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The Fab Faux The Fab Faux is a musical tribute band performing the works of The Beatles. It features Will Lee, the bass player for Late Show with David Letterman, and Jimmy Vivino, guitarist for Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
The Fabric of the Cosmos The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004) is the second book on theoretical physics, cosmology and string theory written by Brian Greene, professor and co-director of Columbia's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP). ISCAP member list URL accessed August 14, 2006
The Fabulous 8 Track Sounds of Superdrag The Fablulous 8-Track Sounds of Superdrag is a seven-song album from Superdrag released by Darla Records in 1995. This EP—Superdrag's first—demonstrated many of the stylistic traits typical of the band throughout its existence, including heavily distorted and often simple guitar work, bass guitar lines which convey the instrumental melody (as in Really Thru and Load), long periods where one or more instruments are either largely idle or absent (Bloody Hell and Load), and exstensive use of vocal harmonies (Sugar, Really Thru, and Load).
The Fabulous Dorseys The Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 fictionalized biographical film which tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
The Fabulous Moolah Lillian Ellison, better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah (born July 22, 1923), is a female professional wrestler who is marketed by World Wrestling Entertainment for holding the record for the longest title reign by any athlete in any professional sport.
The Fabulous Poodles The Fabulous Poodles were a British pre-new wave band formed in 1975. Known for quirky stage antics (such as exploding ukuleles) as well as songs (such as Bionic Man a song about a person who is badly injured in a car accident so doctors resort to repairing him with machine parts, he at first enjoys his new body, but then realizes he's just a "man made freak", and Rumbaba Boogie an ode to candy.
The Fabulous Thunderbirds The Fabulous Thunderbirds are a blues-rock band, formed in 1974 (see 1974 in music). After performing for several years in the Austin, Texas blues scene, they earned a recording contract with Chrysalis Records and later signed to Arista.
The Face The Face was a magazine started in May 1980 by Nick Logan out of his publishing house Wagadon. Logan had previously created titles such as Smash Hits, and had been an editor at the New Musical Express in the 1970s during one of its most successful periods.
The Face Behind The Mask (1941 film) The Face Behind the Mask is a 1941 film which tells the story of a hopeful new immigrant, Janos Szaby (Peter Lorre), arriving in New York City, who is trapped in a hotel fire that leaves his face hideously scarred. Refused employment although still able to work, the only way he can survive is by turning to theft.
The Face in the Frost The Face in the Frost is a short 1969 fantasy novel by the author John Bellairs. It centers on two accomplished wizards, Prospero ("and not the one you're thinking of") and Roger Bacon, tracking down the source of a great magical evil.
The Face of Battle The Face of Battle is a 1976 non-fiction book on military history by the English military historian John Keegan. It deals with the structure of warfare in three time periods medieval Europe, the Napoleonic Era and World War I, by analyzing three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme.
The Face of Evil The Face of Evil is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 1 to January 22, 1977. This serial marked the debut of Louise Jameson as the Doctor's new companion, Leela.
The Face of Fu Manchu The Face of Fu Manchu is a 1965 thriller based on the character of Fu Manchu, the oriental villain created by Sax Rohmer. Don Sharp directed, with Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu and Nigel Green as Nayland Smith, the Scotland Yard detective in his pursuit.
The Face of War [Face of War (also known as The Visage of War; in Spanish] La Cara de la Guerra) ([[1940) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador DalĂ­. It was painted during a brief period when the artist lived in California.
The Face on the Barroom Floor (poem) "The Face on the Barroom Floor" is a poem written by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy in 1887. Written in ballad form, it tells the story of an artist ruined by love; having lost his beloved Madeline to another man, he has turned to drink.
The Faceless Ones The Faceless Ones is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from April 8 to May 13, 1967. This story sees the departure of Michael Craze and Anneke Wills as the Doctor's companions Ben Jackson and Polly.
The Fact of the Matter The Fact of the Matter is a poem by prolific Australian writer and poet Edward Dyson. It was first published in The Weekly Bulletin magazine on July 30 1892 in reply to fellow poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.
The Faction The Faction are a punk rock band from San Jose, California that is closely linked to the underground skateboarding culture. Steve Caballero, one of skateboarding's brightest stars (for 20+ years he's been, arguably, the best all-around skateboarder in the world) played bass, and then guitar, in the Faction.
The Factory The Factory was Andy Warhol's original New York City studio from 1963 to 1968, although his later studios were known as The Factory as well. The Factory was located on the fifth floor at 231 East 47th Street, in Midtown Manhattan.
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories is a book of short stories by Canadian author Yann Martel. First published as a paperback by Knopf Canada in the spring of 1993, it garnered little attention outside Canada until 2004, after Martel's award-winning Life of Pi gained worldwide popularity and people became interested the author's work.
The Facts of Death The Facts of Death, first published in 1998, was the third novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Benson's novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies). Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright -- the final James Bond novel to do so -- it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
The Facts of Life (album) The Facts of Life is a 2000 album by Black Box Recorder, whose members include Luke Haines. The title track, The Facts Of Life, was released as a single, and was lauded by Mark and Lard, BBC Radio 1 disc jockeys.
The Facts of Life (film) The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as middle-aged people who have an affair despite being married to other people. Written, directed, and produced by the longtime Hope associates Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film was more serious than many other contemporary Hope vehicles.
The Fad Gadget Singles The Fad Gadget Singles is the 1986 collection of singles by British musician Fad Gadget ("4m" was the B side to Life on the Line). The album versions of these songs are not only of differing lengths, they were also often alternative mixes.
The Faders The Faders were a British female pop punk band formed in January 2004 by bassist/keyboardist Toy Valentine and drummer Cherisse Osei. Frontwoman and lead guitarist, Molly Lorenne was later introduced to the band by a mutual friend, completing the lineup.
The Faerie Queene The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published first in three books in 1590, and later in six books in 1596. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it was the first work written in Spenserian stanza.
The Fair Fiorita The Fair Fiorita is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales. Italo Calvino included a variant of it, The Princesses Wed to the First Passer-By, in his Italian Folktales.
The Fair Store The Fair Store, Chicago, Illinois - Discount Department Store, evolved over a number of years into a what may be the first discount department store, founded in the 1874-75.'Christmas on State Street 1940's and Beyond ISBN 0-7385-1972-3 by Robert P.
The Faith The Faith was an early American hardcore punk band, from Washington DC, with strong connections to the scene centered around the Dischord label. Despite of their short lifespan, and limited Discography, they were extremely influential on Emocore.
The Faithful Anchor The Faithful Anchor is a 2001 album by Unwed Sailor. This was the band's first full-length album, featuring eight instrumental pieces, and one song with vocals by bassist Johnathon Ford called "The Quiet Hour.
The Faithful Hussar The faithful Hussar — in German, "Der treue Husar" – is a folk song, presumed to be from 1825. It is prominently featured in the Stanley Kubrick film "Paths of Glory", where a female German prisoner of war, portrayed by Kubrick's later wife Christiane Kubrick, sings this song in front of French soldiers, stirring strong emotions among them.
The Faithful River The Faithful River was a highly acclaimed 1912 novel by Polish writer Stefan Żeromski. The novel is set in Poland during the January Uprising from 1863 to 1865 and chronicles the story of a wounded soldier who is nursed back to health by a young woman in charge of the manor house of her absent owners.
The Falcon (literary character) The character of Gay Stanhope Falcon, also known simply as The Falcon, was created in 1940 by Michael Arlen in his short story, "Gay Falcon," as a sort of freelance adventurer and troubleshooter, definitely on the hardboiled side, a man who makes his living "keeping his mouth shut and engaging in dangerous enterprises." The Falcon was quickly brought to the screen by RKO in 1941, in the film The Gay Falcon, in which he was redefined as a suave English gentleman-detective with a weakness for beautiful women.
The Falcon's Malteser The Falcon's Malteser is one of the Diamond Brothers series of books by Anthony Horowitz. Set in London, the book tells the story of Nick Diamond, one of a pair of teen brother detectives, who is hired by a midget to protect a box of Malteser chocolates.
The Fall Formed during punk rock's rise, The Fall never quite fit into that movement or its post-punk/new wave offshoots. For over a quarter of a century, The Fall have continued to produce music which varies richly in both character and quality.
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a novel and British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. Both book and TV series were written by David Nobbs, and the screenplay for the first series was adapted by Nobbs from the novel, though certain subplots in the novel were considered too dark or risqué for television and toned down or omitted from the TV series.
The Fall of America: Poems of These States A book of poetry by Allen Ginsberg, published by City Lights in 1973 for which Ginsberg won the National Book Award. It's characterized by a prophetic tone inspired by his idols William Blake and Walt Whitman and content more overtly political than most of his previous poetry.
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream is a poem written by the English Romantic John Keats. Keats composed "The Fall of Hyperion" by reworking, expanding, and personally narrating lines from his earlier fragmented epic poem "Hyperion".
The Fall of Man In Abrahamic religion, The Fall of Man or The Story of the Fall, or simply The Fall, refers to humanity's fall from a state of innocent bliss to a state of sinful understanding. The cause of this Fall was disobedience to God and the result of it was that humankind could no longer remain in God's Garden of Eden, or walk in the sight of God.
The Fall of Math The Fall of Math is the first album by the Sheffield, UK, instrumental math rock band 65daysofstatic, released on September 20, 2004 through Monotreme Records. It contains what is arguably their most famous track, "Retreat!
The Fall of the House of Labor The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 is a book published in 1988 by Yale University historian David Montgomery. The book covers the changing tide of organized labor from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the First Red Scare and what Dr.
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 film) The Fall of the House of Usher is a 1928 short horror film adaptation of the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a brother and sister who live under a family curse.
The Fall of the Roman Empire (film) The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and The Rank Organisation, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston with Jaime Prades and Michal Waszynski as associate producers.
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy is a three-piece post-hardcore/prog-rock outfit from Mukilteo, Washington. The band consists of Thomas Erak (lead vocals, guitar), Timothy Ward (bass, backup vocals), and Andrew Forsman, (drums).
The Fall of Yquatine The Fall of Yquatine is a BBC Books original novel written by Nick Walters and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion.
The Fall on Deaf Ears The Fall on Deaf Ears was a musical group from El Paso most notable for featuring Cedric Bixler Zavala of At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, who played drums, Clint Newsom of Rhythm of Black Lines and The Hades Kick on guitar. The Fall on Deaf Ears played post-hardcore typical of bands such as Bikini Kill, The Nation of Ulysses and Circus Lupus.
The Fallen Ones The Fallen Ones is a Sci Fi Channel original movie from 2005. Based on the Biblical reference to giants (Genesis 6:4), the story involves an archaeologist uncovering and ultimately fighting one of the Nephilim.
The Falling Torch The Falling Torch (a science-fiction novel by Algis Budrys, 1959) is about a group of freedom fighters who attempt the nearly hopeless task of loosing planet Earth from the grip of a race of alien invaders. The story has obvious overtones of freeing the author's homeland (Lithuania) from its Soviet occupiers.
The Fallout Trust The Fallout Trust are a band on the At Large Recordings label, formed in 2001 and are based in Dalston, East London. Their third single, Washout, from debut album, In Case of the Flood reached Number 75 in the UK charts in February 2006.
The Family Book The Family Book (Megan Tingley, 1 October 2003 ISBN 0-316-73896-4) is a children's book, similar to Who's in a Family?, which details in a whimsical and entertaining way the daily lives of all kinds of families, celebrates their differences, and fosters acceptance of them all.
The Family Circus The Family Circus (originally, The Family Circle) is a syndicated comic strip created and written by cartoonist Bil Keane and inked/colored by his son, Jeff Keane. The strip generally uses a single captioned panel with a round border, hence the original name of the series, which was changed following objections from Family Circle, the magazine of the same name.
The Family from One End Street The Family From One End Street, written by Eve Garnett, is a British children's book. Set in the Fens of England, it was published in 1937 by Frederick Muller and won a Carnegie Medal for best children's book that same year.
The Family Jams (Marilyn Manson album) The Family Jams is a cassette by Marilyn Manson. It was the band's first release under their newly shortened name, and was named after an album written by Charles Manson and recorded by his "family" in 1970.
The Family Man The Family Man is a 2000 Brett Ratner film starring Nicolas Cage (as Jack Campbell) and TĂ©a Leoni, about a man who is given a glimpse at what could have been, if he had made a different decision 13 years ago. It is similar to It's a Wonderful Life, in that it starts on Christmas Eve with a life and death situation involving an angel who tries to get the main character (Campbell) to take a long, earnest look at his life.
The Family Murders The Family Murders was the name given to an alleged high society conspiracy involving the kidnap, torture, and murder of teenagers, particularly young men and teenaged boys, including Alan Barnes and Richard Kelvin, in Adelaide, Australia and surrounding areas in the late 1970s to the mid 1980s.
The Family of Love (play) The Family of Love is an early Jacobean stage play, first published in 1608. The play is a satire on the Familia Caritatis or "Family of Love," the religious sect founded by Henry Nicholas in the sixteenth century.
The Family Stone The Family Stone is a feature film released on December 16, 2005. It is an ensemble piece depicting the holiday misadventures of the Stone family when the eldest son brings his girlfriend home intending to propose to her with the cherished family engagement ring.
The Family That Walks On All Fours The Family That Walks On All Fours is a BBC2 documentary that explored the science and the story of five individuals in the Ulas family in Turkey that walk with a previously unreported quadruped gaitThe documentary was created by Passionate Productions, lasts 59 min 10 secs and was broadcast on Friday 17 March 2006. The voiceover is Jemima Harrison.
The Family Trade The Family Trade is the first book of Charles Stross' science fantasy series The Merchant Princes. The first novel introduces us to journalist Miriam Beckstein, who finds herself in a parallel world in which her extended family holds power.
The Family-Ness The Family-Ness was a British cartoon series produced in 1983 by Peter Maddocks, of Maddocks Cartoon Productions, who later went on to produce Penny Crayon and Jimbo and the Jet Set in a similar style. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 5 October 1984 to 28 March 1985.
The Family: A Proclamation to the World The Family: A Proclamation to the World is a statement issued by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1995, which defined the church's official position on gender roles, human sexuality, and the family. It was first announced by church President Gordon B.
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty is a non-fiction book by the American investigative journalist Kitty Kelley. It was published on 14 September 2004, less than two months before the 2004 US Presidential election.
The Famished Road The Famished Road is the Booker Prize-winning novel written by Nigerian author Ben Okri. The novel, written in 1991, follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in the Nigerian city of Lagos on the eve of independence.
The Famous The Famous is a roots rock band from San Francisco, CA. Formed in 2003 by vocalist/guitarist Laurence Scott and guitarist Victor Barclay, The Famous symbolize the cutting edge of Americana – a raw, scorching blast of rocket-fueled post-punk guitar and country twang, a blasphemous marriage of indie-styled rock & roll and cowboy laments.
The Famous Flames The Famous Flames was an R&B vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd that performed with James Brown during the early years of his career. They provided vocal backing on recordings including "Please, Please, Please", "Try Me", "I'll Go Crazy", and "Think", and are featured on the breakthrough album Live at the Apollo.
The Famous Spiegeltent The Famous Spiegeltent is a travelling Belgian "mirror tent" and entertainment venue. Originally built in the 1920s, the Spiegeltent travels around the world as a feature attraction at various international arts festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the Brighton Festival, the Belfast Festival at Queen's and Just for Laughs in Montreal, Canada.
The Famous Teddy Z The Famous Teddy Z was a short-lived television sitcom created by Hugh Wilson (WKRP in Cincinnati, Frank's Place) that aired on CBS during the fall of 1989. It starred Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) as Theodore "Teddy" Zakalakis, a young man working in a Hollywood talent agency in order to avoid being stuck in his Greek-American family's bakery.
The Fan (1996 film) The Fan is a 1996 thriller film directed by Tony Scott and starring Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, and Benicio del Toro. Based on the novel of the same name by Peter Abrahams, The Fan is a psychological thriller that follows Gil Renard (De Niro) as he progresses into his own insanity.
The Fan (Abrahams book) The Fan is a novel by Peter Abrahams, a psychological thriller that follows Gil Renard as he progresses into his own insanity. The majority of the story revolves around the sport of baseball, and explores the overt dedication displayed by some of its fanatics.
The Fan Man The Fan Man is a comic novel published in 1974 by the American writer William Kotzwinkle. It is told in the first-person style by the narrator, Horse Badorties who speaks of himself in the third-person, a down-at-the-heel hippie living in New York City c.
The Fanimatrix The Fanimatrix (full title The Fanimatrix: Run Program) is a science fiction/action fan film based on The Matrix, released on the Internet on September 27, 2003, written and directed by Steven A. Davis and Rajneel Singh.
The Fanlistings Network The Fanlistings Network is the largest directory of fanlistings on the internet, with over 44,000 approved fanlistings listed The network, which was originally created by Janine Mischor] in May of 2000, usually has 5 senior staffers, a few developers working on improving coding and the network backend, over 60 category staffers who process applications among other things, and over 100 trouble-checkers who make sure all sites listed in the directory are active and following rules.
The Fans' Stadium, Kingsmeadow Kingsmeadow (also known as The Fans' Stadium, Kingsmeadow) is a 4,500 capacity football stadium located in the Norbiton area of Kingston upon Thames, London. The stadium is currently used for the home matches of both AFC Wimbledon and Kingstonian FC
The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure (ISBN 1850292892) is the sequel to The Fantastic Flying Journey, both written by Gerald Durrell, illustrated by Graham Percy and published by Conran Octopus, this one in 1989. In this story, the Dollybut children and great-uncle Lancelot travel to the age of dinosaurs.
The Fantastic Flying Journey The Fantastic Flying Journey (ISBN 0755104366) is a children's book written by Gerald Durrell. It is a story about three children and their great-uncle Lancelot travelling around the world in a hot air balloon.
The Fantasticks The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical comedy with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It is loosely based on the play "The Romancers" ("Les Romanesques") by Edmond Rostand The play's first iteration was as "Joy Comes to Deadhorse" at the University of New Mexico] in 1956; after substantial rewriting, it appeared on a bill of new one-act plays at Barnard College for one week in August 1959.
The Far Arena The Far Arena is a 1979 novel by Richard Sapir, writing under the slightly modified pen name of Richard Ben Sapir. It chronicles the adventures of Eugeni, a Roman gladiator from the age of Domitian, who, due to a highly unlikely series of events, is frozen in ice for nineteen centuries before being found by the Houghton Oil Company on a prospecting mission in the north Atlantic.
The Far Islands and Other Cold Places The Far Islands and Other Cold Places (ISBN 1-880654-11-3) is a collection of travel essays from Norway, Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Canada and Alaska. It was written in the period between 1888 and 1919 by the painter Elizabeth Taylor.
The Far Side The Far Side was a popular one-panel syndicated comic created by Gary Larson. Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, or the search for meaning in life.
The Farewell Sermon The Farewell Sermon (Arabic: Khutbatul Wada'), also known as the Prophet's final sermon, is a famous sermon by Muhammad, the final prophet of traditional Islam, delivered before his death, on the ninth day of Dhu al-Hijjah, 10 A.H.
The Farfarers: Before the Norse The Farfarers: Before the Norse (2000) is a book by Farley Mowat that sets out a theory about pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. Mowat's thesis is that even before the Vikings, North America was discovered and settled by Europeans originating from Orkney who reached Canada after a generation-spanning migration that used Iceland and Greenland as 'stepping stones'.
The Farm (San Francisco) The Farm, located at the corner of Army Street (currently Cesar Chavez) and Potrero Avenue in San Francisco, California, was a community center by day, punk rock showcase by night, infamous for staging seminal 1980s punk rock bands such as Frightwig, Discharge, The Descendents, The Mentors, 7 Seconds, and many more. It was so named because of the petting zoo in the basement, home to various farm animals.
The Farm (Tennessee) The Farm is a spiritual intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee, based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth. It was founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin and 320 San Francisco hippies; The Farm is well known amongst hippies and other members of similar subcultures as well as by many vegetarians.
The Farmer in the Dell The Farmer in the Dell is a children's song, or nursery rhyme. It tells the story of a farmer in a dell who takes a wife, who takes a child, who takes a nurse, etc, until finally a rat takes a cheese, and the cheese "stands alone".
The Farmer's Daughter The Farmer's Daughter is a 1947 movie which tells the story of a Minnesota farmgirl who ends up working as a maid for a Congressman and his politically-connected mother. It stars Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Lex Barker, Keith Andes and James Arness.
The Farming Game The Farming Game is a classic board game simulating the economics of a small farm. Invented in the late 1970's, from the seat of his tractor, by George Rohrbacher , a rancher in the pacific northwest; "The Farming Game" painfully reflects the real life difficulties of running a farm.
The Fartz The Fartz (pronounced "the farts") was one of the first well known Hardcore bands from Seattle, Washington. In 1982 they released a LP entitled "World Full of Hate" on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles Records.
The Fashionites The Fashionites were a central New Jersey punk band formed in 1994 whose style was somewhere between pop punk and hardcore punk. Although they became somewhat popular in their hometown of Westfield, New Jersey, the band had little to no ambition and never attempted to sign a record deal.
The Fast and the Furious (arcade game) The Fast and the Furious was a video game developed and published in 2004 by Raw Thrills. Incentives to continue play such as entering a pin at each new session to win money and accumulate stats (total miles, etc) can be compared to San Francisco Rush 2049.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) is a spin-off to The Fast and the Furious and its sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious. The film features a new cast of characters and a different setting (Tokyo, Japan) from the other two films.
The Fast Show The Fast Show is a BBC comedy sketch show programme that ran for four series from 1994 to 2000. The show's central performers were Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Mark Williams, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and Caroline Aherne (1994–1997).
The Fastest Guitar Alive The Fastest Guitar Alive is a 1967 MGM motion picture starring singer Roy Orbison in his only starring role as an actor. A musical western, the story is set near the end of the American Civil War with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with a bullet-shooting guitar given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint in San Francisco in order to help finance the Confederacy's war effort.
The Fat Duck The Fat Duck is a restaurant run by chef Heston Blumenthal in Bray, Berkshire, England. In 2005 it was named as the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine, and it came second in both 2004 and 2006.
The Fat Slags The Fat Slags is a comic strip appearing in alternative British comic Viz. The eponymous slags are Sandra and Tracey (known to everyone as San and Tray); two enormous women whose dual purpose in life is to eat as much as possible while also having vast amounts of casual sex.
The Favorite The Favorite (also titled Intimate Power) is a movie based on a true story that takes place at the dawn of the 19th century, a young French woman is kidnapped and forced into a sultan's harem in Turkey. Fiercely independent, she resists, but must make choices in order to survive.
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish is a 1991 comedy, directed by Ben Lewin, starring Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum and Natasha Richardson. The story, set in Paris, follows the fateful meeting of Louis Aubinar with Sybil, who brings into his life her last unfortunate lover, the Pianist.
The FBI Files The FBI Files is an American television docudrama series carried by the Discovery Channel cable network and produced by New Dominion Pictures of Suffolk, Virginia. The show describes actual FBI cases, with dramatic reenactments and interviews with agents and forensic scientists who worked in the investigations.
The FBI Story The FBI Story is a 1959 drama film directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy and starring James Stewart. Based on a book by Don Whitehead, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had great influence over the production, with J.
The Fear of Wages The Fear of Wages is an episode of The Goon Show, a popular British radio comedy. It was first broadcast on the 6th of March 1956 and was among the shows first repeated in the 1970's following the success of The Last Goon Show of All in 1972.
The Fearless Hyena Part II The Fearless Hyena Part II is a 1983 martial arts film starring Jackie Chan. The film was created by film producer/director Lo Wei by splicing outtakes from Fearless Hyena that contained Jacke Chan with newly filmed footage.

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