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n. (plural of nighthawk English)
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Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people in a downtown diner late at night.
It is Hopper's most famous work, and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art. Within months of its completion, it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago on May 13, 1942 for $3,000 and has remained there ever since.
Nighthawks is a painting by Edward Hopper.
Nighthawks may also refer to:
- Nighthawks (film), a 1981 American crime thriller
- Nighthawks (1978 film), a 1978 British gay-themed film by Ron Peck
- Nighthawks (TV series), an Irish comedy
- "Nighthawks" (Dead Like Me episode)
- The Nighthawks, an American blues and roots music band
- The Nighthawks (rap band), an American rap duo
:* Nighthawks (album), a 2002 album by the rap duo
- Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra, jazz band founded by Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders
- Nighthawks Orchestra, jazz group led by Vince Giordano
- Nighthawks (Erik Friedlander album), 2014
- Nighthawks at the Diner, a musical album by Tom Waits inspired by the Edward Hopper painting
- 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron, a Royal Air Force squadron
- HMX-1, nicknamed "The Nighthawks", a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter squadron
Nighthawks is a 1981 American action- thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth and starring Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta and Nigel Davenport. Its score was composed by Keith Emerson. The film was noted for production problems.
Nighthawks was an Irish television series broadcast on Network 2 (now known as RTÉ Two). Shay Healy presented. It was part of the major re-brand of RTÉ Two as Network 2 in 1988.
The programme, which began broadcasting in the late 1980s, was a three times-weekly, late-night series. Nighthawks was produced for its first two seasons by David Blake-Knox. In its third season the series producer was Anne Enright, later to become a Booker Prize-winning novelist. In its final season, it was produced by Briain Mac Lochlainn. The Irish Film and Television Awards-nominated director Charlie McCarthy and producers David McKenna and Philip Kampf also worked on the programme. The show's signature tune was composed by Ronan Johnston. It also featured several contributory sketches from Nuala Kelly, Joe Taylor, and Orla McGovern.
An early star of the series was Northern Irish comedian Kevin McAleer, who specialised in rambling but amusing monologues to camera. The Irish actor/comedian-turned British television presenter Graham Norton also appeared on Nighthawks early in his career.
Nighthawks was produced by RTÉ Raidió Teilifís Éireann. It was broadcast three nights per week. The regular soap opera was originally written by David Blake-Knox, and started off as a two-hander between "Hay Healy",and Tanya (the comic creation of Joanne McAteer) They were later joined by burly Russian character Boris, played by Stanley Townsend. Lots of stand-ups, comedy actors and comedy writers wrote for the show but, from the second season, the late Gerry McNamara was the chief writer and script editor. Morgan Jones, Joe Taylor and Ann-Marie Hourihane were some of the regular "company" actors. Anne Marie Hourihane also wrote a number of skecthes and presented a weekly film review. Nighthawks was devised by David Blake Knox. John Comiskey created the shooting "grammar" of the series, and Shay Healy introduced the "4" Minute" Interview.
In 1992, Brian Mac Lochlainn won a Jacob's Award for his production of Nighthawks.
In December 2012 a one off special called Nighthawks Rehashed was aired on RTÉ. The documentary took a look at the unique show that mixed comedy and current affairs with a compilation of vintage interviews from the series.
- redirect List of Dead Like Me episodes#Nighthawks
Nighthawks is a 1978 narrative film by Ron Peck. It follows the day-to-day life of a gay man in London.
Nighthawks is an album by cellist Erik Friedlander which was released in 2014 on the Skipstone label. The album was composed by Friedlander during a 5-day power outage following the impact of Hurricane Sandy.
Usage examples of "nighthawks".
Suppose the Nighthawks may have worked for the Crawler when it suited their purpose, perhaps to further some agenda of their own, or simply to underwrite their own needs?
Temple of Lims-Kragma disavowed themselves from any contact with these Nighthawks years ago, and the Temple of Guis-Wa have their own particular brand of murders, and these murders have none of the earmarks of a ritual Blood Hunt.
James himself had killed their current leader, but was under no illusion that the Nighthawks would just go away.
Guruth had been a young soldier, probably a sergeant or lieutenant when Arutha and James had led a squad of soldiers that had destroyed the Nighthawks headquarters in Krondor, the basement below one of the finest brothels in the city.
Armengar, and again at Kenting Rush, the Nighthawks are numerous and as soon as you destroy one nest, another springs up somewhere else.
Highness is concerned about the possibility of these Nighthawks being agents of a foreign power.
The Nighthawks had proven adept at infiltrating the army and even the palace in the past.
Silden, and the apparent link between the Crawler and the Nighthawks at Kenting Rush, I can only come to one conclusion.
First, what is the relationship between the Nighthawks and the Crawler?
Perhaps those dark forces are sending additional agents to insure their ends, regardless of what the Nighthawks and the Crawler achieve.
There had been three Nighthawks posing as soldiers at the garrison at Northwarden.
Still, I want our new intelligence service looking for clues as to the whereabouts of remaining Nighthawks as well as any agents for Kesh, Queg, or anyone else, for that matter.
But until that time, Sidi would let him think he was working on a simple commission, as the Nighthawks had for years before they discovered they were serving more than their petty family and clan loyalties.
What I do know is that all the Nighthawks are descended from the same person.
Blah, blah, blah, very mysterious, protected by spells, so secret that the Nighthawks hunted down anyone who read it and wiped the memory from their minds.