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What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

Crick comments on various aspects of the DNA double helix discovery and gives a qualified endorsement to the 1987 television movie Life Story with Jeff Goldblum as Jim Watson and Tim Piggott-Smith as Francis Crick.


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Adam Davy

In the same venue that year, in rep, Adam Davy also played cameo roles as Charlie Chaplin and Hollywood director Busby Berkeley in Babes, the life story of Judy Garland.

Amos J. Taylor

Taylor's life story was featured in the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from Band of Brothers.

At First Sight

-- >14,000 words = short work, so the title should be in quotes, not italicized. --> in neurologist Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars and inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings.

Ben Silverstone

His most recent film project is Jump! (2007), in which he starred as a young Jewish photographer charged with the murder of his father, based on the real life story of Philippe Halsman, opposite Patrick Swayze and Martine McCutcheon.

Blake Berris

The Washington Examiner called his performance "stand-out" and "understatedly powerful." House of Last Things directed by Michael Bartlett which premiered at Gérardmer Film Festival in France in 2013, and Minkow which he stars along with James Caan and Ving Rhames about the real life story of con-artist and ponzi schemer, Barry Minkow.

Blind Flight

It is based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Irish academic Brian Keenan and the English journalist John McCarthy, two of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis.

Broken Laws

Broken Laws on the topic of parental overindulgence is the second of Davenport's "social conscience" releases, along with The Red Kimona (1925), based on a true-life story of white slavery.

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.

Courtney Enders

In 2003, Courtney's sister, Erica had her life story turned into the Disney Channel Original Movie, Right on Track.

Der Kaiser von Kalifornien

The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.

Dolzura Cortez

Her life story was made into the 1993 Filipino film Dahil Mahal Kita (English "Because I Love You: The Dolzura Cortez Story"), directed by Laurice Guillen, screenplay by Ricardo Lee, starring Vilma Santos, Christopher de Leon, Charito Solis, Maila Gumila, Mikee Villanueva and Jackie Aquino.

Fifty-Sixty

The lyrics to Fifty-Sixty tell, in personal and metaphorical manner, of a young model under the guidance of Andy Warhol, possibly inspired by real-life story of Edie Sedgwick.

Flight for Freedom

Film historians and Earhart scholars consider Flight for Freedom an "a-clef" version of the Amelia Earhart life story concentrating on the sensational aspects of her disappearance during her 1937 world flight.

Gautama Buddha in world religions

The Greek legend of "Barlaam and Ioasaph", sometimes mistakenly attributed to the 7th century John of Damascus but actually written by the Georgian monk Euthymius in the 11th century, was ultimately derived, through a variety of intermediate versions (Arabic and Georgian) from the life story of the Buddha.

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

Feltrinelli's life story was the subject of the 2013 concept album and theatrical performance Praxis Makes Perfect by the group Neon Neon.

Gladstone Small

His life story was made into a documentary by director Pogus Caesar in 1995, and broadcast on Carlton Television for the Respect television series.

Hudson Hornet

The Gran Turismo developer, Polyphony Digital is confirmed the 1954 Hudson Hornet will be rebuild on December, also will feature this car on the racing simulator "Gran Turismo 6", and the former Formula 1 world champion, Mario Andretti to talk about the early racing life story for filming the GT6 and Mario's documentary "First Love".

I'm Glad

The recreation of scenes from Flashdance led Maureen Marder—whose life was the inspiration for the storyline of the film—to sue Lopez, Sony Corporation, and Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement in November 2003, claiming the video was an unauthorized depiction of her life story.

Jack Marx

It was during his time as a music journalist that Marx went in search of his childhood rock and roll idol, Stevie Wright, of legendary Australian '60s band, The Easybeats. He found Wright allegedly living as a drug-addicted recluse in a small coastal town in southern New South Wales and Wright's life story, along with Marx's near-disastrous attempts to extract it from him, was documented in Sorry: The Wretched Tale of Little Stevie Wright (1999).

Jacques Mayol

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story (and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.

Jhet van Ruyven

After attending one of Chicken Soup for the Soul author Mark Victor Hansen's personal development seminars in 2004, van Ruyven was encouraged to write her life story.

Kjære Margit

It's the 70th anniversary book of the author, about the life story of Margit Sandemo from her birthplace in the valley of Grunke to the most popular novelist of Scandinavia.

Mariana Alcoforado

Sóror Mariana's life story has also been described in the novel by Katherine Vaz, Mariana, published by Aliform Publishing in 2005.

Mary Anne

Daphne du Maurier's novel Mary Anne (1954) is a fictionalised account of the real-life story of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776-1852).

Matte mungaru

Matte Mungaru is the real life story of an ordinary guy Narayana Mandhagadde from Shimoga district in Karnataka.

Mende Nazer

In 2010, her life story was dramatised in the Channel Four programme I Am Slave, starring Wunmi Mosaku and in the stage play, 'Slave - A Question of Freedom', by Feelgood Theatre Productions which was based entirely on her story.

Miss Rumphius

It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupine in the wild.

Nikolai Shin

In 2001, Shin's life story was made into a documentary film Sky-Blue Hometown, directed by Kim So-young.

Odette Nyiramilimo

Nyiramilimo's life story was profiled at length in Philip Gourevitch's book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.

Peter Florjančič

In 2002, a documentary film by Slovenian film director Karpo Godina was made about Florjančič's life story.

Pnina Gary

In 2008, Gary wrote and directed the one-woman showAn Israeli Love Story”, based on her own true life story between 1942, when she first met Eli Ben-Zvi, and 1948, with the tragic ending of their relationship.

Queen Hyoui

Portrayed by Park Eun-hye in Yi San – a 2007 TV series concerned primarily with Jeongjo's life story and a fictionalized account of his relationship with the Lady Ui.

Ryszard Riedel

In 2005 Riedel's life story was turned into the Polish movie Destined for Blues (Skazany na bluesa).

Sheila Mae Pérez

In 2006, her life story was dramatised in an episode of Maalaala Mo Kaya, directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina.

Six Point Films

The company holds the rights to the life story of Anne Frank,

Sok Sreymom

Her life story transitions from slave labor for three and a half years at age five in the fields to top movie star and traveling internationally with King Norodom Sihanouk's entourage then moving to the US.

Stanislav Bartůšek

In 2000, his documentary named Za císaře... (For the Emperor...) presenting the life story of Czech cyclist Jan Veselý won the Juan Antonio Samaranch Award at the Santander Sports Movies Festival.

The Life Story of David Lloyd George

The Life Story of David Lloyd George is a 1918 British silent biopic film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Norman Page, Alma Reville and Ernest Thesiger.

The Vampire Armand

Soon after his arrival in Venice he is purchased by the vampire Marius de Romanus (whose life story is told in Blood and Gold), who names him Amadeo.

Thorndale Independent School District

The Thorndale ISD, along with the Thrall (Tx) School, was a primary location used in filming The Rookie, the film starring Dennis Quaid about the life story of major league pitcher Jim Morris, who at the age of 35 tried out for and made it to a Major League team (based on a bet with his student athletes that he would try out if they won their district baseball championship).

Trummy Young

According to his own life story, printed in the July 22nd, 1977 issue of the Awake! magazine published by Jehovah's Witnesses; Trummy Young became a Jehovah's Witness in 1964.

Waiting All Night

The music video is the inspirational true life-story of San Francisco born BMX champion and actor - Kurt Yaeger, who became an amputee after an accident in 2006.

Zack Nipper

He is a great-grandson of efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, whose life story was told in the book and film "Cheaper By The Dozen".