Book notes
The stories in Tales of Zorro incorporate elements from the original Zorro character created by Johnston McCulley in The Curse of Capistrano (1919). These stories also refer to other references to the mythical Zorro, including Walt Disney's 1957 series Zorro (starring Guy Williams), the New World Television series (1990), the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro , and Chilean author Isabel Allende's Zorro: A Novel (2005), among others.
Some stories, such as Peter David's "Colors Seen by Candlelight", incorporate known historical figures into the story. Others contain suggestions of the supernatural or are told from unconventional viewpoints, such as A. C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley's story, "Tornado Warning". This is told through the eyes of Zorro's Andalusian stallion, Tornado.
The collection includes a young adult story, "The Feathered Cape" by Jan Adkins, author of Young Zorro: The Iron Brand. Adkins is a young adult author and illustrator who was a technical advisor for Allende's 2005 Zorro .
Richard Dean Starr contributed the story, "Winds of Change", and collaborated with Max Allan Collins on "Zorro and the Fate Worse Than Death".
Tales of Zorro contains three substantive essays, including an introduction by Guy Williams, Jr. (with Matthew Baugh); a foreword by Zorro Productions, Inc. Senior Vice-President Sandra Curtis; and an Afterword by Isabel Allende.
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"Fall on Me" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. from their fourth album Lifes Rich Pageant (1986). It was the first of two singles released from that LP. It peaked at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was one of the band's early compositions about environmentalism, discussing acid rain. It also transitioned from their murky lyrics and jangling guitar of their first three albums to a more accessible sound influenced by producer Don Gehman.
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Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently broadcast in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and Vision TV cable channels. The series, produced by Salter Street Films, was based on the Emily of New Moon series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The series consisted of three seasons of thirteen episodes and one season of seven episodes, for a total of forty-six episodes produced. The executive producers were Micheline Charest, Michael Donovan, and Ronald Weinberg.
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Richard Dean Starr is an American entrepreneur, editor, screenwriter, and author of fiction, comics, and graphic novels. He is also a former journalist and film critic who has written for newspapers and magazines.
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Zorro is a musical with music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron, a book by Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson, and lyrics by Stephen Clark. It is inspired by the 2005 fictional biography Zorro, the first original story of the pulp hero Zorro, written by Chilean author Isabel Allende. It also contains numerous references to earlier Zorro-related works, especially the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro. The original musical did a trial run tour which proved to be successful, and led to a transfer to the West End.
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Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance is a collection of short fiction and shorter essays composed in appreciation of the science fiction and fantasy author Jack Vance, especially his Dying Earth series. Edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, it was published in 2009 by Subterranean Press.
The 13th Youth in Film Awards ceremony, presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film and television for the 1990–1991 season, and took place on December 1, 1991, at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood, California.
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The Maryland gubernatorial election of 2018 was held on November 6, 2018.
