One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey first published in 1962. It was later made into a Milos Forman film of the same name. Randle Patrick McMurphy, a prisoner whose term is nearly over, decides to have himself declared insane so he'll be transferred to a mental institution, where he expects to spend the rest of his time in peace. Please note that the following contains spoilers McMurphy's ward in the mental institution is run by an unyielding tyrant, Nurse Ratched, who has cowed the patients--who are mostly there by choice--into dejected institutionalised submission. McMurphy becomes ensnared in a number of power-games with Nurse Ratched for the hearts and minds of the inmates. All the.
It Happened One Night - It Happened One Night It Happened One Night is a 1934 romantic comedy in which an elite socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in with a rogue reporter (Clark Gable). As in most Frank Capra films, everything turns out all right in the end; the film fit very well with the upbeat view of the world that Frank Capra repeatedly tried to portray. One IMDb user even made the following observation about the movie: "There is a scene in which the two of them are forced to hitchhike, and their 'breakfast' is only a handful of carrots plucked from a garden they were lucky to find. As Gable stands at the edge of the road and Colbert is perched.
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - his sometimes hyperkinetic slap and pop bass style. Future Man plays percussion using a drumitar, a MIDI synthesizer shaped like a guitar. Unlike the lineup of Spinal Tap--"37 people's been in this band over the years"--membership in The Flecktones is little changed since the band released its eponymous first album. Harmonica player Howard Levy appeared on the Flecktones' first three albums. After Levy's departure, Fleck and the Wooten Brothers regrouped on the album Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the title a reference to the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest based on Ken Kesey's novel. Saxophonist Jeff Coffin joined the band beginning with the album Live Art. The band has won several Grammy awards. Each of the current members of the quartet has released at least one solo.
Ken Kesey - throughout his life but he was probably best known as the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as a cultural icon who some consider something of a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s. Born in La Junta, Colorado, he spent much of his youth in the Pacific Northwest. There he married Faye Haxby, with whom he had three children, Jed, Zane and Shannon. He attended the University of Oregon, where he received a degree in speech and communication and was an Olympic-caliber wrestler. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in 1958; he moved to Palo Alto, California to enroll in the creative writing program at Stanford University. At Stanford in 1959, he volunteered to take part in a.
Jack Nicholson - his real break. That film led to a small supporting role in Easy Rider (1969), for which he received his first Oscar nomination. A Best Actor nomination came the following year for his persona-defining role in Five Easy Pieces (1970), which includes his famous chicken salad dialogue about getting what you want. Other early movies he is known for include Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which he received his first Oscar, and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Nicholson won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Terms of Endearment (1984). The 1989 Batman, where Nicholson played the supervillain The Joker, was an international smash hit, and a lucrative percentage deal earned Nicholson about $50 million [1]. For his role.
United Artists - productions/releases included The Mark of Zorro (1920), Stagecoach (1939) and the films of independent producers in the 1930s and 1940s such as Walt Disney, Alexander Korda and David Selznick. Later releases included most of the James Bond and all of the Rocky films, as well as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It was owned for a time in the 1970s by the Transamerica insurance company, during which time the film The Hospital was released. After heavy losses incurred as a result of investing in the flop, Heaven's Gate, United Artists was acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981 and ceased to exist as a separate company..
Ed Ames - own career, studying acting at the Herbert Berghoff School, and privately with Tamara Doykharhanova, Lee Strasberg, and Milton Katselas. His first starring role was in an Off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," going on to starring performances in "The Fantasticks" and "Carnival." Finally he had his biggest hit as a stage actor, in the play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Talent scouts at 20th Century Fox saw Ed in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and invited him to co-star in a television series, "Daniel Boone." During his five seasons on this program, he returned to singing, making such hit recordings as "Try to Remember" "My Cup Runneth Over" "Who Will Answer?" "Apologize" "When the Snow Is on the Roses" While maintaining his career, he attended the University of.
Electroconvulsive therapy - the 1940s and 1950s, but it is comparatively rare today. It is typically used to treat bipolar disorder and severe depression in cases where talk therapy and drug treatment have proven ineffective. At one time, it was also used for the treatment of schizophrenia, but is now generally regarded as ineffective for that purpose. Overview During ECT, a grand mal seizure is induced in a patient by passing an electrical current through the brain. Current flow is usually from temple to temple, though sometimes electroshock may be applied to only one hemisphere of the brain. The resultant seizure is characterized as being more severe than a naturally occurring epileptic seizure. The patient loses consciousness and experiences powerful and violent uncontrolled muscle movement (unless a muscle relaxant has been administered beforehand.) Afterwards,.
Deaths in 2003 - and Aryan Nations member 27 Talal al-Rasheed, Saudi poet (41 years?) 27 Will Quadflieg, German actor 26 Stefan Wul, French sf writer (81 years) 26 Soulja Slim, rapper 26 Anton Burg, USC chemistry professor (99 years) 26 William H. Waldren, archaeologist (79 years) 24 Hugh Kenner, literary critic (80 years) 24 Warren Spahn, baseball pitcher (82 years) 24 Floquet de Neu or Copito de Nieve ("Snowflake"), rare albino gorilla, star of the Barcelona zoo [1] 24 Uma Devi, popularly known as Tuntun, Indian actress (80 years) 21 Bohumil Simon, one of the leaders of the Prague Spring (83 years) 20 David Dacko, first president of the Central African Republic (73 years) 20 Robert Addie, British actor (43 years) 20 Eugene Kleiner, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture.
Danny DeVito - 1999, Devito produced and costarred in Man On The Moon, a film about the unusual life of his former Taxi costar, Andy Kaufman. DeVito is married to actress Rhea Perlman. The couple met and were married while they were both working on the Taxi series. Selected filmography One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, (1975) "Martini" Throw Momma from the Train, (1987) "Owen Lift" Tin Men, (1987) "Ernest Tilley" Twins, (1988) "Vincent Benedict" Batman Returns, (1992) "The Penguin" Hoffa, (1992) producer Reality Bites, (1994) producer Pulp Fiction, (1994) executive producer Get Shorty, (1995) "Martin Weir" Mars Attacks, (1996) "Rude Gambler" Matilda, (1996) director L.A. Confidential, (1997) "Sid Hudgens" Man On The Moon, (1999) producer, costar The Virgin Suicides (1999) "Dr Hornicker" Erin Brockovich, (2000) producer Screwed, (2000) "Grover Cleaver" Austin Powers in.
David Merrick - - 1959 Take Me Along - 1959 The Good Soup - 1960 Vintage '60 - 1960 Irma La Douce - 1960 A Taste of Honey - 1960 Becket - 1960 (Tony Award) Do Re Mi - 1960 Carnival - 1961 Sunday in New York - 1961 Ross - 1961 Subways Are for Sleeping - 1961 I Can Get It for You Wholesale - 1962 Stop the World - I Want to Get Off - 1962 Tchin-Tchin - 1962 Oliver - 1963 Rattle of a Simple Man - 1963 The Rehearsal - 1963 ''Luther - 1963 (Tony Award) 110 in the Shade - 1963 Arturo Ui - 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1963 The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - 1964 Hello, Dolly - 1964 (Tony Award) -.
1962 - 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. July 23 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal. August 5 - Film actress and sex icon, Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles, California home after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills. August 6 - Jamaica becomes independent. August 17 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. August 31 - Trinidad and Tobago become independent. September 2 - Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba. September 12 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade. October 1 - The first black student James Meredith registers in University.
1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative party in the United Kingdom. February 21 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. February 28 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate tube station, London killed 43 people. March 4 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England. March 6 - Algiers Accord - Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute. March 9 - Construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline begins. March 10 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon..
1975 in film - 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars. At this time, the title of the story was Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of The Star Wars. March - Production begins on Star Wars March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premiers in London July - In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic. Top Grossing Films of the Year Jaws, starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss The Rocky Horror Picture Show One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, directed by Milos Forman, starring Jack Nicholson Dog Day Afternoon The Adventures of the Wilderness Family Rollerball The Return of the Pink Panther Lucky Lady Rooster Cogburn, starring John.
1962 in literature - 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is published. In 2001, the novel would be one of two books by Nabokov to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Apples of Gold - Jo Petty The Changeling - Thomas Middleton Dearly Beloved - Anne Morrow Lindbergh The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell Lilies of the Field - William Barrett The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut A Murder of Quality - John le Carré My Life in Court - Louis Nizer One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Pale.
2003 in film - producer Phil Spector is arrested for investigation of homicide after the body of actress Lana Clarkson was found at his home in Alhambra, California. Police responded to the 911 phone call from one of Spector's neighbors and discovered Clarkson's body who was suffering from a gun shot wound. Clarkson pronounced dead at the scene. February 24 - The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 Cesar Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography). November 17: Russell Crowe attended the London premiere of his movie Master and Commander. [1] November 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as Governor of California. December 22: Both of the movies from the Matrix series released in 2003 were shut out of visual effects Oscar consideration by the.
Academy Award for Best Actor - Soul Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page Jackie Cooper - Skippy Richard Dix - Cimarron Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway 1932 Wallace Beery - The Champ and Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman 1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini William Powell - The Thin Man 1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty 1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds.
Academy Award for Best Picture - Disraeli - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner with Darryl F. Zanuck The Divorcee - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Robert Z. Leonard The Love Parade - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch The name of the award becomes Best Picture 1930-31 Cimarron - RKO Radio - William LeBaron East Lynne - Fox - Winfield Sheehan, studio head The Front Page - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes Skippy - Paramount - Adolph Zukor Trader Horn - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving G. Thalberg 1931-32 Grand Hotel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg Arrowsmith - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn Bad Girl - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head The Champ - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - King Vidor Five Star Final - First National - Hal B. Wallis One Hour with You - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch Shanghai Express -.
Academy Award for Best Actress - Trespasser 1931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill Marlene Dietrich - Morocco Irene Dunne - Cimarron Ann Harding - Holiday Norma Shearer - A Free Soul 1932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet Marie Dressler - Emma Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman 1933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory May Robson - Lady for a Day Diana Wynyard - Cavalcade 1934 Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night Grace Moore - One Night of Love Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1935 Bette Davis - Dangerous Elisabeth Bergner - Escape Me Never Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp Merle Oberon - The Dark Angel 1936 Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild Gladys George.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Billy Budd 1963 Melvyn Douglas - Hud Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones John Huston - The Cardinal 1964 Peter Ustinov - Topkapi John Gielgud - Becket Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady Edmund O'Brien - Seven Days in May Lee Tracy - The Best Man 1965 Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago Michael Dunn - Ship of Fools Frank Finlay - Othello 1966 Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie Mako - The Sand Pebbles James Mason - Georgy Girl George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons 1967 George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke John Cassavetes - The.
