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7733	dbpedia	3	43	https://www.macalester.edu/global-citizenship/socialentrepreneurship/davisprojectsforpeace/pastprojects-2/	en	Past Projects	https://www.macalester.e…01/banner_lg.jpg	https://www.macalester.e…01/banner_lg.jpg	[ "https://www.macalester.edu/wp-content/themes/macalester-2020/dist/svgs/logo-white.svg", "https://www.macalester.edu/wp-content/themes/macalester-2020/dist/svgs/logo-color.svg", "https://www.macalester.edu/wp-content/themes/macalester-2020/dist/svgs/icon-menu.svg", "https://www.macalester.edu/wp-content/theme...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null		en	/wp-content/themes/macalester-2020/dist/images/favicons/favicon-32x32.png		https://www.macalester.edu/global-citizenship/socialentrepreneurship/davisprojectsforpeace/pastprojects-2/	2023 Projects Valeska Kohan ’23 and Amanda de Souza ’25 Seeds of Peace: Fighting Racism in Rio de Janeiro by Empowering Public School Teachers Brazil Kohan and de Souza spent the summer of 2023 providing tools and resources to teachers in order to implement anti-racist practices and facilitate discussions about race in their classrooms. Valeska and Amanda both grew up in Rio de Janeiro. “If more teachers promote anti-racist practices in classrooms, fewer students will be discriminated against,” Kohan said. “We hope this creates a ripple effect of Black empowerment, or youth empowerment, in general.” 2022 Projects Alice Bruno ’23 Sicilia conSenso: Making Peace with Our Bodies by Teaching Consent Sicily Alice completed her summer 2022 women-led project aimed to improve sexual health outcomes in Sicily by enhancing the availability of and access to sexual reproductive health information among young Sicilians. The project entailed two main endeavors: first, the creation of a digital campaign tailored to youth; second, a two-day intensive training for teachers and youth workers on sex-education methodologies. By training educators, the project promoted sustainable change by enhancing access in the long run. Yosan Worota ’23 Fere (Seed) Project: Expanding Educational Access Originally planned for Khartoum, Sudan, but relocated to Indonesia due to political unrest Yosan worked with Eritrean refugees on economic and professional empowerment. Refugees learned to design original t-shirts and other merchandise to sell on a collaboratively-created website hereproject.org. “Focusing on the most vulnerable fraction of this demographic, the refugee youth community, initiating projects that support their livelihoods through entrepreneurship and education-access programs promotes self-reliance by providing ways to earn their income,” Yosan wrote in her final report. “As a result, self-sufficient young refugees will have the necessary tools to confront critical issues and to be agents of their own fate, which is how I define peace.” 2021 Project Janica Kozina ’21 Listen to the Sound of Change: Interethnic Cooperation for Children with Disabilities Bosnia and Herzegovina Janica traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to work with volunteers who recorded 35 audiobooks for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. She also launched a free website with Soundcloud so these recordings would continue to be accessible, and engaged more than 20 radio stations who will continue to narrate age-appropriate children’s books for the website. 2020 Project Note: this project was completed in 2021 due to Covid-19 Matthew Wilkinson ’22 Community Building with Alight Twin Cities, Ghana Initially planned to take place in Ghana during the summer of 2020, Matthew shifted his project due to the pandemic and focused on developing relationships between the Congolese refugee community in the Twin Cities, Alight, and Voice in the Wilderness. By facilitating these connections, local refugee families were able to access rent aid and home supply donations while the two nonprofits also grew in their ability to collaborate in the future. Additionally, Matthew established a new biweekly adult English class, specifically tailored to suit the particularities of the Congolese refugee community, through Voice in the Wilderness as well as Karibuni Minnesota, an educational podcast that elevates Congolese refugee experiences to a general audience. 2019 Project Lukas Matthews ’19 Promoting Peace and Hope through Education Mponwaakrom, Ghana Lukas partnered with Emmanuel Nimo at Ashesi University for his project with Mponwaakrom primary and secondary students. Since the two main options to make a living in this community of 500 are farming and illegal mining, the goal was to provide the students with the educational resources and facilities to inspire them to excel. “Our repetition of the theme that education would allow more opportunities for self-advocacy and reallocation of resources struck a chord with many in the community. And our presentation of what is possible with books, electricity, and cellular connectivity astounded citizens young and old alike,” Lukas wrote in his final report. 2018 Projects Ayaan Natala ’18 We gon’ be alright: Introducing Artrepreneurship to Formerly Incarcerated (Ujamaa) Men St. Paul, Minnesota Ayaan partnered with Ujaama PLACE, a Minnesota nonprofit dedicated to helping formerly incarcerated men find employment, education and housing opportunities. The project aspired to transform approximately eight African-American men exiting the criminal justice system into “artrepreneurs” — creative individuals who combine art and entrepreneurship for financial autonomy. Olivia Chew ’19 Mediante Nuestros Ojos: Reimagining a Future Free from Gender-Based Violence Quito, Ecuador Olivia’s project aimed to address the problem of gender-based and familial violence in the Central District of Quito. Throughout 16 weeks, she worked with 30 youth and young adults ages 13-20 in a series of workshops based on the themes of gender and sexuality as well as a segment on theatre as a therapeutic process. In the long term, empowering the young adults as educators on gender and gender-based violence will continue to fuel the movement against violence. 2017 Projects Khadidja Ngom ’19 Dello Buumu Yaakaar: Restoring Hope among Senegalese Talibés and Albino Children Senegal Khadidja partnered with “Les Petites Gouttes” to develop a camp and curriculum for Senegalese children with albinism and for children who must beg in the streets for their income. The camp exposed the children to basic French, computer education, Quranic teachings and skills in crafts, storytelling, and public speaking. The camp brought together 40 participants from Dakar and other regions of the country. They created an inclusive environment where children from vastly different walks of life could learn about each other’s stories in order to stop prejudice and discrimination. Kava Garcia Vasquez ’17 Skate into the Sun: Empowering Maputo’s Young Women through the Art of Skateboarding Maputo, Mozambique Kava partnered with the “Skateboarding Association of Mozambique” (ASM) to create Meninanda, Mozambique’s first skateboarding club for girls. With a focus on facilitating peace and empowerment, Meninanda transformed ASM into a youth center girls could learn to skate, do their homework, create art, exchange ideas, and seek mentorship. It also became a space where she and other mentors could have difficult and necessary conversations about gender, poverty, sexism, education and their own ideas for peace. 2016 Project Gao Thor ‘18 Empowering Hmong Women: Peb Muaj Nuj Nqis (We Are Worthy) Saint Paul, Minnesota and Laos Gao launched the “Peb Muaj Nuj Nqis” (We are Worthy) program in an effort to engage Hmong women to recognize their worth, know that they are valued and feel empowered to resist the cultural expectations placed on them. She connected young Hmong women transnationally and created a safe space for them to share their personal narratives surrounding gender inequity in the Hmong culture. Gao used the train the trainer model to support the cohort of Hmong Minnesotans and Hmong Laos in developing facilitation skills. By doing so, she was able to empower change agents who will act as catalysts to provide more spaces for Hmong women to discuss gender inequity in their lives and strengthen the role of women in Hmong culture. She states that this project “reminded me of how proud I am to be a Hmong woman” and helped her realize “that we have within us the ability to change and shape our culture into one that values women.” 2015 Project Lianna Novitz ’18, Haimeng Zhang ’18 Seeing Through a New Lens Together Anhui province, China Lianna and Haimeng ran a three-week summer camp for middle-school age children in Anhui province, China. The camp focused on artistic self-expression to give the children, who had little access to such services in their rural town, greater self confidence in their schoolwork and inspiration for their futures. The leaders ran photography, music, literature, and drawing classes for approximately 100 students. At the end of the camp, Lianna and Haimeng took a small group of students to Shanghai to see the city and practice communication skills. During the camp, the children benefited from the freedom of expression allowed in the classes and an array of skills that will have a lasting effect on their futures. 2014 Project Ngan “Jasmine” Nguyen ’17 Cultivating Peace: Virtual Learning Buddy Rural Vietnam (Vinh Phuc Village) Jasmine learned that peace can come when committed people work together on a common goal. She recruited local volunteers to help her set up an interactive learning center with 10 computers and 500 books for over 50 rural youth in Vietnam. Volunteers taught small group classes in using technology, public speaking and English. The classes gave the students, ages 10 to 18 years old, concrete skills and encouragement to dream and plan for their futures. 2013 Projects Valentino Grbavac ’15 Reconciliation Through Education Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentino’s goal was to improve the quality of education for local children and promote multicultural understanding and reconciliation among the students still experiencing the effects of the 1990s war. He worked with others to renovate the school’s chemistry classroom into a working lab and to purchase lab supplies for chemistry, physics, and the IT lab. Workshops with youth and a local media campaign promoted the peace-making goals of the project. Joseph Vandy Sengeh ’16, Andrea Grimaldi ’16, and Omar Mansour ’16 Zinc and Latrines for Peace Kpetema, Sierra Leone After the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone, families returned to their village and have been struggling ever since to rebuild. This team replaced the leaky thatch roofs with zinc roofs on 15 homes, the mosque, and the birth attendant’s home before the rainy season started. They also worked with villagers to build additional pit toilets and repair the water pump. Finally, the women learned to make soap and started a soap production business while learning the importance of good hygiene. 2012 Projects Selamawit Gebremariam ’13 Green Lake Water Project: Sustainability, Safe Water for All Ethiopia Selam worked with the Green Lake community in Ethiopia to help provide reliable access to safe water for their community and clinic. Together they repaired the existing water line, installed a new septic tank, and provided water filter and water safety lessons to families. The community water sanitation educational program ensures the project’s stability. Also, providing safe water and new equipment at the clinic as improved residents’ health. Charlotte Fagan ’12 The Bike Library for Carishinas Quito, Ecuador Charlotte worked with Quito women to create an infrastructure that would lend bicycles, helmets, locks and reflective vests to women through a Bike Library. The Bike Library’s goals are to assist low-income women in learning how to use a bike as transportation and to help them purchase their own bikes, thus giving them increased independence. She also organized an urban cyclist mentoring program connecting experienced and inexperienced female riders. 2011 Projects Rayanatou Laouali ’12 Peanut Processing and Women: Women’s Enterprise and Community Development Niger Rayanatou worked with women in her home community in Niger to develop a thriving cooperative that benefited the whole community. She helped the women expand their peanut processing business by teaching them organizational skills, fair pricing, and the importance of hygiene, and provide them with their own peanut stock and other work materials. They registered their cooperative with the major’s office as “Self-Sufficient Women,” which exemplifies the intention of the project. Profits support the cooperative while providing for their families. She also encouraged school attendance and provided needed school supplies. 2010 Project Michael Manansala ‘12 and Cecelia Martinez-Miranda ’13 Building Walls and Breaking Barriers Manila, Philippines Michael and Cecilia collaborated to install a vertical vegetable garden, rainwater collection system, and compost bin for a school that serves children whose families survive by scavenging in a gigantic garbage dump. Called “Smokey Mountain,” the 2 million ton garbage heap is the waste disposal facility for metropolitan Manila. A large squatter community collects glass, metal, paper, and plastic each day, selling to middlemen who in turn sell to recycling factories. Because about 700 families depend on their children to help generate income, thousands of children don’t attend school. A new school, run by the Philippine Christian Foundation, offers free education to students from the Smokey Mountain area, along with free lunch, uniforms, shoes, and school supplies. The school is constructed from shipping containers. Students and teachers were trained to maintain the systems, creating a sustainable source of food for the community and opportunities for the children to remain in school. 2009 Project Douglas Mapondera ’11 Empowering Vuka Resettlement Community Zimbabwe Douglas refurbished the irrigation infrastructure in Vuka Resettlement Community, his home village in Zimbabwe. A former commercial farm community with an irrigation system damaged by war, the village currently holds 70 family sites. Without irrigation, the 700 villagers must carry water far to nourish their crops. Douglas set out to provide a reliable water supply, a key step in creating sustainable income and cash crops. The project required buying new pump sets and repairing existing equipment. Concerned about security, the village also gave land to a man in exchange for him guarding the pump sets. The project also helped villagers secure their own food supply, thereby reducing the odds of malnutrition. In Douglas’s own words: “When the water started pumping, the feeling of hope and success was evident in the village and dispelled doubts that their situation was insurmountable … It was a thrill to share their joy and for them to not be disappointed again by unfilled promises of outside groups. Hope was revived.” 2008 Projects Leah Roth-Howe ’08 Ending the Silence Chicago, Illinois and Cambodia The Khmer Rouge genocide is not included in the formal Cambodian education system. Leah initiated a series of workshops that provided a safe space for Cambodian students to confront their country’s history of violence, ask questions, and creatively express their reactions. Her project began in Chicago: Working with the Cambodian Association of Illinois, she organized intergenerational dialogues among survivors, their descendants, and other students. She next traveled to Cambodia to work with Youth for Peace (YFP), creating additional workshops. Workshop participants, including students, Khmer Rouge survivors, and former Khmer Rouge soldiers, were better able to express themselves through visual imagery than through words. Leah connected with galleries in the United States interested in exhibiting the artwork and at the request of YFP, led subsequent workshops at its International Youth Peace Conference. Zainab Mansaray ’09 & Arthur Sillah ’10 Sierra Leone Muslim Brotherhood School Sierra Leone Arthur and Zainab set out to rehabilitate the Sierra Leone Muslim Brotherhood Primary School and organize workshops that encouraged the students to unite in collective community service. The idea of collaborative service for the public good was a new concept for the children. The workshops motivated students to create different projects to help others, such as cleaning the local hospital and distributing malaria nets. A major effort included building a two-classroom structure—furnished with desks, chairs, blackboards, and 900 government-approved books—that continues to house most of this school’s classes. Every student received school supplies and 10 were given scholarships for a full year of tuition, books, and supplies. Students now study within a classroom rather than under trees. 2007 Projects Dara Hoppe ’10 Project for Sustainable Development Brazil Dara created and facilitated a jewelry-making workshop for people living in the Brazilian Amazon. The workshop taught community members— primarily subsistence farmers—to generate an environmentally sustainable, alternate source of income using seeds to create jewelry. The project brought to the community sewing machines, as well as a computer and a small law library to help support local farmers in complex land-rights cases. Prior to the workshop, women had few opportunities to gather. Making and marketing the jewelry united women in continuing relationships. Trading and collecting seeds raised consciousness about ways to benefit from local natural resources. Dara continues to establish markets for the jewelry in the United States. Fiorella Ormeño Incio ’09 Peace Building Workshops Peru Fiorella organized a series of Peace Building Workshops in public and private schools throughout Peru, which were aimed at defusing racial and gender discrimination issues in high schools. These workshops trained teacher-leaders from local schools to identify discrimination and support their students’ conflict resolution skills. The teachers stepped beyond the workshops to develop a book of strategies for teachers and students in affected communities, and students established Peace Clubs in their schools, helping ensure the ongoing effect of the project.
7733	dbpedia	1	95	https://leapscholar.com/blog/top-mba-colleges-in-the-world/	en	Top 10 MBA Colleges in the World: Fees, Programs, Work Experience	https://leapscholar.com/…MBA-colleges.jpg	https://leapscholar.com/…MBA-colleges.jpg	[ "https://leapscholar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/LeapScholar-header-logo.svg", "https://leapscholar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/LeapScholar-header-logo.svg", "https://leapscholar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/LeapScholar-header-logo.svg", "https://leapscholar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Saket Kohli" ]	2024-07-03T10:38:42+00:00	Discover the top 10 MBA colleges in the world for 2024, their fee structures, admission tips, and high-paying career prospects for graduates.	en	https://leapscholar.com/…go-2-1-32x32.png	LeapScholar	https://leapscholar.com/blog/top-mba-colleges-in-the-world/	21 min read Thinking about taking your business skills to the next level? Choosing one of the top 10 MBA colleges in the world can open doors to exciting leadership roles and high-growth careers. But with so many options, where do you even begin? Pursuing an MBA is a significant investment, both in terms of time and money, but the returns can be substantial. According to a survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the median starting salary for new MBA hires in the U.S. was $1,15,000 in 2023, a considerable increase over the average salary for bachelor’s degree holders in business, which stood at $65,000! This salary boost, coupled with career advancement opportunities, makes an MBA a highly attractive option for aspiring business leaders. Have you ever pictured yourself leading a global team, spearheading innovative projects, or making complex business deals? An MBA from one of the top 10 MBA colleges in the world can turn that vision into reality. Key Highlights Here are the main points that you’ll explore about the top 10 MBA colleges in the world. Why Choose a Top-Tier MBA Program from Top Universities? Pursuing an MBA from a top-tier institution, especially from one of the top 10 MBA colleges in the world, can significantly impact your professional trajectory. The benefits extend beyond the degree itself, encompassing networking opportunities, skill enhancement, and increased earning potential. For instance, the average salary increase for graduates from top MBA programs can be as high as 85% after graduation, according to the Financial Times! Attending a leading business school, particularly one of the top 10 MBA colleges in the world, can drastically change your career path. Graduates from top MBA programs often secure high-paying jobs in leadership positions across various industries. For example, Harvard Business School reports that 91% of its 2023 MBA graduates received job offers within three months of graduation, with a median base salary of $1,75,000! The school’s reputation, combined with a strong alumni network, provides a competitive edge in the job market. Similarly, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania boasts a 98.5% job offer rate within three months of graduation, with median earnings of $1,80,000. Key Aspects to Consider When Choosing an MBA Program Choosing the right MBA program from the top 10 MBA colleges in the world is crucial for maximising the benefits of your investment. Here are the key aspects to consider. 1. Curriculum The curriculum should offer a comprehensive understanding of business management, covering essential topics like finance, marketing, operations, and strategy. For instance, Stanford Graduate School of Business, one of the top 10 MBA colleges in the world, offers a flexible curriculum with a global management immersion experience, allowing students to study abroad in over 20 countries. Additionally, INSEAD offers a unique one-year MBA program with campuses in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, providing a truly international perspective. 2. Faculty The quality of the faculty is a vital factor. Renowned professors with industry experience and strong academic backgrounds can enhance your learning experience. For example, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is known for its Nobel Prize-winning faculty members like Richard Thaler and Eugene Fama, who provide valuable insights and mentorship. 3. Network A strong network of alumni and industry connections can provide significant career benefits. Leading MBA programs from the top 10 MBA colleges in the world have extensive alumni networks that can offer mentorship, job opportunities, and professional connections. Harvard Business School has an alumni network of over 85,000 members worldwide. The London Business School’s alumni network includes influential business leaders such as Kumar Mangalam Birla and Cyrus Mistry, providing an extensive network for graduates to tap into. 3. Return on Investment Evaluating the return on investment (ROI) is essential. Consider factors like tuition fees, potential salary increase, and career opportunities post-graduation. For example, the total cost of attending MIT Sloan School of Management for two years is approximately $1,50,000, but graduates often see a significant ROI with a median base annual salary of $1,50,000 and an additional $30,000 signing bonus. Similarly, graduates from Columbia Business School report an average salary increase of 85%, making the high tuition costs worthwhile in the long run. Top 10 MBA Colleges in the World Pursuing an MBA from a top-tier institution is a dream for many aspiring business leaders. The benefits of an MBA from a prestigious university are substantial, including higher earning potential, extensive networking opportunities, and access to top global companies. Programs such as INSEAD and London Business School have student bodies where over 90% of students are international, fostering a global learning environment. These programs are known for their rigorous academic standards, exceptional faculty, and a strong focus on leadership and innovation. Explore the top 10 MBA colleges in the world for 2024, each offering unique advantages and opportunities to shape the next generation of business leaders. Learn about the specific benefits each university offers and how much an MBA can cost you, so you can make an informed decision. Read on for the top 10 MBA colleges in the world with fee structure. 1. Stanford Graduate School of Business Located in Stanford, California, USA, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) is renowned for its entrepreneurial spirit and close ties to Silicon Valley. With a selective admission rate of around 6%, Stanford GSB provides a rigorous and innovative MBA program that consistently ranks as the best in the world. Key Benefits Entrepreneurship: Stanford GSB has a strong focus on entrepreneurship, supported by the Stanford Venture Studio and StartX accelerator. Over 16% of graduates start their own businesses. Global Opportunities: The Global Management Immersion Experience (GMIX) program allows students to work on projects across 50 countries. Leadership Labs: Stanford offers hands-on leadership labs and courses taught by industry leaders like Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft. Below is a table showcasing the most popular MBA disciplines along with their respective fees. Most Popular Alumni Phil Knight, Founder of Nike Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors Worried about the tuition fees? Leap Finance is the companion you need. We offer collateral-free education loans to Indian students pursuing their masters from the US. If that’s you, benefit from our flexible loan options that can cover 100% of your cost of studying and living in the US. Get a loan offer now. 2. Wharton Business School Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is known for its finance program and strong emphasis on analytical and quantitative skills. Wharton boasts the largest alumni network of any business school in the world. Key Benefits Finance Leadership: Known for producing top finance professionals, Wharton’s finance department is consistently ranked #1. Analytics and Data Science: Home to the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI), Wharton leads in applying data science to business challenges. Global Hubs: Wharton has campuses in Philadelphia and San Francisco, providing a bi-coastal experience for students. Here’s a breakdown of the top MBA specialisations and their associated costs. Most Popular Alumni Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. Also read: 1 Year MBA in USA for International Students: Universities & Fees 3. Harvard Business School Located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Harvard Business School (HBS) is one of the most prestigious business schools globally, known for its case study method and influential alumni. HBS has an acceptance rate of about 11% and a rich history of over a century in business education. Key Benefits Case Study Method: HBS uses over 500 cases to teach students practical business solutions, fostering critical thinking and real-world application. Alumni Network: HBS has a powerful network of over 85,000 alumni, including numerous CEOs and government leaders. Leadership Programs: The Harvard Leadership Initiative offers immersive leadership development courses. The following table details the leading MBA concentrations and their tuition fees. Most Popular Alumni Michael Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg LP Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook With top-tier universities, diverse career opportunities, and rich cultural experiences, the USA stands out as a premier destination for studying in 2024. Ready to start your academic journey in the US? Over 200,000 students have trusted LeapScholar to guide them through their study abroad adventure. Don’t miss out — book a free consultation with our experts today and get all your questions answered! 4. London Business School (LBS) Located in London, UK, London Business School is a leading business school known for its diverse student body and strong connections with European businesses. LBS offers a flexible 15-21 month MBA program. Key Benefits Diverse Community: With 90% international students, LBS offers a global perspective on business. Flexible Program: The LBS MBA can be completed in 15, 18, or 21 months, allowing students to tailor their experience. London Advantage: Proximity to leading financial institutions and multinational companies. Check out this table for the most sought-after MBA fields and their fees. Most Popular Alumni Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group Cyrus Mistry, Former Chairman of Tata Group Also read: 1 Year MBA in UK: Cost & Universities for Indian Students The UK’s rich history, elite institutions, unique curriculum, and innovative approach make it the top choice for international students. Are you ready to start your academic journey in the UK but the IELTS examination is giving you chills? LeapScholar has you covered. With over 1,500 experts, LeapScholar is dedicated to connect you with expert counsellors who can help you achieve your dream band scores. Talk to our trainer counsellors now. Also read this comprehensive guide on studying in the UK. 5. HEC Paris Located in Paris, France, HEC Paris is one of Europe’s premier business schools, offering a top-ranked MBA program known for its strong emphasis on leadership and innovation. HEC Paris is situated in the outskirts of Paris, providing a tranquil yet inspiring environment. Key Benefits Entrepreneurial Focus: HEC Paris has a strong entrepreneurial spirit, with a dedicated incubator and accelerator programs. Leadership Development: The Leadership Center at HEC Paris offers personalised leadership development plans. Strong Industry Connections: Close ties with leading European companies provide extensive networking opportunities. Presented here is a table of the most in-demand MBA disciplines with their fees. Most Popular Alumni: François-Henri Pinault, CEO of Kering Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman of L’Oréal 6. MIT Sloan School of Management Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, MIT Sloan is renowned for its emphasis on innovation and leadership in management education. The program is designed to foster analytical rigour and a collaborative learning environment. Key Benefits Innovation Leadership: MIT Sloan’s focus on innovation and entrepreneurship is supported by resources like the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. Collaborative Learning: The program emphasises teamwork, with students working on real-world projects through courses like Action Learning Labs. Strong Alumni Network: MIT Sloan alumni are leaders in various industries, contributing to a robust and supportive network. This table outlines the most popular MBA specialties and the corresponding tuition costs. Most Popular Alumni: Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations William Clay Ford Jr., Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Company 7. Columbia Business School Located in New York City, New York, USA, Columbia Business School offers unparalleled access to the business and financial centres of the world. The program is known for its strong emphasis on finance and leadership. Key Benefits Strategic Location: Situated in Manhattan, Columbia offers students numerous networking opportunities with leaders in finance, consulting, and other industries. Finance Expertise: The program is highly regarded for its finance curriculum, supported by renowned faculty and extensive industry connections. Global Perspective: Columbia Business School offers numerous international opportunities through its Global Immersion Program. Here is a detailed table of the top MBA disciplines and their fees. Most Popular Alumni: Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Henry Kravis, Co-founder of KKR & Co. 8. INSEAD With campuses in Fontainebleau, France, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi, UAE, INSEAD is one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools. The program is renowned for its international diversity and global outlook. Key Benefits International Diversity: INSEAD’s student body represents over 90 nationalities, providing a truly global perspective. Flexible Program: The 10-month MBA program is intensive and allows students to quickly return to the workforce. Strong Alumni Network: INSEAD’s alumni network spans across the globe, offering extensive career opportunities and support. Take a look at the table below for the most popular MBA courses and their fees. Most Popular Alumni: Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Credit Suisse Antonio Horta-Osorio, Former CEO of Lloyds Banking Group 9. IE Business School Located in Madrid, Spain, IE Business School is renowned for its innovative approach to business education and its focus on entrepreneurship and technology. Key Benefits Innovation and Technology: IE is at the forefront of integrating technology with business education, offering courses on digital transformation and fintech. Entrepreneurial Focus: The school supports entrepreneurs with its IE Venture Lab and startup incubator. Flexible Learning Options: IE offers various formats including full-time, part-time, and online MBA programs to accommodate different professional needs. Find a detailed list of the most popular MBA programs and their costs in this table. Most Popular Alumni Diego del Alcázar, Founder and President of IE Business School Elena Gómez, CFO of Merlin Properties 10. IESE Business School Located in Barcelona, Spain, IESE Business School is known for its strong emphasis on leadership and ethics, and its commitment to providing a global business education. Key Benefits Leadership and Ethics: IESE emphasises ethical leadership, with courses and programs focused on developing responsible business leaders. Global Reach: The program includes international modules and exchanges, providing a global business perspective. Alumni Support: IESE has a supportive alumni network, with regular events and continuous career support. This table illustrates the leading MBA specialisations along with their associated fees. Most Popular Alumni Rafael del Pino, Executive Chairman of Ferrovial Pablo Isla, CEO of Inditex Also read: Best MBA Colleges in the World for 2024 Top 10 MBA Colleges in the World for Executive MBA Programs Pursuing an Executive MBA (EMBA) from a top-tier institution can significantly enhance your career trajectory. These programs are designed for experienced professionals aiming to advance their leadership skills, expand their business acumen, and grow their professional networks. According to the Executive MBA Council, EMBA graduates see an average salary increase of 17% one year after graduation. Additionally, 83% of EMBA graduates report positive career impacts within three years . Here is a table listing some of the best executive MBA programs in the world along with notable companies that often recruit graduates from these programs. Admission Criteria to Get into the Top 10 MBA Colleges in the World Ready to send in your application to the best MBA college of your choice? Give this section a thorough read so you can fine tune your application to maximise your chances of getting an acceptance letter! Common Requirements GMAT/GRE Scores: Most top MBA programs require applicants to submit GMAT or GRE scores. These standardised tests assess analytical writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English. For instance, the average GMAT score for Stanford GSB is around 733, while for Harvard Business School, it’s about 730. TOEFL/IELTS: Non-native English speakers must provide proof of English proficiency through TOEFL or IELTS scores. Here are the expected minimum scores: Work Experience: Applicants are generally required to have significant professional work experience, typically between 3-5 years. This experience should demonstrate progression and leadership potential. For example, MIT Sloan requires a minimum of two years of work experience, with an average of five years among admitted students. Essays: Personal essays are a critical component of the application, allowing candidates to showcase their personality, goals, and motivations. Schools like Harvard Business School ask applicants to write about what they would like the admissions committee to know about them beyond their resume. Recommendations: Letters of recommendation, usually from professional contacts such as supervisors, provide insight into the applicant’s leadership abilities and professional achievements. Most programs require two to three recommendation letters. Step-by-Step Application Process Research Programs: Identify programs that align with your career goals and personal preferences. Consider factors like location, curriculum, faculty, and alumni network. Prepare for GMAT/GRE and TOEFL/IELTS: Allocate sufficient time to prepare for and take these standardised tests. Gather Required Documents: These include transcripts, test scores, resume, essays, and recommendations. Write Essays: Craft compelling personal statements and essays that reflect your experiences, goals, and reasons for choosing the specific MBA program. 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7733	dbpedia	0	36	https://samplecontents.library.ph/wikipedia/wp/k/Kofi_Annan.htm	en	Kofi Annan			[ "https://samplecontents.library.ph/wikipedia/checked-content.png", "https://samplecontents.library.ph/wikipedia/images/1709/170907.jpg", "https://samplecontents.library.ph/wikipedia/images/1709/170908.jpg", "https://samplecontents.library.ph/wikipedia/images/1709/170912.jpg", "https://samplecontents.library...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "SOS Children" ]	null	An article about Kofi Annan hand selected for the Wikipedia for Schools by SOS Children	en			http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/k/Kofi_Annan.htm	Kofi Atta Annan (pron.: / ˈ k oʊ f i ˈ æ n ə n /; born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people. From 23 February until 31 August 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution, stating that "when the Syrian people desperately need action, there continues to be finger-pointing and name-calling in the Security Council." Early years and education Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi in the Gold Coast on 8 April 1938. His twin sister Efua Ataa, who died in 1991, shares the middle name Atta, which in Fante and Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's aristocratic families; both their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs. In the Akan names tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and/or in relation to how many children precede them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday. Pronunciation: Annan has said his surname rhymes with "cannon" in English. From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan has said that the school taught him "that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere". In 1957, the year Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, the Gold Coast gained independence from Britain and began using the name "Ghana". In 1958, Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in 1961. Annan then did a DEA degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62. After some years of work experience, he studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a Master of Science (M.S.) degree. Annan is fluent in English, French, Akan, some Kru languages and other African languages. Early career In 1962, Kofi Annan started working as a Budget Officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations (UN). From 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Director of Tourism in Ghana. In the late 1980s, Annan returned to work for the UN, where he was appointed as an Assistant Secretary-General in three consecutive positions: Human Resources, Management and Security Coordinator (1987–1990); Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller (1990–1992); and Peacekeeping Operations (March 1993 – December 1996). The Rwandan Genocide took place in 1994 while Annan directed UN Peacekeeping Operations. In 2003 Canadian ex-General Roméo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, claimed that Annan was overly passive in his response to the imminent genocide. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2003), General Dallaire asserted that Annan held back UN troops from intervening to settle the conflict, and from providing more logistical and material support. Dallaire claimed that Annan failed to provide responses to his repeated faxes asking for access to a weapons depository; such weapons could have helped Dallaire defend the endangered Tutsis. In 2004, ten years after the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, Annan said, "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support." Annan served as Under-Secretary-General from March 1994 to October 1995. He was appointed a Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the former Yugoslavia, serving for five months before returning to his duties as Under-Secretary-General in April 1996. Secretary-General of the United Nations Appointment On 13 December 1996, the United Nations Security Council recommended Annan to replace the previous Secretary-General, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, whose second term faced the veto of the United States. Confirmed four days later by the vote of the General Assembly, he started his first term as Secretary-General on 1 January 1997. Activities In April 2001, Annan issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Stating it was a "personal priority", Annan proposed a Global AIDS and Health Fund to stimulate the increased international spending needed to help developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis. On 10 December 2001, Annan and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world". In the years after 1998 when UNSCOM was kicked out by the government of Saddam Hussein and during the Iraq disarmament crisis, in which the United States blamed UNSCOM and former IAEA director Hans Blix for failing to properly disarm Iraq, Scott Ritter the former UNSCOM chief weapons inspector, blamed Annan for being slow and ineffective in enforcing Security Council resolutions on Iraq and was overtly submissive to the demands of the Clinton administration for regime removal and inspection of sites, often Presidential palaces, that were not mandated in any resolution and were of questionable intelligence value, which severely hampered UNSCOM's ability to cooperate with the Iraqi government and contributed to their expulsion from the country. Ritter also claimed that Annan regularly interfered with the work of the inspectors and diluted the chain of command by trying to micromanage all of the activities of UNSCOM, which caused intelligence processing (and the resulting inspections) to be backed up and caused confusion with the Iraqis as to who was in charge and as a result, they generally refused to take orders from Ritter or Rolf Ekéus without explicit approval from Annan, which could have taken days, if not weeks. He later believed that Annan was oblivious to the fact the Iraqis took advantage of this in order to delay inspections. He claimed that on one occasion, Annan refused to implement a no-notice inspection of the SSO headquarters and instead tried to negotiate access, but the negotiation ended up taking nearly six weeks, giving the Iraqis more than enough time to clean out the site. During the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Annan called on the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without the support of the United Nations. In a September 2004 interview on the BBC, when questioned about the legal authority for the invasion, Annan said he believed it was not in conformity with the UN charter and was illegal. Annan and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disagreed sharply on Iran's nuclear program, on an Iranian exhibition of cartoons mocking the Holocaust, and on the then upcoming International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, an Iranian Holocaust denial conference in 2006. During a visit to Iran instigated by continued Iranian uranium enrichment, Annan said "I think the tragedy of the Holocaust is an undeniable historical fact and we should really accept that fact and teach people what happened in World War II and ensure it is never repeated." Annan supported sending a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, Sudan. He worked with the government of Sudan to accept a transfer of power from the African Union peacekeeping mission to a UN one. Annan also worked with several Arab and Muslim countries on women's rights and other topics. Beginning in 1998, Annan convened an annual UN "Security Council Retreat" with the 15 States' representatives of the Council. It was held at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Conference Centre at the Rockefeller family estate at Pocantico, and was sponsored by both the RBF and the UN. Lubbers sexual-harassment investigation In June 2004, Annan was given a copy of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) report on the complaint brought by four women workers against Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees for sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and retaliation. The report also reviewed a long-serving staff member's allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Werner Blatter, Director of UNHCR Personnel. The investigation found Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment; no mention was made publicly of the other charge against a senior official, or two subsequent complaints filed later that year. In the course of the official investigation, Lubbers wrote a letter which some considered was a threat to the female worker who had brought the charges. On 15 July 2004, Annan cleared Lubbers of the accusations, saying they were not substantial enough legally. His decision held until November 2004. When the OIOS issued its annual report to the UN General Assembly, it stated that it had found Lubbers guilty of sexual harassment. These events were widely reported and weakened Annan's influence. On 17 November 2004, Annan accepted an OIOS report clearing Dileep Nair, UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, of political corruption and sexual harassment charges. Some UN staff in New York disagreed with this conclusion, leading to extended debate on 19 November. The internal UNn-OIOS report on Lubbers was leaked, and sections accompanied by an article by Kate Holt were published in a British newspaper. In February 2005, he resigned as head of the UN refugee agency. Lubbers said he wanted to relieve political pressure on Annan. Oil-for-Food scandal In December 2004, reports surfaced that the Secretary-General's son Kojo Annan received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna Inspection SA, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations. Annan appointed the Independent Inquiry Committee, which was led by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, then the director of the United Nations Association of the US. In his first interview with the Inquiry Committee, Annan denied having had a meeting with Cotecna. Later in the inquiry, he recalled that he had met with Cotecna's chief executive Elie-Georges Massey twice. In a final report issued on 27 October, the committee found insufficient evidence to indict Kofi Annan on any illegal actions, but did find fault with Benan Sevan, a Cypriot national who had worked for the UN for about 40 years. Appointed by Annan to the Oil-For-Food role, Sevan repeatedly asked Iraqis for allocations of oil to the African Middle East Petroleum Company. Sevan's behaviour was "ethically improper", Volcker said to reporters. Sevan repeatedly denied the charges and argued that he was being made a "scapegoat". The Volcker report was highly critical of the UN management structure and the Security Council oversight. It strongly recommended a new position be established of Chief Operating Officer (COO), to handle the fiscal and administrative responsibilities than under the Secretary General's office. The report listed the companies, both Western and Middle Eastern, that benefited illegally from the program. Relations between the United States and the United Nations Kofi Annan supported his deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, who openly criticized the United States in a speech on 6 June 2006: "[T]he prevailing practice of seeking to use the UN almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable. You will lose the UN one way or another. [...] [That] the US is constructively engaged with the UN [...] is not well known or understood, in part because much of the public discourse that reaches the US heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News." Malloch later said his talk was a "sincere and constructive critique of U.S. policy toward the U.N. by a friend and admirer." The talk was unusual because it violated unofficial policy of not having top officials publicly criticize member nations. The interim U.S. ambassador John R. Bolton, appointed by President George W. Bush, was reported to have told Annan on the phone: "I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I have seen in that entire time." Observers from other nations supported Malloch's view that conservative politicians in the US prevented many citizens from understanding the benefits of US involvement in the UN. UN Resolution 61/225: World Diabetes Day Kofi Annan witnessed the United Nations General Assembly's passage of UN Resolution 61/225, to establish World Diabetes Day. The Resolution was the second UN General Assembly Resolution on a health-related issue (the other being HIV/AIDS). Resolution 61/225 is the only Health-related UN Resolution to pass by consensus. Sponsored by the Republic of South Africa and Bangladesh, the Resolution was passed on 20 December 2006. Farewell addresses On 19 September 2006, Annan gave a farewell address to world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York, in anticipation of his retirement on 31 December. In the speech he outlined three major problems of "an unjust world economy, world disorder, and widespread contempt for human rights and the rule of law", which he believes "have not resolved, but sharpened" during his time as Secretary-General. He also pointed to violence in Africa, and the Arab-Israeli conflict as two major issues warranting attention. On 11 December 2006, in his final speech as Secretary-General, delivered at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, Annan recalled Truman's leadership in the founding of the United Nations. He called for the United States to return to President Truman's multilateralist foreign policies, and to follow Truman's credo that "the responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world". He also said that the United States must maintain its commitment to human rights, "including in the struggle against terrorism." Recommendations for UN reform Soon after taking office in 1997, Annan released two reports on management reform. On 17 March 1997, the report ‘Management and Organisational Measures’ (A/51/829) introduced new management mechanisms through the establishment of a cabinet-style body to assist him and be grouping the UN’s activities in accordance with four core missions. A comprehensive reform agenda was issued on 14 July 1997 entitled ‘Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform’ (A/51/950). Key proposals included the introduction of strategic management to strengthen unity of purpose, the establishment of the position of Deputy Secretary-General, a 10-percent reduction in posts, a reduction in administrative costs, the consolidation of the UN at the country level, and reaching out to civil society and the private sector as partners. Annan also proposed to hold a Millennium Summit in 2000. After years of research, Annan presented a progress report, In Larger Freedom, to the UN General Assembly, on 21 March 2005. Annan recommended Security Council expansion and a host of other UN reforms. On 31 January 2006, Kofi Annan outlined his vision for a comprehensive and extensive reform of the UN in a policy speech to the United Nations Association UK. The speech, delivered at Central Hall, Westminster, also marked the 60th Anniversary of the first meetings of the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council. On 7 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his proposals for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations Secretariat. The reform report is entitled: "Investing in the United Nations, For a Stronger Organization Worldwide". On 30 March 2006, he presented to the General Assembly his analysis and recommendations for updating the entire work programme of the United Nations Secretariat over the last 60 years. The report is entitled: "Mandating and Delivering: Analysis and Recommendations to Facilitate the Review of Mandates". Regarding the UN Human Rights Council, Annan has said "declining credibility" had "cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system. Unless we re-make our human rights machinery, we may be unable to renew public confidence in the United Nations itself." However, he does believe that, despite its flaws, the council can do good. Post-UN career Upon his return to Ghana, Annan was immediately suggested as a candidate to become the country's next President. He has become involved with several organizations with both global and African focuses. In 2007, Annan was named chairman of the prize committee for the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, was chosen to lead the new formation of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), was appointed president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, and was selected for the MacArthur Foundation Award for International Justice. Annan is a member of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders who work together on peace and human rights issues. In November 2008, Annan and fellow Elders Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel attempted to travel to Zimbabwe to make a first-hand assessment of the humanitarian situation in the country. Refused entry, the Elders instead carried out their assessment from Johannesburg, where they met Zimbabwe- and South Africa-based leaders from politics, business, international organisations and civil society. In May 2011, following months of political violence in Côte d’Ivoire, Annan travelled to the country with Elders Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson to encourage national reconciliation. In the beginning of 2008, as head of the Panel of Eminent African Personalities, Annan participated in the negotiations to end the civil unrest in Kenya. He threatened to leave the negotiations as mediator if a quick decision was not made. On 26 February 2008 he suspended talks to end Kenya's violent post-election crisis. On 28 February, Annan managed to have President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga sign a coalition government agreement and was widely lauded by many Kenyans for this landmark achievement. That was the best deal achieved then under the mediation efforts. Annan is a member of the Club of Madrid. Annan currently serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion USD gift to support UN causes. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN. Annan chairs the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. Every year, the Panel releases a report, the Africa Progress Report, that outlines an issue of immediate importance to the continent and suggests a set of associated policies. In 2012, the Africa Progress Report highlighted issues of Jobs, Justice, and Equity. The 2013 report will outline issues relating to oil, gas, and mining in Africa. Kofi Annan was appointed the Chancellor of the University of Ghana in 2008. Annan has signed up to be one of the Counsellors at One Young World a non-profit organisation which hopes to bring together 1500 young global leaders of tomorrow from every country in the world. In May 2009 Columbia University announced that Annan will join a new program being launched by Dean John Coatsworth at the School of International and Public Affairs as one of the first group of Global Fellows. The Global Fellows program will bring students together with global practitioners to share firsthand knowledge of experiences in the life of an international or public figure. He is also a fellow of The Committee on Global Thought appointed by the University. On 2 September 2009, Annan was unveiled as the first Li Ka Shing Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The announcement was made during the school's 5th anniversary celebrations. On 7 October 2010, Annan was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Global Center for Pluralism, Canada’s new international research and education center dedicated to the study and practice of pluralism worldwide. The Global Centre for Pluralism is an initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan in partnership with the Government of Canada. The Center is located at 330 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, Canada. Dedicated to the creation of successful societies, the Centre is founded on the premise that tolerance, openness and understanding towards the cultures, social structures, values and faiths of other peoples are essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development. A member of the Fondation Chirac's honour committee when former French president Jacques Chirac launched it in 2008, Kofi Annan participates as jury member for the Prize for Conflict Prevention awarded every year by this foundation. He also created the Kofi Annan Foundation dedicated to sustainable development and peace. Work in Syria On 23 February 2012, Annan was appointed as the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, in an attempt to end the civil war taking place. He developed a six-point plan for peace: commit to work with the Envoy in an inclusive Syrian-led political process to address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people, and, to this end, commit to appoint an empowered interlocutor when invited to do so by the Envoy; commit to stop the fighting and achieve urgently an effective United Nations supervised cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties to protect civilians and stabilise the country. To this end, the Syrian government should immediately cease troop movements towards, and end the use of heavy weapons in, population centres, and begin pullback of military concentrations in and around population centres. As these actions are being taken on the ground, the Syrian government should work with the Envoy to bring about a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties with an effective United Nations supervision mechanism. Similar commitments would be sought by the Envoy from the opposition and all relevant elements to stop the fighting and work with him to bring about a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties with an effective United Nations supervision mechanism; ensure timely provision of humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by the fighting, and to this end, as immediate steps, to accept and implement a daily two hour humanitarian pause and to coordinate exact time and modalities of the daily pause through an efficient mechanism, including at local level; intensify the pace and scale of release of arbitrarily detained persons, including especially vulnerable categories of persons, and persons involved in peaceful political activities, provide without delay through appropriate channels a list of all places in which such persons are being detained, immediately begin organizing access to such locations and through appropriate channels respond promptly to all written requests for information, access or release regarding such persons; ensure freedom of movement throughout the country for journalists and a non-discriminatory visa policy for them; respect freedom of association and the right to demonstrate peacefully as legally guaranteed. On 2 August, he resigned as U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, citing the intransigence of both the Assad government and the rebels, as well as the stalemate on the Security Council as preventing any peaceful resolution of the situation. He also stated that the lack of international unity and ineffective diplomacy among the world leaders has made the peaceful resolution in Syria an impossible task. Memoir On 4 September 2012, Annan published his memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, written with Nader Mousavizadeh, ISBN 978-159420420-3. The book is described as a personal biography of so-called global statecraft. Personal life In 1965 Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from a well-to-do family. Several years later they had a daughter Ama and later a son Kojo. The couple separated in the late seventies. In 1984 Annan remarried to Nane Lagergren - a Swedish lawyer at the U.N. and niece of Raoul Wallenberg. Honours and awards Honours 2000: Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana 2000: Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland 2001: Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania 2005: Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty (Portugal) 2006: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion 2007: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria 2007: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) from Queen Elizabeth II (UK) 2008: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Awards 2000: Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of Lifetime Achievement 2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations 2002: winner of the " Profiles in Courage Award", given by the JFK Memorial Museum 2002: The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. 2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2003: Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen 2006: International World Order of Culture, Science and Education, Award of the European Academy of Informatization, Belgium 2006: Inter Press Service, International Achievement Award for Annan's lasting contributions to peace, security, and development 2006: Olof Palme Prize 2007: Wooden Crossbow, special award from the Swiss World Economic Forum 2007: People in Europe Award of Verlagsgruppe Passau 2007: MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Award for International Justice 2007: North-South Prize of the Council of Europe 2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize 2008: Harvard University Honours Prize 2008: Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize 2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize – Münster (Westfalen) 2008: Open Society Award – CEU Business School Budapest 2011: Gothenburg Award Honorary degrees
7733	dbpedia	3	0	https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/kofi-annan/	en	Kofi Annan	https://www.kofiannanfou…atured-image.png	https://www.kofiannanfou…atured-image.png	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1624333875029312&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/logo-kofi-annan-foundation.svg", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/UN_Multilateralism.jpeg.webp", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-cont...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2024-01-29T13:03:55+00:00	Kofi Annan was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1997 and 2006, and the founding chair...	en	https://www.kofiannanfou…n_2024-32x32.png	Kofi Annan Foundation	https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/kofi-annan/	About the Podcast Regarded as one of the modern world’s icons of diplomacy, what is Kofi Annan’s legacy today? What can we learn from him, and how can we prepare for tomorrow based on his vision for a better world? In this exclusive 10-part podcast, Ahmad Fawzi, one of Kofi Annan’s former spokespersons and Communication Advisor, examines how Kofi Annan tackled a specific crisis and its relevance to today’s world and challenges. Kofi Annan’s call to bring all stakeholders around the table — including the private sector, local authorities, civil society organisations, academia, and scientists — resonates now more than ever with so many, who understand that governments alone cannot shape our future. Join us on a journey of discovery as Ahmad Fawzi interviews some of Kofi Annan’s closest advisors and colleagues, including Dr Peter Piot, Christiane Amanpour, Mark Malloch-Brown, Michael Møller, Mark Suzman, Alicia Bárcena and more. Listen and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and SoundCloud. Brought to you by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the United Nations Information Service. Kofi Annan Speeches As United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and later Chair of his Foundation, Kofi Annan was called upon to deliver many speeches at major events worldwide. We have selected twenty of Kofi Annan’s speeches for this page, which, taken together, provide a broad understanding of his views on peace, development and human rights. Many of his recommendations for action are as valid and important today as they were when he spoke these words.
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7733	dbpedia	0	20	https://web.mit.edu/annualreports/pres03/10.00.html	en	Dean, MIT Sloan School Of Management: Reports to the President 2002			[ "https://counter.mit.edu/tally" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null					null	Dean, MIT Sloan School Of Management The academic year 2002–2003 marked the 50th anniversary of the MIT Sloan School of Management, an event that occasioned thoughtful celebration of both our past achievements and the current research and education at the School. In 2001, the School asked teams of leading faculty and students to tackle six of today's most vexing questions in management. These papers were presented at our anniversary celebration, at which more than 1,000 people gathered. Featured guest and speaker UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, (an MIT Sloan alumnus) was joined by CEOs and business leaders for academic seminars, rigorous discussion, and socializing. It was an unprecedented gathering of faculty and alumni exchanging ideas. In the spirit of reflection and moving forward, MIT Sloan developed a new mission statement that better expresses our identity and our aspirations: to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world and to generate ideas that advance management practice. The development of our new campus has also been progressing. Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners and Sasaki Associates have finished concept design and schematic design and have worked on integrating the building engineering with architectural design. This year was one that started amid discourse on business scandals in the marketplace, causing us to rethink—and reaffirm—how and what we teach. As we look ahead at curriculum modifications, we see no tradeoff between developing leaders who are effective and leaders who are principled. We must integrate a concern for ethics and values, for responsibility and professional behavior, throughout the curriculum. We want our graduates to be able to recognize and think through situations with an ethical dimension and to make considered decisions based on recognition of professional standards and high expectations of themselves. Educational Programs We have redesigned the MBA curriculum to focus more sharply on developing leaders who can drive successful innovation as well as manage day-to-day execution. The new curriculum includes: a streamlined core curriculum; the MIT Sloan Innovation Period (SIP), where regular classes go on hiatus and students choose from a variety of seminars in leadership and applied research; a 6-1-6 semester schedule, with six weeks of classes on either side of the SIP; and the First-Year Challenge, a live case where students work on a large, complex, multidisciplinary company problem that's currently unfolding. In July 2003, the School announced a new program called the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership to meet the needs of tomorrow's leaders. This new flexible program combines the MIT Sloan Fellows and Management of Technology programs and offers three degree options. The program will provide a dynamic learning environment as the needs, goals, and challenges of entrepreneurs, technologists, and business and government leaders rapidly intersect. The first students in the new Biomedical Enterprise program came to campus in September 2002. This program is a joint effort between MIT Sloan and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology. Its goal is to create a new generation of leaders for biomedical enterprises through a two-year dual degree program that integrates science, medicine, engineering, and management. We've seen growth in a number of areas this year. The number of undergraduates majoring in this discipline has continued to increase to 350 undergraduates in AY2003. The number of undergraduate majors has tripled in the last 10 years. The PhD program has continued its climb in applications, now at 709 for this past year, up 94 percent from 1995. The Leaders for Manufacturing program (LFM) had a number of major accomplishments, including a record of 105 students, 5 joint internships in the UK as part of Cambridge-MIT Institute, and several new partners including new managing partner Raytheon. LFM continues not only its vibrant integration with the MBA program, but a key collaborative effort with the school of engineering through the Engineering Systems Division. Student Programs MBAs once again organized their annual January Tech Treks to intensively investigate business opportunities in different locales. The students plan intensive schedules where they meet with local companies and business leaders, network, and get a sense of the area. In addition to the traditional trips to California and Asia, students also organized a successful Cambridge/Boston Tech Trek. The 14th annual MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition featured 118 teams with students from across the Institute participating, including a large number of MIT Sloan students. For the 5th year in a row, the winning team's idea was focused on the field of medicine. New Faculty and Honors A number of new faculty were appointed during the past academic year, among them: Jonathan Cummings, assistant professor in the Management of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group; Joseph Doyle, assistant professor in the Applied Economics Group; Dirk Jenter, assistant professor in the Finance Group; Petra Moser, assistant professor in the Strategy and International Management Group; and Ezra Zuckerman, associate professor without tenure in the behavioral and policy science area. In addition, there were the following promotions in July 2002: Chris Dellarocas, Kristen Forbes, Georgia Perakis, and Nelson Repenning to associate professor without tenure; Dan Ariely and Simon Johnson to associate professor with tenure; and Richard Locke to full professor. The following chair appointments were also made: Drazen Prelec, Digital Equipment Corporation Leaders for Manufacturing professor of management; Dan Ariely, Luis Alvarez Renta (1974) associate professor of management; Birger Wernerfelt, J. C. Penney professor of management; Georgia Perakis, MIT Sloan career development associate professor; Jesper Sorensen, Richard S. Leghorn (1939) career development management of technological innovation professorship; Nelson Repenning, J. Spencer Standish career development associate professor; Jeremie Gallien, J. Spencer Standish career development assistant professor; and Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz associate professor of entrepreneurship. There were a number of awards to our faculty. Among them were the following: Kristin Forbes, associate professor of international management, was selected as a 2003 World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. President George W. Bush also announced his intention to nominate Forbes as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. The Econometric Society elected Bob Gibbons and Andrew Lo as two of their 17 new fellows, selected from among economists all over the world. Ed Schein received the Marion Gislason Award for Leadership in Executive Development from the BU School of Management Executive Development Roundtable. In addition, his culture model was adopted for the "safety culture" model by the International Atomic Energy Agency at their conference in Rio. Arnoldo Hax was honored by the Catholic University in Chile for his outstanding contributions to their institution. He has been involved in many areas and has actively participated in the transformation of the school into a more advanced academic institution. Catholic University has also named one of its halls after Hax. Roberto Fernandez was unanimously selected to receive the annual Distinguished Article Award by the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University, for his recent paper, "Skill-Biased Technological Change and Wage Inequality: Evidence from a Plant Retooling." Richard Frankel was given the American Accounting Association's Notable Contribution to Accounting Award "to recognize research of exceptional merit" for his paper with Charles Lee. Lotte Bailyn received the Everett Cherrington Hughes Award for Careers Scholarship from the Careers Division of the Academy of Management. The award recognizes scholarship that has made a significant contribution to linking careers theory with the broader field of organization studies. Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bressman, and Katrin Kaeufer won the Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize given by the MIT Sloan Management Review "for the most outstanding SMR article on planned change and organizational development." The award recognized their article, "The Comparative Advantage of X-Teams." Bill Hanson, the codirector of the LFM/SDM program, received the Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement in MIT Education at the Institute Awards Convocation. The International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics recognized Ernst Berndt and colleagues with their Excellence in Mental Health Policy and Economic Research Award. At the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Pablo Boczkowski received the Communication and Technology Division's Herbert S. Dordick Best Dissertation Award for his work on innovation in online newspapers. He shared this award with Keith Hampton of Urban Studies and Planning. A special session, "John Little to Now: In Honor of His 75th Birthday," took place on June 14th at the INFORMS Marketing Science Conference. John Hauser and Ely Dahan have been nominated for the Journal of Product Innovation Management's best paper award for articles published in the 2002 volume for their paper, "The Virtual Customer." Organizational Changes Paul Osterman took Gabriel Bitran's place as deputy dean for the MBA Program and faculty hiring and promotion. Tom Allen replaced Steve Eppinger as LFM-SDM codirector. Cindy Albert Link was named executive director for MIT Sloan Resource Development. Highlights The MIT Sloan-International Institute for Management Development alliance held its second program, "Driving Strategic Innovation," in fall 2003. It will be first offered on the MIT Sloan campus, and will be focused on creating value for senior executives seeking growth for their enterprises through successful innovation. Notable speakers on campus included Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., chairman of the IBM Board of Directors; Dr. Franz B. Humer, chairman and CEO of Roche Holding Ltd.; Philip Watts, chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors for Shell; Scott C. Donnelly, senior vice president of General Electric Global Research; and Dr. Roger M. Perlmutter, executive vice president of Amgen. The MediaTech Club brought in Comcast chairman Michael Armstrong, and the MIT Sloan Fellows students again met with Kofi Annan at the United Nations in New York City. In addition to Kofi Annan, keynote speakers at the MIT Sloan 50th anniversary celebration included: Phil Condit, Boeing chairman and CEO; Rolf Breuer, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank; Victor Fung, chairman of Li & Fung Group; Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard chairman and CEO; Richard Wagoner, Jr., General Motors chairman and CEO; and Alex d'Arbeloff, chairman of the MIT Corporation, founder of Teradyne and chairman of Empirix. In the rankings, U.S. News and World Report ranked MIT Sloan 4th in their 2003 ranking of top business schools, behind Harvard, Stanford and Wharton. BusinessWeek released its list of the best B-schools in October 2002, ranking MIT Sloan 6th. The School was ranked in the top 10 for global scope and faculty quality and number one in the field of technology. Priorities In fall 2002 we implemented the updated MBA curriculum and are preparing for our first year of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership. It will be an exciting year as these big changes are put in place. Our new campus development and fundraising will continue as will our steadfast focus on excellence in education and research. Richard Schmalensee John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor of Management and Economics More information about the MIT Sloan School of Management and its programs can be found on our web site at http://mitsloan.mit.edu/. return to top Education Teaching Programs Undergraduate Program in Management Science The MIT Sloan Undergraduate Program ranked second this year in U.S. News & World Report's ranking of American undergraduate business program (up slightly from last year, when we were tied for the second-place slot). The program again ranked first in three specialty areas: management information systems, quantitative analysis/methods, and production/operations management. With 350 students, the program remains the second largest undergraduate major at MIT (second only to electrical engineering and computer science). As shown in the following chart, enrollment in the program has tripled over the past ten years. This spring saw a decline in the number of sophomores declaring a major in management science for the fall of 2003 (perhaps due to the difficult economy) and so we anticipate that the growth of the program may start to level off. However, there has been an increase in the number of undergraduates who complete our program as a second MIT major, and we continue to see large numbers of undergraduates from other MIT degree programs enrolling in our management subjects. One hundred nine SB degrees in management science were awarded this year. The most popular concentration was finance (71), followed by information technologies (21), marketing science (15), and operations research (11). Nine of our graduates completed the requirements for two of these concentrations. Forty-two percent of our graduates received simultaneous degrees in other MIT departments, compared with 35 percent last year and 24 percent the previous year. Twenty-six received SB degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, six received SB degrees in economics, six in mathematics, two each in biology and architecture, and one each in mechanical engineering, political science, urban studies and planning, chemical engineering, and civil and environmental engineering. Three students received two additional degrees: two received SB and MEng degrees in electrical engineering and computer science; One student received SB degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, and in mathematics. Undergraduate Advising and Committee Assignments Faculty serving as undergraduate advisors were Professors Thomas Allen, Dan Ariely, Lotte Bailyn, Gabriel Bitran, Paul Carlile, John Carroll, Chris Dellarocas, John de Figueiredo, Stephen Graves, Leigh Hafrey, Neal Hartman, Starling Hunter III, Jin Gyo Kim, S. P. Kothari, John Little, Stuart Madnick, Fiona Murray, Stewart Myers, James Orlin, Jun Pan, Nelson Repenning, Anjali Sastri, John Van Maanen, Dimitris Vayanos, Yashan Wang, and Roy Welsch along with Dr. Jeffrey Meldman, director of undergraduate programs, Maggie Devine-Sullivan, assistant director of undergraduate programs, and Stephanie Karkut, program coordinator. The Undergraduate and Interdepartmental Policy Committee was chaired by Professor John Little and included Professors Allen, Carroll, Steven Eppinger, Graves, Madnick, Vayanos together with Dr. Meldman, Ms. Debbie Berechman, and Ms. Devine-Sullivan. Dean Bitran and Professor Wanda Orlikowski served as ex officio members. Dr. Meldman served as chair of the Undergraduate Advisors Committee. MBA Program This year was a strategically important one for the MBA Program. During this time, we redesigned the MBA curriculum around the themes of innovation and leadership; enhanced our marketing efforts to expand and improve our pool of applicants and enhance our brand awareness; further refined our admissions selection processes; continued our efforts in faculty/student/staff community building; and enhanced our career education and recruiter outreach initiatives. Highlights of the year include: The Class of 2003 was the first MBA class to be selected and matriculate under the new competency model of rating applicants. Anecdotal comments from faculty suggest that this has improved the classroom environment; recruiters have also noticed a positive difference. On campus employment recruiting increased 24 percent in the spring semester 2003, and initial indications are that MIT Sloan is one of only two top schools that had over 80 percent of job seeking students with offers at graduation. In March 2003, 109 students participated in five international trips to China, India, Japan/Korea, Greece/Turkey, and Mexico/Cuba, with several additional small groups traveling internationally to complete projects. All trips were safely and successfully completed despite SARS, warfare in Iraq, and uncertain political conditions worldwide. U.S. News and World Report ranked MIT Sloan 4th among MBA Programs in 2003, and BusinessWeek ranked Sloan 6th among MBA Programs in 2002, keeping MIT Sloan solidly in the list of top US MBA programs. MBA Admissions The MIT Sloan MBA program received 3,228 applications during the academic year 2002-2003, including 180 candidates who applied for the LFM program. While applications are down by 21 percent from last year's high water mark of 4,102 applications, they are 10 percent higher than in the previous year (2,940 applications). This year's decrease in applications is in line with similar trends at our peer schools. Three hundred fifty-four MBA students joined the class of 2005. Twenty-six percent of the class is women. This year's class represents 305 companies. The range of work experience is 1 to 16 years and the average years of experience is 5. The range of age is between 20 to 39 years and the average age is 28 years. Fifty-five percent of the class is from North America; 17 percent are from Asia; 12 percent each are from Latin America and Europe; and 2 percent each from Africa and the Middle East. The leading job functions of the class entering in fall 2003 are consulting (20 percent), finance (18 percent), engineering (11 percent), general management (9 percent), marketing (8 percent). Several new initiatives were launched during AY2003 to increase the awareness of the MIT Sloan brand and to expand the pool of qualified applicants: Hosted nearly 30 MIT Sloan-on-the-Road receptions in North America, Latin America and Europe Collaborated with the 10 leading business schools to host several events and panel discussions targeting women, early-stage professionals, and underrepresented minorities. Expanded efforts to reach out to underrepresented groups through participation at industry meetings of Society of Hispanic Engineers, NSHMBA (National Society of Hispanic MBAs), National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA). Participated in The MBA Tour in Asia and Latin America MBA Student Affairs This academic year, MBA Student Affairs continued to support our 700 MBA/LFM students and, in some cases, enhanced its programs and services. Major accomplishments for the year include the following: Pre-Term Sessions In August 2002, approximately 50 international MBAs and International Faculty Fellows participated in MIT Sloan's Communication and Culture workshop, which provided an introduction to US business and social norms, the Sloan educational environment, and the case study method. MBA Student Affairs also offered on-campus pre-term review sessions in Accounting, Economics, and Mathematics/Statistics, which were well attended, as usual, with 192, 184, and 163 student enrollments respectively. MIT Sloan also offered an online MBA course preparation suite in the summer of 2002, in which approximately 110 students participated. Orientation 2002 This year, MBA Student Affairs led a team of staff, faculty, and students to design and deliver an expanded two-week orientation program. Orientation 2002 introduced new and/or enhanced modules in leadership, professional skills, self-assessment, and ethics, and it offered "tried and true" modules in team process and team skills development. It also offered more opportunities to participate in the MIT graduate student orientation via partnership with the Graduate Student Council. Student Government and Clubs MBA Student Affairs continued to work closely with the MIT Sloan Student Senate this year, regularly attending Senate meetings and meeting weekly with the Senate Executive Officers. Student Affairs made steady strides in the continuous improvement of its clubs support infrastructure this year by bringing the club registration process into SloanSpace, enhancing the annual Club Transition workshop, and beginning an initiative to coordinate club contact with external speakers. The Graduate Management Society rewrote its charter to make it accountable to the Sloan Social Committee and MBA Student Affairs. International Spring Trips The MBA Program selected and supported five student trips to China, India, Japan/Korea, Greece/Turkey, and Mexico/Cuba. The five major trips involved 109 students. Community Initiatives This year the MBA Program once again offered SloanFest, an end-of-year community event piloted two years ago. In addition, we designed and delivered a two-day set of events called Spring Forward, that was intended to serve as a follow-on activity to the 50th anniversary celebrations specifically for the MBA student community. The key goal of Spring Forward was that of developing a sense of "MIT Sloan pride," which continues to be a goal for us in our ongoing initiatives. MBA Career Development Office The 2002–2003 academic year was a challenging but successful one for MIT Sloan students in the MBA job marketplace and for the MBA Career Development Office (CDO) staff assisting them with this process. The continued economic recession created a significantly less positive employment picture for our students, and increased their need for support. In response, the CDO offered over 54 programs on 44 different topics, introduced a full day of career development activities during Orientation, conducted over 250 mock interviews, hosted three industry-specific networking events in excess of 100 guests, led over 400 individual resume reviews and 300 individual cover letter reviews, initiated a job matching program supporting over 200 first- and second-year students, invited industry representatives to campus to advise students, and implemented ten job search strategy groups supporting over 70 second-year students. Additional, "traditional" seminars were held and included: resume and cover letter development, networking, conducting a proactive job search, MBA charm school, managing relationships with employers, immigration issues for non-US students, interviewing, negotiating, evaluating offers and making final career decisions. Several new seminar topics were introduced including: MBTI for self-assessment and team building, hiring theory and practice, marketing yourself through effective communication, getting a job in a start-up, career strategies, exploratory interviews and phone screens, maximizing your career search during IAP, job search strategies for non-US students, professional presence, debunking the headhunter mystique, and effective networking techniques for career fairs. The MBA Career Development Office coordinated the logistics for 71 corporate presentations (an increase of 10 percent from AY2002) and 274 interviewing companies (a 10 percent decrease from AY2002). The trend towards recruiting highly qualified MBA interns as a full-time recruiting strategy was continued to be experienced this past year. While the total number of interviewing companies decreased in the past year, the number of companies recruiting summer interns increased 24 percent from the year previous. At graduation, 82 percent of the class of 2003 reported receiving a job offer. This is at the high end of the range of offer rates from peer institutions (70–87 percent offer rates reported by competitor institutions). The median starting salary for accepted positions increased to $92,000 from $86,000 in 2002. Top hiring companies for the year include: McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Citigroup, and Booz-Allen Hamilton. Doctoral Program MIT Sloan's doctoral program aims to provide institutions in the United States and abroad with outstanding management faculty and researchers. In 2003, our 19 PhD graduates took positions at other business schools, including Harvard, Yale (2), and the University of Chicago. This year a small number of graduates chose industry (hedge funds). 2003 admissions turned out to be another year of high application numbers (710 total from 61 countries; 26 percent alone from China), due in part to easy web access and the application form available via this method. Again, this was accomplished within the same timetable as last year and no increase in staffing levels or loss of quality control. To ensure continuing efficiency, the PhD program is joining other programs in offering online applications, scheduled to be available in late September 2003. We made 25 offers with 13 of those students accepting. Total enrollment now stands at 80 students (56 international and 24 US; 26 women). The number of under-represented minority students has dropped to 1. Previous years' participation in the KPMG PhD Project has yielded disappointing results (no successful admits or accepts) so we continue to explore other means to increase the participation of minority students in PhD studies here. A meeting of the heads of seven major PhD Programs (MIT, Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Stanford) we hosted in early September 2002 produced suggestions for sharing information on a web site (still to be realized) and agreement that the pool of potential minority applicants remains exceedingly small. The MIT Sloan PhD Program has arguably been number one for several years, but our financial situation will make it hard to defend that position. Executive Education MIT Sloan's Office of Executive Education has continued its efforts to provide superior executive programs to those companies strategically driven by innovation, emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and obtaining global reach. Drawing on MIT Sloan's research depth and expertise, Executive Education seeks to provide frameworks, concepts, and tools to assist executives in addressing critical business problems. The Committee on Non-Degreed Executive Education completed a strategic positioning study to align executive education more closely with the mission of the MIT Sloan School. Executive Education seeks to hold a premier position in Leadership of the Innovative Enterprise. As a result of the study, Executive Education has redefined its portfolio of offerings around this positioning, and will develop new programs that will enhance this positioning. Executive Education has entered into a partnership in executive education with the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), the leading provider of executive education in Europe. Together MIT Sloan and IMD will offer three open-enrollment programs each year in Cambridge, MA and Lausanne, Switzerland. Each program will have a faculty codirector from each school and faculty from both schools will participate in every offering. In addition to enhancing the presence of each school on both continents, we also expect that these programs will serve as "platforms" for custom executive education programs. Our objectives for pursuing the collaboration are to learn from each other institutionally by sharing best practices, to develop joint executive education programs that build on the two schools' strong brands, and to enhance both schools' intellectual capital through these teaching/learning initiatives. Another key initiative this year has been our engagement with BP, in collaboration with the School of Engineering, on the design and delivery of Projects Academy. Projects Academy is a multiterm, multiyear initiative that seeks to enhance the skills of BP's major project leaders and redefine the field of project management. BP executives are connected between residential sessions at MIT and supported in their project teams via the Virtual Academy, a joint effort of Executive Education and STS. A third successful program was delivered to Merrill Lynch, an MIT partnership company. Using distance-learning technology, Professor Andrew Lo's Advanced Investments course was offered to Merrill Lynch traders around the world. This year's program was enhanced with the addition of Professor Deborah Ancona's expertise on teams combining an emphasis on financial content with the skills of team implementation. A second program will be delivered to GE this year. GE looks to MIT Sloan and MIT's expertise in cutting-edge information technology and information technology strategy for the development of its high-potential information systems managers. Each year, a cross-section of key managers from across the GE Corporation come to MIT Sloan to explore the newest advances in information technology and in the application of this technology for business value. Being at the forefront of new learning technologies allows MIT Sloan's Office of Executive Education to meet the needs of its corporate partners for cutting-edge knowledge on a global basis. The conversion of Professor Rebecca Henderson's popular two-day program, Developing and Managing a Successful Product and Technology Strategy, is a first step that will allow us to work more closely with Corporate Universities and Corporate Development Centers on blended learning models of executive education that deliver core content and allow for local customization and facilitation. The Task Force for Degreed Executive Education completed its study and recommended the integration of the School's two residential programs, the MIT Sloan Fellows Program and the Management of Technology (MOT) Program into one program with two delivery options, residential and flexible. The new MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership integrates the innovation and entrepreneurial focus of the MOT program with the global leadership emphasis of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program. The flexible option will allow executives to complete the program in two years after participating in an intensive 12-week residential summer session. The flexible option seeks to attract local technology companies for whom the one-year residential requirement had previously been an obstacle to their attendance. Sloan Visiting Fellows Program The MIT Sloan Visiting Fellows Program provides the opportunity to pursue full-time, nondegree studies tailored to individual goals and interests. Each visiting fellow follows a program of study (usually for one or two semesters) that is designed in consultation with a faculty adviser to meet individual professional needs and interests. MIT Sloan Visiting Fellows is a small program. Participants usually have an existing relationship with the School through their company, their school, or a member of the MIT Sloan faculty. Enrollment per semester averages around 10. Six participants were enrolled in fall 2002 and 13 in spring 2003. The 2002–2003 academic year included both self-sponsored and company-sponsored participants as well as visiting students from Ghent University/Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and the Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology (NTNU). The participants from NTNU (1 in fall and 8 in spring) joined the MOT participants in the Seminar in Management of Technology—a required class for both groups. Since the programs use similar selection criteria, the groups were able to form an excellent cohort through this class and benefited greatly from the exchange of cultures and knowledge. Sponsors of participants included Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd, NEC Corporation, TY Securities (Korea), Samsung Electronics America, and Captive Finance Ltd. More information on the Sloan Visiting Fellows Program can be found on the web at http://web.mit.edu/. Leaders for Manufacturing The Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) program is a partnership between MIT and more than 25 global manufacturing firms to discover and translate into teaching and practice principles that produce world-class manufacturing and manufacturing leaders. This partnership is motivated by our shared belief that excellence in manufacturing is critical to meeting the economic and social needs of individuals, firms, and society, and that the health of companies operating in global markets is essential to society's well being. Now, in its 15th year of operation, LFM is a partnership between the School of Engineering, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and leading manufacturers. Launched in 1988 with significant industry funding, the program emphasizes collaboration and knowledge sharing with its partner companies across the entire spectrum of "Big-M" manufacturing enterprise issues. LFM supports students as fellows in the program (with fully paid tuition). The largest component of the educational efforts is the LFM Fellows Program, a 24-month dual master's degree (SM in engineering and MBA or SM in management) experience, involving a single integrative research project carried out on site in partner firms. Academic Programs Forty-eight students in the class of 2003 completed the LFM Fellows program and approximately 80 percent have taken positions in manufacturing firms. Each of the 48 graduates completed an internship at a partner company during the summer and fall of 2002. Internships are focused projects of concerns to the partners, accomplished by interns with company support and MIT faculty guidance. Representative projects this past year included the use of modeling and critical operations data to optimize plant performance, applying lean manufacturing techniques for the design of an aircraft assembly line, and supply chain performance through forecasting. Another 57 students (class of 2004) completed their first year of on-campus studies and are starting their six-month internships. Forty-eight new students (class of 2005) were admitted and have begun an intensive summer session. The class of 2005 has an average of 4.8 years of work experience. Don Rosenfield continues to serve as the director of the LFM Fellows Programs. Codirectors for the program were Paul Lagace, Bill Hanson, and Steve Eppinger. Research and Knowledge Transfer Program As part of LFM and SDM's commitment to lifelong learning, an initiative begun in FY2002 was continued to encourage LFM and SDM alumni to stay connected with MIT by sharing relevant information. Paul Gallagher, research associate for LFM and SDM, scheduled monthly web casts presented by MIT faculty and various LFM and SDM alumni. The content of each webcast, also called "webinars," provides valuable information on the latest trends, cutting-edge developments and innovative strategies, all of which pertain to manufacturing and/or systems design. The presentations are given in real time, via the Internet and telephone, which allowed participants to follow along visually and audibly as well as ask questions. Alumni continue to express a high degree of interest in these virtual knowledge-sharing events, and webinars have evolved into a key strategy for alumni engagement. Statistics for FY2003 are below: Outreach LFM continues its leadership role in the National Coalition of Manufacturing Leadership (NCML), a partnership of 15 universities with joint management and engineering manufacturing programs. The NCML met at Loyola Marymount University in November 2002. In attendance were several universities in various stages of starting joint management and engineering manufacturing programs, including Loyola Marymount, University of Texas Pan American, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of California at Los Angeles, and University of California at San Diego. A key objective of the NCML is to serve as a resource for new joint programs, and it was gratifying to see that the concept begun at LFM of a "bilingual" (management/engineering) education in manufacturing leadership continues to spawn new programs that can be used to meet the need for global manufacturing leaders. Employment LFM students, sponsored and non-sponsored, continue to be highly sought once they have completed the program. Partner companies as well as other organizations take a special interest in LFM students as proven by their commitment to speak to the class on various issues during the Pro Seminar session. About 80 percent of each class accepts positions within the manufacturing industry while the percentage of students accepting positions within partner companies has remained at about 50 percent. Relocation SDM, along with its partner program, LFM, have been incorporated under the Engineering Systems Division umbrella. The first step in this integration was a physical move of LFM and SDM from the fourth to the third floor in E40 in spring 2003 where LFM-SDM shares space with the other ESD academic programs, the Masters of Engineering in Logistics Program and the Technology and Policy Program. Further synergies will be sought in FY2004 including a review of the ESD staffing structure as a way to reduce overall staff headcount and administrative reporting for both LFM and SDM through ESD. The assumption of Institute oversight by ESD should benefit SDM immediately by assuring faculty resources for the core SDM courses offered by ESD. More information about the Leaders for Manufacturing Program can be found on the web at http://lfm.mit.edu/. return to top Research Center for eBusiness Since its inception in 1999, the Center for eBusiness has attracted more than $16 million of funding to MIT Sloan. With this financial support, the center has been able to finance 38 focused research projects and 26 vision research projects. It also provides major support for 6 new MBA courses; the Digital Business Strategy MBA Track; the MIT eBusiness Awards; the MIT CIO Summit; and 50 workshops, conferences, and seminars, as well as a research and educational infrastructure with a full complement of center faculty and professionals. The FY2003 plan proposed the implementation of Phase II of the Center for eBusiness. The plan was approved by MIT Sloan and the center's board of advisors in October 2002. Since then the center has largely implemented its major components. The most significant change is the organization of the center into five research groups called Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Digital Marketing Strategy—Headed by Professor Glen L. Urban, Sloan School Marketing Group, this group studies the potential gains from employing digital technologies to the formulation and execution of marketing strategies. Digital Productivity—Headed by Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Sloan School of Management, this group focuses on understanding how business processes, organizational structures, and corporate culture can be reshaped using information and communications technologies to measurably increase business performance. Financial Services—Headed by Professor Stuart Madnick and Dr. Michael Siegel, both of the Sloan School Information Technology Group, this group focuses on the development of new financial services eBusiness processes and their impact on the industry. Communications Futures—Headed by Dr. David Clark of the Laboratory for Computer Science, this group pursues a multidisciplinary approach to identify key drivers and overcome barriers to development of communications infrastructure and services (e.g., in wireless, broadband, and emerging markets). B2B and IT Services—Headed by Professor Michael Cusumano, Sloan School Strategy Group, this group focuses primarily on the unique challenges of services in business-to-business relationships, on the management and operation of Internet-enabled supply chains, and on the strategic and tactical consequences for organizations. Accomplishments of the center can be summarized as follows: Fifty-two Sloan faculty/research staff have been funded over the life of the center. The center has approximately $9 million in direct research funding through FY2003. We expect to fund more than $2 million for FY2004. Thirty-eight focused research projects are in progress, matching a single sponsor company with a single faculty member. We believe this strategy has allowed us to have less attrition than our peers. Twenty-six vision fund research projects are in progress Seventy-eight working papers have been completed to date, with many more underway. Six successful new or revamped MBA courses have been created in the field of eBusiness. More than 60 MBA student class projects proposed by and involving sponsors have been completed. These projects are very popular with both students and sponsors. The center provides ongoing support to help students get hired by our sponsors through recruiting events, MBA class projects, and focused research projects. Members of the center have worked with over 45 sponsoring companies. The center organized a very successful annual conference in May with 125 attendees attending during two days of presentations. Second Annual MIT CIO Summit was held alongside our annual conference with 25 CIOs from companies including GM, British Telecom, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, PwC, Boeing, Symantec, and Computer Associates. The conference received significant favorable press coverage for MIT Sloan, and was featured in cover stories. The center has developed a premier web site with an extensive "sponsors only" section. The center publishes two monthly e-newsletters for sponsors, eBusiness News and eBusiness Research, and two similar monthly newsletters for the public. The center organized research workshops on Telecom Futures and on Globalization. The center held two semesters of weekly research lunch seminars for faculty, researchers, and PhD students. The seminars were successfully webcast to sponsors for the past year. Comprehensive reports and executive summaries of all events and workshops have been made available on the sponsors-only web site. The center received extensive favorable press coverage in BusinessWeek, Optimize, CIO Magazine, InformationWeek, Financial Times, ComputerWorld, Computer Weekly, Boston Globe, CIO Information Network, and eWeek. More information about the Center for eBusiness at MIT can be found on the web at http://ebusiness.mit.edu/. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research The Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) has been the locus of research at MIT on energy economics since the mid-1970s and on environmental economics since the late 1980s. This research draws on resources from MIT Sloan, the Department of Economics, and the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, and it receives financial support from corporations and government agencies. In conjunction with MIT's Center for Global Change Science, CEEPR cosponsors the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which conducts interdisciplinary research to inform global climate policy. Activities and Publications Research activity continued at a high level during the 2002–2003 academic year as a result of grants from twelve corporate sponsors, the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), and the Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Michael Pollitt of the Judge Institute of Management Studies at Cambridge University was a visitor at CEEPR during the spring semester as part of MIT's collaboration with Cambridge University. The past year was especially fruitful for publications. Twenty working papers and six article reprints reporting CEEPR and CMI-sponsored research were published, distributed, and posted on the CEEPR web site. In December 2002 and May 2003, CEEPR convened its usual Energy and Environmental Policy Workshop in Cambridge, MA to present research results to corporate and government sponsors and other interested parties. Finally, the director and executive director of CEEPR were invited to give numerous lectures and seminar presentations of CEEPR's research concerning electric utility restructuring and emissions trading. Grants and Research Program In the 2002–2003 academic year, CEEPR sponsored research on the topics of emissions trading, new electricity markets, and energy futures, forwards, and arbitrage. Contributions totaling $433,000 were received from 12 corporate sponsors and earlier multiyear awards from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Cambridge-MIT Institute provided another $265,000 in funding. During the 2003–2004 academic year, CEEPR will continue to focus its research on electric utility restructuring and emissions trading, and we will welcome Professor Richard Green of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom as a visitor during the spring semester. More information about the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research can be found on the web at http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/. Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry The MIT Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry (POPI) was founded in 1991 as a research and education program for understanding the structure and dynamics of global pharmaceutical industry, the firms and their suppliers, customers, and regulators. At POPI, our research and educational programs explore the challenges and opportunities before the pharmaceutical industry from discovery and development of new drugs to issues of manufacturing and marketing. Over our long history, POPI's contributions have been significant. Our research has helped create a more profound understanding of the dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry; the interplay of healthcare policy and drug development; and the criticality of ensuring that innovation thrives to ensure that society continues to reap the benefits of drug therapies. During 2002–2003, our research has helped advance knowledge in areas such as drug development for unmet medical needs; the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals; improved drug manufacturing; the regulatory process; and the impact of technology as a driver of change in the pharmaceutical industry. Currently, more than 12 MIT faculty members and numerous outside collaborators from other universities, industry, and government are participating in the research program. Since POPI's inception, more than 30 MIT graduate students have completed doctoral work with support from POPI. More than 20 pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other healthcare firms have contributed funding and/or data for POPI's research educational activities. As of June 30, 2003, more than 100 articles and working papers have reported on research conducted by POPI faculty and students. POPI faculty members continue to work closely with the new Biomedical Enterprise master's degree curriculum, offered jointly by MIT Sloan and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. POPI's academic subject 15.136J Principles and Practice of Drug Development, taught jointly by five faculty members, is an integral aspect of the program. POPI's current research has as its general theme the implications of advancing science and technology in drug development and changing medical practices. To advance our work in this area, we are holding three focused workshops to outline key questions to be addressed by our research teams. From those workshops, new teams of collaborating researchers will be constituted. They will bring together faculty and doctoral students from the multiple disciplines at MIT that have traditionally been a part of our research, along with representatives from industry and government. These projects are our current funding priorities. Advances in Science and Technology and Their Impact in Changing Medical Practices in Pain Management Advances in Science and Technology and Their Impact on Changing Medical Practices in Diabetes Management Process Development and Regulatory Review in the Future Pharmaceutical Industry Therapeutic Decision-making in the Context of Behavioral Economics POPI works closely with the Institute's Computational and Systems Biology Intiative (CSBi) and the Consortium for Advancement of Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals (CAMP). More information about Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry (POPI) can be found on the web at http://web.mit.edu/popi/. Administration and Services MIT Sloan Educational Services MIT Sloan Educational Services (SES) manages the School's academic infrastructure, supporting all Sloan programs, faculty, and students in the educational process. The SES team is responsible for preparing the physical landscape (facilities maintenance and space renovations), the academic foundation (course catalogue updates, course scheduling, course bidding, and student registration), and oversight of information flow (internal publications, liaison with MIT Registrar, grades, evaluations). Our team administers registration-related services provided to a growing population of master's level Sloan students. We manage the web-based course prioritization (bidding) system used by more than 2,000 students, equitably resolving difficult supply and demand issues in a department with increasingly popular classes and already high enrollments. We also handle scheduling of the 200 class sections and recitations offered each term; maintain Sloan facilities; and produce web-based and printed resources for the School (including the PhotoBook, Student Directory, student biocards, and the weekly News@Sloan newsletter). SES continues its focus on streamlining organizational processes and systems, striving to provide the best possible support to our various constituencies. Continuous improvement and curricular reform initiatives throughout MIT Sloan this past year will impose many new challenges to the SES team in the coming year. Modifying systems while maintaining the same high level of service to the community is paramount. As in previous years, SES continues to refine its analysis of bidding data to assist Sloan's deans and faculty on issues of demand regarding course and section offerings and teaching load plans. Facilities management remains among the highest of priorities for SES. The staff oversaw the renovation of multiple Sloan spaces, including our own E52-101, and the moves of many faculty and staff. Provision of additional student study space, especially for team-based projects, continues to be a great challenge. Team Time, a newly designed SES project this past year, identifies blocks of available classroom time and provides telephones for student team needs. SES staff continues its collaboration with the Sloan New Building Committee, providing necessary data regarding Sloan operations and current facilities usage. Enrollment in Sloan electives remains high and continues to be of great interest to students across all MIT departments. The School continues to explore ways to forecast and meet demand, including additional sections of classes, videotaped sessions, special seminars, and new joint agreements with other MIT departments. SES assists in balancing scarce resources such as classroom space and faculty teaching time across all programs. Finding new ways to track and analyze data is vital in this Sloan-wide effort. Goals for 2003–2004 include ongoing initiatives to revise the course scheduling process, creating a data warehouse which incorporates historical teaching data; automation of the teaching/course evaluation process; design of an auditing database for student record maintenance; the introduction of the student PhotoBook online; building a strong SloanSpace web presence to better support Sloan students, faculty members, and TAs; the design and implementation of a new course prioritization system; a new enrollment management and tracking system for Sloan Innovation Period (SIP); renovation of two student teams study spaces and continued enhancement of current facilities as we plan for those of the future. As always, we will continue our collaboration with students and faculty to best meet their changing needs. More information about MIT Sloan Educational Services can be found on the web through the Students tab on the MIT Sloan web site at http://mitsloan.mit.edu/. Corporate Relations The MIT Sloan School of Management's Office of Corporate Relations (OCR) continued building its corporate relations program to broaden and strengthen relationships with Sloan's top corporate sponsors. A new director of corporate relations was appointed mid-year. The office continues to collaborate with the Sloan Career Development office and other program offices to develop processes to identify, track, and solicit engagement with and contributions to the School from key corporate sponsors and recruiters. The office also supports the Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series, coordinating efforts with the MBA Program office and the Industrial Liaison Program (ILP). Michael Dell spoke at Sloan in FY2003. Coordinating with the ILP, the OCR also assembled a panel of executives to speak at the School's second annual innovations in management conference in May 2003. The OCR started working with the dean's office to conduct interviews of faculty and business executives to determine the best way for Sloan to position itself in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. The office is exploring potential executive education, recruiting, and research opportunities in these industries. More information about the Office of Corporate Relations and its programs can be found on the web at http://mitsloan.mit.edu/business/index.html. MIT Sloan Management Review MIT Sloan Management Review (SMR) is a quarterly journal providing senior managers with the best current management theory and practice. Selected submissions from academia, consulting, and industry are both internally reviewed and peer-reviewed and cover a range of management disciplines, with particular focus on corporate strategy, leadership, and management of technology and innovation. In spite of another difficult economic year for magazines, SMR's revenues were up 21 percent during FY2003. The most significant increases were seen in third party licensing agreements, which reflect a shift throughout the industry from traditional print publishing to electronic distribution channels. Permissions income more than doubled, while print subscription copies were down slightly. SMR has continued to develop cooperative relationships with MIT Sloan's Alumni association and MIT Sloan Executive Education, as well as providing service of SMR to corporate members of the Industrial Liaison Program. The journal continues to enjoy a healthy stream of manuscript submissions, of which approximately 10 percent are selected for publication. Nearly 75 percent of authors published were from academic institutions, with the remaining 25 percent from consulting, industry or professional journalism. Of academic authors, including MIT Sloan faculty, 60 percent were from the top-ten-rated US and international business schools. Of all authors, 32 percent were from international institutions (as compared to 18 percent last year). A listing of major authors published in SMR during 2003 follows: C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan Thomas Davenport, Accenture and Babson Sumantra Ghoshal, London Business School Mohanbir Sawnhey, Kellogg (Northwestern) Henry Mintzberg, McGill University Quy Huy, INSEAD Henry W. Chesbrough, Harvard Business School Bengt Holmstrom, MIT Sloan Kevin Keller, Tuck Lee Fleming, Harvard Business School George S. Day, Wharton Hamid Bouchikhi, ESSEC David Aaker, Berkeley James C. Anderson, Kellogg George Westerman, MIT Sloan F. Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business School Olav Sorenson, Anderson Business School/UCLA Constantinos Markides, London Business School Matthias Holweg, MIT Sloan Morris Holbrook, Columbia Business School James M. Hulbert, Columbia Business School Michael D. Watkins, Harvard Business School Andreas Werr, Stockholm School of Economics Jay A. Conger, London Business School Clark Gilbert, Harvard Business School Georg von Krogh, University of St. Gallen John R. Kimberly, Wharton James A. Narus, Babcock (Wake Forest) Marco Iansiti, Harvard Business School Eric Matson, McKinsey & Co. Andrew Campbell, Ashridge Strategic Management Centre A number of SMR articles were cited in the press this year. Citation sources included the Boston Globe, The Independent (UK), The Observer (UK), Harvard Management Update, Financial Times, Strategic Finance, MIT Technology Review, IDG News Service, Australian Financial Review, Business Standard (India), National Post (Canada), MeansBusiness (web site), Managing Customer Service, Kitchener-Waterloo Record (Canada), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and The Australian (newspaper). Looking ahead to FY2004, the journal plans to continue to refine its editorial charter—aggressively expanding its author pool and adding new content and formats to become even more relevant to practicing managers and even more international in its scope. MIT Sloan Technology Services MIT Sloan Technology Services supports the information technology needs of faculty, students, staff, and alumni. Our strategic focus during this past year has been in the following areas: Budget—Reducing the unit cost of operations and creating a more efficient service delivery organization. We conducted a review of all aspects of IT operations and have targeted a number of key processes for improvement and cost savings. Course Management—SloanSpace is MIT Sloan's platform for supporting course management and online communities. All MIT Sloan courses now make available their course materials online. This has been very well received by students and faculty: students because all course-related information is available through a single, secure interface; faculty because there is a uniform, supported way of publishing course content. A side benefit of our course management efforts is that MIT Sloan has one of the highest participation rates in the Open Courseware project, mostly because MIT Sloan course materials are already online and there is an integrated path ("single upload") for publishing course materials for students and OCW. Educational Technology—STS received an iCampus grant to architect (not build) the next generation Learning Management Content System using .NET. Our key goals for the coming year are as follows: Budget—Continuing our work from the previous year, we will utilize unit cost analysis to reduce costs and realize efficiencies in key areas of IT operations (e.g. computer acquisition, computer support). Executive Education—Sloan Technology Services is playing a key role in delivering British Petroleum's Project Academy, particularly the Virtual Projects Academy. From Course Management to Online Communities—SloanSpace has become an integral part of course delivery at MIT Sloan. Our next step is to utilize existing capability in SloanSpace to support online communities, ranging from student clubs and alumni organizations to research communities. Business Continuity—We continue to refine our business continuity plan. A key goal this year is to move all critical production servers to MIT's W91 data center and conduct regular disaster recovery and service interruption scenarios. Security and Data Integrity—While we taken important steps in security and data integrity at the server level, more attention needs to be paid to protecting the desktop and local databases. Service Level Agreements—We hope to achieve greater transparency with our clients by documenting our key services and establishing metrics for successful performance. Educational Technology—As MIT Sloan implements a new paradigm in management education in the MBA program and in Executive Education, STS's corresponding goal will be to introduce and develop supporting tools and technologies. Here we will be leveraging the work made possible by the iCampus grant. Executive Dashboard—We have begun developing a decision support system (a set of tools and reports) for the deans and senior staff. The "Executive Dashboard" will be based largely on the MIT Data Warehouse as the data source. .LRN—SloanSpace was recently released as open source software, called ".LRN". .LRN is rapidly gaining adoption world-wide bringing recognition to MIT. The open source and shared model of software development also has budget dividends. Sloan is benefiting from the work on .LRN performed by the worldwide community of developers and contributors.
7733	dbpedia	0	77	https://www.washingtoninformer.com/kofi-annan-former-un-secretary-general-dies-at-80/	en	Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General, Dies at 80	https://i0.wp.com/www.wa…=500%2C333&ssl=1	https://i0.wp.com/www.wa…=500%2C333&ssl=1	[ "https://i0.wp.com/www.washingtoninformer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1-Logo-Red-on-White.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1", "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f5a639f23f3c00432b50b2da905906d2?s=80&d=mm&r=g", "https://i0.wp.com/www.washingtoninformer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/9B8F254C-D7C5-4F63-902B-55DEE7FB9...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Sarafina Wright –Washington Informer Staff" ]	2018-08-18T14:45:27+00:00	Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the first Black African to serve in the role, died Saturday in Switzerland after battling a brief illness. He was 80.	en	https://www.washingtonin…e-Icon-32x32.png	The Washington Informer	https://www.washingtoninformer.com/kofi-annan-former-un-secretary-general-dies-at-80/	Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the first Black African to serve in the role, died Saturday in Switzerland after battling a brief illness. He was 80. As the head of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006, Annan left an indelible impression receiving the co-award for the Nobel Peace Prize alongside the U.N. in 2001. Born on April 8, 1938, in Kumasi, Ghana, known then as the Gold Coast, Annan’s family held regal positions in the Kofandros section of the country with both of his grandfathers holding chief titles in the Ashanti and Fante tribe. In 1958, Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. In 1961 he came to the United States to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. According to his biography, he went on to study international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva and management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1962, he began work at the United Nations in Geneva. Throughout his career he held several roles at the U.N. headquarters, including serving as the third-highest ranking official as under-secretary-general for peacekeeping between 1992 and 1996. In 1996, Annan was appointed secretary-general by the UN’s Security Council, making him the first officeholder to be elected from the U.N.’s staff and the first Black African to do so. Annan went on to serve two terms, focusing on HIV/AIDS and corruption. He also launched the U.N. Global Compact, an initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. In 2007, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in Switzerland, which works to promote better global governance and strengthen the capacities of people and countries to achieve a fairer, more peaceful world. In 2012, Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh wrote a memoir, “Interventions: A Life in War and Peace,” which has been described as a “personal biography of global statecraft.” He is survived by wife Nane and their children Ama, Kojo and Nina.
7733	dbpedia	2	15	http://web.mit.edu/srolph/www/sloan50th.html	en	Scott Rolph Writing: MIT Sloan celebrates 50th anniversary, looks to management's future			[]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null					null	October 2002, MIT Sloan website MIT Sloan celebrates 50th anniversary, looks to management's future More than 1,000 alumni and friends returned to the MIT Sloan School of Management Oct. 10-12 to celebrate the School's 50th anniversary and to predict and debate the future of management. Several of the speeches and academic discussions focused on the need for greater corporate responsibility and the importance of understanding and adapting to rapid changes in technology. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a 1972 MIT Sloan Fellow, delivered a stirring keynote address to kick off the celebration at Kresge Auditorium. He reflected on his close association with MIT Sloan and highlighted the importance of corporate responsibility to the global community. "Over the long run, human well-being can be dramatically advanced by well-functioning markets," said Annan, "but markets themselves cannot be sustained if they do not ensure human well-being." With the media listening, Annan also reiterated his position that the next step in keeping Iraq's nuclear threat in check should be reinstating United Nations arms inspectors. Management's future The event was as much a serious look at management's future as a celebration for MIT Sloan alumni, as prominent speakers, faculty, and alumni tackled such topics as corporate responsibility, globalization, marketing, technology, and corporate governance. It featured speeches from GM Chairman and CEO G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.; HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina, a 1989 MIT Sloan Fellow; and Boeing Chairman and CEO Phil Condit. Both MIT President Charles Vest and Richard Schmalensee, John C Head III Dean at MIT Sloan, spoke. Each underscored MIT Sloan's pivotal role in shaping the field of management and developing management tools now deemed essential by businesses worldwide. MIT Sloan faculty led academic panels on some of the most vexing questions in the field of management, and a cross-section of MIT Sloan faculty provided updates on their research. A sponsor of the event, General Motors provided an array of classic cars and concept cars from the 1950s and today. On display outside Kresge Auditorium, the cars drew crowds of celebration attendees and others from the MIT community. Close ties with MIT Sloan Among MIT Sloan's most prominent alumni, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, and a champion of corporate responsibility, Annan was a fitting speaker to begin the celebration. He began by speaking fondly of his days at MIT Sloan in the early 1970s. He said the lessons he learned here on how to manage change have been integral to his success at the United Nations. He said he valued not only his education at MIT Sloan but also his close association with the School as an alumnus. In 1982, for example, when he was working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, he said he and his colleagues sought the counsel of MIT Sloan Professor Edgar Schein, a renowned organizational expert, on how to manage the crisis with the boat people in Vietnam. Annan and his colleagues anticipated a formal one-hour session with Schein, he said, but what transpired was an exhaustive, three-hour soul-searching session that yielded a new, more effective organizational approach to the crisis. "I'd like to think that we are replicating that exercise on a global level among people and nations," said Annan, "as we strive to build the trust, confidence, and the sense of shared values and responsibility needed to address the urgent issues and threats of our time." Importance of corporate responsibility At the heart of Annan's message was an appeal for corporations to fulfill their obligations to the global community. The issue is at the forefront of his agenda at the United Nations. In an age of interdependence, Annan said progress is possible only if people and nations have confidence that global markets and the international system in general are responding to their needs. He highlighted the United Nation's Global Compact, which he proposed in 1999 as a way to help companies develop and promote global, values-based management and which he said is now gaining momentum. "The Compact has become more than a call to action," said Annan. "Today, it involves not only businesses but also labor federations and non-governmental organizations. It has promoted the importance of universal values and encouraged investors to look harder at opportunities in the least developed countries, particularly in Africa." Annan's advocacy of the Compact and corporate responsibility resonated with the MIT Sloan community. Several MIT Sloan professors most prominently, Professor Richard Locke are integral players in the Compact and have conducted groundbreaking research on values-based management. Fiorina: Character counts Adopting values-based management is vital not only if corporations are to serve the global community but also if they are to solve the crisis in public confidence triggered by recent corporate ethics breeches, said HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina. Addressing the gathering Saturday morning, she delivered a passionate speech on how corporations must take on the challenge. "If we are truly embarking on a new age of reform ... leadership is not going to come from government or oversight organizations," Fiorina said. "True leadership must come from corporate America itself." She said companies must recognize that their character is as important as their capabilities. She said that open doors, open debates, and open access are necessary from the boardroom to the shop floor. HP pioneered the notion of a values statement, Fiorina said, when it crafted a statement in 1957 that aimed not to create values but to reflect the values and corporate culture that had evolved since the company's inception. The company continues to uphold those values, she said, with a policy of openness, respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork, and collaboration. Before its merger with Compaq, she added, HP conducted an extensive "cultural due diligence" to integrate the companies' values. Fiorina said values-based management has helped sustain HP, and she urged executives to embrace new corporate governance regulations as a return to fundamental values. "The important thing is to understand that good corporate governance is not something that is being done to us," she said. "It is not something being foisted on us. The values we are being asked to live by today are the same values we used to build the strongest economy on earth. The values we are being asked to live by today are the same fundamental values we know we must act upon every day to build effective teams and companies: open doors and open access and open dialogue in the boardroom and on the shop floor; equity; consistency; alignment." Celebration of innovation, leadership The event culminated a yearlong celebration of MIT Sloan's 50-year history of innovation and leadership in management theory and practice. Though its roots date back to 1914, with the creation of Course 15, MIT Sloan was officially opened in 1952. It was funded and inspired by MIT alumnus Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., who saw the opportunity to apply MIT's rigorous approach to research to the problems of industry. As Alfred P. Sloan had hoped, MIT Sloan faculty and alumni over the past 50 years have had a central role in shaping global business practices. In many ways, said Dean Schmalensee in welcoming attendees, the celebration marked the fulfillment of Mr. Sloan's vision.
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They use mixed-methods approaches--including participant observation, a variety of interview types, surveys, mapping, network analysis, and ethnography, among others--to consider the influence of place-based connections, environmental learning, and social-ecological interactions on participation in a range of environmental and sustainability-related decision-making processes. Ardoin and her interdisciplinary group pursue their scholarship with a theoretical grounding and orientation focused on applications for practice; much of Ardoin’s work is co-designed and implemented with community collaborators through a field-based, participatory frame. Ardoin is an associate editor of the journal Environmental Education Research, a trustee of the California Academy of Sciences, and chair of NatureBridge’s Education Advisory Council, among other areas of service within the environment and conservation field. Ardoin is a faculty fellow at CASBS. She will be collaborating with Jim Leape and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi on the Transformation Science Initiative. Studies of contemporary authoritarian politics tend to focus on the institutional features of regimes, particularly the extent to which autocrats rely on militaries, political parties, or personalization of power to maintain control. Faculty fellow Lisa Blaydes studies how social identity categories are generated and reproduced by authoritarian regimes in order to maintain forms of political, economic, and social control in the contemporary Middle East. Blaydes is professor of political science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton University Press, 2018). She was a Mellon Foundation Fellow at CASBS during in 2015-16 and was a returning CASBS fellow in 2023-24. For more, please visit https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/lisa-blaydes Laura L. Carstensen is professor of psychology at Stanford University where she is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL). Her research on the theoretical and empirical study of motivational, cognitive, and emotional aspects of aging has been funded continuously by the National Institute on Aging for more than 30 years. As a faculty fellow, Carstensen looks forward to her collaboration with Dr. Mitchell Stevens on SCL’s Futures Project on Education and Learning for Longer Lives. Carstensen is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served on the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on an Aging Society and was a commissioner on the Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity. Carstensen’s awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kleemeier Award, The Richard Kalish Award for Innovative Research and distinguished mentor awards from both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Psychological Association. She is the author of A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health, and Financial Security in an Age of Increased Longevity (PublicAffairs, 2011). Carstensen received her BS from the University of Rochester and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from West Virginia University. She holds honorary doctorates from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the University of Rochester. Carstensen was a fellow at CASBS in 2009-10. For more information about her please visit: longevity.stanford.edu and lifespan.stanford.edu Estelle Freedman’s current research project expands upon the legal approach in her book Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard University Press, 2013), by exploring digitized oral history collections as sources for understanding personal narratives of assault, rape, and harassment in the twentieth-century U.S. She is working on methodological and historical essays interpreting sexual memories, sexual silences, and the changing language of sexual trauma across diverse groups of narrators. Freedman’s past scholarship has focused on the histories of women, sexuality, feminism, and social movements. In addition to two books on the history of women’s prison reform in the U.S., she is the author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (Ballantine Books, 2002) and the co-author (with John D'Emilio) of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (3rd edition, University of Chicago Press, 2012), and the editor of The Essential Feminist Reader (Modern Library, 2007). She earned her BA at Barnard College, and MA and PhD degrees in U.S. History at Columbia University. Freedman holds the Edgar E. Robinson chair (Emerit) in U.S. History at Stanford, where she co-founded the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She has been a CASBS faculty fellow since 2019-20, participating as a member in the CASBS project “Addressing Sexual Violence Through Institutional Courage,” and was a fellow at CASBS in 2009-10 and 2018-19. The documentary film she is co-directing about folk music and social movements, Singing for Justice, will be released in late 2024. For more information, you can find her CV at https://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/viewCV?facultyId=55788&name=Estelle_Freedman Robert Gibbons is Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and professor in MIT’s department of economics. His research and teaching concern the design and performance of organized activities, especially “relational contracts” (informal agreements so rooted in the parties’ circumstances that they cannot be adjudicated by courts). Since 2002, Gibbons has been co-principal investigator of MIT Sloan’s Program on Innovation in Markets and Organizations. He was founding director of the working group in organizational economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research (2002-22), co-editor (with John Roberts) of The Handbook of Organizational Economics (Princeton University Press) and a board member of the Citicorp Behavioral Science Research Council (1994-2000) and of CASBS (2000-06). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During 2016-19 and 2023-24, Gibbons and Woody Powell (Stanford University) co-ran summer institutes at CASBS for assistant professors studying organizations from multiple disciplines and using many methodologies. During Covid, they held virtual convocations integrating the existing cohorts of summer scholars; before and after the pandemic there have been in-person events integrating the cohorts. Gibbons is a research affiliate, and was a CASBS fellow in 1994-95 and 2014-15. Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, where she has taught since 1988. As a research affiliate, she is leading the CASBS project on “The Social Science of Caregiving” along with Margaret Levi and Zachary Ugolnik. She is a world leader in cognitive science, known for her work in the areas of learning and cognitive development. Gopnik is the author of over 100 journal articles and several books including the bestselling and critically acclaimed popular books The Scientist in the Crib (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2000), The Philosophical Baby: What children’s minds tell us about love, truth and the meaning of life (Picador, 2010), and The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). She is a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent work is Caregiving in Philosophy, Biology & Political Economy, published in Daedalus (2023). Gopnik has written widely about cognitive science and psychology for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Science, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, New Scientist and Slate, among others. She has frequently appeared on TV and radio including “The Charlie Rose Show” “The Colbert Report” and “Radio Lab”. Her TED talk has been seen over 5.2 million times. Gopnik was a CASBS fellow in 2003-04. As a research affiliate, Simon Halliday will continue working on a new introductory economics textbook Understanding the Economy (UTE) as part of the enCOREage project. UTE builds on the work that CORE has already done with The Economy and Economy, Society, and Public Policy. The enCOREage project seeks to address the systemic failure of U.S. colleges and universities to educate our least well off and under-represented minority students. In Understanding the Economy, Halliday and collaborators will introduce content (for the most part new to introductory economics) that draws students in because the topics it addresses confront societal problems that we know interest them and builds employability skills; adopt best practices from modern learning science, which have struggled to find a home in economics instruction; and address student belonging and inclusion. Halliday is an associate research professor and associate director at the Center for Economy and Society, SNF Agora Institute, at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins, Halliday (alongside Glory Liu and Angus Burgin) leads the new major in Moral and Political Economy (MPE). He has co-authored (with Samuel Bowles) an intermediate-level microeconomics textbook: Microeconomics: Competition, Conflict, and Coordination (OUP, 2022) and works in economics education, behavioral and experimental economics, in particular, on experiments to understand social preferences. He was a CASBS fellow in 2023-24. For more information about his work, visit simondhalliday.com Daniel E. Ho is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, professor of political science, professor of computer science (by courtesy), and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He is also director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab). Ho serves on the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Commission (NAIAC), advising the White House on artificial intelligence, as Senior Advisor on Responsible AI at the U.S. Department of Labor, and as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), and as a Member of the Committee on National Statistics. He received his JD from Yale Law School and PhD from Harvard University and clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. Ho is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a faculty fellow at CASBS since 2017-18. James Holland Jones is a professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences in the Division of Social Sciences, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Originally trained as an anthropologist, he has additional training and expertise in demography, statistics, and epidemiology. Jones works on a variety of projects relating to human adaptability and decision-making, including the analysis of livelihood-related responses to climate change, the role of dynamic exchange networks in managing livelihood risks among subsistence populations, the reconstruction of prehistoric demographic patterns and how these inform debates about climate-mediated collapse, the coupled dynamics of behavior-change and disease transmission, and the impact of structural racism on epidemic outcomes. A major element of his current research involves synthesizing evolutionary, ecological, and climate-science notions of adaptation. He teaches classes such as “Global Change and Emerging Infectious Disease,” “Biological and Social Networks,” “Demography and Life History Theory,” and “Adaptation.” This past winter, he co-taught an interdisciplinary course, along with former CASBS director Margaret Levi and Paula Moya (class of 2016-17 fellow), called “Imagining Adaptive Futures,” which examined how speculative fiction can help us work toward sustainable, equitable, and just futures, even in the face of potentially existential environmental threats. Along with his wife, Libra Hilde (class of 2017-18 fellow), he is a resident fellow at Castaño House. Jones also has a broad interest in the intersection of evolutionary and economic theory, which served as the foundation for his CASBS fellowship in 2015-16. He is currently faculty fellow, and for more information about his work, please find his website at: https://heeh.stanford.edu/ Nan Keohane is a retired scholar of political philosophy who has taught at Swarthmore, Stanford, Wellesley, Duke and Princeton. She also served as president of Wellesley and then Duke. Keohane was a fellow at CASBS in 1978-79, 1987-88, and 2004-05. Since 2018, she has been a regular visitor to Stanford each winter quarter as a faculty affiliate at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics, working with the postdoctoral fellows. She received her BA from Wellesley, BA/MA at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and PhD in political science at Yale. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Keohane is the author of Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Princeton University Press, 1980); Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University (Duke University Press, 2006) and Thinking about Leadership (Princeton University Press, 2010). She has co-edited volumes on feminist theory and women and equality. Her current work project, which she will pursue at CASBS as a research affiliate, is a book entitled Virginia Woolf and Modern Feminism. Robert O. Keohane is professor of international affairs, emeritus, at the School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 1984/2005) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (Psychology Press, 2002). He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence (Pearson Higher Ed, 1977/2012), and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton University Press, 1994). He has served as the editor of International Organization and as president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. He won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 1989, and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, 2005. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences; he is a corresponding member of the British Academy. Keohane has been a research affiliate at CASBS since 2018-19, working on the politics of climate change. He was a CASBS fellow in 1977-78, 1987-88 and 2004-05. Jim Leape is the William and Eva Price Senior Fellow and co-director of the Center for Ocean Solutions in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He is currently working with collaborators on how blue foods can contribute to healthy, sustainable food systems, generally and in Indonesia, and on the science of sustainability transformations. Before coming to Stanford in 2014, Leape was director general of World Wildlife Fund International (WWF) and leader of the global WWF Network, one of the world’s largest conservation organizations. Previously, he directed the conservation and science programs of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; served as executive vice president of WWF-US; and was a legal advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. Leape has served on several boards; from 2007 to 2017, he was a member of the China Council for International Cooperation in Environment and Development, which advises the Premier of China. He has an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a faculty fellow at CASBS. Margaret Levi is Senior Fellow, Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and professor emerita of political science, Stanford University. She is a faculty fellow and former Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), co-director of the Stanford Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. She is the winner of the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize and the 2020 Falling Walls Breakthrough award. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and served as president of the American Political Science Association. Recent books include In the Interest of Others (Princeton University Press, 2013), coauthored with John Ahlquist, and A Moral Political Economy: Present, Past, Future (Cambridge University Press, 2021), coauthored with Federica Carugati. She writes about what makes for trustworthy governance and what evokes citizen compliance, consent, and dissent. As a faculty fellow, Levi will help manage the “Social Science of Caregiving” with Alison Gopnik and the enCOREage project, whose leadership team also includes Simon Halliday, Wendy Carlin, Roby Harrington, and Samuel Bowles. She is co-leader with Michael Bernstein, David Magnus, and Debra Satz of the Ethics and Society Review project. Levi was a fellow at CASBS in 1993-94. Mary Lopez was the 2023-24 CORE Fellow at CASBS. As a research affiliate, she will continue working on CORE Econ’s newest introductory economics e-book, Understanding the Economy. This book aims to enhance students' engagement with economics by relating it to their lived experiences. It emphasizes critical thinking, data skills, and inclusive teaching methods, focusing on societal issues most important to students. The goal is to make economics more attractive and accessible to a diverse range of students, encouraging them to develop new ideas and potentially reshape the field. Lopez is a professor of economics at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her research specializes in immigration and immigration policy, Latino entrepreneurship, and economic inequality. She is also a policy expert at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative. Lopez is a member of the American Society for Hispanic Economists and the American Economic Association and a board member of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. For more information about her research, please visit her website: https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/mary-j-lopez Mary C. Murphy is the founding director of the CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity. She will spend the year fundraising, developing, and leading the Institute. The CASBS Summer Institute engages in field building around social scientific investigation of when, how, and why difference makes a difference and will develop an on-going collaboration and support network of early career and established scholars from backgrounds underrepresented across the social and behavioral sciences. Murphy’s most recent book, Cultures of Growth (Simon & Schuster, 2024) describes her 10 years of research on reconstruing mindset as a cultural feature of mainstream settings such as organizational and educational settings. She shows how these organizational mindsets shape people’s motivation, engagement, behavior, and performance; companies’ and schools’ culture and organizational performance; and the diversity, equity, and inclusion of organizational and educational settings. Murphy is the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. She is the founder of the Equity Accelerator, the nation’s first focused-research organization (FRO) focused on harnessing the social and behavioral sciences to create and sustain more equitable learning and working environments—from college through careers. In the area of organizations and tech, her research examines barriers and solutions for increasing gender and racial diversity and inclusion in STEM fields. Murphy has published more than 100 articles that have shaped several fields. In 2019, Murphy was awarded the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest award bestowed on early career scholars by the U.S. Government. Murphy was a CASBS fellow in 2015-16 and is a current research affiliate. During her year as a research affiliate, Sylvia Perry will co-direct the CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity, which successfully launched its inaugural class in the summer of 2023. The CASBS Summer Institute focuses on understanding when, how, and why difference makes a difference in the social sciences. By fostering collaboration, providing support within an academic community, and offering professional development opportunities, the Institute aims to empower early career scholars from underrepresented backgrounds in higher education. Perry will spend the year further developing and implementing the Institute's initiatives centered on diversity. Her research is situated at the intersection of social, developmental, and health psychology, and she investigates how racial bias awareness develops, and the implications of bias awareness for prejudice reduction, intergroup contact, and health disparities. Specifically, her work answers questions such as (1) To what extent do norms around admitting and discussing racism contribute to anti-racism? and (2) How does White parental racial socialization shape the development of their children’s attitudes and behaviors toward Black individuals? Perry is an associate professor of psychology and an Institute for Policy Research faculty fellow at Northwestern University. Her work has been published in top journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Science and Medicine, and Developmental Psychology. Perry is the recipient of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's SAGE Young Scholar Award (2020) and the Ann L. Brown Award for excellence in developmental research (2024). Perry was the 2022-23 SAGE Sara Miller McCune CASBS Fellow. Nathaniel Persily is the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, with appointments in the departments of Political Science, Communication, and FSI. Prior to joining Stanford, Persily taught at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and as a visiting professor at Harvard, NYU, Princeton, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Melbourne. Persily’s scholarship and legal practice focus on American election law or what is sometimes called the “law of democracy,” which addresses issues such as voting rights, political parties, campaign finance, redistricting, and election administration. He has served as a special master or court-appointed expert to craft congressional or legislative districting plans for Georgia, Maryland, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. He also served as the Senior Research Director for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. In addition to dozens of articles (many of which have been cited by the Supreme Court) on the legal regulation of political parties, issues surrounding the census and redistricting process, voting rights, and campaign finance reform, Persily is coauthor of the leading election law casebook, The Law of Democracy (Foundation Press, 5th ed., 2016), with Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela Karlan, and Richard Pildes. His current work, for which he has been honored as a Guggenheim Fellow, Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and a 2017-18 CASBS fellow, examines the impact of changing technology on political communication, campaigns, and election administration. He is codirector of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, Stanford Program on Democracy and the Internet, and the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, which supported local election officials in taking the necessary steps during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide safe voting options for the 2020 election. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a commissioner on the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age. He received a BA and MA in political science from Yale (1992); a JD from Stanford (1998) where he was President of the Stanford Law Review, and a PhD in political science from U.C. Berkeley in 2002. Persily has been a faculty fellow since 2018-19. His website is www.persily.com and Twitter handle is @persily. Woody Powell is Jacks Family Professor of Education, and (by courtesy) professor of sociology, organizational behavior, management science and engineering, and communication at Stanford University. He has been faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society since its founding in 2006. He is also an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He has received honorary degrees from Uppsala University, Copenhagen Business School, and Aalto University, and is an international member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science and The British Academy. With Bob Gibbons (MIT), he has led the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) summer institute on Organizations and their Effectiveness since 2016. Currently a faculty fellow, he was a fellow at CASBS in 1986-87 and 2008-09, and interim director in 2022-23. He works on questions of emergence, e.g., where does novelty come from, and historical persistence, e.g. why are some things sticky. Mitchell Stevens is professor of education at Stanford, where he convenes the Pathways Network. He studies the history, finance, and politics of postsecondary education in the United States and worldwide. The author of award-winning studies of home education and selective admissions, his most recent books are Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2018). As co-director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, he leads a project on futures of education and learning for longer lives. He has written scholarly articles for a variety of academic journals and editorial for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other venues. Stevens is a faculty fellow at CASBS. Robert I. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and professor of management science and engineering, emeritus, at Stanford University. He studies leadership, innovation, organizational change, and workplace dynamics. Sutton has published over 200 articles, chapters, and case studies in scholarly and applied outlets. His main focus over the past decade is on scaling and leading at scale—how to grow organizations, spread good things (and remove bad things) in teams and organizations, and enhance performance, innovation, and well-being in organizations as they become larger, more complex, and older. Sutton received his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983. At Stanford, Sutton is co-founder and former co-director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization, co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and co-founder of the “d.school,” a multi-disciplinary program that helps people, teams, and organizations reach their creative potential. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly publications, and as an editor for the Administrative Science Quarterly and Research in Organizational Behavior. Sutton has published eight books and two edited volumes. These include The Knowing-Doing Gap (with Jeffrey Pfeffer) (Harvard Business School Press, 2000), Weird Ideas That Work, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense (with Jeffrey Pfeffer) (Harvard Business Review Press, 2006), The No Asshole Rule (A New York Times bestseller) (Business Plus, 2007), Good Boss, Bad Boss (A New York Times bestseller) (Balance, 2012), Scaling-Up Excellence (with Huggy Rao, a Wall Street Journal bestseller) (Crown Publishing, 2014) and The Asshole Survival Guide (Harper Business, 2018). Sutton and Huggy Rao’s latest book is The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder (St. Martin’s Press, 2024). It unpacks insights from their a seven-year project that used academic research, case studies, classes and workshops, and ongoing dialog with scholars, executives, and innovators to learn how smart organizations remove bad friction and inject good friction and do it without driving employees and customers crazy. Sutton is currently a faculty fellow at CASBS, and was a fellow in 1986-87, 1994-95, and 2002-03. His personal website is bobsutton.net. Kabir Tambar is currently completing a book manuscript on languages of solidarity in the Middle East. The work centers on an early twentieth century moment when revolutionary dreams of inter-religious brotherhood and equality in the framework of the late Ottoman empire collapsed. This collapse was occasioned by a history of genocide, dispossession, and rising ethnonationalism. The book examines non-nationalist responses to the violence of those years, and in particular it studies how certain practices that had been central to the now failed horizons of revolutionary solidarity – practices of collective mourning, translation, and historical criticism – persisted for certain Ottoman Greek and Ottoman Armenian figures of the era. Tabar suggests that by attending more closely to the politics of friendship in this moment we can become more attentive to non-national political possibilities that persist even today. Tambar is associate professor of anthropology at Stanford University. His research and teaching examine debates about secularism, minority recognition, and state violence primarily in Turkey and more broadly in Europe and the Middle East. He is a faculty fellow at CASBS and was a fellow in 2023-24. Fred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University, where he studies the impact of new media technologies on American culture from World War II to the present. He is currently exploring ways that feminist and queer artists took up photography and electronic media in the late 1970s and early 1980s with an eye to understanding how changes in media technology shaped the origins of today’s culture wars. Turner is the author of five books, including From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and its prequel, The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Most recently he and photographer Mary Beth Meehan co-created the award-winning collection of images and essays Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America (University of Chicago Press, 2021). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a LeBoff Distinguished Visiting Scholar at New York University, a Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar at McGill University, and twice a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (2007-2008 and 2014-2015). Before becoming a professor, he worked as a journalist for ten years. His recent writing has appeared in a variety of venues, including Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The American Prospect, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Die Zeit. Turner is a faculty fellow at CASBS. Abraham Verghese MD, a CASBS faculty fellow since 2017-18, is a clinician and heads the Stanford Presence Center, which focuses on the human connection in medicine. Housed within the Stanford School of Medicine, Presence seeks to add the social science dimensions to a multidisciplinary focus on balancing high touch and high tech for the equitable and inclusive experience of medicine. Their research aims include: understanding the human experience of patients, physicians and caregivers and how it relates to medical error and outcomes; and how to leverage technology for the human experience of medicine. Past fruitful collaborations with CASBS fellows have utilized insights from sociology, psychology, political science, organizational economics, and other disciplines to further projects at Presence. Verghese’s non-medical writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, the Atlantic, and other venues. His novel Cutting for Stone (Knopf, 2009) spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His latest novel, The Covenant of Water (Grove Atlantic, 2023) debuted on the New York Times list at #4. At Stanford’s School of Medicine, Verghese is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and the Vice Chair for Humanism in the department of medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and pulmonary medicine. He is the recipient of several honorary degrees, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and the American Association of Arts & Sciences. In September 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President Obama. As a faculty fellow in 2024-25, Robb Willer will work on a project using Large Language Models (LLMs) to simulate experimental results in the social sciences. The forthcoming year will see him exploring the application of LLMs to political research, social science methodology, and the promotion of psychological well-being. Willer is a professor of sociology, psychology and organizational behavior at Stanford University whose work centers on how to overcome political divisions to foster social change. He employs diverse methods in his research, including survey and behavioral experiments, natural language processing, fMRI, social network analysis. He has consulted for a number of organizations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the AFL-CIO, the Department of Justice, and two presidential campaigns. His TED talk “How to Have Better Political Conversations” has been viewed over 2.8 million times. Willer’s research has received widespread media coverage including from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Science, Nature, Time, Slate, CNN, NBC Nightly News, and The Today Show. Willer was a CASBS fellow in 2012-13 and 2020-21.
7733	dbpedia	1	2	https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/kofi-annan/	en	Kofi Annan	https://www.kofiannanfou…atured-image.png	https://www.kofiannanfou…atured-image.png	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1624333875029312&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/logo-kofi-annan-foundation.svg", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/UN_Multilateralism.jpeg.webp", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-cont...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2024-01-29T13:03:55+00:00	Kofi Annan was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1997 and 2006, and the founding chair...	en	https://www.kofiannanfou…n_2024-32x32.png	Kofi Annan Foundation	https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/kofi-annan/	About the Podcast Regarded as one of the modern world’s icons of diplomacy, what is Kofi Annan’s legacy today? What can we learn from him, and how can we prepare for tomorrow based on his vision for a better world? In this exclusive 10-part podcast, Ahmad Fawzi, one of Kofi Annan’s former spokespersons and Communication Advisor, examines how Kofi Annan tackled a specific crisis and its relevance to today’s world and challenges. Kofi Annan’s call to bring all stakeholders around the table — including the private sector, local authorities, civil society organisations, academia, and scientists — resonates now more than ever with so many, who understand that governments alone cannot shape our future. Join us on a journey of discovery as Ahmad Fawzi interviews some of Kofi Annan’s closest advisors and colleagues, including Dr Peter Piot, Christiane Amanpour, Mark Malloch-Brown, Michael Møller, Mark Suzman, Alicia Bárcena and more. Listen and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and SoundCloud. Brought to you by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the United Nations Information Service. Kofi Annan Speeches As United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and later Chair of his Foundation, Kofi Annan was called upon to deliver many speeches at major events worldwide. We have selected twenty of Kofi Annan’s speeches for this page, which, taken together, provide a broad understanding of his views on peace, development and human rights. Many of his recommendations for action are as valid and important today as they were when he spoke these words.
7733	dbpedia	2	54	https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/schools/sloan-fellows-a-breed-apart-at-mit-stanford-london/	en	Sloan Fellows: A Breed Apart At MIT, Stanford & London	https://poetsandquantsfo…13/04/image.jpeg	https://poetsandquantsfo…13/04/image.jpeg	[ "https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/wp-content/themes/pqe/images/logo.png", "https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrexelLeBow_logo.jpg", "https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/MichiganRossHoriz_MB_RGB1.jpg", "https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/w...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Lauren Everitt" ]	2013-04-17T23:15:22+00:00	The most prestigious and elite 12-month business degree in the world	en	https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/wp-content/themes/pqe/images/favicon.ico	Poets&Quants for Execs	https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/schools/sloan-fellows-a-breed-apart-at-mit-stanford-london/	What do Kofi Annan, former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen and economist Sir Howard John Davies have in common? They’re all Sloan Fellows – meaning they completed the first full-time graduate business program for elite mid-career managers and entrepreneurs. Only the MIT Sloan School of Management, the London Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business offer the program, which grew out of a series of grants from legendary General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan and his foundation. As far as 12-month, MBA-like experiences go, the Sloan Programs are the most prestigious and elite business degrees in the world. That’s partly because of the outstanding reputation of the three schools that run these programs, as well as the fast-track executives they attract. But it’s also a function of the highly successful list of Sloan Fellow alums who have reached the top of their organizations over the years. Given the relatively small size of the three graduating classes each year (at roughly 250 total it’s less than a third of Harvard Business School’s annual MBA output), it’s astonishing how many of the Corporate Elite have a Sloan Fellowship on their resumes, from Ford Motors’ CEO Alan Mulally to Aetna Chairman Ron Williams. The former chief executives of Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Caterpillar, Siemens, BellSouth and Eastman Kodak all are Sloan Fellows, too. MOST FELLOWS HAVE AT LEAST 10 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE The program is neither an Executive MBA, nor an MBA. Unlike most EMBA programs, it’s full time. Students attend class on campus instead of popping in for weekend sessions or logging into courses online. Many Sloan Fellows live on campus and take a hiatus from their careers during the program. Unique from the MBA, the Sloan program targets experienced managers with proven workplace success – most bring at least 10 years of professional experience to the table. The Sloan program is also one year instead of two. Although the programs at MIT, Stanford and LBS aren’t formally linked, the directors from each school often collaborate with one another and arrange networking events and visits so Fellows can connect.
7733	dbpedia	2	9	https://infinite.mit.edu/video/kofi-annan-keynote-speech-mit-sloan-school-50th-anniversary-1011-2002	en	Kofi Annan, Keynote Speech - MIT Sloan School 50th Anniversary	https://media.graphassets.com/6J4Iz1r5TX2DWe2UTBbi	https://media.graphassets.com/6J4Iz1r5TX2DWe2UTBbi	[]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	The InfiniteMIT site is a collection of videos that create a vivid portrait of an institution that is continually changing the way we live and work. Interviews with legendary change-makers, historic footage from the MIT Museum collection, unforgettable lectures, commencement speeches, and symposia.	en	/favicon-32x32.png?v=aefb52b158a71bcc56ad63f983d7a720		null	[MUSIC PLAYING] VEST: Today, as we honor and as we learn from Kofi Annan, we take great pride in the small role that we played in his education and in shaping his early career. But we also bear witness to the importance of maintaining the openness of our universities to foreign students, scholars, and faculty. We must guard, even in these complicated times, and protect this fundamental American and academic value and principle. It is my privilege and honor, once again, to welcome to MIT the Secretary-General of the United Nations, His Excellency, Kofi Annan. [APPLAUSE] ANNAN: Thank you very much. [APPLAUSE] Thank you very much. Thank you very much, my dear friends. President Vest, let me thank you for those very warm and kind words of introduction. And Dean Schmalensee, I'm really happy that I'm back here with all of you at Sloan. Distinguished faculty members and students and dear friends, it is indeed a pleasure for me to be back here and to join you today for this anniversary celebration. Over the course of half a century, Sloan School of Management has built itself into one of the world's academic powerhouses. I say world and not just country because right from the beginning, Sloan looked well beyond the confines of this campus and encouraged people from many nations, as we heard from the president, to study here and was eager to find and advance the cause of international cooperation, scholarly and otherwise. Congratulations on this milestone. Three decades ago, I was fortunate myself to become part of the Sloan community. And it is good to see so many familiar faces since I've been down here yesterday. And an event like this really brings back memories of when I first came here, what the place was like, and where I myself was at at that stage of my life. I recall particular that Sloan exposed me to some very interesting work in organizational culture and psychology and how to manage change. That may sound like jargon to most of you, but I can assure you that it came in very handy at the United Nations when I needed. [LAUGHTER] Back in 1982 when I was working with the High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva and we were trying to grapple with the crisis of the boat people, I invited my good friend Professor Schein to come to Geneva to help us improve our internal communication and to review our mission. When we got there and everybody came, we thought we were going to have a straightforward discussion for one hour. Three hours later, we were all physically and emotionally drained from what had quickly turned out to be a frank soul-searching exercise for all of us what it meant to be working for the United Nations, what were we trying to do with the refugee crisis of the time, and how best to get different people and people from nationalities around the world to work better together. Some frustrations had been bottled up obviously for years. But once the floodgates were open, we found new ways forward, and a truly new sense of unity and purpose emerged. This session was so successful that I organized another one in 1990 where Ed Schein and Lester Thurow came to talk to the group. We gathered about 30 senior officials from 26 different countries to discuss similar issues, and they all walked away very enthusiastic. I like to think that we are replicating that exercise on a global level among peoples and nations as we strive to build the trust, confidence, and a sense of shared values and responsibility needed to address the urgent issues and threats of our time. We are all aware that more and more challenges from environmental degradation to drug trafficking and the spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS have a global dimension. Through work, travel, and trips to the store, we can all see that trade and communications are stitching human family ever more closely together. These phenomena have also have to make the 21st century a very troubling times for our global village. Distrust between cultures and religion often leads to violence and has been aggravated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Concern is mounting because of global economic uncertainty and because the benefits of globalization have been shared so unevenly. Confidence in markets has been dealt a further blow with a series of corporate scandals in the United States and the gathering feeling that markets by themselves cannot respond to the real needs of society or provide the public goods that humankind needs to survive. In an age of interdependence, global citizenship is a crucial pillar for progress. In a series of global meetings and conferences over the past two years in particular, world leaders have tried to define what that citizenship means. They have been trying to build an inclusive, responsive, effective, international system from which all people can benefit from and in which all feel they have a stake. Shared responsibility was at the heart of the declaration adopted at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. 160 heads of states and government gathered in New York. All countries came together not just to express their general hopes for peace and development in the 21st century but also to give their backing, their backing to a set of very specific, time-bound objectives, which have since become known as the Millennium Development Goals. The goals include reducing hunger, providing access to safe drinking water, and ensuring universal primary education. They will be closely monitored and measured-- how many kids are in school, how quickly hunger and extreme poverty are being reduced. And we will advertise the results in such a way that we hope will galvanize politics and policymaking so that the goals can be met by the target date of 2015. Governments faced the first test of their commitment to these goals last November at the World Trade Organization meeting in Doha. There, trust was the main issue on the table-- trust, because the developing countries have heard a lot of talk about free and fair trade but seen too little, far too little, of it. They want to know that their products will have an equal chance to compete in the global market. That chance is currently denied them because of tariffs on their goods and because of subsidies given to their competitors in the rich countries-- subsidies that I might add also perpetuate unsustainable practices in farming, transport, and energy use. The new round of negotiations agreed to at Doha offers the prospect that markets will truly be open. But it is only a promise. And it is too soon to say whether that trust in the trading system will be achieved. Only time will tell, but I think we need to work hard and press ahead to open the markets truly for all countries. Next came the Monterrey Conference on financing for development last March. That conference was also an exercise in recognizing shared responsibilities. The conference generated substantial new pledges for official development assistance, reversing a decade-long decline, and made good progress on issues such as debt relief, investment, and corruption. Just as important, developed and developing countries reached a common understanding on their respective responsibilities in the pursuit of balanced and equitable development. And finally, last month at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, global citizenship once again took center stage. All leaders committed themselves to a path of development and economic growth that safeguards resources and ecosystems for succeeding generations. Leaders from rich countries in particular agreed to reduce their nations' ecological footprint on the planet. Taken together, these summits and conferences give us a blueprint, a blueprint for development that puts people, not states, not GDP statistics, at the center of policy making. The overriding challenge now is implementation. And for that, we shall need people from all sectors-- the public sector, private sector, civil society to forge more and better partnerships to implement these schemes. One of the most welcome developments at the United Nations in recent years has been the steadily growing engagement of the business community both in policy forums and in projects on the ground. Though the relationship is not without its difficulties, there is growing recognition that we must move beyond the politics of confrontation and that solutions to poverty, environmental degradation, and other challenges can only be found if the private sector is involved and is an effective partner. More and more businesses themselves are coming to recognize how they depend on international norms and standards for the conduct of business on a global scale and that the United Nations wide-ranging work in peace and development has an impact on how they do. In 1999, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, I introduced the idea of a Global Compact. The Global Compact was based on my belief that markets and human well-being can go hand-in-hand. Over the long run, human well-being can be dramatically advanced by well-functioning markets. But markets themselves cannot be sustained if they do not ensure human well-being. I asked businesses at that time to embrace nine universal principles in the areas of human rights, core labor standards, and the environment and to enact these principles within their spheres of influence and make it part of their way of doing business. I picked these ideas because I was worried by a severe imbalance in global rule making. While there are extensive and enforceable rules for economic priorities such as intellectual property rights, there are few strong measures for equally vital concerns such as human rights and the environment. The compact has since become more than a call to action. Today, it involves not only businesses but also labor federations and nongovernmental organizations. It has promoted the importance of universal values and encouraged investors to look harder at opportunities in the least developed countries, particularly in Africa. The compact has created a learning forum, a worldwide academic network that examines case studies, trying to determine what works and what doesn't. And I am pleased that Sloan plays an important role in this forum. None of this is meant to is meant as a substitute for action by governments or as a regulatory framework or code of conduct. Rather, the compact is a voluntary initiative, a platform for showing how markets can be made to serve the needs of society as a whole. Business may ask why they should go down this path, especially if it involves taking steps that the competition might not or steps they feel are rightly the province of governments. Sometimes doing what is right, for example, [? equity ?] [? efficiency ?] or creating decent workplace conditions, is in the immediate interest of business. Sometimes we must do what is right simply because not to do so would be wrong. And sometimes we do what is right to help usher in a new day of new reforms and new behaviors. We do not want business to do anything different from their normal business. We one business to do their business differently. We want them to continue what they do but bear in mind these values that touch all of us. And dear friends, openness is the emerging hallmark of our time. But we need to make it work. Otherwise, countries and peoples might retreat behind protectionism, or worst of all, reject global citizenship or globalization in favor of narrow concepts of national interest not at all appropriate for this interdependent world we live in, for this global village. Business is well-placed not only to generate employment, investment, and growth but also to advance the global citizenship. Sloan is well-placed to teach more than economics, accounting, and finance and to help define the parameters of corporate citizenship. And I am delighted to hear that your program is already evolving in that direction, and there is a great deal of enthusiasm for the program on corporate citizenship. And the United Nations is well-placed to promote dialogue that will build trust and create the multilateral norms and frameworks needed to fulfill our shared responsibilities. All of us, the private sector, civil society, labor unions, NGOs, universities and foundations, and individuals like you must come together in an alliance for progress. Together, we can and must move from value to values, from shareholders to stakeholders, and from balance sheets to balanced development. Together, we can and must face the dangers ahead and bring solutions within reach. Thank you very much, and congratulations to the Sloan community on this important day. I will now be happy to take your questions. [APPLAUSE] Thank you very much. PRESENTER: Thank you, Mr. Secretary-General. I have a number of questions from the audience, and perhaps more will be forthcoming. But let me pose one for you. Do you see a link between corporate responsibility and corporate citizenship on the one hand and the gulf between haves and have-nots on the other? Do companies have a positive role to play in creating a sustainable future? ANNAN: I think from what I have said this morning it is clear that I see a very important role for the corporate world. And I think corporations that respond and react to these norms do make a difference in the communities and the societies in which they operate. Corporations and the leaders of corporations are often very important personalities in their own communities and can influence policy and decision making by governments and help steer laws in the right direction. But they also make a difference in the day-to-day lives of the individual. Corporations don't have to wait for governments to pass laws for them to know that their productions should not pollute the water that produces fish for the village. They need not wait for governments to pay a decent wage. They need not wait for governments to try and train their people and give them-- take the question of HIV/AIDS. Corporations have done fantastic things around the world. Volkswagen [? to ?] Brazil, for years, watched its good managers contract the disease and die off. And it took the decision, we are going to do something about this. Came up with a program of education and treatment for their managers and their families and then begin to see these creative men and women live on, continue to deliver to their company, and passing the message onto their families and communities how to protect themselves. So the role of corporations in the issue of development and their society is extremely important. And some are doing extremely well [? nowadays ?] [? at ?] [? this ?] to look at what works and what doesn't. And corporations do have a role. PRESENTER: Thank you. Another question from the audience is, what can we at MIT, at Sloan, and those of us assembled do in particular to help realize or advance the Global Compact Initiative? ANNAN: I think you're already on the right track by training your students and discussing the Global Compact Initiative with them. And I'm sure you also have a chance to advise many corporations, and you would be able to expose them to this and talk to them about it. I've had the chance of meeting some of the Sloan Fellows in New York, and I've been struck by how enthusiastic they are. And I know that quite a few of your professors are also working on the Global Compact. And so I think apart from teaching it here, by the learning forum, and what we are going to put on the web to share with others becomes an important way of spreading the word. The other thing that we are doing is a learning forums that we've introduced where, for example, corporations can come together to discuss what their responsibilities are and what their posture should be if they find themselves operating in areas of conflict. What is expected of corporations? Whom should they turn to for advice? And how do they work together to cope? And all this, I think, is going to be extremely helpful for corporations. And I'm extremely happy that US corporations are beginning to join the compact. We've had tremendous response from Europe, from Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere in Africa. Recently, Hewlett-Packard has joined. Pfizer is coming on board. And I expect many more will join. PRESENTER: What responsibilities do American corporations in particular have in the global community? Do you see a special responsibility because of-- ANNAN: Well, I think, today, it is business and these corporations that have become the main motor for the creation of wealth. They have technology. They have money. And they have management. And they also have a global reach. In some ways, a cooperation is understood faster and better than governments that we do live in a global world. And they work across borders. And they also know that in doing that you need to have some rules. And I think the corporations that operate around the world should see their role not only as a New York-headquartered or Silicon Valley-headquartered, but they should try and also lift the people in the countries in which they are operating and also help the societies by passing on some of the knowledge and some of the technology and the training. Where they fail to do this, they inadvertently become part of the conflict or the problem. We've seen this. I can give you an example. Look at what is happening in Nigeria with Shell, where the villages around the oil production sites feel they have seen nothing of the benefits that accrue from exploitation of their oil. The money goes to the central government. The shareholders take their profits, and they see nothing and continue to live in squalor. I think it was two or three months ago when a group of women demonstrated and took over one of the site. And now Shell has indicated it is going to help them, and it is going to put some money back. And in fact, even if it is not direct responsibility of Shell, in a way, it could have pressure the governments. Said, don't you think we should be doing something for the villages around here? Can we pull together and do something? These kinds of gestures go a long way. And I know some companies have done it. And I would urge others to do that-- not only train the local people, pass on technology, but ensure that we spread the benefits a little bit more. PRESENTER: I have a one-word question, which I think we'd all be pleased if you would address briefly. And that question is-- Iraq? [LAUGHTER] ANNAN: I thought I was going to get away without-- PRESENTER: Now, hold on. [LAUGHTER] ANNAN: --answering. PRESENTER: It's not a perfect [? scream, ?] no. ANNAN: No, Iraq, obviously, is a very topical issue. And it's a very difficult issue for all of us. And the UN has been involved with this problem for over 12 years now. And the inspectors, as you know, were withdrawn from Iraq in December '98. And since then, we've not had inspectors back in Iraq. Earlier this year, I got a letter from the Secretary-General of the Arab League saying that Iraqis would want to sit with you to discuss the return of inspectors without conditions. So we arranged to meet. That was, I think, in February or March. We met three times this year. The last meeting was in Vienna. We seem to be inching forward but no real breakthrough or progress. And then the General Assembly met on the 12th of September. And at that time, the US government had become very focused on the Iraq issue. I spoke, and President Bush spoke. We both demanded Iraq to comply. In my statement, I made several point. But there are two I would want to share with you, arguing that any country when attacked has an inherent right of self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter. But when that country decides to deal with a broader threat to international peace and security, the approval and support of the Security Council is required, that we need to have that basic understanding. Otherwise, we will face major difficulties down the line. So we were all delighted when President Bush spoke and informed the world that he is going to refer the Iraq issue to the United Nations. I also indicated to the council that in such situations, they would also have to have the will and live up to the responsibilities. The Security Council, you know what has happened in the Congress. And so I'm not going to comment on that. But in the Security Council, there is a debate going on now as to the circumstances under which the inspectors should be sent back. There is a sense that the disarmament regime will need to be strengthened. The inspectors would need to be strengthened so that we don't repeat the errors of the past, and they can go in with a strengthened hand and get their work done. My sense is that that resolution will be passed. There's still lots of discussions and negotiations going on. And I expect the council to send in the inspectors with their strengthened regime with a demand that Iraq should perform and with the request that the inspectors should report back should Iraq fail to do so. And if Iraq were to fail to do so, I suspect the council will indicate the consequences that Iraq will have to face up to. There has been a suggestion that maybe even in this resolution there should be the phrase, "if Iraq fails, all necessary means must be used," which is a code phrase for military action. But I think the member states want a two-stage approach. Send in the inspectors. If they get into trouble, if it fails, come back, and we will pass the second resolution. So this is where we are. And I expect that within the next week or two the council will have acted. The Chief Inspector Hans Blix and his team are ready to go. They met with the Iraqis and discussed the practical aspects of resumption of their work. But they are waiting for the council to act so that if there are new instructions, they can factor it into their work. And of course, all the member states will work together. And my plea to the council is that they should work in unity. From experience, it is only when the council is united that they have the greatest impact. And I hope and trust that the council will be able to manage this process in a way that we keep the unity of the member states together. We keep the USA in the fold working with the Security Council not just for today but for tomorrow and the day after. Thank you very much. PRESENTER: Thank you, Mr. Secretary-General. [APPLAUSE] Thank you so much. That was extraordinary.
7733	dbpedia	2	8	https://www.laits.utexas.edu/africa/ads/1587.html	en	No.1587: Kofi Anan on African Leadership			[]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null					null	KOFI ANNAN: 'I AM SADDENED BY THE LEADERSHIP I SEE IN AFRICA' (Interview with "The Guardian") The simplicity of his wood-panelled offices on the 38th floor of the UN Headquarters in New York gave no hints of the importance of the man. Kofi Annan: the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, the second African, and the first black African to head this global institution, and the first man to be appointed into that office from the ranks of UN staff. First appointed UN Secretary-General in January 1997, Kofi Annan, a twin and father of three, has had a most remarkable career as an international civil servant. He joined the UN in 1962, and for about 30 years, he held senior positions in various sections of the UN: the World Health Organisation, the UN High Commission for Refugees, and the UN Headquarters in New York where he handled assignments involving human resources management, budget and finance, and peacekeeping. A Ghanaian of Akan extraction, Mr Annan is an international statesman and an icon for black professionals all over the world for whom he is both role model and source of inspiration. He has been described as "the best Secretary General of the UN ever". He has also been strongly criticised by those who are opposed to his management methods and reform agenda. But no one can doubt Kofi Annan's commitment. He is a major apostle for peace and stability in the world. He carries a high banner for the ideals for which the United Nations was founded 61 years ago. He has brought the United Nations the centrality it deserves in world affairs at a time of momentous changes and challenges. He is famous for his forthrightness and outspokenness. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with the United Nations "for their work for a better organised and more peaceful world". A year later, Annan was unanimously re-appointed by UN member states for a second five-year term which would end on December 31, 2006. After a few moments in his waiting room, we were ushered into a conference room. There he was, already waiting. He stretched out his hands to welcome the team from The Guardian. His tone was friendly. There were no airs around him. He posed for photographs with us. "Gentlemen, how do we sit?" He answered this question himself: "Okay, I think we should sit around the table". With the same ease and practised charm and warmth with which Annan handles complex world affairs: Iraq, Iran, Darfur, etc, he signalled the beginning of an encounter that would last for close to an hour. He was calm, measured in his tone, and meditative. Here was a man who was sure of his subject. He could not be swayed to say what he did not want to say. He chose his words, and responded with great care. Born on Friday, April 8, 1938, Mr Annan studied for a degree in Economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He later completed his undergraduate studies in 1961 at the Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States as a Ford Foundation scholar. Between 1961 and 1962, he studied for and obtained a postgraduate certificate in Economics at the Institut Universitaire des hautes etudes internationales (IUHEI) in Geneva, Switzerland. He later attended the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1971 -1972 as a Sloan Fellow receiving a Master of Science degree in Management. For two years, 1974 -76, he left the UN to take up appointment as Managing Director of the Ghana Tourist Development Company. He returned to the United Nations in 1976 as an Assistant Secretary-General. Before becoming Secretary-General, Mr Annan was involved in some of the major events of the 90s including the repatriation of international staff and citizens of Western countries from Iraq after the Kuwaiti invasion, the oil for food programme in Baghdad, and the crisis in former Yugoslavia. His engagement with international affairs has been no less robust since his emergence as UN Secretary-General involving such challenges as the transition to civilian rule in Nigeria, the stalemate between Libya and the Security Council, violence in East Timor, Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, the "land for peace" negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, crises in Central Africa and Sudan, etc. Mr Annan's biggest achievement so far perhaps has been his resolve "to bring the UN closer to the people". In 1999, he had remarked instructively: "More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that my friends, is why we have the United Nations". Through partnerships with civil society and the private sector and the deft use of diplomacy, Annan has given life to this declaration. Under his watch, the focus of the UN has been directed towards core people issues: the need to end poverty and inequality, protect the environment, reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, improve access to education and quality human life, promote humanitarian intervention to safeguard human rights, the rule of law and international peace and security. Annan has also been passionate about comprehensive reform within the UN to transform it into a stronger and more efficient organisation for the 21st Century. These and other issues, with particular accent on African affairs, formed the substance of The Guardian interview with the UN Secretary-General. He had another appointment to keep in an adjoining room. But as his interviewers kept pushing for an extra question and minute, Annan did not betray any sign of irritation, even as his staff kept opening and shutting the door from outside, a signal obviously that other guests were waiting... The interview soon came to an end. The Secretary-General, who speaks French, English, Fante, and other African languages, stretched out his hands and spoke Yoruba: "E se. E seun". (Thanks. Thank you). The Guardian team in New York led by Eluem Emeka Izeze, Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief, included Dr. Reuben Abati, Chairman, Editorial Board, Laolu Akande, North America Bureau Chief and Debo Adesina, Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Text of the interview follows: We came this way because we think it's important that we talk with you and we are glad you gave us audience. Let me begin by asking that as the first Secretary-General from the UN system, would you say that it has served you well and served the organisation well, or are there some down sides ... you don't get to talk about such things too often? Let me say that coming from the system, I knew it well and it was fortunate that I knew the system. When I was appointed, because I was appointed on the 13th of December, I had less than two weeks to take over. If I had come completely from the outside, it would have been extremely difficult and I hope this would not happen to my successor. And I think the knowledge that I had of the organisation was extremely helpful. It also meant that I needed to reach out beyond the organisation to establish relations and contacts not just with the Heads of States and Governments, some of them I knew in my capacity as head of the (UN Department of) Peace Keeping Operations. But I took an early decision to also reach out to civil society, the private sector, universities and foundations and really made the UN what it ought to be: the UN of "We the peoples" and the peoples are out there in the world, not in this building. So, really, we took steps to broaden the constituency. But my understanding of the knowledge and relationship with agency heads and some people who were already a major part of the UN were helpful and I also knew the nature of the programmes. You didn't see any drawback in any aspectŠ? Not really. Some believe that because you come from the system, it is sometimes difficult to handle personnel matters. You can not fire people that you have known for quite some time; you can't be as hard on them as you have been and there is no blood on the floor. There are people who believe that in management, if there is no blood on the floor, then you haven't done enough. Yet when you look around, in most organisations, in most civil service, it doesn't work that way. Even in the private sector, where the Chief Executive has incredible autonomy compared to that of the Secretary General, with a small board and a very focused objective in maximising the profits for shareholders, even there, you don't always see it that way, where you abandon your 191 member-states, more or less your board, and each one of them has their ideas of what you should be doing or should not be doing. Do you expect your successor to be an insider also? Most of the candidates who have emerged are from outside the organisation and if the trend continues it is definitely going to be an outsider. And as your colleague indicated, I have been the exception to have come from inside. How do you think that your tenure and that of Dr. Boutrous Boutrous Ghali enhanced the image of the African diplomat? I think both of us were Africans and had Africa as our base, but we were also Secretary-Generals for the other regions and the entire world. I think it was important for the Africans to see one of their own running this global organisation and helping resolve issues not just in Africa but around the world. What I have also tried to do is to expand the traditional focus of the job which had tended to focus on political issues, conflict resolutions. I have pushed into poverty alleviation, the fight against HIV/AIDS, environmental degradation, and in fact what was exciting at the last World Summit in September, is that the world leaders walked away with a broadened definition of what constitutes threat. Because until then when we talk about threats all of us think of war, civil war, or war between states. But they accepted that the conflicts we face in the world today include poverty, infectious diseases, environmental degradation, internationally organised crime, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and of course depending on where you live, your perception of threat is quite different. You live here in New York? Yes... So, when you talk to most New Yorkers, because of what we hear on television and read in the news, they will tell you terrorism. But when you go over to East Africa they will tell you poverty and starvation. If I go to a small island state, I will be told environmental degradation; my island is being washed away. And all of these issues must be of concern to us. Each region has to be concerned about the problems of others, for them to be sensitive to their problems. How do you see your role as the most powerful African on the world stage? Do you see it as a burden or advantage? What really does power mean to you? I was going to say I'm not sure I would use the word power to describe my situation ... (General laughter) Because as you know, I have no armies, no police forces to stand by. Basically I have to use the power of reasoning, persuasion and diplomacy to get things done. But I do have the capacity to reach out to almost every leader in the world and on any continent, to discuss issues with them. And I am also dealing with issues which cut across... whether it is Avian Flu or HIV/AIDS; these issues cut across continents and regions. What is important is that as a Secretary-General that is African, I am able to interact effectively and competently with all the other leaders around the world. We understand and respect each other, which is an important thing. And I think it is important for the continent also to know that one of their own is in this position and operating on the world stage. How would you assess Africa in relation to the Millennium Development Goals and our peculiar circumstances? Do those circumstances pose a difficulty to you in terms of your assertiveness? Africa has some unique problems, which we need to pay attention to. When you look at the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, there are some countries that will meet all of the goals by the target date 2015. In fact, to those who are accelerating and are able to meet it before that date, my advice to them is, 'don't sit on your laurels. If you achieve it, aim for Millennium Development plus; when you achieve primary education for all, aim too for secondary school education.' The difficulty we have in Africa that is holding us back, is first of all we have these conflicts, which really have done a lot of damage to the continent. When you look at the Great Lakes region and the war that has been raging, I was in Congo recently; we are trying to organise the first elections ever, in forty-five years. Many in their forties would never have had the chance to vote. But, without infrastructure, there are many hazards, and of course a country of that size when it is in distress, it has impact on all the neighbouring countries. Today we are looking at Darfur, in Sudan; we were all excited when we resolved the North/South conflict and they signed the Naivasha peace agreement (in Kenya). The Darfur conflict today is also extending beyond Sudan. It has affected Chad and Central African Republic and we are quite anxious to work with the leaders in the region to make sure that it does not become a regional crisis. And here I have often had the chance to say that African leaders and Africans should back away from the position that we don't interfere in each other's affairs. Because some of these issues, such conflicts that we are talking about, hardly ever remain internal for long. They create problems for neighbours; they throw up refugees who cross borders; they bring guns to the region; criminality goes up, and this is why I have been encouraging all, whether it is ECOWAS or the SADC organisations, sometimes getting involved in these conflicts, trying to help their neighbours. And it is also in their own self-interest to help. So, we need to resolve all these conflicts to be able to focus on the essential work of economic and social development. We need to improve governance and strengthen institutions to be able to really benefit from the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and the Development Assistance that is being offered. As part of a build up to the last Summit in September, we managed to get pledges from the G8 and donor countries, indicating that they will increase the developmental assistance by $50 billion by 2015, with $25 billion reserved for Africa. We should be able to organise and structure ourselves in such a way that we take advantage effectively of this issue. Not many African countries will meet the Millennium Development Goals in the target date, at the rate we are going now. Unless we accelerate and intensify our efforts not only on the continent but also with the support that we are going to get from the donor communities, we would not meet the Millennium Development Goals. Do you feel embarrassed by the failure of leadership in Africa? I am often saddened by the leadership situation I see in Africa and also pained for the situation that sometimes, the populations are placed in because of errors of leaders. I think I was the first to go to the OAU summit to say that they should not encourage people who come to power through the barrel of the gun and they should not welcome in their midst with open arms and smiles people who have taken up power through a coup d'etat. At that time, quite a lot of people were surprised and shocked; you remember that incident? Yes... But several years later, they took the decision that they would not welcome them into their midst. And that also implies that we need to play by the rules. We need to accept and respect the constitution, we need to accept electoral laws, we need to accept the results of elections and we should not tamper with the constitution to perpetuate our rule. What worries me is that, if this trend continues where leaders are able to change the constitution... the constitution is never written for an individual, it is written for a nation and must stand the test of time... if you change (it) to suit individuals and they extend their mandate in office, we may face the situation where the soldiers who are now in barracks will come back and say, since we cannot go through change in the normal democratic way, this may be the only way to do it. We don't want that. Latin America has been able to transform itself, all their generals are back in their barracks. We in Africa are doing it and we should do everything not to reverse this trend. But what do you suggest should be done? I mean, if African leaders are carrying on with this same enterprise, it is becoming like a wild fire on the continent? First of all, when I talked of the earlier change, the earlier change came about because the people were also aware. The civil society and everybody got involved and the soldiers realised that they were no longer welcome. And I suspect we will go through the same phenomenon on this issue of constitutional change; constitutional change not necessary for the interest of the state, but for the benefit of the man, or leader in power. If we can make the issue a bit more specific. At this point, constitution amendment is a big issue in Nigeria, and President Obasanjo is right at the centre of it. Have you ever had cause to discuss this matter with him? (Pause) This is an issue I have discussed with many, many leaders, within Africa and outside Africa, and my position on this is quite well known. Okay, we take your comments as diplomatic as you have always been. Well, Secretary-General, do you think the UN response and the response of the world to crises in Africa, especially with regards to Rwanda and now Darfur, signifies a certain fatigue? Is this qualitative enough or merely tokenistic? Let me put it this way, when you talk of the UN, you are not talking of the civil servants or this building. You are talking of countries, yours and mine, big and small, powerful and weak. And in all these crises and crisis situations, where there has been a political will on the part of the countries, a lot can be done. Often, through the UN or sometimes, we have heard of 'coalitions of the willing' going on outside of the UN to take action. I think what happened in Rwanda was one of the tragic events in my own lifetime and in a way, Rwanda became a victim of Somalia. You would recall that we were pulling out of Somalia after the US troops were killed there. So, we were withdrawing from Somalia while Rwanda was going on and so the member states didn't have any appetite to intervene. Some said they did not know, and I asked them, what did they do when they found out? They sent planes to Kigali pick up their nationals and fly them out, while the killing was going on. We have a situation in Darfur, where, for the moment, the African Union troops are in. They have done their best against the odds, with the limitations in terms of logistics and resources and they have taken a decision that in principle, they will want to hand over, transition to the UN. And if the UN were to go in, we are not going to start from scratch, we will build on the African Forces which are on ground. Some of them will stay with them; we may not be able to keep all of them. They will be reinforced with others and obviously we need to come in with much better logistical support. I have indicated that if that were to happen, we will have to put in a Force that is not only robust but is highly mobile in the air and on the ground. Because it is such a huge territory that they are not going to be able to cover it and they are not going to have that many troops to spread throughout the territory. So, we have to make up with mobility and speed and be able to respond if there is an SOS, before the damage is done and not after the damage is done. There are quite a bit of discussions going on. The Sudanese Government has not given its agreement yet and in these situations it is always easier when you work with the support and the co-operation of the government. I have also urged the Sudanese government to understand that if they had been able to protect their people and people were not starving or dying in Darfur, nobody would be talking about deploying troops there to help them. And it is not coming as an invasion force; it is coming to help the people, and they should facilitate this effort. Or, some people may be held to account now that we have an international criminal court. That brings us to Charles Taylor: Do you think it was fair really, to browbeat Nigeria to hand over Charles Taylor, considering the circumstances in which he left Liberia in the first place? I don't know if browbeat is the word ... (General laughter) But let me say that I know the history of it very well and I know the circumstances under which President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria took him in. And we were all very pleased, the entire world was pleased, they praised Nigeria, indicating that that action had paved the way for peace. President Obasanjo indicated that the only term and the only condition under which he will release Taylor is if an elected Liberian government were to ask for him. Whether we like it or not, the Liberian elected government, Ms Johnson Sirleaf did ask for him and the President kept his word. But I concede that there were pressures from different sources too. Concerning Charles Taylor, do you think his arrest and trial will check the spread of impunity on the continent in the long run? I think we have to look at it in a broader context. It is not just Charles Taylor. We have the arrest of Charles Taylor; we have the arrest of Lubanga (militia leader in Eritrea) who was causing a lot of problems in Eritrea. There have been sanctions slapped on three people in Ivory Coast. Recently, another set of sanctions was slapped on four others in the Sudan. Really, it sends a message that those who commit these atrocities will be held to account. And the message it also sends is that regardless of your position in life and your station, you may be a President, you may be a General, you may be a Field Commander, you may be a youth leader, but if today, you commit some of these atrocities, a time may come when you will be held to account. Today the international system has a mechanism. There used to be a time when interestingly enough, if you killed one man you are much likely to be put on trial, but if you killed hundreds or thousands you walked away because they were often in power. But nowadays, we have a mechanism to deal with that ... and I think it sends a message. Now we will like to go back to something that happened in the past. You were one of the last people to see Chief M.K.O. Abiola in Nigeria. We would like to know about your meeting with him. What did you say to him, what did he say to you? How do you think that your intervention actually played into the resolution of the whole crisis? That was my objective when I came to Nigeria to encourage transition, the release of political prisoners, so that one can move on to a democratic change and have elections. And I left Nigeria; I was convinced that he was on his way out, that he was going to be released and that there were going to be elections. And General (Abdusalam) Abubakar gave me his word, he was not interested in staying in office. He was keen on organising democratic elections and he kept his word. It was rather tragic that having spent that much time in the jail, he would die when he was on the verge of regaining his freedom and playing his political role in the political life of the nation. Do you recall what he said to you? I don't have the details ... Okay sir. Coming to the UN, you have been working very hard on your reform programme, but we don't seem to see a consensus anymore and yet, there is need for reform. What is the way out? I think we need to persevere. And let me say that we have achieved quite a bit since the September Summit, in the sense that since then, we have established a Peace Building Commission that will help countries coming out of conflicts or in distress to stabilise and reconstruct. We have established a new Human Rights Council, which I hope will be much more dynamic and effective than the commission before it. We have established em .. actually let me back up. We have got the member states to agree to accept the principle of responsibility to protect, which is quite an achievement. I recall in 1999 when I first raised this issue there was palpable anger in the house that I was ... that it was an attack against sovereignty. But now we have it. We also established a fund to ensure that we are able to get humanitarian assistance to people in need as quickly as possible. We have a democracy fund to assist countries in transition. But we have major tasks ahead. The management issue that you referred to, we are looking at the development agenda and reform of the Economic and Social Council. We are looking at strategies for combating terrorism; there was the Security Council reform, but we haven't made much progress. But I think we should persevere. What happened last week or so, has brought to the fore the tensions between the member states and in fact we are talking management and reforms. Some see it as a power struggle, a power struggle between the North and the South. They feel that some of the big countries have insatiable appetite for power. And unfortunately, some of the developments that happened have firmed that impression. For example, when we established the Peace Building Commission, the five permanent members of the Security Council said we want five seats reserved for us and they got it. The same suggestion was made initially when the Human Rights Council was named and of course the membership reacted and they backed away. So, when you talk of changes or managing change, the question is, which group is going to gain, which group has an influence and may exploit this new change? Even if you say, give a Secretary General a bit more authority or power, some people will wonder if the big boys would go and lean on him or her to do things their way because they are paying quite a lot of the contributions. So I think we need to work with them to build trust and to work on this reform in a spirit of give and take, because we do need to adapt the organisation and bring it in line with the challenges we face and it is not just a management issue, the same goes for the Security Council. The current composition and structure of the Security Council reflects the geopolitical realities of 1945 and not of 2006. And, to have an organisation of a hundred and ninety-one member-states with a narrow power base of five member-states on critical issues... most people are seeing that the council's decisions are mandatory, they are legislative on member states and yet you have a very narrow base. I have described this as a democracy deficit. And it is something that we have to do something about sooner or later. So you don't agree that this issue of a breakdown in the reform agenda is a battle for the soul of UN? No, I wouldn't say ... I mean, the Americans have a very strong position and the G-77 are also defending their position. We have been through some of these situations before. Well, I don't know what you mean by battle for the soul of UN. That is how some of the ambassadors of the developing countries here have described it ... But we know your time is short and, let me draw your attention to the difficulties the UN has faced and you specifically, with regards to at least two of the scandals that have been reported, on sexual harassment and the oil for food programme. Do you think this has eroded the credibility of the UN? Let me say that I hope not. It was a big blow and a painful experience for all of us. But one should not also forget that we were the ones who initiated the investigation. I set up the Volcker Commission because we wanted to get to the truth. And it was a very complex programme - the oil for food programme, a $64 billion programme. It was a very complex one for an organisation that is not used to running those kinds of things. But if you look at the report of the Volcker Commission in its entirety, you will discover that while there may have been mismanagement, the question of fraud and scandal, and fraudulent behaviour, quite honestly if there were problems there, they belonged to the capitals. There was only one UN staff member that the investigation indicates may have taken $150,000 out of a $64 billion programme. The companies that made use of Saddam Hussein behind the back of the UN, it was 2,200 companies from sixty countries. As I indicated earlier, the Security Council mandates under Chapter 7 are mandatory, they become part of the national laws and the governments were meant to apply it and also monitor their own companies. It is not a chapter the UN is very proud of, but what is often also forgotten is that the programme succeeded in its objective of feeding the Iraqi population. We fed the 26 million Iraqis and the system went to the extent that it was the distribution list which was used for elections. On the sexual exploitation, where they refer to the peacekeeping operations, this is something we have taken very strict measures (on) and we indicated that we have a zero tolerance programme which we are determined to press on. It is unfortunate, but I think it will also be wrong to pretend that this sort of thing only happens with UN peacekeepers and it doesn't happen in any nation. In a way, the people in these operations also reflect the larger community, but we are taking very, very strict measures to make sure it is not repeated on our watch and in our operations.
7733	dbpedia	1	3	https://infinite.mit.edu/video/secretary-general-kofi-annan-1997-mit-commencement-address-661997	en	Secretary-General Kofi Annan - 1997 MIT Commencement Address	https://media.graphassets.com/EWlI0z4JQcmLeRavmaeo	https://media.graphassets.com/EWlI0z4JQcmLeRavmaeo	[]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	The InfiniteMIT site is a collection of videos that create a vivid portrait of an institution that is continually changing the way we live and work. Interviews with legendary change-makers, historic footage from the MIT Museum collection, unforgettable lectures, commencement speeches, and symposia.	en	/favicon-32x32.png?v=aefb52b158a71bcc56ad63f983d7a720		null	GRAY: It is my privilege to welcome to this lectern his excellency, Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations and the 1972 graduate of the Institute. Mr. Annan will now give the commencement address. [APPLAUSE] ANNAN: Thank you very much. Thank you, Dr. Gray for your most gracious welcome. I am honored and pleased to have been asked to speak to you on this grand occasion and in these familiar surroundings. The Boston area boasts of several excellent institutions of higher learning, but there is only one MIT. [APPLAUSE] President, trustees, ladies and gentlemen, let us congratulate the best, the brightest, the most dedicated, the most thoughtful, and the most likely to succeed MIT class ever-- the class of 1997. [APPLAUSE] But graduates, you know better than anyone that you did not do it alone. Accordingly, please join me in a big round of applause for those who have stood by you throughout the years and who are with you today in person or in spirit-- your loving parents and dear friends. Let's give them a hand. [APPLAUSE] Now you are free, free of the pressure of exams, free to begin the next stage of your life, and free to pay back your student loans. I wish you well. I once sat where you sit today. Sharing these joyous moments with you today in Killian Court takes me back to more than a quarter of a century to my own studies at MIT. As a Sloan fellow, I learned-- [APPLAUSE] As a Sloan fellow-- [CHEERS] I'm going to get away from that. I learned management skills that I draw on still today in refashioning the United Nations for the new century that is upon us. But I learned to an even more important lesson. At the outset, there was competition, rather intense competition, among my cohorts. Each was equally determined to shine and to demonstrate his leadership skills. I say his, because there were no women among us, and I'm certainly glad that has changed. [APPLAUSE] Walking along the Childs River one day in the middle of my first term, I reflected on my predicament. How could I survive, let alone thrive, in this group of overachievers? And the answer came to me most emphatically. Not by playing it according to their rules. Follow your own inner compass, I said to myself. Listen to your own drummer. To live is to choose, but to choose well, you must know who you are, what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to get there. My anxiety slowly began to dissolve. What I took away from MIT as a result was not only the analytical tools, but also the intellectual confidence to help me locate my bearings in new situations, to view any challenge as a potential opportunity for a renewal and growth, and to be comfortable in seeking the help of colleagues, but not fearing in the end to do things my way. When the world thinks of MIT alumnae and alumni, who have gone on to assume positions of visibility in their respective fields, as so many have, it correctly imagines Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, economics, or business tycoons or engineers improving our daily lives in countless ways. But as Secretary General of the United Nations, that's hardly the first answer anyone would blurt out on a TV quiz show. And yet, it is not as much of a stretch as it may seem at first. For the ethos of science and engineering, shares deep and profound similarities with the 20th century project of international organization. Science and international organization alike are constructs of reason engaged in a permanent struggle against the forces of unreason. Science and international organization alike are experimental. Both learn by trial and error and strive to be self-correcting. Lastly, science and international organization alike speak a universal language and seek universal truths. Allow me to expand briefly on each of these features of the project of international organization. I begin with the struggle between reason and unreason. When the history of the 20th century is written, the struggle will figure very prominently in it. On the plane of international affairs, the outburst of unreason in this century surpassed in horror and human tragedy any the modern world has seen in the entire modern era. From Flanders fields to the Holocaust and the aggression that produced World War II, from the killing fields of Cambodia and Rwanda to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, from the 25 million refugees who roam the world today to untold millions, many of them children, who died a slow death of starvation or are maimed for life by land mines our century, even this generation, has much to answer for. But we have also managed to build up the international edifice of reason. By deliberate institutional means, we have better positioned humankind to cope with the present global problems. Measures to enhance peace and security rank among these accomplishments. As the 21st century draws to a close, we can take pride in numerous advances in, for example, the area of arms control and disarmament. Perhaps, the bedrock is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation T Treaty, in force for nearly three decades now. Negotiated through the United Nations and monitored by one of its agencies, the NPT has more adherents than any arms controls treaty in history. In September, 1996, the United Nations General Assembly approved the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which has since been signed by more than 140 countries, including all five nuclear weapons states. In April of this year, we witnessed the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It helps to ensure that the vile weapons never again will be the scourge of any battle field, the silent but certain doom of any civilian population. Finally, states that are party to the Biological Weapons Convention are seeking ways to reinforce its authority through a verification mechanism. Much remains to be done, especially in reducing the vast and rapidly growing flow of conventional weapons, ridding the world of the viciousness of landmines, whose primary targets are the innocents of any conflict, strengthening the methods of preventive diplomacy, and inventing the next generation of peacekeeping operations. But only a decade ago, the achievements I have illuminated seemed unimaginable. Now they are real. Similar accomplishments are transforming other aspects of international life. Few are more noble than safeguarding and enhancing human rights. Few yield more practical benefits than deepening and expanding multilateral rules for international economic relations. Few are more rewarding than helping the world's children to achieve healthy and productive lives. Few are more critical than preserving the human environment, even as we achieve greater economic opportunity for all. And so as this century draws to a close, we are justified in concluding that international organization has helped tilt the balance to what the domain within which the power reason prevails. A second attribute that the project of international organization shares with science is experimental method. Indeed, international organization is an experiment. It is an experiment in human cooperation on a planetary scale. Those of us who serve in international organizations must never forget the fact that they are not an end in themselves. They are the means to empower both governments and people to realize goals through collaboration that would otherwise elude them. International organizations, therefore, must closely be attuned to the environment, quickly correct their mistakes, build cumulatively on their achievements, and constantly generate new modalities as previous ways of doing things become outdated. I am very pleased, therefore, to report to you today that we at the United Nations are amidst the most thoroughgoing institutional reforms ever attempted there. I would go a step further and express my conviction that when our reform plans are announced-- [HELICOPTER FLYING] Sorry, we'll let it. I would go further and express my conviction that when our reform plans are announced next month, they will compare favorably with any search reform yet undertaken by any public sector anywhere. We seek a United Nations that will view change as a friend, not change for its own sake, but change that permits us to do more good by doing it better. We seek a United Nations that is leaner, more focused, more flexible, and more responsive to change and global needs. We seek a United Nations that is organized around its core competencies vis a vis other international organizations and ever more robust global civil society. We seek a United Nations that serves more effectively not only its member states, but also the people of the world whose hopes we embody. In short, we at the United Nations are working hard to firm up the grounds on which the project of international organization rests. And we are doing so by recognizing its experimental nature, and then raising the imperative of inventiveness that it implies. The third similarity between the ethos of science and the project of international organization is this. We do what we do in the realm of international organization, because we strive in our own fashion to give expression to universal truths. What might these be in so contested an arena as international affairs? I believe that they include the truce of human dignity and fundamentally quality, whereby a child born in the smallest village of the poorest land is valued as much as the one born o Beacon Hill. I believe they include a yearning for peace, the awareness that we are but stewards of this extraordinary only one earth, the understanding that even though the world is divided by many particularisms, we are united as human community. This noble course requires your help. All of you in the class of 1997, wherever you go from here, and whatever you do in the future, you will participate in a world that is becoming increasingly globalized. You will interact directly and indirectly with others just like you across the far reaches of the world. They will represent colleagues, competitors, customers. As you enter this new world, I call upon you to remember this. As powerful and as progressive a bond that market rationality constitutes, it is not a sufficient basis for human solidarity. [APPLAUSE] It must be coupled with an ethic of caring for those whom the market disadvantages, an ethic of responsibility for the collective goals that the marketplace underproduces, an ethic for tolerance for those whom the market pits as your adversary. The United Nations has no peer in this regard. It is the unparalleled nerve center of the global village, exploring and negotiating emerging issues, certain priorities, and creating norms of conduct. Since the 1970s, the United Nations has been at the forefront of instituting concern with the human environment, world population, world hunger, the extension of fundamental human rights to encompass the status of women and of children, as well as sustainable development in as many facets. We have done so through a series of global conferences that have brought together governments and nongovernmental organizations from every corner of the world. By means of this novel form of multilateral diplomacy, the universal truths of which I spoke slowly but steadily are making themselves heard. Slowly but steadily they are stretching the we. In the we the peoples of the United Nations, as the opening words of our charter put it, not at the expense of you or me, or of this or that country, but in the fulfillment of that which we share in common. Moreover, most of you here today are citizens of this great and bountiful United States of America. For you, I have a special plea. Your country, the world's most powerful, even now, is debating its future role in the new world community and their place of the United Nations within that overall foreign policy vision. I call upon you to work tirelessly to anchor the United States firmly to the course of internationalism, to its historic mission as an agent of progressive change, to a world order that reflects your own country's commitment to the rule of law, equal opportunity, the irreducibility of rise of all individuals. The need is pressing, and the moment is now. Let us continue the productive partnership between the United States and the United Nations and go forward together with a positive can-do attitude to win peace and prosperity that beckons. Thank you, Mr. President, honored guest, and most of all, my fellow alumnae and alumni. Yes, I can call you that now. Good luck. [APPLAUSE]
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7733	dbpedia	1	16	https://www.commandeducation.com/colleges/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/	en	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	https://www.commandeduca…o-Page-small.jpg	https://www.commandeduca…o-Page-small.jpg	[ "https://px.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=4003585&fmt=gif", "https://www.commandeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/command-education-logo.png", "https://www.commandeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BU.png", "https://www.commandeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/notre-dame-of-maryland-university.jpg...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2024-08-13T13:20:47-04:00	The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1865 as a “private university in the public interest”, establishing a tradition of innovative and eventually technology-centric problem-solving for the greater good. MIT is a 166-acre university in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the highest-ranking technical institute in the U.S. Right across the bridge from Boston, and just down the road from Harvard, it’s a home to world-class innovators, engineers, scientists, and maybe even you some day!	en	/wp-content/uploads/fbrfg/apple-touch-icon.png?v=LbxjbLY2lL	Command Education	https://www.commandeducation.com/colleges/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/	How difficult is it to get into MIT? MIT is a very selective university. Of the 26,914 students who applied to MIT in the 2022-23 cycle, 1,291 were offered admission to the Class of 2027, making the acceptance rate 4.8%. The EA acceptance rate was slightly higher, at 5.7%, as MIT accepted 685 of the 11,924 students who applied for Early Admission. Test scores range near perfection across the board—the 25th and 75th percentiles for the ACT composite were 34 and 36, the SAT Math 780 and 800, and the SAT ERW 740 and 780, respectively. Although MIT is a STEM-focused school where competitive test scores are a prerequisite for admission, they also care greatly about school fit. They want skilled students who make an impact in an area they are very passionate about, take risks, and work well with others. The most attractive candidates are those who demonstrate initiative and ownership of their own learning and opportunities. MIT encourages interested applicants to attend an interview in their area or via Skype during the application process. These interviews last anywhere between 30 minutes and two hours. Although an interview is not mandatory and won’t make or break a student’s application, interviews are a helpful tool for showing MIT what makes you a unique and valuable member of their community. What is the campus like at MIT? You might imagine a campus full of Nobel Prize-bound scientists to be serious and a bit dull, but MIT is actually the complete opposite. MIT has an open campus, so while you might be in lecture halls with Nobel laureates and MacArthur fellows, when you step outside you’ll be greeted by jugglers and fire spinners alongside the tourists and other students. MIT’s museums and libraries are open to the public, so even those academic spaces are much more diverse than those at a typical college campus. The campus boasts more than 20 gardens and green spaces to soak up the sun when you’re not braving the legendary New England winters. Cambridge is America’s oldest college town, and Boston is as college-friendly as its neighbor. Throughout the school year, there are events across the city that college students can enjoy, as well as easy transportation to New Haven, Providence, and New York for when you want to break out of the Cambridge bubble. All MIT freshmen must live in a residence hall, even if they choose to affiliate with an FSILG (Fraternity, Sorority, or Independent Living Groups). The summer before freshman year, students rank the ten residence halls in order of preference. If you end up in a residence hall you don’t love, you can apply to transfer dorms at the beginning of each year. During sophomore–senior year, students have the option to continue living in residential halls or move to an FSILG. More than 3,400 undergraduates live on campus, and nearly half of MIT’s undergraduate students are affiliated with an FSILG, so you won’t be the odd one out if you choose to do so. Keep in mind that each of the residence halls and FSILGs vary in cost and have distinct cultures and rules. Embracing a work-hard-play-hard attitude, MIT also has a colorful historical tradition of ethical hacks and pranks. What is MIT known for? MIT is a world-class institution with particular prestige in science, engineering and mathematics. The U.S. has sent 44 MIT-educated astronauts to space as of 2024, and the institution boasts 101 Nobel Prize winners, 26 Turing Award winners, and 8 Fields Medalists as of October 2023. Notable alumni include astronaut Buzz Aldrin, nuclear physicist Shirley Ann Jackson, and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (honorable mention: Marvel Universe character Tony Stark). How diverse is MIT? For the Class of 2027, 49% of students identified as male, 48% of students identified as female, 4% identified as another gender identity, and 2% declined to disclose (total exceeds 100%, as students could indicate more than one option). Forty percent are Asian American, 38% are White/Caucasian, 16% are Hispanic, 15% are Black/African American, and 2% are American Indian/Alaskan Native and 1% are Native Hawaiian (likewise, total exceeds 100%, as students could indicate more than one option). The most recent class of 1,092 MIT students hails from 49 states and 59 countries, and 18% were among the first generation in their family to attend college. How do I apply to MIT? MIT has both Early Action (EA) and Regular Action (RA) deadlines. Early applicants must submit their materials by November 1. Students applying in the Regular Action cycle need to do so by January 4. It is important for students to note that MIT is not test-optional. In addition to filling out the MIT Application and submitting essays for all MIT supplements, students will have to submit one evaluation from a science or math teacher and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. You can also submit additional materials via fax (most ideal) or mail. Does MIT have a good athletic department? Boasting an active and distinguished Division III athletics program, MIT supports one of the broadest intercollegiate athletic programs in the world. Approximately 25% of the student body participates in the 33 varsity sports, and at 233 Academic All-America citations, the university has earned more than any other Division III athletics program in the nation. The MIT Engineers compete at the Division I level in crew, fencing, track and field, cross country, squash, water polo, rifle, and sailing. Outside of the varsity level, MIT also has an expansive club program with 900 participants and 33 teams – a quarter of these reside within martial arts alone! What are MIT’s core curriculum and programs? MIT consists of six schools, across which there are 58 majors and 59 minors. The six schools are School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT Sloan School of Management, School of Science, and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Unlike some other colleges, MIT applicants don’t have to apply to a specific school. All MIT undergrads enter undeclared and choose a school during their sophomore year. In this approach, students have time to explore classes from all six schools and make an informed decision about which major is the best option for them. Some of the most popular areas of study are within Science and Math, but MIT offers everything from Ancient and Medieval Studies to Flexible Nuclear Science and Engineering. Many of the majors are also offered as minors, so if you’re interested in both humanities and STEM, MIT allows you to pursue your passions in a dynamic and intentional way. Can I afford MIT? MIT is one of only seven universities in the nation to offer full-need aid and need-blind admissions and one of only five U.S. universities to be need-blind for both domestic and foreign students,. The full price of an MIT education for the 2024–25 academic year (including tuition, fees, room, board, food, books, course materials, supplies, equipment and personal expenses) is $85,960. Families with incomes and assets totaling under $140,000 receive MIT Scholarship funding, allowing them to attend MIT tuition-free⁠, while families making under $75,000 are exempt from any expenses towards an MIT education.
7733	dbpedia	2	14	https://cocorioko.net/kofi-annan-biography-of-the-first-un-secretary-general-south-of-the-sahara/	en	The Biography of the Late UN Secretary	https://cocorioko.net/wp…and-children.jpg		[ "https://cocorioko.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/logo.png", "https://cocorioko.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/728_90_banner-6.png", "https://cocorioko.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Anan-and-wife-600x381.png", "https://cocorioko.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Anan-and-wife-600x381.png", "https://cocorioko....	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2018-09-13T13:25:31+00:00		en			https://cocorioko.net/kofi-annan-biography-of-the-first-un-secretary-general-south-of-the-sahara/	Kofi Annan’s children eulogize their ‘daddy’ By Belinda Ayamgha, GNA kofi-annan—wife-and-children Accra, Sept. 13, GNA – The children of the late Kofi Annan have eulogized their father, recounting some of their fondest memories with him and the important values he taught them. In a tribute read by Ama Annan Adedeji, daughter of Mr Kofi Annan, she noted that her dad taught her to appreciate everything that she had; good or bad, as someone somewhere always had it worse than she did. Recounting an occasion where she went complaining to her dad about not being able to buy something, she noted the questions he asked her and the conclusion he drew, which reiterated the need for her to be content with what she had. After answering to his questions of “Is someone shooting at you? Do you have a roof over your head? Do you eat three times a day?, he said to her; “then you have no problems, stop complaining.” Amidst reminiscent smiles from Nane Marie Laghergren, and her siblings: Nina and Kojo, Mrs Annan Adedeji recounted her father’s ‘casual’ dressing of a suit, when he invited her to accompany him to a friend’s concert where the dress code was casual. When she asked why he was wearing a suit to the concert, when he was supposed to be casually dressed, he replied: “I am casually dressed, see, no tie.” Describing her father’s down-to-earth nature and his ability to straddle different worlds, she said Mr Annan moved effortlessly from shanty to Paris, from impoverished streets to government enclaves, from a morning greeting with a member of the household or a moment shared with a loved one to negotiating for international peace. “He understood only too well that like hamsters on a wheel, most of us spend our lives running around in circles, locked in our little bubbles, trying our utmost to insulate ourselves from the violence, poverty, crime or pollution. Each, if not all of these conditions, is a reality for the people that were in the forefront of his mind. Yet, somehow, the darkness of the human condition were balanced and lightened by the resolute hope, lodged firmly in his heart,” she said. She described her father as a believer in knowledge as power, information as liberating and education as the premise of progress in every society and family, and who tended to gravitate towards the youth, in whom he found ‘hope and inspiration’. Mrs Adedeji said she had grown to appreciate her father for what he was: a man with the generosity of spirit, who gave himself to others, put himself at their disposal and was one of the most loving people she knew. “He may not have been the coolest dad, but to me, he always walked on water,” she said. To paraphrase Winnie the Pooh “How lucky am I to have such a father, that makes saying goodbye so hard. Rest in peace, daddy,” she said. Mr Kojo Annan, son, in his tribute, said it had been an honour and privilege to have Mr Annan as a father for the past 45 years. “To the rest of the big world, he was Kofi Annan, noble statesman par excellence, but to me, he was simply daddy,” he said. He said his father’s singular gift was his ferocious belief in humanity and its ability to see past superficial differences and embrace the need to create a more equal world. He recounted how, at age seven, he lived alone with his father in Geneva, at a time when it was novel for a traditional African man to be raising a child solo, noting; “My daddy made it work and he made it great.” He noted that even with increased responsibilities at the UN, Mr Annan still dropped everything to be at his bedside when he fell ill and had to have immediate surgery, and also helped him to put his life back together, piece by piece. “He loved me unconditionally, and I loved him, unconditionally, and most importantly, he taught me how to love unconditionally,” he said. Kojo said his father’s lessons, inspiration and legacy would sustain him, as he went on in life without his father. He thanked the world leaders and people who attended the funeral and urged them to emulate the values that his father represented, saying the greatest tribute they could pay to him was to follow his example of unity, equality, love, peace and respect. Nina Cronstedt de Groot, his daughter, expressed gratitude for the years that he spent with them, saying it was the only thing that was able to trump the sorrow of not having him with them. “Gratitude for feeling your love and support every day and for having Alexei and Ebba experience you almost as I have. You gave of yourself to everyone, big or small, and will live on in us and the thousands of those who felt your compassion,” she said in remembrance published in the official brochure. “You made a real difference and you will continue to inspire good. I love you endlessly. Rest in Peace,” she said.
7733	dbpedia	3	58	https://www.imd.org/news/economics/updates-imds-orchestrating-winning-performance-welcomes-kofi-annan/	en	IMD’s Orchestrating Winning Performance welcomes Kofi Annan	https://www.imd.org/wp-c…kofi_annan-2.jpg	https://www.imd.org/wp-c…kofi_annan-2.jpg	[ "https://www.imd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/News-IMDsOrchestratingWinningPerformanceWelcomesKofiAnnan-720x560x2-comp-1389x1080.jpg 1389w, https://www.imd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/News-IMDsOrchestratingWinningPerformanceWelcomesKofiAnnan-720x560x2-comp-300x233.jpg 300w, https://www.imd.org/wp-content/uploa...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "developers" ]	2022-10-18T10:49:56+00:00	New systems of governance are required to not only meet, but anticipate, the needs of a changing world. That was one of the messages Kofi Annan, the 7th Secretary General of the United Nations and Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation gave to business leaders at IMD's Orchestrating Winning Performance program. For the business leaders	en	https://www.imd.org/wp-c…op-RGB-32x32.png	IMD business school for management and leadership courses	https://www.imd.org/news/economics/updates-imds-orchestrating-winning-performance-welcomes-kofi-annan/	New systems of governance are required to not only meet, but anticipate, the needs of a changing world. That was one of the messages Kofi Annan, the 7th Secretary General of the United Nations and Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation gave to business leaders at IMD’s Orchestrating Winning Performance program. For the business leaders attending, Annan pointed out that the private sector has an important role to play in energizing politicians into action. Coming only four days after the Brexit, and in the thick of the US election campaign, Annan stood back from current events with the wisdom of an experienced diplomat, saying that the signs are on the walls, but no one is reading them. There is a pernicious disenchantment because people feel that they have been failed by their institutions, including the UN. “What is happening in the UK is not an accident and what is happening in the US reflects a malaise with the status quo.” Getting politicians to listen The UN, he reminded, was created to address the geopolitical realities of 1945. “The world has changed and the UN needs to move on.” Annan does not attempt to hide his own frustration at not having been able, during his 10-year tenure from 1997 to 2006 (he stayed on for a second five-year term by popular demand), to transform the UN’s structure of governance. “Subsidies and privileges are the most difficult things to give up.” The UN Council is composed of five members with a right of veto, so it follows that the UN Council is not going to vote itself out of its own privileges. With 193 members, Annan is convinced that the Council is no longer representative. “Rather than destructive competition, we need to think in terms of participation,” he explained. During his entire career as appointed peace-maker, Annan, the Ghanaian-born 2001 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has relied on civil society. Without the grass-roots forces of women and men who believe that change is possible, and necessary, resistances, including subsidies and privileges, will remain. Annan believes in the importance of empowerment to bring about reform. He also understood early on that he needed to reach out to the private sector. “There was no way we could do it all alone. It became very clear to me that we needed to expand our capacities to implement our goals; we needed the private sector’s support in innovation and research.” Annan is also convinced that the private sector can help contain corruption. “It’s easy to corrupt when governments dominate. Each time you need a paper, a hand comes up!” One of the best ways to fight the global phenomenon of corruption, he suggested, is to eliminate the red tape, which is more likely to happen in competitive conditions. On the other hand, he warns that companies are not thinking in the long term, which is the key to anticipating change. “You have to convince your shareholders, and yourself, that quarterly returns have outlived their day.” “You need to think long term and you need to get politicians to listen,” he suggested. “We all need to make noise to keep items high on the agenda.” Post-UN career The hour-long session was conducted by IMD Professor Mike Wade, who, after discussing the 1999 Global Compact Initiative and the 2000 Millennium Development Goals, both programs of which Annan is understandably proud, guided the speaker into revealing what he has done since he left the UN. “Retirement is hard work, so don’t rush into it,” he first replied with a gentle sense of humor. In 2007, Annan was called to Kenya to help with the electoral crisis, planned to be there for ten days, stayed for six weeks and remained involved for five years until the next election. “My staff called me a prisoner of war.” The Kofi Annan Foundation, based on the principles of peace and reconciliation, was founded during that time to help keep important issues on the political agenda, such as systems of election and making Africa agriculturally more self-sufficient. These issues need leadership, Annan reflected, adding: “It’s not easy to be a leader today. When news was delivered by boat, there was plenty of time to reflect. Now information arrives in a constant flow and decisions are meant to be taken instantly.” He admitted to a sense of failure regarding the Syrian conflict, when as joint envoy for the Arab League and United Nations in 2012, an agreement to form a transitional government with full executive authority was never signed. “I lost my support on my way to Damascus,” he regretted, pointing out that unless the permanent members of the UN and the regional authorities make it a common cause, “It could take an entire generation to resolve.” Invaluable advice Annan then addressed the IMD’s executive education participants directly. “You are at an interesting stage in your lives. At mid-career, some of you will take a different direction, some will drop out. It is important, as you move forward, to understand yourself and to know what you enjoy doing and why. You have to listen to your inner compass, but also learn to think in the long term.” He also shared some of his own strategies of success. Learn to listen carefully, he said. “Listen to what is said, but also to what is not said.” People can sometimes talk themselves into a solution. Refuse to be provoked into taking action. “Don’t feel that you have to do things immediately. Take the time to gather at least 60% to 65% of the information, before making a decision.” And don’t be afraid of failure. “If a decision is not right, pull it back.” Get a good night’s sleep. “You need to know when you’re tired, otherwise you can make serious mistakes.” He admitted that he cannot function with less than 7 to 8 hours sleep a night. Most importantly, he said, make sure that people are engaged. Understand and make use of today’s communication tools. “Leaders have to have good judgment to know how to reach out.” To end, referring to the situation of Europe following the Brexit vote, he reminded the audience that, remarkably, “the impact of peace never came up. The EU has been a triumph that no one thinks about. It is important for the other 27 nations to remain,” he hopefully concluded.
7733	dbpedia	2	80	https://www.ivywise.com/blog/caltech-vs-mit/	en	Caltech vs. MIT: Which College Is Right for You?	https://www.ivywise.com/…k_470955017.jpeg	https://www.ivywise.com/…k_470955017.jpeg	[ "https://www.ivywise.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ivywise-logo-larger@2x.png?x70452", "https://www.ivywise.com/core/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/adobestock_470955017-800x480.jpeg?x70452", "https://www.ivywise.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,sharpen=1,quality=60,format=jpeg,width=800/core/wp-content/upload...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "IvyWise" ]	2024-02-15T00:00:00	MIT and Caltech are both scientific and technological titans. Let’s explore their distinctive features, so you can decide which college is right for you.	en	https://www.ivywise.com/…16x16.png?x70452	IvyWise	https://www.ivywise.com/blog/caltech-vs-mit/	One is on the East Coast, the other on the West Coast. Both have the industrious beaver as their mascot. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology are both scientific and technological titans and world leaders in cutting-edge research and innovation. Let’s explore the distinctive features of MIT and Caltech, so you can decide which college is right for you. Is There a Rivalry Between MIT and Caltech? While no heated rivalry exists between the two institutions, there is certainly a competitive atmosphere. Both Caltech and MIT are elite private universities focused on science and technology, which puts them in similar academic spheres. This has naturally led to a friendly rivalry in terms of their research and the advancements they make in STEM fields. Additionally, the schools have a history of playing elaborate pranks on each other, which are all in good fun. Is Caltech Better Than Harvard? Whether Caltech is “better” than Harvard University depends on individual preferences, academic goals, and the specific field of study. If you are interested in a specialized focus on science and technology, Caltech might be more suitable. However, if you seek a broader range of academic disciplines and a more well-rounded education, Harvard could be a better fit. Both institutions are highly regarded, and the choice often depends on which one better aligns with your academic and professional goals. You may also want to consider location, student life, campus size, and other factors that can affect your college experience. Read our guide on how to get into Harvard. Why is Caltech So Prestigious? Caltech consistently ranks among the top institutions globally in science and technology, attracting top-tier faculty and students. Faculty and researchers from Caltech have been involved in significant discoveries and advancements, contributing to its reputation for cutting-edge research. The institution has also produced 46 Nobel laureates among its faculty and alumni, among numerous other awards and prizes. Additionally, NASA entrusts Caltech to manage the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which sends probes into space to explore the solar system. Caltech is also known for its Seismological Laboratory and numerous astronomical observatories. Is Caltech an Ivy League Level? Caltech is often considered on par with Ivy League schools in terms of academic excellence and prestige. It is a top-ranked university that is frequently listed alongside or even above Ivy League schools in various national and international university rankings. In addition to its global reputation in science and technology, Caltech’s small size, accomplished faculty, low student-to-faculty ratio, and emphasis on personalized education contribute to its standing among elite colleges and universities. Caltech vs MIT: Which One Is Better? The question of whether Caltech or MIT is “better” depends on your academic goals and what you hope to get out of your college experience in general. Aside from considering the strength of their academic programs and opportunities, research each school’s campus culture, admission requirements, student clubs and activities, and career outcomes. Learn how to get into MIT. Academic Programs and Majors Caltech offers 28 rigorous undergraduate programs — what they refer to as “options.” As you might expect, most of these programs are related to STEM disciplines, though Caltech also offers business and humanities programs like economics, English, philosophy, and history. All undergraduate students must complete a core curriculum, which consists of advanced courses in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The core curriculum is designed to strengthen critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills. Caltech is particularly strong in physics and astronomy as well as other science subjects, making it a good choice for students interested in pursuing those fields. MIT offers a broader range of academic programs, including architecture and more majors in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Undergraduates can also enroll in a program at the MIT Sloan School of Management that combines business perspectives with students’ scientific and technological expertise. Prospective students interested in engineering or computing disciplines will find particularly strong programs at MIT. The core curriculum — what MIT refers to as General Institute Requirements (GIRs) — provides students with an interdisciplinary foundation that complements their choice of major. Faculty and Research Opportunities Caltech, known for its distinguished faculty, has attracted numerous renowned scientists and researchers across various disciplines: A Nobel laureate in physics (2017), Kip Thorne is known for his contributions to the detection of gravitational waves. His work has significantly advanced the field of astrophysics. He taught at Caltech until 2009. A Nobel laureate in chemistry (2018), Frances Arnold is recognized for her pioneering work in directed evolution of enzymes, with applications in biotechnology. She currently teaches at Caltech. Although he passed away in 1988, Richard Feynman was a legendary physicist and Nobel laureate known for his contributions to quantum mechanics. His influence continues to resonate at Caltech. A theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum information science, John Preskill is a prominent faculty member at Caltech and has played a significant role in the development of quantum computing. A molecular biologist, Barbara Wold has made substantial contributions to the understanding of gene regulation and RNA biology. She is a current faculty member at Caltech. An astronomer known for his discovery of Eris, a distant dwarf planet, Michael Brown has contributed to the study of the outer solar system. He is a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech. Research is an expectation at Caltech, and 90% of undergraduates engage in research projects. The student-to-faculty ratio of 3:1 means that students can work closely with faculty and postdoctoral scholars. Students can choose from a variety of undergraduate research programs and have access to more than 50 research centers and institutes. MIT has a renowned faculty that has made significant contributions to various fields: A prominent linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and social critic, Noam Chomsky has been a long-time faculty member at MIT. His work has had a profound impact on linguistics and cognitive science. A bioengineer and chemical engineer, Robert Langer is known for his pioneering work in drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a professor at MIT. His contributions to information technology have transformed the way we communicate and access information. A computer scientist and mathematician, Shafi Goldwasser has made significant contributions to cryptography and complexity theory. She is a recipient of the Turing Award. A physicist and electrical engineer, Mildred Dresselhaus made pioneering contributions to the study of carbon-based materials, earning her the nickname “Queen of Carbon.” The MIT professor passed away in 2017. A geneticist and molecular biologist, Eric Lander has played a key role in the Human Genome Project and has been influential in genomics research. A neuroscientist and the first female president of MIT, Susan Hockfield has been a prominent figure in science and academia. Students at MIT can participate in groundbreaking research, working closely with faculty and researchers at any of the institute’s numerous labs and centers. Additionally, students benefit from an entrepreneurial culture and resources that can help them bring their innovations to market. Campus Culture and Student Life The campus culture at Caltech is characterized by a unique blend of academic intensity, collaboration, and a close-knit environment. With a student body of only 1,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students, Caltech is a small institution that prides itself on accomplishing big things. Residential life on campus is a social and supportive environment, where undergraduates of all years mingle in the eight smaller house communities or the larger residence halls. Caltech students, known as “Techers,” can find a variety of clubs, activities, and events that contribute to their overall college experience, including varsity sports, recreation, performing and visual arts, lectures, and more. The student-run Caltech Y is a non-profit organization that helps students become better global citizens through a variety of leadership, service, adventure, and civic engagement activities. Academic rigor, innovation, and a vibrant, diverse community define the campus culture at MIT. IvyWise counselor Katie, a former Senior Assistant Director of admissions at MIT, describes students there as having an “insane passion for doing whatever it is that they’re interested in.” The institution encourages students to pursue creative projects, start businesses, and engage in technological innovation. The MIT culture has contributed to the development of numerous successful startups and innovations. As for residential life, undergraduate students can choose from 11 residence halls, each with its own distinct community. MIT is known for its “hacking” culture, where students engage in clever and creative pranks and projects. The Great Dome on campus is a popular site for these hacks, which are considered a tradition and a form of creative expression. In their free time, MIT students can participate in one or more of the 450+ clubs and organizations on campus, as well as varsity sports. Listen to our Just Admit It! podcast: What is MIT like? Admission and Selectivity Over the past few years, Caltech’s admission rate has been below 5%. Students hoping to attend Caltech must demonstrate that they are being challenged academically and have a willingness to explore and take risks intellectually. Faculty review applications of the most competitive students, so it’s important to focus on STEM in the supplemental essays as much as possible. Caltech requires test scores for fall 2025 admissions after being test-blind since 2020. Students admitted to Caltech typically graduate in the top 10% of their high school class — Caltech does not report the high school GPAs of its admitted students, but you should strive for the highest GPA possible. Recommendations, strength of character, and extracurricular activities are also important factors. Like Caltech, MIT also has an admission rate below 5%. While competitive applicants perform well academically and have a record of increasingly rigorous courses, MIT focuses on holistic admissions to ensure students are a good fit for the campus culture. This means that the student’s personal qualities, talents, and extracurricular involvements are also important factors in their admissions decisions. MIT requires students to submit standardized test scores. The middle 50% of admitted students for fall 2022 scored 1520-1570 on their SATs and 35-36 on their ACTs. While MIT does not report the high school GPAs of its admitted students, it can be helpful to know that of the students who reported their class rank, 97% graduated in the top 10% of their class. Alumni and Career Opportunities Caltech has produced a notable group of alumni who have made significant contributions to various fields, including science, technology, academia, and entrepreneurship. A highly influential chemist and peace activist, Linus Pauling (Ph.D. 1925) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the chemical bond. He later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts against nuclear weapons testing. An acclaimed film director, Frank Capra (B.S. 1918) is best known for directing classic films such as “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Donald Knuth (Ph.D. 1963) is a computer scientist, mathematician, professor emeritus at Stanford University, and 1974 Turing Award recipient. He is best known for his work on algorithms, typesetting, and the creation of the TeX typesetting system. Co-founder of Intel Corporation and author of Moore’s Law, Gordon Moore (Ph.D. 1954) is a pioneer in the semiconductor industry. A pioneering AIDS researcher, Dr. David Ho (B.S. 1974) played a key role in the development of antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS. Astrophysicist and UCLA professor, Andrea Ghez (Ph.D. 1992) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 for discovering a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The career outcomes for Caltech graduates span various sectors, including academia, industry, research, and entrepreneurship — the possibilities are endless. Many Caltech graduates choose to pursue careers in academia, becoming professors and researchers at universities and research institutions. They are also in high demand in industries such as technology, aerospace, biotechnology, and finance. You can also find Caltech graduates in government and national laboratories, finance and consulting firms, technology, pharmaceutical companies, and more. As expected, MIT also has many notable alumni, some of whom are also affiliated with Caltech, such as Andrea Ghez and Richard Feynman. These alumni have made significant contributions in various fields. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin (Ph.D. 1963) was the second person to walk on the moon. Kofi Annan (M.S. 1972) was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Educator Salman Khan (B.S., M.S. 1998) is the founder of Khan Academy, an online education platform that offers free courses to millions of learners worldwide. The first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. at MIT in 1973, Shirley Ann Jackson is a physicist who served as chair of the U.S. Regulatory Commission under President Clinton. 2022 Nobel laureate Ben Bernanke (Ph.D. 1979) is an economist and the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Founder of the Bose Corporation, Amar Bose was an electrical engineer and sound engineer who earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate from MIT and later joined the faculty. MIT’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of knowledge contributes to the success and impact of MIT alumni across various industries. Many MIT graduates pursue careers in technology and engineering, working for leading companies in areas such as software development, hardware engineering, aerospace, and telecommunications. Others work in research and development, manufacturing, government and public policy, and biotechnology, among numerous other industries. Because of MIT’s strong emphasis on entrepreneurship, many graduates have launched successful companies. Extracurricular Activities Caltech offers extracurricular activities to complement the rigorous academic environment and provide students with opportunities for personal growth, recreation, and community engagement. In addition to the clubs and activities we mentioned above, Techers can find opportunities to participate in student government, the student-run newspaper, coding competitions, robotics, and a variety of other activities that cater to diverse interests. Similarly, MIT offers extracurricular activities, such as Model UN, student government, cultural and diversity organizations, MIT Outing Club, entrepreneurship activities, student publications, hackathons, and performing arts groups — just to name a few. Students can also participate in a variety of community service projects.
7733	dbpedia	0	21	https://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/kofiannan/bio	en	Kofi Annan Biography · The Selected Papers of UN Secretary	https://ccnydigitalschol…b133d7a055c1.png		[ "\t\thttp://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/kofiannan/files/original/9196d321632dc66852e7c48535fb9fb0.jpeg", "\thttp://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/kofiannan/files/original/658a875b597b20cecc3707b0ebcd8963.jpeg", "https://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/bankimoon/files/original/301172e514ac65eeb9a3b133d7a055c1.png", "htt...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null		en			null	Kofi Annan Biography Kofi Atta Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and the first to be appointed from the ranks of the UN staff. He began his tenure as UN Secretary-General on January 1, 1997, and completed his two five-year terms on December 31, 2006. A national of Ghana, he joined the UN system in 1962 and before becoming Secretary-General, served the Organization in Geneva, at New York headquarters, and in the field, dealing with matters ranging from personnel and budget to refugee assistance and peacekeeping. As Secretary-General, his priorities were to adapt the Organization for the Twenty-first Century through a comprehensive program of reform which included the following goals: to strengthen its work for peace and development, particularly in Africa; to advance human rights and the rule of law; to raise global awareness of the AIDS epidemic; and to bring the UN closer to the public by working more closely with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), parliamentarians, academic institutions, the private sector, and other partners. Mr. Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on April 8, 1938. His first name, Kofi, indicates that he was born on a Friday, and his middle name, Atta, means he was a twin and had a twin sister. His father was a prominent businessman and Annan attended secondary school at the elite private Mfantsipim School, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana. He then began studies at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi; however, after winning a scholarship to study in the United States, he completed his undergraduate work in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, in 1961. From 1961 to 1962, he undertook graduate studies in economics at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland. As a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he received a Master of Science degree in management in 1972. Annan was married to Nane Annan of Sweden, a lawyer and artist. Mr. Annan passed away at the age of 80 on August 18, 2018. Annan used his “good offices” in several critical political situations. He flew to Baghdad in 1998 to resolve an impasse on the access by UN inspectors to critical sites in Iraq. Also in 1998, he successfully led a mission to help promote the transition to civilian rule in Nigeria. In 1999, helped forge an agreement to resolve a stalemate between Libya and the Security Council over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. That same year, Annan played an important role in finding a solution to the violence that broke out in East Timor. In 2000, he was instrumental in the role the UN played in certifying the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. He also spearheaded the UN participation in the Quadripartite Peace Plan referred to as the Roadmap for the Middle East. Annan is credited with initiating the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) launched in 2000. The success of this multilateral effort led to the follow-up creation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2002, Annan successfully mediated a peaceful solution to a border dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon in anticipation of a ruling by the International Court of Justice that awarded much of the land to Cameroon. Through an agreement by the two sides, he created the Mixed Commission to peacefully oversee the implementation of the Court’s decision. When former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik al-Hariri was assassinated in 2005, Annan was asked as an impartial and trusted figure to organize an investigation into the killing. In summer 2006, during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, he traveled throughout the Middle East to try to find a mediated, political solution to the hostilities and mold a broader Middle East peace process. On December 10, 2001, Secretary-General Annan and the United Nations received the Nobel Peace Prize. In conferring the Prize, The Nobel Committee said Mr. Annan “had been pre-eminent in bringing new life to the Organization.” Important aspects of Kofi Annan’s legacy are his persistent efforts at UN reform throughout his tenure, his advocacy for the eradication of poverty, and his promotion of human rights, the rule of law, and human security.
7733	dbpedia	3	74	https://thecophq.org/news/kofi-annan-former-un-secretary-general-dies/	en	Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General Dies	https://thecophq.org/wp-…kofi-Annan-1.jpg	https://thecophq.org/wp-…kofi-Annan-1.jpg	[ "https://thecophq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RADIO-1.jpg", "https://thecophq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FIND.jpg", "https://thecophq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/WATCH-1.png", "https://thecophq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/logo.png", "https://thecophq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-Church-Of...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2018-08-19T04:43:11+00:00	Kofi Annan, a former United Nations Secretary-General, has died at age 80, it has been confirmed. He is said to have died Saturday morning in Switzerland, where he was receiving medical care. He died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by his wife Nane Maria and children. He recently visited South Africa and returned to Switzerland […]	en	https://thecophq.org/wp-…tecost-32x32.png	THE CHURCH OF PENTECOST	https://thecophq.org/news/kofi-annan-former-un-secretary-general-dies/	Kofi Annan, a former United Nations Secretary-General, has died at age 80, it has been confirmed. He is said to have died Saturday morning in Switzerland, where he was receiving medical care. He died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by his wife Nane Maria and children. He recently visited South Africa and returned to Switzerland for medical care. In a tweet, the UN Migration body said: “Today we mourn the loss of a great man, a leader, and a visionary.” It went on: “A life well lived. A life worth celebrating.” Ghana’s national flag is to fly at half-mast across the country and in all of Ghana’s diplomatic missions across the world, from Monday, August 20, 2018, for one week in honour of Kofi Annan, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed. Announcing the death, the Annan family and Kofi Annan Foundation posted on Facebook: “It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th August after a short illness. His wife Nane and their children Ama, Kojo and Nina were by his side during his last days.” “Kofi Annan was a global statesman and a deeply committed internationalist who fought throughout his life for a fairer and more peaceful world. During his distinguished career and leadership of the United Nations he was an ardent champion of peace, sustainable development, human rights and the rule of law,” the post added. It continued: “Wherever there was suffering or need, he reached out and touched many people with his deep compassion and empathy. He selflessly placed others first, radiating genuine kindness, warmth and brilliance in all he did. He will be greatly missed by so many around the world, as well as his staff at the Foundation and his many former colleagues in the United Nations system. He will remain in our hearts forever.” The Annan family requested for “privacy at this time of mourning. Arrangements to celebrate his remarkable life will be announced later,” the message said. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in Kumasi, Ghana in 1938 and served as the 7th UN Secretary-General, from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to rise from within the ranks of the United Nations staff. He had been a member of The Elders, a group of global leaders working for human rights since it was founded in 2007. In 2013, he became its chairman. Mr Annan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001 “for their work for a better organised and more peaceful world.” In 2002, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, gave him the highest honour in Asanteman, and conferred the rare title of “Busumuru” on Kofi Annan in recognition of his service to humanity. “I and the entire Ashanti state have decided to add your name to the Busumuru title, because of your selflessness and contributions to humanity, and promotion of peace throughout the world,” Otumfuo Osei Tutu II declared when he placed a symbolic gold necklace around Annan’s neck to the sound of traditional drumming. “Busumuru” is the name of the golden sword used by the Asantehene to swear allegiance to the Ashanti kingdom at his coronation. Mr Annan was married with three children. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a tribute wrote: “The Government and people of Ghana, First Lady Rebecca and I are deeply saddened by the news of the death, in Berne, Switzerland, of one of our greatest compatriots, Mr. Kofi Annan. “I extend, on behalf of the entire Ghanaian nation, our sincere, heartfelt condolences to his beloved widow, Nane Maria, and to his devoted children, Ama, Kojo and Nina, on this great loss. I am, however, comforted by the information, after speaking to Nane Maria, that he died peacefully in his sleep,” President Akufo-Addo added. “Consummate international diplomat and highly respected former Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan was the first from sub-Saharan Africa to occupy this exalted position. He brought considerable renown to our country by this position and through his conduct and comportment in the global arena. He was an ardent believer in the capacity of the Ghanaian to chart his or her own course onto the path of progress and prosperity. Undoubtedly, he excelled in the various undertakings of his life, leaving in his trail most pleasant memories. His was a life well-lived.” “I have directed that, in his honour, Ghana’s national flag will fly at half-mast across the country and in all of Ghana’s diplomatic missions across the world, from Monday, 20th August, 2018, for one week. Rest in perfect peace, Kofi. You have earned it. God bless.” Biography Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi on April 8, 1938. After receiving his early education (at Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast), Annan attended the College of Science and Technology in Kumasi. At the age of 20, he won a Ford Foundation scholarship for undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he studied economics. Even then he was showing signs of becoming a diplomat, or someone skilled in international relations. Annan received his bachelor’s degree in economics in 1961. Shortly after completing his studies at Macalester College, Annan headed for Geneva, Switzerland, where he attended graduate classes in economics at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales. Early career Following his graduate studies in Geneva, Annan joined the staff of the World Health Organization (WHO), a branch of the United Nations. He served as an administrative officer and as budget officer in Geneva. Later UN posts took him to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and New York City, New York. Annan always assumed that he would return to his native land after college, although he was disturbed by the unrest and numerous changes of government that occurred there during the 1970s. Annan became the Alfred P. Sloan fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the end of his fellowship in 1972, he was awarded a master of science degree in management. Rather than return to Ghana upon graduation, he accepted a position at the UN headquarters in New York City. Work with the UN In 1974 he moved to Cairo, Egypt, as chief civilian personnel officer in the UN Emergency Force. Annan briefly changed careers in 1974 when he left the United Nations to serve as managing director of the Ghana Tourist Development Company. Annan returned to international diplomacy and the United Nations in 1976. For the next seven years, he was associated with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. He returned to the UN headquarters in New York City in 1983 as director of the budget in the financial services office. Later in the 1980s, he filled the post of assistant secretary-general in the Office of Human Resources Management and served as security coordinator for the United Nations. In 1990, he became assistant secretary-general for another department at the United Nations, the Office of Program Planning, Budget, and Finance. In fulfilling his duties to the United Nations, Annan has spent most of his adult life in the United States, specifically at the UN headquarters in New York City. Annan had by this time filled a number of roles at the United Nations, ranging from peacekeeping to managerial, and the 1990s were no different. In 1990 he negotiated the release of hostages in Iraq following the invasion of Kuwait. Five years later, he oversaw the transition of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) to the multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), a UN peacekeeping organization. In this transfer of responsibility, operations in the former Yugoslavia were turned over to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In recognition of his abilities, Annan was appointed secretary-general, the top post of the UN, by the UN General Assembly in December 1996. He began serving his four-year term of office on January 1, 1997. Joining him was his second wife, former lawyer Nane Lagergren of Sweden. She is the niece of the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg (1912–c.1947), who saved thousands of European Jews from the German Nazis during World War II (1939–45), when American-led forces fought against Germany, Italy, and Japan. Annan and Lagergren were married in 1985. The couple has one child. Annan’s code of soft-spoken diplomacy was given a boost by the outcome of his talks with Saddam Hussein in 1998. UN observers wait to see how additional crises will be handled by the gentle but determined man from Ghana. In the summer of 2001, the United Nations unanimously appointed Kofi Annan to his second five-year term as secretary-general. On October 12, 2001, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the United Nations and Kofi Annan. The Nobel citation pointed out that Annan had brought new life to the peacekeeping organization, highlighted the United Nations’s fight for civil rights, and boldly taken on the new challenges of terrorism and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS; a disease of the immune system).
7733	dbpedia	0	37	https://news.mit.edu/1997/comm-degrees	en	1,900 to Receive Degrees at MIT Commencement June 6	https://news.mit.edu/themes/mit/assets/img/favicon/favicon.ico	https://news.mit.edu/themes/mit/assets/img/favicon/favicon.ico	[ "https://news.mit.edu/themes/mit/src/img/placeholder/placeholder--frontpage--featured-news.jpg", "https://news.mit.edu/themes/mit/src/img/placeholder/placeholder--frontpage--featured-news.jpg", "https://news.mit.edu/themes/mit/src/img/placeholder/placeholder--frontpage--featured-news.jpg", "https://news.mit.e...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Robert J. Sales", "News Office" ]	1997-05-16T09:00:00+00:00		en	/themes/mit/assets/img/favicon/favicon.ico	MIT News \| Massachusetts Institute of Technology	https://news.mit.edu/1997/comm-degrees	CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will award degrees on Friday, June 6, to some 1,900 seniors and graduate students at its 131st commencement. About 8,000 relatives and guests will attend the scheduled outdoor exercises in Killian Court. The commencement program, starting at 10 o'clock, will have United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the principal speaker. Mr. Annan, who was appointed to a five-year term as Secretary-General beginning January 1, received a master's degree in management from MIT's Sloan School of Management in 1972. Mr. Annan has played a key diplomatic role in managing many of the crises the world has faced during his 30-year UN career. "Mr. Annan's international perspective is particularly apt as MIT expands its activities with universities, governments and industries in many parts of the world to use technology and development as a means of improving global well-being," said MIT President Charles M. Vest. "We want to not only advance technologies but to prepare our students to work effectively in this new global workplace." President Vest will also speak at commencement, giving his charge to the graduates. The formal activities begin at 9:45am with the traditional academic procession. It leaves from the 77 Massachusetts Avenue entrance to the Institute, moving south for a short distance and then east on Memorial Drive to Killian Court. The procession will be led by the chief marshal, DuWayne J. Peterson Jr., 1996-97 president of the MIT Association of Alumni and Alumnae and President of the consulting firm DuWayne Peterson Associates in Pasadena, CA. Dr. Paul E. Gray will preside at his final commencement as Chairman of the MIT Corporation. Dr. Gray, who was Chancellor of MIT from 1971-80 and President from 1980-90, will complete his service as Chairman, effective July 1, 1997. He will continue to teach at MIT. The invocation will be given by Rev. Constance Parvey, MIT Lutheran chaplain. Following the Secretary-General's speech, Constantine A. Morfopoulos, president of the Graduate Student Council, will deliver a salute to MIT from the graduate student body. Pardis C. Sabeti, president of the Class of 1997, will present the senior class gift to Dr. Vest, who will then give the charge. For the awarding of more than 2,000 degrees-a number of graduates get more than one-Dr. Vest will present diplomas to the bachelor of science degree recipients and those receiving both bachelor of science and master of science degrees, while Provost Joel Moses will give out advanced degrees. The two lines of students will approach the stage simultaneously as their names are announced in an alternating pattern as the degrees are handed out. Those receiving their doctoral degrees on Friday also will attend a special hooding ceremony on the day before commencement, Thursday, June 5, in Rockwell Cage. At that ceremony, department heads or their representatives will assist the school deans in hooding the degree recipients. Receptions will be held for the graduates and their guests. Following Friday's commencement program, President and Mrs. Vest will hold a reception for graduates and their guests at several locations in or near McDermott Court. Only severe weather could cause a change in plans for the commencement festivities. In that event, information will be available on commencement morning through radio announcements and by calling 253-7669 for a recorded message. Bad weather arrangements have been made for a backup program in the Rockwell Cage open to graduating students, faculty and participants in the ceremony-but not families and friends, because of limited space. Families and friends would view a closed-circuit telecast of the ceremony at several locations. Following the ceremony, bachelor of science degrees would be awarded by President Vest in the Johnson Athletics Center, while advance degrees would be distributed by school deans at five different locations. A second important event awaits some of the graduates, relatives and guests on commencement day. At 6pm Friday, a commissioning ceremony will be held for 15 graduating cadets and midshipmen in MIT's Army, Air Force and Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) units under the masts of the historic frigate USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard Historical Park. The speaker will be Vice Admiral Patricia Ann Tracey, chief of Naval Education and Training.
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7733	dbpedia	2	79	https://www.mbacrystalball.com/blog/2018/05/28/get-mit-international-student/	en	How to get into MIT as an international student	https://www.mbacrystalba…/08/MCB-Logo.jpg	https://www.mbacrystalba…/08/MCB-Logo.jpg	[ "https://www.mbacrystalball.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/MBA-Crystal-Ball-Logo.svg", "https://www.mbacrystalball.com/wp-content/images/authors/5.jpeg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "MBA Crystal Ball", "Sangmesh H", "Jena Manhotra", "Ugyen Tashi Tshering", "Maguluri Charvik", "Sameer Kamat", "Erivona David Orode Olamipo", "Majok Hosea Riak" ]	2018-05-28T00:00:00	“It’s a living lab.” That’s what the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to its very own proud students. When Barack Obama visited MIT in October 2009, he used a few more words to describe the institute’s awe-inspiring culture of innovation, and entrepreneurship: “It is the legacy of daring young men and women…willing to take risks ... Read more	en	https://www.mbacrystalba…2/08/favicon.png	MBA Crystal Ball	https://65.0.9.100/blog/2018/05/28/get-mit-international-student/	“It’s a living lab.” That’s what the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to its very own proud students. When Barack Obama visited MIT in October 2009, he used a few more words to describe the institute’s awe-inspiring culture of innovation, and entrepreneurship: “It is the legacy of daring young men and women…willing to take risks on an idea that might fail, but might also change the world.” The reason for MIT’s is simple: it is the world’s best educational institution on several counts, a fact attested by reputed educational surveys time and again, including those of QS, Times Higher Education, and US News. The QS Top Universities List 2018 put MIT at the very summit in a comparison of over 950 institutions from 84 countries. Stanford came second, Harvard third, Caltech fourth, and the UK’s University of Cambridge fifth. The criteria were academic reputation (40 percent weight), employer reputation (10 percent), faculty-student ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 percent), international faculty ratio (5 percent), and international student ratio (5 percent). Founded in 1861, MIT admitted its first batch of freshmen in 1865, as part of an effort by reputed natural scientist William Barton Rogers to establish a university that would help industrialize the US. The quality of academics, student selection, professors and students, and research and labs, and the academic flexibility offered to students, make its campus, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a dream educational destination. Popular culture tributes to MIT include films, TV series, books, and comic strips, which have motifs inspired by the institute or references to its culture of meritocracy. The films include Good Will Hunting (winner of two Oscars) and Blown Away, TV series Arrested Development and The Big Bang Theory, books include those by Kurt Vonnegut and Isaac Asimov, and comic strips include Doonesbury and Dilbert. But MIT’s USP is its tradition of transforming ideas born in its labs into hugely successful businesses. MIT students have launched so many companies that Bill Clinton described it as “the best technology transfer program in the country.” The revenues of companies founded by MIT put together would make up the 11th biggest economy in the world. And it is a growing economy: students continue to launch start-ups by the dozen after entering an MIT competition and winning $100,000 seed money. In 2011 alone, 694 inventions were born at MIT. Over the years, the inventions out of MIT have included microchips, ethernet, email, GPS, computer games, OpenCourseWare, transistor radio, fax machines, solar power, spread sheet, refined oil, nuclear fission, artificial skin, and disposal razor, to name only a few. About 20 research centers on the campus explore topics from cancer research to ocean engineering and nanotechnology. Many of MIT’s professors alumni are legends in their fields: Tim Berners-Lee, the man behind the World Wide Web, was once a professor at MIT. Alumni include astronaut Buzz Aldrin, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Nobel laureates Richard Feynman and Paul Krugman, GM CEO Alfred Sloan, and Amar Bose of Bose Corporation. As of 2017, 88 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with MIT. How to get into MIT as an international student How difficult is it to get into MIT? Selectivity statistics According to statistics of the class entering in the fall of 2017, there were 20,247 freshmen applicants, but only 1,452 admits (acceptance rate 7.2 percent). Applicants included 15,594 US citizens or permanent residents, and 1,317 (8.4 percent) were admitted. As many as 4,653 were international applicants, and 135 (2.9 percent) were admitted. The student body composition as of December 31, 2017, was 4,493 students in undergraduate courses (including 470 international students, or 10.46 percent), and 6,797 students in graduate courses (2,868 international students, or 42.2 percent). Of the total students of 12,950, international students comprised 3,941, or 30.43 percent. Of the international students, 947 (24.03 percent of international students) were Chinese, 368 (9.34 percent) Indian, 277 (7.03 percent) Canadian, 226 (5.73) South Korean, and 123 (3.12 percent) French. Mind your language The admissions process is the same for all students, including international students, with the exception of a language requirement, which varies from department to department. Applicants whose first language is not English must provide proof of their ability to study in English. Qualifying applicants must take TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or the IELTS (International English Language Testing System). Waiver of the English language requirement may be given to students who have done their primary and secondary schooling in English, and to students who have been in the US for four years or longer and have received a degree from a US institution. Master’s degree requirements For master’s degrees at the MIT, a minimum of one academic year of study is necessary, and for engineering degrees, two years. The application process may vary between departments. However, all graduate-level applicants must apply online to MIT through the online portal. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from a reputed university, and submit their CV/resume, letters of recommendation, a statement of objectives, GRE score, TOEFL/IELTS score, and transcripts. The application fee for MIT master’s degrees is $75; it is between $75 and $250 for the MIT Sloan School of Management. Information on the limited financial aid available and details of passport and entry requirements and visa options are available on the website gradadmissions.mit.ed. Most departments demand past good work not only in the applicant’s specific area of interest but also in mathematics and the physical sciences. Some of them accept applicants with just one year of college-level study in these two areas. Applicants interested in more than one department need to submit separate applicants. Applicants’ academic and professional acumen is gleaned from their academic records and from letters of recommendation from persons who are familiar with the applicant’s work. Top academic scores do not guarantee admission but indicate to MIT whether the candidate can meet the demanding graduate academic requirements. An applicant’s performance on standardized tests such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), TOFEL, and IELTS is an important criterion for admission. A few MIT management programs accept GMAT scores. TOEFL/IELTS may be waived by a few departments for applicants from English-speaking universities. No GRE waiver is available. Student bloggers’ tips Getting into MIT requires many months of preparation, says a blogger, Dishita T. (Architecture) student from Mumbai, in the “Being International” section of MIT’s graduate admissions blog. Most graduate applicants would be employed, and it requires some effort to prepare for student life once again. They would have to prepare for GRE and at the same time compose an academic and professional portfolio, reach out to professors from a distant past for recommendation letters, and look at funding options. And then there is the statement of purpose to write. Statement of purpose is an important part of the application, points out Amanda C. Biological Engineering) in her blog post. An applicant should show that he/she is qualified by quantifying and interpreting experiences, she says, giving examples. Instead of writing “I am intelligent and hardworking,” which may invite the question, “OK, so what?” try “On top of a full semester course load, I committed to at least 15 hours a week of research to complete a bachelor’s thesis, which was recognized with distinction.” Along with quantifying, interpreting is also important. Instead of saying “I served as a TA [teacher’s assistant] for three years, and I learned how to manage students and provide one-on-one instruction,” say “I provided one-on-one instruction for about 20 students . . . and I enjoyed interacting with my students because it challenged me to come up with different approaches for thinking about the same concept.” Once you have shown that you qualify, you need to also show that you match MIT’s objectives and mission, says Amanda. In your personal statement, include only qualifications that are relevant. You could go by key words and phrases in the institute’s/department’s mission statement to know which of their qualifications are relevant. Additionally, make sure to stress your values that match the philosophy of the institute. Giving her recipe for getting in, Lauren S. (Biological Engineering) says in her blog that she had a strong research background prior to coming to MIT. She says she identified professors she wanted to work with and explained why in her personal statement. That two of her recommenders had personal connections with MIT helped. Like many other successful candidates, she felt lucky to get in, she writes. Lauren says your application should show that you are motivated, present your research experience, do some “name dropping,” and add a “dash of personality and honesty.” Her department is running a program to help students improve their graduate applications. Student expenses Studying at MIT is hard on the pocket as well. The cost of living in the Cambridge-Boston area is among the highest in the US. Health care plan, child care expenses, and housing depend on the size of families of attending graduate students. The admissions office needs to be convinced that an applicant has the financial resources to meet these expenses, which are typically highest in the first few months after arrival, with temporary accommodation in hotels, meals in restaurants, advance payment of rent, and deposits for phone and power. The nine-month graduate academic year (2017-18) expenses were estimated at a total of $77,000-$92,000 (including tuition $50,000, housing $8,000-$18,000 for three-bedroom shared suite to two-bedroom private apartment). Students continuing their research over the summer benefit from the summer tuition subsidy but need to pay for any additional classes and on-campus housing. Funding Academic departments provide most of the funding to MIT graduate students. Support can be in the form of research and teaching assistantships, fellowships, traineeships, scholarships, and grants, and is provided based on merit or need or a combination of both. MIT Sloan requirements As for business management studies, MIT Sloan offers a two-year, full-time MBA, its flagship program. Sloan also offers Master of Finance, Master of Business Analytics, Master of Science in Management Studies, System Design in Management program, and a doctoral program. Executive programs are also available: the Sloan Fellows Program (12-month, full-time executive MBA program), Executive MBA (20-month executive-schedule program for midcareer professionals), and nondegree executive education programs (see link at Ref. No. 27, below). The MBA application requirements include a cover letter and resume, optional essay or video statement, two letters of recommendation, transcripts, and GRE/GMAT scores. TOEFL/IELTS scores are not required. The application fee is $250. Interviews are conducted by the admissions committee. Tips for Sloan MIT Sloan places emphasis on diversity while admitting students, points out Marina Pustovalova from Kazakhstan in a YouTube video. She points out that the most overrepresented group is Indian male with an IT background, and that applicants from overrepresented groups need to have a strong application, including a high GMAT score (above 700; the average for the Class of 2019 was 722, and the range 690-760). Because Sloan is very selective (7 percent acceptance rate), it makes sense to apply to up to six schools, she says. Pustovalova says the admissions office takes a holistic approach to deciding on admissions. For example, if you have a lower GMAT, you can compensate that by a higher GPA, etc. Pay attention to every detail of your application. For example, the recommendation letters: remember that the best letters are ones that come from the heart of your manager or supervisor and your professor giving his/her experience of communicating and working with you. About funding the MBA program, Marina says students shouldn’t be afraid to take loans, because 95 percent of Sloan students find jobs within three months of graduation with salaries over $100,000 (for the Class of 2016, the mean salary was $125,000 and the range $40,000-$200,000). Life through students’ eyes First the weather. For students used to sunnier climes, Cambridge. MA, may provide the jitters. But on the bright side, you will learn to appreciate a good day, writes graduate student (Materials Science and Engineering) Patrick Y. But the weather does nothing to dampen the fun and flavor of a unique culture. For example, MITians believe that 4 am is a good time to go on a trek on long winding paths to “explore the highest of buildings and the darkest of tunnels.” The exact time may be 4.05 am, as traditional MIT Standard Time seems to be always running five minutes behind local real time, whether it is classes or games, Patrick remarks. The Telegraph quotes PhD student Brian Spatocco as saying that it is MIT’s “creative irreverence” that sets it apart. An example of this irreverence is the tradition known as hacking. Students are encouraged to use their engineering skills to pull pranks, often at the expense of the institute. Among the most famous include a police car placed atop the university’s Great Dome in honor of 9/11 victims. The students involved are not punished nor are credits given, and they have to remain anonymous. Diversity is the slogan, and it can be seen even in the dorms, says former PhD student Rishab Jain in his Quora post. It is not just about admitting international students but in the campus attitudes, values, and culture. Grad and undergrad students mingle during research programs. Sloan is also very well integrated with the rest of the campus, he says. Another PhD student, Todd Anderson, recalls MIT’s support after he was mugged near his apartment and suffered a serious head injury. He was given the best medical care possible, his family was flown in, and even his diet was closely supervised, all at no cost to him. Jeffrey Scott Poore, another MIT student, says the institute’s reputation as being hard and nerdy is only partially justified. True, everyone is smart, but there are introverts and also the most outgoing people. Fun activities around the campus range from baseball games and sailing to beach strolls and walking tours. Students learn to do things at their own pace instead of trying to keep up with the geniuses. They realize that you don’t have to be in a competition all the time. Careers According to a survey by MIT’s career development office in 2017, about 54 percent of bachelor’s degree holders and 81 percent of post-graduates took up full-time employment, and 37 percent and 11 percent, respectively, went on to graduate/professional school. Graduates received an average of 1.8 job offers. For bachelor’s graduates, internship (34 percent), career fair (27 percent), on-campus recruiting (25 percent), networking (21 percent), and direct application to employers (15 percent) helped find jobs (the total is more than 100 percent as graduates could choose all methods that applied to them). For postgraduates, networking (27 percent), on-campus recruiting (23 percent), internship (15 percent), direct application (13 percent), and returning to previous employers (10 percent) were the most successful paths to employment. The top industries for June 2017 bachelor’s graduates were computer software, consulting, aerospace, financial services, and engineering, and for master’s graduates consulting, computer software, industrial and consumer manufacturing, military, and engineering. Recruiters, salary Among the top recruiters of bachelor’s degree holders were Google, Microsoft, GM, Accenture, Facebook, and Amazon, recruiters of master’s graduates Amazon, McKinsey, US Military, Deloitte Consulting, Facebook, Apple, and Google. The top MBA recruiters included Amazon, McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, Facebook, IBM, and PwC. The median salary for 2017 SB (or BS, Bachelor of Science) graduates was $85,000 (median bonus $10,000), for SM (MS) $85,000 (bonus $10,000), for Master’s of Engineering $115,000 (bonus $25,000), and MBA $130,000 (bonus $25,000). ‘Best in Cambridge, MA’ The Telegraph recalls that Barack Obama, addressing an MIT gathering in 2009, started his speech saying that it was a dream come true to visit the most prestigious school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There was thunderous applause. “Hold on a minute,” the President said, and then corrected himself, “Certainly the most prestigious school in this part of Cambridge, Massachusetts.” The unstated reference was to MIT’s giant neighbor, Harvard University, just over 3 km away. Today, after securing the numero uno ranking from QS for the sixth consecutive year and top ratings from other evaluators, MIT might now persuade Obama to leave out any reference, stated or unstated, to its great rival during his next visit.
7733	dbpedia	3	35	https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Former-UN-Secretary-General-Kofi-Annan-is-dead-677643	en	Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is dead	https://cdn.ghanaweb.com…425/42543605.jpg	https://cdn.ghanaweb.com…425/42543605.jpg	[ "https://cdn.ghanaweb.com/design/logo_desktop.png", "https://cdn.ghanaweb.com/imagelib/pics/425/42543605.295.jpg", "https://cdn.ghanaweb.com/imagelib/src/kofi_annan_with_mandela2.jpg", "https://cdn.ghanaweb.com/imagelib/src/kofi_annan_Mayoral.jpg", "https://cdn.ghanaweb.com/design/news.png", "https://cdn....	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "GhanaWeb" ]	2018-08-18T10:20:58+00:00	Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan is reported dead.	en	https://cdn.ghanaweb.com/design/favicon.ico	GhanaWeb	https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Former-UN-Secretary-General-Kofi-Annan-is-dead-677643	General News of Saturday, 18 August 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is dead « Prev Next » Comments (0) Listen to Article WhatsApp Facebook Twitter Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan is reported dead. He is said to have died in Switzerland, Saturday morning after a short illness. "It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th August after a short illness..." the Kofi Annan Foundation in a tweet said. He was 80. Biography Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi on April 8, 1938. Since 1960 Ghana has been a republic within the British Commonwealth, a group of nations dependent on Great Britain. Named for an African empire along the Niger River, Ghana was ruled by Great Britain for 113 years as the Gold Coast. Annan is descended from tribal chiefs on both sides of his family. His father was an educated man, and Annan became accustomed to both traditional and modern ways of life. He has described himself as being "atribal in a tribal world." After receiving his early education at a leading boarding school in Ghana, Annan attended the College of Science and Technology in the capital of Kumasi. At the age of twenty, he won a Ford Foundation scholarship for undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he studied economics. Even then he was showing signs of becoming a diplomat, or someone skilled in international relations. Annan received his bachelor's degree in economics in 1961. Shortly after completing his studies at Macalester College, Annan headed for Geneva, Switzerland, where he attended graduate classes in economics at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales. Early career Following his graduate studies in Geneva, Annan joined the staff of the World Health Organization (WHO), a branch of the United Nations. He served as an administrative officer and as budget officer in Geneva. Later UN posts took him to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and New York City, New York. Annan always assumed that he would return to his native land after college, although he was disturbed by the unrest and numerous changes of government that occurred there during the 1970s. Annan became the Alfred P. Sloan fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the end of his fellowship in 1972, he was awarded a master of science degree in management. Rather than return to Ghana upon graduation, he accepted a position at the UN headquarters in New York City. Nelson Mandela with Kofi Annan Work with the UN In 1974 he moved to Cairo, Egypt, as chief civilian personnel officer in the UN Emergency Force. Annan briefly changed careers in 1974 when he left the United Nations to serve as managing director of the Ghana Tourist Development Company. Annan returned to international diplomacy and the United Nations in 1976. For the next seven years, he was associated with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. He returned to the UN headquarters in New York City in 1983 as director of the budget in the financial services office. Later in the 1980s, he filled the post of assistant secretary-general in the Office of Human Resources Management and served as security coordinator for the United Nations. In 1990, he became assistant secretary-general for another department at the United Nations, the Office of Program Planning, Budget, and Finance. In fulfilling his duties to the United Nations, Annan has spent most of his adult life in the United States, specifically at the UN headquarters in New York City. Annan had by this time filled a number of roles at the United Nations, ranging from peacekeeping to managerial, and the 1990s were no different. In 1990 he negotiated the release of hostages in Iraq following the invasion of Kuwait. Five years later, he oversaw the transition of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) to the multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), a UN peacekeeping organization. In this transfer of responsibility, operations in the former Yugoslavia were turned over to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Kofi Annan with children at the Mayoral Palace while on official visit in Chile In recognition of his abilities, Annan was appointed secretary-general, the top post of the UN, by the UN General Assembly in December 1996. He began serving his four-year term of office on January 1, 1997. Joining him was his second wife, former lawyer Nane Lagergren of Sweden. She is the niece of the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg (1912–c.1947), who saved thousands of European Jews from the German Nazis during World War II (1939–45), when American-led forces fought against Germany, Italy, and Japan. Annan and Lagergren were married in 1985. The couple has one child. Annan in a new world Annan's code of soft-spoken diplomacy was given a boost by the outcome of his talks with Saddam Hussein in 1998. UN observers wait to see how additional crises will be handled by the gentle but determined man from Ghana. In the summer of 2001, the United Nations unanimously appointed Kofi Annan to his second five-year term as secretary-general. On October 12, 2001, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the United Nations and Kofi Annan. The Nobel citation pointed out that Annan had brought new life to the peacekeeping organization, highlighted the United Nations's fight for civil rights, and boldly taken on the new challenges of terrorism and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS; a disease of the immune system).
7733	dbpedia	3	42	http://ac4link.ei.columbia.edu/profiles/detail/19	en	Columbia University	http://ac4link.ei.columbia.edu/img/thumbnail4fb.jpg	http://ac4link.ei.columbia.edu/img/thumbnail4fb.jpg	[ "http://ac4link.ei.columbia.edu/img/AC4-Link-Search-Button.png", "http://ac4.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/themes/template/images/icon-mail.png", "http://ac4.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/themes/template/images/icon-twitter.png", "http://ac4.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/themes/template/images/icon-facebook.png", "h...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null					null	Michael Doyle specializes in international relations theory, international security and international organizations. Doyle previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003. His responsibilities included strategic planning (Millennium Development Goals), outreach to the international corporate sector (the Global Compact), and relations with Washington. Doyle has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1992 and is the former chair of the Academic Council of the United Nations System. He has also been a senior fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Institute since 1996. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 2009, to the American Philosophical Society; and in 2012, to the American Academy of Political Science. He served as chair of the board of UNDEF (the UN Democracy Fund) from 2006-2013. Doyle holds a B.A. from Harvard College (1970), and an M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1977) from Harvard University.
7733	dbpedia	2	4	https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/kofi-annan/	en	Kofi Annan	https://www.kofiannanfou…atured-image.png	https://www.kofiannanfou…atured-image.png	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1624333875029312&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/logo-kofi-annan-foundation.svg", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/UN_Multilateralism.jpeg.webp", "https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/wp-cont...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2024-01-29T13:03:55+00:00	Kofi Annan was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1997 and 2006, and the founding chair...	en	https://www.kofiannanfou…n_2024-32x32.png	Kofi Annan Foundation	https://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/kofi-annan/	About the Podcast Regarded as one of the modern world’s icons of diplomacy, what is Kofi Annan’s legacy today? What can we learn from him, and how can we prepare for tomorrow based on his vision for a better world? In this exclusive 10-part podcast, Ahmad Fawzi, one of Kofi Annan’s former spokespersons and Communication Advisor, examines how Kofi Annan tackled a specific crisis and its relevance to today’s world and challenges. Kofi Annan’s call to bring all stakeholders around the table — including the private sector, local authorities, civil society organisations, academia, and scientists — resonates now more than ever with so many, who understand that governments alone cannot shape our future. Join us on a journey of discovery as Ahmad Fawzi interviews some of Kofi Annan’s closest advisors and colleagues, including Dr Peter Piot, Christiane Amanpour, Mark Malloch-Brown, Michael Møller, Mark Suzman, Alicia Bárcena and more. Listen and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and SoundCloud. Brought to you by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the United Nations Information Service. Kofi Annan Speeches As United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and later Chair of his Foundation, Kofi Annan was called upon to deliver many speeches at major events worldwide. We have selected twenty of Kofi Annan’s speeches for this page, which, taken together, provide a broad understanding of his views on peace, development and human rights. Many of his recommendations for action are as valid and important today as they were when he spoke these words.
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His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shared the middle name Atta, which in the Akan means ‘twin’; his mother was Victoria Annan, and his father was Henry Reginald […]	en	https://aaregistry.org/wp-content/themes/aareg/images/favicon.ico	African American Registry	https://aaregistry.org/story/kofi-annan-diplomat-born/	*Kofi Annan was born on this date in 1938; he was a Black Ghanaian diplomat, foundation, and international administrator. Kofi Atta Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi on the Gold Coast (now Ghana). His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shared the middle name Atta, which in the Akan means 'twin'; his mother was Victoria Annan, and his father was Henry Reginald Annan. Annan was born into Ashanti and Fante aristocratic families; their grandfathers and uncle were tribal chiefs. From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan said the school taught him "that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere." In 1957, when Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, the Gold Coast gained independence from the UK and began using the name "Ghana." 1958, Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1961. Annan then completed a diplôme d'études approfondies DEA degree in International Relations at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62. After years of work experience, he studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a master's in management. Annan was fluent in English, French, Akan, some Kru languages, and other African languages. In 1962, Annan started working as a Budget Officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations (UN). In 1965, Annan married Titi Alakija; they divorced in 1983, and they had two children. In 1984, he married Nane Maria Annan, Gunnar Lagergren's daughter. From 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Director of Tourism in Ghana. In 1980, he became the head of personnel for the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Geneva. In 1983, he became the director of administrative management services at the UN Secretariat in New York. In the late 1980s, Annan was appointed Assistant Secretary-General of the UN in Human Resources, Management and Security Coordinator, Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller and Peacekeeping Operations. When the UN Secretary-General established the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in 1992, Annan was appointed to the new department as Deputy to the then Under-Secretary-General, where he assumed the office of USG DPKO in March 1993. He was head of peacekeeping during the battle of Somalia and the resulting collapse of the UNOSOM II peacekeeping mission and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. In August 1995, while Boutros-Ghali was unreachable on an airplane, Annan instructed United Nations officials to "relinquish for a limited period of time their authority to veto air strikes in Bosnia." This move allowed NATO forces to conduct Operation Deliberate Force and made him a favorite of the United States. Annan served as Under-Secretary-General from March 1994 to October 1995. He was appointed a Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the former Yugoslavia, serving for five months before returning to his duties as Under-Secretary-General in April 1996. In April 2001, Annan issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Stating it was a "personal priority, Annan proposed establishing a Global AIDS and Health Fund, "dedicated to the battle against HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases," to stimulate the increased international spending needed to help developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis. For this effort, in 2001, He is awarded, along with the United Nations, the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003, the retired Canadian General force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda claimed that Annan was overly passive in his response to the imminent genocide. In 2004, ten years after the genocide, an estimated 800,000 people were killed; Annan said, "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support." In his book Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Annan again argued that DPKO could have made better use of the media to raise awareness of the violence in Rwanda and put pressure on governments to provide the troops necessary for an intervention. Annan explained that the events in Somalia and the collapse of the UNOSOM II mission fostered hesitation amongst UN Member states to approve robust peacekeeping operations. As a result, when the UNAMIR mission was approved just days after the battle, the resulting force lacked the troop levels, resources, and mandate to operate effectively. Kofi Annan died on August 18, 2018.
7733	dbpedia	2	59	https://prodigyfinance.com/resources/blog/spotlight-mit-engineering/	en	Spotlight: MIT Engineering	https://prodigyfinance-s…0_c4f4790462.png	https://prodigyfinance-s…0_c4f4790462.png	[ "https://a.storyblok.com/f/268942/635x175/7c7ecc1970/prodigy-finance-logo.svg", "https://prodigyfinance.com/assets/static/06118ad5ecc5ef252797e8536a7bac4f/2377c/logo.png", "https://prodigyfinance.com/assets/static/06118ad5ecc5ef252797e8536a7bac4f/2377c/logo.png", "https://prodigyfinance.com/assets/static/d8a3...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Everything you need to know about applying to the MIT School of Engineering, financing your international masters, and what life is like at MIT.	en	/static/logo-0efa98b46815ba34e159244a2550ebe4.png		https://prodigyfinance.com/resources/blog/spotlight-mit-engineering/	MIT was founded in 1861 and is one of five prestigious universities in the Cambridge area. With some 88 nobel laureates to their credit, itâs not surprising this university pops up often in movies and television programmes. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan are among grads and microchips, email, GPS, solar power, refined oil and nuclear fission are just a few of the inventions to come out of the school and the brains it houses. Not only that, but all of this is found in the super popular city of Boston (well, close enough), which offers opportunities post-graduation as well as providing an amazing springboard for travel throughout the US and the world. As you would expect, the Career Services department at MIT offers everything you need to succeed - and employers are clearly willing to pay for the expertise MIT grads offer. Of the masters grads that negotiated their salaries (30.1%), they managed to bring them up by an average of $6927. The 22.6% of those that negotiated their bonus, scored, on average, an extra $12,968. What's it like to live at MIT? MIT really has it together when it comes to providing a terrific on-campus experience for their international grad students. Thereâs a huge range of on-campus housing options, from single rooms to 4-bedroom apartments, with just about everything in between. And, there are specific residences for grad students traveling with spouses or children. In addition to the on-campus housing options (all of which are a short walk to classes and other campus facilities), finding off-campus options is easy with the comprehensive website and database. They even offer assistance in finding potential roommates. Dining on-campus is relatively inexpensive for the area, with several choices of meal plans as well as a number of retail vendors operating throughout campus. Youâll never go hungry here - and, of course, you have all of Boston to explore if you want to try something new. Alongside a vibrant student activities community, there are multiple fitness centers available - and at least one is open every day of the week. No matter what interests you have, youâre sure to find someone or somewhere to enjoy them. Getting around is also easy, whether youâre walking through campus or headed out into the city using public transport; youâll never have difficulty getting from point A to point B, even in winter. LEARN MORE ABOUT PRODIGY FINANCE LOANS FOR MIT ENGINEERING NOW How to get into MIT Engineering The acceptance rate for MIT was 7.8% in 2020. So, thereâs no easy way around it, MIT engineering has competitive admissions. Getting in, however, doesnât mean you need to have the best GRE marks out there (though that certainly wonât hurt). The school makes no secret that theyâre after applicants who want to get stuck in while thinking outside of the box. Curiosity and collaboration are key, so youâll want to bring aspects of your story that display these traits to the fore in your statement of objectives. (Thatâs MIT speak for the standard Statement of Purpose (SOP) essay.) Because the school values independent thinkers that arenât afraid of their ideas - or working with others - itâs not a bad idea to illustrate just how you plan to make a mark on the world while remaining realistic in your goals. And, of course, youâll want to keep these scores in mind when preparing for your standardised tests: Average GRE scores: 160 verbal, 165 quantitative, 4.4 analytical writing Mean TOEFL score: 107 iBT
7733	dbpedia	0	40	https://www.masonreport.com/blackhistorymonth/kofiannan	en	Kofi Annan — Mason Report®	http://static1.squarespace.com/static/545172c0e4b0a0a12cc1f0e8/56ab0b514bf11837b0fc79ce/56ab11b53b0be305046dde94/1486153528326/?format=1500w	http://static1.squarespace.com/static/545172c0e4b0a0a12cc1f0e8/56ab0b514bf11837b0fc79ce/56ab11b53b0be305046dde94/1486153528326/?format=1500w	[ "https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545172c0e4b0a0a12cc1f0e8/1500979316536-OR3W2F7PDS12W1SUCCTB/Top+5+U.S.+Summer+Olympians+of+All+Time+-+Mason+Report%C2%AE.gif", "https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545172c0e4b0a0a12cc1f0e8/1496088887208-QCQQW5R3WE0F1T1K8MCH/Top+5+NBA+Playoff+Buzzer+Beaters+...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Mason Report® Team" ]	2016-02-06T21:46:04-08:00	Annan's tenure as Secretary-General ushered lasting peace.	en	https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545172c0e4b0a0a12cc1f0e8/1497942456820-0RCFNFUMSGOTWGHAYYOZ/favicon.ico?format=100w	Mason Report®	https://www.masonreport.com/blackhistorymonth/kofiannan	Education was a top priority for Annan. He attended several universities, all over the world and earning a different degree at each institution. Most notable, Annan attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As UN secretary-general, Annan facilitated a peaceful resolution to a conflict involving Iraq that had reached an impasse because of Iraq's initial refusal to comply with weapons inspections.
7733	dbpedia	3	54	https://www.newsweek.com/kofi-annan-dead-80-seven-things-you-didnt-know-about-charismatic-former-un-1079096	en	Kofi Annan Dead at 80: Seven Things You Didn't Know About Charismatic Former UN Leader	https://d.newsweek.com/e…8-kofi-annan.jpg	https://d.newsweek.com/e…8-kofi-annan.jpg	[ "https://g.newsweek.com/www/images/newsweek-desktop-tablet.svg", "https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1079093/8-18-kofi-annan.jpg?w=1200&f=76a7fa74a1b589079e15d9db2e5bb31e", "https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2453141/tamer-rajai-hage.png?w=80&h=80&f=6a501c8d9ef12fd5e3f86012f829a09e", "https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Katherine Hignett" ]	2018-08-18T07:03:51-04:00	The former UN chief has died at the age of 80.	en	https://g.newsweek.com/t…e-touch-icon.png	Newsweek	https://www.newsweek.com/kofi-annan-dead-80-seven-things-you-didnt-know-about-charismatic-former-un-1079096	Kofi Atta Annan, the first black African UN secretary-general, has died at the age of 80, diplomats have reported. The Ghanaian diplomat led the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. He won the Nobel Peace Prize alongside the organization in 2001, the award's centennial year. "Kofi Annan was a guiding force for good," current UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement. "It is with profound sadness that I learned of his passing. In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations. He rose through the ranks to lead the organization into the new millennium with matchless dignity and determination." Here are seven facts about the iconic diplomat you may not know. Annan was born on April 8 1938 in Comassie, Gold Coast, now Kumasi, Ghana. He had a twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991. Their shared middle name "Atta" means "twin." The diplomat attended the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, before finishing up his undergraduate studies in the U.S. in 1961, a UN biography reports. He studied economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He then continued studying economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He began his diplomatic career in 1962 as a an administrative and budget officer with the World Health Organization, also in Geneva. He made his way through the UN, eventually becoming assistant secretary-general for Peacekeeping Operations in March 1993. Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990. Then-secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar subsequently asked Annan to organize the release of hostages and the repatriation of almost 1,000 international staff in Iraq, the UN reported. He also led negotiations with Iraq on the sale of oil in to support humanitarian aid funds. Following his tenure as UN chief, Annan started the Kofi Annan Foundation. This not-for-profit organization aims to improve global governance and promote a more peaceful world. Annan served as the UN-Arab League envoy for Syria in 2012, resigning in August of the same year, 18 months into a bloody civil war that is still engulfing the country. Fluent in French, English and several African languages, outside of his impressive career, he was married twice, first to Titi Alakija and later to Nane Annan. He had three children, Kojo, Ama and Nina.
7733	dbpedia	2	18	https://prodigyfinance.com/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/mit-sloan-school-of-management/	en	MIT Sloan School of Management Loans	https://prodigyfinance-s…0_c4f4790462.png	https://prodigyfinance-s…0_c4f4790462.png	[ "https://a.storyblok.com/f/268942/635x175/7c7ecc1970/prodigy-finance-logo.svg", "https://prodigyfinance.com/assets/static/bc22c0318326cf348a7fd0cce448ab9e/62b7f/school-page.jpg", "https://prodigyfinance.com/assets/static/bc22c0318326cf348a7fd0cce448ab9e/62b7f/school-page.jpg", "https://a.storyblok.com/f/26894...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the best schools globally, and is a part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.	en	/assets/static/logo-0efa98b46815ba34e159244a2550ebe4.png		https://prodigyfinance.com/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/mit-sloan-school-of-management/	About the school Founded in 1914, the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyâs Sloan School of Management is one of the world's leading business schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is known for its exceptional academic programmes, state-of-the-art research, and innovative approach to management education. Nestled within an elite group of research institutions, MIT Sloan congregates the most brilliant minds to address global challenges with practical solutions. US News & World Report shows that the Sloan School of Management is ranked No. 4 in Best Business Schools 2023-2024. The school's global network has collaborations, research partnerships, and alums connections. The international community of MIT alumni spans over 90+ countries and comprises an impressive 120,000 individuals. Among the remarkable roster of accomplished alums are Kofi Annan (Former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate) and Condoleezza Rice (Former US Secretary of State). Cambridge, Massachusetts, offers international students a diverse, academically excellent environment. Its internationally acclaimed colleges, cultural vibrancy, and student support services make the city famous for international students seeking quality education and a diverse experience. Where is the school located? Life at the MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Sloan School of Management offers various affordable housing options for its graduate students, including single rooms, one-bedroom, and multi-bedroom units. There are eight graduate residences on campus, offering multiple housing options for single people, couples, and students with families. The campus environment is a vibrant mix of opportunities and activities that are continuously changing, with 80+ student clubs with membership numbers ranging from 12 to 400+ and leadership organisations that plan events, run conferences, and welcome new members. The MIT Sloan Student Life Office promotes unity and support in all programmes, collaborating with student services at Sloan. They guide students through their journey and foster an inclusive culture. At the core of Cambridge's bustling Kendall Square district, MIT Sloan benefits from its surroundings teeming with biotech firms, tech behemoths, start-ups, and research facilities. The area offers various dining options, outdoor activities, art, music, and cultural venues. Boston's extensive network of around 60 colleges and universities enriches the city's dynamic with inventive and intellectual vitality. Additional benefits of studying at the MIT Sloan School of Management Although graduate students at the MIT Sloan School of Management are housed in the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus, their business education has a global focus. There are plenty of opportunities for students to travel and study abroad, and the academic courses are generally international. Additionally, the school offers Action Labs where students can work on real-life problems facing businesses in China, India, and the United States. Nearly a quarter of Sloan graduates have become business presidents and CEOs. With over 120 alum clubs, students can connect with a skilled global network of individuals through the MIT Alumni Association and receive mentorship and career guidance. Students have unparalleled access to the best research, entrepreneurial tools, and cross-disciplinary partnerships. This ecosystem provides exceptional opportunities for hands-on learning and networking with forward-thinking innovators and creators, providing an environment where you can transform ground-breaking concepts into successful business initiatives.
7733	dbpedia	0	6	https://www.topuniversities.com/blog/10-most-successful-mit-graduates	en	10 of the Most Successful MIT Graduates	https://www.topuniversit…s_lead_image.jpg	https://www.topuniversit…s_lead_image.jpg	[ "https://pool.admedo.com/pixel?id=136038&t=img", "https://www.topuniversities.com/themes/custom/tu_d8/logo.svg", "https://www.topuniversities.com/themes/custom/tu_d8/images/user-icon-white.svg", "https://www.topuniversities.com/themes/custom/tu_d8/images/close-icon-button.png", "https://www.topuniversities....	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "1 1" ]	2018-09-11T00:00:00	Discover some of the biggest success stories to come out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...	en	/themes/custom/tu_d8/favicon.ico	Top Universities	https://www.topuniversities.com/blog/10-most-successful-mit-graduates	It’s safe to say that Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is firmly established among the world’s most prestigious universities – it’s been ranked first in the QS World University Rankings® for seven years in a row, and has now added another string to its bow by overtaking Stanford to rank first in the world in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2019. MIT achieved a perfect score for the ‘alumni outcomes’ indicator (one of the five used to calculate the ranking), having been associated with 91 Nobel Prize winners, while more than a third of the US’s manned spaceflights have featured MIT-educated astronauts. But which MIT graduates have done particularly well for themselves? Read on to find out about some of the top tech school’s most successful alumni… The second person to walk on the Moon, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin gained a doctorate in astronautics at MIT in 1963. His dissertation was titled, "Line-of-sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous." His first impression of the Moon was that it was “magnificent desolation”, which became the title of one of his autobiographies. Also a former US Air Force officer and command pilot, Buzz has recently expressed his support for a manned mission to Mars and colonization of the planet by 2040. Ilene S. Gordon, CEO, President and Chairman of Ingredion, earned her BSc in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, then changed her mind about becoming a math teacher and decided to go into business, graduating with a Master of Science from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1976. She has received widespread recognition for her success, and was ranked 45th in Fortune Magazine’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2015. Richard Feynman studied ‘Introduction to Theoretical Physics’ in his second year at MIT, an advanced class intended for postgraduate students, and graduated in 1939. He then studied a PhD at Princeton University before working on the Manhattan Project, having been persuaded to help build the first atomic bomb before Nazi Germany could. He went on to lecture at both Cornell University and Caltech whilst developing significant research in quantum electrodynamics, leading to his Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. Co-founder and CEO of BuzzFeed and one of the co-founders of The Huffington Post, Jonah Peretti originally studied his bachelor’s degree at University of California, Santa Cruz before going on to complete a postgraduate degree at MIT’s Media Lab. While there, he became prominent when his email exchange with Nike about his request to print "sweatshop" on custom-order shoes went viral. He coined the term “reblog” and has continued to use his knowledge of social media sharing to grow BuzzFeed so that users browse the site for genuine news, as well as the site’s staple diet of humorous listicles. Image credit: PopTech (Flickr) In 1973 Shirley Ann Jackson became the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT. Having studied nuclear physics, she was the chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Clinton administration, and is now the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2007 the National Science Board gave Shirley the Vannevar Bush Award for "a lifetime of achievements in scientific research, education and senior statesman-like contributions to public policy", and she also won a National Medal of Science in 2016, for her work in condensed matter and particle physics. Having graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management with a Masters in Management in 1986, Robin Chase has since gone on to become a successful transportation entrepreneur, founding her own car-sharing service, Buzzcar, as well as being a co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest car-sharing company in the world. In 2014 she received both an honorary PhD from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Women's Leadership Award from Harvard College. Kofi Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006, and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 along with the UN for “their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”. He also established the Kofi Annan Foundation, an independent, not-for profit organization which works to promote better international governance and support the abilities of people and countries to achieve a fairer, more peaceful world. Following his death on August 18 2018, current UN Secretary-General António Guterres called Kofi Annan "A champion for peace and a guiding force for good." Image credit: NASA Hubble Space Telescope (Flickr) You might recognize him from The Big Bang Theory, but did you know he was a real astronaut (playing himself)? Michael graduated from MIT in 1988 with MSc degrees in mechanical engineering, technology and public policy. He is now the senior advisor of space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, having previously attended the university for his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. Andrea Wong, the president of Sony International Production, graduated from MIT in 1988 with a degree in electrical engineering and went on to gain an MBA from Stanford University. Prior to working for Sony, Andrea was an executive for ABC in America, where she helped develop popular TV shows The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars and the Emmy Award-winning Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Honorary mention: James Woods dropped out of MIT in his final year of studying political science in 1969 to pursue a successful career in acting, having so far received three Emmy Awards, one Golden Globe and two Academy Award nominations. This blog post was originally published in September 2015. It was last updated in September 2018 to reflect the results of the latest the QS Graduate Employability Rankings.
7733	dbpedia	2	63	https://letsquiz.com/quiz/kofi-annan-quiz-are-you-a-true-kofi-annan-fan	en	Kofi Annan Quiz	https://upload.wikimedia…28cropped%29.jpg	https://upload.wikimedia…28cropped%29.jpg	[ "https://letsquiz.com/_next/image?url=%2Flogo_23.png&w=256&q=75 1x, /_next/image?url=%2Flogo_23.png&w=384&q=75 2x", "https://letsquiz.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=48,format=webp/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Kofi_Annan_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg/400px-Kofi_Annan_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg 1x, /cdn-c...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	From the obvious to the obscure, this quiz covers it all! With 21 questions on Kofi Annan, it's the perfect way to test your knowledge. Think you have what it takes to score 100%?	en	/apple-touch-icon.png		https://letsquiz.com/quiz/kofi-annan-quiz-are-you-a-true-kofi-annan-fan	Kofi Annan Quiz: Are You a True Kofi Annan Fan? Updated: May 31, 2023
7733	dbpedia	3	97	https://ajws.org/blog/congratulations-james-kofi-annan/	en	Congratulations, James Kofi Annan!	https://ajws.org/wp-cont…s-Kofi-Annan.jpg	https://ajws.org/wp-cont…s-Kofi-Annan.jpg	[ "https://ajws.org/wp-content/themes/ajws/dist/images/logo_58150f28.svg", "https://ajws.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/COPI_1-800x600.jpg", "https://ajws.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Where-We-Work-1-800x540.jpg", "https://ajws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/our-impact-featured.jpg", "https://ajws.org/wp-co...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Jordan Namerow" ]	2011-05-16T14:34:10+00:00	James Kofi Annan, founder and executive director of AJWS’s grantee Challenging Heights, has won the prestigious $100,000 Grinnell College Young Innovator for…	en	https://ajws.org/wp-cont…x57_58150f28.png	American Jewish World Service – AJWS	https://ajws.org/blog/congratulations-james-kofi-annan/	James Kofi Annan, founder and executive director of AJWS’s grantee Challenging Heights, has won the prestigious $100,000 Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize. Amazing! With 1,000 nominees from 66 countries, the competition was fierce, but Annan stood out as one of only three activists to be awarded the prize. His story is both humbling and inspiring. At the age of six, Annan was sold into slavery in his native country Ghana. For the next seven years, he worked from dawn to dusk on a small boat, leaning far over the side rails to haul in heavy fishing nets—often in rough waters. At the age of 13, Annan escaped from slavery without knowing how to read or write. Against all odds, he rose from a life of poverty and abuse, and—while working for a living—taught himself to read using books he borrowed from kindergarten students. He eventually attended university and excelled in his studies. After achieving success as a manager for Barclay’s Bank of Ghana, Annan founded Challenging Heights, an organization that saves children from forced labor and provides them with opportunity and education. Challenging Heights also helps at-risk families and fishing communities create alternative livelihood options so they don’t have to send their children to work. Annan estimates that 1.4 million children in Ghana are engaged in forced labor. In 2005, Ghana enacted a law that prohibits human trafficking. But it was not until 2010 that anybody in the commercial fishing industry was actually prosecuted and convicted for enslaving children. Annan played an instrumental role in this monumental case. As a result, he and his staff have received serious personal threats. “The wrong in society has to do with the impoverishment of children, exploitation of children, putting children in slavery and in child labor,” Annan said. “We must resolve this issue; then I can go back to my business. Otherwise we will fight and fight until every child has received this justice.” With AJWS funding, Challenging Heights has: Trained community leaders to address child trafficking by reporting or referring cases to local law enforcement, networking with social welfare and child protection agencies and using community social structures, like local child protection committees, to help trafficked children. These leaders are now serving as community “watchdogs” against child trafficking; Established ‘child rights clubs’ in three schools, which engage children through the arts to learn about their rights. Children participating in the clubs have written poems and plays about children’s rights and have performed them at local community gatherings. The original club members now serve as peer educators, teaching their friends both in school and at home about the dangers of child trafficking and about ways that they can defend their rights as children; Furnished 1,500 children with educational materials and psychosocial counseling; and Provided about 200 parents with skills training and material support to undertake income-generating activities. This support offer parents a viable alternative to selling their children into slavery. “James Kofi Annan is committed to fighting child trafficking against all odds,” said Ruth Messinger, AJWS’s president. “He gave up a lucrative career at one of the world’s leading banks to protect Ghana’s children and fight for their rights. His personal story is truly inspiring, and there is no question that his work will lead to a more promising future for the hundreds of children he’s educating, their families and their communities.”
7733	dbpedia	3	78	https://press.un.org/en/2000/20000426.sgsm7369.doc.html	en	SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES WORLD EDUCATION FORUM ON THEME OF "BUILDING A PARTNERSHIP FOR GIRLS" EDUCATION"	https://press.un.org/themes/custom/un3_press/favicon.ico	https://press.un.org/themes/custom/un3_press/favicon.ico	[ "https://press.un.org/themes/custom/un3/un3_base/images/logos/UN_logo_en.svg", "https://press.un.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/2024/01/SC_Round-Up_2022_thumbnail.jpeg?itok=ugaJiSpG", "https://press.un.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/2024/01/GA77_thumbnail.jpeg?i...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2000-04-26T12:00:00+00:00	26 April 2000 Press ReleaseSG/SM/7369 SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES WORLD EDUCATION FORUM ON THEME OF BUILDING A PARTNERSHIP FOR GIRLS EDUCATION 20000426 Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Education Forum, delivered in Dakar, Senegal, on 26 April:	en	/themes/custom/un3_press/favicon.ico		https://press.un.org/en/2000/20000426.sgsm7369.doc.html	26 April 2000 Press Release SG/SM/7369 SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES WORLD EDUCATION FORUM ON THEME OF BUILDING A PARTNERSHIP FOR GIRLS EDUCATION 20000426 Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Education Forum, delivered in Dakar, Senegal, on 26 April: Je vous remercie Monsieur le Président. Il est encourageant de voir que tant dÉtats participent à cette importante manifestation, et à un niveau si élevé, et que tant dorganisations non gouvernementales y sont représentées. Je tiens demblée à remercier le peuple sénégalais pour deux choses: la tenue délections libres et régulières qui ont inspiré le continent et impressionné le monde; et lattachement indéfectible du Sénégal à la cause de léducation, dont il apporte une fois de plus la preuve en accueillant le Forum mondial. Cest dailleurs un engagement auquel votre pays est fidèle depuis les premières heures de son indépendance. This conference is a test of all of us who call ourselves the international community. Ten years ago, at Jomtien, we set ourselves the goal of basic Education for All. We are still far from achieving it. Let us start this conference by resolving not to rest until we have made it a reality. As we open the twenty-first century, we do have some achievements to celebrate. Educational levels in many developing countries have climbed dramatically. The percentage of adult illiterates in the world has declined steadily. An explosive innovation of technology has brought new learning opportunities to millions. We have reached a new level of capacity-building and understanding in our work to attain basic education for all. And yet, at least 880 million adults world wide are still illiterate, most of them women. A yawning digital divide exists between those who have access to new technology and those who have not. A quarter of a billion children work, in often hazardous or unhealthy conditions. And according to conservative estimates, more than 110 million school-age children are not attending school. These millions of children are not only being denied something many of us take for granted; they are being denied a fundamental human right spelt out in international instruments their Governments have signed on to -- such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the right to education. What is more, the communities where these children live are not only being denied a future labour force of healthy, literate and employable citizens: they - 2 - Press Release SG/SM/7369 26 April 2000 are being denied the foundations for development and a future place in the global economy. They are, in fact, being denied the future itself. The most tragic and unjust dimension of this state of affairs is this: of the more than 110 million children who should be in school and who are not, two thirds are girls. For them, the denial of human rights has struck twice over. For they are also denied something proclaimed on the first page of the United Nations Charter: the equal rights of men and women. From issues of morality to issues of mortality, the denial of girls' rights begins in early childhood. When a choice has to be made between educating a boy or a girl, girls are more likely to be kept at home. When a family income needs to be supplemented, girls are more likely to be sent to work. Even when girls do go to school, they will often have to do housework at the expense of homework. When they become pregnant, school policies force them to drop out. When parents consider their daughters' future, they often see education as a hindrance, not a help, to successful marriage and motherhood. And when catastrophe strikes -- whether in the form of illness or conflict, displacement or hardship -- women and girls, from sixty-five to five years old, are more likely to shoulder the burden of keeping family and household together. Nothing illustrates their burden more amply than the impact of HIV/AIDS. Girls are more likely than boys to care for a sick family member and help keep the household running. Deprived of basic schooling, they are denied information about how to protect themselves against the virus. Without the benefits of an education, they risk being forced into early sexual relations, and thereby becoming infected. Thus, they pay many times over the deadly price of not getting an education. But by the same token, education is the tool whereby we can break the vicious cycle of AIDS and ignorance. The key to all the locks that are keeping girls out of school -- from poverty to inequality to conflict - lies in basic education for all. It is often said that education empowers girls by building up their confidence and enabling them to make informed decisions about their lives. For those of us who attend conferences such as these, that statement may seem to be about university degrees, income, or career fulfilment. But for most of the world's girls, it is about something much more fundamental. It is about escaping the trap of child labour, or the perils of going into the labour of childbirth while still a child yourself; about managing pregnancies so that they do not threaten your health, your livelihood or even your life; about ensuring that your children, in their turn, are guaranteed their right to education. It is about being able to earn an income when women before you earned none; about protecting yourself against violence and enjoying rights which women before you never knew they had; about taking part in economic and political decision- making; finally, it is about educating your children to do the same, and their children after them. It is about ending a spiral of poverty and impotence, which previously seemed to have no end. No development strategy is better than one that involves women as central players. It has immediate benefits for nutrition, health, savings and reinvestment at the family, community and, ultimately, country level. In other words, educating girls is a social development policy that works. It is a long- term investment that yields an exceptionally high return. It is also, I would venture, a tool for preventing conflict and building peace. From generation to generation, women have passed on the culture of peace. When ethnic tensions cause or exacerbate conflict, women tend to build bridges rather than walls. When considering the impact and implications of war and peace, women think not only of themselves but about the future of their children. Educating girls to build an empowered electorate of women could be the most cost- effective form of defence spending. Clearly, spending is required to meet this challenge. There is no substitute for good teachers who have to be paid, and good textbooks which have to be bought. But spending is not all that is required. We need to remove the constraints that lead parents to keep their daughters from getting a basic education. We must ensure that girls are free and fit to make the best of learning opportunities by raising them in a sound, safe and stable environment. We must involve the community and family in quality, non-formal learning approaches for girls who are prevented from attending school in a formal setting, and build bridges to allow them to continue in the formal system. Once girls are in school, we must work to ensure that school prepares them for life, by developing curricula and materials, and by encouraging attitudes among teachers that emphasize the life skills these girls will need. And we must give them access to another skill they will need for life in the twenty-first century: the use of information technology, which has become an indispensable tool for learning, communicating and development. But the first step is for societies to recognize that educating girls is not an option; it is a necessity. For many families faced with immediate household priorities, acting on that recognition will mean stark choices. We must ensure families get the support they need from their local communities and governments, backed by the wider world, so that they can educate all their children -- girls and boys alike. There are already encouraging examples of such support -- local and national, intergovernmental and non-governmental -- and several of them are here in Africa. Guinea has reduced the domestic burdens of girls, by providing wells and mechanical mills. Malawi has cut the costs of schooling for parents by eliminating school fees and abolishing compulsory uniforms. In Ghana, the Alliance for Community Action runs a Girls Education Credit Scheme to enable parents to pay for textbooks and tuition. There are many examples from other parts of the developing world too. In Cambodia, floating schools have been created for populations that move their boat homes with the seasons, with a double school shift that makes it easier for girls to attend. In some areas of Brazil, the Bolsa Escola programme pays a monthly scholarship into a family account that can be drawn upon only after the child -- boy or girl -- has successfully completed four years of schooling. In Bangladesh, a non-governmental organization (NGO) known as BRAC has opened schools with high girls' enrolment in the poorest rural communities, where previously schools did not exist. In the Pakistani province of Baluchistan, 14,000 girls attend schools taught by women teachers from their own communities, thanks to the Baluchistan Mobile Female Teaching Training Programme. In fact, I am pleased that we have with us, at this conference, a woman from Baluchistan who began her career as a teacher. Today, she serves as Pakistan's Minister of Education. These are indeed inspiring examples, and I could give you many, many more. But they would still not be enough. We need to support and harness the ingenuity of these approaches to make them functional at the national level. We need all those with the power to change things to come together in a global alliance for girls' education. That is why the United Nations is launching a new global initiative to educate girls. I have chosen to launch it here in Dakar, for this initiative must be an integral part of the global movement of Education for All, the motto and the raison-d'être of this conference. The goals of this initiative are simple to express: to demonstrably narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education by 2005; to ensure that by 2015, all children everywhere -- boys and girls alike -- will be able to complete primary schooling education; and to ensure that by then, boys and girls will have equal access to all levels of education. Implementing these goals will require all our sensitivity, imagination, and determination. It will, indeed, be a test of our entire international community. It will be a test of the United Nations system and its ability to support countries. More than a dozen United Nations entities, led by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), are involved so far; it is an open partnership. I am sure more will join us soon, for no entity is unaffected by this issue. We must make sure that we all work together smoothly, without obstructing each other's efforts. By next year, with each of the main countries affected, we aim to have a plan of action which will promote gender equality and sensitivity in all aspects of education -- in enrolment policies and practices; in the curriculum; in teachers' attitudes and the composition of the teaching community; in a learning environment that is safe and free of sexism and sexual harassment; in information, skills and teachers' support that enable girls to make choices in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention; and in access to new technologies. No matter how good the plan, it will not succeed without political will in each of the countries concerned. And political will must be underpinned by resources. We will help countries free up funds for girls' education by advising and assisting them on reaping optimal benefits from development cooperation, policy and education reform, and on relief from the crippling burden of debt repayments. We will also, I hope, make educating girls an early test of UNITeS, the United Nations new corps of high-tech volunteers. This consortium, which I announced in my Millennium Report, is designed to train groups in developing countries in the uses and opportunities of information technology. But the United Nations can do nothing single-handed. We must build and expand partnerships with governments, civil society and the private sector. The initiative will be a test for all of them. It will be a test for all governments in developing countries -- a test of their willingness to make girls' education a real priority. And it will be a test of donor countries -- a test of their leadership in mobilizing resources. It will be a test for non-governmental organizations, and for their new generation of activists enabled by the Internet. Individual NGOs have made remarkable contributions towards education in many countries, and they have now joined in a global campaign for education. Today, I say to the NGO community: we cannot win the battle to educate girls without your expertise, your energy and your expansive reach. And I promise you: your views will be heard here too. Similarly, the challenge will be a test of the private sector. Already, business is working in partnership with the United Nations to promote good practices in the areas of environment, labour standards and human rights. Foundations like those of Ted Turner and Bill and Melinda Gates are contributing millions to reproductive health initiatives and vaccination campaigns in the developing world. We need their support in education to sustain the advances they have helped achieve in health. The information technology industry recognizes the need to complement the next generation of software with a new generation of savoir-faire. This industry has an enormous role to play in education. It also needs educated people, as both producers and consumers. Educating girls is, therefore, a natural cause for it to adopt. Should anyone in it be looking for an entry point, the UNITeS high-tech volunteer corps would most certainly welcome their support. Finally, the initiative will be a test for communities and families -- a test of their understanding that education is a help, not a hindrance, in building a strong and healthy family structure and improving a family's fortunes. That it is the key for enabling succeeding generations to succeed. As we meet in Dakar today, let us look to one of this city's most celebrated daughters, who had to start by defying the odds against her as a girl. I mean Mariama Bâ. She was educated 60 years ago against the will of her family, but with the encouragement of one good teacher who believed in her. She went on to a teachers' training college and achieved the highest exam score in the whole of what was then French West Africa. She became in her turn an outstanding teacher, and also wrote Une si longue lettre -- a novel, which has been called the most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction. Even today, almost 20 years after her death, she inspires three generations of women throughout Africa and the world by her ethos and her example. As Mariama Bâ said not long before she died: it is families that make up the nation, and it is among the children that the nation recruits its leaders. The aspirations I have expressed on behalf of girls today apply to all children in every nation. These aspirations are at the heart of this conference, dedicated to the goal of Education for All. They are linked to issues, such as quality, inequality and financing, which you will be discussing over these three days. They are expressed in the Framework for Action, which you will adopt at this Forum, and which the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its partners will support and follow up. They form part of the recommendations I have made to world leaders when they gather for the Millennium Summit in September. Because the key to empowering succeeding generations lies in educating children today. That is the test our international community faces. That is the test we must pass. And we shall pass it only if children all over the world can pass the tests of basic education, and go on to pass the tests of life. * *** *
7733	dbpedia	1	20	https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-vidyakina-88746352_mit-mitexecutivemba-harvarduniversity-activity-7202708238016937984-EFzS	en	Anna Vidyakina on LinkedIn: #mit #mitexecutivemba #harvarduniversity #leadership…	https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E22AQGSFHEJf-2KWQ/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1717259459684?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=adiUz6zFxYvHuNXZ_w4fOJQ_y--f8pY3yDpeFnzefmI	https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E22AQGSFHEJf-2KWQ/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1717259459684?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=adiUz6zFxYvHuNXZ_w4fOJQ_y--f8pY3yDpeFnzefmI	[ "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E16AQGpv2LgwJH82g/profile-displaybackgroundimage-shrink_200_800/profile-displaybackgroundimage-shrink_200_800/0/1719347414623?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=3mOTtVlyGOpqwn6tJe3XY0kwyAGEDNACQDVyrpkNutM" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Anna Vidyakina" ]	2024-06-01T16:31:03.759000+00:00	I am thrilled to announce my graduation from the Executive MBA program at MIT Sloan School of Management! This journey has been a rigorous test of balancing a… \| 95 comments on LinkedIn	en	https://static.licdn.com/aero-v1/sc/h/al2o9zrvru7aqj8e1x2rzsrca		https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-vidyakina-88746352_mit-mitexecutivemba-harvarduniversity-activity-7202708238016937984-EFzS	I am thrilled to announce my graduation from the Executive MBA program at MIT Sloan School of Management! This journey has been a rigorous test of balancing a demanding M&A role at The Coca-Cola Company with an academically challenging curriculum of MIT. Often, I had to pinch myself to make sure I was not dreaming when I was in classes with some of world’s best professors - and with a cohort of highly successful professionals! The MBA program not only had a great curriculum (incl. system dynamics, strategy, marketing, financial management, corporate boards, negotiation, organizational theory, entrepreneurship etc.), but also pushed me to constantly practice my leadership skills and to apply my learnings when I was getting back to work on Monday after the weekends on MIT campus. In addition to the program, I’ve learned a lot from my exceptional cohort – I never saw so many smart, ambitious, capable, and extremely kind and humble people in one room! Many of them became my friends, hopefully, for life. I am very thankful to everyone at The Coca-Cola Company who supported me throughout this challenge and motivated me to strive for more. I am even more grateful to my family and friends for their understanding, love, and encouragement. The experience of juggling an MBA at the world’s best university with a highly demanding job stretched my limits, taught me the value of perseverance, friendship, and trust, and equipped me with advanced knowledge and skills. One of my main take-aways from the program is the confidence that I can and should make a positive impact on my organization, community, and world. So now, after taking a few quick breaths, I am up for the next challenge! #MIT #MITExecutiveMBA #HarvardUniversity #Leadership #MergersAndAcquisitions #Strategy #Innovation #Thankful #NextChallenge
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	58	https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-actors-rumored-to-star-in-the-beatles-biopics-look-nothing-like-them-good	en	The Actors Rumored to Star in the Beatles Biopics Look Nothing Like Them. Good.	https://s3.amazonaws.com…06758-H-2024.jpg	https://s3.amazonaws.com…06758-H-2024.jpg	[ "http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6324575&cv=2.0&cj=1", "https://www.rogerebert.com/assets/logo/rogerebert-fea9f2c27bcb671adfb84f275757a289ffd85f5370aeffb12f481bf5a3241543.svg", "https://www.rogerebert.com/assets/logo/rogerebert-fea9f2c27bcb671adfb84f275757a289ffd85f5370aeffb12f481bf5a3241543.svg", "h...	[ "//www.youtube.com/embed/4eFxWLPRuoo", "//www.youtube.com/embed/f-FBHQAGLnY" ]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Tim Grierson" ]	null	Too often, we overvalue actors who expertly imitate their iconic real-life subjects. A great biopic performance often requires more than mimicry.	en	/assets/fav/apple-touch-icon-57x57-9e12b6d6d15bfb3e86f09c3fc7d58a6f8a2d808cb856df9c1ada23480cda1dae.png	https://www.rogerebert.com/	https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-actors-rumored-to-star-in-the-beatles-biopics-look-nothing-like-them-good	Back in February, music and movie fans were shocked to hear that “American Beauty” director Sam Mendes was going to be making separate full-length biopics about each of the Beatles. Whether or not you thought that was a good idea, it certainly was unprecedented—and it immediately started speculation about who would play the band members in the separate films. This past week, a rumor started circulating of who the fictional Fab Four would be: Harris Dickinson would play John Lennon, Paul Mescal was slated for Paul McCartney, Charlie Rowe would portray George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan was set to be Ringo Starr. There were debates about whether those were the right actors to bring the lads from Liverpool to life, but a comment a friend made stayed with me: “They don’t really even look like the guys.” Hair and makeup can do wondrous things, but I tended to agree with my buddy—and then I thought about it. Why has that become part of evaluating whether an actor is “right” to play a famous person? Why do we require them to look like their subject? Biopics are a Hollywood staple—especially during awards season—so we’re frequently greeted by interviews with actors explaining how they “immersed” themselves in the world of the person they were portraying. How they “channeled” this world leader or superstar pop singer, took on her mannerisms, watched all his interviews, etc. If the actor “disappears” into the role, he is praised for his brilliance—it must have been hard to become someone else so completely. The craft of performing becomes the act of mimicry. I say none of that with scorn or sarcasm. Certainly, terrific performances have come from such chameleonic methods: Val Kilmer conjured up Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” and Cate Blanchett both skewered and paid homage to “Don’t Look Back”-era Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There.” They both submerged themselves in their roles until you didn’t see them anymore. (I realize that some dislike Blanchett’s performance, which they find gimmicky, but those complaints prove my larger point: That process of channeling, whether invisible or showy, is meant to wow us with how close to the real thing the actor became.) But while there’s no doubt an astounding amount of technique required to pull that off—as well as, sometimes, prosthetics—we’re all susceptible to overvaluing such an accomplishment. And I get it: Especially if you’re very familiar with what the famous person looks like, it can be jarring (and feel plain wrong) if the actor doesn’t resemble her. But because we put a premium on verisimilitude, I feel like sometimes viewers aren’t impressed enough when an actor doesn’t look like the person they’re playing and is nonetheless terrific in the role. Maybe expert mimicry isn’t the only way to gauge such performances. A few years after Oliver Stone made “The Doors,” he released “Nixon,” which starred Anthony Hopkins as the disgraced 37th president. The Oscar-winning actor did the cursory work of changing his countenance and voice to appear more Tricky Dick-esque, but this was hardly an instance of someone “disappearing” into the role. In the film, he looks like Anthony Hopkins. But it didn’t matter that Hopkins didn’t resemble Nixon, because he took on the man’s volcanic anger and insecurity in such a way that he articulated Nixon’s essence. Eschewing the typical lookalike concerns, “Nixon” offered another way of thinking about Nixon—as an ambitious, fatally flawed but also oddly tragic and poignant figure destined to bring about his own ruin. As great as, say, Jamie Foxx is as Ray Charles in “Ray,” that performance was a facsimile of the celebrity we know—a perfect copy—whereas “Nixon” is arguably going for something more elemental than how he looked or sounded. One approach isn’t necessarily better than the other, but one is certainly given more respect in Hollywood. Put it this way: Foxx won the Oscar, and Hopkins did not. That opportunity for discovery allows the actor the space to suggest his subject rather than impersonating them. Cillian Murphy somewhat resembles J. Robert Oppenheimer, but his Oscar-winning role in “Oppenheimer” benefited from the nuance he brought to understanding a complicated, tormented genius—it was a spiritual channeling more than a physical one. Will Smith doesn’t look like Muhammad Ali, but he understood the champ’s swagger, bringing a core element of himself to “Ali.” In “Spencer,” Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana is as much Stewart as it is Diana—you can make the actress blonde, but you cannot hide the melancholy alienation she exudes in every role, which was crucial for the film’s depiction of an isolated woman in a gilded cage. Hopkins isn’t even the only great Nixon actor—Philip Baker Hall in “Secret Honor” doesn’t even try to recall the president’s features but digs deep into his rage and paranoia. Each of these performances (and so many others) confronts us with new ways of thinking about a famous figure we thought we knew. Rather than the comfort of familiarity, there’s the shock of the new. I wish to take nothing away from actors who throw themselves into the process of becoming their subject. To use but one example, Meryl Streep’s Julia Child in “Julie & Julia” isn’t just an incredible imitation but also a lived-in portrayal of the beloved chef’s spirit and vulnerability. But I want to gently push back on our collective knee-jerk reaction to casting announcements, judging the choice almost solely on how similar the actor looks to the celebrity. I’m not as familiar with Charlie Rowe’s work as I am with the other three actors tipped to play Beatles, but I like Dickinson, Keoghan, and Mescal a lot—it really shouldn’t matter how much they resemble their counterparts. Likewise, Timothée Chalamet shouldn’t be graded solely on how much he looks like Bob Dylan in the forthcoming James Mangold-directed biopic. Rather than expecting actors to perfectly mimic their real-life characters, we should ask them to enlighten us about those famous figure’s inner selves. Our fascination with iconic individuals is never skin-deep—why shouldn’t biopic performances be similarly penetrating?
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	60	https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/paul-mccartney-really-is-dead-the-last-testament-of-george-harrison-2010-review/	en	Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010) Review	https://www.denofgeek.co….png?fit=32%2C32	https://www.denofgeek.co….png?fit=32%2C32	[ "https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_02851-1-e1672765468838.jpg?fit=200%2C153&resize=200%2C200&filter=grayscale", "https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/faul.jpg", "https://www.denofgeek.com/albums/g63/beatlebren/Paulswollenlipmopedacciden.jpg", "https://www.denofgeek.com/P...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Tony Sokol" ]	2013-04-27T17:36:00+00:00	Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison is a film by Beatle fan Joel Gilbert. It's chock full of clues and miscues, but it's a fun watch for the maniacs.	en	https://www.denofgeek.co….png?fit=32%2C32	Den of Geek	https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/paul-mccartney-really-is-dead-the-last-testament-of-george-harrison-2010-review/	I am a Beatle Geek, say it three times and I appear. I was a Beatle baby. My first words were yeah yeah yeah and I’ve been saying it since, though maybe not with same youthful exuberance. The Beatles were innovators. They mixed major and minor chords, played in odd time signatures, All You Need Is Love starts in 7, Revolution has one measure of five, Happiness Is a Warm Gun creates a false seven by pitting the guitars’ triplets against a steady four beat. But the Beatles invented progressive rock when they put 12 chords into a rock and roll pop hit, and not a I-IV-V among them. My real immersion into the Beatles was when they went dark. I was three when Eleanor Rigby hit, four when I had cranberry sauce in Strawberry Fields and five when Revolution 9 changed my mind entirely. The Beatles could be very dark. They could also be very funny. I always thought that it was this dark humor that was behind the Paul Is Dead rumors that frightened me as a kid. The Beatles established themselves as comic actors in A Hard Day’s Night and Help and on TV skits. Their natural humor came out in interviews and was often caustic and dark. Lennon acted in the dark comedy How I Won the War. It could be that they were just as innovative with their comic artistry as with their music. It could also be that there was another message they were burying in different albums, like the illustrations in The Ninth Gate, that has been overlooked because of the Paul is dead subterfuge. Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison is a spoof that takes itself seriously. Director Joel Gilbert establishes George Harrison’s voice in the beginning in a vintage interview about jelly beans. You don’t have to be familiar with George’s voice from interviews to hear the difference. The voice behind this impression might not even be English, but the filmmakers explain this away by saying they sent it to dozens of voice recognition experts who tested it, but testing of the CASSettes were inconclusive. Highway 61 Entertainment received an unsolicited package from England. In it was a mini-recorder and tapes apparently made by George Harrison on his Royal Berkshire Hospital bed in 1999 after he was attacked by a madman who said he had been sent by god to kill a Beatle. George relays that on Dec. 1, 1980, John Lennon told him that he was going to go public with the truth about the trick they were forced to pull on the public. A week later he was dead. George was also about to go public with the truth and had told Paul McCartney about it just a week earlier. The film runs through a quick retelling of the Beatles story from George’s friendship with Paul at the age of 14 through the taller-than-god phase and threats from the Ku Klux Klan and other enemies Lennon apparently made with off-the-cuff remarks to the press. On November 9, 1966 after a fight over some lyrics with John, Paul sped off in his Aston Martin. The Beatles were called to the scene of a grisly accident by a member of the MI5, the British spy agency, named Maxwell. They saw Paul’s head sitting near his decapitated body, his hair burnt off and an eye popped out. He had picked up a hitchhiker named Rita who went hysterical and drove him off the road. It was in the national interest to cover up the death of such a popular pop idol because fans worldwide might begin committing suicide. Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach. Tiger Beat and Dick Clark’s American Bandstand held a Paul McCartney lookalike contest and the winner would be the new Paul McCartney. William Campbell won. Billy’s Here. The MI5 used their best plastic surgeons to transform the contest-winner into a perfect double for Paul McCartney. They called him false-Paul, Faul. Lennon started a small rebellion within the band and wanted to put out clues so the fans wouldn’t turn on them later for messing with their impressionable minds. Ringo called the new bassist Rubber Paul. So they named an album Rubber Soul. The album actually came out before the accident, but that’s just one flub the filmmakers make. They set out to fool the poob lick. The band considered the new Paul to be soulless and that he had no heart. The design for the words Rubber Soul looked like an upside down heart. Ringo, a poker player and Monte Carlo regular, liked that because an upside down heart looked like the spade suit in a deck of playing cards. The ace of spades was the death card, since the days of the gangland slaying of Joe Masseria in the Castallamarese War. On the album cover of Revolver, which was designed and drawn by Klaus Voorman, long-time Beatle friend and bassist for Manfred Mann, Paul is looking away, showing one eye, the way he looked after the accident popped it out and lopped off his head. There’s an open palm over his head. This wasn’t some Hindu sign of death, as it has been rumored. It was the last gesture the priest made when they buried Paul in a private ceremony attended only by John, George and Ringo. We see a photo of Paul screaming in agony. There’s a little figure sitting in Paul’s ear, which tells us to listen to the clues. Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach. The songs continued to clue us in. Paul was the “Nowhere Man.” “I’m Looking Through You” is spooky when you think of it as a song about replacing a beloved bassist. “I thought I knew you, what did I know?” “The only difference is you’re down there.” To cover for the songwriting bass player’s absence, John got heavily into special effects and George used Indian instruments. George wrote a song called Taxidermist about Paul, but Ringo convinced him to change it to Taxman because it was just too obvious. “Eleanor Rigby” was about the secret funeral. Originally Lennon wrote the priest as Father McCartney, but later changed it to Mackenzie who gives a “sermon no one will hear.” Ah, they were very lonely people without Paul. The next album, which was released only in America, was Yesterday and Today and it had stronger clues. The original artwork showed The Beatles sitting in the middle of baby doll parts along with bloody butcher meat. Two decapitated dolls flank Paul’s head. George is holding up a severed doll’s head with its hair burnt off right next to Paul’s head. The filmmaker doctored the album cover to make it look like Paul has no teeth in his mouth. His teeth are on his arm. There’s an eye somewhere in the shot. Maxwell threatened John so the band hastily put together another album cover that showed Paul in a trunk that looks like he’s in a coffin. Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach. The film points out that if you look at the titles of the songs on the album they appear to tell the story. “Drive My Car” was what Paul was doing at the time of the crash, Rita found “a driver and that’s a start.” “I’m Only Sleeping” is what Paul looked like, although it’s tough to get into a comfortable sleeping position when you’re head’s been torn off. “Dr. Robert” tells the story of the plastic surgeon who made the fake Paul “a new and better man.” “Yesterday” was John being sorry that Paul “had to go.” “We Can Work It Out” tells how they would deal with the change in lineup. The band had to “Act Naturally” to keep the ruse alive. They should have run for their lives. The next album was called Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band because John was lonely without his songwriting partner, although he did have fifty songs left over from their collaborations. The album was filled with clues. The album cover is a funeral. All the people Paul would have liked to see at his funeral. Jayne Mansfield had also been decapitated in a car crash. Bob Dylan had taken a year off from music after an accident, but the filmmakers claim he didn’t crash his motorcycle, he went into drug rehab. If you hold a mirror to the title on the drums you see 1 1 1 X he die, which means 11/9 he die. Paul had the accident on Nov. 9 (There’s an arrow that points up to Paul too, but they missed that.) Yellow flowers form a left-handed bass with three strings, meaning the three remaining Beatles. You can see the words “Here Lies Paul” if you stand back from the cover. You also see blood stained driving gloves and a doll with a split head. Stephen Crane holds his hand over Paul’s head. Crane wrote the novel “Open Boat” about four men on a boat in a storm, one dies, the other three cover it up. The inner and back sleeve looks like it is soaking up red blood. Paul faces away. The words “Without You” are seen by Paul’s head. George is pointing to the words “Wednesday morning at five o’clock,” the time Paul’s accident apparently occurred. The songs also have their clues. You can hear “Paul is dead He lost his hair, his head” and other clues if you play the album backwards. You also screw up your needle, according to George Carlin at the time. Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach. The band went to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi so he could perform a ritual that would pull Paul’s soul into William Campbell’s body. Didn’t work. The Magical Mystery Tour cover and the booklet that came along with the album is chock-full-of-clues. Paul has a hole where his heart should be. (They left out a sign in front of Paul reading “I was,” blood-stained shoes, the words 3 Beatles, but if they put in all the clues it would be a six hour movie – which I would have watched.) There’s a phone number on the album, 527-1438, which when you called it was the number of a funeral parlor. A photo in the back of the booklet spells out RIP. You can hear “Ha Ha Paul is Dead” when you play the coda of “I Am the Walrus” backward. The Eggman is Humpty Dumpty who fell off the wall, cracked his shell and couldn’t be saved by all the king’s horses or men. Horse doctors must have been popular at one time. You also hear “Bury my body” and “Untimely Death” in the fadout. The recorded George claims he said them. They were from a BBC performance of King Lear. It’s still kind of strange to put in a pop song. You can hear the words “I buried Paul” in the second fade-out of “Strawberry Fields.” “Hello Goodbye” is a song about the change of Pauls, “You say goodbye. I say hello” and you hear “Please somebody. Get me out” if you play it backwards. The next album, The Beatles, would have an all-white cover so MI5 listeners would think the rebellious rock ensemble had given up on putting more clues on album covers. Although again, if you hold a mirror in the center, you can make out the words “He Be Ice 3.” The band figured the spies would see the album cover, be satisfied and throw it out without listening. The clues would be hidden only in the songs. Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach. At the end of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” George sings “Paul Paul” mournfully. In “Glass Onion,” Lennon sings “I told you about the walrus and me, man … Here’s another clue for you all. The walrus was Paul.” “Don’t Pass Me By” tells the story of someone who was in a car crash and lost their hair. “Paul really dead” can be heard if you play it backwards, along with “My fingers are broken and so is my hair.” “Revolution 9” tells the story of the crash if you play it backwards. The words “number nine,” when played backwards clearly sound like “Turn me on Dead man.” You can hear someone screaming “Help. Get me out.” And then there’s the end of “I’m So Tired,” where you can hear Lennon lament “Paul is dead, man, miss him, miss him.” On the cover of the Yellow Submarine album you see the Lord Mayor pointing heavenward. The other Beatles point to the ground. The old group is buried right next to the Yellow Submarine. Yellow Submarine is a coffin buried in a sea of green, the grass that covered it. You can hear the words “I buried Paul” sung backwards at the end of “All Together Now.” George tells about John singing “the band’s not quite right in his song “It’s Only a Northern Song.” John’s Northern song? It’s a George song. They really should get their shit together. The cover of Abbey Road shows a funeral procession. John is Jesus. George is dressed as a grave digger. Ringo wears the plain black suit of an undertaker and Paul walks on bare feet with his eyes closed as the corpse. Paul is holding a cigarette, a coffin-nail, in his right hand, not his left. Originally there was red-blood-colored paint splattered on the street making a body outline. But that was taken out. The license plate on a VW Beetle reads “LMS 28IF.” Paul would have been 28 if he’d have lived. Not really, but close enough. There is a crack in the sign reading “The Beatles” and there’s a Grim Reaper on the back cover. That’s Rita in the blue dress. In “Come Together,” John sings “One and one and one is three,” hmm, three Beatles. “Here come old flattop?” Paul’s head was Jayne Mansfielded. On Oct. 12, 1969, Russell Gibb, a Detroit DJ, figured it out and announced on the air that Paul McCartney was dead. F. Lee Bailey also had a TV show about the Paul is dead rumors in December of 1969. Maxwell punched Lennon in the stomach. John announced that he was getting a divorce and was going to take off for America. Fake Paul got married in 1969. Linda had figured it out and rather than have MI5 kill her, William Campbell decided he should marry her and teach her to sing. The filmmakers say Ringo had no talent and no personality, that he was lucky just to be a Beatle and so had no problem going along with the ruse for the rest of his career. No personality? No talent? The Beatles decided to Let It Be, disband and get out of the whole thing before Lennon got punched in the stomach again. On the album cover, Paul’s background is red. The others are white. After the breakup the band took part in decades of deception. John decided to pose as a crazy person, pretending to dig Yoko’s crazy sounds and doing peace demonstrations. This trivializes both their enduring relationship and Lennon’s commitment to peace and progressive politics. The fake Paul smoked so much cannabis dealing with the discomfort of the plastic surgeries, he got hooked on pot. Got busted. Linda got busted. All that cannabis. All those busts. Rita wanted to get paid off but is silenced by the MI5. She survived and winds up being Heather Mills. Again the math doesn’t add up. The clues that the Beatles put on their records that started the Paul is dead rumors have been interpreted to mean a lot of things. On the internet you can find theories that prove the Beatles are the Illuminati, are freemasons who rule the world, that the Manson killings were a fucked up CIA operation to assassinate John Lennon because he had also stayed at Terry Melcher’s house when the Beatles were in LA. Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison was made by a Beatle fan for Beatle fans. It is a forced perception piece of conspiracy filmmaking that fudges quite a bit to make its point, but it does have some good footage and the filmmakers did find two clues that I hadn’t seen. The Beatles were clever lads. I’m sure there was some recurring joke they were telling, but until I see DNA evidence, I’m still waiting for the punch line. Den of Geek Rating: 2 Out of 5 Stars
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Dhani Harrison speaks with Eric Westervelt about George Fest, an all-star tribute to his father's music.	en	https://media.npr.org/ch…icon-180x180.png	NPR	https://www.npr.org/2016/02/28/468132551/the-quiet-beatles-long-shadow-dhani-harrison-on-sharing-his-dad-with-the-world	When you're in a band with John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it's got to be pretty tough to convince them that you should get to write songs too. But some of The Beatles' most memorable tracks — "Something," "Here Comes the Sun," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Taxman" and others — were actually penned by "the quiet one." George Harrison died of cancer in 2001, and since then, his son, Dhani, has kept his father's spirit alive in many ways. In 2014, he helped organize a charity tribute concert, just like his dad used to do, called George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison. It featured an eclectic mix of heavy-hitters like Brian Wilson, Norah Jones, The Flaming Lips and Cold War Kids — and this week, those performances were released as an album and concert film. Dhani Harrison spoke with NPR's Eric Westervelt about how his relationship with his father grew into a relationship with music — and why it's sometimes hard when your loved one belongs to everyone. Hear the radio version at the audio link, and read more of their conversation below. Eric Westervelt: Back in 2002, you mounted a different tribute in London — the Concert for George, which featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and many others. The stars who played George Fest feel more like your peers. Dhani Harrison: We never really got to do a tribute concert in America, per se, and we wanted to do a small club show — something where we could really get inside the songs and not have to be so rigid with sticking to the plan of how the original recordings were done. It's sort of the anti-Concert for George: a lot of deep tracks and a lot of young artists who've got really great takes on the songs themselves. Do the different interpretations of your dad's music ever help you find any new insights into his work? Is there ever a moment when a song sort of reveals itself as something different than what you'd considered? You know, I specifically liked Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's version of "The Art of Dying." I didn't realize that was like grunge until I saw BRMC play it; I was like, "Oh. This is a shoegazey grunge song!" They unlocked that song for me. Or, a thing that was really great was having female vocalists. Yeah, I really liked Norah Jones' take on "Something." You reserved a few songs for yourself, including "Savoy Truffle." What do you like about that song? Apparently, it was all about a box of chocolates! Good News was the [brand], so: "Coffee, dessert, yes, you know it's good news." It's basically just my dad rattling off the names in there. Someone actually made us savoy truffles in a really nice box, which I've got sitting on my desk in my office. I imagine, as the child of a famous musician who is also his own musician, your relationship to your dad's music could be complicated — but you seem to have embraced his musical legacy. What has that journey to his music been like for you? I guess I got lucky, because I got George Harrison! You know, it's good music, and I'm honored to be a part of his legacy. And also, we made so much music together, and spent so much time in the studio at my house in Friar Park, in Henley where I grew up. The studio was directly below my bedroom, so my floor has rattled my whole life. I would always go downstairs and just see what was going on. I remember the Traveling Wilburys there. So, I was very comfortable in the studio, and I kind of grew up learning how to produce and play. For me, it was facilitated very much by my dad, and we were best friends, so spending a lot of time in the studio with him was natural. We were finishing a record together [when he died]. After he passed away, I got to work with Jeff Lynne, and I ended up finishing it with Jeff and kind of taking the role of my dad on, because there was no artist there to answer questions. That kind of left me in Los Angeles, and left me in a studio thinking, "Well, that was the most fun thing that I could be doing." So I kind of just carried on from there, making my own records and composing for film and TV. It just seemed like a logical step for me. How great to grow up in an ecosystem where music is naturally part of your everyday life. You come down for tea, and maybe Jeff Lynne or Eric Clapton is in the kitchen. And also, it offers you a different perspective on life to have these people around the house. It made going to school easier, because you wouldn't take yourself so seriously. You'd come home and Bob Dylan would be there or something. The media image of your dad is of the spiritual, quiet Beatle who loved gardening, but we know it's more nuanced and complicated than that. He also loved absurdity, and he helped fund the Monty Python movie Life of Brian. How do you keep his spirit alive for yourself while having to, in effect, share his legacy with the rest of the world? That is an interesting thing, actually. There's times when you feel like this person's getting taken away from you. Maybe you see them on an Apple billboard or something and you think, "Oh. He belongs to everyone." You know, you've just got to be quiet and go in the garden and meditate, and then you remember lots of other stuff that's personal and deeper.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	74	https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/06/the-beatles-movies-2027/	en	The Beatles movies 2027: Cast reportedly announced	https://www.thepinknews.…icon-196x196.png	https://www.thepinknews.…icon-196x196.png	[ "https://trc.taboola.com/1095299/log/3/unip?en=page_view", "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=18667741&cv=3.6.0&cj=1", "https://www.thepinknews.com/wp-content/themes/pinknews/.src/svg/pn-logo.svg", "https://www.thepinknews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Untitled-design-2024-06-06T122554.456.png?w=792...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Gabriella Ferlita" ]	2024-06-06T00:00:00	The Beatles movies 2027 will reportedly cast actors Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson and Charlie Rowe.	en	https://www.thepinknews.…h-icon-57x57.png	PinkNews \| Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news \| LGBTQ+ news	https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/06/the-beatles-movies-2027/	Sam Mendes is set to create a series of four interconnected biopic movies of each Beatles member set for release in 2027. The Beatles movies will reportedly cast Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson and Charlie Rowe. The InSneider has reported that Femme and Misfits’ star Dickinson will play John Lennon, All of Us Strangers’ Mescal will take on Paul McCartney, Saltburn’s Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Rocketman’s Rowe as George Harrison in the Beatles movies. With the all-star cast reportedly playing the Fab Four, the films are set to portray their stories from each band member’s point of view. Mendes – perhaps best known for his work on the James Bond movies Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015) – is set to direct all four of the films, with Apple Corps and The Beatles reportedly granting full life story and music rights for a scripted film. Sony chief Tom Rothman previously announced the plans for a tetralogy with Mendes behind the films about the British supergroup. Rothman told The Hollywood Reporter of the films: “You have to match the boldness of the idea with a bold release strategy. “There hasn’t been an enterprise like this before, and you can’t think about it in traditional releasing terms.” The movies are set to arrive more than 50 years after the famed “Here Comes The Sun” hitmakers broke up, and 40 years after the assassination of John Lennon. Other music-based films have gained notoriety in recent moments, including Taylor Swift’s $15 million concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour which grossed $261 million last year. Meanwhile, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, became the fifth-highest-grossing concert movie ever, according to Forbes. A release date has not yet been announced for the upcoming Beatles film series, but it’s expected to begin shooting in 2025, with a 2027 release date.
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[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Thomas Curtis-Horsfall" ]	2023-09-22T13:34:43+01:00	George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh was a pioneering benefit concert which paved the way for Live Aid.	en	/assets_v4r/gold/img/favicon-16x16.png	Gold	https://www.goldradiouk.com/news/music/concert-for-bangladesh-george-harrison/	The Concert For Bangladesh was arguably the first ever benefit rock concert. A star-studded relief concert that transformed how people perceived musicians at the time, no longer were rock stars simply countercultural outsiders indulging in life's many excesses. After George Harrison put together the historic concert, wider society realised that musicians weren't mere celebrities but also had the power to make genuine change. The event brought together icons of the era that nobody had ever witnessed before, and also brought two former members of The Beatles together on stage for the first time in five years. George Harrison's son Dhani thinks John Lennon liked 'All Things Must Pass' really When Frank Sinatra paid tribute to The Beatles with a gorgeous cover of 'Something' Cat Stevens pays tribute to George Harrison with comforting cover of ‘Here Comes The Sun’ at Glastonbury Harrisongs! George Harrison's 22 Beatles songs, ranked Bangladesh, a foreign country only known in the West by intrepid travellers, swiftly became a household name with humanitarian efforts growing by the day. So what inspired George Harrison to arrange the Concert For Bangladesh? What impact did it have? Who performed? Here's all you need to know: What inspired George Harrison to organise Concert For Bangladesh? Throughout his time with The Beatles, George Harrison established a deep bond and life-long friendship with Ravi Shankar. The pair found equals in each other both creatively and spiritually, with Bengali musician Shankar supporting Harrison in his new-found and much-publicised mystic journey. In 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War, political and military turmoil meant that nearly 7 million people were displaced, creating an overwhelming refugee crisis. On top of the war - and the associated atrocities that come with such situations - the region was hit by the Bhola cyclone and floods further devastated the area, with half a million people reported to have died during the crisis, and fears of a cholera outbreak amongst refugees fleeing to Calcutta. After Shankar found out about the horrors facing his homeland, he described the situation to George over dinner according to collaborator Klaus Voorman, and he was horrified. "I was in a very sad mood, having read all this news," Shankar later recalled, "and I said, 'George, this is the situation, I know it doesn't concern you, I know you can't possibly identify'." "But while I talked to George he was very deeply moved ... and he said, 'Yes, I think I'll be able to do something'." How did George Harrison pull it together? It was Ravi Shankar's idea to arrange a benefit concert, having originally hoped to raise $25,000 for aid from his own show which he wanted Peter Sellers to compare. But George had a lot more leverage in the music industry, and his commitment to the cause meant it grew into an all-star concert with his many friends and collaborators. In earnest, they only had five to six weeks of genuine preparation for the concert, so worked frantically to pull as many favours as possible. George recorded the single 'Bangla Desh', which was co-produced by Phil Spector, to raise awareness for the plight of the region and help raise more funds. After discussing who they could secure to perform, George and then-wife Pattie Boyd called everyone they knew, predominantly hoping to persuade Bob Dylan to join their efforts. Dylan had only performed once in the past five years - at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 - and his addition would've been some coup, even for one of The Beatles. Slowly he managed to get a list of artists together ranging from traditional Bengali musicians to rock stars the West was more familiar with. After publicising the concert in a modest advert in the New York Times, tickets sold out almost immediately with a second concert having to be added. Where and when did the Concert For Bangladesh take place? The Concert For Bangladesh took place on 1st August 1971 at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden. There were two concerts scheduled, one in the afternoon and one later than evening the same day. A local Indian astrologer had suggested that early August was the best time to stage such an event, and it transpired that the only day that Madison Square Garden was available on such short notice was the first Sunday of the month. All proceeds from the concert - along with the profits from Harrison's 'Bangla Desh' single and Shankar's own benefit record, Joi Bangla - would go to the newly established 'George Harrison–Ravi Shankar Special Emergency Relief Fund' which was distributed by UNICEF. Who performed at the Concert For Bangladesh? Billed as 'George Harrison & Friends', Harrison managed to curate one of the most spectacular, star-studded lineups in popular music for the Concert For Bangladesh. Alongside convincing fellow former Beatle Ringo Starr to perform alongside him, for the first time since 1966, he also secured none other than Bob Dylan to perform. Though it wasn't guarantee he'd show up, until the music icon appeared half-way during the first concert on the afternoon of 1st August 1971, much to the relief of everyone organising the show as it would mark his first US performance in five years. Other huge stars that contributed to the occasion were George's friend Eric Clapton - despite being in the throes of heroin addiction - Beatles collaborator Billy Preston, Leon Russell, the band Badfinger, Klaus Voorman and more who made up the concert's supergroup. Safe to say it was a true one-off spectacle across the two concerts, with Harrison later recalling that Dylan said to him later that same evening: "'God! If only we'd done three shows!'" The supergroup performed a melee of era-defining hits from all band members involved, predominantly songs by George Harrison, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar and even The Rolling Stones. After Ringo agreed to partake, George tried to convince both John Lennon and Paul McCartney to get involved too, which would've seen all of The Beatles back together again. John originally signed on, but after a disagreement with Yoko Ono pulled out, and Paul cited the legal issues amongst band members as his reason for not joining the concert. What legacy did Concert For Bangladesh create? When Bob Dylan was furious about The Beatles ripping him off: "I invented it!" Bob Dylan failed to impress Tom Jones until one iconic song won him over When John Lennon and Paul McCartney reconciled and nearly reformed The Beatles The Beatles' 20 greatest songs ever, ranked The Concert For Bangladesh became the first ever all-star benefit rock concert, and raised an initial US$243,418.50 for UNICEF across the two concerts. A further live album was recorded as well as a concert film, but due to legal issues and bureaucracy, much of the overall $10 million raised was held by the IRS for a decade before being released to the relief effort. Already the concert had made an indelible cultural impact, proving that musicians could enact meaningful change instead of just writing about it. The concept for Concert For Bangladesh in fact inspired Bob Geldof to create Live Aid for the Ethiopian famine relief in 1985, which he acknowledged during the global concert's promotional campaign.
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On top of working with the irritating press, fighting back their fans and working up to a prestigious TV performance, they were given scenes which showed their humour and personalities. The BAFTA-nominated director explained years later how he found working with each of the band members and touched upon the quality of their acting. George Harrison, in particular, was the “best” actor out of the band, Lester said. While talking at the BFI in 2014 the director revealed: “George, I think, was the most effective actor all the way through. “He attempted less, but he always hit it right in the centre, and I always knew what I was going to get with George.” George had quite a few solo scenes throughout the film, including some quick instances with press interviews and conversations about buying new “grotty” clothes from a fashion brand. READ MORE: George Harrison’s heart-wrenching song about split with wife Boyd George wasn’t the only member of the band to receive solo scenes in their film debut. Ringo Starr and John Lennon also had some moments to themselves in the movie, exploring their fictional characters. Paul McCartney was the only member of the band who didn’t have any solo scenes in the final movie. Although he did shoot a solo scene it was axed from the movie. The Beatles Bible claims Lester thought it “lacked pace”. Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. Read our Privacy Policy He also commented on McCartney’s acting: “I think the problem with Paul, he was so enthusiastic towards cinema, film, art, the zeitgeist - what was going on - that sometimes it got in the way.” Lester added: “I think Paul tried harder than he should have.” Speaking about putting the world’s most famous band on the silver screen, the director said: “We wrote a script to ask them to do things they knew how to do. “To do press conferences, to messing about in hotel rooms with blondes - they were things they knew how to do.” DON'T MISS... George Harrison: Eric Clapton ‘tried voodoo to steal’ Beatles' wife [INFO] George Harrison’s heart-wrenching song about split with wife Boyd [NEWS] The Beatles: Ringo Starr on missing John Lennon and George Harrison [INTERVIEW] The Beatles: Get Back documentary teased by Peter Jackson Lester also touched upon being pitched the movie just as the band were becoming hugely popular, before pre-orders went through the roof. He said: “The idea of the film came from the film department of United Artists at the beginning of 1964. “They said they’d only do it if it was cheap and in black and white and if we could get it done by July. They thought The Beatles were going to be a spent force by the end of the summer. “Before we started shooting The Beatles went and did The Ed Sullivan Show in the States and the world changed.” Lester continued: “So when it came to making the film, we were already in profit from pre-orders of the album soundtrack. No one had ever heard of such a thing.” He also utilised some fans and their reactions within the movie. Speaking about using Beatles fanatics during filming, he said: “I wasn’t ever going up to the children and asking them to scream, or for some to shout for John and others to shout for Ringo. “I didn’t do anything, I just let them all behave as they would.” SOURCE
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	76	https://ontherecords.net/2017/09/george-harrison-solo-traveling-wilburys/	en	George Harrison…Solo/Traveling Wilburys	https://i0.wp.com/onther…1000%2C563&ssl=1	https://i0.wp.com/onther…1000%2C563&ssl=1	[ "https://ontherecords.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-fullsizeoutput_574a-2.jpeg", "https://i0.wp.com/ontherecords.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_57ce.jpeg?resize=1000%2C563&ssl=1", "https://i0.wp.com/ontherecords.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_57ce.jpeg?resize=628%2C353&ssl...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Phil Bausch" ]	2017-09-19T00:00:00	George Harrison kept growing as a songwriter. On the last album The Beatles recorded, Abbey Road, Harrison had two of the best songs, “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun”. …	en	https://i0.wp.com/onther…it=32%2C32&ssl=1	On The Records	https://ontherecords.net/2017/09/george-harrison-solo-traveling-wilburys/	George Harrison kept growing as a songwriter. On the last album The Beatles recorded, Abbey Road, Harrison had two of the best songs, “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun”. Then when The Beatles broke up, his first album was bursting with good songs. Of the first albums the individual Beatles released after the breakup, All Things Must Pass is the best. It’s not even close. Making it a 3-record set was excessive, and there are extra tracks that aren’t very good, but the good stuff is plentiful. I have eleven songs from this album on my “Best Of George Harrison” CD-length playlist. Critics would say John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the best of the first solo albums because of its raw emotional lyrics, but it doesn’t have close to the number of Beatles-ready songs as Harrison’s. Highlights include: “My Sweet Lord” (#1), “What Is Life” (#10), “Beware Of Darkness”, “If Not For You”, “Isn’t It A Pity”, “All Things Must Pass”, “Behind That Locked Door” and more. If George had issued the best songs on a single record, All Things Must Pass would probably be even more recognized as the great album it is…the crown jewel of George Harrison’s solo career. Update: A remixed version of All Things Must Pass was released August 6th, 2021. It sounds excellent, with George’s voice less buried in the “wall of sound” from producer Phil Spector. The link to the review is at the end of this article. The public certainly liked the album. It topped the Billboard chart for 7 weeks in 1971 (released in November of 1970). Sales figures are hard to nail down, because of U.S. Sales, World Sales, Multi-Disc Sales, or just plain wrong information, but All Things Must Pass and McCartney’s 1973 Band On The Run are the two top-selling solo Beatles albums. Good choices. George also helped out Ringo Starr. He co-wrote “It Don’t Come Easy”, and produced the recording. It was Ringo’s first big hit (#4) in 1971. George Harrison was approached by teacher and friend Ravi Shankar to help the war refugees of Bangladesh (East Pakistan). George asked friends in the music community to join him in what was the first major charity concert, film, and album…The Concert For Bangladesh. Musicians who participated included…Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr, and Badfinger. The concert was August 1st, 1971, with two sold out shows. It was a huge success, musically and financially. Although it took some time to sort through the finances, the total sent to Bangladesh has been 12-million-dollars, and most importantly, the plight of the area was made known to the world. (George in 1973) George Harrison’s next studio album, Living In The Material World, was released in May of 1973. It was a #1 album, with a #1 single “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)”. That peace probably included being past all The Beatles’ legal battles he highlighted in the song “Sue Me, Sue You Blues”. Despite it’s rapid rise to the top of the charts, the album didn’t sustain the good sales like his first post-Beatles album. For the remainder of the 1970’s, George Harrison had no more Top-10 singles, and just four singles that made the Top 20. He released four more albums, and only Dark Horse made the Top-10. It wasn’t until mid 1981 that George Harrison had another hit single. He had been working on the song “All Those Years Ago” (originally for Ringo). Then after John Lennon’s tragic death, George updated the lyrics as a tribute to John. Ringo Starr played drums, and Paul & Linda McCartney added background vocals. The song was #2 on the Billboard singles chart, and #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart. The album, Somewhere In England, also did fairly well, just missing the Top-10 at #11. The low point for George Harrison’s albums was 1982’s Gone Troppo. It failed to even make the top 100 albums. At this point, George was doing better with financing Monty Python movies than with music. But George wasn’t done making good music. Enter unabashed Beatles’ fan Jeff Lynne of The Electric Light Orchestra. George asked Jeff to co-produce his 1987 album Cloud Nine. It was successful. The album had a #1 single, “Got My Mind Set On You”, which was originally a 1962 recording by James Ray. Other tracks did well on the Mainstream Rock chart (Multiple charts and formats had become the norm.) “When We Was Fab” (#2), “Cloud 9” (#9), and “Devil’s Radio” (#4). Cloud Nine hit #8 on Billboard’s album chart and went platinum. It was the last solo album George would release, but he was about to have some musical fun with his friends. Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, George Harrison, & Roy Orbison The Traveling Wilburys kind of happened by accident, but it was mostly Jeff Lynne’s fault, because he was producing albums for George, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. In a Wilburys documentary, George Harrison says the group wasn’t planned. He was having lunch with Jeff and Roy, and wanted to use them on a B-side single. He says he called Bob Dylan to use his studio, and had to pick up a guitar he left at Tom Petty’s house. They all joined in the writing and recording of “Handle With Care”, and presto, The Traveling Wilburys! They decided to make an album, and Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 was a major success…triple platinum. Most of the tracks got airplay on FM stations, “Handle With Care”, “End Of The Line”, “Tweeter And The Monkey Man”, and “Last Night”. Plus, “Not Alone Anymore” and “Heading For The Light” were showcases for Roy Orbison and George Harrison respectively. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance. If you get a chance, watch the 25-minute documentary that was included with the deluxe edition of the Traveling Wilburys Collection. You can see it free on YouTube. They had so much fun together! George said: “It was a bunch of friends that just happened to be really good at making music.” Sadly, Roy Orbison died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 52, on December 6th, 1988. Tom Petty said he was glad Roy had been able to enjoy The Wilburys and the success of the album. All of the band’s members were in awe of Orbison’s voice. Two years later, October of 1990, the group released their second and last album, humorously called Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3. Though not as popular, it still went platinum, and included the tracks “She’s My Baby”, “Inside Out”, Wilbury Twist”, and “Cool Dry Place”. These were the last albums George Harrison would release in his lifetime, except for his participation with The Beatles Anthology project in the 1990’s. He died of cancer on November 29th, 2001 at the age of 58. George Harrison’s son, Dhani, and Jeff Lynne put together an album of songs George had been working on during the previous ten years. Brainwashed was released in November of 2002. Two of the best songs from the album are “Any Road” and “Run So Far”. It’s so great George Harrison and Roy Orbison had such fulfilling and happy experiences with The Traveling Wilburys. Despite all the star power involved, Tom Petty said, “It was George’s band”. Well, his second band. (This is the 3rd article in the series of The Beatles as solo artists. Ringo is next.)
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	54	https://www.businessinsider.com/the-beatles-movies-sam-mendes-biopics-everything-we-know-2024-2	en	Everything we know about 4 Beatles biopics from director Sam Mendes	https://i.insider.com/65d5c7fef533b039a885869d?width=1200&format=jpeg	https://i.insider.com/65d5c7fef533b039a885869d?width=1200&format=jpeg	[ "https://i.insider.com/65d5c7e6a610a9069d5aca23?width=700", "https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/BI/US/logos/newsletters/insider-today-logo.png", "https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/BI/US/logos/newsletters/insider-today-logo.png", "https://www.businessinsider.com/public/assets/rebrand/new...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Eammon Jacobs" ]	2024-02-21T11:51:21+00:00	Director Sam Mendes is working on four biopics about each of The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.	en	/public/assets/BI/US/favicons/apple-touch-icon-192x192.png?v=2023-11	Business Insider	https://www.businessinsider.com/the-beatles-movies-sam-mendes-biopics-everything-we-know-2024-2	Here’s everything we know about the four movies about The Beatles. Each movie will focus on a different member of The Beatles According to the press release, each movie will be from the perspective of a different member of the band, meaning Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr will each have their own biopic. It’s the first time that the band’s company, Apple Corps Ltd., has given permission for the group’s life story and music to be used in a scripted film about them. Since 1979, 18 unauthorized biopics have been made about the band including 2009’s “Knowhere Boy" starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Lennon and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as McCartney. The release also says that the four movies “will intersect to tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history.” Yes, Mendes is effectively giving audiences The Beatles Cinematic Universe, so get those “Avengers” jokes out of the way now. Sam Mendes will have 'no limits' telling The Beatles’ story In an interview with Deadline published on Tuesday, Pippa Harris, who will produce the films, said the band’s surviving members, McCartney and Starr, have given their blessing for Mendes to work on the four films. Related stories “It’s a testament to his creative brilliance and powers of persuasion that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon, and Olivia Harrison responded with such warmth and enthusiasm as soon as he spoke with them,” she said, referring to John Lennon's son and George Harrison's widow. Harris went on to say that Mendes will have no restrictions on what he depicts from the band members’ lives. She said: “What is truly exciting is for Sam to have the freedom to delve into the lives of each of the Beatles, with nothing off limits and no sense of the band wanting him to tell a particular ‘authorised’ version of their rise to success.” Starr also gave his blessing on Tuesday via a post on X. Nobody has been cast yet, but The Beatles movies should be released in 2027 Mendes is the only big name attached to all four movies as director, and no actors have been cast as Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, or Starr as of yet. Per the press release, Sony is looking to release all four movies about The Beatles in 2027, which gives Mendes plenty of time to find the right people to play the Liverpudlian superstars. Correction: March 1, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misstated the director of the film "No Time to Die." Cary Joji Fukunaga directed the film, not Sam Mendes.
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	40	https://bowisland.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C558057	en	George Harrison — Bow Island Public Library	https://cor-liv-cdn-static.bibliocommons.com/image_proxy?url=http://d270uv86ptaou1.cloudfront.net/000/000/000/010/717/000000000010717995.gif	https://cor-liv-cdn-static.bibliocommons.com/image_proxy?url=http://d270uv86ptaou1.cloudfront.net/000/000/000/010/717/000000000010717995.gif	[ "https://cor-liv-cdn-static.bibliocommons.com/images/ALB-BOWISLAND/logo.png?1721567651780" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2011-07-22T00:00:00	George Harrison — Using unseen photos and footage, director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison in a personal film, weaving together performance footage, home movies, rare archival materials, and interviews with his family and friends.	en	/images/ALB-BOWISLAND/favicon.ico	Bow Island Public Library	https://bowisland.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C558057	Using unseen photos and footage, director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison in a personal film, weaving together performance footage, home movies, rare archival materials, and interviews with his family and friends. There are no comments from the community on this title
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	15	https://variety.com/lists/sam-mendes-beatles-movies-actors-casting-wishlist/	en	Who Should Play John, Paul, George and Ringo in the Beatles Movies?	https://variety.com/wp-c…esize=1000%2C563	https://variety.com/wp-c…esize=1000%2C563	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1", "https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Beatles.jpg?w=1000&h=667&crop=1", "https://variety.com/wp-content/themes/pmc-variety-2020/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/John-Lennon-...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Brent Lang" ]	2024-02-20T20:16:30+00:00	Here are the actors we’d like to see in Sam Mendes' four Beatles movies as John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison.	en	https://variety.com/wp-c…e-touch-icon.png	Variety	https://variety.com/lists/sam-mendes-beatles-movies-actors-casting-wishlist/	Best Known For: Joining the rebellion in the “Hunger Games” films, then melting hearts in “Me Before You.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: He channeled his inner rock god in “Daisy Jones & the Six,” the Amazon mini-series in which he did his own singing as the leader of a band. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: He’s got the charisma, but can he capture Lennon’s darker side? Best Known For: Battling primordial monsters in “Godzilla,” entering the Avengers’ orbit for a hot second in “Age of Ultron,” and taking a pretty memorable bathroom break in “Nocturnal Animals,” which earned him a Golden Globe. Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: More than a decade ago, he played Lennon as a teenager in “Nowhere Boy,” perfectly channeling his moody intensity. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: Been there, done that. Best Known For: Playing Spielberg’s pops in “The Fabelmans,” going toe-to-toe with Daniel Day-Lewis as a deranged preacher in “There Will Be Blood.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Dano earned critical raves portraying another tortured musical genius, Brian Wilson, in “Love & Mercy.” Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: He’s from New York City, not Liverpool. Best Known For: Falling in teen love in “Heartstoppers.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: At 19, he wouldn’t need any CGI trickery to channel Lennon as he forms the Quarrymen or begins to make a name for himself (and the Beatles) in Hamburg. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: …but he’d definitely need prosthetics to play Lennon as the Beatles dissolve and he cooks up solo hits like “Imagine” and hosts his bed-ins for peace. Best Known For: Attending the world’s most dysfunctional high school in “Euphoria,” being the object of Barry Keoghan’s perverse affections in “Saltburn.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Elordi took on music legend Elvis Presley in “Priscilla” and left audiences all shook up. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: Having tackled the King of Rock, he might not be up for playing another cultural idol. Best Known For: Sticking the landing as a dancing prodigy in “Billy Elliot,” surviving Skull Island in “King Kong.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Bell is a great actor, who has had an accomplished career. A showy role like this could catapult him to the next level of stardom. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: At 37, he might be a little too gray-around-the-temples to play McCartney at the height of “Beatlemania.” Best Known For: Spinning webs and grappling with multiverses in the Spider-Man movies. Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: After the blockbuster success of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Holland could pitch himself as Yoko Ono, and the films’ producers would say, “yes.” Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: More Spidey sequels could create scheduling conflicts. And he’s probably too expensive. Best Known For: Doing unspeakable things to a peach in “Call Me By Your Name,” taking sandworms for a spin in the “Dune” films, and inhabiting a world of pure imagination in “Wonka.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: “Wonka” proved that Chalamet’s name above the title is enough to draw crowds. As the rare twenty-something movie star with a rabid fanbase, he understands the kind of passion that the Beatles inspired at their height (just witness the screams that greet Timmy every time he struts down a red carpet). Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: He’s set to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” which chronicles the artist as he first plugs in his electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. That might be one too many trips through the counterculture. Best Known For: Serving as a teenage Dr. Ruth in “Sex Education,” helping Martin Scorsese make a rare family-friendly film with “Hugo.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Butterfield has the chops to play Harrison, a prickly genius who bristled at being overshadowed by Lennon and McCartney. Plus, Butterfield makes and produces music, so he may be able to pull off a convincing cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: Having just wrapped up four seasons of “Sex Education,” does he really want to sign up for four Beatles’ films? Best Known For: Composing the music for “Beautiful Creatures,” being a member of bands like Thenewno2 and Fistful of Mercy, serving as a model for the Gap. Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: His father was George Harrison. Clearly, he has a personal connection to the material. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: At 45, he’s probably a member of the wrong generation. Moreover, can he act? Best Known For: Slurping Jacob Elordi’s left-over bath water in “Saltburn,” as well as for his Oscar-nominated turn as a lonely villager in “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Keoghan is a shape-shifter, whose talent knows no boundaries. Bonus: He has the kind of twitchy magnetism that made Starr so irresistible. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: Does he share the drummer’s droll sense of humor? Best Known For: Hogwarts’ most famous alum has demonstrated there’s life beyond “Harry Potter” with Broadway turns and colorful indie roles like the farting corpse he brought to cinematic life in “Swiss Army Man.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: At 5’5, Radcliffe is diminutive like Starr, and has demonstrated his musical chops in revivals of “Merrily We Roll Along” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: But is he too famous? After all, it’s hard for an icon to play another icon. Best Known For: Being the greatest actor who ever lived. Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: He’s Daniel Day-Lewis. He’s portrayed rapacious oil barons, 19th-century gang leaders, boxers, fashion designers, even Abraham Lincoln. He could play all the Beatles more convincingly than the real Beatles. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: He’s much too old. Plus, in case you haven’t heard, he’s retired.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	17	https://theclassicmachines.com/2021/12/21/george-harrison-the-beatle-who-was-a-car-guy/	en	George Harrison, the Beatle Who Was a Car Guy.	https://theclassicmachin…n-10.jpeg?w=1200	https://theclassicmachin…n-10.jpeg?w=1200	[ "https://theclassicmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20200213-harrison-10.jpeg?w=1568", "https://theclassicmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/3ac6c4fd-d9cb-4de3-bdbb-c6157ba451a9-beatles_get_back.jpg?w=1024", "https://theclassicmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/7416128.jpg?w=700", "https://th...	[ "https://www.youtube.com/embed/tSN04eFX2to?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" ]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "View more posts", "Rubens Junior" ]	2021-12-21T00:00:00	The Beatles are back in the spotlight, thanks to the "Get Back", the wonderful documentary about the band's last work, the album Let It Be. The director Peter Jackson (the same director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) had the access to over 50 hours of never seen before video and audio recorded during…	en	https://theclassicmachin…7470001.jpg?w=32	The Classic Machines	https://theclassicmachines.com/2021/12/21/george-harrison-the-beatle-who-was-a-car-guy/	The Beatles are back in the spotlight, thanks to the “Get Back”, the wonderful documentary about the band’s last work, the album Let It Be. The director Peter Jackson (the same director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) had the access to over 50 hours of never seen before video and audio recorded during the making of the album and he masterfully condensed it into an 8 hour long, 3 parts documentary. Jackson, who also is a passionate Beatles fan, created a masterpiece that is already changing the way that we, the fans, always saw the band during their last days together. All this Beatles talking for the last few weeks reminded me that George Harrison was an avid car guy and this passion started very early in his life, pretty much at the same time as he became passionate about rock and roll. The year was 1955 and George was only 12 years old, his father decided to take the whole family to see the British Grand Prix, which happened that year at the Aintree race track, located in the Merseyside County, only 6 miles away from downtown Liverpool. What George saw that day was nothing less than amazing, Mercedes-Benz dominated the race with a 1-2-3-4 result and the British driver Stirling Moss (picture above) won his first Formula One GP, narrowly beating his teammate, the Argentine Manuel Fangio. Although many people believed that Fangio allowed Moss to win his first race in front of his home crowd, that didn’t change the fact George Harrison fell in love with cars and speed that day. George’s talent as a guitarist would bring him to join, in 1958, the Quarry Man, a skiffle/rock’n roll band led by John Lennon, and the rest is history. All the Beatles members came from lower/middle-class families and naturally, the automobile was something way too expensive for young guys trying to make some cash playing music in small pubs. When Ringo Star joined The Beatles, in 1962, he was already a respectable drummer in the Liverpool scene, playing for the Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a very popular band in town. He was the only one of the Fab Four with enough cash in his pocket to own a fancy car, a 1960 Ford Zephyr Zodiac. As Paul McCartney recollects: “Ringo had a car when the rest of us didn’t even dream about it. When we saw him driving that Zodiac we thought he had stolen it“. The Anglia In 1962, Harrison got his drivers license and, naturally, he was looking for his first car. Brian Epstein, the band manager, immediately called a friend who worked at Hawthorne Motors, a Ford dealership in Warrington. George got an interesting deal: a blue, 1955 two-door Ford Anglia Deluxe with a very special discount in exchange for a couple of advertising photos with his new ride. George agreed with the deal, and on the day of the pickup, Ringo offered him a ride to Warrington. Money changed hands, photos were taken and on the way back to Liverpool, the two musicians raced each other on the highway. During the recording of Beatles Anthology, in 1995, George, Paul, and Ringo were talking about their first cars and some memories of that day came back: Ringo: You had a green Anglia George: Blue. Ringo: I took you to get that car. George: Did you? Ringo: Yes, to… George: (remembering) Warrington? Ringo: Yes, and as we were coming home, you may not remember… George: (smiling) Oh yeah? Ringo: You were speeding and I was speeding and we were both bumper to bumper and then you overtook this car in front, and I was ready to overtake, and just as I got right up his arse a dog ran out in front of him so he slammed on his brakes (BANG) I smashed right into him, wrote the f*ck out of my car but was lucky it was by a garage cos I drove it ….well pushed it into the garage… and I had no licence or insurance. George: Did I stop or did I keep going? Ringo: No you kept going George: I didn’t see what happened? Ringo: No, you just didn’t give a damn George: Even to this day I never knew about that! After a couple of months after buying the Anglia, George had already collected 2 warning tickets for speeding. The Jaguar The Anglia was a nice first car but with a 997cc engine and 40 HP, it was nowhere near to George’s expectations. By 1963, The Beatles had already taken the UK and Europe by storm and finally, George could afford to buy a real car, a brand new Jaguar Mk2. There is not a lot of information about this car around, apparently it didn’t catch the attention of the The Beatles maniacs. The Second Jaguar As the rumor goes around, Brian Epstein bought this 1964 E-Type as a gift for Harrison’s 21st birthday, and that makes sense since the car was registered only 3 days after the party. The car was equipped with an ultra-cool dash-mounted record player (only good when the car is not moving). Harrison loved his Jaguar so much that in a rather funny letter sent to a fan, Susan Houghton, posted by Letters of Note, he provided her with a seven-step instruction on how to wash to his car. In the end, he tells the young lady to pour the “muddy greasy water” onto a nearby Ford Classic, more than likely owned by Paul McCartney. Here is the letter in its entirety: 42, Brodie Ave. Mossley Hill, Liverpool 18 Dear Susan, I hope you had a good Chrimbo, and have a happy nuclear peace too. Thank you for giving my mum flowers and chocs (it was you wasn’t it??) Thanks also for the card, in fact, THANKS A HEAP SUSAN. “Your too kind” John Lennon. Instructions for washing car:- Use plenty of soapy clean water, preferably warm. 2) When car is [though it may take a lot of water]- clean, leave to dry off for about 20 minutes. [You can have a cup of tea now]. 3) Now ask mother to find some dusters, [2 each] and with the polish, apply with no.1 duster over an area of about 1 sq foot at a time, in a circular motion. Don’t leave it too long before polishing off. This should be carried out until the car is spotless, and gleaming clean. [Don’t forget the wheels!] 4) Take 1 brush or vacuum cleaner, and have a bash at the carpets. They too can be made to look like new. 5) The windows [interior] should be polished now, after which you can retire for another tea. 6) Before returning home, I suggest you look over the car again, for any parts you may have missed out, on finding, they should be cleaned accordingly. 7) Now proceed to 20 Forthlin RD. with about 6 buckets full of dirty muddy greasey water, where a shiney Ford Classic will be seen. Spread contents of the buckets evenly, so as to leave a nice film of muck over the car. You can now return home knowing you have done your deed for the day. Thank you!!! Proceedings should be carried out about the 8th of January. Thanks again for the cheerio for now don’t forget Ban the Bog. Love from George [Harrison] The Aston Martin In 1964 another icon of pop culture was born, the James Bond movie, Goldfinger, debuted in theatres around the world. For the first time, we saw the most intrepid British spy in action and we fell in love with his car, the gorgeous Aston Martin DB5. George just couldn’t resist, in the beginning of 1965, he got his own Aston. If the E-Type was a purebred sports car, the DB5 was a purebred race car, powered by an all-aluminum, 4 litre, dual camshaft, in-line 6 engine, fed by a trio of SU carbs, producing 282 HP, enough to push the lightweight coupe to a 240Km/h. Aston Martin became a popular choice among British rock stars in the 1960s, Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger also owned cars from the DB family. The Mini. In 1965, each Beatle won an Austin-Cooper as a publicity stunt for the British Motor Company. Harrison’s car was customized and painted in metallic black by the coachbuilder Harold Radford, and then, in early 1967 it was repainted with some psychedelic/Tantra art motifs. The Mini appeared in the Magical Mystery Tour movie, released by BBC in December 26, 1967. Apparently, the Mini still belongs to the Harrison family, its last notable appearance was in the 1998 Goodwood Festival of Speed, where some related celebrities took the car for a spin. Celebrities like Ringo Star and Damon Hill, and Stella McCartney. The Mercedes Benzes Harrison was a notorious British car aficionado but in 1967, he decided for something different, he bought a “600”, the top of the line Mercedes-Benz, he chose the short wheelbase, the car Mercedes called “personal luxury sedan”. For the hardcore Beatles fans, this White Mercedes is somehow familiar, it is the car George used to go to the Apple headquarters, on January 30th, 1969, for the famous rooftop concert. George became hooked on Mercedes-Benz, he owned quite a few of them during his years as a car enthusiast, and on one occasion, in 1972, he and his wife Patty almost lost their lives inside a white 300SEL, when George hit a lamp pole while in route to a party in London. (pictures above). Another interesting Mercedes was the 600 Pulman Limousine that Harrison bought from John Lennon in 1971. Lennon was about to move to the USA and was selling some of his “stuff”. Later on, in 1975, Harrison sold the limo to the American group ” The Supremes”, the car was shipped to America and used by the Motown stars for a few years during their tours. The car now belongs to a collector, and the picture above shows the “600” after a complete restoration, done in Germany. If there is one car that can be considered Harrison’s daily driver is this amazing, all-black 1984 AMG 500SEL. George drove it for almost 50,000Km during the course of 18 years, the car was auctioned in 2018 for £43K. George Harrison never stopped buying and selling cool cars throughout his life. He had them all, Porsches… Ferraris… Formula-One It was only after the break-up of The Beatles that George had more time for his hobby and he started to follow the Formula One up close. Harrison became a regular presence at many F-One paddocks around the world, sometimes accompanied by Ringo Star. During this time they made some good friends in the Formula One circle. Nelson Piquet, Harrison, and Ringo having fun with Jack Stewart. James Hunt. The friendship with Emerson Fittipaldi (above) allowed Harrison to visit Brazil, when the two times champion invited the ex-Beatle to see the 1979 Brazilian GP and stay for a few days at his beach house, in Guarujá. Faster George’s passion for Formula One inspired him to write a song as a homage to the circus and to honour the death of the Swedish racing driver Ronnie Peterson. In an interview to the Rolling Stone Magazine, Harrison said he was satisfied with the lyric of the song because it wasn’t just corny: “It is easy to write about V8 engines and vroom-vroom; that would have been bullshit”. Harrison on the track, driving a Formula-One. In 1979, Harrison was invited to drive the legendary 1960 Coventry-Climax Lotus 18 at the Gunnar Nilsson charity campaign. It is the same car that Stirling Moss won at Monte Carlo in 1960; the hardcore gearheads will recognize it as the one Lotus Team often removed some body panels to make it lighter. The event happened at Donington Park, on July 14th, 1979. George’s recollections of the charity event were published at Goldmine magazine, 27 November 1992 issue: “I’ve never raced seriously myself, but I had a go in a Formula One car, with quite an old 3-liter-engine car. I’d drive round Brand’s Hatch in one. And I drove in a charity for Gunnar Nilsson, a Swedish driver who died of cancer, because I gave the money from the ‘Faster’ single off George Harrison to Gunnar’s cancer fund. Anyhow, they had this day for the Gunnar Nilsson campaign at the track in England and they asked me to drive this 1960 Lotus, which had won a race in Monte Carlo when driven by the great English driver Sterling Moss. This car had no seatbelts, and because it had been in a museum for 20 years the tires were hard with no grip on them, yet the car was still pretty quick! But they assured me it was just a demonstration run, going round for five laps in formation and then five laps at your own pace. So I said I’d do it. I got there, and it’s Jackie Stewart in the Tyrrell he won his ‘73 championship in; James Hunt in the McLaren. Phil Hill in his famous Ferrari. I’m walking to my car while chatting with driver John Watson about the pleasure of the run we’re about to take, and he says, ‘You’re joking. There’s no racing driver that goes in formation! As soon as they drop that flag, they’ll all be gone like crazy! Sure enough, as soon as the checkered flag fell, the other cars went whoosh as mine puttered along in a haze of smoke! By the time I got to my first lap they were already coming behind me for their second lap, screaming away! Scared me stiff! [wild laugh] But at least I did better than James Hunt, who broke down on the first pass.” The McLaren Harrison became a close friend to Gordon Murray when the South African was the chief designer for Brabham and McLaren. Murray was involved in the development of the “Rocket”, an ultra-lightweight, open cockpit roadster powered by a 1-litre Yamaha engine, inspired by the 60’s era Grand Prix car. Harrison was one of the first customers of the car. Gordon Murray was part of a more popular project among the gearheads, the McLaren F1, the gorgeous 1990’s supercar, powered by a V12 BMW engine. All Things Must Pass…but George wouldn’t pass the opportunity to own a supercar designed by his good friend. Harrison ordered a custom-built F1, according to his taste. During the process he called McLaren several times, impatiently asking for the date of delivery. In 1994 the ex-Beatle received the car, chassis #025, painted in Dark Purple Pearl, with black satin wheels, a very unusual combination at the time. Harrison was an ardent devotee of Hinduism and he asked the bare chassis of 025 to be covered with symbols of his Hindu faith as well as hand-written quotes and song lyrics applied in silver ink by Gordon Murray. George loved this McLaren so much that his family decided to keep it after his death. George Harrison left this world way too soon, in 2001, when he lost the battle against cancer. For most of the fans, he was an amazing musician who was part of the most influential rock and roll band in history but he was much more than that. “I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that’s really me. The real me is something else” -George Harrison- If George was a bit elusive when talking about himself, perhaps one of his good friends from the Formula-One circus, Sir Jack Stewart, gave us a simple but sincere description of Harrison’s character: “One of the great enthusiasts, one of the nicest men. He also had one of the biggest brains that I’ve had the pleasure of being around. People might say ‘you can’t be serious, he was just a singer in The Beatles’. But with his worldly knowledge and his beliefs, he was very articulate. He was a great one for coloring pictures of life. He could really graphically describe something, it was like you were seeing a picture in front of you that someone like me could understand, perhaps outside of my normal ability“.
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[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Catherine Shoard", "www.theguardian.com" ]	2024-02-20T00:00:00	Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison	en	https://assets.guim.co.u…e-touch-icon.svg	the Guardian	https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/20/beatles-films-sam-mendes-john-paul-george-ringo	Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of two of the most successful ever James Bond films, is to tackle another multimillion pound British cultural institution: the Beatles. The director has announced that he will make four separate fiction films, one for each member of the band. The project has the blessing of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and of the families of John Lennon and George Harrison. It marks the first time they, and rights holders Apple, have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film. Mendes explained that the four films will all be released in 2027 and tell interconnected stories, one from each band member’s point of view. The “dating cadence” of the films, explained a press release, “will be innovative and groundbreaking”. “I’m honoured to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time,” he said, “and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies.” No writers or cast have yet been announced. Mendes’ producer Pippa Harris explained that the director had the idea more than a year ago, “and it’s a testament to his creative brilliance and powers of persuasion that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon and Olivia Harrison responded with such warmth and enthusiasm as soon as he spoke with them”. She told Deadline: “What is truly exciting is for Sam to have the freedom to delve into the lives of each of the Beatles, with nothing off limits and no sense of the band wanting him to tell a particular ‘authorised’ version of their rise to success.” Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Tom Rothman, added: “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some. Pairing his premiere film-making team, with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe. We are deeply grateful to all parties and look forward ourselves to breaking some rules with Sam’s uniquely artistic vision.” The Beatles formed in 1960 and changed the course of musical history before breaking up in 1970. As well as their numerous albums and hit singles, they made five features to tie in with seismic albums, beginning with A Hard Day’s Night in 1964 and ending with Let It Be (1970), all of which were well received, aside from 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour. Dozens of documentaries have been made about the band, including Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016) and Get Back, Peter Jackson’s acclaimed three-part eight-hour movie from 2021. About 18 biopics of the band have also appeared on the big and small screen, of which the most acclaimed are 1994’s Backbeat – which focuses on sometime guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe – and 2009’s Nowhere Boy, about the adolescence of John Lennon. Last year saw the release of Now and Then, purportedly the final track featuring all four key Beatles, which involved McCartney, Harrison and Starr accompanying and adapting an audio track laid down by John Lennon before his murder in 1980. Mendes was born in 1965, when Help! was topping the charts in the UK and US. His most recent film, Empire of Light, was an autobiographical drama set in the early 1980s and whose soundtrack – and plot – featured a considerable amount of contemporary two-tone. His debut film, American Beauty, won five Oscars in 2000, including best picture, director and leading actor (for Kevin Spacey). His two James Bond films, Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), remain the highest grossing in the franchise, while the former is widely regarded as the most critically acclaimed. His single-shot war film, 1917, went into the 2020 Oscars with 10 nominations, winning three awards, but losing out on the key gongs to Parasite. Mendes’ stage career includes high-profile revivals of classic musicals including Cabaret (1993) Oliver! (1994) Company (1995) and Gypsy (2003). In 2013, he directed the original West End staging of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical; his latest production, Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, recently opened in London.
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The band’s immortal hit songs include ‘Please Please Me,’ ‘Help!,’ ‘Yesterday,’ ‘Yellow Submarine,’ ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,’ ‘Hey Jude,’ and ‘Let It Be.’	en	/favicon.png	Encyclopedia Britannica	https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-Beatles	the Beatles British rock group Summarize BETA Trusted Britannica articles, summarized using artificial intelligence, to provide a quicker and simpler reading experience. This is a beta feature. Please verify important information in our full article. This summary was created from our Britannica article using AI. Please verify important information in our full article. Top Questions Who were the members of the Beatles? The principal members of the Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Other early members included Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best. How did the Beatles become a band? The Beatles were formed around the nucleus of members John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who first performed together in Liverpool, England, in 1957. They performed with a changing cast of accompanists and under a changing list of band names before settling on their final members and name. What was Beatlemania? Beatlemania was the name given to the popular frenzy surrounding the Beatles after the band’s first appearances on British television in 1963. When the Beatles appeared on American television in 1964, Beatlemania also erupted in the United States. Mass media created the conditions for the collective frenzy that was Beatlemania. Did the Beatles Really Say They Were More Popular than Jesus?In 1966 Beatlemania reached its highest point yet. What was the Beatles’ first hit? The Beatles’ first hit was the song “Love Me Do” in 1962, which peaked at number 17 on the U.K. singles charts. The song was released by the record label Parlophone but had been recorded before the band was signed. When did the Beatles break up? The Beatles formally disbanded in the spring of 1970, about a month after the release of their final album, Let It Be. All four members went on to produce more music individually or with other groups. Recent News June 30, 2024, 4:59 AM ET (CBS) Rediscovering Paul McCartney's photos of The Beatles' 1964 invasion June 28, 2024, 3:39 AM ET (Globe and Mail) After quietly closing stores, Rooms + Spaces merchandise creeps into Toys 'R' Us locations June 27, 2024, 5:11 AM ET (Forbes) Paul McCartney Earns A New Hit On Five Billboard Charts The Fab Four. John, Paul, George, and Ringo. The Beatles were four young musicians from the working-class seaport city of Liverpool, England, who accomplished nothing less than changing the course of rock and roll and transforming youth culture. From 1962, the year that Ringo Starr joined up with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, until 1970, the year the quartet split up, the Beatles served as the global polestar for the hopes and dreams of the generation that came of age in the 1960s. Making their name with traditional, perfectly crafted pop songs such as “She Loves You” and “I Saw Her Standing There,” they soon began experimenting with more challenging instrumentation, introspective lyrics, and music genres ranging from folk and country to chamber ballads and psychedelia. As such, the Beatles were rock music’s leading innovators in the 1960s. Songs such as “Yesterday,” “Eleanor Rigby,” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” not only became immortal pop songs but also changed the nature of songwriting. Perhaps more remarkable than the Beatles’ phenomenal success during the band’s short run is their enduring popularity with generations born decades after the band’s breakup. One of the most profoundly influential musical acts in history, the group inspired too many rock and pop artists to possibly list. Meet the Beatles Principal band members John Lennon (b. October 9, 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England—d. December 8, 1980, New York City, New York, U.S.) Paul McCartney (b. June 18, 1942, Liverpool) George Harrison (b. February 25, 1943, Liverpool—d. November 29, 2001, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) Ringo Starr (b. July 7, 1940, Liverpool) Other early members Stuart Sutcliffe (b. June 23, 1940, Edinburgh, Scotland—d. April 10, 1962, Hamburg, West Germany) Pete Best (b. November 24, 1941, Madras [now Chennai], India) Early years Formed around the nucleus of Lennon and McCartney, who first performed together in Liverpool in 1957, the group grew out of a shared enthusiasm for American rock and roll. Like most early rock-and-roll figures, Lennon, a guitarist and singer, and McCartney, a bassist and singer, were largely self-taught as musicians. Precocious composers, they gathered around themselves a changing cast of accompanists, adding by the end of 1957 Harrison, a lead guitarist, and then, in 1960 for several formative months, Stuart Sutcliffe, a promising young painter who brought into the band a brooding sense of bohemian style. After dabbling in skiffle, a jaunty sort of folk music popular in Britain in the late 1950s, and assuming several different names (the Quarrymen, the Silver Beetles, and, finally, the Beatles), the band added a drummer, Pete Best, and joined a small but booming “beat music” scene, first in Liverpool and then, during several long visits between 1960 and 1962, in Hamburg, West Germany—another seaport full of sailors thirsty for American rock and roll as a backdrop for their drinking and carousing. First success: Brian Epstein, George Martin, and “Please Please Me” Britannica Quiz That Swinging ’60s Quiz In autumn 1961 Brian Epstein, a local Liverpool record store manager, saw the band and fell in love. Unshakably convinced of their commercial potential, Epstein became their manager and proceeded to bombard the major British music companies with letters and tape recordings of the band, finally winning a contract with Parlophone, a subsidiary of the giant EMI group of music labels. The man in charge of their career at Parlophone was George Martin, a classically trained musician who from the start put his stamp on the Beatles, first by suggesting the band hire a more polished drummer (they chose Starr) and then by rearranging their second recorded song (and first big British hit), “Please Please Me,” changing it from a slow dirge into an up-tempo romp. Beatlemania and A Hard Day’s Night Throughout the winter and into the spring of 1963, the Beatles continued their rise to fame in England by producing spirited recordings of original tunes and playing classic American rock and roll on a variety of British Broadcasting Corporation radio programs. In these months, fascination with the Beatles—at first confined to young British fans of popular music—breached the normal barriers of taste, class, and age, transforming their recordings and live performances into matters of widespread public comment. In the fall of that year, when they belatedly made a couple of appearances on British television, the evidence of popular frenzy prompted British newspapers to coin a new word for the phenomenon: Beatlemania. In early 1964, after equally tumultuous appearances on American television, the same phenomenon erupted in the United States and provoked a so-called British Invasion of Beatles imitators from the United Kingdom. Beatlemania was something new. Musicians performing in the 19th century certainly excited a frenzy—one thinks of Franz Liszt—but that was before the modern mass media created the possibility of collective frenzy. By the summer of 1964, when the Beatles appeared in A Hard Day’s Night, a movie that dramatized the phenomenon of Beatlemania, the band’s effect was evident around the world as countless young people emulated the band members’ characteristic long hair, flip humor, and whimsical displays of devil-may-care abandon. Indeed, their transformative social and cultural influence was even recognized among the upper echelons of political power. In 1965 each of the four Beatles was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), having been recommended for the honor by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (and despite a brief storm of protest by some previous recipients, mainly military veterans, against what they perceived as a lowering of the dignity of the royal order). Reinventing rock music: “Yesterday” and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The popular hubbub proved to be a spur, convincing Lennon and McCartney of their songwriting abilities and sparking an outpouring of creative experimentation all but unprecedented in the history of rock music, which until then had been widely regarded as essentially a genre for juveniles. Between 1965 and 1967 the music of the Beatles rapidly changed and evolved, becoming ever more subtle, sophisticated, and varied. Their repertoire in these years ranged from the chamber pop ballad “Yesterday” and the enigmatic folk tune “Norwegian Wood” (both in 1965) to the hallucinatory hard rock song “Tomorrow Never Knows” (1966), with a lyric inspired by Timothy Leary’s handbook The Psychedelic Experience (1964). It also included the carnivalesque soundscape of “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” (1967), which featured stream-of-consciousness lyrics by Lennon and a typically imaginative arrangement (by George Martin) built around randomly spliced-together snippets of recorded steam organs—a tour de force of technological legerdemain quite typical of the band’s studio work in this era. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Subscribe Now In 1966 the Beatles retired from public performing to concentrate on exploiting the full resources of the recording studio. A year later, in June 1967, this period of widely watched creative renewal climaxed with the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album avidly greeted by young people around the world as indisputable evidence not only of the band’s genius but also of the era’s utopian promise. More than a band of musicians, the Beatles had come to personify, certainly in the minds of millions of young listeners, the joys of a new counterculture of hedonism and uninhibited experimentation—with music and with new ways of life. Various members of the band in these years flirted with mind-expanding drugs such as LSD and also with spiritual exercises such as transcendental meditation, a technique taught to them by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a barnstorming guru from India. In those years the Beatles effectively reinvented the meaning of rock and roll as a cultural form. The American artists they admired and chose to emulate—Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, the pioneering rock composers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the influential soul songwriter Smokey Robinson, and, after 1964, folksinger and topical songwriter Bob Dylan—became widely regarded as canonic sources of inspiration, offering “classical” models for aspiring younger rock musicians. At the same time, the original songs the Beatles wrote and recorded dramatically expanded the musical range and expressive scope of the genre they had inherited. Their close vocal harmonies, subtle arrangements, and clever production touches, combined with an elemental rhythm section anchored by Starr’s no-nonsense drumming, created new standards of excellence and beauty in rock music. Apple and Abbey Road After 1968 and the eruption of student protest movements in countries as different as Mexico and France, the Beatles insensibly surrendered their role as de facto leaders of an inchoate global youth culture. They nevertheless continued for several more years to record and release new music and maintained a level of popularity rarely rivaled before or since. In 1968 they launched their own record label, Apple; hoping to nurture experimental pop art, they instead produced chaos and commercial failure, apart from the work of the Beatles themselves. The band continued to enjoy widespread popularity. The following year Abbey Road went on to become one of the band’s best-loved and biggest-selling albums. The dream is over: the Beatles’ breakup and the death of John Lennon Meanwhile, personal disagreements magnified by the stress of symbolizing the dreams of a generation had begun to tear the band apart. Once the collaborative heart and soul of the band, Lennon and McCartney fell into bickering and mutual accusations of ill will. By now millions of dollars were at stake, and the utopian aura of the performers was in jeopardy, given the discrepancy between the band’s symbolic stature as idols of a carefree youth culture and their newfound real status as pampered plutocrats. In the spring of 1970 the Beatles formally disbanded. In the years that followed, all four members went on to produce solo albums of variable quality and popularity. Lennon released a corrosive set of songs with his new wife, Yoko Ono, and McCartney went on to form a band, Wings, that turned out a fair number of commercially successful recordings in the 1970s. Starr and Harrison, too, initially had some success as solo artists. In 1980 Lennon was murdered by a fan-turned-stalker outside the Dakota, an apartment building in New York City known for its celebrity tenants. The event provoked a global outpouring of grief. Lennon is memorialized in Strawberry Fields, a section of Central Park across from the Dakota that Ono landscaped in her husband’s honor. Life goes on: solo projects In the years that followed Lennon’s death, the surviving former Beatles continued to record and perform as solo artists. McCartney in particular remained musically active. In the pop field he produced new albums every few years. In the field of classical music he completed Liverpool Oratorio in 1991; in 1997 he supervised the recording of another symphonic work of large ambition, Standing Stone; and in 1999 he released a new classical album, Working Classical. McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. Starr was also very visible in the 1990s, touring annually with his All-Star Band, a rotating group of rock veterans playing their hits on the summertime concert circuit. Beginning in 1988 Harrison recorded with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison in a loose amalgam known as the Traveling Wilburys, but, for most of the 1980s and ’90s, he had a low profile as a musician while acting as the producer of several successful films. After surviving a knife attack at his home in 1999, Harrison succumbed to a protracted battle with cancer in 2001. Early in the 1990s McCartney, Harrison, and Starr had joined to add harmonies to two previously unreleased vocal recordings by Lennon. These new songs by “the Beatles” served as a pretext for yet another publicity blitz, aimed at creating a market for a lavishly produced quasi-historical series of archival recordings assembled under the supervision of the band and released in 1995 and 1996 as The Beatles Anthology, a collection of six compact discs that supplemented a 10-hour-long authorized video documentary of the same name. A compilation of the band’s number one singles, 1, appeared in 2000 and enjoyed worldwide success, topping the charts in several countries. Legacy The afterglow of Beatlemania may have disappeared, but the iconography of an era of youthful tumult had been reverently preserved for posterity. The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and Lennon (1994), McCartney (1999), Harrison (2004), and Starr (2015) were also inducted as individuals. In September 2009 specially packaged digitally remastered versions of the Beatles’ entire catalog and a Beatles version of the popular electronic music game Rock Band were released simultaneously. After it was reported in February 2010 that the financially troubled EMI was soliciting buyers for its Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles made the great majority of their recordings, the British Department for Culture, Media, and Sport declared the recording complex a historic landmark. EMI subsequently announced that it would retain ownership of the iconic studio while seeking outside investment to improve its facilities. James E. Miller
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	39	https://variety.com/2024/film/news/beatles-movies-sam-mendes-directing-four-films-2027-release-1235916841/	en	Sam Mendes to Direct Four Separate Beatles Movies on Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr	https://variety.com/wp-c…esize=1000%2C563	https://variety.com/wp-c…esize=1000%2C563	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1", "https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/PBDBEAT_EC014.jpg?w=1000&h=667&crop=1", "https://variety.com/wp-content/themes/pmc-variety-2020/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://variety.com/wp-content/themes/pmc-variety-2020/as...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Rebecca Rubin" ]	2024-02-20T14:09:14+00:00	Director Sam Mendes is making four movies about the Beatles.	en	https://variety.com/wp-c…e-touch-icon.png	Variety	https://variety.com/2024/film/news/beatles-movies-sam-mendes-directing-four-films-2027-release-1235916841/	John, Paul, George and Ringo will each be the subject of a different upcoming feature film. Director Sam Mendes plans to make four separate movies, one from each Beatles member’s point of view. They will intersect to “tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history,” leading up to their 1970 breakup, according to a press release. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the families of the late John Lennon and George Harrison have granted full life story and music rights for the scripted films. “I’m honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies,” Mendes, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of “American Beauty,” war drama “1917” and James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” said in a statement. Sony Pictures Entertainment will finance and distribute all four films theatrically in 2027. Details about release plans will be shared later, but the studio promises the strategy will be “innovative and groundbreaking.” It would certainly be risky to premiere all four films in the same year. However, music movies have been surging in popularity at the box office. Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” and Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” were bigger hits than expected, while Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour,” a cinematic rendering of her record-breaking concert, outperformed several Hollywood franchises in terms of global ticket sales. Several other looks at musical legends are in the works; Antoine Fuqua is turning Michael Jackson’s life story into a feature film, Amy Winehouse is getting the biopic treatment with “Back to Black” and Ridley Scott is in talks to direct a movie about the rise of the Bee Gees. In addition to directing, Mendes will produce alongside his Neal Street Productions partner Pippa Harris and Neal Street’s Julie Pastor. Jeff Jones will executive produce for Apple Corps Limited, the multi-media organization founded by the Beatles in 1968. “We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” Harris said in a statement. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege.” This is the first time the Beatles have granted their full support for a scripted film. The band has been the subject of several documentaries including the 1970s film “Let It Be,” which chronicled the group’s breakup, as well as Peter Jackson’s “Get Back,” which captured the making of their album “Let It Be.” Their songs also inspired films like the 2007 jukebox musical “Across the Universe” and 1978’s “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Despite their global following, not everything the Beatles touch turns to cinematic gold — “Across the Universe” flopped, for instance. Of course, the Fab Four also appeared in their own movies, including 1964’s “A Hard Day’s Night,” 1965’s “Help!,” 1967’s “Magical Mystery Tour” and 1968’s “Yellow Submarine.” “I know I speak for our CEO Tony Vinciquerra, who was instrumental in making this happen, and every Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group colleague around the world when I say: ‘yeah, yeah, yeah!’” said Tom Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony’s Motion Picture Group. “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some. Pairing his premiere filmmaking team, with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe.” In a note to Sony employees on Tuesday, Rothman wrote that “many companies were hoping for the chance to partner on this once-in-a-lifetime cinematic experience. I am honored that in Columbia Pictures’ 100th year, and with Tony’s enthusiastic support, we won the day and are the chosen home.” Deadline first broke the news.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	78	https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-mccartney-harrison-fight-let-it-be/	en	'Let It Be' Director: McCartney	https://townsquare.media…5&format=natural	https://townsquare.media…5&format=natural	[ "https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2021/04/logo256.png", "https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2024/05/attachment-Apple-Films-Ltd..jpg?w=980&q=75", "https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2024/07/attachment-GettyImages-2162978823.jpg?w=980&q=75", "https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2024/07/atta...	[]	[]	[ "news" ]	null	[ "Michael Gallucci" ]	2024-05-10T19:48:05+00:00	Michael Lindsay-Hogg said the Paul McCartney and George Harrison fight captured in the 'Let It Be' film was no big deal, in May 2024.	en	https://townsquare.media…/04/favicon1.png	Ultimate Classic Rock	https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-mccartney-harrison-fight-let-it-be/	Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg said a famous spat between Paul McCartney and George Harrison captured in the 1970 film about the making of the Beatles' final album was no big deal. "Nothing was going to be in the picture that they didn't want," Lindsay-Hogg told Grammy.com. "They never commented on that. They took that exchange as like many other exchanges they'd had over the years … but, of course, since they'd broken up a month before [the film's release], everyone was looking for little bits of sharp metal on the sand to think why they'd broken up." During the often tumultuous recording sessions for the 1970 album that became Let It Be, Harrison, growing irritated by McCartney, told the bassist, "I'll play, you know, whatever you want me to play, or I won't play at all if you don't want me to play. Whatever it is that will please you … I'll do it." READ MORE: Every Beatles Song Ranked Worst to Best The restored version of the 1970 film, long out of public view, recently premiered on Disney+. Peter Jackson, who spearheaded the 2021 miniseries The Beatles: Get Back, was instrumental in cleaning up the new edition of the movie, which Lindsay-Hogg originally directed in 1969 as the Beatles prepared to record a follow-up LP to The White Album. Contrary to the general thinking about the Beatles' relationship with each other and the film at the time, Lindsay-Hogg said that after he showed them a rough cut of the movie, they were not only friendly with each other but also went out afterward for dinner and drinks: "Nice food, collegial, pleasant, witty conversation, nice wine. "Paul said he thought Let It Be was good. We'd all done a good job. And Ringo [Starr] and [his wife] Maureen were jiving to the music until two in the morning. They had a really, really good time. And you can see like [in the film], on their faces, their interactions — it was like it always was." 'Let It Be' Director Never Thought the Film Would Be Released Again Let It Be has been mostly absent since its premiere in 1970, even though there was some talk in the early '80s about re-releasing it. And then it all but disappeared. Lindsay-Hogg said he feared the film would never be shown again. "I went through many years of thinking, It's not going to come out," he noted. "Then suddenly the sun comes out. And someone opens the cell door, and Let It Be walks out." In addition to the newly restored version of the movie now showing on Disney+, a new music video for the song "Let It Be" was assembled using clips from the film and previously unseen outtakes from the rushes. You can watch the video below. [button href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-let-it-be-special-edition-album-review/" title="Next: The Beatles, 'Let It Be: Special Edition (Super Deluxe)': Album Review"
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	95	https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/news/lost-1968-song-featuring-george-harrison-and-ringo-starr-uncovered-5267/	en	Lost 1968 song featuring George Harrison and Ringo Starr discovered	https://www.rollingstone…y-Jude-Cover.jpg	https://www.rollingstone…y-Jude-Cover.jpg	[ "https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Rolling-Stone-Logo-UK-PRIMARY-_1_-300x60.png", "https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/Rolling-Stone-Logo-UK-PRIMARY-_1_-300x60.png", "https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Stream-Logo_Large...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Patrick Clarke" ]	2021-11-10T15:50:57+00:00	A previously unheard song recorded in 1968 and featuring The Beatles' George Harrison and Ringo Starr has been uncovered in a Birmingham attic.	en	https://www.rollingstone…on-new-32x32.png	Rolling Stone UK	https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/news/lost-1968-song-featuring-george-harrison-and-ringo-starr-uncovered-5267/	A previously unheard song recorded in 1968 and featuring The Beatles‘ George Harrison and Ringo Starr has been discovered in a Birmingham attic. The song, titled ‘Radhe Shaam’, was written by the journalist Suresh Joshi in 1968 for a documentary called ‘East Meets West’, and recorded at Trident Studios in London. Harrison and Starr were at the same studios recording ‘Hey Jude’ at the time, and offered to contribute guitar and drums. The track was first played to 100 people at the Liverpool Beatles Museum, and then received its first airplay on BBC Radio Merseyside along with an interview with Joshi. “We were making a feature film, we were recording our other music with Asshish Khan, and while we were doing that in comes George Harrison. I stood out like a sore thumb,” Joshi remembered. You can listen back to it here, with the interview beginning at 2 hours 16 minutes, and the song at 2 hours and 27 minutes. Joshi said the master tape had been stored in his loft in Birmingham, and only rediscovered during lockdown. “It was lost and found many times, but we didn’t have the chance to release it because time had gone on, The Beatles were breaking up and had various problems, so nobody wanted to get it. “Then about four or five years ago I told Aashish let’s release it, and he said there’s too many things going on, let’s leave it for a while… Suddenly the lockdown was a blessing in disguise.” Liverpool Beatles Museum manager Paul Parry told the audience who heard the song there, that he “loved” the song, and called it “absolutely amazing.” “It was unmistakeably George’s guitar [and] it was like almost bringing him back to life,” he said. “It was unmistakeably Ringo’s drumming too.” There are plans for the songs to receive a full release tomorrow (November 11), with proceeds going to charity. “Leave it to humanity, that’s what George wanted to do,” Joshi said.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	94	https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2476446/how-george-harrison-and-ringo-starr-were-originally-included-in-yesterday	en	How George Harrison And Ringo Starr Were Originally Included In Yesterday	https://cdn.mos.cms.futu…QP3E-1200-80.jpg	https://cdn.mos.cms.futu…QP3E-1200-80.jpg	[ "https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/cinemablend/media/shared/img/flags/nosize/US.svg", "https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/cinemablend/media/shared/img/flags/nosize/US.svg", "https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/cinemablend/media/shared/img/flags/nosize/GB.svg", "https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/cinemablend/media/shared/img/flag...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Mike Reyes" ]	2019-07-12T21:53:37+00:00	Another masterclass in what to cut, and what to keep.	en	https://cdn.mos.cms.futu…so1619422461.png	CINEMABLEND	https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2476446/how-george-harrison-and-ringo-starr-were-originally-included-in-yesterday	Warning: spoilers for Yesterday are in play. If you’re interested in staying away from spoilers, bookmark this story and come back once you’ve seen the film. In the world of director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis’ Yesterday, the loss of the music of The Beatles changes a lot of things. Along with their legendary catalog of songs not existing, certain aspects of pop culture are altered because of the lack of their meteoric career. Without their hordes of screaming fans and singles like “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” climbing the charts in the ‘60s, the four members of that band were never famous; that's a fact we saw play out in the film when Himesh Patel’s Jack Malik met a very much alive John Lennon, played by Robert Carlyle. But per a recent discussion CinemaBlend had with Richard Curtis, John Lennon was apparently not the only Beatle that was supposed to appear in Yesterday. In fact, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were supposed to also make an appearance, which came out in a story Curtis told me during the film’s press day: That temperature raising that Richard Curtis mentioned is the fact that before he got Danny Boyle to sign on as the director of Yesterday, Boyle wanted about 20-25% of the script to be changed and/or trimmed in the film’s story. That was one of the many facts mentioned during the film’s Tribeca Film Festival Q&A, which made for perfect conversation during our brief time chatting about Yesterday. In the name of full honesty, it’s an opinion that not only Richard Curtis agreed with, but it’s something I’m totally in line with. Much like when the Love, Actually writer had to determine how far he could push the gag of what items were missing in the world of Yesterday, figuring out how many Beatles could appear before the effectiveness of their presence wore off was equally important to how much audiences would buy into the world of this particular fantasy-comedy. Circling back to Danny Boyle’s remark about how that particular card should have only been played once, seeing John Lennon alive and well in the world of Yesterday is such a bittersweet moment, it shatters the heart of the audience. Lennon’s tragic death at the hands of his assailant is one of those pivotal moments in pop culture that defines how a fandom dealt with loss. While the entire Beatles line-up being just regular joes is an interesting concept, narrowing it to the one member that left way too soon turns the twist into something that earns a lot of emotional real estate in the film. Not to mention, if that one scene with John Lennon divided audiences so sharply, could you imagine how much more polarizing it would have been with another run at that gag? There are other things that Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis tinkered with in Yesterday, including a moment that was added to give the film’s third act its most romantic moment. All of these choices, be they additions or cuts, make that film into the special product that it currently is today.
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	3	3	https://www.tvguide.com/movies/a-hard-days-night/cast/2000098580/	en	A Hard Day's Night - Full Cast & Crew	https://www.tvguide.com/…1-1076765441.jpg	https://www.tvguide.com/…1-1076765441.jpg	[]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Learn more about the full cast of A Hard Day's Night with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide	en	/favicon.ico	TVGuide.com	https://www.tvguide.com/movies/a-hard-days-night/cast/2000098580/	96 Metascore 1964 1 hr 26 mins Music, Comedy, Action & Adventure NR Watchlist Where to Watch The Beatles' first film, a delightful, Marx Brothers-like romp, depicts a "typical day" in the lives of the beloved foursome, with a fresh, freewheeling tone and many of the band's songs. Restored version.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	80	https://beatles-freak.com/tag/george-harrison/	en	Beatles-Freak's Reviews	https://beatles-freak.co…rofile.jpg?w=180	https://beatles-freak.co…rofile.jpg?w=180	[ "https://beatles-freak.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bfreviews_wordpress_header.jpg", "https://beatles-freak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/forever-young-hayley-mills.jpg?w=199&h=300", "https://beatles-freak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/george-harrison-hayley-mills.jpg?w=300&h=225", "https://beatles-freak....	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Posts about George Harrison written by Beatles Freak Reviews	en	https://beatles-freak.co…profile.jpg?w=32	Beatles-Freak's Reviews	https://beatles-freak.com/tag/george-harrison/	ONCE THERE WAS A WAY – EXCERPT Lennon Kidnapping (1974) Once Julian was safely back to the care of his mother, Cynthia, John returned to his party life in Malibu. The Weathermen followed him constantly. Ironically, even though Lennon spotted them several times, he dismissed them as junior FBI agents and ignored them. The nightclubs they followed him into included the famed Troubadour in Hollywood. Wearing disguises, the Weathermen observed Lennon and Nilsson throwing back Brandy Alexanders like men who had been lost in the desert for a week. One night, an inebriated Lennon came from the restrooms wearing a sanitary napkin attached to his forehead. Dohrn and Ayers watched as a waitress questioned him as to whether he was leaving a tip on the way out. “Do you know who I am?” Lennon asked. “Yes,” the waitress shot back. “You’re the asshole with a Kotex on your head.” The plan had been for Dohrn and Ayers to pick up Lennon after he left the Troubadour, but now there were too many people around, from bouncers to club owners to fans gathered to watch the stumbling Lennon. If anything, the scene convinced Dohrn and Ayers that Lennon was a worthy target who would benefit from some re-education—they’d just have to wait a little longer to implement their plans. As it turned out, they didn’t have to wait as long as they thought. The evening of March 12, 1974, had been a dark one for John Lennon, now almost a year into his banishment by Yoko Ono. Lennon and Nilsson began throwing down more cocktails and decided to heckle the Smothers Brothers, the controversial political satirists. “The comments got so ugly and personal that we were about to get pulled off the stage,” Tommy Smothers said. “We loved the Beatles and it blew our minds that one of them would try to ruin our show.” As the situation escalated, club security attempted to remove the drunken and enraged rock stars in the audience. The struggle turned physical, and Lennon lost his memorable glasses in the scuffle. All of this, of course, attracted just as much attention as the Kotex incident, but this time, the Weather Underground was prepared—they had a spotter in the crowd who used a nearby payphone to call Bernardine Dohrn, stationed at another payphone near Lennon’s rental house on the beach. As a taxi dropped off Lennon, Nilsson, and Pang at Lennon’s, a coordinated team of five members of the Weather Underground made their move to grab Lennon. Nilsson tried to hold on to his friend but was punched out cold for his bravery, suffering a concussion when his head hit the stone driveway. A car appeared, driven by Ayers, with Dohrn in the passenger seat. Pang screamed, terrified she might be raped, and was gagged, blindfolded, and thrown into the back seat. The Weather Underground radicals overpowered Lennon as well, tied his hands with duct tape, and threw him in the trunk of the vehicle. Within less than a minute of exiting the taxi, John Lennon, inebriated and vomiting, found himself locked in a dark car trunk without his eyeglasses. The car sped off, going north on Pacific Coast Highway. Twenty miles away, on a dark, deserted stretch of beach highway outside of Trancas, a member of the rebel group threw May Pang from the car. It took her over two hours to find her way to an all-night liquor store with a phone. The manager, a volunteer member of the Malibu Sheriff’s Department, took care of the frantic Pang and helped her remember the physical descriptions of the assailants as best as possible. With Pang’s assistance, deputies found Harry Nilsson shortly before daylight, still unconscious, in the driveway of the beach house. Within another hour, AP had broken the story. *** Breaking News APB107 -BULLETIN- (AP) (LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA)—THE RADICAL WEATHER UNDERGROUND TERRORIST ORGANIZATION SAYS THAT MUSICIAN JOHN LENNON IS IN ITS CUSTODY. LENNON, A MEMBER OF THE POPULAR MUSICAL GROUP THE BEATLES, HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE TUESDAY. 05:18gAPD 03-15-74 APB108 LENNON-BULLETIN-TAKE 2 FBI DIRECTOR CLARENCE M. KELLEY CONFIRMS THAT BUREAU AGENTS BELIEVE THE COMMUNICATION FROM WEATHER UNDERGROUND LEADER BERNARDINE DOHRN IS AUTHENTIC.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	38	https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/entertainment/sam-mendes-beatles-biopic-in-works-in-four-separate-movies/	en	An epic Beatles biopic is coming — but you’ll have to watch four separate movies	https://nypost.com/wp-co…strip=all&w=1024	https://nypost.com/wp-co…strip=all&w=1024	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6390601&c3=NYPOST&cj=1&cv=3.6&comscorekw=entertainment", "https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/button_3_bg-2.png?w=206", "https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/musicians-george-harrison-john-lennon-76842307.jpg?w=1024", "https://nypo...	[]	[]	[ "Movies", "Entertainment", "Music", "films", "george harrison", "john lennon", "paul mccartney", "ringo starr", "sam mendes", "the beatles" ]	null	[ "Johnny Oleksinski" ]	2024-02-20T00:00:00	Four interconnected movies about The Beatles, each focussing on a different band member, will hit theaters starting in 2027, Sony and Apple Corps, Ltd. announced on Tuesday. Sam Mendes, the ambitious director of “1917” and “Skyfall,” will helm the entire quartet of biopics that explore the lives of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.	en	https://nypost.com/wp-co…t/apple-icon.png	New York Post	https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/entertainment/sam-mendes-beatles-biopic-in-works-in-four-separate-movies/	It’s a bona fide British Invasion. Four interconnected movies about The Beatles, each focusing on a different band member, will hit theaters starting in 2027, Sony and Apple Corps (the Beatles’ media company) announced on Tuesday. Sam Mendes, the ambitious director of “1917” and “Skyfall,” will helm the entire magical mystery tour of biopics that explore the lives of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. “We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” producer Pippa Harris, of Neal Street Productions, said in a statement. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege.” McCartney, Starr and the families of the late Lennon and Harrison gave the effort the go-ahead through Apple Corps. The order of the films’ releases, or whether they will hit theaters simultaneously, is unknown. Casting has not yet been announced. Sony Music Publishing, conveniently, owns the vast majority of The Beatles’ song catalog. Musician biopics have proved a mostly reliable genre at the box office. The Queen story “Bohemian Rhapsody” raked in $910 million worldwide, while “Elvis” managed $288 million and the Elton John flick “Rocketman” did $195 million. And just this past weekend, “Bob Marley: One Love” beat expectations and grossed $81 million worldwide. Still, the Mendes project is unusual in that it will tell the story of the group’s ascent from four separate points of view. That tricky format is more common on television (Season 4 of “Arrested Development”) or in novels (“Midnight Sun,” Stephanie Meyer’s retread of her own “Twilight”). Four movies will require four pricey ticket purchases. The Beatles have endured in the culture since they first exploded in the early 1960s — even after the assassination of Lennon outside the Dakota in 1980 and the death of Harrison in 2001. The British boy band has been back in a major way lately. A single called “Now and Then” that was completed last year with the help of AI hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was featured extensively in the new action-comedy “Argylle.” And director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary “The Beatles: Get Back” won the Emmy for Best Documentary series.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	82	https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/beatles-songs-in-the-yesterday-film/	en	Beatles Songs In The ‘Yesterday’ Film: Everything You Need To Know	https://www.udiscovermus…le-Corps-Ltd.jpg	https://www.udiscovermus…le-Corps-Ltd.jpg	[ "https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/uDiscover-top-site-230-site-logo.png", "https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/uDiscover-top-site-230-site-logo.png", "https://media.udiscovermusic.com/img/trans28x22.gif", "https://media.udiscovermusic.com/img/trans28x22.gif", "h...	[ "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==", "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" ]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Tim Peacock", "www.facebook.com" ]	2019-06-24T09:00:20+00:00	Richard Curtis’ movie depicts a world without The Beatles. Yet there are many Beatles songs in the ‘Yesterday’ film. Here’s everything we know.	en	https://www.udiscovermus…icon-32x32-1.png	uDiscover Music	https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/beatles-songs-in-the-yesterday-film/	It’s one of rock’s biggest clichés to suggest a band could have been “bigger than The Beatles”, but in Yesterday, a new musical comedy by Trainspotting’s Danny Boyle and Love Actually’s Richard Curtis, a struggling singer-songwriter actually achieves this distinction – but not without a little help from his Liverpudlian friends. From the first teaser trailer, it’s clear that there will be no shortage of Beatles songs in the Yesterday film, among them classics including ‘Let It Be’ and ‘Yesterday’ itself. Set to arrive in cinemas on 28 June, Yesterday is one of 2019’s most eagerly-awaited movies. It stars EastEnders’ Himesh Patel as Jack Malik, a wannabe singer-songwriter who gets hit by a car, but when he regains consciousness he discovers he’s the only person who remembers The Beatles. When he performs the Paul McCartney-penned ‘Yesterday’ in front of his friends, they are amazed by his talent; very soon, Malik becomes a global superstar in a world where a Google search for “The Beatles” yields only pictures of insects. Watch the trailer for Yesterday below, and scroll down to find out more about the Beatles songs in the Yesterday film. ADVERTISEMENT The Beatles Songs In The Yesterday Film: Everything We Know So Far ‘Yesterday’ First appeared on: Help! First released: 1965 Chart placement: US No.1 ‘Yesterday’ first appeared on August 1965’s Help!, The Beatles’ fifth UK album and the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. ‘Yesterday’ featured just Paul McCartney on acoustic guitar and vocals, together with a string quartet. According to Guinness World Records, it was covered seven million times during the 20th Century. ‘Let It Be’ First appeared on: Let It Be First released: 1970 Chart placement: UK No.2 / US No.1 ‘Let It Be’ became the title track for The Beatles’ final album. The album was actually recorded prior to September 1969’s Abbey Road, but did not see a release until May 1970, after The Beatles had broken up. ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ First appeared on: non-album single (UK) / Meet The Beatles (US) First released: 1963 Chart placement: UK No.1 / US No.2 ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ spent five weeks at the top of the UK charts after knocking the band’s first million-seller from the No.1 spot in late 1963. The first Beatles song to be made using four-track recording equipment, it was released as a non-album single in the UK, but appeared on Capitol Records’ Meet The Beatles album in the US, where it topped the Billboard 200 in February 1964. ‘Something’ First appeared on: Abbey Road First released: 1969 Chart placement: No.4 (UK) / No.1 (US) ‘Something’ was penned by George Harrison and hailed by Frank Sinatra as “the greatest love song of the past 50 years”. Evidence of Harrison’s blossoming songwriting talent, the song remains a high point of the Abbey Road album. ‘Hey Jude’ First appeared on: non-album single (UK) / The Beatles Again (US) First released: 1970 Chart placement: UK No.1 / US No.1 ‘Hey Jude’ was the first single released on The Beatles’ own Apple Records imprint. A glorious ballad written by Paul McCartney and released in August 1968, it spent nine weeks at No.1 in the US (the longest chart-topping run of any Beatles single) and also appeared on a US-only compilation of Beatles singles and B-sides, The Beatles Again (later retitled Hey Jude). ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ First appeared on: Please Please Me First released: 1963 Chart placement: US No.14 The rip-roaring opening cut from The Beatles’ debut album first appeared the B-side of ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, but entered the Billboard Hot 100 under its own steam in February 1964. It peaked at No.14, staying on the chart for 11 weeks. ‘Carry That Weight’ First appeared on: Abbey Road First released: 1969 Chart placement: n/a The seventh, and penultimate, song from Abbey Road’s climactic Side Two medley, ‘Carry That Weight’ features unison vocals from all four Beatles. On Abbey Road, the song is preceded by ‘Golden Slumbers’ and segues into the fittingly-titled finale, ‘The End’. ‘Here Comes The Sun’ First appeared on: Abbey Road First released: 1969 Chart placement: UK No.58 / US No.14 (Billboard Hot Rock Chart) Another George Harrison-penned Abbey Road highlight, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ was written at Eric Clapton’s country house. The song was recorded at London’s EMI Studios and features a Moog synthesiser, which Harrison had introduced to the band’s sound after acquiring an early model in California. ‘The Long And Winding Road’ First appeared on: Let It Be First released: 1970 Chart placement: US No.1 Paul McCartney’s ‘The Long And Winding Road’ was issued as a single in the US, a month after The Beatles split, in April 1970. It became the group’s 20th Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper. ‘Help!’ First appeared on: Help! First released: 1965 Chart placement: UK No.1 / US No.1 Penned primarily by John Lennon, ‘Help!’ was the title song from The Beatles’ fifth album, which also served as the soundtrack album for their film of the same name. Help! was nominated for Album Of The Year at the 1966 Grammy Awards, marking the first time that a rock band had been recognised in that category. ‘She Loves You’ First appeared on: non-album single (UK) / The Beatles’ Second Album (US) First released: 1963 Chart placement: UK No.1 / US No.1 Once heard, never forgotten, ‘She Loves You’ arguably encapsulates Beatlemania more than any other song. The best-selling UK single of 1963, it still ranked at No.9 in a December 2018 round-up of the UK’s best-selling singles of all time, with a total of 1.9 million copies sold. ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ First appeared on: A Hard Day’s Night First released: 1964 Chart placement: UK No.1 / US No.1 The title song from The Beatles’ third album (the first half of which contained songs from their film of the same), ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ was recorded in just three hours at London’s EMI Studios, on 16 April 1964. The band’s ninth run-through of the song that afternoon is the one we all know and love. ‘In My Life’ First appeared on: Rubber Soul First released: 1965 Chart placement: n/a Later covered by artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, Ozzy Osbourne and Rod Stewart, John Lennon’s nostalgic ‘In My Life’ remains a fan favourite and one of Rubber Soul’s key tracks. George Martin played the song’s distinctive, Bach-inspired piano solo, which was later sped up to sound like a harpsichord. ‘Back In The USSR’ First appeared on: The Beatles (aka The “White” Album) First released: 1968 Chart placement: UK No.19 ‘Back In The USSR’ is a deliberate homage to Chuck Berry’s ‘Back In The USA’, with a nod to The Beach Boys’ ‘California Girls’, but it’s a storming track on its own terms and was given a UK single release in 1976, to promote the Rock’n’Roll Music compilation. ‘All You Need Is Love’ First appeared on: Magical Mystery Tour First released: 1967 Chart placement: UK No.1 / US No.1 A performance of ‘All You Need Is Love’ served as the UK’s contribution to Our World, the first ever live global television broadcast, when, on 25 June 1967, The Beatles were filmed performing the song at London’s EMI Studios. The programme was broadcast via satellite and seen by an audience of over 400 million in 25 countries. ‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’ First appeared on: The Beatles (aka The “White” Album) First released: 1968 Chart placement: n/a The Beatles decided not to release Paul McCartney’s light-hearted, Jamaican ska-influenced ‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’ as a single, though Scottish pop outfit Marmalade’s cover of the song topped the UK chart in January 1969 and sold a million copies around the world. Listen to the best of The Beatles on Apple Music and Spotify. Format: UK English
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And one...	en	/favicon.ico	Slate Magazine	https://slate.com/culture/2011/10/george-harrison-documentary-living-in-the-material-world-reviewed.html	We’re living in the age of the schlockumentary. Ideally, a documentary should have an arm’s-length distance between subject and chronicler. And one hopes that the director is there in service of the viewer, not the subject. In the arts world, that ideal is getting harder and harder to find. A vast cottage industry has sprung up around the making-of documentaries for movies and even CDs. They sport a professional patina and are often enjoyable to watch. But they aren’t real documentaries: There’s never anything in them that any of the interested parties (stars, director, the producers, the studio) don’t want in them—and in the end, they’re being used to sell product. It’s worse when you get into the real world. Consider Pearl Jam Twenty, the new documentary on Pearl Jam, by director Cameron Crowe. Back in the 1990s, Crowe, a friend of the band’s, wrote the Rolling Stone cover story on the group, one of the only substantive interviews Vedder and Co. gave during their early stardom. Here we are almost two decades later, and Pearl Jam has the same friend do a “documentary” on them. Pearl Jam Twenty is a fun movie with lots of great early footage, but Pearl Jam’s corporation is listed as a producer, so you know there’s not going to be anything in it that doesn’t jibe with the band’s image of itself. Our leading schlockumentarian is Martin Scorsese. Now, Scorsese is known for his piercing use of rock in his films; beyond that, he was one of the editors for Woodstock and directed The Last Waltz, which is still the gold standard for rock docs. But even in The Last Waltz you can see him work hard to burnish his buddy Robbie Robertson’s image. (Other members of the Band have said, for example, that Robertson’s theatrical backup singing was delivered to a dead mic.) No Direction Home, Scorsese’s celebrated four-hour documentary on Bob Dylan, was engrossing, but it was also based on interviews that the Dylan camp had already made and gave the director to build a film around. The film unaccountably received a Peabody for a practice that would be unacceptable in most journalistic outlets. When films or film screener discs are given out to journalists, the industry often includes things called electronic press kits, or EPKs, which feature pre-filmed canned interviews with the stars. No Direction Home is basically a high-end EPK. Then Scorsese made Shine a Light, a filmed concert movie about a pair of Rolling Stones shows at the Beacon Theater in New York City in 2006. The beginning of the film sees Scorsese seemingly in a frenzy about getting the setlist for the show, which is delivered to him at the last second. Scorsese knew that the Stones had started most of their last 60 or 70 concerts with “Start Me Up,” and that men the Stones’ age rarely do anything radically new. Scorsese later admitted he’d had the setlist hours before the show, but that didn’t stop him from ginning up a fake drama that allowed him to insert himself into the film. And now we have Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World on HBO, an exhausting but not exhaustive look at the life of the Quiet Beatle. It is a signal work in the age of the schlockumentary. The film, all three-and-a-half-hours-plus of it, is, as you’d expect from Scorsese, a handsome presentation. It’s stately, respectful, at times touching, and bears the marks of his typically exhaustive research. But in the end, the documentary contains nothing that the subject, were he still alive, would have found objectionable. * There are two ways to look at George Harrison. The nicer one is that he was a top-line and underappreciated guitarist, good enough to have spent many years as a close friend and occasional collaborator of Eric Clapton’s; that he wrote at least two classic songs (“Something,” and “Here Comes the Sun,” two more than most songwriters write) and another half-dozen quite good ones; that he was one of the original rock humanitarians; and that, all in all, given a career he could never have dreamed of, he made his way through it with a great deal of dignity. Like John Lennon, he suffered a grievous assault for no other reason but that he was famous (a knife attack on the eve of the millennium, which nearly killed him); and he died too young, of lung cancer, in 2001, not yet 60. The other and arguably more realistic appraisal might be that George Harrison’s contributions as a guitarist were pretty much limited to a few Beatles riffs and the fine and quite recognizable slide sound he developed in his solo years. That producing two great songs after 10 intimate years with two of the top songwriters of the 20th century isn’t awfully surprising, and that even if you throw in the other half-dozen, the total isn’t much for a recording career that spanned almost 40 years; that most of his Beatles songs are inferior; that his voice was weak; that he was more than a bit of a mope; that he thoroughly embarrassed himself on his only American tour; and that the greater share of his solo work was poor, and that some of it was dreadful. You can imagine which side of this Scorsese takes. For Beatles fans, there’s a lot to see in the documentary. The first half, which airs Wednesday evening and takes us up to “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” begins with a tour-de-force of a collage, set to Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass,” that captures some of the feelings of loss his death left among his friends and then efficiently limns the postwar era of Harrison’s (and the other band members’) childhood. (He didn’t grow up with indoor plumbing.) There’s also a great deal of priceless footage of the group’s early years, even more than in the still enjoyable Anthology series of Beatles documentaries. (Among other things, Scorsese handles the switch from the kids’ black-and-white world to a color one with some lancing cuts and song cues.) Scorsese was also given access to some of Harrison’s letters to his parents, which are read by Harrison’s son Dhani. Scorsese gets Klaus Voorman and Astrid Kirchherr on-screen—they were the Beatles’ closest friends during their time playing in the red-light district of Hamburg. There are memorable and haunting images of the doomed Stu Sutcliffe, the group’s original bassist and Kirchherr’s boyfriend. Living in the Material World doesn’t have any voice-over narration, so there’s a recurring floating feeling as you watch. Here, we hear about the Beatles’ reaction to Sutcliffe’s death but not about how or why he died. (It was a brain aneurysm at the age of 21, possibly stemming from a street fight the group had gotten into.) The second half, which is being shown Thursday night, deals with the breakup of the Beatles, similarly indistinctly; Harrison’s increasing interest in Indian music, religiosity, and mysticism; events like the Concert for Bangladesh (still a sublime concert experience on DVD, incidentally); and, superficially, his solo career and activities in the last 30 years of his life. (Among other things, he stepped in to bail out the production of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and hung out with race-car drivers, like England’s Jackie Stewart.) Now, Harrison’s a not-uninteresting figure and probably warrants a documentary. And again, Scorsese’s army of researchers has rounded up some incredible footage, like the extended takes of a British TV show in which questioners try to get to the core of Harrison’s religious beliefs. But Living in the Material World fails on several levels. For the first, it’s not really fair, I suppose, but Harrison’s natural diffidence doesn’t work for him in this context. Particularly in the first 45 minutes, dramatic events like formation of the Beatles and the death of Sutcliffe tend to overshadow the film’s ostensible subject. It doesn’t help that Scorsese keeps getting distracted by one of Harrison’s bandmates in particular. (I can imagine someone who knew nothing of the Beatles watching the first part and saying, “I don’t really get that George guy, but who was that John character? Someone should make a four-hour documentary about him.“) Second, the EPK origins of the thing are always on display. Consider Harrison’s 1974 solo tour. Scorsese slides in the news that the shows got some bad reviews, but only, in trademarked schlockumentary fashion, in the context of someone leaping to Harrison’s defense. In fact, the tour was a legendary debacle. For the shows, Harrison foisted on the audience not one but two sets of Ravi Shankar, harangued fans with his beliefs, and insisted on changing song lyrics to remind people of how religious he was. (He even did this with Beatles songs he didn’t write. He sang Lennon’s “In My Life” as “In my life/ I’ve loved god more.” For some reason, such interpolations weren’t popular.) The show was so bad that the Rolling Stone feature on the fiasco (“Lumbering in the Material World”) featured this analysis of the show in its fourth paragraph: “I hated it. … One, it’s too long. Two, Ravi’s got to be one set. And three, George has to shut up.” That was from Harrison’s publicist. The footage from the tour Scorsese shows here, which I’d never seen before, shows that Harrison’s crimes were not just artistic but sartorial. He looks like Mork from Ork’s twit British cousin. Harrison, after some soundtrack work, released nearly a dozen solo albums after the breakup of the Beatles. Scorsese’s interest in them stops at the second, All Things Must Pass. (Another of the documentary’s coup interview subjects: ATMP producer Phil Spector, who it turns out sounds like Peter Falk. Unmentioned here is the fact that Harrison once recalled that it took Spector about 13 cherry brandies before he could get to work on the album.) Besides “Isn’t It a Pity,” the title track is probably my favorite Harrison song; it has a great Spector production and features Harrison’s most resonant vocals. But it’s also true that the mystical grandeur of the song’s title disappears when you pay attention to the lyrics: It’s really a fairly cold “sorry I had to break up with you” song, and has a lot of typically careless writing in it, too. In other words, once Harrison’s way with a melody left him, early on in his solo career, he wasn’t left with much. If you wield your remote fast enough you can do a freeze-frame on a fleeting glimpse of a Rolling Stone review of Harrison’s Dark Horse solo album. (The headline is “Transcendental Mediocrity.”) This is the only sign of the almost unrelieved decline in Harrison’s songwriting and record-making talents after All Things Must Pass. Maybe I’m being churlish, but I think a 200-plus-minute documentary about a songwriter should include something about the work he did in the last five-eighths of his adult life. Even the better songs from this period—“Crackerbox Palace,” say, or “Faster”—suffer from an uneven production and Harrison’s even more uneven voice. Am I the only person who thinks the charming “Crackerbox Palace” is decisively marred by Harrison’s effete delivery of the “We’ve been expecting you-oo-oo” line? Also unmentioned here is the fact that the only things resembling hits in the last 25 years of Harrison’s life were novelty numbers (a Beatles tribute song, “When We Was Fab,” and a cover, “Got My Mind Set on You”). Harrison wasn’t exactly David Crosby as a symbol of post-’60s rock-star artistic decline, but he was close. And if you want to learn about Harrison the musician, that’s not here either. Whether as an oversight or because he simply couldn’t find anyone to make the case, Scorsese gives Harrison’s supposedly innovative guitar work about 12 seconds of testimony from Clapton. Another oddness: Scorsese lets Harrison, in a voice-over, give himself credit for being so daring as to write a religious song like “My Sweet Lord.” (It’s a great single, but in fact, a lot of rockers at the time had done such a thing—Clapton and “Presence of the Lord,” the Byrds and “Jesus Is Just Alright,” etc.) But he doesn’t detail the famous suit over the song, in which Harrison was ultimately found to have unconsciously plagiarized the 1963 girl-group classic “He’s So Fine” to write it. Here as elsewhere in the film, Scorsese makes elliptical reference to things but doesn’t give viewers the full story. We get Billy Preston giving a short account of how the song was written, while he and Harrison were on tour with Delaney and Bonnie. (This was an American hippie singing ensemble of the era. Clapton and Harrison unaccountably found them irresistible.) The Preston comments seem to be a nod to the real story of the genesis of the song, which doesn’t reflect well on Harrison. According to an account given by Delaney Bramlett to later Harrison biographers, he had deliberately made up for Harrison a sort of nonce song to illustrate how you could take a well-known tune, like “He’s So Fine,” and turn it into a religious song by adding lyrics about god. That interaction is the genesis of Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord.” In other words, Harrison had not only known the song was plagiarized, he’d stolen the plagiarized idea from Bramlett. I take the point that it’s hard, when it comes to profiling rock and movie stars, to get into their personal lives, which in the vast majority of cases are uncomfortable things for their spouses to talk about. (That’s a nice way of saying that most stars, married or not, aren’t monogamous.) To Scorsese’s credit, and to her credit as well, he gets Olivia Harrison, who was with George from the mid-1970s to his death in 2001, to address Harrison’s attractiveness to women and the resulting “challenges in the marriage.” “Sometimes,” she reflects, “people say, ‘Well, what’s the secret of a long marriage?’ You don’t get divorced!” And we get passing mention of the famous love triangle involving Harrison; his first wife, the model Pattie Boyd; and Clapton, which played itself out against the writing of Clapton’s “Layla” and “Bell Bottom Blues” and resulted in Boyd’s leaving Harrison. There’s a lot more to the story. In her memoir, Wonderful Tonight, Boyd says Harrison was highly controlling as a husband, pursued other women, lost interest in her, and then spent all his time puttering around his estate and filling it with Hare Krishna families. (The best part of the story, also not told in Living in the Material World, is how Clapton started going out with Boyd’s 17-year-old sister Paula to get close to Boyd. A juicy footnote: Clapton relates in his own, oddly affectless autobiography about how, one gay evening at Harrison’s house, Harrison took him aside and suggested he, Clapton, seduce Boyd so that Harrison could make a run at sister Paula. Ah, the ‘70s.) * Finally, the film really never investigates the real mystery of Harrison: What was he so morose about? Now, Ringo Starr is one who appreciates the cosmic joke life played on him. He has a cheerful acceptance of life’s whimsy, hiding what no doubt has been his daily prayers since circa 1963: “Please, God, I don’t know what a goofball like me did to deserve this life, but thank you very much, and please let me know if I’m doing anything that would cause you to end it.” Harrison, by contrast, has always had a sense of the aggrieved about him. I just don’t know what the source of it was. In Harrison’s mini-autobiography at the front of I Me Mine, the unasked-for collection of his song lyrics, he seems mostly unhappy about … the travel indignities he suffered during the Beatles years. In the documentary, Scorsese plays the price-of-fame card heavily. “It’s fun,” Starr says, “early on. But then you want it to stop, and it never does.” Whatever the source, Harrison seems to have been on a quest to find some answers or relieve some pain. We see a bit of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the cartoony imp who founded the transcendental meditation movement and with whom the Beatles, led by Harrison, and some other pop icons of the day became infatuated in 1967. Here as elsewhere, we don’t hear about the deflating punch line: How Harrison and Lennon, his biggest devotees, left his ashram in a storm after rumors (never really substantiated) came out that the Maharishi had been making passes at Mia Farrow. Scorsese just doesn’t seem interested in addressing the source of the impulse that moved Harrison into religious mysticism. (In some of the letters to his parents we hear in the film, Harrison’s growing interests in this area sound like something out of Tommy. That’s not good. Harrison’s drug use, which he might have been using as self-medication, is also given sidelong mention, but the severity of it is never explored.) But that something pained Harrison it is taken for granted here. One nut in full Krishna regalia says that chanting “helped George overcome feelings of distress and anger.” What feelings of distress and anger? Rock stars have emotional pain too, of course; I’m not disputing that. But everyone seems to accept that Harrison had some problems, but we never hear what they were. The end of the documentary is the most memorable, as the lovely Olivia Harrison, who comes across as both gracious and down to earth, is allowed to speak at length about various aspects of their lives. It can’t have been easy being married to a rock star. She gives a harrowing, mordantly funny account of the knife attack, and some moving words about Harrison’s death, from lung cancer, in a hotel in Switzerland in 2001. The sad thing about Living in the Material World is that Scorsese has so bowdlerized Harrison’s life that he comes off as somewhat boring. One bit of testimony from Harrison himself inadvertently captures how the film makes him seem almost evanescent. He says he sometimes reflects on death and wonders what he would miss in life. He acknowledges his son who, he notes seriously, needs a father. “Other than that,” he says, “I can’t think of much of a reason to be here.”
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	57	https://www.concertforgeorge.com/	en	The Concert for George – Celebrating the life and music of George Harrison	https://www.concertforge…orge-logo-75.png	https://www.concertforge…orge-logo-75.png	[ "https://www.concertforgeorge.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/concert-for-george-logo-75.png", "https://www.concertforgeorge.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/concert-for-george-mobile-logo-220.png", "https://www.concertforgeorge.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/concert-for-george-logo-75.png", "https://www.concert...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Royal Albert Hall, London On November 29, 2002, one year after his passing, Olivia Harrison and Eric Clapton organized a performance tribute to celebrate the life and music of George Harrison. Held at London's Royal Albert Hall, the momentous evening featured George's songs, and music he loved, performed	en		The Concert for George	https://www.concertforgeorge.com/	On November 29, 2002, one year after his passing, Olivia Harrison and Eric Clapton organized a performance tribute to celebrate the life and music of George Harrison. Held at London’s Royal Albert Hall, the momentous evening featured George’s songs, and music he loved, performed by artists including Eric Clapton, Joe Brown, Dhani Harrison, Jools Holland, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Monty Python, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, Ringo Starr and more. A unique opportunity to own a piece of the historic event, by way of a cutting from the original hand-painted on-stage tapestry used as the backdrop at the Royal Albert Hall on November 29, 2002. Limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide, the cuttings are available as part of the Digital Box Set, which is housed in a gold-colored, fabric-wrapped box with a die-cut mandala window to display the unique stage fabric (which is mounted on an individually numbered card, suitable for framing). The Deluxe Box Set includes a note from Olivia Harrison, explaining the story behind the tapestry.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	55	https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/beatles-movies-influenced-cinema/	en	How The Beatles’ Movies Influenced The Future Of Cinema	https://www.udiscovermus…cebook-image.jpg	https://www.udiscovermus…cebook-image.jpg	[ "https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/uDiscover-top-site-230-site-logo.png", "https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/uDiscover-top-site-230-site-logo.png", "https://media.udiscovermusic.com/img/trans28x22.gif", "https://media.udiscovermusic.com/img/trans28x22.gif", "h...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Martin Chilton" ]	2024-06-30T04:14:49+00:00	They’ll be forever remembered for their groundbreaking music, but The Beatles’ movies have been a huge influence on to the world of cinema.	en	https://www.udiscovermus…icon-32x32-1.png	uDiscover Music	https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/beatles-movies-influenced-cinema/	The Beatles will be forever revered for their remarkable albums and hit singles. However, the musicians from Liverpool also made a lasting contribution to the world of cinema. Across five highly influential Beatles movies – A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Help! (1965), Magical Mystery Tour (1967), Yellow Submarine (1968) and Let It Be (1970) – the group helped make irreverence fashionable in mainstream culture. The Beatles’ movies paved the way for future blockbusters, including the film Yesterday. Danny Boyle’s comedy is, however, just the latest in a series of films which have been inspired by the music and movie careers of The Beatles. A Hard Day’s Night and Help! In the 2007 comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, John C. Reilly stars as a boy from Alabama who grows up to take America by storm with his rock’n’roll career. Paul Rudd appears as John Lennon, Jack Black as Paul McCartney, Justin Long as George Harrison, and Jason Schwartzman as Ringo Starr, and one of the highlights of the film is the witty scene in which Dewey Cox takes an LSD trip with The Beatles in India. ADVERTISEMENT Long admitted that he and Schwartzman were “freaking out with nerves” about portraying such “sacred musicians” on screen. Black, who had made his name in School Of Rock – another light-hearted music movie that owes something to the frothiness of The Beatles’ films of the 60s – told his fellow actors not to be nervous. “Dudes, just watch A Hard Day’s Night,” advised the Golden Globe-nominated star. Decades before, Alun Owen had earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for A Hard Day’s Night, the United Artists’ film that portrayed 36 hours in the lives of the group who had made Beatlemania a global phenomenon. The movie, which was in stark contrast to Cliff Richard’s “clean teens” films, was improvisational and imaginative. Director Richard Lester’s film captures the fun, spontaneity, and unforgettable music of the rock group as they journeyed from Liverpool to London. The film was a financial and critical success. Influential critic Leslie Halliwell, who described the movie as a “comic fantasia with music”, said A Hard Day’s Night “led directly to all the kaleidoscopic swinging London spy thrillers and comedies of the later 60s.” The film was immediately imitated by Gerry And The Pacemakers in Ferry Cross The Mersey (1965), and inspired The Monkees’ hugely popular television series in America. Three decades later, A Hard Day’s Night was cited as an influence on Spice Girls’ movie, Spice World. The sequence in the film featuring the song “Can’t Buy Me Love,” during which The Beatles cavort around a field, is arguably one of the earliest music videos. Some of the techniques – such as cutting the images to the beat of the music – were still being copied decades later, on promo videos made for MTV. For many musicians growing up in the 60s, The Beatles’ zany films made an indelible impression. New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther described Help! – the second collaboration with distributor United Artists and director Lester – as “90 crowded minutes of good, clean insanity.” The scene in which the four musicians practice skiing in the Austrian Alps (while “Ticket To Ride” plays) was full of innovative jump frames and quick cuts. Help! was made on a grander scale than A Hard Day’s Night, shot in color and with a bigger budget. Let It Be, 2021 After the success of their first two movies, The Beatles decided to take control of their own film careers. With Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine and Let It Be, they turned to styles and modes of production more attuned to their musical sensibilities. Let It Be features the famous unplanned rooftop concert, shot on a freezing day on the roof of Apple Studios in London. In all, more than 55 hours of in-studio footage was also filmed by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Peter Jackson, of Lords Of The Rings fame, is using the extra footage to direct a new version that will come out in 2021. “The 55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to us ensure this movie will be the ultimate ‘fly on the wall’ experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about,” Jackson said. “It’s like a time machine transports us back to 1969, and we get to sit in the studio watching these four friends make great music together.” Yellow Submarine Yellow Submarine, the first full-length feature cartoon that had been made in the UK since 1954’s Animal Farm (1954), was also hugely influential. The script, which was co-written by Merseyside poet Roger McGough, is full of humor and puns. When Frankenstein appears, for example, drummer Starr jokes that he used to “go out with his sister, Phyllis.” Czechoslovakian animator Heinz Edelmann, who said he was influenced by the cartoon work of jazz musician and artist Wally Fawkes (aka Trog) and his cartoon-strip character Flook, devised some brilliant psychedelic animations that helped shape the plot of the film. The movie paved the way for feature-length cartoons from other studios, including Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz The Cat (1972) and later work from Terry Gilliam and Alan Aldridge. John Lassester, the director of Toy Story and former chief creative officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, described Yellow Submarine as a “revolutionary work” that helped “pave the way for the fantastically diverse world of animation that we all enjoy today.” Josh Weinstein, a writer for The Simpsons, said the film “gave birth to modern animation” and that its subversive humor led to classics such as South Park and the DreamWorks movie Shrek. The Beatles movie that promised to be the most subversive of all, however, never saw the light of day. Playwright Joe Orton’s proposed screenplay, Up Against It, which was set to feature a scene in which the Fab Four dressed as women, was greeted enthusiastically by Brian Epstein before the project was dropped. Orton, author of Loot and Entertaining Mr. Sloane, was given a £1,000 “kill fee” for his script. Legacy of The Beatles’ movies Among the films that Richard Lester went on to make after A Hard Day’s Night and Help! was the black comedy How I Won The War, in which Lennon played the part of Gripweed. The film’s title echoed a line from The Beatles’ song “A Day In The Life” (“I saw a film today, oh, boy/The English army had just won the war”), and that line provided the title of a book by Professor Jörg Helbig, published by Germany’s Schüren Verlag in March 2016, called I Saw A Film Today, Oh Boy! Enzyklopädie Der Beatlesfilme. Helbig, who writes about those five Beatles films, argues that 200 other movies were directly inspired by the cinema exploits of the band. His list includes television comedies such as Alison Steadman’s Little Cracker, about her visit to the Cavern Club in 1962, and the horror mockumentary The Zombeatles: All You Need Is Brains. One celebrated film inspired by The Beatles was 1978’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which featured an eclectic cast including Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Earth, Wind & Fire, Steve Martin, and Donald Pleasance. I Wanna Hold Your Hand, a coming-of-age story about the Beatles that was made the same year, was the first film to have Steven Spielberg as executive producer. With Rock’n’Roll High School (1979), an exuberant celebration of teenage rebellion, director Allan Arkush said he was trying to recapture some of the feeling of enthusiasm he had as a young Beatles fan. US punk band Ramones even show up to join in the fun – leading to the memorable line, “Do your parents know you’re Ramones?” Numerous great music movies which owe something to the cinematic influence of The Beatles include School Of Rock, The Blues Brothers and This is Spinal Tap. The Beatles have also inspired serious dramas (Secrets, 1992; I Am Sam, 2001), and musicals such as Across The Universe (2007). There was also outright parody in The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978). The cult mockumentary followed Beatles-like band The Rutles, with Eric Idle playing Dirk McQuickly, a thinly-veiled parody of McCartney, and Neil Innes (Ron Nasty) lampooning Lennon, whose character even holds a “bath-in” for peace. There are cameos by Mick Jagger, Paul Simon and even Beatles star George Harrison, who plays a roving BBC reporter. In 2003, a sequel was made called The Rutles 2: Can’t Buy Me Lunch. As well as The Beatles’ own productions, the band’s influence on cinema was felt in other ways. McCartney wrote some great songs for films, including Vanilla Sky and his Oscar-nominated James Bond theme “Live And Let Die.” Harrison, meanwhile, financed the film company HandMade Films, which was responsible for such gems as Life Of Brian and Withnail And I. A recent film to have a Beatles lineage is Boyle’s Yesterday, which had its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. The movie, which is based on a story by Jack Barth and has a screenplay by Richard Curtis – a Beatles fan who appears in Ron Howard’s documentary The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – tells the story of Jack Malik, a struggling singer-songwriter who wakes up to realize he is the only person on earth who can remember The Beatles and their songs. Malik (played by Himesh Patel) spots an opportunity for fame and wealth, and starts claiming The Beatles’ songs as his own. The film also stars Lily James and has a cameo appearance from Ed Sheeran, a Beatles fan, who suggests that Patel’s character re-works “Hey Jude” into “Hey Dude.” Yesterday demonstrates again that The Beatles’ remarkable music lives on. Their film career will continue to inspire, too, not least because of the authenticity and humor of a young trailblazing band that was captured so richly for cinema audiences. “I did my best to show on screen what had impressed me so much about them,” said Lester. “To recreate their ‘all for one and one for all’ attitude.”
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	22	https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/george-harrison/credits/3000029506/	en	George Harrison	https://www.tvguide.com/…t=675&width=1200	https://www.tvguide.com/…t=675&width=1200	[ "https://www.tvguide.com/a/img/resize/b39215eb6bece728b8cf8c3c51da423f8a37774d/catalog/provider/1/6/1-4344517831.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=300&width=200" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	See George Harrison full list of movies and tv shows from their career. Find where to watch George Harrison's latest movies and tv shows	en	/favicon.ico	TVGuide.com	https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/george-harrison/credits/3000029506/	Join or Sign In Sign in to customize your TV listings Continue with Facebook Continue with email
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	20	https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Harrison-British-musician	en	George Harrison \| Life, Death, & The Beatles	https://cdn.britannica.c…on-Help-1965.jpg	https://cdn.britannica.c…on-Help-1965.jpg	[ "https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel/eb-logo/MendelNewThistleLogo.png", "https://cdn.britannica.com/mendel/eb-logo/MendelNewThistleLogo.png", "https://cdn.britannica.com/57/178357-004-1035346D/Movie-still-Beatle-George-Harrison-Help-1965.jpg", "https://cdn.britannica.com/34/101934-004-CD2C8F59/The-Beatles-Ed-Su...	[]	[]	[ "George Harrison", "encyclopedia", "encyclopeadia", "britannica", "article" ]	null	[ "The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica" ]	2020-03-03T00:00:00+00:00	George Harrison, British musician, singer, and songwriter, who gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, one of the most important and influential bands in the history of rock music. Harrison was known for the songs ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps,’ ‘Here Comes the Sun,’ and ‘Something.’	en	/favicon.png	Encyclopedia Britannica	https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Harrison-British-musician	George Harrison (born February 25, 1943, Liverpool, England—died November 29, 2001, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a British musician, singer, and songwriter, who gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, one of the most important and influential bands in the history of rock music. Harrison was the youngest of the “Fab Four” and was known as “the quiet Beatle.” He later achieved singular success as a songwriter and performer. Harrison was born the youngest of four children in a working-class family. His father was a steward in the merchant navy before becoming a bus conductor, and his mother was a clerk in a grocery store. Harrison began playing guitar in secondary school. He later met Paul McCartney, who invited Harrison to join the Quarrymen, the rock band he and John Lennon had formed. The group underwent several name and lineup changes before becoming the Beatles and settling on Harrison as lead guitar, Lennon as vocalist and rhythm guitar, McCartney as vocalist and bass, and Ringo Starr as drummer. Britannica Quiz Pop Culture Quiz Although Lennon and McCartney wrote and sang most of the songs the Beatles performed, Harrison also contributed original works, beginning with “Don’t Bother Me” (1963). A few of his later songs came to be regarded as some of the Beatles’ finest, including “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (1968), “Here Comes the Sun” (1969), and “Something” (1969). In 1965 Harrison studied the sitar with Ravi Shankar and first featured his skills in “Norwegian Wood” (1965). Harrison’s interest in Indian culture grew, and in 1968 he and the Beatles, as well as a number of other celebrities, explored transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. The trip influenced dozens of subsequent Beatles songs, but Harrison was the only member to make these religious practices part of his life. Harrison released his first solo work in 1968 with the soundtrack to the psychedelic film Wonderwall. Following the breakup of the Beatles in 1970, he continued to put out solo recordings—notably the highly successful triple album All Things Must Pass (1970), which included the memorable “My Sweet Lord.” Other popular songs included “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth),” on Living in the Material World (1973), and “Got My Mind Set on You”, on Cloud Nine (1987). In 1971 Harrison staged two concerts to raise money to fight starvation in Bangladesh, which later became the prototype for star-studded fund-raising events. In 1979 he ventured into film production as a founder of Handmade Films. Among the company’s efforts were the Monty Python film Life of Brian (1979), Time Bandits (1981), and Mona Lisa (1986). Harrison was a frequent collaborator and often appeared on the albums of his former bandmates and other musicians. In the late 1980s he recorded and performed with the Traveling Wilburys, a musical group featuring Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne.
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	61	http://betweenweathers.com/index.php/2011/02/beatles-movie-star-joins-between-weathers-cast/	en	Beatles movie star joins Between Weathers cast	http://www.betweenweathers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/chris.oneill.between.weathers.jpg		[ "http://betweenweathers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bw-harbour-colour-final-310x150.jpg", "http://betweenweathers.com/wp-content/themes/modularity/includes/timthumb.php?src=http://www.betweenweathers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Up-Helly-Aa-5-300x197.jpg&h=150&w=310&zc=1", "http://betweenweathers.com/wp-co...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "bAdmin" ]	2011-02-02T08:00:19+00:00	B4 films production Between Weathers, has secured the services of Chris O’Neill best known for his performance as George Harrison in Beatles biopic Backbeat.	en		Between Weathers \| Changing lives, building futures	http://betweenweathers.com/index.php/2011/02/beatles-movie-star-joins-between-weathers-cast/
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	34	https://pitchfork.com/news/george-harrison-tribute-film-concert-for-george-back-in-theaters-for-20th-anniversary/	en	George Harrison Tribute Film Concert for George Back in Theaters for 20th Anniversary	https://media.pitchfork.…%20screening.jpg	https://media.pitchfork.…%20screening.jpg	[ "https://pitchfork.com/verso/static/pitchfork/assets/logo-inverted.svg", "https://pitchfork.com/verso/static/pitchfork/assets/logo-header.svg", "https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/636be2649d80f12c99793d70/2:1/w_2560%2Cc_limit/george%2520harrison%2520tribute%2520concert%2520screening.jpg", "https://media.pitch...	[]	[]	[ "film" ]	null	[ "Jazz Monroe", "Nina Corcoran", "Anna Gaca", "Madison Bloom", "Matthew Strauss", "Condé Nast" ]	2022-11-10T10:11:10.058000-05:00	The tribute at London’s Royal Albert Hall featured Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Ravi Shankar, members of Monty Python, and more	en	https://pitchfork.com/verso/static/pitchfork/assets/favicon.ico	Pitchfork	https://pitchfork.com/news/george-harrison-tribute-film-concert-for-george-back-in-theaters-for-20th-anniversary/	Concert for George, the film shot at a 2002 concert honoring the late George Harrison, will screen in theaters around the world for its 20th anniversary on November 29. The film and its soundtrack have been remastered in Dolby Atmos, and a new introduction by Olivia and Dhani Harrison will precede screenings. Find the list of participating theaters, which span most U.S. states as well as Europe and the rest of North and South America, here. Staged on the first anniversary of the Beatles guitarist’s death, the concert was organized by Eric Clapton and Olivia Harrison. It took place at London’s Royal Albert Hall and featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, Jools Holland, Jeff Lynne, members of Monty Python, and more. The film is being released by Abramorama, in association with Craft Recordings. The Dolby Atmos remaster of the live album is also streaming from today. In a press release, Olivia Harrison said, “A long time ago, imagining his ideal gig, George had said, ‘I could do something like that someday... [it’s] the perfect idea... I mean if I had a ‘special’ I would like to have a few people who mean something to me.’” She continued: And he was right, he was so prescient and so right. It went from the sublime Ravi & Anoushka Shankar Orchestra to the ludicrous Monty Python. The most deep moving songs written by George, whose meanings were potentised by his absence, played with heart and soul by a core group of friends. It is a joy to be able to relive that incredible evening again, on a big screen, 20 years on. Dhani Harrison added: “20 years ago, I stood on stage beside my father’s dearest friends and celebrated his life and music. It was one of the most beautiful things we could’ve done on that day to mark his passing. There was a lot of love involved in that show, which has been preserved in this Concert for George film. I hope you dig it.”
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	6	https://daytrippin.com/2016/04/14/a-look-back-at-george-harrisons-hollywood-walk-of-fame-ceremony/	en	A Look Back at George Harrison’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony	https://daytrippin.com/w…l-and-olivia.jpg	https://daytrippin.com/w…l-and-olivia.jpg	[ "https://daytrippin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cropped-2016dtlogo.jpg", "https://daytrippin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2009-paul-and-olivia.jpg?w=820", "https://daytrippin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2009-olivia-dhani-petty-mccartney-lynne-walsh.jpg?w=820", "https://daytrippin.com/wp-content/upload...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2016-04-14T00:00:00	On April 14, 2009, George Harrison was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This was the 2,382nd star dedicated by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. The star is located right in front of the Capitol Records building at 1750 Vine Street just a few steps away from the star of Harrison's…	en	https://s1.wp.com/i/favicon.ico	Daytrippin' Beatles Magazine	https://daytrippin.com/2016/04/14/a-look-back-at-george-harrisons-hollywood-walk-of-fame-ceremony/	On April 14, 2009, George Harrison was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This was the 2,382nd star dedicated by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. The star is located right in front of the Capitol Records building at 1750 Vine Street just a few steps away from the star of Harrison’s former bandmates, John Lennon, and later Ringo Starr (2010) and Paul McCartney (2012). Hundreds of Beatles fans gathered to hear tributes to George Harrison given by his friends and family. Eric Idle of Monty Python and Spamalot fame called George “a most remarkable person with a great sense of humor.” Eric Idle wrote and starred in the 1978 Beatles-parody film, All You Need Is Cash featuring The Rutles, which George Harrison not only loved but also made a brief cameo appearance in. . Eric Idle joked that he asked Ringo Starr what he should say at the dedication ceremony and Ringo said, “What about me?” referring to the fact that Ringo did not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at that time. Neither did Paul McCartney, who was in attendance at the ceremony, with then-girlfriend Nancy Shevell. The Beatles as a group were given a star in the 1990s which is located on a special sidewalk corner at the intersection of Hollywood Blvd and La Brea next to Elvis Presley’s star. . Tom Hanks, who spoke at the ceremony, described the The Beatles’ impact on America in the 1960s: “That’s when we escaped the doldrums and moved into the future.” He explained that the first guitar George Harrison ever bought when he was a teenager only cost the equivalent of 75 cents. “75 cents made this” he said, pointing to the Capitol Records building, the home of the Beatles’ record label in the U.S. Other guests in attendance included Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne who were in the Traveling Wilburys with Harrison in the 1980s. Jeff Lynne put an ad in The Hollywood Reporter (April 14, 2009) celebrating George Harrison’s star which said, “George Harrison’s Star, It Just Sounds Right. Love from Jeff Lynne.” The Counsel General from Bangladesh was also in attendance bringing attention to the famous “Concert for Bangladesh” that Harrison organized in 1971 to raise money for the relief of refugees in Bangladesh. It was the first major rock concert for charity and raised almost $250,000 at the time. Today, sales of the album and DVD benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF. Harrison’s widow, Olivia, and son, Dhani, were both in attendance to accept the award. Olivia described George as “a beautiful, mystical man living in a material world.” She concluded by saying, “George, this day is for you.” And she was right — it was announced at the ceremony that April 14 was proclaimed “George Harrison Day” in Los Angeles. . While George Harrison was honored for his musical achievements with The Beatles and as a solo artist, his contributions to the film industry through his company HandMade Films were highlighted by his widow, Olivia Harrison. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Olivia listed George’s film achievements including the 1974 film of the socio-political stage play Little Malcolm starring John Hurt, the cult favorite Withnail & I (1987) and the legendary Life of Brian. Throughout his post-Beatles career George Harrison shied away from the limelight and preferred to spend time in his garden at his home in England. Olivia remarked, “Although George would probably place his star in a garden, I think the Capitol Tower near one of his closest friends is a pretty good spot.” ** Sign up for the Daytrippin’ Beatles newsletter and get a free gift: http://bit.ly/1MglmPy Note: this newsletter is different from following our blog posts) * For more Beatles news, follow Daytrippin’ on Twitter and Facebook
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	52	https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beatles-biopic-sam-mendes-directing-four-films-1234971245/	en	Sam Mendes Will Tell the Story of the Beatles Across Four Films From Each Member’s Point of View	https://www.rollingstone…esize=1600%2C900	https://www.rollingstone…esize=1600%2C900	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rol...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Larisha Paul" ]	2024-02-20T15:34:05+00:00	Sam Mendes will direct four Beatles biopic films about each member — Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison — for Sony Pictures.	en	https://www.rollingstone…Favicon.png?w=32	Rolling Stone	https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beatles-biopic-sam-mendes-directing-four-films-1234971245/	The Beatles are going solo all over again. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon will each be the subject of their own solo films directed by Sam Mendes, who is taking a microscopic approach to the usually overarching music biopic narrative. The films, according to a statement from Sony Pictures, will tell the story of the Beatles from each member’s point of view. “I’m honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies,” Mendes shared in a statement. Mendes — whose previous credits include American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, Skyfall, and more — will be the first to have full access to both the life stories of each member and the band’s music rights for a scripted film. He will direct all four films and produce alongside Neal Street Productions’ Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor. “We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” Harris shared. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege. From our first meeting with Tom Rothman and Elizabeth Gabler, it was clear that they shared both our passion and ambition for this project, and we can’t think of a more perfect home than Sony Pictures.” The four films are expected to be completed and ready for theatrical release in 2027. The format of the premiere schedule and the order in which the films will come out has not yet been detailed, though a press release has described the approach as “innovative and groundbreaking.” In 2021, the Beatles three-part docuseries Get Back premiered on Disney+ with nearly eight hours of archival footage. It was a feast for fans of the band, who received an up close and personal look at the journey to their final public performance in January 1969. That one event was meant to be captured by Peter Jackson in a two-hour film, who got it down to eight hours, but has mentioned the existence of an 18-hour director’s cut. It’s no surprise that the legend of the Beatles would need to span four separate movies. Trending “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some,” Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, shared in a statement. “Pairing his premiere filmmaking team, with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe. We are deeply grateful to all parties and look forward ourselves to breaking some rules with Sam’s uniquely artistic vision.”
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	50	https://bleedingcool.com/pop-culture/george-harrison-my-sweet-lord-music-video-features-all-star-cast/	en	George Harrison "My Sweet Lord" Music Video Features All-Star Cast	https://bleedingcool.com…yer-1200x628.jpg	https://bleedingcool.com…yer-1200x628.jpg	[ "https://bleedingcool.com/bc-logo-headless-white-min.png", "https://bleedingcool.com/cgc-logo-headless-min.png", "https://mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73/w:600/h:334/q:75/https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/My-Sweet-Lord-Fred-Armisen-and-Vanessa-Bayer.jpg", "https://mlpnk72yciwc...	[ "//www.youtube.com/embed/04v-SdKeEpE" ]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Tom Chang", "www.facebook.com" ]	2021-12-20T12:27:10-06:00	The George Harrison song "My Sweet Lord" got its first music video coming off the heels of his album "All Things Must Pass" 50th anniversary.	en		Bleeding Cool News And Rumors	https://bleedingcool.com/pop-culture/george-harrison-my-sweet-lord-music-video-features-all-star-cast/	It seems a bit overdue, especially after 50 years, but one of George Harrison's most memorable and beloved songs in "My Sweet Lord" finally has a music video. The former Beatle, who passed in 2001, recorded the song in 1970. The video to commemorate the anniversary of his album "All Things Must Pass" comes courtesy of director Lance Bangs and is executive produced by Harrison's son Dhani Harrison and David Zonshine. "My Sweet Lord" stars Saturday Night Live alums Fred Armisen and Vanessa Bayer as "metaphysical special agents" searching for something that can't be seen. Sending them on their way is Star Wars icon, Mark Hamill. All-Star Cast in George Harrison Music Video "My Sweet Lord" Joining them on their journey are Harrison's friends from Hollywood and New York, including Moshe Kasher, Natasha Leggero, Jeff Lynne, Reggie Watts, Darren Criss, Patton Oswalt, "Weird Al" Yankovic, David Gborie, Sam Richardson, Atsuko Okatsuka, Rosanna Arquette, Brandon Wardell, Joe Walsh, Jon Hamm, Brett Metter, Anders Holm, Rupert Friend, Angus Sampson, Taika Waititi, Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker, Kate Micucci, Riki Lindhome, Alyssa Stonoha, Mitra Jouhari, Sandy Honig, Aimee Mullins, Courtney Pauroso, Natalie Palamides, Shepard Fairey, Claudia O'Doherty, Tom Scharpling, Paul Scheer, and Sarah Baker. Dhani, George's wife Olivia Harrison, and former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr also make cameos. Awards and Nominations for "All Things Must Pass" and "My Sweet Lord" "My Sweet Lord" was featured on Harrison's album "All Things Must Pass," which Starr also worked on along with Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, and the group Badfinger. The album was nominated for a Grammy Record of the Year. "My Sweet Lord" reached number 1 on Billboard charts upon its release and achieved Platinum status in the UK and US. Harrison achieved sustained success since his days with the Beatles continuing to play with the likes of Lynne, Tom Petty, The Traveling Wilburys (with Lynne and Petty), Ravi Shankar, and Clapton.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	46	https://brianhassett.com/2021/12/the-beatles-get-back-time-coded-and-annotated/	en	The Beatles: Get Back — Time	https://brianhassett.com…6_1_201_a-1.jpeg	https://brianhassett.com…6_1_201_a-1.jpeg	[ "https://brianhassett.com/wp-content/themes/Cutline%201.3-3ColumnSplit/images/header_2.jpg", "https://brianhassett.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/C65F6109-F773-4908-ACE3-7C30840B0696_1_201_a-1-400x263.jpeg", "https://brianhassett.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1A68ABCC-24BB-4069-A04A-428433042328-400x239.jpeg",...	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Some of the characters beyond the Fab Five: (And yes, it’s five — because in this doc The Beatles become a quintet. 😉) Peter Jackson — the cinematic master behind this entire production Jabez Olssen — Peter Jackson’s super-skilled right-hand-man editor – never seen on screen, but is a part of every second of footage George Martin — The Beatles’ Music Producer, one of a handful cited as being “the fifth Beatle,” dapper, suave, smart and cool Michael Lindsay-Hogg — original 1969 Director – directed The Rolling Stones Rock n Roll Circus the month before, and The Beatles’ Hey Jude and Revolution videos at Twickenham four months earlier – hereinafter referred to as MLH Tony Richmond — original 1969 Director of Photography – also the D.P. on The Rolling Stones Rock n Roll Circus the month before – with the mustache, looks like Freddie Prinze Glyn Johns — Recording Engineer & Co-Producer – looks like Nicky Hopkins – dresses like Austin Powers (as Peter Jackson joked). The New York Times even did a funny–cool piece about it. Alan Parsons — credited as Tape Operator (was only at Savile Row, not Twickenham). Seven years after the events of this movie he would go on to write & produce one of the great albums of all time, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allen Poe) which you can hear in its entirety here. Denis O’Dell — Apple Films Producer – associate producer of A Hard Day’s Night, producer of Magical Mystery Tour, and was producing The Magic Christian with Peter Sellers and Ringo as Get Back gets started — looks like Milos Forman Mal Evans — beloved Road Manager & Assistant to The Beatles – been with them since the Cavern days Kevin Harrington — Beatles Roadie – the ginger-haired kid – looks like Ed Sheeran Neil Aspinall — Producer / Apple Corps Managing Director – childhood friend of Paul & George, started out as the band’s van driver back in the Pete Best days Peter Brown — the band’s quasi manager after Brian Epstein died – started as a salesman at Epstein’s NEMS music store in Liverpool Derek Taylor — The Beatles’ Publicist – originally a journalist, Epstein hired him to work for the band full-time in early 1964 Ethan Russell — 23-year-old still photographer in the sessions – had shot the Stones’ Rock n Roll Circus the month before – his portraits of the band members are on the Let It Be album cover – cool short 2020 interview with him here. Chris O’Dell — American-born Apple employee, roof concert guest, rock n roll adventurer, author of a great memoir, and a YouTube storyteller. (No relation to Denis) Robert Fraser — nicknamed “Groovy Bob” by Terry Southern, he was a leading “Swinging London” art dealer and all ’round bon vivant who put on John’s first Yoko-inspired avant garde art show “You Are Here” at his gallery in July of ’68. Les Parrott — Camera Operator Peter Sutton — Sound Recordist 🙂 Paul Bond — Clapper Boy and Additional Camera Dave Harries — Apple Sound Engineer Sally Burgess — from the Apple Press Office, short red-ish haired woman with the big glasses at Savile Row Debbie Wellum — Apple Receptionist and unsung hero for delaying the cops in the lobby Jimmy Clark — Dapper Doorman Bob Smeaton — thanked in credits — Anthology & Festival Express director ========================= The must-see nearly 4-hour Peter Jackson interview: ========================= The songs that seem to be directly (or subconsciously) about where the band is at and where they’re heading — – All Things Must Pass (January 3rd) – Two Of Us (On Our Way Home) (January 6th) – Get Back (January 7th) – Carry That Weight (a long time) (January 9th) – Let It Be (January 9th) – Bye Bye Love (Everly Brothers song) (January 25th) ========================== The credits run 6½ minutes at the end of each episode. In episode 3, they run concurrent with footage. But in episodes 1 & 2 they run with a black screen — so you can knock 13 minutes off the total run time of 468 minutes = 455 minutes = a 7½ hour documentary. ========================== HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO TURN ON THE CLOSED CAPTIONING — VIA LITTLE BOX IN EXTREME UPPER RIGHT OF DISNEY SCREEN. EPISODE ONE — Days 1 thru 7 — January 2nd thru 10th, 1969 2 hours & 30 mins (plus 6:50 minutes of credits) Writing / Rehearsals at Twickenham The opening title cards that appear before each episode: “The ‘Get Back’ project in January 1969 produced over 60 hours of film footage and more than 150 hours of audio recordings.” “Numerous editorial choices had to be made during the production of these films.” “Scenes that contain audio-only material have been supplemented with representative pictures.” “At all times, the film-makers have attempted to present an accurate portrait of the events depicted and the people involved.” 0:40 – 11:00 — starts with an 11-minute recap of their career. Opens with audio of The Quarrymen singing the early McCartney/Harrison original In Spite of All The Danger — set to historical footage of Liverpool in the late 1950s. Other than the minor date / age errors, this is a good basic quick Beatles history narrative set-up to how we got to the sessions and film we’re about to see. Peter Jackson is a great cinematic storyteller. 11:00 — DAY ONE — Thursday, January 2nd, 1969 Of note — the band was last in the recording studio October 17th, 1968 — only 2½ months earlier — finishing recording The White Album. Great use of the calendar to show the days — a smart / easy-to-follow story structure. Love that Mal Evans is the first person we meet as the January journey begins. 11:30 — On The Road To Marrakesh/Child of Nature (later to be Jealous Guy) — John’s singing voice begins the story, just as it did the band. It’s so cool to see the Twickenham soundstage completely empty, then begin to get filled in. Boy — is the editing ever good right outta the gate!! Gawd — this is GREAT filmmaking! And the pictures are so sharp! Wow. 12:05 — George correctly asks, “Where’s the console? The mixer and the 8-tracks and all them.” 🙂 12:15 — John leading George & Ringo through a part of Everybody’s Got Soul – a Lennon song that never got finished. Peter Jackson’s doing a great job with the title cards explaining what’s happening and why. The band must write, perform and record 14 new songs in the next two weeks. (!) 12:35 — Don’t Let Me Down — new John song — first early run-thru. 13:15 — George correctly points out “I don’t think this is a very acoustically good place.” 13:35 — Co-producers of the album Glyn Johns & George Martin first appear. 13:55 — MLH asks the band to turn down their amps because it’s drowning out their conversations, and George asks, “Are you recording our conversations?” 😄 14:20 — I’ve Got A Feeling — Paul teaching it to the band. John & Paul sitting side by side and having fun. Great camerawork and editing! 16:20 — the first meeting off to the side. Paul is the only bandmember in it! George Martin mentions how Twickenham is not good acoustically. He wants to do something with a PA, like doing a live performance, because it will “trigger” something. Film Producer Denis O’Dell is in on the conversation, explaining how he’s leased Twickenham until the end of May to film The Magic Christian (with Peter Sellers & Ringo Starr). MLH wants a “spectacular” venue for the performance climax. 17:25 — Johnny B. Goode bit 17:35 — Quinn the Eskimo bit 17:44 — I Shall Be Released bit 18:00 — Yoko in the shiny black (satin?) body suit. 18:30 — Don’t Let Me Down — Paul helping John write it — they’re obviously a team … and writing together. 19:40 — Paul, Glyn, MLH discussing where to play a concert. MLH pushing for the amphitheater in Libya — but Ringo “put his foot down” that he’s not traveling. Paul to MLH: “I think you’ll find we’re not going abroad.” 😆 21:25 — Two of Us (On Our Way Home) — Paul teaching it to the band, working out lyrics. 23:30 — DAY TWO — Friday, January 3rd 23:35 — Paul on grand piano, Ringo tap dancing. 23:40 — Great shot of the colored lights being turned on, creating the beautiful wash on the floor-to-ceiling scrim behind the band. 23:47 — George reading the latest Beatle fanzine — including about Paul visiting official Beatles biographer Hunter Davies in Portugal. 24:30 — George talking about all the songs he’s written – “and they’re all slowish.” 24:45 — Taking a Trip to Carolina — by Ringo! Then he sings it while playing the grand piano. 25:50 — Paul & George talking about getting 8-track recording equipment and how EMI should be taking care of it. 26:30 — Paul says there are about 100 songs John & he wrote together in the early days that they never recorded. 26:40 — Just Fun (Lennon/McCartney) 26:55 — Because I Know You Love Me So (Lennon/McCartney) 27:40 — Thinking of Linking (Lennon/McCartney) 27:55 — Won’t You Please Say Goodbye (Lennon/McCartney) 28:15 — One After 909 (Lennon/McCartney) – old song that they loved – laughing and having a great time Cool early B&W photos and young John & Paul playing together. 30:00 — goofing on Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da. (Lennon/McCartney) 30:20 — Midnight Special (traditional, Leadbelly) 30:35 — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? (written by Howard Johnson, James V. Monaco, and Joseph McCarthy in 1916, a hit for Emile Ford & the Checkmates in 1959) 30:50 — The Harry Lime Theme aka The Third Man Theme (instrumental, by Anton Karas, 1949 film score) 31:45 — George gets shocked by microphone. 32:30 — working on I’ve Got A Feeling – writing the lyrics / coming up with arrangement. 34:00 — Mal keeping track of the lyrics with pen and paper. 💖 34:45 — They ask Mal to time Don’t Let Me Down cuz John thinks “it’s only about ‘alf a minute long” 🙂 — turns out to be 3 minutes 40 seconds! 😁 34:55 — Don’t Let Me Down – partial 35:35 — Gimme Some Truth !! — jointly composed by John & Paul; would later appear on Imagine as a John song. 37:05 — Lowrey organ carried in. 37:30 — All Things Must Pass — first time playing for band – John on Lowrey organ. Like Paul’s Get Back — another song that seems subconsciously (or consciously) about where the band is at and going. They are all jointly composing/arranging the song. Really shows yet again their collaborative process. 40:00 — Somebody asks if they want pale ales. Paul gets a pale ale. George — white wine. John — “I’ll have a beer.” Ringo nothing. 40:00 — George advocates for their live recording approach as opposed to the overdubs of The White Album etc. He also talks about maybe including “some oldies but goldies” in the TV show so the audience can recognize something – but then says it would be okay if the show aired a week after the album was released. So funny how they just take as a fact of life that their fans would know the songs a week after their album was released. 😮 Paul looks high. 😎 41:25 — George recommends bringing back Every Little Thing (Lennon/McCartney) from their 1964 Beatles For Sale album. 41:55 — George talking favorably about Clapton’s leads and improvising, and how George isn’t as good at that. 42:25 — Paul: “It’s jazz, man.” 42:45 — George mentions Ray Charles and Billy Preston! “The best jazz band I saw was Ray Charles’ band. That jazz really moves me in a fantastic way. Billy Preston is too much! I’m sure you’ll dig it when you see it. Billy plays piano with the band. Then he does his own spot where he sings and dances and plays organ solo. Then Ray Charles comes on. He’s better than Ray Charles, really, because he’s, like, too much! Because he plays organ so great. Ray Charles doesn’t bother with the organ now. He’s just, ‘I’ll leave it to the young guy.'” The show he’s referring to having seen was the Saturday Sept. 21st 1968 Ray Charles show at the Royal Festival Hall in London, three months prior, which he says in the Anthology book (p. 318) that he attended with Eric Clapton. It has mistakenly entered Beatles lore that George saw Ray (and Billy) during the week he left the band later this month (and then invited Billy to the studio), but that’s not accurate. He saw them in Sept. ’68. And he’s talking about having seen them on January 3rd, before he took his break from the band a week later. 43:22 — I’m So Tired — Paul has red eyes like he just stepped out for a spliff. 🤪 Great eye-rubbing “tired” footage. 👍 This is the end of their second day back working together after 2½ months. Of most interesting note: also on this day but not included in the doc was a conversation where George tells Paul about seeing Beat poet Michael McClure’s play The Beard, prompting me to explore that beatific Beat–Beatles confluence and uncover a ton of cool new stuff about that connection that you can read here. 😉 44:30 — DAY 3 — Monday, January 6th 44:30 — Glyn & Paul talking about getting George’s and EMI’s recording equipment into Twickenham. (MLH & Tony Richmond also present.) Glyn stressing that this filmed show be approached as a live performance. 45:00 — Ringo arrives hungover hazy. “I won’t lie. I’m not too good.” 😁 45:10 — MLH pestering that they should be thinking about the show. Paul responds, “But we are thinking about the show.” 😁 And John goes, “We never stop thinking about it.” 😁 The band are just waking up, just coming to, and again MLH goes on about it — “Wouldn’t it be nice if we did this show with a big audience?” George responds: “I think we should forget the whole idea of the show.” 😆 Paul goes: “Yeah, okay, I’ll go along with that. We’re back to square one.” MLH is SO painfully out of synch with the band (and Glyn). 45:35 — George’s 8-track arrives. 45:55 — Great edit — George H asks, “Is [Magic] Alex going to plug all that up?” And Peter Jackson cuts to George Martin, who gives a classy knowing “Yeah, right” smirk. 😄 Then George M goes on to say that Alex rang him up yesterday and said the band didn’t need an 8-track because Alex was going to build one. (!) I only know George Martin from various interviews over the decades, but I gotta imagine the lads could read instantly how seriously George Martin took Magic Alex. 🙂 46:00 — Magic Alex footage — he first met John — who made the mistake of trusting/believing in him — like he would soon do with Allen Klein and Phil Spector. 😥 46:50 — You Wear Your Women Out (writing credit to all four) 47:05 — My Imagination — also credited as group-composed – short high-energy jam – nice surreal camerawork / editing. 47:25–56:00 — group writing Don’t Let Me Down 47:25 — Paul, John & George working on the lyrics / arrangement. 48:25 — They start talking about needing a piano player. John: “We need a guy that plays piano all the time.” Paul: “Somebody like Nicky Hopkins.” 49:00 — John mentions “watching that pop show on BBC2. The Move were on.” (Roy Wood’s band) He mentions how their voices were different and “they never joined into a group.” Paul is very much leading the working out of the arrangement. 50:56 — Hare Krishna guys in Twickenham. 52:35 — Love to see the boys using pens on paper writing the lyrics. 🥰 It’s very much the three of them — Paul, John & George — who are more or less equally batting around ideas. 53:25 — producer Glyn Johns sits among them also throwing in ideas. This is something about The Beatles — that from the very beginning they were open to collaborating — from following Brian Epstein’s advice, to embracing George Martin, to the carte blanche they gave Richard Lester, and all down the line through photographers and tailors and art designers — they were very open to incorporating other artists’ input. 😉 54:24 — Paul counts in John’s song — like John later counts in Paul’s. 55:05 — George says that what they’ve come up with is corny. “I think it’s awful . . . If you had a tape recorder now and recorded that and played it back you’d throw that out straightaway.” 😆 Even though they’re not solidifying the magic at the moment — it’s clear they are three equals working together. (With, of course, Ringo laying down exactly the right backing for what the three frontmen come up with.) 56:15–1:02:14 — group writing Two Of Us Again, it’s the three of them bouncing off each other. Paul is definitely in a bit of a quasi-leadership role. 57:30 — The beginning of the “I’ll play whatever pleases you” scene — Seeing the full lead-in and lead-out from that, unlike in MLH’s Let It Be — you now see it in context. 57:48 — Paul gets up and takes his guitar off. “I can’t do this on camera.” 58:00 — Paul: “I’m scared of me being the boss. And I have been for, like, a couple of years.” Paul to George: “I always feel as though I’m trying to put you down and stop you playing. But I’m not. I’m trying to stop us all playing until we know what we’re playing.” 58:10 — George: “But you’ve got to play in order to find which fits and which doesn’t. That’s all we can do.” 58:40 — Paul: “But doesn’t everyone agree that it’s confused at the moment. So, all I’m trying to say is we’ve only got 12 more days, so we’ve really got to do this methodically.” George: “I’ll wait until you get all your bits and then work my part out if you like. It’s a matter of working it out with you while you’re working your bit out. You know, have you got your bass bit?” Paul gets defensive or is frustrated. “I’m not trying to get to you. I really am trying to just say, ‘Look lads, the band, shall we try it like this, you know?’ It’s funny though how it only occurs when the — it’s like, ‘Shall we play guitar all through Hey Jude?’ Well, I don’t think we should.” George: “Yeah, okay, well, I don’t mind. I’ll play, you know, whatever you want me to play. Or I won’t play at all if you don’t want me to play. Now, whatever it is that will please you, I’ll do it. (pause all around) But I don’t think you really know what that one is.” And that’s the whole thing . . . that has been twisted out of context and blown out of proportion for all these decades. George is being totally cool and is not annoyed. They’re just working it out. It’s almost exactly like the conversation they were having minutes earlier about Don’t Let Me Down. This is a TOTALLY normal conversation between guys in a band sitting around jamming ideas on a song. Even right after this mistaken-for-tense moment, they’re all just carrying on a normal conversation between bandmates. Even Two Of Us (On Our Way Home) is like a song written to and about the band. (I know it was inspired by he & Linda — but art is filled with creators tapping one vein that echoes another. 😉) All Things Must Pass . . . On Our Way Home . . . Get Back . . . all songs addressing where they are as a band and where they’d like to be heading — subconsciously or consciously. Wild. 1:02:30 — DAY 4 — Tuesday, January 7th 1:02:35 — Paul, joking: “Lennon’s late again. Thinking of getting rid of him.” 😁 1:02:48 — George, joking: “You’re playing that bass again,” referring to Paul strapping on his classic Hofner. 1:02:55 — Paul & George asking soundman Peter for better mics. * * 1:03:10–1:06:40 — Paul starts writing Get Back * * — in a way the song is a hymnal entreaty to the band “to get back to where they once belonged.” Ringo listening intently. George starts playing along — Ringo starts clapping a beat, then singing harmony! 1:06:15 — Ringo moves to the drums. 1:06:40 — suddenly Lennon’s there on guitar. 1:06:55 — four bandmates & MLH & Glyn Johns talking about the show / concert. MLH says Denis O’Dell suggested doing it there at Twickenham, but MLH wants to do it somewhere better. “Because you are The Beatles.” . . . Paul: “The only thing about that is, we don’t want to go away.” Then MLH goes on about it AGAIN! “Think of the lights on the water. Torch-lit. 2,000 Arabs. Visually it’s fantastic.” 🙂 Paul says again: “But we’re not going away.” Then MLH goes at it AGAIN: “I will every day say Tripoli.” Then Paul says: “We should do the show in a place where we’re not allowed to do it. You know, like, we should trespass, go in, set up, and then get moved, and that should be the show.” 1:07:46 — Then he jokes about playing in the main gallery at the Houses of Parliament “and getting forcibly ejected, still trying to play numbers, and the police lifting you,” then mimics getting dragged away singing She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. 🤣 Then MLH becomes a full-on Monty Python character saying, “What about a hospital? But I don’t mean for really sick kids. I mean for kids with broken legs. . . . Or maybe an orphan’s home. What about an orphanage? How does that grab you guys?” 😳 Some say John seems detached. Maybe he’s high, but I see him as simply listening and thinking. 1:09:23 — John: “I’ve decided the whole point of it is communication. And to be on TV is communication. We’ve got a chance to smile at people, like All You Need Is Love. So that’s my incentive for doing it.” John: “The worst that we have is a documentary of us making an LP.” The break-up conversation: Paul: “But we haven’t played together, you see. That’s the fucking thing. But when we do come together to play together, we all just sort of talk about the fucking past! We’re like old age pensioners. ‘Remember the days when we used to rock?’ 😅 But we’re here now, and we can do it, you know? But all I want to see is enthusiasm. See, the thing is also – I get to a bit where I just sort of push all my ideas.” George: “A lot will come out of it if we could get the enthusiasm.” Paul: “I mean, why are you here? I’m here because I wanna do a show. But I really don’t feel an awful lot of support.” George: “We keep coming up against that one, and I keep saying, ‘Yeah well, I’d like to do this, this and that.’ And we end up doing something again that nobody really wants to do.” * 1:10:35 — Paul: “If this one turns into that, it should definitely be the last for all of us.” (!) “Because there just isn’t any point. It’s stupid. It’s just stupid. The people who are being stupid are the four of us.” * 1:11:00 — George: “We need to be creative, instead of being in the doldrums, which it always is. The Beatles have been in the doldrums for at least a year. Ever since Mr. Epstein passed away, it’s never been the same.” [As confirmed in this doc, and also from doing a deep dive into other sources, it was really the unfortunate death of “Mr. Epstein” that started an inevitable domino tumble towards dissolution.] Paul: “We’ve been very negative since Mr. Epstein passed away. And that’s why all of us, in turn, have been sick of the group. It’s discipline we lack. We’ve never had discipline. We had a sort of slight, symbolic discipline. Like Mr. Epstein. You know, and he sort of said, ‘Get suits on,’ and we did. We were always fighting that discipline a bit. (everybody laughs) There really is no one now to say, ‘Do it,’ whereas there always used to be. Daddy’s gone away now, and we’re on our own at the holiday camp. And I think we either go home or we do it. I think we’ve got a bit shy of certain things. I think I’ve gotten a bit shy of certain things. Cuz you know how often, like, on albums we sometimes blow one of your songs [to John] cuz we come in in the wrong mood. And you say, ‘This is how it goes. I’ll be back.’ And we’re all just, ‘Oh, well you … (scat sings)’ So it’s like, if we’re doing the show, then we’re gonna have to work hard. And that means by the time a week from now comes all these songs we’ve got, we gotta know perfectly.” George: “I don’t wanna do any of my songs on the show (!) because they’ll just turn out shitty.” Paul: “No, but — thinking it’s not gonna come out great won’t help. If we cancel the show now, we’ll be throwing it away.” MLH: “But equally, at the moment we haven’t got a show, and so none of us really want to do it.” * 1:12:35 Paul: “I’ll do it. I’m not interested in spending my fucking days farting around here while everyone makes up their minds whether they want to do it or not. It’s like Mal said last night, ‘If you’re gonna do the show here, you’ve gotta decide today.’ And as far as I can see, there’s only two ways — we’re gonna do it, or we’re not gonna do it. And I want a decision!” * 1:12:57 — George: “Maybe we should have a divorce.” Paul: “I said that at the last meeting. But it’s getting nearer, you know.” John: “Who’d have the children?” 🤣 the guy who adds levity to the heavy. Paul: “Dick James.” 😥 (the guy who’s ripping them off for their royalties) MLH: “We all need you. And if you can’t get it together, that’s really very sad. I think what we should do now is let you play a little.” All agree. 1:13:50–1:17:30 — Maxwell’s Silver Hammer — Paul on grand piano, very upbeat, teaching the song to and working it up with band. George on the Fender Bass VI. Whistling – and tongue clucking. They’re all very chipper and goofing shortly after their heavy conversation about the band breaking up. 1:15:00 — band goes to lunch (in the Twickenham cafeteria) Paul says as he’s walking out: “Mal – we should get a hammer. . . . And an anvil.” 😂 Mal looks around, like “Huh? . . . Me? . . . . . . An anvil? . . .” 😄 1:15:20 — Mal on the anvil (!) HUGE smile on his face 😍 1:15:35 — full band whistling 😀 Full run-thru of song. 1:17:30–1:20:05 — Across the Universe – playing John’s recording (apparently on an acetate lp!) to teach the band — then the band plays it. Apple’s Peter Brown seen in background. 1:18:01 — band starts to play Across The Universe * 1:20:05 — Rock and Roll Music by Chuck Berry — Peter Jackson incorporates live Beatles 1966 concert footage — blending with the Twickenham performance! — incredible editing!!! This is a hit video single from the movie. 😉 1:22:00 — DAY 5 – Wednesday, January 8th 1:22:10 — George talks about what he watched on BBC2 last night (Out of The Unknown) and then the show Europa that then inspired him to write I Me Mine. Great find by Peter Jackson of the printed TV listings for that night. 1:23:30 — I Me Mine — “Do you want to hear the song I wrote last night” 🙂 — George plays it solo on guitar. 1:25:00 — John’s unfortunate: “We’ll see you later. We’re a rock n roll band, you know?” 😥 1:25:45 — Paul face-to-face with John: “Have you written anything else?” John: “No.” Paul: “We’re gonna be up against a crisis.” John: “When I’m up against the wall, Paul, you’ll find I’m at my best.” Paul: “Yeah, I know, John, but I wish you’d come up with the goods.” John: “Look, I think I’ve got Sunday off.” Paul: “Well, I hope you can deliver.” John: “I’m hoping for a little rock n roller.” 1:26:20 — MLH & band & George Martin discussing show ideas — whether to do it at Twickenham a la Hey Jude or somewhere else. 1:27:04 — George Harrison: “I don’t know of anywhere. That’s why we came here.” George Martin: “I think you might as well do it right here.” Paul: “But acoustically it’s not very good here, is it?” George Martin: “It’s not as good as it could be elsewhere.” 1:27:24 — John sings his answer: “I’d like to say that I like the intimate idea, rather than the large one, simply because we should concentrate on the sound.” 1:27:45 — Two Of Us – Paul singing as Elvis impersonation, John & Paul dancing together! 1:28:07 — Don’t Let Me Down snippet 1:28:18 — I’ve Got A Feeling snippet 1:28:40 — Stand By Me – snippet – Paul lead vocal 1:28:58 — George: “Legalize pot.” 😊 1:29:10 — Maxwell’s Silver Hammer 1:29:15 — George’s Les Paul falls over — hadn’t anyone invented guitar stands by 1969? 1:29:30 — You Win Again by Hank Williams – (a song the Dead also covered!) – John vocal, on grand piano, Paul on drums, George on the Fender Bass VI electric bass – an instrument we’ll see frequently in the doc, played at different times by George, John and Billy Preston! 1:30:14 — I Me Mine — John & Yoko waltzing while the other three guys play the song. 1:31:00 — George plays flamenco music, John does a Spanish dance. 1:31:10 — the interminably intolerable MLH wanking on about “staging” each song until John finally tells him to “Just sod off!” and everybody laughs. 😂 1:31:28 — MLH & Denis O’Dell (head of Apple Films, producer of Magical Mystery Tour and The Magic Christian) discussing staging a TV special at Twickenham. 1:31:40 — they show possible staging sketches to Paul — it’s compared to Around the Beatles, their April 1964 ITV hour-long TV special where they played in-the-round. You can see the whole show complete with sixties go-go dancers, a young Long John Baldry (Got My Mojo Working), Beatles sister Cilla Black, The Beatles’ only ever live performance of Shout (by the Isley Brothers), and the band playing to Ringo instead of him behind them, on YouTube . . . 1:31:55 — Paul tells Denis O’Dell — “Show it to John. John & Yoko know about that. They’re artists.” (!) John: “It’s – Around The Beatles ’69.” 🙂 They talk about putting plastic transparencies in front of the band. You can hear Paul playing Let It Be in the background. 1:32:35 — MLH talking to Ringo: “Think of a helicopter shot over the amphitheater …” Ringo: “Yes, but that’s the only argument you’re giving me is the helicopter shot, and you’ll see the sea and you’ll be in the theater. And that is for one, two minutes, say, of that shot — and that isn’t worth me going out there, when I really prefer to do it here.” 🙂 1:32:55 — John talking about putting in “blocks of plastic in any shape we wanted. We could move the audience round.” 1:33:10 — back to MLH hectoring Ringo. 🙂 He goes into some weird tangent — “It’s like four years ago. And there’s nothing wrong with four years ago, except we’re all 28 now …” Ringo literally laughs at him. “Well, yes, we are.” This guy’s nutty as a fruitcake, as my mother used to say. 🙂 1:33:35 — back to John & Denis O’Dell, who riffs on John’s plastic box idea, “Like Kubrick would do.” (!) Denis had actually set up a meeting the year before with Kubrick, John & Paul to discuss them making a version of Lord of The Rings. United Artists had approved the idea, John & Paul were all for it, but Kubrick thought it was unfilmable, and Denis said years later that realistically the band could never have devoted the time to it that it would have taken. And now here’s the band and producer 50 years later in a movie directed by the guy who finally got Lord of The Rings made! — and won Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards for the third installment. 1:34:00 — MLH — “If it is going to be your last TV show ….” (!) Ringo responds: “Yeah, but you’re only surmising that. Just cuz we got a bit grumpy. We’ve been getting grumpy for the last 18 months.” MLH: “But I don’t want you to be unhappy cuz, like, I love you like I love your three colleagues.” What?! I reckon the only reason they didn’t just fire this guy who was clearly so out of his league and out of place was because they were already under such pressure to write the new album in two weeks they didn’t want to also deal with finding a new director and getting him up to speed. It has certainly crossed my mind more than once — what if they’d asked any number of the very happening late-’60s directors to do this like D.A. Pennebaker, Mike Nichols or Francois Truffaut? 1:34:14 — John with pen in hand drawing a stage plan on the back of the original sheets. (Boy, these’d bring a pretty penny today!) Ringo to MLH: “See, I’d watch an hour of him just playing the piano.” Then he smiles, like, “Sod off with your kooky ideas.” 😄 Then MLH does make the valid observation that he doesn’t want to do it “here on a stage with tubular scaffolding around it.” Funny / cool editing by Peter Jackson, cutting back & forth between Denis O’Dell talking up the Twickenham shoot, and MLH trying to convince Ringo not to do it there. 🙂 MLH to Ringo, interminably: “If you will take the veto off . . . ” and Ringo just smiles and shrugs, like, “Fat chance.” 😂 1:35:15 — MLH & Tony Richmond join John & Denis. MLH argues to them that doing it in a studio isn’t the “one in a million” setting he’s going for. (he’s right about this) Then he goes back into his “Can’t you see this at night, torch-lit in the desert” routine. 😮 1:35:27 — Denis asks MLH: “What’s George’s latest reaction to all this?” MLH: “I don’t know.” Denis: “Well, you’ve left out a quarter!” 🙂 MLH admits “the documentary is running out of gas.” Denis responds “It’s really why I’m letting you go on shooting stock — cuz I knew you’d come on the third day and say, ‘What else is there?'” * People give MLH credit for the original footage — but it was an Apple decision and production and funding. 1:35:50 — MLH to John: “Paul and you are not getting on as well as you did. It’s not as easy. What do you feel about that? It [this show] might make it better again – whatever the wound is.” John: “Yeah. That’s what I was thinking.” (!) 1:36:20 — Everybody moves to a group meeting around the grand piano. Paul: “An outdoor scene has to be in England.” Denis: “It’s too bloody cold.” Paul mentions the super-ornate & gorgeous Tower Ballroom in London. [click on this link and see this room! 😉] George suggests them doing it as “a nightclub act. Just the smoochy low lights and about ten people.” [they ended up with a seated audience of four on the roof!] MLH keeps stressing the audience “really ought to be the whole world.” Denis says they’re now circling back to the Sabratha amphitheater in Libya. MLH: “I don’t think anything is going to beat a perfect acoustic place by the water out of doors.” Denis begins advocating for the amphitheater. 1:38:35 — John arrives and joins conversation. MLH: “We’re off to Africa.” Paul: “No we’re not.” 🤣 George: “What is the point of doing it abroad? I’d much rather do it here, and then go away.” John seems to like the outdoor amphitheater idea: “It’s like having the most fantastic set on earth.” Ringo: “But how many are going to be looking at the set besides us and him?” John mentions how “Every time we’ve done an album, we’ve said, ‘Why are we stuck in EMI?’ We could be doing it in L.A. We could be in France. And here we are again, building another bloody castle around us.” Paul: “Well said, John. Well said!” John: “And this time we do it there. I’d be thrilled to do it — timing it so as the sun came up just on the middle eight.” John: “Just give me one reason to stay here.” Ringo: “For the people!” John: “The people? That’s the only reason. Alright, so we take ’em with us.” Paul: “Look, we were gonna give tickets away at this door here. We’d give out those tickets, but they include a boat ride as well.” MLH: “We take them with us, and that’s the show.” George: “It’s just impractical to try and get all these —” Paul: “But it’s not, you see —” George: ” — lug all them people there, and try and get all that equipment …” John: “That’s not our problem.” George: “Of course it’s our problem.” [good for George!] 1:40:15 — WHAT is with MLH and these stupid code names for the bandmembers? NOBODY uses them but him. The guy is so infantile and so off-base so often! For the life of him, he can’t play in the key of the song being played around him. Paul: “So, like, I’ll come in with you, as long as you can get a couple of boats, like the QE2.” George: “And then we’re stuck with a bloody big boatload of people for two weeks. 😄 At least you can go home from here. You can get away from it all. I think the idea of the boat is completely insane. It’s very expensive and insane. Who’s gonna cough up for that? They haven’t even made back the money it cost to buy the film for Magical Mystery Tour.” (!) Boy, it sure comes across in the many hours of this doc how absolutely essential George was to this magical alchemy. John: “We should be able to get the boat for the publicity they get from it.” George: “They won’t even give us a free Fender amp!” 😂 Denis: “You’d love the place.” George: “I may love the place, but I’d rather do the show here, and then go and love the place.” 😂 Ringo rightly asks: “How are you going to get a ship in a couple of days?” John: “We got the American Navy for How I Won The War.” Shows footage from the 1967 Richard Lester film. Ringo: “I was there. Yes, I know. But they were passing by and you only used them for a few hours.” It ends with MLH trying to get them to agree to the Libya idea, and bandleader John lays it down – “We’ll mull it over tonight. Leave it in the air and just think about it. We can all say yes now and somebody can decide no tomorrow.” [see, also: tomorrow] 🤣 1:42:15 — DAY SIX — Thursday, January 9th 1:42:20 — Paul brings Linda to Twickenham 1:43:12 — Another Day by Paul & Linda — Paul solo on grand piano 1:43:40 — The Long And Winding Road — Paul running thru it solo on the grand. 1:43:55 — Ringo to MLH: “I went off the boat, actually.” MLH keeps arguing for the show being for “the world.” Ringo says: “The biggest part of our world is America and England.” 1:44:50 — Paul and Mal discuss locations for the show. Paul suggests doing it on a farm in Scotland. (where he bought a farm in 1966 and would retreat later this year as the band dissolved) 1:45:20 — Mal asks Paul if he ever saw The Wizard of Oz 🙂 and Paul says No!! 1:45:52 — Mal helping Paul write the lyrics to Long & Winding Road! 1:46:25 — MLH & Linda praising Ringo. Linda: “I feel the most relaxed around Ring.” 1:47:35 — Golden Slumbers — early take – Paul solo on grand piano – with Ringo sitting at his side. 1:47:42 — Linda taking pictures. And Peter Jackson incorporating them! Wow! 😉 1:48:58— George arrives. 1:49:40 — Carry That Weight — Paul’s song for Ringo to sing! George and Ringo gather around the piano and sing it with Paul. Another song about what they were all going through to add to All Things Must Pass, On Our Way Home, Get Back, & Let It Be. 1:50:53 — the beautiful (Grateful Dead-like) The Castle of the King of the Birds (!) (writing credit to all four Beatles) – George on drums! 😮 1:51:25 — For You Blue — George song, on acoustic guitar. Paul on grand piano. 1:53:00 — Get Back again — the version condemning white nationalism. 1:55:00 — Commonwealth (Lennon/McCartney) — the commentary song on British racism — Yoko dancing in her seat! John & Paul laughing together. 1:58:30 — She Came in Through The Bathroom Window — great John on grand piano. Fantastic film editing! 2:01:05 — Mal mentions it was Elvis’s 34th birthday yesterday. John salutes “God bless our gracious king.” 😁 2:01:20 — George talking about locations for the show. George: “Shall we do some other people’s tunes as well? That’d be nice.” John: “I don’t know any. I can only just bear doing your lot’s songs.” 🤣 George: “Some other people’s songs are much better than ours.” John: “That’s why I don’t learn them.” 😂 [Sure wish George would have mentioned some songwriters or songs he admired!] 2:01:50 — Honey Hush by Big Joe Turner for ten seconds 2:02:05 — For You Blue for a few seconds 2:02:35 — Suzy Parker – Beatles original, composition credited to all four – John lead vocal 2:03:05 — House of the Rising Son for a few seconds 2:03:33 — Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind — 30 touching seconds of George on acoustic guitar singing Dylan 2:04:00 — Across The Universe — goofing version 2:04:25 — Shakin’ In The Sixties — goofing riff 2:04:55 — Let It Be — serious Paul solo on piano run-thru — great version. Linda taking pictures. 2:06:10 — Linda & Yoko talking. John playing the Fender Bass VI. Glyn definitely helping with the arrangement (again). More great visual editing by Peter Jackson. 2:08:05 — Let It Be take two — vocal harmonies 2:08:40 — Yoko & Linda talking again. 2:09:40 — DAY 7 — Friday, January 10th 2:09:45 — weird awkward scene with music publisher Dick James – reviewing the Northern Songs catalog. Paul doesn’t seem to like/trust him. 2:12:50 — Ringo to George: “Would you like to see what you have half a percent of?” 😢 2:13:20 — George: “Neil [Aspinall] would like us to have a meeting. He was very excited.” John: “Was he? Good news?” George: “Yes, very.” John: “Oh, alright, I’ll come for good news.” 😁 2:14:13 — Get Back – rockin crazy high-energy version 2:14:30 — Hi-Heel Sneakers (by Tommy Tucker) – John lead vocal 2:15:00–2:21:05 — Get Back 2:15:10 — shots of Glyn Johns’ makeshift recording console room. John & Paul face-to-face, happy, working out the chords. Jamming it / rocking it out / having fun. It’s a beautiful thing to see them collectively working together. Paul writing / working out the arrangement with the band; and then the lyrics. Paul is being critical of George’s contributions. 😥 2:21:05 — Two Of Us — cool film editing. 2:22:20 — George leaves band — when they break for lunch — ie; early in the day George to John: “I think I’ll be leaving the band now” John: “When?” George: “Now.” George: “Get a replacement. Write into NME and get a few people.” Mal: “I’ll ask George Martin to see about residuals.” 2:22:57 — Film shows George’s diary!! Is this real?!? It presents it as real. Friday January 10th, 1969: “Got up, went to Twickenham, rehearsed until lunchtime – left the Beatles – went home.” 2:23:40 — I’ve Got A Feeling / Don’t Let Me Down — just the trio — almost primal scream therapy versions. 2:24:30 — Yoko “singing” 2:25:25 — Paul on drums 2:25:30 — Ringo’s funny faux radio report – “The big sound of 1969.” 😁 2:25:49 — Maxwell’s Silver Hammer 2:25:51 — Paul playing on scaffolding like a monkey-gym. 2:26:06 — MLH still pimping his show while the band is breaking up in front of him (!) I don’t know if I hate this guy or just strongly dislike him. MLH: “Maybe for the show you could just say George was sick.” 😮 John: “No. I mean, if he leaves, he leaves.” 2:26:18 — John: “If he doesn’t come back by Tuesday, we get Clapton.” Yoko at the microphone singing “John John John” (!?) 2:26:45 — Maureen Starkey’s first appearance! (aka Mo) Soon to be a hero of the story. 💓 and Neil Aspinall — Apple Corps Managing Director – two people who were there from the Cavern onwards — both appear on the scene — undoubtably because of the new band crisis — sitting in the chair circle on the soundstage. 2:26:53 — Neil: “Really, the box that George is in, it’s him versus John & Paul, when it comes to what they’re gonna do and what they’re gonna play. You try doing that for a few months, you’re gonna end up pissed off.” 2:27:08 — George Martin: “They’re our songwriting team, and he’s his own team. And if he’s not working on his own song …” MLH: “Yes but, John & Paul aren’t writing together much anymore, are they, really?” George Martin: “Nevertheless, they’re still a team.” 2:27:20 — Paul jokes to Maureen — “A-7 … D-7 … G-7 — get ’em off over the weekend and you’re in.” 🤣 I love the love between Paul and Mo. ❤️‍🩹 2:27:27 — band meeting in chairs on the soundstage – also with George Martin, Neil Aspinall, MLH & Glyn Johns. John approaches — “So, cats and kittens, what we gonna do?” 🙂 2:27:41 — MLH talks about being an actor and working with Orson Welles. (There was an unsubstantiated rumor MLH was Welles’s son.) He talks about Welles quitting a production — but he came back an hour later. They sure don’t seem worried about George leaving. 2:28:05 — Paul: “The Mersey Beat Award for Best Couple of The Year goes to John & Yoko.” 🙂 2:28:20 — Paul: “I think we should do the show in The Cavern.” (!) George Martin: “Location isn’t really a main problem at the moment.” 2:28:35 — George’s song Isn’t It a Pity starts playing over somber-looking faces. * 2:29:10 — John, Paul & Ringo all huddle and embrace with coats on by the scaffolding. Title card: “John, Paul & Ringo decide to meet with George, hoping to convince him to rejoin the band.” 2:29:29 — Image of Ringo’s beautiful house. Title card: “On Sunday [Jan. 12th], the four Beatles, along with Yoko & Linda, meet at Ringo’s house.” . . . fade to black . . . “The meeting does not go well.” 2:29:50 — Credits start — they’re 6 mins 50 secs long. The song credits are unique to each episode, and songs are listed in the order they appeared in the episode. Recording of Isn’t It A Pity by George plays over closing footage and credits. Then The Castle of the King of the Birds (!) (like the Grateful Dead’s Fire on The Mountain) ========================== Re: George leaving the band: Peter Jackson said in that must-see 4-hour discussion about the film (in the YouTube link at the top of this page) that at the time George left the band he was also having a domestic crisis at home, which Jackson didn’t include in the doc, in part because there was probably no audio or video of it, and also he didn’t want to get into those kinds of personal side stories. But Pattie Boyd writes about it in her memoir Wonderful Tonight that at this exact time in early January ’69, George was having an affair with a 20-year-old French girl (Charlotte Martin), and Pattie actually left him over it. Plus his mother was seriously ill up in Liverpool (necessitating George’s trip there mentioned in episode two), so there were serious external pressures in his life besides whatever was going on with the band. ========================== Some Post-Episode-One Observations, written and posted online before Episode Two was released: In interviews, Peter Jackson tells the story of how, back in 2017, 29 seconds of silent unseen Beatles footage was uncovered from when they were filming Help — and how it became a news story all over the world. 😮 Even if you subtract the original film’s entire 81 minutes from this 455 — that still leaves well over six hours of footage of unseen footage! You can catch the 29 seconds here. GREAT sound editing — including inserting the sound of pages turning when they’re flipping through a magazine (or birds chirping with the photo of Ringo’s house in the next episode) and other such subtleties that help bring the images more to life. And the film editing is just f’ing BRILLIANT. Upon second viewing I’m choked up / crying in joy. This is SO well made! I find my mouth hanging open so often when I’m watching this. 🙂 I’m literally jaw-dropped. 😮 This is the greatest movie ever made! 🙂 or so I think right now. 😄 Glyn Jones is really the album’s producer — George Martin isn’t there very much at Twickenham. Phil Lesh was a trumpet player — then was enlisted as the bass player. Paul McCartney was a guitarist — then morphed into being the bass player. “Liverpool is the capitol of Ireland.” Paul in McCartney 3,2,1. I know Peter Jackson praises Michael Lindsay-Hogg, but Hogg f’ed up. He missed the joy; and he misrepresented what happened. He was as misguided in his documentary choices as he was in his insistence of the show being in Libya. I don’t know how songwriting royalties work on streaming services — but a LOT of songwriters (or their estates or whatever) are gonna get nice paycheques from this. John & Paul are really a creative partnership, no matter who comes up with the song first. This has clearly joined Don’t Look Back, Woodstock and The Last Waltz as one of the greatest rock docs ever made — it’s just whatever order ya wanna rank ’em. 😉 . ======================== ======================== . EPISODE TWO — Days 8 thru 16 — January 13th thru 25th, 1969 2 hours & 47 mins (plus 6½minutes of credits) Rehearsing / Recording at Savile Row 0:55 Day 8 — Monday, January 13th, 1969 — still in Twickenham 2:05 — Ringo, Mal, MLH, Tony Richmond & Kevin Harrington talking about the band meeting yesterday with George. Ringo: “It started out fine, then it all sort of fell apart in the end.” 2:35 — MLH on the state of the documentary. 2:57 — Flowers arrive “for Mr. Harrison.” (from the Hare Krishna people) MLH: “Harry who?” 😂 3:40 — Paul & Linda arrive. 4:30 — Neil Aspinall (Apple’s Managing Director) — frizzy hair — joins. Then Glyn Johns also joins. 4:35 — Sitting in a circle of chairs in Twickenham: Paul, Linda, Ringo, Tony Richmond, Glyn Johns, MLH, Kevin Harrington, Neil Aspinall. 4:50 — Linda saying that at the George meeting yesterday Yoko was speaking for John and she doesn’t think he (John) “believes any of that.” (!) Paul says George walked out, saying, “I’ll see ya.” 5:10 — Long riff by Paul about John & Yoko — defends them as a couple. He REALLY doesn’t mind her being there. 5:20 — Paul: “If it came to a push between Yoko and the Beatles, it’s Yoko, you know.” 5:40 — MLH: “When John and I were talking the other day, John said he really didn’t want to not be a Beatle.” 5:50 — MLH asks about Paul & John writing together. Paul: “We’ve cooled it because we’re not playing together.” … “We used to live together, in the same hotels, get up at the same time every morning …” Paul: “Musically we can play better than we ever have before.” Paul: “It’s difficult starting out from scratch with Yoko there. I start writing about white walls cuz I think John & Yoko would like that, but they wouldn’t.” 6:30 — Paul: “She’s great. She really is alright.” Paul: — “It’s silly for anybody to say, No you can’t do that.” 7:09 — Paul: “For them to be able to compromise, I have to be able to compromise first.” 7:18 — Paul: “We probably do need a central daddy figure to say, you know, ‘Nine o’clock, leave your girls at home, lads.'” 7:30 — Paul: “It’s gonna be such an incredible sort of comical thing, like, in 50 years time (!) ‘They broke up cuz Yoko sat on an amp.'” Paul & Ringo start bringing their girlfriends/wives to the studios after John brought Yoko. This is a great thing breaking the old-school world of women being second class citizens, and as reflected in John’s song on Sometime In New York City. 8:25 — MLH and Paul talking about short-term plans. 9:00 — Paul’s news bulletin show idea — and the final bulletin would be “The Beatles have broken up.” (!) 9:35 — “And then there were two.” Paul says, looking sad, teary eyed. [And, ironically, it’s the two who are the only two still living in 2021.] 10:20 — Linda — “We looked at Help the other night, and Hard Day’s Night, and that was them playing …” 10:35 — MLH to Linda — “I’m a bigger fan than you are.” (!) What an incredible jerk this guy is. 11:15 — MLH: “I thought the other day I might leave, but then I thought, they won’t even notice.” That’s one thing he’s got right. 😁 11:40–16:00 — The John & Paul cafeteria scene with the mic in the flowerpot talking about the George problem. SO cool. If you think it’s hard to understand now — you should hear the original on bootleg! John: It’s like George said — he didn’t get enough satisfaction anymore, because of the compromise he had to make to be together. It’s a festering wound that we’ve allowed to … and yesterday we allowed it to go even deeper, and we didn’t give him any bandages. And when he is that far in, we have egos. Paul: The thing is, that’s what I was trying to say to George, you know. Whereas previously I would have said, ‘Take it there with diddle-derddl-diddle-der.’ But I was trying last week to say, ‘Now take it there. Anything you like. Put whatever you…’ John: You see, the point is now, we both do that to George this time, and because of the buildup to it. Paul: Yeah, we treat him a bit like that. See, cuz he knows what we’re on about. But I do think that he’s right. That’s why I think we’ve got the problem now, you know, the four of us. You go one way, George one way, and me another. But I know it’ll apply to all of us, if one day you can all be singing like you sing. George can be really playing, I mean, like he plays, not like I keep trying to make him play. John: Yeah, okay, because you’re afraid that how he’ll play won’t be like you want him to play, and that’s what we do, and that’s what you do to me. And I’m not gonna tell you what to play. Paul: See, that … that seems to be the trouble, is that if you’d have been able to say that on the occasion, just even to say, ‘Look, I’m not gonna say anything about the song because it’s very difficult, I’m gonna really try and now…’ John: You know, I’ve always done the numbers like that. Now, the only regret about the past numbers is when, because I’ve been so frightened, I’ve allowed you to take it somewhere where I didn’t want. And then, that my only chance was to let George take over, or interest George in it. If you give me your suggestions, let me reject them and pinch the ones I like… is where my writing side is. Same goes for the arranging. I don’t want it to… I don’t know. Paul: I know. I do know. I know what you mean, yeah. John: ’Cause there was a period where none of us could actually say anything about your arrangements ’cause you would reject it all. I’d have to tell George and I would just say, you know, like you do about me. You know, ‘I’m Paul McCartney’, and a lot of the times you were right, and a lot of the times you were wrong. Same as we always are. But I can’t see the answer to that, because you’ve suddenly got it all, you see. Paul: I really don’t want you… John: Well, all right. I’m just telling you what I think. I don’t The Beatles revolve around the four people. Paul: You know, but I tell you what. I tell you one thing, what I think. The main thing is this: you have always been boss. Now I’ve been, sort of, secondary boss. John: Not always. Paul: No, listen. Listen. No, always! Really, I mean, it is gonna be much better if we can actually just stick together and say, ‘Look George, on I’ve Got A Feeling I want you to do it exactly like I play it.’ And he’ll say, ‘I’m not you, and I can’t do it exactly like you do it.’ John: But this year, what you’ve been doing, and what everybody’s been doing, I’ve not only felt guilty about the way we’re all guilty about our relationship to each other, cuz we could do more. And look, I’m not putting any blame on you. I’ve suddenly realized this, because that was my game, you know, but goals, they’re still the same. Self-preservation, you know. I know what I like, I’ve let you do what you want and George too, you know. Paul: Yeah, I know John: If we want him, if we do want him, I can go along with that, because the policy has kept us together. Paul: Well, I don’t know, you know. See, I’m just assuming he’s coming back. If he isn’t, then he isn’t, then it’s a new problem. And probably when we’re all very old, we’ll all agree with each other, and we’ll all sing together. 16:20 — Loading George’s 8-track recording equipment back into the truck. 16:25 — Ringo: “George has gone to Liverpool. He’s due back Wednesday.” [George’s mother is sick; she would pass away 18 months later. Ringo’s saying this on Monday – so George is not in London for 3 of the 7 days he “quit.”] 16:40 — The three start rehearsing again. 16:55 — Get Back — Mel handwriting the lyrics. John & Paul writing / trading lyric ideas. 18:35 — Paul citing the use of “Tucson Arizona” because that’s where they make the High Chaparral TV show on NBC. 🙂 [Chris O’Dell, from Tucson, was given the job of typing up these lyrics, and she got a pang of fear that they were telling her to leave — to get back to where she once belonged! 🙂 ] 18:40 — taking a crack at Get Back. 19:45 — more show planning with MLH & Paul. 20:25 — Paul shows setlist still taped to his bass from the last U.S. concert tour! 20:30 — DAY 9 — Tuesday January 14th 20:35 — Paul telling Paul Bond (clapper guy / second camera) how all the music ever written is on the piano. 21:15 — Martha My Dear — Paul solo on grand piano. 22:10 — Ringo shows up – Paul: “Good morning, Rich!” Ringo & Paul’s joyous animated duet on grand piano. It’s SO great cameras were rolling for this! Glyn Johns sure seems cool. 23:20 — Paul singing Woman on grand piano — early Beatles song. 25:00 — The Back Seat of My Car — Paul song — on grand piano. 25:20 — Song Of Love — Lennon/McCartney song — goofing in Elvis impersonation. Ringo operating the film camera. 26:25 — sets for The Magic Christian coming onto the soundstage. 26:34 — Paul taking about making a scripted movie. Funny group goofing on roles for different people. Paul: “Do you want to be a goody then, Glyn?” Ringo: “The roughneck who changes.” Glyn: “With a bit of sentimentality.” Paul: “The hard drug-dealing yob.” Ringo: “With a good heart.” Paul: “Who turned to religion.” Paul: “Ringo’s the schoolteacher who goes to see him.” Ringo: “Mal’s the policeman who’s gone wrong.” Mal: “They’ll never get anything out of me unless they use a pump.” Paul: “Tony [Richmond] is in it. He’s the fence — where Glyn gets rid of the drugs.” MLH: “Can I be in it?” Ringo: “You can be a traffic sign.” 🤣 🤣 🤣 27:45 — Paul goes up on chain pulley into the scaffolding. 28:20 — John, Paul & Ringo sitting in chairs goofing — classic Beatles humor — something both Brian Epstein & George Martin cited as an important reason they first wanted to work with these nobodys. Glyn and Mal sitting behind. John: “A lot of us started with Rosy.” 🤣 29:00 — John: “I see you’ve given up smoking, Richie.” 😁 29:25 — Peter Sellers shows up. The Beatles were fans of his from The Goon Show days in the late ’50s. Sadly he doesn’t do much but smile. John goofing and being funny. “You’re talking to the ninth-best-dressed pop singer in the world, you know? . . . Look out Tom Jones, I say.” 🤣 31:30 — Peter Sellers leaves. 31:40 — Talking about the documentary and scheduling. 32:10 — John: “I was up late, sorta stoned and high and watching films.” 32:54 — Paul: “We can’t carry on like this indefinitely.” Paul: “What we need is a serious program of work.” Paul: “To wander endlessly is very un-swinging. Un-hip.” Paul: “What we need is a schedule. Achieve something every day.” (!) <— that’s MY working practice in life! 💖 Paul’s drinking white wine pretty early in the day! 33:50 — George Martin shows up and sits with them. John goofing with camera and scat riffing. John on masturbating — “You don’t go blind … but very short-sighted,” he says, squinting through his thick glasses. 🤣 35:40 — Mean Mr. Mustard — John song — audio only, no footage. * 36:20 — Madmen – unreleased John song – on electric piano! 36:52 — Discussing immediate band plans in the absence of George. 37:01 — Paul: “I think we stop filming now — as a matter of policy. That’s a wrap for you, lads.” 37:08 — audio only — Paul: “George is in Liverpool now [Tuesday], and he’s supposed to come back tomorrow.” John: “So we should go and see him, you think?” Title cards: “Rehearsals are cancelled for tomorrow.” “John Paul and Ringo will meet with George again.” [at Ringo’s House – “Brookfields” – a 16th century mansion in Elstead, Surrey, that he bought from Peter Sellers] “The meeting [on Wed. Jan. 15th] is positive and productive.” “The live TV Special is abandoned.” “They will relocate to their new Apple Studio, and record the songs there.” 37:55 — Nice Savile Row footage. 38:15 — DAY 10 — Thursday, January 16th Packing up at Twickenham. 38:40 — Glyn Johns in his little temporary control room at Twickenham. 38:50 — Oh! Darling – Paul solo on grand piano. 39:05 — Twickenham band gear being broken down and carried out by Mal & Kevin. (Mal in a suit!?!?) 40:20 — George Harrison seen showing up at Twickenham. (?) George Harrison & Glyn go to Apple and find the studio unacceptable. (no footage) 41:08 — Shot of the Abbey Road Studio doorway when it was still called EMI Recording Studios. Friday January 17th / Saturday the 18th / Sunday the 19th — the Abbey Road (EMI) team installs new equipment into the Savile Row basement — creating the Apple Studio. Title cards: “An 8-track recording desk is created by lashing together two portable 4-track mixing consoles.” “The sound is then fed into George Harrison’s 8-track recorder.” 41:55 — DAY 11 — Monday, January 20th — Apple Studio 42:00 — More great Savile Row area footage. Rosemary’s Baby on an Evening Standard poster with the headline: “The Weird Mia Farrow Film That Has The Censor Anxious” 😁 42:20 — Title card: “On Monday morning Apple Studio is not quite ready. The Beatles will continue to rehearse, and start recording on Tuesday. For this first day at Apple, cameras are not allowed inside.” 42:30 — The documentary film crew interviews two girls out front — “Apple Scruffs” Eileen Kensley & Sue Ahearne — who can be seen again on the street during the rooftop concert in episode 3 at 1:53:25 standing behind the hood of the silver car. John & Yoko arrive in white Rolls Royce. It looks like it’s DP Tony Richmond who’s interviewing the girls, and he asks them about John & Yoko — who wonderfully answer, “It’s his choice, isn’t it. It’s got nothing to do with anybody else really.” Tony asks them — “You’ve obviously read in the papers about the possible split of the Beatles.” (!) “What would you like to see the Beatles do now?” The girls answer — “A show. A live show. Any show.” . . . . then the camera pans up to the roof. 🙂 This is great freakin filmmaking. 44:05 — DAY 12 – Tuesday, January 21st Savile Row studio recording — green (apple) carpet, white walls, small-ish room. 44:47 — George Martin sashays in like a gunslinger who owns this town. 45:43 — The band seems to be happily reunited. George: “Good vibes, man.” 🥰 46:00 — Ringo complements Glyn on his sound and the acetates he’s making and the sequencing of songs 46:30 — Yoko asks George Martin where to buy classic piano music scores. 47:30 — News story about Beatles punching each other. “It wasn’t the first time they traded a few punches.” 48:00 — Derek Taylor — being asked about the bad press, and about suing the writer. John & George mock punching each other. John is totally together and into it — showered, hair combed. 48:30 — You Are my Sunshine – a Ray Charles #1 hit in 1962 – John singing. 49:00 — MLH asks John to do intro for Rolling Stones Circus. So good to see all four back together and smiling again. Especially including George! 51:00 — John reading from the newspaper – funny – band jamming on it. 52:00 — Mal arrives with crazy Magic Alex bass/regular guitar with spinning neck. 🤣 53:10 — New Orleans (originally by Gary U.S. Bonds) – all three on vocals 53:20 — Queen of the Hop (by Bobby Darin) – Paul & John trading lead vocals George looking through a stack of new albums. Glyn & company moving in PA speakers, setting up recording consoles. 53:46 — Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea – a 1954 hit in the U.S. by a group called The Four Lads (!) — and in England by Max Bygraves. Lead vocal by John. 54:15 — Thirty Days by Chuck Berry – but was a hit for both Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks and Cliff Richard & The Shadows who both called it & and sang it as Forty Days. John lead vocal. 54:42 — Too Bad About Sorrow – Lennon/McCartney original – Paul & John sharing lead vocal 56:00 — Dig A Pony – new John song 56:54 — Glyn Johns: “I keep telling you not to, and you won’t listen to what I say.” Paul: “You’re right.” 😁 This back-and-forth reflects the cool joking banter that the Beatles themselves exchange — and that George Martin and others have cited as a difference between the three Beatles and Pete Best. MLH is the Pete Best of this collective. Glyn Johns is Ringo. 😉 56:58 — unboxing the Leslie speaker. 57:55 — My Baby Left Me – by Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup – rockin’ out, John on vocal, Paul on drums. 58:16 — Hi-Heel Sneakers – by Tommy Tucker – John vocal, Paul on drums. Yoko actually seat dancing! 58:40 — Hallelujah I Love Her So – by Ray Charles – John vocals 58:56 — George looking at Beggar’s Banquet album. 59:09 — Article appears — “The End of a Beautiful Friendship” — ie; The Beatles breaking up is WAY in the air. 59:36 — Paul reading from the fucked-up article. John & George play to it — a spoken-word and music improvised collaboration. 😍 Denis O’Dell shows up in Apple Studio. 1:01:00 — Good Rockin’ Tonight – John singing Elvis Presley’s hit — with Paul reading the newspaper article in the background. 1:03:30 — Dig A Pony – great full band run-through Peter Jackson said the move to Savile Row was when you saw John resume control of the band. And he’s right. (of course) 1:05:15 — Shout “Shag” 🙂 by the Isley Brothers (the song they climaxed the Around The Beatles TV show with) 1:05:40 — John and Ringo walk out of studio arm-in-arm. 1:05:50 — They go in control room to listen to playback of recording. 1:06:20 — They’re totally goofing and having so much fun. 😍 1:07:08 — Dig A Pony – serious take for Glyn 1:07:50 — John writing Dig A Pony lyrics – blue pen on paper. 1:08:20 — Dig A Pony – next take John suggesting to Ringo drum patterns for the song. 1:09:40 — Madmen – John’s song bit again 1:09:50 — I’ve Got A Feeling / Don’t Let Me Down great editing of images together * 1:11:07 — John: “We need somebody else. Probably be like a guy that plays piano all the time — that one that plays with the Stones.” Paul: “Nicky Hopkins.” John: “Yeah.” 1:11:50 — Don’t Let Me Down – crazy playful goofing version 1:13:00 — She Came In Through Bathroom Window — John on electric Fender piano, Paul teaching song to band. Incredible visual editing by Peter Jackson. 1:15:40 — GREAT John & Paul talking, eye to eye, about vocal harmonies and getting the riffs right. 1:16:10 — DAY 13 – Wednesday, January 22nd 1:16:17 — John & George reading more newspaper accounts of the band. Ethan Russell photographer Derek Taylor in studio The boys are getting along GREAT. 1:18:35 — The studio walls seem to be equipped with folding panels that can switch from metallic reflectors to padded absorbers. (!) (?) 1:18:40 — Paul & MLH discuss Primrose Hill show idea. 1:19:40 — John: “Did you see Fleetwood Mac on Late Night Live last night? They were so sweet, man. Their lead singer [Peter Green] is great, looks great. And he sings very quiet as well. He’s not a shouter.” Then John mimics the sound, as George leans in, riveted. Paul: “It’s a bit like Canned Heat.” John: “Yeah, but better than Canned Heat.” George: “There was only four of them last night, weren’t there?” John: “Yeah. They’re really good, though. It’s just that sweeter, just the guitar hanging.” 1:20:10 — Going Up The Country (Canned Heat) — Paul vocal 1:20:45 — Dig A Pony – full band take (short) 1:21:40 — I’ve Got a Feeling – rough working out They’re having SO MUCH fun! 1:23:15 — new goofing take on I’ve Got a Feeling 1:24:15 — John talking about MLK and “I had a dream.”!! “Like a big poem it was.” How he was like a poet – “like Tennyson, he was.” George – “We should make a collage of our gold records on the wall.” John – “If you can get them off Mimi’s wall.” 1:26:30 — Billy Preston arrives — doesn’t know they need a keyboard player [the exact half-way point of the episode, to the second!] He’s in London to do a couple of TV appearances. According to both Tony Bramwell and Chris O’Dell, Billy’s UK agent Larry Curzon was at William Morris next door to Apple and was always coming by their building. When it became known that Billy was in town, Chris called Larry to arrange a time for him to come by. Big smiles and happy greetings all around. 1:26:50 — John gives Billy the lay of the land — how they’re playing everything live. “Every number’s got a piano part. And normally we overdub it. But this time we want to do it live. I mean just live to ourselves. Straight off, one number after the other. And that means having somebody in on it. If you’d like to do that, you’re welcome.” 1:27:05 — Billy — big laugh / smile — “Sure. Beautiful! Ha! Are you’re kidding?!?!” and he giddily laughs again. . John is the leader who asks him to play with them. Nobody else in the band could have done that. 1:27:25 & :31 & :34 — George Martin seen smiling bigger than I’ve ever seen him. 🥰 1:28:23 — kick-ass “I’ve Got a Feeling” — Billy on electric piano – BEAMING away! 🙂 I reckon this is the first song he played with them. And of course he’s locked right in. 1:28:34 — euphoric Paul smiling at what’s happening — ten seconds into the song!! Fantastic camera work & editing throughout all this! 1:29:00 — Yoko seen smiling at the music being played. 1:29:28 — song ends John: “You’re in the group.” 😍 🤣 And just like that — The Beatles are a quintet!!! 🤩 In these 3 minutes, the entire storyline changes. Imagine when Billy got back to wherever he was staying that night and phoned whoever he was closest to at the time. “You’re not gonna believe this, but . . . ” 🤩 🥰 1:29:45 — Don’t Let Me Down – short 1:30:01 — John: “You’re givin us a lift, Bill.” 🙂 Wow — they’re really starting to gel! Billy is just BEAMING ear-to-ear 1:30:15 — Don’t Let Me Down – couple more takes 1:31:15 – Billy takes a rockin’ solo 1:32:10 — Save The Last Dance For Me – the 1960 #1 hit for The Drifters with Ben E. King on lead vocals 1:33:05 — Dig A Pony with Billy 1:34:20 — the band goes to the control room to listen to playback 1:34:40 — Don’t Let Me Down – John flamenco guitar 1:35:35 — MLH again talking about concert plans * 1:36:10 — John tells MLH how they have the documentary — “It’ll be fantastic. With this whole buildup from bits of paper in Twickenham, all that scene, and it’ll be a movie, not a TV show. It’ll be the third Beatles movie. It’s good enough now.” 1:36:40 — Peter Brown Apple exec shows up — talk about Allen Klein 😥 Brian dying and Klein comin in were a one-two death knell to the band. 1:37:30 — DAY 14 — Thursday January 23rd 1:38:00 — Freakout Jam — Yoko screaming — Paul on drums. Band members filmed from 2nd floor window arriving at 3 Savile Row. 1:38:55 — MLH in a full suit & tie, John, Ringo & George Martin plotting out the recording and show schedule. 1:39:05 — George Martin: “You’re working so well together right now [John “Yes”] let’s keep it going.” 1:39:14 — MLH: “I think we’ll aim for next Thursday.” [which turned out to be the day they indeed did it.] They plan to work thru the weekend — for once! 🙂 1:39:45 — Twenty Flight Rock by Eddie Cochran — Billy dances into studio. 🥰 This is the song Paul played for John (and impressed him) the first day they met (July 6, 1957). 1:40:20 — Paul cites great names of the ’50s – Eddie Cochran, Gene Burks. 1:41:30 — Oh! Darling 1:43:06 — first time we see George playing his custom-made Rosewood Telecaster that he’d later play on the roof concert. Sometime in the next year he gave the guitar to Delaney Bramlett, who ended up lending it to Jerry Garcia to play during an Ian & Sylvia jam in the Festival Express documentary about the infamous 1970 train trip across Canada, finally released in 2003, and directed by Beatles Anthology director Bob Smeaton. 1:43:30 — Get Back — major working out of arrangement, several versions John even counts in the Paul songs. Boy, they’re having fun! * 1:54:00 — Hilarious goofing version of Help. Paul loses it laughing. 🥰 Then Please Please Me * 1:55:00 — Peter Jackson’s hit single video edit of the namesake song of this documentary Get Back — maybe the peak video collage of the film so far — including a rockin’ Billy solo. 1:56:37 — George in the control room during playback saying to John: “It would be nice to put it out as a single. Just do a single of it now.” John: “Okay — let’s knock it off as a single.” 😉 And again for anybody who wonders who the bandleader is in The Beatles in January 1969 — it’s John Lennon who puts a new guy in the group, and John Lennon who’s asked to make the decision about the band’s next single. 😉 . . 1:57:50 — DAY 15 — Friday January 24th Billy’s not there in the studio — he’s rehearsing for the Lulu show — which aired tomorrow the 25th. 1:57:50 — John to Paul: “Did you hear about the book idea?” Paul: “Yeah” John: “I think the photos are great, man. Really great. . . . They can have the book and the film out simultaneously.” 1:58:55 — John: “We’ve got Billy a contract. We got him off Capitol. (!) George [Harrison] will produce him.” 1:59:15 — George: “The main thing, Billy is just really so knocked out, so thrilled doing it. And also he sees it’s his great opportunity. . . . We’ll have to decide about paying him. [John: “Yes, right.”] Cuz if we were having Nicky Hopkins we’d have to pay him session musician rates.” George really does seem like Billy’s ear and representative within the band. 1:59:45 — John: “I mean, I’d just like him in our band, actually.” George enthusiastically nodding yes. “I’d like a fifth Beatle.” (!) 1:59:50 — John: “At Twickenham, suddenly there was three, now there’s four of us, then there’s five!” 🙂 George: “We can do that as well.” [It’s SO too bad they didn’t!] George: “If I asked Dylan to join the Beatles, and he would, you know. And we get ’em all in here.” 🙂 John: “We’ll call it The Beatles & Co. That’ll be our band.” (!) – like The Dead & Company! George with a smile: “I mean, it’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, innit? We could get ’em all.” Paul: “I just don’t kniw, because it’s bad enough with four.” 🙂 [at least they all laugh] 2:01:00 — John sings – I’m On The Road to Marrakesh (which became Jealous Guy) 2:02:00 — Hail, Hail Rock n Roll by Chuck Berry – (brief) – Mal on tambourine. 💖 2:02:20 — Stand By Me – Ben E. King – (brief) 2:02:44 — John: “We seem to be at a loss without Billy.” 2:03:00 — Two Of Us 2:03:34 — John & Paul on acoustic guitars 2:04:25 — Two of Us – playful John & Paul eye-locked again. 2:05:50 — their comical ordering of lunch — John: “Sparrow on toast.” 🙂 Paul: “Boiled testicle.” 🙂 23-year-old photographer Ethan Russell very present and taking tons of what turned out to be great pics. 2:06:10 — Paul noticing the connections between the songs — Get Back and Two of Us (on our way home) “So there’s a story. And there’s another one — Don’t Let Me Down —> Oh! Darling.” 2:06:30 — George gets his bowties. 🙂 2:07:00 — Two of Us – killer partial take 2:07:30 — control room hang n talk 2:08:30 — Polythene Pam – John singing and on acoustic guitar 2:09:17 — Mal opens the case for the lap steel they call “the Hawaiian” 2:09:37 — Her Majesty – brief – George on the Hawaiian 2:10:01 — Teddy Boy — McCartney song written in India last year. According to Mark Lewisohn this was the first time the song was presented to the band. 2:11:15 — Maggie Mae (traditional) — John & Paul both on acoustics. According to Lewisohn, this was a “traditional Liverpool song about an infamous local lady of the night.” 2:12:00 — Fancy My Chance With You – early Lennon/McCartney song written when they were teenagers. 2:12:45 — Paul to Billy – “Nobody’s asked if you’d mind coming in every day.” Bill: “Oh no, it’s a groove. I had nothing else on.” 2:12:53 — Paul mentions him getting paid. 2:12:55 — Dig It! – John on the Hawaiian 2:13:13 — Pattie Boyd (Harrison) makes her only appearance 2:13:40 — Ringo showing off his Sony home video camera 🙂 2:13:50 — I Feel Fine 2:14:00 — George H asks George Martin about how his studio is going. I think this is AIR Montserrat that became a major studio, recording the Stones, Elton, McCartney, Michael Jackson and scores of others until it was tragicly destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. 2:14:30 — DAY 16 — Saturday January 25th – no Billy Preston 2:14:30 — Footage from Maharishi’s in India – while Dehra Dun by George Harrison plays 2:14:50 — John mentions to Ringo that he looked at his clothes from India last night “next to me Pepper suit” 😁 2:15:03 — Peter Jackson shows more Maharishi footage set to George’s song Within You, Without You 2:15:20 — Paul talks about watching the footage from India last night. “I’ve got all the film of it.” He raves about the opening, and then they show it, with images of Cynthia Lennon, Pattie, Jane Asher (!), Donovan and their whole traveling krewe. Lots more footage of India. 2:17:10 — Paul describes the long shot of John walking with the Maharishi, “And it’s just not you, you know?” 😄 They talk about John going up in the helicopter — and how he thought the Maharishi might just slip him the answer. 😆 2:19:00 — Why Don’t We Do It In The Road – to two monkeys humping 🙂 2:19:34 — John in India looking for all the world like John Sebastian! 2:19:55 — George talking about the whole purpose of them going was to find themselves. “And if you were really yourself, you wouldn’t be any of who we are now.” (!) 2:20:10 — John says “All Act Naturally now,“ then plays the 1963 Buck Owens hit and Ringo staple on acoustic guitar. 2:20:23 — Glyn: “Is Billy coming today?” George: “No, he’s doing a TV show all day.” Again, it’s George who knows what Billy is doing. 2:20:30 — Bye Bye Love — John singing the Everly Brothers hit on acoustic guitar, Paul harmonizing. I don’t want to be accused of reading too much into things, but once again this is a song about saying “bye bye happiness” as the band seems to be winding to a close. Yoko making a calligraphic painting — black Japanese characters on white paper. 2:21:30 — Two of Us – great – playing with it – funny – many variations 2:22:55 — first appearance of Alan Parsons — with title card — close-up, in his orange shirt, although according to Mark Lewisohn he started two days earlier, on Jan. 23rd. 2:23:30 — John does Two Of Us in a Dylan inflection 🙂 George with his funky-cool slipper-boots. 🙂 They’re all smiling and laughing and enjoying each other’s company. Then they do the song reggae style. 🙂 2:25:25 — Glyn with the practical advice to get one number down (duh!) . . . and then get another one finished. 2:25:30 — George: “Have we got to have this album recorded by Tuesday then?” (!) Glyn now says he’s not going to leave until Thursday. 2:25:55 — George asks “Are we still doing the show?” Paul: “I don’t know, really.” 2:26:15 — George wants the piano to sound like a bad honky-tonk piano. 2:26:20 — George Martin putting newspapers on the grand’s strings so it won’t sound so grand. 2:27:00 — For You Blue — George’s “honky-tonk” song. John playing the lap steel. According to Mark Lewisohn, this song was arranged, rehearsed, recorded, and in-the-can in one day! 2:27:48 — Chris O’Dell with the short blond hair holding clipboard and pen next to Mal. . 2:28:15 — While George is running through For You Blue, John tells everyone, “Just don’t talk when he’s playing, gang.” — once again looking out for his younger brother. 2:28:30 — take 2 of For You Blue 2:28:50 — 20-year-old Alan Parsons in orange shirt & black tie in control room. . 2:29:05 — Then John requests they do For You Blue once more so George “can get the guitar like he wants it.” 2:29:10 — they start another take — which becomes the take that appears on the Let It Be album. John on the lap steel. 2:29:52 — George during group playback in the control room — “I think we’re getting a good sound in Apple Studios.” 2:30:16 — John has an idea about the mixing, and Paul says, “That’s a good idea.” John: “Yeah, I’m full of ideas like that. I’m famous for ’em. Literary Beatle, you know.” 😁 George: “Hail to the captain.” Title card: “The Primrose Hill concert is no longer possible.” 2:30:53 — show/concert talk: MLH points out they don’t have a show planned. John: “I would dig to play onstage, you know?” Paul: “Yeah.” John: “I mean, if everything was alright, and there was no messing around, and we just play on a stage. That’s why I said yes to the TV show. I didn’t want the hell of doing it, but nobody else wants to go on the stage or do a TV show. Nobody wants to get out there, you know? The band loves being in the Apple studio. 2:31:45 — George: “The things that have worked out best ever for us haven’t really been planned any more than this has. . . . You know, whatever it’s going to be, it becomes that, you know?” John talks about how this started out as Paul’s “number” — “but now it’s turned into our number.” 2:32:50 — John asks George “What do you think?” — nice. But George doesn’t answer in the moment. John is really leading the discussion to come up with what they’re going to do. George on the Apple Studio: “I think this is the nicest place I’ve been in a long time, this studio. Also, this is the most I’ve ever played, by playing every day. I can feel my fingers getting loose. I just wanna play.” John: “That’s what it was about.” 2:34:50 — Paul on the difference between 16mm and 35mm. (The film has all been shot on 16mm so far, but one or two 35mm cameras are seen on the roof.) Show planning talk that really reveals they all have it in their minds that this is the end. 2:34:57 — John: “Just the still photos would make a UA movie with a soundtrack on it.” [and fulfill the third film requirement of their 1964 3-picture deal with United Artists] 2:35:03 — George: “I think we should blow it up to 35 and if they don’t take it they’re fucking fools because they aren’t going to get anything else, are they?” — again, more group acceptance that there isn’t any more coming for this band. This documentary really makes clear over and over that they knew the band was wrapping up. 2:35:15 — Paul says (correctly) that blowing up 16 to 35 “is a mess.” MLH claims this will blow up alright — but of course the finished product as seen in theaters and on other formats proved it didn’t. 2:35:30 — Glyn: “It just seems like the last two days have gone so ridiculously well.” John: “He’s right, you know.” 2:35:55 — Paul talking about the final show being “the end of it.” Paul: “I want to go and have fun with it, rather than just finish off exactly as we started. I’d like to do a (phoosh — grand arm spreading flourish) for the finish.” — again, it’s all talk about this being the end. Paul: “I mean, just get out in the open, a change of scene, and go and do it somewhere else, do a live show, do it on a stage. You know, I’d like to light a rocket to really sort of take off for the end of it.” (!) 2:36:07 — the first time we see George with his psychedelic Stratocaster that he hand-painted himself in DayGlo colors that could be seen exactly a year earlier, January 1968, in color, on the Magical Mystery Tour TV broadcast. 😍 2:36:50 — I Lost My Little Girl — Paul song sung by John Title cards: “Arranging an alternative concert location within the next couple of days is not possible.” “However, Michael and Glyn have a suggestion that might give Paul the payoff he’s hoping for.” “They could stage a performance at a much more convenient location . . .” 😎 * 2:37:35 — GREAT footage of roof scouting — Paul & Ringo & Glyn & MLH & Mal & Kevin & Ethan the photographer, and obviously a cameraman, probably Tony Richmond. 2:39:02 — Paul & George Martin planning logistics including time for getting the other cameras in to shoot on Thursday. The lads drinking red wine — and getting pretty loose and goofy. 2:39:17 — Ringo opens the box with his new music stand. 🙂 2:40:00 — Let It Be — many takes George with his psychedelic painted Stratocaster. 2:40:45 — John playing the Fender Bass VI. 2:42:00 — “Groovy Bob” – Robert Fraser the art dealer shows up 🥳 2:45:19 — George Martin lying on floor reading newspaper. 😁 2:46:35 — Title cards: “The Beatles decide to stage their rooftop performance on Wednesday.” “Four days from now.” 2:46:50 — Credits start. They’re 6 mins 25 secs long — again, song credits are unique to each episode, listed in order of appearance. Cool Billy Preston-led “Blues Jam” plays over the credits. This is likely the recording Mark Lewisohn cites as coming from the January 23rd sessions. The Walk – a 1958 R&B hit by Jimmy McCrackin with Paul on lead vocals, recorded at Savile Row January 27th. Without A Song — cool song from 1929 (!) by Vincent Youmans — Billy singing, and sounds like he’s on the grand piano. Love Me Do — jamming version with Billy wailing on the electric piano. ========================= Some observations after 2 episodes / 5½ hours, and just before the climactic episode drops at 3AM (Eastern) . . . I’m SO glad — as Peter Jackson said, when they were given the 6-hour window by Disney, Peter & his editor very quickly decided, and I quote, “Let’s just make the movie we want,” he said, rubbing his hands together. 😍 And he said he included everything a Beatles fan would want to see, because (something like) “If we don’t put it in, it’s just going to go back in a vault for another 50 years.” The fur coat John wears on the roof and is always referred to as Yoko’s was in fact the coat John always wears and carries with him. And according to Deep Beatles aficionado Jan Fennick, the coat was actually his wife Cynthia’s mother’s! My 33-year-old neighbor told me how she’s been watching it with her daughter, who has become a huge Beatles fan. I’ve read similar comments online about how people are experiencing this intergenerationally. This is a beautiful thing. How many other rock bands / pop artists would evoke such a response? John & Paul are really a creative partnership. I was as guilty as many who thought they’d pretty much gone their separate ways even by The White Album the year before. But you can see them here looking into each other’s eyes and working up these songs in tandem. It was so great to see Paul so strongly defending John bringing Yoko to the rehearsals. I had bought into the easy story that she had caused a fissure — but it’s clear none of his three bandmates are bothered by her at all. It’s so nice to see John really on top of it and in control by the time they moved to the Savile Row studio. I love how it’s John who asks Billy Preston to join the band, and that we get to see Billy’s ear-to-ear beaming reaction and blurting out “Are you’re kidding?!?!” 🥰 Peter Jackson has done a masterful job showing the real-life drama that was going on — the pressure of the pending live concert deadline, the near breakup of the band, the desperate need for a keyboard player — and then one just shows up! Whadda story!! I love how the band becomes a quintet — for both the sound and the energy. John says at one point, “I’d like a fifth Beatle.” To which Paul jokes, “It’s bad enough with four.” And I love how Paul is the big-picture structuralist, noticing the connections between the songs and mapping out a sequence — how Get Back and Two of Us (on our way home) are connected — and Don’t Let Me Down reflects Oh! Darling. I know it’s been 5½ hours and will soon be nearly 8 — but this is the most intimate portrait ever made of the most influential band ever formed. They knew the end was coming. In Part One there was talk of a “divorce” and in Part Two they’re talking about going out with a bang. It’s SO bizarre that guitar stands and music stands were not staples of major studios and bands’ gear in January 1969. This is the biggest money-making group in the history of the world . . . and a Les Paul falls over at Twickenham cuz there’s no guitar stand in the joint! Then when they get to Apple, there’s not a one, and they’re always picking them up lying on the ground! Ringo is seen opening the packaging of the cheapest kind of music stand that exists … and he’s got a kid–on–Christmas–morning smile on his face like this is some treasured gift! How the hell does EMI or Apple not have tons of great music stands?!?! And now, the entire rooftop concert — which no layperson has ever seen, ever — is about to be streamed on this blessed Beatles day, minutes away. ============================ ============================ EPISODE THREE — Days 17 thru 22 — January 26th thru 31st, 1969 2 hours & 18 mins Recording, Rehearsing & Rooftop Concert at Savile Row Title cards: “The Beatles have been rehearsing for 16 days for a live album … and possibly to stage some kind of a show. They have to be finished by the end of the month.” “The latest plan is to perform on the rooftop of their own building. Three days from now . . .” 1:24 — Beautiful shot of bobbies on horseback riding past 3 Savile Row. DAY 17 — Sunday, January 26th 1:30 — Octopus’s Garden – Ringo singing his new song on the grand piano — only the second song he’s ever written (!) according to George. Yay Ringo! 1:55 — George Harrison helps him writing it. So nice. 3:28 — George Martin comes over and listens and mouths harmony. 4:03 — John calls Ringo Richie 🙂 4:25 — John plays drums for Ringo on his song. Red wine or sherry or scotch or something in bottles on table. 4:29 — Paul is the last to arrive — with Linda and Heather. 4:45 — Heather funny kitten / cat talk – John goofs with her about eating them. 😁 5:35 — Let It Be — Billy back in the studio on piano. 6:12 — George Martin on electric piano. 6:42 — Heather on Ringo’s hi-hat. 7:03 — Paul instructing Ringo on lightening up on the drums. At least according to the film editing, Ringo seems none too pleased with the suggestions. 😄 7:48 — Band jamming on something they called I Told You Before (Get Out Of The Door) — songwriting credited to all four — Paul on drums — Billy on the organ — George on guitar — John on the Fender Bass VI — and Yoko on atonal screeching, which 6-year-old Heather starts imitating. Two versions of this song appeared on bootlegs, a 21-minute jam, and this is from the 8-minute version. 8:50 — John merging Twist and Shout and Dig It (!) — part of this performance is on the Let It Be album. Paul on grand piano, Billy on organ. 9:34 — George Martin playing a shaker! Lots of Heather footage. 🙂 9:39 — Mal dancing with Heather. Mal’s got moves! 🙂 10:13 — Photographer Linda and band photographer Ethan Russell seen sitting together. 11:07 — Blue Suede Shoes – the Carl Perkins-penned song was first a hit for Perkins, then for Elvis. John lead vocal. Paul on the grand, Billy on the organ. 11:50 — Shake Rattle & Roll – the Big Joe Turner hit, also a hit for Bill Haley & the Comets. John & Paul share lead vocals. 12:30 — The Long & Winding Road — several varying takes, Paul giving instructions. John playing the Fender Bass VI. 13:07 — Linda taking photos 13:30 & 14:06 — Chris O’Dell seen sitting on the floor with Linda & Heather lying down. She has a haircut like Goldie Hawn had around this time, but she tells me it was not intentional and was cut by Linda Cavendish in London. J&B scotch bottle in background. 14:33 — George Martin working with George Harrison on acoustic guitar. 15:00 — Paul coaching John on Long & Winding Road. 15:34 — Mal & Glyn trying to fix George’s guitar. 16:40 — the Long & Winding Road that appears on the album. Funny–cool to see George Martin sitting on the floor in the studio. 17:20 — great long scene in the control room talking about the arrangement of Long and Winding Road. 18:15 — Paul: “The only way I’ve ever heard it in my head is like Ray Charles’ band.” Billy Preston listening in. That looks like Maureen Starkey in the green dress sitting on the floor. 19:30 — DAY 18 — Monday, January 27th 19:30 — Shake, Rattle & Roll again – band rockin out — Paul wailing on the grand. 20:18 — Kansas City (George lead vocal) / Miss Ann (Little Richard song – John lead vocal) / Blue Suede Shoes (John lead vocal) 20:19 — John seen jumping around, crunched down, t-shirt over knees. 🙂 Alan Parsons in pinstriped suit jacket in control room. 21:10 — John & Paul dancing together in control room 🙂 21:35 — George wrote a new song – it’s “happy and a rocker” 🙂 Talks about John’s advice “I keep hearing your advice from 10 years ago saying ‘finish ’em straight away, as soon as you start ’em, finish ’em.” 22:35 — Old Brown Shoe — new great George song – plays on grand piano for band – works out song in real time. 22:50 — Paul dancing to it. 23:30 — Hammond organ brought in — to go with the Leslie speaker (which George puts his guitar through, including on the Let It Be single). 23:35 — Paul on drums – using brushes. 23:40 — George on grand piano. 24:00 — Ringo on Fender Rhodes piano. 24:05 — Billy Preston on electric Fender Bass VI! 25:10 — Let It Be Billy on electric piano. 26:37 — The Long & Winding Road 28:25 — Trying to get the PA and mics right. 30:20 — Oh! Darling Glass of white wine on Billy’s piano — but at 38:30 you see Paul drinking from it. 😉 30:50 — John says, “Just heard that Yoko’s divorce has just gone through.” 31:30 — Don’t Let Me Down 31:55 — John handwriting lyrics on the top of the grand piano. 32:24 — Great Billy electric piano part — John: “Oh, Little Willie! Yeah!” 33:10 — The film & studio guys goof around on the instruments — Alan Parsons on Billy’s electric piano. 33:30 — The band going over the proposed book layout — and reading newspaper reports about themselves and laughing and goofing on them. 34:01 & 34:23 — Newspaper headline: “John Lennon loves Yoko.” 34:00 — Strawberry Fields Forever! Paul singing (!) on grand piano. 34:35 — MLH planning the shots for the roof concert. 35:05 — Get Back — multiple takes 36:02 — 20-year-old Alan Parsons seen in control room – then again at 37:20, 38:26, 39:55, 42:30, 42:42, 42:56, 1:04:40. 37:00 — Take These Chains From My Heart – Hank Williams hit (although he didn’t write it) – Paul singing 37:35 — George Martin: “You were very good, Bill.” High energy in the studio as the concert approaches. 38:00 — another Get Back – several takes – lively. George in his flower slippers 😁 40:00 — Get Back — more different versions, including the one from the album. 40:14 — great shot of George & Billy smiling and grooving together in the control room. 40:31 — Ringo gives Yoko a stick of Doublemint Gum – cute scene of her tearing it in two and giving half to John. 41:25 — I’ve Got A Feeling — John’s voice ragged (a la Twist & Shout) 44:00 — Ringo rockin out at the end. 🙂 The short red-ish haired woman with the big glasses is Sally Burgess from the Apple Press Office. 45:15 — Paul: “John’s got something [a meeting] at 1:30, and so do I.” 45:50 — George Martin: “Good night, Rich” to Ringo. 46:00 — DAY 19 — Tuesday, January 28th — two days before rooftop concert Title card: “A bad weather forecast delays the rooftop concert by 24 hours.” (pushing it to Thursday) 46:35 — Writing down list of songs they can do on the roof. 47:20 — John: “I’m trying to get us to do one of George’s in the first batch.” 💝 47:55 — Kevin opening wine bottles. 😄 48:00 — Something by George 48:01 — Fleetwood Mac’s single Need Your Love So Bad seen on top of Billy’s electric piano. 48:03 (and 1:00:40) — roadie Kevin adjusting some weird instrument 48:15 — George trying to figure out the lyrics for Something, asks Paul & John. John: “Just say whatever comes into your head each time. ‘Attracts me like a cauliflower,’ until you get the word, you know?” 49:45 — Love Me Do — their very first single! — but the first time done as a quintet! 50:15 — Paul leaves to go to a meeting (!) It’s never revealed what it is. 50:25 — I’ve Got A Feeling — just the three of them plus Billy — several takes. George with his psychedelic hand-painted Stratocaster. 50:45 — John asks Glyn to fix his mic cuz “it keeps falling down” – requires a screwdriver. 50:48 — image of typed lyrics to I’ve Got A Feeling 51:35 — fans looking in the basement window — again around 53:30, 1:00:35 and 1:04:30. 52:35 — Kevin opening white wine bottles, then pouring glasses. 53:00 — John mentions meeting with Allen Klein, then starts raving about him. 😓 “I just think he’s fantastic.” “He knows everything about everything. Very interesting guy. I was there till 2 in the morning.” 😥 John didn’t want to bring it up in passing like this. John to George: “He knows me as much as you do!” John says the Stones get much more in royalties than the Beatles do. Images from the Stones’ Rock n Roll Circus show. 55:25 — Old Brown Shoe — George on grand piano, then standing delivering vocal sans instrument. Billy on the Fender Bass VI, and then on piano as George sings. 55:35 — George wants some black leather shoes, size 8. 😄 56:50 — First John, then Ringo, then Billy playing the weird handheld electronic instrument — a Stylophone — a stylus-operated keyboard invented by Brian Jarvis in 1967, first put into production in 1968. Bowie used one on Space Oddity. 58:10 — Paul back in studio. 58:25 — Don’t Let Me Down 59:00 — John to George Martin: “I’ve had some wine you know.” 🤪 59:20 — Don’t Let Me Down — the version released as the B-side of Get Back. 1:00:00 — I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Lennon/McCartney) Paul on giant shaker. 1:00:20 — Half A Pound of Greasepaint (Lennon/McCartney) — goofing song Lots of full white wine glasses being passed around. 1:00:51 — Ringo playing a bell tree in his leprechaun-green suit matching the Apple carpeting. 😁 1:01:15 — Control room playback footage. Derek Taylor’s there. 1:01:30 — John: “Allen Klein’s here.” Title card: “The Beatles head upstairs for their first meeting with Allen Klein.” 😰 1:01:50 — DAY 20 — Wednesday, January 29th — the day before the rooftop concert 1:01:55 — Ringo tells MLH they’ll have “about six” numbers to do on the roof tomorrow. (They end up doing five different ones.) 1:02:15 — John & Glyn talking about Allen Klein. John says how they met last night till 12 or 12:30. “Went through everything.” … “He’s fantastic.” 😥 Glyn thinks Klein’s “strange, very strange,” rude and dismissive of others. 1:02:35 — John: “We’re all hustlers.” Ringo: “A conman who’s on our side for a change.” 1:03:10 — MLH talking about 9 cameras for the roof concert. He certainly does get cameras in the right places to capture the climax. 1:03:12 — Paul: “The best bit of us, always has been and always will be, is when we’ve got our backs against the wall, and we’ve been rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing. And he [John] knows it’s a take on the dub. And he does it great.” MLH talking about the need for some kind of an audience. 1:03:45 — Ringo’s “I farted.” 😮 1:03:55 — Tony Richmond: “Paul, what’s the problem? We’ve got everything set for tomorrow.” Paul: “The roof is, like, too far out.” 😲 1:04:30 — John & Paul tight face-to-face conversation. Glyn sitting right next to them. (Alan Parsons sitting a few feet away – looks stoned 😎) John: “I can’t wait to work it, you know?” Deep conversation about their aim and goals. Paul saying it’s just an album that they’re doing. John says “albums is what we do.” John sort of looks a bit old and weary. But I love the way he really does focus right in on Paul’s face — very intently. These are two guys who’ve sat face-to-face and had heavy life-changing conversations for 10 years. 1:05:00 — Paul mentions how George doesn’t want to do films. Paul: “For who is tomorrow the day? It’s not for me.” Paul wants to do the end of the movie in the studio. What an idiot. 😮 He embraces it once it happens — but how does not see its potential?! 1:07:10 — John: “I think we’d be daft to not do it.” [the rooftop concert] 1:07:15 — George joins the conversation. 1:08:00 — Ringo joins. Ultimately it’s — John, Paul, George, Ringo, George Martin, Glyn Johns, MLH & Tony Richmond. 1:08:20 — John: “We’ve only got to seven [songs]. Let’s do seven.” Paul pauses and sort of reluctantly says “Yeah.” 1:08:38 — Paul: “The only people who have to agree to what we’re doing is the four of us — and we’re the only ones who haven’t even talked about it. We had the meeting before all this and said ‘TV show.’ That’s what I have to get in my head. [But] It’s an album.” 1:08:50 — George: “All that footage of film could make about half a dozen films.” 1:09:15 — Paul: “This TV show was supposed to be a TV show of the last album. But when we came to do it we said we’ll write new songs.” 1:09:23 — John walks away briefly from the Paul–Glyn conversation. 1:10:05 — George Martin says the songs are “at a stage where it’s a dress rehearsal stage, where if you did a performance, it would probably be it.” Sounds like he’s advocating for the performance on the roof. 1:10:20 — John talks about the physical strain of doing Don’t Let Me Down and all the rest. MLH keeps stressin
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	11	https://deadline.com/video/let-it-be-beatles-movie-trailer/	en	‘Let It Be’: Disney+ Unveils Trailer & May 8 Launch Date More Than 50 Years After Movie First Aired	https://deadline.com/wp-…03082.jpg?w=1024	https://deadline.com/wp-…03082.jpg?w=1024	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1", "https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1754099280.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C3836px%2C2153px&resize=380%2C212", "https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-501903082.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1", "https://deadlin...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Max Goldbart" ]	2024-04-30T08:08:39+00:00	Let It Be: Disney+ Beatles Movie has unveiled trailer & a May 8 premiere three years after Peter Jackson's 'Get Back'	en	https://deadline.com/wp-…e-touch-icon.png	Deadline	https://deadline.com/video/let-it-be-beatles-movie-trailer/	And in this hour of darkness, The Beatles movie Let It Be is returning to screens. The movie that was first released amid the swirl of the band’s breakup in 1970 will launch May 8 on Disney+ and has unveiled a trailer. Once viewed through a darker lens, the film now is brought to light through its restoration and in the context of revelations brought forth in Peter Jackson’s multiple Emmy-winning docuseries, The Beatles: Get Back, which was a smash hit three years ago. Let it Be contains footage not in the epic Get Back docuseries, bringing viewers into the studio and onto Apple Corps’ London rooftop in January 1969 as The Beatles, joined by Billy Preston, write and record their Grammy-winning album, which came as they were tearing one another apart and toward the end of the band’s incredible career. RELATED: Let it Be, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, stars John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, with a special appearance by Preston. The film was produced by Neil Aspinall, with The Beatles acting as executive producers. The director of photography was Anthony B. Richmond.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	85	https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a46899545/who-should-play-the-beatles-films/	en	Who Should Play The Beatles in Sam Mendes’ Biopics? An Analysis	https://hips.hearstapps.…xh&resize=1200:*	https://hips.hearstapps.…xh&resize=1200:*	[ "https://www.esquire.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/search.f1c199c.svg", "https://www.esquire.com/_assets/design-tokens/fre/static/icons/close.38e3324.svg", "https://www.esquire.com/_assets/design-tokens/esquire/static/images/logos/logo.20861e6.svg?primary=navLogoColor", "https://hips.hearstapps.c...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Henry Wong" ]	2024-02-22T16:20:04.587558+00:00	Some obvious and... less obvious choices for casting directors	en	/_assets/design-tokens/esquire/static/images/favicon.9bd3ce0.ico	Esquire	https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a46899545/who-should-play-the-beatles-films/	Hollywood does not exactly ration music biopics, but this one feels like a biggie: Sam Mendes, the man behind Spectre, Skyfall and 1917, will be directing four feature films about The Beatles. Each movie will be told from the perspective of the members who are, if you need reminding, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison. Are you excited? Mendes certainly is: “I’m honoured to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies.” You will be able to judge how exciting that notion is in 2027, when the films are set to arrive. Okay, so, you may be exhausted by the prospect of another music biopic, not to mention four. But there are reasons to be excited. Macca, Ringo and the families of Lennon and Harrison have granted full rights for their life story and music for the series. And, according to the press release “the dating cadence of the films” will be “innovative and groundbreaking”. Sure! Right now, the real fun is in working out who’s going to play the Fab Four. There is a strong case to cast unknowns – nothing more exciting than watching actors become stars before our eyes – but there is a very abundant crop of actors from the British isles and beyond who would be great choices. And while there is a lot we don’t know – are they going to pick one actor and age them up through the film or pick a few actors to play the musicians at different ages The Crown-style? Will they have to sing? – let us make some obvious (and wild) guesses. Paul McCartney The obvious choice: Tom Holland Holland became a star by playing Spider-Man. Everyone knows that part of the story, but he has musical chops – not to mention the earnest, leading man vibe – to take on McCartney. He made his name playing Billy Elliot on stage, after all. And perhaps his most endearing public role to date? Dancing in full Rihanna regalia to “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Karaoke. Not only did Paul McCartney collaborate with Rihanna on "FourFiveSeconds", but he's one of the only mega star musicians we know of to have also released an umbrella-based song. It's clearly written in the stars. And what's more, this might be exactly the right role to get Holland back on the right track, following a few post-Marvel stumbles (The Crowded Room, we’re looking at you). The wildcard: Jack Lowden For a while now, Scottish actor Jack Lowden has been making his way through celebrated thrillers, from Dunkirk (surely one of Nolan’s sprawling cast from that film will be present here) to the Apple TV spy series Slow Horses. That series in particular proved that he's capable of a fine English accent, so that shouldn’t be a problem. He also has previous experience at playing an iconic singer, taking on the role of Morrissey in 2017’s England Is Mine, though that film’s muted reception might not necessarily work in his favour. Beyond those credentials, Lowden is simply a good actor: serious but not boring, with a cheekiness that would work well here. He would have to dye his hair but we could see him with a ’60s side-swept fringe. John Lennon The obvious choice: Aaron Taylor-Johnson This is the laziest choice on the list because Taylor-Johnson has already played Lennon in Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy, which followed the musician’s teenage years. He has done the work, as they say. If Mendes wanted to start shooting immediately, Taylor-Johnson would just need to pop on a pair of National Health specs and they could start rolling. Alas, we probably need a fresh face and the actor may be a little (okay, way) too jacked post-Kraven. The wildcard: Josh O’Connor Josh O’Connor has experience playing one globally-recognised Brit for two seasons of The Crown, pulling off the lovelorn, eternally patient Prince Charles with aplomb. And the actor can channel the right blend of intellectual and neurotic for the singer. Let him take on Lennon! Ringo Starr The obvious choice: Anthony Boyle If anyone could take off from Masters of the Air’s less famous supporting cast, perhaps it could be Irish actor Anthony Boyle. In that gigantic show – in terms of budget and cast size – Boyle managed to hold his own but never stole the limelight. All good training for Starr. And he’s about to appear in Apple TV’s Manhunt, a dramatisation about the aftermath of Lincoln’s assassination, opposite Tobias Menzies, which means signs point to a potential leading man. Without the burden of a past star-making turn, Boyle could make this role his own. The wildcard: Isaac Hempstead Wright It was hard to think of another pick for the affable drummer, but let us go with Isaac Hempstead Wright, stuck for eight seasons in Game of Thrones as the Stark family’s supernatural member. He has the (w)right look for the role, for one thing. Inevitably, though there’s plenty of pathos to be found in Starr’s Beatles career, anyone taking on the role will likely have to embrace the goofy side of things. Hempstead Wright was in a comedy film called The Boxtrolls. Did anyone see that? Please report back. George Harrison The obvious choice: Jacob Elordi Look, I tried to avoid adding one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood in this list, but after a quick Google of “young George Harrison”, the resemblance is undeniable. It’s the jawline and the lips and the hair (the height discrepancy admittedly might work against the buzzy actor). Elordi has played a very famous musician in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and perfected an English accent, albeit a very posh one, in Saltburn. If it seems strange to cast an Aussie hunk best known for playing an American jock as one quarter of an impish British boy band, well, that’s show business. And it would also draw in legions of smitten teenagers: fitting! The wildcard: George Mackay
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	91	http://www.thejakartapost.com/culture/2024/05/10/remastered-beatles-movie-let-it-be-gets-long-awaited-re-release.html	en	Remastered Beatles movie 'Let It Be' gets long	https://img.jakpost.net/…21638._large.jpg	https://img.jakpost.net/…21638._large.jpg	[ "http://www.thejakartapost.com/skin/img/browser_msie.gif", "http://www.thejakartapost.com/skin/img/logo/tjp-logo-41.png", "http://www.thejakartapost.com/skin/img/logo/tjp-logo-41.png", "http://www.thejakartapost.com/skin/img/logo/logo-jp-char.svg", "http://www.thejakartapost.com/skin/img/icons/icon-size.svg...	[]	[]	[ "The-Beatles", "Let-it-Be", "film", "release", "reissue", "documentary" ]	null	[ "The Jakarta Post" ]	2024-05-10T00:00:00	Remastered Beatles movie 'Let It Be' gets long-awaited re-release - Entertainment - The Jakarta Post	en	/favicon.ico	The Jakarta Post	http://www.thejakartapost.com/culture/2024/05/10/remastered-beatles-movie-let-it-be-gets-long-awaited-re-release.html	"Let it Be", the documentary film about The Beatles released just after the band's break up in 1970, hit screens again on Wednesday -- the first time it has been legally available in over 50 years. Shot in January 1969, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg's movie contained glimpses of the tensions and acrimony between John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr that eventually led to them disbanding. "George wasn't getting many songs recorded because John and Paul were so prolifically brilliant," Jonathan Clyde of the Beatles' Apple Corps told AFP. "John had met Yoko (Ono) and was making his own journey, Paul was doing what he wanted to do and Ringo had started shooting films," he said. The film shows the "Fab Four" in rehearsals and recording sessions for the album "Let It Be". The last part features their unannounced 40-minute concert on the roof of their record company building on London's Savile Row. It was restored from the original 16mm negative with the sound remastered using the latest de-mixing technology, and has been re-released on Disney+. More objective Clyde said the film covered a period when they had tried to rekindle the same spirit they had when they started out performing at Liverpool's Cavern Club and in Hamburg. But it became tainted by the break-up in April 1970, a month before the film was released, unfairly making it a "sort of odd postscript to the end of their career", he added. "They never felt a great love for 'Let It Be' because I think it was associated with all the trouble," he told an audience after a screening of the remastered film in London on Tuesday. More than half a century later it could now be seen in a more objective light as an invaluable record of the Beatles' creative process. "We all know they were genius, they created this incredible music year after year after year but actually they also worked incredibly hard at it," he said. "You can see that two steps forward one step back, days when really nothing happened and then suddenly a burst of energy that took it forward." Iconic Some 60 hours of previously unseen footage shot for the film was used by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson for his 2021 series on the making of "Let It Be". Jackson's "The Beatles: Get Back", a documentary about a documentary, offered a more positive take on the Beatles' final months together using the outtakes to show the bandmates joking around together as they created classics for their 12th and last studio album. The climax of Lindsay-Hogg's documentary is the rooftop gig, their last public performance together. Music journalist and critic John Harris said it was a snapshot of London in 1969 with office workers and passers-by dressed in bowler hats or mini skirts stopping in the street or clambering onto the tops of neighbouring buildings to get a good view. "It evokes London in that period which is amazing to see -- blokes who fought in the First World War wearing hats, all those people who stream out onto the roofs. "It's iconic, John in his fur coat and Ringo in his red plastic mac and Paul... in that beautiful black suit and George in his green trousers and his baseball boots. It's all perfect," he said.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	93	https://www.goldderby.com/gallery/best-harrison-ford-movies/	en	Harrison Ford 15 best movies ranked worst to best	https://www.goldderby.co…-Ford-movies.jpg	https://www.goldderby.co…-Ford-movies.jpg	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1", "https://www.goldderby.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Harrison-Ford-movies.jpg?w=620&h=360&crop=1", "https://www.goldderby.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-goldderby/assets/images/logo-white.png", "https://www.goldderby.com/wp-content/uploads/...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Tom O'Brien", "Chris Beachum", "Misty Holland" ]	2024-07-05T15:35:24+00:00	Tour our photo gallery, which includes the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises, "Witness," "The Fugitive" and more.	en	https://www.goldderby.co…vicon-1.png?w=32	GoldDerby	https://www.goldderby.com/gallery/best-harrison-ford-movies/	15. AIR FORCE ONE (1997) Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Writer: Andrew W. Marlowe. Starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, William H. Macy. One of the most popular action films of the ’90s, “Air Force One” stars Ford as Jim Marshall, President of the United States, who is flying on Air Force One with his family when the Presidential plane is hijacked by a group of Kazakh terrorists, led by Korshunov (Gary Oldman), who board the plane while posing as members of the press corps. Once the guns come out, Ford must switch from Presidential mode to superhero move, driven to protect his family and those innocents on the Presidential aircraft. When Ford is in superhero mode, he’s one of the best, and Wolfgang Petersen’s taut direction makes it all the more effective. 14. SABRINA (1995) Director: Sydney Pollack. Writers: Barbara Benedek, David Rayfiel. Starring Harrison Ford, Julia Ormand, Greg Kinnear. Ford tries his hand at sophisticated romantic comedy in Sydney Pollack’s remake of the 1954 Billy Wilder classic. Here he plays rich businessman Linus Larrabee whose younger playboy brother David (Greg Kinnear) is starting to fall for their chauffeur’s daughter Sabrina (Julia Ormond), despite being engaged to another wealthy woman whose family fortune the Larrabee family will need to keep the family business afloat. But Linus, against his better judgement, finds he harbors a secret love for Sabrina as well. For his performance as Linus, Ford received his fourth Golden Globe nomination. 13. REGARDING HENRY (1991) Director: Mike Nichols. Writer: J.J. Abrams. Starring Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Mikki Allen. Here Ford portrays Henry Turner, a high-powered Manhattan lawyer, who wanders into a convenience store robbery one night and is shot in the head. Henry survives but suffers brain damage and retrograde amnesia, making everything around him that he knew and loved now seem strange and foreign. Ford’s major acting challenge here is to create a man who was once forceful and articulate but now is struggling to find the words to say what he needs to say. Where as once, his major concern was winning a big case, but now his only concern is trying to get some semblance of the life he once loved back. 12. WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000) Director: Robert Zemeckis. Writer: Clark Gregg. Starring Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid. “What Lies Beneath” is a rare bird in the Harrison Ford filmography — it’s Ford’s first foray into the horror genre and (for a very big change) he’s not exactly playing a nice guy. But the public responded, as the film earned more than $291 million at the worldwide box office. Ford is Dr. Norman Spencer, a scientist at a Vermont college who is obsessed with his work and has a contentious relationship with his wife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer). When Claire encounters Mary, the sobbing wife who lives next door who is afraid that she’s going to “disappear,” Claire becomes suspicious when she sees Mary’s husband dumping what looks like a body into his car’s trunk. Claire’s suspicions rile Norman even more, and nothing good happens to the Spencers because of it. 11. THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986) Director: Peter Weir. Writer: Paul Schrader. Starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton. Ford’s first role post-“Witness” was this Paul Schrader adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel. Under Peter Weir’s direction, Ford gives a powerful performance as Allie Fox, who, sick of American consumerism and fearful of a nuclear war, packs up his family and moves to what he hopes will be a simpler life in the jungles of Central America. But their dreams of a happier life there begin to diminish as Allie begins to show signs of erratic behavior that worries his family greatly. Suddenly to those so close to him, Allie is much more terrifying than the jungle that surrounds them. For his performance as Allie, Ford received his second Golden Globe nomination. 10. THE JACK RYAN series (1992, 1994) Director: Phillip Noyce. Writers: Various. Starring Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Thora Birch. Ford appears as the famed Tom Clancy character Jack Ryan in the second and third episodes of the espionage film series — “Patriot Games” (1992) and “Clear and Present Danger” (1994). In the five-episode series, Ford is the only actor who has appeared twice as Jack Ryan. (For the record, the other Ryans were Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine.) Directed in both films by ace Australian director Phillip Noyce, Ford was right in his wheelhouse with the Tom Clancy character, who is stoic on the outside and not prone to the use of violence, but when he is threatened, look out. Two of the better films in the series. 9. WORKING GIRL (1988) Director: Mike Nichols. Writer: Kevin Wade. Starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack. In one of Ford’s biggest non-franchise hits, he plays Jack Trainer, a financial executive at the stock brokerage where secretary Tess McGill also works under the yoke of her monstrous boss Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver). When Katharine breaks her leg in a skiing accident, she asks Tess to house sit. There Tess finds some very incriminating evidence against Katharine, which she brings to Jack that triggers a series of events that could have dire consequences to Tess. All the plum parts in Mike Nichols’ film go to the women (and they make the most of them), but Ford displays a steady hand here, being the center of of sanity in the midst of workplace chaos. 8. STAR WARS: EPISODE VII — THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015) Director: J.J. Abrams. Writers: Lawrence Kasdan, J.J.Abrams, Michael Arndt. Starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher. Thirty-two years after his last appearance in a “Star Wars” film, Ford returned in “The Force Awakens” along with his former co-star Carrie Fisher. Seeing Ford again as Han Solo, piloting along with Chewbacca, was the the film equivalent of comfort food. More importantly, placing Han Solo and (the once) Princess Leia interacting with the new characters in this round of “Star Wars” somehow gives the younger characters the gravitas that convinced me that they belong in the “Star Wars” universe. And Ford’s final scenes only serve as a reminder (as if we needed it) of what a remarkable creation his Han Solo truly is. 7. 42 (2013) Writer/Director: Brian Helgeland. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Alan Tudyk, Christopher Meloni, Nicole Beharie. In writer/director Brian Helgeland’s biopic of baseball legend Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), Ford takes on a rare character role as grizzled, cigar-chomping baseball executive who not only wanted to integrate baseball with an African-American, but he specifically wanted this African-American to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ford is virtually unrecognizable in the role, as he uses his physicality to suggest the man we’re watching is aging. It isn’t until Ford opens his mouth and we hear that familiar voice that we realize that it is really Ford underneath all that grizzle. 6. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) Director: George Lucas. Writers: George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck. Starring Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Richard Dreyfuss, Candy Clark, Harrison Ford. Though Ford had small roles in six prior features. George Lucas’ classic “American Graffiti” was the first time audiences were formally introduced to him. As arrogant cowboy drag racer Bob Falfa, Ford cruised the streets of Modesto seeking out good-guy drag racer John Milner (Paul Le Mat), instigating the film’s exciting drag race finale. Ford didn’t have a whole lot of dialogue in the film, but he did have a smoulderingly sexy presence behind the wheel, which, combined with Bob’s arrogant confidence, made him unforgettable. Perhaps George Lucas remembered that when he was casting “Star Wars.” 5. THE FUGITIVE (1993) Director: Andrew Davis. Writers: David Twohy, Jeb Stuart. Starring Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward. One of Ford’s most critically acclaimed films ever, Andrew Davis’ thriller based on the iconic TV series starring David Janssen, stars Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, an esteemed vascular surgeon, who returns home to find his wife has just been murdered by a one-armed man, a killer who, after a struggle, escapes. Due to circumstances, Dr. Kimble is convicted of first-degree murder, but en route to prison, he manages to escape. As Dr. Kimble vows to track down the one-armed man, Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones, who won an Oscar for his performance) is on a mission to track down Kimble. Ford and Jones are formidable opponents, and for his performance as Dr. Kimble, Ford received his third Golden Globe nomination. 4. BLADE RUNNER (1982) Director: Ridley Scott. Writers: Hampton Fancher, David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos. While now Ridley Scott’s film is considered a modern classic, when it was originally released in 1982, “Blade Runner” opened to mixed critical reviews and was generally considered to be a box-office flop. Time has been kind to this sci-fi milestone, which is set in the distant future of 2019 (wait, huh?) Los Angeles, where it’s always raining (as if), hovercraft fly through the air and electronic ads cover the entire side of buildings. And Ford’s performance as ex-police officer Rick Deckard, whose job it was to be a blade runner, a hunter of bioengineered beings called replicants, is treasured by sci-fi fans all over the world. 3. THE INDIANA JONES series (1981, 1984, 1989, 2008, 2023) Directors: Steven Spielberg, James Mangold. Writers: Various. Starring Harrison Ford. Like the first “Star Wars,” when “Raiders of the Lost Ark” first appeared in 1981, it took moviegoers completely by surprise. Here was an old-fashioned Saturday-afternoon-at-the- movies adventure serial all gussied up and pushed to its max by director Steven Spielberg. Now remember, at this time, the public only really knew Ford as Han Solo, and now they were faced with him as Indiana Jones, a totally different character, complete with fedora and a bullwhip. Ford played Indiana Jones as an everyman, facing dire consequences at every turn and somehow finding a way out. Ford kept up the character in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” whose violence led to the PG-13 rating; “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) which paired him with Sean Connery as his father; and a late entry in the series, “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull” (2008). The most recent (and likely final) movie is “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (2023). 2. WITNESS (1985) Director: Peter Weir. Writers: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley. Starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lucas Haas, Alexander Gudunov. In what may be arguably Ford’s best performance on-screen, he portrays Det. John Book, who, during his investigation of the murder of an undercover cop, finds that there’s a witness to the crime, 8 year-old Amish boy Samuel Lapp, who saw the murder while waiting on a train platform with his mother Rachel (Kelly McGillis). Fearing for their safety, John decides to escort them back to Amish country, only to be tailed by the real killer, who wounds Book in an ambush. The Amish people take him into their community and vow to protect him. For his performance as Det. John Book, Ford received his sole Oscar nomination (to date) and his third Golden Globe nod. 1. THE STAR WARS series (1977, 1980, 1983) Directors: Various. Writers: Various. Starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford. I remember the first time I saw George Lucas’ “Star Wars” in the spring of 1977. Somehow I wangled tickets to a preview screening. There were no reviews yet, and its story was not yet known. My jaw was on the floor through most of the film. Though I had a whole lot of takeaways from it, my biggest one was that it was fun and reveled in the joy of filmmaking. Director Irvin Kerchner deepened the story in “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980), and Richard Marquand continued the streak with “Return of the Jedi (1983) (Ewoks aside). But it was those glorious characters — Mark Hamill’s Luke, Carrie Fisher’s Leia, and most of all, Ford’s Han Solo, who made us all happy that there were swashbucklers in space. A series that is not to be denied.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	29	https://www.houstonpress.com/music/5-movies-that-wouldnt-exist-without-george-harrison-6504267	en	5 Movies That Wouldn't Exist Without George Harrison	https://www.houstonpress…08/7306363.0.jpg	https://www.houstonpress…08/7306363.0.jpg	[ "https://www.houstonpress.com/images/hou-main-logo.svg", "https://www.houstonpress.com/imager/chris-gray/b/r-bigsquare/6356945/40e6/Gray__Chris_Houston.png", "https://www.houstonpress.com/images/air/newsletter-insiders-hou.png", "https://www.houstonpress.com/images/hou-main-logo.svg", "https://media1.housto...	[]	[]	[ "British cinema", "George Harrison", "HandMade Films", "Martin Scorsese", "Monty Python", "Shanghai Surprise", "The Beatles", "Time Bandits", "Withnail and I", "Classic Rock Corner", "Film and TV", "Movie Music" ]	null	[ "Chris Gray" ]	2011-10-05T16:40:00	After giving the deluxe documentary treatment to Bob Dylan (No Direction Home) and the Rolling Stones (Shine a Light), Martin Scorsese now trains his camera on George Harrison for George Harrison: Living In the Material World, his two-part film about the "Quiet Beatle" that airs at 8 p.m. tonight and...	en	/favicon.ico	Houston Press	https://www.houstonpress.com/music/5-movies-that-wouldnt-exist-without-george-harrison-6504267	After giving the deluxe documentary treatment to Bob Dylan (No Direction Home) and the Rolling Stones (Shine a Light), Martin Scorsese now trains his camera on George Harrison for George Harrison: Living In the Material World, his two-part film about the "Quiet Beatle" that airs at 8 p.m. tonight and Thursday on HBO. Although he was never especially quiet - Rocks Off just read Peter Doggett's You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup over the weekend, and we highly recommend it - Harrison was himself a cinephile. After befriending the Monty Python crew, Harrison created the production company HandMade Films to produce their Christ-figure comedy Monty Python's Life of Brian, prompting Python's Terry Gilliam to remark it was the "most expensive script in history." Harrison sold his interest in HandMade in 1994, but by then it had already produced some of the most successful and influential works in recent British film history, along with its fair share of turkeys. After emerging from financial "restructuring" last year, it's still a going concern, most recently producing the Oscar-nominated 127 Hours. Here's a quick sampling of HandMade's archives. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Summary: From the stable to the cross, Judean-born accidental messiah Brian (Graham Chapman) has a nasty habit of getting mistaken for this "Jesus Christ" fellow. Starring: Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam Trivia: Harrison appears uncredited as Mr. Papadopolous. The Long Good Friday (1980) Summary: London gangster battles the IRA and police corruption as he tries to go legit with a scheme to redevelop the docklands into an Olympic village. Too bad he asks the U.S. mafia for help. Starring: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren Trivia: Future James Bond Piers Brosnan makes his film debut as an IRA gunman who takes Harold Shand (Hoskins) hostage. Time Bandits (1981) Summary: A rather rude group of dwarves discovers time travel - something to do with a toaster, if we remember right - and accumulates ill-gotten gains across various historical eras. Starring: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Ralph Richardson and Sean Connery as King Agamemnon Trivia: Kenny Baker, better known as R2-D2, co-stars as one of the dwarves, Fidgit. Shanghai Surprise (1986) Summary: Mercenary and missionary meet cute, dodge thugs while hunting stolen opium. Starring: Sean Penn, Madonna Trivia: Roundly considered one of the worst films of the '80s, if not of all time. Won Madonna her first "Razzie" award for Worst Actress, and its utter failure at the box office put HandMade in serious financial trouble. Harrison appears as a lounge singer. Withnail and I (1987) Summary: Two struggling actors in late-'60s London get more than they bargained for when they spend a weekend at a lake house belonging to one of them's flamboyantly gay uncle. Starring: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	33	https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/george-harrison-thought-the-beatles-movies/	en	What George Harrison really thought of The Beatles movies	https://faroutmagazine.c…ife-of-Brian.jpg	https://faroutmagazine.c…ife-of-Brian.jpg	[ "https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/themes/far-out-magazine/logo/minimal-logo.svg", "https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/themes/far-out-magazine/logo/plain-inv-logo.svg", "https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/themes/far-out-magazine/logo/plain-logo.svg", "https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/th...	[ "https://www.youtube.com/embed/t2wRs5vKPs0?feature=oembed" ]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Jordan Potter" ]	2022-08-08T16:30:23+01:00	In a 1987 interview, George Harrison gave his thoughts on three of The Beatles’ various attempts at filmmaking as an addage to their music.	en	/favicon.ico	Far Out Magazine	https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/george-harrison-thought-the-beatles-movies/	After igniting the British invasion with their early rock ‘n’ roll submissions and packed-out, screaming gigs, The Beatles looked to capitalise on their success by releasing films to accompany their music releases. At the time, it was a novel idea for a band to create a feature-length movie and their first, the Richard Lester-directed musical comedy A Hard day’s Night, was a resounding success. After the success of A Hard Day’s Night, in which the four starred alongside Wilfrid Brambell of Steptoe and Son, The Beatles reunified with Lester for Help! This second effort in the realm of cinema was their first in colour and has been considered a seminal work of avant-garde filmmaking over the decades since, but at the time, it wasn’t as well received as its predecessor. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight in 1987, George Harrison gave his two cents on The Beatles’ foray into the acting business. “I think Hard Day’s Night and Help! under the circumstance… first of all Hard Day’s Night, you know, everybody likes to make a movie. But we’ve just made a few records [that] got popular now, and they’re making a movie”. Harrison added: “They’ve got a writer who met us for like three days and wrote the script. I think that the magic about it was that at least that he picked up the idea, the vibe of what was happening on the road and translated that into… it wasn’t brilliant.” “But it was adequate and considering we were all pretty useless in acting,” Harrison continued. “I think Dick Lester should take a lot of credit because it was his ability and his experience with comedy that he had done before with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and stuff. He had a great sense of humour, and he had a great ability to let us be what we were. I think that all worked out good”. “There were plenty of songs, catchy little tunes, and that was fine. I think Help! had to step up a bit, it was a big colour film. But still pretty funny, even in a slightly dumb way. That’s why I keep referring to ‘The Rutles’, you know. ‘The Rutles’ to me, Hard Day’s Night and Help! [are] very ‘Rutley’ and I think they worked out.” “The Rutles” Harrison refers to here is a Beatles parody band created by Monty Python star and close friend of Harrison, Eric Idle, and Neil Innes for a sketch in the 1970s BBC series Rutland Weekend Television. Later, Harrison moved his focus to 1970s Let it Be, the final film the Beatles made together. After their shift from the silly comedy of Hard Day’s Night and Help! to the psychedelic wonderment of Magical Mystery Tour and the animation Yellow Submarine, Let It Be took on a more serious note as it documented the frayed end of the band’s time together. The documentary film showed the fractious sessions in which they recorded the material for their final album, Let It Be, and prepared for their final live performance from the rooftop of Apple corps. Last year, previously unreleased footage from these sessions was exposed in Peter Jackson’s popular three-part documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. As can be seen in the intensely revealing film, the band are not on particularly good terms at this stage. Harrison was particularly frustrated with Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s creative dominion and quit the band temporarily during the sessions. “The other you mentioned,” Harrison told Entertainment Tonight, referring to Let It Be. “Which was really supposed to be us rehearsing to make a record. They were just filming the rehearsal that turned into the movie, you ‘Let It Rot’ [laughs]. I didn’t like that. The scenes, like we on the roof, that was quite good. There’s bits and pieces, it’s okay.” “But most of it just makes me so aggravated to I can’t watch it,” he continued. “Because it was a particularly bad experience that we were having at that time. It’s bad enough when you’re having it. Let alone having it filmed and recorded. So you’ve got to watch it for the rest of your life. I don’t like it.” Witness the moment George Harrison quit The Beatles in 1969 below.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	66	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13502645/Beatles-biopic-rumoured-casting-Barry-Keoghan-tipped-play-Ringo-Starr-Paul-Mescal-Paul-McCartney-new-Sam-Mendes-film.html	en	Beatles biopic rumoured casting: Barry Keoghan tipped to play Ringo Starr with Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney in new Sam Mendes film	https://i.dailymail.co.u…717695865811.jpg	https://i.dailymail.co.u…717695865811.jpg	[ "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/sitelogos/logo_mol.gif", "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/facebook/DailyMail/DailyMail.png", "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/22/20/87638703-0-image-a-37_1721677704596.jpg", "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/22/20/87638149-0-image-m-11_1721676946263.jpg", "https:/...	[]	[]	[ "dailymail", "tvshowbiz", "Paul Mescal", "John Lennon", "Paul McCartney", "Barry Keoghan", "Ringo Starr" ]	null	[ "Amelia Wynne", "Amelia Wynne For Mailonline", "www.facebook.com" ]	2024-06-06T19:01:14+01:00	Rumours have begun to swirl about who could be playing the famous four in Sam Mendes' Beatles Biopic.		/favicon.ico?v=2	Mail Online	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13502645/Beatles-biopic-rumoured-casting-Barry-Keoghan-tipped-play-Ringo-Starr-Paul-Mescal-Paul-McCartney-new-Sam-Mendes-film.html	Rumours have begun to swirl about who could be playing the famous four in Sam Mendes' Beatles Biopic. The 58-year-old director announced earlier this year that he would be directing four separate films about the legendary band and has now reportedly cast the leading quartet. According to The InSneider, Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan is to portray Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson is to star as John Lennon, and Charlie Rowe will take on the part of George Harrison. The films are reportedly set to be interconnected stories with one from each band member's perspective. It marks the first time ever that The Beatles and their Apple Corps. company have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film. The movies are being made by Sony Pictures and Sam's Neal Street Productions company and are scheduled to begin shooting in mid-2025 for a planned 2027 cinematic release. It has not yet been revealed if all four films will be released at the same time or whether they will be staggered across the year but Sony has promised an 'innovative release cadence'. Mendes explained that he pitched the idea of making four films about the 'Hey Jude' group last year and wowed Sony executives Tom Rothman and Elizabeth Gabler with his plans. The Skyfall filmmaker told Deadline earlier this year: 'We went out to Los Angeles just before Christmas to pitch the project, and it's fair to say we were met with universal enthusiasm. 'The reason Sony stood out from competing offers was down to Tom and Elizabeth's passion for the idea, and commitment to propelling these films theatrically in an innovative and exciting way.' Representatives for the actors in question have been contacted by MailOnline for comment. Actor Barry, 31, has risen to huge stardom in the last few years with roles in Saltburn and The Banshees of Inisherin. While Paul, 28, soared to fame in BBC series Normal People and has gone on to be a household name. Harris Dickinson, 27, is another young British talent, starring in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, where he played Prince Phillip, as well as The King’s Man, Where the Crawdads Sing and Triangle of Sadness. And finally, Charlie Rowe is a 28-year-old British star, also known for playing George Osborne in ITV’s lavish 2018 adaptation of Vanity Fair. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all time and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form. It comes after Paul was recently linked to actress Natalie Portman, 42, after being spotted together in London last week. The pair could not control their giggles as they enjoyed an evening out drinking at at Bar 69 in Islington. Paul and Natalie - who interviewed each other for Variety last year - appeared in high spirits as they stepped outside for a cigarette. Insiders have denied the two are romantically involved, pointing to their close friendship but Paul has made no secret of his admiration for Natalie. When they interviewed each other last year, Paul described Natalie as 'brilliant' and admitted: 'If my drama school self knew that I would be talking to you, I would pinch myself many, many times!' He also complimented her performance in May December, in which she shares a steamy sex scene with younger co-star Charles Melton, 33. She starred in the film as an actress named Elizabeth researching a couple - Gracie (Julianne Moore) and Joe (Charles) - who had formed when she was 36 and he was 13, sparking a tabloid scandal. Meanwhile, Natalie complimented Paul on his sex scenes with Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers, describing them as 'very hot but also very tender.' Natalie finalised her divorce from Benjamin Millepied in France in March, bringing an end to a marriage of 12 years, her representative confirmed to People. The former couple share two children - Aleph, 12, and Amalia, seven - and lived together in Benjamin's native France for several years. Natalie filed for divorce last July, one month after the French magazine Voici ran a bombshell report claiming Benjamin, 46, had an affair with a famous 25-year-old environmental activist called Camille Étienne. After the claims of his infidelity went public, a source told People Benjamin had a 'short-lived' fling with Camille, but that the dalliance was 'over.' The insider added: 'He knows he made an enormous mistake and he is doing all he can to get Natalie to forgive him and keep their family together.' However, by the following month, Natalie had filed for divorce, and by early this March the legal proceedings were finalised. The closest she came to addressing her divorce in public was in Vanity Fair this February, when she was asked how it felt to have her marriage written about and replied: 'It’s terrible, and I have no desire to contribute to it.' A friend revealed the collapse of Natalie's marriage was 'was initially really tough for her, but her friends rallied around her and helped get her through the worst of it.'
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	89	https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/arts/movies/2022/04/06/tampa-lawyer-makes-film-about-the-almost-beatle/	en	Tampa lawyer makes film about ‘the almost Beatle’	https://www.tampabay.com…S2I6MFMFQQ24.JPG	https://www.tampabay.com…S2I6MFMFQQ24.JPG	[ "https://www.tampabay.com/pf/resources/images/icons/sports/icon--bucs-logo.png?d=575", "https://www.tampabay.com/pf/resources/images/icons/sports/icon--rays-logo.png?d=575", "https://www.tampabay.com/pf/resources/images/icons/sports/icon--lightning-logo.png?d=575", "https://www.tampabay.com/pf/resources/image...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Paul Guzzo" ]	2022-04-06T00:00:00	Colin Hanton was drummer for The Quarrymen. He quit that band before they changed their name to The Beatles.	en	/pf/favicon.ico	Tampa Bay Times	https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/arts/movies/2022/04/06/tampa-lawyer-makes-film-about-the-almost-beatle/	TAMPA — A lifelong Beatles fan, Mark Bentley thought he knew everything about the legendary rock pioneers. But then he learned the full story of the little-known Colin Hanton, whom he now refers to as “the almost Beatle.” Hanton was drummer for The Quarrymen. He quit that band before they changed their name to The Beatles. “He was there when it all came together,” said Bentley, a Tampa land use attorney with the law firm of Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel and Burns. “And then he walked away from it. Everyone should know this story.” Bentley brought his attorney skills to the world of documentary filmmaking to make a movie about Hanton. Titled Pre Fab!, it premieres at 7 p.m. Friday at Enzian Theater in Maitland as the opening night movie for the Florida Film Festival. “Our selection committee just fell in love with this feel-good and enlightening film, catching Beatles fever much like the British youth in the 1950s,” said Matthew Curtis, programming director for the festival. Bentley is executive producer, but he did more than cut a check. He conducted 90 percent of the interviews with Hanton, historians and the drummer’s friends and family. He also tracked down and purchased rare photographs and memorabilia, negotiated the rights to music and archival footage and gained access to the childhood homes of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon plus Abbey Road Studios. Bentley even persuaded McCartney to be interviewed. “The only other film crew to ever shoot inside McCartney’s home is Carpool Karaoke,” Bentley, 60, said. “I’m a Beatles fan, but that’s not why I did this. I wanted to preserve a little piece of history.” The Quarrymen were formed in Liverpool by Lennon in 1956 and consisted primarily of his school friends. A longtime basic narrative is that Hanton was only asked to join because he had a drum kit. “But there had to be something special about him besides that,” Bentley said. “Other than John Lennon, no one was with The Quarrymen longer than Colin. He was with them for three years.” Other members were replaced with McCartney and Harrison. “They had plenty of opportunities to replace Colin,” Bentley said. “They never did. It was John, Paul, George and Colin.” But Hanton did not see a future for the band. So, in 1959, after an argument over a gig that turned disastrous when the band got drunk between sets, Hanton quit to focus on his career as an upholsterer. In 1960, The Quarrymen became The Beatles with Pete Best on drums. Two years later, Best was replaced by Ringo Starr. “I think everyone has heard of Pete Best and Ringo Starr, but almost no one has heard of Colin Hanton,” Bentley said. “What’s fascinating is that Colin has no regrets. He has a beautiful family and did really well in the upholstery business. He says it turned out really well for everybody.” In 1997, original members of The Quarrymen, minus Lennon, reunited. Hanton released his memoir, also titled Pre Fab!, in May 2018. Bentley read it the following month, just as his son, Adam, was touring England as guitarist for the Nashville-based band Arch Echo. “I figured I’d go see my kid and then talk to Colin,” Bentley said. Hanton agreed to meet at the Penny Lane Community Centre. He thought Bentley was either a fan seeking an autograph or a journalist writing an article. “I told him I just wanted to hear his story,” Bentley said. “But when I got back to the U.S. I realized what a unique story this was about a man who is totally content with who he is.” Hanton also had a firsthand look at history. “He remembers everything,” Bentley said. “Where they played, when they played, what they played. I thought this would make a great documentary.” Except, Bentley had no idea how to make one. So, he brought on his son to score the documentary, daughter Erin Bentley, a marketing executive at Warner Bros., as co-producer and Todd Thompson of Orlando-based Stars North as director. “All I had in mind was I was going to start this thing with that famous G chord out of A Hard Day’s Night and I’m going to end it that way,” Bentley said. “And I did it that way.” This was not his last foray into filmmaking. Bentley is currently producing a documentary on musician Del Shannon, best known for his 1961 No. 1 Billboard hit Runaway. “I’ve already done 20 interviews on Del Shannon,” Bentley said. As for Pre Fab!, there are no more screenings planned, but Bentley hopes to land a distribution deal soon. “If I make some money off of it, that’s great, but that wasn’t my motivation,” he said. “Colin’s story is an important part of rock ‘n’ roll history. I just wanted to share it.”
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	64	https://deadline.com/video/let-it-be-beatles-movie-trailer/	en	‘Let It Be’: Disney+ Unveils Trailer & May 8 Launch Date More Than 50 Years After Movie First Aired	https://deadline.com/wp-…03082.jpg?w=1024	https://deadline.com/wp-…03082.jpg?w=1024	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1", "https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-501903082.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1", "https://deadline.com/wp-content/themes/pmc-deadline-2019/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.jpg", "https://deadline.com/wp-content/themes/pmc-dead...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Max Goldbart" ]	2024-04-30T08:08:39+00:00	Let It Be: Disney+ Beatles Movie has unveiled trailer & a May 8 premiere three years after Peter Jackson's 'Get Back'	en	https://deadline.com/wp-…e-touch-icon.png	Deadline	https://deadline.com/video/let-it-be-beatles-movie-trailer/	And in this hour of darkness, The Beatles movie Let It Be is returning to screens. The movie that was first released amid the swirl of the band’s breakup in 1970 will launch May 8 on Disney+ and has unveiled a trailer. Once viewed through a darker lens, the film now is brought to light through its restoration and in the context of revelations brought forth in Peter Jackson’s multiple Emmy-winning docuseries, The Beatles: Get Back, which was a smash hit three years ago. Let it Be contains footage not in the epic Get Back docuseries, bringing viewers into the studio and onto Apple Corps’ London rooftop in January 1969 as The Beatles, joined by Billy Preston, write and record their Grammy-winning album, which came as they were tearing one another apart and toward the end of the band’s incredible career. RELATED: Let it Be, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, stars John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, with a special appearance by Preston. The film was produced by Neil Aspinall, with The Beatles acting as executive producers. The director of photography was Anthony B. Richmond.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	31	https://time.com/2959651/fifty-years-ago-today-beatles-hard-days-night/	en	Fifty Years Ago Today: The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night	https://api.time.com/wp-…200&h=628&crop=1	https://api.time.com/wp-…200&h=628&crop=1	[]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Richard Corliss" ]	2014-07-06T20:34:00+00:00	Made in an amazing burst of creativity, The Fab Four's first movie, remains as revolutionary as ever, and as much fun	en	/favicon.ico	TIME	https://time.com/2959651/fifty-years-ago-today-beatles-hard-days-night/	Before anyone saw the movie, its title promised something different from the ruck of cheapo rock ‘n roll films: A Hard Day’s WHAT? As producer Walter Shenson told it, he and director Richard Lester were nearly finished shooting their little picture with the Beatles but had no name for it. Then John Lennon told Shenson that Ringo Starr occasionally mutilated the English language in droll ways. Example: to suggest his exhaustion after an evening’s concertizing and partying, Ringo would say, “It’s been a hard day’s night.” Shenson told Lennon that he and Paul McCartney should write a song with that title, pronto. The next morning they delivered a catchy 12-bar blues riff with a soaring bridge, about a working stiff whose girlfriend makes all his toil worthwhile. Plaaaang! That’s the sound of the song’s first, long guitar chord — a brash wakeup call to the audience. The film’s first shot is just as startling: three of the Liverpool lads running toward the camera down a narrow sidewalk, hemmed in by parked cars. The screams of pursuing Beatlemaniacs rises under the song’s first phrase, as George Harrison, in the foreground with John, trips and falls, Ringo collapsing over him. John looks back, his deadpan face breaking into a wide smile, and George gets up to carry on running away from their fans and into the Marylebone train station. Now all three are laughing, perhaps at the silliness of pop stardom, while the sacred words THE BEATLES briskly unfurl across the screen, followed by A HARD DAY’S NIGHT. (FIND: A Hard Day’s Night on the all-TIME 100 Movies list) Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as A Hard Day’s Night? Directed by Richard Lester, then 32, and starring four musicians, the eldest of whom (Ringo) was 23, the film showed the world’s most famous foursome at that split second when they and their fans could enjoy their early apogee of superstardom. In the years until their 1970 breakup, the Beatles’ influence would broaden, their music become more sophisticated, their politics more complicated. But the world premiere of A Hard Day’s Night at London’s Pavilion Theatre on July 6, 1964 — 50 years ago today — marked the full flourish of Beatlemania on screen, in all its wit, musical bravado and, if we may say it about a canny rock band, innocence. For the 50th anniversary, the film is showing in theaters in 100 U.S. cities, including Manhattan’s Film Forum. And the Criterion Collection has issued a 4K digital restoration of the film, which necessitated replacing missing parts of the original negative; and Giles Martin, whose father George produced most of the Beatles’ music, had to use a monaural mix of the movie’s closing song, “She Loves You,” for the stereo track. The result is a splendid tribute to this endearing, enduring film — which, when it opened here in August 1964, Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice called “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.” (READ: Corliss’s tribute to legendary film critic Andrew Sarris) Prescient and true: AHDT revolutionized pop musicals with the same thunder-clap force that Orson Welles brought to the Hollywood drama, and that Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho infused into the horror film. A very local comedy with universal appeal, a daring blend of documentary and surrealism, Lester’s G-rated movie junked the tropes of traditional Hollywood musicals and instead found its muses in France: the avant-garde subversion of Luis Buñuel and Jean Vigo and the cinematic playfulness of New Wavers François Truffaut an Jean-Luc Godard. Lester punctuated the movie with swish pans, arc-light glares and an editing pace of controlled frenzy; he broke a thousand filmmaking rules and in the process established new ones that would reverberate decades later in music videos. (In a making-of extra on the Criterion discs, the director says that “MTV gave me a very nice diploma … saying that I was the putative father of MTV.” He smiled and added, “But I’ve insisted on a blood test.”) In the decade before AHDN, there were only two kinds of movies with pop stars. A hot star like Elvis Presley (and, in Britain, Cliff Richard) would be cast as a fictional character in an A-minus drama with music. (Frank Sinatra did the same in his ’40s films.) Or, down on the B-minus level, performers like Chuck Berry and Little Richard would play a couple songs as backup to a story of teen striving (as in the Alan Freed-hosted Rock Around the Clock and Mr. Rock ‘n Roll). The first kind of film tried to turn a pop sensation into fodder for the mainstream audience; that’s how Elvis got neutered in movies. The second kind used the artists as teen bait, then gave them only a few minutes on screen. The Beatles didn’t want any of that. AHDN was the first mainstream rock movie that seemed designed mainly to amuse its makers. (READ: The Beatles Conquer America — 50 Years Later) It all came together in a flash. In late 1963, Shenson, an American who had produced the 1959 Peter Sellers comedy hit The Mouse That Roared and its less successful sequel The Mouse on the Moon, agreed to produce a musical comedy starring the Beatles, who were just launching into the pop Britosphere. Shenson’s studio back home, United Artists, had no sybil’s foreknowledge of the band’s unique fame; it just wanted an album of new songs to promote, which would make back the film’s modest $500,000 investment. Even after the Beatles conquered America on The Ed Sullivan Show and monopolized the pop charts like no recording artists before them, a UA executive asked that voice actors dub the Fab Four’s accents into a more intelligible mid-Atlantic patois. McCartney’s response: “Look, if we can understand a f–kin’ cowboy talking Texan, they can understand us talking Liverpool.” Lester could understand Liverpool. A Philadelphian who had worked in live TV drama in his teens, he had come to London, embraced its comic quirkiness and adopted its accent; it was said he’d become so English that he wanted his surname spelled Leicester. He had directed the jazz musical It’s Trad, Dad and, for Shenson, Mouse on the Moon. More important to the Beatles, who loved that long-running radio anarchy The Goon Show, Lester had helmed an 11-minute experimental comedy called The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film with Goons Sellers and Spike Milligan. (This short film’s outdoor shenanigans directly inspired surreal bits in AHDN like the Beatles running along outside the train they were just inside, as well as the “Can’t Buy Me Love” field frolic.) The four also approved of Alun Owen, the Liverpudlian writer of TV dramas, to pen the script. (READ: Peter Sellers and The Goon Show) The speed at which A Hard Day’s Night was conceived and born testifies both to UA’s original suspicion that the project would be a B-movie promo and to the industry and artistry its makers invested in it. Lennon and McCartney wrote about eight songs on a brief January holiday in Jamaica, leaving Lester and Owen to fit the songs somehow into a scenario about a day or two in the band’s hectic life. Shooting began Mar. 2 at Marylebone, climaxed late that month at the Scala Theatre where the band played for their fans and more or less finished on April 23, when Paul, George and Ringo cavorted on Thornsbury Playing Fields in Middlesex for the “Can’t Buy Me Love” segment. (John, at a signing for his book In His Own Write, was mostly absent from that larkishness.) Shot in doc-style black-and-white, AHDN had a secret sibling film in What’s Happening: The Beatles in the U.S.A., shot during their first visit to America by the cinéma-vérité pioneers Albert and David Maysles. What’s Happening also depicts the Beatles routine: same dashing from train to limo to photo op to TV stage, the same release of tension on a dance-club floor, the same use of wit as armor against imprisonment and ennui — and the same amazing display of geniality by four blithe Liverpudlians. Also the same directorial nimbleness: the Maysles brothers learned of their assignment two hours before the Beatles’ plane landed at JFK airport on Feb. 7, 1964. Artists had faster reflexes then. (READ: TIME’s 1964 review of the Lester and Maysles Beatles films) AHDN didn’t open in the States until Aug. 11, more than a month after the London premiere, and for those of us who were young back then it was an essential votive experience. I remember seeing it at a movie house in suburban Philadelphia. I say seeing; hearing was out of the question, due to the shrieks of the band’s bobbysoxer brigade. The theater, I swear, was informally divided into quadrants, each inhabited by the attendant sisters of one band member: John in the lower left, Paul in the lower right, etc. A closeup of one Beatle would cue a communal wail from his quadrant. It was the sweetest form of pandemonium. The Philadelphia girls, consciously nor not, were imitating the film’s climactic sequence, which intercuts shots of the band performing “She Loves You” with reaction shots from the young audience, and returns occasionally to girls mouthing the names of their particular heroes. The unforgettable one is a pretty blond undergoing a kind of anguished ecstasy. She is seen four times: first clutching her hair, then crying into her hand, then sobbing hand to head and finally, at the song’s last break (“You know you shou-ou-ou-ould…”) silently keening a desperate “George.” On one of the Criterion extras, we learn that editor John Jympson called this girl “the white rabbit.” (READ: How The Beatles changed rock ‘n roll) Ten years later, in Film Comment, I wrote my first Beatles nostalgia piece: “You probably have to be about my age — turning 30, and none too pleased about it — to look back nostalgically on a period as recent as 1964, and to smile crookedly when you think of A Hard Day’s Night. Most of us were the last stragglers of the ’50s… all we had were the private passions of movies and rock ‘n roll, which our teachers considered occasions of sin and not yet adventures in scholarship. With the Beatles, and specifically with A Hard Day’s Night, the unspeakable became acceptable. … A Hard Day’s Night today retains its vigor, its good humor, its Lancashire courtliness and easy grace. … We can also find in the film what we responded to then: its perfect distillation of a moment when, for a lot of us, it felt good to be young. … [Now,] we’ve aged, and it hasn’t.” Another 40 years later, I have aged and the movie still hasn’t. Maybe the Beatles, perhaps even Lester and his team, didn’t know what they made, it soon became clear, was history — and did it with such good humor and blithe, unflappable grace. That’s a big reason for the unique then-and-now status of A Hard Day’s Night: it is both completely of its time and utterly forever.
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	25	https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/02/20/four-beatles-movies-sam-mendes/72669341007/	en	Beatles movies on Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in the works	https://www.gannett-cdn.…=pjpg&width=1200	https://www.gannett-cdn.…=pjpg&width=1200	[ "https://www.gannett-cdn.com/authoring/authoring-images/2023/11/09/USAT/71520463007-ap-23299462264952.jpeg?crop=2595,1461,x0,y232", "https://www.gannett-cdn.com/appservices/universal-web/universal/icons/icon-play-alt-white.svg", "https://www.gannett-cdn.com/appservices/universal-web/universal/icons/icon-instagr...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Jake Coyle, USA TODAY" ]	2024-02-20T00:00:00	Four movies about the Beatles, each of which will take the perspective of a different member of the band, are in the works from director Sam Mendes.	en	https://www.gannett-cdn.…ages/favicon.png	USA TODAY	https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/02/20/four-beatles-movies-sam-mendes/72669341007/	NEW YORK — The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in not just one film, but a Fab Four of movies that will give each band member their own spotlight — all of which are to be directed by Sam Mendes. For the first time, the Beatles, long among the stingiest rights granters, are giving full life and music rights to a movie project. Sony Pictures announced Monday a deal that may dwarf all music biopics that have come before it, with the stories of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr spread out over a quartet of films. The films, conceived by Mendes, are expected to roll out theatrically in innovative fashion, with the movies potentially coexisting or intersecting in theaters. Precise release plans will be announced at a later date. Sony is targeting 2027 for their release. McCartney, Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison have all signed off on the project through the band's Apple Corps. Ltd. Sony Music Publishing controls the rights to the majority of Beatles songs. "I'm honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies," Mendes said in a statement. Each film will be from the perspective of a Beatle. 'Now and Then': If the Beatles song left you gently weeping, you weren't alone "We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time," said producer Pippa Harris. "To have The Beatles' and Apple Corps' blessing to do this is an immense privilege." The Beatles' most famous forays into film were in their early years. Between 1964 and 1970, they appeared in five movies, including "A Hard Day’s Night" (1964) and the animated "Yellow Submarine" (1968). They've, of course, been the subject of many documentaries, most recently Peter Jackson's 2021 "The Beatles: Get Back." In 2023, the Beatles reunited with the aid of artificial intelligence in the newly released song "Now and Then." The recording was made possible by technology used by Jackson on "Get Back," and featured a music video made by the New Zealand director. Attempts to dramatize the Beatles' story have been more sporadic and less impactful. A 1979 biopic, made when Lennon was still alive, called "The Birth of the Beatles" was produced with Beatles original drummer Pete Best as an adviser. The 1994 indie drama "Backbeat" chronicled Lennon’s relationship with Stuart Sutcliffe before the Beatles were famous. "Nowhere Boy" (2009) starred Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a teenage Lennon. 50 fascinating facts you may not know about The Beatles But in the last decade, music biopics have become big business. Box-office hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Rocketman" and "Elvis" have sent Hollywood executives chasing the next jukebox blockbuster. Over Presidents Day weekend, "Bob Marley: One Love," produced with the Marley estate, was the No. 1 movie in theaters. A Michael Jackson biopic is in production. "Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam's daring, large-scale idea is that and then some," said Tom Rothman, chair and chief executive of Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group. The combination of Mendes' team "with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe," Rothman said. "We are deeply grateful to all parties and look forward ourselves to breaking some rules with Sam’s uniquely artistic vision."
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	70	https://www.guitarnoise.com/artists/george-harrison/	en	George Harrison – Music Biography	https://www.guitarnoise.…rge-harrison.jpg	https://www.guitarnoise.…rge-harrison.jpg	[ "https://www.guitarnoise.com/images/features/guitar-noise-logo.png", "https://www.guitarnoise.com/images/features/george-harrison-1160x665.jpg", "https://www.guitarnoise.com/images/features/george-harrison-living-in-the-material-world.jpg", "https://www.guitarnoise.com/images/features/george-harrison-portrait...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Paul Hackett", "www.facebook.com", "paul.hackett" ]	2011-11-28T03:43:21-05:00	George Harrison was the quietest Beatle. He was a spiritual explorer who added rock 'n roll flash and a touch of mysticism to the band's timeless music.	en	https://www.guitarnoise.com/favicon.ico	Guitar Noise	https://www.guitarnoise.com/artists/george-harrison/	“The farther one travels the less one knows” The Inner Light, The Beatles 1968, music and lyrics by George Harrison In 1968 George Harrison traveled to Bombay to record a film score with Indian musicians playing sitar, tablas and other traditional Indian musical instruments. On his last day in the studio he recorded the music for “The Inner Light.” He returned to Abbey Road Studios in London and added lyrics inspired by the ancient philosophy of the Taoist Way. Spiritual forays such as “The Inner Light” only confirmed that George Harrison’s way was not the way of the rock star. His thoughtful and professional stage presence had already earned him the reputation of being “the quiet Beatle.” He dodged fame and celebrity life at the height of Beatlemania to immerse himself in spirituality and meditation. The paradox of George Harrison is that fame and material wealth are the things that allowed him to live a spiritual and reclusive life. Like other members of the Beatles, George Harrison came from a working class family in Liverpool. Born just before midnight on February 24, 1943, he was the youngest of four children. He claims to have had an epiphany of sorts when he was 12 or 13 years old – while riding his bike around the neighborhood he heard Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” playing from a nearby house and was instantly hooked on music. He spent Â£3 (a lot of money in those days) on his first guitar and started devoting his time to music, practicing along to records of his early musical heroes like American rockabilly idol Carl Perkins and British skiffle legend Donnie Lonegan. “I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock ‘n’ roll band. I don’t really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front.” – West 57th Street interview, December 1987 While studying at the Liverpool Institute he met an older student named Paul McCartney. Impressed by Harrison’s knowledge of more than just the basic chords, McCartney introduced him to John Lennon. Their skiffle band, The Quarrymen, needed someone to play lead guitar and the fifteen year old Harrison was invited to join. Two years later, in 1960, the band was covering rock and roll hits by Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. And they’d also changed their name to The Beatles. Adding Ringo Starr to their lineup in 1962 they began a rapid succession of hit songs that soon made them the most famous rock group in the world. Harrison’s subdued lead guitar style combined elements of rockabilly and country and helped shape the sound of mid-1960s pop music, yet his influence went well beyond the guitar, as did his own playing. His use of the twelve string guitar on A Hard Day’s Night (1964) also popularized its use by other bands, like the Byrds and, later, Tom Petty. He, along with Ray Davies of the Kinks, was one of the first pop stars to make use of sitars and Indian musical influeneces in rock music. In addition to the sitar, Harrison could also play traditional Indian instruments like the tambura, sarod and swarmandal. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones taught himself how to play the sitar after a visit with Harrison and performed on it on “Paint It Black.” Jones was also both sitar and tamboura on “Street Fighting Man.” And when Delaney Bramlett of the band Delaney & Bonnie introduced Harrison to slide guitar in 1968, he became a leading proponent of that style as well. “Not guilty for leading you astray, on the road to Mandalay.” Not Guilty, recorded for The White Album in 1968 George Harrison was only twenty-six when the Beatles broke up. For someone who preferred being a musician to being a rock star, he achieved tremendous amount of success outside of the Beatles. He was the first ex-Beatle to achieve a number one single “My Sweet Lord” and number one album “All Things Must Pass” in 1970. He was also the first band member to do a solo tour and the only one to ever open his own record label and film production company. “I’ve got no time for you right now, don’t bother me.” Don’t Bother Me, the first Beatles song Harrison wrote, 1963 Listed by Rolling Stone as one of its choices of “the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” Harrison often shied away from media and publicity, at times even refusing to promote his own music. His quiet and diffident public image mirrored the first song he wrote for the Beatles: “Don’t Bother Me” from With The Beatles in 1963. The song, unusually mirthless for early Beatles, was written while Harrison was laid up sick in a hotel. Up to this point Lennon and McCartney were getting all the songwriting credit and Harrison wanted to see if he could write as well. He didn’t think it was a particularly good song but the experience showed him that if he kept writing he might eventually write something he thought was good. “I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, “You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly” In 1991 Eric Clapton had to coax Harrison out of seclusion to play a tour of Japan. He hadn’t toured since 1974, even though recent years had been kind to him. The critically acclaimed Cloud Nine (1987) became his best-selling album in years, thanks to his popular reworking of the sixties song “Got My Mind Set On You.” He also revives some Beatles memories with “When We Was Fab,” which features a bit of sitar and self-referential jokes like “back when income tax was all we had,” a reference to his 1966 song “Taxman.” While “Taxman” was one of the staples of his live show in Japan, its angst was a little unusual for a Harrison song. In 1988 he formed a new group with some of his mates called The Traveling Wilburys. The band’s hand-picked members were Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne. The name “Wilbury” itself was an in-joke between Harrison and Lynne that they came up with to describe small errors in performances during the recording of Harrison’s Cloud Nine album (“we’ll bury them in the mix”). The group’s songs, recorded at Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics home, were noticeably upbeat and positive, especially the Harrison tune “Heading for The Light.” In an interview Tom Petty pointed out that the band of was made up of people who wanted to hang out together rather than the best musicians – although their individual talents were not light. The Wilburys never toured but did release a pair of albums: Volume One (1988) and Vol. 3 (1990). “Try to realize it’s all within yourself no-one else can make you change” – Within You Without You, 1967 In 1965 Harrison was first introduced to sitar music while filming the Beatles movie Help! Around that time he bought a sitar from an Indian shop in London and began listening to the music of Ravi Shankar. The Beatles became the first band to use the sitar on a rock song thanks to Harrison’s contribution to “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown).” Harrison met Shankar in London the following year and followed him to India to study sitar. Harrison later claimed that of all the people he met, from famous movie stars to his music idols like Elvis Presley, Shankar was the first person to really impress him, mainly because he was not trying to impress anyone. The Beatles connection and his lifelong friendship with Harrison would make Shankar the most famous Indian musician in the world. The Beatles also famously spent their last overseas trip together studying meditation at an Indian ashram with the Maharishi in 1968. While the trip was fraught with misunderstandings and tensions, the band had one of their most productive periods of songwriting. Many of the songs that appeared on the White Album and Abbey Road including Harrison’s “Long Long Long” and “The Inner Light,” were written during this trip. Before rejoining the rest of the band in England, Harrison spent more time with his Indian music mentor Ravi Shankar. Before long Harrison set the guitar aside to do what he did best: write songs for guitar. “With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew” – Within You Without You, 1967 In 1971, Shankar asked Harrison for help putting together a benefit concert to help refugees suffering the dual effects of Cyclone Bhola and a regional war. The concert, which took place on August 1, 1971 at New York’s Madison Square Gardens, brought together Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, two revered artists that seldom played live at this time. As well as featuring the first live performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” it was the first time Harrison had to stand out front and talk to the audience. The show’s opener, Ravi Shankar, once again introduced Indian music to a wider audience. Proceeds from the concert and film and album that followed raised over $13 million for UNICEF. It was the first benefit concert of its kind, and its success set the stage for later benefits like Live Aid. “It doesn’t really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is…” Only a Northern Song, written in 1967 and released on the Yellow Submarine Soundtrack Album, 1968 Harrison’s talents a songwriter were often underused in the Beatles. “Within You Without You” and “The Inner Light” were written and recorded without much participation from the other Beatles. “Within You, Without You” was the second Beatles’ song to be released without any of the other three members involved in the recording (McCartney’s “Yesterday being the first). Harrison taught himself how to write out the music in Indian script and had an uncredited group of classical Indian musicians. He did the same with “The Inner Light,” the first of his compositions to be on a Beatles’ single (it was the B side for “Lady Madonna”), recording the music with his group of musicians while later Lennon and McCartney overdubbed some backing vocals. He’s also credited with writing some of the Beatles most lasting songs : “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Something,” “Here Comes The Sun,” “If I Needed Someone,” “Taxman” and “I Me Mine.” Several songs he wrote during his time in the Beatles wound up on his first solo album, All Things Must Pass, which included such Beatles rejects as “All Things Must Pass,” “The Art of Dying” and “Isn’t It A Pity.” “Can’t say what I’m doing here, but I hope to see much clearer, after living in the material world” Living in the Material World, 1973 Being in the Beatles showered Harrison with money and fame at a relatively young age. This gave him the opportunity to focus more ardently on the search for spiritual answers, and his lifelong search for a higher consciousness usually worked its way into his songs. The title of his second album, Living in the Material (1973), summed his life up nicely. Songs like “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” addressed the weighty matters on his mind in a commercial way. Just like the previous albums “My Sweet Lord” which combined Hallelujahs and Hare Krishnas into a popular song, he found he could carry on in a spiritual vein. Both albums spent time at the top of the charts. “All through the day, I me mine” I Me Mine, recorded in January 1969, Lyrics by George Harrison, Let It Be album “I Me Mine” was the last song the Beatles recorded together, minus John Lennon who had already privately quit the band. The song serves a dual purpose by referring to the ego in the Hindu context while making a fair reaction to the ego clashes that divided the Beatles during their last days in the studio. Harrison also used “I Me Mine” as the title of his book of reminisces that came out in 1980. John Lennon took offense to the book, telling an interviewer: “I was hurt by it… By glaring omission in the book, my influence on his life is absolutely zilch and nil… I’m not in the book.” Lennon was shot dead soon after the book’s publication, while he and Harrison were still no longer speaking to each other. In the aftermath of Lennon’s sudden death Harrison recorded a song for John Lennon with the surviving members of the Beatles. “All Those Years Ago” features Ringo Starr on drums and backing vocals from Paul and Linda McCartney. The song, never sounding sad, makes amends with Lennon by referencing the Lennon songs “All You Need is Love” and “Imagine”. Harrison admits his admiration for Lennon with the line “Living with good and bad I always look up to you.” “Why try to live a life that isn’t real” Be Here Now, Living in the Material World, 1973 Harrison wasn’t only a serious person. He was often quite funny. Two days before the new millennium, an attacker broke into his London house and stabbed him in the chest, nearly killing him and his wife in the attack. The swift action of his wife Olivia, who hit the attacker on the head with a poker and a table lamp, saved his life. From his hospital bed Harrison told the police that the crazed attacker “certainly wasn’t auditioning for the Traveling Wilburys.” “Been beat up and battered around, been set up and I’ve been shot down” Handle With Care, The Traveling Wilburys 1988 George Harrison died of brain cancer on November 29, 2001. He was 58 years old. A year later, some of his closest friends gathered at London’s Royal Albert Hall to pay tribute. The concert to benefit George’s Material World charity brought together Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney as well as Ravi Shankar, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Eric Clapton. An album of posthumously completed songs, Brainwashed, was released in 2002. Harrison once remarked that life doesn’t take long to go from age seventeen to fifty-seven. It’s hard to believe that it’s now thirteen years since the youngest Beatle died. “I remember thinking I just want more. This isn’t it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don’t just stumble across. You’ve got to search for it.” George Harrison Guitar Lesson The follow patterns show how to play While My Guitar Gently Weeps, written by George Harrison. This mini lesson was provided by Guitar Alliance. Don’t miss Guitar Noise the solo guitar arrangment of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The chord progression is as follows: Am, Am/G, Am/F#, Fmaj.7, Am, G,D, E. As you can see, it is a fairly involved progression. If you don’t know how to play all of these chords that’s okay. Here they are in tab: When you’re playing the riff below, just keep the chords in mind when you’re trying to determine the best way to finger it. To hit the low notes on the 2nd and 1st fret of the low E string in the Am/F# and Fmaj.7 chords I use my thumb.
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[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Brent Lang" ]	2024-02-20T20:16:30+00:00	Here are the actors we’d like to see in Sam Mendes' four Beatles movies as John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison.	en	https://variety.com/wp-c…e-touch-icon.png	Variety	https://variety.com/lists/sam-mendes-beatles-movies-actors-casting-wishlist/	Best Known For: Joining the rebellion in the “Hunger Games” films, then melting hearts in “Me Before You.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: He channeled his inner rock god in “Daisy Jones & the Six,” the Amazon mini-series in which he did his own singing as the leader of a band. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: He’s got the charisma, but can he capture Lennon’s darker side? Best Known For: Battling primordial monsters in “Godzilla,” entering the Avengers’ orbit for a hot second in “Age of Ultron,” and taking a pretty memorable bathroom break in “Nocturnal Animals,” which earned him a Golden Globe. Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: More than a decade ago, he played Lennon as a teenager in “Nowhere Boy,” perfectly channeling his moody intensity. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: Been there, done that. Best Known For: Playing Spielberg’s pops in “The Fabelmans,” going toe-to-toe with Daniel Day-Lewis as a deranged preacher in “There Will Be Blood.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Dano earned critical raves portraying another tortured musical genius, Brian Wilson, in “Love & Mercy.” Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: He’s from New York City, not Liverpool. Best Known For: Falling in teen love in “Heartstoppers.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: At 19, he wouldn’t need any CGI trickery to channel Lennon as he forms the Quarrymen or begins to make a name for himself (and the Beatles) in Hamburg. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: …but he’d definitely need prosthetics to play Lennon as the Beatles dissolve and he cooks up solo hits like “Imagine” and hosts his bed-ins for peace. Best Known For: Attending the world’s most dysfunctional high school in “Euphoria,” being the object of Barry Keoghan’s perverse affections in “Saltburn.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Elordi took on music legend Elvis Presley in “Priscilla” and left audiences all shook up. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: Having tackled the King of Rock, he might not be up for playing another cultural idol. Best Known For: Sticking the landing as a dancing prodigy in “Billy Elliot,” surviving Skull Island in “King Kong.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Bell is a great actor, who has had an accomplished career. A showy role like this could catapult him to the next level of stardom. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: At 37, he might be a little too gray-around-the-temples to play McCartney at the height of “Beatlemania.” Best Known For: Spinning webs and grappling with multiverses in the Spider-Man movies. Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: After the blockbuster success of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Holland could pitch himself as Yoko Ono, and the films’ producers would say, “yes.” Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: More Spidey sequels could create scheduling conflicts. And he’s probably too expensive. Best Known For: Doing unspeakable things to a peach in “Call Me By Your Name,” taking sandworms for a spin in the “Dune” films, and inhabiting a world of pure imagination in “Wonka.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: “Wonka” proved that Chalamet’s name above the title is enough to draw crowds. As the rare twenty-something movie star with a rabid fanbase, he understands the kind of passion that the Beatles inspired at their height (just witness the screams that greet Timmy every time he struts down a red carpet). Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: He’s set to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” which chronicles the artist as he first plugs in his electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. That might be one too many trips through the counterculture. Best Known For: Serving as a teenage Dr. Ruth in “Sex Education,” helping Martin Scorsese make a rare family-friendly film with “Hugo.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Butterfield has the chops to play Harrison, a prickly genius who bristled at being overshadowed by Lennon and McCartney. Plus, Butterfield makes and produces music, so he may be able to pull off a convincing cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: Having just wrapped up four seasons of “Sex Education,” does he really want to sign up for four Beatles’ films? Best Known For: Composing the music for “Beautiful Creatures,” being a member of bands like Thenewno2 and Fistful of Mercy, serving as a model for the Gap. Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: His father was George Harrison. Clearly, he has a personal connection to the material. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: At 45, he’s probably a member of the wrong generation. Moreover, can he act? Best Known For: Slurping Jacob Elordi’s left-over bath water in “Saltburn,” as well as for his Oscar-nominated turn as a lonely villager in “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: Keoghan is a shape-shifter, whose talent knows no boundaries. Bonus: He has the kind of twitchy magnetism that made Starr so irresistible. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: Does he share the drummer’s droll sense of humor? Best Known For: Hogwarts’ most famous alum has demonstrated there’s life beyond “Harry Potter” with Broadway turns and colorful indie roles like the farting corpse he brought to cinematic life in “Swiss Army Man.” Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: At 5’5, Radcliffe is diminutive like Starr, and has demonstrated his musical chops in revivals of “Merrily We Roll Along” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: But is he too famous? After all, it’s hard for an icon to play another icon. Best Known For: Being the greatest actor who ever lived. Why He’d Make Beautiful Music: He’s Daniel Day-Lewis. He’s portrayed rapacious oil barons, 19th-century gang leaders, boxers, fashion designers, even Abraham Lincoln. He could play all the Beatles more convincingly than the real Beatles. Why He Hits the Wrong Notes: He’s much too old. Plus, in case you haven’t heard, he’s retired.
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[]	[]	[ "Movies", "Sam Mendes", "Ringo Starr", "Paul McCartney", "Music", "General news", "Trending News", "World news", "e", "Entertainment", "f", "a", "Sony Corp", "Business", "World News" ]	null	[ "JAKE COYLE", "JAKE COYLE Film", "critic twitter mailto", "apnews.com", "jake-coyle" ]	2024-02-20T14:23:17+00:00	The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in a Fab Four of movies that will give Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr their own film. All are to be directed by Sam Mendes.	en	/apple-touch-icon.png	AP News	https://apnews.com/article/beatles-biopic-sam-mendes-3f3f74076d78f16ac420820638e05de3	NEW YORK (AP) — The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in not just one film, but a Fab Four of movies that will give each band member their own spotlight — all of which are to be directed by Sam Mendes. For the first time, the Beatles, long among the stingiest rights granters, are giving full life and music rights to a movie project. Sony Pictures announced Monday a deal that may dwarf all music biopics that have come before it, with the stories of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr spread out over a quartet of films. The films, conceived by Mendes, are expected to roll out theatrically in innovative fashion, with the movies potentially coexisting or intersecting in theaters. Precise release plans will be announced at a later date. Sony is targeting 2027 for their release. McCartney, Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison have all signed off on the project through the band’s Apple Corps. Ltd. Sony Music Publishing controls the rights to the majority of Beatles songs. “I’m honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies,” Mendes said in a statement. Each film will be from the perspective of a Beatle. “We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” said producer Pippa Harris. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege.” The Beatles’ most famous forays into film were in their early years. Between 1964 and 1970, they appeared in five movies, including “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) and the animated “Yellow Submarine” (1968). They’ve, of course, been the subject of many documentaries, most recently Peter Jackson’s 2021 “The Beatles: Get Back.” In 2023, the Beatles reunited with the aid of artificial intelligence in the newly released song “Now and Then.” The recording was made possible by technology used by Jackson on “Get Back,” and featured a music video made by the New Zealand director. Attempts to dramatize the Beatles’ story have been more sporadic and less impactful. A 1979 biopic, made when Lennon was still alive, called “The Birth of the Beatles” was produced with Beatles original drummer Pete Best as an adviser. The 1994 indie drama “Backbeat” chronicled Lennon’s relationship with Stuart Sutcliffe before the Beatles were famous. “Nowhere Boy” (2009) starred Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a teenage Lennon. But in the last decade, music biopics have become big business. Box-office hits like “Bohemian Rhapsody,”“Rocketman” and “Elvis” have sent Hollywood executives chasing the next jukebox blockbuster. Over Presidents Day weekend, “Bob Marley: One Love,” produced with the Marley estate, was the No. 1 movie in theaters. A Michael Jackson biopic is in production. “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some,” said Tom Rothman, chair and chief executive of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group. The combination of Mendes’ team “with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe,” Rothman said. “We are deeply grateful to all parties and look forward ourselves to breaking some rules with Sam’s uniquely artistic vision.”
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correct_starring_00051	FactBench	2	67	http://www.warr.org/harrison.html	en	George Harrison			[ "http://www.warr.org/walogo.gif", "http://www.warr.org/star30.gif", "http://www.warr.org/star10.gif", "http://www.warr.org/star40.gif", "http://www.warr.org/star40.gif", "http://www.warr.org/star30.gif", "http://www.warr.org/star25.gif", "http://www.warr.org/star25.gif", "http://www.warr.org/star20....	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null					null	Reviewed on this page: Wonderwall Music - Electronic Sound - All Things Must Pass - Living In The Material World - Dark Horse - Thirty-Three & 1/3 - George Harrison - Somewhere In England - Cloud 9 - Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 - Dark Horse Live In Japan George Harrison died in Los Angeles on 29 November after a long battle with cancer. His wife and child were with him. No public service is planned at this time. George Harrison's solo career was a disappointment to a lot of people. The few songs he got onto the Beatles records - "Tax Man," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Something" - hinted at a genuine songwriting talent. And his debut solo album was a landmark, fusing Harrison's spacey Eastern mysticism with a roaring big-band British rock sound that's rarely been matched since. But a series of albums throughout the 70s suffered from creaking vocals, preachy lyrics, and an occasionally slipshod approach to production, despite top-notch session players and continuing support from 60s superstars like Eric Clapton and the other Beatles. By the 80s he had pretty much lost interest in music, shifting instead to a new career as a movie producer. Indeed, after 1987's Cloud 9 he stopped making studio albums completely, despite one live record and a couple of collaborations with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on small side-projects, such as the Anthology series. Our advice is to get your hands on All Things Must Pass; if you're wild about it, tread cautiously through the rest of George's catalogue. I've written a review of the only George Harrison biography I know of, Geoffrey Giuliano's Dark Horse. (JA) I'll just point out that a lot more people were pleasantly surprised by George's solo career than were disappointed: a lot of folks considered him a navel-gazer who had nothing like John and Paul's talent. But his first two solo albums soared to the top of the charts, handily outselling Maclen's contemporaneous efforts, and creating a distinctive post-Beatles sound. Then troubles came, including a court which found that his hit single "My Sweet Lord" was copied from the Chiffons' "He's So Fine." Whoops. (DBW) Wonderwall Music (1968) This is an underrated record, a film score composed and recorded in January of 1968 by George and friends. About half was recorded in Bombay and is essentially Indian classical music, the rest late 60s rock and sound collage recorded in London. I don't know how well the music works in the film -- as an album it's often bizarre but usually entertaining, which is more than you can say for most experimental works of this period. Almost entirely instrumental, by the way; I think the only word that appears on the record (aside from backwards tape loops) is "Om." (DBW) Eric Clapton shows up on "Ski-ing," the first of many times that EC cut sessions for Harrison. (JA) Electronic Sound (1969) The Zapple label was created to release "electronic newspapers," experimental music for immediate consumption, with a shorter shelf life than milk. This was George fooling around with his brand-new synthesizer, and there's absolutely no reason to listen to it today. (Life With The Lions was the other Zapple release.) (DBW) All Things Must Pass (1970) - Harrison dug into his backlog of songs composed during his Beatle days, brought in Phil Spector to produce in his epic style, and they wound up with a brilliant double album (the third disc, a collection of tepid jams, is disposable). Full of classic cuts, somber ("Isn't It A Pity"; the dramatic title track), playful (the acoustic "Apple Scruffs"; "I Dig Love") or both ("What Is Life"; "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp") - Harrison rarely misses his mark. But don't answer yet: you also get "My Sweet Lord," George's biggest solo hit. (DBW) - Good but loooong. The extra third disc (actually a good chunk of disc 2 in the CD release) is tedious despite fine performances by Ringo, Eric Clapton, etc. The rest is solid but slightly monotonous, with Harrison adopting a mega-produced sound - huge choruses, booming drums, zillions of rhythm guitar tracks, and countless guest artists, including Clapton's 1970-era backing band; the Keys/Price horn section; and even Bob Dylan. (JA) Concert For Bangladesh (1972) A triple-album benefit featuring Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton (who joins in on a few of Harrison's tunes), Ringo, Ravi Shankar, and a cast of millions. Some of it's quite good, and it certainly has a lot of historical interest, but I haven't heard it in a while and don't currently have a copy. (JA) Living In The Material World (1973) This is much mellower than All Things Must Pass, with track after track in the ballad mold of "Long Long Long" ("Be Here Now"). It's a concept album, focusing on Krishna Consciousness ("The Light That Has Lighted The World"), being an ex-Beatle ("Sue Me Sue You Blues") or both (title track -- which also combines good-time rock and roll with Indian influences). Most of it is pleasant to listen to (the #1 single "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)," "Try Some Buy Some") though there's nothing really distinctive about it. (DBW) The fans greeted the record by sending it to the top of the charts, the second and last time that George accomplished this (All Things Must Pass was his other #1 effort). (JA) Dark Horse (1974) It's hard to tell what George was aiming for here. Many of the tracks seems unrehearsed ("Simply Shady"), his vocals are often out of tune (title track), and at least one track sounds deliberately sloppy ("Bye Bye Love," a cover which he turns into a comment on Eric Clapton's affair with George's ex-wife Patti; Eric guests on the track but the mixing makes him almost inaudible), so maybe he was going for Dylan-esque spontaneity. There are no remarkable melodies here, and the lyrics are often extremely weak ("So Sad," apparently an outtake from Material World). The song you may know from the radio is "Ding Dong, Ding Dong," which goes for the anthemic "Awaiting On You All" type of sound (it also sounds very much like Lennon's "Happy Xmas"). The album leads off with a pointless instrumental ("Hari's On Tour") which wastes the talents of the LA Express; other guest stars include Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, Ron Wood, who co-writes one of the album's high points, the white-man's-burden anthem "Far East Man," and Billy Preston, whose electric piano drives the album's most rocking tune, "Maya Love." The closer is another Krishna-consciousness number, "It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)," which is passable although quite repetitive. (DBW) Extra Texture (1975) This sold solidly like almost all of George's records, but... (JA) It was panned big-time by critics. (DBW) Thirty-Three & 1/3 (1976) The title refers to Harrison's age at the time the disc was recorded. Despite driving slap bass from Willie Weeks on the opening "Woman Don't You Cry For Me," this is mostly a retreat to mellow textures, unassuming lyrics ("Beautiful Girl"), and spare, retro arrangements ("This Song"). It's a small record - the musical equivalent of weeding his garden. Which is not to say it's not pleasant, but am I the only one who likes a little artistic ambition with my rock and roll? There is one more anti-materialist diatribe ("See Yourself"), a couple of Dear God letters ("Learning How To Love You," "Dear One"), a tribute to Smokey Robinson, and even a Cole Porter tune ("True Love"), but all rendered in the same laid-back style they end up running together. Harrison's enjoyable slide work and a fine band (Preston, Wright, Scott, Richard Tee, David Foster) make it worth picking up if you see it real cheap, but don't expect too much. The first release on George's own Dark Horse Records. (DBW) George Harrison (1979) An inoffensive but thoroughly unsurprising, uninspired album -- the high point is his remake of his Beatle-era composition "Not Guilty." (DBW) Eric Clapton guests once again, this time on a track called "Love Comes To Everyone." Steve Winwood also apparently appears somewhere on the record. (JA) Somewhere In England (1981) George's Lennon tribute "All Those Years Ago" is here, and some off-beat Hoagy Carmichael covers. His preachiness and self- righteousness finally overcome his musical sense on "Blood From A Clone," and there's plenty of second- and third-rate material. (DBW) Gone Troppo (1982) One of Harrison's least commercially successful efforts ever. (JA) It didn't sell in large part because it was totally unpromoted and had no single; I've read before that it was released "almost in secret." (DBW) Cloud 9 (1987) - After years out of the limelight, George decided he wanted to be a star again. So he got some reflective sunglasses, rounded up his most famous friends (Eric Clapton, Elton John and Ringo all guest), and brought in Jeff Lynne to co-produce. He was rewarded with a big hit single, "Got My Mind Set On You," with a heavy, annoying Phil Collins-style snare beat and amazingly repetitive lyrics, prompting the parody version "This Song Is Just Six Words Long." The rest of the album isn't quite that bad: Eric plays some nice licks on the title track, and "Wreck of the Hesperus" is an excellent, snappy rocker. But on most of the tunes, the clichéd songwriting is a perfect match for the by-the-numbers production. The other single, "When We Was Fab" is either amusing nostalgia or an appalling cash-in, depending on how you look at it. (DBW) - The endless musical references to the Beatles on "When We Was Fab" are a jolting reminder of how uninteresting modern pop music has become. Alas... "Devil's Radio" is also good clean fun, "Someplace Else" recreates Harrison's signature ballad formula, and there are plenty of other high points. Plus Clapton is good throughout. Harrison fans can't go wrong with this despite the annoyance of "Got My Mind." (JA) Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (Harrison et al.: 1988) A tongue-in-cheek supergroup consisting of rock legends Harrison, Bob Dylan, and Roy Orbison, plus a couple of less legendary figures: Tom Petty and ELO prime mover Jeff Lynne. Lynne and Harrison produced, continuing the Cloud 9 partnership. But if you hated ELO's pseudoclassical, synth-heavy 70s productions, don't worry: the sound here is basically country rock (or roots rock, or whatever you want to call it). The relaxed, fun atmosphere here is refreshing compared to the ultraheaviness Dylan and Harrison are particularly known to dish out: it's rare to hear Bob let down his hair the way he does on the playfully raunchy "Dirty World." Also, having so many lead singers in the band keeps things varied: most songs feature at least two vocalists, and sometimes more. And George supplies not only ace slide guitar throughout, but snappy rockabilly licks on the Jerry Lee Lewis sendup "Rattled." There are no writers credits, but "Heading For The Light" is clearly a Harrisong, and one of the most rollicking spiritual numbers I've ever heard; Dylan throws in yet another fine story song ("Tweeter And The Monkey Man," unfortunately saddled with a repetitive "And the walls came down" chorus) and yet another chronicle of love gone wrong ("Congratulations"). Petty and Lynne stay in the background (fortunately, from my perspective), although Tom is featured on the hit single "Last Night." I've tried my best, but I'm still not bowled over by the leadoff single, "Handle With Care," although Orbison's patented quavery delivery works extremely well. Anyway, this project was so successful that the "band" cut another disc later, though Orbison had died in the meantime. (DBW) Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 (Harrison et al.: 1991) This is actually the immediate followup to Vol. 1; the boys were playing a joke here by sending fans running around looking for a non-existent "Vol. 2." (JA) Dark Horse Live In Japan (1992) This is a double-CD set featuring an all-star band borrowed from Eric Clapton: Andy Fairweather-Low, Nathan East, Ray Cooper, Steve Ferrone, two female singers, and both Chuck Leavell and Greg Phillinganes, who accurately ape all of the string and horn parts on keyboards. The track listing is entirely predictable - half are George's Beatles-era spotlights ("Something"), a quarter are his early-period hits ("My Sweet Lord"; "Dark Horse"), there's an encore of "Roll Over Beethoven," and the rest are his more recent standards ("All Those Years Ago"; three Cloud 9 tunes). All of this is delivered with the same plodding, generic competence, usually four minutes per song except for workouts on "Isn't It A Pity" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." But George's voice holds up decently and Eric is in great form, and the production is shrewd: despite all of their talent the players are given no room to defile the Beatles' sacred arrangements, which pumps the nostalgia dial to the max. There are some trite backup vocals ("While My Guitar"), but normally Clapton's solos are all that deviate from the plan, and being a distinctive rock legend his improvisations seem entirely natural. Although it's not much of a consolation for fans who waiting in vain for a new studio album, once you put this on nobody is going to complain. (JA) Harrison released a 2001 single, "Horse To The Water." (DBW) Brainwashed (2002) Jeff Lynne and George's son Dhani finished up this posthumous release. (DBW) Be here now.
correct_starring_00051	FactBench	1	32	https://www.vulture.com/article/beatles-movies.html	en	Sam Mendes to Direct Four Beatles Movies, One Each	https://pyxis.nymag.com/…social.w1200.jpg	https://pyxis.nymag.com/…social.w1200.jpg	[ "https://assets.nymag.com/media/components/customer-alert-banner/alert.svg", "https://assets.nymag.com/media/components/customer-alert-banner/double_chevron.svg", "https://assets.nymag.com/media/components/customer-alert-banner/close_x.svg", "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/c2c/89f/8645cf72cf3a0d82130ef96b86c...	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Jason P. Frank" ]	2024-02-20T11:32:58.802000-05:00	Sam Mendes is directing four biopics about the Beatles, each focused on a different member of the band. Interchangeable young British actors haven’t been this excited since ‘Dunkirk.’	en	https://assets.vulture.c…e/icon.76x76.png	Vulture	https://www.vulture.com/article/beatles-movies.html	If London is even wetter than usual over the next few months, it won’t be due to excess rain. No, it will be due to thousands of interchangeable British actors salivating at the prospect of starring in a Beatles movie. Luckily for them, director Sam Mendes (you know, American Beauty, 1917) is giving them four chances. Mendes is set to direct a “uniquely thrilling and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” according to a statement obtained by Deadline. And yes, that includes Ringo Starr, with peace and love. Produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment, for the first time ever, both Apple Corps Ltd., the Beatles’ conglomerate, and the Mop Tops themselves have signed off on the project, giving life-story and music rights. As for the stars, Mendes has a cavalcade of options, from the boys in the boat to the Dunkirk-ians. Harry Styles isn’t out of this race just yet. Can he act? Debatable! But he can probably pull off a bowl cut, which is just as important. Let him play Paul McCartney, give George Harrison to Styles’s My Policeman co-star David Dawson (he’s got the cheekbones!), have Lennon be Dua Lipa beau Callum Turner, and then see what happens when you let Aussie comedian and chaos demon Sam Campbell play Ringo. Who cares if he’s got the wrong accent — Mendes needs an authentic weirdo to play a guy named Ringo Starr. Let’s get a dueling Yoko Ono biopic on the books ASAP.