title: Steve Aoki

text: Aoki has been involved with various charities. EDM.com named him No. 1 on their list of the 11 most charitable EDM producers. He is the founder of the Steve Aoki Charitable Fund, which raises money for global humanitarian relief organizations and medical research. Among the organization's fundraising methods are Aoki's touring events, "memorabilia auctions", and collaborations with other artists. In early 2015 he was named a Global Ambassador for the Best Buddies program, a non-profit devoted to young people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Around that time, MTV Latin America gave Aoki the Chiuku Award for humanitarian work at the International Dance Music Awards.


title: Steve Aoki

text: The Aoki Foundation helps fund research on the brain with a focus on regenerative medicine and brain preservation. They envision a world without degenerative brain diseases, and where science and technology can be used towards healthy life extension. The Foundation also supports other causes such as disaster relief, developmental disabilities, and animal-rights. The foundation has partnered with Keep Memory Alive, SENS Research Foundation, the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Music for Relief, and Best Buddies International.


title: Steve Aoki

text: In 2013, during his North American tour, Aoki donated a dollar of every ticket sale to four charities: the Brain Preservation Foundation, the University of Rochester Medical Center – Memory Care Program, the American Brain Foundation, and Infusio. Aoki fans were invited to vote for their favorite charity, with the Brain Preservation taking the grand prize. A total of $65,000 were donated, with $33,000 going to the Brain Preservation Foundation.


title: Steve Aoki

text: Aoki and Australian model Tiernan Cowling were engaged in 2010. They later married on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 2015.


title: Steve Aoki

text: After applying, in 2022, Aoki was selected to participate in a lunar spaceflight as part of the DearMoon project crew. The mission is scheduled to occur in 2023 aboard the SpaceX Starship.


title: Steve Aoki

text: Aoki is signed up for cryopreservation, discussing plans with Peter Diamandis in a 2022 interview "A DJ’s Crazy Schedule, Cryonics, and the Making of Pursuit of Happiness".


title: Josh Gad

text: Joshua Ilan Gad (born February 23, 1981) is an American actor. He is known for voicing Olaf in the "Frozen" franchise, playing Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon", and playing Le Fou in the live-action adaptation of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast". For his role as Olaf, Gad won two Annie Awards, and for his work in "The Book of Mormon", he co-won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical, both shared with Andrew Rannells as one of the two leading artists.


title: Josh Gad

text: Gad played Skip Gilchrist in the political sitcom "1600 Penn" on NBC, and a fictionalized version of himself on FX's "The Comedians", alongside Billy Crystal. His other film roles include "The Rocker", "The Internship", "21", "Love & Other Drugs", "Jobs", "Pixels", "The Wedding Ringer", "The Angry Birds Movie" and its sequel, "A Dog's Purpose" and its sequel "A Dog's Journey", "Marshall", Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express", "Little Monsters" and "". He has also appeared in "ER", "The Daily Show", "Modern Family", "New Girl", "Bored to Death", and "Numb3rs". In 2020, he began starring in the HBO comedy series "Avenue 5".


title: Josh Gad

text: Joshua Ilan Gad was born in Hollywood, Florida, on February 23, 1981. His mother, Susan, is a real estate agent and his stepfather is an investment advisor, and he has two older brothers, a stepbrother and a stepsister. His father, Sam (Shmuel) Gad was born to a Jewish family in Afghanistan and moved to Israel as a teenager. Gad believes his father is a descendant of the Tribe of Gad, one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, further stating that his paternal ancestors traveled through India before settling in Afghanistan. His mother was born in Germany to an Ashkenazi Jewish family of Holocaust survivors. He was raised Jewish.


title: Josh Gad

text: Gad attended the University School of Nova Southeastern University, graduating in 1999. While there, he won the National Forensics League (NFL) National Tournament Championships for Original Oratory in 1998 and 1999. He also won the 1999 Humorous Interpretation at the National tournament in Phoenix. He then attended the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama. He attended college with fellow Broadway stars Leslie Odom Jr. and Rory O’Malley, the latter of whom he based his portrayal of Olaf in "Frozen" on. During this time, he undertook a semester-long exchange at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.


title: Josh Gad

text: Gad made his film debut in the 2002 film "Mary and Joe." In 2005, Gad made his television debut by guest-starring in an episode of the NBC medical drama series "ER". The same year, he replaced Dan Fogler as William Barfée in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on Broadway after Fogler left the show. Gad went on to star in the Fox sitcom "Back to You" as news director Ryan Church. The sitcom lasted one season from 2007 to 2008. In 2008, Gad had a supporting role in the drama film "21", and a leading role in the comedy film "The Rocker".


title: Josh Gad

text: After "Back to You", Gad appeared as a correspondent on "The Daily Show" on May 5, 2009, and became a regular correspondent on June 2, 2009. His signature segments include "The War on Christmas", in which he played an oversexed Benjamin Franklin, and "Chubby Chasers", in which he reported on Michelle Obama's efforts to curb childhood obesity. Gad made his final appearance as a correspondent on June 27, 2011. Also in 2009, Gad starred in the short-form Crackle horror comedy series "Woke Up Dead".


title: Josh Gad

text: In 2010, he had a supporting role in the romantic comedy-drama film "Love & Other Drugs" opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. That same year, Gad had a voice role in the family comedy film "Marmaduke". In 2011, Gad voiced Mondo in the MTV adult animated sitcom "Good Vibes". That same year, Gad portrayed Elder Cunningham in the Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon." The show opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 24, 2011. His last performance was June 6, 2012. Gad was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and won for Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, along with his co-star Andrew Rannells.


title: Josh Gad

text: In 2012, Gad had a leading role in the independent film "She Wants Me". Also in 2012, Gad co-created, produced and starred in the NBC sitcom "1600 Penn". Both "Good Vibes" and "1600 Penn" were canceled after one season. That same year, Gad voiced the molehog Louis in "."


title: Josh Gad

text: In 2013, he played Andrew in the film "The Internship" and starred as Steve Wozniak in the film "Jobs". The same year, he voiced Olaf in the Disney film "Frozen", re-collaborating with co-songwriter Robert Lopez from "The Book of Mormon". In 2014, Gad co-starred in Zach Braff's film "Wish I Was Here", playing the main character's brother.


title: Josh Gad

text: In 2015, Gad starred alongside Kevin Hart and Kaley Cuoco in "The Wedding Ringer" and starred alongside Adam Sandler and Peter Dinklage in "Pixels", a film about video game players who are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who have attacked the earth. That same year, Gad co-starred with Billy Crystal on the FX comedy series "The Comedians", which premiered on April 9, 2015. The series was canceled after one season. In 2016, Gad voiced Chuck in "The Angry Birds Movie", based on the game franchise of the same name.


title: Josh Gad

text: In 2017, Gad voiced the dog Bailey in "A Dog's Purpose", Also that year, he played LeFou in the live-action adaptation of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", directed by Bill Condon and co-starring with Emma Watson. Gad also starred in Reginald Hudlin's biographical drama "Marshall", alongside Chadwick Boseman and "Beauty and the Beast" co-star Dan Stevens, and Gad played Hector MacQueen in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel "Murder on the Orient Express", directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, alongside Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, and Daisy Ridley.


title: Josh Gad

text: In 2019, Gad starred with Lupita Nyong'o and Alexander England in the Hulu horror-comedy "Little Monsters". He also starred in "A Dog's Journey", the sequel to "A Dog's Purpose", reprising his role as Bailey. Also in 2019, Gad reprised his role of Olaf in the sequel "Frozen II" as well as the video game "Kingdom Hearts III".


title: Josh Gad

text: In 2020, Gad returned to television by starring in two different television series. First, Gad starred in the HBO science fiction comedy series "Avenue 5" opposite Hugh Laurie. The series premiered on January 19 and was renewed for a second season a month later. Second, Gad created, produced and starred in the Apple TV+ animated musical comedy series "Central Park". The series received a two-season order from Apple with each season set to consist of thirteen episodes each. The series premiered on May 29.


title: Josh Gad

text: He starred in the science fantasy adventure "Artemis Fowl" (2020), based on the book of the same name by Eoin Colfer. The film was initially set for a theatrical release but was changed to a streaming release on Disney+ due to the coronavirus pandemic. In September 2020 Gad joined "Princess Bride Reunion," a virtual live script read-through of the 1987 movie, in the role of Fezzik, originally played by André the Giant. "The A.V. Club"'s review singled out his performance as "Josh Gad’s surprisingly moving Andre the Giant tribute... It was an impression in the gentlest, sweetest sense of the word, something remarked on repeatedly by the rest of the cast and host/moderator Patton Oswalt. 10s across the board."


title: Josh Gad

text: During the COVID-19 pandemic, where people were encouraged to practice social distancing, Gad launched the YouTube series "Reunited Apart", which reunites the cast, via video conferencing, of several popular movies and movie series including "Back to The Future" and "Lord of the Rings". The series encourages its viewers to support non-profit charities such as Dig Deep, Project Hope and No Kid Hungry. In June, Gad announced that the episode on "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" would be the last, though the series later returned for a second season, which premiered in December 2020 with the cast of "Wayne's World".


title: Josh Gad

text: In the runup to the 2020 election, Gad joined other Broadway celebrities with the voter education nonprofit VoteRiders for a virtual party to raise awareness around the complexities of voter ID laws targeting at-risk voters.


title: Josh Gad

text: Gad is set to serve as co-creator, co-writer, and executive-producer for a "Beauty and the Beast" prequel limited series for Disney+, in which he will also reprise his role as LeFou as a series regular. Gad was also announced to star as Nick Szalinski in the upcoming film "Shrunk", a legacy-sequel to "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids".


title: Josh Gad

text: In January 2019, it was announced Gad was set to produce the live-action remake of Disney's 1996 film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It was later rumored Gad was considered to play the lead role of Quasimodo; however this was postponed because of COVID-19. Gad was a guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional Dec 10-12, 2022.


title: Josh Gad

text: In 2004, Gad met actress Ida Darvish after the two were cast to play a married couple in the David Ives play "All in the Timing". They married in 2008. Gad has stated that while he loves the traditional aspects of Judaism and celebrates some traditions of his wife's Catholicism, he considers himself spiritual but not religious. They have two daughters, Ava Gad, born in 2011, and Isabella Gad, born in 2014. Gad has come out in the past couple years talking about his struggle with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, as part of his effort to combat mental health stigma and shame. As an effort towards squashing the mental health stigma, Gad joined other celebrities in 2018 in an ongoing project through the Child Mind Institute, titled #MyYoungerSelf. This campaign focuses on normalizing mental health especially in kids. The website features Gad and other celebrities talking about their own personal struggles with mental health and how they've found the help they need, while they also encourage viewers to find what can specifically help them."Reunited Apart", talked about in the career section above, helped Gad get through the pandemic and lockdown. While he was out of work for the lockdown, he was able to focus on the series and not let his mental health plummet like many other Americans suffered from during the lockdown period.


title: Skydance Media

text: Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures starting in 2009, and has renewed the agreement twice out to 2021. The company specializes in films, animation, television and video games.


title: Skydance Media

text: Skydance Productions was formed in 2006 by David Ellison. The firm's first film was "Flyboys" in 2006, starring Ellison and co-financed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.


title: Skydance Media

text: In the fall of 2009, Skydance and Paramount Pictures signed a five-year co-financing, production and distribution agreement, with Paramount holding the additional option of distribution. Before August 2010, Skydance hired Dana Goldberg, formerly of Village Roadshow Pictures, to oversee development and production. In August 2010, with the Paramount partnership and an equity investment by the then sixth richest person in the world, Ellison's father and Oracle Corporation co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison, Skydance raised $350 million in equity and credit to co-finance its films. On October 25, 2011, Skydance tried to sign its own first production client with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci of K/O Paper Products, but the deal was never materialized.


title: Skydance Media

text: On May 1, 2013, Skydance launched Skydance Television, hiring Marcy Ross as division president. In 2014, Jesse Sisgold joined Skydance as President of Business Affairs & Strategic Planning and later that year was upped to Chief Operating Officer. He was again promoted in 2017 to President & COO. In March 2014, Don Granger joined the company as the newly created post EVP Feature Productions, and he would report to Dana Goldberg, company's chief creative officer. In March 2015, Anne Globe joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer. Later that same year, Skydance raised $700 million in new financing. The refinancing included $200 million in equity from a group of investors, and a $500 million line of credit from J.P. Morgan Chase. Skydance renewed it slate deal with Paramount in the summer of 2013 for four more years.


title: Skydance Media

text: On May 3, 2016, Skydance launched the Skydance Interactive division last year following the acquisition of The Workshop Entertainment and announced in January 2017 for a new VR story-driven game titled "Archangel". David Ellison's company also created a production label named Uncharted in December 2016 in order to house content that falls outside of the action, sci-fi or fantasy genre. On March 16, 2017, Skydance launched the Skydance Animation division by forming a multi-year partnership with Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios. In August 2017, Skydance and Paramount renewed their slate deal for another four years to 2021, with the addition of Skydance's animated films for distribution. On January 25, 2018, Tencent bought a 5% to 10% minority stake. Jun Oh was hired by Skydance Media as head of theatrical, interactive and legal affairs in October 2018. In February 2020, RedBird Capital Partners and CJ ENM invested in the company.


title: Skydance Media

text: On October 20, 2021, Skydance tapped veteran producer Jon Weinbach to lead a new sports division called Skydance Sports, a new unit will develop scripted and unscripted sports-related content. In January 2022, Skydance formed a multi-year feature film deal with Apple TV+, ending its deal with Paramount. However, Skydance will continue to work with Paramount on franchises such as "" and "Transformers". On October 13, 2022, Skydance completed a $400 million strategic investment round led by KKR, a first-time investor, and joined by the Ellison family, who remain majority shareholders.


title: Skydance Media

text: Skydance Television is a television production company launched by Skydance on May 1, 2013. The division was hired by Marcy Ross as division president, and a month later, Carolyn Harris joined Skydance Television as vice president. However, in January 2020, Marcy Ross left her position and transitioning to an overall producing deal with the media company, where she will continue to serve as executive producer on "Grace and Frankie", "Altered Carbon", "Condor" and "Foundation". In her place, Bill Bost has been upped from senior vice president to president of Skydance Television. By November 2022, Bost steps down and launches his own company while Netflix's Matt Thunell takes his place.


title: Skydance Media

text: In May 2014, Jake Rose joins Skydance Television as EVP Production before in March 2018, Carol Turner joined Skydance to replace Rose on overseeing all physical production at the studio. By July 2014, its first show, "Manhattan", was launched on WGN America, reciving critical acclaim throughout its run, but failed to secure adequate ratings, resulting the series cancelled for 2 seasons in 2015.


title: Skydance Media

text: Later in April 2017, director Sam Raimi signed his first look deal at Skydance Television with his television producing partner Debbie Liebling. By September 2017, a multi-year overall agreement was signed to producers Patrick Massett and John Zinman for Skydance Television after joining on a series based on "Sword Art Online". After the 2017 announcement of developing a series adaptation of Isaac Asimov's science fiction book series "Foundation" with David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman serving as the production's writers, in 2018, Apple Studios to brought the rights to the series and renewed a second season upon its release in 2021, making it the first Skydance series to air from Apple Inc.. In June 2018, "Dietland" aired on AMC for over 10 episodes along with a companion talk show hosted by Aisha Tyler from "Archer", under its label company Uncharted.


title: Skydance Media

text: In September 2019, writer David S. Goyer also signed an deal with Skydance Television for an exclusive multi-year overall agreement as well under his Phantom Four company. On April 2019, "Daredevil" writer Lewaa Nasserdeen joins Skydance Television on a overall deal as well while developing a semi-autobiographical comedy-drama series on Showtime. In May 2019, Alison Schapker, showrunner of "Altered Carbon", makes a overall deal with Skydance Television to develop various series at the studio, including an US remake of a South Korea series called "Hotel del Luna".


title: Skydance Media

text: By August 2019, writer Olivia Purnell had an overall deal with Skydance Television on writing projects for the studio. In May 2020, Nick Santora was also on an overall deal with Skydance Television with a series starting Arnold Schwarzenegger called "FUBAR", soon to be released on Netflix. During the month on the same year, Skydance Television names Drew Brown as head of production with others joining in from various companies.


title: Skydance Media

text: In December 2020, Skydance Television signed a first look deal with Exile Content Studio to develop and produce scripted English-language series. But by February 2021, the studio also signed a first look deal with Impact, a global talent network and development accelerator program owned by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer for television productions. On November 2021, Peter Johnson joins Skydance Television as a television executive reporting for Bill Bost.


title: Skydance Media

text: Skydance Interactive (formerally known as "The Workshop Entertainment") is a game division launched on May 5, 2016, focusing on developing ambitious titles, managing projects licenses to other developers, and software developing innovative game mechanics and for VR and emerging platforms.


title: Skydance Media

text: In May 2017, Chris Hewish was hired as EVP Interactive help to set and execute overall strategy for Skydance Interactive, and oversee development, partnerships, and new business opportunities.


title: Skydance Media

text: On July 18, 2017, its first VR game, "Archangel" was launched. The game recently expanded into an online multiplayer upgrade, "Archangel: Hellfire". Two days later, Skydance Interactive revealed their second original game called "PWND", an multiplayer free to play game released on April 6, 2018, where players uses Pwns to win.


title: Skydance Media

text: In 2018, Skydance Interactive partnered with Skybound Entertainment to develop a number of original virtual reality video games based on the expansive world of "The Walking Dead" universe. "The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners" and "The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution" were to be the inaugural titles co-developed by the two companies.


title: Skydance Media

text: Skydance Animation is the animation division of Skydance Media, which focuses on animated feature films and television series, founded on March 16, 2017. Its first film was "Luck" with its first short film was "Blush".


title: Skydance Media

text: Skydance New Media is a video game development studio founded by Skydance in November 18, 2019, led by Amy Hennig.


title: Skydance Media

text: In October 2021, the studio announced a planned collaboration with Marvel Entertainment for an action-adventure game. In April 2022, it was announced that Lucasfilm Games would collaborate to make a game based in the "Star Wars" universe. Some have speculated that the game will be a revival of "Project Ragtag", which was also led by Henning.


title: Skydance Media

text: In August 2022, Marvel's parent corporation The Walt Disney Company announced their intentions to showcase a slate of video games based on their IP at the joint "Disney & Marvel Games Showcase", which would be taking place in conjunction with the company's annual D23 Expo in person and through broadcast on multiple streaming platforms. Alongside the announcement, Disney stated that the panel would also debut a "sneak peek" at Skydance New Media's Marvel title, which was described as being an "ensemble game". During the showcase in September 9, 2022, the Marvel project confirmed prior reports that it would be set during World War II and that Captain America and Azzuri / Black Panther would feature as the main characters in the ensemble, alongside Gabriel Jones of the Howling Commandos unit and Nanali, leader of the Wakandan Spy Network, while the Hydra organization would serve as the main villains.


title: Skydance Media

text: Skydance Sports is a sports content division launched by Skydance on October 20, 2021, led by Jon Weinbach.


title: Skydance Media

text: In January 2022, Skydance Sports sets up a partnership with Meadowlark Media for the production of unscripted sports content. One of their projects is a soccer documentary series called "Good Rivals", originally called "Good Neighbors", a three-part series coming on Amazon Prime Video around the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which begins on November 24, 2022. The second project would follow the chronciles of Diana Taurasi, most accomplished player in the history of women's basketball.


title: Skydance Media

text: In March 2022, Religion of Sports signs up with Skydance Sports to develop, finance and produce a slate of sports-related content for multiple platforms, starting with a series called "The Owl", created and executive produced by Michael Perri and directed by Aurora Guerrero. In April 2022, Skydance Sports signed their first film being picked up at Amazon Studios based on Nike Inc, with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon teaming to rewrite the script and star in the film, with Affleck to direct. On October 12, 2022, Kylian Mbappé and his production banner, Zebra Valley, have signed a multiyear first-look deal with Skydance Sports.


title: Skydance Media

text: On November 3, 2022, Skydance Sports teams up with America's Cup for an “all-access, behind-the-scenes” documentary series on the next America's Cup race, helmed by original "Free Solo" team Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin under their production company Little Monster Films. By the same month, NFL annouced a partnership to create the premier global multi-sports production studio in the industry with Skydance Sports.


title: Pauly Shore

text: Paul Montgomery Shore (born February 1, 1968) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker best known for his roles in several comedy films in the 1990s. Shore began as a stand-up comedian at the age of 17, before becoming an MTV VJ in 1989. This led to a starring role in the comedy film "Encino Man" in 1992, which was a modest hit. He followed this with leading man vehicles, including "Son in Law" (1993) and "Bio-Dome" (1996). Shore provided the voice of Robert "Bobby" Zimuruski in "A Goofy Movie" and its direct-to-video sequel, "An Extremely Goofy Movie".


title: Pauly Shore

text: Shore was born Paul Montgomery Shore, the son of Sammy Shore (1927–2019), a comedian who co-founded The Comedy Store with Rudy De Luca, and Mitzi Shore (née Saidel; 1930–2018), who owned and operated the Comedy Store from 1974 until her death after receiving it in her divorce settlement. Shore was raised Jewish, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1986.


title: Pauly Shore

text: Inspired by his parents' work in comedy and show business, a 17-year-old Shore made his stand-up debut at the Alley Cat Bistro in Culver City. "Everyone else in school was filling out their SAT applications, but I just passed mine back. I knew I wasn't going to go to college." Shore was mentored by Sam Kinison and opened several of his sets. While touring the comedy club circuit, Shore cultivated an alter ego persona called "The Weasel". "The Weasel" involved Shore speaking in a surfer parlance, heavily peppered with dudespeak slang such as "edged", "melons" and "grinding" as well as his catchphrase, "Hey, BU-DDY."


title: Pauly Shore

text: Shore's big break came as an on-air MTV VJ, a position he held from 1989 to 1994. At the height of his MTV fame, Shore had his own show, "Totally Pauly", serving as a host on MTV's annual Spring Break parties. He also released a music video, "Lisa, Lisa, the One I Adore".


title: Pauly Shore

text: In 1992, Shore starred in "Encino Man", which was a modest hit. The film's success propelled Shore to star in additional personalized vehicles, albeit increasingly less successful: "Son in Law" (1993), "In the Army Now" (1994), "Jury Duty" (1995), and "Bio-Dome" (1996). All five films received sharply negative reviews, with the last three each holding a rating below 10% at Rotten Tomatoes; in addition, each of the movies grossed less at the box office than the one before. Describing Shore's performances in these movies, film critic Roger Ebert wrote "Shore bypasses all categories to achieve a kind of transcendent fingernails-on-the-blackboard effect." In 1997, Shore starred in the eponymous TV show "Pauly", which was cancelled after five episodes aired. Shore made a cameo appearance in the American rock band Limp Bizkit music video "N 2 Gether Now", as a pizza deliveryman, and a briefer appearance in "Break Stuff". The Golden Raspberry Awards has recognized Shore's film performances several times, awarding him Worst New Star of the Year for "Encino Man", Worst Actor of the Year for "Bio-Dome", Worst New Star of the Decade for the 1990s, and nominating him for Worst Actor of the Century (which he lost to Sylvester Stallone).


title: Pauly Shore

text: In 2003, Shore produced, wrote, directed and starred in "Pauly Shore Is Dead", a semi-autobiographical mockumentary, which gave him the best reviews of his career (57% on Rotten Tomatoes, far above his 1990s films), and in 2005, starred in the short-lived reality television series "Minding the Store". In 2010, Shore starred in "Adopted", which sees him traveling to Africa to adopt a child.


title: Pauly Shore

text: In 2022, Shore was announced to provide the voice of Pinocchio in the American dub of "Pinocchio: A True Story". Following the release of the trailer in January, a scene in which Shore says, "Father, when can I leave to be on my own? I've got the whole world to see." went viral due to his unusual line delivery. Shore has taken the response in good humor.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique ( , ; or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It has a land area of and a population of 364,508 inhabitants as of January 2019. One of the Windward Islands, it is directly north of Saint Lucia, northwest of Barbados and south of Dominica. Martinique is an Outermost Region and a special territory of the European Union; the currency in use is the euro. Virtually the entire population speaks both French (the sole official language) and Martinican Creole.


title: Martinique

text: It is thought that Martinique is a corruption of the Taíno name for the island (/, meaning 'island of flowers', or , 'island of women'), as relayed to Christopher Columbus when he visited the island in 1502. According to historian Sydney Daney, the island was called or by the Caribs, which means 'the island of iguanas'.


title: Martinique

text: The island was occupied first by Arawaks, then by Caribs. The Arawaks were described as gentle timorous Indians and the Caribs as ferocious cannibal warriors. The Arawaks came from Central America in the 1st century AD and the Caribs came from the Venezuelan coast around the 11th century.


title: Martinique

text: Christopher Columbus charted Martinique (without landing) in 1493, during his first voyage, but Spain had little interest in the territory. Columbus landed during a later voyage, on 15 June 1502, after a 21-day trade wind passage, his fastest ocean voyage. He spent three days there refilling his water casks, bathing and washing laundry.


title: Martinique

text: The indigenous people Columbus encountered called Martinique ‘Matinino’. He was told by indigenous people of


title: Martinique

text: San Salvador that ‘the island of Matinino was entirely populated by women on whom the Caribs descended at certain seasons of the year; and if these women bore sons they were entrusted to the father to bring up.’


title: Martinique

text: On 15 September 1635, Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, French governor of the island of St. Kitts, landed in the harbour of St. Pierre with 80-150 French settlers after being driven off St. Kitts by the English. D'Esnambuc claimed Martinique for the French king Louis XIII and the French "Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique" (Company of the American Islands), and established the first European settlement at Fort Saint-Pierre (now St. Pierre). D'Esnambuc died in 1636, leaving the company and Martinique in the hands of his nephew, Jacques Dyel du Parquet, who in 1637 became governor of the island.


title: Martinique

text: In 1636, in the first of many skirmishes, the indigenous Caribs rose against the settlers to drive them off the island. The French successfully repelled the natives and forced them to retreat to the eastern part of the island, on the Caravelle Peninsula in the region then known as the Capesterre. When the Caribs revolted against French rule in 1658, the governor Charles Houël du Petit Pré retaliated with war against them. Many were killed, and those who survived were taken captive and expelled from the island. Some Caribs fled to Dominica or St. Vincent, where the French agreed to leave them at peace.


title: Martinique

text: After the death of du Parquet in 1658, his widow Marie Bonnard du Parquet tried to govern Martinique, but dislike of her rule led King Louis XIV to take over the sovereignty of the island. In 1654, Dutch Jews expelled from Portuguese Brazil introduced sugar plantations worked by large numbers of enslaved Africans.


title: Martinique

text: In 1667, the Second Anglo-Dutch War spilled out into the Caribbean, with Britain attacking the pro-Dutch French fleet in Martinique, virtually destroying it and further cementing British preeminence in the region. In 1674, the Dutch attempted to conquer the island, but were repulsed.


title: Martinique

text: Because there were few Catholic priests in the French Antilles, many of the earliest French settlers were Huguenots who sought religious freedom. Others were transported there as a punishment for refusing to convert to Catholicism, many of them dying en route. Those who survived were quite industrious and over time prospered, though the less fortunate were reduced to the status of indentured servants. Although edicts from King Louis XIV's court regularly came to the islands to suppress the Protestant "heretics", these were mostly ignored by island authorities until Louis XIV's Edict of Revocation in 1685.


title: Martinique

text: As many of the planters on Martinique were Huguenots suffering under the harsh strictures of the Revocation, they began plotting to emigrate from Martinique with many of their recently arrived brethren. Many of them were encouraged by the Catholics, who looked forward to their departure and the opportunities for seizing their property. By 1688, nearly all of Martinique's French Protestant population had escaped to the British American colonies or Protestant countries in Europe. The policy decimated the population of Martinique and the rest of the French Antilles and set back their colonisation by decades, causing the French king to relax his policies in the region, which left the islands susceptible to British occupation over the next century.


title: Martinique

text: Under governor of the Antilles Charles de Courbon, comte de Blénac, Martinique served as a home port for French pirates, including Captain Crapeau, Étienne de Montauban, and Mathurin Desmarestz. In later years, pirate Bartholomew Roberts styled his jolly roger as a black flag depicting a pirate standing on two skulls labeled "ABH" and "AMH" for "A Barbadian's Head" and "A Martinican's Head" after governors of those two islands sent warships to capture Roberts.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique was attacked or occupied several times by the British, in 1693, 1759, 1762 and 1779. Excepting a period from 1802 to 1809 following signing of the Treaty of Amiens, Britain controlled the island for most of the time from 1794 to 1815, when it was traded back to France at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars. Martinique has remained a French possession since then.


title: Martinique

text: Despite the introduction of successful coffee plantations in the 1720s to Martinique, the first coffee-growing area in the Western hemisphere, as sugar prices declined in the early 1800s, the planter class lost political influence. Slave rebellions in 1789, 1815 and 1822, plus the campaigns of abolitionists such as Cyrille Bissette and Victor Schœlcher, persuaded the French government to end slavery in the French West Indies in 1848. As a result, some plantation owners imported workers from India and China. Despite the abolition of slavery, life scarcely improved for most Martinicans; class and racial tensions exploded into rioting in southern Martinique in 1870 following the arrest of Léopold Lubin, a trader of African ancestry who retaliated after he was beaten by a Frenchman. After several deaths, the revolt was crushed by French militia.


title: Martinique

text: On 8 May 1902, Mont Pelée erupted and completely destroyed St. Pierre, killing 30,000 people. Refugees from Martinique travelled by boat to the southern villages of Dominica, and some of them remained permanently on the island. The only survivor in the town of Saint-Pierre, Auguste Cyparis, was saved by the thick walls of his prison cell. Shortly thereafter, the capital shifted to Fort-de-France, where it remains today.


title: Martinique

text: During World War II, the pro-Nazi Vichy government controlled Martinique under Admiral Georges Robert. German U-boats used Martinique for refuelling and re-supply during the Battle of the Caribbean. In 1942, 182 ships were sunk in the Caribbean, dropping to 45 in 1943, and five in 1944. Free French forces took over on the island on Bastille Day, 14 July 1943.


title: Martinique

text: In 1946, the French National Assembly voted unanimously to transform the colony into an Overseas Department of France. Meanwhile, the post-war period saw a growing campaign for full independence; a notable proponent of this was the author Aimé Césaire, who founded the Progressive Party of Martinique in the 1950s. Tensions boiled over in December 1959 when riots broke out following a racially-charged altercation between two motorists, resulting in three deaths. In 1962, as a result of this and the global turn against colonialism, the strongly pro-independence OJAM () was formed. Its leaders were later arrested by the French authorities. However, they were later acquitted. Tensions rose again in 1974, when gendarmes shot dead two striking banana workers. However the independence movement lost steam as Martinique's economy faltered in the 1970s, resulting in large-scale emigration. Hurricanes in 1979–80 severely affected agricultural output, further straining the economy. Greater autonomy was granted by France to the island in the 1970s–80s


title: Martinique

text: In 2009, Martinique was convulsed by the French Caribbean general strikes. Initially focusing on cost-of-living issues, the movement soon took on a racial dimension as strikers challenged the continued economic dominance of the "Béké", descendants of French European settlers. President Nicolas Sarkozy later visited the island, promising reform. While ruling out full independence, which he said was desired neither by France nor by Martinique, Sarkozy offered Martiniquans a referendum on the island's future status and degree of autonomy.


title: Martinique

text: Like French Guiana, Martinique is a special collectivity (Unique in French) of the French Republic. It is also an outermost region of the European Union. The inhabitants of Martinique are French citizens with full political and legal rights. Martinique sends to the French National Assembly and two senators to the French Senate.


title: Martinique

text: On 24 January 2010, during a referendum, the inhabitants of Martinique approved by 68.4% the change to be a "special (unique) collectivity" within the framework of article 73 of the French Republic's Constitution. The new council replaces and exercises the powers of both the General Council and the regional council.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique is divided into four "arrondissements" and 34 "communes". It had also been divided into 45 "cantons", but these were abolished in 2015. The four arrondissements of the island, with their respective locations, are as follows:


title: Martinique

text: The prefecture of Martinique is Fort-de-France. The three sub-prefectures are Le Marin, Saint-Pierre and La Trinité. The French State is represented in Martinique by a prefect (Stanislas Cazelles since 5 February 2020), and by two sub-prefects in Le Marin (Corinne Blanchot-Prosper) and La Trinité / Saint-Pierre (Nicolas Onimus, appointed on 20 May 2020).


title: Martinique

text: The prefecture was criticized for racism following the publication on its Twitter account of a poster calling for physical distancing against the coronavirus and showing a black man and a white man separated by pineapples.


title: Martinique

text: The Executive Council of Martinique is composed of nine members (a president and eight executive councilors).


title: Martinique

text: The deliberative assembly of the territorial collectivity is the Assembly of Martinique, composed of 51 elected members and chaired by Lucien Saliber as of 2 July 2021.


title: Martinique

text: The advisory council of the territorial collectivity of Martinique is the Economic, Social, Environmental, Cultural and Educational Council of Martinique (Conseil économique, social, environnemental, de la culture et de l'éducation de Martinique), composed of 68 members. Its president is Justin Daniel since 20 May 2021.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique has been represented since 17 June 2017, in the National Assembly by four deputies (Serge Letchimy, Jean-Philippe Nilor, Josette Manin and Manuéla Kéclard-Mondésir) and in the Senate by two senators (Maurice Antiste and Catherine Conconne) since 24 September 2017.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique is also represented in the Economic, Social and Environmental Council by Pierre Marie-Joseph since 26 April 2021


title: Martinique

text: During the 2000s, the political debate in Martinique focused on the question of the evolution of the island's status. Two political ideologies, assimilationism and autonomism, clashed. On the one hand, there are those who want a change of status based on Article 73 of the French Constitution, i.e., that all French laws apply in Martinique as of right, which in law is called legislative identity, and on the other hand, the autonomists who want a change of status based on Article 74 of the French Constitution, i.e., an autonomous status subject to the regime of legislative specialty following the example of St. Martin and St. Barthelemy.


title: Martinique

text: Unlike the overseas departments, the overseas collectivities are subject to legislative specialization. The laws and decrees of the Republic apply to them under certain conditions established by the organic law defining their status. The overseas departments have a greater degree of autonomy than the DOMs. They have an executive council, a territorial council and an economic and social council. The prefect is the representative of the French State in the overseas collectivity.


title: Martinique

text: However, the French Constitution specifies in Article 72-4 that "no change may be made, for all or part of one of the communities mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 72-3, from one of the regimes provided for in Articles 73 and 74, without the prior consent of the electors of the community or part of the community concerned having been obtained, under the conditions provided for in the following paragraph.


title: Martinique

text: In 2003, a new organization is envisaged, in which the regional and departmental institutions would be merged into a single institution. This proposal was rejected in Martinique (but also in Guadeloupe) by 50.48% in a referendum held on 7 December 2003.


title: Martinique

text: On 10 January 2010, a consultation of the population was held. Voters were asked to vote in a referendum on a possible change in the status of their territory. The ballot proposed voters to "approve or reject the transition to the regime provided for in Article 74 of the Constitution". The majority of voters, 79.3%, said "no".


title: Martinique

text: The following 24 January, in a second referendum, 68.4% of the population of Martinique approved the transition to a "single collectivity" under Article 73 of the Constitution, i.e., a single assembly that would exercise the powers of the General Council and the Regional Council.


title: Martinique

text: The project of the elected representatives of Martinique to the government proposes a single territorial community governed by Article 73 of the Constitution, whose name is "Territorial Community of Martinique". The single assembly that replaces the General Council and the Regional Council is called the "Assembly of Martinique". The Assembly of Martinique is composed of 51 councilors, elected for a six-year term of office by the proportional representation system (the electoral district is divided into four sections). A majority bonus of 20% is granted to the first place list.


title: Martinique

text: The executive body of this community is called the "executive council", which is composed of nine executive councilors, including a president. The president of the community of Martinique is the president of the executive council. The executive council is responsible to the Assembly of Martinique, which may overrule it by a motion of constructive censure. Unlike the previous functioning of the General Council and the Regional Council, the Assembly of Martinique is separate from the Executive Council and is headed by a bureau and a president.


title: Martinique

text: The new collectivity of Martinique combines the powers of the general and regional councils, but may obtain new powers through empowerments under Article 73. The executive council is assisted by an advisory council, the Economic, Social, Environmental, Cultural and Educational Council of Martinique.


title: Martinique

text: The bill was approved on 26 January 2011, by the French Government. The ordinary law was submitted to Parliament during the first half of 2011 and resulted in the adoption of Law No. 2011-884 27 July 2011, on the territorial communities of French Guiana and Martinique.


title: Martinique

text: Political life in Martinique is essentially based on Martinican political parties and local federations of national parties (PS and LR). The following classification takes into account their position with regard to the statutory evolution of the island: there are the assimilationists (in favor of an institutional or statutory evolution within the framework of Article 73 of the French Constitution), the autonomists and the independentists (in favor of a statutory evolution based on Article 74 of the French Constitution).


title: Martinique

text: Indeed, on 18 December 2008, during the congress of Martinique's departmental and regional elected representatives, the thirty-three pro-independence elected representatives (MIM/CNCP/MODEMAS/PALIMA) of the two assemblies voted unanimously in favor of a change in the island's status based on Article 74 of the French Constitution, which allows access to autonomy; this change in status was massively rejected (79.3%) by the population during the referendum of 10 January 2010.


title: Martinique

text: The defence of the department is the responsibility of the French Armed Forces. Some 1,400 military personnel are deployed in Martinique and Guadeloupe – centred on the 33e régiment d'infanterie de Marine in Martinique and incorporating a reserve company of the regiment located in Guadeloupe.


title: Martinique

text: Four French Navy vessels are based in Martinique, including: the surveillance frigates and , the patrol and support ship "Dumont d'Urville" and the "Combattante". The naval aviation element includes Eurocopter AS565 Panther or Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin helicopters able to embark on the "Floréal"-class frigates as required. One "Engins de Débarquement Amphibie – Standards" (EDA-S) landing craft is to be delivered to naval forces based in Martinique by 2025. The landing craft is to better support operations in the territory and region.


title: Martinique

text: About 700 National Gendarmerie are also stationed in Martinique while the Maritime Gendarmerie deploys the coastal harbor tug (RPC) Maïtos in the territory.


title: Martinique

text: Part of the archipelago of the Antilles, Martinique is located in the Caribbean Sea about northeast of the coast of South America and about southeast of the Dominican Republic. It is north of St. Lucia, northwest of Barbados and south of Dominica.


title: Martinique

text: The total area of Martinique is , of which is water and the rest land. Martinique is the 3rd largest island in The Lesser Antilles after Trinidad and Guadeloupe. It stretches in length and in width. The highest point is the volcano of Mount Pelée at above sea level. There are numerous small islands, particularly off the east coast.The Atlantic, or "windward" coast of Martinique is difficult to navigate by ship. A combination of coastal cliffs, shallow coral reefs and cays, and strong winds make the area notoriously hazardous for sea traffic. The Caravelle peninsula clearly separates the north Atlantic and south Atlantic coast.


title: Martinique

text: The Caribbean, or "leeward" coast of Martinique is much more favourable to sea traffic. Besides being shielded from the harsh Atlantic trade winds by the island, the sea bed itself descends steeply from the shore. This ensures that most potential hazards are deep underwater, and prevents the growth of corals.


title: Martinique

text: The north of the island is especially mountainous. It features four ensembles of "pitons" (volcanoes) and "mornes" (mountains): the Piton Conil on the extreme North, which dominates the Dominica Channel; Mont Pelée, an active volcano; the Morne Jacob; and the Pitons du Carbet, an ensemble of five extinct volcanoes covered with rainforest and dominating the Bay of Fort de France at . Mont Pelée's volcanic ash has created grey and black sand beaches in the north (in particular between Anse Ceron and Anse des Gallets), contrasting markedly from the white sands of Les Salines in the south.


title: Martinique

text: The south is more easily traversed, though it still features impressive geographic features. Because it is easier to travel to, and due to the many beaches and food facilities throughout this region, the south receives most of the tourism. The beaches from Pointe de Bout, through Diamant (which features right off the coast of Roche de Diamant), St. Luce, the department of St. Anne and down to Les Salines are popular.


title: Martinique

text: The terrain is mountainous on this island of volcanic origin. The oldest areas correspond to the volcanic zones at the southern end of the island and towards the peninsula of La Caravelle to the east. The island developed over the last 20 million years according to a sequence of movements and volcanic eruptions to the north.


title: Martinique

text: The volcanic activity is due to the subduction fault located here, where the South American Plate slides beneath the Caribbean Plate. Martinique has eight centres of volcanic activity. The oldest rocks are andesitic lavas dated to about 24 million years ago, mixed with tholeiitic magma containing iron and magnesium. Mount Pelée, the island's most dramatic feature, formed about 400,000 years ago. Pelée erupted in 1792, 1851, and twice in 1902. The eruption of 8 May 1902, destroyed Saint-Pierre and killed 28,000 people in 2 minutes; that of 30 August 1902, killed nearly 1,100, mostly in Le Morne-Rouge and Ajoupa-Bouillon.


title: Martinique

text: The east coast, coast of the wind or of the islands, has been called in the Caribbean ""cabesterre"". This term in Martinique designates more specifically the area of La Caravelle. This windward coast, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, is directly exposed to the trade winds and the sea bottom. The northern part of the Grand River in Sainte-Marie is basically surrounded by cliffs, with very few mooring points; access to maritime navigation is limited to inshore fishing with small traditional Martinique boats.


title: Martinique

text: The northern end of the island catches most of the rainfall and is heavily forested, featuring species such as bamboo, mahogany, rosewood and West Indian locust. The south is drier and dominated by savanna-like brush, including cacti, Copaiba balsam, logwood and acacia.


title: Martinique

text: Anole lizards and fer-de-lance snakes are native to the island. Mongooses ("Urva auropunctata"), introduced in the 1800s to control the snake population, have become a particularly cumbersome introduced species as they prey upon bird eggs and have exterminated or endangered a number of native birds, including the Martinique trembler, white-breasted trembler and White-breasted Thrasher. Bat species include the Jamaican fruit bat, the Antillean fruit-eating bat, the Little yellow-shouldered bat, Davy's naked-backed bat, the Greater bulldog bat, Schwartz's myotis, and the Mexican free-tailed bat.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique has many beaches: those in the south of the island are of white sand, unlike those in the north which are of volcanic origin and therefore of black or gray sand.


title: Martinique

text: Most of the beaches are wild, without services and without surveillance, but some are organized and give the possibility to do sports and activities related to the sea.


title: Martinique

text: Due to the island's geographic and morphological characteristics, it has short and torrential rivers. The Lézarde, 30 km long, is the longest on the island.


title: Martinique

text: The most populous urban unit is Le Robert, which covers 11 communes in the southeastern part of the department. The three largest urban units are:


title: Martinique

text: In 2014, Martinique had a total GDP of 8.4 billion euros. Its economy is heavily dependent on tourism, limited agricultural production, and grant aid from mainland France.


title: Martinique

text: Historically, Martinique's economy relied on agriculture, notably sugar and bananas, but by the beginning of the 21st century this sector had dwindled considerably. Sugar production has declined, with most of the sugarcane now used for the production of rum. Banana exports are increasing, going mostly to mainland France. Chlordecone, a pesticide used in the cultivation of bananas before a ban in 1993, has been found to have contaminated farming ground, rivers and fish, and affected the health of islanders. Fishing and agriculture has had to stop in affected areas, having a significant effect on the economy. The bulk of meat, vegetable and grain requirements must be imported. This contributes to a chronic trade deficit that requires large annual transfers of aid from mainland France.


title: Martinique

text: All goods entering Martinique are charged a variable "sea toll" which may reach 30% of the value of the cargo and provides 40% of the island's total revenue. Additionally the government charges an "annual due" of 1–2.5% and a value added tax of 2.2–8.5%.


title: Martinique

text: Exports of goods and services in 2015 amounted to €1,102 million (€504 million of goods), of which more than 20% were refined petroleum products (SARA refinery located in the town of Le Lamentin), €95.9 million of agricultural, forestry, fish and aquaculture products, €62.4 million of agri-food industry products and €54.8 million of other goods.


title: Martinique

text: Imports of goods and services in 2015 were €3,038 million (of which €2,709 million were goods), of which approximately 40% were crude and refined petroleum products, €462.6 million were agricultural and agri-food products, and €442.8 million were mechanical, electrical, electronic and computer equipment.


title: Martinique

text: Tourism has become more important than agricultural exports as a source of foreign exchange. Most visitors come from mainland France, Canada and the US. Roughly 16% of the total businesses on the island (some 6,000 companies) provide tourist-related services.


title: Martinique

text: Banana cultivation is the main agricultural activity, with more than 7,200 hectares cultivated, nearly 220,000 tons produced and almost 12,000 jobs (direct + indirect) in 2006 figures. Its weight in the island's economy is low (1.6%), however it generates more than 40% of the agricultural value added.


title: Martinique

text: Rum, and particularly agricultural rum, accounted for 23% of agri-food value added in 2005 and employed 380 people on the island (including traditional rum). The island's production is about 90,000 hl of pure alcohol in 2009, of which 79,116 hl of pure alcohol is agricultural rum (2009).


title: Martinique

text: In 2009, sugarcane cultivation occupied 4,150 hectares, or 13.7% of agricultural land. The area under cultivation has increased by more than 20% in the last 20 years, a rapid increase explained by the high added value of the rum produced and the rise in world sugar prices. This production is increasingly concentrated, with farms of more than 50 hectares accounting for 6.2% of the farms and 73.4% of the area under production. Annual production was about 220,000 tons in 2009, of which almost 90,000 tons went to sugar production, and the rest was delivered to agricultural rum distilleries.


title: Martinique

text: Pineapples used to be an important part of agricultural production, but in 2005, according to IEDOM, they accounted for only 1% of agricultural production in value (2.5 million euros compared to 7.9 million in 2000).


title: Martinique

text: Martinique's main and only airport with commercial flights is Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport. It serves flights to and from Europe, the Caribbean, Venezuela, the United States, and Canada. See List of airports in Martinique.


title: Martinique

text: Fort-de-France is the major harbour. The island has regular ferry service to Guadeloupe, Dominica and St. Lucia. There are also several local ferry companies that connect Fort-de-France with Pointe du Bout.


title: Martinique

text: The road network is extensive and well-maintained, with freeways in the area around Fort-de-France. Buses run frequently between the capital and St. Pierre.


title: Martinique

text: In proportion to its population, Martinique is the French department with the highest number of vehicle registrations.


title: Martinique

text: In 2019, 19,137 new vehicles were registered in Martinique, i.e. 42 new vehicles were purchased per 1,000 inhabitants (+14 in 5 years), to the great benefit of dealers.


title: Martinique

text: The public entity "Martinique Transport" was created in December 2014. This establishment is in charge of urban, intercity passenger (cabs), maritime, school and disabled student transport throughout the island, as well as the bus network.


title: Martinique

text: The first exclusive right-of-way public transport line in Martinique (TCSP), served by high service level buses between Fort-de-France and Le Lamentin airport, was put into service on 13 August 2018. Extensions to Schœlcher, Robert and Ducos are planned.


title: Martinique

text: Given the insular nature of Martinique, its supply by sea is important. The port of Fort-de-France is the seventh largest French port in terms of container traffic. After 2012, it became the Grand Port Maritime Port (GPM) of Martinique, following the State's decision to modernize port infrastructures of national interest.


title: Martinique

text: The island's airport is Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport. It is located in the municipality of Le Lamentin. Its civilian traffic (1,696,071 passengers in 2015) ranks it thirteenth among French airports, behind those of two other overseas departments (Guadeloupe – Pôle Caraïbes de Pointe-à-Pitre Airport, Guadeloupe, and La Réunion-Roland-Garros Airport). Its traffic is very strongly polarized by metropolitan France, with very limited (192,244 passengers in 2017) and declining international traffic.


title: Martinique

text: At the beginning of the 20th century, Martinique had more than 240 km of railways serving the sugar factories (cane transport). Only one tourist train remains in Sainte-Marie between the Saint-James house and the banana museum.


title: Martinique

text: The country code top-level domain for Martinique is .mq, but .fr is often used instead. The country code for international dialling is 596. The entire island uses a single area code (also 596) for landline phones and 696 for cell phones. (596 is dialled twice when calling a Martinique landline from another country.)


title: Martinique

text: There are three mobile telephone networks in Martinique: Orange, SFR Caraïbe and Digicel. The arrival of Free, in partnership with Digicel, was planned for 2020.45


title: Martinique

text: The DTT package includes 10 free channels: 4 national channels of the France Télévisions group, the news channel France 24, Arte and 4 local channels Martinique 1re, ViàATV, KMT Télévision. Zouk TV stopped broadcasting in April 2021 and will be subsequently replaced by Zitata TV, whose broadcasting is delayed following the COVID-19 pandemic.


title: Martinique

text: Viewers in Martinique do not have free access to other free national channels in the DTT package in mainland France (TF1 group, M6 group, etc.).


title: Martinique

text: Viewers in the French overseas territories also do not have free access to the public service cultural channel Culturebox, which is not broadcast locally on DTT.


title: Martinique

text: In early 2019, Orange put into service "Kanawa", a new submarine cable linking Martinique to French Guiana.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique is also connected by other submarine cables: ECFS (en), Americas-2 (en) and Southern Caribbean Fiber.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique had a population of 364,508 as of January 2019. The population has been decreasing by 0.9% per year since 2013. There are an estimated 260,000 people of Martinican origin living in mainland France, most of them in the Paris region. Emigration was highest in the 1970s, causing population growth to almost stop, but it is comparatively light today.


title: Martinique

text: The population of Martinique is mainly of African descent generally mixed with European, Amerindian (Carib), Indian (descendants of 19th-century Tamil and Telugu immigrants from South India), Lebanese, Syrian or Chinese. Martinique also has a small Syro-Lebanese community, a small Indian community, a small but increasing Chinese community, and the "Béké" community, descendants of the first European settlers.


title: Martinique

text: The Béké population represents around 1% of Martinique's population, mostly of noble ancestry or members of the old bourgeoisie. In addition to the island population, the island hosts a mainland French community, most of which live on the island on a temporary basis (generally from 3 to 5 years).


title: Martinique

text: About 90% of Martiniquans are Christian, predominantly Roman Catholic as well as smaller numbers of various Protestant denominations. There are much smaller communities of other faiths such as Islam, Hinduism and the Baháʼí Faith.


title: Martinique

text: The island has 49 parishes and several historic places of worship, such as the Saint-Louis Cathedral of Fort de France, the Sacred Heart Church of Balata, and the Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption, Saint-Pierre.


title: Martinique

text: Catholic Christians follow the Latin rite, with parishes in each municipality and village of the territory. The island has the following places of worship classified as historic monuments:


title: Martinique

text: The Archdiocese of Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France (Latin: archidioecesis Sancti Petri et Arcis Gallicae seu Martinicensis) is an ecclesiastical circumscription of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean, based in Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France, on the island of Martinique. The archdiocese of Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France is metropolitan and its suffragan dioceses are Basse-Terre and Pointe-à-Pitre and Cayenne.


title: Martinique

text: The official language of Martinique is French, which is spoken by most of the population. The department was integrated into France in 1946, and consequently became French. Most residents also speak Martinican Creole ("Martinique Creole", "Kréyol Mat'nik, Kreyòl"), a form of Antillean Creole closely related to the varieties spoken in neighboring English-dominated islands of Saint Lucia and Dominica. Martiniquan Creole is based on French, Carib and African languages with elements of English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Also, unlike other varieties of French creole, such as Mauritian Creole, Martinican Creole is not readily understood by speakers of Standard French due to significant differences in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and pronunciation. It continues to be used in oral storytelling traditions and other forms of speech and to a lesser extent in writing.


title: Martinique

text: French and Creole are in a diglossic situation in Martinique, where French is used in official dialogue and Martinican Creole is used in casual or familial contexts. Creole was a spoken language with a developed "oraliture"; it wasn't until the mid 20th century that Martinican Creole began to be written. Since then, decreolization of the language has taken place via the adoption of Standard French features, mostly unconsciously, but some speakers have noticed that they do not speak Creole like their parents once did.


title: Martinique

text: Being an overseas department of France, the island has European, French, Caribbean, Martinican, black and Creole markers of identity, all being influenced by foreign factors, social factors, cultural factors and, as a reportedly important marker, linguistic practices. Martinican and Creole identities are specifically asserted through encouragement of Creole and its use in literature, in a movement known as "Créolité," that was started by Patrick Chamoiseau, Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant. Martinican Creole used to be a shameful language, and it wasn't until the 1970s that it has been revalorized through literature and increasing code switching. People now speak Martinican Creole more often and in more contexts.


title: Martinique

text: Speaking Creole in public schools was forbidden until 1982, which is thought to have discouraged parents from using Creole in the home. In collaboration with GEREC ("Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches en Espace Créolophone") Raphaël Confiant created KAPES KREYOL (CAPES for Creole, "Certificat d'aptitude au professorat de l'enseignement du second degré)", which is an aptitude exam that allowed Creole teachers in secondary school. This debuted 9 February 2001. Recently, the education authority, "Académie de la Martinique", launched "Parcours Creole +" in 2019, a project trialling bilingual education of children in French and Martinican Creole. Rather than being a topic to be learned itself, Creole became a language that classes were taught in, such as arts, math, physical activity, etc.


title: Martinique

text: Though Creole is normally not used in professional situations, members of the media and politicians have begun to use it more frequently as a way to redeem national identity and prevent cultural assimilation by mainland France.


title: Martinique

text: Martinican Creole has general locative marking (GLM, also called general locative adposition, goal/source (in)difference and motion-to=motion-from). This means that source locations, final locations and static entity locations are expressed morphologically identically. Some West African languages that are possibly contributors to Martinican Creole also present GLM. Martinican Creole locative marking exists in 3 morphological types, including:


title: Martinique

text: As an overseas "département" of France, Martinique's culture blends French and Caribbean influences. The city of Saint-Pierre (destroyed by a volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée), was often referred to as the "Paris of the Lesser Antilles". Following traditional French custom, many businesses close at midday to allow a lengthy lunch, then reopen later in the afternoon.


title: Martinique

text: Today, Martinique has a higher standard of living than most other Caribbean countries. French products are easily available, from Chanel fashions to Limoges porcelain. Studying in the "métropole" (mainland France, especially Paris) is common for young adults. Martinique has been a vacation hotspot for many years, attracting both upper-class French and more budget-conscious travelers.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique has a hybrid cuisine, mixing elements of African, French, Carib Amerindian and Indian subcontinental traditions. One of its most famous dishes is the Colombo (compare kuzhambu () for gravy or broth), a unique curry of chicken (curry chicken), meat or fish with vegetables, spiced with a distinctive "masala" of Tamil origins, sparked with tamarind, and often containing wine, coconut milk, cassava and rum. A strong tradition of Martiniquan desserts includes cakes made with pineapple, rum, and a wide range of local ingredients.


title: Martinique

text: Sisters Jeanne Nardal and Paulette Nardal were involved in the creation of the Négritude movement. Yva Léro was a writer and painter who co-founded the Women's Union of Martinique. Marie-Magdeleine Carbet wrote with her partner under the pseudonym Carbet.


title: Martinique

text: Aimé Césaire is perhaps Martinique's most famous writer; he was one of the main figures in the Négritude literary movement. René Ménil was a surrealist writer who founded the journal "Tropiques" with Aimé and Suzanne Césaire and later formulated the concept of Antillanité. Other surrealist writers of that era included Étienne Léro and Jules Monnerot, who co-founded the journal "Légitime Défense" with Simone Yoyotte and Ménil. Édouard Glissant was later influenced by Césaire and Ménil, and in turn had an influence on Patrick Chamoiseau, who founded the Créolité movement with Raphaël Confiant and Jean Bernabé. Raphaël Confiant was a poetry, prose and non-fiction writer who supports Creole and tries to bring both French and Creole (Martinican and Guadeloupean) together in his work. He is specifically known for his contribution to the Créolité movement.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique has a large popular music industry, which gained in international renown after the success of zouk music in the later 20th century. Zouk's popularity was particularly intense in France, where the genre became an important symbol of identity for Martinique and Guadeloupe. Zouk's origins are in the folk music of Martinique and Guadeloupe, especially Martinican chouval bwa, and Guadeloupan gwo ka. There's also notable influence of the pan-Caribbean calypso tradition and Haitian kompa.


title: Martinique

text: As a part of the French Republic, the French tricolour is in use and "La Marseillaise" is sung at national French events. When representing Martinique outside of the island for sport and cultural events the civil flag is 'Ipséité' and the anthem is 'Lorizon'. Martinique's civil ensign is the cross of St Michael (white cross with four blue quarters with one snake in each), which is the official civil ensign of Martinique (it also used to be the civil ensign of Saint Lucia). A coat of arms adaptation of the civil ensign (also called the "snake flag") was used in an unofficial but formal context such as by the Gendarmerie until 2018. Pro-independence activists also have their own flag, using red, black and green.


title: Martinique

text: The Martinique national football team is affiliated with CONCACAF, but not FIFA, so it does not play in World Cup Qualifiers, but can play friendly matches and CONCACAF tournaments such as the CONCACAF Nations League and Gold Cup. Since Martiniquais people are French citizens, they may choose to represent France in international competitions. Several French players also have had roots in Martinique although they were born or raised in France. Among the most famous include Thierry Henry, Eric Abidal, Raphaël Varane, Sylvain Wiltord and Loïc Rémy, all of whom represented France on multiple occasions and in Henry's case won the European Golden Boot twice. Henry and Varane also have won a FIFA World Cup each.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique has its own soccer league known as the Ligue de Football de Martinique. The Martinique men's soccer championship, known as the Regional 1 (R1) – Trophée Gérard Janvion, is a premier local soccer competition in the territory. It is held annually in the form of a championship between fourteen amateur clubs between the months of September and May. The competition is organized by the Martinique Football League and, although the clubs in the league are affiliated with the French Football Federation, there is no promotion to the French national championships.


title: Martinique

text: At the end of the twenty-six-day (two-stage) championship, the top four teams qualify for the Ligue Antilles, while the bottom three are relegated to the lower division, the Régionale 2.


title: Martinique

text: The Martinique Surf Pro is an international surfing competition held every year in April in Basse-Pointe (Martinique). It was created in 2015 by two Martinicans, Nicolas Ursulet and Nicolas Clémenté and is organized by the Caribbean Surf Project (CSP).51 It is the only Caribbean competition in the World Surf League, the world surfing championship. It is part of the World Qualifying Series calendar, the entry league to the WSL's elite circuit, the Championship Tour.


title: Martinique

text: Le Tour de Yoles Rondes de Martinique is an annual sailing regatta, the island's largest sporting event, which takes place in late July and early August and is very popular with spectators.


title: Martinique

text: The event is organized by the "Fédération des yoles rondes". Crews circumnavigate Martinique on a 180-kilometer course over eight stages. The race begins with a prologue time trial from the starting town.


title: Martinique

text: The time trial determines the starting order of the first ten boats, and the time between starts is determined by the advantage of each boat over the next during the prologue; all Boats below the top ten start simultaneously. The next seven legs circumnavigate the island. The leg around the southern part of the island, starting in the commune of Le Diamant, passing through Sainte-Anne and finishing in Le François, is known as the Défi de l'Espace Sud (Southern Challenge Zone).


title: Martinique

text: The Martinique Handball Championship, organized by the Martinique Handball League, concludes with the Poule des As (play-off) which determines the Martinique champion in the women's and men's categories. The Poule des As is a very popular event in Martinique, the pavilions are filled for the finals held at the Palais des Sports de Lamentin.


title: Martinique

text: The highest division is the Pré-Nationale, equivalent to the Pré-Nationale (or even the Nationale 3) in metropolitan France. The champions of the Poule des As come every year to Metropolitan France to play in the finals of the French Handball Championships of N1, N2 and N3 Women, N2 and N3 Men Metropolitan/Ultra Marines.


title: Martinique

text: The winners (female and male) of the Martinique Handball Cup, receive a reward of 10 000 Euros. The main players of the Martinique Handball Championship in recent years have been: Katty Piejos, Cédric Sorhaindo, Joël Abati.


title: Martinique

text: Below is a list of notable people born in Martinique, with at least one parent or grandparent born in Martinique, or who are living or have lived in Martinique.


title: Martinique

text: A non-exhaustive list of the main novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, sociologists, economists and historians from Martinique:


title: Martinique

text: Martinique is part of the zones not interconnected to the continental metropolitan network (ZNI), which must therefore produce the electricity they consume themselves. For this reason, the ZNI have specific legislation on electricity production and distribution.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique's energy mix is marked by a very strong importance of thermal energy production. At the same time, the island's electricity consumption has decreased slightly. These results can be attributed to the information and awareness-raising efforts of the regions, the Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) and energy companies in favor of energy savings, but also to the context of demographic decline of the territory.


title: Martinique

text: Despite these results, the control of the Territory's electricity consumption remains a central issue, given the Territory's low energy potential compared to other overseas territories, such as Guadeloupe and Reunion.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique and its inhabitants are therefore faced with a twofold need: to further strengthen the control of electricity consumption and at the same time develop renewable energies to reduce environmental pollution due to thermal electricity production.


title: Martinique

text: The exploitation of renewable energies in Martinique started late, as the characteristics of the island were previously considered unfavorable for their development. However, the efforts of the population and energy suppliers are moving towards a higher proportion of renewable energies in Martinique's future energy mix.


title: Martinique

text: Article 56 of the Grenelle I Law No. 2009-967 3 August 2009, on the implementation of the Grenelle Environment Forum, sets out the provisions for overseas: in the case of Martinique, the energy objective is to reach 50% renewable energy in final consumption by 2020. Energy autonomy is planned for 2030.


title: Martinique

text: As Martinique's electricity distribution grid is not interconnected with neighboring islands, let alone with the mainland's metropolitan grid, the decree of 23 April 2008, applies to the management of so-called intermittent energies: wind, photovoltaic and marine: any solar and wind power production facility with a capacity exceeding 3 kWp and not equipped with a storage system is liable to be disconnected from the grid by the grid manager once the threshold of 30% of random active power injected into the grid has been reached.


title: Martinique

text: Thus, the achievement of the objectives of the Grenelle I law is subject to the development of Structures with a maximum power of 3 kWp or less, or to the incorporation of storage devices in production facilities.


title: Martinique

text: 90% of the water distributed by Martinique's drinking water network comes from Rainwater intakes in five catchment areas. Thus, although there is no shortage of water, the situation becomes very critical in the Lenten period, with abstractions leading to the drying up of several rivers.


title: Martinique

text: Water resources are abundant but unevenly distributed: Four municipalities (Saint-Joseph, Gros-Morne, le Lorrain and Fort-de-France) provide 85% of Martinique's drinking water.


title: Martinique

text: There is no water catchment in the south of the island. The water consumed in the South comes exclusively from abstractions from the North and the center (mainly from the Blanche River which flows into the Lézarde, the Capot, and the Dumauzé). Thus, 60% of the total is extracted from a single river (the Lézarde and its tributary, the Blanche river). This concentration of abstractions can constitute a risk in a crisis situation, such as a drought for example.


title: Martinique

text: A regional health agency for Martinique (Agence régionale de santé Martinique) was set up in 2010. It is responsible for applying French health policy in the territory, managing public health and health care regulations.


title: Martinique

text: As of 1 January 2018, Martinique had a workforce of 1,091 doctors. For each 100,000 people of its population, there was a density of 141 general practitioners, 150 specialists, 53 dentists, 1,156 state certified nurses and 90 pharmacists. Self-employed doctors are represented by URML Martinique, created under the Hospital, patients, health, territories bill. URML Martinique works in partnership with ARS Martinique, l'Assurance Maladie, the Ministry of Health and Local Authorities to manage regional health policy.


title: Martinique

text: The University Hospital of Martinique (Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Martinique) is a teaching hospital based in Fort-de-France, in an agreement with the University of the French Antilles. It is the largest French- and English-speaking university hospital in the Caribbean, having more than 1600 beds. These include 680 medical, 273 surgical and 100 obstetrics beds, with another 30 in its intensive care unit. The hospital operates a 24-hour emergency service.


title: Martinique

text: After the discovery of the toxicity of chlordecone, a dangerous insecticide, and the health risks it posed, the French state put in place certain measures to protect the Martinican and Guadeloupean populations, allocating nearly 100 million euros towards the implementation of these measures. The soils are regularly tested and subjected to strict regulations related to the standards of potability. Martinique is also subject to regular mapping processes to delineate highly contaminated areas. River fishing is also prohibited in order to limit health risks, as rivers represent high-risk contamination areas.


title: Martinique

text: Since 2008, the French state has developed three action plans establishing strategies to protect local populations, raise awareness regarding the effects of chlordecone, as well as to support the agriculture and fisheries sectors.


title: Martinique

text: A French parliamentary commission revealed in 2019 that more than 90% of Martinicans have been exposed to chlordecone, which was authorized for use between 1972 and 1993 in the banana plantations of the Antilles. The committee judged the three "Chlordecone Plans" launched by the State since 2008 to be inadequate; recommendations were provided via its rapporteur, Justine Benin MP, to address prevention and research into cleanup methods for a fourth plan, scheduled for 2020.


title: Martinique

text: The parliamentary commission of inquiry called the French state into question for having authorized the sale of chlordecone as an insecticide, as its toxicity was known, but "responsibilities are shared with economic actors. Firstly, industrialists, but also groups of planters and certain elected officials."


title: Martinique

text: Chlordecone is known to have harmful effects on human health, with scientific research identifying it as an endocrine disruptor or hormonally-active chemical agent, as well as a probable carcinogen, particularly in relation to increasing chances of prostate cancer occurrence and recurrence. As an endocrine disruptor, chlordecone can also lead to delayed cognitive development in infants, an increased likelihood of pregnancy complications, and may disrupt the reproductive process.


title: Martinique

text: The chlordecone molecule has physical and chemical characteristics that allow it to remain for several centuries in soil, river-water and groundwater, thus spreading beyond the location of the banana plantations where this insecticide was initially administered. Although chlordecone has not been used since the 1990s, the health risks remain. Chlordecone contamination occurs through contaminated food and drink.


title: Martinique

text: In the streets of Fort-de-France, approximately 5,000 to 15,000 residents of Martinique demonstrated in protest on 27 March 2021, denouncing the possible statute of limitations on a complaint filed by civil parties for the use of chlordecone in causing life endangerment ("mise en danger de la vie d'autrui)." The complaint was issued on 23 February 2006.


title: Martinique

text: The French government's actions in response to the historical authorization of chlordecone are often criticized by residents of Martinique and local associations involved in the "Chlordecone Scandal." The lack of information transmitted to the population concerning the danger of chlordecone between 1993 and 2004 is one of the main concerns expressed.


title: Martinique

text: The civil complaint in 2006 was issued by several associations from the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, and was in response to the long-term impacts of government-authorized chlordecone use in polluting the islands' natural environments and affecting the health of inhabitants.


title: Martinique

text: Martinique's first cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) were confirmed in March 2020. The pandemic has since put provision of health services under significant stress; as of 2 September 2021, Martinique had recorded an excess mortality at all ages, and of all causes since the week beginning 26 July 2021.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, she began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film "Tiger Bay" (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's "Pollyanna" (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961.


title: Hayley Mills

text: During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film "The Parent Trap" (1961). Her performance in "Whistle Down the Wind" (a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress and she was voted the biggest star in Britain for 1961.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In the late 1960s, Mills began performing in theatrical plays, making her stage debut in a 1969 West End revival of "Peter Pan". She also played in more mature roles. For her success with Disney, she received the Disney Legend Award. Although she has not maintained the box office success or the Hollywood A-list she experienced as a child actress, she has continued to make films and TV appearances, including a starring role in the UK television mini-series "The Flame Trees of Thika" in 1981, the title role in Disney's television series "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" in 1988, and as Caroline, a main character in "Wild at Heart" (2007–2012) on ITV in the UK. She published her memoirs, "Forever Young," in 2021.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Mills was born on 18 April 1946, in Marylebone, London. She was 12 when she was discovered by J. Lee Thompson, who was initially looking for a boy to play the lead role in "Tiger Bay", which co-starred her father, veteran British actor Sir John Mills. The movie was popular at the box office in Britain.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Bill Anderson, one of Walt Disney's producers, saw "Tiger Bay" and suggested that Mills be given the lead role in "Pollyanna" (1960). The role of the orphaned "glad girl" who moves in with her aunt catapulted her to stardom in the United States and earned her a special Academy Award (the last person to receive the Juvenile Oscar). Because she could not be present to receive the trophy, Annette Funicello accepted it on her behalf. Disney subsequently cast Mills as twins Sharon and Susan who reunite their divorced parents in "The Parent Trap" (1961). In the film, she sings "Let's Get Together" as a duet with herself. The film was a hit around the world, reaching number 8 on a US Top Ten list.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Mills received an offer to make a film in Britain for Bryan Forbes, "Whistle Down the Wind" (1961), based on a novel by her mother Mary Hayley Bell, about some children who believe an escaped convict is Jesus. It was a hit at the British box office and she was voted the biggest star in Britain for 1961. Mills was offered the title role in "Lolita" by Stanley Kubrick, but her father turned it down. "I wish I had done it", she said in 1962. "It was a smashing film." Mills returned to Disney for an adventure film, "In Search of the Castaways" (1962), based on a novel by Jules Verne. It was another popular success, and she was voted the fifth biggest star in the country for the next two years.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In 1963, Disney announced plans to film an adaptation of Dodie Smith's novel "I Capture the Castle", with Mills in the role of Cassandra. Disney ended up dropping the project, while still retaining film rights to the book, when the novelist and the selected screenwriter Sally Benson did not get along; Mills grew too old for the part before the project could be revived. Her fourth movie for Disney did less well than her previous Disney films, but was still successful: "Summer Magic" (1963), a musical adaptation of the novel "Mother Carey's Chickens". Ross Hunter hired her for a British-American production "The Chalk Garden" (1964), playing a girl who torments governess Deborah Kerr. Back at Disney she was in a film about jewel thieves, "The Moon-Spinners" (1964), getting her first on screen kiss from Peter McEnery. Mills had a change of pace with "Sky West and Crooked" (1965), set in the world of gypsies, written by her mother and directed by her father, but it was not commercially successful. In contrast, her last film with Disney, the comedy "That Darn Cat!" (also 1965), did very well at the box office.


title: Hayley Mills

text: During her six-year run at Disney, Mills was arguably the most popular child actress of the era. Critics noted that America's favourite child star was, in fact, quite British and very ladylike. The success of "Let's Get Together" (which hit No. 8 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart, No. 17 in Britain and No. 1 in Mexico,) also led to the release of a record album on Disney's Buena Vista label, "Let's Get Together with Hayley Mills", which also included her only other hit song, "Johnny Jingo" (Billboard No. 21, 1962). In 1962, British exhibitors voted her the most popular film actress in the country.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In "Forever Young: A Memoir," among other topics, she reveals high points from her early career, as well as struggles with self-esteem and an eating disorder. Describing how she turned down roles that "undermined the Disney image" such as "Doctor Doolittle" and Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita", she wrote that "I think by being under contract to Walt Disney, as much as I really appreciated the opportunity it gave me, [and] the career it gave me, quite frankly, it hampered me from getting more different kinds of roles and eventually it also influenced how I felt about myself. I wasn’t sure what I was capable of." Ultimately, at age 20, she had turned down a new Disney contract, as she felt her character castings led to her "repeating herself" with the studio. She also detailed, how at age 21, she lost most of her Disney fortune to a 90% tax rate implemented by the Inland Revenue in England. Her appeal to regain her funds was eventually shot down, with Mills admitting that at that time, she was worried about going the path of Judy Garland and becoming a "studio asset."


title: Hayley Mills

text: For Universal, Mills made another film with her father, "The Truth About Spring" (1965), co-starring Disney regular James MacArthur as her love interest. It was mildly popular. However "The Trouble with Angels" (1966), was a huge hit; she played as a prankish Catholic boarding school girl with "scathingly brilliant" schemes, opposite screen veteran Rosalind Russell, and directed by another Hollywood veteran, Ida Lupino. She then provided the voice of the Little Mermaid for "The Daydreamer" (1966).


title: Hayley Mills

text: Shortly after "The Truth About Spring", Mills appeared alongside her father and Hywel Bennett in director Roy Boulting's critically acclaimed film "The Family Way" (1966), a comedy about a couple having difficulty consummating their marriage, featuring a score by Paul McCartney and arrangements by Beatles producer George Martin. She began a romantic relationship with Boulting and they eventually married, in 1971. She then starred as the protagonist of "Pretty Polly" (1967), opposite famous Indian film actor Shashi Kapoor, in Singapore.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Mills made another movie for Boulting, the controversial horror thriller "Twisted Nerve" in 1968, along with her "Family Way" co-star Hywel Bennett. She made a comedy, "Take a Girl Like You" (1970), with Oliver Reed and made her West End debut in "The Wild Duck" in 1970. She worked for Boulting again on "Mr. Forbush and the Penguins" (1971), replacing the original female lead.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In 1972 Mills again acted opposite Hywel Bennett in "Endless Night" along with Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson and George Sanders. It is based on the novel "Endless Night" by Agatha Christie. She made two films for Sidney Hayers, "What Changed Charley Farthing?" (1974) and "Deadly Strangers" (1975). After "The Kingfisher Caper" in 1975, co-written by Boulting, she dropped out of the film industry for a few years.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In 1981, Mills returned to acting with a starring role in the UK television mini-series "The Flame Trees of Thika", based on Elspeth Huxley's memoir of her childhood in East Africa. The series was well received, prompting her to accept more acting roles. She then returned to America and made two appearances on "The Love Boat" in 1985, and an episode of "Murder, She Wrote" in 1986.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Always welcomed at Disney, Mills narrated an episode of "The Wonderful World of Disney", sparking renewed interest in her Disney work. In 1985, she was originally considered to voice Princess Eilonwy in Disney's 25th animated feature film "The Black Cauldron", but was later replaced by the veteran British voice actress Susan Sheridan. Later, she reprised her roles as twins Sharon and Susan for a trio of "Parent Trap" television films: "The Parent Trap II", "Parent Trap III", and "". She also starred as the title character in the Disney Channel-produced television series "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" in 1987. The show was cancelled after 13 episodes and the rights were acquired by NBC, which reformatted "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" into "Saved by the Bell" without any further involvement from Mills. In recognition of her work with The Walt Disney Company, she was awarded the Disney Legends award in 1998.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Mills recalled her childhood in the 2000 documentary film "Sir John Mills' Moving Memories", which was directed by Marcus Dillistone and produced by her brother Jonathan. In 2005 she appeared in the acclaimed short film, "Stricken", written and directed by Jayce Bartok. In 2007 she began appearing as Caroline in the ITV1 African vet drama "Wild at Heart"; her sister Juliet Mills was a guest star in series 4 of the drama.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In 2010, Mills appeared in "Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure", based on one of the popular "Mandie" novels of Lois Gladys Leppard.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Mills made her stage debut in a 1969 West End revival of "Peter Pan". In 2000 she made her Off-Broadway debut in Sir Noël Coward's "Suite in Two Keys", opposite American actress Judith Ivey, for which she won a Theatre World Award. In 1991 she appeared as Anna Leonowens in the Australian production of "The King and I". In December 2007, for their annual birthday celebration of "The Master", "The Noël Coward Society" invited Mills as the guest celebrity to lay flowers in front of Coward's statue at New York's "Gershwin Theatre", thereby commemorating the anniversary of the 108th birthday of Coward.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In 1997, Mills starred in the U.S. national tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I". In 2001, Mills starred as Desiree Armfeldt in a production of "A Little Night Music" in Seattle, Washington. It was a co-production with the city's A Contemporary Theatre and the Fifth Avenue Theatre. In 2012 she starred as Ursula Widdington in the stage production of "Ladies in Lavender" at the Royal & Derngate Theatre, before embarking on a national UK tour. In 2015, she toured Australia with sister Juliet Mills and Juliet's husband Maxwell Caulfield in the comedy "Legends!" by James Kirkwood. Mills starred in the 2018 Off-Broadway run of Isobel Mahon's "Party Face" at City Center.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In 1966, while filming "The Family Way", 20-year-old Mills met 53-year-old director Roy Boulting. The two were married in 1971 and owned a flat in London's Chelsea and Cobstone Windmill in Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, which was later sold. Their son, Crispian Mills, is the lead singer and guitarist for the raga rock band Kula Shaker. The couple divorced in 1977.


title: Hayley Mills

text: Mills had a second son, Jason Lawson, born in July 1976, during a relationship with actor Leigh Lawson. She and Lawson split up in the early 1980s.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In the 1980s, following her breakup with Lawson, Mills developed an interest in a number of Eastern religions. She wrote the preface to the book, "The Hare Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking", published in 1984. In a 1997 article in "People" magazine, she stated that "she is 'not a part of Hare Krishna', though she delved into Hinduism and her own Christianity for guidance."


title: Hayley Mills

text: In 1988, Mills co-edited, with then-partner Marcus Maclaine ( Newby; brother of actor Maxwell Caulfield, husband of Hayley's sister, Juliet), the book "My God", which consisted of brief letters from celebrities on their beliefs, or lack thereof, regarding God and the afterlife.


title: Hayley Mills

text: In April 2008, Mills was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had surgery and started, but quickly abandoned, chemotherapy after only three sessions because of the severity of the side-effects. She credits her survival to the alternative treatments she used. She told "Good Housekeeping" magazine in January 2012 that she had fully recovered.


title: Barry Manilow

text: Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Somewhere Down the Road", "Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Can't Smile Without You" and "Copacabana (At the Copa)".


title: Barry Manilow

text: He has recorded and released 51 Top 40 singles on the Adult Contemporary Chart, including 13 that hit number one, 28 that appeared within the top ten, and 36 that reached the top twenty. Manilow has released 13 platinum and six multi-platinum albums. Although not a favorite artist of music critics, Manilow has been praised by his peers in the recording industry, including Frank Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s as saying, "He's next."