for Burroughs Corporation computers

Forever Plaid: The Movie

Forever Plaid: The Movie (aka Forever Plaid 20th Anniversary Special) is a 2008 American musical film, a recording of a live performance of a revival to the 1990 off-Broadway musical comedy Forever Plaid.

Frizzle Sizzle

For example, she voiced Gloria in Madagascar, Prinses Jasmine in Aladdin, Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994), Robyn Starling in Tom and Jerry: The Movie & Ariel in The Little Mermaid).

Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya

Two themes were provided by the bands SPYAIR and Tommy heavenly6, with latter's song having already been used in the television series.

Guerrilla Zoo

Interzone was influenced by the strange and seedy city of Interzone described by Burroughs in his books, inspired by his time living in the north Moroccan city of Tangier during the late 1950s.

Joe Lisi

He also appeared on the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Craig Lennon, a parole officer and briefly appeared in the 1995 comedy/crime film The Jerky Boys as a construction worker.

Juri Ueno

On September 11, 2010, Ueno guest starred in the Korean variety show MBC's We Got Married Season 2 while promoting Nodame Cantabile - The Movie and paid a visit to SNSD's Seohyun and CN Blue's Jung Yong Hwa.

Khichdi: The Movie

The film performed well considering that it faced stiff competition from Anjaana Anjaani.

Lady Jaye

It has often been theorized by fans that Marissa was the daughter of Flint and Lady Jaye, and on the commentary track of The Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary DVD, it was confirmed by Flint Dille, story consultant on the Transformers movie as well as a writer, story editor and producer on G.I. Joe.

Megazone 23: Aoi Garland

This edition comes bundled with a game setting guidebook with full-color artwork and a DVD, "Megazone 23 INTERNATIONAL PART II" (Region 2) -- the full movie of Part II with the original English dub, using Harmony Gold voice actors, complete with the intro of Part I's alternate (non-canonical) ending with footage used in Robotech: The Movie and a narrated summary of the (canonical) events of Part I.

Naked Lunch

Antony Balch, who worked with Burroughs on a number of short film projects in 1960s, considered making a musical with Mick Jagger in the lead role, but the project fell through when relationships soured between Balch and Jagger.

Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten

Many thought that Burroughs, a company known at that time for the production of computers based on an innovative hardware architecture, was based in Nuenen.

Oriana

Oriana, the beleaguered princess whom the protagonist of Felix the Cat: The Movie must save as well as the land where she resides in

Pacquiao: The Movie

Pacquiao: The Movie is a 2006 action-drama film based on a true story of Filipino boxer Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao, co-produced by Star Cinema and FLT Films.

Paoli Research Center

The research center continued after Burroughs and Sperry Corporation merged to become Unisys and performed both research for the Unisys corporation as well as for government sponsors.

Pepsi Blue

Although heavily promoted by PepsiCo, including advertisements by the pop singer Britney Spears and the bands Sev and Papa Roach, as well as in the movies The Italian Job and Garfield: The Movie, it is widely seen as a commercial flop as sales remained low.

Pokémon 3: The Movie

Shinji Miyazaki wrote the original film score, while Ralph Schuckett composed the score for the International and Japanese DVD releases.

Yūji Ueda (Eric Stuart in the English adaption) as Takeshi (Brock in the English adaption), a Pokémon breeder and Ash's travelling companion.

Portuguese Podengo

This led them to star in a number of movies in the 1990s and 2000s, including Dante's Peak, Three Wishes, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, Zeus and Roxanne, Secondhand Lions, Can of Worms and Soccer Dog: The Movie.

Postman Pat: The Movie

Pat will be voiced by Stephen Mangan, best known for his role in the British sitcom Green Wing and his subsequent starring role in Episodes and Pat's singing voice will be done by Ronan Keating.

The film, which will see Pat's rise to fame after entering a TV talent contest, will be directed by Mike Disa from a screenplay co-written by Kim Fuller and Annika Bluhm, the latter being the long-time producer of the Postman Pat television series.

Ready to Strike

The single "Hunger" was written by members of the Canadian metal band Kick Axe and was released by them in 1986 in The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack album, under the made-up name of Spectre General.

Real, The Movie

The movie stars Raúl, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, David Beckham, Guti, and many other present and former figures from the Spanish Club.

Siobhan Hayes

Hayes starred in the 2011 British live-action 3D family comedy film Horrid Henry: The Movie, playing the role of the titular character's mother.

Songs from the Inverted Womb

"Résumé... -" was used by Bam Margera in two of his films: Haggard: The Movie and CKY3; "Eldorado" also made an appearance in CKY3.

Sonic Anime

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, a two-episode OVA animated in 1996 based loosely on Sonic CD

Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales

Burroughs' recording of "The Junky's Christmas" was used as the soundtrack for a stop-motion animation short film of the same title released in 1993, directed by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel, which also incorporated live-action footage of Burroughs.

Stan Bush

Stan Bush is an American singer-songwriter and musician whose most notable work includes the songs "Dare" and "The Touch" from the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie, and "She's Got the Power", featured in the American voice dub of the animated series Sailor Moon.

Street Fighter: The Movie

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, a 1994 Japanese animated film (also known as Street Fighter II Movie)

Tarzan the Fearless

Lesser's contract included a clause that Tarzan must be played by "Big Jim" Pierce, Burroughs' son-in-law and the star of Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

Thark

Tharks, a tribe of creatures on the fictional planet of Barsoom, created by Edgar Rice Burroughs for the 1917 novel A Princess of Mars

The Adding Machine: Collected Essays

Topics include discussions about colleagues such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as well as essays on other writers who influenced Burroughs such as Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett.

The New Adventures of Tarzan

(Sol Lesser had acquired options for five Tarzan productions from a defunct company, the first of which he used to make Tarzan the Fearless in direct competition with MGM's films.) MGM paid Lesser $500,000 for his options and paid Burroughs $25–50,000 per film.

Tibor Hernádi

Felix the Cat: The Movie (1988) (director, animation director, layout artist, storyboard artist)

Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: The Movie

Learning that Gokaigers are in different times in Europe and Gorisaki in Laurasia, the Go-Busters learn they can retrieve them by using GozyuDrill's time travel ability on their Megazords within a 45 minute time limit.

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie

George Green and Ted Johnston arrest Sonny and Wanda and leave, but Lahey finds the money falling out of the car and tries to chase the boys to capture them.

Ultimate X: The Movie

It also features clips from the actual event, including the amazing finals between Bob Burnquist, and Bucky Lasek, which Bob won by a first ever score of 99, and the crash of Carey Hart, when he attempted the first ever Moto-X Backflip.

Variations on Swing

# "All We Need Is A Little Energon, And A Lot Of Luck" – 3:44 (The Transformers: The Movie)

World Square

During the dispute, scenes for the 1995 film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie were shot on the former property of Hordern & Sons and future site of World Square.


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