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A Ballad for Çanakkale (Çanakkale türküsü) is a Turkish folk song about the Battle of Gallipoli which occurred during World War I on the Gallipoli Peninsula. It was arranged by Muzaffer Sarısözen, with the lyrics of a local bard, İhsan Ozanoğlu, of Kastamonu.Ramazan Eren, Çanakkale Savaş Alanları Gezi Günlüğü, Çanakkale 2003. == Lyrics == Lyrics in Turkish English translation Çanakkale içinde aynalı çarşı Ana ben gidiyom düşmana karşı, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale içinde bir ağaç selvi Kimimiz nişanlı, kimimiz evli, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale içinde bir kırık testi Analar babalar ümidi kesti, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale üstünü duman bürüdü On üçüncü fırka harbe yürüdü, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale elinde toplar kuruldu Vay bizim uşaklar orda vuruldu, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale köprüsü dardır geçilmez Al kan olmuş suları bir tas içilmez, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale'den çıktım yan basa basa Ciğerlerim çürüdü kan kusa kusa, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale'den çıktım başım selamet Anafarta'ya varmadan koptu kıyamet, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale içinde vurdular beni Ölmeden mezara koydular beni, off, gençliğim eyvah! Çanakkale içinde sıra söğütler Altında yatıyor aslan yiğitler, off, gençliğim eyvah! In Çanakkale stands the Mirror Bazaar. Mama, I set forth against the enemy, oh, my youth, alas! In Çanakkale there's a cypress tree. Some of us are engaged, some of us married, oh, my youth, alas! In Çanakkale there's a broken jug. Mothers and fathers abandoned hope, oh, my youth, alas! Çanakkale's heights are shrouded with smoke. The thirteenth division marched to war, oh, my youth, alas! In Çanakkale the cannonballs landed. Ah, our comrades got shot there, oh, my youth, alas! Çanakkale's bridge is narrow, impassable. Its waters have become red blood, not a cup can be drunk, oh, my youth, alas. From Çanakkale I barely escaped My lungs rotted from vomiting blood, oh, my youth, alas! I got out of Çanakkale, left my worries behind Hell broke loose before I reached Anafarta, oh my youth, alas In Çanakkale they shot me. They buried me before I died, oh, my youth, alas! In Çanakkale are rows of willows Brave lions lay beneath them, oh, my youth, alas. == References == Category:Turkish music Category:Songs about Turkey Category:Works about the Gallipoli campaign Category:Year of song missing Category:Songwriter unknown

A Ballad of the West is a three-part story by Bobby Bridger told in Homeric verse and song about the Mountain Men, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and the Lakota Sioux people inspired by John G. Neihardt's A Cycle of the West. Part One: Seekers of the Fleece: This ballad presents the life story of mountain man Jim Bridger and the Fur Trade Era. Jim Bridger is Bobby Bridger's great granduncle. Beginning with Jim Bridger's historic ascension of the Missouri River with the Ashely-Henry Expedition in 1822, Seekers of the Fleece tells of the initial interactions between Euro-Americans and Native Americans, as well as the beginning of the American Emigration Era and the Indian Wars. This ballad was inspired by Alfred Jacob Miller's Western watercolors. Part Two: Pahaska: Pahaska is the Lakota word for "long hair," what the Sioux fondly called William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and subsequently the name of the second ballad in the trilogy. Beginning with Buffalo Bill's birth in 1846, Pahaska chronicles Buffalo Bill's adventurous boyhood on the Great Plains, his career as a Pony Express rider, buffalo hunter, army scout, and his rise to global celebrity with the creation of the Wild West Show. Bobby Bridger also wrote a biography on Buffalo Bill recently published by the University of Texas Press, titled Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West. Part Three: Lakota: Lakota begins with the meeting of Nebraska epic poet, John Neihardt, and the Lakota Holy Man, Black Elk, in South Dakota in 1931, of which would bring the famous book Black Elk Speaks. A 'telling of a telling of a telling,' Lakota presents Black Elk's recollections to Neihardt of the Indian Wars Era (1860–1890), Red Cloud and the Fetterman Massacre, the Battle of Little Big Horn, the deaths of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee. A Ballad of the West was partially recorded in a tipi in the Colorado Rockies and completed in a 24 track studio in Denver in 1975 with Slim Pickens and The Lost Gonzo Band: John and Jim Inmon, Bob Livingston, Gary P. Nunn and Donnie Dolan. Slim's love of the mountain men brought him to volunteer his talents to narrate Seekers of the Fleece. Bridger has been performing A Ballad of the West around the globe for nearly four decades as a one-man show. ==See also== * Slim Pickens ==External links== * Bobby Bridger official site * Collection of Alfred Jacob Miller watercolors of the American West Category:2000 compilation albums

"A Ballad upon the Popish Plot" is an early modern English broadside ballad about a fabricated conspiracy known as "The Popish Plot" that occurred between 1678 and 1681 in the kingdoms of England and Scotland, during a period of widespread social and cultural prejudice against Catholicism. The song records an indictment of the Plot—a crucial consequence of national religious conflict that arguably began with the English Reformation—in the form of the ballad, one of the most time-honored and influential styles of popular music. ==Synopsis== The ballad describes widespread interest in the Plot across social class and region (“From Pulpit to Pot / They talk’d of a Plot” [1.5-6]), as well as the fear invoked in the general population (“frighted with Fire-balls, their heads turned round” [1.4]), but then proposes a rational and just correction of these effects. The majority of the rest of the ballad then lists the occupational types, personal characteristics, and machinations of the participants in the plot. The first is a politician “of Body unsound,” who intends to slander the Pope and the current King, Charles II, until both are forced out of power (2.1, 8). The narrator then describes the personal circumstances that brought him to instigate the plot: financial difficulty, lack of public approval, and ultimately a bribe (“Some Whisperers fix’d him / Upon this design” [3.5-6]). The other participants include a vicious, imprisoned “Knave” (4.1) complicit with another plotter who will “[Relieve] his Invention, and [quicken] his Pace” (4.9); an imprisoned thief and murderer; a perjurer who twice lied about the occurrences of the plot, bribed with money the second time; a professional in the Court who encouraged rumors of the plot with a fellow guilty court-member; and a dull-witted, ill- dressed merchant who supports the plot by writing about it in the press. The narrator ends with a “Prayer” against the plotters and for the providence and safety of the current King, and with the hope that the participants will be executed at Tyburn, a village in Middlesex County well known for capital punishment of London criminals and martyrs. ==Authorship and historical basis== The ballad is one of several that describe the “Popish Plot” in England and Scotland between 1678 and 1681, and the print publication of the ballad is tentatively dated from 1678 or 1679. All versions of this ballad held at the English Broadside Ballad Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which are part of the James Ludovic Lindsay Crawford collection at the National Library of Scotland, indicate in the subtitle that the author is "a lady of quality." However, the compilers of The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints have identified John Gadbury (1627–1704), an English astrologer, almanac writer, and otherwise prolific author, as the composer of several versions of the ballad held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Gadbury, a High Tory and Catholic convert, had been wrongfully imprisoned at the time of the Plot. However, Yale librarian and literary cataloger Donald Wing has attributed the ballad to Elizabeth Somerset Herbert Powis (1633–1691) who, along with her husband William Herbert, first Marquess of Powis (or Powys), was one of the most influential Roman Catholics of that time. As one of the “Five Catholic Lords” falsely accused by Titus Oates of plotting in the King's assassination, her husband was imprisoned in the Tower of London for six years. Her attempts to free him in the so-called “Meal-tub Plot” very nearly led to her own conviction for treason. ==Cultural and historical significance== This ballad is one of a group on the Popish Plot included in the Bagford Ballad collection, whose ballads depict the last years of the Stuart reign at the end of the 17th century. As the preface to the third volume of the collection describes, the value of ballads such as these is that they allow readers to "follow [...] the varying emotions" of "the average men and women" of the early modern era -- "their joys, their griefs, their boastfulness, their anger"—as well as give a narrative of important social, political, and cultural events of the time. Thus this ballad, and the group of ballads of which it is a part, serve a valuable historical and cultural function not only as records or descriptions of significant past political events but also because they give readers access to the subjective quality of the lives of that era's common people. As Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, the editor and annotator of the second division of the published Bagford Ballad collection, evocatively phrases it: "Here, if we choose to pay attention, are clearly written the contemporary records of how men [and women] felt and spoke during the mad excitement, the servile terror, and the ferocious hatred of the days when clamours echoed against the so-called 'Popish Plot'" (viii). By giving readers access to the inner lives of the common people, and especially that part of their inner lives that was emotionally engaged by tumultuous political events such as the Popish Plot, these ballads provide a counterweight to, or throw into relief, other ballads in the collection that merely depict the social life of the Stuart kings, thus enriching our contemporary understanding of the social and political dynamics of the era. They also serve as a relevant reminder—and warning—of the power religious bigotry can exercise over a general population when allowed to develop unchecked. == References == *Ebsworth, Joseph Woodfall, ed. The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts. Second Division. Hertford, England: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1878. Web. == External links == * Link to an audio recording of the ballad to the tune of "Packington's Pound," at the English Broadside Ballad Archive of UC Santa Barbara: * Link to other ballads about the Popish Plot at the English Broadside Ballad Archive of UC Santa Barbara: , Category:17th-century broadside ballads Category:17th century in England Category:Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom Category:Popish Plot Category:Cultural depictions of Titus Oates

"A Ballade of Suicide" is a ballade by G. K. Chesterton, originally published in his 1915 collection Poems. ==External links== * The G. K.Chesterton web site: more works by G. K. Chesterton * Category:Poems by G. K. Chesterton

A Balladeer (styled as a balladeer) is a Dutch band, originating from Amsterdam, founded by singer-songwriter Marinus de Goederen. In 2002, the band won the 3FM BuZz Award and another award the following year at the final of the annual Dutch musical contest De Grote Prijs van Nederland (The Big Prize of the Netherlands). In 2004, A Balladeer opened up for international acts Saybia and Keane and released their first EP: Rumor Had It. The EP featured 4 songs, including the critically acclaimed "They've Shut Down Marks & Spencer", which resulted in considerable airplay in the Netherlands. On 5 May 2006, A Balladeer's debut album titled Panama was released by EMI Music. The single "Swim with Sam" was the first single. It became a hit in the Netherlands. The album was recorded in Brussels in 2005 with Bløf producer Ronald Vanhuffel. Robert Kirby (known for his work with Nick Drake) arranged the strings for three songs. In early 2007, the band won a Zilveren Harp (Silver Harp), a supporting prize for promising musical artists. In February 2007, their third single was released, a ballad called "Robin II". The second album, Where Are You, Bambi Woods?, was released on 29 August 2008. The album is partly about the year the lead singer lived near Dallas, Texas. Its title track is about the disappearance of porn star Bambi Woods (known from her role in Debbie Does Dallas). 'Poster Child' is an ode to the murdered student Matthew Shepard. In 2009 the album got nominated for an Edison, a Dutch Grammy. The third album, I Can't Keep Track Of Each Fallen Robin, was released on 19 October 2012. The single 'Mob Wife' (2017) features Sam Bettens of K's Choice. The original version of the song is taken from A Wolf at the Door, which was released on 11 March 2016. == Band line up == === Current members === * Marinus de Goederen – vocals, piano, guitar === Past members === * Walter Wilhelm – bass guitar (2003–2004) * Erik Meereboer – guitar, backing vocals (2003–2010) * Tijs Stehmann – drums (2003–2013) === Session members === * Peter Slager (Bløf) – bass guitar (studio) * Bas Kennis (Bløf) – Hammond, accordion (studio) * Charlie Dée – backing vocals * Arn Kortooms – bass guitar, vocals (live) == Discography == === Albums === * Panama (2006) * Where Are You, Bambi Woods? (2008) * I Can't Keep Track of Each Fallen Robin (2012) * A Wolf at the Door (2016) * December (2017) * Clutter, Volume 1 (2020) === EPs === * Rumor Had It (2004) === Singles === * "Swim with Sam" (2006) * "Fortune Teller" (2006) * "Robin II" (2007) * "Mary Had A Secret" (2008) * "Superman Can't Move His Legs" (2008) * "Oh, California" (2010) * "Karaoke Night" (2012) * "A Wolf At The Door" (2016) * "Incompatible" (2016) * "Mob Wife (Ft. Sam Bettens)" (2017) * "Not Only During Christmas" (2017) ==External links== *Official website Category:Musical groups from Amsterdam

A Ballads (stylized as 15px BALLADS) is the second greatest hits album by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki. It was released physically on March 12, 2003 through Avex Trax, and digitally distributed worldwide on September 14, 2006 by Avex Entertainment Inc. It is her first compilation release in two years since A Best; it premiered three months after her sixth studio album Rainbow. The compilation compiles ballad-inspired singles released by Hamasaki between 1998 and 2003, while the material is divided into new-arrangement remixes and the original versions. With all the tracks written by Hamasaki, it includes two new songs—"Rainbow", which served as the album's promotional single, and a cover version of Japanese singer Yumi Matsutoya's 1975 track "Sotsugyō Shashin". Released in six formats featuring a photograph by JFKK, A Ballads received favorable reviews from music critics. Many praised the collection for including some of Hamasaki's best vocal work, and commended the songwriting. Minor criticism was aimed on the newer renditions of the original songs. Commercially, the album was a success in Japan, reaching number one on the Oricon Albums Chart, making it Hamasaki's second compilation and eighth album to reach the top spot. It was certified Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of one million units. The album experienced limited promotion during its release, with some of the tracks appearing during Japanese commercial endorsements. ==Background and material== In December 2002, Hamasaki released her sixth studio album Rainbow. Early issues of the album included a code number and URL address that allowed customers to visit an exclusive website that promoted the album and listen to a 40-second demo of her unfinished song "Rainbow". During its promotion, Avex Trax and Hamasaki received over 100,000 messages from fans, telling them their opinions about the unfinished demo. Due to the mixed response of her fanbase, Hamasaki decided to develop the song further and release it as part of an upcoming compilation album, which was later named A Ballads. During the process, Hamasaki confessed that "[she] had never before written lyrics that were based on messages received directly from [her] fans. It was with "Rainbow" that [she] decided to give this approach a try". A Ballads is Hamasaki's first compilation to compile songs that were inspired by ballad music, with it portraying her second greatest hits album after A Best (2001). Each track from the album was released either as a single or as a promotional recording, recorded between the years 1998 and 2003. Six of the tracks on the album were composed and co-produced by Hamasaki, who used the alias Crea. The album consists of fifteen tracks, including two new recordings—"Rainbow" and a cover version of Japanese singer Yumi Matsutoya's 1975 track "Sotsugyō Shashin". Seven of the album's tracks—"Appears", "You", "To Be", "M", "Seasons", "A Song for ××" and "Who..."— feature new arrangements and compositions, while the songs "Key", "Hanabi", "Dearest" and "Voyage" are included with their original versions. ==Songs== To explain Hamasaki's the background and development, Hamasaki hosted a commentary on her website. The first song, "Rainbow", was originally composed by CMJK, but Hamasaki felt the finishing product was "missing something", and re-worked the demo version with Japanese musician Dai Nagao. According to Hamasaki, she wanted to reflect the emotion and words used in each 100,000 messages she received from her fans to create the song, but because there were numerous emails, she decided to write it as a summary and her feelings as an "aftermath" from reading the messages. The song was described by a staff member at CD Journal as an "organic midtempo pop ballad" song. "Appears" was remixed by Japanese group HΛL. According to Hamasaki, she had asked the group to re-compose their original version of the track in order to reflect "current [musical] themes of 2003." The album included the original version of "Key (Eternal Tie)" as Hamasaki felt that the original was "more important and unknown" than the proposed-reworked version she had planned. "You (Northern Breeze)" was one of the last reworked tracks, and was described by Hamasaki as being influenced by Western music. "To Be (2003 ReBirth Mix)" was not re-worked or re-arranged by any of the album's collaborators, with it being purely remastered and mixed again by music engineer Koji Morimoto. "Hanabi" was one of the album's only tracks to appear in its original version, and has been described by a CD Journal staff member to have been inspired by Europop, trip hop, and dub music. "Dolls", a J-pop influenced pop ballad, remained the sophomore original track to make part of the record. Like "To Be", the next track "Seasons" was remastered and mixed by Morimoto. The final original track, "Voyage", was described by CD Journal as a midtempo ballad influenced by gospel music, layered with several string arrangements and other instrumentation. "A Song for ××" was re-worked as a live demo, recorded at the Avex Trax studios in Japan. For the promotional track "Who...", Hamasaki asked CMJK to create a more "warmer" version than the original. The closing track for A Ballads was "Sotsugyō Shashin". According to Hamasaki, she had imagined recording a cover for a studio album, but was unsuccessful at doing so. To compose the track, she and the song's co-composer Tasuku composed it by using a Fender Rhodes Suitcase Mk I electric piano in order to reflect the song's original 1960s–1970s pop influence. ==Release== A Ballads was released physically on March 12, 2003 through Avex Trax in five formats, and digitally distributed worldwide on September 14, 2006 by Avex Entertainment Inc. The first five formats were compact discs; each one of the four early editions included a slipcase sleeve that had two clones of Hamasaki asleep next to each other, with the inner booklet portraying four different photographs of the clones. The four alternative covers were different variations of the two Hamasaki figures in a pink-coloured room. The fifth format came without a slipcase, and had the slipcase image as the inner booklet cover. The digital release featured the slipcase cover and the entire photo shoot was photographed by JFKK. ==Reception== Upon its release, A Ballads received favorable reviews from most music critics. Tetsuo Hiraga from Hot Express believed that the album's material was able to connect with both younger and older audiences. He also pointed out the "Royal-esque" tracks "Seasons" and "Dearests" as some of her best recordings. In a similar review, a staff member of CD Journal enjoyed the album and complimented its new additions to the album. Commercially, the album was successful in Japan, with it debuting at number one on the Oricon Albums Chart and replacing 200 Km/h in the Wrong Lane (2002) by Russian female duo t.A.T.u. at the top spot. Hamasaki's entry sold 561,127 units in comparison to t.A.T.u.'s 167,627 unit sales. By the end of 2003, A Ballads was ranked at number eight as the best selling album in Japan of that year. It sold 917,555 units, and was also her second album to enter the top ten, just behind Rainbow which sold 1,856,919 units. As of July 2016, it has sold over 924,242 units, her first greatest hits album to not sell over the one million mark. Nevertheless, it was certified Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of one million units. It is Hamasaki's ninth best selling album based on Oricon's sale database. ==Promotion== The album experienced limited promotion during its release, with some of the tracks appearing during Japanese commercial endorsements. The compilation's only release was promotional song "Rainbow", which was used as the theme song for Hamasaki's Japanese talk show Ayuready?, and to promote products by Lumix. An accompanying music video for the song was directed by Wataru Takeishi, featuring two clones of Hamasaki chasing each other, and eventually meeting at a dinner in Japan. Near the end of the video, it is revealed that the second clone is in fact her imagination or conscious. ==Track listing== ==Charts== Oricon Sales Chart (Japan) Release Chart Peak position First Week Sales Sales total Chart run 12 March 2003 Oricon Daily Albums Chart 1 Oricon Weekly Albums Chart 1 561,127 1,330,000 53 weeks Oricon Monthly Albums Chart 1 Oricon Yearly Albums Chart 4 ==Release history== Region Date Format Catalogue number Japan March 12, 2003 CD (Copy Control CD) AVCD-17278 Taiwan 2003 CD (Copy Control CD) AVJCD-10160 Hong Kong March 2003 CD (Copy Control CD) AVTCD-95676 Indonesia 2003 Cassette AV 0370303 ==Notes== ==References== ==External links== *A Ballads at Oricon Style. Category:Ayumi Hamasaki compilation albums Category:2003 compilation albums Category:Avex Group compilation albums Category:Japanese-language albums

A Ballerina's Tale is a 2015 documentary film revolving around the career of Misty Copeland, who serves as the narrator of the film as well as its subject. The film premiered on April 19, 2015, at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was released through video on demand on October 13, 2015, prior to opening in a limited release on October 14, 2015, by Sundance Selects. A version of it, which is available on the PBS website, was also aired by PBS stations beginning in February 2016. The film received mostly positive reviews. ==Synopsis== The film follows the daily life of Copeland with emphasis on her role as one of the first African-American female soloists to present what Mekado Murphy of The New York Times describes as the process of the dancer. The film begins with archival footage of a young Copeland at a small ballet studio and focuses on her cultural impact and professional ascension, despite injuries and other challenges, without delving into her personal history. ==Development== On September 20, 2013, Nelson George announced a $40,000 Kickstarter campaign to fund production of a documentary film about the life of Misty Copeland. The campaign raised US$54,251 with 657 backers. Prince contributed a "substantial sum" to the campaign.Callahan, Yesha. "Watch Prince Perform 'The Beautiful Ones' With Misty Copeland" , The Root, April 25, 2016 The film is one of several forms of media publicity surrounding Copeland who has become a trailblazing ballerina with the American Ballet Theatre. ==Release== The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 19, 2015, accompanied by a ballet performance. Copeland, who narrates the film, spoke following its premiere. Sundance Selects acquired the US distribution rights to the film. The film was released through video on demand on October 13, 2015, and the following day began a limited release in US cinemas. A 55-minute version of it aired beginning on February 8, 2016, as part of PBS' Independent Lens series. ==Critical response== A Ballerina's Tale received mostly positive reviews. It holds a 73% Fresh rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews with an average rating of 7.8/10. It holds a 57 score on Metacritic based on 4 reviews. Maya Chung for NBCnews.com wrote: "A Ballerina's Tale is one film that is making that impact. The documentary gives an in-depth picture of Copeland's struggles with being black in a predominantly white Ballet world and it chronicles her experience recovering from a leg fracture - one that could've stopped her dream of becoming a principal dancer." Amy Brady from The Village Voice commented: "In A Ballerina's Tale, director Nelson George paints a moving portrait of Copeland that underscores her triumphs over bodily and historical limitations. ... The film is structured around mid-career highlights – Copeland's solo performance in The Firebird at the Metropolitan Opera House, her career-defining role as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake – but it reminds us that her rise to stardom was marked by self-doubt and a need for mentorship." The film is not considered "eye-opening" according to Louise Blouin Media's Regina Mogilevskaya, but the presentation of Copeland as a performer is what makes the film memorable. ==Notes== ==External links== * official website * official trailer * Tribecca Film Festival official listing * official listing at IFC Films * 55-minute version of A Ballerina's Tale, PBS (2016) * * Category:2015 films Category:2015 documentary films Category:American documentary films Category:Documentary films about ballet Category:2010s English-language films Category:2010s American films

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories is a posthumous collection of fiction by Canadian author and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, consisting of the novella A Ballet of Lepers, fifteen short stories and a précis for a play. The collection was edited, with an afterword, by Alexandra Pleshoyano and was published in 2022. ==Themes== The titular novella, written at Cohen's childhood home in the Westmount area of Montreal, is narrated by an aimless, solitary bookkeeper of 35 who is renting a room in Stanley Street, Montreal and takes in his grandfather who needs a place to live. The grandfather, whom he has never met before, scorns societal taboos and embraces a liberating exercise of violence. Themes explored in the novella and stories include "the sacred and profane dimensions of sexual desire; the longing for an ideal woman, capable of a liberating love; a search for freedom in a world of limitations and boundaries; the challenge—and even incapacity—to embrace commitment; feelings of alienation; the dread flowing from a sense of unworthiness coupled with an aspiration for the transcendent and the beautiful." ==Publishing history== Although Cohen wrote the novella in 1956-7, some years before writing his first published novel The Favourite Game, it was only published posthumously in 2022. Cohen once called A Ballet of Lepers "probably a better novel" than The Favourite Game, but despite his best efforts failed to get it published. The manuscript of the novella, along with a collection of short stories and plays, is kept in the Leonard Cohen archive at the University of Toronto. There are four drafts, the second and most complete of which was selected for publication. The stories, written (mostly) between 1956 and 1960, were also previously unpublished. They are titled: "Saint Jig", "O.K. Herb, O.K. Flo", "Signals", "Polly", "A Hundred Suits from Russia", "Ceremonies", Mister Euemer Episodes", "The Shaving Ritual", "Lullaby", "A Week is a Very Long Time", "The Jukebox Heart", "David Who?", "Short Story on Greek Island", "ive had lots of pets" and "Strange Boy with a Hammer". The précis for a play is titled "Trade". ==References== Category:Canadian novellas Category:Canadian short story collections Category:Books by Leonard Cohen Category:McClelland & Stewart books

A Balloon Called Moaning is the debut extended play by Welsh indie rock band the Joy Formidable. It was released exclusively in Japan in December 2008, then released with additional tracks in the UK the following month. ==Critical reception== The album was reviewed by NME, which rated it 8 out of 10,NME, 02/21/2009, p.43 and by Pitchfork, which rated it 6.7 out of 10. ==Track listing== ==References== Category:2008 debut EPs Category:The Joy Formidable albums

A Balloon Site, Coventry is an oil-on-canvas painting undertaken in 1942 by the British artist Laura Knight. It portrays a group of people—mostly women—working to launch a barrage balloon on the outside of Coventry, an industrial city in the Midlands that was the target of a German bombing raid in November 1940, when over 10,000 incendiary bombs were dropped on the city. Knight had painted In for Repairs, showing members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) repairing a damaged barrage balloon, in early 1942. The Air Ministry was so impressed that they asked her to paint the WAAF in action. She was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) and paid 100 guineas for the work, which was undertaken in July and August 1942. A Balloon Site was displayed at the 1943 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, along with Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring (1943). ==Background== From March 1939, Coventry had been protected by barrage balloons; the city was an industrial target and contained aircraft factories on the outskirts. The balloons were filled with hydrogen and were either set in fixed sites, or adapted for mobile deployment. They were fixed by steel cables which forced bombers to fly at a higher altitude than they would have preferred. In this way the bombing was less accurate, and the aeroplanes more vulnerable to ground-based anti- aircraft fire. The protection was not infallible, and, on 14 November 1940 Coventry was the target of a German bombing raid when over 10,000 incendiary bombs were dropped on the city. From April 1941 women were used to operate the balloons, a crew of fourteen women replacing the ten men that did so previously. ==History== During the Second World War the British government formed the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) under the chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Clark, the director of the National Gallery. The committee was "to draw up a list of artists qualified to record the war at home and abroad". One of those commissioned on several occasions was the British painter Laura Knight, who had painted for the Canadian government during the First World War. By early 1942 she had painted four pictures for the WAAF; the most recent was In for Repairs, showing members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) repairing a damaged barrage balloon. The Air Ministry was impressed with the picture and its potential to help with recruiting. The Ministry asked the WAAF if Knight could be commissioned again, and, in October 1941, she received a request from Mr Dickey, the Secretary of the WAAC, to paint members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force based at RAF Wythall—the regional headquarters of RAF Balloon Command—which was from Birmingham. She worked on the piece in July and August 1942, and was paid 100 guineas for the work. A Balloon Site was displayed at the 1943 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, as was Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring, a painting Knight had just completed. Both works were warmly received. As at , the painting is held by the Imperial War Museum. ==Painting== A Balloon Site is an oil painting on canvas measuring . It shows the launch of a barrage ballon on the outskirts of Coventry. In the middle distance are several damaged buildings, and the partial ruins of Coventry shown in the background. In the foreground two groups work on launching the balloon. The group in the foreground—composed of three women and a man—are under the leadership of Jean Brydon, a female sergeant. A second group are shown on the far side of the balloon. According to the art historians Teresa Grimes, Judith Collins and Oriana Baddeley, A Balloon Site and In For Repairs "are about activity, the concentration and absorption in work generated by a group endeavour are central to their composition". ==Notes and references== ===Notes=== ===References=== ===Sources=== ====Books==== * * * * * * * * * ====Journals and magazines==== * ====News==== * ====Websites==== * * Category:1942 paintings Category:British women in World War II Category:Paintings in the Imperial War Museum Category:Cultural history of World War II Category:Paintings by Laura Knight Category:Portraits of women Category:United Kingdom home front during World War II Category:War paintings Category:Women in the United Kingdom Category:Cultural depictions of British women Category:Balloons (aeronautics) Category:Aviation art

A Baltic Tragedy () is a 1970 Swedish drama film directed by Johan Bergenstråhle. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. It is based on the Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers that took place between 1945 and 1946. ==Cast== * Bo Brundin as Eichfuss * Yrjö Tähtelä as Lapa * Anneli Sauli * Knut Blom as Alksnis * Jan Bergquist as actor * Tore Lord as vicar * Jonny Quantz * Helge Skoog as actor ==References== ==External links== * * Category:1970 films Category:1970s Swedish-language films Category:1970 drama films Category:Films directed by Johan Bergenstråhle Category:Swedish drama films Category:1970s Swedish films

A Banca (Portuguese for "The Stand") was a very short-lived Brazilian alternative rock band from Santos, São Paulo, composed mostly by former Charlie Brown Jr. members and described as a "spiritual successor" of it. ==History== Following the break-up of Charlie Brown Jr., caused by the death of vocalist Chorão due to a cocaine overdose on March 6, 2013, the remaining members of the band (guitarists Thiago Castanho and Marcão, drummer Bruno Graveto and bassist Champignon) decided to form a new musical project that would serve as a tribute act both to Charlie Brown Jr. and Chorão, dubbing it "A Banca" (literally translated to English as "The Stand") in allusion to a Brazilian street slang referring to a gathering of friends – i.e., "Charlie Brown Jr.'s friends". (Coincidentally, "A Banca" is also the name of a song by Charlie Brown Jr. from their 2000 album Nadando com os Tubarões.) The only bandmember not originally from Charlie Brown Jr. was bassist Helena "Lena" Papini. The band's first rehearsal was watched and approved by Chorão's son, and they made their official debut on Serginho Groisman's variety show Altas Horas on April 11, 2013. In May they announced their nationwide Chorão Eterno Tour in tribute to Chorão, in which they covered Charlie Brown Jr.'s greatest hits and also played new compositions. In August they released the single "O Novo Passo", chosen by Rolling Stone Brasil one of the best Brazilian songs of the year. The band played its final show in São Vicente in late August, and in early September vocalist Champignon announced that their first full-length album was scheduled to be released in early 2014. Despite their apparent success, ever since its inception A Banca was overshadowed by controversy; a parcel of Charlie Brown Jr. fans criticized Champignon for "not respecting Chorão's death" and "not mourning it properly", going to the point of dismissing him as a "cash-grabber", a "traitor" and a "Judas". Even though Champignon always vehemently denied such claims, constant criticism eventually lead him to sink into a major depression, and on September 9, 2013, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a .380 ACP pistol, effectively ending A Banca. By 2014 the remaining members of A Banca (Castanho excepted) formed a new project, D'Chapas, alongside vocalist Ivan Sader, and with Pinguim Ruas (also a former member of Charlie Brown Jr.), Papini and Marcão formed Bula. Papini left Bula in late 2019. ==Discography== ===Single=== Year Single Album 2013 "O Novo Passo" Non-album song ==Members== * Champignon – vocals, beatboxing (2013; died 2013) * Marcão – electric guitar (2013) * Thiago Castanho – electric guitar (2013) * Bruno Graveto – drums (2013) * Helena "Lena" Papini – bass guitar (2013) ==References== Category:Musical groups established in 2013 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 2013 Category:2013 establishments in Brazil Category:2013 disestablishments in Brazil Category:Musical groups from São Paulo (state) Category:Musical quintets Category:Brazilian alternative rock groups Category:Brazilian rap rock groups Category:Skate punk groups Category:Reggae rock groups Category:Brazilian pop rock music groups Category:Rapcore groups Category:Funk rock musical groups Category:Tribute bands

A Band Apart Films was a production company founded by Quentin Tarantino, Michael Bodnarchek, and Lawrence Bender that was active from 1991 to 2006. Its name is a play on the French New Wave classic film, Bande à part ("Band of Outsiders") by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, whose work was highly influential on the work of the company's members. ==History== Tarantino formed A Band Apart in 1991, naming it after his favorite Godard film, Bande à part. The company's logo was a stylized image of the robbers from Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino's debut film. Subsequently, several legal entities within the company were named after the film's characters. Mr. Pink LLC was for music video production budgets, and Mr. Brown LLC was for commercials. In addition to Tarantino, members of the company included Robert Rodriguez, John Woo, Tim Burton, Steve Buscemi, Darren Aronofsky, John Landis, Joseph McGinty Nichol, Nigel Dick, Varl Hobe, Steve Carr, Cameron Casey, Marcel Langenegger, Wayne Isham, Terry Windell, Lisa Prisco, Phil Harder-Rick Fuller, Coodie & Chike, Osbert Parker, Luc Besson, Porker LeVance, Adam Christian Clark, André 3000, Christopher Morrison and Michael Palmieri, Andy Mornahan, Chash Brower, Steve Lowe, Loren Hill, Darren Grant, Charles Whittenmier, Geoff McGann, Olivier Venturini, The 405 Guys, and Craig Tanamoto. The company catapulted to fame with the 1994 release of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, which was considered by some critics to be the most influential American film of the decade."The All-Time Greatest 100 Films". Time 2005. In the summer of 1995, the company added a division for commercials and later, for music video production, adding a third co-owner Michael Bodnarchek. Kristin Cruz (aka Kris Foster) and Heidi Santelli launched A Band Apart Music Videos as directors' rep and executive producer, respectively."City Pages Article", City Pages 2007 ==Company closure== Tarantino and Bender are no longer working together and Tarantino is the sole owner of A Band Apart Films. David Heyman (Harry Potter, Gravity) produced Tarantino's ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The company is listed as studio for Tarantino's 2009 Inglourious Basterds and 2012 Django Unchained, and credited in the 2007 Grindhouse movies. ==Filmography== === Films produced and co-produced === Year Title Directed by Distribution Co-production Notes 1992 Reservoir Dogs Quentin Tarantino Miramax Films Live America Inc. Dog Eat Dog Productions 1993 True Romance Tony Scott Warner Bros. Morgan Creek Productions Davis Films 1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino Miramax Films Jersey Films 1995 The Whiskey Heir JoAnn Fregalette Jansen A Band Apart Short film White Man's Burden Desmond Nakano Savoy Pictures UGC Rysher Entertainment Four Rooms Allison Anders Alexandre Rockwell Robert Rodriguez Quentin Tarantino Miramax Films 1996 Curdled Rob Braddock Rolling Thunder Pictures Miramax Films Tinderbox Films From Dusk till Dawn Robert Rodriguez Miramax Films Dimension Films Los Hooligans Productions 1997 Jackie Brown Quentin Tarantino Mighty Mighty Afrodite Productions Lawrence Bender Productions Good Will Hunting Gus Van Sant Be Gentleman Limited Partnership As Lawrence Bender Productions 1998 Metallica: Cunning Stunts Wayne Ishun Adam Dubin Elektra Entertainment Celluloid Construction Company Woof! Woof! Concert video 1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money Scott Spiegel Buena Vista Home Entertainment Dimension Home Video Los Hooligans Direct-to-video 2000 From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter P. J. Pesce Amuse Pictures Buena Vista Home Video New Films International 2003 Kill Bill: Volume 1 Quentin Tarantino Miramax Films rowspan="2" 2004 Kill Bill: Volume 2 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights Guy Ferland Lionsgate Films Miramax Films Artisan Entertainment Havana Nights LLC Lawrence Bender Productions Miramax Films 2007 Death Proof Quentin Tarantino Dimension Films Troublemaker Studios Soundtrack only 2009 Inglourious Basterds The Weinstein Company Universal Pictures Studio Babelsberg Visiona Romantica 2012 Django Unchained The Weinstein Company Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures ===Music videos produced (partial list)=== Year Title Artist(s) 1997 "Promisse Ain't Enough" Hall & Oates 1998 "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" The Offspring "Fuel" Metallica "Believe" Cher "The City Is Mine" Jay-Z ft. Blackstreet "Miami" Will Smith "Clock Strikes" Timbaland & Magoo ft. Mad Skillz "Hard Knock Life" Jay-Z 1999 "Everything You Want" Vertical Horizon "The Hardest Thing" 98 Degrees 2000 "Bye Bye Bye" NSYNC "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" Fuel "(Rock) Superstar" Cypress Hill "U Got It" Cleopatra "Breathless" The Corrs "Oops!... I Did It Again" Britney Spears 2001 "Cry" Mandy Moore "Crush" "Overprotected" Britney Spears 2003 "Some Girls" JC Chasez "Falls on Me" Fuel 2005 "An Honest Mistake" The Bravery "Resolve" Foo Fighters "Juicebox (song)" The Strokes == References == ==External links== *An Archive of the Company's Website circa 2001 *City Pages feature on Michael Bodnarchek, co-founder of A Band Apart Category:1991 establishments in California Category:2006 disestablishments in California Category:American companies established in 1991 Category:American companies disestablished in 2006 Category:Companies based in Los Angeles Category:Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles Category:Defunct film and television production companies of the United States Category:Entertainment companies based in California Category:Film production companies of the United States Category:Mass media companies established in 1991 Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 2006 Category:Television production companies of the United States Category:Quentin Tarantino

A Band Called David was a group of musicians who provided the instrumental support from 1974 until 1988 for the 2nd Chapter of Acts, a contemporary Christian music group. The members of the band, without a name, played informally together and attended The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, where they met 2nd Chapter of Acts, who also attended there.The Frame Never Outdid the Picture: The 2nd Chapter of Acts Story They chose their name because of a sermon by Pastor Jack W. Hayford describing David as a man after God's heart, as seeking God's heart was an important motivation of the members of the band. The name of the band was always in lower case to take the emphasis off of themselves and keep it on the 2nd Chapter of Acts. The original members of the band were bass guitarist Herb Melton, keyboardist Richard Souther, guitarists Rick Azim and Paul Offenbacher, and drummer Gene Gunnels, who had played with the psychedelic bubblegum band Strawberry Alarm Clock on their hit record "Incense and Peppermints" in 1967. (He left Strawberry Alarm Clock for two years and rejoined them from 1969 to 1971.) Azim and Offenbacher were replaced by Peter York. Gunnels left the band in 1980 and Jack Kelly joined as a member until the 2nd Chapter of Acts stopped touring in 1988. Kelly had previously substituted for Gunnels, when Gunnels took time off from touring in 1975. Richard Souther left in the early 1980s and was replaced by Greg Springer.Information confirmed by email responses from Herb Melton and Gene Gunnels a band called David were credited as such on three recordings, To the Bride with Barry McGuire and 2nd Chapter of Acts (1975) and How the West Was One with 2nd Chapter of Acts and Phil Keaggy (1977), both albums released on Myrrh Records, and Mansion Builder (1978) released on Sparrow Records. They also performed without attribution on the 1983 Sparrow release by 2nd Chapter of Acts with Michael and Stormie Omartian, Together Live. As of 2008, York is president of EMI CMG Label Group. After recovering from a near-fatal illness in the early 1980s, Souther moved on to recording instrumental music and record producing. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Twila Paris on her Dove Award-winning album Sanctuary. ==References== Category:Christian rock groups from California Category:Musical groups established in 1974

A Band Called Death is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett. The documentary is about the 1970s rock band Death, and their new-found popularity decades after the group recorded their music. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2012 and was well received by film critics. ==Synopsis== A Band Called Death is the story of three musician brothers, born to a Baptist preacher and his wife in 1950s Detroit. In their teenage years, the three brothers (to five other siblings) emerge as, first, a budding rock/funk band, heavily influenced by Motown & Parliament, ultimately evolving into pioneers of punk music, Death. Influenced by music by Alice Cooper and The Who, the group was heavily steered by the guidance and decisions of visionary eldest brother and guitarist, David Hackney. The story follows the brothers' unsuccessful attempts to get radio airplay and a record deal, largely due to David's adamant refusal to change the name from Death. An eventual trek east finds the boys in Burlington, Vermont, living with relatives and reflecting on the failure of David's vision. We begin to explore post-Death projects in The 4th Movement, a gospel/rock band with the same line-up. However, after two years of being homesick, David returns to Detroit, leaving Dannis and Bobby to form a lively reggae band called Lambsbread. The film also focuses on the intense brotherly bond between the group members, and their personal lives, including David Hackney's battle with alcoholism, his death in 2000 and his family members' reactions to these events. The film follows the re-discovery of the group through record collectors leading to an eventual release of Death's album ...For the Whole World to See by the Drag City record label and the group's eventual reunion and touring with a new guitarist. ==Production== Director Jeff Howlett met Bobby Hackney Sr. and Dannis Hackney in the 1990s at a local music festival where his band and their band, Lambsbread, were playing. Bobby Hackney Jr. had formed his own band Rough Francis with his brothers to honor his father's band Death. After Howlett saw the show, he was impressed with the music and with Bobby Jr. and his father, and they began working on the documentary. In 2008, Mark Covino met Howlett while working on a video that Howlett was directing. The next year, Howlett approached Covino to work on the film with him, but Covino was initially hesitant about helping Howlett as he was attempting to finish his own documentary feature at the time. He changed his mind after reading an article in The New York Times on the group and hearing the two songs from the "Politicians in my Eyes" 7" single. Covino spent months organizing and scanning photos from members of the groups family from Vermont, Ohio and Detroit. Very little video footage of the group's guitarist David Hackney surfaced during their duo's research. ==Release== A Band Called Death had its world premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 16. It was acquired by Drafthouse Films shortly before screening at South By Southwest in 2013. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on August 13, 2013. ==Reception== Initial critical response to A Band Called Death was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 77, based on 14 reviews. ==Notes== ==External links== * * * Category:2012 documentary films Category:2012 films Category:2010s American films Category:American documentary films Category:Documentary films about African Americans Category:Documentary films about Michigan Category:Documentary films about punk music and musicians Category:Documentary films about Vermont Category:Films produced by Scott Mosier

A Band Called O were a band from Jersey, Channel Islands. Originally known as The Parlour Band, playing progressive rock, they renamed to A Band Called O for two albums on CBS/Epic and later to The O Band for further albums with UA. Despite issuing five albums, on three major labels, and being championed by John Peel, for whom they recorded four Peel Sessions, they had no chart success; but were a popular live act, who toured Britain and Europe. ==The Parlour Band== Formed in Jersey, Channel Islands, circa 1970, as 'The Parlour Band', the early 1970 line-up comprised founding member Peter Filleul (keyboards and vocals) formerly of the Climax Blues Band , with Mike Harwood (lead guitar and vocals) Allen Greenall (acoustic guitar and vocals) Nigel Uren (Drums) John Ashworth (Bass guitar) later replaced by Jeff Smith (Bass and vocals) the last 4 members were replaced in late 1970 by brothers Mark Anders (bass and vocals) and Craig Anders (lead guitar and vocals) Jon "Pix" Pickford (guitar and vocals) and Jerry Robbins (drums). Released in 1972, The Parlour Band's only album Is a Friend?, was produced by Nick Tauber in a melodic progressive rock style, sounding like a "more mainstream, less art- rock-inclined Yes" with strong keyboard and guitar parts. The Parlour Band toured supporting Caravan and Steve Hillage’s Khan. They relocated from Jersey to Leicester, changed their name to 'A Band Called O', and their drummer to Derek Ballard. This line-up released their first album on the Epic label, produced by Ben Sidran of the Steve Miller Band, and Chris White of The Zombies. A Band Called O (1974) and, despite being an album orientated band, a single "Rock and Roll Clown" / "Red Light Mama Red Hot" was released in Germany while they recorded the first of four Peel Sessions on 24 September 1974. They recorded their second Peel Session on 18 March 1975, before touring with Man and John Cipollina. Later that year, they released their second album, Oasis. They had one track "There Ain't Nothing I Wouldn't Do" on a single to promote their tour with Sassafras and Randy Pie as the 'Hot on the Tracks' package. Filleul left and was replaced by Ian Lynne, after about 6 months he was also replaced by Jeff Bannister, formerly with the John Barry Seven, The Alan Bown Set and Jess Roden’s Bronco. ==The O Band== The band changed label from CBS/Epic to United Artists, and played their third Peel Session on 23 March 1976 (the BBC credit all the Peel sessions to A Band Called O, although one or two were after the name change). Musically, their style had already evolved from progressive rock to soft-rock, but it then moved towards a pop style. They changed their name to 'The O Band' and released their third album Within Reach later that year. A promotional single "Excerpts from Within Reach" was issued in the UK whilst two singles were taken from the album: "A Smile Is Diamond" / "Coasting" was issued in Germany, and "Don't Cha Wanna" / "Coasting" in the UK. They played their fourth and final Peel Session on 22 February 1977. Also in 1977 they released a 12" EP Look to the Left, Look to the Right, before recording their final album The Knife, from which the single "Almost Saturday Night" / "Love Ain't a Keeper" was taken. Shortly before a planned change of management, Pix Pickford decided to leave for a solo career. The O Band later disbanded at the end of 1977. On the Road 1975-77 was released in June 2012 on CD (78 minutes) and as a download (118 minutes). Strangely, for a band known for its live performances, "this is the only live material ever released by the band". ==Unrelated O-Band== Since 2008 the name "The O Band" has been used by an unrelated Jazz, Hip-Hop, R&B; and Gospel band from Norfolk, Virginia. There is also music band from Ukraine called Band O (Гурт О) ==Subsequent careers== * Craig Anders later played with Alan Ross and Charlie Dore. * Mark Anders now runs Bug Music. * Derek Ballard went on to work with Razar, Charlie Dore, Bram Tchaikovsky and John Watts. In 1982 he moved to Germany and works in Berlin as a session musician and photographer. * Filleul rejoined the Climax Blues Band and later became a session musician recording with numerous artists including, Loudon Wainwright III, The Blues Band and Richard Thompson, adding composing, mixing and production work to his keyboard playing. * Pix Pickford had a brief solo career, releasing two singles: "Long Drop" and "Are you Rockin'", before moving to Spain to play with 'Racket' comprising Pickford, Nik Ramsey and Arturo Tore. Later, after a personnel change the band became 'Guiri', which saw Tore being replaced by Nigel Barrett on bass/vocals and for a while included Mike Smith on guitar and Blue Weaver on piano and keyboards. After Weaver and Smith's departure, Stefan Wickenden joined the band on guitar/vocals and this continued to be the line-up. Pickford lived in Torre del Mar, and was found dead in Spain, in September 2021, after going missing on 29 August following a meal with friends. "Jersey musician Jonathan 'Pix' Pickford found dead in Spain", ITV News, 6 September 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021 * Jeff Bannister played with Charlie Dore, on Raphael Ravenscroft’s Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway (1979), and Joan Jett's Bad Reputation (1980). ==Discography== ===Albums=== ;As The Parlour Band * 1972: Is a Friend (Decca/Deram Records SDL 10 / CD: 2010, Esoteric Eclec 2192) ;As A Band Called O * 1974: A Band Called O (CBS/Epic EPC 80120) UK * 1975: Oasis (CBS/Epic EPC 80596) UK * 2012 On the Road 1975-77 (Major League Productions (MLP) MLP21CD) UK ;As The O Band * 1976, Within Reach (United Artists UAS 29942 / CD: 1994, Repertoire RR4419) + Bonus tracks (2002) * 1977: The Knife (United Artists UP36276 UK / CD: 1994 Repertoire RR442, Germany / CD: 2006 Repertoire) ===Singles=== ;As A Band Called O * 1974: "Rock & Roll Clown" / "Red Light Mama Red Hot" (Epic EPCS 2677) Germany * 1974: "There Ain't Nothing I Wouldn't Do" (1Epic HOT 1 UK) (Concert promo with Sassafras & Randy Pie) * 1974: "No Manners" / "That's Up" (Epic SEPC 2721) UK ;As The O Band * 1976: "Excerpts from Within Reach" (United Artists UA-PROMO 1) UK * 1976: "A Smile Is Diamond" / "Coasting" (United Artists 36108AT) Germany * 1976: "Don't Cha Wanna" / "Coasting" (United Artists UP36108) UK * 1977: "Look to the Left" / "A Smile Is Diamond" (United Artists UP36297) UK * 1977: "Look to the Left" / "A Smile Is Diamond" / "Fine White Wine(live)" (12" red vinyl) (United Artists 12-UP36297) UK * 1977: "Almost Saturday Night" / "Love Ain't a Keeper" (United Artists UP36276) UK ==References== ;Further Reading The Alan Bown Set – Before and Beyond by Jeff Bannister, published by Banland Publishing Ltd Category:English progressive rock groups Category:English dance music groups Category:Musical groups established in 1970 Category:Deram Records artists Category:Epic Records artists Category:United Artists Records artists

A Band Called Pain (abbreviated ABCP) are an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California. The band was formed by cousins Allen Richardson (also known as Allen Anthony formerly of the Roc-A-Fella Records R&B; group Christion) and Shaun Bivens who both hail from the San Francisco Bay Area. The band's debut studio album Broken Dreams was released in 2006, and was dubbed one of the ten best (#6) California albums of the year by Zero Magazine. The first single from the album is the song "The Pieces". The song has a music video as well. The band's song "Holy" appeared on the Saw II soundtrack. A Band Called Pain is also notable for being a rare heavy metal band consisting of four African American members. Guitarist Bivens alluded to this saying: The band is also the only heavy metal act released on the independent, alternative hip hop label, Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings. ABCP has performed at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. In October 2008, Tony Providence left the band and was replaced by Akili Peyton the following year. Sometime after 2010, the band decided to take a hiatus to focus on other musical projects. In January 2019, A Band Called Pain announced a one-off reunion show at The Uptown Nightclub in Oakland, California with the original line up on March 30, 2019. On January 10, 2021, guitarist Shaun Bivens announced on facebook that A Band Called Pain is recording their first EP, titled "56 Down", since the release of "Beautiful Gun" back in 2010. On March 26, "56 Down" was released to the public. It is currently unknown if this will be a full return of the band. ==Members== ===lineup=== *Allen Richardson — vocals (2001–2010, 2019, 2021-present) *Shaun Bivens — guitars (2001–2010, 2019, 2021-present) *Bryan Dean (aka Dark Kent) — bass (2001–2010, 2019, 2021-present) *Tony Providence — drums (2001–2008, 2019, 2021-present) ===Former members=== *Akili Peyton (aka Killz Atwillz) — drums (2009–2010) ==Discography== *Broken Dreams (2005) *Beautiful Gun (2010) *56 Down - EP (2021) ==References== ==External links== *A Band Called Pain -- Official Website *A Band Called Pain's MySpace Category:Heavy metal musical groups from California Category:African-American heavy metal musical groups Category:Musical groups from Oakland, California Category:Musical quartets

thumb|200px|A Band Called Quinn from left to right: Louise Quinn (Singer/ songwriter) Robert Henderson (trumpet/ keys) Steven Westwater (bass) Bal Cooke (drums/ production) Photo by Jane Potter. A Band Called Quinn are an electronic indie rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. Founding members Bal Cooke (drummer/producer) and Louise Quinn (singer/ songwriter) met whilst working for a performance art company in Glasgow. Other long term members are Robert Henderson (keyboards/ trumpet) and Steven Westwater (bass). Previous line ups included Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand). A Band Called Quinn's track DIY opened the sixth episode of Season 1 of The Royals (TV series) on E!.Keith Bruce, The Herald, 05/05/2015 The series was created by Mark Schwahn and stars Elizabeth Hurley and Joan Collins. In 2012, with investment from Creative Scotland, A Band Called Quinn devised the critically acclaimed multimedia show Biding Time (remix) with theatre director Ben Harrison, Co-Artistic Director of Scottish theatre company Grid Iron. The show was a response to Pippa Bailey's global theatre project Biding Time which explores the experience of women in the entertainment industry.Neil Cooper, The Glasgow Herald, 02/10/2012The Scotsman, 09/10/2012 The band toured in the production around the UK in 2014 and to Brazil in 2015 with performances at the Cultura Inglesa Festival.Phil Miller, The Herald, 07/07/2015 In 2012, also with investment from Creative Scotland, singer of A Band Called Quinn, Louise Quinn, released a duet Oh Jackie with French DJ & producer Kid Loco appearing on vocals. This track was then developed into a short film with Scottish Film Director Uisdean Murray which was nominated for Best Music Based Short Film at Cannes in a Van 2012, Best Film & Script at Renderyard Film Festival (Spain) & nominated for a Scottish Short Film Award at The Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012.The List, 19/02/2013 Oh Jackie screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 In 2009 A Band Called Quinn toured in award-winning Scottish based Vanishing Point (Theatre Company)'s revision of John Gay's 18th Century classic The Beggars Opera. It was a co-production by The Lyceum in Edinburgh and Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. It played at The Lyceum, The Belgrade and The Tramway in Glasgow. In 2010 the band released an album of the songs written for The Beggar's Opera with sleevenotes written by Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin. Parisian producer/ DJ Kid Loco produced A Band Called Quinn's second album Luss. Singer Louise Quinn appears on several of Kid Loco's albums.Chitra Ramaswamy, Scotland On Sunday, 19/11/2006 A Band Called Quinn's drummer & producer Bal Cooke has produced records for Glasgow artists Bill Wells, The Pastels and International Airport. A Band Called Quinn appear on the soundtrack to films by Penny Woolcock, David MacKenzie and Ricardo de Montreuil. Three tracks were on the soundtrack for the Kudos produced series Lip Service which was broadcast on BBC Three in the Autumn of 2010. Another three A Band Called Quinn tracks were used on Lip Service Series 2 broadcast on BBC Three in 2012 . A Band Called Quinn's track "DIY" was used in the remake of the classic The Borrowers starring Stephen Fry & Christopher Eccleston broadcast on BBC One on Boxing Day 2011. Three songs by A Band Called Quinn are featured in Scottish Indie Film "Fast Romance". A Band Called Quinn have collaborated with Scottish Film Maker Uisdean Murray on several music videos including "Wolf Cries Boy" which received its premier on NBC LA show Action on Film & screened at three international film festivals including Born Shorts in Denmark.STV East Kilbride January 2012 A Band Called Quinn played The Refract Festival in Serbia in 2005 after their song The World Is Upside Down was played on Serbian radio station B92 by Slobodan Konjovic and went to number eight in the Serbian Diskomer Chart. The band recorded an audio diary of the trip for BBC Radio 4's Home Truths programme. "The Glimmer Song" by A Band Called Quinn is currently featured on STV's online advert which features 360-degree views of Glasgow, Edinburgh & Aberdeen.STV East Kilbride 2012 == References == == External links == * Website * Profile on BBC Music Category:Musical groups from Glasgow Category:Scottish rock music groups

A Band Is Born is a 1952 album by the arranger and composer Billy May. ==Reception== The Billboard magazine review from April 20, 1957, upon the album's reissue commented that "dealers can expect many buys from fans who favor the distinctive May style". ==Track listing== # "Charmaine" (Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack) # "Lean, Baby" (Billy May) # "Unforgettable" (Irving Gordon) # "Fat Man Boogie" (May) # "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) # "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) # "Mayhem" (May) # "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" (Gene Austin, Irving Mills, Jimmy McHugh) *Tracks on 1957 reissue: # "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) # "My Silent Love" (Edward Heyman, Dana Suesse) # "Lulu's Back In Town" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) # "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) ==Personnel== *Billy May – arranger *Alvin Stoller – vocals on "Fat Man Boogie" ==References== ==External links== * Category:1952 albums Category:Albums arranged by Billy May Category:Billy May albums Category:Capitol Records albums Category:Instrumental albums

A Band in Hope (formerly The Mad Silentist) is the third studio album by The Matches and was released in Australia and Europe on March 15, 2008, and in the US on March 18, 2008. Audio production was handled by Tim Armstrong, Mike Green, John Feldmann, Nick Hexum, Miles Hurwitz, John Paulsen and Paul Ruxton.A Band in Hope (CD liner notes). The Matches. Los Angeles: Epitaph Records. 2008. 86938-2. Like their previous album Decomposer, A Band in Hope features multiple producers, though fewer this time around. According to frontman Shawn Harris' blog, the album was created in a period of despair due to the record sales of Decomposer. Instead of following up with the sister album titled The Mad Silentist, the band scrapped many of the old songs (only four remain in the final cut) and re-wrote the album. The new album, as Harris states, sways between hope and despair, and the hope one gets when they feel disillusioned and abandoned. ==Release information== On March 11, 2008, the Matches released the entire album on their MySpace page, and were featured on the MySpace front page. The next day the video for the first single "Wake the Sun" was released exclusively on Yahoo! Music. The video for "Yankee in a Chip Shop" was supposed to debut on MySpace Music on August 29, 2008. However, due to issues with the London Metropolitan Police that singer/guitarist Shawn Harris detailed in a blog post, including police that Harris were "rent-a- cops" who took the band members' names and had CCTV tapes of the band "running down the middle of the huge roundabout at Piccadilly Circus that was the video's finale", the video was removed shortly after its posting. (The issue was later resolved and the video released.) ==Track listing== ==Charts== Chart performance for A Band in Hope Chart (2008) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA) 99 ==References== Category:The Matches albums Category:2008 albums Category:Epitaph Records albums

A Band in Upperworld is the first live album and the third release by French progressive metal band Adagio. == Track listing == # "Introitus" – 1:22 # "Second Sight" – 6:07 # "Chosen" – 8:43 # "The Stringless Violin" – 6:32 # "From My Sleep... to Someone Else" – 7:47 # "Promises" – 5:14 # "The Seven Lands of Sin" – 14:02 # "Panem et Circences" (Japanese edition bonus track) – 6:18 # "In Nomine..." – 6:24 == Personnel == *Kevin Codfert – keyboard *Stéphan Forté – guitar *Franck Hermanny – bass *Eric Lebailles – drums *David Readman – vocals Category:Adagio (band) albums Category:2004 live albums

A Band Of Angels were a mid-1960s English pop group, featuring Mike d'Abo (vocals, various instruments), John Edward Baker (lead guitar), John Christian Gaydon (vocals, rhythm guitar), Andrew Charles Malcolm Glyn Petre (drums), David Robert Wilkinson (bass guitar). Mike d'Abo went to Manfred Mann, while John Gaydon became a manager, involved with King Crimson, Julie Felix, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, T. Rex and Roxy Music in partnership with A Band of Angels former road manager David Enthoven. They later co-founded E.G. Records. Andrew Petre joined a group called Timebox in the period September 1966 until August 1967. ==Discography== *1964: Soundtrack album - Just For You (Decca LK 4620) (One song: "Hide 'n' Seek" (Baker/d'Abo)) *1964: "Me" (Baker/d'Abo) / "Not True As Yet" (Baker/d'Abo) (United Artists UP 1049) *1964: "She'll Never Be You" (Sedaka/Greenfield) / "Gonna Make A Woman Of You" (d'Abo/Baker) (United Artists UP 1066) *1965: "Leave It To Me" (Pomus/Shuman) / "Too Late My Love" (d'Abo) (Piccadilly 7N 35279) *1966: "Invitation" (d'Abo) / "Cheat And Lie" (Miki Dallon) (Piccadilly 7N 35292) ==References== ==External links== *"A Band Of Angels" feature *Mike D'Abo Interview Category:Musical groups established in 1964 Category:English rock music groups Category:English pop music groups Category:Beat groups

A Band of Boys (also known as ABOB) is an Indian Hindi boy band, best known for their eponymous albums and their movie Kiss Kisko in 2004. The band was formed in 2001, and the original line up consisted of Karan Oberoi, Siddharth Haldipur, Sherrin Varghese, Chintoo Bhosle and Sudhanshu Pandey; before Pandey and Siddharth consequently left the group. After a period of hiatus, the band announced plans to re-form in 2018 with the remaining 3 members and added a new 4th member to the band whose name is Danny Fernandes. == Albums== Album – Yeh Bhi Woh Bhi (2002) * Meri Neend * Gori * Tera Chehra * Ishq * Thirchi Nazar * She Drives Me Crazy * Elements (Aayi Ho Jabse) Album – Gaane Bhi Do Yaaro (2006) * Nain Kataari * Funkh With You * Aa Bhi Jaa Ae Mere Humdum * Sunlo Zaraa * Jhoomengi Bahaaren * Aaye Aaye * Mast Kalandar * Main Chal Diya ==Filmography== Kiss Kis Ko – (2004) ==References== Category:Indian boy bands

"A Banda (Ah Bahn-da)" (Portuguese for "The Band") is a composition by Chico Buarque that was first performed live in 1966 by Buarque and Nara Leão, during the II Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) Festival in TV Record's theater, São Paulo, winning the "Viola de Ouro" award for best composition. "A Banda" brought Buarque immediately into the limelight in Brazil. The song was also released in 1966, on the Brazilian RGE label, as the first track of side 1 in Chico Buarque de Hollanda (Vol. 1) LP. The following year Astrud Gilberto brought the song to the US, recording it with English lyrics on the Verve/Copacabana label, crediting Bob Russell for the English lyrics. As an instrumental, the song was performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, who had their third and final number one on the Easy Listening chart in October 1967. It peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The French singer France Gall popularized this song, titled "Zwei Apfelsinen im Haar" in German ("Two oranges in the hair" in English). A Czech version named "La banda" was performed by Vladěna Krumlová in 1969. The instrumental version by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass was used in the Soviet cartoon Well, Just You Wait! in the 8th episode (at 06:27-07:30). Also in 1999 the German band Captain Jack used a riff from "A Banda" in the song "Get Up". ==See also== *List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1967 (U.S.) ==References== Category:Chico Buarque songs Category:1967 singles Category:Herb Alpert songs Category:1960s instrumentals Category:1966 songs Category:A&M; Records singles Category:Songs about musicians

A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade (, The Most Beautiful Band in Town) is a Brazilian MPB/indie rock band that gained popularity in late May 2011 following the release of its music video "Oração" ("Prayer") on YouTube. The video received more than 4.9 million views in three weeks, and it became highly publicized by the Brazilian press after MTV named it video clip of the week. Shortly thereafter, a number of English-language news sources, including The Washington Post and NPR, drew international attention to the band. ==Formation and early musical endeavors== The band formed in 2009 in Curitiba, a city in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. Its name was inspired by the title of the short story The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, by American author Charles Bukowski. In the beginning, the band performed songs by local composers, and since then, it has begun to adapt such songs to its own musical style. A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade has performed publicly at the Wonka Bar in Curitiba, where its lead singer, Uyara Torrente, put on a show called "A Saudade Mata Gente, Panaca" ("Longing Kills People, Fool"). ==Oração== The video clip for "Oração" was filmed as a long take on February 6, 2011, in a hundred-year-old house in Rio Negro, Paraná. In the clip, the song's composer, Leo Fressato, is filmed in real time as he sings and walks through the house with a microphone. Along the way, he encounters the band's musicians, who play their instruments and accompany him in singing. "Oração" is essentially a six- minute repetition of a chorus with four strophes. The video clip was released on May 13, 2011, and due to the music's catchy rhythm and simple message (a series of metaphors about the heart), it rapidly went viral in online social networks. ===Influence=== A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade has stated that the video for "Oração" was influenced by the music video for "Nantes", a 2007 song by American band Beirut. ==Media response== On May 18, 2011, MTV named "Oração" video clip of the week. In the following days, both Brazilian and international news media published stories on the band, and many, including Globo, UOL, The Washington Post, and NPR, posted copies of "Oração" on their websites. Some Brazilian press sources have reported that A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade appears to be at the center of a local indie rock movement in Curitiba called Novos Curitibanos (New Curitibans), which is similar to the São Paulo movement Novos Paulistas (New Paulistas). The latter movement is well known in Brazil due to the fame of many of its participating musicians, including Tulipa Ruiz, Dudu Tsuda (former member of Pato Fu), Tiê, and Thiago Pethit (winner of the MTV Bet Award at the 2010 MTV Video Music Brazil). Within a week of its launch on YouTube, "Oração" inspired several tribute videos and parodies from fans and critics of the song. == Discography == * A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade (2009) * Canções Que Vão Morrer no Ar – Compact Vinyl (2012) * O Mais Feliz da Vida (2013) * De Cima do Mundo Eu Vi o Tempo (2017) ==References== == External links == * Category:Brazilian indie rock groups Category:Musical groups established in 2009

A Banda das Velhas Virgens is a 1979 Brazilian film by Amácio Mazzaropi. In this movie, the character key, called 'Gostoso', is responsible for a band formed by older women and religious women. Everything goes well until the farmer is expelled, along with the family of their land. He restarts his life in the capital, collecting scrap, and becomes the main suspect of a theft.A Banda das Velhas Virgens ==Notes== Category:1979 films Category:Brazilian comedy films Category:1970s Portuguese-language films Category:1979 comedy films

A Bandit is a 1913 American short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle. A print of the film survives. ==Cast== * Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle * Nick Cogley * Ford Sterling as The Bandit * Al St. John ==See also== * List of American films of 1913 * Fatty Arbuckle filmography ==References== ==External links== * * A Bandit on YouTube Category:1913 films Category:Silent American comedy films Category:American silent short films Category:1913 comedy films Category:1913 short films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Mack Sennett Category:American comedy short films Category:1910s American films

A Bank for the Buck: The Story of HDFC Bank is a book written by Tamal Bandyopadhyay. The book was released at a gathering in Mumbai on 24 November 2012, by the then Finance Minister of India P. Chidambaram. ==Overview== During the release of A Bank for the Buck, in November 2012, Chidambaram said, "In a period of great financial illiteracy, it's refreshing to have a book written by somebody very literate about matters relating to finance". The book describes the birth and the growth of HDFC Bank that was started in 1994 and also looks at the new bank movement over the last few decades. ==References== Category:Indian non-fiction books Category:Books about companies Category:2012 non-fiction books Category:21st-century Indian books

A Bankrupt Honeymoon is a 1926 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. ==Cast== * Harold Goodwin as Harold Pembroke * Shirley Palmer as Shirley Lee * Oliver Hardy as A taxi driver (as Babe Hardy) * Frank Beal as A drunk * Harry Dunkinson * Sidney Bracey as Butler ==See also== * List of American films of 1926 * Oliver Hardy filmography ==References== ==External links== * Category:1926 films Category:1926 short films Category:American silent short films Category:Silent American comedy films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Lewis Seiler Category:American comedy short films Category:1926 comedy films Category:1920s American films

A Banner is Unfurled is a Latter-day Saint (LDS) historical fiction series written by Marcie Gallacher and Kerri Robinson and published through Covenant Communications. It is set in the 1820s and follows the Ezekial and Julia Johnson family, a family of 16 children. ==Works in the series== #A Banner Is Unfurled (2005) #Be Still My Soul (2006) #Glory From On High (2008) #Abide With Me (2010) #No Greater Love (2012) ==References== ==External links== * Category:Mormon fiction Category:Novel series Category:Novels set in the 1820s

thumb|Table of contents, or "menu", for A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts|402x402px A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales is a young adult fiction book written by Ying Chang Compestine. Set in China, the book blends Chinese culture, cuisine, and modern customs into eight horror stories.[1][2] == Plot summary == The tales in A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts spans across China, ranging from 200 BC to the modern technological world. In Chinese legends, people who die hungry return as vengeful ghosts to haunt the living. Some of these ghosts can be calmed with food, but others have more malicious desires. In addition to focusing on the cuisine and ghosts stories of Chinese culture, each tale has socially conscious undertones which explore the abuse of power and class disparity across China. Each ghost acts as a champion for the poor and powerless people, helping them obtain justice. The book is organized as a Chinese menu. From appetizers and main courses to desserts, every story ends with an authors note and a recipe based on the story. === The Appetizers === ==== Steamed Dumplings ==== Jiang, a greedy businessman, opens up a haunted inn and skimps out on the ingredients in his dumplings. The events that follow are less than savory. ==== Tea Eggs ==== After a tragic accident at the fireworks factory in Yun's school, many people are affected, but none more than the undertakers of the "room of the dead". After all, hungry ghosts rarely stay dead. === The Main Courses === ==== Beef Stew ==== After an accident at work, Chou is left to eat his favorite meal while he awaits capital punishment. Meanwhile, the rich and powerful have other plans instore for him. ==== Tofu with Chili-Garlic Sauce ==== Dr. Zhou, one of the best surgeons in China, is haunted by a deceased patient after eating a lavish banquet. ==== Long-Life Noodles ==== Master Ma's disappearance is shrouded in mystery until his successor, Master Chen, eats long-life noodles, flavored with the exotic shiitake mushrooms. Something tragic happens. ==== Egg Stir-Fried Rice ==== Madame Peng gives the phrase "evil stepmother" a whole new meaning and the dead take notice. === The Desserts === ==== Jasmine Almond Cookies ==== The Lee family names their three boys after the best dishes served at their restaurant. After their oldest son dies, they take offerings to his grave. But some strange things happen to the offering at the graveyard. ==== Eight-Treasure Rice Pudding ==== Wei is furious when his father kills his pet praying mantis. He thinks the death of his father will set him free, but the consequences are worse than he imagined. == Character List == === Appetizers === ==== _Steamed Dumplings_ ==== * Mu- previous innkeeper of the Double Happy * Fur Hat- worker on the Great Wall of China * Cotton Jacket- worker on the Great Wall of China * Jiang- modern day successful businessman from Beijing * Uncle- Jiang's uncle * Dave- American students tourist * Chef- cook at the new Double Happy Inn ==== _Tea Eggs_ ==== * Yun- protagonist, middle school student * Ming- Yun's friend * Gui- Yun's friend * Bo- Yun's friend * Mother- Yun's mother * Father- Yun's father * Principal * Miàn Tiáo (Noodle)- Undertaker * Dōng Guā (Melon)- Undertaker === Main Courses === ==== _Beef Stew_ ==== * Chou- protagonist * Broken Faucet- Chou's employer * Female Officer- medical examiner * Li Zen- judge * Chief Lo- police chief ==== _Tofu with Chili-Garlic Sauce_ ==== * Dr. Zhou- protagonist, surgeon * Shao Ren- patient of Dr. Zhou * Mr. Ren- father of Shao Ren * Mrs. Ren- mother of Shao Ren * Dr. Zan- Dr. Zhou's assistant * City Mayor * Mr. Lin- Mayor's assistant * Long Legs- waitress * Officer Wang- police officer ==== _Long-Life Noodles_ ==== * Master Ma- old head monk at Wu Jing Temple * Master Chen- new head monk at Wu Jing Temple * Cong- youngest monk at Wu Jing Temple * Master Lung- monk at Wu Jing Temple, chef * Chief Xiong- police chief ==== _Egg Stir-Fried Rice_ ==== * Fong- protagonist * Madame Peng- antagonist, Fong's stepmother * Mr. Yue- Fong's father * Housekeeper Ting === Desserts === ==== _Jasmine Almond Cookies_ ==== * Almond Cookie Lee- oldest son * Barbecue Ribs Lee- middle son * Drumsticks in Curry Sauce Lee- youngest son * Mr. Lee- parent, restaurateur * Mrs. Lee- parent, restaurateur * Mrs. Qian- friend of Lees, hair salon owner * Mr. Zong- frequent customer at Lees' restaurant ==== _Eight-Treasure Rice Pudding_ ==== * Wei- protagonist * Master Shi- Wei's father * Tutor- Wei's tutor * Cai- Wei's friend * Ban- Wei's friend * Liang- Wei's friend == Television adaptation == In October 2021, it was reported that 108 Media would be adapting the book into an animated television series with Tricia Lee as writer. == Critical reception == A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts has received good reviews from readers and other literary organizations such as Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, The Horn Book Magazine, and Kirkus Reviews. == Awards == * Notable Book for 2010 by the Children's Literary Assembly * AARP Grandparent's Book for Children == References == Category:Short stories set in China Category:Horror short story collections Category:Chinese folklore Category:2016 short story collections Category:Works by Ying Chang Compestine Category:Young adult short story collections

A Banquet of Consequences is a crime novel by Elizabeth George. It reached 19 on the 2015 best sellers list of the New York Times. == References == Category:2015 American novels Category:American mystery novels Category:Viking Press books Category:Hodder & Stoughton books

A Bao A Qu is a 4 track 10" EP by singer-songwriter Virginia Astley. The selection of 4 songs indicated her preferences for poetic and classical sounds as 3 of the 4 songs had a direct connection. The sleeve art and script are credited to the artiste. "We will meet them again" was a translation of a verse from the Kindertotenlieder, a series of poems by Friedrich Rückert used by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler for his song cycle of the same name, its meaning being "Songs On The Death Of Children". "Arctic Death" was inspired by the W. B. Yeats poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and also inspired the Catherine DeNeuve sleeve used for "Promise Nothing". "Sanctus" is a straight reading in Latin from the Requiem as used by Benjamin Britten in his War Requiem. It's also her only a cappella song, the other voices being Nicky Holland and her brother Jon Astley who co-produced the recordings. In 1999 a privately made CD was issued on the Astra label and added computerised sounds as "Sanctus 2000". "Angel Crying" is in the style of a Revivalist Hymn and features 2 members of the soon to be Big Country, then part of her cousin in law Simon Townshend's band On the Air. In fact this debut was something of a family affair as her nieces Emma and Aminta Townshend were backup singers. Other musicians involved were Josephine Wells of Kissing the Pink and Peter Hope Evans, ex-Medicine Head. After what could be called Virginia's Song Cycle Of Death she got it out of her system and moved on to other things, though her overall sound was to remain in the same turf for 2 decades. The album shares its name with a Malayan legend; at the time of composition, Virginia had recently read a book by Jorge Luis Borges which described the legend, and a great deal of her lyrics depended on what she'd been reading at the time. Category:Virginia Astley albums Category:Albums produced by Jon Astley Category:1982 EPs Category:1999 EPs

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère () is a painting by Édouard Manet, considered to be his last major work. It was painted in 1882 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of that year. It depicts a scene in the Folies Bergère nightclub in Paris. The painting originally belonged to the composer Emmanuel Chabrier, a close friend of Manet, and hung over his piano. It is now in the Courtauld Gallery in London. ==Painting== The painting exemplifies Manet's commitment to Realism in its detailed representation of a contemporary scene. Many features have puzzled critics but almost all of them have been shown to have a rationale, and the painting has been the subject of numerous popular and scholarly articles.Malcolm Park, Ambiguity, and the Engagement of Spatial Illusion within the Surface of Manet's Paintings (PhD diss., University of New South Wales, Australia, 2001).Thierry de Duve, "Intentionality and Art Historical Methodology: A Case Study". Nonsite.org Issue #6, July 1, 2012 ; builds and corrects previous work Thierry de Duve, How Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere is Constructed, Critical Enquiry, Vol. 25, No. 1, Autumn 1998, pp. 136-168. The central figure stands before a mirror, although critics—accusing Manet of ignorance of perspective and alleging various impossibilities in the painting—have debated this point since the earliest reviews were published. In 2000, however, a photograph taken from a suitable point of view of a staged reconstruction was shown to reproduce the scene as painted by Manet."Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère: One Scholar's Perspective" , www.getty.edu. Retrieved July 20, 2012. According to this reconstruction, "the conversation that many have assumed was transpiring between the barmaid and gentleman is revealed to be an optical trick—the man stands outside the painter's field of vision, to the left, and looks away from the barmaid, rather than standing right in front of her." As it appears, the observer should be standing to the right and closer to the bar than the man whose reflection appears at the right edge of the picture. This is an unusual departure from the central point of view usually assumed when viewing pictures drawn according to perspective. right|thumb|300px|Study for (1881) Asserting the presence of the mirror has been crucial for many modern interpreters.Bradford R. Collins, ed., 12 Views of Manet's Bar, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996 It provides a meaningful parallel with Las Meninas, a masterpiece by an artist Manet admired, Diego Velázquez. There has been a considerable development of this topic since Michel Foucault broached it in his book The Order of Things (1966).Foucault has given a talk on Manet's Bar at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo on April 8, 1970. He had planned a book on Manet's painting and gave a series of lectures during 1970/1 but the project was abandoned; see Cahiers de L'Herne: Michel Foucault, mars 2011 The art historian Jeffrey Meyers describes the intentional play on perspective and the apparent violation of the operations of mirrors: "Behind her, and extending for the entire length of the four-and-a-quarter-foot painting, is the gold frame of an enormous mirror. The French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty has called a mirror 'the instrument of a universal magic that changes things into spectacles, spectacles into things, me into others, and others into me.' We, the viewers, stand opposite the barmaid on the other side of the counter and, looking at the reflection in the mirror, see exactly what she sees... A critic has noted that Manet's 'preliminary study shows her placed off to the right, whereas in the finished canvas she is very much the centre of attention.' Though Manet shifted her from the right to the center, he kept her reflection on the right. Seen in the mirror, she seems engaged with a customer; in full face, she's self-protectively withdrawn and remote."Jeffrey Meyers, Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt. New York: Harcourt, 2005. p. 77 The painting is rich in details which provide clues to social class and milieu. The woman at the bar is a real person, known as Suzon, who worked at the Folies-Bergère in the early 1880s. For his painting, Manet posed her in his studio. By including a dish of oranges in the foreground, Manet identifies the barmaid as a prostitute, according to art historian Larry L. Ligo, who says that Manet habitually associated oranges with prostitution in his paintings. T.J. Clark says that the barmaid is "intended to represent one of the prostitutes for which the Folies-Bergère was well-known", who is represented "as both a salesperson and a commodity—something to be purchased along with a drink."Doris Lanier, Absinthe, the Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century: A History of the Hallucinogenic Drug and Its Effect on Artists and Writers in Europe and the United States, McFarland, 2004, pp. 102–103. Other notable details include the pair of green feet in the upper left-hand corner, which belong to a trapeze artist who is performing above the restaurant's patrons. The beer bottles depicted are easily identified by the red triangle on the label as Bass Pale Ale, and the conspicuous presence of this British brand instead of German beer has been interpreted as documentation of anti-German sentiment in France in the decade after the Franco-Prussian War.Kenneth Bendiner, Food In Painting: From The Renaissance To The Present, Reaktion Books, 2004, pp. 73–74. ==Cultural references== The 1934 ballet Bar aux Folies-Bergère with choreography by Ninette de Valois and music of Chabrier was created from, and based around, Manet's painting.Rambert, Marie. Quicksilver: an autobiography. Papermac (Macmillan Publishers Ltd), London, 1983, p157. The 1947 film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami faithfully references A Bar at the Folies-Bergère twenty nine minutes into the film with a look- alike actress, set and props as the main characters enter the establishment. The painting was the inspiration of a song (possibly by Sydney Carter) in the popular theatre production The Lyric Revue, in London in 1951. The refrain went "Oh, how I long to be Back in my dear Brittany ... But fate has chosen me For the bar at the Folies-Bergères". The painting The Bar (1954) by Australian artist John Brack, which depicts a comparatively grim and austere Melbourne bar-room scene, is an ironic reference to A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. In the 1988 Eddie Murphy film Coming To America, a spoof on the painting in which the barmaids are dark-skinned women in red dresses and there is a hamburger on a plate on the counter, can be seen hanging at the McDowell residence. Canadian artist Jeff Wall makes reference to A Bar at the Folies-Bergère in his work Picture for Women (1979).Merritt, Naomi. "Manet's Mirror and Jeff Wall's Picture for Women: Reflection or Refraction?" Emaj (Electronic Melbourne Art Journal), Issue 4, 2009. Merritt discusses the role of the mirror in this work. The Tate Modern wall text for Picture for Women, from the 2005–2006 exhibition Jeff Wall Photographs 1978–2004, outlines the influence of Manet's painting: > In Manet's painting, a barmaid gazes out of frame, observed by a shadowy > male figure. The whole scene appears to be reflected in the mirror behind > the bar, creating a complex web of viewpoints. Wall borrows the internal > structure of the painting, and motifs such as the light bulbs that give it > spatial depth. The figures are similarly reflected in a mirror, and the > woman has the absorbed gaze and posture of Manet's barmaid, while the man is > the artist himself. Though issues of the male gaze, particularly the power > relationship between male artist and female model, and the viewer's role as > onlooker, are implicit in Manet's painting, Wall updates the theme by > positioning the camera at the centre of the work, so that it captures the > act of making the image (the scene reflected in the mirror) and, at the same > time, looks straight out at us.Gallery Guide text for the exhibition Jeff > Wall Photographs 1978–2004, Tate Modern, London, 21 October 2005 to 8 > January 2006 quoted in David Campany, "'A Theoretical Diagram in an Empty > Classroom': Jeff Wall's Picture for Women", Oxford Art Journal 20.1 (2007): > 12-14. ==See also== * List of paintings by Édouard Manet ==References and sources== References Sources * Gary Tinterow, et al. Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. ==External links== * Higher resolution version of the painting * The Guardian * An essay on this painting from the book Beauty and Terror by Brian A. Oard here * The Courtauld Gallery catalogue entry Category:Paintings by Édouard Manet Category:Paintings set in cabarets Category:1882 paintings Category:Paintings in the Courtauld Gallery Category:Food and drink paintings Category:Mirrors in art

{{Infobox settlement | name = A Barbanza | native_name = | native_name_lang = es | settlement_type = Comarca | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = Sin_bandera.svg | flag_alt = | image_shield = Sin_escudo.svg | shield_alt = | nickname = | motto = | image_map = Comarca Barbanza.png | map_alt = | map_caption = | coordinates = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = | subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community | subdivision_name1 = Galicia | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = A Coruña | seat_type = Capital | seat = Ribeira | parts_type = Municipalities | parts_style = list | p1 = A Pobra do Caramiñal, Boiro, Rianxo, Ribeira | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 244.2 | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 66,095 | population_as_of = 2019 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = barbanzano | population_note = | blank_name_sec1 = Largest municipality | blank_info_sec1 = | timezone1 = CET | utc_offset1 = +1 | timezone1_DST = CEST | utc_offset1_DST = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = | area_code_type = Dialing code | area_code = | website = | footnotes = }} A Barbanza is a comarca in the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Its capital is the municipality of Ribeira. The comarca contains four municipalities and 66,095 inhabitants (2019) in an area of 244.2 km². These municipalities are: * A Pobra do Caramiñal * Boiro * Rianxo * Ribeira ==References== A Barbanza

A Barca is an abandoned hamlet located in the municipality of Cortegada, Ourense, Galicia, Spain. It is located near the Minho River and the Portuguese border. It consists of twelve houses and measures around . ==History== The hamlet was founded in the 15th century. The site at A Barca was once part of the royal road to Castille, and the river Minho could be crossed by boat there. The hamlet derives its name from this, with barco meaning "boat" in Spanish. By the 1920s, the business of transporting people and goods from one side of the river to the other had collapsed due to the construction of a bridge nearby. The inhabitants then invested in the growing of grapes. ===Abandonment=== The building of the Frieira dam in the 1950s led to higher water levels and the flooding of the land near A Barca. The electricity company Unión Fenosa later bought out the hamlet residents. The construction of the dam, combined with the rerouting of trade routes, led to the abandonment of the village. On 14 January 2013, the company Gas Natural, successor to Unión Fenosa, gave ownership of the hamlet to the municipality. By the date of the transfer, the municipality already had plans for the hamlet to be turned into a tourist site. ===Sale=== As of March 2014, the whole hamlet is to be given away for free to a new owner who promises to redevelop the village and preserve the buildings, as the municipality lacks funds to do so. The mayor of Cortegada, Avelino Luis de Francisco Martínez, has said the municipality wishes to generate economic activity in the area by the sale of the hamlet. Since the hamlet was up for offer, there have been close to a thousand requests for information, but no serious candidates. The municipality is looking for a designation in the area of tourism. There have already been offers to construct a luxury resort, a clinic, a hippie community, a cheese factory and a meditation complex. The current twelve buildings, four of which have multiple floors, are currently in a state of disrepair with only walls still standing. Due to severe overgrowth of vegetation, the hamlet cannot be seen from the air. ==Transportation== The hamlet is only accessible by a non- paved path diverging from the road towards Celanova. ==References== Category:Geography of the Province of Ourense Category:Former populated places in Spain Category:Populated places in the Province of Ourense

{{Infobox settlement | name = A Barcala | native_name = | native_name_lang = es | settlement_type = Comarca | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = Sin_bandera.svg | flag_alt = | image_shield = Sin_escudo.svg | shield_alt = | nickname = | motto = | image_map = Comarca Barcala.png | map_alt = | map_caption = | coordinates = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = | subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community | subdivision_name1 = Galicia | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = A Coruña | seat_type = Capital | seat = Negreira | parts_type = Municipalities | parts_style = list | p1 = A Baña, Negreira | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 213.5 | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 10277 | population_as_of = 2019 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = barcalés | population_note = | blank_name_sec1 = Largest municipality | blank_info_sec1 = Negreira | timezone1 = CET | utc_offset1 = +1 | timezone1_DST = CEST | utc_offset1_DST = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = | area_code_type = Dialing code | area_code = | website = | footnotes = }} A Barcala is a comarca in the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Its capital town is Negreira. It contains two municipalities (Negreira and A Baña) and 10,277 inhabitants (2019) in an area of 213.5 km². The comarca is located in northwest Spain. It borders three other comarcas: Xallas to the north; Santiago to the south and east; and Noia to the west. There is the Barcala river (Río Barcala) in the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. ==References== Category:Comarcas of the Province of A Coruña

thumb|250px|right|A Barcelona by Jacint A Barcelona is a poem by Jacint Verdaguer, published in 1883. It is a triumphant song of the transformation undergone by Barcelona since the mid-19th century. Consisting of 46 quatrains of Alexandrine verses, and a re-editing process started in 1874 and completed in 1875, it is the fruit of a labour started in 1883. The author then lengthened and amended it three times, the last two shortly before its publication. ==Analysis== The first three stanzas present the city protected by the mountain of Montjuïc, identified with Alcides (Hercules), the mythic founder of Barcino according to a legend that Verdaguer had already picked up on in The Atlàntida (1878). Next are sixteen quatrains, in which the poet celebrates the demolition of the walls and the extension of the city (1859), with a prophecy of bursting growth, beyond the Collserola mountain range and the Besos and Llobregat rivers, as if "Paris of the Seine" had been transplanted to Catalonia. However, the three following stanzas, in the name of the homeland, reject any awe of the French capital, affirming instead the personality of Barcelona, which had been the Catalan center of a medieval Mediterranean empire and «She shone on Spanish lands as eastern star». In the 23rd to 40th stanzas, the poet evokes the historical characters and the monuments that distinguish the city. The six final stanzas, written from the perspective of the Cathedral, imaginatively transfigured into King Jaume I, formulate the ideological conclusion, the providential perspective, in which Barcelona and Catalonia are exhorted to promote economic progress, based on their industries, but without ever renouncing the Catholic tradition, since in the end «God alone brings down or lifts up peoples». ==Reception== In spite of the rhetorical flourishes denounced by some critics, the poem, rewarded with an extraordinary prize in the Floral Games (Jocs florals) of 1883, expresses faithfully the expectations of the elite of the period. This is confirmed by the fact that the Ajuntament (city council) published a popular edition of the poem, with a print run of 100,000 copies. On the other hand, the poem has also provoked numerous imitations and responses, noteworthy of which are the "New Ode to Barcelona" by Joan Maragall and the "Ode to Barcelona" by Pere Quart.Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana, 2008 The full, annotated text of the poem is included in Selected Poems of Jacint Verdaguer: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Ronald Puppo, with an introduction by Ramon Pinyol Torrents, University of Chicago Press, 2007. ==See also== *"Oda nova a Barcelona", by Joan Maragall ==References== Category:Jacint Verdaguer Category:1883 poems Category:Barcelona in popular culture

A Barefoot Dream () is a 2010 drama film co-production between South Korea and Japan directed by Kim Tae-kyun. It is based on the true story of Kim Shin- hwan, a retired Korean footballer who goes to East Timor after his business fails and launches a youth football team, thus becoming the "Hiddink of Korea." The film was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist. The film recorded 332,699 admissions during its theatrical run in South Korea."Theatrical Releases in 2010: Box-Office Admission Results". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 4 June 2012. ==Plot== Kim Won-kang (Park Hee-soon) is a former football prospect whose life did not turn out quite as he had hoped. He heads to East Timor, where he thinks there will be plenty of opportunities for him. One day, he sees a group of street kids playing football with bare feet. Thinking he can score by selling football shoes, he opens a sports equipment store, but realizes none of the kids can afford those fancy shoes or jerseys. Again, despaired, he is about to close up the store. Then, he decides to teach the kids how to play football. Penniless and still without shoes, they decide to compete at the International Youth Football Championship in Japan. ==Cast== * Park Hee-soon as Coach Kim Won-kang * Ko Chang-seok as Park In-gi * Francisco Varela as Ramos * Fernando Pinto as Motavio * Junior Da Costa as Tua * Marlina Simoes as Josephine * Kei Shimizu as Dozyo * Im Won-hee as Director Poong * Kim Seo-hyung as Reporter Yu Bo- hyeon * Shin Cheol-jin as Shin Young-hoon * Cho Jin-woong as James ==See also== * List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of South Korean submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ==References== ==External links== * * * Category:2010 films Category:2010 drama films Category:2010s sports drama films Category:Films directed by Kim Tae-kyun Category:South Korean sports drama films Category:Japanese association football films Category:2010s Korean-language films Category:Showbox films Category:East Timor–South Korea relations Category:Films set in East Timor Category:2010s South Korean films Category:Japanese sports drama films

A Barnstormer in Oz: A Rationalization and Extrapolation of the Split-Level Continuum is a 1982 novel by Philip José Farmer and is based on the setting and characters of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The central character of the novel is Hank Stover, a pilot and the son of Dorothy Gale, who finds himself in Oz when his plane gets lost in a green cloud over Kansas in 1923. The Oz he discovers is on the brink of civil war; he encounters Erakna, the new Wicked Witch. Farmer takes an unusual approach to the corpus of Oz literature; he depends almost solely on Baum's original Oz book and neglects its many sequels. This "originalist" approach to the Oz mythos is rare but not unique; a few other writers have taken similar tacks, including Roger S. Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum. In Barnstormer, Dorothy has made only one visit to Oz; when Hank Stover arrives, the Scarecrow still rules the Emerald City, just as at the end of Baum's first Oz book. Since Farmer wrote for adults rather than children, there are elements of sex and violence in Barnstormer that are not typical of the Oz literature. As the book's subtitle indicates, Farmer indulges a rationalizing and explanatory bent: he treats Oz as a parallel universe in the science fiction vein. He attempts explanations and analyses of some of the fantastic elements in Baum's fictional world, including magic and talking animals. Literary scholars Kent Drummond, Susan Aronstein, and Terri L. Rittenburg have called it "the first instance of Dark Oz" and "the beginning of stand-alone, full-blown literary re-consumptions of Oz", specifying that it introduced the concept of "revisionist Oz, an Oz that purports to offer consumers the 'real Oz', the truth behind the myth."OZ GROWS UP, in The Road to Wicked: The Marketing and Consumption of Oz from L. Frank Baum to Broadway, by Kent Drummond, Susan Aronstein, and Terri L. Rittenburg; p. 143; published June 24, 2018, by Springer Publishing Opinions of Farmer's contribution to the literature of Oz span the entire critical spectrum; Jack Zipes called the novel "splendid",Jack David Zipes, Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale, Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1994; p. 128. while Baum biographer Katharine Rogers considered it "revision to the point of debasement."Katharine M. Rogers, L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography, New York, Macmillan, 2002; p. 252. Publishers Weekly considered it to be "done with almost no whimsy or humor" and "though ambitious, (...) not one of [Farmer's] better books;"A BARNSTORMER IN OZ, reviewed in Publishers Weekly; published July 30, 1982; archived at PJFarmer.com In Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Thomas Easton opined that the novel "will surely appeal best to those who remember Oz fondly. Others may well find it a touch too cute."The Reference Library, by Thomas Easton, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact; published May 1983; archived at PJFarmer.com ==References== Category:Books based on The Wizard of Oz Category:1982 American novels Category:1982 fantasy novels Category:Novels by Philip José Farmer Category:Aviation novels Category:Parallel literature Category:Books with cover art by Don Ivan Punchatz Category:Phantasia Press books

A Barnyard Frolic is a 1925 animated cartoon short by the Winkler studio, and part of a long-running series featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat. It was written by George Winkler and directed by Bill Nolan. ==Plot== Inside a house, Krazy is eating some doughnuts. As he opens an oven and takes out a roast turkey, a slightly irritated farmer confronts him. Though Krazy puts back the dish in the oven, the farmer roughs up and hurls him outside. The farmer then calls out a rooster to put the cat to work. At the open, Krazy runs on a treadmill which spins a circular saw, and the rooster uses it to cut some logs in half. After cutting the wood, the hostile rooster "piles" the logs at a wall of the house in a way of trying hit Krazy with them. Krazy, however, is able to dodge everything being hurled at him. When the rooster viciously approaches, Krazy runs, and the fowl chases. Upon running, Krazy squeezes himself into a small hole in a fence which the cat is able to pass through. The rooster attempts the same act, only to be stuck midway. Following his work with the rooster, Krazy, for some reason, milks a cow. He then befriends a duckling, and pours the milk into a hole in the ground which the duckling swims in. After spending time with the duckling, Krazy heads to another location where he takes a sock and plays it like an accordion. A pair of hens come and dance with him. They like his performance a lot that they collapse in amusement. The farmer then comes into the open, and is surprised to see the rooster who is still stuck in the fence. Further annoyed, the farmer chases Krazy beyond the farm, and even tosses rocks. Krazy runs from the farmer until he reaches a cliff. Without any other place to go, Krazy jumps off and dives into the sea below. The farmer jumps in too. Underwater, Krazy takes a rock to disguise himself as a turtle. When his pursuer drops by, Krazy attacks. Krazy manages to scare the farmer away, and goes on to snatch the latter's trousers. He then constructs a boat, and uses the trousers as a sail. Krazy rides his boat, and sails himself to freedom. ==References== ==External links== * A Barnyard Frolic at the Big Cartoon Database Category:1925 animated films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent short films Category:Krazy Kat shorts Category:1920s American animated films Category:American animated short films Category:1925 short films Category:Animated films about cats

thumb|Teatro Cinearte, base of the theatre company "A Barraca", during the play As Peúgas de Einstein, April 2011 A Barraca is a Portuguese theatre company founded 1975 and directed by Hélder Costa and leading actress Maria do Céu Guerra.Hélder Costa, Maria do Céu Guerra, A Barraca 25 anos 2000 It is based at the Teatro Cinearte on 2 Largo de Santos, Lisbon.Lisbonne 2011-2012 Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette - 2011 - Page 169 "A BARRACA – TEATRO CINEARTE n 2 Largo de santos, santos & 213 965 360 – www.abarraca.com ..." ==History== thumb|Maria do Céu Guerra (2007) The company was founded in 1975 by actress and stage director Maria do Céu Guerra and director Mario Alberto. It belonged to an emerging movement of experimental independent theater companies located mainly in Lisbon. During 1976 the group spent most of its time touring the country. The Europa Year Book of 1983 listed it as one of the main Portuguese theater companies of the period following the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974. The group was described at the time as the most popular of the independent theater companies in Portugal. Maria do Céu Guerra and stage director and playwright Hélder Costa have managed the company since its foundation. Costa has written, transcribed and staged many of the shows presented by the group. During his time of exile in Lisbon, the Brazilian playwright Augusto Boal participated in directing the company. He left a strong influence on the group's repertoire. The actor Mário Viegas first appeared with the company. In 1976 the company moved to precarious facilities at the top of Rua Alexandre Herculano, near the Largo do Rato. In 1989 they were granted the Cinearte theater in Largo de Santos by the Lisbon City Council for a period of 25 years. The theater was also used as a cafe-concert space. On 4 March 2011 the theater group celebrated 35 years with a party that feted two of the leading figures in its history, Augusto Boal and the actress Fernanda Alves. Rita Lello put on a special staging of the play Angel City by Sam Shepard. == Theatrical productions== The theatrical productions of A Barraca are mainly adaptations of historical and political subjects to the popular, traditional and modern format of narrative theater. The company has a special focus on national production, due to the subsidies allocated to it by the state. A Barraca debuted in March 1976 in the Incrível Almadense theater with Cidade Dourada (Golden City) by La Candelária. This was a great success. In September of that year it mounted the show (Stories of Squires and Pimps) staged by Hélder Costa and based on scripts by Gil Vicente and Ruzante. In 1977 it presented the show Ao qu'isto chegou! - Feira portuguesa de opinião, including the drama A Lei É a Lei (The Law is the Law) by Luiz Francisco Rebello. When Augusto Boal was with the company in 1977–78 he directed three plays including Barraca conta Tiradentes (1977). In 1978 the company presented the piece José do Telhado about the famous Portuguese villain José do Telhado, with musical arrangements by Zeca Afonso. The music was released in 1979 as the album Fura, Fura. A Barraca produced some of its greatest successes in the 1980s. In 1980 it presented É menino ou menina? (Is it a boy or girl?), a collage of pieces by Gil Vicente arranged by Maria do Céu Guerra and directed by Helder Costa. The company made an interesting contribution to the history of representations of works by Gil Vicente. In the same year the group first visited Brazil. It showed Preto no branco, a version of Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo. The repertoire also included D. João VI by Hélder Costa. Mário Viegas played the sovereign and caused much amusement by his interpretation of the king as a chicken eater, who walked around with pieces of poultry in his pockets. The group was described as a "large international theater company" during its limited engagement in Rio de Janeiro. In 1983 the company presented Um dia na capital do Império (One day in the capital of the Empire), with a script by António Ribeiro Chiado and staging by Hélder Costa. In 1984 A Barraca produced Santa Joana dos Matadouros (Saint Joan of the Stockyards) by Bertolt Brecht, considered one of the greatest successes of the company, and in 1986 produced Calamity Janes, with a highly acclaimed interpretation by Maria do Céu Guerra. In September 2010 A Barraca was asked to re-enact the play O Mistério da Camioneta Fantasma (The Mystery of the Phantom Coach) as part of the official program for the Centenary Celebration of the Republic. On 20 July 2011 the group debuted the production D. Maria, a Louca (Maria the Mad), with script by the Brazilian author António Cunha and staging by Maria do Céu Guerra. On 10 April 2013 the A Barraca company debuted Menino de Sua Avó (His Grandmother's Boy), an unpublished text by the playwright Armando Nascimento Rosa, a creation of Maria do Céu Guerra and Adérito Lopes. This production was included in the closing celebrations of the Year of Portugal in Brazil, performed in the Teatro Dulcina in Rio de Janeiro on 3, 4 and 5 May 2013 . ==Presentations== Many of the productions of the company have been Hélder Costa's own plays: * Zé do Telhado * Príncipe de Spandau * D. João VI * Damião de Góis * As Peúgas de Einstein ==References== ==Sources== * * * * * * * * * * * * * * == External links== * Official website of A Barraca Category:Theatres in Lisbon Category:Entertainment companies of Portugal

A Barrel Full of Dollars also known as Coffin Full of Dollars () is a 1971 Italian Western film directed by Demofilo Fidani and starring Jack Betts. ==Cast== * Hunt Powers – Tamayo * Gordon Mitchell – John * Ray Saunders – Sam * Simone Blondel – Monica Benson * Dennis Colt – Ramirez * Dean Reese – Charles Benson * Klaus Kinski – Hagen * Jeff Cameron – George 'Nevada Kid' Hamilton * Lorenzo Arbore – Sheriff * Lucky McMurray * Custer Gail ==References== ==External links== * Category:1971 films Category:1971 Western (genre) films Category:1970s Italian-language films Category:Spaghetti Western films Category:Films directed by Demofilo Fidani Category:Films scored by Lallo Gori Category:1970s Italian films

A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears is a children's book written and illustrated by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1995 by HarperCollins. The first edition was a library binding with 180 pages. WorldCat Identities contains records of seven editions of this book in 765 libraries worldwide There is a musical adaptation of the book with music by Julia Adolphe and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann ==Synopsis== A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears follows the young prince Roger, who haphazardly sets out on a quest to prepare himself to become king. The book expresses the emotions of various individuals through two long-lost lovers reunited, several unlikely couples marrying, and a friend-turned-evil's attempts for revenge. While Roger himself starts out as pure and innocent, he seems somewhat naive and incapable of feeling serious. The quest, which contains plenty of sad events, gradually brings Roger to a point where he still is humorous, but is caring about specific individuals as opposed to finding shallow humor in everything. The beautiful Princess Petulia, and her servant, likewise, find similar changes in personality through their experiences, as they go from being bitterly indifferent to loving and plainspoken to kinder respectively. ==Publication history== * * * * * * * (German language) ==References== Category:American children's novels Category:1995 American novels Category:1995 fantasy novels Category:Children's fantasy novels Category:HarperCollins books Category:Works by Jules Feiffer Category:1995 children's books Category:Children's books about princes Category:Novels about royalty

A Bashful Bigamist is a 1921 short silent film that was unknown and thought to be a lost film, but a copy was found in the New Zealand Film Archive in 2009. The film is currently viewable on the National Film Preservation Foundation website without a musical score. ==Sources== * New Zealand Academy of Motion Picture Arts * National Film Preservation Foundation Category:1921 films Category:American silent short films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1920s rediscovered films Category:1921 comedy films Category:Silent American comedy films Category:Rediscovered American films Category:1920s American films

A Basket of Clams is a mid-19th century watercolor by American artist Winslow Homer in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The work, which was one of several Homer painted in the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, depicts two children carrying a basket of clams as they walk along the beach. It is typical of the vigorous layout and light of Homer's early watercolors, reminiscent of his earlier career as an illustrator. It is the earliest watercolor by Homer in the Metropolitan Museum and was the gift of Arthur G. Altschul in 1995. == References == Category:Paintings by Winslow Homer Category:Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Category:Paintings of children Category:Fish in art Category:Ships in art Category:1873 paintings

A Basket of Leaves is a collection of 54 essays by Geoff Wisner, each of which examines one or more books about a different African country. The collection was published by Jacana Media in 2007. The authors of the selected books are (variously) African, American, West Indian, and European. Some of the authors are black, and others are white. Some of the books are fiction, and others are non-fiction; 28 of them were authored or co-authored by women. The selected works were originally published in Arabic, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, and other languages. ==Reviewed works== Work Year published Author Author nationality Country The Sheltering Sky 1949 Paul Bowles United States Algeria The Savage Night 1995 Mohammed Dib Algeria Algeria Algerian White 1996 Assia Djebar Algeria Algeria Mayombe 1979 Pepetela Angola Angola Another Day of Life 1976 Ryszard Kapuscinski Poland Angola The Viceroy of Ouidah 1980 Bruce Chatwin United Kingdom Benin When Rain Clouds Gather 1968 Bessie Head South Africa / Botswana Botswana Whites 1986 Norman Rush United States Botswana Of Water and the Spirit 1994 Malidoma Patrice Somé Burkina Faso Burkina Faso The True Sources of the Nile 2003 Sarah Stone United States Burundi Mission to Kala 1957 Mongo Beti Cameroon Cameroon The Fortunate Isles 1989 Basil Davidson United Kingdom Cape Verde Song from the Forest 2015 Louis Sarno United States / CAR Central African Republic Komoon! Capturing the Chad Elephant 1953 Heinrich Oberjohann Germany Chad Last of the Pirates 1994 Samantha Weinberg United Kingdom Comoros ==References== ==Further reading== * Category:Literature about literature Category:2007 non-fiction books

A Bastard's Tale is an action 2D video game, published by Swedish studio No Pest Productions for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows. ==Gameplay== The game features basic pixilated-base graphics and features the player defeating fifteen different enemy characters which are having their own distinct features, throughout five levels. ==References== Category:2015 video games Category:Action games Category:PlayStation 4 games Category:Video games developed in Sweden Category:Windows games

A Batalha do Apocalipse: Da Queda dos Anjos ao Crepúsculo do Mundo (The Battle of Apocalypse: From the Fall of Angels to the Twilight of the World) is a book written by Brazilian journalist Eduardo Spohr, published in 2007 by Jovem Nerd site, in 2009 by the imprint created by site and in 2010 by Verus.Sucesso na internet, "A Batalha do Apocalipse" chega às livrarias Livraria da Folha The plot revolves around character Ablon, a renegade angel doomed to wander the world of men for having rebelled against the archangel Michael. Other characters include Shamira "the Witch of Endor", which helps the historic journey to the apocalypse. With a total of 586 pages, the book is divided into 3 parts titled The Holy Avenger, The Wrath of God and the Scourge of Fire. In 2011, the book was released in the Netherlands, under the name Engelen van Apocalyps. == Plot == In the distant past, the Celestial Paradise was the scene of a terrible uprising. A group of warrior angels, lovers of justice and freedom, challenged the tyranny of the powerful archangels, raising arms against their oppressors. Expelled, the renegades were forced into exile, and condemned to wander the world of men until the final judgement. But then comes the moment of Revelation, the time of reckoning, the day of the awakening of the Most High. Ablon, sole survivor of the purge and leader of the renegades, is invited by Lucifer, to join his legions in the battle of Armageddon, the final struggle between Heaven and Hell, the war that will decide not only the fate of the world, but the future of the universe. From the ruins of Babylon to the splendour of the Roman Empire, from the vast plains of China to the frozen castles in medieval England. A Batalha do Apocalipse is not just a journey through human history, but also a journey of knowledge, an exciting epic, full of heroic struggles, magic, romance and suspense. == The Book == A constant journey between past, present and future the author begins the book introducing us to two important characters of his story: the archangels Michael and Uzziel. In that first moment he begins to present the personality of Michael and the context in which his story unfolds, God, soon after the creation on the seventh day - where the Bible refers to the time of your rest Livro de Gêneses, Bíblia Sagrada \- enters a sleep deeper and you awake, supposedly the day of Judgement. Mankind then falls under the "guide" of the Archangels and their subordinates, the angels. There are five Archangels: Michael, the prince of the angels, heir to that title by being the firstborn. Uziel, commander of the armies of cherubim. Rafael, who was exiled after the fight of his brothers archangels. Gabriel, Master of Fire, rebelled against Archangel Michael. And, Lucifer, the morning star. As might be expected, Lucifer naturally craved the throne of his brother and it is around that nebulous plot that the course of the story takes place, as the rivalry between the two brothers is the main character of the book. The former general of the cherubim, Ablon, comes to us in Rio de Janeiro, in the near future, in the "hands of the Creator",A batalha do Apocalipse, Spohr, E., 2010 i.e., standing in the hands of Christ the Redeemer. He meets his friend Orion, former King of Atlantis and current servant of Lucifer, who comes to propose a truce. Ablon's rival Apollyon is a deadly protagonist. == Characters == * Archangel Michael: The Prince of angels, and the most radical of them. Later the leader of the archangels. He defeated the armies of Lucifer and drove them to Sheol. * Ablon, the Renegade Angel or also called First General: The protagonist of the book. Over the years on earth, Ablon traveled through diverse corners of the world, always escaping from various dangers. At the present moment of the book, Ablon is in Brazil, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and becomes the leader of a great gathering of angels. * Lucifer, the Morning Star or the Son of the Dawn: After revolting against his brother Michael, today he has his own kingdom in the depths of Hell. * Archangel Gabriel, The Master of the Fire or Messenger: He came too close to human beings, and therefore he adhered to their cause. Like Lucifer, he also revolted against Michael, but for less selfish motives. * Archangel Raphael, the Cure of God: Being the kindest of the archangels, in the time of the deluge, he disappeared from paradise, causing everyone to believe that he had descended to the earth to live as a mortal. * Archangel Uziel, the Golden Marshal: The youngest among the archangels. Commander of the order of the cherubim (the soldiers of God). * Apollyon, the Destroying Angel: Lucifer's favourite warrior. When he fell with him, he became one of the nine Dukes of Hell. * Shamira, the Witch of En-Dor: Having been trained early in the arts of magic and necromancy, Shamira met Ablon when he saved her from her persecutors in Babylon. Since then, both have been helping each other as they can each time they meet. * Amael, the Lord of the Volcanoes: After helping the Archangel Michael to create the biblical flood, he repented and ended up following Lucifer and falling in Sheol. To this day he cries fervent tears for the atrocities he committed. * Flower-of- the-East: Daughter of Chinese nobles. Her tongue was cut off and she was sold after a revolution. She is a great help to the Witch of En-Dor in saving the Ablon from death. == Important Places == Heavenly Palace: the stronghold of the archangels in the Fifth Heaven, the most central and important point of the heavenly paradise. Fortress of Zion: the greatest bastion of the forces of the archangel Michael out of the sky. Located in the ethereal plane, under the worldly city of Jerusalem. Citadel of Fire: the First region of Heaven which is the meeting point of ishins. It was ruled by Amael, then by Aziel, and later became the headquarters of Gabriel and the new rebels. Tsafon, Mount of the Congregation: the highest region of the Seventh Heaven where God was asleep. Sheol: the dimension where the remains of Tehom and the gods of darkness were buried. It later served as home to Lucifer and his fallen angels, becoming known as Hell. Castle of Light: the main stronghold of the cherubim, located in the Fourth Heaven. == Summary == In Aurora the ages there has always been good and evil, which was destroyed by God along with their archangels created for the purpose of governing and protecting the earth. Long before the creation of man, God created the Archangels and soon the angels to serve and protect his creation. 7 days say they are very well explained in this book where each day was summed up in a million years, which led to the creation of the world we live in today. At the end of the sixth day, God was tired, and "fell asleep" at Mount Tsafon and let the angels and archangels to take care of all his creation, especially man, created in his image and likeness. After the creation of men, still live on the seventh day, which God is asleep and we are governed by angels. In the glory days, the Archangel Michael, the first created by God, the eldest son, he felt diminished, and blinded by envy and jealousy by humans, ordered mass destruction, but was barred by the legion of warriors, 18 renegade angels, led by Ablon, hero of this book. These angels were sentenced to 18 Haled (earth) and trapped in their avatars and forever pursued by warriors Miguel, until they are killed because they were considered traitors of heaven and condemned to live humans stuck together that both defended until the end of time, the end of the seventh day, the Day of Reckoning where God and awaken your universe exilaria those who were against their will. Lucifer also made a revolution, claiming to defend human but it was just jealousy for his brother what motivated him, making him take Sheol (hell) and third heaven, where there was created the refuge of evil, for which all unjust and malicious would be sent. And so begins the era of a hero, the protagonist of this book that involves romance, mystery, action, fiction and mysteries never before revealed. Ablon goes through various adventures, hovering past and present in which is supported by the witch of Endor (Shamira) which saved him from the hands of the tyrant king of Babylon, destroyed himself. Remembering here that even before Lucifer was exiled renegade angels existed, which is different from Lucifer, the fallen angel. After various adventures experienced by Ablon, finally comes the time of the Day of Reckoning, the famous Battle of Armageddon which will decide the future of humanity, the planet and all the beings that inhabit it. It is the legendary battle between the defender of humanity and the Archangel Michael, overcome by jealousy and greed, which led to him being the most tyrannical of all the universe, trying to match up to God who in his sick mind believed was his destiny.http://mundodoslivros8.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-batalha-do- apocalipse.html Ablon, when he discovers that Ishatar (his partner renegade) was murdered by Black Angel, gets mad and blind with rage, but she was dead on behalf of a secret that would change the entire fate of the universe, a secret which Ablon only discover at the last breath of his life. The book of Revelation Battle involves mysteries never revealed. It's like reading the Apocalypse, but in an innovative language and full of answers. == Reviews == "There is nothing in known Portuguese literature that resembles the Battle of the Apocalypse." - José Louzeiro, writer and screenwriter == Movie == Several book fans believed that the work would receive an adjustment to the theaters because of its great success in Brazil and abroad. However, no company decided to acquire their rights, and work only followed in bookstores. ==References== Category:Brazilian fantasy novels Category:2010 novels

A Batalha do Passinho (Portuguese: "Passinho Battle", lit. "The Battle of Passinho"; English release title Passinho Dance-Off) is a 2012 Brazilian documentary film directed by Emílio Domingos. The film follows a dance known as "passinho", which emerged from the funk carioca scene in the early 2000s. == Synopsis == The style of dancing which developed in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and is known as passinho evolved out of the funk carioca culture. After a video of a group of friends at a barbecue, Passinho Foda, received four million hits on YouTube, dancers from other communities began to upload their own home-made clips, and the dance quickly spread across Rio de Janeiro. The documentary shows the dancers and the phenomenon expanding beyond the bailes, slums and DJs. ==See also== *Battle of the year ==References== Category:2012 films Category:2010s Portuguese-language films Category:Brazilian documentary films Category:Documentary films about dance Category:Films shot in Rio de Janeiro (city)

A Bath Full of Ecstasy is the seventh studio album by English synth-pop group Hot Chip. It was released on 21 June 2019, and was co-produced by Hot Chip, Philippe Zdar, and Rodaidh McDonald, marking the first time the group worked with outside producers. The album was preceded by the singles "Hungry Child" and "Melody of Love". It is one of the final albums released with production credits from Zdar – alongside his band Cassius' final studio album Dreems, released on the same day – as he died two days before its release, on 19 June. ==Writing and recording== Preliminary songwriting for A Bath Full of Ecstasy was undertaken by Hot Chip members Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, and first traces back to work they did for pop singer Katy Perry. After she asked them to help with songwriting for her 2017 album Witness, the duo spent four days at Air Studios collaborating with her. Goddard called it "incredibly exciting" and said: "I loved writing for somebody else. She was great, very funny and easygoing". One of the songs they wrote, "Into Me You See", ended up on her album, while two others, "Spell" and "Echo", were re-worked by Hot Chip for A Bath Full of Ecstasy. Felix Martin said, "We ended up with the leftover bits they'd written, being very much obvious pop stuff, and those songs ended up being something more interesting than that." Taylor and Goddard also recorded demos at Goddard's studio in East London. When the members of Hot Chip re- convened to record A Bath Full of Ecstasy, they decided to work with outside producers for the first time and to allow them to have a say in the songwriting. The decision was born out of the band's desire to take a different approach than they had on previous records, and to have someone push them creatively. Martin said, "We all recognize you need to set new challenges and put yourself in slightly different positions in order to provoke a different response artistically." Goddard said that the group also wanted someone who would present additional choices of equipment for them to use beyond what they already owned. After meeting with several producers, the band chose to work with Philippe Zdar of French musical duo Cassius, as well as Rodaidh McDonald. Initially, collaborating with outsiders caused some friction. Whereas Taylor and Goddard were open to McDonald challenging them to write better songs, band member Al Doyle had some difficulty trusting "the people [they] were working with were making better decisions than [they] would make as a band". Doyle said he needed to acclimate himself to McDonald's style, as the producer worked entirely on a computer, whereas Doyle was "more traditional and old-fashioned". Though Taylor was eager to follow the producers' direction, he said that in a few instances, he decided to follow his instincts and disregard their suggestions. The two producers had very different styles. McDonald, who Martin described as "mild-mannered", "analytical", and "goal-oriented", brought a pop-centric mindset and deliberated about the song structures. He recommended to the group where to add bridges, choruses, and hooks, how many bars they should last, and he considered how the songs should be edited differently for radio or streaming services. Goddard said of McDonald, "He was quite ruthless – 'is this verse too long? Do we have to write something stronger? We should get to the chorus faster.' He pushed us to be more ambitious." Martin said the producer was very honest and never afraid to suggest changes if he thought the songs could be improved, which included urging lyrical rewrites. He described McDonald as having an editor's mindset, in that "he would always look to make songs work better in a shorter, more punchy way." Goddard said he was "really amazing at structuring the songs, so that it's very not overstaying its welcome". The band worked with McDonald in London. Zdar, on the other hand, was more interested in fostering a collaborative atmosphere in the studio amongst the band members and capturing the moments of "fun improvisation". Contrasting with his counterpart, Zdar believed in long edits of tracks instead of making short pop songs. Taylor said Zdar had a knack for spotting the vocal melodies and hooks in songs, and his mixes emphasised them while also giving "more space in the music". Taylor also enjoyed the unfamiliar equipment and instruments that Zdar offered the group, helping them deviate from familiar habits. Goddard called him "bold and passionate" and praised his skills at "working with bass, making records feel really full and alive". He said the producer's "sense of joy and wonder at the world" helped instill the group with more confidence. They worked with Zdar at his studio, Motorbass Studios, in Montmartre, Paris. Goddard credited the band members' musical pursuits outside of Hot Chip with improving them as a band, saying that they honed their skills "either as a musician or a producer, an arranger or a live player". He cited Doyle as an example, saying he had strengthened his guitar and bass guitar playing due to his experience performing with LCD Soundsystem on tour. Approximately 20 songs were in consideration to be included on the album. Martin said that if decision of the track listing has been left entirely to the band members, the album would have comprised 10–12 songs, but they received advice from the record label and producers to keep it more concise. ==Release and promotion== The band announced the album on 4 April 2019, publishing the artwork, track listing, and release date, as well as concert tour dates. The news was accompanied by the release of the record's lead single, "Hungry Child", and its music video. A second single, "Melody of Love", was released on 29 May 2019, along with a music video. A Bath Full of Ecstasy was released on 21 June 2019 in several formats. A standard edition of the record was released on vinyl, CD, and in digital formats. A deluxe edition was released on two vinyl records, with a pressing on transparent orange and turquoise discs, a black and white sleeve, and autographs of the band members. The album artwork was designed by Jeremy Deller and graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge. ==Reception== Will Hodgkinson of The Times called A Bath Full of Ecstasy "as warm and appealing as its title suggests". He said the album would be merely escapist if "not for the melancholic undertow of the melodies and the empathy of the lyrics, making this beautiful album a summer soundtrack with depth". Roisin O'Connor of The Independent called the album Hot Chip's best, saying they "offer up some of their most poignant phrases to date". The review concluded, "For all its glimmering synths and the robotic pathos of Taylor's idiosyncratic vocals, this is a record with both heart and soul." Damien Morris of The Observer said the album saw "the band's gift for melody and grasp of pop's dynamics tweaked into transcendent shapes" by Zdar and McDonald. He opined that the group sound their best when delving into "the comforting predictability of that pulsing beat" of house music. Pitchforks Jonah Bromwich said, "it's compulsively listenable, oddly moving, and stranger than it first appears, as the band gets existential on the dance floor." He thought the album was most effective when the producers pushed the group beyond their comfort zone, and despite some "truly dopey lyrics", he praised the reassuring nature of the music, writing, "It's music that creates a soothing bubble, not to seal off the outside world but to create space to breathe within it." Joe Levy of Rolling Stone praised the group for making music that is simultaneously philosophical and hedonistic. He called the sound of the record: "calibrated normality giving way to all sorts of experiments and revelations. It's clunky and smooth, a clip clop symphony of simplicity done up with complicated touches — both sonic and emotional — underneath." NMEs Elizabeth Aubrey called the album "their boldest offering in years" and "a celebration of life in full technicolour". She praised the group for making dance music as an act of defiance, writing, "Amidst all the experimentation and extremes of this impressive album is a message about life: bathing in the moments of ecstasy will ultimately enable us to cherish and value life more." Anna Alger of Exclaim! also praised the album for its comforting nature, saying that it "provides hope within strife, encourages repeated listens as much for their danceability as the quality of the writing." Stephen Worthy of Mojo commended Hot Chip for their choice of producers and said the band "remain ruthlessly consistent and relentlessly reliable". He called the title track "fail-safe festival material" and "Hungry Child" the group's "purest club moment yet". Uncuts Piers Martin said the band "have seldom sounded as youthful and carefree as they do" on A Bath Full of Ecstasy while complimenting Zdar and McDonald for enhancing their sound. ===Accolades=== Publication Accolade Rank GQ (Russia) The 20 Best Albums of 2019 musicOMH Top 50 Albums of 2019 Slant Magazine The 25 Best Albums of 2019 The Independent The 50 best albums of 2019 Popmatters The 70 Best Albums of 2019 The Guardian The 50 best albums of 2019 Mojo The 75 Best Albums of 2019 Q The 50 best albums of 2019 Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2019 Stereogum Best 2019 Albums So Far (Mid-Year) ==Track listing== ==Charts== Chart performance for A Bath Full of Ecstasy Chart (2019) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA) 59 US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard) 40 ==References== Category:2019 albums Category:Hot Chip albums Category:Domino Recording Company albums Category:Albums produced by Rodaidh McDonald Category:Albums recorded at RAK Studios

A Bath House Beauty is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. ==Cast== * Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle * Gordon Griffith * Ted Edwards * Hank Mann * Eva Nelson ==See also== * List of American films of 1914 * Fatty Arbuckle filmography ==References== ==External links== * Category:1914 films Category:1914 short films Category:Films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle Category:1914 comedy films Category:American silent short films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Silent American comedy films Category:American comedy short films Category:1910s American films

A Bathing Ape (or BAPE) is a Japanese fashion brand founded by Nigo (Tomoaki Nagao) in Ura-Harajuku in 1993.David Fischer, NIGO Announces His Definitive Departure from BAPE highsnobiety, May 25, 2013Breaking Down Bapes TheHipHopIcon.com, 2007. Retrieved October 4, 2007 The brand specializes in men's, women's and children's lifestyle and street wear, running 19 stores in Japan, including Bape Stores, Bape Pirate Stores, Bape Kids Stores, Bapexclusive Aoyama, and Bapexclusive Kyoto. The Kyoto store also includes Bape Gallery, a space used for various events and art shows sponsored by Bape. There are also stores located in Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Qingdao, Shenyang, Seoul, Jakarta, Dubai, New York City, Kuala Lumpur, London, Paris, Miami and Los Angeles. bape.com, 2022. Retrieved Feb 24, 2022 The company previously operated (Busy Work Shop), Bape Cuts hair salon, Bape Café, BABY MILO and The cay Soldier. Nigo also founded the secondary lines AAPE (by A Bathing Ape) and BAPY (Busy Working Lady). In 2011, the company was sold to Hong Kong fashion conglomerate I.T Group for about $2.8 Million. Nigo left the brand in 2013. ==History== Nigo, founder, former owner, and Teriyaki Boyz member cites his mother and father, who were a nurse and a billboard maker respectively, as major influences in the development of his character, though because they both worked, he spent a lot of time alone with toys.CNN TalkAsia Transcript 28 February 2006. Retrieved June 28, 2007. He also credits DJ/fashion guru Hiroshi Fujiwara as his business model. His nickname means "number two" in Japanese; the MD of Astoarobot, the fashion store, coined the moniker when he noted the physical resemblance to Fujiwara.Nigo interview Pig Mag 24 May 2005. Retrieved 21 June 2007. Nigo cites his early influences as Elvis, The Beatles and hip-hop acts such as Beastie Boys and Run–D.M.C. After studying fashion editing at Bunka Fashion college, he worked as an editor and a stylist for Popeye magazine. After borrowing four million yen from an acquaintance, who also let him use his shop, he opened "Nowhere", his first store, along with Jun Takahashi of Undercover, on April 1, 1993, in Ura-Harajuku. Deciding to start his own brand, he named it after the 1968 film Planet of the Apes. According to Nigo, the name "BAPE" is a reference to "A Bathing Ape in Lukewarm Water". Japanese people typically have daily baths in water at temperatures above . As such, to bathe in lukewarm water is to complacently overindulge as it implies you have stayed in the bath for so long the water has become cold. This is an ironic reference to the lazy opulence of the younger generation of Japanese, the brand's own customers. To expose the brand he gave T-shirts to the musician Cornelius who wore them when performing. For two years he produced 30 to 50 shirts a week, selling half and giving half to friends. In 1997, Nigo released his debut album Ape Sounds under Mo'Wax, with DJ/Producer James Lavelle of UNKLE. Nigo is also co-owner and head designer of Pharrell Williams' clothes brands Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream. On February 1, 2011, it was announced that A Bathing Ape had been sold to Hong Kong fashion conglomerate I.T Group. I.T purchased a 90.27% stake in A Bathing Ape. In a transaction encompassing HK$21,850,000 (approx. US$2.8 million), I.T purchased a total of 668 shares. Exact details regarding the creative future and expansion of A Bathing Ape are unknown; however, A Bathing Ape founder Nigo remained on board as the Creative Director for the next two years. Bape is a popular Japanese street fashion brand and with many celebrities appearing in magazines and catalogs wearing Bape's clothing. ==Design== Bape frequently collaborates with other brands and features characters from popular media such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Marvel comics characters, Nintendo, DC Comics, and Hello Kitty and the Sanrio Family. These designs are used throughout the Bathing Ape range, on goodies, accessories, hoodies, jackets, T-shirts and shoes. A Bathing Ape has also collaborated with many other famous brands such as Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Rimowa, M*A*C, Comme des Garçons, mastermind Japan, Undercover, Supreme, Stüssy, Carhartt, Casio, Adidas, Timberland and artists such as Biggie Smalls, Wiz Khalifa, Beastie Boys, The Weeknd, Soulja Boy, Pharrell, UNKLE, Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg, Westside Gunn, Kid Cudi, Juelz Santana, Pusha T, KAWS, Kreayshawn, Linkin Park, Gary Panter, Big Sean, Josip On Deck, Lil' Wayne, Chris Brown, Flatbush Zombies, Travis Scott, Domo Genesis, Damian Lillard, and Keith Ape. In late 2018, the firm announced that it will produce a tie-in fashion line based on the Disney animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet, marking this as the first time BAPE has directly partnered with Disney. ==See also== *I.T *Billionaire Boys Club ==References== ==External links== * Category:Clothing companies established in 1993 Category:Retail companies established in 1993 Category:Clothing brands of Japan Category:Clothing companies of Japan Category:Clothing retailers of Japan Category:2000s fashion Category:Hip hop fashion Category:Clothing companies of Hong Kong

"A Bathroom of Her Own" is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein about a political campaign in the U.S. after World War II. Written in 1946, it was unpublished until printed in Heinlein's Expanded Universe (1980).The Heinlein Prize at heinleinprize.com The story has no science fiction or fantasy elements. Heinlein wrote in a foreword: "Any old pol will recognize the politics in this story as the Real McCoy. Should be. Autobiographical in many details. Which details? Show me a warrant and I'll take the Fifth". Another political story of Heinlein's is "Our Fair City" (1949). Heinlein had a cynical view of politics from his experiences on the Upton Sinclair 1934 campaign for Governor of California and his own at the receiving end of supposed dirty tricks during Heinlein's failed 1938 election campaign for the California State Assembly. ==References== Category:Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein Category:1980 short stories Category:1946 short stories Category:Historical short stories Category:Short stories set in the 1940s Category:Short stories set in the United States

A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) Royal Horse Artillery is the senior Battery in the British Army's Royal Artillery and is part of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. The Chestnut Troop is currently based in Purvis Lines at Larkhill Barracks. The unit is currently equipped as a Close Support Artillery Battery, with the AS-90 Self-propelled gun. ==History== ===Formation and early years=== A Troop, Royal Horse Artillery was raised as The Chestnut Troop at Woolwich on 1 February 1793. In 1798 the troop saw action in the Irish Rebellion and in 1799 it fought in the Netherlands. In 1806, Hew Dalrymple Ross assumed command of the unit which he led during campaigns in Spain, Portugal, France and at Waterloo. Ross was later knighted and promoted to field marshal. After 1809, it fought in the Peninsula War. Between 1855 and 1856 it fought in the Crimean War. ===World War I=== The outbreak of the First World War saw the unit, now enlarged to a battery, deployed to France in 1914. It served during all four years, firing its last round at Orrs on 4 November 1918. ===Between the two World Wars=== In 1919 the battery was deployed in North West Persia as part of the Norperforce. and, in 1921, it was deployed to Basra. In 1938, the battery became part of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. ===World War II=== The battery was deployed to France, serving with the British Expeditionery Force until the evacuation from Dunkirk. Later in 1940, the battery was sent to Egypt as part of the Desert Rats. In 1941, it fought as part of the Siege of Tobruk. The battery served continuously in the Western Desert especially in El Alamein in 1942. After El Alamein, elements of the battery were seconded to the newly formed "Long Range Desert Group" because of their intimate knowledge of the desert and survival skills. Afterwards, it was then re-equipped with 105mm SP guns before fighting in Italy for the rest of the World War. ===Post war=== In the post-war period the battery served in Egypt, the United Kingdom and Germany. Most significantly, between 1965 and 1967 it was deployed to Aden. In the 1970s, the battery completed tours in Northern Ireland, and in 1990, the battery provided soldiers for a combined A/B/E Battery which fought in the Gulf War. In 1996, the battery served in Bosnia as a part of IFOR. In April 2004, the unit deployed to Basra as part of the 1 Cheshire Battlegroup, and was tasked with developing the Iraqi Police within the City, as part of Operation Telic 4. Later in 2007 the battery deployed to Basra on Operation Telic 10. In 2009 A Battery served in Sangin as part of 3 Rifles Battlegroup on Operation Herrick 11. ==See also== *British Army *Royal Artillery *Royal Horse Artillery *List of Royal Artillery Batteries == References == ==Bibliography== * ==External links== * Category:Royal Horse Artillery batteries Category:Royal Artillery batteries Category:1793 establishments in Great Britain Category:Military units and formations established in 1793

A Battery Shelled is a 1919 painting by the English artist Wyndham Lewis. It depicts a scene from the Western Front of World War I. It was commissioned for the proposed Hall of Remembrance. ==Description== A number of men are seen working and moving around in a grey, cratered landscape with improvised buildings and shattered trees. Brown, stylised smoke pillars are coming out of the ground. To the left, in front of a pile of ammunition boxes, are three men with calm and serious postures, each looking in a different direction. The men in the foreground largely have normal human traits, while the soldiers who populate the rest of the scene lack individual features. The Imperial War Museum's object description defines their unnatural, mostly light brown bodies as "marionette-like". A small officer can be seen in the background, directing a party carrying a wounded man. ==Creation== The painting was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee. The committee had been created in 1918 with the aim to create a Hall of Remembrance with British war paintings celebrating heroism and self-sacrifice. The inspiration came from the Renaissance, and the dimensions of the commissioned paintings were based on Paolo Uccello's The Battle of San Romano at the National Gallery. The commissions included some of the most prominent British modernist painters at the time. The Hall of Remembrance was never realised and the paintings were transferred to the Imperial War Museum. Lewis served in the Royal Artillery at the Battle of Passchendaele and could draw from this experience when making the painting. ==See also== * Gassed (painting) * The Menin Road (painting) ==References== Category:1919 paintings Category:Paintings in the Imperial War Museum Category:War paintings Category:World War I in popular culture Category:Paintings by Wyndham Lewis

A (1st City of London) Battery, Honourable Artillery Company is a L118 light gun battery that provides a reserve to 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery.https://www.facebook.com/pg/ArmyInLondon/photos/?tab=album&album;_id=1200776859985791&__tn__=-UC-R Its predecessor was a horse artillery battery that was formed from Light Cavalry Squadron, HAC, in 1891. It transferred to the Territorial Force in 1908 as artillery support for the London Mounted Brigade. During the First World War it was posted to Egypt in 1915, served as part of the Western Frontier Force in the Senussi Campaign in 1916 and in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign with the Imperial (later Australian) Mounted Division in 1917 and 1918. The second line battery2/A Battery, HACwas formed in 1914 and served on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918 as part of an Army Field Artillery Brigade; the third lineA (Reserve) Battery, HACwas formed in 1915 to provide trained replacements for the 1st and 2nd Line batteries. Post-war, the battery, along with B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company, was amalgamated with the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) to form the 11th (Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Yeomanry) Brigade, RHA. ==History== ===Formation=== The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) first raised horse artillery in 1860 when Jay's Troop, HAC was formed. This had a brief existence, being disbanded in 1869. In 1891, the Light Cavalry Squadron, HAC was converted to the Horse Battery, HAC, which in 1899 was redesignated as A Battery (1st City of London Horse Artillery), HAC. At the same time the Field Battery, HAC was converted to horse artillery as B Battery (2nd City of London Horse Artillery), HAC. The Field Battery originated in 1781, but was the second to form a horse artillery battery hence the junior designation. The batteries sponsored the field battery of the City Imperial Volunteers for service in the Second Boer War in 1900–02. ===Territorial Force=== The Territorial Force (TF) was formed on 1 April 1908 following the enactment of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw.7, c.9) which combined and re-organised the old Volunteer Force, the Honourable Artillery Company and the Yeomanry. On formation, the TF contained 14 infantry divisions and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades. Each yeomanry brigade included a horse artillery battery and an ammunition column. 12 of these were provided by Royal Horse Artillery batteries of the Territorial Force, the other two by the Honourable Artillery Company. On 1 April 1908, the battery transferred to the Territorial Force without a change in title. The unit consisted of the battery and London Mounted Brigade Ammunition Column at Armoury House, Finsbury. The battery was equipped with four Ehrhardt 15-pounder guns and allocated as artillery support to the London Mounted Brigade. ===First World War=== In accordance with the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw.7, c.9) which brought the Territorial Force into being, the TF was intended to be a home defence force for service during wartime and members could not be compelled to serve outside the country. However, on the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914, many members volunteered for Imperial Service. Therefore, TF units were split into 1st Line (liable for overseas service) and 2nd Line (home service for those unable or unwilling to serve overseas) units. 2nd Line units performed the home defence role, although in fact most of these were also posted abroad in due course. Later, a 3rd Line was formed to act as a reserve, providing trained replacements for the 1st and 2nd Line batteries. ==== 1/A Battery, HAC==== The 1st Line battery was embodied with the London Mounted Brigade on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War and concentrated in Berkshire. A decision was made to form a new mounted division from the mounted brigades in and around the Churn area of Berkshire. On 2 September 1914, 2nd Mounted Division, with Headquarters at Goring, came into being and London Mounted Brigade was assigned to the new division. I Brigade and II Brigade, RHA (T.F.) were formed for the division and the battery was assigned to II Brigade, RHA at Churn, along with B Battery, HAC and Berkshire and Nottinghamshire Batteries RHA. In November 1914, the division moved to Norfolk on coastal defence duties. Artillery headquarters was established at Cromer, before joining the divisional headquarters at Hanworth in December, and A Battery, HAC was at Mundesley (London Mounted Brigade was at Hanworth). ;Overseas service In March 1915, the 2nd Mounted Division was put on warning for overseas service. In early April, the division starting leaving Avonmouth and the last elements landed at Alexandria before the end of the month. By the middle of May, the horse artillery batteries were near Ismaïlia on Suez Canal Defences. The 2nd Mounted Division was dismounted in August 1915 and served at Gallipoli. The artillery batteries and ammunition columns (along with the signal troops, mobile veterinary sections, Mounted Brigade Transport and Supply Columns and two of the Field Ambulances) were left behind in Egypt. The division returned from Gallipoli in December 1915 and was reformed and remounted. The battery rejoined the division on 13 December, but on 20 December it entrained at Alexandria for the Western Desert, concentrating at Mersa Matruh on 7 January 1916. Thereafter, it served as part of the Western Frontier Force in the Senussi Campaign, taking part in the Affair at Halazin (23 January 1916). The battery returned to Alexandria on 6 March and was rearmed with four 18 pounders. It returned to the Suez Canal Defences on 6 April and rejoined the 8th Mounted Brigade (the redesignated London Mounted Brigade). The brigade left for Salonika in November without the battery which joined the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade when it was reformed in February 1917. It remained attached to the 4th ALH Brigade for the rest of the war. ;Imperial Mounted Division The Imperial Mounted Division was formed in Egypt in January 1917; 4th Light Horse Brigade was one of the four cavalry brigades selected to form the division. A Battery, HAC joined the division on formation and was assigned to XIX Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (T.F.). In practice, the battery remained attached to 4th ALH Brigade. The battery, and its brigade, served with the Imperial Mounted Division in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign as part of the Desert Column. With the division, it took part in the advance across the Sinai, including the First (2627 March 1917) and Second Battles of Gaza (1719 April 1917). ;Australian Mounted Division In June 1917, the Desert Column was reorganised from two mounted divisions of four brigades each (ANZAC and Imperial Mounted Divisions) to three mounted divisions of three brigades each (ANZAC, AustralianImperial Mounted Division renamedand the new Yeomanry Mounted Division). On 20 June 1917, the Imperial Mounted Division was redesignated as Australian Mounted Division as the majority of its troops were now Australian. On 12 August 1917, the Desert Column disappeared and the Desert Mounted Corps was formed. The battery served with the Australian Mounted Division throughout the rest of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. As part of the Desert Mounted Corps, the division took part in the Third Battle of Gaza (by now re-equipped with four 13 pounders), in particular the Capture of Beersheba (31 October) and the Battle of Mughar Ridge (13 and 14 November), and the defence of Jerusalem against the Turkish counter-attacks (27 November3 December). Still part of the Desert Mounted Corps, the division took part in the Second Trans-Jordan Raid (30 April4 May 1918). XIX Brigade, RHA supported the 4th Light Horse Brigade in the advance on the Jisr ed Damiye–Es Salt track on 30 April. The next day, a strong Turkish force attacked from the direction of Jisr ed Damiye and soon the artillery was in danger. B Battery, HAC was in the rear and managed to get away with all but one of their guns (stuck in a wadi) but the Nottinghamshire RHA and A Battery, HAC were less fortunate. Machine gun fire cut down the horse teams before the guns could be gotten away. XIX Brigade lost 9 guns in total, the only guns to be lost in action in the entire campaign. Its final action was the capture of Damascus (1 October). After the Armistice of Mudros, the division was withdrawn to Egypt and started to demobilise. The last of the Australians returned home in April and May 1919. A Battery, HAC were reduced to cadre in Egypt on 25 October 1919. ==== 2/A Battery, HAC==== A Battery formed a 2nd line in September 1914, initially designated as the A (Reserve) Battery, HAC. It was redesignated as 2/A Battery, HAC on 26 September. The battery joined the 2nd line 2/1st London Mounted Brigade when it was formed in March 1915. On 6 March 1915, the 2/2nd Mounted Division was formed to replace 2nd Mounted Division which had been warned for overseas service. The brigade joined the division on East Coast Defences by June 1915 and concentrated at Aylsham with the battery at Reepham. The batteries of the division were quite unready for war. Three had no horses, the fourth had just 23; three batteries had over 200 men on average, but the other just 91; one battery had no ammunition and another reported that its 15-pounders were "practically useless". In November 1915, the battery received four Ordnance BLC 15-pounders. It remained with the division when it was redesignated as 3rd Mounted Division in March 1916 and as 1st Mounted Division in July 1916. In early 1917, the battery was armed with four 18 pounders. ;Army Field Brigade CXXVI Brigade, RFA was reformed at Heytesbury, Wiltshire in May 1917 with 2/A Battery and 2/B Battery HAC, both with six 18 pounders. The brigade (with the battery) landed at Boulogne on 22 June 1917 and it became an Army Field Brigade. 2/1st Warwickshire RHA, by now also rearmed with 18 pounders, proceeded to France on 21 June 1917 and joined the brigade there. The battery served on the Western Front for the rest of the war. At the Armistice, the battery (six 18 pounders) was still with CXXVI Brigade, RFA serving as Army Troops with the First Army. The battery entered Germany on 17 January 1919, and was disbanded later the same year. ==== A (Reserve) Battery, HAC==== A (Reserve) Battery, HAC was formed in 1915 to replace the original reserve battery which had been redesignated as 2/A Battery on 26 September 1914. It never left the United Kingdom and was disbanded later. ===Post war=== On 7 February 1920, the Honourable Artillery Company was authorized to reconstitute four batteries of horse artillery in the Territorial Force. Only two were actually formed (A and B Batteries), and authorization for the other two was rescinded in 1921. The batteries were amalgamated with the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) on 16 February to form the 11th (Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Yeomanry) Brigade, RHA with *Headquarters at Finsbury Barracks *A Battery at Armoury House, Finsbury *B Battery at Armoury House, Finsbury *C Battery at Bunhill Row, formed by reduction of the City of London Yeomanry. ===21st Century=== A (1st City of London) Battery, HAC In 2018 the battery was reformed as A (1st City of London) Battery, Honourable Artillery Company, equipped with the L118 Light Gun in support of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. Under the Future Soldier Programme, the Battery's role was further refined to provide guns 7 & 8 to each of 7RHA's three light gun batteries. ==See also== * List of Territorial Force horse artillery batteries 1908 ==Notes== ==References== ==Bibliography== * * * * * * * * * * ==External links== * *The Royal Horse Artillery on The Long, Long Trail *The Great War Royal Horse Artillery Category:Honourable Artillery Company Category:Royal Horse Artillery batteries Category:Artillery units and formations of World War I Category:Military units and formations established in 1891 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1920 Category:Military units and formations in London

A Battle For the Soul of New York: Tammany Hall, Police Corruption, Vice, and Reverend Charles Parkhurst's Crusade Against Them, 1892-1895 is a non-fiction book by Warren Sloat, first published by First Cooper Square Press in 2002. It chronicles, in eight parts, police corruption in New York City as facilitated by the political organization Tammany Hall. == Reception == The Library Journal wrote a mixed review for the book, writing "Although filled with authentic atmosphere, the writing can seem cluttered by excessive detail." Booklist was more favorable, praising its drawings and stating that the "wonderfully narrated history has a cast of characters that could only be found in New York". == References == Category:2002 non-fiction books Category:Books about New York City Category:1890s in New York City Category:New York City Police Department corruption and misconduct

A Battle of Nerves (French: La Tête d'un homme, also known as A Man's Head) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest of Simenon's "Maigret" novels, and one of eleven he had published that year. It was one of the most successful of the early titles and among the first Maigrets to be filmed. ==Plot summary== Maigret had been investigating the murder of Mme. Henderson, a rich American woman, and her maid, at her house in Saint-Cloud. Despite the evidence against the main suspect, Joseph Heurtin, which earned him the death sentence, Maigret feels sure Heurtin is not the guilty party. Convinced Heurtin knows the real killer, he contrives to let the man escape, following him to see where he leads. Heurtin heads for a small inn on the Seine, the Citanguette, where he lies low. Meanwhile Maigret pursues another lead, a note written from the Hotel Coupole. At the hotel, he finds William Kirby, Mme. Henderson's nephew, and an impoverished medical student, Johann Radek. While Maigret is there, Heurtin arrives, at which Radek contrives to have himself arrested on a minor charge. While in custody, Radek taunts Maigret over his lack of success in the case, hinting that he knows the full story and who the real killer is. Maigret has to endure Radek's needling while pursuing his investigation until he is able to turn the tables on him and unmask the real killer.Simenon, tr. SainsburyLa Tête d'un homme at trussel.com.; retrieved 17 May 2016 ==Other titles== The book has been translated twice into English; in 1939 by Geoffrey Sainsbury as A Battle of Nerves (and variously reprinted as A Man's Head, The Patience of Maigret and Maigret's War of Nerves) and in 2015 by David Coward as A Man's Head.Publication notes at trussel.com; retrieved 17 May 2016 ==Adaptations== A Man's Head has been dramatized numerous times, in several languages. First filmed in 1933, just two years after publication, and was among the first to be filmed. The story has been filmed twice: In French, in 1933, as A Man's Neck; starring Harry Baur in the title role, and in English, in 1950, as The Man on the Eiffel Tower (with Charles Laughton). It has also been adapted for television seven times: in 1963, the title was changed to Death in Mind and it was filmed for the BBC series starring Rupert Davies; in Italian in 1965 (Gino Cervi) for Le inchieste del commissario Maigret; in Dutch in 1969 (Jan Teulings); and in Russian in 1992 (Vladimir Samoilov). It has been adapted for French TV on three occasions: in 1967, for the Jean Richard series, and re- made for that series in 1983; and in 1996 for the French television series starring Bruno Cremer.Film history at trussel.com.; retrieved 17 May 2016 ==Notes== ==References== * Georges Simenon A Man's Head (1931; translated G Sainsbury, reprinted 2006) Penguin Red Classics, London ==External links== * Maigret at trussel.com * A Man's Head by Patrick Marnham (2003) at trussel.com. Category:1931 Belgian novels Category:Maigret novels Category:Belgian novels adapted into films

A Battle of Wits can refer to: * A Battle of Wits (1912 film), an American silent film * A Battle of Wits (2006 film), a Hong Kong war film * "A Battle of Wits", third episode of the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Time Meddler

A Battle of Wits (1912) is a silent drama motion picture short starring Tom Moore, Alice Joyce and Earle Foxe. Joyce and Foxe were working together for the fourth time on this picture. A Battle of Wits was re-released on August 27, 1915. ==Cast== *Tom Moore as The Surveyor *Alice Joyce as Sue Elwood *Earle Foxe *Logan Paul *Stuart Holmes ==External links== * Category:1912 films Category:1912 drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent short films Category:Kalem Company films Category:1912 short films Category:Silent American drama films Category:1910s American films Category:1910s English-language films Category:American drama short films

A Battle of Wits (also known as Battle of the Warriors) is a 2006 war film based on the Japanese historical novel (Rōmaji title: Bokkō or Bokukō; lit. "Mohist Attack") by Ken'ichi Sakemi, as well as the manga series Bokko by Hideki Mori. Directed by Jacob Cheung, the film starred Andy Lau, Ahn Sung-ki, Wang Zhiwen, Fan Bingbing, Nicky Wu and Choi Siwon. This was a joint- production between mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. == Plot == The film is set in China in 370 BC during the Warring States period. A massive army from the Zhao state is on its way to attack the Yan state. Liang, a city-state on the Zhao–Yan border, is in peril of being conquered by the Zhao army. Ge Li, a Mohist, comes to Liang to help defend the city. Although the King of Liang has already planned for peace talks with the invaders, Ge Li manages to convince him and the people of Liang to put up resistance by warning them of the consequences of surrendering. He also promises the King that the invaders will give up on Liang if they fail to conquer it within a month, because their main target is actually the Yan state. The King has doubts about Ge Li's idea but still puts Ge in command of his army. Ge Li creates a bulwark and various traps to halt the Zhao army's advance. When he insists that Zituan lead the archers, Liang Shi (the Liang prince) is angered because he sees Zituan's archery skill as inferior to his. Even though Zituan later proves to be a better archer, Ge Li's style of working puts him at odds with Liang Shi and the other Liang generals. Ge Li also briefly meets Xiang Yanzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Zhao army, for a board game outside the city to understand each other better. During the first Zhao attack, Ge Li's defence tactics worked well—a Zhao general was killed and the invaders were forced to retreat—but the Liang forces also suffered losses from a skirmish with Zhao infiltrators inside the city. Ge Li's success earns him the support of the people and he becomes a highly revered hero. Yiyue, a female cavalry commander, falls in love with Ge Li. However, Ge Li is reluctant to accept her feelings for him and tries to draw boundaries between them. One night, Ge Li and Yiyue scout the Zhao camp and discover that the enemy is digging tunnels to bypass their city's defences. Ge Li used that to his advantage by luring the Zhao soldiers into an ambush and then sealing the tunnel exits. The Liang general Niu Zizhang massacres the captured Zhao soldiers even though they were promised that their lives would be spared if they laid down their weapons. In the meantime, the King feels threatened when he sees Ge Li's growing popularity, so he plots to have Ge stripped off his post and executed on false charges. At the same time, the Liang forces receive news that the Zhao army has retreated. Ge Li plans to leave Liang since his mission is complete. He goes out to check that the Zhao army is indeed retreating. When he returns, he is stopped outside the gates and is accused of starting a war under false pretences and plotting to seize the throne. Just as the Liang soldiers are about to kill Ge Li, Liang Shi shows up, pretends to fight with Ge, and secretly tells Ge to take him hostage in order to buy time for Ge to escape. Ge Li manages to escape but Liang Shi is killed by a rain of arrows meant for Ge Li. Meanwhile, Ge Li's supporters, including Yiyue, are falsely accused of plotting a rebellion against the King and are arrested and tortured. Yiyue denounces the King and is sentenced to death. The King also has her rendered mute to prevent her from speaking up against him. Zituan refuses to turn against Ge Li, so he cuts off his right arm and leaves the Liang army. One night, just as Yiyue is about to be executed, the Zhao army launches a surprise attack and completely catches the Liang defenders off guard. She is taken back to the prison. Instead of focusing on fighting the invaders, the King orders his soldiers to kill those who try to escape from the city. Liang eventually falls to the Zhao army, and the King and his people are captured. Zituan and his archers manage to escape from Liang, and they join Ge Li outside the city. Xiang Yanzhong sends a message to Ge Li, in which he threatens to kill the people of Liang if Ge does not return to Liang to meet him. Ge Li returns to Liang alone and agrees to play the board game again with Xiang Yanzhong inside a tower. They agree that only the winner can leave the tower. Meanwhile, Zituan and his men flood the areas guarded by Zhao forces and launch an attack. Seeing that reinforcements have arrived, the people of Liang rise up against the Zhao invaders and succeed in defeating them and driving them out of the city. Xiang Yanzhong refuses to leave the tower because he feels that he has lost. After the battle, the King passes by the tower, sees Xiang Yanzhong, and orders Xiang to be killed. While the people of Liang rejoice in their victory, Ge Li rushes to the flooded prison to find Yiyue but arrives too late because she was unable to call out to him for help and has already drowned. Before the film ends, Ge Li leaves with some orphans to promote peace among the various warring states. The King of Liang meets his downfall five years later: The people can no longer stand his cruelty so they overthrow and execute him. Eventually, the Qin state conquers all the other states and unites China under the Qin dynasty. ==Cast== * Andy Lau as Ge Li, the Mohist who leads the defence of Liang. * Fan Bingbing as Yiyue, a Liang cavalry commander. * Wang Zhiwen as the King of Liang * Nicky Wu as Zituan, the chief of Liang's archers. * Choi Siwon as Liang Shi, the Prince of Liang. * Ahn Sung-ki as Xiang Yanzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Zhao army. * Wu Ma as the Royal Tutor of Liang * Yu Chenghui as Dongbo, a Liang general. * Chin Siu-ho as Niu Zizhang, a Liang general. * Xu Xiangdong as Wei Xiang, a Zhao general. ==See also== * Mozi * Mohism * Hong Kong action cinema * List of historical drama films of Asia * Andy Lau filmography ==References== ==External links== * * Category:2006 films Category:2006 martial arts films Category:2006 action films Category:2000s action war films Category:2000s action drama films Category:Hong Kong action films Category:Hong Kong martial arts films Category:Japanese action films Category:Japanese martial arts films Category:South Korean action films Category:South Korean martial arts films Category:Live-action films based on manga Category:Films set in the Warring States period Category:Films set in the Zhou dynasty Category:Films scored by Kenji Kawai Category:Chinese martial arts films Category:Chinese war drama films Category:Chinese historical action films Category:Films directed by Jacob Cheung Category:2006 drama films Category:2000s historical action films Category:2000s Mandarin-language films Category:2000s Hong Kong films Category:2000s Chinese films Category:2000s Japanese films Category:2000s South Korean films Category:CJ Entertainment films Category:Shochiku films Category:Huayi Brothers films

"A Bay Bay" is the debut single by American rapper Hurricane Chris, released on April 10, 2007. The song was produced by Phunk Dawg. It peaked at number 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100.[ Artist biography] Billboard.com. Retrieved July 7, 2009.MySpace.com - Hurricane Chris:51/50 Ratchet IN STORES NOW!! - Shreveport, Louisiana - Rap / Hip Hop - www.myspace.com/hurricaneHurricane Chris takes hip-hop scene like a storm - USATODAY.com == Commercial performance == The song debuted at number 95 on the US Billboard Hot 100.Jonathan Cohen, Reigns Again Atop Hot 100", Billboard.com, June 14, 2007. In its second week, the song rose to number 85; in its third week, it rose 61 places to number 24.Jonathan Cohen, "Rihanna, Shop Boyz, Fergie Locked In On Hot 100", Billboard.com, June 28, 2007. The song later peaked at number 7 on the chart. It peaked at number 3 on the New Zealand singles chart. == Music video == The video was shot and filmed in Cedar Grove, showing local landmarks and featuring a crowd of people singing along to the song. The music video peaked at number one on BET's 106 & Park. Closing out the year, the music video peaked at number 3 on BET's Top 100 Videos of 2007. == Remixes == The remix, titled "The Ratchet Remix", features guest vocals by fellow rappers The Game, Lil Boosie, E-40, Baby, Angie Locc and Jadakiss. In 2007, a music video was released for "A Bay Bay (The Ratchet Remix)". The two versions for two music videos were for the remix only. The short version were featuring all of these artists (included their verses), except for E-40. However, E-40 did make the cameo appearance, alongside Pitbull and Lil Jon. The extended version features E-40's full appearance, along with his verse that he did on the remix. Big Kuntry King made his own remix to the song. Sincero, Chingo Bling and Pitbull made their own remix version to the song, titled "'Aye Wey Wey". == Charts == ===Weekly charts=== Chart (2007) Peak position US Billboard Hot 100 7 US Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) 12 US Hot Rap Tracks (Billboard) 3 US Top Pop 100 (Billboard) 9 US Rhythmic (Billboard) 3 ===Year-end charts=== Chart (2007) Position US Billboard Hot 100 56 US Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) 54 US Rhythmic (Billboard) 19 ==In popular culture== In "Clarifications", the eighth episode of season five of The Wire, the characters Chris and Snoop listen to "A Bay Bay" while driving through Baltimore. ==References== ==External links== *Hurricane's Official Myspace *Hurricane Chris' Official YouTube channel Category:2007 debut singles Category:2007 songs Category:Hurricane Chris (rapper) songs Category:J Records singles Category:Crunk songs

A Bay of Blood (Italian: Ecologia del delitto, lit. "Ecology of Crime", later retitled Reazione a catena [lit. "Chain Reaction"]) (also known as Carnage, Twitch of the Death Nerve and Blood Bath) is a 1971 Italian giallo slasher film directed by Mario Bava. Bava co-wrote the screenplay with Giuseppe Zaccariello, Filippo Ottoni, and Sergio Canevari, with story credit given to Dardano Sacchetti and Franco Barberi. The film stars Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Brigitte Skay, Nicoletta Elmi and Laura Betti. Carlo Rambaldi created the gruesome special make-up effects. The story details a string of mysterious murders that occur around the titular bay. Widely considered Bava's most violent film, its emphasis on graphically bloody murder set pieces was hugely influential on the slasher film subgenre that would follow a decade later. In 2005, the magazine Total Film named A Bay of Blood one of the 50 greatest horror films of all time. == Plot == At night in her bayside mansion, wheelchair-using Countess Federica Donati is attacked and strangled to death by her husband, Filippo Donati. Moments later, Filippo himself is stabbed to death by an assailant, and his corpse is then dragged to the bay. Upon investigation, the police find what they believe to be a suicide note written by the Countess, but Filippo's murder goes undiscovered. Real estate agent Frank Ventura and his lover Laura plot to take possession of the bay. After the Countess refused to sell her home and property to them, the couple hatched a scheme with Filippo to murder his wife. To finalize their plan, Ventura needs Filippo's signature on a set of legal documents. They have no idea, however, that Filippo himself has been killed. Their curiosity piqued by news of the murder, four local teenagers Duke, Bobby, Denise, and Brunhilde break into the seemingly deserted mansion and are murdered. Brunhilde skinny dips at the lake, then is chased and has her throat slit with a billhook. Bobby has his face split open with the same billhook. Duke and Denise are both impaled with a spear while having sex. The Countess's illegitimate son Simon, who lives on the grounds in a separate shack, is the killer. After killing Filippo, he is now conspiring with Ventura, who offers Simon a huge cash pay- off to sign the relevant legal documents. Their scheme is dealt a potentially ruinous blow when Filippo's estranged daughter Renata appears, determined to ensure that her father's estate comes into her possession. A search for a will proves unsuccessful, and Ventura, who believes that Renata may be the rightful beneficiary, urges Simon to kill his stepsister. Accompanied by her husband Albert and leaving their young son and daughter in a caravan nearby, Renata visits the house of Paolo Fossati, an entomologist living on the grounds of the Donati estate. Fossati's wife, Anna, tells them that Filippo was responsible for the Countess's death and says that Simon will probably end up with the property. Renata, unaware that she had a stepbrother, makes plans with her husband to murder Simon. After discovering Filippo's mangled and rotting corpse on Simon's boat, Renata and Albert head to Ventura's house. Upon their arrival, Ventura attacks Renata, but Renata gains the upper hand and stabs Ventura with a large pair of scissors in his femoral artery. Paolo Fossati, who witnesses the assault, attempts to telephone the police but is confronted by Albert, who strangles him to death with the phone's cord. Renata decapitates Anna with an ax to ensure there are no additional witnesses. Ventura's partner Laura arrives, planning to meet up with him. When Simon discovers that it was the pair who had plotted with Filippo to kill his mother, he strangles Laura to death. No sooner has he exacted his revenge than Simon himself is murdered by Albert. The wounded Ventura reappears, but Albert kills him after a brief struggle. Knowing there are now no other living heirs, Albert and Renata prepare to return home to await the announcement of their inheritance when they are shot dead from the caravan by their son, who has mistaken their shotgun for a toy. The son and daughter think that their parents are playing dead and rush off outside to play along the bay. == Cast == * Claudine Auger as Renata Donati * Luigi Pistilli as Alberto (Albert in the English version) * Claudio Volonté as Simone (Simon) * Laura Betti as Anna Fossati * Leopoldo Trieste as Paolo Fossati (Paul Fossati) * Isa Miranda as Countessa Federica Donati * Chris Avram as Franco Ventura (Frank Ventura) * Anna Maria Rosati as Laura * Brigitte Skay as Louise (Brunhilde) * Paola Montenero (as Paola Rubens) as Sylvie (Denise) * Guido Boccaccini as Luca (Duke) * Roberto Bonanni as Roberto (Bobby) * Giovanni Nuvoletti as Count Filippo Donati * Renato Cestiè as Son * Nicoletta Elmi as Daughter == Production == The genesis of A Bay of Blood was when producer Dino De Laurentiis heard that Dardano Sacchetti, screenwriter of the popular The Cat o' Nine Tails, had fallen out with the film's director Dario Argento. He contacted Sacchetti and persuaded him to collaborate with director Mario Bava on a giallo film. Sacchetti and Bava got along well, and together came up with a story in which two parents commit murder to secure a better future for their children. In this early version of the story, the parents are driven to commit one murder after another in a chain reaction, becoming so caught up in their plan that they abandon their children for several days. When they return home, the starving and terrified children kill them. The thirteen murders were conceived as isolated sequences, with no initial idea of how they would fit into the story; Sacchetti credits Bava with the idea of two people being killed with a spear while making love and himself with the idea of a woman being killed in her wheelchair. Sacchetti wrote the first draft of the script, titled Cosi imparano a fare i cattivi ("That Will Teach Them to Be Bad") after a line spoken by the children after killing their parents, with his writing partner Franco Barbieri. However, spectacular arguments with Bava and the production team led to Barbieri being fired, and Sacchetti quit as an act of solidarity with his partner. De Laurentiis, disenchanted when The Cat o' Nine Tails failed to recreate its domestic popularity when released abroad, also abandoned the project. Bava, owing a massive amount in back taxes, felt he needed to complete a film soon, and turned to Giuseppe Zaccariello (who had silently backed Bava's earlier films Hatchet for the Honeymoon and Five Dolls for an August Moon) to take over as producer. Zaccariello insisted that the shooting script be written by Filippo Ottoni, who was reluctant to take the job since he did not like exploitation films. Numerous other writers, including Zaccariello himself, had their hands involved in devising the final screenplay.Lucas, Tim. Twitch of the Death Nerve DVD, Image Entertainment, 2000, liner notes. ASIN: B000055ZCA The cast included Laura Betti, who had got along well with Bava on Hatchet for the Honeymoon. At the time De Laurentiis approached Bava about working with Sacchetti, Bava and Betti had been toying with the idea of making a movie called "Odore di carne" ("stench of flesh") about cannibalism on Los Angeles colleges. The film began production in early 1971, still under the shooting title Cosi imparano a fare i cattivi, which was soon changed to Reazione a catena ("chain reaction").Stevens, Brad. Video Watchdog Magazine, #32 (1996), pgs. 10-11, "A Bay of Blood" videotape review Yet another title used during shooting was La baia d'argento ("the bay of silver"), discarded for fear that the movie would be perceived as a parody of Dario Argento's works as a result. The final title of Ecologia del delitto was suggested by Zaccariello because the word "ecologia" was in vogue at the time. The film's budget was extremely low, and it had to be shot very quickly and cheaply. Due to the severe budgetary restrictions, Bava not only acted as his own cinematographer, but also utilized a simple child's wagon for the film's many tracking shots. The location shooting was mostly completed at Zaccariello's Sabaudia beach house and its outlying property. Bava had to resort to various camera tricks to convince the audience that an entire forest existed when in fact, only a few scattered trees were at the location. Betti recalled: "All of this had to occur in a forest. But where was it? Bava said, 'Don't worry. I will do the forest'. And he found a florist who was selling these little stupid branches with little bits of foliage on them, and he began to make them dance in front of the camera! We had to act the scenes strictly in front of those branches—if we moved even an inch either way, the 'woods' would disappear!" To ensure the utmost realism in depicting the thirteen different murders, Carlo Rambaldi was hired to provide the special make-up effects. To create the deaths of Anna, Brunhilda, and Denise, wax effigies of the actresses' throats and backs were constructed and rigged to expulse brightly colored blood when cut. The illusion of Bobby being stabbed in the face with a billhook was achieved with a prop blade which was swiftly pulled out of frame to hide the fact that it was sculpted to conform exactly to actor Roberto Bonanni's profile. == Release == A Bay of Blood was promoted with multiple different titles in Italy. The film was announced as Antefatto ("Before the Fact"), but when finally released to theatres, the title had changed to Ecologia del delitto ("Ecology of Crime"). When the film did poorly on its initial release, it was pulled from Italian theaters and retitled Reazione a Catena ("Chain Reaction"), and was later re-released as Bahia de Sangre ("Bay of Blood" in Spanish). A Bay of Blood was acquired up for US distribution in 1972 by Steve Minasian's Hallmark Releasing, which specialized in exploitation films. Premiering the film under its original English title, Carnage, Hallmark copied their successful advertising campaign for Mark of the Devil by proclaiming that Bava's film was "The Second Film Rated 'V' for Violence!" (Devil having been the first). This campaign prompted a lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America on the grounds that it intruded on their exclusive right to rate motion pictures, and the film was withdrawn and re-released under the now common title Twitch of the Death Nerve with a R rating appearing in advertisements. Thanks to Hallmark's distribution partnership with Bava's former employer American International Pictures, the film played for years under this title in drive-ins and grindhouses throughout the country as part of a double or triple bill with other Hallmark/AIP films, most notably Wes Craven's equally-influential The Last House on the Left and Fernando Di Leo's Slaughter Hotel, but it has since been re-released theatrically and on home video under a variety of titles. In the US alone, its later titles include A Bay of Blood, Last House on the Left Part II, Last House Part II and New House on the Left. ===Critical response=== A Bay of Blood was greeted with extreme controversy and disappointment by several critics, especially by those who were fans of the director's earlier, more restrained films. At the 1971 Avoriaz Film Festival, where the movie had its world premiere, Christopher Lee attended a screening of the film, having expressed an interest in seeing the latest effort from the director of The Whip and the Body, which Lee had starred in eight years before. Lee was reportedly completely revolted by the film. The festival jurors awarded the film the Best Make-Up and Special Effects Award. Rambaldi's effects work also earned the film a "Special Mention" Award at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival in 1971. Controversy of the film continued in subsequent years and maintained a mixed critical response. Jeffrey Frentzen, reviewing the film for Cinefantastique, called Twitch of the Death Nerve "the director's most complete failure to date. If you were appalled by the gore and slaughter in Blood and Black Lace, this latest film contains twice the murders, each one accomplished with an obnoxious detail... Red herrings are ever-present, and serve as the only interest keeping the plot in motion, but nothing really redeems the dumb storyline". Gary Johnson, on his Images website, said that "Twitch of the Death Nerve is made for people who derive pleasure from seeing other people killed... The resulting movie is guaranteed to make audiences squirm, but the violence is near pornographic. In the same way that pornographic movies reduce human interactions to the workings of genitals, Twitch of the Death Nerve reduces cinematic thrills to little more than knives slicing through flesh". Phil Hardy's The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror, while noting that Bava was able to "achieve some striking images", opined "zooms, no doubt programmed by the imperative to work quickly, spoil some scenes that cried out for Bava's particularly fluid use of camera movement which were so much in evidence in Operazione Paura (1966)". Reprinted as The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Horror, Overlook Press, 1995, On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, A Bay of Blood holds an 86% approval rating based on 14 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.10/10. Joe Dante was enthusiastic about the film, writing in The Film Bulletin (later reprinted in Video Watchdog) that it "features enough violence and gore to satisfy the most rabid mayhem fans and benefits from the inimitably stylish direction of horror specialist Mario Bava (Black Sunday). Assembled with a striking visual assurance that never ceases to amuse, this is typical Bava material, simply one ghastly murder after another13 in allsurrounded by what must be one of the most preposterous and confusing plots ever put on film". In Fangoria, Tim Lucas wrote thirteen years after the film's theatrical release that "Twitch unreels like a macabre, ironic joke, a movie built like an inescapable trap for its own anti-hero... Seen today, the violence in this movie remains as potent and explicit as anything glimpsed in contemporary 'splatter' features..." ===Legacy=== Several critics have noted that the film is probably the most influential of Bava's career, as it had a huge and profound impact on the slasher film genre. It has also been credited as his most impactful work in the international cinema. Writing in 2000, Tim Lucas wrote that Bava's film is "the acknowledged smoking gun behind the 'body count' movie phenomenon of the 1980s, which continues to dominate the horror genre two decades later with such films as Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer and their respective sequels". According to Gary Johnson, "Twitch of the Death Nerve is one of the most imitated movies of the past 30 years. It helped kick start the slasher genre… [Bava's] influence still resonates today (although somewhat dully) in movies such as I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream and Urban Legend". It was listed at No. 94 in IndieWires "The 100 Greatest Horror Movies of All-Time", with its entry stating that the film "remains a vital watch for horror fans, and a reminder of how Bava continued to push horror into new and interesting realms, the reverberations of which are still felt today". Several commentators have noted that two sequences in the 1981 film Friday the 13th Part 2 are strikingly similar to two of Bava's murder sequences: one character is slammed in the face with a hawkbill machete, though Bava's film had a billhook instead, and two teenage lovers are interrupted when a spear impales both of them. Along with The Burning, Just Before Dawn (1981) and several other similarly plotted slashers, Friday specifically "followed Bava's inspired cue, having young people stalked by violent death amid beautiful wooded settings". ==Notes== == References == == External links == * * * * Category:1971 films Category:1971 horror films Category:1970s slasher films Category:1970s English-language films Category:Films directed by Mario Bava Category:Films scored by Stelvio Cipriani Category:Films shot in Italy Category:Films set in country houses Category:Giallo films Category:Italian horror films Category:1970s Italian- language films Category:Italian slasher films Category:Italian serial killer films Category:American International Pictures films Category:Italian exploitation films Category:Italian splatter films Category:1971 multilingual films Category:Italian multilingual films Category:1970s Italian films

A Bayou Legend is an American opera composed by William Grant Still, with a libretto by his wife and frequent collaborator, Verna Arvey. ==Plot== Set in a 20th-century Creole village in the Mississippi Delta, the opera focuses on the deadly revenge that the beautiful Clothilde enacts on Bazile, a handsome young man who does not return her expressions of love. When Clothilde discovers that Bazile has been in communication with Aurore, a spirit who identifies herself as Bazile's lover from a distant era, Clothilde threatens to have Bazile arrested for violating local religious customs. When Bazile continues to refuse to wed Clothilde, she arranges for a mob to have him lynched. In his death throes, however, Bazile's soul is united with Aurore; Clothilde lives out the remainder of her years as a bitter recluse. ==Productions== Still composed A Bayou Legend in 1941, but it was not professionally staged until 1974, when Opera/South in Jackson, Mississippi presented its world premiere, 33 years later. The company revived the opera in 1976, and in 1979 collaborated with the Mississippi Educational Television Authority to create a made-for-television film version. However, post-production problems delayed its broadcast until June 15, 1981. This marked the first time that an opera composed by an African American was broadcast on television. Leonard de Paur served as the Musical Director and Conductor. The opera was performed in 1976 in its West Coast Premier at East Los Angeles City College, featuring a mostly African-American professional cast, including Delcina Stevenson, conducted by Calvin Simmons, directed by Gary Fisher, and designed by Donald McAfee. This production shifted the time of the setting to the 1920s. Daniel Cariaga's review of the opera's premiere for the Los Angeles Times described it as "joyously and disarmingly melodious, dramatically effective and beautifully crafted...an attractive and poignant work." Still's widow and author of the libretto, Verna Arvey, attended the Los Angeles production. She was given a plaque honoring William Grant Still and said that the production had fully embodied the spirit of her husband's work. The New York Times review of the television production praised the opera as "simple but effective," and described the cast as "exceptionally handsome and talented." The production received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction. To date, the televised production has not been commercially released on DVD. == Roles == Role Voice Type Cast (1981 Television Broadcast) Aurore Soprano Carmen Balthrop Bazile Tenor Gary Burgess Leonce Baritone Peter Lightfoot Clothilde Soprano Raeschelle Porter Father Lestant Bass Cullen Maiden Minstrel/First Blade Francois Clemmons Second Blade Irwin Reese Third Blade/MC Ben Holt First Woman Louise Clemons Second Woman Glennye Robinson Third Woman Dianne Wells Deacon Benny Reeves Warden Louis Beverly Second Man James Hawkins ==References== ==External links== *New York Times coverage of the television film version of the opera *William Grant Still Music, site with comprehensive information about him and his music *Interview, Transcript, African American Music Collection, University of Michigan *William Grant Still; Composer, Arranger, Conductor & Oboist, AfriClassical.com * (1941) Category:English-language operas Category:Operas by William Grant Still Category:Operas Category:1941 operas Category:1974 operas Category:Operas set in the United States

A Baña is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is 52 kilometers from the provincial capital of A Coruña. It has an area of 98.63 km², a population of 4,888 (2004 estimate), and a population density of 49.56 people/km² ==Demographics== Population change of the municipality from 1991 to 2004 2004 2001 1996 1991 4888 4800 5836 5864 ==Vesía== Vesía is a town situated near the centre of the A Baña municipality, in the A Coruña province. It is part of the parish of San Vicente, the capital of the municipality. Vesía is at an altitude of 317.6 meters above sea level, and stands at an incline of 20.89%. Vesía has a population of around 40 people, the majority of whom are between 65 and 80 years old as the area has suffered youth emigration. == References == Category:Municipalities in the Province of A Coruña

A Beach Full of Shells is the fifteenth studio album by Al Stewart, released in 2005. Like most of Stewart's later works, much of the content of the CD alludes to people or moments in history. == Historical references == * "The Immelman Turn": refers to the aerobatic maneuver of the same name. The narrator, a Barnstormer, pilots a Curtiss "Jenny". * "Mr. Lear": about the nineteenth-century English poet Edward Lear. Lear's cat Foss is mentioned, and his poems "The Pobble Who Has No Toes" and "Uncle Arly" are referenced. * "Somewhere in England, 1915": The narrator, living in 2005, dreams many scenes, including the 1945 film Brief Encounter, the British poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in the trenches of World War I and the last farewell of Violet Asquith (daughter of British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith) and Rupert Brooke. He then wakes up, and sees on that day's newspaper "a man on the cover we all know, defying the fates" who "seems very sure" of himself. * "Katherine of Oregon": the titular character's name is a play on Catherine of Aragon, whose marriage to King Henry VIII of England was annulled in 1533. The chorus' tune is adapted from the work of Beethoven. The Scottish musician Lonnie Donegan is mentioned. When playing this song in concert, Stewart has jokingly suggested that he may write a sequel entitled "Anne of Cleveland" as a play on Anne of Cleves. ==Class of '58== Stewart originally wrote the song "Class of '58" as 13 minutes long. When the record company rejected it, he rewrote it to the truncated 4-minute version on the album. The long version was subsequently released as a single. In the blurb on the single, it is suggested that the album A Beach Full of Shells was originally intended to focus around this song, which describes the life of a musician on the 1950s rock and roll scene. ==Track listing== All songs written by Al Stewart. ==References== * Category:2005 albums Category:Al Stewart albums

A Beacon from Mars is Kaleidoscope's second album. It was published in January 1968 by Epic Records along with the single "I Found Out" b/w "Rampè Rampè". At the time it was released it received good reviews,Platter chatt: albums from the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Cream and Kaleidoscope. (review) (no author) (April 1968) Hit Parader. but like Kaleidoscope's other albums, it was commercially unsuccessful.Joynson, Vernon (1995). Fuzz, Acid, & Flowers . London: Borderline Books. ==Reception== Allmusic's retrospective review hailed the album as flawless brilliance, "the best non-compilation showcase of Kaleidoscope's legendary eclecticism and versatility." They noted the many styles represented by each of the songs, and deemed that "Every one of these disparate styles is performed with authority and commitment, and the result still has the power to amaze." The track "Taxim" is based on "Şehnaz Longa", a Turkish piece by Santuri Ethem Efendi. A 1968 music reviewer stated: "“Here is the most versatile band we have ever heard. You want ragtime? Listen to 'Baldheaded End Of A Broom' which brings back early Spoonful fun. Lovely bass, good mandolin and harmonica. How about authentic hillbilly music? 'Louisiana Man' hunts muskrats in the swamps to bagpipe-sounding fiddles, embellished in drums, of course. Or hard blues? They make good use of their instruments. fuzzed up on the tense, electric 'You Don't Love Me'. High register harmonica screams over a heavy swing bottom. Excellent tension contrasts. 'I Found Out' is a medium tempo folkish tune. 'Greenwood Side', is a slow, emotional Scottish ballad of death, again with bagpipe fiddles and death roll drums. 'Life Will Pass You By', is a Byrd-like song with hillbilly twang harmony and mandolin. 'Taxim' is a long oriental-sounding instrumental, featuring excellent musicianship on caz, oud, harp guitar.Platter chatt: albums from the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Cream and Kaleidoscope. (review) (no author) (1968, April) Hit Parader.” == Track listing == ==Personnel== *David Lindley – guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin *Chris Darrow – bass, vocals, guitar, mandolin *Solomon Feldthouse – vocals, saz, bouzouki, dobro, vina, oud, doumbek, dulcimer, fiddle, guitar *Chester Crill (as Max Buda) – violin, viola, bass, organ, piano, harmonica *John Vidican – drums, percussion ==References== Category:1968 albums Category:Kaleidoscope (American band) albums Category:Epic Records albums

A Beam of Sun to Shake the Sky is a public art work by American artist Richard Taylor, located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The sculpture was created for the Central Milwaukee Public Library as part of the remodeling of the Wells Street entrance. ==Description== A Beam of Sun to Shake the Sky consists of two vertically oriented sculptures set upon massive granite pedestals in front of the library's glass facade. The sculptures appear to be made of bright red ribbon-like strips of painted aluminum that snake skyward. The individual strips each contain cut-out letters in a variety of fonts, languages, and cases. The twin forms are more dense at the bottom, and become lighter toward the top. The highest element on each side is a short, curved strip painted in gold leaf. With their wide bases that taper upward, the forms resemble red candles topped by gold flames. The sculptures are lit from below at night. ==See also== *Red Flower Rising *All in the Air at Once *You Rise Above the World ==References== Category:Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee Category:2004 sculptures

A Bear Named Winnie is a 2004 made-for-television drama film directed by John Kent Harrison. It stars Michael Fassbender and David Suchet. It concerns one of the real-life inspirations behind A. A. Milne's Winnie The Pooh. ==Plot== At the outbreak of World War 1, troops march through the Manitoban city of Winnipeg. Among them is Lieutenant Harry Colebourn (Fassbender), a veteran with a gift for animals. He soon meets a bear, Winnie, who provides comfort for the soldiers and by order of General Hallholland (David Suchet), becomes the regimental mascot. == Cast == ==Copyright== To avoid legal problems concerning the copyrights of both Disney and the Milne estate, Winnie the Pooh and anything related to the property is never referenced nor discussed throughout the film. ==Critical response== John Ferguson of The Radio Times awarded it two stars and said, "This touching fact-based drama almost manages to carry off its combination of First World War setting and sentimental tale, but is unsure of its target audience." == See also == *Goodbye Christopher Robin - a 2017 biographical drama film about Milne and his son, with Vaughan also acting as a writer and producer. ==References== ==Bibliography== * ==External links== * A Bear Named Winnie at the Internet Movie Database * A Bear Named Winnie at Rotten Tomatoes Category:2004 films Category:2004 television films Category:2004 biographical drama films Category:Canadian war drama films Category:English-language Canadian films Category:World War I films based on actual events Category:Films set in 1914 Category:Films about bears Category:Films directed by John Kent Harrison Category:2004 drama films Category:Winnie-the-Pooh films Category:2000s English-language films Category:Canadian World War I films Category:2000s Canadian films

A Bear for Punishment is a 1951 animated Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on October 20, 1951, and stars the Three Bears. ==Plot== In the Three Bear's cave, Henry Bear is woken up from slumber by a ridiculous number of alarm clocks. Junyer Bear claps and happily exclaims, "Oh boy! At last the great day has come, at last! Oh boy, oh boy!" When he can't shut them up, Junyer silences them all by whispering "Shhhhh!" Henry loses his temper, as he often does, shoving a clock in Junyer's face. He is about to lose his temper with Ma Bear when she reminds him today is Father's Day. Henry feels embarrassed and (reluctantly) allows his family to treat him for Father's Day. Unfortunately, the family's celebration of Father's Day repeatedly backfires on Henry: Junyer trips on a roller skate as he is presenting Henry with breakfast in bed, covering him in food; he accidentally fills Henry's tobacco pipe with gunpowder and causes it to explode when he lights it; and he attempts to shave his "Paw" using a broken, shattered straight razor blade, leaving Henry injured to the point where Ma and Junyer briefly thinks he's dead. However, Henry rises up and beats Junyer again, causing him to exclaim, "Paw is all right now, Maw!" Ma and Junyer then put on an elaborate musical presentation for Father's Day, which embarrasses Henry to the extreme. This includes Junyer reciting a cheesy poem for "My Paw," Ma giving an exaggerated song-and-dance act (while keeping a dead-serious and straight face for the entire time), and Henry being grabbed and dressed up as the Statue of Liberty, while Ma and Junyer (dressed as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln respectively) present him as a tribute to Father's Day. The march, "Father", performed by Junior and Ma, is a special vocal written to the tune of "Frat", a long-standing Warner cartoon staple. This is also one of few shorts where Mel Blanc does not provide a voice for any character. ==Voice cast== *Billy Bletcher as Papa Bear *Bea Benaderet as Mama Bear *Stan Freberg as Junyer Bear ==Reception== Animation historian Greg Ford writes that A Bear for Punishment is "a tour de force depicting Maw and Junyer's overzealous salute to Father's Day... As outrageous as Ken Harris' animation of this pageant is, Jones' drawings of Paw, in intercut reaction shots, are even funnier... It is typical of Jones' direction that, even in the midst of one of the most energetic, floridly animated scenes in cartoon history, the primacy of the single drawing should reassert itself." ==References== ==External links== * Category:1951 films Category:1951 comedy films Category:1951 animated films Category:1951 short films Category:1950s Warner Bros. animated short films Category:Looney Tunes shorts Category:Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films Category:Short films directed by Chuck Jones Category:Films scored by Carl Stalling Category:Films with screenplays by Michael Maltese Category:Animated films about bears Category:Father's Day Category:1950s English-language films

A Beard of Stars is the fourth studio album by English psychedelic folk band Tyrannosaurus Rex, and their last before changing their name to T. Rex. It was released in March 1970 by record label Regal Zonophone. == Music == A Beard of Stars was the act's first album with Marc Bolan's new musical partner Mickey Finn and featured Bolan on vocals, guitar, organ and bass and Finn on percussion and bass. It was notable for being the first album on which Bolan used an electric guitar, although that instrument had first appeared on the band's 1969 single "King of the Rumbling Spires"/"Do You Remember". According to Mark Deming of AllMusic, A Beard of Stars "was the turning point where Marc Bolan began evolving from an unrepentant hippie into the full-on swaggering rock star he would be within a couple of years, though for those not familiar with his previous work, it still sounds like the work of a man with his mind plugged into the age of lysergic enchantment". Four tracks from this album, including "Great Horse", were salvaged from spring 1969 sessions for a fourth album with original percussionist Steve Peregrin Took in the wake of "King of the Rumbling Spires". These four tracks were overdubbed for release by Finn, Bolan and Visconti. A further four tracks from the Took sessions – rejected for the final album – subsequently surfaced on various compilations, three ("Once Upon the Seas of Abyssinia", "Blessed Wild Apple Girl," "Demon Queen") in Bolan's lifetime, the fourth ("Ill Starred Man") posthumously. == Release == A Beard of Stars was released in March 1970 by Regal Zonophone in the UK and Blue Thumb in the US. It reached No. 21 in the UK Albums Chart. == Reception == In a retrospective review, AllMusic praised the album as a "Grand Transformation. A Beard of Stars holds on to the charm of Tyrannosaurus Rex's early work while letting Bolan's natural charisma and rock moves finally take hold, and it's a unique and very pleasing entry in their catalog". == Track listing == ==Personnel== ;Tyrannosaurus Rex *Marc Bolan - acoustic and electric guitars, lead vocals, chord organ, bass *Mickey Finn - Moroccan clay drums, backing vocals, tabla, finger cymbals, bass ;Technical * Malcolm Toft - engineer * Tony Visconti - piano, producer == Charts == Chart (1970) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report) 27 UK Albums Chart 21 == References == == External links == * Category:T. Rex (band) albums Category:1970 albums Category:Albums produced by Tony Visconti Category:Regal Zonophone Records albums Category:Blue Thumb Records albums Category:Albums recorded at Trident Studios

thumb|250px|A Bearded Man (c. 1617–1618) by Rubens A Bearded Man is a study by Peter Paul Rubens, now held in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. ==History== It was attributed to Rubens by Max Friedländer, Valentiner Held and Jaffé, who date it to between 1617 and 1618 from indications that it was produced in his Wapper studio-house in Antwerp. At that time Rubens' only assistant was Anthony van Dyck.Sansores San Román, Carlos (2005). Seis siglos de arte. Cien grandes maestros. México: Museo Soumaya. Fundación Carso A.C. p. 60. == Construction site == This work, which is a study, was attributed to Rubens by Max Friedländer, Valentiner Held and Jaffé. These authors indicate that it was painted between 1617 and 1618, which indicates that it was carried out in the house-studio in Wapper Street, Antwerp. In this time and place, Anton Van Dyck used to attend this studio to assimilate the secrets and technique of Rubens. ==References== Category:1618 paintings Category:Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens Category:Paintings in the Museo Soumaya

A Beast With Two Backs is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 on 20 November 1968Radio Times looks at 14 years of distinguished contributions to BBCtv Drama, Radio Times, 27 January-2 February 1979. as part of The Wednesday Play strand. The play is a fictional account of an event that happened in the Forest of Dean in the 1890s when four Frenchmen came over the border from Gloucester with dancing bears, who were subsequently killed by miners coming off the late shift in retaliation for an unrelated attack on a young local girl. ==Synopsis== In the 1890s, Joe - a travelling Italian showman - and his dancing bear Gina make their way over the border from Gloucester to the Forest of Dean; hungry and penniless from their poor reception in the last town, Joe hopes to drum up more business. As they make their way to Berry Hill, a group of schoolchildren racially abuse Joe. After Joe threatens to set Gina on them, the children disperse. Watching from the undergrowth are miner Mickey Teague and his mistress Rebecca. Mickey is reluctant to leave his wife to be with Rebecca, but Rebecca is pregnant and threatens to reveal him as her unborn child's father unless he comply with her wishes. As she rushes towards the town, Mickey brains Rebecca with a rock and leaves her to die in the woods. In Berry Hill, the townsfolk enjoy the revelry of a Sunday afternoon at the local tavern. Amongst them is Rufus, the village 'simpleton', who once again is dancing on tables to the amusement and goading of the villagers. The local preacher Ebeneezer, Rufus' guardian, arrives and removes him. Rufus is beaten severely by Ebeneezer, and flees into the woods where he discovers Rebecca. Ebeneezer follows and upon seeing Rebecca's body assumes Rufus has attempted to kill her. As Rebecca is still alive, the preacher fears that she will implicate Rufus and kills her. Later that day, Joe and Gina arrive in Berry Hill and entertain the townsfolk. False rumours are circulating that Gina had mauled one of the schoolchildren the pair had encountered on their arrival over the border. The townsfolk pelt Joe and Gina with stones and force them to flee the village. Back in the forest, Rebecca's body has been discovered and the local constabulary set to work interviewing the residents of the nearby towns. As the shocked villagers gather together back at the tavern, a desperate Mickey convinces the townsfolk that the bear was responsible. The townsfolk gather at the chapel for evening prayers where a guilt-stricken Ebeneezer delivers a sermon on 'the beast within'. As the preacher calls on the congregation to vanquish the beast in their midst, the villagers choose to see this as a reference to Joe and Gina and a group of miners head off in pursuit of their quarry. Ebeneezer hangs himself and Rufus, upon discovering the body, flees towards the forest. Arriving at the clearing where Joe and Gina have settled down for the evening, the miners throw stones and heavy rocks at the bear before advancing on Gina and beating her to death. Moved by Joe's tears, the men offer him recompense; Joe declines and asks to be left alone with his dead friend. As the miners return to the village they pass a frightened Rufus, and pause to consider his terror. ==References== ==External links== * Category:1968 television plays Category:BBC television dramas Category:Television shows written by Dennis Potter

thumb|The Full Film A Beast at Bay is a 1912 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was produced and distributed by the Biograph Company. Preserved in paper print form at the Library of Congress.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collections and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress (<-book title) p.13 c.1978 by the American Film Institute This film is in the Public Domain == Plot == A young woman believes her boyfriend is cowardly after he backs down from an argument, but when the she is kidnapped, her boyfriend rescues her and she changes her mind. ==Cast== *Mary Pickford – The Young Woman *Edwin August – The Young Woman's Ideal *Alfred Paget – The Convict *Mae Marsh – The Young Woman's Friend ===Rest of cast=== *Elmer Booth – unconfirmed *Christy Cabanne – Station Master *William A. Carroll – Guard *Francis J. Grandon – unconfirmed *Robert Harron – A Farmer *J. Jiquel Lanoe – At Station *Henry Lehrman – A Guard *Charles Hill Mailes – Guard *Marguerite Marsh – (*billed Marguerite Loveridge) *Lottie Pickford – unconfirmed *W. C. Robinson – Guard ==References== ==External links== * * *A Beast at Bay available for free download at Internet Archive Category:1912 films Category:American silent short films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by D. W. Griffith Category:Silent American drama films Category:1912 drama films Category:1912 short films Category:1910s American films Category:American drama short films

thumb|right|Book cover A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed is a 1983 non-fiction book by American biologist and author Douglas H. Chadwick, published by Sierra Club Books. Chadwick describes his interactions with Rocky mountain goats and pleads for their preservation. The book received generally positive reviews for its accessible writing and interesting descriptions. ==Contents== A Beast the Color of Winter discusses the lives and habits of mountain goats. The book describes their animalistic nature, avoiding prescribing them human traits. Chadwick also describes his own interactions with goats, including being gored by one after being perceived as a rival, following which he studied goat behavior and behaved appropriately, leading to no further conflict with the goat. The book ends by promoting preservation, noting that goat populations have been declining at alarming rates. ==Critical reception== The book was described by Chris Volk for the Missoulian as "a fascinating and passionate, yet informative and scientific, tribute to one of Montana's most stalwart residents and mascots", and strongly recommended. The book also received a positive reception in The Spokesman- Review, with reviewer Rich Landers noting that the prose was "more readable than you'd expect from a scientist", and noting that while the book promotes a position on preservation that may be controversial among hunters, it presents it in a strong way worthy of consideration. The book was praised by John Wilkes, writing for the San Francisco Examiner, for its vivid descriptions and amusing anecdotes about goat behavior. ==References== Category:1983 non- fiction books Category:Zoology books

"A Beat for You" is a song by Australian pop group Pseudo Echo. The song was released in April 1984 as the second single from their debut studio album, Autumnal Park (1984). The song peaked at number 12 on the Australian Kent Music Report. A slightly updated version of the song appeared as the leadoff track on the North American release of the group's follow-up album, Love an Adventure. Referring to this version, AllMusic said, "driving hard rock riffs puncture Pierre Gigliotti and James Leigh's wall of synthesizers. Vocalist Brian Canham has a darkly erotic voice that only new wave groups seem to breed -- imagine a cross between Jim Kerr of Simple Minds and Midge Ure." == Track listing == 7" (EMI-1252) *Side A "A Beat for You" – 3:43 *Side B "Autumnal Park" – 4:10 12" (EMI – ED 81) *Side A "A Beat for You" (extended) – 7:36 *Side B "Autumnal Park" – 4:10 *Side B "A Beat for You" (single) – 3:43 ==Charts== ===Weekly charts=== Chart (1984) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report) 12 ===Year-end charts=== Chart (1984) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report) 70 New Zealand (RIANZ) 36 == References == Category:1982 songs Category:1984 singles Category:Pseudo Echo songs Category:Song recordings produced by John Punter

A Beautiful Affair is a 2012 Philippine romantic melodrama television series starring John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo together with John Estrada.John Lloyd, Bea in a beautiful partnership (Journal.com.ph, June 23, 2012)John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo featured in a news program in Vienna, Austria (Pep.ph, June 23, 2012)Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd Cruz will reunite for teleserye to be shot in Europe (Pep.ph, June 23, 2012) The series premiered on ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida evening block and worldwide on TFC from October 29, 2012 to January 18, 2013, replacing Walang Hanggan and being replaced by Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw. Bea, John Lloyd's 'Beautiful Affair' gets full trailer The drama revolves around two lost souls who meet and fall in love in the city of Vienna in Austria.Bea overwhelmed by success of 'The Mistress'John Lloyd, Bea talk about 'A Beautiful Affair'Adultery a no-no to Lloydie ==Overview== ===Background=== A Beautiful Affair is the highly anticipated drama series celebrating Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd Cruz's 10th anniversary as an on-screen love team. According to series director, Katski Flores, the drama began as a film concept in 2007 inspired loosely by Camelot and The Fountainhead.A Beautiful Affair facts The drama was first hinted by ABS-CBN in November 2011 as a blind item, however several articles were released a month later from various sources confirming this.How 2012 is shaping up for John Lloyd Cruz Bea Alonzo admits she misses being teamed-up with John Lloyd Cruz The drama is produced under the unit of Laurenti Dyogi and directed by Katski Flores whose first work on television was headwriting Cruz and Alonzo's first drama together titled, Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay back in 2002.A Beautiful Affair will air for 22 weeks Filming began on May 16, 2012 in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria.Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd Cruz' reunion teleserye to be shot in Austria With its high budget, the drama filmed internationally for the second time in Japan in December 2012.A Beautiful Affair in Japan ===Premise=== Leon (John Lloyd Cruz) is an architect who loses the will to live after his mother's death. In Vienna, he meets Gen (Bea Alonzo) a woman who suffers from a broken heart after finding out that her fiancé was cheating on her. Hoping to reclaim themselves and move on from their painful past, they venture to find love and romance. However, due to certain circumstances, they decide to part ways. A year later, fate brings them together again, but unbeknownst to Leon, Gen is already in love with another man who happens to be his adoptive brother, Edward (John Estrada) and is set to marry her.A Beautiful Affair Final Full Trailer ==Cast and characters== ===Main cast=== * John Lloyd Cruz as Napoleon "Leon" Riego * Bea Alonzo as Genevieve "Gen" Saavedra * John Estrada as Edward Pierro ===Supporting cast=== * Eula Valdez as Carlotta Pierro * Dimples Romana as Emilia "Emy" Biglang-awa * Megan Young as Ava Pierro * Jaime Fabregas as Arturo Pierro * John Arcilla as Leopoldo "Epong" Riego * Ana Roces as Natalia Saavedra * Janus del Prado as Fred Macatangay * Regine Tolentino as Sophia Imperial * Erika Padilla as Dr. Trina Cawagas * Angelina Kanapi as Sabrina Saavedra-Reyes * Sandy Aloba as Mona * Slater Young as Harry Reyes * Bugoy Cariño as Ivan * Maria Anna Krynessa Rivera as Lala ===Guest cast=== * Menggie Cobarrubias as Julio Santillian * Maliksi Morales as Ferdie Macatangay * Edward Mendez as Martin Santillian * Lito Pimentel as Rex Resureccion * Bing Davao as Venicio * Jason Francisco as Nelson * Tetchie Agbayani as Tala * Matthew Mendoza as Winston * Beverly Salviejo as Ason * Ricardo Cepeda as Akira Yamamoto * Miki Tokugawa as a Japanese tea ceremony teacher ===Special participation=== * Maritoni Fernandez as Evelyn Saavedra * Allan Paule as Henry Lumayang * Jim Paredes as Stephen Saavedra * Tanya Gomez as Rosario "Osang" Riego * Carlo Romero as Jake Montgomery * Andre Garcia as young Leon * Alexa Ilacad as young Gen ==Soundtrack== A Beautiful Affair: Original SoundtrackA Beautiful Affair Primetime Bida Patrol Version 4 - Official Soundtrack Release * Artist: Various * Released: 2012 * Label: Star Records * Language: Filipino, English * Format: Studio album (CD) * Genre: OPM, Ballad ===Track list and duration=== # After All - Martin Nievera & Vina Morales - 4:37 # I'll Take Care Of You - Richard Poon - 4:20 # Ikaw At Ako - Johnoy Danao - 5:10 # Akala Mo - Juris - 3:53 # Wag Kanang Umiyak - KZ Tandingan - 4:40 # Paano Ba Ang Magmahal? - Erik Santos & Liezel Garcia - 4:27 # After All - Yeng Constantino & Sam Milby - 3:57 # Naaalala Ka - John Lloyd Cruz & Bea Alonzo - 4:22 Total running time: 35:26 ==See also== * List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN * List of ABS-CBN drama series ==References== == External links == *Official website Category:ABS-CBN drama series Category:2012 Philippine television series debuts Category:2013 Philippine television series endings Category:Philippine melodrama television series Category:Philippine romance television series Category:Television shows filmed in the Philippines Category:Television shows filmed in Austria Category:Television shows filmed in Japan Category:Filipino-language television shows

A Beautiful Blue Death, by Charles Finch, is the first novel in a series of mysteries featuring Victorian gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox. ==Plot summary== The novel, set in 1865 London, follows Charles Lenox as he seeks to solve a murder. Lenox is an independently wealthy gentleman who enjoys solving crimes as a hobby, though he generally prefers to pass the cold winter days in his library with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. He is drawn into a new case when his lifelong friend and neighbor Lady Jane Grey makes a special request for his help. Prudence Smith, Grey's former housemaid, is dead in an apparent suicide. But Lenox immediately suspects foul play: murder by a rare and deadly poison. Smith lived and worked in the patrician house of George Barnard, a place full of suspects. While Smith played with more than a few hearts, the motive behind her death proves elusive. When another body turns up during the season's most fashionable ball, Lenox must untangle the web of loyalties and animosities surrounding Barnard’s mansion. Lenox receives help with the task both from his faithful valet, Graham, and his friend, Dr. Thomas McConnell. Throughout the story, Lenox’s efforts are intermittently enabled or hampered by Scotland Yard Inspector James Exeter, who requires Lenox’s help with the case but wants always to appear in total control. The subplots of the novel focus on Lenox's evolving personal relationship with Grey and McConnell's strained marriage to Lady Victoria "Toto" Phillips, all recurring characters in Finch's books. ==Awards and recognition== A Beautiful Blue Death was nominated for the Agatha Award for best first mystery of 2007. The novel was also named one of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2007, one of only five mystery novels on the list. ==Publication history== A Beautiful Blue Death was first published in hardcover by St. Martin’s Minotaur and released on June 26, 2007. A large print edition was published by Thorndike Press in December of 2007. The trade paperback was released in 2008. The novel has been translated into German and Russian. ==Literary criticism== Finch received favorable reviews in several major newspapers. Kevin Allman of The Washington Post called A Beautiful Blue Death "a fine specimen of the genre" and noted that "particularly good is [Finch's] delineation of Lenox's cozy-but-proper relationship with Lady Jane." Publishers Weekly praised the book, saying that "lovers of quality historical whodunits will hope this is the first in a series." ==References== ==External links== * A Beautiful Blue Death Official Macmillan Page * Review by The Washington Post * Review by Publishers Weekly Category:2007 American novels Category:American mystery novels Category:American historical novels Category:Fiction set in 1865 Category:Novels set in Victorian England Category:Novels set in London Category:Historical mystery novels Category:Novels by Charles Finch Category:Charles Lenox novels

A Beautiful Child () is the best selling non-fiction book by author Matt Birkbeck published by Berkley/Penguin in 2004 and in paperback in 2005. It tells the story of a young woman known by many names, including Sharon Marshall, who was kidnapped as a toddler and raised by a convicted felon, Franklin Delano Floyd. The book was also published in several foreign countries, including Denmark, Germany and Poland. A Beautiful Child spurred numerous web sites dedicated to finding Sharon's true identity. Through suggestions from those sites along with reader suggestions from around the world, Birkbeck, in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, conducted DNA testing on relatives of several girls who went missing in the early 1970s. World-wide interest in the book kept the Sharon Marshall story alive and led to the discovery by Birkbeck of her biological daughter, who had been placed for adoption in 1989. Sharon's DNA was believed to have been degraded, but testing comparisons to her daughter provided a positive match and her DNA was placed into CODIS, the FBI's database. Continued interest in the book lead the NCMEC to reopen its investigation in 2011. The NCMEC then recruited the FBI in Oklahoma City and two agents, using the book and other resources as their guides, interviewed Franklin Floyd in prison in Florida, where he provided Sharon's true identity. In July 2014, DNA testing positively identified Sharon as Suzanne Sevakis, the daughter of a woman Floyd briefly married in the mid-1970s. Floyd kidnapped Suzanne and her siblings when their mother was incarcerated for 30 days. Suzanne's son Michael, after being kidnapped from his elementary school by Floyd in 1994, has never been located, but Floyd admitted during the FBI interviews that he killed him shortly after the kidnapping. == Sequel == Finding Sharon () is the sequel to A Beautiful Child published in 2018 that tells the story of the ten-year effort by the author Matt Birkbeck, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the FBI to learn the true identity of Sharon Marshall and the fate of her son Michael Hughes. ==References== ==External links== *Cold Case Investigation - Solving a Decades-Old Mystery (FBI) Category:American biographies Category:2004 non- fiction books Category:Works about kidnapping

A Beautiful Crime is a 2020 crime fiction novel by the American writer and editor Christopher Bollen. It is Bollen's fourth novel and was written in 2018 during a residency in Paris. The novel was first published in the United States by Harper on January 28, 2020. The story, which is set in Venice, centers on boyfriends Nick Brink and Clay Guillory, who sell an inherited collection of forged silver antiques to a wealthy acquaintance from Clay's past. Their deception quickly leads to more serious crimes, as Clay attempts to sell an expensive property that he does not fully own and Nick murders a silver appraiser who threatened to expose their initial scheme. Bollen described A Beautiful Crime as his most personal novel to date, and elements of the plot and character backgrounds are inspired by his own life. The novel explores the overtourism and depopulation of Venice, and the intersection of greed, morality, and social class. A Beautiful Crime was a finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the mystery/thriller category. It received a mixed critical reception; reviewers generally praised Bollen's depictions of Venice and the relationships between the characters but disagreed on the effectiveness of the narrative's pace. The book has drawn comparisons to novels by Patricia Highsmith, particularly The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955). ==Plot== thumb|The Peggy Guggenheim Collection|alt=A large building on the edge of a canal with a boat and tourists in the foreground Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory arrive in Venice, leaving behind their lives in New York City. They first met two months earlier at the memorial service of Freddy van der Haar, Clay's previous boyfriend who bequeathed to him a collection of silver antiques and his share of a Venetian nicknamed "". After Nick and Clay learned that the antiques were forgeries, they devised a plan to settle their debts by selling the pieces to Richard West, a wealthy American expatriate who finances cultural conservation projects in Venice. Four years ago, while Clay interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, he also worked as Richard's personal assistant. When he failed to gain a permanent post at the museum, Clay was devastated to learn Richard was responsible for his rejection and has since held a grudge against him. Nick intentionally runs into Richard and poses as an expert silver appraiser while concealing his relationship with Clay. He is invited to a dinner party at Richard's home, which shares a wall with . A few days later, Nick performs a spurious authentication and persuades Richard to purchase the silver for $750,000. Nick and Clay celebrate their successful transaction, but Nick begins to worry how long the money will last and devises a plan to sell to Richard, who has long wanted to merge it with his own residence. Clay is reluctant because the property partly belongs to Freddy's estranged sister Cecilia, but he eventually agrees to the scheme and flies to Paris to arrange forged documents identifying him as the sole owner. Nick visits Richard again, hoping to persuade him to complete the purchase of , but he is horrified to see Dulles Hawkes, a retired silver appraiser whom Richard has invited to view his newly purchased antiques. Dulles immediately detects the forgeries but plays along with the ruse, and he later threatens to divulge the scam unless Nick has sex with him in his hotel that night. Nick is forced to oblige. Afterwards, Dulles continues to blackmail Nick, insisting they will have sex again the next day and demanding half of the profits of the scam. A panicked Nick follows Dulles to the hotel elevator, which is under repair, and impulsively pushes him down the empty elevator shaft. Dulles dies on impact and Nick flees the hotel. Clay agrees to sell to Richard for four million euros. On his way to the final meeting to complete the transaction, Clay is stopped by Richard's assistant Battista, who has discovered Richard has been anonymously financing a planned tourist development in the city. Battista, a vocal protestor against the development, tells Clay the meeting is a trap; Richard has traced Cecilia, discovered the documents are forgeries, and notified the police. Richard, who is still unaware of Nick and Clay's relationship, casually reveals the setup to Nick. Enraged, Nick fights with Richard and strikes him in the head with a doorstop. Clay is suspected in the investigation but Battista provides an alibi and exposes Richard as the anonymous investor. The attack is ultimately attributed to an unknown protestor. Richard, who has been rendered indefinitely mute from the attack, is transferred to a neurological clinic in Leipzig. Nick moves to a nearby island to avoid scrutiny while Clay remains in Venice, and they continue to communicate discreetly. Five months later, Clay travels to the island when they decide it is safe for him to do so, and they joyfully reunite. ==Background and publication history== thumb|upright|Bollen in 2016|alt=Photo of Christopher Bollen A Beautiful Crime is Christopher Bollen's fourth novel following Lightning People (2011), Orient (2015), and The Destroyers (2017). Bollen incorporated aspects of his own life into the plot and characters; for instance, both he and Nick grew up in Ohio and like Clay, he was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection after graduating from college. The Venetian apartment where Nick stays is modeled on an apartment near Campo Santa Margherita where Bollen lived during his internship. Nick is partly based on the character of Daisy Miller from the eponymous 1879 novella by Henry James. Comparing the characters, Bollen described Daisy as someone who is "lovely but reckless and falls into danger". Bollen chose to feature an interracial relationship between Nick, who is white, and Clay, who is Black, to represent "two all-American guys" and to highlight diversity within the LGBT community. The character Freddy van der Haar, who represents the older generation of gay men living in New York, was inspired by the American photographer David Armstrong and had a more prominent role in the novel's first draft. Bollen has described A Beautiful Crime as his most personal novel to date. He dedicated the book to fellow novelist Edmund White, who he described as "someone who I really admired who blazed the trail for me", citing their shared Cincinnati roots and White's works of gay literature. White had previously dedicated his 2016 novel Our Young Man to Bollen. In an interview with Vogue Italia, Bollen credited Toto Bergamo Rossi, the director of a cultural conservation nonprofit in Venice, with teaching him about Italy's architecture and the Italian language while he was researching for the book. Bollen wrote A Beautiful Crime while living in a 17thcentury Parisian monastery during a 2018 residency; Clay's brief trip to Paris in the novel is the result of Bollen's promise to his sponsoring organization to set one of the book's chapters in that city. A Beautiful Crime was published in the United States by Harper as a 400-page hardcover edition on January 28, 2020. Harper Perennial published the paperback version on January 12, 2021. Tim Paige narrated the 11-hour audiobook, which was released by Harper Audio. AudioFile review of the audiobook praised the emotions conveyed by Paige's narration but characterized his accents for secondary characters as "inconsistent". ==Themes== ===Overtourism=== Venice is a popular destination for tourists. In 2019, the city was estimated to have 25 million visitors annually. Analyses of overtourism in Venice have reported negative impacts such as overcrowding, a decline in permanent residents corresponding to a rise in vacation rentals, and an increase in generated waste. Bollen, who has called for the banning of cruise ships and Airbnb rentals from the city, wrote in an article for The Daily Beast that A Beautiful Crime depicts Venice as a city in crisis that is "caught in the jaws of a mighty shark". The book explores the city's overtourism and depopulation, negatively depicting the rise of Airbnb rentals in the city and including a scene of residents protesting against foreign investments and chanting "" ("I do not go away, I stay!"). John Copenhaver, writing for the Lambda Literary Foundation, said the book's "central crime" is not Nick and Clay's schemes but Venice's "siege by tourism and foreign developers", and that the narrative's underlying mystery is the identity of those who are destroying the city, representing the destruction of Nick and Clay's vision for their future. ===Greed and morality=== During a press interview for The Destroyers, Bollen said he wanted to create gay characters who are "complicated in a different and new way" for his next work. Though Nick is introduced as a charming, naïve Midwesterner, his greed leads to disastrous consequences, including the murder of Dulles. Brian Alessandro of Newsday described Bollen's casting of Nick and Clay as morally ambiguous criminals as "plucking gay characters out of the ghettos of victimhood or sainthood", and that they are ultimately forced to face the consequences of their actions. Even as Nick and Clay commit crimes for money and revenge, they are portrayed in a sympathetic light. Issues of social class recur throughout the novel; Nick and Clay's scheme to sell forgeries to Richard is rooted in a desire for "upward social mobility in this materialistic milieu". In their interactions with Richard, other characters, and each other, Bollen highlights the effects of social inequality on the characters' decisions and senses of identity. In pursuit of financial security, Nick and Clay seek to reinvent themselves in Venice, at the price of their criminal actions. ==Reception== thumb|A Beautiful Crime has drawn comparisons to works by Patricia Highsmith (pictured in 1988).|alt=Photo of Patricia Highsmith Literary critics have compared A Beautiful Crime to Patricia Highsmith's novels—particularly The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)—citing similar characteristics such as criminal protagonists and moral ambiguity. The book has also been compared to works by Alan Hollinghurst, including his 1988 novel The Swimming-Pool Library. A Beautiful Crime was one of five finalists for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the mystery/thriller category and was listed by O, The Oprah Magazine as one of the top 20 books of 2020. The New York Times described the book as an "elegant crime thriller", and it received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage. Several reviewers praised the sympathetic characterization of Bollen's protagonists and his examination of Clay's Black identity in the context of racism in the LGBT community. In his review, Alessandro described the novel's exploration of Nick and Clay's relationship, especially as it is tested by the obstacles they encounter, as "sincere and deep". A reviewer for Publishers Weekly concurred, writing that while the titular crime is the focus of the plot, "the story gains its strength from its look at gay romance". Patrick Sullivan, writing for Library Journal, also commended the depictions of Clay's relationships with Freddy and Nick. Michael Cart of Booklist described A Beautiful Crime as "deftly paced and plotted", but Randy Rosenthal wrote in the Los Angeles Review of Books it "not only lacks literary artistry, but it also lacks the thrill of a thriller". Rosenthal criticized the pace of the beginning of the novel as too slow, and said the plot, characters, and language are not realistic. He found the plot toward the end more engaging and applauded Bollen's examination of overtourism in Venice. In a review for The Washington Post, Dennis Drabelle questioned Bollen's optimistic portrayal of Nick's and Clay's relationship in "the dishonest and brutal world [they] inhabit" but praised the novel's suspense and its depiction of Venice. Katherine B. Weissman of Bookreporter wrote secondary characters such as Battista and Dulles are more interesting than Nick and Clay but praised the level of suspense and the setting, and described Bollen's characterization of Venice as "both accurate and eloquent". ==References== ==External links== * Official website Category:2020 American novels Category:2020s LGBT novels Category:2020 LGBT-related literary works Category:American crime novels Category:American LGBT novels Category:Fraud in fiction Category:HarperCollins books Category:Novels by Christopher Bollen Category:Novels set in Venice Category:Novels with gay themes

"A Beautiful Darkness" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season and 79th episode overall from the Fox series Gotham. The show is itself based on the characters created by DC Comics set in the Batman mythology. The episode was written by Tze Chun and directed by executive producer John Stephens. It was first broadcast on March 8, 2018. In the episode, Ivy goes after many people involved in a Wayne Enterprises project only known as "Project M", which affects her plants. After Selina abandons her, she uses her new powers on Bruce, who receives a precognitive glimpse from his future. Gordon sets to stop her before she affects Fox. Meanwhile, Penguin meets Jerome in Arkham and begins to uncover his sinister plans. The episode received positive reviews with critics praising Taylor’s and Monaghan’s performances and chemistry as well as the Arkham storyline. However, the dream sequences received criticism. ==Plot== Ivy (Peyton List) begins to investigate "Project M", which is being conducted at Wayne Enterprises and involves the experimentation and deaths of several plants, much to her anger. After she murders a Wayne Enterprises employee, a horrified Selina (Camren Bicondova) abandons her. Ivy then visits Bruce (David Mazouz) and, after hypnotizing him with a kiss, poisons him, causing him to hallucinate his closest friends and allies along with a mysterious cloaked figure, who reveals to Bruce that he is a manifestation of him formed by his grief and sorrow after his parents' deaths. Simultaneously, Ivy hypnotizes Fox (Chris Chalk) and forces him to take her to the laboratory where Project M is being conducted and she collects a sample of the Lazarus water that is being used in the experiments before escaping. Gordon (Ben McKenzie) tracks them down and rescues Fox before collecting the antidote and rescuing Bruce, who believes that he has seen his future. Ivy also uses the Lazarus water to create a new flower that can immediately kill someone upon contact with the petals. Meanwhile, Jerome (Cameron Monaghan) pesters Oswald (Robin Lord Taylor) in Arkham and he subjects him to numerous humiliating tasks in order to turn him insane and upon learning that Jerome is intending on escaping and wreaking havoc in Gotham, Oswald decides to use that to escape. ==Production== ===Development=== In March 2018, it was announced that the thirteenth episode of the season would be titled "A Beautiful Darkness" and was to be written by Tze Chun and directed by executive producer John Stephens. ===Casting=== Jessica Lucas and Drew Powell don't appear in the episode as their respective characters. In March 2018, it was announced that the guest cast for the episode would include Cameron Monaghan as Jerome Valeska, and Peyton List as Ivy Pepper. ==Reception== ===Viewers=== The episode was watched by 2.41 million viewers with a 0.7/3 share among adults aged 18 to 49. This was a 7% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 2.57 million viewers with a 0.8/3 in the 18-49 demographics. With these ratings, Gotham ranked first for Fox, beating Showtime at the Apollo, fifth on its timeslot, and thirteenth for the night, behind Champions, How to Get Away with Murder, S.W.A.T., Superstore, Will & Grace, Scandal, Chicago Fire, Life in Pieces, Mom, Grey's Anatomy, Young Sheldon, and The Big Bang Theory. With DVR factored in, the episode was viewed by 3.93 million viewers. ==References== == External links == * Category:Gotham (season 4) episodes Category:2018 American television episodes Category:Television episodes about nightmares Category:Television episodes about precognition

A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era () is a 2009 Chinese emotional drama directed by Liu Jiang which broadcast on Beijing Television and Dragon Television and from March 2010 to April 2010. It stars Hai Qing and Huang Haibo. The series was produced by Beijing HualuBaina Film & TV Company Limited, Shanghai Media Group in association with Beijing Media Network. It is base on the novel of the same name by Wang Liping. The series follows the story of an ordinary family life in urban areas of China. ==Cast== ===Main=== * Hai Qing as Mao Doudou * Huang Haibo as Yu Wei ===Supporting=== * Lin Shen as Mao Feng, Mao Doudou's younger brother. * Bai Han as Cao Xinmei, mother of Yu Wei and Yu Hao. * Liu Lili as Wang Shenghong, mother of Mao Doudou and Mao Feng. * Li Guangfu as Mao Jianhua, father of Mao Doudou and Mao Feng. * Yue Yue as Yu Hao, Yu Wei's younger sister. * Zhang Jianing as Pan Meili, Pan Fenghuang's younger sister. * Ji Qilin as Yu Hongshui, father of Yu Wei and Yu Hao. * Gao Baobao as Yao Jing, Yu Hongshui's second wife. * Shi Yanjing as Yang Shu, Cao Xinmei's second husband. * Feng Jiayi as Li Ruoqiu * Liang Jingke as Qin Susu, Mao Feng's ex-wife. * Li Kunlin as Yang Yifan, Yang Shu's son with his former wife. ==Soundtrack== ==Broadcasts== A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era was first dubbed in Swahili and broadcast across East African countries in 2011. The Arabic-dubbed version of A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era was broadcast in Iraq in September 2019. ==Awards and nominations== Year Award Category Nominated work/ people Result Notes 2010 Shanghai Television Festival Best Writer Wang Liping 2010 Shanghai Television Festival Silver Award for Best Television Series A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era 2010 Shanghai Television Festival Best Actress in a Television Series Bai Han 2010 25th Golden Eagle Awards Outstanding Television Series A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era 2010 25th Golden Eagle Awards Best Actor Huang Haibo 2010 Tokyo International Television Festival Best Foreign Television Series A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era 2010 China TV Drama Awards Best Actress Hai Qing 2010 China TV Drama Awards Best Supporting Actress Bai Han 2011 28th Flying Apsaras Awards Full-length Television Series First Prize A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era 2011 28th Flying Apsaras Awards Outstanding Writer Wang Liping 2011 28th Flying Apsaras Awards Outstanding Actress Hai Qing 2011 28th Flying Apsaras Awards Outstanding Director Award Liu Jiang 2011 Asia Rainbow TV Awards Modern Drama A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era 2018 Shanghai Television Festival International Communication Award A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era ==References== ==External links== * * * Category:2010 Chinese television series debuts Category:2010 Chinese television series endings Category:Television shows based on Chinese novels Category:Chinese romantic comedy television series

A Beautiful Day is a live album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill recorded in 2002 at Birdland in New York City and released on the Palmetto label.Andrew Hill discography accessed October 1, 2010 ==Reception== The Allmusic review by David R. Adler awarded the album 4 stars and stated "this remarkable live album... boasts a large ensemble, billed at Birdland and previous gigs as the Andrew Hill Sextet + 11. Despite a large regiment of horns, Hill's reflective piano figures prominently... With its wide array of available textures and juxtapositions, the big band proves an ideal vehicle for Hill's powerful, unclassifiable music".Adler, D. R. [ Allmusic Review] accessed October 1, 2010 ==Track listing== All compositions by Andrew Hill. # "Divine Revelation" – 8:19 # "Faded Beauty" – 11:28 # "Bellezza" – 8:43 # "5 Mo" – 6:42 # "New Pinnochio" – 7:36 # "J Di" – 5:50 # "A Beautiful Day" – 11:44 # "11/8" – 1:06 *Recorded at Birdland, New York City on January 24–26, 2002 ==Personnel== *Andrew Hill – piano *John Savage – flute (tracks 2 & 4), alto saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 5-8) *Marty Ehrlich – clarinet (track 4), bass clarinet (track 2), alto saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 5-8) *Aaron Stewart, Greg Tardy – tenor saxophone *J. D. Parran – baritone saxophone *Dave Ballou, Laurie Frink, Ron Horton (tracks 1-6), Bruce Staalens – trumpet *Mike Fahn, Joe Fielder, Charlie Gordon – trombone *Jose D'avila – tuba *Scott Colley – bass *Nasheet Waits – drums ==References== Category:Palmetto Records live albums Category:Andrew Hill live albums Category:2002 live albums

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a 2019 American biographical drama film on the TV presenter Fred Rogers, directed by Marielle Heller and written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, inspired by the 1998 article "Can You Say... Hero?" by Tom Junod, published in Esquire. It stars Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Chris Cooper. It depicts Lloyd Vogel (Rhys), a troubled journalist for Esquire who is assigned to profile television icon Fred Rogers (Hanks). The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 22, 2019, by Sony Pictures Releasing. It grossed $68 million worldwide. Critics praised Hanks and Rhys's performances, Heller's direction, and its heart-warming messages. It was chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best films of the year. For his performance, Hanks was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, as well as the Golden Globes, Critics' Choice, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and BAFTA Awards, among others. ==Plot== In 1998, at the beginning of an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Mr. Rogers displays a picture board with five doors. Three of the doors are opened to reveal the familiar faces of Lady Aberlin, King Friday, and Mr. McFeely. The fourth door is opened to reveal the face of Mr. Rogers' troubled new friend, Lloyd Vogel, who has a cut near his nose. Mr. Rogers explains that Lloyd has been hurt (and not necessarily on his face), and he is struggling to forgive the one who hurt him. After explaining what forgiveness means, Mr. Rogers leaves to visit Lloyd. Lloyd Vogel is an Esquire journalist known for his cynical writing. He attends his sister Lorraine's wedding with his wife Andrea and their newborn son, Gavin. During the reception, Lloyd is approached by his estranged father, Jerry, who notes his son’s new family. When Jerry mentions Lloyd's deceased mother Lila, whom Jerry cheated on and abandoned twenty years earlier, Lloyd fiercely tells him not to, and when Jerry insists on explaining his marital frustration, punches his father before being punched against the wall by another guest, explaining the cut by his nose. Lloyd's editor, Ellen, assigns him to interview children's television presenter Fred Rogers for a 400-word article about heroes. Lloyd feels that the assignment is beneath him, but is informed that none of the other heroes were willing to talk to him. Still cynical, Lloyd questions whether Mister Rogers is "for real". Lloyd travels to the WQED studio in Pittsburgh to interview him. Rogers is dismissive of his fame and displays concern for Lloyd's nose injury. With coaxing, he relates some of the issues with his father, whose apology and attempt at reconciliation Lloyd has rebuffed. Rogers tells him his ways of dealing with anger, including striking the keys of a piano. Determined to expose Rogers' friendly persona as an act, Lloyd watches several episodes of Rogers' show, but cannot discern anything. Interviewing Rogers again when he visits New York, seemingly dodging Lloyd's questions, he reminisces about raising his two sons. Fred takes out his puppets and asks Lloyd about his childhood rabbit stuffed animal and his father, provoking Lloyd into ending the interview. Lloyd arrives home to find Jerry and his wife Dorothy having brought pizza while talking with Andrea. They have a terse argument over Jerry’s absence during Lila’s cancer progression and his self-development since. As Lloyd relates how his mother suffered hysterically in her last moments with only him and his sister present, Jerry suffers a heart attack and is transported to the hospital. Faced with his resurgent trauma at staying overnight at the hospital for Jerry, Lloyd decides to go to Pittsburgh to see Rogers for counsel under the guise of work against Andrea’s protests. Exhausted on arriving, he envisions himself as Rogers’ guest, being asked about hospitals. Next, he finds himself wearing rabbit ears and shrunken to the size of Daniel Striped Tiger and King Friday XIII, while Rogers and Andrea (as Lady Aberlin) tower over him. Finally, Lloyd also dreams about Lila, who gently recognizes his anger being for her memory, but assures him that she doesn’t need it. Lloyd awakens to find he collapsed on set. Rogers and his wife, Joanne, bring Lloyd to their home to recuperate. The men later go to a restaurant, where Rogers asks Lloyd to spend one minute thinking about the people who "loved him into being", and encourages him to forgive Jerry. Lloyd apologizes to Andrea for leaving her and Gavin at the hospital and visits Jerry and Dorothy at their home. He learns Jerry is dying of cardiac stenosis, and that is why Jerry attempted to reconnect with Lloyd. Lloyd forgives him, promises to be a better father, and writes an article about Rogers' impact on his life. Lorraine, her husband Todd, and Rogers visit Jerry. Rogers asks Jerry to pray for him before he departs. Jerry dies shortly after Rogers' visit and Lloyd's 10,000-word article, "Can You Say... Hero?" is published as Esquires cover story. At his studio, Rogers finishes the episode he was earlier working on, opening the fifth and final door on his picture board, revealing a picture of Lloyd happily reunited with his family. As the production ends, Mr. Rogers plays the piano alone, stops, strikes the keys in frustration, and resumes playing. ==Cast== * Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel: A cynical journalist who is assigned to profile Fred Rogers for the magazine Esquire. Lloyd is based loosely on journalist Tom Junod, whose encounter with Rogers was adapted into the film. Director Marielle Heller described Lloyd as the viewer's "entry point into Fred's teachings" and expressed hope that Lloyd's character development and growth as a new father would compel viewers to reflect upon themselves. * Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers: The creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. To prepare for his role, Hanks visited the Fred Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for research in the Fred Rogers Archives and also watched Won't You Be My Neighbor?, a 2018 documentary film. At the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, Hanks recalled watching "hundreds of hours" of footage of Rogers on set and behind the scenes in order to get into character. Heller noted that Rogers "doesn't have the dynamic nature you need for a protagonist for a movie" and considered him "the antagonist [...] who comes into someone's life and flips it upside down through his philosophy and the way he lived his life". * Susan Kelechi Watson as Andrea Vogel: A public attorney, Lloyd's wife, and a fan of Rogers' show. Watson, herself a fan of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, described her character as a "career woman" who faces unique challenges of patience and adaptation as the mother of a newborn. * Chris Cooper as Jerry Vogel: Lloyd's estranged father and a philanderer who cheated on his dying wife Lila and abandoned Lloyd and Lorraine when they were children. In a press interview for the film, Cooper described his character as "multidimensional" and compared filming a scene with Hanks to seeing the "eyes of God". * Maryann Plunkett as Joanne Rogers: Fred's wife. Plunkett met with Joanne Rogers to prepare for the role. * Enrico Colantoni as Bill Isler: The President & CEO of Family Communications. In a radio interview, Colantoni said he became friends with the real Bill Isler while filming and described his character as having been "so important to Fred". * Wendy Makkena as Dorothy Vogel: Jerry's second wife. Makkena described her character as part of Vogel's "dysfunctional, complicated family". * Tammy Blanchard as Lorraine Vogel: Lloyd's sister and Todd's wife. * Noah Harpster as Todd: Lorraine's husband and Lloyd's brother-in-law. * Christine Lahti as Ellen: Lloyd's editor. Additional cast members include Carmen Cusack as Margy, a producer of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; Jessica Hecht as Lila Vogel, Lloyd's late mother and Jerry's ex-wife; Maddie Corman as Betty Aberlin, an actress starring as Lady Aberlin on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; Daniel Krell as Mr. McFeely; and Jordan, Naomi, and Zoey Harsh as Gavin Vogel, Lloyd's son. Notable cameos in the film include Rogers' wife Joanne, Mr. McFeely actor David Newell, Family Communications head Bill Isler, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood producer Margy Whitmer who appear as customers in a restaurant that Rogers and Lloyd meet in. Arsenio Hall and Oprah Winfrey make uncredited appearances in archive footage of talk shows that Lloyd watches in the film, and Fred Rogers appears in archive footage of his show during the ending credits, singing the song "You've Got to Do It". ==Production== On January 29, 2018, it was announced that Sony's TriStar Pictures had bought the worldwide distribution rights to the film You Are My Friend, a biographical film based on a 1998 Esquire magazine article about television personality Fred Rogers, who would be played by Tom Hanks. The script by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster appeared on the 2013 Black List of best unproduced screenplays. It would be directed by Marielle Heller; its producers would be Big Beach's Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf along with Youree Henley. In July 2018, Matthew Rhys signed to play journalist Lloyd Vogel, with production set to start in September 2018. Being Welsh, Rhys had never heard of Fred Rogers before he was offered the role. In August 2018, Chris Cooper was added to play Vogel's father; and in September, Susan Kelechi Watson was added. In October 2018, Enrico Colantoni, Maryann Plunkett, Tammy Blanchard, Wendy Makkena, Sakina Jaffrey, Carmen Cusack, Harpster and Maddie Corman joined the cast. In 2018, Nate Heller was chosen to score the film. Principal photography began on September 10, 2018, in Pittsburgh, with several sets converted into New York City. Filming also took place in the Fred Rogers Studio at WQED (TV) where the late television host recorded Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill. The crew consulted with original crew members from Rogers' television series, and brought in the same cameras and monitors used in the original production. The film received tax credits of approximately $9.5 million against a production budget of $45 million for filming in Pittsburgh. Production wrapped on November 9, 2018. On October 12, 2018, sound mixer James Emswiller had a heart attack and fell from a second-story balcony. He was taken to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Mercy, where he was pronounced dead. The film's title was announced on December 27, 2018. The trailer was released on July 22, 2019. ==Release== A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019. It was originally going to be released on October 18, 2019 by Sony Pictures Releasing, but in May 2018 was pushed back a month to November 22, 2019. It was released in China on September 18, 2020, after the country reopened theaters following COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. ===Home media=== It was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Digital HD on February 4, 2020, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on February 18. ==Reception== ===Box office=== A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood grossed $61.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $6.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $68.4 million, against a production budget of $25 million. In the United States and Canada, it was released alongside Frozen II and 21 Bridges, and was projected to gross around $15 million from 3,231 theaters in its opening weekend. It made $4.5 million on its first day, including $900,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $13.3 million, finishing third at the box office. It fell just 11% in its second weekend, making $11.8 million and finishing fifth, and remained in fifth place the following weekend with $5.2 million. ===Critical response=== On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critical consensus reads, "Much like the beloved TV personality that inspired it, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood offers a powerfully affecting message about acceptance and understanding." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an average four out of five stars, with 66% saying they would definitely recommend it. Steve Pond of TheWrap wrote: "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood finds a gentle state of grace and shows the courage and smarts to stay in that zone, never rushing things or playing for drama... But just as Mr. Rogers used his show to talk about big issues with children in a tone that was softer and more halting than you'd expect given the subject matter, so does Heller stick to understatement in a way that threatens to become dull or sappy but never does." Benjamin Lee of The Guardian wrote: "It's a given that Hanks will nab at least a best supporting actor nomination but it would be all too easy to forget his co-star. The cynic-becomes-a- believer arc is age old but it unfolds here without cliche thanks to an emotionally intelligent script from Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue, but mainly because of a marvelous, prickly turn from Rhys." Armond White of the National Review was more critical: "Heller and screenwriters Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster don't show enough faith in Rogers' remedies—and not enough interest in their religious origins. In short, the movie seems wary of faith (it briefly mentions that Rogers was an ordained minister) and settles for secular sentimentality to account for his sensibility and behavior. This not only weakens the film, but it also hobbles Hanks's characterization." ===Accolades=== Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result AARP Movies for Grownups Awards January 19, 2020 Best Movie for Grownups A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Buddy Picture A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Best Intergenerational Movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Readers' Choice A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Academy Awards February 9, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Alliance of Women Film Journalists January 10, 2020 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Woman Director Marielle Heller Austin Film Critics Association January 22, 2020 Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Art Directors Guild Awards February 1, 2020 Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film Jade Healy British Academy Film Awards February 2, 2020 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Tom Hanks Central Ohio Film Critics Association January 2, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Chicago Film Critics Association Awards December 14, 2019 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle Awards January 4, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Costume Designers Guild Awards January 28, 2020 Excellence in Contemporary Film Arjun Bhasin Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 12, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Denver Film Critics Society January 6, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Detroit Film Critics Society Awards December 6, 2019 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Florida Film Critics Circle Awards December 23, 2019 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Georgia Film Critics Association January 10, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Golden Globe Awards January 5, 2020 Best Supporting Actor—Motion Picture Tom Hanks Golden Schmoes Awards 2019 Best Supporting Actor of the Year Tom Hanks Grammy Awards March 14, 2021 Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Various Artists Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Awards November 10, 2019 Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Hawaii Film Critics Society January 13, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman- Blue and Noah Harpster Hollywood Critics Association January 9, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks IGN Summer Movie Awards 2019 Best Supporting Performer in a Movie Tom Hanks Indiana Film Journalists Association August 16, 2019 Best Picture A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Iowa Film Critics Awards January 12, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards December 13, 2019 Best Picture A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood London Film Critics Circle Awards 2019 January 30, 2020 Supporting Actor of the Year Tom Hanks Movieguide Awards January 24, 2020 Best Movie for Mature Audiences Tom Hanks Most Inspiring Movie Tom Hanks Most Inspiring Performance in Movies A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood North Carolina Film Critics Association January 3, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster North Texas Film Critics Association December 16, 2019 Best Picture A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Online Film & Television Association February 2, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Most Cinematic Moment A Moment of Silence Best Titles Sequence Online Film Critics Society Awards January 6, 2020 Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Phoenix Critics Circle December 14, 2019 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks San Francisco Film Critics Circle December 16, 2019 Best Screenplay Adapted Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Satellite Awards December 19, 2019 Best Supporting Actor—Motion Picture Tom Hanks Screen Actors Guild Awards January 19, 2020 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Tom Hanks Seattle Film Critics Awards December 16, 2019 Actor Tom Hanks Society of Camera Operators 2020 Feature Film Sam Ellison Vancouver Film Critics Circle January 6, 2020 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association December 8, 2019 Best Supporting Actor Tom Hanks Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster Writers Guild of America Awards February 1, 2020 Best Adapted Screenplay Micah Fitzerman- Blue and Noah Harpster ==References== ==External links== * * * * "Can You Say... 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A Beautiful Disaster is the fourth studio album by American rapper JellyRoll. It was released on March 13, 2020 through Strange Music and It Goes Up. It features guest appearances from Krizz Kaliko, Lil Wyte, Struggle Jennings and Tech N9ne among others. The album debuted at number 97 on the US Billboard 200 in the United States. Four music videos were released for the songs "Creature" with Tech N9ne and Krizz Kaliko, "I Need You", "Nothing Left at All" and "Tears Could Talk" with Bailee Ann. ==Track listing== ==Charts== Chart performance for A Beautiful Disaster Chart (2020) Peak position ==References== Category:2020 albums Category:Jelly Roll (singer) albums Category:Albums produced by Seven (record producer)

A Beautiful EP is an EP release by indie rock band Clem Snide. It was released primarily to capitalize on the band's performance of the Christina Aguilera single "Beautiful" during live shows. Two versions were released, one for the United States market on spinART Records, and a European version on Fargo Records with extra tracks. ==Track listing== ===United States=== # "Beautiful" # "All Green" (Soft Spot Album Version) # "Mike Kalinsky" # "I'll Be Your Mirror" (Live) # "Nick Drake Tape" (Live) ===Europe=== # "There is Nothing" # "Happy Birthday" # "Beautiful" # "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" # "Why Can't I Touch It?" # "Mike Kalinsky" # "Simple Man" (Live) ==References== Category:Clem Snide albums Category:2003 EPs Category:SpinART Records EPs

A Beautiful Exchange is the nineteenth album in the live praise and worship series of contemporary worship by Hillsong Church. It was recorded at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and Hillsong Church in Australia by Reuben Morgan, Darlene Zschech, Joel Houston and the Hillsong Worship Team. The album was released in the United States on 29 June 2010 in partnership with EMI. These worship songs explore themes including sacrifice and redemption ("Beautiful Exchange"), love ("Our God Is Love") and hope ("Forever Reign"), which is also the first radio single. Hillsong Live albums are led by worship leaders including Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, Ben Fielding and Darlene Zschech. Other key songs include: "Open My Eyes" (sung by Reuben Morgan), "The One Who Saves" (sung by Ben Fielding) and "Greatness Of Our God" (sung by Darlene Zschech). Many of the songs were written by Reuben Morgan with other authors such as Jason Ingram, Stu Garrard, Ben Fielding and Darlene Zschech. On 9 July 2010 the album debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Christian Albums Chart and at No. 40 on the US Billboard 200 chart. During the initial week on the charts it remained in the top 3. And this was also the last official album to feature Brooke Fraser as a worship leader until her return to Hillsong Worship six years later (with the release of the band's 2016 live album "Let There Be Light") ==Track listing (CD)== Song Author Worship Leader Supporting Vocal Duration Our God Is Love Joel Houston, Scott Ligertwood Joel Houston 4:04 Open My Eyes Reuben Morgan, Braden Lang Reuben Morgan 4:02 Forever Reign Jason Ingram, Reuben Morgan Jad Gillies 5:43 The One Who Saves Ben Fielding Ben Fielding Darlene Zschech 6:24 Like Incense / Sometimes by Step Brooke Fraser / David Strasser, Rich Mullins Brooke Fraser Jad Gillies, Annie Garratt 7:41 The Greatness Of Our God Jason Ingram, Stu Garrard, Reuben Morgan Darlene Zschech Marcus Temu (DVD) 5:49 / 6:24 (DVD) The Father's Heart Jorim Kelly, Gio Galanti Jorim Kelly None 6:04 You Joel Houston Joel Houston 4:29 Love Like Fire Matt Crocker Matt Crocker None 6:16 Believe Reuben Morgan, Darlene Zschech Darlene Zschech Jad Gillies 4:16 / 6:00 (DVD) Beautiful Exchange Joel Houston Joel Houston, Annie Garratt 10:43 Thank You Ben Fielding, Reuben Morgan Reuben Morgan Jad Gillies, Jill McCloghry 5:25 Forever Reign (Radio Version) Jason Ingram, Reuben Morgan Jad Gillies None 4:09 ==Track listing (DVD/Blu-Ray)== # "You" # "Open My Eyes" # "Forever Reign" # "The One Who Saves" # "Like Incense / Sometimes by Step" # "The Greatness of Our God" # "The Father's Heart" # "Our God Is Love" # "Love Like Fire" # "Believe" # "Thank You" # "Beautiful Exchange" ===Bonus features=== "Documentary: A Beautiful Exchange – Behind the Screens" Hillsong London # "The Answer" (Reuben Morgan and Braden Lang) Worship leader: Peter Wilson # "God Our Salvation" (Jay Cook and Dave Tymoszuk) Worship leader: Jay Cook # "For All You Are / You Are Good" (David Kennedy / Dave George) Worship leader: Ingrid Boe-Kennedy, Jay Cook / Juliet Adekambi # "All Things New" (Dave George and Tim Steer) Worship leader: Dave George # "Glorious One / To Bring You Glory" (Reuben Morgan and Jay Cook / Dave Tymoszuk) Worship leader: Jay Cook ==Reception== Ryan Barbee of Jesus Freak Hideout said the highlight of the album is Brooke Fraser's "Like Incense/Sometimes By Step" and called it "one of the most intimate tracks Hillsong has put out to date". He also wrote: A Beautiful Exchange has some very powerful moments and some weak ones. However, we as listeners are outsiders looking in. You might not find everything you're looking for in [it] but you'll definitely find a heart of worship." Kim Jones of About.com called the album "beautiful, warm and intimate" and concluded, "A Beautiful Exchange will suck you in and deliver you to the feet of your Savior - and your day will be all the better for it." ===Awards=== The album was nominated for two Dove Awards: Praise & Worship Album of the Year and Long Form Music Video of the Year, at the 42nd GMA Dove Awards.42nd Annual GMA Dove Awards Nominees on DoveAwards.com ==Personnel== Worship leaders: *Darlene Zschech – senior worship leader, senior lead vocal, songwriter *Reuben Morgan – worship pastor, worship leader, frontline singer, songwriter, producer *Joel Houston – creative director, worship leader, frontline singer, songwriter, producer *Brooke Fraser – worship leader, frontline singer, songwriter *Jad Gillies – worship leader, frontline singer *Annie Garratt – worship leader, frontline singer *Matt Crocker – worship leader, songwriter *Ben Fielding – worship leader, frontline singer, songwriter *Jorim Kelly \- worship leader *Peter Wilson \- worship leader (bonus feature only) *Jay Cook \- worship leader (bonus feature only) *Dave George \- worship leader (bonus feature only) *Ingrid Boe-Kennedy \- worship leader (bonus feature only) *Juliet Adekambi \- worship leader (bonus feature only) Frontline singers: *Jonathon Douglass *Jill McCloghry *Mia Fieldes *Braden Lang *David Ware *Laura Toganivalu *Marcus Temu *David Hodgson *Sheila Gallegos *Andy Barrow *Terrence Ryan *Tristan Perdriau *Joanna Norden *Jessie Malcolm *Michelle Grigg *Collena Gillespie *Sherrod Dine *Niki Carless *Billy Conway Music directors: *Autumn Hardman *Nigel Hendroff Drums: *Brandon Gillies, Simon Kobler, Rolf Wam Fjell Bass: *Adam Crosariol, Ntando "Bob" Mpofu, Matt Tennikoff, Ben Whincop Electric guitars: *Ben Fielding, Nigel Hendroff, Timon Klein, Isaac Soon, Dylan Thomas, Jorim Kelly and Reuben Morgan Acoustic guitars: *Matt Crocker, Ben Fielding, Jad Gillies, Nigel Hendroff, Joel Houston, Brooke Ligertwood, Reuben Morgan, Peter Wilson Keyboards: *David Andrew, Autumn Hardman, Peter James, Dave George Violins: *Hanna Crezee, Lauren Hodges Cello: *Jared Dahl Trombone: *Marc Warry French Horn: *Elizabeth Gorringe Trumpet: *Tim Whincop String arrangements on "Believe" by: *Vanessa James Choir: *Hillsong Church Choir Senior Pastors: *Brian and Bobbie Houston Worship Pastor: *Reuben Morgan Album Cover *'The X Concept' Cover Artwork Depicts: Reuben Morgan & Darlene Zschech == Instruments == * Nigel Hendroff: Duesenberg guitars * Ben Fielding: Duesenberg guitars and Collings guitars * Timon Klein: Gretsch guitars * Dylan Thomas: Fender guitars * Jorim Kelly: Gretsch guitars * Isaac Soon: Gibson guitars * Reuben Morgan: Rickenbacker guitars and Martin guitars * Joel Houston: Martin guitars * Jad Gillies: Gibson guitars * Brooke (Fraser) Ligertwood: Taylor guitars * Matt Crocker: Martin guitars * Ntando "Bob" Mpofu: Lakland basses ==Charts== Chart (2010) Peak position U.S. Billboard 200 40 U.S. Billboard Christian Albums 1 U.S. Billboard Digital Albums 9 ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart (Australia) 3 ;Year-end charts Chart (2010) Position US Billboard Christian Albums 37 ==References== Category:2010 live albums Category:2010 video albums Category:Live video albums Category:Hillsong Music live albums Category:Hillsong Music video albums

A Beautiful Friendship is a jazz album by the Don Thompson Quartet, which was released in 1984 by Concord Jazz. It won the 1985 Juno Award for Best Jazz Album. == References == Category:1984 albums Category:Juno Award for Best Jazz Album albums

A Beautiful Friendship is a 2011 young adult science fiction novel by American author David Weber. Set in the fictional Honorverse, the book serves as a prequel to the main Honor Harrington series, which takes place hundreds of years later in the fictional timeline. It features Stephanie Harrington, an ancestor of the main character Honor Harrington who has been mentioned a number of times. The book is in fact based on a short story of the same name first published in 1998 as part of the anthology More Than Honor. == Plot summary == In the early 37th century, the Harrington family moves from the planet Meyerdahl to the newly founded Star Kingdom of Manticore. Their eleven- year-old daughter, Stephanie, is unhappy with this change as their new home, the planet Sphinx, seems to have little to offer, especially with seasons lasting much longer than the Earth's. However, she changes her mind when the hunt for an unknown force that keeps stealing celery from the colonists' greenhouses leads her to an encounter with a new sentient species: a treecat, a six-limbed arboreal mammal going (unknown to Stephanie) by the name of Climbs Quickly. The two beings instantly share a physic connection that future generations will come to call "bonding." This empathic/telepathic linking is involuntary and nearly instantaneous; like love at first sight. Climbs Quickly runs away back to his clan in the forest, which are revealed to be sentient beings that communicate through telepathy. Despite their sentience, they are still at the civilized level of hunter-gatherers, with no advanced machinery and only the early beginnings of agriculture. They are wary of revealing themselves to humans, which they realize are much more technologically advanced, but cannot be understood due to their lack of telepathic ability. Stephanie goes hang gliding several days later, unknown to her parents, as her way of scouting out the vast forest where she suspects Climbs Quickly lives. They sense each other and Climbs Quickly realizes that she is tracking him through their bond. He runs away from his clan's home in an attempt to prevent its discovery by humans. Stephanie crash-lands, caught by a storm, and Climbs Quickly realizes their bond compels him to protect her. They are approached by a hunting hexapuma, a six-legged puma native to the planet. Climbs Quickly calls for aid from his clan, which could overpower the hexapuma through sheer numbers, but he realizes that they will arrive too late. He fights the hexapuma and is stunned, and Stephanie rises to defend him despite her injuries. She buys enough time for the clan to arrive, and the clan literally rips the hexapuma to pieces. Her father arrives soon after, having tracked her wristband, and he takes both her and Climbs Quickly to heal and recover at their estate. Two years later the bond between Climbs Quickly, named Lionheart by humans, and Stephanie has increased so they can understand their emotion and general meanings, despite a lack of clear language. Due to the discovery of the sentient animals, many scientists have arrived to study them, and they constantly pester Stephanie for information. Stephanie attends an event hosted by the mayor of her town in an effort to acclimatize her neighbors to her bond, but Trudy and several other immature children consider him a pet and almost anger Stephanie into a fight. Lionheart calms Stephanie, and they depart peacefully. It is revealed that only one other live human, Dr. Scott MacDallan, has bonded with a treecat, whom he addresses as Fisher. Stephanie and MacDallan arrange to meet, and they discuss the intrusion of scientists and public opinion regarding treecats. They agree to only disclose limited information to scientists, in fear that the treecats could be eradicated, much like previous sentient beings found by other humans on other planets. Stephanie is introduced to friends of MacDallan, and she begins creating a group of allies around her who understand and support treecats. Several days later Tennessee Bolgeo, an agent for Ustinov's Exotic Pets, Inc. arrives on the planet, looking to capture treecats in order to sell as exotic pets. He masquerades as a scientist researching treecats and looks into the range of their telepathic ability in order to decide how to best capture them alive. He develops small devices that sedate treecats once luring them in with celery, which treecats find amazingly delicious. He captures three and heads out to pick up a fourth caught in the forest. Meanwhile, in the forest, the trap is found and Climbs Quickly and Stephanie goes to investigate along with several clan members. They examine the trap, and Stephanie calls for help from Scott and his friends. Before they arrive, Bolgeo comes to collect the treecat and is apprehended by the treecats and Stephanie. He and his accomplices are imprisoned as punishment for poaching, and the book closes with Stephanie being accepted as a probationary ranger to guard the treecat population. == Background == The short story "A Beautiful Friendship" was originally published in 1998, after Stephanie Harrington and her treecat Lionheart had already been mentioned in passing in the main series of novels. The novel is split into two parts, the first of which, Unexpected Meetings, encompasses chapters 1 to 12 and is largely identical to the short story, adding only details like a number of dates. The second part, With Friends Like These..., tells an entirely new story taking place several months later.Weber, David: A Beautiful Friendship Baen Books, 2011 ==Reception== David Weber's first venture into young adult fiction was received with mixed reviews. Publishers Weekly considered the story to be one for fans rather than teenage readers. Liz Bourke, writing for Tor.com, felt the story disjointed and a pair of novellas and, compared to other examples of the genre, lacking a compelling adolescent voice. ===Other reviews=== * Review by Carolyn Cushman (2011) in Locus, #606 July 2011 * Review by Don Sakers (2011) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2011 * Review by Dan'l Danehy-Oakes (2011) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 2011 == References == == External links == * A 16-page study guide for teachers: http://www.baen.com/ya_guides/beautifulfriendship_teachersguide.pdf ** An Interview of DW: https://web.archive.org/web/20120412043434/http://baen.com/Interviews/intweber2.asp. ** The Baen web page had a free story which included these three links: *** Sphinx Immigration Packet: https://web.archive.org/web/20111006061349/http://baen.com/immigration- packet.html, *** SFS Biology Database: https://web.archive.org/web/20111006061919/http://baen.com/biology- database.html and *** SFS Advisories: https://web.archive.org/web/20111006061912/http://baen.com/sfs- advisories.html. Category:Baen Books books Category:2011 science fiction novels Category:American science fiction novels Category:Novels by David Weber Category:Honorverse books Category:2011 American novels Category:Children's science fiction novels Category:Novels set on fictional planets

A Beautiful Lie is the second studio album by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, released on August 30, 2005 through Virgin Records. It was produced by Josh Abraham. A Beautiful Lie differs notably from the band's self-titled debut album, both musically and lyrically. Whereas the eponymous concept album's lyrics focus on human struggle and astronomical themes, A Beautiful Lies lyrics are "personal and less cerebral". It is the first to feature guitarist Tomo Miličević and the only one to feature bassist Matt Wachter, who left the band in 2007. The album produced four singles, "Attack", "The Kill", "From Yesterday", and "A Beautiful Lie"; of which three of those four singles managed to chart within the top 30 on the US Modern Rock chart, with "The Kill" and "From Yesterday" entering the top three. A Beautiful Lie received positive reviews from music critics, many praising the album for diverging from the sound of the band's previous work. The success of the album had helped the band receive accolades for their singles such as "The Kill" and "From Yesterday". == History == A Beautiful Lie was recorded on four different continents in five different countries over a three-year period to accommodate lead singer Jared Leto's acting career. The album's title track, as well as three other songs, were composed in Cape Town, South Africa, where Leto was later met by his bandmates to work on the tracks. It was during this time that Leto conceived the album's title. Prior to this, the album was tentatively to be released under the title Battle of One. It was leaked onto peer-to-peer file sharing networks almost five months before its scheduled release; the version of the album that leaked was unmastered. Because of this, the band was forced to set back the album's release date. To promote A Beautiful Lie, Thirty Seconds to Mars included the songs "Battle of One" and "Hunter" (originally performed by Björk) as bonus tracks. "Golden passes" were also included with three of the special versions of the album that entitled the buyer free entrance and backstage access to any Thirty Seconds to Mars show for the rest of their formation. The original 2005 release of the album included the hidden track "Praying for a Riot" inside the song "A Modern Myth". Later releases of the album dropped the song. A Beautiful Lie sold 21,000 copies in its first week of release in the US and has gone on to sell more than 1.2 million copies in the US alone.Graff, Gary. "Thirty Seconds to Mars Plans to 'Extend the Interactivity' On Tour". billboard.com. December 17, 2009. == Alternative versions == === Deluxe edition === On November 26, 2006, a special edition of A Beautiful Lie was released and features different artwork, a third bonus track (all versions have at least two); the UK version of the song "The Kill" entitled "The Kill (Rebirth)", and a DVD that features the music video for "The Kill", the making of the video for "The Kill", live performances and MTV2 moments involving the band. Before production of the Deluxe Edition, the band requested that the members of the "Echelon" send in their names so that they could be thanked for their support over the years. As a result, the inside cover(s) of the Deluxe Edition contain a large list of printed fan names. In addition to this, the front cover contains a lenticular image consisting of the Mithra (phoenix) and the Trinity (skulls). === 2007 re-release === A Beautiful Lie was re-released on November 26, 2007, following extensive touring throughout Europe, in an attempt to expose themselves to a larger audience. The re-release is essentially the same as the original release, although includes different artwork. The album was re-released in Ireland again in November 2007, the version contains the UK version of "The Kill" and a second bonus track, and an acoustic version of the song "A Beautiful Lie" recorded live on a radio session. ==Critical reception== A Beautiful Lie received generally positive reviews from music critics. Jon Wiederhorn from Revolver noted that "intensity and passion clearly inform the textural hard rock of A Beautiful Lie," which "boasts echoing riffs, moody bass lines, and strong vocal melodies that evoke a radio-friendly mix of Staind, Nine Inch Nails, U2, and The Cure." Jaan Uhelszki of the San Francisco Chronicle described the album as "full of ferocious electronics, overcaffeinated guitar lines and anxious drumming paired with brainy, brittle but emotionally austere lyrics." Nylon magazine called it "an album that is digestible without losing the rough-around-the-edges appeal that the band's rapidly expanding fan base crave." Alternative Addiction commented that the band recorded "an album with a handful of very impressive tracks," beginning with "Attack", the first song on the record, which "soars sonically with processing mixed and forceful vocals." Christa L. Titus from Billboard felt that the band "proved its potency" with songs like "The Kill", "Was It a Dream?", and "From Yesterday", and praised Leto's vocal ability by writing, "[he] alternates between cathartic shouts and a tantalizing croon that shows his capable vocal range." Kaj Roth from Melodic praised the sonic variety and summarized the record as "an impressive list of anthemic rock songs." Davey Boy of Sputnikmusic echoed this sentiment, writing that A Beautiful Lie "works well as an album due to greater variety". He also found the record "a more controlled effort" than the band's debut album 30 Seconds to Mars (2002). Kerrang! magazine called it a "great album to close your eyes and fall in to, an anthemic eruption of upfront emotion." In a mixed review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic wrote that the "band floats out of time, inspired heavily by '90s alt rock but too clean, heavy, and facile to truly be part of that tradition, yet too indebted to the past to sound like part of the 2000s, either." He found the band "capable enough at shifting from tense quiet verses to piledriving, heavy choruses, but they borrow the worst habits from all their favorite groups, and then assemble them in insufferably earnest fashion, playing clichés as if they were revelations." Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone stated, "[d]espite some credible modern-rock tunes, Leto's self-involved myopia guarantees that his band's second disc is long on melodrama." ===Accolades=== At the Billboard Music Awards, "The Kill" and "From Yesterday" were nominated in the category of Modern Rock Single of the Year in 2006 and 2007, respectively. In 2007, A Beautiful Lie was named Best Album by Rock on Request. Thirty Seconds to Mars received the Kerrang! Award for Best Single in two consecutive years for "The Kill" and "From Yesterday" in 2007 and 2008. Metal Edge ranked A Beautiful Lie one of the top 10 albums of 2005. Melodic included it among the best albums of the year. Alternative Addiction ranked it at number six on their list of 20 best albums of the year. In 2009, Kerrang! listed A Beautiful Lie at number four on their list of the 50 best albums of the decade. The album was included in Rock Sounds 101 Modern Classics list at number 78. ==Track listing== ==Credits and personnel== Credits adapted from A Beautiful Lie album liner notes. Thirty Seconds to Mars * Jared Leto – vocals, rhythm guitar * Shannon Leto – drums, percussion * Tomo Miličević – lead guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, programming * Matt Wachter – bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer Additional musicians * Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – viola on track 10 * Caroline Campbell – violin on track 10 * Steve Dress – strings contractor and double bass on track 10 * Vanessa Freebairn-Smith – cello on track 10 * Oliver Goldstein – additional synthesizer on tracks 1, 6–7 * Neel Hammond – violin on track 10 * Wataru Hokoyama – string arranger on track 10 * Jeremy Rubolino – programming on track 12 * Matt Serletic – piano on track 3 Production * Josh Abraham – production on tracks 1–10 * Thirty Seconds to Mars – production; creative direction and design * Brian Virtue – production on tracks 3, 11–12; additional engineering; mixing and engineering on tracks 11–12 * Ryan Williams – engineering; mixing * Brandon Belsky – assistant engineer * Tom Lord-Alge – mixing on track 1 * Femio Hernandez – mixing assistant * Dave Riley – assistant engineer * Sean Geyer – assistant engineer * Brian Gardner – mastering * Sean Mosher-Smith – creative direction and design * Olaf Heine – photography * Gary Stiffelman – legal * Irving Azoff – management * Dian Vaughn – business management ==Charts== ===Weekly charts=== Chart (2005–11) Peak position Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) 35 Greek Albums (IFPI) 40 ===Year-end charts=== Chart (2006) Position US Billboard 200 184 Chart (2007) Position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) 72 Italian Albums (FIMI) 63 UK Albums (OCC) 151 US Billboard 200 84 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) 20 ==Certifications== ==Release history== Region Date Format Label United States August 30, 2005 CD, LP, digital download Immortal, Virgin Canada EMI Japan December 7, 2005 CD, digital download Australia November 11, 2006 CD, digital download Virgin, EMI Italy February 14, 2007 CD, digital download EMI Austria February 15, 2007 Germany Netherlands February 16, 2007 United Kingdom February 26, 2007 CD, LP, digital download Virgin New Zealand March 27, 2007 CD, digital download EMI ==References== ==External links== * Category:2005 albums Category:Thirty Seconds to Mars albums Category:Albums produced by Josh Abraham Category:Immortal Records albums Category:Virgin Records albums

"A Beautiful Lie" is a song by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. The song was released as the fourth single from their second album A Beautiful Lie. It was not released in the United Kingdom as a single. ==History== On May 2, 2007, this was officially announced on the 30 Seconds to Mars official website, but not before checking the preference of the "Echelon". The band could not decide between "A Beautiful Lie" and "The Fantasy"; both songs contain a strong message which the band wished to deliver.30STM - News May 2, 2007 . The song impacted radio on July 17, 2007. It did chart at number 37 on the US Modern Rock charts in late 2007. This was due to the song receiving substantial radio airplay. Though initially released during the summer, the release date of the song had been pushed back to early 2008, possibly due to the long delay of the music video. ==Music video== According to EMI Japan, the video for "A Beautiful Lie" was going to be shot in both Alaska and the North Pole. Jared Leto then moved the video to Greenland and Iceland. The video for "A Beautiful Lie" was shot in August 2007 in Greenland. Jared has said that the video will be environmentally safe and for every download of the video, it will go to an environmental charity. Jared Leto has said on an over-the-phone interview with 99X in Atlanta that the video will be like a short film and a documentary.Interview On 28 January it was aired through MySpace and on MTV. The video shows the importance of global warming. The video was directed by Angakok Panipaq (a pseudonym for Leto based on a character from the Inuit children's book Spirits in the Snowhouse: The Inuit Angakok). The video features hidden frames of coal emissions into the environment, dead animals and a cemetery of white crosses. A link for the global warming support website abeautifullie.org (now defunct) is given at the end of the video. The music video has been shown through Rock Sound Magazine's website"30 Seconds to Mars 'A Beautiful Lie' ". Rock Sound. Retrieved on 2008-03-04. and MySpaceTV. The video is a montage of images of the Greenland environment interwoven with scenes of the band playing on the edge of an iceberg. ===Delays=== On November 6, 2007, it was revealed that the video would premiere on Yahoo! Music Premieres on November 12, 2007. Later, it was postponed for extra editing time to December 3, 2007. Then, it was announced that the video would premiere on December 5, 2007. Later, it was postponed again, and it was said the video would air sometime after Christmas according to MTV with a special "making of" of the music video aired on December 30. The Yahoo! Music Premieres then announced that the video would be aired on January 16, 2008, but soon after the video was removed from the list of upcoming premieres.Yahoo! Music Premieres After months of delay due to heavy editing, the video finally premiered on MySpace on January 30, 2008, and aired on FUSE onJanuary 31, 2008. ===Trivia=== "A Beautiful Lie" was used for the promo of the Fox TV series Lie to Me. ==Track listing== ;Standard # "A Beautiful Lie" (Single Shot) – 4:05 # "A Beautiful Lie" (Half Caf) – 3:50 ;U.S. # "A Beautiful Lie" (Single Shot) – 4:05 # "A Beautiful Lie" – 3:40 (live acoustic version) ;EP version #"A Beautiful Lie" (Half Caf) – 3:50 #"A Beautiful Lie" – 4:05 #"A Beautiful Lie" (Acoustic) – 3:41 #"Attack" (Live at CBGB) – 4:14 ==Chart positions== Chart (2007) Peak position Canadian Hot 100 27 Czech Singles Chart 78 US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 37 Chart (2008) Peak position Germany Singles Chart"A Beautiful Lie". aCharts. Issue Date: 2007. Retrieved in 2008. 92 Italy Singles Chart 16 Portuguese Singles Chart 11 ==Personnel== * Jared Leto – vocals, guitar * Tomo Miličević – guitar, programming * Matt Wachter – bass guitar, keyboard, synthesizers (does not appear in music video) * Shannon Leto – drums == References == == External links == *A Beautiful Lie website Category:Thirty Seconds to Mars songs Category:2007 singles Category:Songs written by Jared Leto Category:2005 songs Category:Virgin Records singles Category:Song recordings produced by Josh Abraham Category:Music videos directed by Elliott Lester Category:Climate change in music Category:Environmental songs

A Beautiful Life is a 2008 American drama film directed by Alejandro Chomski and starring Jesse Garcia and Angela Sarafyan. It was released by New Films International, adapted from the play Jersey City by Wendy Hammond. The film received a 0% score on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. ==Plot== A young woman, Maggie (Angela Sarafyan), is on the run from her abusive father. David (Jesse Garcia) is an illegal immigrant working as a dishwasher while searching for his mother in Los Angeles. The two meet and fall in love. ==Cast== * Angela Sarafyan as Maggie * Jesse Garcia as David * Bai Ling as Esther * Meltem Cumbul as Antanas * Debi Mazar as Susan * Rena Owen as Sam * Jonathan LaPaglia as Vince * Dana Delany as Anne * Enrique Castillo as Don Miguel * Ronnie Gene Blevins as Henry * Walter Perez as Enrico * Ștefan Bănică Jr. as Jack * Saadet Aksoy as Denise * Andreea Marin Banica as Britney * Tuba Ünsal as Sadenaz * Kayla Paige as Lucy * Deborah Calla as Virginia * Gloria Alexandra as Stripper * Royana Black as Cathy * Dan Kelpine as Jim ==Release== Although produced in 2008, the film was not released widely in North America until October 2, 2009, and first appeared on DVD on March 1, 2011. This was the second film by New Films International, a long-existing global independent film distribution company based in Sherman Oaks headed by Nesim Hason, whose new American division was led by Tim Swain. The company describes its focus as "festival-driven, high-quality, cast-driven indie films". ==Reception== A Beautiful Life received poor reviews from the twelve sources noted by the Rotten Tomatoes website. Metacritic gave the film a score of 13 out of 100, summarizing the reviews of the seven critics it measured as "overwhelming dislike". The New York Times called it a "laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism", and The Village Voice saw it as a "misery pile up ... about broken souls and crossed paths destined for the trash heap. Scream, smash, slap, cry, repeat." Slant gave it a half-star out of four, saying that "its awfulness [comes] in so many forms that it's hard to single out just one appalling example". Variety felt that it provided "unintentional laughs by the barrel", and predicted that the film would be a box office bomb. NPR said that although the film deals with some serious topics, the random nature of characters and controversies made it hard to appreciate them, describing it as "too earnest to be a hoot, and too amateurish to be anything else". ==References== ==External links== * Category:2008 films Category:2008 drama films Category:American drama films Category:Films directed by Alejandro Chomski Category:2000s English-language films Category:2000s American films

A Beautiful Life () is a 2011 Chinese romance film directed by Andrew Lau. Its cast includes Shu Qi, Liu Ye, Tian Liang, Feng Danying, Sa Rina, Zhang Songwen Gao Tian, and Anthony Wong. ==Plot== A real-estate agent Li Peiru (Shu Qi) gets drunk at a karaoke bar and throws up on a lonely cop Fang Zhendong (Liu Ye). Zhendong quickly feels a connection to the flirtatious Peiru despite the fact that she is having an affair with her married boss. The affair ends with Peiru finding out that her boss has been cheating on her. Peiru works hard to get funding for her business idea, and when she repeatedly fails, Fang sells his house and puts up the money to fund her business. The business fails before it can even get started, and she finds herself destitute. Meanwhile, Fang has found out that an injury is causing him to slowly lose his mental faculties. To make matters worse, Fang loses his job as a police officer after using an official vehicle for personal purposes. As she begins to recover from the loss of her business, Peiru begins to appreciate the selfless support she has received from Fang. She realizes that she has fallen in love with Zhendong, but she is unable to find him since he had moved. One day, when she has established herself in a regular job, Fang's friend comes to see her. She was told of Fang's progressively worsening condition and heads off to look for him. They meet and reconnect. He insists that she move on since he can no longer support her, but will need her support. She stays and they eventually get married. Fang is aware that his condition is worsening over time. Eventually, he is unable to do his job and gets lost on his way home from work. Upon arriving back at home, he finds out from Peiru that she is pregnant. As Fang's condition worsens, he finds himself forgetting more every day, which makes taking care of his new child difficult and frustrating. Fang sees a burglar coming out of a home near his, and gives chase. After a run through the back-alleys of his neighborhood, he is hit on the head with a brick and ends up in the hospital with serious head trauma. After days of keeping constant vigil by his bedside, Peiru becomes sick and passes out just as Fang's heart stops beating. They both flash-back to earlier, better times. She awakens to Fang at her bedside apologizing for making her worry. They live happily ever after. ==Cast== Cast Role Shu Qi Li Peiru Liu Ye Fang Zhengdong Tian Liang Fang Zhencong Feng Danying Xiaowan Sa Rina Xiaowan's mother Zhang Songwen Unknown Gao Tian Unknown Anthony Wong Unknown Unknown Peiru's mother ==References== ==External links== *Official website * * *The Beautiful Life at Hong Kong Cinemagic Category:2011 films Category:2010s Mandarin-language films Category:Chinese romantic drama films Category:Hong Kong romantic drama films Category:2011 romantic drama films Category:Media Asia films Category:Basic Pictures films Category:Films directed by Andrew Lau Category:2010s Hong Kong films

A Beautiful Life is the second studio album from Mikeschair. Curb Records released the album on August 23, 2011. They worked with Matt Bronleewe in the production of this album. ==Critical reception== Awarding the album four and a half stars at New Release Tuesday, Kevin Davis states, "A Beautiful Life...takes it up a notch", believing "Mike Grayson's vocals are stronger than ever and the encouraging and prayerful themes of this album are catchy, emotional and inspirational." Clay Morgan, giving the album three spins from Christian Broadcasting Network, writes, "This new album features more of the same, not much variety, but some tracks that will please listeners looking for songs of hope", where he replies "There's nothing groundbreaking here, but A Beautiful Life is a nice album." ==Track listing== ==Chart performance== Chart (2011) Peak position ==References== Category:2014 albums Category:Mikeschair albums Category:Curb Records albums Category:Albums produced by Matt Bronleewe

A Beautiful Mind () is a South Korean television series starring Jang Hyuk, Park So-dam, Yoon Hyun-min and Park Se-young. It aired from June 20 to August 8, 2016, on KBS2's Mondays and Tuesdays at 22:00 KST time slot. Though the drama had its supporters, the number of episodes were brought down to 14, from the planned 16 due to low viewership ratings. ==Synopsis== Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein, it tells the story of a world-renowned but unsympathetic neurosurgeon and his involvement with the mysterious deaths in the hospital he works in. ==Cast== ===Main=== * Jang Hyuk as Lee Young-oh :36 years old assistant professor at the department of neurology in Hyunsung hospital. He is a genius neurosurgeon who is unable to feel empathy. He is daring and has impeccable observational, deductive and logical skills which he uses to make lightning quick diagnosis. He creates the illusion of an empathy he cannot feel through the reading of minute physiological cues. * Park So-dam as Gye Jin-sung :26 years old traffic policewoman who upholds onto her principles strongly. She is honest, straightforward and rules-sticking. * Yoon Hyun-min as Hyun Suk-joo :36 years old cardio-thoracic surgeon who is popular among patients and highly trusted by his colleagues. He's ranked first for being the doctor that patients want to visit the most, the staff that colleagues want to work with the most, and also the senior that juniors wants to take after. * Park Se-young as Kim Min-jae :34 years old senior research fellow at the department of neurology in Hyunsung hospital. She graduated from a university at the countryside and came from a disadvantaged background. She is a lady of both intelligence and looks. * Huh Joon-ho as Lee Gun-myung : 58 years old head of cardio cerebrovascular center in Hyunsung Hospital. He is impartial and treats all patients the same. ===Supporting=== *Kim Jong-Soo as Shin Dong-jae – Director of Hyunsung Hospital. Treats Gye Jin-sung as a daughter. * Oh Jung-se as Kang Hyun-joon – Director of Hyunsung Hospital Foundation. He comes from a rich family and is ambitious. * Ryu Seung-soo as Kim Myung-soo – Three term assemblyman and aspiring presidential candidate. * Gong Hyung-jin as No Seung-chan – Team leader of police crime division. * Min Sung-wook as So Ji-yong – Doctor in department of neurosurgery. * Lee Jae- ryong as Chae Soon-ho – Assistant Minister for Planning and Coordination, Cardiothoracic Department at Hyunsung Hospital. * Shim Yi-young as Kim Yoon- kyung – Doctor in the department of anesthesiology, single mother raising a daughter on her own. * Ha Jae-sook as Jang Moon-kyung – Nurse, pregnant. * Kim Do-hyun as Kwon Duk-joong – Associate professor in department of cardiology. * Kim Hyung-kyu as Yang Sung-eun – Third year resident. * Jeon Sung-woo as Hong Kyung-soo – Fellow in department of anesthesiology. * Mori.U as Lee Hye-joo – Nurse. * Jung Moon-sung as Hwang Jeong-hwan – Associate professor in department of radiology. * Jo Jae-wan as Oh Kyung-jin – Doctor in department of neurosurgery. * Jang Ki-yong as Nam Ho-young – Male nurse. * Lee Sung-wook as Yoo Jang-bae – Doctor in department of neurology. * Jung Hee-tae as Park Soo-bum – Traffic police. * Lee Si-won as Lee Si-hyun – Third year resident. * Yeon Je-wook as Song Ki-ho – Research fellow in department of thoracic- cardiovascular. * Woo Jung-gook as Lee Kwang-bok – Technician in Hyunsung Medical Center. * Yoo Jae-myung as Noh Seung-chan. * Park Eun-hye as Shim Eun- ha – Pathologist (cameo, ep. 3–5). * Kim Dae-gon as Kim-min * Seo Jun-young as Lee Sang-joon – Patient (cameo, ep. 2 and 9). * Baek Su-ho as teenage Lee Young-oh. * Park Ha-joon as kid Lee Young-oh. * Son Jong-hak as Oh Young-bae – President of Green Pharmacy, ex-doctor of Hyunsung Medical Center. * Jang Hyuk-Jin as Kim Soo-in – Reporter. * Park Sun-chun as Gye Jin-sung's mother. * Jo Byeong-kyu as Gye Jin-sung's brother. * Lee Dong-kyu as Kang Chul-min – traffic accident victim (Ep. 1). * Ryu Tae-ho as Coroner Yang – pathologist doing Kang Chul-min's autopsy (Ep. 1). * Bang Dae-han as Dong-joon – Deaf son of Kang Chul-min (Ep. 1). * Kim Beo-rae as Kang Il-do – Kang Hyun-joon's father. * Heo Joon-suk as Hong Il-bum – Patient's father (Ep. 3). * Baek Ji- won as wife of glioblastoma patient (Ep. 6). * Kang Eui-sik as Doctor in countryside clinic (Ep. 7). * Kim Da-ye as heart transplant patient (Ep. 7). * Lee Jae-wook as Patient who refused to admit drinking alcohol after surgery (Ep. 9). * Hwang Tae-kwang as Choi Sang-hyuk – TV anchorman (Ep. 10). * Lee Do-hyun as Choi Yo-sub – Choi Sang-hyuk's son (Ep. 10). * Lee Jae-woo as Jo Yoon-ho – Patient with Ewing's sarcoma in spine (Ep. 12–13). * Seo Yoon-ah as Jo Yoon-ho's wife (Ep. 12–13). * Won Ki-joon as Yum Kyun-ho – Cellist with tumor (Ep. 14). * Yang Hee-myung as Detective Chun. * Kim Hyun-sook as secretary. ==Original soundtrack== ===Part 1=== ===Part 2=== ==Ratings== Original broadcast date Average audience share TNmS AGB Nielsen Nationwide 1 June 20, 2016 4.5% 4.1% 2 June 21, 2016 4.3% 4.5% 3 June 27, 2016 4 June 28, 2016 4.0% 4.5% 5 July 4, 2016 4.1% 3.5% 6 July 5, 2016 4.0% 4.0% 7 July 11, 2016 3.7% 3.5% 8 July 12, 2016 3.5% 4.3% 9 July 18, 2016 3.8% 4.4% 10 July 19, 2016 4.0% 3.9% 11 July 25, 2016 3.2% 3.4% 12 July 26, 2016 3.7% 3.9% 13 August 1, 2016 14 August 2, 2016 2.6% 3.2% Average * In this table, represent the lowest ratings and represent the highest ratings. ==Awards and nominations== Year Award Category Recipient Result 2016 9th Korea Drama Awards Best Screenplay Kim Tae-hee 30th KBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Jang Hyuk Best New Actress Park So-dam Best Young Actor Baek Seung- hwan ==References== ==External links== * * * * Category:Korean-language television shows Category:2016 South Korean television series debuts Category:2016 South Korean television series endings Category:South Korean medical television series Category:South Korean mystery television series Category:Korean Broadcasting System television dramas Category:Television series by RaemongRaein Category:Television shows written by Kim Tae-hee

A Beautiful Mind (1998) is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Nash by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists - The Pulitzer Prizes The book was later adapted into the film by the same name in 2001 directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe as Nash. ==Scope== Starting with his childhood, the book covers Nash's years at Princeton and MIT, his work for the RAND Corporation, his family and his struggle with schizophrenia. Although Nasar notes that Nash did not consider himself a homosexual, she describes his arrest for indecent exposure and firing from RAND amid the suspicion that he was, then considered grounds for revoking one's security clearance.A Beautiful Mind, pp. 185-186 The book ends with Nash being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. The book is a detailed description of many aspects of Nash's life, including the nature of his mathematical genius, and a close examination of his personality and motivations. ==Reception== The book won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography,The Pulitzer Prizes and was shortlisted for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize in 1999.Prizes for Science Books previous winners and shortlists, The Royal Society website The book also appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List for biography. ==Criticism== John Milnor notes the ethical issues posed by the book, an unauthorized biography and prepared without the cooperation of the subject.John Milnor, Review -John Nash and A Beautiful Mind, American Mathematical Society, October 1998 ==Adaptation== The book inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly as John Nash and his wife Alicia Nash respectively. It won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for 2001 at the 74th Academy Awards.2002|Oscars.org2001 Academy Awards Winners and History - filmsite.org ==References== ==External links== *Presentation on A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar for the Harvard Coop, June 24, 1999 *Presentation on A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar for the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, February 7, 2002 Category:1998 non-fiction books Category:American biographies Category:Biographies and autobiographies of mathematicians Category:Unauthorized biographies Category:Biographies adapted into films Category:Simon & Schuster books Category:Universities and colleges in art Category:National Book Critics Circle Award-winning works

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film directed by Ron Howard. Written by Akiva Goldsman, its screenplay was inspired by Sylvia Nasar's 1998 biography of the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe as Nash, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. The story begins in Nash's days as a brilliant but asocial mathematics graduate student at Princeton University. After Nash accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. A Beautiful Mind was released theatrically in the United States on December 21, 2001. It went on to gross over $313 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Connelly. It was also nominated for Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score. ==Plot== In 1947, John Nash arrives at Princeton University as a co-recipient, with Martin Hansen, of the Carnegie Scholarship for Mathematics. He meets fellow math and science graduate students Sol, Ainsley, and Bender, as well as his roommate Charles Herman, a literature student. Determined to publish his own original idea, Nash is inspired when he and his classmates discuss how to approach a group of women at a bar. Hansen quotes Adam Smith advocating "every man for himself", but Nash argues that a cooperative approach would lead to better chances of success in developing a new concept of governing dynamics. Publishing an article on his theory, he earns an appointment at MIT where he chooses Sol and Bender over Hansen to join him. In 1953, Nash is invited to the Pentagon to study encrypted enemy telecommunications, which he deciphers mentally. Bored with his regular duties at MIT, including teaching, he is recruited by the mysterious William Parcher of the United States Department of Defense with a classified assignment: to look for hidden patterns in magazines and newspapers to thwart a Soviet plot. Nash becomes increasingly obsessive in his search for these patterns, delivering his results to a secret mailbox, and comes to believe he is being followed. One of his students, Alicia Larde, asks him to dinner, and they fall in love. On a return visit to Princeton, Nash runs into Charles and his niece, Marcee. With Charles' encouragement, he proposes to Alicia and they marry. Nash fears for his life after surviving a shootout between Parcher and Soviet agents, and learns Alicia is pregnant, but he is forced to continue his assignment. While delivering a guest lecture at Harvard University, Nash tries to flee from people he thinks are Soviet agents, led by a psychiatrist named Dr. Rosen, but is forcibly sedated and committed to a psychiatric facility. Dr. Rosen tells Alicia that Nash has schizophrenia and that Charles, Marcee, and Parcher exist only in his imagination. Alicia backs up the doctor, telling Nash that no "William Parcher" is in the Defense Department and takes out the unopened documents he delivered to the secret mailbox. Nash is given a course of insulin shock therapy and eventually released. Frustrated with the side effects of his antipsychotic medication, he secretly stops taking it and starts seeing Parcher and Charles again. In 1956, Alicia discovers Nash has resumed his "assignment" in a shed near their home. Realizing he has relapsed, Alicia rushes to the house to find Nash had left their infant son in the running bathtub, believing "Charles" was watching the baby. Alicia calls Dr. Rosen, but Nash accidentally knocks her and the baby to the ground, believing he's fighting Parcher. As Alicia flees with the baby, Nash fights with his visions and realizes that all of them have looked the same ever since he first saw them. He stops Alicia's car and tells her he realizes that "Marcee" isn't real because she doesn't age, finally accepting that Parcher and other figures are hallucinations. Against Dr. Rosen's advice, Nash chooses not to restart his medication, believing he can deal with his symptoms himself, and Alicia decides to stay and support him. Nash returns to Princeton, approaching his old rival Hansen, now head of the mathematics department, who allows him to work out of the library and audit classes. Over the next two decades, Nash learns to ignore his hallucinations and, by the late 1970s, is allowed to teach again. In 1994, Nash is awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his revolutionary work on game theory, and is honored by his fellow professors. At the ceremony, he dedicates the prize to his wife. As Nash, Alicia, and their son leave the auditorium in Stockholm, Nash sees Charles, Marcee, and Parcher watching him, but merely glances at them before departing. ==Cast== ==Production== ===Development=== A Beautiful Mind was the second schizophrenia-themed film that Ron Howard had planned to direct. The first, Laws of Madness, would have been based on the true story of schizophrenic Michael Laudor, who overcame difficult odds to successfully graduate from Yale Law School. Howard purchased the rights to Laudor's life story for $1.5 million in 1995 and had Brad Pitt slated to play the lead role. However, after Laudor killed his fiancée in 1998 in the midst of a psychotic episode, plans for the movie were cancelled. After producer Brian Grazer first read an excerpt of Sylvia Nasar's 1998 book A Beautiful Mind in Vanity Fair magazine, he immediately purchased the rights to the film. Grazer later said that many A-list directors were calling with their point of view on the project. He eventually brought the project to Ron Howard, his long time partner."A Beautiful Partnership: Ron Howard and Brian Grazer", from A Beautiful Mind DVD, 2002. Grazer met with a number of screenwriters, mostly consisting of "serious dramatists", but he chose Akiva Goldsman because of his strong passion and desire for the project. Goldsman's creative take on the project was to avoid having viewers understand they are viewing an alternative reality until a specific point in the film. This was done to rob the viewers of their understanding, to mimic how Nash comprehended his experiences. Howard agreed to direct the film based on the first draft. He asked Goldsman to emphasize the love story of Nash and his wife; she was critical to his being able to continue living at home."Development of the Screenplay", from A Beautiful Mind DVD, 2002. Dave Bayer, a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University, was consulted on the mathematical equations that appear in the film. For the scene where Nash has to teach a calculus class and gives them a complicated problem to keep them busy, Bayer chose a problem physically unrealistic but mathematically very rich, in keeping with Nash as "someone who really doesn't want to teach the mundane details, who will home in on what's really interesting". Bayer received a cameo role in the film as a professor who lays his pen down for Nash in the pen ceremony near the end of the film. Greg Cannom was chosen to create the makeup effects for A Beautiful Mind, specifically the age progression of the characters. Crowe had previously worked with Cannom on The Insider. Howard had also worked with Cannom on Cocoon. Each character's stages of makeup were broken down by the number of years that would pass between levels. Cannom stressed subtlety between the stages, but worked toward the ultimate stage of "Older Nash". The production team originally decided that the makeup department would age Russell Crowe throughout the film; however, at Crowe's request, the makeup was used to push his look to resemble the facial features of John Nash. Cannom developed a new silicone-type makeup that could simulate skin and be used for overlapping applications; this shortened make-up application time from eight to four hours. Crowe was also fitted with a number of dentures to give him a slight overbite in the film."The Process of Age Progression", from A Beautiful Mind DVD. 2002. Howard and Grazer chose frequent collaborator James Horner to score the film because they knew of his ability to communicate. Howard said, regarding Horner, "it's like having a conversation with a writer or an actor or another director". A running discussion between the director and the composer was the concept of high-level mathematics being less about numbers and solutions, and more akin to a kaleidoscope, in that the ideas evolve and change. After the first screening of the film, Horner told Howard: "I see changes occurring like fast-moving weather systems". He chose it as another theme to connect to Nash's ever-changing character. Horner chose Welsh singer Charlotte Church to sing the soprano vocals after deciding that he needed a balance between a child and adult singing voice. He wanted a "purity, clarity and brightness of an instrument" but also a vibrato to maintain the humanity of the voice."Scoring the Film", from A Beautiful Mind DVD, 2002. The film was shot 90% chronologically. Three separate trips were made to the Princeton University campus. During filming, Howard decided that Nash's delusions should always be introduced first audibly and then visually. This provides a clue for the audience and establishes the delusions from Nash's point of view. The historic John Nash had only auditory delusions. The filmmakers developed a technique to represent Nash's mental epiphanies. Mathematicians described to them such moments as a sense of "the smoke clearing", "flashes of light" and "everything coming together", so the filmmakers used a flash of light appearing over an object or person to signify Nash's creativity at work.A Beautiful Mind DVD commentary featuring Ron Howard, 2002. Two night shots were done at Fairleigh Dickinson University's campus in Florham Park, New Jersey, in the Vanderbilt Mansion ballroom. Portions of the film set at Harvard were filmed at Manhattan College. (Harvard has turned down most requests for on- location filming ever since the filming of Love Story (1970), which caused significant physical damage to trees on campus.) Tom Cruise was considered for the lead role. Howard ultimately cast Russell Crowe. For the role of Alicia Nash, Rachel Weisz was offered the role but turned it down. Charlize Theron and Julia Ormond auditioned for the role. According to Ron Howard, the four finalists for the role of Alicia were Ashley Judd, Claire Forlani, Mary McCormack and Jennifer Connelly, with Connelly winning the role. Before the casting of Connelly, Hilary Swank and Salma Hayek were also candidates for the part. ===Writing=== The narrative of the film differs considerably from the events of Nash's life, as filmmakers made choices for the sense of the story. The film has been criticized for this aspect, but the filmmakers said they never intended a literal representation of his life. One difficulty was the portrayal of his mental illness and trying to find a visual film language for this. As a matter of fact, Nash never had visual hallucinations: Charles Herman (the "roommate"), Marcee Herman and William Parcher (the Defense agent) are a scriptwriter's invention. Sylvia Nasar said that the filmmakers "invented a narrative that, while far from a literal telling, is true to the spirit of Nash's story". Nash spent his years between Princeton and MIT as a consultant for the RAND Corporation in California, but in the film he is portrayed as having worked for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon instead. His handlers, both from faculty and administration, had to introduce him to assistants and strangers. The PBS documentary A Brilliant Madness tried to portray his life more accurately. Few of the characters in the film, besides John and Alicia Nash, correspond directly to actual people.Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind, Touchstone 1998. The discussion of the Nash equilibrium was criticized as over-simplified. In the film, Nash has schizophrenic hallucinations while he is in graduate school, but in his life he did not have this experience until some years later. No mention is made of Nash's homosexual experiences at RAND, which are noted in the biography, though both Nash and his wife deny this occurred. Nash fathered a son, John David Stier (born June 19, 1953), by Eleanor Agnes Stier (1921–2005), a nurse whom he abandoned when she told him of her pregnancy. The film did not include Alicia's divorce of John in 1963. It was not until after Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1994 that they renewed their relationship. Beginning in 1970, Alicia allowed him to live with her as a boarder. They remarried in 2001. Nash is shown to join Wheeler Laboratory at MIT, but there is no such lab. Instead, he was appointed as C. L. E. Moore instructor at MIT, and later as a professor. The film furthermore does not touch on the revolutionary work of John Nash in differential geometry and partial differential equations, such as the Nash embedding theorem or his proof of Hilbert's nineteenth problem, work which he did in his time at MIT and for which he was given the Abel Prize in 2015. The so-called pen ceremony tradition at Princeton shown in the film is completely fictitious. The film has Nash saying in 1994: "I take the newer medications", but in fact, he did not take any medication from 1970 onwards, something highlighted in Nasar's biography. Howard later stated that they added the line of dialogue because they worried that the film would be criticized for suggesting that all people with schizophrenia can overcome their illness without medication. In addition, Nash never gave an acceptance speech for his Nobel prize. ==Release and response== A Beautiful Mind received a limited release on December 21, 2001, receiving positive reviews, with Crowe receiving wide acclaim for his performance. It was later released in the United States on January 4, 2002. ===Critical response=== On Rotten Tomatoes, A Beautiful Mind holds an approval rating of 74% based on 213 reviews and an average score of 7.20/10. The website's critical consensus states: "The well- acted A Beautiful Mind is both a moving love story and a revealing look at mental illness." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars. Mike Clark of USA Today gave three-and-a-half out of four stars and also praised Crowe's performance, calling it a welcome follow-up to Howard's previous film, 2001's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Desson Thomson of The Washington Post found the film to be "one of those formulaically rendered Important Subject movies". The portrayal of mathematics in the film was praised by the mathematics community, including John Nash himself. John Sutherland of The Guardian noted the film's biopic distortions, but said: Some writers such as Shailee Koranne argue that the film presents an unrealistic or inappropriate depiction of the disorder schizophrenia, which the protagonist John Nash suffers from, stating that places too much emphasis on “fixing” the disorder.Shailee Koranne, 'How schizophrenia is misrepresented in TV and film' Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Lisa Navarrette criticized the casting of Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash as an example of whitewashing. Alicia Nash was born in El Salvador and had an accent not portrayed in the film. ===Box office=== During the five-day weekend of the limited release, A Beautiful Mind opened at the #12 spot at the box office, peaking at the #2 spot following the wide release. The film went on to gross $170,742,341 in the United States and Canada and $313,542,341 worldwide. ===Awards and nominations=== Award Category Recipient Result Academy Awards Best Picture Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Best Director Ron Howard Best Actor Russell Crowe Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Akiva Goldsman Best Film Editing Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley Best Makeup Greg Cannom and Colleen Callaghan Best Original Score James Horner Amanda Awards Best Foreign Feature Film Ron Howard American Cinema Editors Awards Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley American Film Institute Awards Movie of the Year Actor of the Year – Male – Movies Russell Crowe Featured Actor of the Year – Female – Movies Jennifer Connelly Screenwriter of the Year Akiva Goldsman Artios Awards Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Casting – Drama Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films James Horner Australian Film Institute Awards Best Foreign Film Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role Russell Crowe Best Actress in a Supporting Role Jennifer Connelly Best Adapted Screenplay Akiva Goldsman Best Original Score James Horner Best Cast Ensemble Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, Adam Goldberg, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ed Harris, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Austin Pendleton, Christopher Plummer, and Anthony Rapp British Academy Film Awards Best Film Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Best Direction Ron Howard Best Actor in a Leading Role Russell Crowe Best Actress in a Supporting Role Jennifer Connelly Best Adapted Screenplay Akiva Goldsman Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Film Best Director Ron Howard Best Actor Russell Crowe Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly Best Screenplay Akiva Goldsman Best Original Score James Horner Christopher Awards Feature Film Critics' Choice Awards Best Picture Best Director Ron Howard Best Actor Russell Crowe Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly Best Screenplay Akiva Goldsman Czech Lion Awards Best Foreign Film Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Best Director Ron Howard Best Actor Russell Crowe Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly Best Screenplay Akiva Goldsman Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Ron Howard DVD Exclusive Awards Best Audio Commentary – New Release Original Retrospective Documentary – New Release Colleen A. Benn and Marian Mansi Empire Awards Best Actress Jennifer Connelly Golden Eagle Awards Best Foreign Language Film Ron Howard Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture – Drama Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Russell Crowe Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Jennifer Connelly Best Director – Motion Picture Ron Howard Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Akiva Goldsman Best Original Score – Motion Picture James Horner Golden Reel Awards Best Sound Editing – Dialogue & ADR, Domestic Feature Film Anthony J. Ciccolini III, Deborah Wallach, Stan Bochner, Louis Cerborino, and Marc Laub Best Sound Editing – Music (Foreign & Domestic) Jim Henrikson Golden Schmoes Awards Best Actor of the Year Russell Crowe Best Supporting Actress of the Year Jennifer Connelly GoldSpirit Awards Best Soundtrack James Horner Best Drama Soundtrack Grammy Awards Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – James Horner Humanitas Prize Feature Film Category Akiva Goldsman Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards Best Supporting Actress London Film Critics Circle Awards British Supporting Actor of the Year Paul Bettany MTV Movie Awards Best Male Performance Russell Crowe Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Picture Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Best Actor Russell Crowe Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly Best Adapted Screenplay Akiva Goldsman Best Original Score James Horner Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Actor Russell Crowe Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly Producers Guild of America Awards Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Picture Best Director Ron Howard Best Actor in a Leading Role Russell Crowe Best Actress in a Supporting Role Jennifer Connelly Best Screenplay – Adaptation Akiva Goldsman Best Original Score James Horner Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards Best Foreign Actor Russell Crowe San Diego Film Critics Society Awards Best Actor Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Ed Harris Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Jennifer Connelly Best Adapted Screenplay Akiva Goldsman Best Editing Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley Best Original Score James Horner Best Original Song "All Love Can Be" Music by James Horner; Lyrics by Will Jennings Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, Adam Goldberg, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ed Harris, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Austin Pendleton, Christopher Plummer, and Anthony Rapp Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Russell Crowe Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Jennifer Connelly Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie – Drama/Action Adventure Turkish Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Film USC Scripter Awards Akiva Goldsman ; Sylvia Nasar Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actor Russell Crowe Voices in the Shadow Dubbing Festival Best Male Voice Fabrizio Pucci World Soundtrack Awards Soundtrack Composer of the Year James Horner Writers Guild of America Awards Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Akiva Goldsman Yoga Awards Worst Foreign Director Ron Howard * In 2006, it was named No. 93 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers. In the following year, it was nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). ==Home media== A Beautiful Mind was released on VHS and DVD, in wide- and full-screen editions, in North America on June 25, 2002. The DVD set includes audio commentaries, deleted scenes, and documentaries. The film was also released on Blu-ray in North America on January 25, 2011. ==Soundtrack== ==See also== * List of American films of 2001 * List of films about mathematicians * Mental illness in films ==Notes== ==References== ==Further reading== * Akiva Goldsman. A Beautiful Mind: Screenplay and Introduction. New York, New York: Newmarket Press, 2002. . ==External links== * * * * * * * A Beautiful Mind at MSN Movies * A Beautiful Mind at Film Insight Category:2001 biographical drama films Category:2001 drama films Category:2001 films Category:2000s American films Category:American biographical drama films Category:BAFTA winners (films) Category:Best Drama Picture Golden Globe winners Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners Category:Drama films based on actual events Category:2000s English-language films Category:Films about schizophrenia Category:Films based on biographies Category:Films featuring a Best Drama Actor Golden Globe winning performance Category:Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award-winning performance Category:Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe- winning performance Category:Films shot in New Jersey Category:Films set in New Jersey Category:Films set in Massachusetts Category:Films set in Virginia Category:Films set in the 1940s Category:Films set in the 1950s Category:Films set in the 1960s Category:Films set in the 1970s Category:Films set in the 1990s Category:Films set in universities and colleges Category:Films whose director won the Best Directing Academy Award Category:Films whose writer won the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award Category:Films about the education system in the United States Category:Films about disability in the United States Category:Films about mathematics Category:Films about Nobel laureates Category:Princeton University Category:Biographical films about mathematicians Category:Biographical films about educators Category:Cultural depictions of mathematicians Category:Cultural depictions of economists Category:Cultural depictions of American men Category:Films scored by James Horner Category:Films with screenplays by Akiva Goldsman Category:Films produced by Brian Grazer Category:Films produced by Ron Howard Category:Films directed by Ron Howard Category:Universal Pictures films Category:DreamWorks Pictures films Category:Imagine Entertainment films

A Beautiful Mind is the original soundtrack album, on the Decca Records label, of the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Alicia Nash"), Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by James Horner. The album garnered nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Music critics felt that the musical score fit the film well, but believed it to be similar to several of Horner's previous films. ==Development== Composer James Horner was a frequent collaborator with Ron Howard, the director of A Beautiful Mind. Horner desired to feature vocals reminiscent of being midway between a girl and woman, and wrote the score specifically for 15-year-old Welsh singer Charlotte Church. To convey "the beauty of mathematics", Horner decided to use the idea of a kaleidoscope, as its "patterns are always changing, and things move very quickly, but in moving so quickly, they create other patterns that move very slowly underneath". He added that these changing patterns were conveyed with the piano and Church's voice. ==Release and reception== Writing for Empire magazine, Danny Graydon gave the soundtrack four out of five stars. He thought the score contained elements of Horner's previous films Sneakers (1992) and Bicentennial Man (1999), but said "if you can forgive that, this is a clever, masterful and romantic score that captures a brilliant mind in conflict". In the tracks "Creating Government Dynamics" and "Cracking The Russian Codes", Graydon opined that Church's "poignant vocals mix well with the frenetic piano and strings to represent Nash’s brilliance" and wished that her voice had been used more in the film. Dan Goldwasser of Soundtrack.net also found similarities to the score in Bicentennial Man, but thought Horner's work fit the film regardless, explaining "it effectively underscores the drama and romance, and even provides a few bits of tension for the action scene". Goldwasser concluded that "while it all works well in the film, there is enough about this score that just seemed to 'familiar' to make it stand out". Contributing to National Public Radio, Andy Trudeau believed Church's particular voice adds a "human element. It's the sound that, I think, gives a sense of--the center of this character, if you will. I think it's the soul. And it's trying to be normal in a way, and underneath it it's trying to be crazy". Horner's score garnered nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score. It lost the Golden Globe to the film Moulin Rouge! and the Oscar to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. ==Track listing== Adapted from: No. Title 1 "A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics" 2 "Playing a Game of 'Go!'" 3 "Looking for the Next Great Idea" 4 "Creating 'Governing Dynamics'" 5 "Cracking the Russian Codes" 6 "Nash Descends into Parcher's World" 7 "First Drop-Off, First Kiss" 8 "The Car Chase" 9 "Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World" 10 "Real or Imagined?" 11 "Of One Heart, of One Mind" 12 "Saying Goodbye to Those You So Love" 13 "Teaching Mathematics Again" 14 "The Prize of One's Life... The Prize of One's Mind" 15 "All Love Can Be" (Charlotte Church) 16 "Closing Credits" ==References== Category:2000s film soundtrack albums Category:James Horner albums Category:2001 soundtrack albums Category:Decca Records soundtracks Category:Universities and colleges in art

"A Beautiful Morning" is a song written by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati and recorded by the Rascals. Coming out in early 1968, it was the group's first track released after shortening their name from the Young Rascals. The single was one of the earliest released in stereo, as 7-inch singles generally were in mono. Together with the Doors "Hello, I Love You", it's credited with changing the industry standard of singles. The song continued the theme of carefree optimism that had distinguished the previous year's "Groovin'". It was written one morning in Honolulu, Hawaii when the band was invited to perform there by promoter Tom Moffatt. It became a big hit in the United States, reaching number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and also reaching number 36 on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart. It was RIAA-certified as a Million Seller on June 28, 1968. The first album on which the song appeared was Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits. ==Chart performance== ===Weekly charts=== Chart (1968) Peak position Australia KMR 36 Canada RPM Top SinglesImage : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada 1 US Billboard Hot 100Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–2002 3 US Billboard R&B; 36 US Cash Box Top 100 3 ===Year-end charts=== Chart (1968) Rank Canada 15 US Billboard Hot 100 35 US Cash Box 17 == Other versions == Renée Geyer covered the song on her album Dedicated (2007). == In other media == The song is featured in a Scrubs episode, at the start of a season 6 episode with Zach Braff, who plays J.D., dancing to it. It was also featured at the end of a second-season episode of The Greatest American Hero, in which Ralph had to disarm a nuclear missile. It was also featured in the movie Kingpin immediately following the scene that shows how Roy got his rubber hand. The song was featured during the 1969 college graduation scene in The First Wives Club. It was also used in the 1993 movie A Bronx Tale opening the racetrack scene, as well as on Arrow at the end of the eighteenth episode of the fifth season, titled "Disbanded". The song was also featured in season 3 episode 14 and season 5 episode 1 of The King of Queens. Sugar Pine 7 used it in the episode of the same name from their webseries Alternative Lifestyle in 2017. The song's opening lines featured prominently in a 2002 TV commercial for the (since-recalled) pain reliever Vioxx, which opens with an idyllic clip of former Olympic champion figure skater Dorothy Hamill, skating on a pond amid bright sunshine. ==References== ==External links== * [ Song Review] from Allmusic * Category:1968 singles Category:The Rascals songs Category:Songs written by Felix Cavaliere Category:Songs written by Eddie Brigati Category:RPM Top Singles number-one singles Category:Atlantic Records singles Category:1967 songs