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Miramax and Guillermo del Toro will together produce a remake of the horror film Don't Be Afraid of the Dark that first aired on TV in 1973. Comic book artist and writer Troy Nixey will make his feature directorial debut with the film. Del Toro himself and his writing partner Matthew Robbins (Mimic) will be adapting the screenplay for the remake. The original film was directed by John Newland and gained...
And you thought all those salvia videos on YouTube were crazy. Check out this 1961 episode from the Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond program in which, as Neurophilosophy explains, "director and presenter John Newland ingests psilocybin under laboratory conditions, to...
In the January 4th, 1961 episode of One Step Beyond , director and presenter John Newland ingests psilocybin under laboratory conditions, to investigate whether or not the hallucinogenic mushroom can enhance his abilities of extra-sensory perception. The programme was apparently inspired by a 1959 book called The Sacred Mushroom , by parapsychologist Andrija Puharich, who is known for taking the spoon-bending...
“The Lost Cause” The Effort to Regain It—Address of Captain John Newland Maffitt. Published in the New York Times, May 13, 1879 Captain John N. Maffitt delivered the address at the Confederate Memorial Day services in Wilmington, N.C. on Friday. The following extract will show the kind of talk most applauded in the South: “The [...]
Today I came across a promising church website, that of the Church of St. John Newland in Hull, UK. There the sermon Humility caught my eye, and as it turns out, the Rev. Lee McMunn has some good things to think about in this sermon on the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax [...]
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark , Starring Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, William Demarest & Barbara Anderson, Written by Nigel McKeand, Directed by John Newland, Lorimar Productions, 1973 I must have been around nine when I saw this made for TV movie, and it scared the crap out of me. Originally released in October of 1973 just in time for Halloween, this short little shocker is legendary among those who’ve seen...
A staple of the right-wing blog commentariat is an odd duck named Spurwing Plover, although he goes under other names. I've never spotted him around here, though I did pick him out at Patterico's under the name "krazy kagu". Anyway,...
Celebrity Designers Reinterpret Famous Eames Plywood Chair to Help AIDS
Orphans in East Africa
NEW YORK, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Peace House Foundation (PHF), a
U.S. based, non-profit organization committed to educating children
affected by the AIDS pandemic in East Africa, announced today that Herman
Miller, Inc. will sponsor a one-of-a-kind charity event to benefit the
Foundation's mission....
