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Hugh Grant

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Ancestry and early life

Grant was born at Hammersmith Hospital in London, England, the son of Fynvola Susan (ne MacLean) and Captain James Murray Grant. Genealogist Antony Adolph described Grant’s family history as “a colourful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy.” Grant is from a long line of Scots military men, doctors and explorers, including William Drummond and Dr. James Stewart. John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Rt Hon. Sir Evan Nepean, and former British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval are a few of his notable maternal antecedents. Grant’s grandfather, Major James Murray Grant, DSO, a native of Inverness in Scotland, was decorated for bravery and leadership at Dunkirk during WWII.

Grant’s father, Capt. Grant, was trained at Sandhurst and served with the Seaforth Highlanders for eight years in Malaya, Germany and Scotland. He ran a carpet firm, pursued hobbies such as golf and watercolouring, and raised his family in Chiswick, West London, where the Grants lived next to Arlington Park Mansions on Sutton Lane. In September 2006, a collection of Capt. Grant’s paintings was hosted by the John Martin Gallery in a charity exhibition, organised by his famous son, called “James Grant: 30 Years of Watercolours.” His mother, Fynvola Grant, was the great-granddaughter of Sir Evan Colville Nepean (CB), whose father, Rev. Canon Evan Nepean, served as the Canon of Westminster and was Chaplain In Ordinary to Queen Victoria. She worked as a schoolteacher and taught Latin, French and music for more than 30 years in the state schools of West London. She died in Hounslow, London, at the age of 65, in July 2001, after an 18-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Grant’s famous RP accent is an inheritance from his mother and, on Inside the Actors Studio in 2002, he credited her with “any acting genes that [he] might have.” Both his parents were children of military families, and, despite his parents’ posh upbringings and backgrounds, Grant has stated that his family was not always affluent while he was growing up. Grant’s childhood passions included shooting and hunting, especially with his grandfather in Scotland. Grant’s elder brother, James “Jamie” Grant, is a successful banker as Managing Director, Head of Healthcare, Consumer, & Retail Investment Banking Coverage, at JPMorgan Chase in New York.

Education

Grant started his education at Hogarth Primary School in Chiswick. From 1969 to 1978, he attended Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith on a scholarship and played 1st XV rugby, cricket and football for the school. He also represented Latymer on the popular quiz show, Top of the Form, an academic competition between two teams of fourand secondary school students each. Chris Hammond, his form teacher in 1975 and later the assistant head of Latymer, told People magazine that Grant was “a clever boy among clever boys.” In 1979, he won the Galsworthy scholarship to New College, Oxford where he studied English literature and graduated with 2:1 honours. Grant was apparently memorable at Oxford: actress Anna Chancellor has recalled, “I first met Hugh at a party at Oxford Zoo. There was something magical about him. He was a star even then, without having done anything.” Viewing acting as nothing more than a creative outlet, he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and starred in a successful touring production of Twelfth Night.

Young earner

After making his debut as Hughie Grant in the Oxford-financed Privileged (1982), Grant dabbled in a variety of jobs: he wrote book reviews, worked as assistant groundsman at Fulham Football Club, tried his hand at tutoring, wrote comedy sketches for TV shows, and was hired by Talkback Productions to write and produce radio commercials for products such as Mighty White bread and Red Stripe lager. To obtain his Equity (UK) card, he joined the repertory theatre Nottingham Playhouse and lived for a year at Park Terrace in The Park Estate, Nottingham. Bored with small acting parts, he created his own comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with friends Chris Lang and Andy Taylor. The group toured London pub comedy circuit with stops at The George IV in Chiswick, Canal Cafe Theatre in Little Venice and The King’s Head in Islington. Starting on a low note, The Jockeys of Norfolk eventually proved a hit at the Edinburgh Festival after their sketch on the Nativity, told as an Ealing comedy, garnered them a spot on the BBC2 TV show called Edinburgh Nights. During this time, Grant also appeared in theatre productions of plays such as An Inspector Calls, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and Coriolanus.

Movie career

Grant’s first leading role came in Merchant-Ivory’s 1987 Edwardian drama, Maurice, adapted from E.M. Forster’s novel of the same name. He and co-star James Wilby shared the Volpi Cup for best actor at the Venice Film Festival for their portrayals of Cantabrigian collegians Clive Durham and Maurice Hall, respectively. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grant balanced small roles on television with rare film work, which included a supporting role in The Dawning (1988), opposite Anthony Hopkins and a turn as Lord Byron in a Goya Award-winning Spanish production called Remando Al Viento (1988). He also portrayed some another real life figures during in his early career such as Charles Heidsieck in Champagne Charlie and as Hugh Cholmondeley in BAFTA Award-nominated White Mischief.

In 1990, he made cameo appearance in the sport/crime drama The Big Man, opposite Liam Neeson, and in which Grant assumed a Scottish accent. The film explores the life of an Scottish miner (Neeson) who becomes unemployed during a union strike. In 1991, he played Julie Andrews’ gay son in the ABC made-for-TV movie Our Sons.

In 1992, he appeared in Roman Polanski’s film Bitter Moon, portraying a fastidious and proper British tourist who is married, but finds himself enticed by the sexual hedonism of a seductive French woman and her embittered, paraplegic American husband. The film was called an “anti-romantic opus of sexual obsession and cruelty” by the Washington Post. His other work in period pieces such as Ken Russell The Lair of the White Worm (1988), award-winning Merchant-Ivory drama The Remains of the Day (1993) and (as Frdric Chopin in) Impromptu (1991) was largely unnoticed. He later called this phase of his career “hilarious,” referring to his early movies as “Europuddings, where you would have a French script, a Spanish director, and English actors. The script would usually be written by a foreigner, badly translated into English. And then they’d get English actors in, because they thought that was the way to sell it to America.”

At 32, Grant claimed to be on the brink of giving up the acting profession but was surprised by the script of Four Weddings and a Funeral (FWAAF). “If you read as many bad scripts as I did, you’d know how grateful you are when you come across one where the guy actually is funny,” he later recalled. Released in 1994, FWAAF became the highest-grossing British film to date with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million, making Grant an overnight international star. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, and among numerous awards won by its cast and crew, it earned Grant his first and only Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. It also temporarily typecast him as the lead character, Charles, a bohemian and debonair bachelor. Grant and Curtis saw it as an inside joke that the star, due to the parts he played, was assumed to have the personality of the screenwriter, who is known for writing about himself and his own life. Grant later expressed:

Grant in his breakthrough performance as Richard Curtis’s alter ego, Charles, in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Although I owe whatever success I’ve had to ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral,’ it did become frustrating after a bit that people made two assumptions: One was that I was that character – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth, as I’m sure Richard would tell you – and the other frustrating thing was that they thought that’s all I could do. I suppose, because those films happened to be successful, no one, perhaps understandably, … bothered to rent all the other films I’d done.

1995 saw the release of Grant’s first studio-financed Hollywood project, Chris Columbus’s comedy Nine Months. Though a hit at the box office, it was almost universally panned by critics. The Washington Post called it a “grotesquely pandering caper” and singled out Grant’s performance, as a child psychiatrist reacting unfavourably to his girlfriend’s unexpected pregnancy, for his “insufferable muggings.” The same year, he played supporting parts as Emma Thompson’s suitor in Ang Lee Academy Award-winning adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and as a cartographer in 1917 Wales in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. In the same year he also performed his talent in Academy Award-winning Restoration.

Grant then reunited with the director of FWAAF, Mike Newell, for the tragicomedy An Awfully Big Adventure that was labeled a “determinedly offbeat film” by the New York Times. Grant portrayed a bitchy, supercilious director of a repertory company in post-World War II Liverpool. Critic Roger Ebert wrote, “It shows that he has range as an actor,” but the San Francisco Chronicle disapproved on grounds that the film “plays like a vanity production for Grant.” Janet Maslin, praising Grant as “superb” and “a dashing cad under any circumstances,” commented, “For him this film represents the road not taken. Made before Four Weddings and a Funeral was released, it captures Mr. Grant as the clever, versatile character actor he was then becoming, rather than the international dreamboat he is today.”

Grant made his debut as a film producer with the 1996 thriller Extreme Measures, a commercial and critical failure. After a three year hiatus, in 1999, he paired with Julia Roberts in Notting Hill, which was brought to theatres by much of the same team that was responsible for FWAAF. This new Working Title production displaced FWAAF as the biggest British hit in the history of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide. As it became exemplary of modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film was also received well by critics. CNN reviewer Paul Clinton said, “Notting Hill stands alone as another funny and heartwarming story about love against all odds.” Reactions to Grant’s Golden Globe-nominated performance were varied, with Salon’s Stephanie Zacharek criticizing that, “Grant’s performance stands as an emblem of what’s wrong with Notting Hill. What’s maddening about Grant is that he just never cuts the crap. He’s become one of those actors who’s all shambling self-caricature, from his twinkly crow’s feet to the time-lapsed half century it takes him to actually get one of his lines out.” The movie provided both its stars a chance to satirize the woes of international notoriety, most noted of which was Grant’s turn as a faux-journalist who sits through a dull press junket with, what the New York Times called, “a delightfully funny deadpan.” Grant also released his second production output, a fish-out-of-water mob comedy Mickey Blue Eyes, that year. It was dismissed by critics, performed modestly at the box office, and garnered its actor-producer mixed reviews for his starring role. Roger Ebert thought, “Hugh Grant is wrong for the role [and] strikes one wrong note and then another,” whereas Kenneth Turan, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said, “If he’d been on the Titanic, fewer lives would have been lost. If he’d accompanied Robert Scott to the South Pole, the explorer would have lived to be 100. That’s how good Hugh Grant is at rescuing doomed ventures.”

While promoting Woody Allen Small Time Crooks on NBC The Today Show in 2000, Grant told host Matt Lauer, t’s my millennium of bastards.61]

Giving his most critically acclaimed performance to date, Grant plays Snooker as Will Freeman in About a Boy.

Small Time Crooks starred Grant, in the words of film critic Andrew Sarris, as “a petty, petulant, faux-Pygmalion art dealer, David, [who] is one of the sleaziest and most unsympathetic characters Mr. Allen has ever created.” In a role devoid of his comic attributes, the New York Times wrote: “Mr. Grant deftly imbues his character with exactly a perfect blend of charm and nasty calculation.” A year later, his turn as a charming but womanising book publisher Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) was proclaimed by Variety to be “as sly an overthrow of a star’s polished posh – and nice – poster image as any comic turn in memory.” The movie, adapted from Helen Fielding’s novel of the same name, was an international hit, earning $281 million worldwide. Grant was, according to the Washington Post, fitting as “a cruel, manipulative cad, hiding behind the male god’s countenance that he knows all too well.”

Grant’s “immaculate comic performance” (BBC) as the trust-funded womaniser, Will Freeman, in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s best-selling novel About a Boy received raves from critics. Almost universally praised, with an Academy Award-nominated screenplay, About a Boy (2002) was determined by the Washington Post to be “that rare romantic comedy that dares to choose messiness over closure, prickly independence over fetishized coupledom, and honesty over typical Hollywood endings.” Rolling Stone wrote, “The acid comedy of Grant’s performance carries the film [and he] gives this pleasing heartbreaker the touch of gravity it needs,” while Roger Ebert observed that “the Cary Grant department is understaffed, and Hugh Grant shows here that he is more than a star, he is a resource.” Released a day after the blockbuster Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, About a Boy was a more modest box office grosser than other successful Grant films, making all of $129 million globally. The film earned Grant his third Golden-Globe nomination, while the London Film Critics Circle named Grant its Best British Actor and GQ honoured him as one of the magazine’s men of the year 2002. “His performance can only be described as revelatory,” wrote critic Ann Hornaday, adding that “Grant lends the shoals layer upon layer of desire, terror, ambivalence and self-awareness.” The New York Observer concluded: “[The film] gets most of its laughs from the evolved expertise of Hugh Grant in playing characters that audiences enjoy seeing taken down a peg or two as a punishment for philandering and womanizing and simply being too handsome for words-and with an English accent besides. In the end, the film comes over as a messy delight, thanks to the skill, generosity and good-sport, punching-bag panache of Mr. Grant’s performance.” About a Boy also marked a notable change in Grant’s boyish look. Gone were the floppy locks that had become his trademark, with Grant now sporting a cropped haircut. He has retained this look since.

Billy Bob Thornton (right) and Grant hold a press conference in Love Actually.

Grant was also paired with Sandra Bullock in Warner Bros.’s Two Weeks Notice, which made $199 million internationally but was judged poorly by professional reviewers. The Village Voice concluded that Grant’s creation of a spoiled billionaire fronting a real estate business was “little more than a Britishism machine.”

Two Weeks Notice was followed by the 2003 ensemble comedy, Love Actually, headlined by Grant as the British Prime Minister. A Christmas release by Working Title Films, the movie was promoted as “the ultimate romantic comedy” and accumulated $246 million at the international box office. It marked the directorial debut of Richard Curtis, who told the New York Times that Grant adamantly tempered the characterization of the role to make his character more authoritative and less haplessly charming than earlier Curtis incarnations. Roger Ebert claimed that “Grant has flowered into an absolutely splendid romantic comedian” and has “so much self-confidence that he plays the British prime minister as if he took the role to be a good sport.” Film critic Rex Reed, on the contrary, called Grant’s performance “an oversexed bachelor spin on Tony Blair” as the star “flirted with himself in the paroxysm of self-love that has become his acting style.”

A speech delivered by Grant in Love Actually – where he extols the virtues of Great Britain and refuses to cave to the pressure of its longstanding ally, the United States – was etched in the transatlantic memory as a satirical, wishful statement on the concurrent Bush-Blair relationship. Tony Blair responded by saying, “I know there’s a bit of us that would like me to do a Hugh Grant in Love Actually and tell America where to get off. But the difference between a good film and real life is that in real life there’s the next day, the next year, the next lifetime to contemplate the ruinous consequences of easy applause.”

Grant as the gratuitously nasty TV personality, Martin Tweed, in American Dreamz.

In 2004, Grant reprised his role as Daniel Cleaver for a small part in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which, like its predecessor, made more than $262 million commercially. Gone from the screen for two years, Grant next reteamed with Paul Weitz (About a Boy) for the black comedy American Dreamz (2006). Grant starred as the acerbic host of an American Idol-like reality show where, according to Caryn James of the New York Times, “nothing is real … except the black hole at the centre of the host’s heart, as Mr. Grant takes Mr. Cowell’s villainous act to its limit.” American Dreamz failed financially but Grant was generously praised. He played his self-aggrandizing character, an amalgam of Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest, with smarmy self-loathing. The Boston Globe proposed that this “just may be the great comic role that has always eluded Hugh Grant,” and critic Carina Chocano said, “He is twice as enjoyable as the preening bad guy as he was as the bumbling good guy.”

In 2007, Grant starred opposite Drew Barrymore in a parody of pop culture and the music industry called Music and Lyrics. The Associated Press described it as “a weird little hybrid of a romantic comedy that’s simultaneously too fluffy and not whimsical enough.” Though he neither listens to music nor owns any CDs, Grant learned to sing, play the piano, dance (a few mannered steps) and studied the mannerisms of prominent musicians to prepare for his role as a has-been pop singer, based loosely on Andrew Ridgeley. The Star-Ledger dismissed the performance, writing that “paper dolls have more depth.” The movie, with its revenues totalling $145 million, allowed Grant to mock disposable pop stardom and fleeting celebrity through its washed-up lead character. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Grant strikes precisely the right note with regard to Alex’s career: He’s too intelligent not to be a little embarrassed, but he’s far too brazen to feel anything like shame.” In 2009, Grant starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans?, which was a commercial as well as a critical failure.

Filmmaker

In July 1994, Grant signed a two-year production deal with Castle Rock Entertainment and by October, he became founder and director of the UK-based Simian Films Limited. He appointed his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, as the head of development to look for prospective projects. Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and lost a bid to produce About a Boy to Robert De Niro’s TriBeCa Productions. The company closed its U.S. office in 2002 and Grant resigned as director in December 2005. He has since said that his primary interest remains in filmmaking because: “Acting is at best an interpretative thing. It’s like being a musician and playing someone else’s music. I’ve always wanted to write the music.” In 2000, Grant joined the Supervisory Board of IM Internationalmedia AG, the powerful Munich-based film and media company. He has also served on the advisory board of Mark Milln and Kami Naghdi’s U.K. Production company, Hogarth Pictures.

Attitude toward acting

Grant has called being a successful actor a mistake and has repeatedly talked of his hope that film stardom would just be “a phase” in his life, lasting no more than ten years. A self-confessed “committed and passionate” perfectionist on a film set, Grant has constantly opted to describe himself as a reluctant actor, who chooses to be neutral about his career and works mostly with friends from previous collaborations. Telling the New York Times that he must truly love something before he can do it, he revealed that he chooses projects based on how well they are written and whether the character he is being asked to play constitutes a comic angle to his personality.

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A majority of Grant’s popular movies follow a similar plot that captures an optimistic, cocky bachelor experiencing a series of embarrassing incidences to find true love, often with an American woman. In earlier films, Grant was adept at plugging into the stereotype of a repressed Englishman for humorous effects, allowing him to gently satirize his characters as he summed them up and played against the type simultaneously. His screen persona of later films gradually developed into a cynical, self-loathing cad. Using his facial contortions and an affected stammer for varied comic purposes, Grant once admitted his inability to cry on cue, even with the help of menthol. His preference for levity over dramatic range has been a controversial topic in establishment circles, prompting him to say:

I’ve never been tempted to do the part where I cry or get AIDS or save some people from a concentration camp just to get good reviews. I genuinely believe that comedy acting, light comedy acting, is as hard as, if not harder than serious acting, and it genuinely doesn bother me that all the prizes and the good reviews automatically by knee-jerk reaction go to the deepest, darkest, most serious performances and parts. It makes me laugh.

In interviews, Grant has pinned his extensively published lack of interest in acting on two different thoughts: first, that he drifted into the job as a temporary joke at age 23 and finds it an immature way for a grown man to spend his time; and secondly, because he believes to have already given the one remarkable comic performance he had hoped to create on screen. Calling most scripts lame, Grant has stated that, unlike him, most actors really love acting and that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which, he says, it very often is. He told Vanity Fair in 2003 that being an actor at a certain age is akin to being a “char-lady,” making it unworthy of an adult time.

Critical and peer review

Grant is recognized as a divisive movie star in both critical reviews and popular media profiles. He has stuck to the genre of comedy, especially the romantic comedy, for the entirety of his mainstream movie career and never ventures to play characters who are not British. While some film critics, such as the respected Roger Ebert, have defended the limited variety of his performances, others have dismissed him as a one-trick pony. Eric Fellner, co-owner of Working Title Films and a long-time collaborator of Grant said, “His range hasn’t been fully tested, but each performance is unique.” A majority, though, tend to change their opinion of Grant from film to film, especially differentiating between his roles as Richard Curtis’ alter ego and the cynical, smart and sometimes sleazy rogue of several films released in the new millennium.

In the 1990s, Grant’s performances were deemed overbearing, in the words of Washington Post’s Rita Kempley, due to his “comic overreactionshe mugging, the stuttering, the fluttering eyelids.” She added: “He’s got more tics than Benny Hill.” Grant’s penchant for conveying his characters’ feelings with mannerisms, rather than direct emotions, has been one of the foremost objections raised against his acting style. Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post once stated that, to be effective as a comic performer, he must get “his jiving and shucking under control.” Film historian David Thompson wrote in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting. In the new millennium, Claudia Puig of USA Today celebrated the observation that finally “gone [were] the self-conscious ‘Aren’t I adorable’ mannerisms that seemed endearing at the start of [Grant's] film career but have grown cloying in more recent movies.”

Repeated accusations, which have only subsided in recent years, have targeted what the critics contend is Grant’s inclination to make his characters likable rather than complex. In 1999, Stephanie Zacharek stated that “by the time of Four Weddings and a Funeral, he’d switched to a more straightforward, dull, crumpled-corduroy acting style,” perhaps because, she chided, “Why bother to play a character when you can just ape a stereotype?” According to Carina Chocano, amongst film critics, the two tropes most commonly associated with Grant are that he reinvented his screen persona in Bridget Jones’s Diary and About a Boy and dreads the possibility of becoming a parody of himself. Echoing a widely-accepted assessment that Grant plays the same part over and again since he came to international fame in 1994, The Observer’s Philip French has said: “His range is as narrow as a cigarette paper.”

Grant’s colleagues, though, have often defended his skills. Emma Thompson, working with him in Sense and Sensibility, wrote in The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries that Grant “is as great an actor as I’ve always thought. So light and yet very much felt.” Colin Firth, who worked with him on more than one occasion, has suggested that very few can create Grant’s relaxed sense of irony on screen. Scottish actress Sharon Small, a co-star of Grant in About a Boy, discovered that “he is … a really versatile actor. People tend to put him in a box and say, ‘That’s all he does’, but when we were filming I watched him closely and he was very subtle and very different in every single take.”

Work ethic

A 2007 Vogue profile of Grant referred to him as a man with a “professionally misanthropic mystique.” The observation followed published facts such as that Grant picks his own movies, conducts his interviews alone (without any publicists), is known for politically incorrect and outrageous riffs in public, and derides focus groups, market research and overriding emphasis on the opening weekend. Grant decided to let go of his agent in 2006, ending a 10-year relationship with CAA. Besides proudly proclaiming in interviews to have never listened to external views on his career, he stated that he does not require the hand-holding an agent provides. A few months before firing his agent, he said, “They’ve known for years that I have total control. I’ve never taken any advice on anything.”

It has been reported that Grant has a reputation for not always bonding with his fellow cast and crew members. Being a “stern, edgy and intense” presence on film sets, the method behind his performances has been described as the exact reverse of the ease and simplicity he brings to his characters. According to the New York Times, Grant is known in the film industry as a meticulous performer who takes his time to prepare for a role. Having said that the only thing he “fears is fear itself,” his working style is apparently predicated on a tendency to take control. Richard Curtis, a frequent collaborator, revealed that Grant is not fluid about the filmmaking process and tends to be unrelaxed while filming because he doesn’t feel as though he’s in the director’s hands and prefers instead to take responsibility of giving a definitive performance.

Grant is noted by co-workers for demanding endless takes until he achieves the desired shot according to his own standard. Though known for being inventive on film sets (“The biggest laughs that my characters get in films tend to be improvised lines,” he has said), he has talked of finding the work of an actor restrictive because “saying other peoples’ lines all the time is – it’s always been – diminishing.” Media accounts of Grant on film sets present him as an actor who does not abdicate responsibility to his production team but is, instead, usually involved with various aspects of his projects, including script development, choosing the director of photography, the acting, and then the editing and the marketing. Journalist David Chater, reviewing a Channel 4 production entitled Brits go to Hollywood, remarked that the Hugh Grant “of popular image is wholly inaccurate. He won a scholarship to Oxford, he is highly articulate, he works non-stop and beats himself up with relentless self-criticism.”

Celebrity and media relations

According to The Boston Globe, Grant has repeatedly spoken about his boredom with playing the celebrity in the press. About the culture of celebrity, he told Vogue, “My theory is that it’s like bodybuilders who inject testosterone, which means that their own powers to generate testosterone shut down forever. The fake esteem you get from being in the public eye feels like self-worth, but actually your own powers to produce it shut down. The stuff that really counts is your own. And that’s, I think, why people go bonkers.”

Having labelled himself “neither a keen actor, nor a keen celebrity,” Grant’s prickliness and disdain toward the fourth estate is widely observed and documented. While promoting Mickey Blue Eyes in 1999, Grant exclaimed, “I’m even talking to the British press, which is astounding.” Said to be “unwilling to play the game” with the media, he is often described as appearing uninterested and brusque at press junkets to promote his movies. He has injured many Paparazzi including hitting one with his car in America.

Journalists interviewing him have expressed exasperation at Grant’s habit of stonewalling personal questions. Grant’s nonchalance and sarcasm are blamed for interviewers’ inability to discriminate between whether he is being serious or playful at any given time. On probing, he has remained incredibly steadfast in “offering a dead bat to any question he feels is not general enough.” Jessica Callan, a former gossip columnist for the Daily Mirror, explained to The Times that if you are nice to gossip columnists, they’ll generally be nice back, but she said, “Hugh Grant is such a grumpy bugger: you think, God, let wind him up.”

Another entertainment media figure, Kiki King, who claimed to have met Grant, described him as “the least friendly and most unappealing celebrity I’ve ever met.” Showbiz media personalities in his homeland use him as a referential model for the epitome of a reluctant, unobliging celebrity. Former editor of British tabloid newspapers the News of the World and the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, has written about his advice for Grant to stop making movies if he does not appreciate the spotlight.

Grant’s attitude at the London premiere of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), with him reportedly “refusing to chat to journalists or pose with his girlfriend Jemima Khan, and choosing instead to stand around scowling,” was subject to much criticism by the press who had waited long to talk to him. He decided to ban all British press from the New York launch of his film American Dreamz in 2006. The movie was also denied a London premiere and Grant gave only “a handful of newspaper interviews in connection with Dreamz,” a move that was held responsible by exhibitors for the movie’s poor box office showing. In February 2007, Grant had a controversial interview on BBC Breakfast where he was irked by the interviewer’s inquiry about the status of his relationship with his girlfriend. His response to the host, “I thought this was a classy show. I am ashamed of you,” resulted in increased editorial disapproval of his gruff behaviour in England.

Libel lawsuits

In 1996, Grant won substantial damages from News (UK) Ltd over what his lawyers called a “highly defamatory” article published in January 1995. The company’s now-defunct newspaper, Today, had falsely claimed that Grant verbally abused a young extra with a “foul-mouthed tongue lashing” on the set of The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

On 27 April 2007, Grant accepted undisclosed damages from the Associated Newspapers over claims made about his relationships with his former girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles, which were published in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday on 18, 21 and 24 February. His lawyer stated that all of the articles’ “allegations and factual assertions are false.” Grant said, in a written statement, that he took the action because: “I was tired of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday papers publishing almost entirely fictional articles about my private life for their own financial gain.” He went on to take the opportunity to stress, “I’m also hoping that this statement in court might remind people that the so-called ‘close friends’ or ‘close sources’ on which these stories claim to be based almost never exist.”

Deriding British newspapers for having become a “little tittle-tattle industry,” Grant has, on various occasions, claimed that the tabloids are keen to fabricate scandal on the slightest pretext and his own words are filtered through various media outlets before being misquoted numerous times.

Personality

Grant, once called the “unofficial mayor of London,” is frequently referred in the press with phrases that describe him as a “human straight line” who is “bursting with charisma.” He has been portrayed by acquaintances as a complicated man with an anarchic and sharp constitution. Grant is noted for his tendency of teasingly insulting everyone, which has earned him the public reputation of someone who can “put you down, put you on and put you off in the same sentence.” “There is at least as much of Hugh that is charismatic, intellectual, and whose tongue,” according to Mike Newell, “is maybe too clever for its own good as there is of him that’s gorgeous and kind of woolly and flubsy.”

Grant’s interview with Oprah Winfrey on 22 October 2004, was highly discussed in the media for his outspoken wit, which produced extemporaneous quips that included his description of Julia Roberts as “very big-mouthed.” He said: “Literally, physically, she has a very big mouth. … when I was kissing her, I was aware of a faint echo.” When Winfrey defended Roberts as “one of the nicest people I ever met,” Grant deadpanned, “No, well, I wouldn’t go that far.” Such incidents have been accompanied by stories of Grant’s purported insensitivity. Filmmaker Paul Weitz, calling Grant truly funny, observed that “he perceives flaws in himself and other people, and then he cares about their humanity nonetheless.”

It is frequently written that Grant employs an impulsive habit of ocky self-deprecation in public relations. Grant has also been presented in the press as occasionally being “very disengaged” at social events, with British newspapers regularly referring to him as bad-tempered, arrogant, rude, and grumpy. According to his colleagues and public appearances, Grant is not worried about how his grumpiness is publicly perceived, with his moodiness unabashedly on display in televised and published interviews.

Personal life

Grant is known in popular media for his guarded privacy, as he rarely discusses his life in public and chooses instead to fend off personal questions with humour. Grant is a supporter of Marie Curie Cancer Care, whose Great Daffodil Appeal he promoted in March 2008.

In 1987, while playing Lord Byron in a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento (1988), Grant met little-known actress Elizabeth Hurley, who was cast in a supporting role as Byron’s former lover Claire Clairmont. Grant started dating the aspiring model while shooting, and due to his rising fame, the latter half of their relationship was spent in the global media spotlight. After 13 years together, the two made “a mutual and amicable decision” to split in May 2000. With Grant a single man, according to Vogue, “by all accounts the women of London were practically stabbing one another with forks at social events to get close to him.” In 2004, he began dating socialite Jemima Khan under the intense scrutiny of British tabloids. Three years later, in February 2007, Grant’s publicist announced that the couple had “decided to split amicably.” The spokesman added, “Hugh has nothing but positive things to say about Jemima.”

Public scandals

On 27 June 1995, Grant was arrested in an L.A. Vice sting operation not far from Sunset Boulevard for misdemeanour lewd conduct in a public place with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown. He pleaded no contest and was fined $1,180, placed on two years’ summary probation, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program.

The arrest occurred about two weeks before the release of Grant’s first major studio film, Nine Months, which he was scheduled to promote on several American television shows. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno had him booked for the same week and, as recalled in former employee Don Sweeney’s memoirs, “despite his arrest, Hugh Grant kept his appointment to appear on Jay’s show.” The interview was a career-making hit for Leno and Grant was singled out for not making excuses for the incident. He famously said:

I think you know in life what’s a good thing to do and what’s a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it.

On Larry King Live, Grant declined the host Larry King’s repeated invitations to probe his psyche, saying that psychoanalysis was “more of an American syndrome” and he himself was “a bit old fashioned.” He told the host: “I don’t have excuses.” Grant’s management of the scandal was deemed unusual for a celebrity. He was appreciated for “his refreshing honesty” as he “faced the music and handled it with tongue [in] cheek.” The incident registered strongly in the global cultural conscience and tarnished Grant’s wholesome image. In the 2006 CBS TV series Love Monkey, the character called Shooter (Larenz Tate) explained the phenomenon of male discontent as “Grant’s Law.” Referring to Hugh Grant, he said that the star “had the hottest, sexiest and most beautiful woman waiting for him at home. And what does Hugh do? He picks up a cut-rate whore on Hollywood Boulevard.” This, he believed, showed that, “We, as men, can never be satisfied.”

In April 2007, Grant was arrested on allegations of assault made by paparazzo Ian Whittaker. Grant made no official statement and did not comment on the incident. Charges were dropped on 1 June by the Crown Prosecution Service on the grounds of “insufficient evidence.”

Sports

Grant’s athletic passions have often been profiled by newspapers and television media. A famous “golfing addict”, Grant is a scratch golfer and is a regular at pro-am tournaments with membership at the Sunningdale Golf Club. He is also frequently pictured by the paparazzi at the famed Scottish golf courses in St Andrews, Kingsbarns and Carnoustie. Highly competitive, he reportedly plays with a lot of money at stake. As a young boy, Grant was known as “a real killer, very fast, very competitive” on the sports field; he played rugby union on his school’s first XV team at centre and played football as an avid fan of Fulham F.C.. He is also a fan of Scottish side Rangers FC thanks to his grandfather who was Scottish. He continued to play in a Sunday-morning football league in south-west London after college and remains an “impassioned Fulham supporter.” On the set of About a Boy, Nicholas Hoult recalled being taught cricket and snooker by Grant. Hoult said, “when we weren’t acting we’d all play cricket. … We had a big match at the end of filming and Hugh was pretty good.” Actress Alicia Witt (Two Weeks Notice) has also described Grant as “a really good tennis player, shockingly good.” He used to play football as a child with John Isaacs, Jeremy Isaac’s son.

Filmography

Main article: Hugh Grant filmography

Awards and honours

Main article: Honours of Hugh Grant

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The Egyptians are a superstitious people and when an animal is often their only means of earning an income they are unwilling to change their ways. Ways that have been handed down from father to son over the generations. They do not mean to be cruel to their working animals but something had to be done to break this cycle of the misinformation.

The animal that tourists come into the closest contact with in Egypt is the carriage horse. Carriages, called caleches in Egypt, are a feature of every tourist destination throughout the country.

These carriages are brightly decorated and are pulled by horses that have descended from animals left behind by the British army. These horses are often ill-shod, malnourished, frequently had badly fitting harnesses and are made to gallop unnecessarily, in the very high temperatures, often up to 50 degrees during Luxor’s summer. They stand in full sunshine waiting for customers whilst their drivers smoke in the shade. Their working day ends only when the last tourists return to their hotel. Something had to be done and so the seeds of ACE were sown.

Egypt relies on its tourist trade and in Luxor there are four hundred officially registered caleches. After witnessing the harsh working day of the caleche horses and noting the significance of their link with the tourist industry, Julie Wartenberg realised that what the horses needed was a “wash & brush-up” and so the seeds of Animal Care in Egypt were sown.

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ACE’s founding purpose is to improve the lives of these high profile animals used mainly by tourists; so its first centre has been set up in Luxor, in an area called El Gouahera, where many carriage drivers live. Luxor is a hot, dry, sandy, dusty city so the horses are given what they need, washing and grooming in clean fresh water. This allows us to give them a preventive medical examination involving checking for lesions (soon fly-blown in the city’s atmosphere), checking their teeth and bit, inspecting the harness and spraying with citronella to keep the flies at bay. Treatment is given by 2 residents vets, Dr. David Mechelle Saweris E.V.M.S and Dr. Assma Abd EL Mowgood E.V.M.S.ACE was opened in July 2000 by two animal lovers (Kim and Julie) who had initially come to Egypt on holiday. They were so distressed by the condition of the horses and donkeys they saw around Luxor, they decided to do something to help.

ACE started as a simple idea to give these animals a break from their long working day in the hot sun, somewhere they could have their tack removed, a wash and a drink. The dirt and sweat under the tack was rubbing, causing sores and eventually open wounds. Now many of these sores are being prevented by teaching the owners to regularly wash their animals.

ACE has now evolved into a fully functioning veterinary hospital with up to 200 animals visiting a day (most requiring some sort of medical attention), ranging from water buffalo, camels, horses and donkeys to cats, dogs and even tortoises.

ACE knows that most visitors rarely see the thousands of working animals serving the needs of the tourist industry. They are still used as the main transport for most things, from the bricks, steel and cement used in the building to the huge amount of food and drink consumed in Luxor every day. These animals are almost overloaded and overworked.

ACE is trying to improve the lives of these animals not only by treatment but also by education and prevention. The service we provide is free to the poor owners who rely so heavily on their animals to feed, clothe and house their families.

ACE is completely funded by voluntary donation and need your help to continue this vital work.

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One of the main advantages in utilizing these products for your elementary school fundraising ideas is its simplicity. You don’t need to learn complex theories and concepts when trying to organize this kind of fundraiser. You just need to buy your products from trusted suppliers and sell them to your customers at marked-up prices. It’s that simple. When looking for a supplier, you have to remember two things. First, the retail prices of their products must be lower than the prices in your local markets. This ensures you that you can price your products affordably. Make sure that your marked-up prices are also lower than your local markets so that people will become more interested in purchasing your sweets. They would think that instead of buying from local markets which is more expensive, they would buy sweet treats from your fundraiser.

Not only will they save money, they can also help out the beneficiaries of your fundraising event. This assures you that your fundraiser will have a steady amount of income until the end of your events. The second thing that you need to remember in choosing your supplier is the cost of shipping your supplies from their company down to your fundraiser. Some companies offer free shipping costs but you have to reach a certain amount of product to buy in order to avail these offer. It is not recommended to buy bulk orders from your suppliers if you are still not sure that your products will be sold immediately. Make sure that you have good product demand before ordering bulk orders. You also have to make sure that the cost in delivering your fundraising products to your office is low so that you can price them affordably.

Aside from the simplicity of this kind of fundraiser, the market of the products is already available. Almost everybody consumes chocolates and other sweet treats from time to time so you are assured that you have market for these products. You will not have a hard time explaining the products to your potential customers since they already know what your products are. This makes your fundraiser very profitable and effective in raising funds for your fundraiser. You can also make products packages to further increase your income. Product packages ensure you that people will buy multiple products from you and can improve the financial output of your fundraising campaign. Your customers can use your products as gift packages for their loved ones. Fundraising with chocolates is very easy; even first-time fundraising organizers will find this type of fundraiser very profitable and simple to organize.

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If you are questioning what to do to make money, then you should definitely consider creating and selling gigs, or micro jobs, on Fiverr clone sites, or more commonly, gig sites. Fiverr is undoubtedly the mother of these gig sites, but others have quickly gained popularity and have proven to be more profitable than just using Fiverr alone. The idea is to simply sell products or services on a secure site for a few bucks a piece. Creating these gigs can actually be as much fun as they are profitable. Nonetheless, this money making method is noted as being the simplest way to make money, and fast.

Knowing what to do to make money is only half the battle of actually filling your bank account real money. You must actually get to work. Remember, only applied knowledge is power. So now that you know what to do to make money, your next step is to just do it.

This method of creating and selling gigs, or doing micro jobs, is very simple. Once you join a site, like say Crazy8err.com, all you must to do is register with quick email verification, and post your gig offers. The great thing about this is that your gigs can be very serious and practical such as admin work for an hour, blog posts, article writing, or even selling nulled scripts and special software and eBooks. Or, they can be fun like spelling a buyers’ business name or Facebook handle in a bowl of alphabet soup or in the sand on a famous beach while you’re staying there for a while. Selling gigs allows you to get back into your imagination and have fun while you are making money, which to me is priceless.

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The key in what to do to make money, and a lot of it, with this method, is to post your gigs on several gig sites. The Admins to these sites generate the traffic, so all you have to do is catch these browsers eyes. Come up with some fancy titles, create a quick Windows Movie Maker introduction video to your gig(s), post the max amount of gigs, and be responsive to the random queries. Act like you know what to do to make money, and the money will come.

Being a Gigger can be a bit contagious once you make your first few bucks, and if you post your gigs accordingly and are responsive to your buyers, this will happen pretty quickly. Treat it like a business, and you’ll go even further with your gig income. When I first started, I only made about 100 bucks in my first month, but I only wanted to test the waters. I won’t quote how much I personally make now, but it has surpassed that amount considerably. I don’t want to come off as some advertising agent. I just want to fill you in on what to do to make money quickly and easily. A few bucks here and there, at minimum, is well worth a try, especially when it is easy and you are having fun doing it, wouldn’t you agree?

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When you’re fundraising for a worthy cause, a fundraising thermometer just might help you meet your goal. In the vein of a picture’s worth a thousand words, the thermometer provides that important graphic reminder of where you are, where you’re going, and how long before you arrive.

Most of us have seen them. Alongside the road in a community trying to save up to pay for the annual Fourth of July fireworks show. Or at a high school showing how close the football team is to getting new uniforms. Some people create them to measure an individual goal. How much more until I have enough money to pay for my senior trip? … To buy Grandma’s Christmas present? … For my annual donation to the charity I care about?

The basic psychology of the thermometer goes back to lessons we learned as kids. Mom or Dad would respond to our want for something – new clothes, a special toy, a car – by encouraging us to save our money. By saving up, we’d appreciate what we got in the end, and would be more and more motivated as we got closer and closer to that goal.

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Well, that motivation our parents taught us also works for our adult individual or group goals. By looking up and seeing our steps toward achieving a goal, we see that our efforts get us nearer to to our goal. And making advancement to that goal pushes us – we need to finish, to achieve, and to raise the money.

This urge to meet our goals increases as we make that progress. The closer we get to the goal, the more we want to reach it.

It’s actually pretty simple to produce one. It’s a simple arts and crafts project that needs some very low-level drawing skills. With a large poster paper (or that nice paper butchers use), you draw a rectangle with one of the small ends rounded off. The opposite small end is a large bulb. The rectangular part at the center just gets a number of equally spaced hash marks to delineate progress on the way to your goal. Now that you have the basic template, you just use a colored marker (red is best) to color in your progress as you bring in money. If you reach your goal, the whole thermometer will be red (and maybe spurting out the top if you’ve raised more cash than you planned).

There are even companies offering pre-made fundraising thermometers making it that much easier to get started. Whether on your own hand-drawn poster, or coloring in one that’s professionally made, you’ll quickly be on your way to raising money for an important cause.

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If you have decided to raise funds for your school, group or organization by selling fundraising snacks, your first thought should be to find out snacks that meet your state’s wellness or nutrition policies, standards and regulations. The second thought will be about finding low-cost fundraising snack items that leave you with enough profit.

Snacks always prove to be great fund raising items. It is a favorite pass-time which costs less to donators and yields good profit. You can sell a pack of snacks at as little as $1 or 2 and can earn a profit as huge as 50-70%.

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There are many low-cost fundraising snack suppliers offering delicious and profitable fundraising snacks. You can find many of them online, browse through their products and place your order instantly. Some of these vendors are offering snack items on standard 21days credit that means you do not have to pay in advance for buying these fundraising snacks. You get sufficient time to sell the snacks then pay to the supplier. You will not have to pay even for shipping expenses.

There is no limit where you can sell these fundraising snacks. Of course, these items sell well among children, but are not limited to them only. You can sell snacks to anyone and almost anywhere. The vantage-points can be schools, clubs, events, drug stores, grocery stores, malls, festivals, sports activities, churches, neighborhoods, friends, relatives, co-workers and even on signals, footpaths, gardens and other places of general and public activities.

Besides, you can also decide to organize some sports or recreational events especially for children in your locality, entertain them, promote the cause and inspire them to buy your fundraising snacks.

No matter what your cause is, be it student scholarship, merit awards, athletic or academic achievement, humanitarian concerns, disaster relief, human rights, research or anything else, you can always rely on low-cost fundraising snacks items to meet your target easily.

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History

A vaudeville dancer

Acrobatic dance emerged in the United States and Canada in the early 1900s as one of the types of acts performed in vaudeville. Although individual dance and acrobatic acts had been performed in vaudeville for several decades prior to 1900, it was not until the early 1900s that it became popular to perform acts that combined dance and acrobatic movements.

Acrobatic dance did not suddenly appear in vaudeville; rather, it appeared gradually over time in a variety of forms, and consequently no individual performer has been cited as its originator. Sherman Coates, who performed with the Watermelon Trust from 1900 to 1914, was recalled by fellow dancers as the first acrobatic dancer they had ever seen. Another of the earliest documented acrobatic dance performers was Tommy Woods, who became well known for his slow-motion acrobatic dance in Shuffle Along, in which he would execute acrobatic movements precisely in time with the music. In 1914, acrobat Lulu Coates formed the Crackerjacks, a popular vaudeville troupe that included acrobatic dance in their performance repertoire up until the group disbanded in 1952. Many other popular vaudeville companies combined acrobatics and dance in their shows, including the Gaines Brothers.

Since the decline of the vaudeville era, acrobatic dance has undergone a multi-faceted evolution to arrive at its present-day form. The most significant aspect of this evolution is the integration of ballet technique as the foundation for dance movements, thus bringing into acro dance a precision of form and movement that was absent in vaudeville acrobatic dance. Also, vaudeville acrobatic dances were often little more than acrobatics set to music, whereas modern acro dance is fundamentally dance, with its acrobatic movements performed in a dance context.

Characteristics

A defining characteristic of acro is the smooth, graceful transitions between dance and acrobatic movements. Also, a dance must have a significant percentage of dance movement, with respect to its acrobatic content, in order for it to be categorized as acro. For example, a gymnastics floor exercise is not considered to be acro because it has little or no dance movement compared to its acrobatic content, and also because it lacks smooth transitions between dance and gymnastic movements.

Dance technique

The dance movements in acro are founded in ballet, jazz, lyrical and modern dance styles. Acro dance movements are not restricted to these dance styles, but the complete absence of these styles will typically cause a dance to be categorized as something other than acro (e.g., breakdance).

Acrobatic elements

The acrobatic movements performed in an acro dance are referred to as tricks. Numerous tricks are commonly performed in acro dances, varying widely in complexity and the skills required to perform them. Aside from the obvious requirement that dancers possess the requisite skills to perform tricks, the types of tricks that can be performed in an acro dance depends on the number of dancers.

Solo tricks can be performed by independent dancers in solo or group dances. Examples of this are:

Back layout

Back tuck

Back walkover

Cartwheel

Chest stand (chin stand)

Elbow stand

Front aerial

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Handspring

Handstand

Hand walking

Kip up

Roundoff

Side aerial

Valdez

Front aerial

Hand walking

Valdez

Double trickslso known as partnering tricksan only be performed by a pair of dancers. An example of this is the pitch tuck, in which one dancer forms a “saddle” with his hands. The second dancer steps onto the saddle and then the first dancer thrusts the saddle upward. The second dancer, who is propelled upward with back rotation, lands on her feet after a complete revolution in the air. Acro partners will sometimes execute lifts and adagio in addition to single and double tricks.

Double back walkover

Double cartwheel

Double plange

Lawnmower

Pitch tuck

Swizzle

Vault somersault

Lawnmower

Pitch tuck

Swizzle

Group tricks generally require three or more dancers. Examples of this are:

Bridge pyramid

Triple cartwheel

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Footwear

A pair of acro shoes.

A foot thong, as viewed from the bottom.

Acro dances are typically performed on hard stages with widely varying surfaces. Such floors differ substantially from a gymnastics floor, which is constructed by layering a standard surface over cushioning foam and spring floor. Whereas gymnasts perform barefoot and rely on the standard gymnastics floor for traction and cushioning, acro dancers seldom dance barefoot, instead depending on footwear such as acro shoes or foot thongs to provide the necessary traction and cushioning.

All of the most common types of acro footwear provide both traction and cushioning. In addition, acro performance surfaces are frequently rough, so acro footwear must protect the bottom of the foot from skin abrasion. Abrasion protection is particularly important on the ball of the foot, which is subjected to a great deal of friction during dance leaps and turns. Traction is essential to prevent lateral slipping that could result in dangerous falls to the hard floor. Cushioning serves to soften the impact when performing tricks such as tucks and layouts, in which a dancer’s feet may strike the floor at high velocity. Cushioning is especially important when a Marley floor is unavailable, because uncovered performance surfaces have no cushioning whatsoever and thus may be extremely hard and unyielding.

Acro shoes

Acro dancers most often wear jazz dance shoes, which are commonly referred to as acro shoes by acro dancers. Acro shoes are called jazz boots, jazz ankle boots, jazz booties and other names, by their various manufacturers. They are typically laceless, slip-on shoes, with tight-fitting leather uppers that are designed to prevent the dancer’s feet from shifting inside the shoes. Because of their thin, pliable leather uppers and split soles, acro shoes have excellent flexibility, thus enabling dancers to attain both good dance form and acrobatic control. The sole is made of soft, composite rubber so as to provide both high traction and cushioning, and it provides excellent protection from skin abrasion as it covers the entire bottom of the foot.

Foot thongs

Less commonly, acro dancers may wear foot thongs, which are variously called Dance Paws and FootUndeez, depending on the manufacturer. Foot thongshich are slip-on, partial foot covers that protect only the ball of the footre sometimes preferred over acro shoes for aesthetic reasons. In particular, flesh colored foot thongs endow the wearer with the appearance of having bare feet, while retaining some degree of the traction, cushioning, and abrasion protection provided by acro shoes.

Clothing

The skirt of this acro costume is short so it will not contact the headpiece when the dancer is inverted.

Acro dancers commonly wear flexible, form-fitting clothing for both safety and aesthetic reasons. Form-fitting clothing is preferred over loose clothing because the latter does not move synchronously with the body and thus may interfere with a dancer’s ability to maintain control. This is especially important when a dancer is performing tricks, as loss of control can lead to serious injury. Aside from the safety aspect, form-fitting clothing also helps to expose a dancer’s body lines, which can add significantly to the visual impact of an acro dance performance.

Competitive acro dancers frequently wear costumes when performing at dance competitions. Acro costumes often have loose fabric pieces such as short skirts, but the sizes and locations of these pieces are carefully calculated to ensure that they pose no safety risks. As an extra safety measure, skirts are sometimes pinned or stitched at the back below the waistline so that they will not hang at full length when the dancer is inverted, as in hand walking; this prevents the skirthich might otherwise become entangled in the dancer’s hair or costume headpiecerom contacting the dancer’s head.

Competitive acro

Acro dance is not uniformly defined within the competitive dance industry. Some dance competition companies require an acro routine to have a minimum of four or five tricks with at most fifty percent acrobatic content. Other companies require an acro routine to have exactly, or more than, fifty percent acrobatic content. Also, at some competitions an acro dance may fit into an explicitly defined “acro dance” performance category, while at others it may fall into a similar category such as “acro/gym,” or an alternative category such as “open.” Because of these differences, it may be necessary to enter a specific acro routine into different performance categories at different competitions.

References

^ a b Jim Lamberson. “Acro Dance as defined by the Competitive Dance Industry”. http://www.westsideacademy.com/perfco/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26. Retrieved 2008-04-03.

^ Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly (2007). Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America. Routledge. pp. p. 239. ISBN 0415938538.

^ Marshall Stearns, Jean Stearns (1994). Jazz Dance: The Story Of American Vernacular Dance. Da Capo Press. pp. p. 263. ISBN 0306805537.

^ StreetSwing Dance History Archives. “The Crackerjacks”. http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2crackerjacks.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-06.

^ Carla Webber. “Acrobatic skills for acro dance”. http://www.westsideacademy.com/perfco/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25. Retrieved 2008-04-03.

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Raising money for charity is no easy task. First you must come up with an excellent campaign and then you’ve got to use that campaign to convince people in the community to help you and the charitable organization by donating money.

It can be even more difficult in a tough economy. But when you start thinking about how to raise money for charity, there are ways to make it easier:

1) Make sure the campaign sticks to the brand-every charitable organization has a brand and you should make sure that the campaign follows that. If the organization helps children make sure the campaign features children and the ways donating can help those children.

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2) Look at examples from highly successful charitable organizations-if you want to know how to raise money for charity the best way to get on the right track is to look at what successful organizations like the Red Cross and your local Food Bank have been doing.

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4) Use online programs for fundraising that will help you raise the most amount of money without spending any money. There are many free online fundraising programs that can help your organization raise money through the power of online shopping and the shoppers that drive the trade.

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Can you recall a single Mj DVD whose demand wasn’t high enough? not high enough? Not even one, because Mj’s all the albums were highly in demand around the planet. However, after he succumbed to death on Thu. , the DVDs containing the hit tracks of MJ, his life history, Mj’s performances in live concerts are selling at nearly double pace making it tough for the music firms to meet the demands and giving way to robbery. Going by contemporary reports, music pirates in China have come out with a commemorative DVDS of the pop king. In the meantime in other states too the fan followings of this pop icon are ordering big number of DVDs. Though the complete DVD containing the fine work of the global pop star is highly in demand, yet the Mj DVD for live concerts are the all time favorites.

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However, there is not a single DVD featuring Mj, which is not in demand by the fans around the world yet the live performance DVDs, where one gets to see Mj performing on fast and energetic beats still tops the list. Moreover the photographs in these Mj DVD are rare and you cannot find quality prints of such footages everywhere that is the one more excuse for higher demand of live performance DVDs.

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It is becoming harder and harder to come up with creative fundraising ideas. Folks try everything from selling candy bars to holding car washes. These methods of fundraising can work out great, but there are more enjoyable and fun ways to raise funds than those traditional methods. One non-traditional fundraising activity is with inflatable movie screens.

Inflatable movie screens are all the rage in fundraising today. Organizations use these screens to show movies in the park or movies poolside for their attendees to enjoy. Admission can be charged for these events, with the proper movie licensing. This admission is one method to raise funds for charity.

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At these movie events the organizer can also sell popcorn, cotton candy, or snow cones to raise additional money for their charity organization. This is a very cost effective way to raise money that is simple, cheap, and delicious.

There are many things to consider when looking for an inflatable movie screen.

1. Attendance – This will usually dictate what kind of screen you need and who you will rent from.

2. Screen Size – Make sure the screen is large enough for your guest count.

3. Speaker Size – Sound is vital to the success of the event!

4. Professionalism of the movie screen rental provider.

5. Availability of the specific inflatable equipment on the night of your event.

6. Movie Licensing – Most movies need movie licenses to be shown in public. This is very important.

Inflatable movie screens are a great eye catcher and can add the wow factor to any fundraiser. It is truly a unique way for any fundraiser to give their guests a night to remember.

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