The film presents a positive alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom, and features, among others, David Lynch, Sting, Ellen Page, Gilberto Gil, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Paul Stamets.
Castro is also known for his Gustav Gloom series of middle-school novels and has also authored a reference book on The Amazing Race.
His works surprised audiences as they showed unexpectedly that behind the Iron Curtain existed not only gloom and sadness, but also humor, beauty and hope.
In 1972, National Lampoon's Deteriorata (a spoof of Desiderata, then enjoying a measure of popular attention thanks to a spoken word recording) singled out Gaines-Burgers "with cheese" in order to poke fun at modern product advertising using the line, "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese."
In 1962, Freeman was cast as Marilyn Hayes in the doom and gloom classic film, Panic in Year Zero! alongside veteran film stars Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, and singer teenage heart-throb Frankie Avalon.
The player character Paul is a Templar knight on his first Crusade, to stop the end of the world by fighting his way through the sombre gloom of European monasteries and villages to the colourful bazaars and powerful bastions of the crusader castles under the blazing sun of the Holy Land and by entering the realms of hell and face his worst nightmares.
The 90 second clip was shown in its entirety in the It's not all doom and gloom section of Russell Howard's Good News on BBC2 in 2010.
Oddish, Gloom, and Vileplume are three of 150 different designs conceived by Game Freak's character development team and finalized by Ken Sugimori for the first generation of Pocket Monsters games Red and Green, which were localized outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue.
Angelica's Temple of Gloom which has an Aztec setting, Pirate Treasure Hunt where the babies scuba dive under water to find hidden treasure near a sunken ship, and Reptar Rally which is the only stage that changes the babies into dinosaurs (resembling the form of Reptar).
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Angelica's Temple of Gloom has an Aztec setting, and is the only one of the three boards that is played cooperatively.
The Tragedy of the Rape of Lucrece (1608), which chronicles the rise and fall of Tarquin as presented by a "merry lord", Valerius, who lightens the gloom of the situation by singing comic songs
Additionally, two of the members of Old Man Gloom have since formed another side project called Zozobra, releasing the albums Harmonic Tremors and Bird of Prey.
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William Howard Shuster, Jr. came up with the idea of creating the effigy, also called Old Man Gloom, and ritual burning.