ASTROPRO NETSELECT DIRECTORY: ENTERTAINMENT

Change being the only constant, it's the Tao of the Web that sites move and go down. Please let me know if you run across a link here that no longer works. (You can click on the email button at the bottom of this page if you like.) Thanks!

Cinema

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

AMPAS' official home page

American Film Institute

Celebrities

Affleck, Ben

His official site, with photogallery, news, articles & more

DiCaprio, Leonardo

Official homepage & online fan club

Douglas, Michael

His official website

Eastwood, Clint - The World Wide Web Page!

Hope, Bob - Hope Enterprises, Inc.

Hope's own site, with biography, jokes, lots of stuff to buy

Jillian, Ann - Official Home Page

Her own site, with photos, clips from her CDs & more

Redgrave, Lynn - Official Home Page

Her own site, with biography, photos & more

D.FILM Digital Film Festival

See digital films, share your own with others, get tips on digital filmmaking.

Film Production/Distribution Companies

Paramount Pictures Online

intensive cinema unit

An homage to small movies, definitely a site to see

MovieLink

Find out what's playing near you (anywhere in the US) - when and where the movie of your choice is showing. Even buy the tickets online!

News

Cannes Film Festival - 1997

Hollywood Online

Reference

All-Movie Guide

Search for films by title, search for the artist, search for keywords, over 130,000 films - even includes biographical sketches.

AMPAS Oscar database

Search for Oscar winners 1927-28 to 1995.

Box Office Guru

Database includes the film's opening/closing date, total reported gross, opening gross, number of screens on which the film opened, number of screens at widest point of distribution, percentage of total gross achieved during opening weekend, a per-screen average, and the name of the distributor.

Film 100

Database of "100 most influential people in the history of the cinema"

Internet Movie Database

Movie Cliches List

Simply hilarious . . .

Movie Culture Online - The Hollywood Search Engine

Reviews, Critics, Etc.

Cinemachine: The Movie Review Search Engine

Type in the name of a movie, and this site's search engine will furnish you links to reviews on the Net . . .

SOFIA Home Page

SOFIA=Study Of Film as Internet Application - essays, links to other film sites.

Star Wars

STORMTROOPER

Got too much time on your hands? Why not build a Star Wars Stormtrooper costume? Only takes about 500 bucks, following the instructions given on this site . . . work a little kevlar into this thing, why don't you?

TheForce.net is with you!

A website for fans of the movie series

XOOM's Classic Movies Community

Full length classic movies you can watch online with the RealPlayer 5.0 plug-in

Cybercameras

see Astropro's NetSelect Directory, Broadcasting Section

Check here for online cybercameras.

Dance

American Ballet Theatre - Home Page

Performances, dancer bios, photo gallery, trinkets for sale, etc.

American Ballet Theatre's Ballet Dictionary

You don't have to faux pas around, you can get it right here the first time - and if you have the QuickTime plug-in, you can even SEE how it's done.

Folklore

AFU & Urban Legends Archive

Get the latest on the crazy stories spreading like wildfire . . .

Games

Board Games

ChessMaster

Play chess online and real-time, from the folks that brought you the ChessMaster software.

PlaySite

Play your favorite board games in real time at PlaySite, where your choices in the Gameroom run the gamut from reversi and checkers to backgammon, chess, and poker.

Cards

Bridge

Klinger, Ron - Ron Klinger Bridge Lessons

Computer Games

Microsoft

X-BOX

Official site for Microsoft's game machine

Nintendo

Unofficial "World of Nintendo!!"

Tips, game-endings, news, graphics and sounds for Nintendo players

Sony Play Station

Playstation Codes

Cheats and codes for various Sony Play Station games

Miscellaneous

ClassicGames.com

Play online games (using Java) including chess, Reversi, backgammon, various card games, etc.

GamePower

Jumble & Crossword Solver

Need help with a crossword puzzle? Check here. Although it seems to defeat the purpose to resort to such a cheat . . .

Linux Games

S'gotta be the next thing.

MSN Gaming Zone

Lots of free online games here, as well as trial versions of games you can buy if you like.

Online Games Library

Lots of free online games, plus game news

Striton Graphics: TOYS on the Web

A weekly selection of computer toys - games you can play, amusements, etc.

Video Game Heaven

Reviews, tips, codes & news for Sony PlayStation, Nintendo64, Sega Saturn etc.

Yahoo! Games

Play Java-based board and card games on Yahoo! with people all across the Internet. All games are FREE and require NO extra plug-ins.

Gambling

Lotteries

Arizona Lottery

The official site for the state's tax on people who are bad at math

InterLotto - On-Line Lottery Information Service

Very complete and free results and analysis of all the major North American lotteries.

Powerball Home Page

Did your one in umpteen million shot pay off? Check your ticket, then call your accountant - or more likely, kick yourself in the ass. (Hey, I've got a client who's a lottery millionaire, but she's got the best gambling chart I've ever seen in my whole life.)

Lottery Results

Quick reference with up to date Powerball plus state and foreign (UK, Australia, Canada) lotto results classified by most frequently hit numbers etc.

Software

Lotto Player's BBS

Software for lottery players, moderately priced and free for the downloading on a try-out basis.

Trivia

Trivia Web

A free online trivia game - thousands of random trivia questions for lots of unique trivia games

Humor

Conspiracy Theories

Bureau of Missing Socks

Here's the straight dope on why you're missing so many socks. Why is it that no one ever looses a whole pair, only half? I see this phenomenon has proof that there is a parallel dimension . . .

Create your own conspiracy!

Illuminati

Don't ask the Illuminati what they're really up to. If they told you, they'd have to kill you.

Miscellaneous

Angry Organization: Anger Central

Billed as the crankiest site on the Web.

Capt. James T. Kirk Sing-a-long Page

It's a hoot! My dilemma was where to place this link. Couldn't be music . . . could it be horror? What the hell, it's miscellaneous!

George Carlin

"This web site contains real human language."

Comedy Central's Web Sightings

Comedy Net

Stand-up comics deliver their stuff from comedy clubs 'round the US - requires the Real Player plug-in.

Denounce Newswire

"All the news that never happened." (A hoot!)

Funny Bone Homepage

Humor Search

A humor-specific search engine

Joke Wallpaper

'the Web Site that believes Star Trek is an entertaining television program, not a lifestyle choice." It's a hoot, and it's got wacky wallpaper and start-up shut-down screens for your PC as well - free for the downloading.

KeelyNet Humor

Funny text files to download and put yourself in stitches. Thanks to my bosom buddy Melissa for this one!

Kooks Museum Lobby

Admittedly, this is not an easy site to classify. I've put it in humor, but it could just as easily have gone under science/interdisciplinary. It's very well done in any case, and well worth a visit when you're feeling a bit on the fringe.

ONION, Number One In News

This thing's a hoot...

Stupid Page

Ever done anything stupid? Here's a website full of stories like that!

WebParody of the Month

See high profile websites parodied in high style; e.g. check out the Hasta La Vista search engine parody.

Whirlwind Bible Tour

God has a sense of humor, otherwise we wouldn't be here. So lighten up!

Monty Python

Linus the Llama's Virtual Camelot

A collection of Monty Python links - a VERY LARGE collection

Monty's Python - WWW page

If you just couldn't get enough while they were on TV, here's where you go. Includes links, scripts from the shows, more - and some really great astronomy links!

PythOnline

"The misinformation highway begins here."

Literature

Books Online

Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Tarzan of the Apes (Project Gutenberg)

Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels

Celebrities - Authors, Etc.

Alcott, Louisa May

Chinese

Lianhuanhua Picture Stories From China

Think of these as classical Chinese comics

Sword, Spirits and Romance; The Legends of China Page

Go here, read these beautiful stories, and be transformed.

English

British Literature.com

If you're into BritLit, check here first.

Luminarium

"A starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature," specializing in Medieval to 17th Century works.

ROBBINS LIBRARY

Middle English literature: texts, images and bibliographies on Arthurian legends, Robin Hood and more

Shakespeare

Hamlet - A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet

Search Shakespeare

Jeremy Hylton's page allows you to search the works of Shakespeare to find any passage you like.

Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales: Origins and Evolution

Fiction

Authors

Characters

Holmes, Sherlock: Baker Street Connection

Very fine collection of Holmeseana, "including the complete canon of 56 stories & 4 novels". Plus drawings, links & more.

Yoxley Old Place - Sherlock Holmes on the Web

Horror

Authors

King, Stephen WebSite

Rice, Anne - Official Home Page

Cabinet of Dr. Casey - The Horror Web Page

Links to horror in film and literature

Miscellaneous

Sealander, John - The Road to Nowhere

Excellent essayist . . .

Young, Michelle - Michelle's Multicultural World

Author Michelle Young's home page

Poetry

Miscellaneous

Academy of American Poets

Poets

Ginsberg, Allen

Allen Ginsberg @levity.com

Good Ginsberg resource, with links to online biographical material as well as the poet's work.

Ginsberg, Allen - Biography by Levi Asher

A concise online biography of the poet by Levi Asher . . . lots of links

Yeats, William Butler

W. B. Yeats: The Collected Poems

Awesome, Yeats is the best. Check the Title Index, and don't miss Supernatural Songs.

Reference

Concordances of Great Books

An online searchable index of 86 authors and 200 full texts including Shakespeare, Arthur Conan Doyle, Melville, Gibbon and many more classics

WISDOM - Literary Search

A literature-specific search engine: use it to find online books & periodicals

Science Fiction

Miscellaneous

SFRT on the Web - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

News and links on the genre . . .

Publications

Science Fiction Weekly

Magic/Illusions

Card Trick - Andy Bauch

Let Sparky the goldfish pick your card and blow it - and your mind - away in real time.

Miscellaneous

Actress -- Caryn Shalita -- Film - Theater - T.V. - Commercials

Caryn Shalita is an actress in search of a part, a dog lover . . . and lots more, including all heart. If she's half as personable as her website, a click here will make you want to see her get the part she's seeking.

Computer Garden

Lots of links plus onsite content here, in a number of diverse categories: Doc Savage, cats, Babylon 5, sci-fi, horror and more - whatever catches Julie Rhodes' fancy.

Electric Origami Shop

Origami, kaleidoscopes, fractals, fridge art - lots of eye candy here, and from IBM yet!

Ha!

Jokes galore

Main Sanitary Nag (Anagram Insanity)

If you've nothing else to do at the moment, why not while away an eternity playing anagrams: enter the words, see 'em scramble. What's in a name, anyway?

MCA / UNIVERSAL CYBERWALK

MEGA MEDIA-LINKS index @ OMNIBUS:EYE

Searchable index of websites on media - TV, radio, film, mutimedia, etc.

Sea and Sky

An educational and entertaining site featuring an interactive tour of the solar system, original sea and sky related crossword puzzles, photo galleries, and comprehensive, regularly-updated aerospace and aquatic links

Stagebill

A guide to live art performances - stage, dance opera, jazz and classical music - around the US. Searchable database lets you search by date, area, type of performance, etc.

Music

see Astropro's NetSelect Directory, Music Section

News

CNN Entertainment News

Excellent

E! Online - Front Door

Mr. Showbiz

Film, music, gossip, it's all here.

Video

Idea Channel

Videotaped "conversations between some of the world's greatest thinkers" on selected topics - music, science, philosophy & more - free to view online, or order the cassettes.

VideoSeeker

Preview and buy all kinds of videos here.

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