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  2. Con Air - Wikipedia

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    Con Air is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich in the lead roles. Written by Scott Rosenberg and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer , the film centers on a prison break aboard a JPATS aircraft, nicknamed as "Con Air".

  3. Convenience Airways - Wikipedia

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    The writers watched the 1997 film Con Air to prepare for the episode. The animators included the character Cameron Poe from the film as a prisoner in the episode. [ 1 ] As part of writer Loni Steele Sosthand's research for the episode, she consulted a friend, who is a flight attendant, who told her about an in-flight potty training session that ...

  4. Talk:Con Air - Wikipedia

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    The reason for the expanded plot summary was to counter the use of a "Characters" section that dramatically increased the total size of the article. There is a typical choice to make in a major article, either incorporating the characters and their roles into a plot section or creating a larger, character-oriented cast section.

  5. Joseph Conrad - Wikipedia

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    [2] [note 1] He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. [note 2] He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human ...

  6. The Eyre Affair - Wikipedia

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    The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. [1] It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre.

  7. La Question - Wikipedia

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    La Question (French for "The question") is a book by Henri Alleg, published in 1958. It is famous for precisely describing the methods of torture used by French paratroopers during the Algerian War from the point of view of a victim. La Question was censored in France after selling 60,000 copies in two weeks.

  8. Playing by Heart - Wikipedia

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    In Los Angeles, the lives of intertwining characters are shown. Among the characters are an older couple, who are about to renew their wedding vows; a theatre director and architect navigating a new beginning; a young woman looking for a good time; a gay man dying of AIDS and his mother who had not been close; a couple having an affair and her husband who is exploring ways to break through the ...

  9. Heart of Darkness - Wikipedia

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    [5] When Conrad began to write the novella, eight years after returning from Africa, he drew inspiration from his travel journals. [5] He described Heart of Darkness as "a wild story" of a journalist who becomes manager of a station in the (African) interior and makes himself worshipped by a tribe of natives.