title: Dil Bechara

text: In an interview with Gayle Sequeira at "Film Companion", Sanghi summed up her character role "Kizie" in two phrases: "Emotionally demanding" and "oscillating between extremely happy to extremely romantic to extremely tragic". Kizie played the role of a Bengali girl where Chhabra wanted her to reach a state where she could converse in fluently in Bangla with Swastika Mukherjee (Kizie's mother) and Saswata Chatterjee (Kizie's father). For Sanghi, it took months of diction and cultural training, which she completed with the help of an NSD graduate. Sanghi also joined cancer support groups and spoke to many young survivors to understand the psychological and emotional impact that an illness can have on those who get diagnosed. In addition to Sanghi, Sahil Vaid in his role as "JP" also spent time with such patients. He called his character role both chirpy and cathartic. For the role of Kizie's mother, Mukherjee stated: "I think my natural maternal instincts kicked in for this... I didn’t really need to work very hard." She found resemblance with her real life motherly behaviours into this role, extending the 'dormant mother-in-waiting went into full-on active mode'. In this interview with "The Telegraph" she went on to add that Kizie's father's role, played by "Kahaani" and "Disney's Jagga Jasoos" fame Saswata Chatterjee, was shorter than her role and people could connect with "Dil Bechara" on a personal level because it portrayed household scenes grounded with Indian cultures.


title: Dil Bechara

text: Principal photography commenced in Mumbai on 29 June 2018, where Rajput shared a promotional still titled "New Beginnings" from the sets on Twitter. Filming began in Jamshedpur on 9 July 2018. The film poster with its former title "Kizie Aur Manny" was released on the same day. Post his recce, Chhabra mentioned, "I needed a place with a small town vibe and had heard a lot about Jamshedpur. I knew instantly that this was where I wanted my love story to take root."


title: Dil Bechara

text: By August 2018, Farah Khan choreographed a dance number for Rajput (later deciphered as the title track "Dil Bechara"). The Jamshedpur and Ranchi schedule was wrapped up. The filming locations in Jamshedpur were Tata Steel, Hudco Park of Tata Motors, Tata Main Hospital, Tata Zoological Park, St. George's Church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Sacred Heart Convent School, Kadma Marketing Complex, The Sonnet Hotel, Eco Park, Kaizer's Bungalow, Dindli Enclave and Payal Theatre. Filming locations of Ranchi were St. Albert's College, St. Xaviers College and St. Paul Cathedral Church. By September 2018, a 10-day schedule was completed in Mumbai, scenes filmed at Kohinoor Hospital in Kurla, Film City and Atharva College in Malad.


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text: In mid-October 2018, Chhabra was suspended of services by Fox Star Studios, on account of allegations for sexual harassment amidst #MeToo movement in India. This resulted in filming stalled until late December 2018. A 9-day filming schedule planned, in Paris was deferred owing to the civil unrest across France and dates availed for filming scenes with Saif Ali Khan lapsed. Second schedule in Paris began on 9 January 2019, where a romantic song (titled "Khulke Jeene Ka") was filmed. The filming locations were Restaurant Louis Phillipe, Eiffel Tower, Hotel Normandi, Pont D'Arcole, Place Du Tertre Monmatre, Avenue Des Champs Elysees, Cimetiere Du Pere Lachaise Filming was completed by February 2019.


title: Dil Bechara

text: Post-production began soon after February 2019. By October 2019, Sanghi began dubbing her portions. A. R. Rahman, tweeted an in-car video about checking the sound mix for the soundtrack album. Except for the climax sequence, Sushant Singh Rajput had completed dubbing for all of his portions in the film, before his death on 14 June 2020. The production team wanted someone who could dub his voice for the film, where they came in contact with RJ Aditya Chaudhary, who dubbed his voice for Sushant's character in the film's climax sequence.


title: Dil Bechara

text: The film score and soundtrack album are composed by A. R. Rahman with lyrics penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya. Rahman's association with the project was announced by March 2018 and Sony Music Entertainment acquired the record rights by July 2018. It was Rahman's title track which gave the film its new title "Dil Bechara" in February 2019. The music supervision for all the tracks were done by Hriday Gattani and Hiral Viradia. The tracks "Dil Bechara", "Main Tumhara" were the earliest to be recorded whereas the last one "Maskhari". As per Rahman, the whole album was curated to symbolise feelings of the heart and would be associated with memories of the late actor.


title: Dil Bechara

text: The title track served as the lead single followed by the soundtrack release by the record label Sony Music India on 10 July 2020. Upon release, the album received mixed reviews from music critics, who praised its orchestration, duet collaborations, and harmonies, but pointed out unusual lyrics and occasional musical overproduction. On 22 July 2020, a 13-minute tribute to the film's late lead actor in the form of a virtual concert on YouTube. The musical ensemble apart from the respective original track singers were A. R. Ameen and Raheema Rahman.


title: Dil Bechara

text: Upon the film's release, a fan spotted a unreleased hidden track in the original score. In his interaction on Twitter, Rahman agreed to complete the song. The song was released under the title "Never Say Goodbye" as a bonus single on 2 September 2020.


title: Dil Bechara

text: The film was announced for a release date on 29 November 2019, and the lead actress Sanjana Sanghi too confirmed this on 4 July 2019, she took her Instagram to share a post on completion of five years of the original counterpart film. However, by 15 November 2019, two weeks before the scheduled release date, it was announced that the theatrical release was pushed to 8 May 2020, due to post production delays. In the very month, "Hindustan Times" reported possibilities of Fox Star Studios releasing the film in May 2020 on a streaming platform, which the studio has refuted. The film's theatrical release got postponed again due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


title: Dil Bechara

text: Following Rajput's death, Fox Star Studios reinstated the decision to premiere the film posthumously over Disney+ Hotstar on 24 July 2020. In order to pay homage to the lead actor, the film was made accessible to all users sans platform subscriptions. The film's release was confirmed with a release poster on 25 June 2020, which featured Rajput and Sanghi in the ruins of a damaged bus. Apart from India, the film was made available for users in the US, UK and Canada. It also released on Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia on 16 October with an Indonesian dub.


title: Dil Bechara

text: The film's official trailer was released on 6 July 2020, through the official YouTube channel of Fox Star Hindi, and garnered the title of "most-liked trailer", surpassing "likes" previously held by trailers of "" and "". The trailer raked in 5 million likes in less than 24 hours of release, thus becoming the most-liked Indian trailer, surpassing Vijay-starrer "Bigil" (2019), which garnered 2.1 million likes. As of August 2020, the trailer holds 90 million views, with 10 million likes.


title: Dil Bechara

text: Apart from its release on streaming platform, the makers announced that it will have a television premiere on 9 August 2020 through Star Plus, and also on 23 August 2020 through Star Gold. The film had its theatrical release in New Zealand on 7 August 2020, in Fiji on 5 September 2020, and in Australia on 16 October 2020. It was initially slated to release in theatres across India, following their reopening for the first time after pandemic. However, the exhibitors refused to screen the film in theatres, stating that they won't violate the guidelines of cinemas by releasing a film in theatres after its digital launch.


title: Dil Bechara

text: On 1 September 2021, the film was made available to stream exclusively on Disney's corporate sibling Hulu, for subscribers across United States, as Hotstar ceased its operations in that country. As a result, "Dil Bechara" became one of the first Indian and non-English contents to distributed exclusively on that site.


title: Dil Bechara

text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of .


title: Dil Bechara

text: In his review for "Filmfare", Devesh Sharma mentioned: "Perhaps this film, with its message of positivity, of hope, of love, is the perfect swan-song from Sushant for his legion of fans..." Assigning 3.5 stars (out of 5), he noted the film direction to pick shades of Rajesh Khanna's 1971 film "Anand". Saibal Chatterjee for NDTV wrote: "The film will obviously always belong to Sushant Singh Rajput – on the money all the way, his performance demonstrates exactly why the chops he possessed weren't ordinary." He scored the film 3 out of 5. Taran Adarsh gave it four stars out of five. He described the film as a "beautiful love story. Sushant Singh Rajput is top notch, charismatic in light moments, makes you moist-eyed in emotional parts. Sanjana Sanghi is wonderful." Komal Nahta of "Film Information" called "It dull and depressing." Sreeparna Sengupta of "The Times of India" gave the film 3.5 stars (out of 5). She praised: "Given its poignant premise, ‘"Dil Bechara’" makes for a very emotional watch. Even as the story's underlying message, of celebrating life despite knowing the inevitable, injects it with an infectious energy." At "Scroll Magazine", Udita Jhunjhunwala reviewed in positive: "Sushant Singh Rajput’s final film is a moving experience." In his review for "The Hindu", Kennith Rozario said the film was a surreal experience that bridges reality and fiction although quite shallow in its storytelling.


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text: Also, Stutee Ghosh of "The Quint" pointed "This one is 1 hour and 40 minutes and the rush to get to the denouement robs the film of its magic making it an average affair which is a pity." She gave the film 2.5 stars (out of 5). Critic Baradwaj Rangan, whose review was published in Film Companion, titled: "A Watchable-Enough Romance That Offers A Small Sense Of Closure To A Big Tragedy" He stated: "The weakest parts are the film’s stabs at comedy and its attachment to that musician who’s become a JD Salinger-esque enigma." Reviewing at the OTT platform Arre, Poulumi Das stated: ""Dil Bechara" is not the most complicated or ambitious film but it does meet its own expectations. It is by no means a perfect film but it is not one without feeling" Critic and author Anna M. M. Vetticad stated: "Dil Bechara subtracts from the positives of the original with its slipshod rewriting, sloppy editing, and ordinary production quality." Continuing the critical review, intended a pun, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in the casual writing and direction." Critic Shubhra Gupta for "The Indian Express" acknowledged the film as "equal parts dirge and catharsis", assigning it 2.5 starts (out of 5). She noted: "It is the occasional sweetness that Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi manage to rustle up that carries the film." Critic Komal Nahta stated ""Dil Bechara" is a dull fare. In normal circumstances, the film would have not been able to do well in the cinemas".


title: Dil Bechara

text: Film critics Rebecca Breitfeller and Tyler Bey from "Hollywood Insider" praised the film noting that "both characters navigate the youthful beauties of life, all while dealing with the tragedies looming over every scene. They share stories of how cancer has affected their lives, and soon blossoms a beautiful friendship." Critic based at "Inquiry", Musanna Ahmed called it a "pretty nice story" adding on : "...much of your enjoyment will depend on if you cared for John Green’s story the first time [...] It is for those who haven’t read the book or seen the original film because this takes plays almost beat-for-beat the same." In her review for "The National", Aarti Jhurani praised the film length, calling it a sweet story is worth a watch for the myriad characters" She awarded a 4.5 score on a scale of 5, noting Sanghi's effortless portrayal of Kizie and Sushant Singh Rajput's bowing out with a bang. Tanul Thakur "of The Wire" remarked ""Dil Bechara"’s initial segment shows that it's a smart, sharp movie. It ribs Bollywood's conception of ‘happily-ever-after’". Karthik Ravindranath in his review for "The Week Magazine" noted: "Despite minor faults, this girl-meets-boy tale is worth your time." Dyuti Gupta of "SheThePeople.TV" wrote: " Sushant’s final film Is a poignant tribute to his life and talent".


title: Dil Bechara

text: On the contrary, Rachit Raj of "Medium" presented a mixed view: "A decent love-story that tries too much to reinvent itself." Hannah Abraham of "Cultured Vultures" summarised: "While transposing the idea for Indian audiences, much of the subtlety, nuance and emotional depth of the original film seems to have seeped through the cracks." She assigned the film a score of 6.5 on 10, calling it an average watch and certainly not comparable to the original. Gautaman Bhaskaran for "Arab News" wrote: ""Dil Bechara" is not a great work. It is casually written and poorly directed."


title: Dil Bechara

text: Upon its premiere through OTT platform Disney+ Hotstar on 24 July, the film registered 95 million views, within 24 hours of its release. Media houses estimated that the opening in terms of revenue would be 2000 crore by multiplying the viewership with an average ticket price of . As per a report "Crisis Consumption on TV and Smartphones" published by BARC and Nielsen Media in September 2020, the film was noted as "most-viewed film on a smartphone" in India. A survey report from "LetsOTT", claimed that the film became the most watched direct OTT release in India. In December 2020, Twitter India released a survey report stating that the film topped the list in most tweeted Indian film of 2020. It was also Google's top searched film of 2020 in India.


title: Dil Bechara

text: This film is set to get a televised adaptation titled "Adhoori Kahaani" produced by Director's Kut Productions for StarPlus.


title: Linda Lavin

text: Linda Lavin (born October 15, 1937) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing the title character in the sitcom "Alice" and for her stage performances, both on and off-Broadway.


title: Linda Lavin

text: After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She began appearing on Broadway in the 1960s, earning notice in "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman" in 1966 and receiving her first Tony Award nomination for "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" in 1970. She moved to Hollywood in 1973 and began to work on television, making recurring appearances on the sitcom "Barney Miller" before landing the title role on the hit comedy "Alice", which ran from 1976 to 1985. She appeared in many telefilms and later she appeared in other TV works. She has also played roles in several feature films.


title: Linda Lavin

text: In 1987, she returned to Broadway, starring in "Broadway Bound" (winning a Tony Award), "Gypsy" (1990), "The Sisters Rosensweig" (1993), "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1997–1998) and "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" (2000–2001), among others. In 2010, she appeared as Ruth Steiner in "Collected Stories", garnering her fifth Tony nomination. She starred in NBC's short-lived sitcom "Sean Saves the World" as Lorna and the CBS sitcom "9JKL". She also starred in the CBS sitcom "B Positive".


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin was born in Portland, Maine, the daughter of David Joseph Lavin, a businessman, and Lucille ("née" Potter), an opera singer. The Lavin family were active members of the local Jewish community. Both sets of grandparents, Simon and Jessie Lavin and Harry and Esther Potter, emigrated from Russia. Her family was musically talented, and Lavin has been onstage since the age of five. She studied acting at HB Studio in New York City. She attended Waynflete School before enrolling in the College of William & Mary. While at William and Mary, she performed with the William and Mary Theater in many productions directed by long-time Professor Howard Scammon. In the summer of 1958, she played one of the leads in "The Common Glory", an outdoor drama written by Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Paul Green and staged at an amphitheater on campus. Upon her graduation from William and Mary, she had already received her Actors' Equity Association card. She was a member of the Compass Players in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, Lavin had appeared in several Broadway shows and appeared on the 1966 cast recordings of "The Mad Show" performing Stephen Sondheim's "The Boy From...". From "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman", one of her numbers, "You've Got Possibilities", was the album's best-received song and was called "The one memorable song...flirty, syncopated" by the "Dallas Observer".


title: Linda Lavin

text: In 1967, Lavin made an appearance as Gloria Thorpe in a television version of the baseball musical "Damn Yankees" with Phil Silvers. In 1969, Lavin married actor Ron Leibman, and by 1973, the couple had arrived in Hollywood, California. After various guest appearances on episodic television series such as "The Nurses", "Rhoda", "Harry O" and "Kaz", Lavin landed a recurring role as Detective Janice Wentworth on "Barney Miller" during the first and second seasons (1975–1976).


title: Linda Lavin

text: She left "Barney Miller" to star in the lead role in "Alice". The show was a popular hit for CBS and ran from 1976 to 1985. The series was based on the Martin Scorsese-directed Ellen Burstyn film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore". Lavin portrayed Alice Hyatt, a waitress and singer, the character that Burstyn had played. Lavin performed the series' theme song, "There's a New Girl in Town," which was written by David Shire and Alan and Marilyn Bergman and was updated for each of the first six seasons. During the series' nine-season run, Lavin earned two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and gained experience directing, especially during the later seasons. Lavin also played a dual role in "Alice", as Debbie Walden, the wizened and former landlady of the character Vera Louise Gorman-Novak. Lavin also made numerous television appearances outside of "Alice", including hosting her own holiday special for CBS, "Linda in Wonderland" (1980). She acted in two sitcoms, "Room for Two" (1992–93) and 1998's "Conrad Bloom". In "Room for Two", she played a mother who moved in with her daughter, played by Patricia Heaton, who has a show on a local television station. The daughter gives Lavin's character her own segment, called Just a Thought, at the end of her program.


title: Linda Lavin

text: After working in theatre for many years, Lavin was cast in the NBC television sitcom "Sean Saves the World" (2013–14) playing Sean Hayes' pushy, meddling mother Lorna. The "Los Angeles Times" interviewer noted: "A highlight of the show is the wonderful chemistry between Lavin and Hayes, who exchange repartee and quips with breezy ease. And the cast seems smitten with her."


title: Linda Lavin

text: She made numerous television guest appearances, including roles on "The Muppet Show" (1979), "", "The O.C.", "Touched by an Angel" (1999) and HBO's "The Sopranos" (2002).


title: Linda Lavin

text: She also appeared in many telefilms between 1967 and 1998, including: "Damn Yankees!", "Sadbird", "The Morning After", "Jerry", "Like Mom, Like Me", "The $5.20 an Hour Dream", "Another Woman's Child", "Maricela", "Lena: My 100 Children", "Whitewash", "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story", "Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden", "For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal", "The Ring", and "Best Friends for Life". Lavin produced and starred in "A Matter of Life and Death", the 1981 telefilm based on the work of nurse thanatologist Joy Ufema. She directed the 1990 telefilm "Flour Babies".


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin made her feature film debut in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" (1984). Her other feature film appearances include "See You in the Morning", starring Jeff Bridges; Alain Resnais's "I Want to Go Home", opposite Gérard Depardieu (both 1989); and "The Back-up Plan" (2010).


title: Linda Lavin

text: In 2015, Lavin guest starred as a judge approached to stop an execution in the episode of "Bones" titled "The Verdict in the Victims." Emily Deschanel said "Lavin was particularly fun to have on" the show.


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin played Judy Roberts in the CBS sitcom "9JKL" (2017–18) alongside Mark Feuerstein and Elliott Gould. Lavin caught up with "Portland Magazine" in its Winterguide 2018 issue about her return to CBS stating:


title: Linda Lavin

text: In 2019, Lavin joined the cast of the Netflix comedy/horror "Santa Clarita Diet", starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant.


title: Linda Lavin

text: In 2020, Lavin performed the song "The Boy From..." from "The Mad Show" in "." Lavin appeared in the CBS comedy "B Positive", which aired from 2020 to 2022, in a recurring role as Norma, one of the senior citizens at a local retirement home.


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin began her career with Broadway appearances in the musical "A Family Affair" (1962) and plays such as "The Riot Act" (1963) and Carl Reiner's "Something Different" (1967). In his "New York Times" review of John Guare's two one-act plays, "Cop-Out" (1969), Clive Barnes wrote: "Miss Lavin...carries versatility almost to the point of paranoia, and camps up a storm."


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin also appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, including the revue "Wet Paint" (1965), the musical "The Mad Show" (1966) (in which she introduced the cabaret standard "The Boy From...", written by Stephen Sondheim and Mary Rodgers), and "Little Murders" (1969). Lavin won the Theatre World Award for "Wet Paint" and a Drama Desk Award for "Little Murders". In 1975, she appeared in the Shakespeare in the Park (New York City) production of "The Comedy of Errors" at the Delacorte Theater.


title: Linda Lavin

text: She "arrived at showbiz stardom with a featured role" in the musical "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman" (1966). She received her first Tony Award nomination in 1970, for her role in the Neil Simon play "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" (1969). Clive Barnes, in his review for "The New York Times", wrote: "Linda Lavin, eyebrows, [sic] flaunting like telegraphed messages, mouth twitching and pouting, voice as dry as thunder and with a cough like electric static, is beautiful as Elaine, the sex cat feeling coolly kittenish and looking for a safe tin roof." Lavin's last Broadway credit before she moved to Hollywood was in "Paul Sills' Story Theatre" in 1971.


title: Linda Lavin

text: In 1984, Lavin played the character of "The Mother" in Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" in a production directed by Robert Brustein at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


title: Linda Lavin

text: After more than a decade away, appearing on television, Lavin returned to the Broadway stage in 1987, winning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and her second Drama Desk Award for her role as Kate in Simon's play "Broadway Bound". Frank Rich, in his "New York Times" review, wrote: "One only wishes that Ms. Lavin, whose touching performance is of the same high integrity as the writing, could stay in the role forever." Theatre critic Charles McNulty wrote of her performance that it "is widely considered one of the most memorable in contemporary Broadway history, winning not just awards but praise approaching the level of myth. The distinguished theater critic Gordon Rogoff, extolling 'the power available only to an actor at the height of her own command of detail,' went so far as to describe Lavin's portrayal as 'one of those textbook lessons in great acting...' "


title: Linda Lavin

text: She then starred on Broadway in "Gypsy" as Mama Rose Hovick, replacing Tyne Daly in July 1990. June Havoc saw Lavin's performance in "Gypsy" and sent Lavin a photo of Havoc's mother, the real Rose Hovick, with a note of appreciation for Lavin's particular portrayal of the character.


title: Linda Lavin

text: Subsequent Broadway roles included "The Sisters Rosensweig", as a replacement Gorgeous Teitelbaum starting in September 1993 and Mrs. Van Daan in "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1997–1998), opposite Natalie Portman, for which she garnered a Tony nomination as Featured Actress in a Play. In 1995 she appeared in the Off-Broadway "Death-Defying Acts", which consists of three one-act plays; Lavin performed in the Elaine May ("Hotline") and Woody Allen plays ("Central Park West"). She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actress – Play) and won an Obie Award (Performance) and the Lucille Lortel Award. She also directed theater during this period.


title: Linda Lavin

text: She played Marjorie in "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" (2000–2001), co-starring Tony Roberts and Michele Lee, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, Leading Actress in a Play, and Drama Desk Award, and "nanny" for Helen (young Carol Burnett, played by Sara Niemietz and Donna Lynne Champlin) in "Hollywood Arms" in Chicago and on Broadway in 2002.


title: Linda Lavin

text: In 2010, Lavin appeared as Ruth Steiner in a Broadway revival of the play "Collected Stories", reprising her role for a PBS production of the play, and received a fifth Tony nomination for the role. She appeared in the new play by Jon Robin Baitz, "Other Desert Cities", Off-Broadway at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater (Lincoln Center) beginning in previews in December 2010, closing February 27, 2011. Lavin was featured in the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) production of the musical "Follies", from May 2011 to June 2011, as Hattie Walker.


title: Linda Lavin

text: She appeared in the premiere of the Nicky Silver play "The Lyons" at the Off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre, beginning in September 2011, through November 11. Ben Brantley, "The New York Times" reviewer, commented: "Watching Ms. Lavin, I found myself thinking of Nora from Ibsen's "Doll's House" – well, a pursed-lipped, lemony-sour, older Nora in pseudo-Chanel, one who's never at a loss for what to say and when to say it. Rita may be a little behind schedule in discovering herself, but no one can fault the hair-trigger timing of the actress playing her or the surprising dimensions she finds within one-liners." She reprised her role in the Broadway production, which opened at the Cort Theatre on April 23, 2012 and closed on July 1, 2012.


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin appeared in the new Nicky Silver play "Too Much Sun", which opened Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre on May 18, 2014. Ben Brantley, in his review for "The New York Times" wrote: "And it's an unconditional treat to witness an actress like Ms. Lavin tuned so precisely into the writer's wavelength that script and performance become a marriage of true minds."


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin appeared in 2015/16 on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in a Manhattan Theatre Club production of Richard Greenberg's "Our Mother's Brief Affair".


title: Linda Lavin

text: In January 2017, Lavin appeared in New York City Opera's production of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" at the Rose Theatre at Lincoln Center in the role of The Old Lady.


title: Linda Lavin

text: In 2020, Lavin performed "The Boy From..." as part of "". Writing in "The New York Times", critic Ben Brantley called her performance of the song "deliciously undersold," and noted that she had introduced it 54 years earlier.


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin has appeared in cabaret and concert performances. In 2005 she appeared at the Empire Plush Room in San Francisco, accompanied by Billy Stritch and her husband, Steve Bakunas. The "talkinbroadway" reviewer summed up her performance: "Linda Lavin is funny, warm and full of personality." In April 2006 she performed at Birdland (New York) "with her critically acclaimed cabaret act The Song Remembers When", with Billy Stritch. She performed with the Wilmington Symphony (Wilmington, North Carolina) in March 2012.


title: Linda Lavin

text: Her recording "Possibilities" was released by Ghostlight Records in 2012. Steven Suskin wrote: "There is still that sweet, friendly sound of long ago (and 'sweet' and 'friendly' are not words you'd use to describe Lavin-the-actress)."


title: Linda Lavin

text: Lavin has been married three times. Her first marriage to Ron Leibman ended in divorce in 1981. Her second marriage, to Kip Niven, whom she met on the set of "Alice", ended in a bitter divorce in 1992. While Lavin has no biological children, she is the stepmother of the children of her second husband and plays an active role in their lives and also in the lives of her grandchildren. She is also the stepmother of the children of her third and current husband, artist/musician Steve Bakunas, whom she married in 2005. The couple resided in Wilmington, North Carolina, where they were committed community members who were working together to rehabilitate impoverished neighborhoods including renovating many homes, donating a park to the city and creating a community theatre, the Red Barn Studio. In 1997, Lavin founded The Linda Lavin Arts Foundation in Wilmington, "to promote and foster the advancement of the performing and visual arts, with special emphasis on arts in education. Her foundation has created a theatre program called Girl Friends, whose purpose is to raise the self-esteem of at-risk teenage girls of the inner city."


title: Linda Lavin

text: Both of her former husbands, the aforementioned Niven and Leibman, died in 2019 along with "Alice" co-stars Philip McKeon and Charles Levin.


title: Linda Lavin

text: In Wilmington, she was a stage director. One of her directorial credits was a 1998 production of William Shakespeare's "As You Like It", updated to a Brazilian jazz style. In both Wilmington and New York she teaches master classes in acting and singing.


title: Linda Lavin

text: In September 2012 Lavin announced that she intended to sell her home in Wilmington and return to New York City. Lavin and Bakunas had lived in New York City since circa 2013–2014. In July 2016, the Luxury Living website posted Lavin's Central Park South apartment for sale at $1.25 million.


title: Linda Lavin

text: Putt, Jr., Barry M. (2019). "Alice: Life Behind the Counter in Mel's Greasy Spoon (A Guide to the Feature Film, the TV Series, and More)". Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. .


title: John Peel

text: John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.


title: John Peel

text: Peel was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio. He is widely acknowledged for promoting artists of multiple genres, including pop, dub reggae, punk rock and post-punk, electronic music and dance music, indie rock, extreme metal and British hip hop. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as "the most important man in music for about a dozen years".


title: John Peel

text: Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular "Peel sessions", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist in the BBC's studios, often providing the first major national coverage to bands that later achieved fame. Another feature was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.


title: John Peel

text: Peel appeared on television occasionally as one of the presenters of "Top of the Pops" in the 1980s, and provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes. He became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his "Home Truths" programme, which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives.


title: John Peel

text: John Peel was born in Heswall Nursing Home in Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool, the eldest of three sons of Robert Leslie Ravenscroft, a successful cotton merchant, and his wife Joan Mary ("née" Swainson). He grew up in the nearby village of Burton. He was educated as a boarder at Shrewsbury School, where one of his contemporaries was future Monty Python member Michael Palin. In his posthumously published autobiography, Peel said that he was raped by an older pupil while at Shrewsbury.


title: John Peel

text: Peel was an avid radio listener and record collector from an early age, beginning with music offered by the American Forces Network and Radio Luxembourg. He recalled an early desire to host a radio programme of his own "so that I could play music that I heard and wanted others to hear". His housemaster, R. H. J. Brooke, whom Peel described as "extraordinarily eccentric" and "amazingly perceptive", wrote on one of his school reports, "Perhaps it's possible that John can form some kind of nightmarish career out of his enthusiasm for unlistenable records and his delight in writing long and facetious essays."


title: John Peel

text: Peel completed his National Service in 1959 in the Royal Artillery as a B2 radar operator. Afterwards, Peel worked as a mill operative at Townhead Mill in Rochdale and returned each weekend to Heswall on a scooter borrowed from his sister. While in Rochdale during the week, he stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in the area of Milkstone Road and Drake Street, and developed long-term associations with the town as the years progressed.


title: John Peel

text: In 1960, aged 21, Peel went to the United States to work for a cotton producer who had business dealings with his father. He took a number of other jobs afterwards, including working as a travelling insurance salesman. While in Dallas, Texas, where the insurance company he worked for was based, he conversed with the presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, and his running mate Lyndon B. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 election campaign, and took photographs of them. Following Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Peel passed himself off as a reporter for the "Liverpool Echo" in order to attend the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald. He and a friend can be seen in the footage of the 22/23 November midnight press conference at the Dallas Police Department when Oswald was paraded before the media. He later phoned in the story to the "Echo".


title: John Peel

text: While working for the insurance company, Peel wrote programs for punched card entry for an IBM 1410 computer (which led to his entry in "Who's Who" noting him as a former computer programmer), and he got his first radio job working unpaid for WRR (AM) in Dallas. There, he presented the second hour of the Monday night programme "Kat's Karavan", which was primarily hosted by the American singer and radio personality Jim Lowe. Following this, and as Beatlemania hit the United States, Peel was hired by the Dallas radio station KLIF as the official Beatles correspondent on the strength of his connection to Liverpool. He later worked for KOMA in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, until 1965, when he moved to KMEN in San Bernardino, California, and used his birth name, John Ravenscroft, to present the breakfast show.


title: John Peel

text: Peel returned to England in early 1967 and found work with the offshore pirate radio station Radio London. He was offered the midnight-to-two shift, which gradually developed into a programme, "The Perfumed Garden". Some thought it was named after an erotic book that was famous at the time, though Peel claimed never to have read it. While on "Big L", he adopted the name John Peel (a name suggested by a Radio London secretary) and established himself as a distinctive radio voice.


title: John Peel

text: Peel's show was an outlet for the music of the UK underground scene. He played classic blues, folk music and psychedelic rock, with an emphasis on the new music emerging from Los Angeles and San Francisco. As important as the musical content of the programme was the personal – sometimes confessional – tone of Peel's presentation, and the listener participation it engendered. Underground events he had attended during his periods of shore leave, such as the UFO Club and the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, together with causes célèbres like the drug "busts" of the Rolling Stones and John "Hoppy" Hopkins, were discussed between records. All this was far removed from Radio London's daytime format. Listeners sent Peel letters, poems and records from their own collections, so that the programme became a vehicle for two-way communication; by the final week of Radio London, he was receiving far more mail than any other DJ on the station.


title: John Peel

text: After the closure of Radio London in 1967, Peel wrote a column, "The Perfumed Garden", for the underground newspaper the "International Times" (from autumn 1967 to mid-1969), in which he showed himself to be a committed, if critical, supporter of the ideals of the underground. A "Perfumed Garden" mailing list was set up by a group of keen listeners, which facilitated contacts and gave rise to numerous small-scale, local arts projects typical of the time, including the poetry magazine "Sol".


title: John Peel

text: When Radio London closed on 14 August 1967, Peel joined the BBC's new music station, BBC Radio 1, which began broadcasting on 30 September 1967. Unlike Big L, Radio 1 was not a full-time station, but a hybrid of recorded music and live studio orchestras. Peel said he felt he was hired because the BBC "had no real idea what they were doing so they had to take people off the pirate ships because there wasn't anybody else". Peel presented a programme called "Top Gear;" at first he was obliged to share presentation duties with other DJs (Pete Drummond and Tommy Vance were among his co-hosts), but in February 1968 he was given sole charge of "Top Gear." He presented the show until it ended in 1975. Peel played an eclectic mix of the music that caught his attention, which he would continue to do throughout his career.


title: John Peel

text: In 1969, after hosting a trailer for a BBC programme on VD on his "Night Ride" programme, Peel received significant media attention because he divulged on air that he had suffered from a sexually transmitted disease earlier that year. This admission was later used in an attempt to discredit him when he appeared as a defence witness in the 1971 "Oz" obscenity trial.


title: John Peel

text: The "Night Ride" programme, advertised by the BBC as an exploration of words and music, seemed to take up from where "The Perfumed Garden" had left off. It featured rock, folk, blues, classical and electronic music. A unique feature of the programme was the inclusion of tracks, mostly of exotic non-Western music, drawn from the BBC Sound Archive; the most popular of these were gathered on a BBC Records LP, "John Peel's Archive Things" (1970). "Night Ride" also featured poetry readings and numerous interviews with a wide range of guests, including his friends Marc Bolan, journalist and musician Mick Farren, poet Pete Roche, and singer-songwriter Bridget St John and stars such as the Byrds, the Rolling Stones, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The programme captured much of the creative activity of the underground scene. Its anti-establishment stance and unpredictability did not find approval with the BBC hierarchy, and it ended in September 1969 after 18 months. In his sleeve notes to the "Archive Things" LP Peel calls the free-form nature of "Night Ride" his preferred radio format. His subsequent shows featured a mixture of records and live sessions, a format that would characterise his Radio 1 programmes for the rest of his career.


title: John Peel

text: Peel's enthusiasm for music outside the mainstream occasionally brought him into conflict with the Radio 1 hierarchy. On one occasion, the then station controller Derek Chinnery contacted John Walters and asked him to confirm that the show was not playing any punk, which he (Chinnery) had read about in the press and of which he disapproved. Chinnery was evidently somewhat surprised by Walters' reply that in recent weeks they had been playing little else.


title: John Peel

text: In a 1990 interview, Peel recalled his 1976 discovery of the first album by New York punk band the Ramones as a seminal event:


title: John Peel

text: In 1979, Peel stated: "They leave you to get on with it. I'm paid money by the BBC not to go off and work for a commercial radio station ... I wouldn't want to go to one anyway, because they wouldn't let me do what the BBC let me do."


title: John Peel

text: Peel's reputation as an important DJ who broke unsigned acts into the mainstream was such that young hopefuls sent him an enormous number of records, CDs, and tapes. When he returned home from a three-week holiday at the end of 1986 there were 173 LPs, 91 12"s and 179 7"s waiting for him. In 1983 Alan Melina and Jeff Chegwin, the music publishers for then-unsigned artist Billy Bragg, drove to the Radio 1 studios with a mushroom biryani and a copy of his record after hearing Peel mention that he was hungry; the subsequent airplay launched Billy Bragg's career.


title: John Peel

text: In addition to his Radio 1 show, Peel broadcast as a disc jockey on the BBC World Service, on the British Forces Broadcasting Service ("John Peel's Music on BFBS") for 30 years, VPRO Radio3 in the Netherlands, YLE Radio Mafia in Finland, Ö3 in Austria (Nachtexpress), and on Radio 4U, Radio Eins (Peel ...), Radio Bremen (Ritz) and some independent radio stations around FSK Hamburg in Germany. As a result of his BFBS programme he was voted, in Germany, "Top DJ in Europe".


title: John Peel

text: Peel was an occasional presenter of "Top of the Pops" on BBC1 from the late 1960s until the 1990s, and in particular from 1982 to 1987 when he appeared regularly. In 1971 he appeared not as presenter but performer, alongside Rod Stewart and the Faces, pretending to play mandolin on "Maggie May". He often presented the BBC's television coverage of music events, notably the Glastonbury Festival.


title: John Peel

text: Between 1995 and 1997, Peel presented "Offspring", a show about children, on BBC Radio 4. In 1998, "Offspring" grew into the magazine-style documentary show "Home Truths". When he took on the job presenting the programme, which was about everyday life in British families, Peel requested that it be free from celebrities, as he found real-life stories more entertaining. "Home Truths" was described by occasional stand-in presenter John Walters as being "about people who had fridges called Renfrewshire". Peel also made regular contributions to BBC Two's humorous look at the irritations of modern life "Grumpy Old Men". His only appearances in an acting role in film or television were in Harry Enfield's "Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era" as John Past Bedtime, and in 1999 as a "grumpy old man who catalogues records" in the film "Five Seconds to Spare". However, he had provided narration for others.


title: John Peel

text: He appeared as a celebrity guest on a number of TV shows, including "This Is Your Life" (1996, BBC), "Travels With My Camera" (1996, Channel 4 TV) and "Going Home" (2002, ITV TV), and presented the 1997 Channel 4 series "Classic Trains". He was also in demand as a voice-over artist for television documentaries, such as BBC One's "A Life of Grime".


title: John Peel

text: In April 2003, the publishers Transworld successfully wooed Peel with a package worth £1.5 million for his autobiography, having placed an advert in a national newspaper aimed only at Peel. Unfinished at the time of his death, it was completed by Sheila and journalist Ryan Gilbey. It was published in October 2005 under the title "Margrave of the Marshes". A collection of Peel's miscellaneous writings, "The Olivetti Chronicles", was published in 2008.


title: John Peel

text: While residing in Dallas, Texas, in 1965, he married his first wife, Shirley Anne Milburn, then aged 16, in what Peel later described as a "mutual defence pact". The marriage was never happy, with reports that Milburn was often violent towards Peel. Although she accompanied Peel back to Britain in 1967, they were soon separated. The divorce became final in 1973. Milburn later took her own life.


title: John Peel

text: After separation from his first wife, Peel's personal life began to stabilise, as he found friendship and support from new "Top Gear" producer John Walters, and from his girlfriend Sheila Gilhooly, whom he identified on-air as "the Pig". Peel married Gilhooly on 31 August 1974. The reception was in London's Regent's Park, with Walters as best man. Peel wore Liverpool football colours (red) and walked down the aisle to the song "You'll Never Walk Alone". Their sheepdog, Woggle, served as a bridesmaid. Rock singer Rod Stewart and Monty Python member Graham Chapman both attended.


title: John Peel

text: In the 1970s, Peel and Sheila moved to a thatched cottage in the village of Great Finborough near Stowmarket in Suffolk, nicknamed Peel Acres. In later years, Peel broadcast many of his shows from a studio in the house, with Sheila and their children often being involved or at least mentioned. Peel's passion for Liverpool F.C. was reflected in his children's names: William Robert Anfield, Alexandra Mary Anfield, Thomas James Dalglish, and Florence Victoria Shankly. His later shows also regularly featured live performances (broadcast live, unlike the pre-recorded Peel sessions), mostly from BBC Maida Vale Studios in West London, but occasionally in the Peel Acres living room.


title: John Peel

text: To "The Guardian" in 1975, Peel said of young women, "All they wanted me to do was abuse them, sexually, which, of course, I was only too happy to do". In an interview with "The Sunday Correspondent" in 1989, Peel stated, "Girls used to queue up outside. By and large not usually for shagging. Oral sex they were particularly keen on, I remember. [...] One of my, er, regular customers, as it were, turned out to be 13, though she looked older." Peel joked that he "didn't ask for ID". An interview originally published in "The Herald" in April 2004 stated that Peel admitted to sexual contact with "an awful lot" of underage girls. He claimed that, in the early 1960s, the only available women were in high school.


title: John Peel

text: His first marriage to Shirley Anne Milburn in 1965 has been cited as an example of misconduct as she was 15 years old when they wed, while he was 25. The marriage, which occurred in Texas, was legal at the time.


title: John Peel

text: In 2012, a woman stated that she had a three-month affair with Peel in 1969 when she was 15 years old; Peel was 30. She said they had unprotected sex; this was shortly after Peel discussed contracting a sexually transmitted disease. The relationship resulted in a "traumatic" abortion. She stated that, "looking back, it was terribly wrong and I was perhaps manipulated."


title: John Peel

text: Peel hosted a "Schoolgirl of the Year" competition on the Radio 1 show in the early 1970s. Julie Burchill, writing for "The Guardian" in 1999, stated, "well into the Seventies, Peel was drooling on about 'schoolgirls', in print and on air, where his Schoolgirl Of The Year competition was quietly laid to rest during punk's tenure".


title: John Peel

text: Peel died suddenly at the age of 65 from a heart attack on 25 October 2004, on a working holiday in the Inca city of Cusco in Peru. Shortly after the announcement of his death, tributes began to arrive from fans and supporters both in public and private life. On 26 October 2004 BBC Radio 1 cleared its schedules to broadcast a day of tributes. London's "Evening Standard" boards that afternoon read "the day the music died", quoting Don McLean's hit "American Pie".


title: John Peel

text: Peel had often spoken wryly of his eventual death. He once said on the Channel 4 miniseries "Sounds of the Suburbs", "I've always imagined I'd die by driving into the back of a truck while trying to read the name on a cassette and people would say, 'He would have wanted to go that way.' Well, I want them to know that I wouldn't."


title: John Peel

text: At one point, he said that if he died before his producer John Walters, he wanted the latter to play Roy Harper's "When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease". Walters having died in 2001, it was left to Andy Kershaw to end his tribute programme to Peel on BBC Radio 3 with the song. Peel's stand-in on his Radio 1 slot, Rob da Bank, also played the song at the start of the final show before his funeral. Another time, Peel said he would like to be remembered with a gospel song. He stated that the final record he would play would be the Rev C. L. Franklin's sermon "Dry Bones in The Valley".


title: John Peel

text: Peel's funeral, on 12 November 2004, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was attended by over a thousand people, including many of the artists he had championed. Eulogies were read by his brother Alan Ravenscroft and DJ Paul Gambaccini. The service ended with clips of him talking about his life. His coffin was carried out to the accompaniment of his favourite song, The Undertones' "Teenage Kicks". Peel had written that, apart from his name, all he wanted on his gravestone were the words, "Teenage dreams, so hard to beat", from the lyrics of "Teenage Kicks". A headstone featuring the lyrics and the Liver Bird from his favourite football team, Liverpool FC, was placed at his grave in 2008. Peel's body was buried in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church in Great Finborough, Suffolk.


title: John Peel

text: John Peel Sessions were a feature of his BBC Radio 1 shows, which usually consisted of four pieces of music pre-recorded at the BBC's studios. The sessions originally came about due to restrictions imposed on the BBC by the Musicians' Union and Phonographic Performance Limited which represented the record companies dominated by the EMI cartel. Because of these restrictions, the BBC had been forced to hire bands and orchestras to render cover versions of recorded music. The theory behind this device was that it would create employment and force people to buy records and not listen to them free of charge on the air. One of the reasons why the offshore broadcasting stations of the 1960s were called "pirates" was because they operated outside of British laws and were not bound by the needle time restriction on the number of records they could play on the air.


title: John Peel

text: The BBC employed its own house bands and orchestras and it also engaged outside bands to record exclusive tracks for its programmes in BBC studios. This was the reason why Peel was able to use "session men" in his own programmes. Sessions were usually four tracks recorded and mixed in a single day; as such they often had a rough-and-ready, demo-like feel, somewhere between a live performance and a finished recording. During the 37 years Peel remained on BBC Radio 1, over 4,000 sessions were recorded by over 2,000 artists. Many classic Peel Sessions have been released on record, particularly by the Strange Fruit label. In May 2020, an alphabetised catalogue of hundreds of classic Peel Sessions others had previously uploaded to YouTube was published.


title: John Peel

text: The Festive Fifty — a countdown of the best tracks of the year as voted for by the listeners — was an annual tradition of Peel's Radio 1 show. Despite his eclectic play list, it tended to be composed largely of "white boys with guitars", as Peel complained in 1988. In 1991, the broadcast of the chart was cancelled due to a lack of votes, although many have speculated that it was because no entries came from the dance acts that Peel had been championing that year. Topped by Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", this Phantom Fifty was eventually broadcast at the rate of one track per programme in 1993. The 1997 chart was initially cancelled due to the lack of air-time Peel had been allocated for the period, but enough "spontaneous" votes were received over the phone that a Festive Thirty-One was compiled and broadcast.


title: John Peel

text: Peel wrote that "The Festive 50 dates back to what was doubtless a crisp September morning in the early-to-mid Seventies, when John Walters and I were musing on life in his uniquely squalid office. In our waggish way, we decided to mock the enthusiasm of the Radio 1 management of the time for programmes with alliterative titles. Content, we felt, was of less importance than a snappy "Radio Times" billing. In the course of our historic meeting we had, I imagine, some fine reasons for dismissing the idea of a Festive 40 and going instead for a Festive 50, a decision that was to ruin my Decembers for years to come, condemning me to night after night at home with a ledger, when I could have been out and about having fun, fun, fun."


title: John Peel

text: After his death, the Festive Fifty was continued on Radio 1 by Rob da Bank, Huw Stephens and Ras Kwame for two years, but then given to Peel-inspired Internet radio station Dandelion Radio, and continues to be compiled.


title: John Peel

text: In 1969, Peel founded Dandelion Records (named after his pet hamster) so that he could release the debut album by Bridget St John, which he also produced. The label released 27 albums by 18 different artists before folding in 1972. Of its albums, "There is Some Fun Going Forward" was a sampler intended to present its acts to a wide audience, but Dandelion was never a great success, with only two releases charting nationally: Medicine Head in the UK with "(And the) Pictures in the Sky" and Beau in Lebanon with "1917 Revolution". Having had an affinity with the Manchester area from working in a cotton mill in Rochdale in 1959, Peel signed Manchester bands Stack Waddy and Tractor to Dandelion and was always supportive of both bands throughout his life. It is alleged that Peel spotted a Rochdale postmark on the envelope containing the tape sent to him by Tractor, then called "The Way We Live".


title: John Peel

text: It was never a success financially. In fact, we lost money, if I remember correctly, on every single release bar one. I did quite like it but it was terribly indulgent. Not as indulgent as it would have been had I not had a business partner, admittedly... I liked having a label. It enabled you to put out stuff that you liked without, in those days, having to worry about whether it was going to work commercially. I've never been a good business man.


title: John Peel

text: Peel appeared on one Dandelion release: the David Bedford album "Nurses Song with Elephants", recorded at the Marquee Studios, as part of a group playing twenty-seven plastic pipe twirlers on the track "Some Bright Stars for Queen's College".


title: John Peel

text: In the 1980s Peel set up Strange Fruit Records with Clive Selwood to release material recorded by the BBC for Peel Sessions.


title: John Peel

text: John Peel is sometimes confused with the more prolific record producer Jonathan Peel, who was an in-house music producer for EMI before going freelance in 1970.


title: John Peel

text: John Peel wrote in his autobiography, "Margrave of the Marshes", that the band of which he owned the most records was The Fall. Regulars in the Festive 50, and easily recognised by vocalist Mark E. Smith's distinctive delivery, The Fall became synonymous with Peel's Radio 1 show through the 1980s and 1990s. Peel kept in contact with many of the artists he championed but only met Smith on two, apparently awkward, occasions.


title: John Peel

text: The Misunderstood is the only band that Peel ever personally managed—he first met the band in Riverside, California in 1966 and convinced them to move to London. He championed their music throughout his career; in 1968, he described their 1966 single "I Can Take You to the Sun" as "the best popular record that's ever been recorded." and shortly before his death, he stated, "If I had to list the ten greatest performances I've seen in my life, one would be The Misunderstood at Pandora's Box, Hollywood, 1966 ... My god, they were a great band!"


title: John Peel

text: His favourite single is widely known to have been "Teenage Kicks" by The Undertones; in an interview in 2001, he stated "There's nothing you could add to it or subtract from it that would improve it." In the same 2001 interview, he also listed "No More Ghettos in America" by Stanley Winston, "There Must Be Thousands" by The Quads and "Lonely Saturday Night" by Don French as being among his all-time favourites. He also described Lianne Hall as one of the great English voices.


title: John Peel

text: In 1997 "The Guardian" asked Peel to list his top 20 albums. He listed Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica" as his number 1, having previously described it as "a work of art". The top 20 also included LPs by The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, Pulp, Misty in Roots, Nirvana, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, The Four Brothers, Dave Clarke, Richard and Linda Thompson and The Rolling Stones.


title: John Peel

text: A longer list of his favourite singles was revealed in 2005 when the contents of a wooden box in which he stored the records that meant the most to him were made public. The box was the subject of a television documentary, "John Peel's Record Box". Out of 130 vinyl singles in the box, 11 of them were by The White Stripes, more than any other band in the box.


title: John Peel

text: In 1999 Peel presented a nightly segment on his programme titled the Peelennium, in which he played four recordings from each year of the 20th century.


title: John Peel

text: Peel was 11 times "Melody Maker"′s DJ of the year, Sony Broadcaster of the Year in 1993, winner of the publicly voted Godlike Genius Award from the "NME" in 1994, Sony Gold Award winner in 2002 and is a member of the Radio Academy Hall of Fame. At the NME awards in 2005, he was Hero of the Year and was posthumously given a special award for "Lifelong Service To Music". At the same event the "John Peel Award For Musical Innovation" was awarded to The Others.


title: John Peel

text: He was awarded many honorary degrees including an MA from the University of East Anglia, doctorates (Anglia Polytechnic University and Sheffield Hallam University), various degrees (University of Liverpool, Open University, University of Portsmouth, University of Bradford) and a fellowship of Liverpool John Moores University.


title: John Peel

text: He was appointed an OBE in 1998, for his services to British music. In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, in which Peel was voted 43rd.


title: John Peel

text: Since his death various parties have recognised Peel's influence. A stage for new bands at the Glastonbury Festival, previously known as "The New Bands Tent" was renamed "The John Peel Stage" in 2005, while in 2008 Merseytravel announced it would be naming a train after him.


title: John Peel

text: The John Peel Centre for Creative Arts opened in Stowmarket in early 2013. The main purposes of the centre is to serve as a live venue for music and performance and as a community meeting point.


title: John Peel

text: The 2005 Mogwai live compilation album "" was dedicated to Peel as some of the tracks had been performed during the Peel Sessions. Peel's voice announces "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mogwai!" at the beginning of "Hunted by a Freak", the album's opener.


title: John Peel

text: On 8 October 2005 Cotswold Rail locomotive 47813 was named "John Peel" by Peel's widow Shelia at Bury St Edmunds station.


title: John Peel

text: On 13 October 2005, the first "John Peel Day" was held to mark the anniversary of his last show. The BBC encouraged as many bands as possible to stage gigs on the 13th, and over 500 gigs took place in the UK and as far away as Canada and New Zealand, from bands ranging from Peel favourites New Order and The Fall, to many new and unsigned bands. A second John Peel day was held on 12 October 2006, and a third on 11 October 2007. The BBC had originally planned to hold a John Peel Day annually, but Radio 1 has not held any official commemoration of the event since 2007, though gigs still took place around the country to mark the anniversary for a number of years afterwards.


title: John Peel

text: At the annual Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards, the "John Peel Play More Jazz Award" was named in his honour.


title: John Peel

text: In Peel's hometown of Heswall, a pub was opened in his honour in 2007. Named The Ravenscroft, the pub was converted from the old Heswall Telephone Exchange but has since been renamed.


title: John Peel

text: In 2012 Peel was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover.


title: John Peel

text: Several Peel-related compilation albums have been released since his death, including "", a project Peel started with his wife that was left unfinished when he died, and "Kats Karavan: The History of John Peel on the Radio" (2009), a 4 CD box set. Rock music critic Peter Paphides said in a review of the box set that "[s]ome artists remain forever associated with him", including ...And the Native Hipsters with "There Goes Concorde Again", and Ivor Cutler with "Jam". A sizable online community has also emerged dedicated to sharing recordings of his radio shows.


title: John Peel

text: In May 2012 a campaign was started to turn demolition-threatened Bradford Odeon into the John Peel Creative Arts Centre in the North, though this was ultimately unsuccessful.


title: John Peel

text: In July 2022 a petition was launched to rename the "John Peel Stage" at the Glastonbury Festival due to the sexual abuse Peel was accused of and admitted to.


title: John Peel

text: In 2009 blue plaques bearing Peel's name were unveiled at two former recording studios in Rochdale – one at the site of Tractor Sound Studios in Heywood, the other at the site of the Kenion Street Music Building – to recognise Peel's contribution to the local music industry.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Edson Barboza Jr. (born January 21, 1986) is a Brazilian-American professional mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai kickboxer who competes in the featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and has formerly competed at lightweight. As of December 13, 2022, he is #14 in the UFC featherweight rankings.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza comes from Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro. He was born prematurely at 28 weeks and given a 50/50 chance of surviving past infancy. At the age of 8, he began practicing and competing in Muay Thai. His professional Muay Thai record is 25–3, with 22 victories by knockout and 17 first-round finishes. Barboza moved to the United States in January 2009.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza's professional MMA career began in April 2009 in Tampa, Florida with a victory over Aaron Steadman via TKO in the first round. In his next fight, in the Renaissance MMA promotion, Barboza defeated Lee King via second-round KO, winning the lightweight title. Barboza defended the belt, also against King, later that year, winning via submission in the first round.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza went on to join New Jersey-based promotion Ring of Combat, making his promotional debut at Ring of Combat 28 against Nabih Barakat. He won the fight via KO just over a minute into the first round.


title: Edson Barboza

text: After a second successful title defense in Renaissance MMA, Barboza challenged for the Ring of Combat lightweight belt against Marcelo Guidici. He won the fight via TKO due to leg kicks in the first round.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza's first title defense was originally scheduled for Ring of Combat 31, against Mikhail Malyutin, but, due to his signing with the UFC, he was replaced by Luiz Azeredo.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza was expected to make his UFC debut against Darren Elkins on November 20, 2010, at UFC 123. However, Elkins was forced from the card with an injury and replaced by newcomer Mike Lullo. Shortly into the third round, Barboza defeated Lullo by TKO due to leg kicks (for the first time in UFC history).


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Anthony Njokuani on March 19, 2011, at UFC 128, winning by unanimous decision. Both fighters earned "Fight of the Night" honors.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza defeated Ross Pearson at UFC 134 via split decision. Both fighters earned "Fight of the Night" bonus honors.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Terry Etim on January 14, 2012, at UFC 142. He defeated Etim by KO in the third round, becoming the first fighter in UFC history to finish an opponent via wheel kick. The win earned Barboza his first "Knockout of the Night" and 'Fight of the Night" bonus awards


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza was expected to face Evan Dunham on May 26, 2012, at UFC 146, but Dunham dropped out of the bout due to injury and was replaced by returning veteran Jamie Varner. Barboza suffered his first professional MMA loss via Knockout in the first round.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza was expected to face Justin Salas on January 19, 2013, at UFC on FX 7. However, Salas was forced out of the bout with an injury and replaced by promotional newcomer Lucas Martins.<ref name="SalasOut/MartinsIn"></ref> Barboza defeated Martins via TKO (retirement) at 2:38 of the first round.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza was scheduled to face John Makdessi on July 6, 2013, at UFC 162, but an injury forced Makdessi off the card and he was replaced by Rafaello Oliveira. Barboza won the fight by TKO due to leg kicks in the second round.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Danny Castillo on December 14, 2013, at UFC on Fox 9. After a dominant first round by Castillo, in which he nearly finished Barboza via strikes and then with a submission attempt, Barboza rallied back and won by majority decision. Both fighters earned "Fight of the Night" honors.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Donald Cerrone on April 19, 2014, at UFC on Fox 11. Despite finding early success with his striking, Barboza was knocked down by a jab and lost via submission at 3:15 of the first round.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Evan Dunham on July 16, 2014, at UFC Fight Night 45. He won the fight via TKO in the first round.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Bobby Green on November 22, 2014, at UFC Fight Night 57. He won the fight via unanimous decision.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Michael Johnson on February 22, 2015, at UFC Fight Night 61. He lost the fight by unanimous decision.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza was expected to face Myles Jury on July 25, 2015, at UFC on Fox 16, replacing an injured Anthony Pettis. However, Jury himself had to pull out due to injury and was subsequently replaced by undefeated Paul Felder. Barboza won the fight via unanimous decision and earned his fifth "Fight of the Night" bonus award. UFC President Dana White gave Barboza and Felder high praise afterwards, calling the fight "incredible."


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Tony Ferguson on December 11, 2015, at , replacing an injured Khabib Nurmagomedov. After a back-and-forth first round that saw Ferguson docked one point due to an illegal upkick, Barboza lost the fight via submission in the second round. Both fighters earned "Fight of the Night" honors.


title: Edson Barboza

text: After the loss to Ferguson, Barboza decided to move to New Jersey to train at Mark Henry's and Ricardo Almeida's MMA team. Barboza faced Anthony Pettis on April 23, 2016, at UFC 197. He won via unanimous decision.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Beneil Dariush on March 11, 2017, at UFC Fight Night 106. He won the fight via knockout due to a flying knee in the second round. Subsequently, he earned his first "Performance of the Night" bonus award.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Khabib Nurmagomedov on December 30, 2017, at UFC 219. He lost the fight by unanimous decision.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Kevin Lee on April 21, 2018, at UFC Fight Night 128. At the weigh-ins, Lee weighed 157 pounds, one pound over the lightweight non-title fight upper limit of 156 pounds. Subsequently, the bout proceeded at catchweight, and Lee forfeited 20% of his purse to Barboza. Barboza managed to connect with a spinning back kick and hurt Lee, but went onto lose via TKO due to doctor stoppage in round five.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Dan Hooker on December 15, 2018, at UFC on Fox 31. He won the fight via TKO in round three.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Justin Gaethje on March 30, 2019, at UFC on ESPN 2. He lost the fight via knockout in round one. This fight earned him the "Fight of the Night" award.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Paul Felder in a rematch on September 7, 2019 at UFC 242. He lost the fight by a controversial split decision. 13 out of 16 MMA media outlets scored the bout in favor of Barboza, and subsequently the decision was appealed to be overturned. UFC, working in lieu of an athletic commission, denied the appeal.


title: Edson Barboza

text: On December 31, 2019, Barboza announced his intent to move down to the featherweight division. He was expected to face Josh Emmett in a featherweight bout on May 2, 2020 at . However, on April 9, Dana White announced that the event had been postponed. Instead Barboza faced Dan Ige on May 16, 2020 at . He lost the bout by another controversial split decision. 16 out of 18 MMA media outlets scored the bout in favor of Barboza.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza was expected to face Sodiq Yusuff on October 11, 2020 at UFC Fight Night 179. However, Yusuff pulled out of the fight on September 22 for undisclosed reasons, and was replaced by Makwan Amirkhani. He won the fight via unanimous decision.


title: Edson Barboza

text: On February 25, 2021 news surfaced that Barboza had signed a new multi-fight contract with the organization albeit having one fight left on his prevailing contract. In May, Barboza revealed that the contract was signed for six fights.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Shane Burgos on May 15, 2021 at UFC 262. He won the fight via knockout in the third round after Burgos experienced a delayed reaction to being knocked out with a right cross. This fight earned Barboza the $75,000 "Fight of the Night" bonus award.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza faced Giga Chikadze on August 28, 2021 at UFC on ESPN 30. After a back-and-forth affair, Barboza lost the fight via TKO in round three.


title: Edson Barboza

text: Barboza was scheduled to face Ilia Topuria on October 29, 2022 at UFC Fight Night 213. However, Barboza withdrew in late September due to a knee injury


title: Edson Barboza

text: Described as a "dyed-in-the-wool striker," Barboza is known for his dangerous kicking game. UFC color commentator Joe Rogan has stated that Barboza is "probably the best kicker in MMA." He scored the first wheel kick knockout in UFC history, and is one of two fighters to finish multiple UFC bouts via leg kicks (the other being Antoni Hardonk). Barboza is also known for his effective use of switch kicks, which have been labeled "exceptionally quick" and "ferocious".


title: Fendi

text: Fendi () is an Italian high-end luxury fashion house producing fur, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, fragrances, eyewear, timepieces and accessories. Founded in Rome in 1925, Fendi is known for its fur, fur accessories, and leather goods.


title: Fendi

text: Since 2001, Fendi has been part of the “Fashion & Leather Goods” division of French group LVMH. Its headquarters are in Rome, in the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana.


title: Fendi

text: The house of Fendi was launched in 1925 by Adele and Edoardo Fendi (1904-1954) as a fur and leather shop in Via del Plebiscito, Rome.


title: Fendi

text: In 1932 Adele and Edoardo Fendi opened a boutique in via Piave; the shop became a popular destination for tourists in Rome.


title: Fendi

text: From 1946, the five sisters Paola, Anna, Franca, Carla, and Alda joined the company in its second generation as a family-owned enterprise, each owning 20 percent. Karl Lagerfeld joined Fendi in 1965 and became the creative director for the fur and women's ready-to-wear collections (launched in 1977).


title: Fendi

text: In 1966, Lagerfeld created the company logo, a double F in a square, which would later be the subject of various reinterpretations. Also in 1966, Fendi presented its first high fashion collection, expanding its interests in the United States and Japan.


title: Fendi

text: In 1969, its first commercial line of fur was launched, and in the following years, cosmetics and men accessories were released.


title: Fendi

text: In the 1980s, Fendi expanded its range with perfumes in 1985, as well as eyewear, jeans, and home furnishings in 1987.


title: Fendi

text: In 1994, Paola Fendi handed over presidency of the company to her younger sister Carla. Silvia Venturini Fendi, daughter of Anna, joined the fashion house in 1994 and has since been the artistic director for accessories and co-designer of the women's line alongside Lagerfeld; in 1997 she designed the Baguette Bag, an iconic model that beat all sales and notoriety records.


title: Fendi

text: Fendi was a family-controlled company until 1999, when Prada and LVMH, the world's biggest luxury goods group, joined to buy 51 percent of Fendi for $545 million; competitor Gucci lost out in the bidding process. Under the deal, Prada and LVMH were obligated to acquire any of the 49 percent of Fendi, should the sisters decide to sell. The label lost approximately 20 million euros in 2001 and again in 2002. In 2002, Prada agreed to sell its 25.5 percent stake to LVMH for $265 million. In 2002, LVMH acquired an additional 15.9 percent of the company. Carla Fendi, a member of the founding family, continued to act as chairwoman and a minority owner until 2008.


title: Fendi

text: On 19 October 2007, Fendi chose the Great Wall of China to present its spring-summer collection and with 88 models, the first fashion show there.


title: Fendi

text: In 2009, Silvia Venturini Fendi created the Peekaboo bag, achieving a success comparable to the Baguette Bag.


title: Fendi

text: In 2010, the Fendi Kids label made its debut in Spring/Summer 2011. The same year, Fendi launched a new fragrance – Fan di Fendi – before discontinuing its fragrances in 2015.


title: Fendi

text: In 2014, Fendi started making plans to use drones to show its catwalk fashions. From 2013 until 2021, the company had a brand licensing agreement with Safilo for the design, production and worldwide distribution of Fendi sunglasses and optical frames.


title: Fendi

text: In 2015, Fendi celebrated fifty years of business with Karl Lagerfeld and organized its first haute couture fashion show dedicated to furs, "Haute Fourrure", at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Later the brand celebrated its 90th anniversary with a fashion show at the Trevi fountain in Rome and planned to move its headquarters to Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, paying 2.8 million euros per annum to occupy the space; Fendi instead opened a hotel and its largest store at the location in 2016.


title: Fendi

text: In 2017, Fendi released a customization shop in collaboration with e-commerce platform Farfetch for made-to-order handbag designs.


title: Fendi

text: By 2018, Fendi crossed the 1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) threshold in annual sales and had 3,000 employees worldwide, including around 400 in specialist leather and fur ateliers in Italy, and operated a network of 215 stores.


title: Fendi

text: In September 2020, English designer Kim Jones was announced as artistic director of Fendi's women's collection, formerly occupied by Lagerfeld.


title: Fendi

text: In 2021, Fendi ended its partnership with Safilo and entered into an agreement with LVMH-owned Thelios to create, produce, and distribute its eyewear collection.


title: Fendi

text: Fendi Casa terminated its collaboration with licensee Luxury Living and instead partnered with Design Holding, jointly controlled by Investindustrial and The Carlyle Group, on creating Fashion Furniture Design (FF Design) to produce and distribute Fendi Casa.


title: Fendi

text: After 2019 Karl Lagerfeld direction (1965-2019), Silvia Venturini Fendi took over both the men's and women's collections. From September 2020, the women's collection was entrusted to Kim Jones, former stylist for the Dior men's collection, who was appointed artistic director of "couture" and womenswear. Silvia Venturini remains artistic director of accessories and menswear. Jones' debut collection was for Fall / Winter 2021/2022.


title: Fendi

text: In 2021 Delfina Delettrez Fendi, Silvia Venturini Fendi’s daughter, was appointed artistic director of jewelry.


title: Fendi

text: Fendi has often collaborated with cinema; the maison has designed the clothes for "Once Upon a Time in America", "Evita" and "The Royal Tenenbaums".


title: Fendi

text: Many famous film directors in the 1970s, including Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, and Mauro Bolognini, chose Fendi furs for their characters. Fendi has also dressed Sophia Loren, Diana Ross, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Soraya, and Liza Minnelli.


title: Fendi

text: Lagerfeld himself was responsible for the photography of Fendi's ad campaigns before his death; since then, Fendi has used Nick Knight, Craig McDean and Steven Meisel.


title: Fendi

text: In 2013, Fendi pledged more than 2 million euros to sponsor projects, including a clean-up of the Quattro Fontane and the restoration of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, and held the company's 90th anniversary show over the fountain using a plexiglas floor. In 2018, Fendi signed a partnership with the Galleria Borghese to support the museum's exhibitions for the following three years. In 2019, it committed 2.5 million euros to restore the Temple of Venus and Roma, when it held its couture show at the site.


title: Fendi

text: In 2021, Fendi completed the restoration of Rome’s Temple of Venus, the largest building in ancient Rome.


title: Fendi

text: Fendi sued Burlington in 1986 for selling counterfeit handbags, and filed a new lawsuit in 2006 after concluding the company was violating the injunction. In 2010, a U.S. Magistrate recommended that Burlington pay Fendi just over $5.6 million in damages, attorney's fees and costs to settle a dispute dating to 1986 over the alleged sale of counterfeit Fendi-branded leather goods. Burlington subsequently agreed to pay $10.05 million.


title: Fendi

text: Also in 2010, Fendi reached a $2.5 million settlement with the former parent company of Filene's Basement to resolve counterfeiting claims.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Fernando Gabriel Tatís Medina Jr. (born January 2, 1999), nicknamed "El Niño" or "Bebo", is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop and outfielder for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the son of former MLB player Fernando Tatís Sr. Tatís Jr. made his MLB debut in 2019, won the Silver Slugger Award in 2020, and was named an All-Star in 2021, before missing all of the 2022 season due to injury and a PED suspension.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Tatís was born in San Pedro de Macoris, in the Dominican Republic. His father was already playing in his third year of professional baseball when Tatís was born, playing for the Cardinals at the time. He spent a lot of time in big league clubhouses, and was very athletic and held an interest in baseball from a young age. He often practiced with Robinson Cano, who is also from San Pedro de Macoris.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: The Chicago White Sox signed Tatís as an international free agent from the Dominican Prospect League in 2015. On June 4, 2016, before he had played a professional game, the White Sox traded Tatís, then 17 years old, and Erik Johnson to the Padres for James Shields. Tatís spent 2016 with the Arizona League Padres of the Rookie-level Arizona League and the Tri-City Dust Devils of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League, batting a combined .273 with four home runs and 25 runs batted in (RBI) in 55 games; on defense, he made 15 errors and had a .904 fielding percentage.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: In 2017, Tatís played 117 games for the Fort Wayne TinCaps of the Class A Midwest League and 14 games for the San Antonio Missions of the Class AA Texas League, posting a combined .278 batting average with 22 home runs, 75 RBI, and 32 stolen bases as he was caught 15 times, and on defense he made 30 errors and had a .936 fielding percentage. In 2017–18, he played 17 games at shortstop for the Estrellas de Oriente of the Dominican Winter League, batting .246 with one home run and three RBI.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Tatís entered 2018 as one of the top prospects in the minor leagues. He returned to play shortstop for San Antonio, and in 88 games he batted .286 with 16 home runs, 43 RBI, and 16 stolen bases. On July 23, 2018, Tatís underwent season-ending surgery for a broken left thumb and ligament damage suffered during a head-first slide. He returned to play for the Estrellas for the 2018–19 winter season.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: At the beginning of 2019, Tatís was ranked as one of the top three prospects in baseball by MLB Pipeline, ESPN, Baseball America, and Baseball Prospectus. On March 26, 2019, the Padres announced that Tatís made their Opening Day roster. In his major league debut, he recorded two hits against the San Francisco Giants. On April 1, 2019, Tatís hit his first major league home run.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: In August, Tatís injured his back, which ended his 2019 season. He finished the season hitting .317/.379/.590 with 22 home runs, 61 runs, and 106 hits over 84 games. He came in third place in balloting for the National League Rookie of the Year Award, behind Pete Alonso and Mike Soroka.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: In the 2020 season, Tatís was part of a four-game streak in August in which the San Diego Padres hit four grand slams, and, notably, was at each base position over the four. There was a controversy involving Tatís when he swung at a 3–0 pitch in the eighth inning, hitting an opposite-field grand slam against the Texas Rangers. Though he was criticized by some for breaking the "unwritten rules", since the Padres were already up by seven runs, many people defended him.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: In 2020, Tatís led the NL in power-speed number (13.4) and batted .277/.366/.571 (10th in the league) with 50 runs (2nd), 17 home runs (2nd), 42 RBI (4th), and 11 stolen bases (4th) in 224 at bats. Of all major league hitters, he had the highest average exit velocity (95.9 MPH), percentage of hard-hit balls (62.2), and percentage of barrels/plate appearance (12.5%).


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: In Game 2 of the 2020 Wild Card Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Tatís was able to help bring the Padres back into winning position by hitting two home runs that made it possible for the Padres to win the series and head to the next round against the Dodgers, which they lost in three straight games.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Tatís finished in fourth place for the National League MVP Award in 2020, behind Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, and his teammate Manny Machado.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Before the 2021 season, Tatís signed a 14-year, $340 million contract extension with the Padres, at the time the third-richest in MLB history, behind deals signed by Mike Trout and Mookie Betts, and the richest signed by a player not yet eligible for salary arbitration. Part of Tatís's future earnings will be given to Big League Advance as part of an agreement Tatís made while in the minor leagues in order to receive early money that he used to "afford a personal trainer, higher quality food and better housing".


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: On April 5, Tatís sustained a left shoulder subluxation while swinging at a pitch during a game against the San Francisco Giants. He was subsequently placed on the 10-day injured list, but avoided serious injury and returned to the Padres lineup on April 16.On April 23, exactly 22 years after his father hit two grand slams in one inning, Tatís hit two home runs off of Clayton Kershaw, and he also hit two more home runs in another game off of Trevor Bauer. All four home runs took place at the same venue where Tatís's father made history as well. The Padres won 6–1.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: On May 12, players from the San Diego Padres, including Tatís and Wil Myers,tested positive of COVID-19; Tatís was placed on the injured list due to COVID-19. On May 19, the Padres activated Tatís from the COVID-19 IL.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: On June 2, Tatís was named the National League Player of the Month for the month of May, batting .353/.440/.824 with nine home runs, eight stolen bases, 26 RBIs, and 21 runs scored in 20 games. On June 25, Tatís had his first three-homer game in his career against the Arizona Diamondbacks to give the Padres a 11–5 win.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: On July 1, Tatís was selected to start his first All-Star Game, becoming the first All-Star starter from the Padres since Tony Gwynn. In a July 6, 2021, game, Tatís received media attention for an unusually high catch, which appeared to resemble a double jump typically seen in video games. On July 24, Tatís hit his 30th home run of the season, becoming the fourth Padres player to have hit 30 home runs and stolen 20 bases in a season, after Steve Finley, Wil Myers, and Ryan Klesko. He accomplished this feat over 82 games, the lowest for any player age 22 or younger.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Tatís suffered a second left shoulder subluxation while playing against the Colorado Rockies on July 30 and was placed on the 10-day IL. During his stint on the IL, Tatís trained with Padres first base coach Wayne Kirby to transition into an outfielder. He was activated from the IL on August 15 and played right field in his first game back from injury.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Tatís finished the 2021 season hitting .282/.364/.611 with 97 RBIs, 25 stolen bases and an NL-leading 42 home runs. He also led the majors in at bats per home run (11.4), and the highest percentage of hard-hit balls (48%). He won his second consecutive Silver Slugger Award and finished third in NL MVP voting behind Bryce Harper and Juan Soto.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: On March 16, 2022, Tatís underwent surgery due to a fractured scaphoid bone suffered during the offseason. He was expected to return within three months. Although the cause of the injury was not confirmed, general manager A. J. Preller alluded to a motorcycle accident which Tatís suffered in December 2021 in the Dominican Republic. When a reporter asked when his motorcycle accident occurred, Tatís replied "Which one?," suggesting that he had been involved in multiple such accidents in the 2021–22 offseason.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: On August 12, 2022, Tatís was suspended for 80 games after testing positive for Clostebol, an anabolic steroid. He stated that the positive test came from a medication he took to treat ringworm, which he failed to confirm was free from banned substances.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: As a result of his punishment stemming from his failed drug test in 2022, Tatis will miss the first 12 games of the 2023 season. When he comes back, Tatis will play in the outfield as a result of the Padres signing Xander Bogaerts.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Tatís, a 6 ft 3 in, 217 lb (1.90 m, 98 kg) shortstop, is widely considered to be a five-tool player due to his various abilities. In his 2021 season, Tatís hit 42 home runs, the most in the National League that year and only the fifth Padre ever to hit 40+ home runs in a single season. His .282 batting average in 2021 was the highest among leaderboard-qualified Padre batters. Tatís is among the fastest players in baseball, posting an average sprint speed of 29.3 feet per second through his first three seasons and placing in the 98th percentile of all MLB baserunners in 2020.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Despite receiving praise for his athleticism and throwing range, Tatís has been criticized for committing errors at a high rate. In 2019, he committed 18 errors, the fifth-most in MLB that season. Although he committed only three errors in the shortened 2020 season and raised his fielding percentage 40 points to .984%, he committed 21 errors in 2021, the third-most in the league that year. Critics have alleged that Tatís's highlight-reel defensive plays distract from his inconsistency on easy plays.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Tatís has been credited as one of the most exciting star players in baseball. ESPN ranked him as the most entertaining MLB player in 2020.


title: Fernando Tatís Jr.

text: Tatís's father, Fernando Sr., played third base in the major leagues from 1997 to 2010. His mother is named Maria. His younger brother, Elijah, is an infielder in the Chicago White Sox organization, signed in 2019. Tatís is the cover athlete of "MLB The Show 21", and at age 22 the youngest player to be featured as the cover star.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: "Kakarot" is primarily an action role-playing game with fighting game elements. The player can battle opponents and do activities like fishing, collecting Z orbs, eating, driving in a hover car, training, and putting characters in soul emblems. The game's plot follows the progression of the anime series, as the player interacts with the surrounding world as the different playable characters. Players can explore the world and complete side quests to progress the story. The game is broken up into four storylines: the Saiyan Saga, the Frieza Saga, the Cell Saga (where the player acquires their hover car), and the Buu Saga.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: Bonus storylines can be purchased as downloadable content; including a retelling of the "" and the "" storylines seen in "Dragon Ball Super". A DLC original storyline set after the events of "", featuring Future Trunks' confrontation with Babidi to prevent Majin Buu's awakening (a scenario briefly covered in both the "Super" Anime and Manga), was released on June 11, 2021.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: There are currently seven playable characters in "Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot" that the player will guide throughout the story. These include Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, Future Trunks, Gotenks, and Vegito. As the player progresses through the game, they will unlock new characters to play.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: In addition to the playable characters, the player will be able to select two supporting characters to aid in their battle each with their own special moves. These current characters include Krillin, Yamcha, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Android 18, Goten, and Kid Trunks.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: The bosses that appear in-game include Raditz, Nappa, Vegeta, Cui, Dodoria, Zarbon, Ginyu Force, Frieza, Android 19, Android 20, Android 18, Android 17, Cell, Cell Jr., Pui Pui, Yakon, Dabura, Majin Vegeta, Majin Buu, Super Buu, Kid Buu, Beerus and Mira. , an original character designed by "Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toriyama for the game, also appears as a boss.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: The game was first announced in January 2019 via a trailer during "Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour" Finals under the working title "Dragon Ball Game: Project Z". Described as an action RPG, the game was said to be in development by CyberConnect2, known for their work on "Asura's Wrath" and "Naruto Ultimate Ninja" series, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC through Steam. Although initially targeting 2019 release, the final title, "Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot", and the early 2020 release window were announced during Microsoft's 2019 E3 conference.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: The game was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles in Japan on January 16, and for all platforms in the west one day later on January 17, 2020. The Nintendo Switch version of the game was announced in June 2021, and released on September 24, 2021. It includes the base game and "A New Power Awakens" DLC. Versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S were announced in September 2022, and are set to launch in 2023.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: When the game launched in January 2020, there was an option of buying an extra "season pass" which initially gave only a "Steaming-Hot Grilled Fish cooking item" but which promised access to an eventual "2 original episodes and one new story".


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: In April 2020, Bandai Namco Entertainment announced the first DLC for the game titled "A New Power Awakens - Part 1", with a scheduled release date of April 28. The DLC introduces transformations and characters seen in 'Battle of the Gods' movie and briefly covers the events of the movie.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: The second DLC, titled "A New Power Awakens Part 2", introduces a new mode where players battle 1000 enemies, including Golden Frieza, and is loosely based on the events of the '"Resurrection 'F"' movie.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: A free update was released on the October 27, 2020 called Dragon Ball Card Warriors. An online card battle game that allows you to play cards battles with people around the world. There will be a monthly event on the new card game.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: A new DLC storyline was announced to be released in Summer 2021. The DLC features an original storyline taking place in Future Trunks' timeline, seen in "" as well as covering some of the events of the Dragon Ball Super Manga. It was released 10 June 2021 as "Trunks: The Warrior of Hope".


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: During Tokyo Game Show 2022, a second season pass was announced for the game along with a free next-gen update for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S users. The first of the three DLCs to be released covers the events of "Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku" and is titled 'Bardock: Alone Against Fate'. The remaining 2 DLC for this season pass are still unannounced.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: "Kakarot" received "mixed or average" reviews for the Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One versions and "generally favorable" reviews for the Switch version according to review aggregator Metacritic. "IGN" Michael Saltzman gave "Kakarot" a score of 7, praising its combat and story presentation, but criticized its poor RPG elements.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: "Kakarot" was awarded 7/10 in "GameSpot" review, with Heidi Kemps saying that its "modern, semi-open approach to telling the saga of DBZ - despite some minor issues - is a good one." Kemps concluded that "[i]f you're looking for an enjoyable way to see the life and times of adult Goku through a new perspective, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will grant your wish."


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: The game was the second best-selling game during its first week on sale in Japan, with 89,537 copies being sold, behind "". In the United Kingdom, "Kakarot" debuted at number one on the sales chart.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: In a conference call, Bandai Namco revealed that the game sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide in its first week release, rendering it a commercial success. , the game has sold over copies worldwide, combining total shipments and digital sales. As of December 2021, the game has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

text: "Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot" was the best-selling game of January 2020 in the United States, and became the third highest-selling game in the "Dragon Ball" franchise, behind "Dragon Ball FighterZ" and "".


title: Schlumberger

text: Schlumberger Limited (), doing business as SLB, is an oilfield services company. Schlumberger has four principal executive offices located in Paris, Houston, London, and The Hague.


title: Schlumberger

text: Schlumberger is the world's largest offshore drilling company. It is the biggest offshore drilling contractor (in terms of revenue) in the world.


title: Schlumberger

text: Schlumberger is incorporated in Willemstad, Curaçao as Schlumberger N.V. and trades on the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext Paris, the London Stock Exchange and SIX Swiss Exchange. Schlumberger is a Fortune Global 500 company, ranked 287 in 2016, and also listed in Forbes Global 2000, ranked 349 in 2022.


title: Schlumberger

text: Schlumberger was founded in 1926 in Paris as the Electric Prospecting Company () by two brothers Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger from Alsace. Schlumberger supplies the petroleum industry with services such as seismic data processing, formation evaluation, well testing and directional drilling, well cementing and stimulation, artificial lift, well completions, flow assurance and consulting, and software and information management. The company is also involved in the groundwater extraction and carbon capture and storage industries.


title: Schlumberger

text: The Schlumberger brothers had experience conducting geophysical surveys in countries such as Romania, Canada, Serbia, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the United States. The new company sold electrical-measurement mapping services, and recorded the first-ever electrical resistivity well log in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, France, in 1927. The company quickly expanded, logging its first well in the U.S. in 1929 in Kern County, California. In 1934, the Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation was founded in Houston, later evolving into Schlumberger Well Services, and finally Schlumberger Wireline and Testing. Schlumberger invested heavily in research, inaugurating the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1948, contributing to the development of a number of new logging tools. In 1956, Schlumberger Limited was incorporated as a holding company for all Schlumberger Limited businesses, which by now included American testing and production company Johnston Testers.