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Weekend at Bernie's
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This article is about the 1989 comedy film. For its 1993 sequel, see Weekend at Bernie's II. For the 2006 album by The Queers, see Weekend at Bernie's (album). For the episode of How I Met Your Mother, see Weekend at Barney's.
Weekend at Bernie's
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
Produced by
Victor Drai
Written by
Robert Klane
Starring
Andrew McCarthy
Jonathan Silverman
Catherine Mary Stewart
Terry Kiser
Music by
Andy Summers
Cinematography
François Protat
Edited by
Joan E. Chapman
Production
company
Gladden Entertainment
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
July 5, 1989 (1989-07-05)
Running time
97 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$15 million[1]
Box office
$30,218,387
Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American comedy film written by Robert Klane and directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as young insurance corporation employees who discover their boss, Bernie, dead. While attempting to convince people that Bernie is still alive, they discover that Bernie had ordered their deaths to cover up his embezzlement.
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 Sequel
5 Lawsuit
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman) are two low-level financial employees at an insurance corporation in New York City. While going over actuarial reports, Richard discovers a series of payments made for the same death. Richard and Larry take their findings to the CEO, Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), who commends them for discovering insurance fraud and invites them to his Hamptons island beach house for the Labor Day weekend. Unbeknownst to Larry and Richard, Bernie is behind the fraud. Nervously meeting with his mob partner Vito (Louis Giambalvo), Bernie asks to have Larry and Richard killed. However, after Bernie leaves, Vito decides Bernie has been attracting too much attention with his greed and his relationship with Vito's girlfriend, Tina (Catherine Parks), and orders that he be killed instead.
Bernie arrives at the island before Larry and Richard and plans the murders with Paulie (Don Calfa), the hitman, on the phone, unaware the conversation is being recorded on his answering machine. Bernie then plants cash and a fake confession note implicating Larry and Richard in the insurance fraud. Paulie arrives, killing Bernie with a drug overdose. When Larry and Richard arrive at Bernie's house, they find Bernie's body. Before they can call the police, guests arrive for a party that Bernie used to host every weekend. To Larry and Richard's amazement, the guests are too engrossed in their partying to notice he is dead, with the dopey grin from the fatal injection and his sunglasses concealing his lifeless state. Fearing implication in Bernie's death, and wanting to enjoy the luxury of the house for the weekend, Larry proposes he and Richard maintain the illusion that Bernie is still alive, a notion that Richard finds absurd. Only the arrival of Richard's office crush, Gwen Saunders (Catherine Mary Stewart), a summer intern for the company, convinces him to go along with Larry's plan.
Later that night, Tina arrives at the house, and has Larry and Richard direct her to Bernie. There, she also fails to realize he is dead. At that moment, Marty, one of Vito's mobsters witnesses the two of them apparently making love. Fooled into thinking Bernie's assassination failed, he notifies Paulie. The next morning, Richard is appalled to discover Larry furthering the illusion of Bernie being alive by manipulating his body's limbs. Richard attempts to call the police but instead activates the phone message detailing Bernie's plot against them. Unaware of the circumstances of Bernie's death, they mistakenly believe they are still the targets of a mob hit and decide to use Bernie's corpse as a prop for protection. Richard and Larry make various attempts to leave the island. All attempts are thwarted, as they repeatedly misplace and recover Bernie's body. Finally, Larry and Richard are forced to return to Bernie's home. Meanwhile, Paulie, unhinged at his apparent failure to kill Bernie, returns to the island.
At the house, Gwen confronts Larry and Richard, who confess that Bernie has been dead since their arrival. Paulie then appears and opens fire at Bernie, then turns his attention to Larry, Richard, and Gwen. Chasing after the trio, Paulie corners Larry, who clumsily manages to subdue him with a phone cord and a punch. The police eventually arrive and place Paulie under arrest, taking him away in a straitjacket as he continues to insist Bernie is still alive. Bernie is loaded into an ambulance, however, his gurney rolls away and topples off the boardwalk, dumping him onto the beach right behind Richard, Larry, and Gwen, who run away after noticing him. Eventually, a young boy comes along and starts to "play" with Bernie, scooping buckets of sand over his body.
Cast[edit]
Andrew McCarthy as Lawrence "Larry" Wilson
Jonathan Silverman as Richard Parker
Terry Kiser as Bernie Lomax
Catherine Mary Stewart as Gwen Saunders
Don Calfa as Paulie
Catherine Parks as Tina
Eloise Broady as Tawny
Gregory Salata as Marty
Louis Giambalvo as Vito
Ted Kotcheff as Mr. Parker
Margaret Hall as Lomax's secretary
Jason Woliner as Bratty kid
Reception[edit]
The film received mixed reviews from critics, holding a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film "tasteless" and "crude" and felt that in the end it was impossible to "drag one tired joke around for nearly two hours. Like Bernie, the movie ends up dead on its feet."[3] Roger Ebert echoed this sentiment, arguing that movies centered on dead bodies are rarely funny. Ebert gave the film 1 out of 4 stars overall.[4]
Nevertheless, the film was a financial success, grossing US$30 million at the box office, and was profitable on home video, as well as becoming a cult classic.[5][6]
Sequel[edit]
The film's commercial success inspired a 1993 sequel, Weekend at Bernie's II.
Lawsuit[edit]
On January 24, 2014, director Ted Kotcheff and screenwriter Robert Klane filed a lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Fox for breach of contract for profits they claimed were due from the film.[7][8][9]
See also[edit]
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Box Office Information for Weekend at Bernie's. The Wrap. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
Jump up ^ Weekend at Bernie's at Rotten Tomatoes
Jump up ^ "Weekend at Bernie's". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger. "Weekend at Bernie's Movie Review (1989) | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
Jump up ^ Johnson, Steve (Jul 13, 1993). "Resurrection 'Weekend at Bernie's II' Feels More Like a Month". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
Jump up ^ "Familiarity Breeds Film Hits". Daily News of Los Angeles. Jul 13, 1993. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
Jump up ^ Patten, Dominic (24 January 2014). "Fox & MGM Sued In Multimillion-Dollar 'Weekend At Bernie's' Profits Suit". Deadline.com. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
Jump up ^ McNary, Dave (24 January 2014). "'Weekend at Bernie's' Filmmakers Sue Fox, MGM Over Profits". Variety. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
Jump up ^ Lowrey, Brandon (15 October 2014). "MGM Tries To Kill 'Weekend At Bernie's' Contract Claims". Retrieved 2 April 2015.
External links[edit]
Weekend at Bernie's on IMDb
Weekend at Bernie's at the TCM Movie Database
Weekend at Bernie's at AllMovie
Weekend at Bernie's at the American Film Institute Catalog
Weekend at Bernie's at Box Office Mojo
Weekend at Bernie's at Rotten Tomatoes
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Life at the Top (1965)
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
Wake in Fright (1971)
Billy Two Hats (1974)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Split Image (1982)
First Blood (1982)
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Joshua Then and Now (1985)
Switching Channels (1988)
Winter People (1989)
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Folks! (1992)
The Shooter (1995)
Family of Cops (1995)
Borrowed Hearts (1997)
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The legal year, in English law as well as in other common law jurisdictions, is the calendar during which the judges sit in court. It is traditionally divided into periods called "terms."
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1.1 Start of the legal year
2 Ireland
3 United States
4 Taiwan
5 Hong Kong
6 Canada
7 References
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England[edit]
In England, the year is divided into four terms:
Michaelmas term - from October to December
Hilary term - from January to April
Easter term - from April to May, and
Trinity term - from June to July.
Between terms, the Courts are in vacation, and no trials or appeals are heard in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. The legal terms apply to the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme courts only,[1] and so have no application to the Crown Court, county courts, or magistrates' courts. The longest vacation period is between July and October. The dates of the terms are determined in law by a Practice Direction in the Civil Procedure Rules. The Hilary term was formerly from January 11 to 31, during which superior courts of England were open.[2]
Start of the legal year[edit]
The legal year commences at the beginning of October, with a ceremony dating back to the Middle Ages in which the judges arrive in a procession from the Temple Bar to Westminster Abbey for a religious service, followed by a reception known as the Lord Chancellor's breakfast, which is held in Westminster Hall. Although in former times the judges walked the distance from Temple to Westminster, they now mostly arrive by car. The service is held by the Dean of Westminster with the reading performed by the Lord Chancellor.[citation needed]
The ceremony has been held continuously since the Middle Ages, with the exception of the years 1940 to 1946 because of World War II. In 1953 it was held in St Margaret's Church because Westminster Abbey was still decorated for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Ireland[edit]
In Ireland, the year is, like England, divided into four terms:
Michaelmas term - from October to December
Hilary term - from January to April
Easter term - from April to May, and
Trinity term - from June to July.
With a Christmas, Easter, Whit and Long Vacation between them respectively. The Michaelmas term, and legal year, is opened with a service in St. Michan's Church, Dublin attended by members of the Bar and Law Society who then adjourn to a breakfast given in the King's Inns.
United States[edit]
The United States Supreme Court follows part of the legal year tradition, albeit without the elaborate ceremony. The Court's year-long term commences on the first Monday in October (and is simply called "October Term"), with a Red Mass the day before. The court then alternates between "sittings" and "recesses" and goes into final recess at the end of June.
Several Midwest and East Coast states and some federal courts still use the legal year and stated terms of court. Like the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has a single year-long term with designated sittings within that term, although the Second Circuit begins its term in August instead of October (hence the name "August Term"). The U.S. Tax Court divides the year into four season-based terms starting in January.
Connecticut appellate courts divide the legal year into eight terms starting in September. New York courts divide the year into 13 terms starting in January. The Georgia Court of Appeals uses a three-term year starting in January. The Illinois Supreme Court divides the year into six terms starting in January.
Many states, like Ohio and Mississippi, do not have a uniform rule for terms of court, so the number of terms varies greatly from one court to the next because every single court sets out terms of court in its local rules.
However, the majority of U.S. states and most federal courts have abandoned the legal year and the related concept of stated terms of court. Instead, they reverse the presumption. They merely mandate that the courts are to be open year-round during business hours on every day that is not Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday. A typical example is Rule 77(c)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which states that "The clerk's office ... must be open during business hours every day except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays." Furthermore, 28 U.S.C. § 452 states: "All courts of the United States shall be deemed always open for the purpose of filing proper papers, issuing and returning process, and making motions and orders."
Taiwan[edit]
The start of the legal year for courts in Taiwan is referred to as Judicial Day and marked in early January.
Hong Kong[edit]
Hong Kong's legal year is marked as Ceremonial Opening of the Legal Year with an address by the Chief Justice of Hong Kong and begins in January.
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Opening of the Courts is marked in September.[3]
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Jump up ^ http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/the-judiciary-in-detail/term-dates-and-sittings/term-dates
Jump up ^ "Hilary term - Definition and More", Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2011, webpage:MW-hilary.
Jump up ^ http://www.ontariocourts.ca/coa/en/ps/ocs/ocs.htm
Further reading[edit]
Cheney, C.R.; Jones, Michael, eds. (2000). A Handbook of Dates for Students of British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 98–105. ISBN 0521770955.
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Legal year information from judiciary.gov.uk
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Do the Right Thing
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This article is about the film. For the song, see Do the Right Thing (song).
Do the Right Thing
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Spike Lee
Produced by
Spike Lee
Written by
Spike Lee
Starring
Danny Aiello
Ossie Davis
Ruby Dee
Richard Edson
Giancarlo Esposito
Spike Lee
Bill Nunn
John Turturro
John Savage
Music by
Bill Lee
Cinematography
Ernest Dickerson
Edited by
Barry Alexander Brown
Production
company
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date
May 19, 1989 (1989-05-19) (Cannes)
July 21, 1989 (1989-07-21) (United States)
Running time
120 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$6 million[2]
Box office
$37.3 million[3]
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who also played the part of Mookie in the film. Other members of the cast include Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson. It is also notably the feature film debut of both Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez. The movie tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension, which comes to a head and culminates in tragedy on a hot summer day.
The film was a critical and commercial success and received numerous accolades and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Lee for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Supporting Actor for Aiello's portrayal of Sal the pizzeria owner. It is often listed among the greatest films of all time.[4][5][6][7][8] In 1999, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Controversies
5 Critical reception
6 Awards and nominations
7 Soundtrack
7.1 Score
7.2 Soundtrack
8 References
9 Bibliography
10 Further reading
11 External links
Plot[edit]
Mookie (Spike Lee) is a 25-year-old delivery man living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister, Jade (Joie Lee). He and his girlfriend, Tina (Rosie Perez), have a son. He works at the local pizzeria, but lacks ambition. Sal (Danny Aiello), the pizzeria's Italian-American owner, has been in the neighborhood for 25 years. His older son Pino (John Turturro) intensely dislikes blacks, and does not get along with Mookie. Because of this, Pino is at odds with both his father, who refuses to leave the increasingly African-American neighborhood, and his younger brother Vito (Richard Edson), who is friendly with Mookie.
The neighborhood is full of distinct personalities, including Da Mayor (Ossie Davis), a friendly local drunk; Mother Sister (Ruby Dee), who watches the neighborhood from her brownstone; Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn), who blasts Public Enemy on his boombox wherever he goes; and Smiley (Roger Guenveur Smith), a mentally disabled man, who meanders around the neighborhood trying to sell hand-colored pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
While at Sal's, Mookie's trouble-making b-boyish friend, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), questions Sal about his "Wall of Fame", a wall decorated with photos of famous Italian-Americans. Buggin' Out demands that Sal put up pictures of black celebrities since Sal's pizzeria is in a black neighborhood. Sal replies that it is his business, and that he can have whomever he wants on "The Wall of Fame". Buggin' Out attempts to start a protest over the Wall of Fame. Only Radio Raheem and Smiley support him.
During the day, the heat and tensions begin to rise. The local teenagers open a fire hydrant and douse the street, before police officers intervene. Mookie and Pino begin arguing over race, which leads to a series of scenes in which the characters spew racial insults into the camera. Pino and Sal talk about the neighborhood, with Pino expressing his hatred, and Sal insisting that he is not leaving. Sal almost fires Mookie, but Jade intervenes, before Mookie confronts her for being too close to Sal.
That night, Buggin' Out, Radio Raheem, and Smiley march into Sal's and demand that Sal change the Wall of Fame. Raheem's boombox is blaring and Sal demands that they turn the radio off, but they refuse. Buggin' Out calls Sal and sons guineas while saying that they're closing down the pizzeria for good until they change the Wall of Fame. Sal, in a fit of frustration, tells him he will "tear his nigger ass", then destroys the boombox with a baseball bat. Raheem attacks Sal, leading to a huge violent fight that spills out into the street, attracting a crowd. While Radio Raheem is choking Sal, the police arrive. They break up the fight and apprehend Radio Raheem and Buggin' Out. Despite the pleas of his fellow officers and the onlookers, one officer refuses to release his chokehold on Raheem, killing him. Realizing that Raheem has been killed in front of onlookers, the officers place his body in the back of a squad car, and drive off, leaving Sal, Pino, and Vito unprotected.
The onlookers, enraged about Radio Raheem's death, blame Sal and his sons. Mookie grabs a trash can and throws it through the window of Sal's pizzeria, sparking the crowd to rush into the restaurant and destroy it, with Smiley finally setting it on fire. Da Mayor pulls Sal, Pino, and Vito out of the mob's way. Firemen and riot patrols arrive to put out the fire and disperse the crowd. After police issue a warning, the firefighters turn their hoses on the rioters, leading to more fighting and arrests. Mookie and Jade sit on the curb, watching in disbelief. Smiley wanders back into the smoldering building and hangs one of his pictures on what is left of Sal's Wall of Fame.
The next day, after having an argument with Tina, Mookie returns to Sal, who feels that Mookie betrayed him. Mookie demands his weekly pay, leading to an argument. They cautiously reconcile, and Sal finally pays him. Mister Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson), a local DJ, dedicates a song to Raheem.
The film ends with two quotations expressing different views about violence, one from Martin Luther King and one from Malcolm X, before fading to a photograph of them shaking hands. Prior to the credits, Lee dedicates the film to the families of six victims of police brutality: Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Griffith, Arthur Miller, Jr., Edmund Perry, Yvonne Smallwood, and Michael Stewart.
Cast[edit]
Spike Lee as Mookie
Danny Aiello as Sal
Ossie Davis as Da Mayor
Ruby Dee as Mother Sister
Giancarlo Esposito as Buggin' Out
Bill Nunn as Radio Raheem
John Turturro as Pino
Richard Edson as Vito
Roger Guenveur Smith as Smiley
Rosie Perez as Tina
Joie Lee as Jade
Steve White as Ahmad
Martin Lawrence as Cee
Leonard L. Thomas as Punchy
Christa Rivers as Ella
Robin Harris as Sweet Dick Willie
Paul Benjamin as ML
Frankie Faison as Coconut Sid
Samuel L. Jackson as Mister Señor Love Daddy (credited as Sam Jackson)
Steve Park as Sonny
Rick Aiello as Officer Gary Long
Miguel Sandoval as Officer Mark Ponte
Luis Antonio Ramos as Stevie
John Savage as Clifton
Frank Vincent as Charlie
Richard Parnell Habersham as Eddie
Ginny Yang as Kim
Nicholas Turturro (extra) (uncredited)
Production[edit]
Spike Lee wrote the screenplay in two weeks.[9] The original script of Do the Right Thing ends with a stronger reconciliation between Mookie and Sal. Sal's comments to Mookie mirror Da Mayor's earlier comments in the film and hint at some common ground and perhaps Sal's understanding of why Mookie was motivated to destroy his restaurant. It is unclear why Lee changed the ending.[10]
The film was shot entirely on Stuyvesant Avenue between Quincy Street and Lexington Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The street's color scheme was heavily altered by the production designer, who used a great deal of red and orange paint in order to help convey the sense of a heatwave.
Spike Lee campaigned for Robert De Niro as Sal the pizzeria owner, but De Niro had to decline due to prior commitments. The character of Smiley was not in the original script; he was created by Roger Guenveur Smith, who was pestering Spike Lee for a role in the film.[11] Four of the cast members were stand-up comedians: Martin Lawrence, Steve Park, Steve White, and Robin Harris.
Controversies[edit]
The film was released to protests from many reviewers, and it was openly stated in several newspapers that the film could incite black audiences to riot.[12] Lee criticized white reviewers for implying that black audiences were incapable of restraining themselves while watching a fictional motion picture.[13] In a 2014 interview Lee stated "That still bugs the shit out of me," calling the remarks "outrageous, egregious and, I think, racist," and further elaborating, "I don't remember people saying people were going to come out of theatres killing people after they watched Arnold Schwarzenegger films." [14]
One of many questions at the end of the film is whether Mookie "does the right thing" when he throws the garbage can through the window, thus inciting the riot that destroys Sal's pizzeria. Critics have seen Mookie's action both as an action that saves Sal's life, by redirecting the crowd's anger away from Sal to his property, and as an "irresponsible encouragement to enact violence".[15] The question is directly raised by the contradictory quotations that end the film, one advocating nonviolence, the other advocating violent self-defense in response to oppression.[15]
Spike Lee has remarked that he has only ever been asked by white viewers whether Mookie did the right thing; black viewers do not ask the question.[16] Lee believes the key point is that Mookie was angry at the death of Radio Raheem, and that viewers who question the riot's justification are implicitly failing to see the difference between property and the life of a black man.[13]
In June 2006, Entertainment Weekly magazine placed Do the Right Thing at No. 22 on its list of The 25 Most Controversial Movies Ever.[17]
Critical reception[edit]
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Do the Right Thing was met with acclaim from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 93%, based on 68 reviews, with an average rating of 8.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Smart, vibrant and urgent without being didactic, Do the Right Thing is one of Spike Lee's most fully realized efforts – and one of the most important films of the 1980s."[18] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 91 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim", and placing it as the 68th highest film of all-time on the site.[19]
Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert ranked the film as the best of 1989 and later ranked it as one of the top 10 films of the decade (#6 for Siskel and #4 for Ebert).[20] Ebert later added the film to his list of The Great Movies.[21] According to online film resource They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, Do the Right Thing is the most acclaimed film of 1989.[22]
Awards and nominations[edit]
List of awards and nominations
Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipients and nominees
Result
Academy Awards March 28, 1990 Best Supporting Actor Danny Aiello Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Spike Lee
Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics 1990 Grand Prix
Boston Society of Film Critics 1990 Best Supporting Actor Danny Aiello Won
Cannes Film Festival[23] May 23, 1989 Palme d'Or Spike Lee Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association 1990 Best Picture Won
Best Director Spike Lee
Best Supporting Actor Danny Aiello
Golden Globe Awards January 20, 1990 Best Motion Picture – Drama Nominated
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Danny Aiello
Best Director – Motion Picture Spike Lee
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Los Angeles Film Critics Association December 16, 1989 Best Film Won
Best Supporting Actor Danny Aiello
Best Director Spike Lee
Best Screenplay 2nd place
Best Music Bill Lee Won
MTV Movie Awards June 6, 2006 Silver Bucket of Excellence
NAACP Image Awards December 11, 1989 Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Ruby Dee
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Ossie Davis
National Society of Film Critics Awards January 8, 1990 Best Director Spike Lee 3rd place
New York Film Critics Circle January 14, 1990 Best Film 5th place
Best Screenplay Spike Lee 4th place
Best Cinematography Ernest Dickerson Won
The 20/20 Awards 2010 Best Picture Nominated
Best Director Spike Lee Won
Best Supporting Actor Danny Aiello Nominated
John Turturro
Best Original Screenplay Spike Lee
Best Film Editing Barry Alexander Brown Won
Best Original Song "Fight the Power"
Music and Lyrics by Chuck D, Hank Shocklee, Eric Sadler, and Keith Shocklee
American Film Institute lists
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
"Fight the Power" – No. 40
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – No. 96
Soundtrack[edit]
The film's score (composed and partially performed by jazz musician Bill Lee, father of Spike Lee) and soundtrack were both released in July 1989 on Columbia Records and Motown Records, respectively. The soundtrack was successful, reaching the number eleven spot on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and peaking at sixty-eight on the Billboard 200.[24] On the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, the Perri track "Feel So Good" reached the fifty-first spot, while Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" reached number twenty, and Guy's "My Fantasy" went all the way to the top spot. "My Fantasy" also reached number six on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, and sixty-two on Billboard's Hot 100. "Fight the Power" also charted high on the Hot Dance Music chart, peaking at number three, and topped the Hot Rap Singles chart.[25][26]
Score[edit]
Do the Right Thing: Original Motion Picture Score
Film score by Bill Lee
Released
1989
Recorded
December 12, 1988 – December 16, 1988
Genre
Film score
Length
35:36
Label
Columbia
Producer
Spike Lee (exec.)
No.
Title
Length
1. "Mookie Goes Home" 1:21
2. "We Love Roll Call Y-All" 1:40
3. "Father to Son" 4:24
4. "Da Mayor Drinks His Beer" 1:03
5. "Delivery for Love Daddy" 1:08
6. "Riot" 1:08
7. "Magic, Eddie, Prince Ain't Niggers" 1:58
8. "Mookie [Septet]" 6:45
9. "How Long?" 3:43
10. "Mookie [Orchestra]" 6:32
11. "Da Mayor Loves Mother Sister" 1:23
12. "Da Mayor Buys Roses" 1:14
13. "Tawana" 1:31
14. "Malcolm and Martin" 1:46
15. "Wake Up Finale" 7:26
Soundtrack[edit]
Do the Right Thing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released
1989
Genre
Soundtrack
Length
53:14
Label
Motown Records
Producer
Gregory "Sugar Bear" Elliott (exec.), Ted Hopkins (exec.), Mark Kibble (exec.), Spike Lee (exec.), Johnny Mercer (exec.)
Singles from Do the Right Thing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Fight the Power"
Released: June 1989
No.
Title
Music
Producer(s)
Length
1. "Fight the Power" Public Enemy Hank Shocklee, Carl Ryder, Eric Sadler 5:23
2. "My Fantasy" Teddy Riley, Guy Teddy Riley, Gene Griffin 4:57
3. "Party Hearty" E.U. Kent Wood, JuJu House 4:43
4. "Can't Stand It" Steel Pulse David R. Hinds, Sidney Mills 5:06
5. "Why Don't We Try?" Keith John Vince Morris Raymond jones larry decarmine 3:35
6. "Feel So Good" Perri Paul Laurence, Jones 5:39
7. "Don't Shoot Me" Take 6 Mervyn E. Warren 4:08
8. "Hard to Say" Lori Perry, Gerald Alston Laurence 3:21
9. "Prove to Me" Perri Jones, Sami McKinney 5:24
10. "Never Explain Love" Al Jarreau Jones 5:58
11. "Tu y Yo/We Love [Jingle]" Rubén Blades Blades 5:12
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Do the Right Thing (15)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Do the Right Thing (1989) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Do the Right Thing (1989)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 25, 2008.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)". American Film Institute. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
Jump up ^ Thompson, Anne. "Lists: 50 Best Movies of All Time, Again". Variety. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on September 15, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
Jump up ^ "100 Essential Films by the National Society of Film Critics". National Society of Film Critics. Published by AMC FilmSite.org. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
Jump up ^ "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made". The New York Times. April 29, 2003. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 22, 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
Jump up ^ Gavin Edwards (20 June 2014). "Fight the Power: Spike Lee on 'Do the Right Thing'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
Jump up ^ "'Do the Right Thing' Script (Archived)". Script-O-Rama. 28 April 2007. Archived from the original on April 28, 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
Jump up ^ Do The RIght Thing DVD Audio Commentary
Jump up ^ Klein, Joe. "Spiked?" New York June 26, 1989: 14–15.
^ Jump up to: a b 'Spike Lee's Last Word', special feature on the Criterion Collection DVD (2000)
Jump up ^ Edwards, Gavin. "Fight the Power: Spike Lee on 'Do the Right Thing'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b Mark A. Reid (1997). Spike Lee's Do the right thing. Cambridge University Press. pp. 43–. ISBN 978-0-521-55954-6. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
Jump up ^ Do The Right Thing DVD, Director's commentary
Jump up ^ "The 25 Most Controversial Movies Ever," Entertainment Weekly (Retrieved 9 Apr 2016).
Jump up ^ "Rotten Tomatoes 'Do the Right Thing' profile". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
Jump up ^ "'Do the Right Thing' Metacritic profile". Metacritic. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
Jump up ^ "Siskel & Ebert 1989-Best of 1989 (2of2)". YouTube. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
Jump up ^ Roger Ebert. "The Great Movies". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
Jump up ^ "The 1,000 Greatest Films (Full List)". They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?.
Jump up ^ "Festival de Cannes: Do the Right Thing". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Do the Right Thing (Soundtrack): Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Do the Right Thing (Soundtrack): Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Fear of a Black Planet: Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
Bibliography[edit]
Aftab, Kaleem. Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It. England: Faber and Faber Limited, 2005. ISBN 0-393-06153-1.
Spike Lee's Last Word. Documentary on the Criterion Collection DVD of Do the Right Thing. 2000.
Spike Lee et al. Commentary on the Criterion Collection DVD of Do the Right Thing. 2000.
Further reading[edit]
Spike Lee; Lisa Jones (1989). Do the right thing: a Spike Lee joint. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-68265-1. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
Mark A. Reid (1997). Spike Lee's Do the right thing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55954-6. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
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When the Levees Broke (2006)
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Passing Strange (2009)
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010)
Bad 25 (2012)
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)
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Lumière and Company (1995)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002, segment "We Wuz Robbed")
All the Invisible Children (2005, segment "Jesus Children of America")
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Wisden Cricketers of the Year
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The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season".[1] The award began in 1889 with the naming of "Six Great Bowlers of the Year",[2] and continued with the naming of "Nine Great Batsmen of the Year" in 1890 and "Five Great Wicket-Keepers" in 1891.[3]
Since 1897, with a few notable exceptions, the annual award has recognised five players of the year. No players were named in 1916 or 1917, as the First World War prevented any first-class cricket being played in England, while in 1918 and 1919 the recipients were five schoolboy cricketers.[3] From 1941 to 1946, the Second World War caused the same issue and no players were named. Three players have been sole recipients: W. G. Grace (1896), Plum Warner (1921) and Jack Hobbs (1926). The latter two selections are the only exceptions to the rule that a player may receive the award only once. Hobbs was first recognised in 1909, but was selected a second time in 1926 to honour his breaking W. G. Grace's record of 126 first-class hundreds;[4] Warner was first honoured in 1904, but received a second award in 1921 for his last season in first-class cricket, when he led Middlesex to a County Championship win.[4] John Wisden, cricketer and eponymous founder of the almanack, was featured in a special commemorative section in the Jubilee edition of the publication in 1913, 29 years posthumously.[5]
From 2000 to 2003 the award was made based on players' impact on cricket worldwide rather than just the preceding season in England,[3] but the decision was reversed in 2004 with the introduction of a separate Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World award.[6]
The earliest surviving recipient of the award is Sonny Ramadhin (1951), which he became in August 2015 with the death of Arthur Morris. The longest that a recipient has lived after receiving the award is 77 years by Harry Calder (1918), who died in 1995. Calder, however, uniquely for a recipient, played no first-class cricket. Among first-class players, the longest lived after receipt of the award is 74 years by Wilfred Rhodes (1899). Five women have been chosen: Claire Taylor (2009), Charlotte Edwards (2014), Heather Knight (2018), Natalie Sciver (2018) and Anya Shrubsole (2018).
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1 List of Cricketers of the Year
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
List of Cricketers of the Year[edit]
George Lohmann an inaugural nominee, 1889
W.G. Grace, sole recipient of the honour, 1896
Jack Hobbs (l) and Herbert Sutcliffe. Hobbs was honoured in both 1909 and 1926, Sutcliffe in 1920.
Sir Donald Bradman, recognised in 1931
The Invincibles took all five awards in 1949; Don Tallon was their wicket-keeper.
Viv Richards, recognised in 1977
Imran Khan, recognised in 1983
Waqar Younis, recognised in 1992
Muttiah Muralitharan, recognised in 1999
Adam Gilchrist, recognised in 2002
Kumar Sangakkara, recognised in 2012
Year
Recipient(s)
1889[7] George Lohmann, Johnny Briggs, John Ferris, Charles Turner, Sammy Woods, Bobby Peel
1890[8] Bobby Abel, Billy Barnes, Billy Gunn, Louis Hall, Robert Henderson, Maurice Read, Arthur Shrewsbury, Frank Sugg, Albert Ward
1891[9] Jack Blackham Gregor MacGregor Dick Pilling Mordecai Sherwin Henry Wood
1892[10] William Attewell J. T. Hearne Frederick Martin Arthur Mold John Sharpe
1893[11] Herbie Hewett Lionel Palairet Walter Read Stanley Scott Andrew Stoddart
1894[12] George Giffen Alec Hearne Stanley Jackson Harry Trott Ted Wainwright
1895[13] Bill Brockwell Jack Brown C. B. Fry Tom Hayward Archie MacLaren
1896 W. G. Grace
1897[14] Syd Gregory Dick Lilley Ranjitsinhji Tom Richardson Hugh Trumble
1898 Frederick Bull Willis Cuttell Frank Druce Gilbert Jessop Jack Mason
1899[15] Wilfred Rhodes William Storer Charlie Townsend Albert Trott William Lockwood
1900[16] Joe Darling Clem Hill Arthur Jones Monty Noble Robert Poore
1901[17] Tip Foster Schofield Haigh George Herbert Hirst Tom Taylor John Tunnicliffe
1902 Len Braund Charlie McGahey Frank Mitchell Willie Quaife Johnny Tyldesley
1903 Warwick Armstrong Cuthbert Burnup James Iremonger Jim Kelly Victor Trumper
1904 Colin Blythe John Gunn Albert Knight Walter Mead Plum Warner
1905 Bernard Bosanquet Ernest Halliwell James Hallows Percy Perrin Reggie Spooner
1906 David Denton Walter Lees George Thompson Joe Vine Levi Wright
1907 Jack Crawford Arthur Fielder Ernie Hayes Kenneth Hutchings Neville Knox
1908 Albert Hallam Reggie Schwarz Frank Tarrant Bert Vogler Thomas Wass
1909[18] Walter Brearley Lord Hawke Jack Hobbs Alan Marshal John Newstead
1910 Warren Bardsley Sydney Barnes Douglas Carr Arthur Day Vernon Ransford
1911 Harry Foster Alfred Hartley Charlie Llewellyn Razor Smith Frank Woolley
1912[19] Frank Foster J. W. Hearne Sep Kinneir Phil Mead Herbert Strudwick
1913 John Wisden[5]
1914 Major Booth George Gunn Bill Hitch Albert Relf Lionel Tennyson
1915 Johnny Douglas Percy Fender Wally Hardinge Donald Knight Sydney Smith
1918 Harry Calder John Firth Clement Gibson Gerard Rotherham Greville Stevens
1919[20] Percy Adams Percy Chapman Adrian Gore Lionel Hedges Norman Partridge
1920[21] Andy Ducat Patsy Hendren Percy Holmes Herbert Sutcliffe Ernest Tyldesley
1921 Pelham Warner
1922 Hubert Ashton Jack Bryan Jack Gregory Charlie Macartney Ted McDonald
1923 Arthur Carr Tich Freeman Charlie Parker Jack Russell Andy Sandham
1924 Arthur Gilligan Roy Kilner George Macaulay Cec Parkin Maurice Tate
1925 Bob Catterall Jack MacBryan Herbie Taylor Dick Tyldesley William Whysall
1926 Jack Hobbs
1927 George Geary Harold Larwood Jack Mercer Bert Oldfield Bill Woodfull
1928 Roger Blunt Charlie Hallows Wally Hammond Douglas Jardine Vallance Jupp
1929 Les Ames George Duckworth Maurice Leyland Sam Staples Jack White
1930 Ted Bowley Duleepsinhji Tuppy Owen-Smith Walter Robins Bob Wyatt
1931 Donald Bradman Clarrie Grimmett Beverley Lyon Ian Peebles Maurice Turnbull
1932 Bill Bowes Stewie Dempster James Langridge Nawab of Pataudi senior Hedley Verity
1933 Ewart Astill Freddie Brown Alec Kennedy C. K. Nayudu Bill Voce
1934 Fred Bakewell George Headley Stan Nichols Leslie Townsend Cyril Walters
1935 Stan McCabe Bill O'Reilly George Paine Bill Ponsford Jim Smith
1936 Jock Cameron Errol Holmes Bruce Mitchell Denis Smith Arthur Wellard
1937 Charlie Barnett Bill Copson Alf Gover Vijay Merchant Stan Worthington
1938 Tom Goddard Joe Hardstaff Jr Len Hutton Jim Parks Sr Eddie Paynter
1939 Hugh Bartlett Bill Brown Denis Compton Kenneth Farnes Arthur Wood
1940 Learie Constantine Bill Edrich Walter Keeton Brian Sellers Doug Wright
1947 Alec Bedser Laurie Fishlock Vinoo Mankad Peter Smith Cyril Washbrook
1948 Martin Donnelly Alan Melville Dudley Nourse Jack Robertson Norman Yardley
1949 Lindsay Hassett Bill Johnston Ray Lindwall Arthur Morris Don Tallon
1950 Trevor Bailey Roly Jenkins John Langridge Reg Simpson Bert Sutcliffe
1951 Godfrey Evans Sonny Ramadhin Alf Valentine Everton Weekes Frank Worrell
1952 Bob Appleyard Tom Dollery Jim Laker Peter May Eric Rowan
1953 Harold Gimblett Tom Graveney David Sheppard Stuart Surridge Fred Trueman
1954 Neil Harvey Tony Lock Keith Miller Johnny Wardle Willie Watson
1955 Bruce Dooland Fazal Mahmood Eric Hollies Brian Statham George Tribe
1956 Colin Cowdrey Doug Insole Jackie McGlew Hugh Tayfield Frank Tyson
1957 Dennis Brookes Jim Burke Malcolm Hilton Gil Langley Peter Richardson
1958 Peter Loader Arthur McIntyre Collie Smith Mickey Stewart Clyde Walcott
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1960 Ken Barrington Donald Carr Ray Illingworth Geoff Pullar M. J. K. Smith
1961 Neil Adcock Ted Dexter Roy McLean Raman Subba Row Vic Wilson
1962 Bill Alley Richie Benaud Alan Davidson Bill Lawry Norm O'Neill
1963 Don Kenyon Mushtaq Mohammad Peter Parfitt Phil Sharpe Fred Titmus
1964 Brian Close Charlie Griffith Conrad Hunte Rohan Kanhai Garfield Sobers
1965 Geoffrey Boycott Peter Burge Jack Flavell Graham McKenzie Bob Simpson
1966 Colin Bland John Edrich Dick Motz Peter Pollock Graeme Pollock
1967 Bob Barber Basil D'Oliveira Colin Milburn John Murray Seymour Nurse
1968 Asif Iqbal Hanif Mohammad Ken Higgs Jim Parks junior Nawab of Pataudi junior
1969 Jimmy Binks David Green Barry Richards Derek Underwood Ossie Wheatley
1970 Basil Butcher Alan Knott Majid Khan Mike Procter Don Shepherd
1971 Jack Bond Clive Lloyd Brian Luckhurst Glenn Turner Roy Virgin
1972 Geoff Arnold Bhagwat Chandrasekhar Lance Gibbs Brian Taylor Zaheer Abbas
1973 Greg Chappell Dennis Lillee Bob Massie John Snow Keith Stackpole
1974 Keith Boyce Bevan Congdon Keith Fletcher Roy Fredericks Peter Sainsbury
1975 Dennis Amiss Mike Denness Norman Gifford Tony Greig Andy Roberts
1976 Ian Chappell Peter Lee Rick McCosker David Steele Bob Woolmer
1977 Mike Brearley Gordon Greenidge Michael Holding Viv Richards Bob Taylor
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1980 Joel Garner Sunil Gavaskar Graham Gooch Derek Randall Brian Rose
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1982 Terry Alderman Allan Border Richard Hadlee Javed Miandad Rod Marsh
1983 Imran Khan Trevor Jesty Alvin Kallicharran Kapil Dev Malcolm Marshall
1984 Mohinder Amarnath Jeremy Coney John Emburey Mike Gatting Chris Smith
1985 Martin Crowe Larry Gomes Geoff Humpage Jack Simmons Sidath Wettimuny
1986 Phil Bainbridge Richard Ellison Craig McDermott Neal Radford Tim Robinson
1987 John Childs Graeme Hick Dilip Vengsarkar Courtney Walsh James Whitaker
1988 Jonathan Agnew Neil Foster David Hughes Peter Roebuck Saleem Malik
1989 Kim Barnett Jeff Dujon Phil Neale Franklyn Stephenson Steve Waugh
1990 Jimmy Cook Dean Jones Jack Russell Robin Smith Mark Taylor
1991 Mike Atherton Mohammad Azharuddin Alan Butcher Desmond Haynes Mark Waugh
1992 Curtly Ambrose Phillip DeFreitas Allan Donald Richie Richardson Waqar Younis
1993 Nigel Briers Martyn Moxon Ian Salisbury Alec Stewart Wasim Akram
1994 David Boon Ian Healy Merv Hughes Shane Warne Steve Watkin
1995 Brian Lara Devon Malcolm Tim Munton Steve Rhodes Kepler Wessels
1996 Dominic Cork Aravinda de Silva Angus Fraser Anil Kumble Dermot Reeve
1997 Sanath Jayasuriya[22] Mushtaq Ahmed Saeed Anwar Phil Simmons Sachin Tendulkar
1998 Matthew Elliott Stuart Law Glenn McGrath Matthew Maynard Graham Thorpe
1999 Ian Austin Darren Gough Muttiah Muralitharan Arjuna Ranatunga Jonty Rhodes
2000 Chris Cairns Rahul Dravid Lance Klusener Tom Moody Saqlain Mushtaq
2001 Mark Alleyne Martin Bicknell Andrew Caddick Justin Langer Darren Lehmann
2002 Andy Flower Adam Gilchrist Jason Gillespie V. V. S. Laxman Damien Martyn
2003 Matthew Hayden Adam Hollioake Nasser Hussain Shaun Pollock Michael Vaughan
2004 Chris Adams Andrew Flintoff Ian Harvey Gary Kirsten Graeme Smith
2005 Ashley Giles Steve Harmison Robert Key Andrew Strauss Marcus Trescothick
2006 Matthew Hoggard Simon Jones Brett Lee Kevin Pietersen Ricky Ponting
2007 Paul Collingwood Mahela Jayawardene Mohammed Yousuf Monty Panesar Mark Ramprakash
2008 Ian Bell Shivnarine Chanderpaul Ottis Gibson Zaheer Khan Ryan Sidebottom
2009 James Anderson Dale Benkenstein Mark Boucher Neil McKenzie Claire Taylor
2010 Stuart Broad Michael Clarke Graham Onions Matt Prior Graeme Swann
2011 Tamim Iqbal Eoin Morgan Chris Read Jonathan Trott Not awarded[23]
2012 Tim Bresnan Alastair Cook Glen Chapple Alan Richardson Kumar Sangakkara
2013 Nick Compton Hashim Amla Jacques Kallis Dale Steyn Marlon Samuels
2014[24] Shikhar Dhawan Charlotte Edwards Ryan Harris Chris Rogers Joe Root
2015 Moeen Ali Gary Ballance Adam Lyth Angelo Mathews Jeetan Patel
2016 Jonny Bairstow Brendon McCullum Steve Smith Ben Stokes Kane Williamson
2017 Ben Duckett Younis Khan Misbah-ul-Haq Toby Roland-Jones Chris Woakes
2018 Shai Hope Heather Knight Jamie Porter Natalie Sciver Anya Shrubsole
See also[edit]
Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World
Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World
Six Giants of the Wisden Century
Wisden Australia's Cricketer of the Year
Wisden Cricketers of the Century
ICC Awards
References[edit]
General
"Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year". Wisden. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
Specific
Jump up ^ "Wisden tribute to England stars". BBC Sport. 6 April 2005. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
Jump up ^ "Wisden – 1889". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
^ Jump up to: a b Anthony Bradbury. "The first century, 1989 – Wisden's cricketers of the year". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
^ Jump up to: a b A. S. Dixon. "Cricketers of the Year". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2008-04-07. "Also I have left out of my reckoning John Wisden, founder of the Almanack, to whose memory the whole feature was devoted in the Jubilee issue of 1913—he died in 1884." As such, he is not a true Cricketer of the Year, but is included here for the sake of comprehensiveness.
Jump up ^ "20 things you never knew about Wisden". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
Jump up ^ The 1889 award was subtitled Six Great Bowlers of the Year.
Jump up ^ The 1890 award was subtitled Nine Great Batsmen of the Year.
Jump up ^ The 1891 award was subtitled Five Great Wicket-Keepers.
Jump up ^ The 1892 award was subtitled Five Great Bowlers.
Jump up ^ The 1893 award was subtitled Five Batsmen of the Year.
Jump up ^ The 1894 award was subtitled Five All-Round Cricketers.
Jump up ^ The 1895 award was subtitled Five Young Batsmen of the Season.
Jump up ^ The 1897 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Season.
Jump up ^ The 1899 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Year.
Jump up ^ The 1900 award was subtitled Five Cricketers of the Season.
Jump up ^ The 1901 award was subtitled Mr R. E. Foster and Four Yorkshiremen.
Jump up ^ The 1909 award was subtitled Lord Hawke and Four Cricketers of the Year.
Jump up ^ The 1912 award was subtitled Five Members of the MCC's Team in Australia.
Jump up ^ The 1919 award was subtitled Five Public School Cricketers of the Year.
Jump up ^ The 1920 award was subtitled Five Batsmen of the Year.
Jump up ^ "Wisden – 1997". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2008-04-07. "The success of Sanath Jayasuriya in inspiring Sri Lanka to World Cup victory [i]n March 1996 also inspired a change of policy: he was chosen as one of the Five Cricketers of the Year even though he did not play in the English season."
Jump up ^ Awarded to a Pakistani player but not listed as a result of alleged match-fixing. "If [the player in question] were exonerated, then it would be possible to reconsider the position," explained [Scyld] Berry. "That's why I didn't pick anyone else instead. But as things stand, we don't feel we can choose him. It's all very sad."
Jump up ^ "Wisden honour for Dhawan, Edwards". Wisden India. April 9, 2014.
External links[edit]
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Full List on Cricinfo
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Flight of the Bumblebee
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"Flight of the Bumblebee" is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. Its composition is intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic and rapidly changing flying pattern of a bumblebee. Despite the piece's being a rather incidental part of the opera, it is today one of the more familiar classical works because of its frequent use in popular culture.
The piece closes Act III, Tableau 1, during which the magic Swan-Bird changes Prince Gvidon Saltanovich (the Tsar's son) into an insect so that he can fly away to visit his father (who does not know that he is alive). Although in the opera the Swan-Bird sings during the first part of the "Flight", her vocal line is melodically uninvolved and easily omitted; this feature, combined with the fact that the number decisively closes the scene, made easy extraction as an orchestral concerto piece possible.[not verified in body][clarification needed]
Contents
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1 Overview
2 In popular culture
3 References
4 External links
Overview[edit]
Here is the text of the scene where the Swan-Bird sings during this music:
Russian
English translation
(Гвидон спускается с берега в море. Из моря вылетает шмель, кружась около Лебедь-Птицы.)
ЛЕБЕДЬ-ПТИЦА:
Ну, теперь, мой шмель, гуляй, (Nu, teper', moy shmel', gulyay,)
судно в море догоняй, (sudno v more dogonyay,)
потихоньку опускайся, (potikhon'ku opuskaysya,)
в щель подальше забивайся. (v shchel' podal'she zabivaysya.)
Будь здоров, Гвидон, лети, (Bud' zdorov, Gvidon, leti,)
только долго не гости! (tol'ko dolgo ne gosti!)
(Шмель улетает.)
(Gvidon goes down from the shore into the sea. Out from the sea flies a bumblebee, whirling around the Swan-Bird.)
SWAN-BIRD:
Well, now, my bumblebee, go on a spree,
catch up with the ship on the sea,
go down secretly,
get deep into a crack.
Good luck, Gvidon, fly,
only do not stay long!
(The bumblebee flies away.)
Although the "Flight" does not have a title in the score of the opera, its common English title translates like the Russian one (Полёт шмеля = Polyot shmelya). Incidentally, this piece does not constitute one of the movements of the orchestral suite that Rimsky-Korsakov derived from the opera for concerts.
Those familiar with the opera Tsar Saltan may recognize two leitmotifs used in the Flight, both of which are associated with Prince Gvidon from earlier in the opera. These are illustrated here in musical notation:
Play basic theme (help·info) and
Play buzzing motif (help·info)
The music of this number recurs in modified form during the ensuing tableau (Act III, Tableau 2), at the points when the Bumblebee appears during the scene: it stings the two evil sisters on the brow, blinds Babarikha (the instigator of the plot to trick Saltan at the beginning into sending his wife away), and in general causes havoc at the end of the tableau. The readers of Alexander Pushkin's original poem, upon which this opera is based, will note that Gvidon is supposed to go on three separate trips to Saltan's kingdom, each of which requires a transformation into a different insect.
"Flight of the Bumblebee" is recognizable for its frantic pace when played up to tempo, with nearly uninterrupted runs of chromatic sixteenth notes. It is not so much the pitch or range of the notes that are played that challenges the musician, but simply the musician's ability to move to them quickly enough. Because of this and its complexity, it requires a great deal of skill to perform.
In the "Tsar Saltan" suite, the short version is commonly played, taking less than two minutes. In the Opera version, the three-minute fifty-five-second version is performed.
Although the original orchestral version assigns portions of the sixteenth-note runs to various instruments in tandem, in the century since its composition the piece has become a standard showcase for solo instrumental virtuosity, whether on the original violin or on practically any other melodic instrument. Sergei Rachmaninov's transcription for piano features in the film Shine and is interpreted by David Helfgott.
In popular culture[edit]
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Big band trumpeter Harry James did a cover of the piece in 1941.[1]
"Flight of the Bumblebee" was featured, along with other compositions by Rimsky-Korsakov, in the fictional 1947 biopic Song of Scheherazade.
A piano-based version by B. Bumble and the Stingers reached #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.[2]
Japanese band Takeshi Terauchi & Bunnys recorded an instrumental rock cover of this song on their 1967 album, Let's Go Unmei.
The song was featured in the first episode of The Muppet Show, in which Gonzo attempts to eat a tire on stage with the song playing in the background.
The radio program The Green Hornet used "Flight of the Bumblebee" as its theme music, blended with a hornet buzz created on a theremin. The music became so strongly identified with the show and the character that it was retained as the theme for the later TV series. This version was orchestrated by Billy May and conducted by Lionel Newman, with trumpet solo by Al Hirt, in a jazz style nicknamed "Green Bee". This particular version was later featured in the 2003 film Kill Bill.
Extreme's instrumental piece "Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee," featuring guitarist Nuno Bettencourt's advanced virtuoso skills, is heavily inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's original and bears a similar name, but is in fact a distinct work and not merely a re-arrangement.
Manowar bassist Joey DeMaio recorded a version titled "Sting of the Bumblebee," played entirely on bass guitar.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra has included the piece into the song A Last Illusion on its Beethoven's Last Night album.
The video game Rayman uses an altered version of the piece during a chase sequence in which the title character rides a mosquito. This version gradually increases in tempo.
The Great Kat recorded a thrash metal version on her 1990 album Beethoven on Speed.
The 1993 animated series Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog samples the tune as part of the show's opening theme, combining it with "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and the theme from the original Sonic the Hedgehog video game.
The music inspired Walt Disney to have a bumblebee featured in a segment of Fantasia that would sound as if it were flying around a movie theater. Although this did not appear in the final film, it anticipated the eventual invention of surround sound.[3] However, in his film Melody Time, Disney included an animated segment using Freddy Martin's "Bumble Boogie", a jazz arrangement of the piece.[4]
For Guinness world record of fastest guitarist and violinist, "Flight of the Bumblebee" must be played flawlessly at an increased speed. The current guitar world record is 620 bpm held by John Taylor.[5]
In the Scott Hicks film Shine, Geoffrey Rush's character David Helfgott wanders out of a rainy night into a cafe and amazes the few patrons there by playing a piano version of "Flight of the Bumblebee."
Bob Dylan wrote and recorded a song called "It's the Flight of the Bumblebee" with The Band during the Basement Tapes sessions that quotes the original during the piano intro.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Harry James, Harry James: Big Bands, CD, Time Life Music, 1992, liner notes
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, Billboard Books, New York, 1992
Jump up ^ Holman, Tomlinson (2007). Surround sound: up and running. Focal Press. pp. 3,4. ISBN 978-0-240-80829-1. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
Jump up ^ "(Italian version)". Youtube.com. February 27, 2009. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
Jump up ^ "(world record)". guinnessworldrecords.com. January 9, 2012. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
External links[edit]
Flight of the Bumblebee at AllMusic
A MIDI page including five versions of the Flight
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