title: Martin Garrix

text: In 2018, Garrix was once again an ambassador for Armani Exchange. The promotional video for the brand's "Fall Winter 2018" campaign was released in August 2018, featuring Garrix wearing the brand's new clothing line. His collaboration track with Loopers, "Game Over", was used for the video. The behind-the-scenes footage during the filming was also released by Armani Exchange.


title: Martin Garrix

text: Garrix became an ambassador for AXE, and launched a limited-edition Martin Garrix body spray on 14 September 2018. To promote the partnership and the product launch, AXE and Garrix released his music video for "Burn Out" in collaboration with the brand and created by AXE's global creative agency 72andSunny Amsterdam.


title: Martin Garrix

text: Garrix was again an ambassador for AXE in 2019. The song "These Are the Times" was released on 18 July to help promote the partnership.


title: Martin Garrix

text: In May 2016, Garrix headlined an event in Los Angeles with all proceeds going to the non-profit organisation Fuck Cancer, dedicated to early detection, prevention and providing support to those affected by cancer.


title: Martin Garrix

text: In November 2016, Garrix started his India tour with a special charity show in Mumbai with over 62,000 in attendance. Hosted at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, the charity event's purpose was to educate Indian children, with the proceeds from the show being donated to Magic Bus, who will be supporting the education of 10,000 children across the country.


title: Martin Garrix

text: On 24 February 2017, Garrix was announced as an "international friend" for SOS Children's Village in South Africa, a non-profit organisation that "builds families for orphaned, abandoned, and other vulnerable children around the world". Speaking to "Billboard", he said "it is awful that so many children around the world don't have the support of a caring family". Following the Mexico earthquake in 2017, Garrix donated $10,000 of his fee as Ultra Mexico line up.


title: Martin Garrix

text: On 28 February 2019, Garrix visited the SOS Children's Village in South Africa while on tour for Ultra South Africa. During his visit Garrix performed a one-hour DJ set to an excited crowd of 100 children and young people, some aged just three years old and accompanied by their SOS mothers.


title: Martin Garrix

text: In September 2019, Garrix held a show in his home country the Netherlands with all proceeds going towards the War Child Holland Charity. During the show he raised more than €270,000. In June 2020, he appeared in a public service announcement alongside other celebrities for War Child, an organisation that supports and empowers the most vulnerable communities, focusing on children and their families.


title: Martin Garrix

text: On 23 August 2018, Garrix posted a picture of the cover of his then-upcoming book "Martin Garrix Life = Crazy", containing photographs of his career and personal life. The photographs featured in the book were taken by Louis van Baar. The book was released in October 2018.


title: Cameron Douglas

text: Douglas is the elder son of actor Michael Douglas and Diandra Morrell Douglas (née Luker), and grandson of actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudan actress Diana Dill. His parents divorced in 1995.


title: Cameron Douglas

text: Through his father's second marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, Douglas has two paternal half-siblings.


title: Cameron Douglas

text: He has appeared in four films: Jackie Chan's "Mr. Nice Guy" (1997), "It Runs in the Family" (2003), "National Lampoon's Adam & Eve" (2005) and "Loaded" (2008). In "It Runs in the Family" he appeared together with his father, Michael Douglas, grandfather, Kirk Douglas, and grandmother, Diana Dill.


title: Cameron Douglas

text: Douglas has been arrested for drug offenses at least three times. In 1999, he was found with cocaine in Manhattan and was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. The charge was dropped after he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of disorderly conduct. In 2007, he was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance after police officers found a syringe with liquid cocaine in a car he was in. On July 28, 2009, Douglas was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration for possession of of methamphetamine. Due to the large amount of the drug seized, Douglas was charged with intent to distribute. The charge carries a minimum prison sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life.


title: Cameron Douglas

text: On January 27, 2010, Douglas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute drugs and heroin possession after his girlfriend had smuggled heroin hidden inside an electric toothbrush and passed it on to him while he was under house arrest. On April 20, 2010, Douglas was sentenced to five years in prison for possessing heroin and dealing large amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine out of a New York hotel room. Michael Douglas publicly assumed blame for "being a bad father" but said that without prison intervention, Cameron "was going to be dead or somebody was gonna kill him. I think he has a chance to start a new life, and he knows that."


title: Cameron Douglas

text: In October 2011, Douglas pleaded guilty to possessing drugs in prison. On December 21, 2011, he was sentenced to an additional 4 years in prison for this charge. In December 2012, his leg was broken by another inmate. In January 2013, Douglas was again found to have drugs in his system while in prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania. He failed a urinalysis and was sent to segregated housing. On April 15, 2013, his extended prison sentence was affirmed by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court denied his final appeal on January 13, 2014.


title: Cameron Douglas

text: On August 1, 2016, Douglas was released early from prison and transferred to a halfway house in New York City after seven years behind bars, with two of the seven years in segregated housing.


title: Cameron Douglas

text: His book, "Long Way Home", is about his experiences after being convicted on drug charges. He has set up an account on Instagram, where his first post was an image of the phrase "Be the energy you want to attract."


title: Cameron Douglas

text: Douglas is in a longtime relationship with Viviane Thibes. The couple have two children, a daughter named Lua Izzy (born 2017) and a son named Ryder (born 2020).


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, "The Hiding Place", is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts and how she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned at the concentration camp.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: Corrie ten Boom was born on 15 April 1892 in Haarlem, Netherlands, the youngest child of Casper ten Boom, a jeweler and watchmaker, and Cornelia (commonly known as "Cor") Johanna Arnolda, née Luitingh, whom he married in 1884. She was named after her mother but known as Corrie all her life. Corrie had three older siblings: Betsie, Willem, and Nollie. Her three maternal aunts, Tante Bepa, Tante Jans, and Tante Anna, lived with the family. Her father was fascinated by the craft of watchmaking and often became so engrossed in his work that he forgot to charge customers for his services.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: The Ten Boom family lived above Casper's watch shop in what Corrie called "the Beje," a house named for the Barteljorisstraat where they lived. Corrie spent the first part of her life in charge of the housekeeping. However, when a cold sent Betsie, Corrie's sister, to bed for an extended period, Corrie took Betsie's place and began to work in the family watch shop. She quickly discovered that she loved the "business side" of the watch shop, and she organized the financial proceedings by developing a system of billings and ledgers. Even when Betsie recovered, Corrie kept her place in the shop and Betsie managed the housework, to the delight of them both.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: She trained to be a watchmaker herself, and in 1922, she became the first woman to be licensed as a watchmaker in the Netherlands. Over the next decade, in addition to working in her father's shop, she established a youth club for teenage girls, which provided religious instruction and classes in the performing arts, sewing, and handicrafts. She and her family were Calvinist Christians in the Dutch Reformed Church, and their faith inspired them to serve their society, which they did by offering shelter, food and money to those who were in need. Some important tenets of their faith included the fact that the Jews were precious to God and that all people are created equal – powerful motivation for the selfless rescue work she would later become involved in.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: In May 1940, the Germans invaded the Netherlands. One of their restrictions was the banning of the youth club. In May 1942, a well-dressed woman came to the Ten Booms' with a suitcase in hand and told them that she was a Jew, her husband had been arrested several months earlier, her son had gone into hiding and Occupation authorities had recently visited her so she was afraid to go back. She heard that the Ten Booms had previously helped their Jewish neighbors, the Weils, and asked if they could help her too. Casper readily agreed that she could stay with them although the police headquarters was only half a block away. A devoted reader of the Old Testament, he believed that the Jews were the "chosen people" and told the woman, "In this household, God's people are always welcome." The family then became very active in the Dutch underground, hiding refugees and honouring the Jewish Sabbath. The family never sought to convert any of the Jews who stayed with them.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: Corrie and her sister Betsie opened their home to Jewish refugees and members of the resistance movement, and as a result, they were sought after by the Gestapo and its Dutch counterpart. The refugee work which Ten Boom and her sister did at the Beje became known by the Dutch Resistance, which sent an architect to the Ten Boom home to build a secret room adjacent to the room for the Jews who were in hiding and an alert buzzer that could be used to warn the refugees to get into the room as quickly as possible. Thus the Ten Booms created "The Hiding Place" (Dutch: "De Schuilplaats" or "de Béjé", pronounced "bayay", an abbreviation of the street, Barteljorisstraat). The secret room was in Corrie's bedroom behind a false wall and would hold 6 people. A ventilation system was installed for the occupants. A buzzer could be heard in the house to warn the refugees to get into the room as quickly as possible during security sweeps through the neighborhood. They had plenty of room, but wartime shortages meant that food was scarce. Every non-Jewish Dutch person had received a ration card, the requirement for obtaining weekly food coupons. Through her charitable work, Ten Boom knew many people in Haarlem and remembered a family with a disabled daughter, whose father was a civil servant who was now in charge of the local ration-card office. She went to his house one evening, and when he asked how many ration cards she needed, "I opened my mouth to say, 'Five,'" Ten Boom wrote in "The Hiding Place". "But the number that unexpectedly and astonishingly came out instead was: 'One hundred.'" He gave them to her and she provided cards to every Jew she met.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: Ten Boom's involvement in the Dutch resistance grew beyond gathering stolen ration cards and harboring Jews in her home. She soon became part of the Dutch underground resistance network and oversaw a network of smuggling Jews to safe places. All in all, it is estimated that around 800 Jews were saved by Ten Boom's efforts.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: On 28 February 1944, a Dutch informant, Jan Vogel, told the Nazis about the Ten Booms' work; at around 12:30 p.m. of that day, the Nazis arrested the entire Ten Boom family. They were sent to Scheveningen Prison when Resistance materials and extra ration cards were found at the home. The group of six people hidden by the Ten Booms, made up of both Jews and resistance workers, remained undiscovered. Though the house was under constant surveillance after Ten Boom's arrest, police officers who were also members of the resistance group coordinated the refugees' escape. Ten Boom received a letter one day in prison, "All the watches in your cabinet are safe," meaning that the refugees had managed to escape and were safe. Four days after the raid, resistance workers transferred them to other locations. Altogether, the Gestapo arrested over 30 people who were in the family home that day.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: Though the Gestapo soon released most of the 30 people they had captured that day, Corrie, Betsie, and their father Casper were held in prison. Casper died ten days later. Corrie was initially held in solitary confinement. After three months, she was taken to her first hearing. At her trial, Ten Boom spoke about her work with people with mental disabilities; the Nazi lieutenant scoffed because the Nazis had been killing individuals with mental disabilities for years by their eugenics policies. Ten Boom defended her work by saying that in the eyes of God, a mentally disabled person might be more valuable "than a watchmaker. Or a lieutenant."


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: Corrie and Betsie were sent from Scheveningen to Herzogenbusch, a political concentration camp (also known as Kamp Vught), and finally to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, a women's labor camp in Germany. There, they held worship services after the hard days at work by using a Bible that they had managed to smuggle in. Through the two sisters’ teachings and examples of unfailing charity, many of the prisoners there converted to Christianity. While they were imprisoned at Ravensbruck, Betsie and her sister began to discuss plans for founding a place of healing after the war. Betsie's health continued to deteriorate, and she died on 16 December 1944 at the age of 59. Before she died, she told Corrie, "There is no pit so deep that He [God] is not deeper still." Twelve days later, Corrie was released. Afterward, she was told that her release was because of a clerical error and that a week later, all the women in her age group were sent to the gas chambers.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: Ten Boom returned home amid the "hunger winter". She still opened her doors to people with disabilities who were in hiding for fear of execution.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: After the war, Ten Boom returned to the Netherlands to set up a rehabilitation center in Bloemendaal. The refuge housed concentration-camp survivors and until 1950 exclusively sheltered jobless Dutch who had collaborated with the Germans during the Occupation, after which it accepted anyone in need of care. She returned to Germany in 1946 and met with and forgave two Germans who had been employed at Ravensbrück, one of whom had been particularly cruel to Betsie. Ten Boom went on to travel the world as a public speaker, appearing in more than 60 countries. She wrote many books during this period.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: One of these books is titled "Tramp for the Lord" and was written in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Each chapter tells a short, different story about her world travels and sharing the gospel message in Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, and even in difficult-to-reach and dangerous countries such as Russia (then-USSR), Cuba, and China. It features photographs of Ten Boom and her important messages of forgiveness, hope, love, and salvation through the saving grace of Jesus Christ.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: Ten Boom told the story of her family members and their World War II work in her bestselling book, "The Hiding Place" (1971), which was made into a 1975 World Wide Pictures film, "The Hiding Place", starring Jeannette Clift as Corrie and Julie Harris as Betsie. In 1977, the 85-year-old Corrie migrated to Placentia, California. In 1978, she suffered two strokes, the first rendered her unable to speak, and the second resulted in paralysis. She died on her 91st birthday, 15 April 1983, after suffering a third stroke. Ten Boom was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California.


title: Corrie ten Boom

text: A sequel film, "Return to the Hiding Place (War of Resistance)", was released in 2011 in the United Kingdom and 2013 it was released in the United States. The film was based on Hans Poley's book, which painted a wider picture of the circle of which she was a part.


title: Ben Cross

text: Harry Bernard Cross (16 December 1947 – 18 August 2020) was an English stage and film actor. He was best known for playing Billy Flynn in the original West End production of the musical "Chicago", and his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film "Chariots of Fire".


title: Ben Cross

text: Harry Bernard Cross was born in London on 16 December 1947, to a working-class family. He was the son of Catherine (née O'Donovan), a cleaner, and Harry Cross, a doorman. His father died of tuberculosis when Cross was aged eight. While his father was a member of the Church of England, Cross grew up in his Irish mother's Catholic faith, in the Tulse Hill neighbourhood of London.


title: Ben Cross

text: Cross started his career by taking manual jobs, including working as a window cleaner, waiter, and joiner. He also worked as a carpenter for the Welsh National Opera, and was the Property Master at The Alexandra theatre in Birmingham.


title: Ben Cross

text: In 1970 at the age of 22, he was accepted into London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), but later expressed little interest in pursuing the classical arts route.


title: Ben Cross

text: After graduating from RADA, Cross performed in several stage plays at The Dukes theatre in Lancaster where he was seen in "Macbeth", "The Importance of Being Earnest" and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." He then joined the Prospect Theatre Company and played roles in "Pericles", "Twelfth Night", and "The Royal Hunt of the Sun". Cross also joined the cast of the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and played leading roles in Peter Shaffer's "Equus", "Mind Your Head", and the musical "Irma la Douce" — all at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre.


title: Ben Cross

text: Cross's first big-screen film appearance came in 1976 when he went on location to Deventer, Netherlands, to play Trooper Binns in Joseph E. Levine's Second World War epic "A Bridge Too Far", which starred an international cast, including Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Michael Caine and James Caan.


title: Ben Cross

text: In 1977, Cross became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company; he performed in the premiere of "Privates on Parade" as "Kevin Cartwright" and played Rover in a revival of a Restoration play titled "Wild Oats". Cross's path to international stardom began in 1978 with his performance in the musical "Chicago", in which he played Billy Flynn, the slick lawyer of murderess Roxie Hart.


title: Ben Cross

text: During Cross's performance in "Chicago" he was recognised and recommended for a leading role in the multiple Oscar-winning film "Chariots of Fire" in 1981. The film was based on the true story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. Cross trained hard for his role as Abrahams; his co-star Ian Charleson played Liddell. The pair were shown in the opening scene running barefoot with a group of others along a Scottish beach, accompanied by Vangelis's music. Considered "one of the most memorable opening scenes in film history", Cross acknowledged the scene's effectiveness but remembered the water was freezing. For their performances in the film, Cross and Charleson both won "Most Promising Artiste of 1981" awards from the Variety Club Awards in February 1982. Cross's starring role in "Chariots of Fire" has been credited with continuing a transatlantic trend in elegant young English actors that had been set by Jeremy Irons in "Brideshead Revisited". The film went on to win multiple Academy Awards, including the one for Best Picture.


title: Ben Cross

text: Cross followed up "Chariots of Fire" with performances as a Scottish physician, Dr Andrew Manson, struggling with the politics of the British medical system during the 1920s, in "The Citadel", a 10-part BBC Television dramatisation of A. J. Cronin's novel, and as Ashton (Ash) Pelham-Martyn, a British cavalry officer torn between two cultures in the ITV miniseries "The Far Pavilions".


title: Ben Cross

text: In 1982, the U.S. union Actors' Equity, in a landmark reversal of a previous ruling, allowed Cross to appear in John Guare's off-Broadway play "Lydie Breeze". The decision was tied to a joint effort by Actors' Equity, the League of New York Theatres and the British union Equity to allow British and U.S. actors unrestricted opportunities to work in both countries. The agreement eventually led to regular equal exchange agreements for equivalent acting jobs between London and New York City.


title: Ben Cross

text: During the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, Cross appeared in a commercial for American Express ('Don't leave home without it') with the 87-year-old Jackson Scholz, a sprinter for the 1924 American Olympic team whose character was featured in the film "Chariots of Fire". When Cross talks about beating Scholz, the latter remarks, ""You" didn't beat me!" with mock indignation. Proving he is 'still pretty fast', Scholz beats Cross to the draw in picking up the tab with his credit card.


title: Ben Cross

text: He subsequently replaced James Garner as the featured actor endorsing the Polaroid Spectra camera in 1986. Cross was also featured in "GQ Magazine" as one of the annual "Manstyle" winners in January 1985 followed by a featured photo shoot in March 1985.


title: Ben Cross

text: In 1985, he played Barney Greenwald in a revival of Herman Wouk's courtroom drama "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" at the Queen's Theatre, London, alongside castmates Charlton Heston (as Captain Queeg) and John Schuck.


title: Ben Cross

text: In a 1985 interview, the actor admitted he preferred American roles because of their emotionalism, saying of English acting: "Over here, people hide behind mannerism and technique and don't come up with any soul. American actors are much freer with the emotions. It's pretty hard in Europe not to have experience of Americans because we're exposed to a lot of American product." Cross also said that he was sympathetic to the American dream of success: "I am ambitious. There's no point of being ashamed of the fact that one has ambitions. Despite what a lot of people think in our profession, you can have ambitions and still turn in good work and still earn a living. There's no clash there." Cross expressed the hope that his reputation would "span the Atlantic," and that those in the industry would not ignore him because he did not live in Los Angeles or New York City. "A prospective director would have to convince me that I could bring something new, fresh and exciting to a classical part that hundreds of other people have played," he said.


title: Ben Cross

text: During this time, Cross' career included several roles in made-for-television productions, as well as the stage. In the 1988 HBO spy film "Steal the Sky" he played Munir Redfa, an Iraqi pilot blackmailed into flying a MiG aircraft from Iraq to Israel. In Ian Sharp's 1989 NBC-TV miniseries "Twist of Fate", he played German Nazi SS colonel and war criminal Helmut von Schraeder, who has his face and voice surgically changed to pose as a Jew in a concentration camp to avoid post-war capture and war crime punishment by the approaching Allies, then after his liberation at the war's end by the title's name becomes a Zionist and one of Israel's early founders and leading military generals. He twice portrayed a vampire, first in the 1989 USA Network film "Nightlife", then again as Barnabas Collins in the 1991 MGM miniseries remake of the cult classic TV soap opera "Dark Shadows". Cross also appeared as Sir Harold Pearson in the 1994 Italian production "Caro Dolce Amore (Honey Sweet Love)", Solomon in the 1997 Trimark Pictures production "Solomon" and Captain Nemo in the 1997 CBS film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".


title: Ben Cross

text: Cross played Ikey Solomon in the Australian production "The Potato Factory" in 2000. In 2005, Cross, an anti-death penalty campaigner, starred as a death-row prisoner in Bruce Graham's play "Coyote on a Fence", at the Duchess Theatre. He played Rudolf Hess in the 2006 BBC production "".


title: Ben Cross

text: In November 2007, Cross was cast in the role of Sarek in the 2009 "Star Trek" film directed and produced by J. J. Abrams. Cross spoke to "Star Trek" magazine following the film's release, saying:


title: Ben Cross

text: In order to prepare for the role, Cross drew on his experience as a parent as well as Sarek's previous on-screen appearances. Having been present when his daughter was born, he was able to "call on all sorts of things" in the scene where Amanda has baby Spock, a scene which did not make it into the theatrical cut of the film. While he found the emotionless trait of a Vulcan a challenge to play, he found the father/son relationship between Sarek and Spock easier to play. According to Cross:


title: Ben Cross

text: In 2012, Cross was cast as Rabbit, the main antagonist on the Cinemax original series "Banshee". Rabbit is "a ruthless Ukrainian gangster who has been hunting down two of his former top thieves for 15 years." After 2012, Cross acted in various minor films but also acted in "The Hurricane Heist", which earned a box office of US$32.5 million. In 2019, he starred with Whoopi Goldberg in the film "Master of Dark Shadows", which earned a rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, his second film to receive such a rating, the other one being "Paperhouse".


title: Ben Cross

text: Cross was also a director, writer, and musician. He wrote music, screenplays, and articles for English-language publications, and the lyrics for an album with Bulgarian singer Vasil Petrov, which was released in late 2007. He sang two Frank Sinatra songs with Petrov in the Apollonia Festival at the Black Sea in September 2007.


title: Ben Cross

text: Among his works was the musical "Rage" about Ruth Ellis, which was performed in the London area. He starred in it and played the part of the hangman.


title: Ben Cross

text: Cross's first single as a lyricist was released by Polydor Records in the late 1970s and was titled "Mickey Moonshine". The "nom de guerre" for the performance had occurred to Cross when he recalled an earlier involvement with the music industry as a session singer for Decca Records between 1972 and 1974. At this time, he recorded a song called "Name it, You Got it", which achieved some play on the British Northern soul scene. His other musical works include "The Best We've Ever Had" and "Nearly Midnight", both written by Cross and directed by his son Theo.


title: Ben Cross

text: The original soundtrack for "Nearly Midnight" was written, produced and performed by his daughter Lauren. These works were performed in Edinburgh in 2002 and 2003, respectively. "Square One", directed by Cross, was performed at the Etcetera Theatre in London in 2004.


title: Ben Cross

text: From 1977 to 1992, Cross was married to model Penelope Butler and had two children, Lauren and Theo. He was later married to gyrotonics trainer Michele Moerth, from 1996 to 2005. Both these marriages ended in divorce. In 2018, he married the Bulgarian artist Deyana Boneva, to whom he remained married until his death. In his later years, he lived primarily in Vienna, Austria.


title: Ben Cross

text: Cross was an active Freemason for the final 10 years of his life. Initiated in 2010 in the Shakespear Lodge (London), he attended lodge meetings in the United Kingdom and across Europe, eventually serving as a Grand Steward in the United Grand Lodge of England from 2017 to 2018. In this capacity he took part in the ceremonial tercentenary event at the Royal Albert Hall on 31 October 2017, celebrating three hundred years since the formation of the first English Grand Lodge, in which a dramatic presentation starred various actors, led by Sir Derek Jacobi, Samantha Bond, and Sanjeev Bhaskar.


title: Ben Cross

text: Cross died of cancer in Vienna on 18 August 2020, aged 72. He had recently finished two films, "Prey for the Devil" and "The Last Letter from Your Lover", which were released posthumously.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making motion pictures and adaptations of popular novels.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes "The Client"; "Batman Forever" and its sequel "Batman & Robin"; "I, Robot"; "I Am Legend"; "Cinderella Man," and numerous rewrites that are both credited and uncredited. He also wrote more than a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series "Fringe".


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: In 2002, Goldsman received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind", which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006, Goldsman re-teamed with "A Beautiful Mind" director Ron Howard to adapt Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code" for Howard's film. He also wrote the screenplay for its 2009 sequel "Angels & Demons".


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: Goldsman is also known for co-developing the DC Comics TV series "Titans" and the Paramount Plus series "", a sequel to "" and "". He is also the co-creator of "", a prequel to "".


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: Goldsman was born in New York City to Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn Heights. His parents, Tev Goldsman and Mira Rothenberg, were both clinical child psychologists who ran a group home for emotionally disturbed children. He graduated from Saint Ann's School, also in Brooklyn Heights, where he says he made many friends with whom he later worked in the entertainment industry. He received his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and attended the graduate fiction-writing program at New York University.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: He produced the Universal Pictures feature "Lone Survivor", from writer/director Peter Berg, based on the book "" by Marcus Luttrell. It tells the story of Luttrell's Navy SEAL team in 2005 Afghanistan, on a mission to kill a terrorist leader. It starred Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Taylor Kitsch, and was released in 2013.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: Goldsman made his feature film directing debut with "Winter's Tale", a film adaption of the Mark Helprin novel, starting Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, Will Smith and William Hurt. It was released on February 14, 2014. He also directed the horror thriller film "Stephanie" (2017) with Frank Grillo in the leading role. He co-wrote and produced the film adaptation of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series, released on August 4, 2017, which was one of Goldsman's post-Apotheosis films.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: In June 2015, Paramount Pictures announced that Goldsman would head a team of writers and filmmakers to create a multifilm cinematic universe branching out from Hasbro's "Transformers" franchise. In 2017, his Weed Road company was signed with Paramount.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: Goldsman was revealed in September 2018 to have been on the writing staff for "", revolving around the later years of the character of Jean-Luc Picard.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: In 2008, Goldsman joined the first season crew of the Fox horror/mystery series "Fringe" as writer, director, and consulting producer. The first episode Goldsman directed and wrote was "Bad Dreams". In its fifth season, Goldsman remained a consulting producer. Episodes he contributed to included:


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: Goldsman's first wife, film producer Rebecca Spikings-Goldsman, died of a heart attack on July 6, 2010, at the age of 42. Rebecca was the daughter of producer Barry Spikings.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: In 2012, Akiva met his second wife Joann Richter. The couple were married in 2014 and have two daughters, and divide their time between Los Angeles and New York.


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: In 2004, Goldsman founded Weed Road Pictures as an independent production company to produce, develop and finance films and other forms of entertainment properties. Weed Road has financed or cofinanced 13 films. Weed Road recently wrapped production on "Firestarter", directed by Keith Thomas and starring Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon, and Kurtwood Smith. Previous Weed Road releases include Sony's "The Dark Tower" and Warner Bros. "Winter's Tale".


title: Akiva Goldsman

text: In 2016, it was announced that Goldsman would script an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel". Its final release date is still unknown. In July 2017, Paramount Pictures announced plans to make a film adaptation of the novel "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy with Goldsman as producer.


title: Andy Richter

text: Paul Andrew Richter (born October 28, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and talk show announcer. He is best known as the sidekick for Conan O'Brien on each of O'Brien's talk shows: "Late Night" and "The Tonight Show" on NBC and "Conan" on TBS. He was also star of the cult classic TV series Andy Richter Controls the Universe. He voiced Mort in the "Madagascar" film franchise and Ben Higgenbottom in the Nickelodeon animated television series "The Mighty B!".


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter, the second of four children, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to mother Glenda Swanson (née Palmer), a kitchen cabinet designer, and father Laurence R. Richter, who taught Russian at Indiana University for more than 32 years. Richter was raised in Yorkville, Illinois. He graduated from Yorkville High School in 1984, where he was elected Prom King. His parents divorced when he was 4 and his father later came out as gay.


title: Andy Richter

text: In the late 1980s, Richter attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Columbia College Chicago as a film major. While at Columbia, he learned the basics of comedic acting and writing by starring in numerous student films and videos. After leaving Columbia in 1988, Richter worked as a production assistant on commercial shoots in Chicago. In 1989, he began taking classes at Chicago's Improv Olympic. He went from student to "House Performer" within a year. Richter branched out working with "The Comedy Underground" and the Annoyance Theatre. Richter wrote for the short-lived Jonathan Brandmeier television show.


title: Andy Richter

text: In the early 1990s, the Annoyance Theatre hit gold when producer Joey Soloway staged "The Real Live Brady Bunch" with live, word-for-word performances of the '70s sitcom. The show was so popular that it attracted national attention and moved to New York City. Richter was not an original member of the cast but the actor who played "Mike Brady" in the Chicago cast opted not to go to New York. Richter asked Soloway if he could play "Mike" in New York and, since Soloway had not cast a replacement, he agreed.


title: Andy Richter

text: At the same time "The Real Live Brady Bunch" was playing in New York, two fellow Annoyance members (Beth Cahill and Melanie Hutsell, who played Marcia and Jan Brady in the "Real Live Brady Bunch" stage show) were hired as cast members on "Saturday Night Live". With friends on "SNL", Richter attended after-show parties, where he met "SNL" writer Robert Smigel. Two years later, Smigel hired Richter as a writer for a new show he was producing, "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". Smigel sent Richter to join Conan O'Brien on stage during a practice run-through when the production staff was testing lighting angles and sound, and noticed the two had a strong rapport. He became O'Brien's sidekick just weeks before the show began airing in 1993.


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter departed from "Late Night" after the show on May 26, 2000. He later said of the decision, "After seven years of being on the show, I got itchy. I have a philosophy that if you enjoy good fortune, rather than sit there and say, "Oh, that's fine, this amount is good enough for me," you should try and push it. You should see how much you can stretch your good fortune. And I was curious."


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter left his post at "Late Night" in 2000 to pursue a career acting in films and television. His first major venture, Fox's "Andy Richter Controls the Universe", was canceled after two mid-season runs. His next Fox sitcom, "Quintuplets", lasted one season. His 2007 television series, "Andy Barker P.I.", was co-written and executive produced by Conan O'Brien. In the series, Richter played an accountant who could not attract clients. After a woman comes to his office thinking he is the former tenant, a private investigator, she asks him to find her husband, who she thinks faked his death. Barker decides to pursue this job and becomes a private detective in earnest, and continues to do his accounting job, which seems to pick up as the series goes on. The series aired on NBC, with all six episodes in the first season on NBC.com. The series was canceled after very poor ratings, despite being named by "Entertainment Weekly" as one of the Top Ten Shows of 2007.


title: Andy Richter

text: On February 24, 2009, it was announced that Richter would rejoin O'Brien as the announcer for "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" in Los Angeles. Richter frequently appeared in comedy sketches on the show and often commented and interacted with Conan during the opening monologue; he was also part of the show's writing staff. In mid-December 2009, Richter also began joining Conan on the couch during the celebrity interviews, much like he did in his former sidekick role on "Late Night". Richter said he enjoyed having a steady paycheck again and not having to deal with production companies while developing television shows. Richter said, "Now I'm so happy to be back and making TV every night, not asking permission from somebody and waiting six months to get their sparklingly clear and cogent notes. And then wait another month for them to get back from Hawaii and say, 'Yes, now we can go make television.' I felt like a plumber who kept going into the building and saying, 'Can we put some pipes together?' and watching my wrenches gather dust."


title: Andy Richter

text: When Conan O'Brien returned to the air as host of "Conan" on TBS in 2010, Richter followed and resumed his roles as announcer, writer, general sidekick and participant in comedy sketches.


title: Andy Richter

text: In 2010, Richter was considered to be a potential host of the classic "Pyramid" game show that was being developed for CBS, but was ultimately not picked up by the network. Had the series been picked up, it would not have affected Richter's role on "Conan". On May 18, 2011, TBS announced development of a possible new version of "Pyramid", again to be hosted by Richter.


title: Andy Richter

text: In June 2010, Richter hosted the "Team Coco Presents the Conan Writers Live" comedy special for TBS at the Just for Laughs festival in Chicago. He hosted in place of O'Brien, who was prohibited from hosting any television program until fall 2010.


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter holds the record for all-time highest one-day score on "Celebrity Jeopardy!", winning $68,000 during a first-round game of the 2009–10 season's "Jeopardy! Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational". His earnings were donated to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.


title: Andy Richter

text: In September 2022, Richter appeared on the series premiere of "Celebrity Jeopardy!". He got 2nd place and $30,000 for his charity The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.


title: Andy Richter

text: In April 2002, Richter appeared in the Fox series "Malcolm in the Middle". In "Clip Show", he played a psychiatrist giving therapy to Malcolm, Reese, and Dewey.


title: Andy Richter

text: In October 2005, Richter appeared in the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace". In "The Old Man and the Sea", he played an annoying blind date that was teased and misled by Grace Adler, who only dated him to prove she was not a snob.


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter appeared in "Monk" as a murderer posing as Adrian Monk's best friend in the episode "Mr Monk Makes a Friend".


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter appears in the Fox series "Arrested Development" in the 2006 episode "S.O.B.s." He plays every member of a fictional group of identical Richter quintuplets: Donnie, Chareth, Rocky, Emmett, and himself. He reprises the roles in several episodes of season 4, which aired in 2013 on Netflix.


title: Andy Richter

text: From 2006 to 2008, Richter had a recurring role as "Sad Dad" Stan in the TV show "The New Adventures of Old Christine".


title: Andy Richter

text: He also provided the voice of Ben on the animated series "The Mighty B!", played Simon Cristini on "True Jackson, VP", and reprises the voice of Mort on "The Penguins of Madagascar" and "All Hail King Julien".


title: Andy Richter

text: In addition to his television work, Richter has appeared in motion pictures such as "Aliens in the Attic", "Big Trouble", "Elf", "Seeing Other People", "New York Minute", "Dr. Dolittle 2", "Madagascar", "", "", "My Boss's Daughter", "Scary Movie 2", "Frank McKlusky, C.I.", "Pootie Tang", "", "Blades of Glory", "Semi-Pro", "Lenny the Wonder Dog", "Dr. T & the Women" and "Cabin Boy".


title: Andy Richter

text: In 2008, Richter appeared in composer Marc Shaiman's satirical mini-musical called "Prop 8 — The Musical". The three-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com. In addition to Richter, the cast includes Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Craig Robinson, and many other celebrities, directed by Adam Shankman. The video won the 2009 Webby Award category Comedy: Individual Short or Episode, and won a GLAAD media award.


title: Andy Richter

text: In July 2009, Richter played for the American League as a first baseman in the 2009 Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game. Representing the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Richter hit a home run in the game.


title: Andy Richter

text: After the end of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien", Richter joined O'Brien on his Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour, a stage show touring the United States and Canada over the spring of 2010. Richter served in his usual role as announcer and sidekick. Due to performing with O'Brien, Richter was forced to drop out of the "Jeopardy! Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational", in which he was a semifinalist. Isaac Mizrahi replaced Richter in the tournament. Richter also made an appearance on the Disney Channel sitcom "The Suite Life on Deck" as a non-religious hooded brother, Brother Theodore in the episode "Silent Treatment".


title: Andy Richter

text: In May 2021 Richter appeared on the Gus and Eddy Podcast hosted by comedy duo Gus Johnson and Eddy Burback.


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter was married to comedic actress and author Sarah Thyre from 1994 to 2019, and they have two children, a son born in 2000 and a daughter born in 2005. Thyre was part of the cast of the comedy series "Strangers with Candy", on which Richter made frequent cameo appearances. Richter and Thyre also appeared together playing Hansel and Gretel in an episode of the "Upright Citizens Brigade" sketch comedy series on Comedy Central in 1998. On April 13, 2019, Richter announced on his Twitter account that he and Thyre had separated and had begun divorce proceedings. In November 2022 he announced his engagement to Jennifer Herrera.


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter is a supporter of Planned Parenthood. At a fundraiser in 2016, he referenced abortion services provided in 1992 for Thyre when the couple had split and were each undergoing great personal difficulties. He stated that although they were very sad about the situation, they both knew it was the right decision for them. He also said that he is "eternally grateful" to the organization for allowing them to care for themselves and also for the ability to choose the time to bring children into their lives. The couple had been married 22 years at the time of his statements.


title: Andy Richter

text: Richter is a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. After leaving "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", he moved to Los Angeles.


title: Andy Richter

text: On April 15, 2019, Richter joined other writers in firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand against the ATA and against packaging, which they believed to be an unfair practice.


title: Ballet

text: Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. Ballet has been influential globally and has defined the foundational techniques which are used in many other dance genres and cultures. Various schools around the world have incorporated their own cultures. As a result, ballet has evolved in distinct ways.


title: Ballet

text: A ballet as a unified work comprises the choreography and music for a ballet production. Ballets are choreographed and performed by trained ballet dancers. Traditional classical ballets are usually performed with classical music accompaniment and use elaborate costumes and staging, whereas modern ballets are often performed in simple costumes and without elaborate sets or scenery.


title: Ballet

text: Ballet is a French word which had its origin in Italian "balletto", a diminutive of "ballo" (dance) which comes from Latin "ballo", "ballare", meaning "to dance", which in turn comes from the Greek "βαλλίζω" ("ballizo"), "to dance, to jump about". The word came into English usage from the French around 1630.


title: Ballet

text: Ballet originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Under Catherine de' Medici's influence as Queen, it spread to France, where it developed even further. The dancers in these early court ballets were mostly noble amateurs. Ornamented costumes were meant to impress viewers, but they restricted performers' freedom of movement.


title: Ballet

text: The ballets were performed in large chambers with viewers on three sides. The implementation of the proscenium arch from 1618 on distanced performers from audience members, who could then better view and appreciate the technical feats of the professional dancers in the productions.


title: Ballet

text: French court ballet reached its height under the reign of King Louis XIV. Louis founded the Académie Royale de Danse (Royal Dance Academy) in 1661 to establish standards and certify dance instructors. In 1672, Louis XIV made Jean-Baptiste Lully the director of the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opera) from which the first professional ballet company, the Paris Opera Ballet, arose. Pierre Beauchamp served as Lully's ballet-master. Together their partnership would drastically influence the development of ballet, as evidenced by the credit given to them for the creation of the five major positions of the feet. By 1681, the first "ballerinas" took the stage following years of training at the Académie.


title: Ballet

text: Ballet started to decline in France after 1830, but it continued to develop in Denmark, Italy, and Russia. The arrival in Europe of the Ballets Russes led by Sergei Diaghilev on the eve of the First World War revived interest in the ballet and started the modern era.


title: Ballet

text: In the twentieth century, ballet had a wide influence on other dance genres, Also in the twentieth century, ballet took a turn dividing it from classical ballet to the introduction of modern dance, leading to modernist movements in several countries.


title: Ballet

text: Famous dancers of the twentieth century include Anna Pavlova, Galina Ulanova, Rudolf Nureyev, Maya Plisetskaya, Margot Fonteyn, Rosella Hightower, Maria Tall Chief, Erik Bruhn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland, Natalia Makarova, Arthur Mitchell, and Jeanne Devereaux. Jeanne Devereaux performed as a prima ballerina for three decades and set a world's record by being able to execute 16 triple fouettes.


title: Ballet

text: Stylistic variations and subgenres have evolved over time. Early, classical variations are primarily associated with geographic origin. Examples of this are Russian ballet, French ballet, and Italian ballet. Later variations, such as contemporary ballet and neoclassical ballet, incorporate both classical ballet and non-traditional technique and movement. Perhaps the most widely known and performed ballet style is late Romantic ballet (or Ballet blanc).


title: Ballet

text: Classical ballet is based on traditional ballet technique and vocabulary. Different styles have emerged in different countries, such as French ballet, Italian ballet, English ballet, and Russian ballet. Several of the classical ballet styles are associated with specific training methods, typically named after their creators (see below). The Royal Academy of Dance method is a ballet technique and training system that was founded by a diverse group of ballet dancers. They merged their respective dance methods (Italian, French, Danish and Russian) to create a new style of ballet that is unique to the organization and is recognized internationally as the English style of ballet. Some examples of classical ballet productions are: "Swan Lake", "The Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker."


title: Ballet

text: Romantic ballet was an artistic movement of classical ballet and several productions remain in the classical repertoire today. The Romantic era was marked by the emergence of pointe work, the dominance of female dancers, and longer, flowy tutus that attempt to exemplify softness and a delicate aura. This movement occurred during the early to mid-nineteenth century (the Romantic era) and featured themes that emphasized intense emotion as a source of aesthetic experience. The plots of many romantic ballets revolved around spirit women (sylphs, wilis, and ghosts) who enslaved the hearts and senses of mortal men. The 1827 ballet "La Sylphide" is widely considered to be the first, and the 1870 ballet "Coppélia" is considered to be the last. Famous ballet dancers of the Romantic era include Marie Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, and Jules Perrot. Jules Perrot is also known for his choreography, especially that of "Giselle", often considered to be the most widely celebrated romantic ballet.


title: Ballet

text: Neoclassical ballet is usually abstract, with no clear plot, costumes or scenery. Music choice can be diverse and will often include music that is also neoclassical (e.g. Stravinsky, Roussel). Tim Scholl, author of "From Petipa to Balanchine", considers George Balanchine's "Apollo" in 1928 to be the first neoclassical ballet. "Apollo" represented a return to form in response to Sergei Diaghilev's abstract ballets. Balanchine worked with modern dance choreographer Martha Graham, and brought modern dancers into his company such as Paul Taylor, who in 1959 performed in Balanchine's "Episodes".


title: Ballet

text: While Balanchine is widely considered the face of neoclassical ballet, there were others who made significant contributions. Frederick Ashton’s "Symphonic Variations" (1946) is a seminal work for the choreographer. Set to César Franck’s score of the same title, it is a pure-dance interpretation of the score.


title: Ballet

text: Another form, Modern Ballet, also emerged as an offshoot of neoclassicism. Among the innovators in this form were Glen Tetley, Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. While difficult to parse modern ballet from neoclassicism, the work of these choreographers favored a greater athleticism that departed from the delicacy of ballet. The physicality was more daring, with mood, subject matter and music more intense. An example of this would be Joffrey's "Astarte" (1967), which featured a rock score and sexual overtones in the choreography.


title: Ballet

text: This ballet style is often performed barefoot. Contemporary ballets may include mime and acting, and are usually set to music (typically orchestral but occasionally vocal). It can be difficult to differentiate this form from neoclassical or modern ballet. Contemporary ballet is also close to contemporary dance because many contemporary ballet concepts come from the ideas and innovations of twentieth-century modern dance, including floor work and turn-in of the legs. The main distinction is that ballet technique is essential to perform a contemporary ballet.


title: Ballet

text: George Balanchine is considered to have been a pioneer of contemporary ballet. Another early contemporary ballet choreographer, Twyla Tharp, choreographed "Push Comes To Shove" for the American Ballet Theatre in 1976, and in 1986 created "In The Upper Room" for her own company. Both of these pieces were considered innovative for their melding of distinctly modern movements with the use of pointe shoes and classically trained dancers.


title: Ballet

text: Today there are many contemporary ballet companies and choreographers. These include Alonzo King and his company LINES Ballet; Matthew Bourne and his company New Adventures; Complexions Contemporary Ballet; Nacho Duato and his Compañia Nacional de Danza; William Forsythe and The Forsythe Company; and Jiří Kylián of the Nederlands Dans Theater. Traditionally "classical" companies, such as the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, also regularly perform contemporary works.


title: Ballet

text: The term "ballet" has evolved to include all forms associated with it. Someone training as a ballet dancer will now be expected to perform neoclassical, modern and contemporary work. A ballet dancer is expected to be able to be stately and regal for classical work, free and lyrical in neoclassical work, and unassuming, harsh or pedestrian for modern and contemporary work. In addition, there are several modern varieties of dance that fuse classical ballet technique with contemporary dance, such as Hiplet, that require dancers to be practised in non-Western dance styles.


title: Ballet

text: There are six widely used, internationally recognized methods to teach or study ballet. These methods are the French School, the Vaganova Method, the Cecchetti Method, the Bournonville method, the Royal Academy of Dance method (English style), and the Balanchine method (American style). Many more schools of technique exist in various countries.


title: Ballet

text: Although preschool-age children are a lucrative source of income for a ballet studio, ballet instruction is generally not appropriate for young children. Initial instruction requires standing still and concentrating on posture, rather than dancing. Because of this, many ballet programs have historically not accepted students until approximately age 8. Creative movement and non-demanding pre-ballet classes are recommended as alternatives for children.


title: Ballet

text: The French method is the basis of all ballet training. When Louis XIV created the Académie Royale de Danse in 1661, he helped to create the codified technique still used today by those in the profession, regardless of what method of training they adhere to. The French school was particularly revitalized under Rudolf Nureyev, in the 1980s. His influence revitalized and renewed appreciation for this style, and has drastically shaped ballet as a whole. In fact, the French school is now sometimes referred to as Nureyev school. The French method is often characterized by technical precision, fluidity and gracefulness, and elegant, clean lines. For this style, fast footwork is often utilized in order to give the impression that the performers are drifting lightly across the stage. Two important trademarks of this technique are the specific way in which the port de bras and the épaulement are performed, more rounded than when dancing in a Russian style, but not as rounded as the Danish style.


title: Ballet

text: The Vaganova method is a style of ballet training that emerged from Russian ballet, created by Agrippina Vaganova. After retiring from dance in 1916, Vaganova turned to teaching at the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1921. Her training method is now internationally recognized and her book, "The Fundamentals of Classical Dance" (1934), is a classic reference. This method is marked by the fusion of the classical French style, specifically elements from the Romantic era, with the athleticism of the Italian method, and the soulful passion of Russian ballet. She developed an extremely precise method of instruction in her book "Basic Principles of Russian Classical dance" (1948). This includes outlining when to teach technical components to students in their ballet careers, for how long to focus on it, and the right amount of focus at each stage of the student's career. These textbooks continue to be extremely important to the instruction of ballet today.


title: Ballet

text: The method emphasizes development of strength, flexibility, and endurance for the proper performance of ballet. She espoused the belief that equal importance should be placed on the arms and legs while performing ballet, as this will bring harmony and greater expression to the body as a whole.


title: Ballet

text: Developed by Enrico Cecchetti (1850-1928), this method is one known internationally for its intense reliance of the understanding of anatomy as it relates to classical ballet. The goal of this method is to instill important characteristics for the performance of ballet into students so that they do not need to rely on imitations of teachers. Important components for this method is the emphasis of balance, elevations, ballon, poise, and strength.


title: Ballet

text: This method espouses the importance of recognizing that all parts of the body move together to create beautiful, graceful lines, and as such cautions against thinking of ballet in terms of the arms, legs, and neck and torso as separate parts. This method is well known for eight port de bras that are utilized.


title: Ballet

text: The Bournonville method is a Danish method first devised by August Bournonville. Bournonville was heavily influenced by the early French ballet method due to his training with his father, Antoine Bournonville and other important French ballet masters. This method has many style differences that differentiate it from other ballet methods taught today. A key component is the use of diagonal épaulements, with the upper body turning towards the working foot typically. This method also incorporates very basic use of arms, pirouettes from a low développé position into seconde, and use of fifth position bras en bas for the beginning and end of movements.


title: Ballet

text: The Bournonville method produces dancers who have beautiful "ballon" ("the illusion of imponderable lightness").


title: Ballet

text: The Royal Academy of Dance method, also referred to as the English style of ballet, was established in 1920 by Genee, Karsavina, Bedells, E Espinosa, and Richardson. The goal of this method is to promote academic training in classical ballet throughout Great Britain. This style also spread to the United States, and is widely utilized still today. There are specific grade levels which a student must move through in order to complete training in this method. The key principle behind this method of instruction is that basic ballet technique must be taught at a slow pace, with difficulty progression often much slower than the rest of the methods. The idea behind this is if a student is to put in a large amount of effort into perfecting the basic steps, the technique learned in these steps allow a student to utilize harder ones at a much easier rate.


title: Ballet

text: Developed by George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet. His method draws heavily on his own training as a dancer in Russia. The technique is known for extreme speed throughout routines, emphasis on lines, and deep pliés. Perhaps one of the most well known differences of this style is the unorthodox positioning of the body. Dancers of this style often have flexed hands and even feet, and are placed in off-balance positions. Important ballet studios teaching this method are the Miami City Ballet, Ballet Chicago Studio company, and the School of American Ballet in New York.


title: Ballet

text: Ballet costumes play an important role in the ballet community. They are often the only survival of a production, representing a living imaginary picture of the scene.


title: Ballet

text: The roots of ballet go back to the Renaissance in France and Italy when court wear was the beginning of ballet costumes. Ballet costumes have been around since the early fifteenth century. Cotton and silk were mixed with flax, woven into semitransparent gauze to create exquisite ballet costumes.


title: Ballet

text: During the seventeenth century, different types of fabrics and designs were used to make costumes more spectacular and eye catching. Court dress still remained for women during this century. Silks, satins and fabrics embroidered with real gold and precious stones increased the level of spectacular decoration associated with ballet costumes. Women's costumes also consisted of heavy garments and knee-long skirts which made it difficult for them to create much movement and gesture.


title: Ballet

text: During the eighteenth century, stage costumes were still very similar to court wear but progressed over time, mostly due to the French dancer and ballet-master Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810) whose proposals to modernize ballet are contained in his revolutionary "Lettres sur la danse et les ballets" (1760). Noverre's book altered the emphasis in a production away from the costumes towards the physical movements and emotions of the dancers.


title: Ballet

text: European ballet was centered in the Paris Opera. During this era, skirts were raised a few inches off the ground. Flowers, flounces, ribbons, and lace emphasized this opulent feminine style, as soft pastel tones in citron, peach, pink and pistachio dominated the color range.


title: Ballet

text: During the early nineteenth century, close-fitting body costumes, floral crowns, corsages and jewels were used. Ideals of Romanticism were reflected through female movements.


title: Ballet

text: Costumes became much tighter as corsets started to come into use, to show off the curves on a ballerina. Jewels and bedazzled costumes became much more popular.


title: Ballet

text: During the twentieth century, ballet costumes transitioned back to the influence of Russian ballet. Ballerina skirts became knee-length tutus, later on in order to show off their precise pointe work. Colors used on stage costumes also became much more vibrant. Designers used colors such as red, orange, yellow, etc. to create visual expression when ballet dancers perform on stage.


title: Ballet

text: Professional dancers are generally not well paid, and earn less money than a typical worker. As of 2020, American dancers (including ballet and other dance forms) were paid an average of US$19 per hour, with pay somewhat better for teachers than for performers.


title: Ballet

text: The job outlook is not strong, and the competition to get a job is intense, with the number of applicants vastly exceeding the number of job openings. Most jobs involve teaching in private dance schools.


title: Ballet

text: Choreographers are paid better than dancers. Musicians and singers are paid better per hour than either dancers or choreographers, about US$30 per hour; however, full-time work is unusual for musicians.


title: Ballet

text: Teenage girl ballet dancers are prone to stress fractures in the first rib. Eating disorders are thought to be common, and a 2014 meta-analysis suggests that studies do indicate that ballet dancers are at higher risk than the general population for several kinds of eating disorders. In addition, some researchers have noted that intensive training in ballet results in lower bone mineral density in the arms.


title: Ballet

text: Most ballet choreography is written so that it can only be performed by a relatively young dancer. The structure of ballet – in which a (usually) male choreographer or director uses (mostly) women's bodies to express his artistic vision, while ignoring, objectifying, or silencing the women involved – has been criticized as harming women.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Patrick Martin Stumph (born April 27, 1984), known professionally as Patrick Vaughn Stump, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Fall Out Boy, originally from Wilmette, Illinois.


title: Patrick Stump

text: His solo work has been described as "funky and R&B infused", while "Billboard" noted him as "one of the best voices in pop punk". Fall Out Boy has achieved four top ten singles on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and four number one albums on the "Billboard" 200, firstly with "Infinity on High" in 2007, and again in 2013 with "Save Rock and Roll", 2015 with "American Beauty/American Psycho", and 2018 with "Mania". Stump has collaborated with other artists (including Damnation A.D. and Timbaland) and has produced albums for artists including Cobra Starship and Gym Class Heroes.


title: Patrick Stump

text: After Fall Out Boy's hiatus in late 2009, Stump released his debut solo album, "Soul Punk", on October 18, 2011. It was preceded by the six-song EP titled "Truant Wave" on February 22, 2011. He toured in the US and Europe in support.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Fall Out Boy returned from hiatus in February 2013 with the album "Save Rock and Roll", and the EP "PAX AM Days." In January 2015, their sixth album "American Beauty/American Psycho" was released, while in January 2018 their seventh album "Mania" was released, both debuting at No.1 on the "Billboard" 200.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Stump was born in Evanston, Illinois, to David, a folk singer, and Patricia (née Vaughn) Stumph, an accountant. He is the youngest of three children. He grew up in Glenview, Illinois, and attended Glenbrook South High School. His parents divorced when he was eight years old. He grew up with a passion for music, later stating, "I was always playing music... it was always kind of present." He originally played the drums in various local Chicago power violence and hardcore punk bands, including Public Display Of Infection, Xgrinding processX, Patterson, and, for two shows, Arma Angelus. His musical idols growing up included Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and Nat King Cole.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Fall Out Boy's founding guitarist Joe Trohman met Stump over a mutual musical interest, and introduced Stump to bassist Pete Wentz. After originally auditioning as the drummer, Stump became the lead singer and later guitarist for the band. Trohman and Stump switch between lead and rhythm guitar in recording sessions and at live shows, although Stump views himself as more of a rhythm guitarist because of his drumming background. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary composer for the band, with bassist Pete Wentz taking lyrical duties. The band's first mini-LP, "Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend", was released in March 2003 on Uprising Records. They then released their first full-length album, "Take This to Your Grave" on Fueled by Ramen on May 6, 2003. In the same year, Stump decided to professionally drop the "h" in his surname to reduce mispronunciations.


title: Patrick Stump

text: In 2003, Stump and his fellow band members went on to sign with Island Records, and released the acoustic-based EP "My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue" CD and DVD in 2004 to hold fans over while the group recorded their major label debut. The EP debuted at No. 153 on the "Billboard" 200, Fall Out Boy's first entry on that chart (their next entry week would be at No. 9 with "From Under the Cork Tree"). It also peaked at No. 5 on the "Billboard" Heatseeker Albums and No. 10 on the "Billboard" Independent Albums. This was followed by their third studio album, "From Under the Cork Tree" released on May 3, 2005, which was the band's mainstream breakthrough. It has since been certified double platinum by the RIAA, with a sales total of more than 2.5 million. It debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the "Billboard" 200, becoming the band's first top-10 album. The chart-topping lead single "Sugar, We're Goin Down" reached No. 8 on the Hot 100 and received heavy airplay rotation at Pop and Alternative radio. The album's second single, "Dance, Dance", also enjoyed mainstream success, peaking at No. 9 on the Hot 100 and becoming Fall Out Boy's second top-10 hit. It won various awards and was certified platinum. The band heavily toured in 2005 and 2006 in support of "From Under the Cork Tree", including headlining Warped Tour, the Nintendo Fusion Tour, and the Black Clouds And Underdogs tour, as well as playing a secret show under the name of Saved Latin at a small venue. Fall Out Boy was nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy Award in 2005.


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text: Fall Out Boy's third studio effort, "Infinity on High", was released to major chart success in 2007. It debuted at No. 1 on the "Billboard" 200 chart with 260,000 sales, becoming the group's first No. 1 album and second top 10 release. It also debuted atop other various "Billboard" charts and charted in the top five worldwide. "Infinity" was spurred on by the lead single, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", which hit No. 2. "Thnks fr th Mmrs", the second single from the album, peaked at No. 11. Fall Out Boy toured all year worldwide in support of it, with arena gigs in the US.


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text: "Folie à Deux" was released on December 10, 2008. Its sales were less than stellar in comparison to "Infinity on High", but gave the band its third consecutive top 10 album, debuting and peaking at No. 8 on the "Billboard" 200 with 150,000 opening week sales. The lead single, "I Don't Care", landed at No. 21 on the Hot 100 and went Platinum. The band was the opening act for Blink-182's reunion tour in 2009. They released their first greatest hits album, "Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits", later that year, featuring all of their previous single releases, two new songs, including the single "Alpha Dog", and two rarities. In late 2009 the band took an indefinite break to "decompress", with the band members embarking on various side projects, with Stump going solo, Trohman and Hurley forming heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things, and Wentz starting the electropop/experimental group Black Cards.


title: Patrick Stump

text: On February 4, 2013, Fall Out Boy unexpectedly announced their return. April 12 of the same year, the band released a new album entitled, "Save Rock and Roll," a new song, "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)", and dates for a new tour. The band played their first show in over three years on the night of February 4 in Chicago. "Save Rock and Roll" peaked at No. 1 on the "Billboard" 200, selling 154,000 copies in its first week, becoming the band's 4th consecutive top 10 album. With Fall Out Boy, Stump toured heavily throughout 2013 and 2014 on the album, selling out arenas worldwide, with bands such as Paramore on the Monumentour. In October 2013, they released a new EP, "PAX AM Days" which they recorded in a two-day session with producer Ryan Adams.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Sixth studio album "American Beauty/American Psycho" was released to become the band's third "Billboard" 200 No. 1 album, debuting with 192,000 first week sales and 218,000 equivalent album units. The album was preceded by the triple Platinum top 10 single "Centuries". "Uma Thurman" was released to mainstream radio on April 14, 2014, and peaked at 22 on the 'Billboard' Top 100, and were certified as Platinum in August 2015.


title: Patrick Stump

text: In April 2017, Fall Out Boy released "Young and Menace", the lead single for the seventh studio album. The band's seventh album "Mania" was officially released January 19, 2018 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making it the band's third consecutive and fourth chart-topping debut overall.


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text: On August 23, 2018, the band released an EP called "Lake Effect Kid." The EP includes a new version of a demo, with the same name, from the band's 2008 mixtape, "CitizensFOB Mixtape: Welcome to the New Administration".


title: Patrick Stump

text: In September 2018, Fall Out Boy headlined Wrigley Field in the band's hometown of Chicago, marking a milestone in their career as their first headline show at a stadium.


title: Patrick Stump

text: On December 7, 2018, Fall Out Boy received their second Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album for "MANIA".


title: Patrick Stump

text: In January 2010, Stump announced he was working on a self-written, performed and produced solo album. Later during that year he leaked the title of "Soul Punk", which was eventually released on October 18, 2011.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Stump explained that he named the album "Soul Punk" because he wanted to contribute to the musical vernacular of both. "I'm just as pissed off as I was while screaming in punk bands, but I feel like I'm directing it into something positive and centered around love." He created a video on his website that shows him playing numerous instruments, starting with drum kit then adding more such as synthesizer, cowbell, electric guitar and bass, amongst others. He performed new songs at his debut solo performance at SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas, including "As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid" and "Love, Selfish Love", which may have originally been from an earlier version of his solo album, but have since been included as a part of his solo debut EP, "Truant Wave".


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text: On November 29, 2010, Stump put up on his website two different versions of his debut song, "Spotlight", one called "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)", and the other "Spotlight (New Regrets)", with download links for both. Stump expressed that after months he still could not decide which version he liked better and asked his fans to vote on a poll for the version of the single they liked better and wanted to have on the album. The polls closed leaning toward "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)", however Stump has since decided to include "Spotlight (New Regrets)" on "Soul Punk" and put "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)" on his debut EP, "Truant Wave", claiming that the votes were too close and that he felt as if "Oh Nostalgia basically needed its own record", building "Truant Wave" around it.


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text: He released the first EP of his solo career, "Truant Wave", digitally on February 22, 2011, through his own record label, Nervous Breakdance Media. The EP consisted of songs Stump "felt strongly about but didn't have place for within the narrative of "Soul Punk"" and featured Alph-A-Bit, Om'mas Keith of Sa-Ra, David-Andrew "D.A." Wallach of Chester French, and Driis.<ref name="NEW DIGITAL EP 'TRUANT WAVE' AVAILABLE ON ITUNES 2/22"></ref>


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text: On April 6, 2011, Stump contributed an original song, entitled "Saturday Night Again" to the album "".


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text: A month later, on May 6, 2011, he updated his website and also posted to his Facebook and Twitter, announcing "I feel like I'm gonna explode 5.9.11" with a link which led to a video called "Tsar bomba", which was a video of a bomb explosion. The "I feel like I'm gonna explode" phrase came from his song "Explode", which Stump premiered at his live show and ended up on "Soul Punk". "Explode" was released on May 9, 2011. NyMag.com commented that the song is "heavily indebted to Michael Jackson and, in good news for FOB loyalists, not totally unlike Stump's old band". The song's video caption read "Soul Punk: coming late Summer". On June 27, 2011, Stump wrote on his Facebook and Twitter page, "Tuesday". The next day (the Tuesday he was referring to), Stump released a remix of a "Soul Punk" track, "This City", featuring rapper Lupe Fiasco. On July 26, the remix was released as the album's first single to iTunes.


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text: Stump played twelve small shows around the United States in support of "Soul Punk" and "Truant Wave". He visited Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The tour began on April 3, 2011, in Chicago and ended on April 15 in California. It was his first tour as a solo artist. Shows were also scheduled in London (2 dates); Paris and Cologne. His five-piece backing band consists of bassist Matt Rubano (formerly of Taking Back Sunday), guitarist Michael Day, keyboardist/saxophonist Casey Benjamin (who has performed with Mos Def and Q-Tip), and drummer Skoota Warner. With the addition of Janice Cruz Brooks singing background vocals for the New York City shows at Joe's Pub. He performed in a sleek black tuxedo, white moon boots and fingerless leather gloves, and on some songs he played the electric guitar. His setlist varied from show to show, and premiered new songs "Explode", "Allie", "Cryptozoology" and "Everybody Wants Somebody" which turned out to be "Soul Punk" tracks. Covers performed included "Cupid's Chokehold" by Gym Class Heroes, "All of the Lights" by Kanye West, "Kiss My Sass" by Cobra Starship, "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Prince. He played songs from "Truant Wave" as well as "Spotlight (New Regrets)" which he previously released as a 7" vinyl.


title: Patrick Stump

text: In May 2011, Stump was the opening act for Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe on their "Hooligans In Wondaland Tour" for four shows. He began his second US tour (first full-length headline tour) August 3, 2011. Prior to that he performed at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan on July 30. As part of his US tour he played Lollapalooza in Chicago. He announced a month-long US fall tour in support of Panic! at the Disco, beginning on October 9. After the tour, he headlined the Metro in Chicago. He has been a guest at many radio shows. His TV guest appearances include "Good Morning New Orleans", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", and "Hoppus on Music".


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text: In a blog post in February 2012 after disappearing from the internet, Stump mentioned that he would halt performing. He stated that the relentless criticism he has received from "Soul Punk" and Fall Out Boy's latest release, "Folie à Deux", felt like "some big cosmic sign that says I should disappear" and that although he was prepared for criticism, he was not prepared to accept that people who ostensibly supported something he was involved in would turn into "haters" and attack his ambition and slimmed down image. He went on to write "It's tempting to say I won't ever play/tour/record again, but I think that's probably just pent up poor-me emotional pessimism talking."


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text: On May 20, he returned to blog and offer an explanation of his lack of updates and his music career. Confirming by saying: "I won't ever quit music, I just may not release some of my own for a little bit" and that he may tour to support Soul Punk in the future. He says that in the last 6 months of going silent he has taken acting classes and co-written and collaborated with other musicians. These collaborations include: Escape The Fate, Kat Graham, Amountboyz, The King Blues, All Time Low, Before You Exit, and Yellowcard.


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text: On November 30, 2014, when asked if another solo album would be made, Stump responded, "There's hope but it will be a minute."


title: Patrick Stump

text: On July 18, 2016, Stump won Best Vocalist at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards for his efforts in Fall Out Boy.


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text: As a producer, along with a handful of Fall Out Boy tracks, Stump has worked with The Hush Sound on "Like Vines", Gym Class Heroes on "As Cruel As School Children" and Cobra Starship on "¡Viva La Cobra!". He also produced the song "Little Weapon" on Lupe Fiasco's "The Cool". He was featured in a song by hip-hop group The Roots originally intended for their 2008 album "Rising Down". In 2008, he executive- and co-produced The Cab's "Whisper War" and Gym Class Heroes' "The Quilt", as well as several tracks on Tyga's "No Introduction".


title: Patrick Stump

text: In addition to producing albums, Stump has also remixed various tracks for soundtracks or special releases. Among various others, he made a "Queen Of Apology" remix for The Sounds on the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack, a remix of the Fall Out Boy single "Dance, Dance" available on the "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" EP, a "Sugar, We're Goin Down" remix on Fall Out Boy's "From Under the Cork Tree" special edition release, and "Pace Yourself" for The Higher on their album, "On Fire". He also remixed Good Charlotte's "Little Things" for their remix compilation, "Greatest Remixes".


title: Patrick Stump

text: On February 1, 2009, Gretsch released the G5135CVT-PS Patrick Vaughn Stump Signature Series "STUMP-O-MATIC" Electromatic® CVT, based on their model body with personal stylings by Patrick Stump such as a "kill switch" and stripes. Also, Stump signed and gave away two of his signature guitars that he used to record Fall Out Boy's fifth album, "Folie à Deux". He has another Stump-O-Matic with white and silver stripes, which he used for most of the guitar recording on "Soul Punk" and at his solo concerts.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Stump appeared as a guest with Daryl Hall from Hall and Oates on "Live From Daryl's House", playing guitar on several of Hall and Oates' own songs, as well as on a couple of Fall Out Boy selections, such as "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and "I Don't Care" and, additionally, performing as a drummer/vocalist on a version of "What a Catch Donnie."


title: Patrick Stump

text: During the production of "Soul Punk", Stump contributed a cover of Buddy Holly's "Everyday" to the 2011 tribute album, "" to a positive reception. Victoria Asher provided backing vocals. Stump and the album's contributing artists performed at the tribute event at the Music Box Theater.


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text: On September 23, 2012, Stump contributed lead guitar and vocals for a performance of "Black Hole Sun" with Robert Glasper Experiment at the London iTunes Festival. He later contributed vocals to the track "I Stand Alone", on the album "Black Radio 2", which premiered September 23, 2013.


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text: He created his own version of the theme song for The CW's TV series, "One Tree Hill", featured on the third episode of season 8, "The Space in Between". He provided a song for Season 5 Episode 3 "Big Trouble in Little Clerks 2" of Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken" in which he parodied James Cameron's "Avatar".


title: Patrick Stump

text: On November 5, 2015, it was announced that Stump had written and produced a song called "Trophy Boy" for the soundtrack of upcoming animated film "Charming" to be sung by High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale, Avril Lavigne and G.E.M.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Stump composed an original ride score for the on-ride audio system for the enhanced Incredible Hulk Coaster, a roller coaster at Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, which re-opened on August 4, 2016.


title: Patrick Stump

text: In early 2016, he was revealed to be contributing to Blink-182's fifth studio album, California. Stump was later given songwriting credits on two songs off the album, "Sober" and "San Diego". He also co-wrote "10 Victoria's Secret Angels" for MAX's studio album "Hell's Kitchen Angel", who MAX described as 'one of his favorite collaborations'.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Stump has song writing credits on Black Veil Brides frontman, Andy Black's, debut solo album "The Shadow Side", contributing to the album's leading single, "We Don't Have to Dance".


title: Patrick Stump

text: In addition to writing for other artists, Stump has been involved in the composition of original scores for a number of films. He has scored the music for


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text: a new short film adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, "Wonderland", a comedic take on the classic tale, as well as worked on the music for Gnome Alone (2018) and the upcoming comedy-drama Changeland.


title: Patrick Stump

text: In September, 2018, Stump announced he'd be the composer for the first feature film, entitled "Spell", produced by Crush Pictures, a subsidiary of Crush Management of which Fall Out Boy and Stump are members. Stump stated that the film's score was his real solo album; "I did the solo thing, and I loved making that record [2011's "Soul Punk"]. But now as a composer, I'm like, 'Oh, "this" is my solo record. This my real solo record, writing music for films, TV, and stuff.'"


title: Patrick Stump

text: A further composition effort of Stump includes his work on the original score for the 6-part documentary series "Let Science Speak", which aims to combat the "escalating efforts to suppress environmental science and silence scientists". On working on the documentary, Stump stated that he was first approached to compose only for the documentary's trailer, but was then asked to compose music for the whole series. Stump explained how composing is something he has always wanted to do, despite not being classically trained.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Stump wrote the theme song and is the composer for 2021 animated television series "Spidey and His Amazing Friends" on Disney Junior. He has also written songs for the Netflix animated series "".


title: Patrick Stump

text: In January 2008, Stump was a guest star on the television crime-drama "Law & Order". He appeared in the second episode of Season 18 as Marty Dressler, a lowly employee of an electrical company, who is suspected in the kidnapping of the wife and daughter of an executive. The episode, "Darkness", aired on January 2, 2008, on NBC as part of the two-hour series season premiere. There was a rumor that he was not paid for this episode, but he has debunked that and said that he was paid well for his appearance.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Stump made a short film in 2009, "Moustachette" which has been shown at film festivals. It stars Stump himself, Pete Wentz, and Yellowcard's Ryan Key. It was released online in September 2011.


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text: Stump guest-starred as a lab technician on an episode of "House" in the episode "We Need the Eggs" (season 8, episode 17), which aired on April 16, 2012. He also made a cameo appearance in the 2008 film "Sex Drive" along with his Fall Out Boy bandmates.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Alongside his live-action appearances, Stump has partook in a few voice acting roles, particularly in a handful of "Robot Chicken" sketches and, most recently, providing the voice for the character Ruberiot in the Disney XD cartoon "Star vs. the Forces of Evil", where he also provided his vocal talents for the song "The Ballad of Star Butterfly". In 2017, Stump guest starred, with his bandmates, in Cartoon Network's "Teen Titans Go!" playing himself in the first, third and fourth parts of "The Night Begins to Shine". Their cover of the title song from the special was commercially released.


title: Patrick Stump

text: He has also appeared in "The Young Blood Chronicles", Fall Out Boy's eleven-part music video story to support the band's 2013 album "Save Rock and Roll" with bandmates.


title: Patrick Stump

text: In March 2014, Stump sang "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye as the first dance at his step-brother's wedding.


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text: Stump announced in September 2014 that he and his wife were expecting their first child, and on 13 October their son Declan was born. While being honored as the distinguished alumnus at 2016 graduation ceremony for Glenbrook South High School, from which he graduated in 2002, it was revealed Stump's wife was pregnant with their second child. In an interview with Music Choice in 2018, Stump spoke of his children having access to his record collection and asking him to play "Head Hunters", an album by Herbie Hancock.


title: Patrick Stump

text: Stump lost when Fall Out Boy went on hiatus, due in part to growing health issues, including asthma and pre-diabetes, with which he was diagnosed. He suffered from high cholesterol and high blood pressure as well.


title: Patrick Stump

text: In 2012, Stump was elected a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences's Chicago Chapter Governors.


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text: Some of Stump's major influences are Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, who are reflected specifically in Soul Punk. Stump's influences also include bands such as The Beatles and Green Day, and artists such as Elvis Costello, John Cage, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,


title: Patrick Stump

text: Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Jerry Goldsmith.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Roberto Remigio Benigni (; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaust comedy-drama film "Life Is Beautiful" (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor (the first for a non-English speaking male performance) and Best International Feature Film.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's "Berlinguer, I Love You", which he also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni's directorial debut was the 1983 anthology film "Tu mi turbi", which was also the acting debut of his wife, Nicoletta Braschi. In 1986, Benigni made his first English-language film, "Down by Law", written and directed by Jim Jarmusch with whom Benigni would make two more films: "Night on Earth" (1991) and "Coffee and Cigarettes" (2003).


title: Roberto Benigni

text: In 1988, Benigni was acclaimed for the film "The Little Devil", which he directed, wrote and starred in. Costarring American actor Walter Matthau and Braschi, the film was shot in alternating takes in both Italian and English. Benigni continued to have success and acclaim as a director with "Johnny Stecchino" (1991) and "The Monster" (1994), and portrayed Inspector Clouseau's son in "Son of the Pink Panther" (1993), an American-Italian co-production filmed in English, directed by Blake Edwards.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Following the success of "Life Is Beautiful" in 1997, his subsequent directorial efforts, "Pinocchio" (2002), in which he played the title character, and "The Tiger and the Snow" (2005), received mixed reviews.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: While he has not directed another film since 2005, Benigni has continued to act on stage and film, touring Italy with his one-man show "TuttoDante", and starred in the films "To Rome with Love" (2012), directed by Woody Allen, and as Mister Geppetto in Matteo Garrone's 2019 adaptation of "Pinocchio".


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Benigni was born on 27 October 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia (a "frazione" of Castiglion Fiorentino), the son of Isolina Papini (1919–2004), a fabric maker, and Luigi Benigni (1919–2004), a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer. He has three sisters: Bruna (born 1945), Albertina (born 1947) and Anna (born 1948). He was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy; later in his life he became an atheist, but then he got again interested in religious topics, such as the Ten Commandments and the Song of Songs, returning to practicing Catholicism.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: His first experiences as a theatre actor took place in 1971, in Prato. During that autumn he moved to Rome where he took part in some experimental theatre shows, some of which he also directed. In 1975, Benigni had his first theatrical success with "Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia", written by Giuseppe Bertolucci.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Benigni became widely known in Italy in the 1970s for a television series called "Onda Libera", on RAI2, produced by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted the satirical piece "The Hymn of the Body Purged" ("L'inno del corpo sciolto", a scatological song about the joys of defecation). A great scandal for the time, the series was suspended due to censorship. His first film was 1977's "Berlinguer, I Love You" ("Berlinguer ti voglio bene"), also by Bertolucci.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: His popularity increased with "L'altra domenica" (1976–1979), another TV show of Arbore's in which Benigni portrayed a lazy film critic who never watches the films he's asked to review. Bernardo Bertolucci then cast him in a small speechless role as a window upholsterer in the film "La Luna" which had limited American distribution due to its subject matter.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: In 1980 he met Cesenate actress Nicoletta Braschi, who became his wife on 26 December 1991 and who has starred in most of the films he has directed.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: In June 1983 he appeared during a public political demonstration by the Italian Communist Party, with which he was a sympathiser, and on this occasion, he lifted and cradled the party's national leader Enrico Berlinguer. It was an unprecedented act, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal. Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show ("Wojtylaccio", meaning "Bad Wojtyla" in Italian, but with a somewhat friendly meaning in Tuscan dialect).


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Benigni's first film as director was "Tu mi turbi" ("You Upset Me") in 1983. This film was also his first collaboration with Braschi.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: In 1984, he played in "Non ci resta che piangere" ("Nothing Left to Do but Cry") with comic actor Massimo Troisi. The story was a fable in which the protagonists are suddenly thrown back in time to the 15th century, just a little before 1492. They start looking for Christopher Columbus in order to stop him from discovering the Americas (for very personal reasons), but are not able to reach him.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Beginning in 1986, Benigni starred in three films by American director Jim Jarmusch. In "Down By Law" (1986) (which in Italy had its title spelt "Daunbailò", in Italian phonetics) he played Bob, an innocent foreigner living in the United States, convicted of manslaughter, whose irrepressible good humour and optimism help him to escape and find love. (The film also starred Braschi as his beloved.) In "Night on Earth", (1991) he played a cabbie in Rome, who causes his passenger, a priest, great discomfort and a heart attack by confessing his bizarre sexual experiences. Later, he also starred in the first of Jarmusch's series of short films, "Coffee and Cigarettes" (2003).


title: Roberto Benigni

text: In 1993, he starred in "Son of the Pink Panther", directed by veteran Blake Edwards. Benigni played Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son who is assigned to save the Princess of Lugash. The film bombed in the US, but was a hit in his homeland.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Benigni had a rare serious role in Federico Fellini's last film, "La voce della luna" ("The Voice of the Moon") (1989). In earlier years Benigni had started a long-lasting collaboration with screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami, for a series of films which scored great success in Italy: "Il piccolo diavolo" ("The Little Devil") with Walter Matthau, "Johnny Stecchino" ("Johnny Toothpick"), and "Il mostro" ("The Monster").


title: Roberto Benigni

text: Benigni is widely known outside Italy for his 1997 tragicomedy "Life Is Beautiful" ("La vita è bella"), filmed in Arezzo, also written by Cerami. The film is about an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect his son's innocence during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win. Benigni's father had spent three years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, and "La vita è bella" is based in part on his father's experiences. Benigni was also inspired by the story of Holocaust survivor Rubino Romeo Salmonì. Although the story and presentation of the film had been discussed during production with different Jewish groups to limit the offence it might cause, the film was attacked by some critics, who accused it of presenting the Holocaust without much suffering, while others argued that a comedy about such a subject was not appropriate. More favourable critics praised Benigni's artistic daring and skill to create a sensitive comedy involving Holocaust, a challenge that Charlie Chaplin confessed he would not have taken on with "The Great Dictator" had he been aware of the true horrors occurring in ghettos and concentration camps in Europe at the time.


title: Roberto Benigni

text: In 1998, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards. At the 1999 ceremony, the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (which Benigni accepted as the film's director), Best Original Dramatic Score (the score by Nicola Piovani), and Benigni received the award for Best Actor (the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles).