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3 unusual facts about Down to Earth


Ian Kelsey

Since then he has gone on to play Dave Glover in Emmerdale, had a cameo role in BBC TV comedy series Men Behaving Badly, had a three year stint as Dr. Patrick Spiller in Casualty and appeared in BBC1 drama Down to Earth as Matt Brewer (series 3-4) during 2003 and 2004.

Morgan Stanley Building

The building is featured in the movie Down to Earth as the skyscraper from which a failing businessman jumps to his death.

Randy Josselyn

He first started his career by appearing in 104 episodes of Down to Earth as J.J. Preston.


Before the Beach

It includes the entire original releases of his first two albums, Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee except for "The Christian?" and "Ain't He a Genius" (from Down to Earth) but with the addition of "High Cumberland Dilemma" which was recorded for but not included on the original High Cumberland Jubilee album.

Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee compilations

American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett's first two albums, Down to Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee, have been re-released numerous times in their entirety and in part in compilations.

Heavenly Daze

In the 1940s the supernatural was a popular fantasy film genre of the departed coming back to assist the living such as Here Comes Mr Jordan, A Matter of Life and Death, Wonder Man, and Columbia's Mr. Jordan sequel Down to Earth.

Jamshied Sharifi

Sharifi went on to compose the soundtracks to many major studio and independent films including Muppets From Space, Down To Earth, Nickelodeon film Harriet the Spy and the Paramount/Nickelodeon film Clockstoppers, and contributed to the scores of The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Rugrats Movie

Richard Crudo

Subsequent to that, Crudo’s career grew to include such notable feature credits as American Buffalo, Outside Providence, American Pie, Down to Earth, Out Cold, Bring It On Again and Grind.

Richard Woldendorp

Some of his books have had significant West Australian authors provide introductions and text - such as Tom Hungerford, and Tim Winton who wrote an accompanying essay for Down to Earth.

Traci Hale

In 2001 Hale wrote a song for the Chris Rock film Down to Earth and songs on albums for Tyrese (RCA), Ginuwine and Usher.

Zara Dawson

Her highest-profile television roles to date include Down to Earth (in which she played Emma Murphy, the wayward daughter of Ricky Tomlinson and Denise Welch), Holby City, Doctors, Mike Bassett: Manager and Family Affairs, in which she played Eve O'Brien.


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Agastya

These provide a seemingly down to earth account of a historical event,namely the mass migration to the South of the Velir who are identified as part of living tradition at the time of the cankam polity described in the earliest Tamil works.

Arved Birnbaum

Arved Birnbaum is a German actor most known to audiences worldwide as Max Riemelt's down to earth senior in Dennis Gansel's vampire thriller/drama We Are The Night.

Byatis

In ancient times, Byatis' idol was brought down to earth by the Deep Ones.

Come Back Mrs. Noah

The series then centres on efforts to bring Mrs Noah back down to Earth.

Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth

Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth is the second book in the Cosmic Trigger series, a three-volume autobiographical and philosophical work by Robert Anton Wilson.

Franco Bolelli

One of the unique aspects of Bolelli’s writings, that has led to his popularity, is the ability to discuss the most complex philosophical issues in a very down-to-earth style with plenty of references to pop culture.

Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai

When Rajesh (Riteish Deshmukh) tries to commit suicide due to loneliness, he stumbles onto Tara (Jacqueline Fernandez), an alien from Venus who came down to Earth to find love.

Kimbanguism

According to the church, Simon Kimbangu is said to have come down to earth from Mount Zion as a Congolese infant.

Learning for a Cause

Down to Earth was endorsed by a number of celebrities including Martin Sheen, David Suzuki, Farley Mowat and Marc Garneau.

Leicestershire County Cricket Club in 2005

The Scottish Saltires, playing their first National League match following their ICC Trophy victory, fell down to earth brutally at The Grange.

Love letter

Examples from Ancient Egypt range from the most formal - 'the royal widow...Ankhesenamun wrote a letter to the king of the Hittites, Egypt's old enemy, begging him to send one of his sons to Egypt to marry her' - to the down-to-earth: let me 'bathe in thy presence, that I may let thee see my beauty in my tunic of finest linen, when it is wet'.

My Name Is Not Susan

In the song's music video directed by Lionel C. Martin, Houston is featured playing both herself and a character named "Susan." The video is suggested by several elements in the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, both containing a man involved with an obsessive love for both a glamorous blonde and down-to-earth brunette played by the same actress.

Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

George Fayne - George, Nancy's other best friend, tends to be more sensible and down to earth than her cousin, Bess.

Respiro

Steven Holden wrote in The New York Times that "not since Y Tu Mamá También has a movie so palpably captured the down-to-earth, flesh-and-blood reality of high-spirited people living their lives without self-consciousness."

Sarjakuvalehti

In the 1990s, the magazine featured the adventures of Marvel Comics' more "down-to-earth" characters (in the magazine staff's words), like the Punisher, Captain America, the Ghost Rider, and Sabretooth.

The Silver Chair

Jill and Eustace are flown to the marshes on the northern edge of Narnia where they are partnered with the delightfully gloomy but stalwart Marsh-wiggle Puddleglum, who serves as a guide, hunter for food in the wilderness, and down-to-earth voice of reason.

Vi på Saltkråkan

The series tells the story of a family from Stockholm, consisting of the widowed author Melker Melkersson (played by Torsten Lilliecrona) and his four children: 19-year-old Malin (played by Louise Edlind) who assumes the role of mother in the family, the imaginative 13-year-old Johan, 12-year-old Niklas who is calm and down-to-earth, and 7-year-old Pelle, who loves animals of all kinds.