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206838 | Sixteen Stone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sixteen%20Stone | Sixteen Stone
on 14 October 2014.
# Packaging.
In the UK, a stone is a unit of weight that equals 14 pounds. Therefore, sixteen stone means 224 pounds or about 102 kilograms. When asked why lead singer Gavin Rossdale chose the name "Sixteen Stone" for the name of their album, he said: "Once upon a time there was a lo... | 29,100 |
206838 | Sixteen Stone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sixteen%20Stone | Sixteen Stone
like a bush or mop head flying through the air. This is actually Gavin's dog named Winston. A Puli, a breed of dog with dreadlock-like cords, that has been tossed in the air or is jumping. Beck used the same effect in 1996 with a Komondor, another Hungarian dog breed that has similar fur to the Puli, on h... | 29,101 |
206838 | Sixteen Stone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sixteen%20Stone | Sixteen Stone
did attempt to remix ... but it's really, like, you just can't do that. You can't mess with stuff. Those mixes, every single level of those songs is just ingrained in my DNA as it's probably in anybody's DNA who knows it. It just sounds really weird when you mess with it."
# Critical reception.
"Sixteen... | 29,102 |
206838 | Sixteen Stone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sixteen%20Stone | Sixteen Stone
"Sixteen Stone" has received critical acclaim. In April 2014, "Rolling Stone" placed the album at number thirty-nine on their "1994: The 40 Best Records From Mainstream Alternative's Greatest Year" list. A month later, Loudwire placed "Sixteen Stone" at number eight on its "10 Best Hard Rock Albums of 199... | 29,103 |
206838 | Sixteen Stone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sixteen%20Stone | Sixteen Stone
album.
- Subsequent pressings also include an acoustic version of "Comedown" and a second CD of live tracks, "Swim", "Alien", "Bomb", and "Little Things". Rather than actually being acoustic, the bonus "Comedown" track is actually Rossdale singing and playing guitar with more effects. This version is als... | 29,104 |
206838 | Sixteen Stone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sixteen%20Stone | Sixteen Stone
vocals
- Winston – backing vocals
Technical personnel
- Bush – producer, engineer
- Clive Langer – producer, engineer, mixing
- David J. Holman – mixing
- Paul Palmer – mixing
- Danton Supple – assistant engineer
- Robert Vosgien – mastering
- Alan Winstanley – producer, engineer, mixing
- Debra... | 29,105 |
206838 | Sixteen Stone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sixteen%20Stone | Sixteen Stone
producer, engineer
- Clive Langer – producer, engineer, mixing
- David J. Holman – mixing
- Paul Palmer – mixing
- Danton Supple – assistant engineer
- Robert Vosgien – mastering
- Alan Winstanley – producer, engineer, mixing
- Debra Burley – co-ordination
- Jackie Holland – co-ordination
- Paul ... | 29,106 |
206841 | Canal through Zuid-Beveland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canal%20through%20Zuid-Beveland | Canal through Zuid-Beveland
Canal through Zuid-Beveland
The Canal through Zuid-Beveland (Dutch: "Kanaal door Zuid-Beveland") in the southwest Netherlands is the westernmost of two canals crossing the Zuid-Beveland peninsula. It connects the Western Scheldt (to the south of the canal) and the Eastern Scheldt (to the no... | 29,107 |
206842 | Steve Askew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Askew | Steve Askew
Steve Askew
Steve Askew is a British guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Kajagoogoo. He was born on 9 December 1957 in Middlesex, London. Later he moved with his family to Leighton Buzzard in 1962/63 and attended Beaudesert Primary School, Pulford Junior School and Brooklands School.
After Kaja... | 29,108 |
206842 | Steve Askew | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Askew | Steve Askew
created the music concept, image and direction for the band and co-wrote all material.
Askew lives in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, with his wife Anna Conti, and their sons. He has his own recording studio writing and recording & producing .
In October 2003, he appeared in a Kajagoogoo reunion on VH1's ... | 29,109 |
206840 | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E.L.E.%20(Extinction%20Level%20Event):%20The%20Final%20World%20Front | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front is the third studio album by American rapper Busta Rhymes. The album was released on December 15, 1998 by Flipmode and Elektra Records in North America. T... | 29,110 |
206840 | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E.L.E.%20(Extinction%20Level%20Event):%20The%20Final%20World%20Front | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
praised by critics and received three Grammy Award nominations for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 42nd Grammy Awards. "E.L.E." also spawned three singles that attained "Billboard" chart success, including... | 29,111 |
206840 | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E.L.E.%20(Extinction%20Level%20Event):%20The%20Final%20World%20Front | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
album earned three nominations, one for the album itself in the category of Best Rap Album, a Best Rap Solo Performance nomination for "Gimme Some More" and a Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group nomination for "What's It Gonna Be?!" with Janet Jackson.
## Comme... | 29,112 |
206840 | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E.L.E.%20(Extinction%20Level%20Event):%20The%20Final%20World%20Front | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
at the number two spot on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking inside the top fifty for thirty-five weeks. In the United Kingdom, "E.L.E." entered at number fifty-four on the official UK Albums Chart, charting for seven weeks. On January 8, 1999, the album was cer... | 29,113 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
Seven (1995 film)
Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, and Kevin Spacey. It tells the story of David Mills, a detective who pa... | 29,114 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
1995, by New Line Cinema, "Seven" was the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year, grossing over $327 million worldwide. It was well received by critics, who praised the film's darkness, brutality and themes. The film was nominated for Best Film Editing at the 68th Academy Awards, but lost to "Apoll... | 29,115 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
many years earlier, and advises her to tell Mills only if she plans to keep the child.
Somerset and Mills investigate a set of murders inspired by the seven deadly sins: a man forced to eat until his stomach ruptured, representing gluttony, and a defense attorney killed after a pound of flesh was tak... | 29,116 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
apartment. Doe flees and Mills gives chase. Doe turns to hold Mills at gunpoint for a moment before escaping. The apartment contains hundreds of notebooks revealing Doe's psychopathy, as well as a clue to another murder. The detectives arrive too late to stop a man forced by Doe at gunpoint to kill a ... | 29,117 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
of an unidentified victim. Doe offers to take the detectives to the final two victims and confess to the murders, but only under specific terms, or he will plead insanity. Somerset is wary, but Mills agrees.
The detectives follow Doe's directions to a remote desert location. Within minutes, a deliver... | 29,118 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
in the box, and that she was pregnant. Despite Somerset's warnings, Mills fatally shoots Doe, completing Doe's plan by representing wrath. Police converge and take the devastated Mills away.
# Cast.
- Brad Pitt as Detective David Mills
- Morgan Freeman as Detective Lieutenant William Somerset
- Gw... | 29,119 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
Hawthorne James as George
# Production.
## Pre-production.
The primary influence for the film's screenplay came from Andrew Kevin Walker's time spent in New York City while trying to make it as a screenwriter. "I didn't like my time in New York, but it's true that if I hadn't lived there I probably... | 29,120 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
regretted turning down the role.
The ending of the screenplay, with the head in the box, was originally part of an earlier draft that New Line had rejected, instead opting for an ending that involved more traditional elements of a detective thriller film with more action-oriented elements. But when N... | 29,121 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
"Seven" because he was drawn to the script, which he found to be a "connect-the-dots movie that delivers about inhumanity. It's psychologically violent. It implies so much, not about why you did but how you did it". He found it more a "meditation on evil" rather than a "police procedural".
When New L... | 29,122 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
scene. Actor Pitt joined Fincher in arguing for keeping this original scene, noting that his previous film "Legends of the Fall" had its emotional ending cut after negative feedback from test audiences, and refusing to do "Seven" unless the head-in-the-box scene remained.
## Filming.
Fincher approac... | 29,123 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
According to the director, ""Seven" is the first time I got to carry through certain things about the camera – and about what movies are or can be".
The crowded urban streets filled with noisy denizens and an oppressive rain that seems to fall without respite were integral parts of the film, as Finch... | 29,124 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
people in it", says Max. "Everything is falling apart, and nothing is working properly." The film's brooding, dark look was achieved through a chemical process called bleach bypass, wherein the silver in the film stock was not removed, which in turn deepened the dark, shadowy images in the film and in... | 29,125 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
The final scenes of Mills being taken away and Somerset's quote from Ernest Hemingway were filmed by Fincher after initial filming was complete as a way to placate the studio (the original intention was for the film to suddenly end after Mills shot John Doe).
## Title sequence.
Originally, Fincher p... | 29,126 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
Piercy and John Sabel), and used the sequence to display them in a slideshow set to Nine Inch Nails' "Closer". The hand-drawn credits font was used to suggest that Doe had written the credits himself.
The studio liked the sequence and suggested he stay with that. Fincher instead asked Cooper to "pret... | 29,127 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
it to involve John Doe, to show that somewhere across town somebody is working on some really evil shit. I don't want it to be just flipping through pages, as beautiful as they are." Cooper reworked the idea, working with Wayne Coe to create a storyboard for a live-action shot and adding in filming al... | 29,128 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
by film editor Angus Wall and cinematographer Harris Savides in making the final title sequence. The filming took two days and five further weeks to edit. The credits were hand-etched onto black scratchboard and manipulated by the camera, rather than using digital effects. The final sequence used a re... | 29,129 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
4 consecutive weeks in the top spot at the U.S. box office in 1995.
## Critical response.
The film was well received by critics and holds an 81% positive rating at the film-review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 74 critics with an average rating of 7.76/10. Its consensus reads: "A brutal, relen... | 29,130 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
in itself. What gets to you is the prowess of the co-stars as they fill out sketchy character profiles." Sheila Johnston, in her review for "The Independent", praised Freeman's performance: "The film belongs to Freeman and his quiet, carefully detailed portrayal of the jaded older man who learns not t... | 29,131 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
scariest ending since George Sluizer's original "The Vanishing" ... and stands as the most complex and disturbing entry in the serial killer genre since "Manhunter"." In his "Great Movies" list review, film critic Roger Ebert commented on Fincher's direction: "None of his films is darker than this one... | 29,132 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
ratio of its original theatrical exhibition. Audio options include Dolby Digital EX 5.1, DTS ES Discrete 6.1, and Stereo Surround Sound.
The "Seven" DVD features four newly recorded, feature-length audio commentaries featuring the stars and other key contributors to the film, who talk about their exp... | 29,133 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
published by Zenescope Entertainment with each of the seven issues dedicated to one of the seven sins. It told the story from the perspective of John Doe rather than the two homicide detectives as in the film, and gave Doe a backstory. Each issue included contributions by a group of creators independe... | 29,134 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
Bowie's song "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", found on his album "Outside". The film's original score is by Howard Shore.
- 1. "In the Beginning" – The Statler Brothers
- 2. "Guilty" – Gravity Kills
- 3. "Trouble Man" – Marvin Gaye
- 4. "Speaking of Happiness" – Gloria Lynne – written by Buddy Scott & ... | 29,135 |
206818 | Seven (1995 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film) | Seven (1995 film)
his album "Outside". The film's original score is by Howard Shore.
- 1. "In the Beginning" – The Statler Brothers
- 2. "Guilty" – Gravity Kills
- 3. "Trouble Man" – Marvin Gaye
- 4. "Speaking of Happiness" – Gloria Lynne – written by Buddy Scott & Jimmy Radcliffe
- 5. "Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV... | 29,136 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Lamb Chop's Play-Along! is an American half-hour preschool children's television series that was shown on PBS in the United States from January 13, 1992 to September 22, 1995. It was created and hosted by puppeteer Shari Lewis, and featured her puppet characters Lamb Chop,... | 29,137 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
series honoured Lewis's father, college professor Abraham Hurwitz - "the official magician of New York City".
Ellensburg Daily Record explains: "each half hour is filled with jokes, games, songs, and tricks".
# Philosophy.
Shari Lewis said her goal for the audience is "participation, not passi... | 29,138 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
[bored]".
Lewis testified that making smart content for children was not that hard to produce and should be done with increasing frequency. She said that if children are challenged, they will be productive members of society. She said, "I don't care if you tack a prosocial message at the end of ... | 29,139 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Lamb Chop
- Mark Gamez - Big Charlie Horse
- Lamb Chop's playmates:
- Brian Ito
- Amanda McAdam
- Sabrina Sánchez
- Emma Pollard
- Annick Obonsawin
- John Creery
- Bryan Robinson
- Ramon Choyce
- Phillip Boutte
- Jade Schwartz
- Talia Gilboa
- Darren Doran
- Jason Guadalajara
- Za... | 29,140 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
10. Charlie's Toothache
- 11. The Baseball Show
- 12. The Planet Yzarc
- 13. Maurice
- 14. Charlie Horse Western
- 15. Runaway
- 16. The Lemonade Wars
- 17. Have I Got A Girl For You
- 18. Lamb Chop's Make-Over
- 19. The Ring
- 20. Charlie Horse's Birthday
- 21. Grown Up For A Day
- 2... | 29,141 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Name
- 9. Born To Dance
- 10. Super Angelo
- 11. I Write The Songs
- 12. United We Stand
- 13. Lucky Puppy
- 14. The Wallet
- 15. Twinkle Twinkle
- 16. The Return of Zark
- 17. Fear of Biking
- 18. Segnorita Lamb Chop
- 19. Forget It!
- 20. Little Red Riding Hood
- 21. Chicken Pox
-... | 29,142 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
4. So Mad
- 5. Lamb Chop's Pet
- 6. Togetherless
- 7. What A Mess
- 8. Buster and Butch the Bully
- 9. Busted-Up Buster
- 10. Lamb Chop Practicing Violin
## Season 4 (1995).
- 1. Charlie Horse Tells a Lie
- 2. Shari's Favorite?
- 3. Lamb Chop's Art Embarrasses Charlie Horse
- 4. A Yo-Y... | 29,143 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Sing a Little Sing-Along Song
- Playtime With Emma
- More Playtime With Emma
## Introduced in Season 2.
- BUSter the Bus
- Alphatoons
- Something Unusual/Fascinating
- A Baby Shari Lewis Story
- A Teddy Bear Tale
- A Baby Hush Puppy Story
- Sing A Little Sing-Along Song
## Introduced i... | 29,144 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Classics.
## Opening and closing.
Both the opening and closing songs were written by Broadway composer Norman Martin. Other songs were written by "Square One TV" songwriter, John Rodby. Two versions of the opening song with different lyrics have been used; one involves bouncing, the other stren... | 29,145 |
206858 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lamb%20Chop's%20Play-Along | Lamb Chop's Play-Along
he door before Lewis could tell him don't. Her only consolation is that she is at peace and quiet with the singing group gone, though she glares at the viewers at fade-out.
An instrumental version of the show's theme song was used for a most recent show of Mallory Lewis and Lamb Chop.
# Critica... | 29,146 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
Polonius
Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". He is chief counsellor of the king, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia. Generally regarded as wrong in every judgment he makes over the course of the play, Polonius is described by William Hazlitt as a "sincere" father, but also "a busy-bo... | 29,147 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
Character.
Father of Ophelia and Laertes, and counselor to King Claudius, he is described as a windbag by some and a rambler of wisdom by others. It has also been suggested that he only acts like a "foolish prating knave" to keep his position and popularity safe and to keep anyone from discovering his plots f... | 29,148 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
of sententious maxims. He finishes by giving his son his blessing, and is apparently at ease with his son's departure. However, in Act 2, Scene 1, he orders his servant Reynaldo to travel to Paris and spy on Laertes and report if he is indulging in any local vice.
Laertes is not the only character Polonius sp... | 29,149 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
was that the prince was above her station. He and the king test his hypothesis by spying on and interrogating Ophelia.
In his last attempt to spy on Hamlet, Polonius hides himself behind an arras in Gertrude's room. Hamlet deals roughly with his mother, causing her to cry for help. Polonius echoes the request... | 29,150 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
the Belleforest and William Painter versions of the Hamlet legend. However, at least since the 19th century scholars have also sought to understand the character in terms of Elizabethan court politics.
Polonius was first proposed as a parody of Queen Elizabeth's leading counsellor, Lord Treasurer, and Princip... | 29,151 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
proposed that the source for the character's name and sententious platitudes was "De optimo senatore", a book on statesmanship by the Polish courtier Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, which was widely read after it was translated into English and published in 1598 under the title "The Counsellor". "Polonius" is La... | 29,152 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
this was the original name of the character or not is debated. Various suggestions have been made to explain this. G. R. Hibbard argues that the name was originally "Polonius", but was changed because Q1 derives from a version of the play to be performed in Oxford and Cambridge, and the original name was too c... | 29,153 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
was played as a somewhat senile, garrulous man of about seventy-five or so, eliciting a few laughs from the audience by the depiction. More recent productions have tended to play him as a slightly younger man, and to emphasise his shiftiness rather than pompous senility, harking back to the traditional manner ... | 29,154 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
Polonius adds a new dimension to the play and is a controlling and menacing character.
One key to the portrayal is a producer's decision to keep or remove the brief scene with his servant, Reynaldo, which comes after his scene of genial, fatherly advice to Laertes. He instructs Reynaldo to spy on his son, and... | 29,155 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
plays Polonius mostly for laughs in the Burton production, Polonius is more sinister than comic in Branagh's version.
# Famous lines.
Polonius's most famous lines are found in Act 1 Scene 3 ("Neither a borrower nor a lender be"; "To thine own self be true") and Act 2 Scene 2 ("Brevity is the soul of wit"; an... | 29,156 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
playing Polonius opposite Richard Burton's Hamlet in John Gielgud's 1964 Broadway production. No other actor has ever won an award for playing Polonius in any professional American stage version of "Hamlet", nor for playing him in a film version of the play.
- In "The Producer", a 1966 episode of "Gilligan's ... | 29,157 |
206864 | Polonius | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polonius | Polonius
y professional American stage version of "Hamlet", nor for playing him in a film version of the play.
- In "The Producer", a 1966 episode of "Gilligan's Island", Polonius' "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" speech is performed satirically, first by series regular Alan Hale Jr. as The Skipper playing the rol... | 29,158 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
Nick Beggs
Nicholas Beggs (born 15 December 1961) is an English musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the chapman stick; he is a member of The Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo, formerly also a part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard and plays in the band of Steven Wilson.
# Personal life.
Beggs was born... | 29,159 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
his first marriage to Eleni Gagoushi ended in 1994. He had another daughter, Willow Beggs, in 2002 with his girlfriend Ann Staniford, whom he married in 2003. He is stepfather to his wife’s three children, Olivia, Callum and Jake Keenan. Beggs currently lives in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
Beggs was a p... | 29,160 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
Neale and Jez Strode. Chris Hamill (Limahl) joined the band in 1981 and at Beggs' suggestion it was renamed Kajagoogoo. The release of the first single, "Too Shy", in January 1983 saw the band on a promotional tour as the record reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart.
After firing lead singer Limahl and, ... | 29,161 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
Shores".
He continued working with various artists and bands including Gary Numan, Alphaville, Belinda Carlisle, Emma Bunton (on her album Life in Mono) and Led Zeppelin's former bass player, John Paul Jones. In 1996, Beggs met Howard Jones on a flight from the United States and a friendship was established... | 29,162 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
Guitar-X.
He has recorded and released two solo albums and an EP: *""Stick Insect"" (2002) & *""The Maverick Helmsman"" (2004) *Stick Enterprises, as well as *""The Darkness Inside Mens Hearts"", 2014 Burning Shed: a compilation of the solo Chapman Stick pieces from his two earlier albums, with 2 newly reco... | 29,163 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
have both rejoined and the band has toured extensively over Europe in 2008 and 2009.
In February 2013, Beggs's project, Lifesigns, with John Young and Frosty Beedle, released a self-titled album.
As of 2011, Beggs is a member of Steven Wilson's touring band, having also played in Wilson's albums, "Grace Fo... | 29,164 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
EP.
Beggs's latest collaboration is called The Mute Gods, with Marco Minneman and Roger King. Their first album was released in January 2016, entitled "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me". This was followed-up with "Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth" in February 2017.
# Instruments.
Beggs' primary instrume... | 29,165 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
Did Tomorrow Go?" – RCA PB42317 – November 1988
- "Big Bubbles No Troubles" remix – RCA PB 42089 – February 89 – # 41 UK
- "Big Bubbles No Troubles" remix – RCA PB 42788 – April 1989
### Albums.
- "Homelands" – RCA – 1988
- "The Lost Years Volume One" – available from Nick Beggs website
- "The Lost Yea... | 29,166 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
Insect"" (2002) and ""The Maverick Helmsman"" (2004) with 2 newly recorded songs bookending the release.
## With other artists.
With Steve Hackett
- "Out of the Tunnel's Mouth", 2009
- "Beyond the Shrouded Horizon", 2011
- "Live Rails", 2011
- "Genesis Revisited II", 2012
With Steven Wilson
- "Grace ... | 29,167 |
206846 | Nick Beggs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick%20Beggs | Nick Beggs
rowning", 2011
- "Catalog / Preserve / Amass" (live), 2012
- "Get All You Deserve" (live), 2012
- "The Raven that Refused to Sing", 2013
- "Drive Home", 2013
- "Hand. Cannot. Erase.", 2015
- "41/2", 2016
- "To the Bone", 2017
- "Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, 2018"
With Lonely R... | 29,168 |
206865 | AtomAge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AtomAge | AtomAge
AtomAge
AtomAge magazine (later AtomAge International magazine) was a fetish magazine published in Britain by the clothes designer John Sutcliffe in the 1970s as an offshoot of his AtomAge fetish clothing business. The first AtomAge clothing catalogue was published in 1965; the first issue of the magazine in A... | 29,169 |
206865 | AtomAge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AtomAge | AtomAge
because the Bondage material he began to introduce in the late 1970s issues of the original AtomAge bothered some rubber enthusiasts. Both magazines remained in print until 1985.
One of Sutcliffe's main goals was to dignify the popular perception of fetish. He is regarded as one of the patron saints of the wor... | 29,170 |
206865 | AtomAge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AtomAge | AtomAge
rubber enthusiasts. Both magazines remained in print until 1985.
One of Sutcliffe's main goals was to dignify the popular perception of fetish. He is regarded as one of the patron saints of the worldwide Rubberist community as a result.
2010 saw the publication of Dressing For Pleasure, The Best Of AtomAge, a... | 29,171 |
206868 | Minnan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minnan | Minnan
Minnan
Minnan may refer to:
- Minnan region, or southern Fujian
- Southern Min, or Minnan Chinese, a variety of Chinese
- Minnan people, or Hokkien people
# People.
- Denzil Minnan-Wong
- Hsieh Min-Nan | 29,172 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Antz
Antz is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson, and written by Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz and Todd Alcott. The film features an ensemble cast, starring Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne B... | 29,173 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steve Jobs and John Lasseter of Pixar, concerning the parallel productions of this film and Pixar's "A Bug's Life". This only worsened when Disney refused to avoid competition with DreamWorks' intended first animated release, "The Prince of Egypt" (1998).
"Antz" premiered on Septemb... | 29,174 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
ant who longs to express himself. Z falls in love with the ant colony's princess, Bala, when she visits a bar to escape her suffocating royal life.
The ant colony declares war on an encroaching termite colony and a large force of soldier ants is mobilized for an attack. To see Bala again, Z exchanges places with ... | 29,175 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Before dying, Barbatus tells Z to think for himself instead of following orders.
Z returns home and is hailed as a war hero. Secretly irate, Mandible congratulates him and introduces him to the Queen. There he meets Bala, who eventually recognizes him as a worker. Z panics and pretends to take Bala hostage, causi... | 29,176 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Mandible publicly portrays Z as a self-centered war criminal. Mandible promotes the glory of conformity and promises them a better life through the reward of completing a "Mega Tunnel" planned by himself. However, Colonel Cutter, Mandible's second-in-command, becomes concerned about Mandible's plans.
After variou... | 29,177 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
forcibly flies Bala back to the colony. Z finds them gone and returns to the colony.
When Z arrives, he encounters soldiers who forcibly direct him toward the Mega Tunnel. Along the way he finds Bala held captive in Mandible's office. After freeing her, she tells him that Mandible's "Mega Tunnel" leads straight t... | 29,178 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
and his soldiers gather at the surface, where he explains his vision of a new colony with none of the "weak elements of the colony". When the workers break through, Mandible tries to kill Z, but Cutter rebels against Mandible and instead helps Z and the worker ants. Enraged, Mandible tries to lunge at Cutter, but ... | 29,179 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
transforming it from a conformist military state into a community that values all of its members. The camera zooms out to reveal the whole story took place in the middle of Central Park, New York City.
# Voice cast.
- Woody Allen as Z-4195 "Z", an idealistic but anxious worker ant.
- Gene Hackman as General Man... | 29,180 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
a worker ant who becomes Weaver's girlfriend.
- Christopher Walken as Colonel Cutter, a flying ant that serves as Mandible's patient and empathetic adviser who becomes disillusioned by the general's actions.
- Danny Glover as Staff Sergeant Barbatus, a soldier ant who befriends Z.
- Anne Bancroft as Queen Ant, ... | 29,181 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
wrote, starred in and directed, including Stone ("Stardust Memories"), Stallone ("Bananas"), Hackman ("Another Woman"), and Walken ("Annie Hall"). Aykroyd later co-starred in Allen's "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion".
# Production.
## Development.
In 1988, Walt Disney Feature Animation was pitched a movie called... | 29,182 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Spielberg and David Geffen, and the three planned to rival Disney with the company's new animation division. Katzenberg at Dreamworks began developing he tried to pursue or suggested while at Disney, including "The Prince of Egypt", a collaboration with Aardman Animations which resulted in "Chicken Run", "", and "... | 29,183 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
uncredited rewrites to the script, to make the dialogue better fit his style of comedic timing. An altered line from one of his early directed films, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" was included – "I was going to include you in my most erotic fantasies..."
## Feud betwe... | 29,184 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
and "A Bug's Life" center on a young male ant, a drone with oddball tendencies, who struggles to win a princess's hand by saving their society. Lasseter and Jobs believed that the idea was stolen by Katzenberg. Katzenberg had stayed in touch with Lasseter after the acrimonious Disney split, often calling to check ... | 29,185 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
on their own films. "If this hits, it's going to be like space movies after "Star Wars"" for computer-animation studios, he told various friends. "I should have been wary," Lasseter later recalled. "Jeffrey kept asking questions about when it would be released."
When the trades indicated production on "Antz", Las... | 29,186 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Lasseter recalled that Katzenberg was under the impression that Disney was "out to get him" and that he realized that he was just cannon fodder in Katzenberg's fight with Disney. Eisner had decided not to pay Katzenberg his contract-required bonus, convincing Disney's board not to give him anything. Lasseter griml... | 29,187 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
to debut in November 1998 as DreamWorks' first animated release. A year later, Disney scheduled "Bugs" to open on the same weekend, which infuriated Katzenberg. Katzenberg invited Disney executives to DreamWorks to negotiate a release date change for "Bugs", but the company refused to budge. DreamWorks pushed "Pri... | 29,188 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Nickelodeon cartoon. Katzenberg suddenly moved the opening of "Antz" from March 1999 to October 1998, in order to successfully beat "A Bug's Life" into cinemas.
David Price writes in his 2008 book "The Pixar Touch" that a rumor, "never confirmed", was that Katzenberg had given PDI "rich financial incentives to in... | 29,189 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
the deal for "Toy Story" with Disney. He flat-out told Jobs that he had enough power with Disney to convince them to change specific plans on their films. Lasseter also claimed Katzenberg had phoned him with a final proposition to delay "Antz" if Disney and Pixar changed the date of "A Bug's Life", but Katzenberg ... | 29,190 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
that he never saw the film. Lasseter claimed that if DreamWorks and PDI had made the film about anything other than insects, he would have closed Pixar for the day so the entire company could go see it. Jobs and Katzenberg would not back down and the rivaling ant films provoked a press frenzy. "The bad guys rarely... | 29,191 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Bug's Life", reasoning that his settlement with Disney would have given him a share of the profits if that were so. In the end, Pixar and PDI employees kept up the old friendships that had arisen from working in computer animation for years before feature films.
The final product of both films are generally perce... | 29,192 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
more realistic aspects of ants and how they relate to other bugs, like termites and wasps, while "A Bug's Life" offered a more fanciful look at insects to better suit its story. "PopMatters" journalist J.C. Maçek III compared the two films and wrote, "The feud deepened with both teams making accusations and excuse... | 29,193 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
ant psychiatrist office, first played in theaters in front of select prints of "As Good as It Gets". Anticipation was generally high with adult moviegoers rather than families and children.
## Home media.
"Antz" was released to VHS and DIVX on February 9, 1999, and to DVD on March 23, 1999, becoming the first fe... | 29,194 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 91 reviews and an average rating of 7.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Featuring a stellar voice cast, technically dazzling animation, and loads of good humor, "Antz" should delight both children and adults." Metacritic g... | 29,195 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Gene Siskel, greatly enjoyed the film and preferred it over "A Bug's Life". Siskel later ranked it No. 7 on his picks of the Best Films of 1998.
## Box office.
The film topped the box office in its opening weekend, earning $17,195,160 for a $7,021 average from 2,449 theatres. In its second weekend, the film held... | 29,196 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
domestically, but failed to outgross the competition with "A Bug's Life". The film picked up an additional $81 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $171.8 million.
According to DreamWorks, the film's budget was about $42 million, while the number $60 million was also reported at the time. Accordi... | 29,197 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
Jeffrey Katzenberg wanted Hans Zimmer to compose the music, but he was too busy with other projects. Instead, Zimmer suggested two composers from his studio — either Harry Gregson-Williams or John Powell — both of whom had already collaborated on the DreamWorks animated film "The Prince of Egypt".
- Songs feature... | 29,198 |
206845 | Antz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antz | Antz
in the film
- "Almost Like Being in Love" – Woody Allen
- "Give Peace a Chance" – John Lennon
- "Guantanamera" – Joseíto Fernández
- "High Hopes" – Doris Day
- "I Can See Clearly Now" – Neil Finn
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" – Patrick Gilmore
# Cancelled sequel.
A direct-to-video sequel was in devel... | 29,199 |
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