question: who was originally cast as phoebe on charmed

answers: Lori Rom

title: Charmed

text: an episode of "Charmed" on The WB where Alyssa Milano's character Phoebe was about to put a spell on her demon boyfriend. In a 2003 episode of the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", Serena Bishop (Lara Sacher) and Erin Perry (Talia Zucker) find out they have a lot in common like their love for "Charmed". In a 2005 episode of "Neighbours", Bree Timmins (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) mentions that "The O.C." is the best show on television since "Charmed". In the episode "Plucky" of sitcom "So Notorious", Aaron Spelling tells his daughter Tori Spelling that "there's always room for another witch on "Charmed""

title: Charmed

text: Netflix. A reboot series of the same name, featuring a new cast and new characters, premiered on The CW network on October 14, 2018. The series starts when Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano) returns from New York and moves back into the family's Halliwell Manor in San Francisco to live with her sisters Prue (Shannen Doherty) and Piper (Holly Marie Combs). When Phoebe discovers the family's Book of Shadows in the attic, she learns that she and her sisters are the most powerful witches ever known, destined to protect both innocents and the world at large from demons, warlocks, and other

title: Charmed (season 3)

text: Charmed (season 3) The third season of "Charmed", an American supernatural drama television series created by Constance M. Burge, began airing on October 5, 2000 on The WB and concluded on May 17, 2001. The series follows the adventures of Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano), three sisters who discover they are the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time who use their combined Power of Three to protect innocents from evil beings. Other regular cast members include Brian Krause as Leo Wyatt and Dorian Gregory as Darryl Morris, both of

title: Melissa George

text: the WB series "Charmed", had a minor role opposite Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the 2003 romantic comedy "Down with Love" and was originally cast as Susan Freeman in the American series "Coupling" based on the British series of the same name. After "an audition from hell", George was cast and filmed the pilot, but the network (NBC) then fired the writers and replaced George and her fellow castmembers Breckin Meyer and Emily Rutherfurd with Rena Sofer, Colin Ferguson and Sonya Walger, respectively. The series lasted only four episodes and show creator Steven Moffat blamed NBC's meddling as the

title: Phoebe Halliwell

text: as she was under contract with 20th Century Fox and Spelling Television after conceiving the drama "Savannah". The character of Phoebe Halliwell was conceived by Burge, who wrote the pilot script for "Charmed". The pilot script was based around three mismatched sisters who are initially based on Burge and her two older sisters, Laura and Edie Burge. Phoebe is based on Burge herself. On creating the Halliwell sisters, Burge stated "Phoebe was honestly the easiest. It just grew from within." Executive producer Brad Kern claimed Phoebe was written into the series as the classic younger sibling and stated that at

title: Charmed

text: show midway through season five. Drew Fuller joined "Charmed" at the end of the fifth season as Piper and Leo's second son from the future, Chris Halliwell. Fuller left his role at the end of season six. In the eighth and final season, Kaley Cuoco joined the show as the young witch Billie Jenkins. Executive producers Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent maintained their roles until the series ended. Constance M. Burge became an executive producer when she was hired to create the series and write the pilot. After the short "unaired pilot" was shown to The WB and the

title: Paige Matthews

text: Paige Matthews Paige Matthews is a fictional character from the American television series "Charmed", played by Rose McGowan from October 4, 2001 until May 21, 2006. The character was created by executive producer Brad Kern as a replacement for lead character Prue Halliwell, following the departure of actress Shannen Doherty. Paige is introduced into season four as the fiercely independent younger half-sister of the show's remaining female leads, Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano). Like her sisters, Paige is a witch, and more specifically, a Charmed One—one of the most powerful witches of all time. Paige is

title: Cole Turner

text: Cole Turner Cole Turner is a fictional character on the WB television series "Charmed", portrayed by series regular Julian McMahon between seasons three and five. McMahon returned for a guest appearance in the show's seventh season, for its 150th episode. "Charmed" is a series which focuses on three good witches, the prophesied "Charmed Ones", sisters who battle the forces of evil. Cole is an adversary-turned-ally of the sisters introduced in the third season and a love interest of main character Phoebe Halliwell, portrayed by Alyssa Milano. Like the show's main characters, Cole also possessed a number of magical abilities; the

title: Paige Matthews

text: The character of Paige Matthews was conceived by executive producer Brad Kern as a replacement character for Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty). In May 2001, it was officially announced that Doherty would be departing "Charmed". The producers originally considered recasting the role of Prue with a different actress. Executive producer Aaron Spelling even approached actresses Tiffani Thiessen, who replaced Doherty on his previous series "Beverly Hills, 90210", and Jennifer Love Hewitt to take on the role as Doherty's replacement. Spelling revealed to "Entertainment Weekly", "Tiffani was our first choice to take over for Shannen - even before we asked Jennifer [Love

title: Charmed

title: Phoebe Halliwell

text: to help her find love again. When Phoebe discovers that Billie and her sister, Christy (Marnette Patterson) are the ultimate power The Charmed Ones must defeat to save Leo from the Angel of Death (Simon Templeman), she has reservations because the women are human and not demons. In the end, Phoebe participates in the ultimate battle between The Charmed Ones and the Jenkins sisters, which destroys the Halliwell Manor, and only Piper and Billie survive. In the series finale "Forever Charmed", Piper uses Coop's time-traveling ring to call upon her mother and grandmother and save Phoebe and Paige. After Christy

title: MacKenzie Mauzy

text: MacKenzie Mauzy MacKenzie Grace Mauzy (born October 14, 1988) is an American actress. Mauzy was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She played the role of Phoebe Forrester on CBS soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" until December 2008 (she joined the cast on July 11, 2006). She also played Lizzie Spaulding on the CBS soap "Guiding Light" from October 2000 to August 2002. She has also guest starred on CBS's "", "" and NBC's "". Before launching her acting career, Mauzy worked in New York City, Virginia, and North Carolina in stage productions of

title: Charmed

text: while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern-day San Francisco. Keeping their supernatural identities separate and secret from their ordinary lives often becomes a challenge for them, with the exposure of magic having far-reaching consequences on their various relationships and resulting in a number of police and FBI investigations throughout the series. There were several instances where their secrets were revealed, mostly to their lovers.The series initially focuses on the three Halliwell sisters, Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano). Following Prue's death in the third-season finale, their long-lost half sister Paige Matthews (Rose McGowan)

title: Forever Charmed

text: confronts Dumain (Anthony Cistaro), revealing Christy is dead. Dumain suggests that she project herself back into the past to save Christy. Piper and Leo arrive at her father Victor's (James Read) apartment and Piper breaks the news of Phoebe and Paige's deaths. A horrified Victor tells them that a cupid named Coop (Victor Webster) came to his apartment looking for Phoebe. Piper then realizes that Coop's ring has the ability to travel back in time to see past loves, and summons him so she can borrow the ring. Piper and Leo use the ring to travel back in time to

title: Phoebe Halliwell

text: and makes mistakes, but she constantly grows." In 2007, AOL TV ranked Phoebe at number seven on their list of the Top TV Witches. She also ranked seventh on the same list the following year. Virgin Media placed Phoebe at number 11 on their list of TV Temptresses, writing "As one of the trio of glamorous witches on ghostly drama "Charmed", Phoebe can use her psychic premonitions for all sorts of japery including romance." Milano was referenced in the 2002 teen comedy film "Big Fat Liar" due to her portrayal as a witch in "Charmed". In the film, Kaylee (Amanda

title: Charmed

text: becomes committed to a human parole officer, Henry Mitchell (Ivan Sergei), whom she marries. The final episode's flashforward montage reveals Piper, Phoebe, and Paige to have three children each with their respective husbands. In 1998, when The WB began looking for a new drama series for the 1998–99 season, they approached Spelling Television (which had produced the network's then-most successful series, "7th Heaven") to create it. Expanding on the popularity of supernatural-themed dramas such as "The Craft" (1996) and "Practical Magic" (1998), the production company explored different forms of mythology to find characters they could realize with contemporary storytelling. Constance

title: Charmed

text: Cole Turner in the show's third, fourth and fifth seasons; they have a turbulent marriage in the fourth, and in the fifth, following their divorce, she is compelled to vanquish him. Phoebe has a number of multi-episode human boyfriends in subsequent seasons, including her boss, Jason Dean (Eric Dane), before meeting a cupid named Coop (Victor Webster) in the eighth season, whom she marries. Paige, like Phoebe, has several multi-episode boyfriends, including fellow-witch and magic "addict" Richard Montana (Balthazar Getty) in season six, and an unstable FBI agent-turned-whitelighter Kyle Brody (Kerr Smith) in season seven. In the eighth season, she

title: The Pilot (Friends)

text: for the role. Bierko was a friend of Perry's, and Perry coached him for his audition to help him get to know what the Chandler character was like. Jon Cryer had also auditioned for the part. He was doing a play in London and read for a British casting director, though his audition tape did not arrive at Warner Bros. in time for him to be considered. Many actresses who read for Phoebe arrived at the audition in character, wearing "bell bottoms and clunky shoes and nose rings". Kathy Griffin and Jane Lynch auditioned for the role. Lisa Kudrow won

title: Leo Wyatt

text: Leo Wyatt Leo Wyatt is a fictional character from The WB television series "Charmed", portrayed by Brian Krause. A possible breakout character included in the writing initially as a love interest beginning in the first season that initially set Phoebe and Piper bickering and competing for his attention. He appeared as a guest star in seven episodes of the first season and six episodes of the second season. Midway through the second season, he joined the main cast and appeared in all but 11 episodes for the rest of the series' run. All together, he appeared in 145 episodes—the most

title: Charmed

text: is "a bubbly college freshman" with the power to hear people's thoughts. Madeleine Mantock was cast as Macy, Melonie Diaz was cast as Mel, and Sarah Jeffery was cast as Maggie. Rupert Evans plays the trio's whitelighter Harry, while Ser'Darius Blain plays Macy's love interest Galvin. Additionally, Charlie Gillespie plays Maggie's former high school boyfriend Brian, while Ellen Tamaki plays Mel's detective girlfriend Niko. "Charmed" premiered on The CW on October 14, 2018, 20 years after the original series' premiere. It airs on Sunday nights at 9:00 pm, returning The CW to original programming on Sunday evenings for the first

title: All Hell Breaks Loose (Charmed)

text: Ones deal with their secret of being witches going global and all of the news reporters swarming them. "Charmed" focuses on the three Halliwell sisters, Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), who are known as the most powerful good witches of all time in the supernatural community. They live their everyday lives battling demons and warlocks in modern-day San Francisco, while still trying to have a normal life. This episode focuses on their secret of being witches coming out into the public, when Prue and Piper are caught on tape vanquishing the demon Shax (Michael

title: Charmed (season 4)

text: Charmed (season 4) The fourth season of "Charmed", an American supernatural drama television series, began airing on October 4, 2001 on The WB. Airing on Thursdays at 9:00 pm, the season consisted of 22 episodes and concluded its airing on May 16, 2002. This season also saw the introduction of Rose McGowan as Paige Matthews—half-sister to Prue, Piper and Phoebe—and a slight alteration of the opening credits, due to the third season departure of Shannen Doherty as Prue. Paramount Home Entertainment released the complete fourth season in a six-disc boxed set on February 28, 2006. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> In 2016, Gavin Hetherington

title: Phoebe Halliwell

text: the false identity of Julie Bennett (Monica Allgeier) and begins a relationship with an artist named Dex Lawson (Jason Lewis). While under the influence of a spell cast by the prodigy of the Charmed Ones, Billie Jenkins (Kaley Cuoco), Phoebe marries Dex under the alias of Julie. Unsure if she could ever have a lasting marriage with someone she is not completely honest with, Phoebe reveals the truth of her hidden identity to Dex. The pair eventually break up and agree to get an annulment. Phoebe later meets a cupid named Coop (Victor Webster), who was sent by The Elders

title: Danneel Harris

text: New York for the role, and left the series in December 2004. Harris has since gone on to appear in shows such as "JAG", "Charmed", "", "What I Like About You", "NCIS" and "Joey". Harris's first film role was in the short film "The Plight of Clownana". In 2005, Harris was announced to have a major recurring role in the third season of The CW television drama series, "One Tree Hill". Harris portrayed the role of Rachel Gatina, a bad girl who creates havoc for the residents of Tree Hill and returned to her role as a series regular for

title: Phoebe Forrester

text: and that off-screen the actors did not feel "awkward" as they formed a bond which translated well on-screen. Prior to Rick, Phoebe had a brief attraction to Shane McGrath (Dax Griffin). Mauzy observed that the writers initially had Phoebe "so creeped out by him, but now, she's turning around and falling in love with him", a switch she called "fun" and "a challenge to figure out" as an actor. Mauzy and co-star Lowder are both singers off-screen, which prompted executive producer Bradley Bell to have both sing on the soap. Speaking of how this came about, Mauzy said, "It kind

title: Phoebe Halliwell

text: of everything in the novels, which could indicate the literature fitting into the established canon of the series and the so-called ""Charmed" universe". Phoebe's first appearance in "Charmed" literature takes place within the novel "The Power of Three" by Eliza Willard on November 1, 1999, which acts as a novelised version of the series premiere episode. Her last appearance in a "Charmed" novel takes place within "Trickery Treat" by Diana G. Gallagher on January 1, 2008. In 2010, "Charmed" gained an officially licensed continuation in the form of a comic book, which is often billed as "". The series is

title: Charmed Again

text: who wanted to join the sisters' coven. In order to save Piper's life, Prue ordered Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause) to find Phoebe and pass on a deal to The Source to turn back time. The Source agreed, knowing that he had planned to double cross her in the end as Phoebe would be immune to the time reset while in The Underworld. Time was reversed to the sisters' first encounter with Shax, however Phoebe no longer answered when Prue called for help, as she was never sent back. The season three finale then ended on a cliffhanger with Piper and

title: Charmed (comics)

text: in the television series including Alyssa Milano (Phoebe Halliwell), Holly Marie Combs (Piper Halliwell), Rose McGowan (Paige Matthews), Brian Krause (Leo Wyatt) and Julian McMahon (Cole Turner), Shannen Doherty's (Prue Halliwell) likeness does not feature in the comic books. Ralph Tedesco officially released a statement that Shannen Doherty had not given her permission for the comic book creators to use her likeness in the series, saying that “Unfortunately Ms. Doherty has declined to be involved in the comic version of Charmed. This includes the use of her likeness. We had hoped that she would allow us to use her image

title: Phoebe Buffay

text: Phoebe Buffay Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan is a fictional character, portrayed by Lisa Kudrow, one of the six main characters from the American sitcom "Friends", created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman. She appeared in each of the show's 236 episodes, from its premiere on September 24, 1994 to its finale on May 6, 2004. She is a masseuse and musician, notable for her offbeat and sometimes ditzy behavior. She was Monica Geller's roommate before Rachel Green. Phoebe is best friends with Monica and Rachel, along with their neighbors, Chandler Bing and Joey Tribbiani, and also Monica's brother Ross Geller. She plays

title: Phoebe Halliwell

text: 100th episode of the series, "Centennial Charmed". Later in the season, Phoebe helps to deliver Piper and Leo's first child, Wyatt Matthew Halliwell. Soon after she begins a romantic relationship with her new boss, multi-millionaire Jason Dean (Eric Dane). In season six (2003–04), Phoebe continues her relationship with Jason and also sees her magical abilities grow to include the power of empathy. Phoebe eventually becomes more serious with Jason, moving with him to Hong Kong. After a year of dating, Jason discovers Phoebe's secret identity as a witch by accident and, unable to handle the revelation, breaks up with her.

title: Charmed

long_answer: Former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Shannen Doherty was cast as the eldest sister Prue Halliwell, while her best friend and former Picket Fences actress Holly Marie Combs played the role of the middle sister Piper Halliwell. Lori Rom was originally cast as the youngest sister Phoebe Halliwell in the 28-minute unaired pilot episode. However, Rom quit the series, and a new pilot was filmed with former Who's the Boss actress Alyssa Milano in the role of Phoebe. Doherty departed Charmed at the end of the third season and was replaced in the fourth season by film actress Rose McGowan, who played the long-lost younger half-sister Paige Matthews.


question: who owns the delano hotel in las vegas

answers: MGM Resorts International

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: grand-opening party was held on September 18, 2014, with Samantha Ronson as DJ and a performance by Magic!. The party was also attended by Charlotte Ronson and actress Jaime King. The hotel's penthouses were the last remaining rooms to undergo renovations, with completion expected for October 2014. The new property was inspired by the Delano South Beach in Miami, while also having a Mojave Desert theme in addition to an abundance of white coloring. Delano Las Vegas is also an homage to 32nd U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and included the Franklin lounge as well as iceboxes resembling Roosevelt's hat

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: Echelon project on the Las Vegas Strip. Mandalay Bay president and chief operating officer Chuck Bowling said that while people enjoyed THEhotel, it "in many cases, was a tower of Mandalay Bay. What we really want to do at Delano is create its own spirit, its own energy." Because the design phase took longer than expected, MGM announced in September 2013 that the property's renovation would be delayed several months. It was announced the following month that design plans had been finalized and that construction for the hotel's conversion was expected to begin in March 2014, for an opening in

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: at the hotel were to be redesigned, along with new bars, lounges, restaurants and nightclubs. The renovations and name change were initially expected to be complete by late 2013, which was later changed to spring 2014. Although THEhotel had been financially successful, the decision to renovate and rename it was part of a transformation at the Mandalay Bay. In addition, there had already been plans to renovate the nine-year-old hotel tower prior to forming a partnership with Morgans Hotel Group, which had been expanding the Delano brand. Morgans Hotel Group previously planned to open a Delano hotel at the cancelled

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: the third quarter of the year. Construction began in April 2014. To avoid major room closures, only a few floors were worked on each week leading up to the eventual completion of renovations, which also included revamping the lobby. Other changes included redesigned hallways and furnishings. The renovations cost $80 million, and largely took place inside the tower, which retained its gold appearance. THEhotel signs were removed from the tower in June 2014, and were replaced two months later with new signs for the renamed hotel. Delano Las Vegas officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 2, 2014. A

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: during renovations. The Delano held its grand opening ceremonies in September 2014. The hotel includes an Alain Ducasse restaurant called "Rivea" and a lounge called "Skyfall", both located at the top of the hotel. On May 23, 2002, the Mandalay Resort Group announced plans to build a 1,122-room all-suite hotel tower. The 41-story tower would connect to the company's Mandalay Bay resort on the Las Vegas Strip. The new tower's target clientele was attendees to the resort's Mandalay Convention Center, scheduled to open in January 2003. The tower would cost between $200 million and $225 million, with groundbreaking scheduled for

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: was entirely different. The company stated, "While Mandalay Bay represents an idyllic tropical paradise, THEhotel embraces modern architecture, contemporary design and comfortable surroundings." The new tower employed approximately 700 people. The hotel included original artwork by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Arturo Herrera. Included in the hotel's public areas were pieces by Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Valérie Belin, and Donald Judd. In January 2005, the hotel was among other establishments to win AAA's Four Diamond Award. In 2006, the lettering at the top of the tower changed to "THEhotel" to distinguish the property. Formerly, the lettering was identical to the

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: separate property from the Mandalay Bay, and would have its own porte-cochère, check-in area, restaurants, employee uniforms, and spa. The tower was topped off on October 17, 2003, and Mandalay Resort Group announced that the tower's name would be spelled "THEhotel at Mandalay Bay". The hotel hosted more than 100 local reporters for a media preview the night before its official opening on December 17, 2003. The hotel did not have gambling, but provided access to the nearby casino at the Mandalay Bay. Although the gold-paned, 43-story tower had the same exterior appearance as the main resort, its interior design

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: while the lounge included an outdoor patio area. The restaurant also included a $500,000 chandelier made of 13,000 glass bulbs. The spa, known as The Bathhouse, contained . Men made up 40 percent of the spa's clientele. A new restaurant, the 140-seat Delia's Kitchen, opened along with the Delano in September 2014. A greenhouse was built at the hotel to provide the restaurant with fresh herbs. Also opened in the lobby was a coffee bar, 3940 Coffee + Tea, named after the hotel's address. In April 2015, the hotel opened its Delano Beach Club to guests. The club included 16

title: Mondrian Hotel

text: Vivre Hospitality to manage the hotel. The former Mondrian Scottsdale is currently branded as The Saguaro and is no longer affiliated with Morgans Hotel Group. The Mondrian Las Vegas was included in plans for the Echelon development on the Las Vegas Strip, along with Delano Las Vegas, another Morgans Hotel Group property. Boyd Gaming suspended the construction of the Echelon in 2008 and anticipates resuming the project in 3–5 years. The project was canceled in March 2013. In 2007, Morgans Hotel Group and M Development, a Chicago developer, entered into a joint venture to build and operate a Mondrian Hotel

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: Delano Las Vegas (formerly known as THEhotel) is a 45-story 1,117 room luxury suite hotel. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International.  It is located within the Mandalay Bay complex on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It was renovated and rebranded as the Delano Las Vegas on September 2, 2014, under a partnership between MGM and Morgans Hotel Group.

title: Charlie Palmer Hotel

text: included Marvin Lipschultz, the owner of the property; Bill Richardson, the owner of W.A. Richardson Construction and a former executive for Mandalay Resort Group; and Dan Juba, the principal of the locally based Klai Juba Architects. Adam Tihany, who designed the interior for Palmer's Aureole restaurant in Las Vegas, was also involved in the new project. Palmer said the project would not include a casino or gambling: "Our focus is on the guest experience, not walking them through a casino and getting them to game." The hotel was to have a sky lounge, event space on the top floor, a

title: Desert Inn

text: guests of the hotel. During the 1950s, the hotel often hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Winston Churchill, Adlai Stevenson, Senator John F. Kennedy, and former President Harry S. Truman. In 1959, Lawrence Wien, owner of New York City's Plaza Hotel purchased the hotel, but signed a management deal for Clark to remain as manager. In the early 1960s, the mafia-financed casino hotels of the Las Vegas Strip and Nevada came under close scrutiny by the FBI, and they placed increased pressure on the Nevada Gaming Control Board to force the mobsters out of Las Vegas. After Sam Giancana

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: box. On display in the hotel's entrance was a 126,000-pound metaquartzite boulder, divided in half. The boulder, approximately 150 million years old, was nine feet tall and five feet deep. The hotel's designers had discovered the boulder while trekking in the Mojave Desert in Jean, Nevada, and the process to transport it to the hotel included the use of a 240-ton hydraulic crane. The tower, with 1,118 rooms, brought the Mandalay Bay's total room count to 4,762 upon its opening. It offered the largest standard suites in Las Vegas, measuring . The hotel's first floor included a bar, a 24-hour

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: September 2002, and an opening expected for October 2003. The tower's cost was later increased to $250 million. In September 2003, Mandalay Resort Group announced that the tower's then-scheduled Thanksgiving opening would be delayed to late December 2003. The company also announced that the tower, located northwest of the main resort, would be named "THE hotel at Mandalay Bay". Mandalay Resort Group spokesman John Marz said, "We put some names out in front of the public and tested their response. THE hotel at Mandalay Bay is all about style. It's fresh and new." The tower would be marketed as a

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: restaurant, and a lobby. Floors 3 through 6 contained 80 business suites as well as conference space. The tower's regular suites were located on floors 7 through 38, while floors 39 through 41 contained VIP suites from to . The 24-hour restaurant, known as The Cafe, had seating for 150 people. A $25 million spa was expected to open in the first quarter of 2004. Mix, a restaurant and lounge by Alain Ducasse, opened in December 2004 on the 43rd floor. The restaurant included seating for 240 people, and floor-to-ceiling windows that provided a view of the Las Vegas Strip,

title: The Landmark Hotel and Casino

text: 1983, at which point Bill Morris, a Las Vegas lawyer, began plans to purchase the resort. Morris was also a member of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) and had previously owned the Holiday Inn Center Strip hotel-casino, as well as the Riverside Resort in nearby Laughlin, Nevada. Morris had also previously represented Plaza Tower, Inc. at the time that Hughes completed his purchase of the resort. In August 1983, the Nevada Gaming Control Board delayed approval of Morris' purchase of the resort until his offer could be updated to include a $5 million payment for Summa –

title: The Claridge Hotel (Atlantic City)

text: D'Addario, purchased the Claridge Hotel. In 1979, they took on Del E. Webb Corporation as a partner in order to obtain financing. Del Webb owned several Nevada casinos, including The Mint Hotel and Casino in Downtown Las Vegas. The Claridge hotel was expanded with 200 new guest rooms being built; it had the distinction of being the last of the pre-casino Atlantic City hotels to be refurbished into a casino. The New Jersey Governor at the time, Brendan Byrne, had been dissatisfied with what he called “Patch and Paint” jobs of the city’s old resorts, which had been done with

title: New Frontier Hotel and Casino

text: indicated that he did not know that the other owners had mob connections. In 1988, Margaret Elardi bought The Frontier from the late Howard Hughes company, Summa Corp. Elardi had previously been the part-owner of the Pioneer Club Las Vegas and the Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall in Laughlin. She closed the showroom, which had featured Siegfried and Roy, and down-scaled much of the hotel. In September 1991, union workers began a strike at the hotel, which lasted for years. From September 21, 1991 until February 1, 1998 members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas staged

title: MGM Resorts International

text: Foxwoods and MGM ended their relationship, and the MGM Grand at Foxwoods was renamed the Fox Tower. In mid-2013, the company also embarked on a remodeling and rebranding of THEhotel at Mandalay Bay into Delano Las Vegas. Delano opened in September 2014. On May 1, 2014, the company broke ground on the $375-million T-Mobile Arena located behind New-New York Hotel and Casino, in partnership with AEG Live. The arena opened on April 6, 2016. Two days earlier on April 4, MGM opened The Park, an outdoor dining and entertainment district that serves a gateway to the arena. In September 2014,

title: Mandalay Bay

text: for guests staying in the penthouses. Level 43 (numbered as 64) is the Foundation Room, a restaurant and bar. Five floors (floors 35–39) of the main hotel building are occupied by the five-star and AAA Five-Diamond Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas. The resort's second tower, with 45 stories and 1,117 suites, previously operated as THEhotel at Mandalay Bay, now operates as Delano Las Vegas. Each suite is at least . A production of the classic Broadway musical "Chicago" debuted at Mandalay Bay's 1999 grand opening and ran for one year. "Storm", an original production show featuring Latin music, ran from

title: Ed Levinson

text: Jake Freedman of Texas, Sid Wyman, Hyman Abrams and Jack Entratter. The performers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin both bought minor interests in the hotel. Although Jake Freedman was ostensibly the main shareholder, it was really controlled by Frank Costello. In May 1953 the Nevada Tax Commission said it was well aware of the backgrounds of gamblers and hoodlums that the final report of the California Crime Commission had named as trying to become established in the legal gambling industry in Nevada. These included Levinson, Joseph Stacher, Mack Kufferman, Meyer Lansky, Malcolm Clarke and William Bischoff. Levinson was described as

title: Andrew Sasson

text: Light Group opened two venues at the Delano Hotel in 2012: Bianca, an Italian restaurant with a cuisine based on organic farm-to-table ingredients, and FDR, a nightclub. By 2014, The Light Group owned and operated 20 nightlife, daylife, and dining venues at the Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, Aria Resort & Casino, The Mirage, and the Monte Carlo, as well at as Miami’s Delano Hotel. In early 2015 Hakkasan acquired The Light Group, including Sasson's remaining 5% interest in the company. In 2004 Sasson ventured into real estate in Las Vegas, opening Panorama Towers – a luxury condo tower which helped pioneer

title: Delano Las Vegas

text: cabanas and offered poolside amenities such as free food and drinks, as well as DJs two days a week. The club was also open to non-guests who reserved a cabana. Mix was replaced by Ducasse's Rivea restaurant and Skyfall lounge in October 2015, marking the end of the Delano rebranding process. Rivea served Mediterranean food while Skyfall offered DJs and 180-degree views of Las Vegas. A room previously used by the Mix restaurant to store plates and other items was converted into Rivea+, a private dining room for VIP guests. Delano Las Vegas retained the Bathhouse Spa. At 725 square-feet,

title: Hotel Nevada and Gambling Hall

text: part of a $400,000 deal. That year, Simpson sold the hotel to Goeringer, Warren, and Dick Piper. In January 1964, Goeringer and Piper filed a $1 million damage suit against Warren, who was no longer an owner of the hotel. Goeringer and Piper alleged that Warren had made false statements about the hotel. The partners later split, with Goeringer as the hotel's sole owner. On December 31, 1969, an Alaska man shot and wounded a police officer inside the hotel's restaurant. In October 1971, Goeringer sold the hotel to Gary Everhart a credit manager for the Aladdin resort in Las

title: Hotel Nevada and Gambling Hall

text: That month, the stockholders were planning to reacquire the property. In April 1932, the Hotel Nevada was purchased by a group that was headed by Winfield Scott "Ole" Elliott (18691938), of Goldfield, Nevada. The building was owned by the Henderson Bank Mortgage Company of Elko (50 percent), the Tonopah Banking Corporation (15 percent), the Carson Valley Bank (12 2/3 percent), and the Bank of Nevada Savings & Trust Company (23 1/3 percent). Elliott acted as the hotel's manager on behalf of the banks. Elliott subsequently partnered with Bert Riddick when they purchased the hotel from the banks for $80,000 in

title: The D Las Vegas

text: Barden's death, his estate sold Fitzgeralds to brothers Derek and Greg Stevens, majority owners of the Golden Gate casino. Derek took a 78% ownership share, with 22% for Greg. The new owners completed a $22 million renovation and rebranding to become the D Las Vegas in Fall 2012. the D Las Vegas Casino Hotel stands for "downtown", and also refers to Derek Stevens' nickname, and the Stevens' hometown of Detroit. The remodel gave the property a more modern feel, including the addition of dancing dealers in table games. The second-floor casino has a "Vintage Vegas" theme featuring one of the

title: Beldon Katleman

text: division of the Signal Corps in the U.S. Army. From the late 1940s until it was destroyed by a fire in 1960, he owned and operated El Rancho Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. In an effort to keep patrons in his casino, Katleman came up with the idea of the buffet in 1947. With Guy McAfee and Jake Kozloff, Katleman acquired the Frontier Hotel from Bill Moore for US$5.5 million in 1951. He succeeded Kozloff as its manager in 1955. Katleman was an investor in the Silver Slipper, another casino in Las Vegas, alongside Jack Barenfeld, Norma Friedman, Irving Leff

title: Hotel Paso del Norte

text: on the roof of the hotel. Some of the most notable people who have stayed at the hotel over its 118-year history include US Presidents G.H.W.Bush, G.W.Bush, L. Johnson, Nixon, Taft, Hoover, and F.D.Roosevelt. Other notables include GloriaSwanson, General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, Pancho Villa, Will Rogers, Enrico Caruso, Amelia Earhart, Gov. John Connolly, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Gregory Peck, Harrison Ford, Gen. Colin Powell, Charles Lindbergh, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Jack Dempsey, The Rolling Stones, The Dallas Cowboys, The Golden State Warriors, George Strait, Kenny Rogers, Gloria Estefan and a host of many other well known actors, musicians,

title: Golden Nugget Laughlin

text: underwent a major renovation. In 1988, the Del Webb Corporation sold the Nevada Club to Golden Nugget Inc. for $40 million, and it was renamed as the Golden Nugget Laughlin. The 300-room hotel was added to the property in 1992, along with a parking garage, new restaurants, and tropical theming, including an indoor rainforest. In 2004, it was acquired by Poster Financial Group. On May 31, 2005, it was acquired by Landry’s, which was purchasing the Golden Nugget Las Vegas at the same time. Rooms underwent renovation in 2006. In the years since Landry’s acquired Golden Nugget Las Vegas and

title: SLS Las Vegas

text: hotel was purchased by Del Webb. In 1962, a Don the Beachcomber restaurant opened in the hotel, becoming a top attraction to not only hotel guests but a variety of celebrities as well. The 24-story Alexandria Tower was added in 1963, which made the hotel the tallest building in Las Vegas. The resort was the site of the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for many years, mostly in the 1970s, and for a brief time in the 1990s. Performers at the resort over the years have included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Judy Garland, Marlene

title: Delano Las Vegas


question: when did the us dollar leave the gold standard

answers: October 1976

answers: August 15, 1971

answers: 1934

title: History of the United States dollar

text: abandoned the gold standard. Among the earliest, the Bank of England abandoned the gold standard in 1931 as speculators demanded gold in exchange for currency, threatening the solvency of the British monetary system. This pattern repeated throughout Europe and North America. In the United States, the Federal Reserve was forced to raise interest rates in order to protect the gold standard for the US dollar, worsening already severe domestic economic pressures. After bank runs became more pronounced in early 1933, people began to hoard gold coins as distrust for banks led to distrust for paper money, worsening deflation and depleting

title: History of the United States dollar

text: gold. With debts looming to Europe, the dollar to British pound exchange rate reached as high as $6.75, far above the (gold) parity of $4.8665. This caused large gold outflows until July 31, 1914, when the New York Stock Exchange closed and the gold standard was temporarily suspended. In order to defend the exchange value of the dollar, the US Treasury Department authorized state and nationally chartered banks to issue emergency currency under the Aldrich-Vreeland Act, and the newly created Federal Reserve organized a fund to assure debts to foreign creditors. These efforts were largely successful, and the Aldrich-Vreeland notes

title: History of monetary policy in the United States

text: the gold standard. In March and April 1933, in a series of laws and executive orders, the government suspended the gold standard for United States currency. Anyone holding significant amounts of gold coinage was mandated to exchange it for the existing fixed price of US dollars, after which the US would no longer pay gold on demand for the dollar, and gold would no longer be considered valid legal tender for debts in private and public contracts. The dollar was allowed to float freely on foreign exchange markets with no guaranteed price in gold, only to be fixed again at

title: Gold as an investment

text: countries implemented gold standards in the latter part of the 19th century until these were temporarily suspended in the financial crises involving World War I. After World War II, the Bretton Woods system pegged the United States dollar to gold at a rate of US$35 per troy ounce. The system existed until the 1971 Nixon Shock, when the US unilaterally suspended the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold and made the transition to a fiat currency system. The last major currency to be divorced from gold was the Swiss Franc in 2000. Since 1919 the most common

title: History of the United States dollar

text: were retired starting in November and the gold standard was restored when the New York Stock Exchange re-opened in December 1914. As the United States remained neutral in the war, it remained the only country to maintain its gold standard, doing so without restriction on import or export of gold from 1915 to 1917. During the participation of the United States as a belligerent, President Wilson banned gold export, thereby suspending the gold standard for foreign exchange. After the war, European countries slowly returned to their gold standards, though in somewhat altered form. During the Great Depression, every major currency

title: A Monetary History of the United States

text: when people withdraw money from the bank, banks hold more reserves, or high-powered money leaves the country (e.g., gold is exported). During a crisis, all three can happen. Another theme is "gold". For the time period, it was the unit used for international trade with Europe. So even when the US is not on the gold standard, it plays a significant role. The authors are precise about the gold standard. The authors say the US was on the gold standard from 1879 to 1923. That is, paper money could be exchanged for bullion and international trade was settled immediately with

title: Gold standard

text: 1848 placed the U.S. on a strict hard-money standard. Doing business with the American government required gold or silver coins. Government accounts were legally separated from the banking system. However, the mint ratio (the fixed exchange rate between gold and silver at the mint) continued to overvalue gold. In 1853, the US reduced the silver weight of coins to keep them in circulation and in 1857 removed legal tender status from foreign coinage. In 1857 the final crisis of the free banking era began as American banks suspended payment in silver, with ripples through the developing international financial system. Due

title: Global financial system

text: The classical gold standard was established in 1821 by the United Kingdom as the Bank of England enabled redemption of its banknotes for gold bullion. France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan each embraced the standard one by one from 1878 to 1897, marking its international acceptance. The first departure from the standard occurred in August 1914 when these nations erected trade embargoes on gold exports and suspended redemption of gold for banknotes. Following the end of World War I on November 11, 1918, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Russia, and Poland began experiencing hyperinflation. Having informally departed from the standard,

title: Gold standard

text: Most countries defined their currencies in terms of dollars, but some countries imposed trading restrictions to protect reserves and exchange rates. Therefore, most countries' currencies were still basically inconvertible. In the late 1950s, the exchange restrictions were dropped and gold became an important element in international financial settlements. After the Second World War, a system similar to a gold standard and sometimes described as a "gold exchange standard" was established by the Bretton Woods Agreements. Under this system, many countries fixed their exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar and central banks could exchange dollar holdings into gold at the

title: Gold standard

text: Congress passed the Gold Reserve Act on 30 January 1934; the measure nationalized all gold by ordering Federal Reserve banks to turn over their supply to the U.S. Treasury. In return the banks received gold certificates to be used as reserves against deposits and Federal Reserve notes. The act also authorized the president to devalue the gold dollar. Under this authority the president, on 31 January 1934, changed the value of the dollar from $20.67 to the troy ounce to $35 to the troy ounce, a devaluation of over 40%.

title: History of the United States dollar

text: standard unit of value, and all forms of money issued or coined by the United States shall be maintained at a parity of value with this standard ... Thus the United States moved to a gold standard, making both gold and silver the legal-tender coinage of the United States, and guaranteed the dollar as convertible to 1.5 g (23.22 grains) of gold. The gold standard was suspended twice during World War I, once fully and then for foreign exchange. At the onset of the war, U.S. corporations had large debts payable to European entities, who began liquidating their debts in

title: History of the Canadian dollar

text: standard, British and United States gold coins, government of Canada notes, and Canadian coins were legal tender. Bank notes ceased to be legal tender. However, the return was short-lived. Britain went off the gold standard in September 1931, during the depths of the Great Depression. Canada followed suit by prohibiting export of gold on October 31, 1931, unofficially taking Canada off the gold standard. A year and a half later, the federal government ended the convertibility of government notes for gold. It was expected to be a temporary measure until the world economic situation improved, but Canada has never returned

title: Gold standard

text: The role of gold was severely constrained, as other countries’ currencies were fixed in terms of the dollar. Many countries kept reserves in gold and settled accounts in gold. Still they preferred to settle balances with other currencies, with the American dollar becoming the favorite. The International Monetary Fund was established to help with the exchange process and assist nations in maintaining fixed rates. Within Bretton Woods adjustment was cushioned through credits that helped countries avoid deflation. Under the old standard, a country with an overvalued currency would lose gold and experience deflation until the currency was again valued correctly.

title: Gold standard

text: grams of pure (24-carat) gold. Mahathir claimed it would be a stable unit of account and a political symbol of unity between Islamic nations. This would purportedly reduce dependence on the US dollar and establish a non-debt-backed currency in accord with Sharia law that prohibited the charging of interest. the global monetary system continued to rely on the US dollar as the main reserve currency. Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan acknowledged he was one of "a small minority" within the central bank that had some positive view on the gold standard. In a 1966 essay he contributed to

title: History of the United States dollar

text: expensive for those holding dollars). This change led to more conversion of gold into dollars, allowing the U.S. to effectively corner the world gold market. The suspension of the gold standard was considered temporary by many in markets and in the government at the time, but restoring the standard was considered a low priority to dealing with other issues. Under the post-World War II Bretton Woods system, all other currencies were valued in terms of U.S. dollars and were thus indirectly linked to the gold standard. The need for the U.S. government to maintain both a $35 per troy ounce

title: History of the United States dollar

text: a result of the significant prior debasement of the US dollar due to excessive inflation of the monetary supply via central bank (Federal Reserve) coordinated fractional reserve banking under the Bretton Woods partial gold standard. In the absence of an international mechanism tying the dollar to gold via fixed exchange rates, the dollar became a pure fiat currency and as such fell to its free market exchange price versus gold. Consequently, the price of gold rose from $35 per troy ounce (1.125 $/g) in 1969 to almost $500 (29 $/g) in 1980. Shortly after the gold price started its ascent

title: United States dollar

text: prices in the 1930s. Under the Bretton Woods system established after World War II, the value of gold was fixed to $35 per ounce, and the value of the U.S. dollar was thus anchored to the value of gold. Rising government spending in the 1960s, however, led to doubts about the ability of the United States to maintain this convertibility, gold stocks dwindled as banks and international investors began to convert dollars to gold, and as a result the value of the dollar began to decline. Facing an emerging currency crisis and the imminent danger that the United States would

title: History of the United States dollar

text: in the early 1970s, the price of other commodities such as oil also began to rise. While commodity prices became more volatile, the average exchange rate between oil and gold remained much the same in the 1990s as it had been in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Fearing the emergence of a specie gold-based economy separate from central banking, and with the corresponding threat of the collapse of the U.S. dollar, the U.S. government approved several changes to the trading on the COMEX. These changes resulted in a steep decline in the traded value of precious metals from the early

title: Gold standard

text: transfer contracted the US money supply. The foreign loans became questionable once Britain, Germany, Austria and other European countries went off the gold standard in 1931 and weakened confidence in the dollar. The forced contraction of the money supply resulted in deflation. Even as nominal interest rates dropped, deflation-adjusted real interest rates remained high, rewarding those who held onto money instead of spending it, further slowing the economy. Recovery in the United States was slower than in Britain, in part due to Congressional reluctance to abandon the gold standard and float the U.S. currency as Britain had done. In the

title: Gold standard

text: rate of $4.86, Churchill is argued to have made an error that led to depression, unemployment and the 1926 general strike. The decision was described by Andrew Turnbull as a "historic mistake". Many other countries followed Britain in returning to the gold standard, this was followed by a period of relative stability but also deflation. This state of affairs lasted until the Great Depression (1929–1939) forced countries off the gold standard. In September 19, 1931, speculative attacks on the pound forced Britain to abandon the gold standard. Loans from American and French Central Banks of £50,000,000 were insufficient and exhausted

title: Reserve currency

text: attacks on the pound forced Britain entirely off the gold standard in 1931. After World War II, the international financial system was governed by a formal agreement, the Bretton Woods System. Under this system the United States dollar was placed deliberately as the anchor of the system, with the US government guaranteeing other central banks that they could sell their US dollar reserves at a fixed rate for gold. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the system suffered setbacks ostensibly due to problems pointed out by the Triffin dilemma—the conflict of economic interests that arises between short-term domestic objectives

title: Gold standard

text: Congress on March 3, 1903. Around the same time Mexico and Japan pegged their currencies to the dollar. When Siam adopted a gold exchange standard in 1908, only China and Hong Kong remained on the silver standard. When adopting the gold standard, many European nations changed the name of their currency, for instance from Daler (Sweden and Denmark) or Gulden (Austria-Hungary) to Crown, since the former names were traditionally associated with silver coins and the latter with gold coins. Governments with insufficient tax revenue suspended convertibility repeatedly in the 19th century. The real test, however, came in the form of

title: Gold standard

text: of them believed returning to the gold standard would result in "price-stability and employment outcomes [that] would be better for the average American." The panel of polled economists included past Nobel Prize winners, former economic advisers to both Republican and Democratic presidents, and senior faculty from Harvard, Chicago, Stanford, MIT, and other well-known research universities. The specific statement with which the economists were asked to agree or disagree was as follows: "If the US replaced its discretionary monetary policy regime with a gold standard, defining a 'dollar' as a specific number of ounces of gold, the price-stability and employment outcomes

title: Gold standard

text: that they did before. In financing the war and abandoning gold, many of the belligerents suffered drastic inflations. Price levels doubled in the US and Britain, tripled in France and quadrupled in Italy. Exchange rates changed less, even though European inflations were more severe than America’s. This meant that the costs of American goods decreased relative to those in Europe. Between August 1914 and spring of 1915, the dollar value of US exports tripled and its trade surplus exceeded $1 billion for the first time. Ultimately, the system could not deal quickly enough with the large balance of payments deficits

title: 1973 oil crisis

text: abandoned the Gold Exchange Standard whereby the value of the dollar had been pegged to the price of gold and all other currencies were pegged to the dollar, whose value was left to "float" (rise and fall according to market demand). Shortly thereafter, Britain followed, floating the pound sterling. The other industrialized nations followed suit with their respective currencies. Anticipating that currency values would fluctuate unpredictably for a time, the industrialized nations increased their reserves (by expanding their money supplies) in amounts far greater than before. The result was a depreciation of the dollar and other industrialized nations' currencies. Because

title: Money

text: By the beginning of the 20th century almost all countries had adopted the gold standard, backing their legal tender notes with fixed amounts of gold. After World War II and the Bretton Woods Conference, most countries adopted fiat currencies that were fixed to the U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar was in turn fixed to gold. In 1971 the U.S. government suspended the convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold. After this many countries de-pegged their currencies from the U.S. dollar, and most of the world's currencies became unbacked by anything except the governments' fiat of legal tender and the ability

title: Bretton Woods system

text: objected and their request was granted, making the "reserve currency" the U.S. dollar. This meant that other countries would peg their currencies to the U.S. dollar, and—once convertibility was restored—would buy and sell U.S. dollars to keep market exchange rates within plus or minus 1% of parity. Thus, the U.S. dollar took over the role that gold had played under the gold standard in the international financial system. Meanwhile, to bolster confidence in the dollar, the U.S. agreed separately to link the dollar to gold at the rate of $35 per ounce. At this rate, foreign governments and central banks

title: Global financial system

text: War I gold standard when the Dresdner Bank implemented foreign exchange controls and announced bankruptcy on July 15, 1931. In September 1931, the United Kingdom allowed the pound sterling to float freely. By the end of 1931, a host of countries including Austria, Canada, Japan, and Sweden abandoned gold. Following widespread bank failures and a hemorrhaging of gold reserves, the United States broke free of the gold standard in April 1933. France would not follow suit until 1936 as investors fled from the franc due to political concerns over Prime Minister Léon Blum's government. The disastrous effects of the Smoot–Hawley

title: Deflation

text: returned to deflation, according to the Wall Street Journal. Bloomberg L.P. reports that consumer prices fell in October 2009 by a near-record 2.2%. During World War I the British pound sterling was removed from the gold standard. The motivation for this policy change was to finance World War I; one of the results was inflation, and a rise in the gold price, along with the corresponding drop in international exchange rates for the pound. When the pound was returned to the gold standard after the war it was done on the basis of the pre-war gold price, which, since it

title: Global imbalances

text: exception of the Barings Crisis in 1890 for some countries. During the First World War, the participating countries abandoned gold convertibility, with exception of the United States. After the war, by 1926, the major countries got back to a gold standard, where the countries held reserves in dollars, sterling and francs, and the United States, Great Britain and France held gold. But this system had some serious flaws which prevented that the imbalances generated were adjusted smoothly. Real exchange rates were misaligned, and the system began to lose credibility (since, at the time, it seemed that external concerns came second

title: Gold standard


question: who played bailey in the sisterhood of the traveling pants

answers: Jenna Boyd

text: Bailey responds by saying that the pants have already worked their magic on Bailey by bringing her and Tibby together. Tibby spends a lot of time with Bailey in the hospital after that. A couple of days later, Tibby receives a phone call in the morning from Mrs. Graffman, Bailey's mother, saying that Bailey died in the night. Sadly, the pants cannot cure cancer. When Carmen comes back home from South Carolina, Tibby visits her to try to help her with her feelings of being snubbed by her father. Carmen lashes out at Tibby by saying that she has no

text: fainted in the deodorant aisle. She frantically calls for help, and the girl is taken away in an ambulance. Fascinated by Tibby's movie, or "suckumentary" as she calls it, Bailey becomes Tibby's self-appointed assistant. Tibby is annoyed by this at first, but gradually grows to accept Bailey. She later learns from Bailey's neighbor that Bailey has leukemia. Bailey eventually goes to the hospital with a bad infection. Tibby avoids the hospital for a while, but eventually visits Bailey, bringing the Traveling Pants. She offers them to Bailey and pleads with her to take them so that they can help her.

title: Jenna Boyd

text: of this film, although the film itself was not particularly well received. Previously she had been in "" playing the daughter of a family hired by the title character (David Spade) to help him recapture his childhood. In 2005 Boyd played the Leukemia-suffering Bailey Graffman in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". Her recent roles include the Lifetime miniseries "The Gathering" in which she played the daughter of a doctor (Peter Gallagher) searching for his wife and in the "Ghost Whisperer" episode "Children of Ghosts" she played a troubled teenager living in a foster home. In 2017, she played Paige

text: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a 2005 American comedy-drama film released by Warner Bros. Pictures, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Ann Brashares. It was directed by Ken Kwapis and screenplay by Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler. The film's production budget was $25 million. At the box office, it brought in a total domestic gross of $39,053,061. The DVD was released in the United States on October 11, 2005, and features on-camera commentary by Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, and America Ferrera and deleted scenes (discussed by Kwapis).

title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

text: a movie in 2005, starring Alexis Bledel as Lena, Amber Tamblyn as Tibby, America Ferrera as Carmen, and Blake Lively as Bridget. It drastically altered the plotline following Lena and made her story the exact opposite of the book, omitting the presence of her sister, Effie, on her trip to Greece, and changing the development of her relationship with Kostas. It does, however, stay quite close to the stories of Carmen, Bridget and Tibby. Bridget's twin brother is omitted from the film, making her an only child. "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2", the sequel to the original movie,

text: The DVD and VHS were released in the US on October 11, 2005. The film has yet to be released on Blu-ray. The song album was released by Columbia Records on May 24, 2005. The album of Cliff Eidelman's score was released by Varèse Sarabande on July 12, 2005. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a 2005 American comedy-drama film released by Warner Bros. Pictures, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Ann Brashares. It was directed by Ken Kwapis and screenplay by Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler. The

title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

text: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is a 2008 American comedy-drama film and a sequel to the 2005 film "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". The original cast (Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, Blake Lively and Alexis Bledel) return to star in the film. It was directed by Sanaa Hamri and screenplay by Elizabeth Chandler, who wrote the previous film. The film is based upon the fourth novel in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" series: "" (2007), but incorporates scenes and storylines from "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood" (2003) and ""

text: The film was partially shot in the Kamloops and Ashcroft area in British Columbia, Canada. It is the first installment of "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" film series, which include a sequel "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" (2008), with a third film is in development. A musical adaptation based of the film is also development. Four teenage girls—Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena—are best friends from Bethesda, Maryland, who are about to separate for the summer for the first time in their lives. Lena is spending the summer in Santorini, Greece, with her grandparents; Tibby is staying at

title: Blake Lively

text: brother Eric asked his talent agent to send her on a few auditions over a period of a few months during the summer. From these auditions, she was cast as Bridget for "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" (2005) and filmed her scenes in between her junior and senior years. She appeared in the film adaptation of the novel of the same name, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", in 2005, as Bridget, one of the four female leads. Lively's performance in the film earned her a nomination for a Teen Choice Award for "Choice Movie Breakout – Female. In

title: Jenna Boyd

text: feelings, and Tibby leaves in tears. The pair reconciles and later go to Bridget's house in order to bring her out of her depression. Over the course of the film, Tibby undergoes dramatic changes in her outlook due to her time with Bailey. Shortly after arriving at soccer camp in Baja California, Mexico, Bridget develops a crush on one of the coaches, Eric Richman. She reveals to Eric that a psychiatrist who evaluated her following her mother's suicide described her as "single-minded to the point of recklessness," presumably as a way of avoiding dealing with her mother's death. This statement

text: film is in the works, it will be based on the book "Sisterhood Everlasting", has been announced and was produced by Alloy Entertainment. Liz W. Garcia will write a screenplay and Ken Kwapis, director of the first film, will be direct the third installment. A musical adaptation based of the 2005 film is in development. Key The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film series) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is an American comedy-drama film series, based on the book series of the same name by Ann Brashares. Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another

text: with leukemia.) Over the course of the summer, the two become close friends and Bailey begins to help Tibby film her documentary. Tragically, Bailey passes from her leukemia, which leads Tibby to refocus her documentary to capture the memories that they created together. Carmen goes to South Carolina to spend the summer with her father, from whom she has grown apart since he and Carmen's mother divorced several years before. Carmen learns that he is engaged. Out of frustration at feeling left out of her father's new family, she breaks a window in their home with a rock and returns

title: Lucy Hale

text: and "Mistletoe" on the Christmas album "A Hollywood Christmas", released on December 8, 2017. Lucy Hale Karen Lucille Hale (born June 14, 1989) is an American actress and singer. Early in her career, she was sometimes referred to as Lucy Kate Hale. She is best known for her role as Aria Montgomery on the Freeform series "Pretty Little Liars" (2010–2017). Some other notable roles in television played by Hale include Becca Sommers in "Bionic Woman" (2007), Rose Baker in "Privileged" (2008–2009) and Stella Abbott in "Life Sentence" (2018). Hale has appeared in films, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2"

title: America Ferrera

text: included Ferrera in their 2007 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Also in 2007, Ferrera won Imagen Foundation's Creative Achievement Award. Ferrera starred as Carmen in the 2005 film "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", and reprised the role in 2008's "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2". Among other film work, she supplied the voice of Astrid in the hit animated film "How to Train Your Dragon" (2010). She also appeared in "The Dry Land" which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and ran at the Dallas International Film Festival where it won the

text: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (novel) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a bestselling young adult novel by Ann Brashares published in 2001. It follows the adventures of four best friends — Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, Bridget Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell, who will be spending their first summer apart when a magical pair of jeans comes into their lives, turning their summer upside down. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2005. Four sequels to the book have been published, "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood"; ""; ""; and "Sisterhood Everlasting". In the

title: Alexis Bledel

text: Alexis Bledel Kimberly Alexis Bledel ( ; born September 16, 1981) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Rory Gilmore on the television series "Gilmore Girls" (2000–2007), for which she received nominations for Satellite, Teen Choice and Young Artist Awards. In 2016, Bledel reprised her role on the Netflix reunion miniseries "". Bledel made her feature film debut as Winnie Foster in "Tuck Everlasting" (2002), and has since appeared in "Sin City" (2005), "Post Grad" (2009), and as Lena Kaligaris in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" film series. Since 2017, she has

title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

text: (2004). It is the second installment of "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" film series and was released in theaters on August 6, 2008. In the summer following their first year of college, we revisit four friends who have been apart all year and plan to spend their summer apart until a magical old pair of pants reunites them. Bridget (Blake Lively) visits her grandmother Greta (Blythe Danner) in Alabama to ask about her mother's suicidal depression. Lena (Alexis Bledel) finds her former flame Kostas (Michael Rady) married in Greece. Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) goes through a pregnancy scare with her

text: she is like her mother, whose mood also swung easily from very up to very down, eventually resulting in deep depression and suicide. Carmen and Tibby comfort Bridget by reassuring her that she is stronger than her mother. Eric visits Bridget and apologizes for his behavior over the summer, and tells her that while she is too young for him now, he hopes she will give him a shot when she is older, giving Bridget much-needed closure. Principal photography started on the island of Santorini, Greece. Filming then continued in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. According to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes,

title: Ann Brashares

text: Ann Brashares Ann Brashares (born July 30, 1967) is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" series. Brashares was born in Alexandria, Virginia and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She attended elementary and high school at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. After studying philosophy at Barnard College, she worked as an editor for 17th Street Productions. 17th Street was acquired by Alloy Entertainment, and following the acquisition she worked briefly for Alloy. After leaving Alloy she wrote "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants",

title: Ann Brashares

text: Award for Children's Literature in 2002, and won the Quill Award for Young teen/adult in 2005. Ann Brashares Ann Brashares (born July 30, 1967) is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" series. Brashares was born in Alexandria, Virginia and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She attended elementary and high school at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. After studying philosophy at Barnard College, she worked as an editor for 17th Street Productions. 17th Street was acquired by Alloy Entertainment, and following the acquisition

title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

text: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Often shortened to TSOTP) is a series of five bestselling young adult novels by Ann Brashares. Released by Random House, the novels tell the continuing story of four young girls who acquire a pair of jeans that fit all four of them perfectly, even though they are all different shapes and sizes. The four main characters are Lena Kaligaris, Tabitha "Tibby" Rollins, Bridget "Bee" Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell. Carmen delivers the opening prologue and epilogue in first person and tends to play the role throughout the series of

text: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film series) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is an American comedy-drama film series, based on the book series of the same name by Ann Brashares. Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly. Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions. The third

title: Alexis Bledel

text: Natalie Babbitt's novel of the same name (1975). Before her work in that film, Bledel was an uncredited extra in the 1998 comedy-drama "Rushmore". In 2005, she co-starred in the drama "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", opposite Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, and Blake Lively, and based on Ann Brashares' novel of the same name. She played Lena Kaligaris, an aspiring artist on a journey with her three best friends, linked over the summer by a pair of "magical" jeans.In 2005, Bledel co-starred in the anthology neo-noir crime thriller "Sin City" where she played Becky, a prostitute. "She's a very

title: Amber Tamblyn

text: well as numerous shows on Adult Swim, including "The Heart, She Holler" opposite Patton Oswalt and "Metalocalypse". Tamblyn launched her film career playing bit parts in her father's movies: "Rebellious" and "Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard". She also appeared in 1995's "Live Nude Girls". Her first major film role was in 2005's "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" as Tibby Rollins, co-starring Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, and Blake Lively. Tamblyn reprised the role in the 2008 sequel, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2". Her horror film career began with the opening scene of 2002's "The Ring". Tamblyn also appeared in

title: Tibby Rollins

text: Tibby Rollins Tabitha Anastasia "Tibby" Tomko-Rollins is a fictional character in the 2001 novel "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and the 2005 film based upon it. She is a member of the titular club, along with her friends Lena Kaligaris, Bridget Vreeland and Carmen Lowell. She was portrayed by Amber Tamblyn in the film. Tibby's parents are described as former hippies. She was born when they were 19, and she apparently spent much of her early life swept up in their various adventures; her father was, at turns, a writer for a socialist newspaper, a public defender, and an

text: "This adaptation of a beloved novel charms with its heartwarming tale of friendship and young adulthood; realistic portrayals of the lives of teenage girls lend the comedy-drama sincerity, and may capture hearts outside the female-centric demographic." It has a score of 77% based on 125 reviews. Metacritic gave the film a score of 66%, with "generally favorable reviews", based on 34 reviews. Yahoo! Movies gave the film a B rating based on 13 different critics. On its opening weekend, the film opened #5 at the box office with $9,833,340. As of November 14, 2008, the film has grossed $42,013,878 worldwide.

title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

text: in the acting world and friends with the director, Bill (Kyle MacLachlan), while Carmen is uncertain of where she belongs. After accidentally dropping a curtain on classmate Ian (Tom Wisdom) during his audition for "The Winter's Tale", they watch Julia audition for the lead in Perdita and Ian encourages Carmen to try. Carmen talks about how she connects with Perdita, winning her the part, while Julia, though clearly jealous, promises to help Carmen. Initially uncertain about her acting abilities, Carmen grows more confident when her talent is recognized by the director and the other actors, including Ian, with whom she

title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

text: 87 reviews, and writes "The workable chemistry among the four leads combined with the enriching message make for a winning Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2". Metacritic scored the film as 63/100, with "generally favorable reviews", based on 26 reviews. On its opening weekend, the film performed better than its predecessor, opening #4 at the box office with $10,678,430. As of November 7, 2008, the film had grossed $44,080,484 domestically. The DVD and Blu-ray were released in the United States on November 18, 2008. In Australia, the film was released straight-to-DVD. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 The Sisterhood

title: Bridget Vreeland

text: Bridget Vreeland Bridget "Bee" Vreeland is a main character in the 2001 novel "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". She is portrayed by Blake Lively in the 2005 film adaptation of the first book, and the 2008 sequel, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2". Bridget "Bee" Vreeland is the second-born among her best friends. (In the film, she is the first.) She and her friends grow up together in Bethesda, Maryland. Her mother, Marlene, a debutante from Alabama committed suicide when Bridget was 11 years old. Her death creates a strain in the relationship between Bridget, her father, and

title: Jenna Boyd

long_answer: Jenna Boyd was born in Bedford, Texas and moved with her parents and younger brother Cayden (also an actor) to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. After a few small roles on television and film, Boyd's big break came when she was cast in The Missing, alongside Cate Blanchett and Evan Rachel Wood. Boyd's performance was praised in critical reviews of this film, although the film itself was not particularly well received. Previously she had been in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star playing the daughter of a family hired by the title character (David Spade) to help him recapture his childhood. In 2005 Boyd played the Leukemia-suffering Bailey Graffman in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Her recent roles include the Lifetime miniseries The Gathering in which she played the daughter of a doctor (Peter Gallagher) searching for his wife and in the Ghost Whisperer episode "Children of Ghosts" she played a troubled teenager living in a foster home. In 2017, she played Paige Hardaway, the "practice girlfriend" of the autistic main character, Sam Gardener, in the Netflix Original Series Atypical.


question: who has the most followers on the instagram

answers: Instagram's own account

answers: Selena Gomez

title: Fashion influencer

text: a blog in the first place. Jenn Im became a fashion influencer due to her successful Youtube channel, German influencer Pamela Reif due to her high reach on Instagram. In 2017, Instagram was the social media platform with the highest reach for fashion influencers. Forbes calculated that the top ten fashion influencers combined generated a reach of 23,3 million on Instagram. At the same time, the fashion industry had the highest share on Instagram influencer marketing in the US. It’s share, approximately 61 percent, dominated by far subsequent sectors investing in influencer marketing such as travel (8 percent) and food

title: Model (person)

text: fashion bloggers such as Rumi Neely and Chiara Ferragni began photographing their girlfriends in various outfits. Instagram models often attempt to become social media influencers and engage in influencer marketing, promoting products such as fashion brands and detox teas. High-profile influencers are able to earn thousands of US dollars for promoting commercial brands. When choosing whom to employ, brands have become less concerned with the number of followers an influencer has and more focussed on their engagement marketing strategy. Research indicates that 89 per cent of influencers use Instagram to promote themselves compared to 20 per cent using Twitter and

title: Instagram

text: more likely to engage with content that has not been watermarked, as they view this content as less original and reliable compared to user-generated content. Users on Instagram have created "trends" through hashtags, which are specific keywords combined with a hash symbol that lets them share content with other Instagram users. The trends deemed the most popular on the platform often highlight a specific day of the week to post the material on. Examples of popular trends include #SelfieSunday, in which users post a photo of their faces on Sundays; #MotivationMonday, in which users post motivational photos on Mondays; #TransformationTuesday,

title: Sarah Bahbah

text: of the most shared accounts on Instagram with over 480,000 followers. She was nominated one of Australia's top six digital influences in photography and travel by Pedestrian TV as part of the Blogster Award. She encourages others to "live in the moment." Sarah Bahbah Sarah Bahbah is a groundbreaking Palestinian artist who uses her creative voice to enlighten patrons on the importance of breaking the stigmas associated with CSA, and women finding freedom in voice. Using an unapologetically honest exploration into the intimate psyche of millennial women as her calling card, Bahbah empowers her audience to embrace indulgence and self

title: Laura Brown (fashion journalist)

text: of InStyle. As of January 2018, Brown has 180,000 Instagram followers and more than 43,000 Twitter followers. Of Instagram, Brown has said, "It is the way to present yourself to the world. It is the magazine of your life." If Instagram is the magazine of one's life, then Brown's demonstrates that she is proud of her Australian heritage: her Instagram feed is full of images of Australian animals such as koalas and kangaroos, and she supports Australian labels such as Zimmermann by often wearing their clothes. Brown is friends with many celebrities, including fellow Australians Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne and

title: Model (person)

text: Instagram model techniques and aesthetics have also been used in unconventional or parody profiles. Instagram model Lil Miquela has blurred the line between reality and social media, amassing more than 200,000 followers without it being revealed whether she is real or computer-generated. Australian comedian Celeste Barber had acquired 1.8 million Instagram followers by 2017, parodying celebrity fashion photographs with real-life reenactments. In 2016, French organization Addict Aide ran a campaign to raise awareness for alcohol abuse among young people in which a model posed as Louise Delage, a fictitious 25-year-old Parisian whose Instagram photos nearly always featured alcohol. The account

title: Celebrity branding

text: with 50,000 to 500,000 followers might make $1000 for a post on Instagram. At the top end of the digital celebrity pay scale some posts can earn around $300,000, especially when Instagram pictures can be easily linked to other social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter. One of the celebrities that is most well known for promoting brands on her Instagram page is Kim Kardashian. She currently posts advertisements for at least eight different brands, ranging from jewelry to morning sickness medication, with an estimated earning of $51 million from posting on her social media channels alone. Similarly, footballer

title: Xiaohongshu

text: Bigbang Seungri (Joined Oct. 8th, 2018), Pony (2.17 million followers). Besides superstars, a great number of influencers/KOL are using RED as a way to share their life with followers, like Ritatawang (3.5 million followers) and Coco (1.2 million followers). In Xiaohongshu, ordinary young users and consumers have the opportunity to become key opinion leaders. Ritatawang (Username: Ritatawang) : As a student of Central Saint Martins of Art and Design in London, Ritatawang started to share her understanding of fashion in Xiaohongshu and gained millions of followers. After graduation, she gave up offers from top fashion brands. Instead, she returned to

title: Model (person)

text: 16 per cent using Facebook. Some Instagram models have gained high-profile modelling jobs and become celebrities. Fitness model Jen Selter had become an Internet celebrity by 2014 with nearly 2 million Instagram followers, gaining professional sports management work and modelling for "Vanity Fair" magazine. Cosplayer and model Anna Faith had acquired over 250,000 Instagram followers by 2014, gaining success from her ability to impersonate the Disney character Elsa. With Facebook's continuing decrease in post reach, Instagram has increasingly become the favorite platform for cosplayers. American actress Caitlin O'Connor had almost 300,000 Instagram followers in 2016, earning most of her social

title: List of most-followed Instagram accounts

text: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of March 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 234 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 135 million followers.  Nine accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.

title: Violet Benson

text: before becoming known as Daddy Issues. Benson started her Daddy Issues Instagram account on July 5, 2014. Benson has earned over 3 million followers on Instagram and is known as one of the fastest growing accounts and one of the largest funny female accounts that even MTV took notice. Though best known for Instagram, Benson runs several other social media platforms which include a Daddyissues__ Twitter account, a DaddyissuesLA snapchat account, and a secondary instagram account under her own name. Benson has stated that she turns down most requests to upload sponsored posts since it is important for her to

title: Celebrity branding

text: demographic. According to the Telegraph (2015), the ten most popular Instagram accounts are all celebrities who all have around 30 million followers. By partnering with one of these celebrities, businesses are already reaching an engaged and targeted audience of 30 million people. Many of America's top-earning celebrities Instagram accounts are continually promoting products such as health supplements, vitamins and detox teas. These aren't spontaneous proclamations, but rather posts paid for by brands to advertise products to the celebrities' sizable following. On Instagram alone a profile with three-to-seven million followers can charge as much as $75,000 per endorsement, even a profile

title: Instagram

text: the most active on Instagram with 23%. Following behind, college graduates consist of 18% and users with a high school diploma or less make up 15%. Among these Instagram users, 24% say they use the app several times a day. Ongoing research continues to explore how media content on the platform affects user engagement. Past research has found that media which show peoples' faces receive more 'likes' and comments and that using filters that increase warmth, exposure, and contrast also boosts engagement. Users are more likely to engage with images that depict fewer individuals compared to groups and also are

title: Xavier Di Petta

text: 2013, Di Petta created @EarthPix and @HistoryInPics on Twitter with Kyle Cameron. As of September 2016, the accounts have 1.91M and 3.48M followers, respectively. @EarthPix on Instagram has over 14M followers and is ranked the 113th Most Followed Instagram account. At 17, Di Petta co-founded Social Trends Media; focusing on business development and partnerships. Social Trends Media earned $800,000 in sales in December 2013. In May 2014, Di Petta was featured in a Special Interest Paper by the City of London on 'Cultural Innovation and Entrepreneurship in London' In October 2014, Di Petta joined the Advisory Board of the National

title: Kevin Systrom

text: Vice-President James Everingham, as well as Kevin Weil, who formerly headed product development at Twitter, as high-ranking executives at Instagram. As of October 2015, 40 billion pictures had been shared on Instagram. As of June 2016, Instagram had over 500 million active users. Also in 2016, "CNN" quoted a study according to which Snapchat was regarded as the most important social network among teenagers aged 14 to 19, the first time in two years that Instagram did not feature at the top. Instagram currently employs around 450 people. The app is used by 600 million people per month and 300

title: Social media in the fashion industry

text: Whitney Simmon's followers in return purchase these products upon release because they trust and admire Whitney Simmons. Since 2011, the popularity and usage of the smart phone, in particular iPads and iPhones increased. This altered the way consumer's were interacting and accessing with the fashion world. Instagram launched in 2010, the app since then has gained over 200 million users, over 25 billion images shared so far, averaging 1.6 billion likes per day (Wilson, A. 2014). These figures suggest that content postedis very exposed and Instagram is a good tool to reach a large number of people. Instagram is now

title: Propaganda through media

text: deal of followers of Hamid on Twitter were demanded to find the highest trending topics in the UK and popular account names they could jump on to get the largest possible reach. As @Abu_Laila wrote: "We need those who can supply us with the most active hashtags in the UK. And also the accounts of the most famous celebrities. I believe that the hashtag of Scotland's separation from Britain should be the first." Facebook has made huge impact on society by allowing thousands of people to communicate with their family and friends, and be able to keep up-to-date with the

title: Kendall and Kylie

text: of themselves. Currently Kendall and Kylie Jenner are very influential social media icons that have millions of followers on Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. Social media is one of the tools they use daily to communicate with their fan base especially through Instagram. Instagram heavily inspired the social media aspects of the "Kendall and Kylie" game app through constant selfies that need to be shared to gaining large numbers of followers throughout the game. Like most free for play app games, the "Kendall and Kylie" app rewards the player with constant gifts throughout the gameplay. The following are the list of

title: Model (person)

text: motives dominate over aesthetics in illustration, its artwork commonly employs models. Models are most frequently employed for art classes or by informal groups of experienced artists that gather to share the expense of a model. Instagram models have become popular due to the widespread use of social media. They are models who gain their success as a result of the large number of followers they have on Instagram and other social media. They should not be confused with established models such as Cara Delevingne and Gigi Hadid, who use Instagram to promote their traditional modelling careers, although some models, such

title: Maine Mendoza

text: her title as the Social Media Queen. She has also been nicknamed as The Phenomenal Star. In October 2015, Mendoza's Twitter account became the third fastest growing profile, her followers increased to 1,094,813 in just a few months. Due to her popularity, her social media accounts were hacked twice. One of those hacks happened in November 2015 where her Twitter was taken by a group of hackers who identified themselves as Anonymous Philippines. They posted series of tweets promoting the Million Mask March. Despite hacking the account, they promised to return it to the rightful owner. In less than 24

title: Social media in the fashion industry

text: know that the site is legitimate and credential, which is confirmed by the validation of a social media star that they follow and admire. Brand influencers are gaining popularity across all social media platforms, but specifically Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. For example, fitness blogger Whitney Simmons has over two million followers on her Instagram account and also runs a YouTube account. Her following is increasing on a daily basis, leading the athletic apparel company GymShark to adopt Simmons as a brand influencer. Simmons frequently posts pictures and videos wearing GymShark clothing during her workouts and promotes their new clothing releases.

title: Mevius

text: Korea Times of Instagram Influencer Guidelines to let the public know about JTI Korea's dubious SNS marketing. He said he was approached by a person from JTI Korea's marketing team in June 2017. ""JTI systematically recruited young male Instagram users who have at least 10,000 followers"" the user said anonymously. ""I heard they were offered 4 to 5 million Won for each post for a month, depending on the number of their followers. The users were given this piece of paper outlining how they should take photos and depict them"". The company's marketing tactic is disgraceful, he said, stressing minors,

title: Friending and following

text: social network. It is not uncommon for people to have hundreds or even thousands of friends/followers on their social media accounts. As a result, many teen users feel pressured to make extremely curated posts, posting only carefully posed and edited photographs with well-thought-out captions. Some users (typically teenage girls) on Instagram create a second account, known as a "Finsta" (short for ""F"ake "Insta"gram"). A Finsta is typically private, and the owner only allows close friends to follow it. Since the follower count is kept down, the posts can be more candid and silly in nature. There are distinct groups of

title: Social media marketing

text: do a piece on how brands are using Instagram to market their products, and how bloggers make money from it. Bernstein, who currently has one and a half million followers on Instagram, and whose "outfit of the day" photos on Snapchat get tens of thousands of screenshots, explained that for a lot of her sponsored posts, she must feature the brand in a certain number of posts, and often cannot wear a competitor's product in the same picture. According to "Harper's Bazaar", industry estimates say that brands are spending more than $1 billion per year on consumer-generated advertising. Founder of

title: Model (person)

text: media income from endorsing products on Instagram. Australian personal trainer Kayla Itsines acquired five-and-a-half million Instagram followers allowing her to build a business in the fitness industry. Brazilian model Claudia Alende had gained a following of 2.8 million people on Instagram by 2015 and developed a career as a lingerie model. Plus-size models Iskra Lawrence and Tess Holliday have used Instagram to demonstrate their potential as models. Yashika Aannand, an Indian teenage actress rose to prominence in the Tamil film industry after gaining popularity among the public as an Instagram model with over 145,000 followers on her account by 2017.

title: Counterfeit consumer goods

text: with luxury good brand names on Instagram are fakes, with 20% of the posts featured counterfeit goods from accounts, usually based in China, Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Ukraine. "It also highlights the scale, impact, and characteristics of infringement, and that sophistication from counterfeiters continues to grow through social media platforms." In 2016, in a span of 3-day period, Instagram has identified 20,892 fake accounts selling counterfeit goods, collectively responsible for 14.5 million posts, 146,958 new images and gaining 687,817 new followers, with Chanel (13.90%), Prada (9.69%) and Louis Vuitton (8.51%) being the top affected brands, according to "Social Media and

title: Ariana Grande

text: total of more than twelve billion times, her Instagram account had accumulated more than 130 million followers, ranking her as the 3rd most followed person on Instagram, her Twitter account had more than 55 million followers, making it the 12th most followed Twitter account, and her Facebook page had more than 30 million likes. At the age of ten, Grande co-founded the South Florida youth singing group Kids Who Care, which performed for charitable fund-raising events and raised over $500,000 for charities in 2007 alone. In 2009, as a member of the charitable organization Broadway in South Africa, Grande, along

title: Omar Raja

text: had about half a million followers on Instagram at the time. Bleacher Report acquired House of Highlights in December, and hired Raja after he graduated. In January 2016, the Instagram account had 2.1 million followers, and in March 2017, it had over 5 million followers. Dave Finocchio, the CEO of Bleacher Report, likens Raja to the modern or young person's "SportsCenter", and it was also noted by the website Crowd Tangle that the account has one of the highest interaction rates (number of users who comment or like). Bernstein said that for the month of November 2017, House of Highlights

title: Social media in the fashion industry

text: fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger has incorporated social media into their marketing strategy effectively. They have understood the power that it has and the influence on consumers. By having someone who is well known and admired the brand received positive attention. Gigi Hadid is one of the most popular super models of 2016, with the Instagram following of 15.5 million people. She has modelled for the cover of Vogue, W, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, TeenVogue, Numéro, Schön! And CR Fashion Book, along with appearing in music videos and television programs around the world. (PVH, C. 2012). Tommy Hilfiger has cast Gigi as

title: Camera eats first

text: than 180 million photos with the hashtag #food currently on Instagram. Other hashtags such as #foodporn and #foodie are often added to these photos. It is estimated that 90 new photos hash-tagged #foodporn are uploaded to Instagram every minute. The phenomenon is especially more prevalent among the younger generation. According to a survey done by News Limited, “54 per cent of 18-24 year olds have taken a photo of their food while eating out, while 39 per cent have posted it somewhere online. This compares with only 5 per cent of over-50s who say they share food snaps on forums

short_answers:
Instagram's own account
Selena Gomez