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<b style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">George Best</b><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Association football">footballer</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> who played as a </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midfielder#Winger" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Midfielder">winger</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> for </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_United_F.C." style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Manchester United F.C.">Manchester United</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_national_football_team" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Northern Ireland national football team">Northern Ireland national team</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. In 1968, he won the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="UEFA Champions League">European Cup</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> with Manchester United, and was named the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballon_d%27Or_(1956%E2%80%932009)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ballon d'Or (1956–2009)">European Footballer of the Year</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FWA_Footballer_of_the_Year" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="FWA Footballer of the Year">FWA Footballer of the Year</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. The </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Football_Association" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Irish Football Association">Irish Football Association</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> described him as the "greatest player to ever pull on the green shirt of Northern Ireland".</span><br />
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Born and brought up in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>, Best began his club career in England with Manchester United, with the scout who had spotted his talent at the age of 15 sending a telegram to manager <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Busby" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Matt Busby">Matt Busby</a> which read: "I think I've found you a genius."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-genius_3-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-genius-3" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[3]</a></sup> After making his debut for United aged 17, he scored 179 goals from 470 appearances over 11 years, and was the club's <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Manchester_United_F.C._seasons#Seasons" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="List of Manchester United F.C. seasons">top goalscorer</a> in the league for five consecutive seasons.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[4]</a></sup></div>
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One of the greatest <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dribbling#Association_football" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dribbling">dribblers</a> of all time, his playing style combined pace, skill, balance, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_(football)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dummy (football)">feints</a>, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-greatest-smallest_5-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-greatest-smallest-5" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-reliable_6-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-reliable-6" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[6]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Belfast_Telegraph_7-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-Belfast_Telegraph-7" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[7]</a></sup> Best unexpectedly quit United in 1974 at age 27, but returned to football for a number of clubs around the world in short spells, until retiring in 1984, age 37. In international football, he was <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_(sport)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cap (sport)">capped</a> 37 times and scored nine goals between 1964 and 1977, although a combination of the team's performance and his lack of fitness in 1982 meant that he never played in the finals of a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_European_Football_Championship" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="UEFA European Football Championship">European Championship</a> or <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="FIFA World Cup">World Cup</a>.</div>
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Best was one of the first celebrity footballers, earning the nickname "<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Beatle" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fifth Beatle">El Beatle</a>" in 1966,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beatle_8-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-Beatle-8" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[8]</a></sup> but his subsequent extravagant lifestyle led to various problems, most notably <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Alcoholism">alcoholism</a>, which he suffered from for the rest of his life. These issues affected him on and off the field, at times causing controversy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LongGoodbye_9-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-LongGoodbye-9" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[9]</a></sup> He said of his career: "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds [women] and fast cars – the rest I just squandered".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-10" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[10]</a></sup> After football, he spent some time as a football analyst, but his financial and health problems continued into his retirement.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LongGoodbye_9-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-LongGoodbye-9" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[9]</a></sup> He died in 2005, age 59, due to complications from the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosuppressive_drug" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Immunosuppressive drug">immunosuppressive drugs</a> he needed to take after a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_transplantation" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Liver transplantation">liver transplant</a> in 2002.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-death_11-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-death-11" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[11]</a></sup> Best was married twice, to two former models, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie_Best" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Angie Best">Angie Best</a> and then Alex Best. His son <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calum_Best" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Calum Best">Calum Best</a> was born in 1981 from his first marriage.</div>
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Before he died, Best was voted 8th in the <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Soccer_(magazine)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="World Soccer (magazine)">World Soccer</a></i> 100 greatest football players of the 20th century election in 1999 and was voted 16th in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFFHS" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="IFFHS">IFFHS</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Player_of_the_Century#Vote_specialists_.28IFFHS.29" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="FIFA Player of the Century">World Player of the Century</a> election in 1999. He was on the six man short list for the BBC's <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Sports_Personality_of_the_Century" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="BBC Sports Personality of the Century">Sports Personality of the Century</a> in 1999. Best was one of the inaugural 22 inductees into the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Football_Hall_of_Fame" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="English Football Hall of Fame">English Football Hall of Fame</a> in 2002. In 2004, he was voted 19th in the public <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Golden_Jubilee_Poll" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll">UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll</a> and was named in the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_100" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="FIFA 100">FIFA 100</a> list of the world's greatest living players. Former Brazilian footballer <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Pelé">Pelé</a> stated, “George Best was the greatest player in the world". Best was once quoted as saying, “Pelé called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.”<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-12" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[12]</a></sup> On what would have been his 60th birthday, Belfast City Airport was renamed the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best_Belfast_City_Airport" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="George Best Belfast City Airport">George Best Belfast City Airport</a>. According to the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="BBC">BBC</a>, Best was remembered by mourners at his public funeral held in Belfast as "the beautiful boy" [with a] "<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautiful_Game" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Beautiful Game">beautiful game</a>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Best#cite_note-13" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[13]</a></sup></div>
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Mark Garnett and Richard Weight have explored the enduring appeal of George Best.</div>
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Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-64453503015003854722017-07-07T08:11:00.003+01:002017-07-07T08:11:50.678+01:00Clint Eastwood - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</b></i> (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: <span lang="it" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo</i></span>, <abbr style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"> "The good, the ugly, the bad"</span>) is a 1966 <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Epic film">epic</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Spaghetti Western">Spaghetti Western</a> film directed by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Leone" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sergio Leone">Sergio Leone</a> and starring <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Van_Cleef" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Lee Van Cleef">Lee Van Cleef</a>, and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Wallach" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Eli Wallach">Eli Wallach</a> in their respective title roles.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[5]</a></sup> Its <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenplay" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Screenplay">screenplay</a> was written by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_%26_Scarpelli" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Age & Scarpelli">Age & Scarpelli</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Vincenzoni" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Luciano Vincenzoni">Luciano Vincenzoni</a> and Leone (with additional screenplay material and dialogue provided by an uncredited <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Donati" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sergio Donati">Sergio Donati</a>),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Good_2014_2-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly#cite_note-The_Good_2014-2" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</a></sup> based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonino_Delli_Colli" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tonino Delli Colli">Tonino Delli Colli</a> was responsible for the film's sweeping <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Widescreen">widescreen</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cinematography">cinematography</a>, and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ennio Morricone">Ennio Morricone</a> composed the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly_(soundtrack)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (soundtrack)">film's score</a> including <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly_(theme)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (theme)">its main theme</a>. It was an international co-production between Italy, Spain, West Germany and the United States.</div>
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US theatrical release poster by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Otnes" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fred Otnes">Fred Otnes</a></div>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 7px 0.65em 7px 10px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Directed by</th><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; line-height: 1.3em; padding: 7px 10px; vertical-align: top; width: 167.953125px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Leone" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sergio Leone">Sergio Leone</a></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 7px 0.65em 7px 10px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Screenplay by</th><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; line-height: 1.3em; padding: 7px 10px; vertical-align: top; width: 167.953125px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_%26_Scarpelli" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Age & Scarpelli">Age & Scarpelli</a><br /><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Vincenzoni" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Luciano Vincenzoni">Luciano Vincenzoni</a><br />Sergio Leone<br /><b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Uncredited:</b><br /><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Donati" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sergio Donati">Sergio Donati</a><br /><b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">English Version:</b><br /><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Knox" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mickey Knox">Mickey Knox</a></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 7px 0.65em 7px 10px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Story by</th><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; line-height: 1.3em; padding: 7px 10px; vertical-align: top; width: 167.953125px;">Luciano Vincenzoni<br />Sergio Leone</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 7px 0.65em 7px 10px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">Starring</th><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; line-height: 1.3em; padding: 7px 10px; vertical-align: top; width: 167.953125px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a><br /><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Van_Cleef" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Lee Van Cleef">Lee Van Cleef</a><br /><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Wallach" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Eli Wallach">Eli Wallach</a></td></tr>
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<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Grimaldi" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Alberto Grimaldi">Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)</a><br />Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas<br /><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Film" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Constantin Film">Constantin Film</a><br /><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="United Artists">United Artists</a></div>
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The film is known for Leone's use of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_shots" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Long shots">long shots</a> and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-up" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Close-up">close-up</a>cinematography, as well as his distinctive use of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticization_of_violence" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Aestheticization of violence">violence</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Suspense">tension</a>, and stylistic <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfighter" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Gunfighter">gunfights</a>. The plot revolves around three <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunslinger" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Gunslinger">gunslingers</a> competing to find fortune in a buried cache of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_gold" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Confederate gold">Confederate gold</a> amid the violent chaos of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> (specifically the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Campaign" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="New Mexico Campaign">New Mexico Campaign</a> in 1862), while participating in many battles and duels along the way.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Yezbick_6-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly#cite_note-Yezbick-6" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[6]</a></sup> The film was the third collaboration between Leone and Clint Eastwood, and the second with Lee Van Cleef.</div>
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<i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</i> was marketed as the third and final installment in the <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollars_Trilogy" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dollars Trilogy">Dollars Trilogy</a></i>, following <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="A Fistful of Dollars">A Fistful of Dollars</a></i> and <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_a_Few_Dollars_More" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="For a Few Dollars More">For a Few Dollars More</a></i>. The film was a financial success, grossing over $25 million at the box office, and is credited with catapulting Eastwood into stardom.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly#cite_note-7" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[7]</a></sup> Due to general disapproval of the Spaghetti Western genre at the time, critical reception of the film following its release was mixed, but it gained critical acclaim in later years. <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</i> is now seen as one of the greatest and most influential <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Western (genre)">Westerns</a> of all time.</div>
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This iPad artwork is done of <span style="color: #222222; font-family: , "helveticaneue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Major-General Nick Caplin CB, who is a retired British Army officer who commanded United Kingdom Support Command, and is now Chief Executive Officre for the Blind Veteran's UK</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: , "helveticaneue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and me outside the Imperial War Museum. Inside the museum I had photos taken of my huge BVUK painting of 13 members of the charity. Nick Caplin served in Bosnia exactly the same time and place as I did in the summer tour of 1995 as BRITBAT 1.</span>Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-77171258074071242372017-05-12T14:07:00.002+01:002017-05-14T09:44:41.991+01:00"Come on Dad!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A painting of my niece Coco climbing with her dad' my brother Steve!Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-21157103028469974222017-05-09T12:23:00.002+01:002017-05-09T12:54:23.679+01:00The Talkest Skyscaper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The Tallest Skyscraper" is a ipad art of Lee, my son-in-law, and his brother-in-law and nephew.Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-86489906350425476842017-05-02T12:14:00.003+01:002017-05-15T16:43:01.362+01:00Just down the steps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's my painting called, "Just down the steps". This is of a painting I've down of the cafe which is just down the cliff steps by Ovingdean BVUK.Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-63981298060545943012017-04-28T12:33:00.001+01:002017-06-27T15:37:16.264+01:00Prince William visits Llandudno <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Prince William on his visit to BVUK in Llandudno in 2010. This design is for a postcard for BVUK.Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-49880932155961392592017-04-26T13:26:00.001+01:002017-04-26T17:05:00.978+01:00Harry, the Jedi Knight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's my iPad artwork of my son Harry, the Jedi KnightMatthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-34046696766203421542017-04-22T15:26:00.001+01:002017-05-31T12:16:08.543+01:00Llandudno at Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Llandudno at ChristmasMatthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-33869791769185545052017-04-10T18:50:00.002+01:002017-05-31T12:17:07.062+01:00Ovingdean at Christmas <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my first attempt at drawing a Valentine card drawn by pencil 53 on my mobile with my fingertipMatthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-58955025158889150062017-02-02T13:32:00.002+00:002017-02-02T18:27:24.323+00:00Letter from the Houses Of Parliament <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's my first attempt at drawing using the "Paper 53". This one was just painted on my mobile phone using my finger. My next attempt shall be using an iPad and a Paper 53 Pencil.<br />
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The exhibition, at St George's Hall in Liverpool, also includes a painting of former footballer Steven Gerrard, which will be put up for auction.</div>
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Funds will go to the charity Blind Veterans UK, which set up the display, titled Art - Life beyond Sight Loss.</div>
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Ex-soldier Matt Rhodes said painting gave him "a new lease of life".</div>
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<span style="background-color: #111111; color: #ececec; font-size: 14px;">Ex-soldier Matt Rhodes has painted an updated version of the John Singer Sargent painting Gassed</span></div>
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His modern version of the John Singer Sargent painting "Gassed" showing a line of wounded soldiers following a mustard gas attack in World War One is also on display at the Liverpool exhibition.</div>
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The 42-year-old, from Preston, lost most of his sight after a motorcycle accident, which left him with a brain injury and paralysis down the right side of his body. </div>
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"I have half tunnel vision so when I'm working I can only see small sections of the painting like an eyebrow or an ear. I have to work my way around doing each bit on its own. It does mean that I can never see the whole finished work."</div>
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He added: "Unfortunately, my injuries have become worse over the last few months and I have had to stop painting conventionally." </div>
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He said he was "working with the instructors on finding new techniques using new technologies".</div>
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-38622443Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-479523609640239242017-01-10T13:01:00.001+00:002017-01-10T13:01:09.514+00:00Ben Shephard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since April 2014, Shephard has co-hosted the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> breakfast show <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning_Britain_(2014_TV_programme)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)">Good Morning Britain</a></i>, alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Reid" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Susanna Reid">Susanna Reid</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Garraway" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Kate Garraway">Kate Garraway</a>.</div>
Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-66953860096599973802016-11-27T16:23:00.001+00:002016-11-27T16:23:20.415+00:00My daughters Bethany Rhodes drawing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This wonderful drawing was done by my daughter, Bethany Rhodes, when she was only 13. The drawing was for my gallery in St Georges Hall, Liverpool, from the 13th of January 2017 for Blond Veterans UK.Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-47158424586166249902016-09-03T17:44:00.001+01:002016-09-14T10:46:58.852+01:00A member of BVUK staffs daughter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-60261933540731774782016-09-01T12:17:00.001+01:002016-09-01T12:17:53.600+01:00Clint Eastwood "Dirty Harry"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Audrey Hepburn</b> (<span class="nowrap" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Help:IPA for English">/<span style="background-image: none; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="/ɔː/ 'au' in 'fraud'">ɔː</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="/i/ 'y' in 'happy'">i</span></span> <span style="background-image: none; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="/ɛ/ short 'e' in 'bed'">ɛ</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="/ˌ/ secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="/ɜːr/ 'ir' in 'bird'">ɜːr</span><span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="'n' in 'no'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>; born <b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Audrey Kathleen Ruston</b>; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Classical Hollywood cinema">Hollywood's Golden Age</a>. She was ranked by the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a> as the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Stars" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars">third-greatest female screen legend</a>in Golden Age <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cinema of the United States">Hollywood</a> and was inducted into the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Best_Dressed_List" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="International Best Dressed List">International Best Dressed List</a> Hall of Fame. Born in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixelles" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ixelles">Ixelles</a>, a district of Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, she studied ballet with <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Gaskell" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sonia Gaskell">Sonia Gaskell</a> before moving to London in 1948, continuing her ballet training with <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rambert" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Marie Rambert">Marie Rambert</a>, and then performing as a chorus girl in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_theatre" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="West End theatre">West End</a>musical theatre productions.</div>
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Following minor appearances in several films, Hepburn starred in the 1951 Broadway play <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_(play)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Gigi (play)">Gigi</a></i> after being spotted by French novelist <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colette" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Colette">Colette</a>, on whose work the play was based. She shot to stardom for playing the lead role in <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Roman Holiday">Roman Holiday</a></i> (1953), for which she was the first actress to win an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a>, a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Golden Globe Award">Golden Globe</a> and a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Academy_Film_Awards" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="British Academy Film Awards">BAFTA</a>Award for a single performance. The same year Hepburn won a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Award" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tony Award">Tony Award</a>for <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Actress_in_a_Play" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play">Best Lead Actress in a Play</a> for her performance in <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondine_(play)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ondine (play)">Ondine</a></i>. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_(1954_film)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sabrina (1954 film)">Sabrina</a></i> (1954), <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nun%27s_Story_(film)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Nun's Story (film)">The Nun's Story</a></i>(1959), <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_(film)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)">Breakfast at Tiffany's</a></i> (1961), <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charade_(1963_film)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Charade (1963 film)">Charade</a></i> (1963), <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_(film)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="My Fair Lady (film)">My Fair Lady</a></i> (1964) and <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Until_Dark_(film)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Wait Until Dark (film)">Wait Until Dark</a></i> (1967), for which she received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won a record three BAFTA Awards for <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Actress_in_a_Leading_Role#Superlatives" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role">Best British Actress in a Leading Role</a>. In recognition of her film career, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Cecil_B._DeMille_Award" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award">Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award</a>, the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Life_Achievement_Award" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award">Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award</a> and the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Tony_Award" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Special Tony Award">Special Tony Award</a>. She remains one of the few people who have won <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_Academy,_Emmy,_Grammy,_and_Tony_Awards" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards">Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards</a>.</div>
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Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="UNICEF">UNICEF</a>. She had contributed to the organisation since 1954, then worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in recognition of her work as a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UNICEF_Goodwill_Ambassadors" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="List of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors">UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador</a> in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_cancer" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Appendix cancer">appendiceal cancer</a> at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63.</div>
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<b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill</b>, <span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_the_Order_of_the_Garter" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Knight of the Order of the Garter">KG</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_Order_of_Merit" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Member of the Order of Merit">OM</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_of_Honour" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Companion of Honour">CH</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Decoration" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Territorial Decoration">TD</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Privy Council of the United Kingdom">PC</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_Lieutenant" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Deputy Lieutenant">DL</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academician" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Royal Academician">RA</a></span> (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_(armed_forces)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Officer (armed forces)">officer</a> in the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="British Army">British Army</a>, a non-academic historian, a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_as_writer" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Winston Churchill as writer">writer (as Winston S. Churchill)</a>, and an artist. He won the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a>, and was the first person to be made an <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_citizen_of_the_United_States" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Honorary citizen of the United States">honorary citizen of the United States</a>.</div>
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Churchill was born into the family of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Marlborough_(title)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Duke of Marlborough (title)">Dukes of Marlborough</a>, a branch of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_family" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Spencer family">Spencer family</a>. His father, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Randolph_Churchill" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Lord Randolph Churchill">Lord Randolph Churchill</a>, was a charismatic politician who served as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>; his mother, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Jerome" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jennie Jerome">Jennie Jerome</a>, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_India" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="British India">British India</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo%E2%80%93Sudan_War" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Anglo–Sudan War">Anglo–Sudan War</a>, and the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.</div>
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At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Board_of_Trade" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="President of the Board of Trade">President of the Board of Trade</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a>, and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_First_Lords_of_the_Admiralty" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="List of the First Lords of the Admiralty">First Lord of the Admiralty</a> as part of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Asquith" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="H. H. Asquith">Asquith's</a><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Government_1905%E2%80%931915" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Liberal Government 1905–1915">Liberal government</a>. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Gallipoli Campaign">Gallipoli Campaign</a>caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a> as commander of the 6th Battalion of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots_Fusiliers" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Royal Scots Fusiliers">Royal Scots Fusiliers</a>. He returned to government under <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="David Lloyd George">Lloyd George</a> as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Munitions" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Minister of Munitions">Minister of Munitions</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_War" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Secretary of State for War">Secretary of State for War</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Air" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Secretary of State for Air">Secretary of State for Air</a>, then <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Colonies" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Secretary of State for the Colonies">Secretary of State for the Colonies</a>. After two years out of Parliament, he served as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Stanley Baldwin">Baldwin's</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> government of 1924–1929, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Gold standard">gold standard</a> at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.</div>
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Out of office and politically "in the wilderness" during the 1930s because of his opposition to increased home rule for India and his resistance to the 1936 abdication of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Edward VIII">Edward VIII</a>, Churchill took the lead in warning about <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>and in campaigning for rearmament. At the outbreak of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a> on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. His speeches and radio broadcasts helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult days of 1940–41 when the British Commonwealth and Empire stood almost alone in its active opposition to <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had been secured. Under his leadership as the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, close to three million Bengalis perished in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Famine_of_1943" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Bengal Famine of 1943">Bengal Famine of 1943</a> in British India.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#cite_note-2" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#cite_note-3" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup></div>
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After the Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, he became <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(United_Kingdom)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)">Leader of the Opposition</a> to the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Government</a>. He publicly warned of an "<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Iron Curtain">Iron Curtain</a>" of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. After winning the 1951 election, Churchill again became Prime Minister. His second term was preoccupied by foreign affairs, including the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Emergency" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Malayan Emergency">Malayan Emergency</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mau Mau Uprising">Mau Mau Uprising</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, and a UK-backed <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="1953 Iranian coup d'état">coup d'état in Iran</a>. Domestically his government laid great emphasis on house-building. Churchill suffered a serious stroke in 1953 and retired as Prime Minister in 1955, although he remained a Member of Parliament until <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1964" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="United Kingdom general election, 1964">1964</a>. Upon his death aged ninety in 1965, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> granted him the honour of a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_funeral" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="State funeral">state funeral</a>, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-news_5-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#cite_note-news-5" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> Named the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="100 Greatest Britons">Greatest Briton</a> of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history, consistently ranking well in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Prime_Ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Historical rankings of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom">opinion polls of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom</a>.</div>
Matthew Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424027450078848968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124535816358226880.post-53453577177063301492016-08-31T18:43:00.003+01:002016-08-31T18:46:46.459+01:00Elvis Presley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elvis Aaron Presley</b><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-name_5-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley#cite_note-name-5" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[a]</a></sup> (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American musician and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Elvis_Presley" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cultural impact of Elvis Presley">cultural icons</a> of the 20th century, he is often referred to as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorific_nicknames_in_popular_music" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Honorific nicknames in popular music">"the King of Rock and Roll"</a>, or simply, "the King".</div>
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Presley was born in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupelo,_Mississippi" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tupelo, Mississippi">Tupelo, Mississippi</a>, as a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinless_twin" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Twinless twin">twinless twin</a>- his brother was <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillborn" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Stillborn">stillborn</a>. When he was 13 years old, he and his family relocated to <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>. His music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Phillips" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sam Phillips">Sam Phillips</a> at <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Records" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sun Records">Sun Records</a>. Accompanied by guitarist <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty_Moore" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Scotty Moore">Scotty Moore</a> and bassist <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Black" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Bill Black">Bill Black</a>, Presley was an early popularizer of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Rockabilly">rockabilly</a>, an uptempo, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbeat_(music)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Backbeat (music)">backbeat</a>-driven fusion of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Country music">country music</a> and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Victor" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a> acquired his contract in a deal arranged by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Colonel Tom Parker">Colonel Tom Parker</a>, who managed the singer for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreak_Hotel" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Heartbreak Hotel">Heartbreak Hotel</a>", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the leading figure of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> after a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines that coincided with the dawn of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Civil Rights Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a>, made him enormously popular—and controversial.</div>
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In November 1956, he made his film debut in <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me_Tender_(film)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Love Me Tender (film)">Love Me Tender</a></i>. In 1958, he was drafted into military service. He resumed his recording career two years later, producing some of his most commercially successful work before devoting much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and their accompanying soundtrack albums, most of which were critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed televised comeback special <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_(1968_TV_program)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Elvis (1968 TV program)">Elvis</a></i>, which led to an extended <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Valley" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Las Vegas Valley">Las Vegas</a> concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley was featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_from_Hawaii_Via_Satellite" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite">Aloha from Hawaii</a></i>. Several years of prescription drug abuse severely damaged his health, and he died in 1977 at the age of 42.</div>
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Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Commercially successful in many genres, including pop, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Blues">blues</a> and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_music" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Gospel music">gospel</a>, he is the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="List of best-selling music artists">best-selling solo artist</a>in the history of recorded music,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReaves2002_6-0" style="background-image: none; 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font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Grammy Award">Grammys</a>, also receiving the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award">Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award</a> at age 36, and has been inducted into <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_halls_of_fame_inducting_Elvis_Presley" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="List of halls of fame inducting Elvis Presley">multiple music halls of fame</a>.</div>
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<b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lee Jun-fan</b> (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh-Hant" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="zh-Hant">李振藩</span>; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), known professionally as <b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruce Lee</b>, was a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_American" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Hong Kong American">Hong Kong American</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Actor">actor</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_artist" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Martial artist">martial artist</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Philosopher">philosopher</a>, filmmaker,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-3" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup>and founder of the martial art <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Kune_Do" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jeet Kune Do">Jeet Kune Do</a>. Lee was the son of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_opera" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cantonese opera">Cantonese opera</a> star <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hoi-Chuen" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Lee Hoi-Chuen">Lee Hoi-Chuen</a>. He is widely considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> and a pop culture icon of the 20th century.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-6" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup> He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Time_100_7-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-Time_100-7" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup></div>
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Lee was born in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_San_Francisco" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Chinatown, San Francisco">Chinatown, San Francisco</a> on November 27, 1940 to parents from <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> and was raised in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kowloon">Kowloon</a> with his family until his late teens. He was introduced to the film industry by his father and appeared in several films as a child actor. Lee moved to the United States at the age of 18 to receive his higher education, at the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="University of Washington">University of Washington</a>, at Seattle<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TheBruceLeeStory41_8-0" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-TheBruceLeeStory41-8" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup> and it was during this time that he began teaching martial arts. His <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Hong_Kong" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cinema of Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Hollywood">Hollywood</a>-produced films elevated the traditional <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_action_cinema" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Hong Kong action cinema">Hong Kong martial arts film</a> to a new level of popularity and acclaim, sparking a surge of interest in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_martial_arts" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Chinese martial arts">Chinese martial arts</a>in the West in the 1970s. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts_film" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Martial arts film">martial arts films</a> in the United States, Hong Kong and the rest of the world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-9" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup></div>
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He is noted for his roles in five feature-length films: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_Wei" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Lo Wei">Lo Wei</a>'s <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Boss" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Big Boss">The Big Boss</a></i>(1971) and <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_Fury" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fist of Fury">Fist of Fury</a></i> (1972); <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Sky_Golden_Harvest" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Orange Sky Golden Harvest">Golden Harvest</a>'s <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Dragon" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Way of the Dragon">Way of the Dragon</a></i> (1972), directed and written by Lee; Golden Harvest and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Brothers" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Warner Brothers">Warner Brothers</a>' <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Dragon" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Enter the Dragon">Enter the Dragon</a></i> (1973) and <i style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Death" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Game of Death">The Game of Death</a></i>(1978), both directed by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clouse" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Robert Clouse">Robert Clouse</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-10" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup> Lee became an iconic figure known throughout the world, particularly among the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Han Chinese">Chinese</a>, as he portrayed <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_nationalism" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Chinese nationalism">Chinese nationalism</a> in his films.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-11" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup> He trained in the art of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Chun" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Wing Chun">Wing Chun</a> and later combined his other influences from various sources, in the spirit of his personal martial arts philosophy, which he dubbed Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist). Lee held <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_nationality" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dual nationality">dual nationality</a> of Hong Kong and the United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#cite_note-12" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup> He died in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Tong" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kowloon Tong">Kowloon Tong</a> on July 20, 1973 at the age of 32.</div>
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