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A Fantastic Fear of Everything

A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a British comedy/horror film starring Simon Pegg, written and directed by Crispian Mills with Chris Hopewell as co-director.

Alison LaPlaca

She performed in a circus show, Circus Fantastic, at Marriott's Great America, now Six Flags Great America.

Awesome Android

A synthesis of ape DNA and unstable molecules incorporated into an almost indestructible body with a microcomputer and a solar-power source, the newly christened Awesome Android is directed against the Fantastic Four, although the superhero team defeats both the Android and the Thinker.

BC Powder

Recently, most entries have been culled from listeners of the Charlotte, NC-based radio program The Big Show with John Boy and Billy. In recent years, members of the Tom Joyner Radio Show's predominantly African-American audience have appeared in BC commercials after hearing of the promotion on that program, or from promotions held on Joyner's annual "Fantastic Voyage" fantasy cruise.

Cam de Leon

Cam de Leon (born in Modesto, California in 1961) is an American artist who specialises in surreal darkly fantastic imagery.

Cedric Wright

While traveling through the Chama River valley near nightfall on November 1, 1941, they encountered a "fantastic scene", a church and cemetery near Hernandez, New Mexico, and pulled to the side of the road.

Christian Clarke

Executive producer Lorraine Newman said: "Marc and John have been a fantastic part of the show and their characters have been a huge success. Their storylines have broken boundaries that have not been seen in a soap before and the love for them by the viewers can be seen in their 'Chryed' fans. "When Marc announced he had decided to move on, we had a tough decision to make.

Curiñancu

Captain General, Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga, undertook a fantastic scheme to gather the Araucanians into cities, despite their well known loathing of city life.

Dahn

Even nowadays the forests and sandstone rocks surrounding Dahn give fantastic Lebensraum to the fabulous Elwetritsche.

Duhulu Malak

The fantastic scenery shown in the film is from an area called "Selesumthenne" at Nuwara Eliya with a background song "Bonda Meedum Kandu Relle-Surangana Rajadahane" (like living in a Fairy kingdom with surrounding misty mountains).

Evil Friends

On May 29, 2013 the band held a party in partnership with tumblr at LAB ART Los Angeles to showcase the artwork of The Fantastic The (John Gourley and Austin Sellers), the photography of Danger Mouse, and featured a GIF-ITI mural collaboration between John Gourley and street artist INSA.

Exxset

Since launch, products and services from brands such as Amazon, British Airways, MTN, Globacom, Guaranty Trust Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Virgin Atlantic Airways and Vodafone Ghana have been rated as either Fantastic or Frustrating.

Fantastic Art Centre

# To collect books, exhibition catalogues, press cuttings, photographs and slides of artwork, CD ROMs, video tapes, posters, reproductions, printed ephemera, etc. on all the artists from the Renaissance to the present who have worked in the fantastic/surreal/visionary vein.

# To establish a network of artists, collectors, art dealers, museums, publishers, etc. in order to promote all aspects of fantastic/surreal/visionary art.

Fantastic Damage

The tracks "Fantastic Damage", "Deep Space 9mm", and "The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the Shit" were featured in the El-P-scored graffiti film Bomb the System.

Fantastic Films

In addition, the magazine featured a Fantastic Films Archive Series, a retrospective section that highlighted classic sci-fi films of the past ranging from popular titles like The Day the Earth Stood Still to more obscure fare like Just Imagine.

Fantastic Sams

Fantastic Sams was founded in 1974 by Sam Ross in Memphis, Tennessee.

Fantasy

Work in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of Tzvetan Todorov, which emphasizes the fantastic as a liminal space, to work on the connections (political, historical, literary) between medievalism and popular culture.

Festival of Fantastic Films

The 19th Festival of Fantastic Films was held on 17–19 October 2008 with Jess Conrad and Lamberto Bava among the guests appearing.

Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade

By means of fantastic beasts of the same combinatorial nature as Hume’s Pegasus, Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade asks the players to twist the creative capabilities described in the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding on their heads and use them as game mechanics: impossible paper beasts will parade across the screen (the page of a fantastic bestiary) only to be recognized as combinations of parts of existing animals.

Hey Hey Michael You're Really Fantastic

To promote the forthcoming release of Rachel Stamp's live album, "Stampax", the band released a limited edition CD single of "Hey Hey Michael You're Really Fantastic", recorded live during their "Hymns For Strange Children Tour" of the UK in 2000.

J*S*T*A*R*S

Their debut release was a 12" vinyl, "Tripping The Light Fantastic" / "Ickey Plush" on the electronica label, Twentythree Records, which was also based in both Hull and Sheffield. Their first album, Put Me On A Planet (Steel Tiger Records) was named "One of the surprise hits of 2006" by Matt Anniss in the December 2006 issue of International DJ Magazine.

John Kendrick Bangs

Thurlow's Christmas Story (1894)
In 2009, The Library of America selected this story for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.

Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny

In the course of a wandering existence about the north of France, he fell in with the publisher Auguste Poulet-Malassis, who introduced him to the Odes funambulesques (Fantastic Odes) of Théodore de Banville.

Kevin O'Leary

In January 2014, O'Leary was criticized for his remarks on his television show The Lang and O'Leary Exchange, saying that the news that the world's richest 85 people owned as much wealth as the bottom half of the global population was "fantastic news."

Kim Yong-Dae

In both legs, Kim performed fantastic saves to keep his team level including a diving save from Dario Conca and a kick-save from Muriqui among others.

Lady Octopus

Lady Octopus has been hired by Walter Declun (a former member of Damage Control) to assist Absorbing Man, Hydro-Man, Killer Shrike, a Mandroid, Porcupine II, and Rock to defend him from Black Panther and the Fantastic Four after they uncovered his plot to destabilize all of Wakanda on Doctor Doom's behalf.

Major Boobage

While Trechak was impressed with their ability to effect "fantastic animation", and thought that the individual references to Anne Frank, the Eliot Spitzer's 2008 prostitution scandal and the after-school specials were individually funny, he did not feel they were incorporated well into the episode, likening them to employing pieces from different puzzles.

Marvel Apes

While Fiona tells the simian version of the Fantastic Four about Earth-616, she discovers that in the Marvel Apes reality the cosmic storm that gave the Fantastic Four their powers also gave a human appearance to Susan Storm.

Marvel Collectors' Item Classics

The reprints were generally in serial order, with occasional skips; missing, for instance, are The Fantastic Four #5-6, already reprinted in Fantastic Four Annual #2-3 (1964–1965); #11, already partly reprinted in Annual #3; #12, never reprinted at the time; #19, reprinted in heavily edited form in the 1967 promotional one-shot America's Best TV Comics; and #25-26, reprinted in Fantastic Four Annual #4 (1966).

Mike Western

One of his most notable strips there was "The Wild Wonders", written by Tom Tully, about a pair of wild boys, brought up by animals, who turn out to be fantastic athletes, for which he used a semi-cartoony style which was much imitated.

Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls

Theodor W. Adorno placed it, alongside Edgar Allan Poe’s Pym, among the "greatest works" of "fantastic art".

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

Famous fantastic film directors have already honored the NIFFF with their presences, including George A. Romero, Joe Dante, John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Hideo Nakata.

Prosper Mérimée

La Vénus d'Ille (1837) - a fantastic horror tale of a bronze statue that seemingly comes to life.

Roger Schlaifer

In addition to creating the Cabbage Patch Kids logos, packaging, and the characters, he co-wrote with wife Susanne Nance, The Legend of the Cabbage Patch Kids published by Parker Brothers’ Books under the title Xavier’s Fantastic Discovery.

Ryan Bastinac

Bastinac's fantastic debut season received high recognition as displayed in the voting for the 2010 AFL Rising Star where he placed 5th.

Scott Lynch

The story is a science fantasy romance, in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom novels, about a female aviator and ex-WASP who is transported to a fantastic Mars.

Sérgio Soares

Paulista Championship in 1996 was playing for Palmeiras fantastic team with over 90 goals in the state, which was a substitute Flávio Conceição.

Softcore Jukebox

According to Rob Mitchum from Pitchfork, "they've created a fantastic dance-party playlist, but one that could just as easily have been posted on their website as a guide-map through the Soulseek wilderness".

Stephen Gilbert

His work was inspired by Masson, and by reading Jung, Nietzsche and Jakob Böhme, with fantastic creatures and plants painted in vivid colours.

Sule Lamido

After a September 2001 meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London, Lamido told the BBC that Britain was passionate over the numerous problems retarding Africa's its peace, progress and prosperity, described the meeting as "fantastic".

Surrender Dorothy

In the scene, Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) has reached the Emerald City with her companions The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), Tin Woodsman (Jack Haley) and Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), whereupon they are treated to the hospitality and technological comforts of the fantastic city.

The Fantastic Baggys

Under the name The Fantastic Baggys, they released one album internationally, Tell 'Em I'm Surfin' (1964) on Imperial Records, several hit singles and several albums only in South Africa.

The Last Fantastic Four Story

The Last Fantastic Four Story is a 2007 comic book one-shot written by Stan Lee and drawn by penciller John Romita, Jr., and inker Scott Hanna.

Valeria Maximilla

Maximilla may be the nameless queen who appears in the hagiography of St. Catherine of Alexandria by Jacobus de Voragine (one of the fantastic stories in the "Golden Legend").

Venus series

The novels, part of the Sword and Planet subgenre of science fiction, follow earthman Napier's fantastic adventures after he crash-lands on Venus, called Amtor by its human-like inhabitants.

Wellworthy Athletic F.C.

The 1984–85 season was a memorable one as they completed a fantastic double by winning the Bournemouth League and the Pickford Cup, as well as being finalists in the Hampshire Intermediate Cup.

Willie Lumpkin

In his first comic book appearance, Lumpkin is represented as having befriended the Fantastic Four, to whom he makes regular fan mail deliveries at their Baxter Building headquarters in New York City.

Yumeno Kyūsaku

Napier, Susan J. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature.


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