Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and London Film School.
He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s.
In the 1970s and '80s
his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television.
His well-known films include the comedy-dramas "
Life Is Sweet" (1990) and "Career Girls" (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film "Topsy-Turvy" (1999) and the bleak working-class drama "All or Nothing" (2002).
His most notable works are the black comedy-drama "Naked" (1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Palme d'Or-winning drama "Secrets & Lies" (1996), the Golden Lion winning working-class drama "Vera Drake" (2004), and the Palme d'Or nominated biopic "Mr. Turner" (2014).
His stage plays include "Smelling A RatIt's A Great Big ShameGreek TragedyGoose-PimplesEcstasy" and "Abigail's Party".
Leigh is known for his lengthy rehearsal and improvisation techniques with actors to build characters and narrative for his films.
His purpose is to capture reality and present "emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, vulnerable films.
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His films and stage plays, according to critic Michael Coveney, "comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison with anyone's in the British theatre and cinema over the same period."
Leigh, Coveney said, has helped to create stars –
Liz Smith in "Hard Labour", Alison Steadman in "Abigail's Party", Brenda Blethyn in "Grown-Ups", Antony Sher in "Goose-Pimples", Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in "Meantime", Jane Horrocks in "Life is Sweet", David Thewlis in "Naked—"and remarked that the list of actors who have worked with him over the years—including Paul Jesson, Phil Daniels, Lindsay Duncan, Lesley Sharp, Kathy Burke, Stephen Rea, Julie Walters – "comprises an impressive, almost representative, nucleus of outstanding British acting talent."
His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and the Italian Federico Fellini.
Ian Buruma, writing in "The New York Review of Books" in January 1994, commented: "It is hard to get on a London bus or listen to the people at the next table in a cafeteria without thinking of Mike Leigh.
Like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory.
Leigh's London is as distinctive as Fellini's Rome or Ozu's Tokyo."
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
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The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
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High Hopes (1988 film)
High Hopes is a 1988 film directed by Mike Leigh, focusing on an extended working-class family living in King's Cross, London, and elsewhere.
The film primarily examines Cyril (Philip Davis) and Shirley (Ruth Sheen), a motor-cycle courier and his girlfriend, along with their friends, neighbours, and Cyril's mother and sister.
Despite staying true to Leigh's down-at-the-heel, realist style, the film is ultimately a social comedy concerning culture clashes between different classes and belief systems.
According to the critic Michael Coveney', "As in "MeantimeHigh Hopes" contrasts the economic and spiritual conditions of siblings.
And in developing some of the themes in "Babies Grow Old" and "Grown-Ups", it presents a brilliantly organised dramatic résumé of attitudes towards parturition and old age."
Pamela Jain
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Date of Birth:16th March.
Terence Robinson
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Ian Barry (director)
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Peter Levin
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Brian Saunders (weightlifter)
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Question: When is the director of film High Hopes (1988 Film) 's birthday?
Answer: 20 February 1943