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7 unusual facts about Genie


Allie Bates

In the early days of the internet, she worked in Writer's Ink and Macintosh BBS on GEnie.

Bill Warren

In 1989, he created the ShowBiz Roundtable for the online service GEnie to generate discussions about films and other aspects of show business.

CyberStrike

Initially exclusive to the GEnie online service, it opened in February 1993, and later that year it caused Computer Gaming World magazine to create the new category of "Online Game of the Year" so it could be awarded to CyberStrike.

John R. Taylor III

:* Stellar Warrior (1985) — This rewrite of Mega Wars III introduced substantially simplified game play to expand its potential audience, and debuted on the GEnie online service the same day that Islands of Kesmai went live on CompuServe.

Kelton Flinn

Air Warrior (1986) — This game, offered on GEnie, is a key milestone in the history of computer games because it was the first commercial multiplayer online game to add graphics, displaying a 3D airplane dogfight environment.

Stellar Warrior (1985) — This rewrite of Mega Wars III introduced substantially simplified game play to expand its potential audience, and debuted on the GEnie online service the same day that Islands of Kesmai went live on CompuServe.

Multiplayer BattleTech 3025

The first was Multiplayer BattleTech: EGA, available on the GEnie game service, followed by Multiplayer BattleTech: Solaris.


Ainak Wala Jin

A genie is sent by the emperor of genies from Caucasus Mountains to our earth for the treatment of his eyesight problems.When he lands, he happens to meet a daring young boy who loves fantasies.

Aladdin

In 1986, an Italian-American co-production (under supervision of Golan-Globus) of a modern-day Aladdin was filmed in Miami under the title Superfantagenio, starring actor Bud Spencer as the genie and his daughter Diamante as the daughter of a police sergeant.

Alberta Watson

She worked with director Colleen Murphy on the film Shoemaker (1996), for which she received a second Genie nomination for Best Actress.

Allan Lee

In 1991 Lee was nominated for the Genie for Best Achievement in Film Editing for Chaindance (1990), and in 1989 he was nominated for the Genie for Best Achievement in Film Editing for A Winter Tan (1987), along with Susan Martin.

André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé

He was a graduate of the Ecole royale du génie de Mézières engineering school.

Ann Sansom

Ann also co-wrote the script for the 'Genie' exhibition at the Magna Science Adventure Centre that was piloted in late 2006.

Billie Hayes

Hayes portrayed a similar character in other roles, including Episode 8.10 of Bewitched ("Hansel and Gretel in Samantha-Land"), Weenie the Genie in the Sid and Marty Krofft program Lidsville, and Maw Weskitt in Episode 39 of the second season of The Monkees ("Hillbilly Honeymoon").

Daniel Mora

He took post-gradual courses at the École d'application du génie (French school of military engineering) in Angers, from 1972 to 1973.

DragonRealms

When Ziff-Davis did not launch the service, DragonRealms was offered on GEnie and later AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy.

Elizabeth Yake

She has been nominated for over 15 Genie Awards including It's All Gone Pete Tong nominated for 8 Genie Awards including Best Director and Best Picture.

Émile Lauvrière

A doctor in Literature specializing in the English domain, he wrote a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe, entitled Edgar Poe, un génie morbide later published under the title Edgar Poe, sa vie et son œuvre ; étude de psychologie pathologique (Paris: Alcan, 1904).

Game Genie

The Game Genie does not work with Super Nintendo games that contain a performance enhancing chip (e.g. Super FX, SA-1, and S-DD1 chip) such as Star Fox, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Doom and Street Fighter Alpha 2.

Gaon Music Chart

It is complied from online data provided by web-based music providers: Bugs, Olleh Music, genie, Melon, Mnet, Soribada, Cyworld, Naver Music, Daum Music and Gene Sheldon

He appeared in speaking roles as the genie Ali in 20th Century Fox's 1945 films Where Do We Go From Here? and the seal trainer, Professor Winnup in The Dolly Sisters.

Gillian Conoley

Conoley's The Plot Genie includes characters of her own invention, contemporary film actors stripped of their veneer by the rapid, shape-shifting powers of the plot genie, and characters from other, older texts, such as Frankenstein.

Jackie Sawiris

Her breakthrough role was playing the Arabian genie Majida in the popular CITV Adventure gameshow Knightmare for 2 years (until the shows end) from 1993–1994, taking over from David Learner who played the wood elf "Pickle".

Joan Finnigan

She won the Canadian Genie Award for Best Screenplay in 1969 for the 1968 film The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar, which starred Margot Kidder.

Khaled: A Tale of Arabia

From the cover blurb of the Ballantine edition: "Khaled is a hardworking, conscientious djinn, a true believer working industriously in the service of Allah.

Kid Supreme

Aladdin, the legendary master of the Genie in the lamp.

Madurai Maqbara

The birth of these three Waliyullahs was declared by Hazrat Nabi Sulaiman, the messenger of Allah, and a genie called Jaimur was deployed by Hazrat Sulaiman to serve them.

Molly Parker

She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as best female lead in 2001 for her role in The Center of the World and has twice been nominated for a Genie Award as best supporting actress, winning in 2002 for Bruce Sweeney's Last Wedding.

Monique Mercure

In 1999, she won another Genie award for her role as Grace Gallagher, an elderly resident in Conquest set in Conquest, Saskatchewan.

Peanut Butter Wolf Presents Stones Throw: Ten Years

Producer = Madlib
Peanut Butter Wolf
J Dilla
Cut Chemist
L.A. Carnival
Ira Raibon
Genie Jackson
Koushik
Aloe Blacc
G-Luv
Gary Wilson
Monty Stark
Mr. Magic
Edan

Raôul Duguay

Duguay also provided the music for the film Les Fleurs Sauvages (1982), for which he received a Genie nomination.

Richard Gilliam

He devised the Movie Links online game in 1990, and it was played extensively on GEnie four years before the quite similar Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game was promoted in 1994.

The Brass Bottle

Though the word is commonly translated into English as "genie", author F. Anstey made a distinction between the two in the novel of the same name (originally published in 1900) which provides the basis of the film.

The Stress of Her Regard

Drawing from European and Middle Eastern mythology, Powers depicts these beings as having qualities of vampires, succubi, incubi, Lamia, fairies, and jinn.

The Young Unicorns

Canon Tallis, newly arrived at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine after the events of The Arm of the Starfish, meets the Austin children and their friends just as they encounter an anachronistic Genie in a junk shop.

Wendy Fulton

She was also on the cast of the soap opera Bare Essence, (playing Genie Francis' nasty in-law, Muffin Marshall) and played Jean Hackney during the 1986-1987 season of Knots Landing.

Yo Te Avise

# "El Genio del Dub" ("The Genie of Dub") (Vicentico, Ricciardi, Sergio Rotman, Flavio Cianciarulo) – 5:21

Youssoupha

After working with a number of renowned rappers, he released his debut studio album in March 2007 titled À chaque frère ("To Every Brother") containing collaborations from Diam's, Kool Shen, S'Pi and Mike Génie.


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