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Better Than News

<gallery> File:Willy Wonka and the Citrus Factory 1.jpg|link=Willy Wonka & the Citrus Factory|Willy Wonka & the Citrus Factory an American musical fantasy foodie film starring Gene Wilder as citrus farmer Willy Wonka.

File:Restricted Airspace (film).jpg|link=Restricted Airspace|Restricted Airspace is an American musical fantasy thriller film starring Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins, an arms dealer with supernatural powers who visits a dysfunctional military contractor in London and employs her unique brand of leverage to improve the corporation's income.

File:The Aladdin King.jpg|link=The Aladdin King|The Aladdin King is an American animated musical drama film about Simba (Swahili for lion), a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as King. However, Simba's paternal uncle Scar uses a magical lamp which grants wishes to murder Mufasa and send Simba into exile.

File:He Walks to the Bottom of the Sea By Night.jpg|link=He Walks to the Bottom of the Sea By Night|He Walks to the Bottom of the Sea By Night is a 1948 American crime drama submarine thriller film starring Richard Basehart.

File:Beach Party A-Go-Gaugin.jpg|link=Beach Party A-Go-Gaugin|Beach Party A-Go-Gaugin is a beach party art film starring Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, and Paul Gaugin.

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Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

... that psychologist, computer scientist, and author Christopher Evans had a significant friendship and collaboration with the writer J. G. Ballard; that they they developed ideas (circa 1968) for a play about a car crash, later evolving into an exhibition of crashed cars at The New Arts Lab in London in 1970, and ultimately Ballard's novel Crash, published in 1973; that Evans' charismatic appearance as a "hoodlum scientist" (in Ballard's description) was an inspiration for the character of Dr. Robert Vaughan in Crash; that that Evans also appears in Ballard's fictionalized life story The Kindness of Women as the psychologist Dr. Richard Sutherland?

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