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2 unusual facts about Zoetrope: All-Story


Zoetrope: All-Story

Since Helmut Newton was invited to design the magazine in 1998, artists (Wayne Thiebaud), musicians (David Bowie, Tom Waits and Will Oldham), actors (Dennis Hopper), and directors (Gus Van Sant and Peter Greenaway) have contributed to Zoetrope: All-Story’s visual aesthetic as guest designers.

Steven Millhauser's story "Eisenheim the Illusionist," which inspired Neil Burger's 2006 film The Illusionist, Alice Munro's story "The Bear Came Over The Mountain," which Sarah Polley adapted into the film Away From Her in 2006, and Wes Anderson's screenplay for the short film Hotel Chevalier in Winter 2007 are recent examples of All-Storys Classic Reprint.


999-9999

The story, about the deadly consequences of receiving a telephone call from the number 999-9999, is similar in premise to Final Destination or 976-EVIL.

A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story

A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story is a 1994 biographical television film directed by Larry Peerce.

A Healing Art

It tells the story of two Ocularists, Christie Erickson and Todd Cranmore, who make custom prosthetic eyes.

Abba Kovner

Kovner's story is the basis for the song "Six Million Germans / Nakam", by Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird.

Amerzone

The places, concepts and some of the characters featured in Amerzone originate from Sokal's work in the 1980s with the comic Inspector Canardo, especially the fifth story in the series, L'Amerzone.

Atlas Shrugged: Part III

It is a sequel to the 2012 film Atlas Shrugged: Part II, continuing the story where its predecessor left off.

Belfagor arcidiavolo

Giovanni Francesco Straparola included his own version as the fourth story of the second night in his Le piacevoli notti (1557).

Big Two-Hearted River

In January 1925, while wintering in Schruns, Austria, waiting for a response from query letters written to friends and publishers in America, Hemingway submitted the story to be published in his friend Ernest Walsh's newly established literary magazine This Quarter.

Brandt, Ohio

At one time the village had two grocery stores and an active fraternal presence with the International Order of Oddfellows being housed in a two-story frame structure.

Bülent Akinci

After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film A short story (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe.

Burkeville, Virginia

Polk Miller, renowned old time banjo-player, story-teller, veterinarian, and Confederate veteran; was born on a plantation just west of Burkeville in 1844.

Celia Pearce

Her articles and book chapters include a section of Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan's First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game.

Cousin Bette

A number of film versions of the story have been produced, including a 1971 BBC mini-series starring Margaret Tyzack and Dame Helen Mirren, and a 1998 feature film with Jessica Lange in the title role.

Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani

The film was based on the story 'And One Did Not Come Back', by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, which is itself based on the heroic life of Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, played by V. Shantaram in the film.

Encyclopédie

Magee, Bryan, The Story of Philosophy, New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 1998, ISBN 0-7894-3511-X

Esther Kahn

Deplechin adapted the screenplay with regular collaborator Emmanuel Bourdieu from a short story by Arthur Symons of the same name from his book Spiritual Adventures.

Firdaus Kanga

This, along with the story of a young disabled man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness an interesting exploration of modern, urban India.

Gwiaździsta eskadra

Gwiaździsta eskadra told the romantic story of love between a Polish girl and an American volunteer pilot in the Polish 7th Air Escadrille (better known as the Kościuszko Squadron) during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921.

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".

Interpreter of Maladies

In this story, the obstacles and hardships that the protagonist must overcome are much more tangible, such as learning to stomach a diet of cornflakes and bananas, or boarding in a cramped YMCA.

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

In 2005 the BBC used a report published by the journal as the basis of a story claiming that the pseudoscientific practice of homeopathy was effective for some patients.

Karel Reisz

In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimilitude.

Laurie Zimmer

After playing the female lead opposite Darwin Joston and Austin Stoker in Assault on Precinct 13, Zimmer appeared (as Laura Fanning) in two 1977 French films: Jean Eustache's Une sale histoire ("A Dirty Story") and Charlotte Szlovak's Slow City, Moving Fast (also known by the French title D'un Jour a L'Autre).

Lordsburg, New Mexico

In 1928, John Philip Sousa presented Governor Arthur T. Hannett and the people of New Mexico an arrangement of the state song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican.

Martine Blanc

Martine Blanc (born 16 September 1944 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme) is a French author and illustrator of ten books for children including The story of Timothy, the Two Hoots series in collaboration with Helen Cresswell, and All about Jesus.

Mary Lindell

The 1991 film One Against the Wind starred Judy Davis, and was based on the biography Story of Mary Lindell: Wartime Secret Agent by Barry Wynne.

Mohammed al Janahi

The film, which stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of a Texas congressman (Hanks) who works to help the Mujahideen defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan using an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, Israelis, Pakistanis, arms dealers and Egyptians.

My Year of Meats

Parallel to Jane's story is the life of Akiko Ueno, a former manga artist who specialized in horror scenes and is reluctantly married to a man working for BEEF-EX.

Neville Thurlbeck

In 2004 Thurlbeck broke a story which alleged footballer David Beckham was having an affair.

Niels Petersen House

Architect James Creighton was commissioned by Petersen to design the new two-story home to be constructed at Petersen’s ranch south of town.

Nirakazhcha

Nirakazhcha tells the story of an Italian painter who visits Kerala to recreate the magnificent Raja Ravi Varma paintings.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Benson praised the story's "many surprising turns" and believed that if it were a film it would "have much of the same tension that something like Hitchcock's North by Northwest had."

Norah Lofts

The film 7 Women (1966) was directed by John Ford and based on the story Chinese Finale by Norah Lofts.

Phantom social workers

It is thought that reports of unidentified "social workers" attempting to take children away from their parents were merely scare stories or urban legends fuelled by the story of Marietta Higgs, a paediatrician from Cleveland, England who diagnosed 121 children as being victims of sexual abuse from their parents without any evidence or reason.

Pleasures of the Harbor

The best known track is "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", a sarcastic jab at the apathetic nature of people in certain situations, at its base the story of the Murder of Kitty Genovese in New York City (which numerous people witnessed, doing nothing to help), set to a Dixieland backing.

San Ferry Ann

Wordlessly, with soundtrack and sound effects, it tells the story of a holiday crossing from Dover to Calais.

Shahabuddin Nagari

In 2004 he wrote the story, dialogue, script and gave music direction for the feature film Ak Khondo Jomi produced by Impress Telefilm Limited.

Siege of Neamţ Citadel

The story is as following: on their way back after raiding Moldavia, the 25 000 men-strong army of Polish king John III Sobieski came across Cetatea Neamţului, defended by less than 20 men.

Silent speech interface

The decoding of silent speech using a computer played an important role in Arthur C. Clarke's story and Stanley Kubrick's associated film 2001: A Space Odyssey (film).

Star Ocean

There was an incomplete manga series by Mayumi Azuma based on Star Ocean: The Second Story, which became a similarly incomplete anime series Star Ocean EX.

Statue of Sherlock Holmes, London

Doubleday had previously produced a statue of Holmes for the town of Meiringen in Switzerland, below the Reichenbach Falls from which the detective fell to his death in the story "The Final Problem".

Stealing Heaven

Stealing Heaven is a 1988 film, a costume drama based on the French 12th century medieval romance (a true story) of Peter Abelard and Héloïse and on a historical novel by Marion Meade.

Stewart v. Abend

The short story was then made into the acclaimed movie Rear Window (1954), directed by Hitchcock and starring Stewart.

Tara Spencer-Nairn

In 1995, she portrayed Wayne Gretzky's sister Kim Gretzky in the movie Waking Up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story.

Terry McGurrin

McGurrin recently wrapped up as the story editor for the new 2011 Cartoon Network/YTV show Scaredy Squirrel (which is based on the book series of the same name).

The Shadow of the Vulture

The story is set around the Battle of Mohács and the later Siege of Vienna (1529), with Suleiman the Magnificent's attack into Europe.

Tiyasha

This shows the journey of a man Sudipto (Saswata Chatterjee) defying the odds in maintaining a healthy and a happy family.The story revolves around Sudipto and Riya (Chandrayee Ghosh) and Tojo (Soham BasuRoychowdhury), their son.

Underworld Unleashed

Underworld Unleashed is one of very few DC Comics major crossovers not to directly involve Superman; at the time of the series he was off-planet as part of The Trial of Superman story arc.

Zaporozhets za Dunayem

The story depicts the events following the destruction of the island fortress of Zaporizhian Sich, the historic stronghold of the Ukrainian Cossacks on the Dnieper River.

Zorro's Fighting Legion

The story takes a few liberties with Zorro's official timeline: it takes place in Mexico instead of Alta California; Zorro wears a masquerade mask, rather than the traditional bandana; the characters Don Alejandro Vega (Don Diego's father) and Bernardo are absent; and Zorro's horse, Tornado, was changed to white (much like Kaiketsu Zorro).


see also

N. M. Kelby

Her short stories have appeared in many publications including Zoetrope All-Story Extra, One Story, Minnesota Monthly, Verb, and The Mississippi Review. One was recorded by actress Joanne Woodward for the NPR CD Travel Tales, and included in New Stories from the South: Best of 2006.