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He did that, literally, by replacing the Earth with the Sun in the center of the Solar System, and then with this simple-looking act, he actually launched a scientific and technological revolution, which many call the Copernican Revolution.
It's October of 1957, and Sputnik has just launched.
I launched a big program [unclear] CSIR about nine years ago.
I'm sure the kids and the locals were thrilled to be included in a "real TV movie", but I can't imagine what the folks that launched and produced this project figured they could bring to this already over beaten subject.
The film was launched straight on video so i discovered it on a video store.
Another sadistic and ultra-sleazy late 70's/early 80's revenge movie?? Wes Craven sure launched a popular trend with his "Last House on the Left" Although "Terror Express" is more like a rip-off of other rip-offs, like "I Spit on your Grave" and especially "Night Train Murders".
He takes part as a gravel in the organization in the sabotage of a USS Alaska military ship when it is launched.
It's the story of how Henri Danglard built and launched the Moulin Rouge nightclub; we see the workmen blasting at the site to get construction underway, and the training of the dancers.
This movie also launched the careers of Pesci and Vincent.
"Valley Girl" launched Nicolas Cage's career and was an 80's version of "Romeo and Juliet."
It was the film that practically launched John Savage as an actor.
The series was launched in the early 1950's, and spawned at least eight films (none of which was ever released in the U.S.).
This film reminds me of one of those movies that you will look back on in 20 years and discover that it launched many actors into stardom.
You have the stellar cast - Michael Douglas in an uncharacteristic 'free-spirit' role that pretty much launched his movie career, Fonda playing her typical forthright female doing her bit for womens lib, and Jack Lemmon as assured as ever showing us a man with a crisis of confidence.
This show is what launched the idea of every other HBO Original Program such as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire, Arliss, Deadwood, and Six Feet Under amongst others.
But still, look how Karate Kid 4 launched her career into orbit!
"The China Syndrome" launched a whole string of films about the potentially devastating effects of misused nuclear power, a black cloud of paranoia that would hang over America for much of the Reagan years.
The audience is not told of any V-2/A-4 launches from the U.S. Three different Jupiter C rockets are launched with the same serial number 'UE' onboard.
Apollo 1 is to be launched to the Moon, etc.
OK, forget all the technical inconsisties or the physical impossibilities of the Space Shuttle accidentally being launched by a quirky robot with a heart of gold.
I like Sharon Stone a lot, but if the first film launched her career, BI2 could kill it.
Then there are the Wayans Brothers who at one time(15,years ago) had an extremely funny television show'In Living Colour' that launched the career of Jim Carrey amongst others .
Perhaps more compelling than that of Voyager's Caretaker, which launched the series with Cpt.
This movie launched the careers of the five men who play the venoms.
When our local TV station first launched, it filled a lot of its schedule with old British programming.
"The Blob" qualifies as a cult sci-fi film not only because it launched 27-year old Steve McQueen on a trajectory to superstardom, but also because it exploited the popular themes both of alien invasion and teenage delinquency that were inseparable in the 1950s.
Amy Madigan also is good as Amy Hill Hearth, the white New York Times reporter whose article about the sisters launched the book, etc.
The Oscar-winning documentary may be dated in its tone and Anglo-ethnocentric approach, but it soars with a spirit of adventure besting even the space program that launched a decade later, as men are willing to risk it all to test a theory they think is true.
I remember that asswipe Alexander Walker (Evening Standard critic, yeah OK, he's now dead) launched into a rant about this film saying it was a disgrace portraying NI Protestants as murderers.
And it was the latter role that launched her among the greatest stars.
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