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Real life

Some, arguing that the Internet is part of real life, prefer to use AFK (such as the documentary TPB AFK).


Christopher Anton

The success of Fragments of Empathy saw the band sharing the stage with acts such as Berlin, Real Life, Daniel Ash (Bauhaus) and Anything Box.

Lisa Edwards

Edwards work as a backing singer includes working with: Noiseworks, Black Sorrows, Real Life, Ross Wilson, Billy Thorpe, Brian Cadd, John Farnham and Kate Ceberano; and she was one of the backing vocalists on Kylie Minogue's Enjoy Yourself Tour in 1990.

Ludus

Sterling, who in the arts and music scene was credited as Linder, was an artist who designed the cover of Buzzcocks' single Orgasm Addict and Magazine's debut album Real Life; Kadmon was formerly in Manicured Noise.

News ratings in Australia

Real Life continued until 1995, when it was replaced by state-based editions of the current program Today Tonight.

The Hyborian Age

Other stories would establish links to real life as well - The Haunter of the Ring, set in the modern age, contains a Hyborian artifact, and Kings of the Night brings King Kull forward in time to fight the Roman legions.


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A Glastonbury Romance

In 1934, Powys and his English publishers were successfully sued for libel by Gerard Hodgkinson, real-life owner of the Wookey Hole caves, who claimed that the character of Philip Crow had been based on him.

American Gods

Various real-life towns and tourist attractions, including the House on the Rock (and its 'world's largest carousel') and Rock City, are featured through the course of the book.

Angelo Fierro

He starred on the TV series Breaking Vegas as real-life counterfeiter Louis Colavecchio and had a recurring role as the Russian mobster, Vladimir, on the TV series Ocean Ave., starring Victoria Jackson.

Arthur O. Friel

In 1922, he became a real-life explorer when he took a six-month trip down Venezuela's Orinoco River and its tributary, the Ventuari River.

Autodidacticism

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education.

Barry Burman

In the 1980s, he created a number of images inspired by both real-life and fictional serial-killers, including Jack the Ripper, Ed Gein and Hannibal Lecter.

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.

Braiger

The series was supposedly inspired by real-life scientific research and used a lot of Korean talents at the lower ranks of production.

Breast Men

The film very loosely tracks the history of the real-life breast implant phenomenon, from its radical introduction through its incredible popularity, through the controversial link of its silicone base to various types of illnesses and cancers (culminating in the Food and Drug Administration's moratorium on use of silicone in breast implants, leading the industry to utilize saline ones, instead).

Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society

In 2007, the Institute was part in the organization of a DEFA/GDR film festival relating to the topic "German Cinema from behind the Iron Curtain" and, in 2008, hosted a musical drama with the title "The Myth and the Real Life of Marlene Dietrich".

Damon Scott

Following Damon’s success he was “spotted” when the head cameraman from the BBC attended the Southern Daily Echo Star Trail semi-final and he suggested to fellow programme makers that Damon would be a perfect subject for the BBC2 real life series which profiles the lives and careers of people aged 18–25.

Dave Blalock

Blalock appeared in the theatrical production of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein of Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll (2005–2007) where among a cast of ten people out of real life - such as a conservative politician unveiling his election campaign strategies, a German former Hitler Youth, Weimar's former chief police officer - to tell his story of a fragging in the midst of Intrigue, War & Death.

David Blandy

After gaining an artist’s residency with Grizedale Arts in 2004, Blandy has continued this investigation in his recent Barefoot Lone Pilgrim video/performance pieces in which he integrates real life and virtual adventures.

Days of Ziklag

The story is based on the real-life battle for Horbat Ma'achaz fought by the Yiftach Brigade in October 1948, although the battle is never mentioned by name.

Deep Sea Monster Reigo

The film, set in World War II, depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo.

Dick Solomon

At the end of the episode, Bug's father (portrayed by David DeLuise's father Dom DeLuise) walks into Dick's office wearing a fedora flanked by two brutes (portrayed by DeLuise' real-life sons Michael and Peter) who seem to have a connection to the mob.

Down There on a Visit

Other characters include Mr. Lancaster, Waldemar, Ambrose (based on Francis Turville-Petre), Hans, Aleko, Geoffrey, Paul (based on real-life male prostitute Denham Fouts), Augustus, Ronny, and Ruthie.

Fictional city

A fictional city refers to a town, city or village that is made up for fictional stories, and does not exist in real life, or refers to a settlement that people believe exist without definitive proof, such as Plato's account of Atlantis which some believed was fiction while others believed it existed.

Fred Mertz

The Fred Mertz character, the actor who portrayed him (William Frawley), and some of their costumes are memorialized in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York (Lucille Ball's real-life hometown).

Gloria Sevilla

In 1974, she and daughter Suzette Ranillo made history as the first real-life mother and daughter to win as Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the FAMAS Award for the movie Gimingaw Ako (I Miss You).

High Speed

This game was based on Ritchie's real-life police chase inside a 1979 Porsche 928.

István Bujtor

Based on his real life similarity with Spencer, later a series of Hungarian comedies were created in the Bud Spencer-Terrence Hill genre, in which Bujtor played hard-hitting detective Csöpi Ötvös partnered with fellow Hungarian actor András Kern.

James Yoshimura

Yoshimura was inspired to write it based on an episode of the HBO hidden-camera documentary show Taxicab Confessions, where a New York City detective discussed a similar real-life event.

Jameson Clark

In 1969, Clark made his final film, Ring of Bright Water, playing the Storekeeper in the film about otters which starred real-life couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna.

Lord of the Bling

The character Bone Hamilton is based on real life Hip-Hop mogul Suge Knight, with references being made to the incident where he allegedly held Vanilla Ice over a balcony.

Love Ranch

Oscar Bonavena – murdered real-life model for boxer Armando Bruza

Malibu High School

The film was inspired by the international organization Operation Smile and portrays real-life MHS figures such as former principal, Dr. Mike Matthews (played by Sean Astin).

Matte mungaru

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

Musidora

Contrary to the title, Les Vampires was not actually about vampires, but about a criminal gang-cum-secret society inspired by the exploits of the real-life Bonnot Gang.

Nazareno Casero

2006 marked his second Silver Condor nomination for playing the real-life Dirty War victim Guillermo Fernández in Chronicle of an Escape, which also marked his second collaboration with Caetano and co-starred name actors Rodrigo de la Serna and Pablo Echarri.

Olympia Cafe

During the 1970s, there was a real-life Olympia Cafe on the Upper West Side of Manhattan which was very similar to the diner in the sketch.

Sleeping Beauties

A mother tells her daughter a real life fairy tale of a "Princess Charming" and her Sleeping Beauty.

Steiner

The Steiner Brothers, the professional wrestling "tag team" of real-life brothers Rick and Scott Steiner

Swallows and Amazons

Roger Altounyan - real-life scientist; Ransome named characters in the story after Altounyan and his sisters.

The Color of Friendship

The film was based on a short story called "Simunye" written by the real-life Piper Dellums about a South African girl named Carrie coming to stay with her family.

The Consul

Zechariah Chafee, Jr. noted the topicality of the opera by analogy to the real-life situations of how non-American scientists were hindered from entering the United States in the early 1950s.

The Delicious Little Devil

(This was Murray in a thinly disguised portrayal obviously mimicking fellow real life dancer/star Gaby Deslys who had an affair with the King of Portugal before World War I).

The Demoniacs

Wynne's ordinary job is somewhat similar; he is a thief-taker under the direction of Sir John Fielding, a real-life personage who was in charge of the Bow Street Runners despite his blindness.

The Duck Factory

Other Duck Factory employees seen regularly on the show were man-of-a-thousand-cartoon voices Wally Wooster (played by real-life cartoon voice artist Don Messick); comedy writer Marty Fenneman (played by real-life comedy writer Jay Tarses); artists Brooks Carmichael and Roland Culp, editor Andrea Lewin, and business manager Aggie Aylesworth.

The Jennifer Morgue

Where 2004's The Atrocity Archives is written in the idiom of Len Deighton, The Jennifer Morgue is a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and refers to the real-life Project Azorian (incorrectly named by the press as Project Jennifer); Stross also uses footnotes and narrative causality, two literary devices common in the novels of Terry Pratchett.

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

In telling Cesar’s story, Hijuelos weaves in cameo appearances by several real-life mambo musicians, including Desi Arnaz, Tito Puente, Pérez Prado, Machito and Mongo Santamaría.

The Skull

In real life the Marquis de Sade's body was exhumed from its grave in the grounds of the lunatic asylum at Charenton, where he died in 1814, and his skull was removed for phrenological analysis.

The Summer Book

Sophia Jansson - Jansson's niece and the real-life model for the character of Sophia.

The Wild Man of the Navidad

The film is a throwback to drive-in Sasquatch classics of the 1970s like The Legend of Boggy Creek, and is known for its recreation of their specific vintage style, pacing and feel—from the real-life characters down to the period production design and music.

Thine Own Self

Goiânia accident, an incident of radioactive contamination in central Brazil, a real life accident with some similarities.

Tierra Madre

It was directed by Dylan Verrechia, and co-written by Aidee Gonzalez based on her real life, with original music by Nortec Collective and Paco Mendoza.

Under Defeat

The game takes place in an alternate reality based on World War II, and, in a controversial twist, players control German-speaking characters (under the banner of "the Empire") with uniforms that resemble those of the Nazi SS, fighting against enemies ("the Union") that speak English and possess weapons patterned after those of both real-life Allied and Axis powers (for example, naval units in Level 2 bear heavy resemblance toward the Imperial Japanese warships).

Wire Service

Wire Service focuses on three reporters for the fictional Trans-Globe wire service, which was similar to (and obviously inspired by) real-life news wire services such as the Associated Press and United Press International.

Without Breasts There Is No Paradise

Bolívar says the story is based on real-life conditions facing child prostitutes in the town of Pereira.