Top Gun - Inspirations. The primary inspiration for the film was discovered by producer Jerry Bruckheimer when he found an article in the May 1983 issue of California magazine which would form the basis of the film. The article, Top Guns, was about fighter pilots at the Miramar Naval Air Station, located near San Diego, nicknamed "Fightertown USA". Bruckheimer's reaction to the article was instantaneous: "This looks like Star Wars on earth." However, producer Don Simpson, who had worked on Flashdance and B ...

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Top Gun, Top Gun - Conception, Top Gun - Inspirations, Top Gun - Script, Top Gun - Casting, Top Gun - Plot summary, Top Gun - Music, Top Gun - Success, Top Gun - Awards, Top Gun - Box office performance, Top Gun - Video release, Top Gun - Theme Park Ride, Top Gun - Other, Top Gun - Trivia, Top Gun - Film, Top Gun - References in popular culture

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1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. In the UK the first major 1980s fashion trend was sparked by the arrival of the New Romantics in the popular music charts in 1980. The election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 is also considered to be a major turning point. In America, the decade was most poignan ...

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• 1980s - Trends and Fashions
• 1980s - Music
• 1980s - Television
• 1980s - Film
• 1980s - Video Games
• 1980s - Others
• 1980s - People
• 1980s - Entertainers
• 1980s - Sports figures
• 1980s - Films
• 1980s - Television
• 1980s - Music

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Cheap Trick are an American rock and roll band from Rockford, Illinois that gained popularity in the late 1970s. The band members are Rick Nielsen (guitarist and main songwriter), Bun E. Carlos (born Brad Carlson) (drums), Robin Zander (vocals and guitars), and Tom Petersson (bass guitar). Nielsen and Petersson formed the band after their former band called Fuse broke up shortly after they had released their debut album Fuse in 1969. The band was signed to Epic Records and released Cheap Trick in 1977. Cheap Trick's most famous album is At Budokan, which was recorded at Tokyo's famous Ni ...

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• Cheap Trick - Discography

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The Brit Awards are the annual United Kingdom pop music awards founded by the British Phonographic Industry. The awards began in 1977 as the BPI Awards and were renamed The Britannia Awards, or Brit Awards, in 1989. Brit is also a backronym for British Record Industry Trust which supports youngsters in the arts and education mainly at the BRIT School in Croydon, London. Strong music industry sponsorship and involvement mean that awards are given without much democratic process and, many suspect, for strongly commercial r ...

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• Brit Awards - Selected Famous and Infamous Brit Award Incidents
• Brit Awards - Ronnie Wood vs Brandon Block 2000
• Brit Awards - Robbie Williams vs Liam Gallagher 2000
• Brit Awards - Belle and Sebastian beat Steps to best newcomer award 1999
• Brit Awards - Chumbawumba throw water over John Prescott 1998
• Brit Awards - Jarvis Cocker’s stage invasion during Michael Jackson’s Earth Song 1996
• Brit Awards - The KLF a machine gun and a dead sheep 1992
• Brit Awards - The Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood Car Crash 1989
• Brit Awards - Awards
• Brit Awards - 2006
• Brit Awards - 2005
• Brit Awards - 2004
• Brit Awards - 2003
• Brit Awards - 2002
• Brit Awards - 2001
• Brit Awards - 2000
• Brit Awards - 1999
• Brit Awards - 1998
• Brit Awards - 1997
• Brit Awards - 1996
• Brit Awards - 1995
• Brit Awards - 1994
• Brit Awards - 1993
• Brit Awards - 1992
• Brit Awards - 1991
• Brit Awards - 1990
• Brit Awards - 1989
• Brit Awards - 1988
• Brit Awards - 1987
• Brit Awards - 1986
• Brit Awards - 1985
• Brit Awards - 1984
• Brit Awards - 1983
• Brit Awards - 1982
• Brit Awards - 1977
• Brit Awards - Acts With Four or More Brit Awards
• Brit Awards - External link

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Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor. Val Kilmer - Overview. Known for roles as diverse as the Elvis-like teen idol Nick Rivers in Top Secret! to real-life legends gunslinger Doc Holliday, porn star John Holmes, rock idol Jim Morrison, and cultural hero Robert Elliot Burns, to larger-than-life literary characters like Madmartigan in Willow, Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever and Simon Templar in The Saint. In the 2002 fil ...

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• Val Kilmer - Overview
• Val Kilmer - Biography
• Val Kilmer - Upcoming projects
• Val Kilmer - Partial filmography

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Typecasting is the process by which an actor is strongly identified with a role or genre. Central casting often exhibits a pattern of placing the actor in subsequent similar character roles after his or her first success. An actor may become typecast either because of a strong identification with a particular role or because he or she doesn't have the versatility or talent to move on to other roles. There have been instances in which an actor has been so strongly identified with a role, particularly title roles, as to make it i ...

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• Typecasting acting - Actors frequently typecast

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Bolliger and Mabillard (short: B&M) is a notable roller coaster manufacturer based in Switzerland. The company was started in the 1980s. The company, named after Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard, pioneered the inverted rollercoaster. They are well known among enthusiasts for their "glass smooth" rides, although some argue that being too smooth detracts from being on a roller coaster. Bolliger and Mabillard originally worked for Intamin AG before they created their own company. During their time at Intamin they he ...

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Films of the war genre deal with warfare, usually focusing on naval, air, or land battles, but sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, training, or other related subjects. Sometimes they focus on daily military or civilian life in the midst of battle or the threat of battle. Their stories may be fiction, historical re-enactment, docudrama or documentary in nature. Films made in the years following World War I tended to emphasise the horror or futility of modern warfare, as in All Quiet on the Weste ...

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• War film - Other Modern Genres

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Paramount Canada's Wonderland is an amusement park in Vaughan, Ontario, a northern suburb of Toronto. The park has one of the greatest variety of rides in North America, with over 200 attractions. Wonderland is on the east side of Highway 400 between Rutherford Road (exit 33) and Major Mackenzie Drive (exit 35), 13 km (8 miles) north of Highway 401, 6 km (3 miles) from Highway 407 and 64 km (41 miles) south of Barrie. It is bounded by Highway 400 to the west, Jane Street to the east and has three entrances. Regular transit access is p ...

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• Paramount Canada's Wonderland - Park history
• Paramount Canada's Wonderland - Attractions
• Paramount Canada's Wonderland - Water slides
• Paramount Canada's Wonderland - Roller Coasters
• Paramount Canada's Wonderland - Flat Rides
• Paramount Canada's Wonderland - Former attractions

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Academy Award for Best Song Most awards won - (nominations) 4 : Sammy Cahn (26) 4 : Alan Menken (10) 4 : Johnny Mercer (18) 4 : James Van Heusen (14) 3 : Ray Evans (7) 3 : Jay Livingston (7) 3 : Tim Rice (5) 3 : Harry Warren (11) 3 : Paul Francis Webster (16) 2 : Howard Ashman (7) 2 : Burt Bacharach (5) 2 : Alan Bergman (15) 2 : Ma ...

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• Academy Award for Best Song - 1930s
• Academy Award for Best Song - 1940s
• Academy Award for Best Song - 1950s
• Academy Award for Best Song - 1960s
• Academy Award for Best Song - 1970s
• Academy Award for Best Song - 1980s
• Academy Award for Best Song - 1990s
• Academy Award for Best Song - 2000s

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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotes in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list in 2005 in a 3-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by actor Pierce Brosnan and had commentary from many Hollywood actors and filmmakers. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," said by Clark Gable in the Civil War epic Gone with the ...

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• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes - Criteria
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes - The List

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1986 in film - Top grossing films. Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer Crocodile Dundee Platoon, starring Charlie Sheen The Karate Kid, Part II Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Back to School Aliens, starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn The Golden Child, starring Eddie Murphy Ruthless People, starring Danny Devito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold ...

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• 1986 in film - Events
• 1986 in film - Top grossing films
• 1986 in film - Academy Awards
• 1986 in film - Births
• 1986 in film - Deaths
• 1986 in film - Other movies released

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The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. Academy Award for Film Editing - 1930s. 1934 Eskimo - Conrad A. Nervig Cleopatra - Anne Bauchens One Night of Love - Gene Milford 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ralph Dawson David Copperfield - Robert J. Kern The Informer - George Hively Les Misérables - Barbara McLean L ...

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• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1930s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1940s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1950s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1960s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1970s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1980s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1990s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 2000s

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A jester or fool is a specific type of clown mostly associated with the Middle Ages. Jesters typically wore brightly colored clothing in a motley pattern. Their hats, sometimes called the "cap' n 'bells", "cockscomb" (obsolete coxcomb), or "Schellenmütze" in German were especially distinctive; made of cloth, they were floppy with three points (liliripes) each of which had a jingle bell at the end. The three points of the hat represent the asses' ears and tail worn by jesters in earlier times. Other things distinctive about the ...

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• Court jester - The art of the jester
• Court jester - History
• Court jester - The jester in literature
• Court jester - The jester in other media
• Court jester - Shakespearian jesters
• Court jester - The jester as a symbol
• Court jester - Books
• Court jester - Other uses

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The area has long been inhabited by the Kumeyaay people. The first European to visit the region was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. Sailing under the flag of Spain, in 1542, Cabrillo named what is now known as San Diego, San Miguel. The San Diego Bay and the area of present-day San Diego were given their current names by Sebastian Vizcaino when he was mapping the coastline of Alta California for Spain in 1602. The explorers camped near a Native American village called Nipaguay and celebrated Mass in honor of San Diego de Alcala (Saint Didacus of Alcalá). Cali ...

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San Diego California, San Diego California - History, San Diego California - Geography and climate, San Diego California - Demographics, San Diego California - Current estimates, San Diego California - Communities and neighborhoods, San Diego California - Economy, San Diego California - Crime, San Diego California - Education, San Diego California - Culture, San Diego California - Cuisine, San Diego California - Events, San Diego California - Shopping malls, San Diego California - Sites of interest, San Diego California - Sports, San Diego California - San Diego in popular culture, San Diego California - Transportation, San Diego California - Public mass transportation, San Diego California - Private motoring, San Diego California - Cycling, San Diego California - Air, San Diego California - Sea, San Diego California - Military institutions, San Diego California - Sister cities

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An Ji Hwan - Broadcast TV. MBC News Desk (News presenter) Section TV Entertainment Telecom (TV Show Reporter in 1999, News presenter, MBC) 24 (television) (replacing Kiefer Sutherland, Korea TV Edition, MBC) Smallville (TV series) (replacing Michael Rosenbaum, Korea TV Edition, MBC) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (replacing Nicholas Brendon, Korea TV Edition, MBC) 5th Republic (narration of Korea Democracy Drama, MBC) 3 Man Forum (Korea Gag Show casting, MBC)< ...

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An Ji Hwan, An Ji Hwan - Roles, An Ji Hwan - Broadcast TV, An Ji Hwan - Movie dubbing

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Brit Awards - 2006. Main articles: 2006 Brit Awards, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]See also:

Brit Awards, Brit Awards - Selected Famous and Infamous Brit Award Incidents, Brit Awards - Ronnie Wood vs Brandon Block 2000, Brit Awards - Robbie Williams vs Liam Gallagher 2000, Brit Awards - Belle and Sebastian beat Steps to best newcomer award 1999, Brit Awards - Chumbawumba throw water over John Prescott 1998, Brit Awards - Jarvis Cocker’s stage invasion during Michael Jackson’s Earth Song 1996, Brit Awards - The KLF a machine gun and a dead sheep 1992, Brit Awards - The Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood Car Crash 1989, Brit Awards - Awards, Brit Awards - 2006, Brit Awards - 2005, Brit Awards - 2004, Brit Awards - 2003, Brit Awards - 2002, Brit Awards - 2001, Brit Awards - 2000, Brit Awards - 1999, Brit Awards - 1998, Brit Awards - 1997, Brit Awards - 1996, Brit Awards - 1995, Brit Awards - 1994, Brit Awards - 1993, Brit Awards - 1992, Brit Awards - 1991, Brit Awards - 1990, Brit Awards - 1989, Brit Awards - 1988, Brit Awards - 1987, Brit Awards - 1986, Brit Awards - 1985, Brit Awards - 1984, Brit Awards - 1983, Brit Awards - 1982, Brit Awards - 1977, Brit Awards - Acts With Four or More Brit Awards, Brit Awards - External link

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StarCraft - Popularity. Even as of 2006, StarCraft is still one of the most popular online games in the world. The game itself has its own culture, similar to Slashdot's and Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) communities. In the early 2000s, the game became extremely popular among South Korean online gamers, to the point of being exaggeratedly referred to as the national sport of South Korea by avid gamers, and the majority of StarCraft players now come from that country. The origin of t ...

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StarCraft, StarCraft - Basic gameplay, StarCraft - Balance and design improvements, StarCraft - Multiplayer, StarCraft - Single-player storyline, StarCraft - Influences, StarCraft - Cast, StarCraft - Culture, StarCraft - Popularity, StarCraft - Novels and eBooks, StarCraft - Custom scenarios, StarCraft - Replays audio commentaries and VODs, StarCraft - News, StarCraft - Sequel, StarCraft - Awards, StarCraft - Notes

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Paramount Pictures Inc. can trace its beginnings to the creation in May, 1912, of the Famous Players Film Company. Founder Adolph Zukor. who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had comple ...

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Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures - Early history, Paramount Pictures - The 1950s to the 1970s, Paramount Pictures - From the 1980s to the present day, Paramount Pictures - Notable Paramount movies, Paramount Pictures - 1920s, Paramount Pictures - 1930s, Paramount Pictures - 1940s, Paramount Pictures - 1950s, Paramount Pictures - 1960s, Paramount Pictures - 1970s, Paramount Pictures - 1980s, Paramount Pictures - 1990s, Paramount Pictures - 2000s, Paramount Pictures - Notable Paramount TV Shows, Paramount Pictures - 1960s, Paramount Pictures - 1970s, Paramount Pictures - 1980s, Paramount Pictures - 1990s, Paramount Pictures - 2000s, Paramount Pictures - Notes on Sources

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War films produced during and just after the Vietnam War era tended to reflect the disillusionment of the American public towards the war. Most films made after the Vietnam War delved more deeply into the horrors of war than movies made before it. (This is not to say that there were no such films before the Vietnam War; Paths of Glory is a notable critique of war from 1957, the very beginning of the Vietnam War.) The last film of what can be called the pre-Vietnam style is The Green Berets. Examples of post-Vietnam style films ...

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War film, War film - Other Modern Genres

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