So was the green spiral-top steno notebook in which, like some exquisitely coutured man from Mars, he jotted down everything around him in shorthand with a ballpoint pen.
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Without giving too much away, another stop may or may not be the unsolved mystery site in Arcadia where acclaimed novelist James Ellroy's dead mother was found raped and murdered, or the epicenter of LA's neo-Nazi movement in El Monte in the early 70s, or a visit to the Chinese supermarket where the ex-cop "Man From Mars" bandit was shot in the head in the middle of his last heist, or a drive-by of the city where one of the country's most notorious feral child cases took place.
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Flying Disc Man from Mars was budgeted at $152,640, although the final negative cost was $157,439 (a $4,799, or 3.1%, overspend). It was the most expensive Republic serial made in 1950. Disc Man was filmed between August 21 and September 12, 1950 under several working titles: Atom Man from Mars, Disc Man from Mars, Disc Men of the Skies, Flying Planet Men, and Jet Man from Mars. The serial's production number was 1709.
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"Man from Mars" was covered by Kristen Vigard in the 1996 film, Grace of My Heart. "Man from Mars" was also covered by Chaka Khan in 2000 for her live concert DVD "The Jazz Channel Presents Chaka Khan".
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A car chase from this serial was re-used in Flying Disc Man from Mars.
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Peterson can be seen in the cult film classic Lobster Man from Mars, and as one of the many Elvi in Honeymoon in Vegas.
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The Man from Mars () is a "first contact" science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem: American scientists are trying to deal with a creature in a crashed spaceship from Mars.
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The Purple Monster costume was re- used in Flying Disc Man from Mars (for Mota), Radar Men from the Moon (for Retik) and Commando Cody (the agent played by Stanley Waxman). Stock footage from The Purple Monster Strikes was also re-used in these serials. The rocket crash footage was re-used for Flying Disc Man from Mars. The costume for Marcia, the Purple Monster's Martian henchwoman, was reused as Lara's outfit in the "Superman On Earth" episode of the Adventures of Superman television show.
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In 1891, Thomas Blott's book The Man From Mars was published. The author claimed to have met a Martian in Kentucky. Unusually for an early contactee, Blott reported that the Martian communicated not via telepathy, but in English.Melton, p. 7.
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Lobster Man From Mars is a 1989 comedy film directed by Stanley Sheff and starring Tony Curtis. The film is a spoof of B-movie sci-fi films from the 1950s. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989.
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Stanley R. Harrison's study, entitled Edgar Fawcett, was published in 1972. It lists many unpublished manuscripts sent in for copyright with such titles as "The Man from Mars" and "The Destruction of the Moon," but no trace of most of these beyond the listing seems to exist.
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The Tiger Woman's official release date is 27 May 1944, although this is actually the date the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges. The serial was re-released on 17 January 1951, under the new title Perils of the Darkest Jungle, between the first runs of Flying Disc Man from Mars and Don Daredevil Rides Again.
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The Purple Monster Strikes is a 1945 Republic Movie serial. It was also released as a Century 66 television film under the title D-Day on Mars (1966). The original production title for the serial was The Purple Shadow Strikes. The sequel to this serial was the 1950 Flying Disc Man from Mars, which used much of the footage from the original.
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The radio hat interior; the headphone could be on either side. In March 1949, Victor Hoeflich held a press conference to introduce the "Man from Mars, Radio Hat". Hoeflich knew a picture would tell the story so he had several teenagers modeling the radio hats for the reporters and photographers. Soon pictures and news stories appeared in newspapers coast to coast.
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Gaye continued to land parts into the 1950s. He got a small role in Cargo to Capetown, starring Broderick Crawford. He also received a part in Republic's science-fiction serial Flying Disc Man from Mars (it was released as a feature film called Missile Monsters in 1958). He appeared in the adventure film Mask of the Avenger, starring Anthony Quinn.
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The June 1949 issue of Radio-Electronics showing the "Man-from-Mars, Radio Hat," modeled by a 15-year-old Hope Lange The radio hat was a portable radio built into a pith helmet that would bring in stations within a 20-mile (32 km) radius. It was introduced in early 1949 for $7.95 as the "Man-from-Mars Radio Hat." Thanks to a successful publicity campaign, the radio hat was sold at stores from coast to coast in the United States. The radio hat was manufactured by American Merri-Lei Corporation of Brooklyn N.Y. The company was a leading supplier of party hats, noise makers and other novelty items. Its founder, Victor Hoeflich, had invented a machine to make paper Hawaiian leis while still in high-school (1914), and by 1949 the company shipped millions of leis to Hawaii each year.
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Students included Peter Colquhoun, Israel Hershberg, Richard Leto and Ephraim Rubenstein. "Francis Cunningham taught us all how to see," said Rubenstein. "He continually implored us to look at nature freshly 'like a new-born babe,' or like 'a man from Mars,' who had never laid eyes before on the things of this earth". Cunningham taught at the Art Students League of New York (1980-1983).
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Stanley Sheff is a Hollywood born director and writer. He has worked in television, stage and screen. His collaboration with Orson Welles eventually led Sheff to direct and co-write the cult science fiction feature Lobster Man From Mars starring Tony Curtis, based on a title suggested by Welles. Feature films and television are not the only types of projects directed by Stanley Sheff.
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She appeared on the June 1949 cover of Radio-Electronics magazine wearing the "Man from Mars" Radio Hat. This portable radio built into a pith helmet was a sensation in 1949. Cover description: The Radio Hat, posed by Hope Lange. page 4 Lange attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, for one year, studying dance and theater before subsequently transferring to Barmore Junior College in New York.
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Flying Disc Man from Mars is a 1950 Republic Pictures 12-chapter black-and- white science fiction adventure film serial, produced by Franklin Adreon, directed by Fred C. Brannon, that stars Walter Reed, Lois Collier, Gregory Gaye, James Craven, Harry Lauter, and Richard Irving. Disc Man is considered a weak example of the serial medium, even compared to other post-World War II serials.Weiss and Goodgold 1973, p. 305.
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The first changes in 1970 occurred in the issue dated 24 January, when three new strips appeared, all reprints from Buster: The Kid Commandos, Consternation Street, and Monty Muddle – The Man from Mars (originally titled Milkiway – The Man from Mars). These were introduced as part of a relaunch of the comic: by once again bringing in some of the changes a few weeks ahead of the relaunch, as had been done in the Spring of 1969, the publisher hoped to disguise the true extent of the changes. The Kid Commandos was a war story about three cockney children stranded in occupied France in World War Two. Drawn by Tom Kerr, the Sparrow children – Tommy, Jan and Podge – were on the run from the Germans each week, in a single page strip set in 1940. This was another reprint from Buster, in which it appeared from 9 January to 24 July 1965, under the imaginative title The Sparrows Go To War.
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Dawkins R. A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays. Phoenix, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 2003. In American structuralist linguistics, the Martian approach is recommended for language description: :The descriptive analyst must be guided by certain very fixed principles if he is to be objective in describing accurately any language or part of any language. It would be excellent if he could adopt a completely man-from-Mars attitude toward any language he analyzes and describes.
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The Astronauts (Polish: Astronauci) is the first science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem published as a book, in 1951.His earlier work, the science fiction novel The Man from Mars was serialized in a weekly during 1946. To write the novel, Lem received advance payment from publishing house Czytelnik (Warsaw). The book became an instant success and was translated into several languages (first into Czech, which was published in 1956).
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Collier's acting career started in 1938, when she had a small but credited role in A Desperate Adventure, starring Ramon Novarro and Marian Marsh. From 1940 through 1949, her career would be active and somewhat successful, with her playing mostly heroine roles in B-movies. During that period, she often starred opposite western stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, and Dennis Moore. In 1950, she starred in the sci-fi serial The Flying Disc Man from Mars.
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They were carefully selected: Jubal means 'the father of all,' Michael stands for 'Who is like God?. ;Valentine Michael Smith: Known as Michael Smith or "Mike", the "Man from Mars" is born on Mars in the interval between the landing of the Envoy and the arrival of the Champion. He is 20 years old when the Champion arrives and brings him to Earth. ;Gillian (Jill) Boardman: A nurse at Bethesda Hospital who sneaks Mike out of government custody.
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His volumes of verse included Song and Story (1884) and Songs of Doubt and Dream (1891). His verse was frequently anthologized. Fawcett's rather remarkable novels Solarion (about a dog given human intelligence) and Douglas Duane (1885) (on scientific body-switching), as well as The Ghost of Guy Thryle (1895) (which has astral projection as a means of interplanetary travel) deserve to be better known. "The Man from Mars" was published in the June 1892 issue of Short Stories: A Magazine of Select Fiction.
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In 1946, Harold M. Sherman published a pulp science fiction book entitled The Green Man: A Visitor From Space. The cover illustration was of a normal-looking and proportioned human being, albeit with a green skin. Nationally syndicated columns by humorist Hal Boyle spoke of a green man from Mars in his flying saucer in early July 1947 during the height of the brand new flying saucer phenomenon in the U.S. that started June 24 after Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting and the Roswell UFO incident. However, Boyle did not describe his green Martian as "small".
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The secret identity of DC Comics superhero the Atom – introduced by science fiction writer Gardner Fox in 1961 – is named after Palmer. A newer edition of Oahspe as a tribute edition to Ray Palmer was published in 2009 titled Oahspe - Raymond A. Palmer Tribute Edition. In September 2013, Palmer was posthumously named to the First Fandom Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the 71st World Science Fiction Convention. In 2013, Tarcher/Penguin published a biography of Palmer called The Man From Mars and written by Fred Nadis.
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Another children's show that aired on WHBQ from 1955 to 1957 was Mars Patrol, which featured a young Wink Martindale who presented segments of Flash Gordon film serials and interviewed local school children seated in a mock 'spaceship'. Martindale later became a popular television game show host."Our Man from Mars" from In The Media During the 1970s and early 1980s, news anchor Marge Thrasher hosted a local talk show titled Straight Talk (a title used on other RKO General stations), that aired at 8:00 a.m. on weekdays.
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Pickett appeared in such roles as Archie Bunker as part of a stage comedy revue about television, presented in Boston, titled Don't Touch That Dial. Pickett appeared in films in several classic genres: beach movie, It's a Bikini World (1967); biker, Chrome and Hot Leather (1971); horror, Deathmaster (1972) and the sci-fi comedy film, Lobster Man From Mars (1989). In 2004, Pickett served as the narrator of the children's film Spookley the Square Pumpkin. For many years, Pickett performed for "The Lost 45s with Barry Scott" Halloween show in the Boston area.
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For convenience, an online index is available at An index to the British reprints is at Features included a quiz, an author profile, and a comic strip, titled "Ray Holmes, Scientific Detective"; the reader was supposed to solve the mystery based on the clues given in the strip. It was a failure and disappeared after the first issue.Mike Ashley, "Fantastic Adventures", in Tymn & Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 232-240. The back cover, "The Man from Mars", by Frank R. Paul, was more successful, and illustrated back covers became a regular feature of the magazine.
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Young filmmaker Stevie Horowitz eagerly awaits a meeting with big shot Hollywood film producer J.P. Shelldrake. Shelldrake has been desperately searching for a way to avoid problems with the IRS and unpaid millions owed them in back taxes. His brilliant yet overpaid accountant devises a scheme to allow the producer to write off the expenses of his next movie release, but only if the film is a box office flop. Armed with his foolproof plan, Shelldrake agrees to meet with Stevie and screen his film "Lobster Man From Mars" (financed by Stevie's jailed con man Uncle Joey).
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Persons studied electrical engineering in college, leading to a very successful business running electrical lines in rural Alabama (benefiting from Rural Electrification Administration contracts); in addition to financial gain, he also won considerable popularity. When running for office in 1950, Persons gained notoriety by touring the state in a helicopter (prompting one opponent to dub him "the man from Mars"). He won the Democratic nomination by defeating a crowded field that included former governor Chauncey Sparks. In office, his notable accomplishments included abolishing flogging in Alabama's prisons, advocating for the establishment of Alabama Public Television, and imposing speed limits on state highways.
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The music video made its U.S. television debut on Solid Gold on January 31, 1981, and not only became the first rap video ever broadcast on MTV, but was part of its first 90-video rotation. Set in the East Village section of Manhattan, the "Man from Mars" or "voodoo god" (dancer William Barnes in the white suit and top hat) is the introductory and central figure. Barnes also choreographed the piece.IMDB, "Blondie: Video Hits" Much of the video is a one-take scene of Debbie Harry dancing down the street, passing by graffiti artists, Uncle Sam, an American Indian, child ballet dancer, and a goat.
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Gunther started to plan Inside U.S.A. as early as 1936, when his idea was to create a two-part book, with the first part focused on the power structure of Washington, DC, and the second part a "snapshot" of the entirety of the United States. He did not begin serious work on the project until 1944, by which time his plan was to write about America from the perspective of an outsider. After living outside the country for more than a decade, he considered himself to have become an outsider. He joked that he was "writing for the man from Mars" and that he also was from Mars.
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"Man From Mars" was written by Joni Mitchell, and the song appears on the CD with Kristen Vigard singing the vocal from the film (dubbing Illeana Douglas's performance). A version of the song featuring Joni Mitchell's vocal, backed with the same music track, was on the initial pressing of 40,000 soundtrack CD copies. This CD version was recalled and the soundtrack was re-released a week later with Kristen Vigard's vocal, as heard in the movie.JoniMitchell.com/JMDL Library: Grace Of My Heart Soundtrack Recalled: AllStar Website, September 18, 1996 Mitchell later re-recorded the song with different-styled music for her 1998 album Taming the Tiger.
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The twelve rather whimsical tracks bore names like "Unidentified Flying Object" and "The Little Man From Mars" in an attempt to make electronic music more accessible to the general public. In fact, "Unidentified Flying Object" and another of the album's cuts, "Electronic Can-Can" eventually became theme music for "Wonderama", a Metromedia Television children's program of the early 1970s. Though most of the melodies were original, two borrowed from the classics. "Swan's Splashdown" was based on Pyotr Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Little Swans" while "Countdown At 6" borrowed from Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours", much as Allan Sherman did in 1963 with his hit recording, "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh".
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Byrne 100 Though he was gaining adherents, Aberhart insisted that his aim was not to enter politics, but to persuade existing parties to adopt social credit in their platforms. To this end, he appeared at the UFA convention of 15 January 1935. The night before, he organised a reception for delegates. Besides Aberhart, it featured actors portraying two characters of whom Aberhart had been making considerable use in presentations around the province: the Man from Mars, who expressed bewilderment that poverty could exist in the midst of plenty and that governments were doing nothing about it, and Kant B. Dunn, who brought up straw man arguments against social credit for Aberhart to dismantle.
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Fleetway Companion by Steve Holland, p44 Parlett was also known from his other humour strips in Buster including Rent-A-Ghost Ltd, The Happy Family and Bonehead.Reg Parlett's contributions to Valiant and Buster (including the long running Billy Bunter strip in Valiant, which continued in Valiant and Smash) The half-page humour strip Monty Muddle – The Man from Mars recounted the misadventures of spaceman Monty Muddle (a name rather less convincing than the character's original name, Milkiway). It originally ran in Buster from 28 May 1960 to 10 March 1962, with art credited to Nadal/Rafart. He flew about in his small bubble-domed spacecraft trying to make friends with the Earth people.
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Macnee played the role of actor David Mathews in the made-for-television movie Rehearsal for Murder (1982), which starred Robert Preston and Lynn Redgrave. The movie was from a script written by Columbo co-creators Richard Levinson and William Link. He took over Leo G. Carroll's role as the head of U.N.C.L.E. His character being Sir John Raleigh in Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen-Years-Later Affair (1983), produced by Michael Sloan. He was featured in the science fiction television movie Super Force (1990) as E. B. Hungerford (the series which followed only featured Macnee's voice as a Max Headroom- style computer simulation of his character), as a supporting character in the parody film Lobster Man From Mars (1989) as Prof.
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By chance, one of the club's best customers is a rough football player for the New Orleans Saints known as "Snake" (quarterback Ken Stabler), who used to play football for the University of Alabama alongside Forrest. Snake fears for his career as the Saints are having a horrible season, and recruits Forrest for the Saints. Forrest is unsure of playing in the NFL, citing how the players are much bigger than in college and how, "with all that gear, you look like a man from Mars or something". Forrest is astute about health issues, noting that, as he has aged, some of his famous running ability has been sapped, but agrees to run on the basis of providing for himself and his ailing wife, Jenny.
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Two-stroke engines weigh less and provide a better acceleration. Many riders equipped their bikes with working headlights that added a dramatic effect. There were a small number of operators who handled, and performed in, globes; among those that did were Louis “Speedy” Babbs, Zeke Shumway, and Jack Hatcher. Babbs claimed that because riding in a globe required a different technique than riding in a motordrome, it was difficult to operate and perform the routines. In 1947, after nearly 20 years of riding motordromes, Babbs acquired a globe and booked it with carnivals across the eastern United States, marketing himself as the “Man from Mars”, and on several occasions, he fell during the job and was almost killed, situations like this were not as frequent while he rode the motordrome.
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