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3 unusual facts about Silence


Silence! The Musical

Dr. Hannibal Lecter (tenor) – A brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer who helps Clarice out in her investigation and eventually escapes prison in a bloody massacre.

The original NY cast included Brent Barrett as Hannibal Lecter, Jenn Harris as Clarice, Stephen Bienskie as Buffalo Bill, Deidre Goodwin as Ardelia Mapp, Jeff Hiller, Howard Kaye as Papa Starling, Lucia Spina in a dual role as both Senator and Catherine Martin, Callan Bergmann as Jack Crawford, Harry Bouvy, and Ashlee Dupré.

Dr. Frederick Chilton (high baritone) – The pompous, incompetent director of the Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and later Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane.


14 Weeks of Silence

14 Weeks of Silence is the third album by Russian singer Zemfira which became her second best-selling album after Forgive Me My Love with sales around 1 million copies.

1992 Governor General's Awards

Gilles Boileau, Le silence des Messieurs. Oka, terre indienne

2011 BCS National Championship Game

Before the match a moment of silence was held for the victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona two days before the game in which US Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and 6 others, including Federal Judge John Roll, were killed.

2011 Tour of Belgium

The stage started with one minute of silence in remembrance of Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt, a former stage winner during the Tour of Belgium who died two weeks earlier as a result of a crash during the 2011 Giro d'Italia.

Abe Saffron

According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, Saffron's book names former Saffron associate James McCartney Anderson as the chief agent of the conspiracy to silence Juanita Nielsen.

Ali Iman Sharmarke

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) suggested in a statement that "this wave of killing and injuring media people was an intentionally organised mission to silence journalistic voices in Somalia."

Amiot Métayer

In March 2004, following a successful rebellion against Aristide in February (of which Buteur Métayer, Amiot's brother, was a leader), newly appointed Haïtian prime minister Gérard Latortue visited Gonaïves and paid tribute to Métayer, calling for a moment of silence to remember him.

Azúcar Moreno

Two minutes of absolute silence ensued with much confusion both on and off stage, with the musicians staring blankly into the TV cameras, then a sudden false start of the backing track, then embarrassed applauds from the audience and legendary BBC commentator Terry Wogan dryly saying "Let's hope it doesn't go on like this or we're in for a very long night, ladies and gentlemen".

Bahman Maghsoudlou

The Suitors, selected for the Cannes in 1988; Manhattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi), selected for Venice and Toronto 1993; Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, selected for Berlin, Toronto and Locarno 1996, and Silence of the Sea, selected for the Mannheim Film Festival 2003.

Beowulf Shaeffer

After Shaeffer's return from BVS-1, the puppeteer also agreed to pay Shaeffer one million stars in return for his silence concerning whether the puppeteer homeworld had a moon.

Congressional Post Office scandal

A new investigation was started by the United States Postal Service, which eventually submitted a report which was held in silence by Speaker Thomas Foley (D-WA) until media reports of embezzlement and money laundering leaked out in 1992.

Day of Silence

Other socially conservative organizations, including the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Mission America, Traditional Values Coalition, Americans for Truth, and Liberty Counsel, opposed the Day of Silence in 2008 by forming a coalition urging parents to keep their kids home on the DOS if students at their school were observing it.

Deanne Bray

"CSI" (2000) playing Dr. Gilbert in episode: "Sounds of Silence" April 19, 2001

Eskimos and Egypt

Their follow up The Rest Is Silence was released in Germany and Japan after a label change to Motor Music (Polygram).

Fantasy General

The game's music featured original settings of Strife is O'er, the Dies Irae, the Easter sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Dona Nobis Pacem and two works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh and Wir essen und leben.

Faxian

The Shih which often precedes it is an abbreviation of the name of Buddha as Sakyamuni, "the Sakya, mighty in Love, dwelling in Seclusion and Silence," and may be taken as equivalent to Buddhist.

Gocompare.com

In direct response to this reaction, Go Compare deliberately subverted the campaign by running a series of adverts where celebrity guests such as Sue Barker, Stuart Pearce, Ray Mears, Louie Spence and Stephen Hawking lined up to "silence" the character of Gio Compario.

Graeme Leung

Citing the Fijian cultural inhibition on frank expression of strong opinions, he said that it would be unwise for the government to interpret the silence of the majority of its citizens as approval of its agenda.

House of Silence

House of Silence is the seventh studio album of German band Bad Boys Blue.

Independent Radio News

The 11:00 bulletin on Remembrance Sunday includes coverage of the national two minutes silence at the Cenotaph in London.

Irén Lovász

An Estonian contemporary composer, Peeter Vähi wrote new music for her voice in which she sings early medieval Tibetan and Sanskrit language texts: Supreme Silence (CC'nC Records 2000).

Jason Berry

His 2004 book Vows of Silence deals with the sexual abuse of Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legion of Christ, and the cover-up of that abuse.

Karen Koster

Before an interview with Bradley Cooper, Coster and Cooper engaged in close and awkward silence.

Klaus Wiese

He collaborated with Deuter on his "Silence is the Answer" album in 1980 and East of the Full Moon in 2005.

Krzysztof Piesiewicz

He has begun writing a new series of films, The Stigmatised; the first of these, Silence, was directed by Michał Rosa and released in 2002.

L'Appel du silence

L'Appel du Silence is a 1936 French film directed by Leo Poirier based on the life of Charles de Foucauld.

Leave in Silence

The video for "Leave in Silence" was directed by Julien Temple, and features the band breaking things and talking to each other while wearing face paint.

Listen to the Silence

Listen to the Silence is a live album by George Russell originally recorded in 1971 and released on the Italian Soul Note label in 1983, featuring a performance by Russell with Stanton Davis, Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen, and Jon Christensen with vocal chorus.

Luis Antonio Rivera

Rivera came up with the name of Yoyo Boing for representing Jughead; the name "Yoyo" sounded close to "Jughead", and the "Boing" part was a gimmick Rivera developed for the character: a vocalized "boing" that he constantly repeated to fill in silence gaps during each episode.

Michael Cawood Green

He is the author of two works of historical fiction, Sinking: A Verse Novella about the 1964 Blyvooruitzicht sinkhole disaster, and For the Sake of Silence about the Trappists in South Africa.

Michel del Castillo

Influenced by Miguel de Unamuno and Fyodor Dostoevsky, his books received many literary prizes, namely Prix Chateaubriand for Le Silence des Pierres (1975); Renaudot for la Nuit du décret (1981); Prix Maurice Genevoix for Rue des Archives (1994); Prix de l’Écrit Intime for Mon frère l’Idiot (1995); and prix Femina for Colette, une Certaine France (2001).

Niels van Gogh

In 2008 he worked together with Thomas Gold and released another hit, a remix of Silence by Delerium and Sarah McLachlan.

Norman McLaren

Raphaël Bassan, "Norman McLaren : le silence de Prométhée", in Les Cahiers de Paris expérimental, no 17 (in French) (2004)*

Nout Lequen

In her workshop in Meylan (Isère, Dauphiné, France) near the Chartreuse Mountains, she was touched by the silence and the lights of the Alps.

Ogdru Jahad

Eventually, after years of silence and waiting, Rasputin was approached by Heinrich Himmler, head of Hitler's SS.

Remembrance of the Dead

The 2010 ceremony on Dam Square was disrupted towards the end of the one-minute silence by a 39-year-old man with a history of violent crimes and drug trading.

Robert Zollitsch

German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger condemned the "wall of silence" within the Catholic hierarchy, accusing the church of hiding behind a 2001 Vatican directive that called for cases of abuse to be investigated internally before going to state authorities.

Sharon Louden

During this program Louden's multiple animations were screened with other notable works, such as: "Lines Horizontal" Norman McLaren, 1962 ; "Two Space" Larry Cuba, 1979 ; "Free Radicals" Len Lye, 1958 ; "Symphonie Diagonal" Viking Eggeling, 1924 ; "Silence" Jules Engel,1968 ; and "Chemical Sundown" by Jeremy Blake, 2001 to name only a few.

Silence on the Wire

Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks is a book by Michał Zalewski on some network-silent methods of information gathering as they relate to computer security.

Structures from Silence

In 1987 a VHS video titled Structures from Silence was released.

Suicide Silence EP

Suicide Silence EP is the first release by American deathcore band Suicide Silence.

The Canary Trainer

He suffers in silence until Adler sees his profile in a Degas painting, whereupon she realizes that he is alive, and enlists his help.

The Color of Silence

The Color of Silence is Tiffany's "alternative" album, even down to its cover art reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral.

The Library

The Library, a planet from the Doctor Who episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"

The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism

The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism is a book written by Naoki Higashida in 2005, when he was 13, and translated into English in 2013.

The Sound and the Silence

The Sound and the Silence is a 1992 TV movie directed by John Kent Harrison, starring John Bach as Alexander Graham Bell.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

During the Cassette Scandal audiotapes where released on which Kuchma, Lytvyn and other top-level administration officials are allegedly heard discussing the need to silence Georgiy Gongadze for his online news reports about high-level corruption.

Week of Silence

The Week of Silence was first proposed in 2004 on an online LiveJournal community by a sexual abuse survivor going by the name of "Ros".


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