1977 in film - 1977 in film See also: 1976 in film, other events of 1977, 1978 in film, list of 'years in film'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Other Movies Released Events In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network. Rocky picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All The President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines. May 25 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie to date. Top Grossing Films of the Year Star Wars(now known as Star.
Jubilee (film) - Jubilee (film) Jubilee is a 1977 cult film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell (Little Nell), Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant, Jordan (the Malcolm McLaren protege), and Hermine Demoriane. In the film Queen Elizabeth I is transported forward in time by John Dee through the spirit guide Ariel to the shattered Britain ruled by Elizabeth II. The 1970s queen is dead, killed in an arbitrary mugging, and the historical queen moves through the social and physical decay of the city observing the activites of a group of sporadic anachists called Amyl Nitrate, Bod, Chaos, Crabs, Mad and similar. The film is clearly Jarman's but is heavily influenced by the 1970s punk ethic in its style. Shot in grainy colour the film is largely plotless,.
Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. - Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. (LEXIS ) The following is a brief summary written on 02-Jun-03 for a different audience. Do not rely on it for comprehansive coverage until it has been reworked into proper legal article format - the initial author needed to refer to it, so provided this overview for the convenience of those discussing the matter. The US federal Supreme Court today ruled on the Dastar case. The Court rejected the argument that Dastar had engaged in a Lanham act reverse passing off offence (passing off the work of others as its own) on the basis that it would conflict with the more specific copyright law which give anyone unlimited and unconditional rights to reproduce the work.
1977 - 1977 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s Years: 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 - 1977 - 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 See also: 1977 in film 1977 in literature 1977 in music 1977 in sports 1977 in television Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Heads of state in Events January 1 - First woman Episcopal priest ordained January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease." January 18 - Australia experiences its worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, in which 83 people died. January 19 - President Gerald Ford pardons.
1977 in music - 1977 in music See also: 1976 in music, other events of 1977, 1978 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits on record 4 Published popular music 5 Musical theatre 6 Musical films 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 Awards 9.1 Grammy Awards 9.2 Country Music Association Awards 9.3 Eurovision Song Contest Events Of the events in music in 1977, a few bear closer scrutiny. Perhaps most important is the release of several pivotal albums in the development of punk music. Widely-acknowledged as masterpieces and among the earliest first full-length purely punk albums, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, the Jam's In the City, Iggy Pop's Lust for Life, Richard Hell &.
1978 in film - 1978 in film See also: 1977 in film, other events of 1978, 1979 in film, list of 'years in film'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Other Movies Released Events February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California March 1 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery 3 months after burial March - Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for the Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back September - George Lucas purchases Bulltail Ranch, on Lucas Valley Road, for the development of Skywalker Ranch. November 17 - The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS. The special.
1976 in film - 1976 in film See also: 1975 in film, other events of 1976, 1977 in film, list of 'years in film'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Other Movies Released Events March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film. In one of the best business decisions in film history, Lucas cuts his directing fee by $500,000 to gain ownership of merchandising and sequel rights Top Grossing Films of the Year Rocky To Fly All the President's Men, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford King Kong, starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges The Enforcer Silent Movie The Pink Panther Strikes Again Carrie, starring Sissy Spacek Logan's Run Marathon Man Births January 3.
Ken Loach - Warwickshire and usually credited as Ken Loach) is a British film director. In December 2003, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Birmingham. Filmography Z Cars (1962) TV Series Diary of a Young Man (1964) (TV) 3 Clear Sundays (1965) (TV) Up the Junction (1965) (TV) The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965) (TV) Coming Out Party (1965) (TV) Cathy Come Home (1966) (TV) (as Kenneth Loach) In Two Minds (1967) (TV) Poor Cow (1967) The Golden Vision (1968) (TV) The Big Flame (1969) (TV) Kes (1969) (as Kenneth Loach) The Rank and the File (1971) (TV; part of the Play for Today series) The Save the Children Fund Film (1971) Family Life (1971) After a Lifetime (1971) (TV) A Misfortune (1973) (TV) Days of Hope (1975) (TV mini.
Kenny Baker - as the man inside of R2-D2 in the popular Star Wars film series. Baker, at 3 feet, 8 inches (112 cm) tall, was a circus and cabaret performer with entertainer Jack Purvis when George Lucas hired him to be the man inside of R2-D2 in Star Wars in 1977. Baker and actor Anthony Daniels, who plays C-3P0 in the films, are the only actors to appear in all five Star Wars films. Baker even played an additional role in 1983's Return of the Jedi, when he played one of the furry Ewoks. Other films Baker has appeared in include 1980's The Elephant Man, 1981's Time Bandits, 1984's Amadeus and the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth. In the late 1990s, Baker launched a stand up comedy career..
Killer of Sheep - Killer of Sheep Killer of Sheep is a 1977 film which depicts the culture of urban African-Americans; the film is considered an alternative to "Blaxploitation" films. It stars Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry and Jack Drummond. The movie was written and directed by Charles Burnett and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry..
Kon Ichikawa - is one of the better known Japanese film directors and one of the most unpredictable. He gained his western credibility in the 1950s and 1960s with a number of bleak films - two antiwar films with The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain, Conflagration in which a priest burns down his temple to save it from spiritual pollution, Alone in the Pacific and the technically formidable An Actor's Revenge about a Kabuki actor. Most of these films are literary adaptations, often screen-written by his wife, Natto Wada, and when she ceased this activity at the end of the 1960s it marked a change in his films. It can be said that his main trait is technical expertise, irony, detachment and a drive for realism married with a complete spectrum of.
Kolkata - National Library of India, and is the cultural capital of India, famous for the book-fairs every winter. Other places to visit in the city are the Victoria Memorial, Marble Palace, Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Birla Temple, Shahid Minar, Science City and a lot of other places. Historically, Kolkata was also the epicentre of activity in the early stages of the national movement of independence. The Indian National Congress was born here, as also many contemporary societies like The Hindu Mela and revolutionary societies like the Jugantar and the Anushilan groups. Among early nationalist leaders, the most prominent were Sri Aurobindo and Bepin Chandra Pal. The early nationalists were inspired by Swami Vivekananda, the foremost disciple of the mystic Sri Ramakrishna and helped by Sister Nivedita, disciple of the former. Kolkata was also.
January 28 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo for $6.45 billion. 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines. 2002 - An Ecuadoran airline Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92 Births 1706 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder (+ 1775) 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator. 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (+ 1904) 1853 - Jose Marti, revolutionary (+ 1895) 1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator (+ 1898) 1873 - Colette, writer (+ 1954) 1879 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet (+ 1953) 1884 - Auguste Piccard, physicist (+ 1962) 1887 - Artur.
Jabberwocky - the first verse are due to Frank L. Warrin (in French) and Robert Scott (in German): Il brilgue: les tôves lubricilleux Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave. Enmîmès sont les gougebosqueux Et le mômerade horsgrave. Es brillig war. Die schlichten Toven Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben; Und aller-mümsige Burggoven Die mohmen Räth' ausgrabren. This task of translation is the more notable because many of the principal words of the poem were simply made up by Carroll, having had no previous meaning. A couple of these words, notably "chortle" (derived from "chuckle" and "snort"), "burble" and "galumph" have entered the popular lexicon. The word "jabberwocky" itself is sometimes used to refer to nonsense language. The glossary above is from Through the Looking-Glass. The poem is particularly interesting because, although it contains.
January 17 - near Kobe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing over 5,000. 1998 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. 2002 - Eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. 2002 - A Petroproduccion Fairchild FH-227E crashes into the mountains in southern Colombia killing 26 Births 1463 - Friedrich III, Saxon elector (†1525) 1706 - Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, publisher, and ambassador (†1790) 1763 - John Jacob Astor, entrepreneur (†1848) 1820 - Anne Brontë, British author (†1849) 1832 - Henry Martyn Baird, American historian and educationalist (†1906) 1860 - Anton Chekhov, playwright (†1904) 1863 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (†1945) 1867 - Carl Laemmle, film executive (†1939).
January 20 - - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica 1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands 1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster. 1887 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. 1891 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state. 1892 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played. 1921 - Republic of Turkey is declared 1929 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors. 1936 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom 1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. 1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
January 12 - Chang-Diaz. 1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the United States Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. 1995 - Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan. 1998 - 19 European nations agree to forbid human cloning. Births 1628 - Charles Perrault, folklorist (†1703) 1729 - Edmund Burke, statesman, philosopher (†1797) 1746 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (†1827) 1856 - John Singer Sargent, artist (†1925) 1863 - Swami Vivekananda, guru (†1902) 1876 - Jack London, author (†1916) 1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer (†1948) 1878 - Ferenc Molnár, writer (†1952) 1884 - Texas Guinan, vaudeville performer (†1933) 1893 - Hermann Göring, Nazi official (†1946) 1893 - Alfred Rosenberg,.
January 13 - hits El Salvador. More than 5,000 deaths. Births 1596 - Jan van Goyen, painter (†1656) 1653 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian (†1705) 1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricistand dramatist, also known as Maler Müller (†1825) 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr, Unitarian minister, author (†1899) 1859 - Karl Bleibtreu, critic (†1928) 1866?- G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic. He stated he was born at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve Julian calendar (†1949) 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist (†1928) 1879 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International (†1961) 1884 - Sophie Tucker, singer, comedienne, vaudeville performer (†1966) 1919 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist 1919 - Robert Stack, actor (†2003) 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (†1970) 1925 -.
January 14 - Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis). 1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people 2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 2004 - Amartya Sen steps down as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Births 1741 - Benedict Arnold (General in United States' Revolutionary War, turncoat) (†1801) 1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (†1872) 1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian researcher on music (†1877) 1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter (†1904) 1841 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter (†1895) 1861 - Mehmed VI, future Ottoman sultan (†1926) 1866?- G..
January 18 - broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad. 1943 - The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, make his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison. 1975 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS. 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease." 1977 - Australia's worst.
