Elephant Man - Revision history

Spider of Destiny at 13:45, 12 July 2026

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Jason.Kreitzer at 15:53, 19 October 2021

2021-10-19T15:53:21Z

Spider of Destiny: Added more info, with sources.

2019-08-19T06:00:10Z

Added more info, with sources.

Spider of Destiny: /* See also */

2011-10-08T11:05:56Z

Spider of Destiny at 11:05, 8 October 2011

2011-10-08T11:05:23Z

Emdebe at 15:51, 2 May 2005

2005-05-02T15:51:17Z

New page

[[Category:Supporting Cast]]
[[Category:Them Or Us (The List)]]

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-''"The Elephant Man"'' is the nickname given to Joseph Merrick, a 19th century sideshow artist, who suffered from a horrible condition that deformed his entire face and body.
+''"The Elephant Man"'' is the nickname given to Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century sideshow artist, who suffered from a horrible condition that deformed his entire face and body.
-His life story was turned into the motion picture ''"The Elephant Man" (1980)'', directed by David Lynch.
+His life story was turned into the motion picture ''"The Elephant Man" (1980)'', directed by [[David Lynch]].
-In 1987 [[Michael Jackson]] was said to have shown interest into buying the skeleton of the Elephant Man. This story attracted a lot of media attention, but it was actually untrue.
+In 1986 [[Michael Jackson]] was said to have shown interest into buying the skeleton of the Elephant Man. This story attracted a lot of media attention, but was actually untrue.
-''“Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of [[Elephant Man]] -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.'''' ( Frank Zappa in [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]])
+''“Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of [[Elephant Man]] -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.'''' -  Frank Zappa in ''[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]''.
 ==See also==

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 ''“Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of [[Elephant Man]] -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.'''' ( Frank Zappa in [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]])
-David Lynch is also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>
+David Lynch is also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)|The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>
 ==Sources==

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 ''“Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of [[Elephant Man]] -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.'''' ( Frank Zappa in [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]])
 ==See also==
 * [[Wikipedia:Joseph Merrick]]
 * [[Wikipedia:The Elephant Man (film)]]
 [[Category:Them Or Us (The List)]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]

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 ==See also==
 * [[Wikipedia:Joseph Merrick]]
-* [[The Elephant Man (film)]]
+* [[Wikipedia:The Elephant Man (film)]]
 [[Category:Them Or Us (The List)]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]

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−	[[~~Category~~:~~Supporting Cast~~]]	+	''"The Elephant Man"'' is the nickname given to Joseph Merrick, a 19th century sideshow artist, who suffered from a horrible condition that deformed his entire face and body.
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		+	His life story was turned into the motion picture ''"The Elephant Man" (1980)'', directed by David Lynch.
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		+	In 1987 [[Michael Jackson]] was said to have shown interest into buying the skeleton of the Elephant Man. This story attracted a lot of media attention, but it was actually untrue.
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		+	''“Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of [[Elephant Man]] -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.'''' ( Frank Zappa in [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]])
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		+	==See also==
		+	* [[Wikipedia:Joseph Merrick]]
		+	* [[The Elephant Man (film)]]
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	[[Category:Them Or Us (The List)]]		[[Category:Them Or Us (The List)]]
		+	[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]