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Patch Adams Critique' title='Patch Adams Critique' />Adele Wikipedia. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. MBE born 5 May 1. English singer songwriter. L. A. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries, read TV and movie reviews and more. Amy Adams stars as a woman forced to reflect on how she treated her ex, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, in Tom Fords second directorial outing. Youd be hardpressed to find a more perfect caricature of Americas wildest, bawdiest and most unintelligible impulses than Florida Man. As 2014 comes to a close, it. After graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2. Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. In 2. 00. 7, she received the Brit Awards Critics Choice award and won the BBCSound of 2. Her debut album, 1. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and three times platinum in the US. The album contains her first song, Hometown Glory, written when she was 1. West Norwood in London. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2. US. At the 5. 1st Grammy Awards in 2. Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She released her second studio album, 2. The album was critically well received and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer numerous awards in 2. Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year, and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 1. UK, and is overall the fourth best selling album in the nation. In the US, it has held the top position longer than any album since 1. Plural Eyes Keygen Generator. The album has sold over 3. The success of 2. Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records. She was the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 1. Billboard 2. 00 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 1. UK and US Album Charts. In 2. 01. 2, Adele released Skyfall, which she co wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. The song won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Brit Award for British Single of the Year. After taking a three year break, Adele released her third studio album, 2. It became the years best selling album and broke first week sales records in the UK and US. ANXpatchadamsduo.jpg?quality=60&mode=crop&width=700&height=422' alt='Patch Adams Critique' title='Patch Adams Critique' />US and earned her five Grammy Awards, including her second Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards. The lead single, Hello, became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release. Her third concert tour, Adele Live 2. Europe, North America and Oceania, and concluded with finale concerts at Wembley Stadium in late June 2. In 2. 01. 1, 2. 01. Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2. 01. 2, she was listed at number five on VH1s 1. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Our film critics on blockbusters, independents and everything in between. Greatest Women in Music. Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world in 2. With sales of more than 1. Patch-Adams.jpg' alt='Patch Adams Critique' title='Patch Adams Critique' />Adele is one of the best selling music artists of all time. Early lifeeditAdele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1. Tottenham, London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans. Evans left when Adele was two, leaving her mother to raise her. She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. Growing up, Adele spent most of her time singing rather than reading the last book she read was Roald Dahls Matilda when she was six years old. In 1. 99. 7, at the age of nine, Adele and her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton on the south coast of England. In 1. 99. 9, two years later, she and her mother moved back to London first to Brixton, and then to neighbouring district West Norwood, in south London. Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts Technology in Croydon in May 2. Leona Lewis and Jessie J. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent1. A R and hoped to launch other peoples careers. Beginnings and 1. Teenaged Adele performing on an acoustic guitar in Kilburn, London, in 2. Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication Platforms. Magazine. com. 1. She had recorded a three song demo for a class project and given it to a friend. The friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to a phone call from Richard Russell, boss of the music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting. Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and in June 2. Dickins became her official representative. September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2. Adele provided vocals for Jack Peates song, My Yvonne, for his debut album, and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut album, 1. In June 2. 00. 7, Adele made her television debut, performing Daydreamer on the BBCs Later. Jools Holland. 2. Adeles breakthrough song, Hometown Glory, was released in October 2. By 2. 00. 8, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which she was supported by Damien Rice. She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards. Critics Choice and was named the number one predicted breakthrough act of 2. BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2. The album 1. 9, named for her age at the time she wrote and composed many of its songs, entered the British charts at number one. The Times. Encyclopedia of Modern Music named 1. She released her second single, Chasing Pavements, on 1. January 2. 00. 8, two weeks ahead of her debut album, 1. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks. Adele was nominated for a 2. Mercury Prize award for 1. She also won an Urban Music Award for Best Jazz Act. She also received a Q Awards nomination in the category of Breakthrough Act2. Music of Black Origin nomination in the category of Best UK Female. In March 2. 00. 8, Adele signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States. She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month,3. US in June. 1. 5Billboard magazine stated of it Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation. The An Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2. June 2. 00. 9. 3. Adele performing live in 2. She later cancelled the 2. US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend. She said in Nylon magazine in June 2. Im like, I cant believe I did that. It seems so ungrateful. I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldnt bear to be without him, so I was like, Well, Ill just cancel my stuff then. She referred to this period as her early life crisis. She is also known for her dislike of flying and bouts of homesickness when away from her native London. By the middle of October 2. Adeles attempt to break in America appeared to have failed. But then she was booked as the musical guest on the 1. October 2. 00. 8 episode of NBCs Saturday Night Live. The episode, which included an expected appearance by then US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 1. Adele performed Chasing Pavements and Cold Shoulder,3. Tunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon. Chasing Pavements rose into the top 2. The album reached number 1. Billboard 2. 00 as a result, a jump of 3. In November 2. 00. Tom Fords Nocturnal Animals Venice Review. David Lynch meets Alfred Hitchcock meets Douglas Sirk in Nocturnal Animals, a sumptuously entertaining noir melodrama laced with vicious crime and psychological suspense, which more than delivers on the promise of A Single Man, writer director Tom Fords first foray behind the camera seven years ago. Confidently dovetailing three strands that depict present and past reality, as well as a dark fictional detour that functions as a blunt real life rebuke, the movie once again demonstrates that Ford is both an intoxicating sensualist and an accomplished storyteller, with as fine an eye for character detail as he has for color and composition. Focus Features should be able to count on sophisticated adult audiences lapping up this late fall release its rollout begins Nov. The films pleasures include a coolly acerbic critique of the Los Angeles contemporary art scene that, like much of the sly humor coursing through Fords screenplay, dances flirtatiously around the fringes of camp. Premiering back to back in Venice with Denis Villeneuves Arrival, Nocturnal Animals also provides Amy Adams with another multifaceted role, this time as a woman whose unhappiness is rooted in buried guilt. Ford adapted the screenplay from late American novelist Austin Wrights 1. Tony and Susan, and the films title comes from the novel within that novel. It also was the term that aspiring author Edward Jake Gyllenhaal used to describe his now divorced wife Susan Adams, a chronic insomniac. While the novel is about the choices that define us and their consequences for people along the way, it also is about the extremely intimate act of reading, as access to another persons thoughts, feelings and experience. Ford echoes that underlying theme by making Nocturnal Animals, in subliminal ways, a movie about watching movies. An eye opening sequence that plays under the opening titles features hefty middle aged burlesque dancers in drum majorette accessories but otherwise naked, dancing in front of a red curtain. Those who found A Single Man somewhat questionable in its depiction of early 6. Los Angeles as a place entirely populated by specimens of physical perfection with zero percent body fat and fabulous wardrobes might be tempted to interpret this sequence as Fords F. U. response. The in your face images are actually part of an art installation curated by Susan, who long ago abandoned her own artistic ambitions to move into gallery management. While her handsome, philandering second husband Walker Armie Hammer has hit a rough patch in his powerbroker dealings, their professional success is reflected in the cold steel, stone and glass fortress in the hills where they live, with Los Angeles spread out below like a glittering carpet. Adams innate vulnerability is nicely played off here against Susans sleek appearance, as smooth and painstakingly put together as the pristine surfaces of the world in which she moves. But shes plagued by gnawing unhappiness and unable to make the similarly well heeled and privileged friends in whom she confides understand. Believe me, our world is a lot less painful than the real world, says Carlos Michael Sheen, the gay husband of an eccentric socialite Andrea Riseborough who pairs chunky statement jewelry with Liz Taylors old hair and caftan. This couples too brief appearance is a hoot can someone please write them their own movieSusans sense of isolation is compounded when she receives a manuscript from ex husband Edward, almost 2. Its harrowing plot comes to vivid life in her head, with Tony Gyllenhaal again, his wife Laura Isla Fisher and their obnoxiously entitled teenage daughter India Ellie Bamber heading off on vacation. In the movies white knuckle centerpiece sequence, the family is nudged off a lonely stretch of West Texas freeway by rednecks in another vehicle, led by Ray a chilling Aaron Taylor Johnson. This being a Tom Ford movie, even the white trash has gorgeous bone structure, but these guys are genuinely menacing. The ugly intensity of their scenes is palpable, as is the terror they unleash. Back in Los Angeles, Susan is increasingly unsettled as she reads on her own world begins to mirror that of the book in the fluid overlapping transitions of ace editor Joan Sobels tricky scene structuring. Events in the novel get even more twisted as Tony works with gnarled cowboy detective Bobby Andes Michael Shannon to find the perpetrators of that fateful nights brutal crimes. Susan, to whom the book is dedicated, sees Laura as her obvious stand in, and interprets the fictional characters grim fate as retribution from her ex husband. Dance In The Vampire Bund Manga Er here. The novel also forces her to acknowledge the growing cracks in her current marriage. At around that point Ford then begins folding in scenes plucked from the past, back when Susan and Edward were together. She was his sharpest critic during their marriage, her discouragement sapping his drive to become a writer. Laura Linney appears in one delicious scene, channeling Glenn Close to perfection as Susans mother, an icy Texan matron whos all lacquered hair, martinis, pearls and withering condescension. While expressing her stern disapproval of Susans plan to marry Edward, whom she views as a weak romantic, she warns her daughter, Just wait. We all eventually turn into our mothers. As their marriage hits the rocks, Edward confronts Susan with that uncomfortable reality. Perhaps the most impressive evidence of Fords growth as a director is the complex juggling act he pulls off with the storys three parallel strands, each of them distinct and yet forming a seamless whole. The scenes involving Tony and Bobby have the flavorful feel of gritty Western crime but also, in Gyllenhaals raw performance, the scalding pain of revenge that barely serves as a Band Aid to wounds that can never heal. Shannons typically idiosyncratic spin on a small town Texas archetype is no less riveting. This gruesome drama plays in stark relief against the astutely observed shallowness of the glamorous L. A. art world. Two brief but pricelessly arch scenes in particular stand out, one with Jena Malone as a gallery staffer wearing a sublimely ridiculous high fashion getup which looks like it was borrowed from Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper, and one with the divine Kristin Bauer van Straten as a cosmetic surgery freak with lips like pillows and eyes like daggers. In terms of visuals, cinematographer Seamus Mc. Garvey plays up the contrasts between the sterile perfection of the Los Angeles environments and the expansive vistas of Texas, with their painterly skies staring down on a lawless land. Production designer Shane Valentino also does striking work finding eerie echoes of the fictional crime in some of the art pieces on display in L. A. While there was no denying the eye popping beauty of A Single Man, the movie was so meticulously aestheticized it made Todd Haynes look like Kevin Smith. It also was guilty of being stylistically derivative, with camera sequences and still compositions that often looked like studied imitations of the work of filmmakers like Wong Kar Wai and Pedro Almodovar. Nocturnal Animals is no less manicured even the desert shacks could be artfully distressed fashion shoot locations. And unsurprisingly, the end credits are an orgy of high end designer names and contemporary American art luminaries.