On the Beach

On the Beach may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

  • On the Beach (1959 film), a 1959 film based on the novel by the same name
  • On the Beach (2000 film), a 2000 television film based on the novel by the same name
  • Literature

  • On the Beach (novel), a 1957 novel by Nevil Shute.
  • On the Beach (play), a 2009 play by Steve Waters.
  • Music

    Albums

  • On the Beach (Chris Rea album), a 1986 album by Chris Rea, and also its title track
  • On the Beach (Neil Young album), a 1974 album by Neil Young incorporating a song of the same name.
  • On the Beach, an album by Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble
  • Songs

  • "On the Beach (In the Summertime)", a 1970 song by The 5th Dimension
  • "On the Beach", a song by the Chairmen of the Board
  • "On the Beach", a song by The Chameleons from their album What Does Anything Mean? Basically
  • "On the Beach", a song by Cliff Richard with The Shadows from his 1964 album Wonderful Life
  • Television

  • "On the Beach" (ER), a 2002 episode of the long-running television series ER
  • Business

    On the Beach (1959 film)

    On the Beach is a 1959 American black-and-white post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins. The film is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name depicting a nuclear war and its aftermath. Unlike the novel, no blame is placed on whoever started the war; it is hinted in the film that the threat of annihilation may have arisen from an accident (for example, a fault in a few vacuum tubes or transistor circuits, as in the similarly themed 1964 film Fail-Safe).

    Plot

    During 1964, in the months following World War III, the conflict has devastated the Northern Hemisphere, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, killing all life there. Air currents are slowly carrying the fallout south; the only areas still habitable are in the far reaches of the Southern Hemisphere.

    From Australia, survivors detect an incomprehensible Morse code signal coming from the West Coast of the United States. The last American nuclear submarine, USS Sawfish, under Royal Australian Navy command, is ordered to sail north to the United States to attempt to make contact with the sender of the Morse signal. The submarine is commanded by Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck), who must leave his new friend, the alcoholic Moira Davidson (Ava Gardner).

    On the Beach (ER)

    "On the Beach" is the 178th episode of the NBC drama series ER. It chronicled the last days of Dr. Mark Greene as he died from a brain tumor and marked the final performance of Anthony Edwards until his return in a flashback during a Season 15 episode.

    Synopsis

    Dr. Greene has resigned his fate and decided to forgo his remaining chemotherapy treatments, choosing to spend his remaining days in Hawaii with Elizabeth and Rachel. He creates a "bucket list", detailing everything he wants to do before he dies, with one of the items being to fix Rachel.

    As his health deteriorates, Greene makes amends with Rachel and gives her some last advice: "be generous with your time, with your love, with your life." Rachel puts a pair of headphones on him and he listens to "Over the Rainbow" as we see him walk through the empty hallways of the ER (his entrance into heaven). The next morning, Elizabeth discovers that Mark has died.

    Jonah (poetry book)

    Jonah (ISBN 0436378051) is a book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was ₤4.75.

    Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.

    The book commences with three pages reproducing an old copy of the Book of Jonah.

    References

  • Bennett, Bruce, Spirit in Exile: Peter Porter and His Poetry, Oxford, 1991, ISBN 0-19-554970-8.
  • Kaiser, John R: Peter Porter: A Bibliography 1954 1986 Mansell, London and New York, 1990. ISBN 0-7201-2032-2.
  • Footnotes


    Jonah from Tonga

    Jonah from Tonga is an Australian television series written by and starring comedian Chris Lilley. The mockumentary series follows Jonah Takalua, a rebellious 14-year-old Australian boy of Tongan descent who had been introduced in Lilley's 2007 series Summer Heights High. At the conclusion of that series, Jonah was expelled from Summer Heights High. In this series, his father, Rocky Takalua, has sent him back to his homeland of Tonga to live with his uncle and their family in order to get Jonah's life back on track. The six part series was produced by Princess Pictures and Chris Lilley in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and screened on ABC1 in Australia, HBO in America, and BBC Three in the UK.

    The entire series was available for streaming online for one weekend from 2 May to 4 May on BBC iPlayer and ABC iview, before starting a six-week run on ABC1 on 7 May 2014 and from 8 May on BBC Three. This was a first for a major Australian TV production. The series itself was a "ratings disaster" for both the ABC and BBC. It was later announced that the entire series would screen at select cinemas in several Australian cities followed by a Q and A with Chris Lilley. These events were subsequently cancelled, with refunds given and the website created to promote them removed.

    Jonah Paffhausen

    Metropolitan Jonah (born James Paffhausen Jr.; October 20, 1959) is a retired American Orthodox bishop who served as the primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) with the title The Most Blessed Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada from his election on November 12, 2008, until his resignation on July 7, 2012. Metropolitan Jonah was the first convert to the Orthodox faith to have been elected as the primate of the OCA.

    On June 15, 2015, Metropolitan Jonah was released from the Orthodox Church in America in order for him to be accepted as a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

    Life

    James Paffhausen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to James and Louise Paffhausen. He was baptized in the Episcopal Church at St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church. He continued attending a parish of the Episcopal Church after his family relocated to La Jolla, California. It was not until age 18 that he began preparation for chrismation in a San Diego Orthodox parish of the Moscow Patriarchate. In 1978, he was received into the Orthodox Church at Our Lady of Kazan Church (Moscow Patriarchate) while studying at the University of California, San Diego. He later transferred to UC Santa Cruz and helped to establish an Orthodox Christian Fellowship chapter there.

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    (music & lyrics: King Diamond)
    "After 7 Years On A Dusty Shelf
    The Book Seemed Unreal
    For 7 Years In An Ancient Rhyme
    The Fate Of A Girl Was Sealed"
    In The Attic I Was Searching By The Moonlight
    What Would I Find
    Old And Grey From Dust I felt It Staring Back
    Oh That Book
    Yellow Pages Caught My Eyes, So Unreal
    Through the Dust Of Time
    In An Ancient Rhyme The Truth Had Been Sealed
    On A Broken Shelf It Would All Be Revealed
    It Had Been There For Years
    And No One Ever Knew
    Now Break The Spell And Free The Girl
    From The Candle Of Fate
    Look At The Flame And Say The Rhyme
    The End Is Near, No More Pain, Ah You're Free
    Solo: Mike - Andy
    As The Candle Melts Away The Spirit Of The Candle Girl
    Emerges From The Flame, She Doesn't Seem The Sme
    With A Smile On Her Face She Starts To Speak




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