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Sottile
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Sottile is a surname.
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Notable people with the surname include:
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John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch
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John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch is a children's musical comedy special created by John Mulaney that debuted on Netflix on December 24, 2019.
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The show was written by Mulaney and Marika Sawyer and inspired by classic children's television series "Sesame Street", "The Electric Company" and "The Great Space Coaster".
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Eli Bolin composed the music, with lyrics from Mulaney and Sawyer.
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Performing with Mulaney are 15 child actors and singers, aged 8–13.
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Celebrity cameos include Richard Kind, André De Shields, David Byrne, Natasha Lyonne, Annaleigh Ashford, and Jake Gyllenhaal as "Mr.
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Music."
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The program is a one-hour long variety special that presents itself as one episode of a larger series.
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The special consists of several songs, skits, and activities interspersed with scripted segments of Mulaney chatting with the Bunch as well as unscripted interviews with both the children and the adult guest stars about their greatest fears and acting background.
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Jake, ostensibly in character as a younger version of Mulaney, sings a song about his grandmother's boyfriend Paul and his many quirks, while wondering why the rest of his family hasn't accepted Paul.
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Jonah summarizes a fictional book he has read called "Sascha's Dad Does Drag and the Act Needs Work", a book with a comically frank depiction of drag culture from the perspective of the son of an aging drag queen.
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Mulaney plays the producer of a fictional Sony Animation film called "Bamboo 2: Bamboozled" which is being focus grouped by the entire Bunch.
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The skit pokes fun at the kids' viewing habits and the tropes of modern western animation.
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A father, played by Mulaney, hires a math tutor (André De Shields) to help his son Jonah with algebra.
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The Tutor performs an elaborate Dixieland-style jazz number about how not knowing math caused him to lose his eye - however, it turns out to be a shaggy dog story, with his eye being unexpectedly saved at the last minute, and he reveals afterwards that he had simply lost his eye by accident while performing the song.
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A transitional scene focused on Googy, supposedly a recurring "Sack Lunch Bunch" character, is interrupted when Mulaney is forced to reveal to the kids that the actor who played Googy passed away, subsequently having a frank conversation about death.
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During lunchtime, Orson breaks into song about how he will only ever eat one food: "a plain plate of noodles with a little bit of butter."
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Mulaney and Tyler play a chess game and continually try to throw one another off with existential questions and absurd facts.
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Suri urges Mulaney to play "restaurant" with her, only for the game to end abruptly when Suri refuses to allow him entry into her imaginary restaurant.
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Actor Richard Kind has an unscripted discussion with Ava, Cordelia, and Camille about movies, his career, and their experiences in plays.
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Nearly every sentence contains the phrase "girl talk."
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Lexi and her friend prepare to put on a skit in front of the guests at her parents' dinner party.
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However, when all of the guests talk over the performance, she and her friend (David Byrne) launch into a musical number urging the guests to pay attention and explaining what they planned to do in the skit, including cartwheels, acting out the entirety of "Frozen", and a fake newscast while wearing an enormous blazer.
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Zell and Oriah perform a dramatic '80s-inspired power ballad wondering what happens to flowers at night.
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Jacob and David Byrne make a papier-mâché volcano despite Byrne's childhood fear of volcanoes.
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While Mulaney asks about the Bunch's top New York moments, Alex recalls a time he was in New York and saw a woman (Annaleigh Ashford) crying on the street.
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He wonders in song about what would happen if he had gone up to her and asked what was wrong, and imagines the friendship they may have shared if he had done so.
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Special guest Mr. Music (Jake Gyllenhaal) attempts to demonstrate how one can make music without instruments.
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However Mr. Music, having failed to prepare for his segment, grows increasingly exasperated as the objects around the studio he tries to use as examples fail to make any sound.
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The special ends with a final round of interviews with all of the child and adult performers.
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While appearing on "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj", Mulaney described the special as being inspired by other educational children's programs such as "Sesame Street", "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", "The Electric Company", and even more specifically, shows like "Free to Be... You and Me", and "3-2-1 Contact".
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According to "Variety", the special is co-written by Marika Sawyer ("Saturday Night Live") and music composer Eli Bolin ("Sesame Street", "Original Cast Album: Co-Op"), who drew inspiration from musical influences including Burt Bacharach, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, and Trinidadian calypso legend Mighty Sparrow.
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They turned to pieces like Maurice Sendak and Carole King's "Really Rosie", which Mulaney remembered from childhood, and Harry Nilsson's "The Point," which were also fueled by catchy songs and extremely relatable anxieties.
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"As a kid, we watched movies like "Little Shop of Horrors" and "Clue", and they didn't seem inappropriate – and I don't think they are," Mulaney says.
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"But they had a lot of tension to them."
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On November 22, 2019, Mulaney tweeted a poster of "The Sack Lunch Bunch" which was in the style of the artwork for the cast recording album of "A Chorus Line".
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On December 12, 2019, Netflix released a teaser in promotion for the special which plays as an homage to Bob Fosse's classic film "All That Jazz".
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The teaser opens as an almost shot for shot recreation of the opening of "All That Jazz", with Mulaney dressed all in black playing the role of Roy Scheider's Fosse.
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The special has been universally praised, receiving an 95% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and has an 87% on Metacritic.
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Critic Alan Sepinwall of "Rolling Stone Magazine", wrote "It is, like "Galaxy Quest", or "The Princess Bride", one of those gems that manages to simultaneously parody a genre and be an excellent recreation of it."
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Critic Erik Adams, from "The A.V.
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Club" gave the special an A rating, writing, "The Sack Lunch Bunch is an unconventional package, but its ingredients are pure John Mulaney".
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Richard Roeper of "The Chicago Sun-Times", and John Anderson of "The Wall Street Journal" both praised the special describing it more as "effective conceptual art than a variety show".
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Mulaney has suggested in an interview with "Vulture" that he hopes to do another "Sack Lunch Bunch" special, and that he has material that didn't make it into the first one that he hopes to explore in later specials.
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2019 Spengler Cup
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The 93rd Spengler Cup was held from 26 to 31 December 2019 at the Vaillant Arena, Davos.
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2019 World Para Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres
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The men's 800 metres at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships was held in Dubai on 7, 9, 12 and 15 November 2019.
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List of Big Brother (British series 18) housemates
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The following is a list of housemates in the eighteenth series of "Big Brother UK".
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Andrew Cruickshanks is a hairdresser from Glasgow.
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He was one of the four potential people to enter on Day 1 as the "People's Housemate" but was beaten by Tom.
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He entered the house on Day 25 as one of four "Second Chance" housemates.
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This meant he was not eligible to win the series, however, the "Second Chance" housemate who placed the highest would take £15,000 from the overall prize fund.
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On Day 44, Andrew's team won "The Steal", therefore each member were given the opportunity to individual steal the overall stolen money.
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As Andrew pressed his buzzer first, he earned himself £18,900.
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However this came at a cost as he was then forced to evict a housemate.
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He chose to evict Sam, the only other remaining "Second Chance" housemate.
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This earned him the £15,000 "Second Chance" prize, bringing his total winnings to £33,900.
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He left the house during the final on Day 54.
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Arthur Fulford, aged 24, is from Devon.
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Before "Big Brother", Arthur appeared on "The F***ing Fulfords" and "Life Is Toff" alongside his family.
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He entered the house on Day 1, and was immediately chosen to be exiled by "People's Housemate" Tom.
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This meant he would face the first eviction.
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He survived this eviction on Day 5.
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However, on Day 7, he left the house for unexplained reasons.
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Chanelle McCleary, aged 24, is a model and care assistant from Manchester.
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Before "Big Brother", Chanelle appeared on the sixth series of "Ex on the Beach".
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She entered the house on Day 1, and was immediately chosen to be exiled by "People's Housemate" Tom.
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This meant she would face the first eviction.
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She survived this eviction on Day 5.
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On Day 8, she received a formal warning for her behaviour towards Kieran.
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Chanelle received another formal and final warning on Day 13 following an argument with Kayleigh her behaviour was deemed as threatening.
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On Day 15, she was nominated to face the third eviction by her fellow housemates.
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On Day 18, she survived this eviction.
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Due to unacceptable behaviour from multiple housemates on Day 20, the housemates were told that they would all face the fourth eviction, however Chanelle survived this on Day 25, receiving just 4.71% of the public vote to evict.
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On Day 37, Chanelle became the first victim of "The Hunt' after being randomly targeted by her fellow housemates.
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This meant that she faced the sixth eviction.
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She survived a backdoor eviction in the early hours of Day 40, and was later saved from eviction by her fellow housemates during the eviction show later that day.
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On Day 45, Chanelle was nominated to face the next eviction.
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She was evicted with the most votes during a double eviction on Day 47.
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Chanelle made a brief return to the house on Day 51 during a task which saw Deborah and Kieran participate in a fake wedding.
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Charlotte Keys, aged 24, is an estate agent from Doncaster.
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She is the daughter of fellow housemate Mandy.
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She entered the house on Day 1, and was immediately chosen to be exiled by "People's Housemate" Tom, putting her place in the house at risk.
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She was rewarded with citizenship on Day 3.
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On Day 8, she was nominated for the second eviction by her fellow housemates.
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She survived this eviction on Day 12.
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Due to unacceptable behaviour from multiple housemates on Day 20, the housemates were told that they would all face the fourth eviction.
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She survived this eviction on Day 25 having only received 2.35% of the vote to evict.
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On Day 28, Charlotte was nominated to face the fifth eviction.
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She survived this eviction on Day 33.
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On Day 48, Charlotte was chosen along with Isabelle to face the eighth eviction by Hannah and Tom, who had been watching their fellow housemates from "The Attic".
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This ultimately led to her eviction on Day 50, when she left through the backdoor after receiving the most votes to evict.
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Deborah Agboola, aged 25, is a digital analyst from London but was born in Nigeria.
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She is the older sister of fellow housemate Hannah.
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She entered the house on Day 1.