Dolittle

Dolittle (also referred to as The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle) is a 2020 American fantasy adventure film directed by Stephen Gaghan, from a screenplay by Gaghan, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand, from a story by Thomas Shepherd. A reboot of the original Doctor Dolittle film and its modern comedy counterparts, the film is based on the titular character created by Hugh Lofting, and primarily inspired by The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. Robert Downey Jr. stars as the title character, alongside Antonio Banderas and Michael Sheen in live-action roles. The voice cast includes Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, and Marion Cotillard.

The project was announced in March 2017 with Downey Jr. set to star, and the rest of the cast joined over the following year. Filming began in March 2018 and lasted through June, taking place around the United Kingdom. The film underwent three weeks of reshoots in the spring of 2019, under the supervision of Jonathan Liebesman and Chris McKay, after initial test screenings yielded poor results.

Dolittle was theatrically released in the United States on January 17, 2020, by Universal Pictures. The film received negative reviews from critics for its humor and its incoherent story, and has grossed $130.9 million worldwide against a production budget of $175 million.
Plot
Dr. John Dolittle (Robert Downey Jr.), is a vet who has the ability to communicate with animals. After his wife, Lily (Kasia Smutniak) dies at sea, Dolittle confines himself to his home, tending to only animals and refusing to contact or assist with other humans. One day, a boy named Tommy Stubbins (Harry Collett), accidentally shoots and wounds a squirrel named Kevin (Craig Robinson), and decides to go to Dolittle for help.

Meanwhile, Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley), sends a message, ordering Dolittle to come in order to try to cure her of a deadly sickness. After being persuaded by Polynesia the Macaw (Emma Thompson), Dolittle finally decides to go. Upon reaching her, he finds that the Queen has eaten a poisonous type of nightshade. To be cured, she must eat a fruit from a land far away. Dolittle, Tommy, and a crew of animals put to sail, hoping to find the cure while trying to avoid Dolittle's lifelong rival, Dr. Blair Müdfly (Michael Sheen). Dolittle leaves his dog, Jip (Tom Holland) and a stick insect behind to watch over the Queen while he's away. Along the way, Dolittle's boat is attacked by Dr. Blair Müdfly, but they manage to escape by attaching a harness to a humpback whale that pulls the boat to safety.

However, Dolittle is soon captured by King Rassouli (Antonio Banderas), his former father-in-law, and is locked in a cage with Barry (Ralph Fiennes), a cranky tiger only looking for his mother's approval. Just when it seem Dolittle is in trouble, Chee-Chee the Gorilla (Rami Malek) breaks in and attacks Barry. Dolittle and Stubbins escape only to be captured by Müdfly and have their ship destroyed. After seeing a saddened Dolittle, Rassouli loans him a boat to honour his daughter.

Dolittle and company arrive at an island where they meet Ginko-Who-Soars (Frances de la Tour), a fire breathing dragon. Ginko begins attacking before she collapses due to internal pain. Dolittle figures out what is hurting the dragon and proceeds to remove armour and bagpipes (from previously eaten trespassers) from her behind. Relieved and thankful, Ginko shows Dolittle the tree with the cure. Stubbins gives the queen the plant which cures her. Dolittle’s stick bug reveals that Lord Thomas Badgley (Jim Broadbent), one of the Queen's chairmen, poisoned her in order to take the crown for himself; the queen has him arrested for treason.

Dolittle re-opens the doors to his sanctuary, now including Stubbins.

In a mid-credits scene, we see Müdfly trying to communicate with bats that turn around and attack him.

Cast
See also: List of Doctor Dolittle characters
Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. John Dolittle, a widowed veterinarian who has the ability to speak to animals.
Antonio Banderas as Rassouli, the king of pirates, who was Lily's father and Dolittle’s father-in-law.
Michael Sheen as Dr. Blair Müdfly, an old schoolmate and rival of Dolittle.
Harry Collett as Tommy Stubbins, Dolittle's self-appointed apprentice.
Jim Broadbent as Lord Thomas Badgley, one of the Queen's chairmen.
Jessie Buckley as Queen Victoria, the Queen of England.
Carmel Laniado as Lady Rose, a maid of honor to the Queen and Tommy's friend.
Ralph Ineson as Arnall Stubbins, Tommy's uncle and Dolittle's favorite shoemaker.
Joanna Page as Bethan Stubbins, Tommy's aunt.
Sonny Ashbourne Serkis as Arnall Stubbins Jr., Tommy's cousin.
Kasia Smutniak as Lily Dolittle, Dolittle's deceased wife.[5]
Voices
Emma Thompson as Polynesia, a wise and headstrong macaw and Dolittle’s most trusted advisor.
Rami Malek as Chee-Chee, an anxious but noble gorilla.
John Cena as Yoshi, an upbeat polar bear who wears a bashlyk.
Kumail Nanjiani as Plimpton, a cynical and fussy but well-meaning ostrich who wears striped stockings and quarrels with Yoshi.
Octavia Spencer as Dab-Dab, an enthusiastic and crazy duck with a wooden leg.
Tom Holland as Jip, a loyal lurcher who wears glasses.
Craig Robinson as Kevin, a crazy squirrel with attitude.
Ralph Fiennes as Barry, a ferocious tiger with gold-tipped fangs who has a past with Dolittle.
Selena Gomez as Betsy, a friendly giraffe.
Marion Cotillard as Tutu, a French fox who is friends with Betsy.
Jason Mantzoukas as James, a wisecracking dragonfly who meets Dolittle in a prison cell from which he helps him escape.
Frances de la Tour as Ginko-Who-Soars, a fire-breathing dragon who guards a magical fruit.
Nick. A. Fisher as Mini, a sweet sugar glider.
Production
On March 20, 2017, it was announced that Robert Downey Jr. would star in The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, a feature adaptation of The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.[6] In December 2017, Harry Collett and Jim Broadbent were cast.[7][8] In February 2018, Antonio Banderas and Michael Sheen were cast in live-action roles, while Tom Holland, Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, and Selena Gomez were cast to voice animals, including a tiger, bear, and a lioness.[9][10] In March 2018, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, John Cena, Rami Malek, Craig Robinson, Marion Cotillard, Frances de la Tour and Carmen Ejogo joined the voice cast.[11] The character of Regine, a lioness voiced by Ejogo, was cut from the finished film.[citation needed]

Principal production commenced mid-February in 2018. Live-action scenes began filming in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria in May 2018, with further location filming at South Forest, Windsor Great Park and on the Menai Suspension Bridge in North West Wales, in June 2018.[12]

In April 2019, it was reported the film had undergone 21 days of re-shoots following poor test screenings. Director Jonathan Liebesman helped to oversee the filming alongside Gaghan, while Chris McKay helped write new material after it became clear from first cuts that the comedy elements of the film were not coming together as well as the producers had hoped.[2] Prior to this, Universal had turned towards Seth Rogen and Neighbors co-writer Brendan O'Brien to help make the film funnier. However, neither could remain committed to the project and dropped out. McKay was assigned to storyboard sequences and assemble different edits before later leaving to instead direct The Tomorrow War. Liebesman took over McKay's duties and finished the film alongside Gaghan. The Lego Batman Movie scribe John Whittington had performed rewrites on the script amid reshoots and had flown to London to meet with Downey, who allegedly tore Whittington's script apart in favor of "new ideas". The Hollywood Reporter claims that despite a "challenged production" there were no fights for power and no competing cuts for the film.[13] In August 2019, it was reported that the film's title had been changed from The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle to simply Dolittle.[14]

In January 2020, Robert Downey Jr discussed on Joe Rogan's podcast (The Joe Rogan Experience) that the premise of the Dr. Dolittle character in his film stemmed from a Welsh neo-pagan physician called William Price. In the podcast he said: "Same way I did with Iron Man.. all right there's something here and then before I signed on, I was just googling 'weirdest Welsh doctor', I just wanted to think of, I don't want to just do another English accent.. so there was this guy called William Price, who's a nutty Welsh doctor, he was a neo-druidist, he believed that he could communicate with all nature and all that stuff, so I sent a picture of this wild looking guy wearing this kind of suit with stars on it and like a staff in his hand, so I sent that to Gaghan and he goes, "That looks good to me" and I was like "great let's do this movie"".[15]

Music artist Sia performed a new song of hers called "Original" for the end credits, while Danny Elfman composed the film's score.[16]

Release
The film was originally going to be released on May 24, 2019, by Universal Pictures but was moved to April 12, 2019, to avoid competition with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (which was later moved to December 20, 2019).[17] It was later pushed back to January 17, 2020.[18]

Reception
Box office
As of February 6, 2020, Dolittle has grossed $56.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $74.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $130.9 million, against a production budget of $175 million.[3][4] Due to its high production and marketing costs, the film will need to gross around $500 million in order to break-even;[19] following its debut weekend, it was estimated the film would lose the studio between $50–100 million.[20][21]

In the United States and Canada, the film was projected to gross $20–22 million from 4,155 theaters in its opening weekend, and a total of around $27 million over the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.[22][23] It made $6.3 million on its first day, including $925,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $22 million (and $29.5 million over the four-day frame), finishing third behind fellow newcomer Bad Boys for Life and holdover 1917.[20] The film made $12.1 million in its second weekend and $7.7 million in its third, remaining in third both times.[24][25]

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 16% based on 179 reviews with an average rating of 3.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Dolittle may be enough to entertain very young viewers, but they deserve better than this rote adaptation's jumbled story and stale humor."[26] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 27 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[27] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported an average 3 out of 5 stars.[20]

Courtney Howard of Variety called the film a "frenetic, crass kids' flick" and wrote: "What should have been an awe-filled adventure quickly curdles into an awful one, thanks to a pedestrian formula and the filmmakers' fixation on fart jokes."[28] Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Todd McCarthy said that "From the very first scene, it's clear something is terribly off with this lavishly misbegotten attempt to repopularize an animal-loaded literary franchise that was born exactly a century ago. The oddly diffident star and executive producer Robert Downey Jr. never finds the power-supplying third rail needed to energize a tale that fails to make a real case for being reinterpreted

Else Lasker-Schüler

Else Lasker-Schüler (11 February 1869 – 22 January 1945) was a German Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her unique poetic genius. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem
Biography
Schüler was born in Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. Her mother, Jeannette Schüler (née Kissing) was a central figure in her poetry; the main character of her play Die Wupper was inspired by her father, Aaron Schüler, a Jewish banker. Her brother Paul died when she was 13.

Else was considered a child prodigy because she could read and write at the age of four. From 1880 she attended the Lyceum West an der Aue. After dropping out of school, she received private lessons at her parents' home.

In 1894, Else married the physician and occasional chess player Jonathan Berthold Lasker (the elder brother of Emanuel Lasker, a World Chess Champion) and moved with him to Berlin, where she trained as an artist. On 27 July 1890 her mother died, her father followed 7 years later. On August 24, 1899, her son Paul was born and her first poems were published. She published her first full volume of poetry, Styx, three years later, in 1902. On 11 April 1903, she and Berthold Lasker divorced and on 30 November, she married Georg Lewin, artist, and founder of the Expressionist magazine Der Sturm. His pseudonym, Herwarth Walden, was her invention.
Lasker-Schüler's first prose work, Das Peter-Hille-Buch, was published in 1906, after the death of Hille, one of her closest friends. In 1907, she published the prose collection Die Nächte der Tino von Bagdad, followed by the play Die Wupper in 1909, which was not performed until later. A volume of poetry called Meine Wunder, published in 1911, established Lasker-Schüler as the leading female representative of German expressionism.

After separating from Herwarth Walden in 1910 and divorcing him in 1912, she found herself penniless and dependent on the financial support of her friends, in particular Karl Kraus. In 1912, she met Gottfried Benn. An intense friendship developed between them which found its literary outlet in a large number of love poems dedicated to him.

In May 1922 she attended the International Congress of Progressive Artists and signed the "Founding Proclamation of the Union of Progressive International Artists".[3]

In 1927 the death of her son sent her into a deep depression.

Despite winning the Kleist Prize in 1932, as a Jew she was physically harassed and threatened by the Nazis, She emigrated to Zürich but there, too, she could not work and subsequently went to the Holy Land in 1934, and finally settled in Jerusalem in 1937. In 1938 she was stripped of her German citizenship and the outbreak of World War II prevented any return to Europe.

According to her first Hebrew translator, Yehuda Amihai, she lived a life of poverty and the children in the neighborhood mocked her for her eccentric dress and behavior
She formed a literary salon called “Kraal,” which Martin Buber, the philosopher, opened on January 10, 1942, at the French Cultural Center.” [5]

Some leading Jewish writers and promising poets attended her literary programs, but Lasker-Schüler eventually was banned from giving readings and lectures because they were held in German. She begged the head of the German synagogue in Jerusalem to let her use his Gotteshaus (house of God) one more time:

“Wherever I was, German is not allowed to be spoken. I want to arrange the last Kraal evening for a poet who is already broken, to recite from his translations [into German] of a great Hebrew” (Letter to Rabbi Kurt Wilhelm, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive, Jerusalem, cited in Bauschinger, p. 270).[5]

In her final years, Lasker-Schüler worked on her drama IchundIch (IandI), which remained a fragment. However, she finished her volume of poems, Mein Blaues Klavier (1943, My Blue Piano), printed in a limited edition of 330 copies.

“[H]er literary farewell became her last attempt to overcome loneliness. Significantly, she dedicated the work to “my unforgettable friends in the cities of Germany and to those, like me, exiled and dispersed throughout the world, in good faith.” In one of her final acts, she asked that her hometown of Wuppertal and its surrounding area be spared from Allied bombing."[5]

She tended to spend whatever money she had all at once which made her go for days without food or shelter. Heinz Gerling and the poet Manfred Schturmann came to her aid. Gerling opened a bank account for her and arranged for regular payments to cover her expenses whereas Schturmann edited her work and helped with her dealings with publishers. After her death Schturmann became the trustee of her legacy and during the 1950s and '60s dealt extensively with publishers in East and West Germany, Switzerland and Austria who wished to publish her works.

In 1944 Lasker-Schüler's health deteriorated. She suffered a heart attack on January 16, and died in Jerusalem on January 22, 1945. She was buried on the Mount of Olives
Literary career
Lasker-Schüler left behind several volumes of poetry and three plays, as well as many short stories, essays and letters. During her lifetime, her poems were published in various magazines, among them the journal Der Sturm edited by her second husband, and Karl Kraus' literary journal Die Fackel. She also published many anthologies of poetry, some of which she illustrated herself. Examples are:

Styx (first published volume of poetry, 1902)[7]
Der siebente Tag (second volume of poetry, 1905)[8]
Meine Wunder [de] (first edition, 1911)[9]
Gesammelte Gedichte (complete poetry) (1917)
Mein blaues Klavier [de] (1943)[10]
Lasker-Schüler wrote her first and most important play, Die Wupper [de], in 1908. It was published in 1909 and the first performance took place on 27 April 1919 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.

A large part of her work is composed of love poetry, but there are also deeply religious poems and prayers. Transitions between the two are often quite fluid. Her later work is particularly rich in biblical and oriental motifs. Lasker-Schüler was very free with regard to the external rules of poetic form, however her works thereby achieve a greater inner concentration. She was also not averse to linguistic neologisms.

A good example of her poetic art is her 1910 poem "Ein alter Tibetteppich" [de] (lit. "An old Tibetan rug"), which was reprinted many times after its first publication in Der Sturm, the first of these being in Fackel.

"Ein alter Tibetteppich"

Deine Seele, die die meine liebet,
Ist verwirkt mit ihr im Teppichtibet.

Strahl in Strahl, verliebte Farben,
Sterne, die sich himmellang umwarben.

Unsere Füße ruhen auf der Kostbarkeit,
Maschentausendabertausendweit.

Süßer Lamasohn auf Moschuspflanzenthron,
Wie lange küßt dein Mund den meinen wohl
Und Wang die Wange buntgeknüpfte Zeiten schon?

"An old Tibetan rug"

Your soul, which loveth mine,
Is woven with it into a Tibetan-rug.

Strand by strand, enamoured colours,
Stars that courted each other across the length of heavens.

Our feet rest on the treasure
Stitches-thousands-and-thousands-across.

Sweet lama-son on your musk-plant-throne
How long has your mouth been kissing mine,
And cheek to cheek colorfully woven times?

Influence
The 20th-century Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid included a translation of an extract from Lasker-Schüler's work in his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, 1926. (Lines 401–410.)

Commemoration

There is a memorial plaque to Else Lasker-Schüler at Motzstraße 7, Berlin-Schöneberg, where she lived from 1924 to 1933. Part of this street was renamed Else-Lasker-Schüler-Straße in 1996. In Elberfeld in Wuppertal there is now a school named after her (The "School without Racism"), and a memorial stele was erected on Herzogstraße, Wuppertal.

The Else-Lasker-Schüler-Society was founded 1990 in Wuppertal by journalist Hajo Jahn. In more than 20 international symposia from Breslau to Tel Aviv, the works of the poet were introduced and discussed in relation to the relevance for the presence and future.

In Jerusalem, there is a small street named for Else Lasker-Schüler in the neighborhood of Nayot - Rehov Else. Perched on a ridge in the Jerusalem Forest, very close to the Kennedy Memorial (Yad Kennedy), was a sculpture in her honor resembling a slender tree trunk with wings. It was placed there in 1997, and was stolen, probably by metal thieves, in July 2007.

In 2007, her final days in Jerusalem were commemorated in the BBC radio play My Blue Piano by the Scottish playwright Marty Ross (Radio 4 2007) which combined the facts of her dying days with the fantasies of her inner life.[11]

On February 7, 2020, Google celebrated her with a Google Doodle.[12]

Film

Ich räume auf ("Putting Things Straight") Germany 1979,[13] German actress Gisela Stein plays the part of Else Lasker-Schüler fighting against her editors. The film was first broadcast by: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, director: Georg Brintrup

Mein Herz – niemandem! (1997) by Helma Sanders-Brahms features Lena Stolze as the poet. It climaxes with the paradox of her deep bond with Gottfried Benn, a physician and poet who became a Nazi, and publicly supported the Nazi regime even as Lasker-Schüler was forced into exile.

Translations into English

Poetry

After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets. Eavan Boland (translations and introductions). Princeton University Press. 2004. ISBN 9780691117454. OCLC 424103356. Translated poems from nine poets including Lasker-Schüler.

Star in my Forehead: Selected Poems. Janine Canan (translations). Duluth, MN: Holy Cow! Press. 2000. ISBN 9780930100889. OCLC 43114305.

Selected Poems. Audri Durchslag-Litt and Jeanette Litman-Demeestère (translations and introduction). Los Angeles: Green Integer. 2002. ISBN 9781892295866. OCLC 50565214.

Poems. Nini Ettlinger (translations) and Josef Herman (illustrations). Shropshire: Tern Press. 1980. OCLC 9838607.

Offering. II : selected poems of Else Lasker-Schüler & more of Rainer Maria Rilke. Bernhard Frank (translations). Buffalo, NY: Goldengrove Press. 2002. OCLC 50672055.

My Blue Piano. Brooks Haxton (translations and notes). Syracuse University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780815634201. OCLC 922220048. Bilingual edition.

Your Diamond Dreams Cut Open My Arteries. Robert P. Newton (translations and introduction). University of North Carolina Press. 1982. ISBN 9780807881002. OCLC 906403110.

Prose

My Heart. Sheldon Gilman and Robert Levine (translation); Jakob Hessing (introduction). Amsterdam: November Editions. 2016. ISBN 9789492027078. OCLC 964452933. Translation of the novel Mein Herz.

Concert. Jean M. Snook (translation). University of Nebraska Press. 1994. ISBN 9780803229006. OCLC 742589376. Translation of Konzert.

Plays

Three plays : Dark river, Arthur Aronymus and his ancestors, and I and I. Jane Curtis (translation) and Inca Molina Rumold (introduction). Northwestern University Press. 2005. ISBN 9780810121980. OCLC 58985776. Translations of Die Wupper, Arthur Aronymus : die Geschichte meines Vaters, and Ich und ich: Ein nachgelassenes Schaauspiel

Phillip Schofield

Phillip Bryan Schofield (born 1 April 1962)[2] is an English television presenter who works for ITV. He is the co-presenter of This Morning (2002–present) and Dancing on Ice (2006–2014, 2018–present) alongside Holly Willoughby. His other work for ITV includes All Star Mr & Mrs (2008–2016), The Cube (2009–2015), and 5 Gold Rings (2017–present).

Schofield gained national attention working for the BBC, first as a continuity presenter for Children's BBC on weekdays from 1985 to 1987, then as a presenter on the children's Saturday morning magazine show Going Live! between September 1987 and April 1993.
Early life
Schofield was born in Oldham, Lancashire.[2] He grew up in Newquay, Cornwall, where he attended Trenance Infant School and Newquay Tretherras School.[3][4] When he was 15, his first foray into media was a Sunday show on Hospital Radio Plymouth.[3]

After many years of writing letters to the BBC, at 17, Schofield took up the position of bookings clerk and tea boy for BBC Radio at Broadcasting House in London, where he was, at the time, the youngest employee.[3]

Career
Television
Aged 19, Schofield moved with his family to New Zealand, where he made his television debut as the initial presenter of the youth music programme Shazam! on 23 February 1982.[5] He also spent two years working for the Auckland-based station Radio Hauraki.[3]

In 1985, he returned to Britain, where he became the first in-vision continuity presenter for Children's BBC on weekdays for two years from September 1985 in what was known as the 'Broom Cupboard'.[6][3] He left to present Going Live! on Saturday mornings between September 1987 and April 1993.[3] From 1988 to 1991, he was the host of the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, a pop-magazine awards show.

In the early 1990s, Schofield moved to adult-orientated television with various programmes for ITV, such as Schofield's Quest, Schofield's TV Gold and Ten Ball. From 1994 to 1997, he presented Talking Telephone Numbers for five series and in 1996 he hosted a show about remarkable coincidences called One in a Million. He co-authored the book that came out of the series.

In the following decade, Schofield presented the National Lottery Winning Lines programme for BBC One between June 2001 and October 2004. And between 2002 and 2006, he co-hosted the BBC quiz show Test the Nation with Anne Robinson. In July 2006, he signed an exclusive two-year contract with ITV, reported to have been worth £5 million. The exclusive deal also meant he could no longer present Test the Nation and was replaced by Danny Wallace.[7]

Since 2002, Schofield has been a presenter on the ITV daytime show This Morning replacing John Leslie with Fern Britton until 2009 and with Holly Willoughby who replaced Britton in September that year. In May 2008, Schofield's father, Brian, died from a long-standing heart condition,[citation needed] which led to Schofield taking a break from presenting This Morning. John Barrowman stood in for him until his return.

Starting in 2005, Schofield presented two series of Have I Been Here Before?, a daytime programme where a celebrity attempted to use regression to get in touch with a previous life.

Since 2006, he has presented The British Soap Awards. Between 2006 and 2008, he hosted the programme with Fern Britton but since 2009, alone.

During the run of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, he co-hosted the spin-off series I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here! Exclusive with Sheree Murphy. The show lasted one series. In 2006, Schofield presented two episodes of the ITV game show It's Now or Never, before the network cancelled the show, due to poor ratings.[8]

Schofield presented Dancing on Ice on ITV with Holly Willoughby from 2006 until 2011 and Christine Bleakley from 2012 until 2014. It was announced in the summer of 2013 that Dancing on Ice was to come to an end following the 2014 series.[9][10] Schofield returned to co-present the show in 2018 following ITV's choice to reboot the series after four years away.

Since April 2008, he and Fern Britton hosted a revival of the ITV game show Mr. and Mrs., renamed as All Star Mr & Mrs. In 2010, the show took a break but returned in 2012 without Britton.

From 2009 until 2015, he presented the primetime game show The Cube and has hosted A Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards with Amanda Holden from 2009 until 2014.

In 2010 and 2011, Schofield hosted the annual comedy show The Comedy Annual on ITV. From 2011 until 2015, He co-hosted the Christmas charity show Text Santa on ITV with Christine Lampard in 2011, 2014 and 2015 and Holly Willoughby in 2012 and 2013.[11]

In April 2011 and June 2012, Schofield co-hosted ITV's coverage of the Royal Wedding and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with Julie Etchingham.

In March 2014, Schofield narrated the one-off ITV2 show Educating Joey Essex. The show was commissioned for a full series which was aired throughout 2014.[12][13] The show was commissioned for a seven part second series, filming began in April 2016 and the series will air in summer 2016 with the first episode titled "The Queen's 90th Birthday".

In December 2014, he undertook a live 24-hour TV marathon to raise money for Text Santa,[14][15] where, as well as appearing on This Morning, he appeared on various other programmes throughout the day, including being a guest panellist on Loose Women.

He presented two series of the primetime game show You're Back in the Room for ITV in 2015 and 2016.[16]

In 2016, he travelled to South Africa with his wife, as part of a series of short clips for This Morning. Following this, ITV aired a 3x30 minute episodes in a primetime slot, called Schofield's South African Adventure. Since March 2017, he has presented 5 Gold Rings, a new game show format for ITV.[17][18] In 2017, Schofield presented three-part factual series How To Spend It Well at Christmas with Phillip Schofield in which he tested the latest must-have festive gifts.[19]

Radio
While working as presenter of Going Live!, Schofield was also broadcasting on BBC Radio 1 with a Sunday show (also called Going Live). When Radio 1 made the switch from medium wave to full use of FM stereo in 1988, Schofield was one of the presenters chosen to help with the launch.[citation needed]

In February 2010, Schofield launched Radio Plymouth in Devon.[20]

Theatre
Schofield tried his hand at theatre and took over the role of Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat from Jason Donovan on the West End stage in 1991. The second musical he performed in was the title role of Doctor Dolittle at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, before touring the UK. In March 2018, Schofield reprised his role as Joseph for an episode of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

Other interests
Music
While appearing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Schofield was approached to record a cover of "Close Every Door" to be released as a single.[citation needed] The single was released in December 1992 on Polydor Records and peaked at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart.[21]

Wine
Schofield collects Bordeaux wines, an interest kindled by friend Jason Donovan. Asked in 1992 to introduce a compilation video for Donovan, Schofield refused to accept payment. Stock, Aitken and Waterman sent him two cases of Burgundy with a set of tasting notes; he joined the Wine Society two years later.[22]

In 2013, Schofield began writing for the Waitrose Weekend newspaper, and has been the face of wine in their UK stores ever since.[23] Schofield has a separate Twitter account about wine called @SchofeOnWine.

Controversies
David Cameron This Morning interview
On 8 November 2012, Schofield interviewed the then prime minister David Cameron on This Morning, and presented him with a list he had obtained from the internet of five people named as paedophiles in connection with the North Wales child abuse scandal.[24] The names of several former senior Conservative politicians were visible on the list.[25] Schofield was widely criticised for his action,[24] with broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby describing his behaviour as "cretinous".[26] Cameron responded by warning against a witchhunt, "particularly about people who are gay". ITV's director of television, Peter Fincham, said that Schofield was "wrong" in confronting Cameron and said that the broadcaster had agreed to co-operate fully with government regulator Ofcom's investigation into the matter. The investigation was initiated after Ofcom received 415 complaints from viewers. Schofield later apologised, blaming a misjudged camera angle.[25] Schofield and ITV later paid £125,000 compensation to settle a libel suit from one of those falsely accused, Lord McAlpine.[27]

Personal life
Schofield has dual British and New Zealand citizenship.[1][28] He married his long-term partner Stephanie Lowe in 1993.[29] They reside in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.[30]

Schofield is a patron of the charity CHASE hospice care for children, which offers help and support to families of children who are not expected to reach their 19th birthday. In conjunction with rose specialist C&K Jones, he launched the Schofield rose in support of CHASE at Gardeners' World June 2006. Each rose sold attracts a donation to CHASE. Schofield is also an ambassador for children's charity Kidscape and age-positive charity Royal Voluntary Service, previously known as WRVS.[31]

On 8 October 2012, Schofield became an Honorary Patron of the Blue Lamp Foundation, a UK based charity which raises money to support emergency services personnel who have been injured in the course of duty.[32]

On 7 February 2020, Schofield came out as gay via a statement posted on his Instagram story, followed up in an interview on This Morning, stating that "with the strength and support of my wife and my daughters, I have been coming to terms with the fact that I am gay

قاسم الريمي

قاسم يحيى مهدي الريمي ويكنى أبو هريرة الصنعاني (و. 1974 - 28 يناير 2020) هو قائد تنظيم القاعدة في جزيرة العرب وعين قائداً لتتنظيم في 16 يونيو 2015، خلفاً لناصر الوحيشي الذي قتل بغارة لطائرة بدون طيار في مدينة المكلا عاصمة محافظة حضرموت شرق اليمن.

حُكم عليه بالسجن خمسة أعوام في 2005 بعد إدانته في اليمن بتهمة التخطيط لاغتيال سفير الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في اليمن، إلا أنه فر من السجن في اليمن عام 2006 بصحبة ناصر الوحيشي، في 2007 أعلن الريمي والوحيشي ظهور تنظيم القاعدة في اليمن.

أدرج قاسم الريمي في لجنة الجزاءات المفروضة على القاعدة في 11 مايو 2010، بسبب "المشاركة في تمويل أعمال أو أنشطة يقوم بها" تنظيم القاعدة في جزيرة العرب.

نشأته
درس الابتدائية في مدرسة الأمل التي كانت حينها عبارة عن مبنى شعبي مكون من فصلين، على يد معلمين مصريين.

الوحدة

الوحدة هو شعور قوي بالفراغ والعزلة، وفي حالة شعور الشخص بالوحدة فهو أكثر من الشعور بالرغبة برفاق أو الرغبة بفعل شيء مع شخص آخر، الوحدة هي الشعور بكونك مقطوع عن الآخرين، منعزل عن الناس الآخرين، في بعض الاحيان الشخص الوحداني يجد صعوبة في اي شكل من أشكال الاتصال مع الناس الآخرين، ويواجه الناس الوحيدون في أغلب الأحيان إحساس شخصي مِنْ الفراغِ أَو بوجود فجوة في داخلهم، بمشاعرِ الافتراق أَو العزلةِ مِنْ العالمِ. أنه وحيد في الدنيا لا يوجد من يعينه أو يشاركه همومه الوحدة شعور لا يُفهَم من الكلام بل بالتجربة و البعض منهم يصبح وحيدا لأسباب أخرى معقدة مثل المكتئب يصبح وحيدا من كثرة الألم والضغوطات فلا بد ان لايرى أحد أي مايسمى المنعزل نفسيا. الناس الوحيدون نفسيا هم الأكثر أنتحارا في العالم ويشعر بان لا أحد يرافقه يسعده ويكون الإنسان الوحيد والحزين ويشعر بالرغبة من الانتقام من شخص ما لا تنطبق هذه القاعدة على كل الأشخاص


الوحدة
تستجيب الوحدة للعزلة و هي عاطفة معقدة و مؤلمة و عادة يتضمن الشعور بالوحدة مشاعر القلق حول عدم الاتصال أو التواصل مع الكائنات الأخرى ، سواء كان في الحاضر أو في المستقبل و لذلك ، يمكن الشعور بالوحدة حتى عندما تكون محاط بأشخاص آخرين و تختلف أسباب الوحدة وتشمل : العوامل الاجتماعية و العقلية و العاطفية و الجسدية.

أظهرت الأبحاث أن الوحدة منتشرة في المجتمع ، بما فيه الزواج والعلاقات والعائلات و المحاربين القدماء و من لديه حياة مهنية ناجحة. لقد مرت مدة طويلة منذ استكشاف موضوع أدب البشر منذ العصور الكلاسيكية القديمة. وصفت الوحدة بأنها ألم اجتماعي و تهدف آلية النفسية لتحفيز الفرد للحصول إلى التواصل الاجتماعي. عادة ما يكون تعريف الوحدة من حيث اتصال الشخص بالآخرين ، أو على نحو أكثر تحديدا " تحدث التجربة المؤلمة عندما تكون شبكة العلاقات الاجتماعية لشخص ما ناقصة بطريقة ما ".

الأسباب الشائعة
يمكن للناس أن يشعروا بالوحدة لأسباب عديدة ، و قد تسببها العديد من أحداث الحياة ، مثل عدم وجود علاقات الصداقة أثناء الطفولة والمراهقة ، أو الغياب الجسدي لأشخاص ذوي معنى حول الشخص و في الوقت نفسه ، قد يكون الشعور بالوحدة أحد أعراض مشكلة اجتماعية أو نفسية أخرى ، مثل الاكتئاب المزمن.

يشعر الكثير من الناس بالوحدة عند تركهم وحدهم كرضع لأول مرة و على الرغم من أنه عادة ما يكون مؤقتًا ، أنه من الشائع جدا أن يكون نتيجة الانفصال أو الطلاق أو خسارة أي علاقة مهمة و طويلة المدى. و في هذه الحالات ، قد ينجم من فقدان شخص معين ومن الانسحاب من دوائر العلاقات الاجتماعية التي قد تكون بسبب مناسبة أو الحزن المصاحب لها .

عادة ما يؤدي فقدان شخص مهم في حياة المرء إلى الاستجابة للحزن . في هذه الحالة ، قد يشعر المرء بالوحدة ، حتى عندما تكون محاط بأشخاص آخرين. و قد يأتي أيضًا الشعور بالوحدة بعد ولادة الطفل (غالبًا ما يتم التعبير عنه باكتئاب ما بعد الولادة) ، أو بعد الزواج ، أو بعد أي حدث ضار اجتماعيًا ، مثل الانتقال من مسقط رأس الفرد إلى مجتمع غريب ، مما يؤدي إلى الحنين إلى الوطن و يمكن أن يأتي الشعور بالوحدة في حالات الزواج غير المستقرة أو العلاقات الحميمة الأخرى ذات الطبيعة المشابهة ، والتي قد تتضمن المشاعر الحالية الغضب أو الشعور بالاستياء ، أو التي لا يمكن من خلالها تبادل الشعور بالحب. و قد تمثل الوحدة من خلل في التواصل ، ويمكن أن ينتج أيضًا عن الأماكن ذات الكثافة السكانية المنخفضة حيث يوجد عدد قليل نسبيا من الناس للتفاعل معهم و يمكن اعتبار الوحدة على أنها ظاهرة اجتماعية قادرة على الانتشار مثل المرض. و عندما يبدأ شخص أن يشعر بالوحدة في المجموعة ، من الممكن أن ينتشر هذا الشعور إلى الآخرين ، و تزيد من خطورة أن يشعر الجميع بالوحدة. يمكن أن يشعر الأشخاص بالوحدة حتى عندما يكونوا محاطين بأشخاص آخرين.

وجدت دراسة التوأم أدلة على أن علم الوراثة يمثل حوالي نصف الاختلافات القابلة لقياس الوحدة بين البالغين ، والتي كانت مشابهة لتقديرات الوراثة الموجودة سابقاً لدى الأطفال. تعمل هذه الجينات بطريقة مشابهة في الذكور و الإناث. لم تجد الدراسة أي مساهمات بيئية مشتركة في الوحدة لدى البالغين.

الحزم

نادي الحزم هو ناد رياضي سعودي بمحافظة الرس، من الأندية النموذجية التي أقامت لها الهيئة العامة الرياضة مقراً نموذجياً تكلف بناؤه (120 مليون ريال) وهو هدية من أمير الشباب والرياضة انذاك الأمير فيصل بن فهد للأبناء محافظة الرس وأبناء الحزم حيث تتوفر فيه الملاعب والصالات المغلقة ومسبح وصالة للألعاب الترفيهية وصالة للعلاج وعدد من الملاعب المكشوفة ومكتبة نموذجية..

وهناك في نادي الحزم العديد من الألعاب التي يزاول بها أبناء الحزم أنشطتهم منها كرة القدم - الطائرة - اليد - ألعاب القوى – السباحة – الجمباز – الدراجات – التنس الأرضي – تنس الطاولة بالإضافة إلى الأنشطة الاجتماعية والثقافية.

تأسس نادي الحزم بمحافظة الرس عام 1957, باسم النادي الأهلي وكان يحمل الشعار (الأصفر والأزرق) وتم تسجيله رسمياً بالهيئة العامة الرياضة عام 1968, وأصبح يحمل اسم الحزم بالشعار الأصفر والأزرق والأحمر (تسمية نادي الحزم تعود لمحمد بن عبد الله المسيطير). ويعتبر مؤسس النادي عبد الرحمن بن خالد الرشيد. ويعتبر الشيخ خالد عمر البلطان هو رئيس هيئة أعضاء الشرف و هو المؤسس الفعلي لنادي الحزم فقد كان الحزم دائما يراوح مكانه بدوري الأرياف يعني كأنه غير موجود و عندما أتى الشيخ خالد البلطان انطلق الفريق و لم يرده إلا دوري المحترفين السعودي حتى حقق رابعا في دوري الابطال و حقق بطولة النخبة بدعم الشيخ البلطان

-أول مجلس إدارة لنادي الحزم الأستاذ/ منصور بن محمد الحبس وإبراهيم موسى الطاسان وصالح بن عبد الرحمن الضويان وصالح بن ناصر الجهني وحمد بن محمد الخربوش وصالح بن عبد العزيز الغفيلي

- ورئيس الحزم الحالي هو عبدالله الصيخان
كرة القدم
صعد الفريق الأول إلى الدوري السعودي الممتاز موسم 2004-05.

البطولات
البطولات الرسمية
دوري الدرجة الأولى السعودي : 1
2005
دوري الدرجة الثانية السعودي : 1
1999
البطولات الغير رسمية
بطولة النخبة الدولية بأبها : 1
2009

Baaghi 3

Baaghi 3 is an upcoming Indian action thriller film directed by Ahmed Khan. Produced by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment and Fox Star Studios, it is a spiritual sequel to Baaghi (2016) and Baaghi 2 (2018). Baaghi 3 stars Tiger Shroff, Riteish Deshmukh and Shraddha Kapoor. It is an official remake of 2012 Tamil film Vettai. Shraddha Kapoor is playing the role of an air hostess in the movie.[1][2]

Principal photography of the film began on 12 September 2019 in Mumbai.[3][4] It is scheduled to be theatrically released in cinemas on 6 March 2020.
Premise
Ronnie and Vikram are brothers who share an unbreakable bond. Since childhood, Ronnie always comes to the rescue whenever Vikram falls in any trouble. Their journey begins when a certain turn in events, leads Vikram to travel in Syria to complete some work. On this trip, Vikram gets kidnapped by people who are not to be messed with but as Ronnie witnesses his brother getting beaten and kidnapped by ISIS, he knows that he will do whatever it takes to destroy anyone and anything that stands in the way of Vikram’s safety. Ronnie goes on a rampage of destruction to see his brother safe again, even if it means that he independently has to take on an entire country.

Cast
Tiger Shroff as Ranveer "Ronnie" Pratap Singh, Vikram's brother
Riteish Deshmukh as Vikram Pratap Singh, Ranveer's brother
Shraddha Kapoor as Siya, Ranveer's love interest
Ankita Lokhande[5] as Seema Nandan
Jameel Khoury as Abu, the chief of ISIS[6]
Jaideep Ahlawat as Abu's Henchman
Vijay Varma
Nora Fatehi Item Number
Annu Kapoor
Production
The film was announced on 19 December 2018 with Tiger Shroff by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment on their Twitter account by releasing a teaser poster.[7] On 12 February 2019 Shraddha Kapoor was signed to play lead opposite Tiger Shroff.[8] In June it was announced that Riteish Deshmukh has joined the cast of the film. [9] In August 2019, it was announced that shooting of the film will take place in Morocco, Egypt, Serbia and Turkey.[10]

The first schedule of filming began on 12 September in Mumbai and wrapped in early-October 2019.[11][12] In late-September, Ankita Lokhande was added on the cast as Kapoor's sister.

Promotion and release
On 6 February 2020 official trailer of the film was launched by Fox Star Studios.[13]

The film is slated to release theatrically on 6 March 2020 in cinemas.