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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 Palisades (Hudson River)
The Palisades (Hudson River): diabase sill cliffs on the lower Hudson's west bank in New Jersey and New York, protected since 1900 by the bi-state Palisades Interstate Park Commission; National Historic and Natural Landmark.
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 par force hunting landscape in North Zealand
Parforcejagtlandskabet i Nordsjælland: Danish UNESCO World Heritage site (2015) of three royal Baroque hunting forests, Store Dyrehave, Gribskov, and Jægersborg, laid out by Christian V with star-and-grid rides for par force hunting until 1777.
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.
The Paradigm Shift
The Paradigm Shift is Korn's eleventh studio album, released October 8, 2013 on Caroline Records; produced by Don Gilmore, it is the first Korn album with guitarist Brian "Head" Welch since 2003 and followed the dubstep-heavy The Path of Totality.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is Alfred Hitchcock's 1947 courtroom drama for David O. Selznick, his last film under the Selznick contract, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, and Ann Todd, adapted from Robert Hichens' 1933 novel.
The Paradise (film)
The Paradise is a 2026 Telugu action drama by Srikanth Odela, starring Nani as Jadal, a Savaari tribal fighting for citizenship in 1980s Secunderabad; released September 24, 2026, panned by critics but a Rs 173 crore grosser, streaming on Netflix from October 22.
The Paradise (TV series)
The Paradise is a BBC period drama (2012-2013, two eight-episode series) created by Bill Gallagher, loosely adapting Zola's 1883 novel Au Bonheur des Dames and set in England's first department store in the 1870s, starring Joanna Vanderham and Emun Elliott.
The Paradox (band)
The Paradox is an American pop-punk band formed in June 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, whose blend of funk, Motown, R&B, and hip-hop took them from viral clips to a Billboard No. 1.
The Paradox of Choice
The paradox of choice, advanced by psychologist Barry Schwartz in his 2004 book, holds that an overload of options can reduce satisfaction and delay decisions, though the evidence is contested.
The Parallax View
The Parallax View (1974) is Alan J. Pakula's conspiracy thriller starring Warren Beatty as reporter Joe Frady, adapted from Loren Singer's 1970 novel, shot by Gordon Willis, the middle film of Pakula's paranoia trilogy.
The Pardoner's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale, a Canterbury Tales story by Chaucer (Fragment 6), is an exemplum in which three rioters seeking Death find gold and kill each other, told by a self-confessed hypocritical pardoner.
The Parent Trap (1961 film)
The Parent Trap (1961) is a Walt Disney comedy directed by David Swift, starring Hayley Mills as twin sisters Susan Evers and Sharon McKendrick who scheme to reunite divorced parents Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith; remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan.
The Parent Trap (1998 film)
The Parent Trap is a 1998 American family comedy directed by Nancy Meyers, starring Lindsay Lohan in a dual role as twins who plot to reunite their divorced parents.
The Paris Apartment
The Paris Apartment is Lucy Foley's 2022 William Morrow thriller in which Jess Hadley searches a Paris apartment building for her missing half-brother Ben, a mystery among secretive wealthy neighbors.
The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a quarterly American literary magazine founded in Paris in 1953, known for its fiction, poetry, and Writers at Work interview series.