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The paintings of Gaganendranath Tagore

The paintings of Gaganendranath Tagore are the watercolors, caricatures, and semi-abstract cubist-influenced works of an Indian artist of Kolkata's Jorasanko Tagore family, painted from about 1905 to 1930.

The paintings of K.G. Subramanyan

The paintings of K.G. Subramanyan (1924–2016) are narrative figurative works by a central figure of modern Indian art, blending myth with everyday life across six decades in oil, watercolor, and reverse painting on glass.

The paintings of Rabindranath Tagore

The paintings of Rabindranath Tagore are several thousand untitled drawings, ink paintings, and watercolors made by the Bengali Nobel laureate after he took up art in his sixties.

The paintings of S.H. Raza

The paintings of S.H. Raza are the work of an Indian modernist who moved from expressionist landscape to geometric abstraction built around the bindu, a dot symbolizing creation.

The paintings of Tyeb Mehta

The paintings of Tyeb Mehta (1925–2009) are works by an Indian modernist painter built around recurring motifs, including the trussed bull, falling figure, and Mahishasura, arranged with a signature diagonal line.

The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game is a 1954 Broadway musical by Adler and Ross, book by Abbott and Bissell from the novel 7½ Cents, about a pajama factory strike; 1,063 performances, 1955 Tony for Best Musical, 1957 Doris Day film.

The Pajama Game (1957 film)

The Pajama Game (1957 film): Warner Bros. musical comedy directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, starring Doris Day and John Raitt, adapted from the 1954 Broadway hit based on Bissell's novel 7½ Cents, with Adler and Ross songs and Fosse choreography.

The Palace

The Palace (宫锁沉香, Gong Suo Chen Xiang) is a 2013 Chinese Qing-dynasty palace romance film directed by Pan Anzi, written by Yu Zheng, starring Zhou Dongyu, Chen Xiao, and Zhao Liying; released 13 August 2013, grossing 54.461 million RMB in mainland China.

The Palace of Eternal Life

The Palace of Eternal Life (Changsheng Dian, 长生殿) is a Qing dynasty drama by Hong Sheng, completed in 1688, telling of Emperor Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan.

The Palace of the Peacock

The Palace of the Peacock is a 1960 novel by Wilson Harris, his first, opening the Guyana Quartet, following Captain Donne's multiracial crew up a Guyanese rainforest river.

The Palace: Lock Sinensis

The Palace: Lock Sinensis (宫锁沉香, The Palace) is a 2013 Chinese Qing-court romance film directed by Pan Anzi, written by Yu Zheng, the fourth Gong series work, starring Zhou Dongyu and Chen Xiao, released 13 August 2013.

The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye is a 2022 Scott Cooper gothic mystery film, adapted from Louis Bayard's novel, in which detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) and cadet Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) investigate murders at West Point in 1830.

The Pale Emperor

The Pale Emperor is Marilyn Manson's ninth studio album, released January 20, 2015 on Loma Vista, co-produced with Tyler Bates; a blues-influenced departure from industrial metal, Metascore 71, dedicated to his late mother.

The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse is a 1961 detective novel by Agatha Christie, a standalone thriller without Poirot or Miss Marple whose thallium poisoning plot helped catch a serial killer.

The Pale King

The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's unfinished third novel, published by Little, Brown in April 2011 and assembled by editor Michael Pietsch from 328 fragments. Set at an IRS center in Peoria, Illinois, in 1985, it centers on boredom, attention, and an IRS automation battle.

The Palm and the Neighbours

The Palm and the Neighbours (النخلة والجيران) is a 1966 novel by the Iraqi writer Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman, set in a poor Baghdad quarter during World War II.

The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story: 1942 Paramount screwball comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, and Rudy Vallee; released 10 December 1942.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard

The Palm-Wine Drinkard is a 1952 novel by Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, following Drinkard into the land of the dead to recover his dead palm-wine tapper.

The Pandemic Special

The Pandemic Special (2020) is South Park's first-ever hour-long supersized episode, Season 24 Episode 1, premiering September 30, 2020 on Comedy Central. Written and directed by Trey Parker, produced remotely, it earned a 2.06 adults-under-50 rating, an Emmy nomination, and sits in the Warner Bros. v. Paramount rights dispute.

The Panic

The Panic (2025) is an American period drama by Daniel Adams about the Panic of 1907, starring Cary Elwes as Charles Barney and Colm Meaney as J.P. Morgan; premiered October 16, 2025 at the Buffalo International Film Festival, US release 2026.

The Panic in Central Park

"The Panic in Central Park" is the sixth episode of Girls season 5 (HBO, March 27, 2016), written by Lena Dunham and directed by Richard Shepard, a Marnie-centric bottle episode riffing on The Panic in Needle Park, reuniting Marnie with Christopher Abbott's Charlie.

The Panic in Needle Park

The Panic in Needle Park is Jerry Schatzberg's 1971 drama starring Al Pacino and Kitty Winn as addicts around Sherman Square, Manhattan, from James Mills's novel, scripted by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne; Winn won Best Actress at Cannes 1971.

The Paper (1994 film)

The Paper (1994) is a Ron Howard comedy-drama, also called a newsroom drama, about one day at the fictional New York Sun tabloid, starring Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, and Marisa Tomei, released by Universal on March 18, 1994.

The Paper (2025 TV series)

The Paper (2025 TV series), Peacock mockumentary comedy spinoff of The Office by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, set at the fictional Toledo Truth Teller newspaper in Ohio, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, and Oscar Nuñez; premiered September 4, 2025.

The Paper Chase (film)

The Paper Chase (1973) is a James Bridges comedy-drama, adapted from John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and Oscar-winning John Houseman as Professor Kingsfield at Harvard Law School.

The Paper Crane

The Paper Crane (Hana no Orizurugasa, 花の折鶴笠) is a 1962 Toei Japanese period drama directed by Toshikazu Kōno, starring Hashizō Ōkawa, about a vagrant protecting a blind girl from con artists on the road to Edo.

The Paper Kingdom

The Paper Kingdom (MCR5) is My Chemical Romance's unreleased fifth album, recorded in 2012 and scrapped before the 2013 breakup; a dark concept record about parents grieving children, partially leaked in 2022 and 2026.

The Paperboy (2012 film)

The Paperboy is a 2012 American crime drama directed by Lee Daniels, based on Pete Dexter's 1995 novel, starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, and John Cusack.

The Parachute Club

The Parachute Club: Canadian pop band formed in Toronto in 1982 (not the fashion brand Parachute); fused new wave with reggae and soca; "Rise Up" hit No. 9 RPM, won a 1984 Juno; inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2023.

The Parade

The Parade (Parada) is a 2011 Serbian comedy-drama directed by Srđan Dragojević about a homophobic gangster protecting Belgrade Pride; Berlinale Panorama Audience Award winner, four-country co-production.