title: Citizens Financial Group

text: Citizens Republic Bancorp was founded in Flint, Michigan, in 1871 and merged with Republic Bank in 2006. In 2007, Citizens Republic prevailed in a case to prevent Citizens Financial from using the similar name in Michigan and Ohio. FirstMerit Bank acquired Citizens Republic in 2013 and rebranded all branches as FirstMerit until 2016 when Huntington Bancshares acquired FirstMerit. With conflicting names no longer an issue, Citizens Bank announced June 30, 2014, that Charter One branches in Michigan and Ohio would be rebranded as Citizens Bank. The name change officially took place on April 27, 2015, bringing to an end the name Charter One in Cleveland; the city in which it was founded.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In May 2008, Citizens Financial Group failed to publicly announce that it was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its involvement in the sub-prime mortgage crisis that devastated the U.S. housing market and bond investors around the world. The SEC only investigated banks if suspected of involvement in the purchase and sale of subprime securities.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In 2008, the company lost $929 million and anticipated writing off $2 billion in bad loans. Royal Bank of Scotland posted the biggest loss in British corporate history and announced cost-cutting measures at Citizens.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: A Philadelphia developer sued Citizens Bank January 27, 2010, for $8 billion, under a claim that the bank used sham accusations of default to recall loans in an effort to prop up its failing parent companies, Citizens Financial Group and "its ultimate parent, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group."


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: Following the effective nationalization of RBS in 2008, speculation arose as to whether RBS would retain Citizens Bank. In 2012, public pressure in the United Kingdom grew for RBS to focus on its home market and sell foreign assets, including Citizens Bank, in order for UK taxpayers to earn their money back. Substantial interest in Citizens Bank had been rumored from other foreign banks such as Brazil-based Itaú Unibanco and Canada-based Toronto-Dominion Bank, the latter of which already had an existing U.S. branch network that overlapped with the existing Citizen footprint east of the Appalachian Mountains. The Bank of Montreal, with its existing U.S. presence, was also mentioned as a possible buyer. U.S. banks mentioned as potential Citizens buyers included JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, PNC Financial Services, and Fifth Third Bank.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In February 2013, RBS confirmed at least a partial spinoff of Citizens through an initial public offering within the next two years. Then in October 2013, RBS announced it would sell its Chicago-area branches, which represented 6% of its U.S. deposits; Citizens later agreed to sell those branches to U.S. Bancorp on January 7, 2014. Finally in November 2013, RBS announced that it would divest all of Citizens Financial Group.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: The bank began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CFG on September 24, 2014, raising $3 billion. By April 2015, RBS Group's shareholding in the bank had dropped to 45.6%. A further sale in July 2015 reduced RBS' stake to 23.4%. RBS sold its remaining stake in the bank in October 2015. However, Citizens still uses the RBS "daisy wheel" logo.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In June 2016, it was announced that Citizens Financial Group had joined the Fortune 500 for the first time.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In August 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and other federal regulators levied nearly $35 million in penalties against Citizens Bank "for failing to credit to customers’ accounts the full amount of their deposits". The regulators declared that, from 2008 to 2013, "The bank’s actions resulted in consumers being shorted millions of dollars". Joint action by the CFPB, the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency determined that Citizens Bank had engaged in "deceptive practices" by "fail[ing] to give customers their full deposits at times when the size of the deposit didn’t match the number written on deposit slips", despite promising to correct such discrepancies, instead pocketing the difference. The bank was required to reimburse its customers for lost funds as well as pay roughly $20 million in fines to the three agencies. "The New York Times" said that Citizens Bank's misconduct "is appalling precisely because it is so basic", demonstrating that "regulators like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are a necessary defense against a system prone to abuses".


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: On May 12, 2017, "The Wall Street Journal" reported that the United States Department of Justice requested from numerous banks, including Citizens, Trump 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort's transaction records. According to the article, the request was related to the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Manafort reportedly secured a 2.7 million-dollar loan from Citizens in 2016.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: On February 26, 2018, Bloomberg News reported that Citizens' stock price dropped 4.1 percent after U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Manafort was released, appearing to indicate that Citizens was the "Lender B" cited as having lent 3.4 million dollars to the former campaign manager of President Trump.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In August 2018, Citizens completed its acquisition of Franklin American Mortgage in a deal valued at $511 Million, expanding its presence into Tennessee and Texas.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: On May 26, 2021, Citizens entered into an agreement with HSBC Bank USA to purchase HSBC's retail operations on the East Coast, including 80 branches in New York City, Washington D.C., and Southeast Florida. Under the agreement, Citizens will acquire approximately $9.0 billion in deposits and approximately $2.2 billion in loans.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In July 2021, Citizens announced plans to acquire New Jersey-based bank holding company Investors Bancorp for $3.5 billion. Citizens anticipates taking over more than 150 branches with the deal.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: Like several other banks, Citizens has agreements with several supermarket chains to locate bank branches in the stores. The greatest number of these are in Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle stores, most of which were acquired in the acquisition of Mellon Financial Corporation's retail banking division. Citizens also operates branches inside many Stop & Shop and Shaw's stores in New England. One unique aspect at Citizens branches inside supermarkets is full-service banking from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays; historically, USA banks were often closed on Sunday and even Saturdays.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In September 2010, Giant Eagle announced a new agreement with Huntington Bank in which Huntington would open branches in several stores in Ohio and West Virginia and will replace existing branches of other banks when the store's agreements with those banks expire.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: On June 25, 2008, Citizens Bank announced would sell 18 branches in upstate New York as it prepared to open 57 branches downstate. Community Bank System Inc. of DeWitt, New York purchased the branches in Ausable Forks, Champlain, Fort Covington, Indian Lake, Lake Placid, Lyons Falls, Long Lake, Malone, Newcomb, North Creek, Plattsburgh, Saranac Lake, Ticonderoga, Tupper Lake and Whitehall. The sale completed on November 7, 2008.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In October 2009, Citizens Bank opened a full-service branch inside a Dunkin' Donuts in Bellingham, Massachusetts. The branch offers teller windows, a full-service automated teller machine (ATM) and Dunkin' Donuts promotions for using the bank's services.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: Citizens was one of the first banks in the US to use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology on its ATM cards, via MasterCard PayPass. In late 2009, however, Citizens began reissuing its cards under Visa without the RFID technology.


title: Citizens Financial Group

text: In April 2022, Citizens completed the acquisition of 80 branches from HSBC in New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and Florida.


title: A. A. Gill

text: Adrian Anthony Gill (28 June 1954 – 10 December 2016) was a British journalist, critic, and author. Best known for his food and travel writing, he was also a television critic, was restaurant reviewer of "The Sunday Times", wrote for "Vanity Fair", "GQ", and "Esquire", and published numerous books.


title: A. A. Gill

text: After failing to establish himself as an artist, Gill wrote his first piece for "Tatler" in 1991 and joined "The Sunday Times" in 1993.


title: A. A. Gill

text: Known for his sharp wit, and often controversial style, Gill was widely read and won numerous awards for his writing. On his death he was described by one editor as "a giant among journalists." His articles were the subject of numerous complaints to the Press Complaints Commission.


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill was born in Edinburgh to an English father, Michael Gill, a television producer and director, and a Scottish mother, Yvonne Gilan, an actress. He had a brother, Nicholas. The family moved back to the south of England when he was one year old. In 1964, he appeared briefly in his parents' film "The Peaches" as a chess player.


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill was educated at the independent St Christopher School, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, and later recalled his experiences at the school in his book "The Angry Island". After St Christopher's, he moved to London to study at the Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art, nurturing ambitions to be an artist. Following art school Gill spent six years "signing on, trying to paint, until one day he realised he wasn't any good". At the age of 30, having abandoned his ambitions in art, he spent several years working in restaurants and teaching cookery.


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill began his writing career in his thirties, writing "art reviews for little magazines". His first piece for "Tatler", in 1991, was an account of being in a detox clinic, written under the pseudonym Blair Baillie. In 1993, he moved to "The Sunday Times" where, according to Lynn Barber, "he quickly established himself as their shiniest star". He continued to write for "The Sunday Times" until shortly before his death in 2016.


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill was also a contributing editor to "Vanity Fair" and "GQ". He wrote a series of columns for "GQ", on fatherhood and other subjects. He also wrote for "Esquire", where he served as an agony uncle, "Uncle Dysfunctional".


title: A. A. Gill

text: Collections of his travel writing were published as "AA Gill is Away" (2002), "Previous Convictions" (2006) and "AA Gill is Further Away" (2011), his "Tatler" and "Sunday Times" food writing as "Table Talk" (2007) and his TV columns as "Paper View" (2008). He wrote several books on individual restaurants and their cuisine – "Ivy" (1997), "Le Caprice" (1999), "Breakfast at the Wolseley" (2008) and "Brasserie Zedel" (2016).


title: A. A. Gill

text: He also wrote two novels which were generally poorly reviewed – "Sap Rising" (1996) and "Starcrossed" (1999). "Starcrossed" was given the "Literary Review"s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. He wrote books studying England – "The Angry Island" (2005), and the United States – "The Golden Door" (2012).


title: A. A. Gill

text: In 2014, Gill won an Amnesty International Media Award, and a Women on the Move award for a series of "Sunday Times Magazine" articles on refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jordan and Lampedusa. In 2014, he also won the "Hatchet Job of the Year Award" for his scathing review of Morrisey's "Autobiography". In 2015 he published a memoir, "Pour Me".


title: A. A. Gill

text: On his death, "The Sunday Times" editor Martin Ivens described Gill as "the heart and soul of the paper" and "a giant among journalists".


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill's acerbic style led to several controversies and complaints from public figures during his career.


title: A. A. Gill

text: In 1997, in "The Sunday Times", Gill described the Welsh as "loquacious dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls". His comments were reported to the Commission for Racial Equality and used as an example of what was described as "persistent anti-Welsh racism in the UK media" in a motion in the National Assembly for Wales. The CRE declined to prosecute, saying that Gill "had not meant to stir up racial hatred." Gill's comments led him to become the subject of the song "Little Trolls" by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, the B-side to their 2001 single "Ocean Spray". In the song, Manics' lyricist Nicky Wire reflects Gill's comments on the Welsh back at him, referring to him as a "Spiteful twisted unforgiven, sad and inverted and stunted, retarded ugly balding old man".


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill's feud with the Isle of Man began in 2006 with a review of Ciappelli's restaurant in Douglas. Gill wrote that the island:


title: A. A. Gill

text: The review was attacked in the Tynwald, the Manx parliament, with House of Keys member David Cannan demanding an apology for the "unacceptable and scurrilous attack".


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill made further comments regarding the Isle of Man in his "Sunday Times" column on 23 May 2010, when he described its citizens as falling into two types: "hopeless, inbred mouth-breathers known as Bennies" and "retired, small arms dealers and accountants who deal in rainforest futures". His comments were made in the aftermath of Mick Jagger's suggestion that drugs should be legalised in the Isle of Man. Gill added that "If … they become a hopelessly addicted, criminal cesspit, who'd care? Indeed, who could tell the difference?"


title: A. A. Gill

text: In February 2011, Gill described the county of Norfolk as "the hernia on the end of England". In December 2013, his column just before New Year's Eve, was the result of a night on the beat in Grimsby and Cleethorpes and was heavily critical of both towns where Grimsby is "on the road to nowhere" and Cleethorpes is full of "hunched and grubby semi-detached homes". Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Grove described Gill as "A tweed-suited, Mayfair-based writer, whose only experience of the North of England was his visit to Cleethorpes and his regular trips salmon fishing in Scotland".


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill reported in his "Sunday Times" column in October 2009 that he shot a baboon dead, prompting outrage from animal rights groups. "I know perfectly well there is absolutely no excuse for this", he wrote, and that he killed the animal to "get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger". He went on to state, "[T]hey die hard, baboons. But not this one. A soft-nosed .357 blew his lungs out".


title: A. A. Gill

text: In his review of Clare Balding's 2010 "Britain by Bike" TV programme, Gill referred to the presenter as "a big lesbian" and "a dyke on a bike". Gill's "Sunday Times" editor, John Witherow, responded to Balding's complaint: "In my view some members of the gay community need to stop regarding themselves as having a special victim status and behave like any other sensible group that is accepted by society. Not having a privileged status means, of course, one must accept occasionally being the butt of jokes. A person's sexuality should not give them a protected status".


title: A. A. Gill

text: Dissatisfied with the response, Balding's subsequent complaint to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) was upheld: they considered use of the word "dyke" to have been "pejorative" and "used in a demeaning and gratuitous way". The PCC considered publication of Gill's piece to be "an editorial lapse" for which "the newspaper should have apologised at the first possible opportunity". In his defence, "The Sunday Times" pointed out that in the five years prior to Balding's, the PCC had received 62 complaints involving Gill but none had been upheld.


title: A. A. Gill

text: Reviewing Mary Beard's BBC television series "Meet the Romans" in April 2012, Gill wrote that the academic "should be kept away from cameras altogether". Beard in response accused him of being "frightened of smart women" and suggested "maybe it's precisely because he did not go to university that he never quite learned the rigour of intellectual argument and he thinks that he can pass off insults as wit."


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill was a recovering alcoholic who stopped drinking at the age of 29. On 1 April 1984, he shared two bottles of vintage champagne with his father on the train to Wiltshire and checked into the Clouds House addiction treatment centre in East Knoyle. He followed an Alcoholics Anonymous "12-step plan" to recovery and, in tribute to the organisation, began using the name "A. A." Gill professionally. In a 2014 article in "The Times", Gill said that he had "continued to smoke about 60 a day" until the age of 48."


title: A. A. Gill

text: From 1982 to 1983, Gill was married to the author Cressida Connolly. From 1990 to 1995, he was married to Amber Rudd, a financial journalist who later became Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The couple had two children. He then had a long-term relationship with Nicola Formby, editor-at-large of "Tatler", for whom he left Rudd in 1995, and who appeared in his column as "The Blonde". They had twins born in 2007.


title: A. A. Gill

text: Gill's younger brother Nick, a Michelin-starred chef, disappeared in 1998, telling Gill: "I'm going away now . . . I'm not coming back." Gill spoke of his sadness at not knowing what happened to Nick, and wrote that he looked for him whenever he visited a new city.


title: A. A. Gill

text: On 20 November 2016, Gill wrote in his "Sunday Times" column of his engagement to Formby, and also disclosed that he was suffering from "the full English" of cancer. In his final article in the "Sunday Times Magazine", published on 11 December 2016, he disclosed that he had a primary lung tumour with metastases to his neck and pancreas, and detailed the medical treatment that he was receiving, with a commentary on his experiences as a terminal cancer patient in the National Health Service. Gill died in London on the morning of 10 December 2016, at the age of 62.


title: Freedom! '90

text: "Freedom! '90" (also known simply as "Freedom!") is a song written, produced, and performed by George Michael, and released on Columbia Records in 1990. The "'90" added to the end of the title is to prevent confusion with a hit by Michael's former band Wham!, also entitled "Freedom". The song's backing beat is a sample from James Brown's song "Funky Drummer".


title: Freedom! '90

text: It was the third single taken from "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1" (1990), though released as the second single from the album in the US and Australia. "Freedom! '90" was one of a few uptempo songs on this album. It was a major hit and peaked at No. 8 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. The song refers to Michael's past success with Wham!, yet also shows a new side of himself as a new man, who is more cynical about the music business than he had been before.


title: Freedom! '90

text: Michael refused to appear in the music video for the song and cast a group of supermodels to appear instead. It went into heavy rotation on MTV and was remastered for the 2017 documentary, "George Michael: Freedom". On 30 October 2020 it premiered on YouTube in 4K for its 30th anniversary. Michael performed this song, alongside his 2012 single "White Light", during the of the 2012 London Olympics. In 2021, "Rolling Stone" placed "Freedom! '90" at number 126 in their list of "500 Best Songs of All Time".


title: Freedom! '90

text: Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic picked the song as a "highlight" from "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1". Larry Flick from "Billboard" wrote, "Platinum pop star waxes both cynical and philosophical on this well-worded stab at his early days of fame. Slowly ingratiating, midtempo R&B/hip-hop base could also reaffirm his presence at club level." The Daily Vault's Melanie Love stated, "Its catchy chorus and uptempo, jangling instrumentation, coupled with his signature soaring vocals make this confessional a striking example of Michael's newfound independence and proves that his struggle for seriousness could retain the hooks and brilliant tones that make his music so endearing." Pan-European magazine "Music & Media" wrote that a "stirring Bo Diddley beat, a gospel approach and a great piano riff are the main features of this addictive hit candidate." Victoria Segal from "NME" noted "the hate-fuelled 'Sympathy For The Devil' roll" of the song. A reviewer from "People" commented, "On "Freedom 90"—at least this one's set to a radio-ready groove—he rails against the image he has spent the last four years cultivating: "I was every little hungry schoolgirl's pride and joy/And I guess it was enough for me/To win the race? A prettier face!/Brand new clothes and a big fat place/On your rock and roll TV/But today the way I play the game is not the same/No way"."


title: Freedom! '90

text: "Freedom! '90" was 6:30 long, but a shorter version was made available for radio consumption. The radio edit was made by removing the upbeat in several portions of the song and cutting straight to the upbeat. The addition of the year to the title was to distinguish the song from "Freedom", a number one hit in the UK for Wham! in 1984 (number 3 in the US in 1985). It was the second US single from the album "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1", and had contrasting fortunes on each side of the Atlantic—it peaked at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart, but was a major success on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, reaching number 8 and selling over 500,000 copies to earn a Gold certification from the RIAA. It remained in the "Billboard" top 40 for 12 weeks in late 1990 and early 1991. In Canada, Michael achieved another chart-topper. As of October 2017, the single sold 83,000 copies in UK.


title: Freedom! '90

text: By 1990, Michael had become weary of the pressures of fame, telling the "Los Angeles Times", "At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off ... and it does feel like it is taking something from you." Accordingly, he decided not to appear in photo shoots and music videos, saying, "I would like to never step in front of a camera again."


title: Freedom! '90

text: Although he later relented and decided to film a video for his new song, he still refused to appear in it. Instead, inspired by Peter Lindbergh's now-iconic portrait of Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford for the January 1990 cover of the British edition of "Vogue", Michael asked the five models to appear in the video. While models appearing in music videos was then commonplace, usually such models played the singer's love interest, as with Christie Brinkley's appearance in her future husband Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" video, or Turlington's appearance in Duran Duran's "Notorious" video. For "Freedom! '90", the five models, rather than portraying his on-screen girlfriends, would lip sync the song in his place. The video also included male models John Pearson, Scott Benoit, Peter Formby, Todo Segalla, and fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti.


title: Freedom! '90

text: Evangelista took some persuading before agreeing to appear in the video, saying, "He thought it would make us into a big deal, that it would be good for us. I was like, 'Please, we're here. We've already arrived!'" After speaking with Michael, she was convinced, and rearranged her schedule. In a 2015 "Vanity Fair" article, Evangelista reflected on her decision positively, saying, "Little did I know that to this day, when someone meets me for the first time, they bring up that video. That's what they remember. So yeah, George was right." An initial disagreement over their salaries was resolved when Annie Veltri, who represented Crawford, Evangelista, Campbell, and Patitz at Elite Model Management, clarified that all of her clients would be compensated equally, at $15,000 a day.


title: Freedom! '90

text: The video was directed by David Fincher, who had also directed videos by Madonna, Billy Idol, Aerosmith, and Paula Abdul (who choreographed George Michael's Faith Tour). His team for the multi-day "Freedom! '90" shoot included Camilla Nickerson, who later became a "Vogue" contributing editor, as the clothes stylist, hair stylist Guido and makeup artist Carol Brown. Cinematographer Mike Southon shot the video in a vast building in the London Borough of Merton that Nickerson says exhibited "a grandeur and a "Blade Runner" feel". Despite not appearing in the video, Michael was on set.


title: Freedom! '90

text: The 92-sketch storyboard called for each model to film on separate days, except for Evangelista and Turlington, who appear in a scene together. Each model was assigned a verse to lip-synch, while for the song's chorus, Fincher envisioned the three iconic items from Michael's 1987 music video "Faith" that had come to symbolize his public image at the time: his leather jacket, a Wurlitzer jukebox, and guitar, exploding in a ball of flame, except the leather jacket, at each occurrence of the word "freedom" during the chorus. Before the chorus, the leather jacket was simply ignited and burned. Whereas "Faith" had opened with a jukebox phonograph needle touching a vinyl record, "Freedom! '90" opens with a compact disc player's laser beam reading a CD, after Evangelista turns on the CD player. In a 2004 interview with Adam Mattera for UK magazine "Attitude", Michael reflected on the significance of the video's symbolism: "By the end of the "Faith" tour I was so miserable because I absolutely knew that I was gay... I didn't suddenly want to come out. I wanted to do it with some kind of dignity. So I thought 'okay, you have to start deconstructing this whole image.'"


title: Freedom! '90

text: Nickerson envisioned a "low-key street style" for the wardrobe, which she characterizes as "a sort of undone beauty", contrasting the prevailing "vampy, larger-than-life" direction in which the fashion industry, typified by models doing film work, was moving at the time. The black sweater worn by Evangelista was from Nickerson's own closet, and the studded biker boots worn by Campbell belonged to Nickerson's boyfriend. Most of the wardrobe budget, however, went to the 60-foot-long linen sheet used by Turlington, the nature of which was specified by Fincher. Guido looked to each model's personality to devise hairdos that would accentuate their "true beauty". Evangelista was up until 3:00am the night before the shoot dying her hair platinum blonde, which reflected the cool-blue lights of the set, while Campbell's hair was curled and pulled up with a headband for a 1960s "tough chic" in order to highlight her movement for a shot in which she dances solo. Patitz's hair was framed with soft curls and Turlington's was gelled back to exploit her statuesque form as her character crosses the screen trailing the linen sheet. Brown also tried to highlight each model's personality with makeup, saying, "Cindy was the sexy one; Christy was the cool, classic one; and Linda was the chameleon. She could do anything." Following Fincher's instruction that Crawford's makeup look "completely trashed, as if she'd been in a steamy atmosphere," Brown did Crawford's makeup, and then oiled it down by covering her with glycerin. Crawford spent most of her time topless and sitting in an empty bathtub, resting on an apple box so that enough of her would be visible.


title: Freedom! '90

text: The video premiered a few weeks after the shoot, and was heavily aired on MTV. Reflecting on the video in 2015, Crawford stated that, at the time, they thought they were simply making "a really cool video," but that in retrospect, the video exhibits a dark humor: As MTV had altered the music industry so that physical beauty was now necessary to sell music, the video used five beautiful faces instead of the song's vocalist to mock this.


title: Freedom! '90

text: "Slant Magazine" listed "Freedom! '90" at number 30 in their ranking of "The 100 Best Singles of the 1990s" in 2011.


title: Freedom! '90

text: "Time Out" ranked it number two in their list of "The 50 Best Gay Songs to Celebrate Pride All Year Long" in 2022.


title: Freedom! '90

text: English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams covered "Freedom" and released it as his debut solo single in July 1996, a year after his departure from Take That. The song reached number two in the UK, 26 places higher than Michael's original, and was not included on any of his albums until 2010, when it appeared on Williams' greatest hits album "". The single was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting shipments of over 200,000. Williams had left Take That the previous year and therefore could identify himself with much of the sentiment in the song, although he did not use the line ""we had every bigshot goodtime band on the run boy, we were living in a fantasy"" in his version.


title: Freedom! '90

text: Caroline Sullivan from "The Guardian" rated Williams' version of the song three out of five. A reviewer from "Music Week" gave it four out of five, adding, "A pretty good return from Williams. His fans should forgive the, at times, dodgy vocals and send him towards the top of the chart with this George Michael cover."


title: Freedom! '90

text: The accompanying music video shows Williams dancing in the sea and in a field, celebrating his separation from his former group. In a 2010 interview with Magic 105.4, Williams told Neil Fox that the song had not even been recorded by the scheduled date of filming, which required him to mime to Michael's version of the song.


title: The Goes Wrong Show

text: The Goes Wrong Show is a British comedy series created by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, and produced by Mischief Screen and Big Talk Productions, in association with Lionsgate UK, for the BBC. The programme stars the ensemble members of the Mischief Theatre company, who reprise their roles as the members of the fictitious theatre company, "Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society", as they conduct a "live" televised stage play, which tends to go wrong due to mistakes, accidents and other issues that hamper the company's efforts. The concept was devised by Lewis, Sayer and Shields following two television Christmas specials for the BBC, with the series premiering on BBC One on 23 December 2019. In 2020, the group conducted a second series, but under strict guidelines due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, which aired on 27 September 2021.


title: The Goes Wrong Show

text: The plot for each episode of the programme focuses on the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society having the opportunity to conduct a play on live television before a live studio audience. As with the stage performances conducted by Mischief Theatre as the fictional theatre company, all productions and events done by the Cornley group tend to go wrong due to issues with props and stage pieces, mistakes with lines, and problematic accidents; in some cases, the play goes wrong right from the start due to a mistake setting it up.


title: The Goes Wrong Show

text: In 2016, Mischief Theatre was offered the opportunity by the BBC to produce a televised adaptation of "Peter Pan Goes Wrong", which aired in December 2016. The following year, the broadcaster invited the company back to produce a new special, titled "A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong", in December 2017. Both specials proved a success with viewers, leading Mischief Theatre to be commissioned for a television series for BBC One. The company's directors, Shields and Sayer, opted to using the same writers and cast for the series, and devised the series as "The Goes Wrong Show", focused on the fictional theatre company the cast performed as being involved in conducting different stage performances. The six episodes were each given different themes for their play, including a period romance and a spy thriller, and led to the production of six half-hour episodes. A second series was later commissioned, beginning with a Christmas special in 2020, followed by five episodes in 2021.


title: The Goes Wrong Show

text: "The Goes Wrong Show" was announced by the BBC on 22 February 2019. The show was commissioned by BBC's controller of comedy commissioning, Shane Allen, and Charlotte Moore, director of BBC content. Following the success of the first series, the BBC commissioned a second series, which premiered on 22 December 2020. The first half-hour episode was a re-telling of the Nativity story. In addition to the writers, the show also stars regular Mischief performers including Charlie Russell, Bryony Corrigan, Dave Hearn and Nancy Zamit. In one of the episodes, the cast are filmed upside down. The first series was recorded in the dock10 studios in Salford, Greater Manchester.


title: The Goes Wrong Show

text: The first series received generally positive reviews. "Radio Times"' Huw Fullerton said that "The Goes Wrong Show ... is actually the laugh-out-loud new project from the Mischief Theatre company". Tim Dowling from "The Guardian" praised the show's farce and the amount of behind-the-scenes effort that went into making it work. Ian D. Hall of "Liverpool Sound and Vision" named A Trial To Watch "one of the finest examples of farce to to television in years". Another positive review for the opening episode came from Michael Hogan's review in "The Telegraph". He said "This old-fashioned, family-friendly comedy trod the line between seasonal cheer and black humour with aplomb. It was like "Mrs. Brown's Boys" but funny."


title: The Goes Wrong Show

text: When reviewing the Christmas episode, Steve Bennett from "Chortle" said "while every mistake here is, of course, meticulously planned, they are pulled off with enough flair, commitment and occasional ingenuity to break all but the most cynical of viewers to laughter." The show received a five-star review from Suzi Feay of the "Financial Times", who said, "This stuff has to be directed and performed with pinpoint accuracy if it’s to succeed. Fortunately, it’s perfectly, deliberately, terrible.” In a negative review, Lottie Young of the "Evening Standard" called the first episode "embarrassingly bad" and argued that "the formula of slapstick comedy is more fossilised than old-fashioned." Rupert Hawksley from "i News" said that "theatre does not always translate well to television" and noted the script as being "dreadful".


title: The Goes Wrong Show

text: On 3 April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mischief Theatre began a watch-along of the episodes of the show on Twitter (with the hashtag #GoesWrongAlong), beginning with "90 Degrees". The watchalongs started at 7pm.


title: The Goes Wrong Show

text: The first series was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK on 10 February 2020. DVDs of the two specials, "Peter Pan Goes Wrong" and "A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong", were released on 29 March 2021 and series two was made available, all again through Lionsgate Home Entertainment, from 20 December 2021.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton ( ) is a city located in northern Orange County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 143,617.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton was founded in 1887. It secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Historically it was a center of agriculture, notably groves of Valencia oranges and other citrus crops; petroleum extraction; transportation; and manufacturing. It is home to numerous higher educational institutions, particularly California State University, Fullerton and Fullerton College. From the mid-1940s through the late 1990s, Fullerton was home to a large industrial base made up of aerospace contractors, canneries, paper products manufacturers, and is considered to be the birthplace of the electric guitar, due in large part to Leo Fender. The headquarters of Vons, which is owned by Albertsons, is located in Fullerton near the Fullerton–Anaheim line.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Evidence of prehistoric animal habitation, such as saber-toothed cats and mammoths, is present in Ralph B. Clark Regional Park in the northwest of the city. Europeans first passed through the area in 1769 when Gaspar de Portolà led a Spanish expedition north to Monterey. From the description recorded in the diary of Father Juan Crespi, it seems likely that the party camped on July 29 near present-day Laguna Lake, in the Sunny Hills area.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In 1837, the Fullerton area became part of Rancho San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana, granted to Juan Pacifico Ontiveros, a Spanish soldier. Ontiveros began selling parcels of the Rancho to migrant Americans settling and developing California in the aftermath of the 1849 Gold Rush, including Abel Stearns. In the 1860s, Stearns sold in turn to Domingo Bastanchury, a Basque shepherd.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In 1886, while in the area on a duck hunting vacation, brothers George and Edward Amerige, heard rumors that the California Central Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railway, was looking for land. Sensing opportunity, they arranged to buy north of Anaheim for approximately $68,000. They then began negotiations with George H. Fullerton, president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company, also a Santa Fe subsidiary. They offered free right-of-way and half interest in the land to the railroad if Fullerton's survey were revised to include the proposed town site, and on July 5, 1887, Edward Amerige formally staked his claim at what is now the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Commonwealth Avenue.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In 1894, Charles Chapman purchased an orange orchard in eastern Fullerton. The Valencia variety of oranges he promoted from his Santa Ysabel Ranch, well suited to the local climate, proved a boon to producers; Fullerton boasted more orange groves than any other municipality in the United States. Cultivation of walnuts and avocados also flourished, and the Western railroad town became an agricultural center. Fullerton was incorporated in 1904, but not officially recognized until 1907, due to conflicts at that time.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Drilling for petroleum began in 1880 with the discovery of the Brea-Olinda Oil Field and fueled the first real boom, peaking in the 1920s. Construction reflected the vogue for Spanish Colonial and Italian Renaissance-inspired architecture, as in the historic Fox Fullerton Theatre (erected 1925); the Muckenthaler House, designed by Frank K. Benchley (erected 1924); and the city's chief landmark, the Plummer Auditorium and clock tower (erected 1930). Fullerton College was established at its present location at Chapman Avenue and Lemon Street in 1913. Meanwhile, the city banned all overnight street parking in 1924 – a law enforced to the present day, unless an area is specifically exempted.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Significant public works projects from the interwar period were constructed during this period, including the conversion of a southwestern sewer farm into Fullerton Municipal Airport at the behest of Placentia ranchers and aviators William and Robert Dowling in 1927. Through the mid-1900s, the economy shifted toward food processing rather than food production, as well as manufacturing; southeastern Fullerton became an industrial center. Val Vita Food Products began operating a citrus juice plant in western Fullerton in 1932. By 1941, it had become the largest food processing company in the US. In 1934, A.W. Leo, Tom Yates and Ralph Harrison developed the first Hawaiian Punch recipe in a converted garage in Fullerton. The city also became a producer of aerospace equipment, electrical and electronic components, navigation systems, and laboratory instruments.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In 1943, the Alex Bernal residence became the site of one of the first successful lawsuits against household covenant laws in the country after Alex and Esther Bernal purchased a home in a Fullerton neighborhood that barred purchases from "Mexicans." After a home invasion that resulted in their belongings being thrown into the street and a petition signed by fifty neighborhood residents to have the Bernal's removed from the neighborhood, a lawsuit was issued against the Bernals on the basis that their presence caused "irreparable injury" to the neighborhood that could lead to "coming in contact with said other races, including Mexicans, in a social and neighborhood manner." Lawyer David C. Marcus represented the Bernals in "Doss vs. Bernal" and won the case, which received national attention.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In 1949, Leo Fender developed and refined the world's first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar, the Fender Telecaster.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Although Fullerton, like other Southern California cities, had experienced an expansion of population due to housing development, this increased by an order of magnitude during the post war years. Fullerton's population soared after World War II as American veterans migrated to California, bought housing in the land development which destroyed the surrounding farming and park areas, and in particular after the construction of Interstate 5 and development in neighboring Anaheim.


title: Fullerton, California

text: To serve the growing population, the California State Legislature authorized Orange County State College in 1957, which began operating out of Fullerton high schools in 1959. In 1963, it moved to its present campus on State College Boulevard, and later, after several name-changes, was finally redesignated California State University, Fullerton. The Fullerton Arboretum, a 26-acre (105,000 m) botanical garden, opened in 1979.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Manufacturing growth leveled off as ever-soaring property prices, increasing environmental regulation, traffic, and other pressures increased. By the late 20th century the city had lost much of its rural character in favor of suburban housing tracts and shopping centers.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In the 1990s, the downtown commercial district had become economically depressed, and was known mainly for being an area of sleepy antique stores and small shops. A symbol of downtown's problems was the Fox Theatre, a local landmark, which had fallen into disrepair. As of November 2004, a fundraising drive had accumulated sufficient funds to buy the theater, but not yet enough money to restore it. By 2006, restoration was started.


title: Fullerton, California

text: During this same period, downtown Fullerton (DTF), especially in the south of Commonwealth area (SOCO), has become more of a busy entertainment district, described by the "OC Weekly" as "Bourbon Street West." In less than five years, some 30 businesses that sell alcohol have opened, making the downtown area much more active at night. In 2008, City Manager Chris Meyer called together department head and the finance department and reported to the city council that the Restaurant Overlay District (established December 2002) was costing the city $935,000 over and above the sales taxes collected.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The Hughes Aircraft Company's Ground Systems Group campus in western Fullerton was redeveloped into a new residential and commercial district called "Amerige Heights," in between 2001 and 2004.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton is located at (33.879914, -117.928749). It is approximately southeast of downtown Los Angeles, and approximately north-northwest of Santa Ana, the county seat. The city has a mean elevation of and lies approximately northeast of the Pacific Ocean straight-line distance. It has a Mediterranean climate, with a mean temperature of .


title: Fullerton, California

text: According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and , comprising 0.05%, is water.


title: Fullerton, California

text: It is bordered by La Habra and Brea on the north, La Mirada on the northwest, Buena Park on the west, Anaheim on the south, and Placentia on the east.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The flat downtown area is laid out in a grid plan centered at the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Commonwealth Avenue. After recent renewal and beautification projects, it has attracted specialty stores, coffee shops, and restaurants, and has uncharacteristically retained much of its downtown character. Southeastern Fullerton is historically the industrial sector, and is home to small manufacturing, particularly east of Raymond Street and south of Commonwealth.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The northern and western reaches of Fullerton are dominated by the Coyote Hills, a low-lying mountain range divided into the East Coyote Hills and West Coyote Hills. The land south of West Coyote Hills is known as Sunny Hills. For most of the city's history these areas were groves of citrus trees, open scrubland, and oil fields. While equestrian trails and many old estates endure along Bastanchury Road, the meandering roads through these areas today mostly connect a succession of housing tract subdivisions and commercial developments. In recent years, the City Council has tried to allow development in the remaining open land throughout the city. The most notable impending project, in West Coyote Hills, has been met with opposition by many of the citizens in the area.


title: Fullerton, California

text: West Coyote Hills is a ridge lying mostly in northern Fullerton, including owned by Pacific Coast Homes (a land development division of the Chevron Corporation) that are the largest remaining tract of undeveloped land in north Orange County. The current development agreement calls for building houses on some of the land while donating the remainder to the city as a nature preserve. A group that supports keeping the entire area as open space/nature preserve qualified a referendum for a November 2012 election. In the election, voters approved Measure W, which would prevent development in the area. Ongoing lawsuits between the City of Fullerton (pro-development) and local conservationists (anti-development) have resulted over the interpretation of the measure. In February 2019, the California State Supreme Court denied a petition to review a lower court pro-development decision against Measure W. The City of Fullerton and The Friends of Coyote Hills are currently in competing negotiations with Chevron over either purchasing the land for development or donating the land for conservation with Chevron receiving tax credits and conservation funds in exchange for the donation.


title: Fullerton, California

text: According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Fullerton has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csa" on climate maps.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton maintains more than 50 city parks and is home to Hillcrest Park, Chapman Park, and the Orange County Regional parks Craig Regional Park and Ralph B. Clark Regional Park (in neighboring Buena Park, although a small portion lies within Fullerton city limits). The Fullerton Arboretum comprises (105,000 m) of sculpted gardens and unusual plants in northeastern Fullerton. Additionally, the city features approximately of recreational land in the Brea Dam Recreational Area, plus an equestrian center and trails, two golf courses, a sports complex located southeast of St. Jude Medical Center Hospital and the Janet Evans swim Complex.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The Fullerton city council voted on November 15, 2019 to proceed with work on a concept plan for a memorial to Korean War veterans at Hillcrest Park. The project will be funded and developed by The Orange County Korean War Memorial Committee.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In 2000, there were 44,771 housing units at an average density of . There were 43,609 households, out of which 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.8% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.1% were non-families. 23.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.37.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.1% under the age of 18, 11.5% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.1 males.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The median income for a household in the city was $57,345 (Orange County 2005), and the median income for a family was $75,700. Males had a median income of $40,674 versus $31,677 for females. The per capita income for the city was $23,370. About 8.0% of families and 11.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.6% of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The 2010 United States Census reported that Fullerton had a population of 135,161. The population density was . The racial makeup of Fullerton was 72,845 (53.9%) White, 3,138 (2.3%) African American, 842 (0.6%) Native American, 30,788 (22.8%) Asian, 321 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 21,439 (15.9%) from other races, and 5,788 (4.3%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 46,501 persons (34.4%). Non-Hispanic Whites were 38.2% of the population, down from 79.0% in 1980.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The Census reported that 132,084 people (97.7% of the population) lived in households, 2,318 (1.7%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 759 (0.6%) were institutionalized.


title: Fullerton, California

text: There were 45,391 households, out of which 16,155 (35.6%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 23,240 (51.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 5,502 (12.1%) had a female householder with no husband present, 2,505 (5.5%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 2,366 (5.2%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 290 (0.6%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 9,771 households (21.5%) were made up of individuals, and 3,342 (7.4%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.91. There were 31,247 families (68.8% of all households); the average family size was 3.43.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The population was spread out, with 31,558 people (23.3%) under the age of 18, 17,522 people (13.0%) aged 18 to 24, 37,764 people (27.9%) aged 25 to 44, 32,465 people (24.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 15,852 people (11.7%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.4 males.


title: Fullerton, California

text: There were 47,869 housing units at an average density of , of which 24,600 (54.2%) were owner-occupied, and 20,791 (45.8%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.1%; the rental vacancy rate was 7.0%. 73,127 people (54.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 58,957 people (43.6%) lived in rental housing units.


title: Fullerton, California

text: According to the 2010 United States Census, Fullerton had a median household income of $67,617, with 14.6% of the population living below the federal poverty line.


title: Fullerton, California

text: According to the city's 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton is a General-law municipality with a council-manager government system. Legislative authority is vested in a city council of five non-partisan members who serve four-year staggered terms, who elect a chair who serves as mayor. Elections are held every two years and are consolidated with the statewide general elections held in November of even numbered years. The city manager is responsible for day-to-day operations. Prior to 2016, all council seats were elected at large. In 2016 voters passed Measure II which changed at large representation to election for five districts.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In the United States House of Representatives, Fullerton is in California's 39th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of EVEN and is represented by .


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fire protection and emergency medical services are provided by the Fullerton Fire Department with ambulance transport by Care Ambulance Service. Fullerton has one full-service hospital with an emergency room, St.Jude Regional Medical Center. The Fullerton Police Department provides law enforcement for the city, while the California State University Police Department provides services around the Cal State Fullerton campus.


title: Fullerton, California

text: In 2011, a major controversy arose in the city over misconduct by the Fullerton Police, involving sexual assault by an officer against women he arrested and the killing of a mentally ill homeless man by police. This has led to the indictment of two officers and a recall campaign against McKinley, Bankhead, and Jones. Officer Manuel Ramos, 37, was charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, and Corporal Jay Patrick Cicinelli, 39, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and felony use of excessive force with regards to the death of Kelly Thomas. They pleaded not guilty. On July 5, 2012, (one year after the beating death), the father of Kelly Thomas filed a lawsuit against the city and six officers, two of whom are facing criminal charges. The lawsuit also names former police chiefs Patrick McKinley and Michael Sellers. The suit alleges the violation of Kelly Thomas' federal and state civil rights; assault and battery; negligence and supervisor liability among others as causes of action. It seeks unspecified damages. Thomas' mother, Cathy, who is divorced from Ron Thomas, has already received a $1-million settlement from the city. On July 3, 2012, Officer Ramos's employment was terminated. Thomas' father eventually received a 5 million dollar settlement from the City of Fullerton. Both Ramos and Cicinelli were found not guilty of any criminal charges. Both were terminated by Fullerton.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The city of Fullerton is served by three elementary and junior high school districts, two unified school districts, and one high school exclusive school district:


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton has four public high schools within the city limits, all part of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District:


title: Fullerton, California

text: Other public schooling in Fullerton is provided by the Fullerton School District. There are four public junior high schools, enrolling grades 7-8: Ladera Vista, Nicolas, Parks, and D. Russell Parks Junior High School. Fullerton has only two public elementary K-8 schools: Beechwood and Robert C. Fisler. Fullerton has fifteen public elementary schools enrolling grades K-6: Acacia, Commonwealth, Fern Drive, Golden Hill, Hermosa Drive, Laguna Road, Maple, Orangethorpe, Pacific Drive, Raymond, Richman, Rolling Hills, Sunset Lane, Valencia Park, and Woodcrest.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton's Catholic schools are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. They include: Annunciation Catholic School, Saint Justin School, Saint Juliana School, and Rosary Academy.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Other private schools include the Arborland Montessori School, the IvyCrest Montessori School, Eastside Christian School, West Fullerton Christian School, and Berkeley School.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton is home to a vibrant music scene. In the early 1990s, downtown featured several venues that featured bands such as Room to Roam and Trip the Spring.


title: Fullerton, California

text: It was a center for the Orange County hardcore punk music scene, producing acts such as The Adolescents, Agent Orange, Social Distortion, D.I., the "fathers of hardcore punk" The Middle Class, Gwen Stefani, lead vocalist of the alternative rock group No Doubt, was a student at CSUF and the group performed there regularly. Other popular groups and musicians from the area include Lit, 80s synthpop acts Berlin and Stacey Q, and Mike Ness. The popular singer-songwriter Jackson Browne attended Sunny Hills High School in the city. Singer-songwriter Tim Buckley also attended Fullerton College and dropped out after only a few weeks to focus on his music career. Fullerton is also home to one of the signature cities in the Make Music Day Alliance. Make Music Day is a global annual music celebration occurring on the summer solstice (June 21) each year in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries across the globe. Starting in 2015, The Day of Music Fullerton began as a grass roots initiative by a team of volunteers to create a unique and free music festival in alliance with the internationally renowned "Fête de la Musique." Each year on June 21 Fullerton comes alive from morning to night with musicians of all ages and musical persuasions performing in musical venues, shops, bars, restaurants, plazas, churches, parks and parking lots. From high school bands to established musicians/bands, Day of Music Fullerton is open to anyone who wants to perform and enjoyed by everyone who wants to attend for free. Since its inception, Day of Music Fullerton has grown into a popular and critical success, hosting over 150 performances in more than 40 venues around the city, including the Museum Plaza, Historic Fox Theatre, Hillcrest Park, Villa del Sol, and The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, among others.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Contributing greatly to Fullerton's musical heritage was the Fender musical instrument company, whose products such as the Stratocaster and Telecaster electric guitars, Precision Bass bass guitar, and Twin Reverb guitar amplifier revolutionized the music business and contributed greatly to the development of rock and roll. Leo Fender sold the company to CBS in 1965; production continued in the Fullerton plant until 1985, when the company was sold to a group of private investors. In 1980, Leo Fender and his original partner George Fullerton (relation to the Fullerton founder of the same name unknown) reunited and started a new company, G&L (George and Leo) Guitars, which are built in what had been Leo Fender's CLF Research factory in Fullerton.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The Muckenthaler Cultural Center on Malvern Avenue near Euclid Avenue houses art galleries and a theater group. The former estate of the Muckenthaler family, it was donated to the city by Harold Muckenthaler in 1965. Fullerton Friends of Music, the oldest chamber music society in Orange County, perform five concerts a year at Sunny Hills Performing Arts Center, a notable classical concert venue in the county.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton is home to the Fullerton Public Library. The Main Library is located on Commonwealth Avenue in Downtown Fullerton and adjacent to the City Hall. Formerly there was a branch library, called the Hunt Branch on Basque Avenue. The Hunt Branch was closed in 2013


title: Fullerton, California

text: There are several storefront theaters, including the Maverick Theater and Stages Theater. The Maverick Theatre is the host for the "World Famous Skipper Stand Up Show." Held six times a year, The Skipper Stand Up Show has, since 2006, showcased former and current skippers from Disneyland's famous attraction, the Jungle Cruise.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton was also home to the Golden Baseball League's Orange County Flyers (formerly known as the Fullerton Flyers), which disbanded in 2012. The team's home was Goodwin Field, home to the Cal State Fullerton Titans.


title: Fullerton, California

text: From 1921 to 1984, Fullerton had the largest independent daily newspaper in Orange County, The Fullerton Daily News Tribune. The Fullerton Daily News Tribune circulated 6 days a week, Monday thru Saturday, in all of Fullerton, Brea, Placentia, La Habra, Buena Park, Yorba Linda, and a northern section of Anaheim. At one point in the 1970s The Fullerton News Tribune reached a peak circulation of 30,000 daily subscribers. Formerly owned, for 30 years, by former Scripps newspaper executive Edgar F. Elfstrom, The Fullerton News Tribune was bought by Scripps Howard Newspapers in 1975. In 1984 the Orange County Register bought the Fullerton News Tribune and converted the daily newspaper to a once-weekly free distribution newspaper.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton is also one of the few Southern California municipalities to be served by an independent newspaper, the Fullerton Observer. The "Fullerton Observer Community Newspaper" is an all-volunteer 40-year-old paper that is printed twice a month. It was founded in the late 1970s by Ralph Kennedy, a fair housing and civil rights activist who advocated saving Coyote Hills as an open space. In 2010, the city of Fullerton and the "Orange County Register" came out in court against the then 32-year-old "Fullerton Observer" in its request to adjudicate the paper. In response to the city of Fullerton and the Orange County Register's high-powered lawyers coming out against the newspaper, the not-for-profit Fullerton Observer dropped its court case to be adjudicated a newspaper.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The Fullerton Transportation Center is home to train station serving Metrolink and Amtrak and a major north Orange County bus terminal for the Orange County Transportation Authority. The center is located at Harbor Blvd and Santa Fe Avenue. The bus terminal is located north of Santa Fe Avenue and serves routes 26, 43, 143, 543, and 213. The Fullerton Train Station is located south of Santa Fe Avenue.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The Southern California Metrolink commuter rail system serves the city of Fullerton from the Orange County Line (Union Station, Los Angeles to Oceanside, California) and the 91/Perris Valley Line (Union Station, Los Angeles to Perris Valley in Riverside County). Travel time on Metrolink or Amtrak from Fullerton to Los Angeles is approximately 45 minutes. The city is served by two Amtrak lines. The Southwest Chief (running between Chicago and Los Angeles) and the Pacific Surfliner (running between San Diego and San Luis Obispo with major stops at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara).


title: Fullerton, California

text: In addition to the Fullerton Transportation Center, the Orange County Transportation Authority has a park and ride transportation hub in Fullerton located on Orangethorpe Avenue at Magnolia Avenue which makes connections to OCTA routes 25, 26, 30, 33, 35, 529, and 721 (Downtown Los Angeles) and Los Angeles Metro 460 (Downtown Los Angeles).


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton is crossed by five state-maintained highways (all maintained by Caltrans' 12th district), three of which are freeways. State Route 91, the Riverside Freeway, runs east-to-west down the length of the city south of Orangethorpe Avenue. It intersects with Interstate 5, the Santa Ana Freeway, in the west near Magnolia Avenue and with State Route 57, the Orange Freeway, in the east near State College Boulevard. Short portions of State Route 39 (Beach Boulevard) and State Route 90 (Imperial Highway), also run through western and northern portions of the city, respectively.


title: Fullerton, California

text: The main road in Fullerton is Harbor Boulevard (served by OCTA route 43/143/543), a 23-mile road running from Costa Mesa to Rowland Heights. Fullerton is composed of many main arterials. Other main south-to-north arterials include Magnolia Street, Brookhurst Street, Lemon Street, Placentia Avenue, Gilbert Street, Raymond Avenue, State College Boulevard (served by OCTA route 57/57X), Brea Boulevard (served by OCTA route 143), Euclid Street (served by OCTA route 37). Rosecrans Avenue, Bastanchury Road (not served by OCTA), Chapman and Malvern Avenues (served by OCTA route 123), Commonwealth Avenue (served by OCTA route 26) and Orangethorpe Avenue (served by OCTA route 30) are the main west-to-east arterials. Yorba Linda Boulevard (served by OCTA route 26) runs along the east end of the city. Minor arterials include Nutwood Avenue, Associated Road, Highland Avenue, Berkeley Avenue, Parks Road/Castlewood Drive, Kimberly Avenue, Acacia Avenue, Valencia Drive, and Dale Street.


title: Fullerton, California

text: Fullerton Municipal Airport, the only general aviation airport remaining in Orange County, located in the southwest of the city, is the last remnant of the Hughes Company in the area, which was prominent in the aerospace industry up until the 1970s. From the early 1970s through the early 1980s the airport was served by Golden West Airlines, one of the larger commuter airlines of the period. The nearest airport with scheduled service is John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Santa Ana.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: The One I Love is a 2014 American comedy thriller film directed by Charlie McDowell and written by Justin Lader, starring Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2014. It was released on August 1, 2014, through video on demand, prior to a limited release on August 22, 2014, by RADiUS-TWC.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Married couple Ethan and Sophie see a therapist regularly. After asking them to each play a note on a piano, he identifies a disconnection in their relationship and suggests they take a weekend on a secluded estate.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Once at the estate, Sophie goes to the guest cottage and has sex with Ethan. She returns to the house to find Ethan asleep. When she mentions the sex, he says he cannot remember, so Sophie, annoyed, goes to bed alone and he sleeps in the guest cottage. During the night, Sophie joins him, apologizing for her behavior and falling asleep next to him. The next morning, she makes him eggs and bacon, which is odd, as she notedly hates it.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Ethan returns to the main house where Sophie has no memory of joining him in the guest cottage. He deduces that something unusual is going on: In the guest cottage, they each met a doppelgänger of the other, convincing enough to pass. By visiting with Sophie II, Ethan establishes the doppelgängers do not leave the guest cottage. By barging in on Sophie's session with Ethan II, he determines that the doppelgängers disappear when both spouses are in the guest cottage and the doubles are idealized versions of them. Ethan and Sophie take advantage of the circumstances, and set rules, including a rule of "no intimacy".


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Ethan figures an explanation for what's going on as some of his clothing is missing, and he receives voice mails from friends and family, answering calls, made in his voice, asking about his past. Sophie starts developing feelings for Ethan II and goes to the guest cottage to seduce him. Ethan discovers this by claiming to leave, but instead enters the guest house and assumes the place of his doppelgänger. Sophie seduces the real Ethan, unbeknownst to her.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: The next morning, Sophie seeks refuge with Ethan II, and Ethan I disturbs them by entering the guest cottage. As they argue, they find Sophie II and Ethan II awaiting them in the main house. The four spend the evening together, where it becomes clear that Ethan II and Sophie II know they are playing a role. Ethan II also reveals Ethan I's duplicity at the guest cottage, at which point Sophie I asks Ethan I to leave. He goes to the guest cottage and finds a computer with files for different couples that include recordings of voices, and finds one with "Ethan & Sophie" learning to imitate him and Sophie I.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Ethan I finds he is trapped in the guest house, but Sophie II lets him out. She explains that she and Ethan II must cause the visiting couple to fall out of love. Then the residing couple leave, with the visiting couple trapped within the estate. However, Ethan II has fallen in love with Sophie I and is planning to leave with her. Sophie II does not want her husband to leave with another woman. Ethan I explains this to Sophie I, but Ethan II catches the other revealing the plan.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Ethan II attempts to convince Sophie I to flee with him. When she refuses, he runs away on his own but hits an invisible barrier and collapses unconscious. Each Sophie has an opposing reaction, one distressed for Ethan II and the other smiling at Ethan I. Ethan I grabs the smiling Sophie and they leave.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Ethan and Sophie drive to the therapist's office, finding it abandoned so they head home. One morning, Ethan asks Sophie what she plans on making for breakfast. Calling back from downstairs, she replies eggs and bacon; Ethan takes a long moment to ponder this before joining her.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: In March 2013, it was revealed that Elisabeth Moss, Mark Duplass, and Ted Danson had been cast in the film, with Mel Eslyn producing and Duplass executive producing. Mary Steenburgen provided the voice of Duplass's character's mother. Rooney Mara, McDowell's girlfriend (at the time), served as the costume designer, but received credit as Bree Daniel.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Principal photography lasted 15 days, at Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson's house in Ojai, California.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2014. Shortly after, RADiUS-TWC acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film. The film went onto screen at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25, 2014. That same month, RADiUS set the film for an August 15, 2014 release. It was released through video on demand on August 1, 2014, prior to a limited release on August 22, 2014.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: The film was released to Blu-Ray and DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on November 4, 2014. It was then released on Netflix on November 29, 2014, and has since been made available to stream on Netflix.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: "The One I Love" opened in a limited release in the United States in 8 theaters and grossed $48,059 with an average of $6,007 per theater and ranking number 42 at the box office. The film's widest release was 82 theaters and it ended up earning $513,447 domestically and $69,817 internationally for a total of $583,264. The film made an additional $500,000 through video on demand sales.


title: The One I Love (film)

text: "The One I Love" received mostly positive reviews from critics and has a "certified fresh" score of 82% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews with an average rating of 7.00/10. The critical consensus states, ""The One I Love" doesn't take its intriguing premise quite as far as it could, but it still adds up to an ambitious, well-acted look at love and marriage." The film also has a score of 65 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" praised Moss's performance writing, "In "The One I Love", she creates a complex portrait of a woman tested by love whose smiles work like a barricade until fissures of feeling break down her last defenses."


title: The One I Love (film)

text: Geoffrey Berkshire of "Variety" wrote that "Charlie McDowell makes an incredibly assured directorial debut with this smart crowd-pleaser, featuring spectacular performances from Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss." Kate Erbland of Film.com praised the film, calling it a "tightly constructed and cleverly designed take on the modern love story." Cory Everett of "IndieWire" graded the film B, stating, "It's a very small-scale, unassuming relationship movie (with a heady little twist), but it sneaks up on you."


title: The One I Love (film)

text: However, Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" criticized the film, commenting, "On a moment-to-moment basis, this smoothly made film can be incredibly trying, even annoying, to watch, due to the grueling repetitiveness of the scenes and dialogue and the claustrophobia of the paradoxically beautiful setting."


title: Oppo phones

text: Oppo phones are smartphones produced by the partially state-owned Chinese company Oppo, running in several countries.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo F Series are MediaTek or Qualcomm powered selfie-centered devices in which OPPO used their tagline "Selfie Expert".


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo Find 5 was released in America in February 2013. It featured clean lines, a thin rectangular shape, and an overall elegant appearance. The Oppo Find 5 had a pixel density of 441 ppm, which puts it in the highest range of the mobile phones with HD display at its release time. In July 2013, a refreshed Oppo Find 5 launched in China. The processor has been changed to Snapdragon 600 instead of the Snapdragon S4 Pro. The Android version was updated to Android 4.2.2 as well while other specifications remained the same.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo Find 7 is a phablet with 3GB of RAM and a 2.5  GHz Quad-Core processor. The Oppo Find 7 is also available in another variant called the Find 7a, which has a 1080p screen and 2GB of RAM compared to the Find 7, which sports higher specs. It was announced on 19 March 2014 and released in April 2014. It is similar in design to the OnePlus One released in April 2014.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo Find X was launched on 19 June 2018 at Paris. The Find X features a design that is different from traditional smartphone designs. A pop up camera allows it to be a full screen smartphone with minimal bezels. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor and it operates on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with ColorOS 5.1.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo Find X2 & X2 Pro were launched globally on 6 March 2020, featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor, 65W SuperVOOC 2.0 Flash Charge, and on the Find X2 Pro, 10X hybrid zoom.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo Find N was released in December 2021. It was the world's first foldable with a creaseless display and with no gap. It also followed the footsteps of Samsung, with its ultra-thin-glass display on the main screen.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Find X4 was skipped to the Find X5 as the number 4 in Chinese sounds like 'death'. The Find X5 Series was released on 24 February, 2022. The Oppo Find X5 reuses the Snapdragon 888 chipset from 2021 while Find X5 Pro has the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset (In China, the pro model uses Mediatek dimensity 9000 processor.) Both phones have no micro lens which was found on previous Find X3 phones (excluding Find X3 Lite and Neo models). An affordable version was also released, the Find X5 Lite aka Oppo Reno 7 5G. It has the same selfie camera, has microsd and a headphone jack that the flagship brothers do not have but has no stereo speaker, no telephoto lens and no wireless charging.


title: Oppo phones

text: On 23 September 2013, Oppo announced the N1, which has a 5.9″ 1080p display (373 ppi), 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 3,610mAh battery, 16GB or 32GB of storage, 2GB RAM, and a 13MP camera that can rotate, touch-panel on the back, and option to flash CyanogenMod. It was released in December 2013.


title: Oppo phones

text: A successor, the Oppo N3, is priced at $449 as of early 2016. The N3 has a slightly smaller 5.5" Full HD screen compared to 5.9" screen on the N1. It also has more powerful specs with Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. The Oppo N3 has a rotate 16MP camera with Schneider lens which can rotate 180° to the front as selfie camera. It runs on Android 4.4 KitKat with customized ColorOS 2.1 UI. The N3 has a 3000mAh battery and a fingerprint scanner on the back.


title: Oppo phones

text: The OPPO R Series focuses on camera photography. The Oppo R Series was discontinued on 2019 and was replaced by the Oppo Reno Series.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo K Series is a new smartphone series by Oppo which focuses on gaming devices. The first phone that will be launched on the K Series is the Oppo K1.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo K1 was announced at Oppo's special event in China on October 10, 2018. It features the Water-drop notch design language of Oppo and Vivo phones and an under-display fingerprint sensor. Its main difference from the other Oppo series is its chipset, sporting a Snapdragon 660 processor. Oppo K1 comes with 6.41-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display. It also has 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. The phone features 16 MP + 2 MP dual camera along with 25 MP selfie camera. It also packs a 3600 mAh battery.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo K3 was officially released on May, 2019, but made available to buy on July 23 via Amazon in India. The phone features 6.5-inch full-screen FHD+ AMOLED and waterdrop notch. Besides, the K3 shares similar design, hardware specs and software to Realme X, the Snapdragon 710 SoC, ColorOS 6.0 based on Android 9.0 Pie and under-display fingerprint scanner. It comes with either 6 or 8 GB RAM, and 64 or 128 GB storage. There's a dual-camera 16 MP + 2 MP setup on the back and 16 MP motorized pop-up camera on the front. It packs a 3765mAh battery with VOOC 3.0 fast charging tech.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo K5 was announced on October 10, 2019. The phone features a 6.4" AMOLED screen with Full HD+ resolution with 19.5:9 aspect ratio. It also features an under-display fingerprint scanner. Oppo K5 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G processor with 6 or 8GB of RAM and 128/256GB of storage, packing a 4000mAh battery with VOOC 4.0 30W fast charging, which can charged from 0 to 67% in 30 minutes and fully charged in 73 minutes. It also has a quad-camera setup of 64MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP and a 32MP selfie camera on the waterdrop notch. The K5 runs Android 9.0 Pie with customized ColorOS 6.1 UI.


title: Oppo phones

text: Oppo K7 5G is a smartphone first announced on 04 August, 2020. It has a 6.4" FHD AMOLED display. Oppo K7 5G uses an octa-core, 2.4 GHz, 7nm Snapdragon 765G processor. The smartphone comes with 8 GB of RAM, and either 128 or 256 GB of storage. The primary camera is 48 megapixels, accompanied by an 8 MP ultrawide camera, a 2 MP depth sensor, and a 2 MP monochrome camera. The primary front camera is 32 MP. The battery size is 4200 mAh.


title: Oppo phones

text: Oppo K7x is a smartphone first announced on 04 November, 2020. It has a 6.5" FHD IPS display running at a 90hz refresh rate. Oppo K7x uses an octa-core, 2.0 GHz, 7nm Dimensity 720 processor. The smartphone comes with either 6 or 8 GB of RAM, and either 128 or 256 GB of storage. The primary camera is 48 megapixels, accompanied by an 8 MP ultrawide camera, a 2 MP depth sensor, and a 2 MP macro camera. The primary front camera is 16 MP. The battery size is 5000 mAh.


title: Oppo phones

text: Oppo K9 is a smartphone first announced on 06 May, 2021. It has a 6.43" FHD AMOLED display running at a 90hz refresh rate. Oppo K9 uses an octa-core, 2.8 GHz, 7nm Snapdragon 768G processor. The smartphone comes with 8 GB of RAM, and either 128 or 256 GB of storage. The primary camera is 64 megapixels, accompanied by an 8 MP ultrawide camera, and a 2 MP macro camera. The primary front camera is 32 MP. The battery size is 4300 mAh.


title: Oppo phones

text: Oppo K9 Pro is a smartphone first announced on 26 September, 2021. It has a 6.43" FHD AMOLED display running at a 120hz refresh rate. Oppo K9 Pro uses an octa-core, 3.0 GHz, 6nm Dimensity 1200 processor. The smartphone comes with 8/12 GB of RAM, and either 128 or 256 GB of storage. The primary camera is 64 megapixels, accompanied by an 8 MP ultrawide camera, and a 2 MP macro camera. The primary front camera is 32 MP. The battery size is 4500 mAh.


title: Oppo phones

text: Oppo K9s is a smartphone first announced on 20 October, 2021. It has a 6.59" FHD IPS LCD display running at a 120hz refresh rate. Oppo K9s uses an octa-core, 2.4 GHz, 6nm Snapdragon 778G processor. The smartphone comes with either 6 or 8 GB of RAM, and either 128 or 256 GB of storage. The primary camera is 64 megapixels, accompanied by an 8 MP ultrawide camera, and a 2 MP macro camera. The primary front camera is 16 MP. The battery size is 5000 mAh.


title: Oppo phones

text: Oppo K9x is a smartphone first announced on 23 December, 2021. It has a 6.49" FHD IPS LCD display running at a 90hz refresh rate. Oppo K9x uses an octa-core, 2.4 GHz, 6nm Dimensity 810 processor. The smartphone comes with either 6 or 8 GB of RAM, and either 128 or 256 GB of storage. The primary camera is 64 megapixels, accompanied by an 2 MP depth camera, and a 2 MP macro camera. The primary front camera is 16 MP. The battery size is 5000 mAh.


title: Oppo phones

text: Oppo K10 is a smartphone first announced on 23 March, 2022. It has a 6.59" FHD IPS LCD display running at a 90hz refresh rate. Oppo K10 uses an octa-core, 2.4 GHz, 6nm Snapdragon 680 processor. The smartphone comes with 6 or 8 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of storage. The primary camera is 50 megapixels, accompanied by an 2 MP macro camera, and a 2 MP depth sensor. The primary front camera is 16 MP. The battery size is 5000 mAh.


title: Oppo phones

text: The Oppo Reno Series smartphone series by Oppo focuses on Portrait Photography. It was the successor of Oppo R Series.


title: Oppo phones

text: In May 2019, Oppo released the Reno. The Oppo Reno has a 6.6-inch FHD+ AMOLED Display which is protected by Gorilla Glass 6. The phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Soc which is coupled with 8GB ram and 256GB internal storage. As for the software, the phone came with Android 9.0 which is customized by the layer of ColorOS 6. In photographic section it has 48 MP + 13 MP + 8 MP rear camera along with 16 MP motorized pop-up for selfies.


title: Oppo phones

text: In October 2019, Oppo has revealed the second-generation of the Oppo Reno line-up phones, the Reno 2, Reno 2F along with India-exclusive Reno 2Z. The Reno 2 series has the same panoramic screen design. Reno 2 has an 6.55" Full HD+ Sunlight AMOLED display with Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G processor, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of Storage. It also has a quad-camera setup with a main 48MP Sony IMX586 sensor + 13MP + 8MP + 2MP. The Reno 2F has a 6.5" Full HD+ AMOLED display, powered by mid-range Mediatek Helio P70 processor with same amount of RAM and 128GB of storage. It has a quad camera system with primary 48MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP. The Reno 2Z has a waterdrop 6.5" Full HD+ AMOLED display, powered by Mediatek Helio P90 chipset with 8GB of RAM with 128GB of storage. All three phones have a 16MP selfie camera and 4000mAh battery with VOOC 3.0 20W fast charging.


title: Oppo phones

text: In October 2019, Oppo released Reno Ace in China. Reno Ace powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ Soc has 6.5-inches AMOLED capacitive touchscreen which is protected by Gorilla Glass 6 technology. It also has two variant 8GB RAM with 128GB internal storage and 8GB with 256GB storage.The phone features Quad (48 MP + 13 MP + 8 MP + 2 MP) camera on the rear along with 16 MP selfie camera. It also packs a 4,000 mAh battery which recharges 100% in just 30 min by using 65W fast charging technology.


title: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

text: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo is a 2019 French erotic drama film produced, co-written, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. The film is a sequel to Kechiche's 2017 film "", and like its predecessor, is based on the novel "La Blessure, la vraie" written by François Bégaudeau. It stars Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche, Alexia Chardard, Lou Luttiau, and Hafsia Herzi


title: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

text: "Mektoub My Love, Intermezzo" premiered In Competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and was widely panned. The film also received controversy surrounding the on-set treatment of Bau. A third and final film had supposedly wrapped filming, but is unclear of its status following legal troubles with Kechiche's production company.


title: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

text: In 1994, Ophélie discovers she is pregnant with her lover's child even though she is engaged and due to marry her fiancé soon. With summer at a close she contemplates going to Paris to have an abortion. She and her friends decide to spend a night at a club in Sète where she has sex with her other friend.


title: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

text: The decision to split this film apart from the film "" (2017) caused Kechiche's producers to withdraw funds for post-production for both films in 2017. Kechiche did eventually find the funds necessary to finish both films, in part by auctioning off the Palme d'or he won for "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" (2013).


title: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

text: The film was critically panned upon premiering at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: "Joyless and distastefully photographed, Abdellatif Kechiche's second chapter in his romantic epic is too enamored with derrière to offer audiences a reason to care." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 10 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".


title: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

text: The film featured a 13-minute unsimulated sex scene where actress Ophélie Bau receives oral sex from actor Roméo de Lacour and is brought to orgasm. Shortly before the film premiered at Cannes a report broke that Kechiche pressured the actors involved to consume alcohol to finish the scene despite their reluctance to do so. Bau attended the premiere of the film but left before the screening and did not attend a press conference for the film. In 2020 she revealed that she refused to attend the screening because she had requested Kechiche allow her to view the sex scene in question at a private screening before the film was publicly shown, a request which he denied.


title: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

text: A third and final entry had reportedly finished production, however Kechiche's production company became financially insolvent calling into question his ability to complete the film, leaving it stuck in the post-production phase.


title: Jochebed

text: According to the Bible, Jochebed (; ) was a daughter of Levi and mother of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. She was the wife of Amram, as well as his aunt. No details are given concerning her life. According to Jewish legend, she is buried in the Tomb of the Matriarchs, in Tiberias. In the New Testament, she is praised for her faith in God.


title: Jochebed

text: The story of Jochebed is thought to be described in the Book of Exodus (2:1–10) – although she is not explicitly named here. (Her name is first mentioned in Exodus 6:20.) She lived in Egypt, where the descendants of Israel were being oppressed. The Pharaoh had decreed that all their baby boys were to be thrown into the Nile, because he feared that they might become too powerful. When Moses, her youngest child, was born, Jochebed hid him for three months until she could hide him no longer. To save her son's life, she waterproofed a basket and put the child in it. Jochebed placed Moses in a basket and released him in the flow of River Nile. The basket fell in the hands of the Pharaoh's daughter who was bathing in the river. Moved with compassion when she discovered the child, she decided to adopt him. The "sister" of the child (presumed to be Miriam), who had come forward, suggested to find her a Hebrew woman to nurse the child. The Pharaoh's daughter agreed and so Miriam called her mother, who was appointed to take care of him. Thus Jochebed nursed her son until he was old enough and brought him to the Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her son. The story continues with Moses, who grew up to become the leader of the Exodus, leading his people out of the land of Egypt.


title: Jochebed

text: According to the Book of Numbers, Jochebed was born to Levi when he lived in Egypt. Amram was the son of Kohath, who was a son of Levi. This would make Jochebed the aunt of Amram, her husband. This kind of marriage between relatives was later forbidden by the law of Moses. Jochebed is also called Amram's father's sister in the Masoretic text of Exodus 6:20, but ancient translations differ in this. Some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that she was Amram's cousin. In the Apocryphal "Testament of Levi", it is stated that Jochebed was born, as a daughter of Levi, when Levi was 64 years old.


title: Jochebed

text: Jochebed is identified by some rabbis in the Talmud with Shiphrah, one of the midwives described by the book of Exodus as being ordered by Pharaoh to kill the new-born male children. In making this identification, the rabbis interpret the "houses", with which the Book of Exodus describes God as having compensated the midwives, as having been those of priesthood and of royalty; these "houses" are interpreted by the Talmudic rabbis as allegorical references to Jochebed's sonsMoses and Aaron respectively.


title: Jochebed

text: The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, but Miriam soon persuaded him to marry Jochebed again; it goes on to argue that the Egyptians estimated the date that Moses would be due to be born by counting nine months from the start of this marriage, hence allowing Jochebed to hide him for the three months that were overestimated. The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan identifies Jochebed as also having been wife of Elitzaphon Ben Parnach, and the mother of Eldad and Medad; the text is ambiguous as to when this marriage occurred in relation to the marriage(s) to Amram.


title: Jochebed

text: Jochebed's name is given various allegorical interpretations; the Leviticus Rabbah identifies her as the person named in the Book of Chronicles as "Jehudijah", by arguing that the name should be interpreted as meaning "the Jewess", in reference to her founding the Jewish nation by disobeying the Pharaoh's order to dispose of the firstborn males.


title: Jochebed

text: Some rabbinic literature attempts to resolve the textual discrepancy in which the Torah lists 34 children of Leah born in Mesopotamia, stating that two were dead, and then immediately states that there were 33 in total, by arguing that the figure referred only to the surviving children, and that Jochebed was the 33rd; however, since the Book of Numbers describes Jochebed's birth as occurring in Egypt, this necessitated the further rabbinic argument that Jochebed was born exactly on the border of Egypt, in the "gateway of the city". Biblical scholars have instead simply proposed that the discrepancy in the enumeration of Leah's children is due to the list not originally having included Dinah, who was added by a later editor to introduce consistency with the story of the Rape of Dinah.


title: Jochebed

text: According to traditional rabbinic biblical chronology, Moses was 80 years old when the Exodus occurred, the Israelites had been in Egypt for 210 years in total, and thus in combination with the rabbinical claim that Jochebed was born on the border of Egypt, as her parents had entered it, this would require Jochebed to have been 130 years old when she gave birth to Moses; Rabbinical literature regards this to have been alluded to be the biblical description of the dedication of the Israelite altar, at which 130 shekel weight of silver was offered.


title: Jochebed

text: According to Josephus Flavius the birth of Moses was an extraordinary event because Jochebed was spared the pain of child-bearing due to both her and Amram's piety. The Haggadah extends this miraculous nature to Moses' conception by marking as 120 the age of Jochebed at conception. Several rabbinic commentaries attest to this and comment that maidenhood was restored to Jochebed at the time of her marriage to Amram. The restoration of maidenhood also included the resumption of her fertility.


title: Jochebed

text: Textual scholars attribute the genealogy to the Book of Generations, a hypothetical document originating from a similar religiopolitical group and date to the priestly source. According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the Levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses (brother of Aaron), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that "both" his parents were Levites (without identifying their names). Biblical scholars suspect that the Elohist account offers both matrilinial and patrilinial descent from Levites in order to magnify the religious credentials of Moses.


title: Jochebed

text: It has been proposed by a number of Biblical scholars that "Ichabod" and "Jacob" may ultimately be linguistic corruptions of "Jochebed", and possibly once have referred to the same individual.


title: Jochebed

text: Along with the parting of the Red Sea, the burning bush and the Ten Commandments: The Quran relates the story of Moses with some added details and slight differences. His mother, Jochebed ( "Yūkābid"), and her efforts to save the baby Moses are recounted.


title: Jochebed

text: Stories of unusual events during the pregnancy of Aminah, mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, are compared with the similar experiences of Jochebed when she was carrying Moses. The significance of this comparison is understood to spring from the affinity of Arabic folklore for Hebrew traditions.


title: Jochebed

text: She appears briefly in "The Prince of Egypt" under the name 'Yocheved', voiced by (and resembling) Israeli vocalist Ofra Haza. In the film, she sings a lullaby to baby Moses as she sets the basket carrying him adrift in the river, also pleading the river to deliver Moses "somewhere he can live free". Ofra sang the lullaby in 18 languages for the film's dubbing (including her native Hebrew).


title: Jochebed

text: In 2014 film "", she was portrayed by British Actress Anna Savva. She was only shown onscreen at the time that Moses was exiled and got to meet his biological mother.


title: Ashmit Patel

text: Ashmit Patel (born 13 January 1978) is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films and was seen on "Bigg Boss".


title: Ashmit Patel

text: Patel is the son of Amit Patel and Asha Patel, and the younger brother of actress and model Ameesha Patel, and the grandson of the lawyer-politician Rajni Patel, who was the Congress Pradesh Committee President of Mumbai. His birth name is a blend of the first three letters of his mother's name Asha and the last three letters of his father's name Amit.


title: Ashmit Patel

text: Patel studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai and later attended the University of Texas at Austin in United States, from which he received a bachelor's degree in Business in 2000.


title: Ashmit Patel

text: Patel started his career as an assistant director and worked with Vikram Bhatt in the making of his films, "Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage" (2002), "Awara Paagal Deewana" (2002), "Raaz" (2002) and "Footpath" (2003). He made his acting debut with the film "Inteha" directed by Vikram Bhatt. In 2004, he appeared alongside Mallika Sherawat and Emraan Hashmi in the thriller "Murder", a Bollywood inspiration of "Unfaithful". The film was his first commercial success.


title: Ashmit Patel

text: In 2005, Patel starred in Soni Razdan's thriller "Nazar" and Khalid Mohammed's multi-starrer "Silsiilay". Both the films were unsuccessful at the box office. In 2006, he also played leading roles in "Dil Diya Hai", "Banaras" and "Fight Club". In 2007, he starred in the comedy "Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana" alongside Mahima Chaudhary and Rekha. His next film "Toss" was released in 2009.


title: Ashmit Patel

text: Patel featured as one of the finalists in the fourth season of the Indian television reality show "Bigg Boss". He hosted "Superstud" on UTV Bindass and working on two films, Good Night and Future Toh Bright Hai Jee. He hosted Superdude on UTV Bindass.


title: Ashmit Patel

text: He will be marking his digital debut with Ullu App's upcoming web-series titled Peshawar, which is based on 2014 Peshawar school massacre. He will be playing the role of terrorist Abu Shamil, who masterminded the attacks and managed to brainwash the rest of his crew into perpetrating this heinous crime.


title: William Adams (pilot)

text: Adams, along with former second mate Joosten, then settled in Japan, and the two became some of the first (of very few) Western samurai.


title: William Adams (pilot)

text: Soon after Adams' arrival in Japan, he became a key advisor to the "shōgun" Tokugawa Ieyasu. Adams directed construction for the shōgun of the first Western-style ships in the country. He was later part of Japan's approving the establishment of trading factories by the Netherlands. He was also highly involved in Japan's Red Seal Asian trade, chartering and serving as captain of four expeditions to Southeast Asia. He died in Japan at age 55. He has been recognised as one of the most influential foreigners in Japan during this period.


title: William Adams (pilot)

text: Adams was born in Gillingham, Kent, England. When Adams was twelve his father died, and he was apprenticed to shipyard owner Master Nicholas Diggins at Limehouse for the seafaring life. He spent the next twelve years learning shipbuilding, astronomy, and navigation before entering the Royal Navy.