#The Frank Anthony Public School

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Frank Anthony Memorial Inter School Debate Held At NHES

De Nobili School (CMRI) Students Win Top Honors In Competition Event features 13 participating schools with judges from diverse educational backgrounds. JAMSHEDPUR – Narbheram Hansraj English School (NHES) hosted the Frank Anthony Memorial Inter School Debate Competition 2024 (Category I, Stage I) in its auditorium. "This event showcases the argumentative skills of our city’s young minds," stated…

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Tony Bennett may have been famous for singing about San Francisco, but he was a New Yorker born and bred. Born, to be specific, in Astoria, Queens, which he later said he loved more “than any place I’ve ever lived.”

When he was nine and still called Anthony Dominick Benedetto, he sang at the dedication of the Triborough (now Robert F. Kennedy) Bridge, which earned him a pat on the head from Mayor LaGuardia.

After he made it big, he and his wife established a public high school dedicated to the arts—in Astoria, of course. He named it, not after himself, but after Frank Sinatra, who had given him his first big break. Over the years he visited it frequently, often bringing surprise guests (Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Harry Belafonte, Lady Gaga).

The Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, Astoria, Queens

For the last 25 years of his life, Tony lived in a penthouse on Central Park South and was often seen in the park with his canvas and paints.

Top photo: Tony Bennett, Twitter Bottom photo: ennead architects

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My books are on sale for pride season. Usually $20 each, you can get all three volumes of Queer & Trans Artists of Color for only $50 (and free shipping) until the end of June. These books include interviews with Janet Mock, Julio Salgado, Vivek Shraya and more! Get the discount here. Full listing of interviewees below the break.

VOLUME ONE (2014) ​CO-EDITED BY TERRA MIKALSON & JESSICA GLENNON-ZUKOFF

Mixed-race queer art activist Nia King left a full-time job in an effort to center her life around making art. Grappling with questions of purpose, survival, and compromise, she started a podcast called We Want the Airwaves in order to pick the brains of fellow queer and trans artists of color about their work, their lives, and “making it” - both in terms of success and in terms of survival.

In this collection of interviews, Nia discusses fat burlesque with MAGNOLIAH BLACK, queer fashion with KIAM MARCELO JUNIO, interning at Playboy with JANET MOCK, dating gay Latino Republicans with JULIO SALGADO, intellectual hazing with KORTNEY RYAN ZIEGLER, gay gentrification with VAN BINFA, getting a book deal with VIRGIE TOVAR, the politics of black drag with MICIA MOSELY, evading deportation with YOSIMAR REYES, weird science with RYKA AOKI, gay public sex in Africa with NICK MWALUKO, thin privilege with FABIAN ROMERO, the tyranny of “self-care” with LOVEMME CORAZÓN, “selling out” with MISS PERSIA and DADDIE$ PLA$TIK, the self-employed art-activist hustle with LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA, and much, much more. Buy book one here.

VOLUME TWO (2016) ​CO-EDITED BY ELENA ROSE

Building on the groundbreaking first volume, Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives, Nia King is back with a second archive of interviews from her podcast We Want the Airwaves. She maintains her signature frankness as an interviewer while seeking advice on surviving capitalism from creative folks who often find their labor devalued.

In this collection of interviews, Nia discusses biphobia in gay men’s communities with JUBA KALAMKA, helping border-crossers find water in the desert with MICHA CÁRDENAS, trying to preserve Indigenous languages through painting with GRACE ROSARIO PERKINS, revolutionary monster stories with ELENA ROSE, using textiles to protest police violence with INDIRA ALLEGRA, trying to respectfully reclaim one’s own culture with AMIR RABIYAH, taking on punk racism with MIMI THI NGUYEN, the imminent trans women of color world takeover with LEXI ADSIT, queer life in WWII Japanese American incarceration camps with TINA TAKEMOTO, hip-hop and Black Nationalism with AJUAN MANCE, making music in exile with MARTÍN SORRONDEGUY, issue-based versus identity-based organizing with TRISH SALAH, ten years of curating and touring with the QTPOC arts organization Mangos With Chili with CHERRY GALETTE, raising awareness about gentrification through games with MATTIE BRICE, self-publishing versus working with a small press with VIVEK SHREYA, and the colonial nature of journalism school with KILEY MAY. The conversation continues. Buy book two here.

VOLUME THREE (2019) ​CO-EDITED BY MALIHA AHMED

Is it possible to make art and make rent without compromising your values? Nia King set out to answer this question when she started We Want the Airwaves podcast in 2013. In her Queer & Trans Artists of Color book series, Nia collects podcast interviews — with Black, Latinx, Asian, Middle Eastern and Indigenous LGBTQ writers, musicians and visual artists — which feature both incredible storytelling and practical advice.

In the latest installment of the Queer & Trans Artists of Color series, Nia discusses performing at the White House with VENUS SELENITE, the global nature of colorism with KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE, writing for Marvel Comics with GABBY RIVERA, using lies to tell unspeakable truths with KAI CHENG THOM, Black mental health with ANTHONY J. WILLIAMS, curating diverse anthologies with JOAMETTE GIL, growing up trans in rural Idaho with MEY RUDE, covering crime as a baby-faced reporter with SAM LEVIN, feminist approaches to journalism with SARAH LUBY BURKE, documenting Black punk history with OSA ATOE, crossing color lines with QWO-LI DRISKILL, fat hairy brown goddesses with PARADISE KHANMALEK, the usefulness of anger with JIA QING WILSON-YANG, transitioning as death and rebirth with ARIELLE TWIST, surviving homelessness and touring the world with STAR AMERASU and much, much more. Buy book three here.

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Charles J. Gans at AP News:

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday. Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records.” He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s — and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists. [...]

He not only survived the rise of rock music but endured so long and so well that he gained new fans and collaborators, some young enough to be his grandchildren. In 2014, at age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart for “Cheek to Cheek,” his duets project with Lady Gaga. Three years earlier, he topped the charts with “Duets II,” featuring such contemporary stars as Gaga, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, in her last studio recording. His rapport with Winehouse was captured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Amy,” which showed Bennett patiently encouraging the insecure young singer through a performance of “Body and Soul.” His final album, the 2021 release “Love for Sale,” featured duets with Lady Gaga on the title track, “Night and Day” and other Porter songs. For Bennett, one of the few performers to move easily between pop and jazz, such collaborations were part of his crusade to expose new audiences to what he called the Great American Songbook. [...]

By his early 40s, he was seemingly out of fashion. But after turning 60, an age when even the most popular artists often settle for just pleasing their older fans, Bennett and his son and manager, Danny, found creative ways to market the singer to the MTV Generation. He made guest appearances on “Late Night with David Letterman” and became a celebrity guest artist on “The Simpsons.” He wore a black T-shirt and sunglasses as a presenter with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 1993 MTV Music Video Awards, and his own video of “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” from his Grammy-winning Fred Astaire tribute album ended up on MTV’s hip “Buzz Bin.” That led to an offer in 1994 to do an episode of “MTV Unplugged” with special guests Elvis Costello and k.d. lang. The evening’s performance resulted in the album, “Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged,” which won two Grammys, including album of the year.

[...] Long associated with San Francisco, Bennett would note that his true home was Astoria, the working-class community in the New York City borough of Queens, where he grew up during the Great Depression. The singer chose his old neighborhood as the site for the “Fame”-style public high school, the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, that he and his third wife, Susan Crow Benedetto, a former teacher, helped found in 2001. The school is not far from the birthplace of the man who was once Anthony Dominick Benedetto. His father was an Italian immigrant who inspired his love of singing, but he died when Anthony was 10. Bennett credited his mother, Anna, with teaching him a valuable lesson as he watched her working at home, supporting her three children as a seamstress doing piecework after his father died.

Musician Tony Bennett died at 96. Bennett collaborated with Lady Gaga very late in his career to make him relevant to younger audiences. #RIPTonyBennett

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RIP Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett, who has died aged 96, made a high art out of being the very best kind of saloon-bar singer – not only in the good-humoured optimism of his big, expansive sound, or his passionate gratitude for life’s lucky breaks and glimpsed beauties, but also in an unquenchable appetite for sharing good songs, whether with 10 people or 10,000.

Frank Sinatra used to call Bennett “the best singer in the business”, an accolade that would frequently turn up in the younger man’s publicity, though a more forthright tribute from the same source (“that kid’s got four sets of balls”) generally did not. Bennett’s artistry and power to stir the heart were qualities a world away from the cliched perception of the Vegas crooner in a tuxedo. During the rock-dominated 1960s and 70s, Bennett was easy to caricature. You only had to pretend to loosen a tie, casually throw an imaginary microphone from hand to hand, and exhale “the loveliness of Paris” in tones somewhere between Sinatra’s and the club style of Vic Reeves.

Closer listening to Bennett’s smoky baritone revealed a different story. His performances often sounded like thanksgivings – for the breaks he’d had, and for his conviction that the good in the world outstripped the bad. This curiously worldly innocence was at the core of his enduring appeal. Bennett’s records (including Because of You and a version of the country singer Hank Williams’s Cold, Cold Heart) topped the charts in 1951 before the arrival of rock’n’roll. His most celebrated later hits included his signature song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, The Good Life (both 1962) and Who Can I Turn To? (1964). Bennett won 19 Grammy awards and was estimated to have sold more than 50m records worldwide.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hT5VOnaGRSU?start=2&wmode=opaque&feature=oembed&start=2Tony Bennett performing I Left My Heart in San Francisco on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. YouTube

He was also an accomplished painter and produced a book of his visual art, What My Heart Has Seen (1996). His autobiography, published in 1998, was entitled The Good Life – Bennett knew only too well how ambiguous a notion that could be, having narrowly survived a cocaine overdose and fought off bankruptcy during his troubled middle years. He raised millions of dollars for charities and publicly associated himself with liberal causes. In an interview with the singer in 2002, Simon Hattenstone wrote in the Guardian that Bennett had “done all the classic showbiz stuff, snorted coke with the best of ’em, made out with the younger women, broken bread with the mafia – and somehow come out with his innocence, his idealism, intact”.

Born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in the Astoria district of Queens, New York, he was the son of John, a grocer from southern Italy, and Anna (nee Suraci), a seamstress. His father died when Bennett was 10 and Anna worked all hours to support her three children. Watching her struggle, Bennett made up his mind to be successful enough for his mother’s trials to end. His Uncle Dick, a tap dancer, provided an early glimpse of showbusiness, and Bennett was passionate about both singing and painting by the time he attended the School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design) in Manhattan.

After demobilisation, Bennett took vocal classes in the bel canto style at the American Theatre Wing school (a teacher there suggested he try imitating the phrasing of jazz instrumentalists) and he began singing in nightclubs from 1946 under the stage name of Joe Bari. The comedian Bob Hope hired him in 1949, but, disliking the stage name, told him: “We’ll call you Tony Bennett.”

Bennett worked in New York at the Paramount theatre in Hope’s popular show, which soon needed police barricades to hold back the singer’s teenage fans. When he married Patricia Beech in 1952, crowds of young women showed up outside the ceremony, dressed as if in mourning.

Bennett became one of the biggest vocal draws in the US, with three No 1 hits – Because of You, Cold, Cold Heart (both 1951) and Rags to Riches (1953). His single Stranger in Paradise, from the Broadway musical Kismet, brought him a No 1 in the UK in 1955 but the arrival of rock’n’roll made it Bennett’s first and last Top 10 single in the UK, and he had only one more in the US, when In the Middle of an Island reached No 9 in 1957.

Bennett needed to adapt. Unlike Sinatra or Bing Crosby, he had not worked with the swing big-bands, a learning curve alongside expert instrumentalists that could sharpen technique and fill a singer with fresh ideas. But in 1957 he began a long working relationship with the London-born jazz pianist and arranger Ralph Sharon, who edged him toward a jazzier repertoire. Bennett’s 1957 album The Beat of My Heart was made with help from the jazz musicians Herbie Mann, Art Blakey and Jo Jones among others; it was followed by Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (1958) and In Person! (1959) with Count Basie’s big band.

Along with many other singers of his kind, Bennett found that his sales went into steady decline. He tried an unsuccessful detour into acting before, in 1969, the Columbia Records boss Clive Davis persuaded him to make an album of 60s pop hits including the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby. The cover art portrayed him in flares and a psychedelic tie, and Bennett was so intimidated by his unsuitability for material he was not yet ready to appreciate that he threw up during the recordings. He later said it reminded him of his mother being forced to make cheap dresses for money.

Bennett left Columbia and worked for smaller jazz labels during the next decade. He performed with the big bands of Woody Herman, Buddy Rich and Duke Ellington, and in 1975 made a duo album for the Fantasy label with one of modern jazz’s most lyrical pianists, Bill Evans. What might have seemed like an unlikely partnership between the cerebral Evans and the heart-on-sleeve popular performer worked remarkably well, with Bennett’s account of Evans’ famous Waltz for Debby revealing an inspired grasp of the art of jazz-inflected vocal interpretation and interplay. Two years later, the pair reconvened for Together Again on Bennett’s own shortlived Improv label.

In the 90s he paid tributes to Sinatra and Fred Astaire, on the albums Perfectly Frank and Steppin’ Out, respectively, and also recorded homages to Billie Holiday (Tony Bennett on Holiday) and Duke Ellington (Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot and Cool). Through his work with kd lang and Elvis Costello on MTV, he reconnected with a young audience. He even played at Glastonbury in 1998, with the organisers laying out a path of hay bales so he wouldn’t get his silk suit muddy on the way to the stage.

On Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001), he recorded a memorable series of duets with lang, Ray Charles, Sheryl Crow, Billy Joel, Diana Krall, BB King, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Wonder.

For his 80th birthday in 2006, Bennett released Duets: An American Classic, featuring performances with Paul McCartney, Elton John, Barbra Streisand and Bono, and five years later came Duets II, with another glitzy cast including Aretha Franklin, Lady Gaga – and Amy Winehouse, with whom he shared a memorable Body and Soul in March 2011.

In 2012, his book of philosophical musings, Life Is a Gift, was published. The 2014 album Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek was another Billboard chart-topper, and the following year he won a Grammy for a tribute album to Jerome Kern.

The Empire State Building was specially illuminated for Bennett’s 90th birthday in 2016 – and that year Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga and more performed on an NBC primetime special, Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come. The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio (where Bennett’s Homage to Hockney is part of a permanent collection) presented its Two Painters exhibition, showing Bennett’s Tuscan landscapes, still lifes and portraits alongside watercolourist Charles Reid’s work. In November 2017, the Library of Congress made him the first non-composer to win the Gershwin prize.

Bennett worked into his later years – because a new audience was there for him, and because the money funded his charitable work, including the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, which he had founded in 2001. He painted every day for as long as he was able. “You paint with nature out in the field and you realise how magnificent being alive is,” Bennett enthused to Hattenstone in 2002. “Most people just walk past it. I used to walk past it. Each day now, because of my age, I just look at it and cherish it. If people could only grasp how wonderful it is to be part of this.” A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in 2016 did not dim this view, with Bennett stating on Twitter: “Life is a gift – even with Alzheimer’s.”

His final live performances were with Lady Gaga in 2021, at Radio City Music Hall, New York.

Bennett’s first two marriages ended in divorce. In 2007 he married Susan Crow, who survives him, as do his sons, and two daughters, Joanna and Antonia, from his second marriage.

 Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto), singer, born 3 August 1926; died 21 July 2023

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Earl Of Darlow, Ben - “602-771…”

Call Now…

Here’s Some Wink-Wink “Book Titles” This Retired Librarian Recommends For “Review”…

1) “Gay Animals At Zoos Around The World” By Frances L. Hazelwood, Baker School Press, 2011.

2) “The History Of Black Teachers In American Public Schools: An Integration Narrative Thesis” By Dr Anthony Franklin Abrams, D. Ed. And History, Jackson University Press, 1995.

3) “Steve And Frank Join The Team” By Angela Pfizer, Scholastic, 2006.

4) “Great African-American Inventions: The Untold Story Of Patent Wars, 1880-1923” By Sarah Jean Barker, S. and S. Univ. Pub., 1994.

5) “Bobby Makes Cakes” By Suzy Walters, J. Holtz Pub. Company, 2005.

6) “Black Indentured Servants In Colonial America: Slavery In Virginia And The Carolina Colonies” By Robert W. Roberts, Delaware Honors Press, 1984.

7) “Asian Inroads After Internment: Post-World War II Asian Business Migrations, 1946-1996: The Hidden Revolt” By Wuin V. Tsu, Dr. Soc., Oregon Press, 2000.

8] “Gay And Lesbian Leaders: Native American Vs. European Colonial Social Structures: A Biographical Collection” By Ruth White Deer, Sociologist, Fort Davises College Press, 2019.

9) “Kilts Are Not Skirts: Gender Confusing Examples Of Native Clothing Around The World” By Margaret A. Closs, Dept. Of Anthropology, Ames Univ. Press, 2011.

10) “Was Lincoln Gay: And Other Questions Historians Question” By Harold S. George, Baer Press, 1997.

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

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Top ICSE Schools in Bangalore: A Comprehensive Guide

Choosing the right ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) school for your child in Bangalore can be a daunting task. With numerous options available, each with its own unique offerings, it's essential to gather reliable information to make an informed decision. In this comprehensive guide, we present a list of the top 20 ICSE schools in Bangalore for the academic year 2024-2025. This list is not ranked in any particular order but provides essential details about each school to help you in your search for the best educational institution for your child.

Benefits of Choosing the Right School 

Selecting the right ICSE school for your child can significantly impact their academic and personal growth. Here are some key benefits of choosing the right school:

Academic Excellence: The top ICSE schools in Bangalore prioritize academic rigour, ensuring that students receive a strong educational foundation.

Holistic Development: These schools offer a well-rounded approach, emphasizing not only academic excellence but also the development of life skills, character, and values.

Co-curricular Activities: The best ICSE schools provide ample opportunities for students to engage in a variety of co-curricular activities, such as sports, arts, and community service, fostering their overall growth and interests.

Experienced Faculty: These schools have qualified and experienced teachers dedicated to providing quality education and personalized attention to students.

Modern Infrastructure: The top ICSE schools offer state-of-the-art facilities, libraries, laboratories, and technology-enabled classrooms to create an optimal learning environment.

Global Perspective: Many of these schools focus on promoting global awareness and cultural diversity, preparing students to thrive in a multicultural world.

Networking and Opportunities: Attending a reputable ICSE school opens doors to networking opportunities and connections that can benefit students in their future academic and professional endeavors.

Top 20 ICSE Schools in Bangalore - 2024-2025

Clarence Public School, J.P Nagar

Lawrence High School ICSE, HSR Layout

Christ CMI Public School, Dharmaram

Bethany High School, Koramangala

SorsFort International School, Electronic City

Baldwin High School, Richmond Town

Bangalore International Academy (BIA)

Gopalan National School

St. Germain's Academy

Vidyashilp Academy

Mitra Academy

Greenwood High International School

Bishop Cotton School

The Frank Anthony Public School

Sri Kumaran Children's Home School

Ebenezer International School

Mallya Aditi International School

St. Joseph's High School

Primus Public School

St. Francis De Sales Public School

Conclusion 

Finding the right ICSE school for your child in Bangalore is a significant decision that requires careful consideration. The top 20 ICSE schools in Bangalore listed in this guide provide a diverse range of options, each with its own strengths and unique offerings. Remember to consider factors such as the curriculum, facilities, extracurricular activities, academic performance, and the school's overall culture and values. Additionally, visiting the schools, interacting with faculty and staff, and seeking recommendations from other parents can provide valuable insights. With thorough research and consideration of your child's needs and interests, you can make an informed decision and choose the best ICSE school in Bangalore for their holistic development and academic success. For detailed information on every school in Bangalore and support of the education ecosystem, you may want to visit or follow BeWise. 

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 The Best ICSE Schools in Bangalore: Top Choices for Quality Education

Introduction

Bangalore is renowned for its top-tier educational institutions, particularly for those following the ICSE curriculum. Whether you're searching for the top schools Bangalore, schools in Bangalore ICSE, or specifically the best schools in Bangalore ICSE, this guide will help you navigate through some of the finest choices available.

Why ICSE Schools Stand Out

The schools in Bangalore ICSE are celebrated for their comprehensive curriculum that emphasizes a deep understanding of subjects, critical thinking, and application-based learning. The ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) curriculum is known for its detailed and rigorous approach, making it a preferred choice for parents who want their children to have a strong academic foundation.

Some of the best schools in Bangalore ICSE include Bishop Cotton Boys’ School, Frank Anthony Public School, and Baldwin Boys’ High School. These institutions are recognized for their academic excellence, experienced faculty, and state-of-the-art facilities that support both learning and extracurricular activities.

What Makes These Schools the Best?

Choosing the top schools Bangalore that follow the ICSE curriculum ensures that your child receives an education that is both challenging and rewarding. These schools offer a well-rounded education that goes beyond academics to include sports, arts, and community service, fostering a balanced development of mind and body.

The emphasis on practical knowledge, critical thinking, and analytical skills makes ICSE schools an excellent choice for parents who want their children to be well-prepared for higher education and future careers. The diverse range of subjects offered in ICSE schools allows students to explore their interests and talents, making learning a more personalized and enjoyable experience.

Conclusion

Bangalore’s ICSE schools offer some of the best educational opportunities in the country. Whether you are looking for the top schools Bangalore, schools in Bangalore ICSE, or specifically the best schools in Bangalore ICSE, you can be assured that your child will receive a comprehensive education that prepares them for future success. The city’s leading ICSE schools are dedicated to nurturing well-rounded individuals who are ready to take on the challenges of higher education and life with confidence.

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Rest In Peace! Frank Duckworth Dead At 84: Statistician Who Co-Founded Famous Duckworth-Lewis Method Used In Cricket 🏏 Passes Away. Tributes Have Flooded In For The Trailblazer

— Henry Tomlinson, Freelance Sports Reporter | 25 June 2024 | The Sun, UK Edition

Dr. Frank Duckworth. Credit: Getty Images.

He created the system with Dr Anthony Lewis which is regularly used in cricket matches. The system was originally created by the pair but is now known as DLS as Professor Steven Stern started to upgrade the methodology.

It was renamed in 2014 after Duckworth and Lewis retired. The method is a mathematical formula that is designed to calculate a target score in a cricket match for the second batting team.

It comes into play when a match has been interrupted by weather or other circumstances. Duckworth was born in 1939 in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire and attended the Kind Edward VII School.

Dr. Frank Duckworth with Dr. Anthony Lewis. Credit: PA

He worked as a mathematical scientist for the nuclear power industry. In 2010, he was appointed as an MBE on the birthday honours list.

Tributes have flooded in for the trailblazer on social media.

One posted: "Sad loss." A second wrote: "May his soul rest in peace." A third commented: "Thank you for your major contribution to our beautiful game! Praying for your family. RIP!"

Frank Duckworth Obituary! Statistician Who Became A Household Name To Cricket Fans As The Co-Inventor of The Duckworth-Lewis Method

— Cricket 🏏 | Peter Mason | Sunday 30 Jun, 2024

Frank Duckworth, left, with his fellow Mathematician Tony Lewis at Stone Cricket Ground in Gloucestershire, 1998. Photograph: Philip Brown/Popperfoto/Getty Images

Rain has a nasty habit of curtailing one-day limited overs cricket matches, but it was not until the mid-1990s, thanks to the intervention of the statistician Frank Duckworth, that a watertight formula was found to provide a satisfactory result for weather-affected encounters.

From the 60s onwards, when the shortened form of the game became popular at the top level, the cricketing authorities had experimented with a number of crude ways of deciding the result of a rain-interrupted match.

Although these worked effectively in some circumstances, they were by no means foolproof, and quite often teams that were batting second found themselves being set unfeasible targets to win after a rain break.

This came most dramatically into the public consciousness during the semi-finals of the 1992 World Cup, in which, after rain had briefly stopped play, with South Africa needing a manageable 22 runs to win off 13 balls against England, the players came back to the field to be told that under the system in place they still had 22 runs to score to win, but off just one ball – essentially an impossibility.

Keen to right such injustices, Duckworth, who has died aged 84, had by that time already been working on a complex mathematical formula that would take many more factors into account than just overs and runs, and would place more of an emphasis on the real state of the game when rain had stopped play.

Eventually finding a kindred spirit to help him with the task – a fellow mathematician, Tony Lewis – he tuned and retuned the system until it emerged as the Duckworth-Lewis method and was adopted across the game from 2001 onwards.

Although there have been minor adjustments since, the formula has proved so robust that rain-related run-chase controversies have virtually disappeared from the game. Hardly could a more comprehensive and effective solution have been found to any sporting problem, and its originators became, through its widespread use, household names across the world – even if few people knew exactly who they were.

Before rain briefly stopped play during the semi-finals of the 1992 World Cup, South Africa needed 22 runs to win off 13 balls against England; by the time they were able to return to the field of play, they were faced with an impossibility. The Duckworth-Lewis Method Was Introduced to avoid such injustices. Photograph: Getty Images

Duckworth was born in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire, to Eric, who ran a building company, and his wife, Annie. A cricket fan as a child, he enjoyed playing the game at the town’s King Edward VII grammar school, although he never progressed beyond house matches.

A maths prodigy, by the time he had arrived at Liverpool University to study physics in the late 50s he had become an armchair cricketer instead, listening avidly to matches on the radio.

After graduating in the early 60s he stayed on at Liverpool to study for a PhD in metallurgy, sharing a house for a time with John Lennon, as a lodger of Lennon’s aunt Mimi (“not that we had much to do with him, although we heard him plucking his guitar occasionally”). Later he moved on to a flatshare with the future TV presenter Johnny Ball.

Duckworth’s first job was with the Central Electricity Generating Board at Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories in Gloucestershire, where he was responsible for examining radioactive fuel after its service in nuclear reactors. Recruited initially as a metallurgist, within a year he had established himself instead as a statistician, remaining in that role at Berkeley for the rest of his working life.

Statistics also became Duckworth’s hobby: in his spare time in 1971 he carried out an analysis of football league ground attendances, which he shared with the FA, and he joined the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) in 1975. However, it took some years for him to turn his attention to cricket.

In 1988 he heard the cricket commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins reading out listener suggestions on how to find a way of fairly adjusting matches to account for time lost to rain. Most of the ideas were so mathematically unsound that he determined to set his own more finely tuned mind to the problem.

“I realised that a fair correction needed to take account not just of how many overs were lost, but the state of the match – overs bowled, wickets lost, and when the overs were lost,” he said. “This required a mathematical relationship to be established, giving the number of runs that could be scored from all combinations of overs available and wickets in hand.” After coming up with a formula that could do just that, he wrote a computer program to encapsulate it.

Taking a generous early retirement package from his employer in 1992, the year of the World Cup semi-final debacle, at the age of 53 Duckworth found himself in a position to pay more attention to his project. He phoned up the Test and Country Cricket Board to tell them of his work, and when they showed interest he presented a paper to an RSS conference in Sheffield which he titled Fair Results in Foul Weather.

The following year he received a letter from Lewis, a maths lecturer at the University of the West of England in Bristol, who had heard about his presentation and was interested in taking the idea further. The pair discovered that they lived only a few miles apart in Gloucestershire and shared a love of beer, and so began to meet regularly in the snug of the Pickwick Inn in the village of Lower Wick to thrash out and refine the formula. By October 1995, after many adjustments, they had found the Solution: Z(u, w) = Z0(w)[1 − exp{−b(w)u}].

First adopted in 1997 on England’s tour of Zimbabwe, the Duckworth-Lewis Method was so successful that it was officially taken up across the whole of the game four years later, and remains in place to this day. “Our way is not perfect, but it works about 99.5% of the time,” said Duckworth.

Soon after the method’s widespread adoption, Duckworth became a consultant statistician to the International Cricket Council, a position he occupied alongside his longstanding editorship of the RSS’s news magazine. He retired from both jobs in 2014.

In 2009 an Irish pop band called The Duckworth Lewis Method (formed by Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy and Thomas Walsh of Pugwash) released an album of the same name that featured a series of cricket-themed songs. In 2011 Duckworth and Lewis jointly wrote a book on the method and its origins.

Along with Lewis (who died in 2020), Duckworth was appointed MBE in 2010 for his statistical work, which also included the creation, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, of an International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, which tries to put the risks related to nuclear power generation into perspective.

He is survived by his wife, Jeannie (nee Shorey), a teacher, and their daughter.

— Frank Carter Duckworth, Statistician, Born 26 December 1939; Died 21 June 2024

Comments:

— TheBernWisdom: Thanks to the Pair. Sometimes, We Vented Frustration, and Yet We Forget How Difficult the Underlying the Methodology is. Your Influence Would be Long Lived. Rest in Peace, Sir.

— BounceBack: Nice Obit., What a Great Life. I Like That You Include the Solution: Z(u, w) = Z0(w)[1 − exp{−b(w)u}]. But without defining those terms, I'm afraid it's as Good as Meaningless.

— KindRegards: A Decent Innings Not Detailed by DLS thankfully!

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Rating: 3/5

Book Blurb: From legendary creator Frank Miller comes a dark, modern-day fairy tale about a teenage girl searching for a perfect world. But all is not what it seems . . .

Annabeth is an endlessly curious fifteen-year-old girl. Unpopular at school, unhappy at home, and struggling to feel like she belongs, everything changes for her when she stumbles across a flower-shaped relic with the power to warp reality. Determined to change her dissatisfying everyday life, Annabeth uses her newfound powers to transform the world around her—and as she does, she sows the seeds of impending chaos in her wake. Created by Frank Miller, illustrated by Emma Kubert (Inkblot), and cowritten by Anthony Maranville and Chris Silvestri (Star Trek: Discovery)—originally published as six individual comic book issues—Frank Miller’s Pandora (Book 1) is the first arc of this dark fairy tale, now available in graphic novel format for the first time!

This hardcover edition features the following bonus material: 

A new cover, endpapers, and concept art by Emma Kubert

A behind-the-scenes look at the process of making Frank Miller’s Pandora

Six variant covers by Frank Miller, Andy Kubert, and Theresa Kubert

Review:

A teenage girl searches for the perfect world but nothing is as perfect as it seems. Annabeth is a fifteen year old girl who is unhappy, she's not popular at school, her home life isn't great, and she just feels like she doesn't belong. When she finds a mysterious flower shaped relic with the power to warp reality it gives her the opportunity to transform her world... but every change has a cost. This was a fun graphic novel that I think young adult readers will have fun with. It's a fantasy read with faeries, drama, and a touch of romance. It's definitely for YA readers who enjoy teen girl fantasy reads.

Release Date: October 8,2024

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

*Thanks Netgalley and Abrams ComicArts for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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Holidays 5.12

Holidays

Appreciate Your Cousin Day

Canada Health Day

Chronic Fatigue Day

Day of Finnishness (Finland)

Fibromyalgia Day

Florence Nightingale Day

Free Cone Day (Haagen-Dazs)

Homer Simpson Day

Infant Mortality Awareness Day

International Awareness Day

International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND)

International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day

International Day of Plant Health

International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day

International Nurses Day

Jodhpur Foundation Day (India)

Koriteh (Gambia)

Limerick Day

National Anthony Day

National Canine Companion Graduation Day

National Child Care Provider Appreciation Day

National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

National Hospital Day

National Mental Health Provider Day

National Military Spouse Appreciation Day

National Pleasure Day

National Public Gardens Day

National Sapphire Segulah Day

National Spouse Appreciation Day

National Tampon Day

National ‘Ya Dig!’ Day

Native American Rights Day

Nonsense Day

Odometer Day

Olde May Day (Julian Calendar)

Pilgrimage to Fatima (Portugal)

Plant Health Day

2nd Amendment Action Day (Pennsylvania)

Sex Differences in Health Awareness Day

St. Andrew/Andrea the First-Called Day (Georgia)

Woodmen Ranger's Day

Working Mothers Day

World ME Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Nutty Fudge Day

2nd Friday in May

Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks A Voice [2nd Friday]

International Professional Drivers Day [2nd Friday]

Miniskirt Day [2nd Friday]

National School Communications Day [2nd Friday]

Shades Day [Friday closest to 5.15]

World PICU Day [2nd Friday]

Independence Days

The United Democratic Republic of Mackinac (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Xoli (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Baby Bear (Muppetism)

Crispoldus (Christian; Saint)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Artology)

Day of Purification of All Things (Ancient Egypt)

Diomma of Kildimo (Christian; Saint)

Dominic de la Calzada (Christian; Saint)

Epiphanius of Salamis (Christian; Saint)

Flavia Domitilla (Christian; Saint)

Francis Patrizi (Christian; Saint)

Frank Stella (Artology)

Gregory Dix (Church of England)

Hugh Hefner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Imelda (Christian; Saint)

Joan of Portugal (Christian; Saint)

Lemuralia, Day 3 (Ancient Rome; Dedicated to Eradicating Malevolent Spirits of the Dead)

Limerick Day (Pastafarian)

Marius (Positivist; Saint)

Modoald (Christian; Saint)

Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras (Christian; Martyrs)

Pancras, the second of the Ice Saints (Christian; Saint)

Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (Eastern Church)

Philip of Agira (Christian; Saint)

Quokka Day (Pastafarian)

Sirhind Fateh Diwas (India)

Tithi of Damodardev (Assam, India)

Vara’s Blot (Pagan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [28 of 71]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Absolutely Anything (Film; 2017)

Are You Experienced, by Jimi Hendrix (Album; 1967)

Around the World in 80 Days (Animated Film; 2022)

Coupling (BBC TV Series; 2000)

Crimson Tide (Film; 1995)

Danger Zone, by Kenny Loggins (Song; 1985)

Earth Girls Are Easy (Film; 1989)

Exile on Main St., by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1972)

5, by Lenny Kravitz (Album; 1998)

The Frog Prince (Muppet TV Special; 1971)

Just My Luck (Film; 2006)

Let’s Rock (Film; 1958)

Only Angels Have Wings (Film; 1939)

Panama Lady (Film; 1939)

The Rachel Papers (Film; 1989)

The Three Railway Engines, by Rev. W. Awdry (Book; 1945) [1st Thomas the Tank book]

Top Gun (Film; 1985)

A Whiter Shade of Pale, by Procul Harem (Song; 1967)

Today’s Name Days

Pankratius, Pankraz (Austria)

Leopold (Croatia)

Pankrác (Czech Republic)

Pancratius (Denmark)

Rünno, Tapper, Võitur, Vootele (Estonia)

Lotta (Finland)

Achille (France)

Imelda, Joana, Pankratius (Germany)

Epifaneios, Theodoros (Greece)

Pongrác (Hungary)

Achilleo, Nereo (Italy)

Ina, Ināra, Inars, Valida, Valija (Latvia)

Nerėjas, Nerijus, Neris, Vaidutis, Vilgailė (Lithuania)

Normann, Norvald (Norway)

Domicela, Domicjan, Dominik, Epifani, Flawia, Jan, Jazon, Joanna, Pankracy, Wszemił (Poland)

Ioan (România)

Pankrác (Slovakia)

Aquiles, Domingo, Germán, Nereo, Pancracio (Spain)

Charlotta, Lotta (Sweden)

Herman (Ukraine)

Achilla, Achilles, Achilleus, Grady, Grant, Kelby, Kellen (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 132 of 2024; 233 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 19 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Bing-Chen), Day 23 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 21 Iyar 5783

Islamic: 21 Shawwal 1444

J Cal: 11 Bīja; Fourssday [11 of 30]

Julian: 29 April 2023

Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter

Positivist: 20 Caesar (5th Month) [Marius]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 54 of 90)

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 23 of 30)

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Holidays 5.12

Holidays

Appreciate Your Cousin Day

Canada Health Day

Chronic Fatigue Day

Day of Finnishness (Finland)

Fibromyalgia Day

Florence Nightingale Day

Free Cone Day (Haagen-Dazs)

Homer Simpson Day

Infant Mortality Awareness Day

International Awareness Day

International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND)

International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day

International Day of Plant Health

International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day

International Nurses Day

Jodhpur Foundation Day (India)

Koriteh (Gambia)

Limerick Day

National Anthony Day

National Canine Companion Graduation Day

National Child Care Provider Appreciation Day

National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

National Hospital Day

National Mental Health Provider Day

National Military Spouse Appreciation Day

National Pleasure Day

National Public Gardens Day

National Sapphire Segulah Day

National Spouse Appreciation Day

National Tampon Day

National ‘Ya Dig!’ Day

Native American Rights Day

Nonsense Day

Odometer Day

Olde May Day (Julian Calendar)

Pilgrimage to Fatima (Portugal)

Plant Health Day

2nd Amendment Action Day (Pennsylvania)

Sex Differences in Health Awareness Day

St. Andrew/Andrea the First-Called Day (Georgia)

Woodmen Ranger's Day

Working Mothers Day

World ME Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Nutty Fudge Day

2nd Friday in May

Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks A Voice [2nd Friday]

International Professional Drivers Day [2nd Friday]

Miniskirt Day [2nd Friday]

National School Communications Day [2nd Friday]

Shades Day [Friday closest to 5.15]

World PICU Day [2nd Friday]

Independence Days

The United Democratic Republic of Mackinac (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Xoli (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Baby Bear (Muppetism)

Crispoldus (Christian; Saint)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Artology)

Day of Purification of All Things (Ancient Egypt)

Diomma of Kildimo (Christian; Saint)

Dominic de la Calzada (Christian; Saint)

Epiphanius of Salamis (Christian; Saint)

Flavia Domitilla (Christian; Saint)

Francis Patrizi (Christian; Saint)

Frank Stella (Artology)

Gregory Dix (Church of England)

Hugh Hefner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Imelda (Christian; Saint)

Joan of Portugal (Christian; Saint)

Lemuralia, Day 3 (Ancient Rome; Dedicated to Eradicating Malevolent Spirits of the Dead)

Limerick Day (Pastafarian)

Marius (Positivist; Saint)

Modoald (Christian; Saint)

Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras (Christian; Martyrs)

Pancras, the second of the Ice Saints (Christian; Saint)

Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (Eastern Church)

Philip of Agira (Christian; Saint)

Quokka Day (Pastafarian)

Sirhind Fateh Diwas (India)

Tithi of Damodardev (Assam, India)

Vara’s Blot (Pagan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [28 of 71]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Absolutely Anything (Film; 2017)

Are You Experienced, by Jimi Hendrix (Album; 1967)

Around the World in 80 Days (Animated Film; 2022)

Coupling (BBC TV Series; 2000)

Crimson Tide (Film; 1995)

Danger Zone, by Kenny Loggins (Song; 1985)

Earth Girls Are Easy (Film; 1989)

Exile on Main St., by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1972)

5, by Lenny Kravitz (Album; 1998)

The Frog Prince (Muppet TV Special; 1971)

Just My Luck (Film; 2006)

Let’s Rock (Film; 1958)

Only Angels Have Wings (Film; 1939)

Panama Lady (Film; 1939)

The Rachel Papers (Film; 1989)

The Three Railway Engines, by Rev. W. Awdry (Book; 1945) [1st Thomas the Tank book]

Top Gun (Film; 1985)

A Whiter Shade of Pale, by Procul Harem (Song; 1967)

Today’s Name Days

Pankratius, Pankraz (Austria)

Leopold (Croatia)

Pankrác (Czech Republic)

Pancratius (Denmark)

Rünno, Tapper, Võitur, Vootele (Estonia)

Lotta (Finland)

Achille (France)

Imelda, Joana, Pankratius (Germany)

Epifaneios, Theodoros (Greece)

Pongrác (Hungary)

Achilleo, Nereo (Italy)

Ina, Ināra, Inars, Valida, Valija (Latvia)

Nerėjas, Nerijus, Neris, Vaidutis, Vilgailė (Lithuania)

Normann, Norvald (Norway)

Domicela, Domicjan, Dominik, Epifani, Flawia, Jan, Jazon, Joanna, Pankracy, Wszemił (Poland)

Ioan (România)

Pankrác (Slovakia)

Aquiles, Domingo, Germán, Nereo, Pancracio (Spain)

Charlotta, Lotta (Sweden)

Herman (Ukraine)

Achilla, Achilles, Achilleus, Grady, Grant, Kelby, Kellen (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 132 of 2024; 233 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 19 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Bing-Chen), Day 23 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 21 Iyar 5783

Islamic: 21 Shawwal 1444

J Cal: 11 Bīja; Fourssday [11 of 30]

Julian: 29 April 2023

Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter

Positivist: 20 Caesar (5th Month) [Marius]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 54 of 90)

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 23 of 30)

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Best ICSE Schools In Delhi 2023-2024

Best ICSE Schools In Delhi - List With Complete Details 2023-2024

edustoke is India’s most comprehensive school search platform. Playschools, PreSchools, Day Schools and Boarding Schools.

The capital city Delhi is known for its culture, historical monuments and inclination towards top notch education.

The city is a prime destination for both national and international students to pursue education.

Delhi has some excellent ICSE schools managed under the Council of the Indian School Certificate Examination.

Some of the best ICSE schools in Delhi are The Frank Anthony Public School, The Shri Ram School, The Shri Ram School, Shikshantar School, The Shriram Millennium School, Golden Heights School, Swami Hariharanand Public School and Lord Jesus Public School.

The syllabus of an ICSE board school is very practical, detailed and aims at building analytical skills in students.

The national capital, New Delhi is known to be the hub of the best education facilities. Delhi university, IIT Delhi, and numerous private and government colleges in Delhi strengthen the pedagogy of not just Delhi but the whole country. The city is the preferred choice for completing higher education by both national and international students. Delhi is also home to some of the best schools across India, including both day schools and boarding schools. Some of the best ICSE schools in Delhi are:

1.The Frank Anthony Public School

Started in 1958, The Frank Anthony Public School is among the oldest and best ICSE schools in Delhi. Located in South Delhi, it was started by the Founder-Chairman of the All India Anglo-Indian Educational Trust, Mr. Frank Anthony.

Board: ICSE

Type of School: Co-Ed School

Grade Upto: Class 12

Establishment Year: 1958

2.The Shri Ram School

The Shri Ram School is a leading global school in Delhi enforcing a curriculum based on practical learning experiences. The school offers IB, ICSE & ISC, IGCSE board of education in a truly international and enriching environment.

Board: IB, ICSE & ISC, IGCSE

Type of School: Co-Ed School

Grade Upto: Class 12

Establishment Year: 1988

3.Shikshantar School

Shikshantar School has a reputation among the best ICSE schools in Delhi and focuses on setting new standards of education. The school is promoted by the MNC Unitech and is supported by an experienced group of teachers who know their way around bringing the best potential of students.

Board: ICSE

Type of School: Co-Ed School

Grade Upto: Class 12

Establishment Year: 2002

4.The Shriram Millennium School

The Shriram Millennium School is another gem in the list of best ICSE schools in Delhi. The school has a calm and composed environment with a state of the art infrastructure. Besides top academics, the school also provides guidance to excel in other realms of learning as well.

Board: ICSE

Type of School: Co-Ed School

Grade Upto: Class 8

Establishment Year: 2012

5.Golden Heights School

Golden Heights School offers a global outlook set in a lush green and nurturing environment. The school enforces practical education that prepares students for the future opportunities and challenges.

Board: ICSE

Type of School: Co-Ed School

Grade Upto: Class 12

Establishment Year: 2004

6.Lord Jesus Public School

Lord Jesus Public School imparts education based on moral values which enables students to become responsible citizens of society. With a dynamic curriculum, it strives to build morally rich, intellectually alert and culturally competent students. Besides academics, it also encourages students to participate in various cultural activities too.

Board: ICSE

Type of School: Co-Ed School

Grade Upto: Class 12

Establishment Year: 1999

7.Matrikiran School

Matrikiran School stands among the best ICSE schools in Delhi with its impactful learning curriculum. The school has catered the best students over the years which is reflected well in its results. It has a decent infrastructure which ensures sufficient resources to learn and explore.

Board: ICSE & ISC

Type of School: Co-Ed School

Grade Upto: Class 12

Establishment Year: 2011

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Jessica Virdi (Actress) Wiki, Age, Boyfriend, Family, Education and More

Jessica Virdi (Actress) Height, Weight, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Biography, Boyfriend and More Jessica Virdi is an Indian advocate and actress who is mainly known for portraying the role of Jessica in YouTube’s famous web series Meri IIT Wali Girlfriend. Jessica is an aspiring actress who started her journey by attending Frank Anthony Public School and subsequently graduated from Guru Gobind…

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YEAR IN REVIEW

2022 in Review: Quotes of the Year!

By Team TVLine / December 18 2022, 9:00 AM PST

Best TV Quotes 2022

Courtesy of Prime Video; HBO; HBO Max; Netflix; Peacock

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Anthony Bridgerton confessed his true feelings for Kate Sharma. This Is Us‘ Rebecca Pearson got well-deserved kudos. Viktor Hargreeves introduced himself to his Umbrella Academy siblings. And The White Lotus‘ Tanya McQuoid realized something very important… just a little too late.

All year long, we’ve been collecting TV’s best sound bites in our Quotes of the Week compilations, which honor the dialogue that made us laugh and cry — sometimes simultaneously. But as 2022 draws to a close, we’re now looking back at the Quotes of the Year, highlighting 60 of the funniest, most poignant or most wonderfully meta moments from the past 12 months.

Best TV Shows of 2022 | Stranger Things, The Boys, Andor, More

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In the list below, you’ll find Robin Scherbatsky sharing her romantic past with How I Met Your Father‘s Sophie, Ellen DeGeneres reflecting on how much has changed since her talk show began, Westworld‘s Dolores-Hale uttering a powerful one-word command, and Andor‘s precious droid B2EMO lamenting a major loss.

Of course, some shows — like ABC’s Abbott Elementary and Netflix’s Stranger Things — were just too quotable this year to select only one line, so they’re among the series making multiple appearances on our list. And it’s not just the scripted fare that made our cut: Unscripted programs like American Idol, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Big Brother are in the mix, as well.

As with all of our year-end lists, we should issue a quick spoiler alert for several of this year’s plot twists, romantic confessions and heartbreaking sendoffs. But if you’re ready to dive in, peruse the list below, then drop a comment with the lines that would make your cut for Quotes of the Year.

HARRY POTTER 20TH ANNIVERSARY: RETURN TO HOGWARTS

Photo : HBO Max screenshot

“I killed you, didn’t I? I’m sorry. Had to be done.”

Helena Bonham Carter apologizes to Gary Oldman for what Bellatrix Lestrange did to Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT

Photo : ABC screenshot

“I want them to see what was taken from me.”

Mamie Till (Adrienne Warren), before the doors are opened for the public viewing of her son Emmett Till’s body

STATION ELEVEN

Photo : HBO Max screenshot

“You walked her home.”

Kirsten (Mackenzie Davis) assures Jeevan that his 20-year-old goal was met

OZARK

Photo : Netflix screenshot

“I shot your d—k off. For that, I apologize. I went to the drug store to look for a card. No such card exists.”

Darlene (Lisa Emery) takes the first step at burying the hatchet with Frank Jr.

GHOSTS

Photo : CBS screenshot

“I cannot believe Elias is back. Till death do us part — it’s right in the vows.”

Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) laments the return of her dead husband

GHOSTS (Bonus Quote!)

Photo : CBS screenshot

“A travel agent booking other people’s holidays while going nowhere himself.”

“Hey, we went to Epcot, buddy! That’s the whole world all at once!”

Pete (Richie Moriarty) defends himself when the actor (Mathew Baynton) portraying him in a “Dumb Deaths” recreation says Pete was pathetic

THE GILDED AGE

Photo : HBO screenshot

“I may be a bastard, Mr. Thorburn, but you are a fool. And of the two, I think I know which I prefer.”

The women of The Gilded Age may be experts at throwing shade, but they’ve got nothing on literal robber baron George Russell (Morgan Spector)

THE RESIDENT

Photo : Fox screenshot

“Hi, Mommy.”

Gigi (Remington Blaire Evans), upon hearing her late mom Nic’s donated heart beating in another patient

9-1-1: LONE STAR

Photo : Courtesy of Fox

“I always imagine the world of politics to be really smart people walking briskly down corridors, talking real fast and all sort of sounding alike.”

In other words, Owen (Rob Lowe) learned everything he knows about the political world from watching himself on The West Wing

THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES

Photo : HBO screenshot

“Look, I know you may be a backwoods simpleton, who scrubs her dresses on tree bark and stinks up the entire house with roadkill stew, but Godd—n if I wouldn’t miss the pitter-patter of your filthy-ass bare feet, or the way you chew shrimp tails with the ice like an animal — you’re family. And the thought of you running away on this bus right now is making my gooch pucker.”

Judy (Edi Patterson) pours her heart out to her aunt Tiffany to deter her from leaving town

ARTHUR

Photo : PBS screenshot (2)

“Hey, this shows you how to draw an aardvark! I never knew their noses were so long. Weird!”

It took 25 seasons, but Buster (voiced by Daniel Brochu) finally addressed the fact that Arthur looks nothing like an actual aardvark

GREY'S ANATOMY

Photo : ABC screenshot

“… and your plan was to leave without saying goodbye?”

“Yeah.”

“Why?”

“Because if I say goodbye to you, Grey, I might not actually leave.”

Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Cormac (Richard Flood), giving us a taste of what might have been

GREY'S ANATOMY (Bonus Quote!)

Photo : ABC screenshot

“When Leo said that he was an owl, did you feel the need to call him silly and correct him?”

“No.”

“No. You just loved him. You just let him explore. Let’s just love Leo, Teddy. Let’s listen when he tells us who he is.”

Regardless of Leo’s gender identity, Owen (Kevin McKidd) refuses to let himself and Teddy (Kim Raver) become the child’s bully

SNOWFALL

Photo : FX screenshot

“Little late for this, but I’m sorry for shooting you and all. I’m glad you… didn’t not make it.”

Stripper-turned-hitwoman Black Diamond (Christine Horn) awkwardly apologizes to Louie for trying to kill her last season

THE GOOD DOCTOR

Photo : ABC screenshot

“Let’s run her bandit ass out of town.”

Dr. Audrey Lim (Christina Chang) vows to take Salen Morrison down, once and for all

HOW I MET YOUR FATHER

Photo : Hulu screenshot (2)

“I once had a guy who said, ‘I love you’ on our first date.”

��Wow, you win! Dude sounds like a real piece of work.”

“You have no idea. But a good piece of work.”

Robin (Cobie Smulders) recalls her very first date with Ted

BRIDGERTON

Photo : Netflix screenshot

“You are the bane of my existence… and the object of all my desires.”

Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) breathlessly tells Kate how he truly feels for her, despite being engaged to her sister Edwina

THE 94TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Photo : ABC screenshot

“I’ve been getting out of that Spider-Man costume. Did I miss anything? There’s, like, a different vibe in here.”

Co-host Amy Schumer masterfully eases the tension after Will Smith’s now-infamous slap of Chris Rock

THE WALKING DEAD

Photo : AMC screenshot (2)

“[Hershel] doesn’t exactly trust me, you know.”

“But I’m starting to.”

Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) reach a turning point as she asks her husband’s killer to babysit their son

THE WONDER YEARS

Photo : ABC screenshot

“Gwendolyn, but he called her Winnie.”

Bruce (Spence Moore II) reveals the reimagining’s unexpected connection to the OG series — that his friend Brian, who died in the Vietnam War, is also Winnie Cooper’s brother — and breaks our hearts in the process

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

Photo : ABC screenshot

“Let me see these permission slips to the zoo, and they better be real, ’cause I can tell if you faked a Herbie Hancock.”

“Oh, it’s John Hancock.”

“Girl, I know. I just say whatever I want.”

Ava (Janelle James) doesn’t play by the rules

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (Bonus Quote!)

Photo : ABC screenshot

“We’ve watched Nightmare Before Christmas but only the Christmas parts, Practical Magic without the witchcraft and Hocus Pocus without Sarah Jessica Parker.”

Barbara (Sheryl Lee Ralph) describes her church’s Halloween movie screening tradition

KILLING EVE

Photo : BBC America screenshot

“I did it, Eve.”

“Don’t you mean ‘we did it’?”

“Yeah. But mostly me.”

Villanelle (Jodie Comer) lets Eve (Sandra Oh) know she’s taking the credit for taking down The Twelve

AMERICAN IDOL

Photo : ABC screenshot

“Noah, I feel like maybe you should Wikipedia me.”

Katy Perry, famously an ex-girlfriend of John Mayer’s, balks at Noah Thompson’s suggestion that Perry picked a Mayer song for him to sing

GIRLS5EVA

Photo : Peacock screenshot

“#AlbumMode is a state of mind that started when our deal was announced and ends when I’m at the Met Gala in a catheter because my dress is too complicated.”

Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry) has a very clear vision of how the girls’ new album release will play out

STATION 19

Photo : ABC screenshot

“My name is Matt, Mom. This is me. I’m sad for you. I’m sad that you don’t want to get to know me or the man that I’ll become. I’m sad that you’re going to miss out on loving me when I feel the most me.”

“But honey, I love you… I’m trying to save you. Honey, you’re a child. You don’t know what’s good for you.”

“I know that when you call me Mary, it makes me want to die. Do you think me wanting to die is good for me, Mom?”

Whether his mom (Romy Rosemont) wants to hear it or not, transgender youth Matt (Hollidae Livingston) speaks his truth

YOUNG SHELDON

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“Wow. I might look too cool.”

Sheldon’s (Iain Armitage) first graphic tee is a total game-changer

THIS IS US

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“You’re as tough as they come, Rebecca Pearson. And you, my dear, have earned a rest.”

Dr. K (Gerald McRaney) gives Rebecca one last (sniff!) pep talk

THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW

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“When we started the show, I couldn’t say ‘gay.’ I was not allowed to say ‘gay.’ I say it at home a lot — you know, ‘What are we having for our gay breakfast?’ or ‘Pass the gay salt,’ or ‘Has anyone seen the gay remote?’ — but we couldn’t say ‘gay.’ I couldn’t say ‘we’ because that would imply that I was with someone. Sure couldn’t say ‘wife,’ and that’s because it wasn’t legal for gay people to get married. Now I say ‘wife’ all the time.”

During her last show, DeGeneres acknowledges how much has changed since 2003 — and calls attention to wife (and front-row audience member) Portia de Rossi

STRANGER THINGS

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“I don’t want to talk about it. I’ll punch you so hard in your face that your teeth’ll fall back out.”

“Whoa. Too far.”

Steve (Joe Keery) instantly regrets the way he tells Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) to stop pointing out his lingering feelings for ex Nancy

STRANGER THINGS (Bonus Quote!)

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“You’ve grown.”

“You shrank.”

Reunited, Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Hopper (David Harbour) compare the effects of adolescence vs. the Kamchatka diet

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

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“Who elected you, Vanya?”

“It’s, uh, Viktor.”

“Who’s Viktor?”

“I am. It’s who I’ve always been.”

Viktor Hargreeves (Elliot Page) introduces himself to his siblings for the first time

OBI-WAN KENOBI

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“I am not your failure, Obi-Wan. You didn’t kill Anakin Skywalker — I did.”

Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen), reinforcing what Ben Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker in A New Hope — that Vader did, indeed, kill his father

THE BOYS

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“How long have you been f—king it behind my back?”

“OK, it’s not an ‘it.’ It’s a ‘her.’ Get your pronouns right.”

Cassandra (Katy Breier) and The Deep (Chace Crawford) discuss his relationship with Ambrosius the octopus

TYLER PERRY'S SISTAS

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“Bitch, you’re f—king Black Panther and Eddie Murphy all rolled into one?!”

In case you couldn’t tell, Danni (Mignon) is pretty excited about Sabrina dating an African prince

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS

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“2020 was bad for a lot of people, but I also think it was kind of like a spiritual awakening. This is going to sound crazy, but I made peace with my vagina.”

“Were you at war with your vagina?”

Not to discredit Sheree Zampino’s epiphany, but Dorit Kemsley poses a valid follow-up question

EVIL

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“Boop.”

During her hearing, Sister Andrea (Andrea Martin) subtly reminds Dr. Boggs that he knows firsthand how present demons can be in the world

THE ORVILLE

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“I enjoy spending time with you. You are a male, and yet you possess many prominent female traits. Which I find appealing.”

“Oh.”

Topa (Imani Pullum) puts her crush on Gordon (Scott Grimes) into (awkward) words

BETTER CALL SAUL

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“Crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy: Fifty-year-old high school chemistry teacher comes into my office. The guy is so broke he can’t pay his own mortgage. One year later, he’s got a pile of cash as big as a Volkswagen. That’s crazy!”

Gee, to whom could Gene (Bob Odenkirk) be referring…?

WESTWORLD

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“Chair!”

Dolores-Hale (Tessa Thompson), the “bored” god, summons herself a place to sit

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

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“Trust me: Gay is in. Gay is hot. I want some gay. Gay it’s gonna be.”

Laszlo (Matt Berry) thinks faking a relationship with Nandor is a sure-fire way to get Colin into private school

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER

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“We let the [monkeypox] vaccine sit unused on a shelf in our reserves like an expired Chobani — or a $90 million movie on HBO Max. By the way, hi there, new business daddy! Seems like you’re doing a really great job. I do get the vague sense that you’re burning down my network for the insurance money, but I’m sure that that’ll all pass.”

THE BACHELORETTE

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“Tino’s being a real baby back bitch.”

Ethan accidentally comes up with an alternate jingle for Chili’s while slamming his romantic rival

HARLEY QUINN

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“I don’t trust clowns with secrets.”

“I am barely clown-themed anymore. I just think I look hot like this. I mean, check out how good these booty shorts make my ass look, right? [Off Bruce’s confused look] Never mind, you’re 8.”

Harley (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) tries to earn a young Bruce Wayne’s trust

ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO

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“I think I might just take these as a reminder of my time in Roswell. … Fits like a glove!”

Seeing Allie (played by Shiri Appleby, aka the Liz of the original Roswell series) put on that alien headband was a full-circle moment we won’t soon forget

74TH PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS

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“When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media: someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me. If I could go back and tell little Lizzo something, I’d be like, ‘You’re going to see that person, but bitch, it’s going to have to be you.’”

THE GOOD FIGHT

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“Mother f—ker. Oh, I’m sorry, you didn’t hear that? Mother f—ker. F—k you and your moronic defund the police bulls—t. Why? Because you’re putting Trump back into the White House, you stupid f—kin’ tai-t lick. You never heard me swear before? Well, aren’t you in for a treat.”

After six seasons of watching his mouth on CBS’ The Good Wife, legendarily blunt political strategist Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) wastes no time taking his pent-up potty mouth for a spin in the Paramount+ spinoff

BLOOD & TREASURE

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“So we are saying ‘Jeng-his’ now.”

“She does.”

“It’s the right way!”

Chuck (Mark Gagliardi) points out the Season 2 characters’ different pronunciations of Genghis Khan’s name

BIG BROTHER

Best TV Quotes

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“Monte may have more blood on his hands than me, but as someone who has sat on this eviction block six times on eviction night, I have bled out the most in this game. But I have bandaged myself together every single time and gotten up and continued to fight, because like so many other women in the world, that is what we have to do to get to the end… I have overcome so much in this game, and I have come to understand that I am not a shield, I am a sword. I am not a victim, I am a victor… Jury members, I am challenging you to make the hard decision and change the course of this game. Choose progress for the course of this game. I can be the winner of this season, and I promise you will not do it in vain if you choose me tonight.”

Taylor clinches the game-winning vote with her epic final plea to the jurors

CHICAGO P.D.

Best TV Quotes

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“You’re the love of my life, and if I’m yours, then you’ll know that you have to let me go.”

Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer), breaking our hearts in his tearful goodbye to wife Upton

SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW

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“That’s what Hulks do. We smash things. Bruce smashes buildings, I smash fourth walls and bad endings… and sometimes Matt Murdockkkk.”

Jen (Tatiana Maslany) reminds K.E.V.I.N. of her particular set of skills

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER

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“When in doubt, Elanor Brandyfoot, always follow your nose.”

The Stranger (Daniel Weyman), giving off serious Gandalf vibes while leading the way for his new adventure with Nori

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

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“He can keep his tongue.”

Before King Viserys can cut out Vaemond’s tongue for publicly questioning Rhaenyra’s sons’ parentage, Daemon (Matt Smith) slices the accuser’s skull in two — but leaves the offending appendage attached

THE HANDMAID'S TALE

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“Hi, June.”

“Hi, Serena.”

“You got a diaper?”

Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and June (Elisabeth Moss) are in the same boat — er, train — at the end of the Season 5 finale

CHUCKY

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“You think I’m scared to go to hell? F—k that. I’m from Jersey… Jersey!”

Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) doesn’t have much love for his home state, it seems

ANDOR

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“I d-d-don’t want to be alone. I want M-M-Maarva.”

B2EMO (voiced by Dave Chapman) isn’t ready to mourn

CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION

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“You’ve never pulled your gun in the line of duty, have you? Never faced down a psychopath…. You’re a hedge fund manager with a badge.”

Prentiss (Paget Brewster) calls ’em — in this case, FBI Deputy Director Bailey — as she sees ’em

TITANS

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“This is insane.”

“Compared to what? Two hours ago I was in [Conner’s] stomach trying to kill a ghost snake.”

“And two hours before that we were fighting zombies.”

“And I kissed Bernard.”

Tim (Jay Lycurgo) experienced a different kind of pre-fall finale action

YELLOWSTONE

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“How ya feeling?”

“Like I got hit by a truck. How about you?”

“Like I got hit by a Prius.”

Beth (Kelly Reilly) offers Summer (Piper Perabo) faint praise the morning after their brawl

THE WHITE LOTUS

Best TV Quotes

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“These gays! They’re trying to murder me!”

Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) has an unintentionally hilarious lightbulb moment about the men with whom she’s been spending her Sicilian vacation

[britesparc]

Weekend Top Ten #498

Top Ten Movie Cameos

The first time I think I ever noticed someone cameoing in a movie was Steven Spielberg. I was watching The Blues Brothers, and there was this guy, who I was sure was Mr. The Berg. I must have seen him in some behind-the-scenes something or the other. But he was a director, not an actor, so it couldn’t have been him, right? Then years later I was reading Empire, and sure enough, I was vindicated. It was indeed the play mountain himself. But more on that later.

So, cameos, then. What is a cameo? Now, in my opinion, I think it really has to be small. Really, it should just be one scene – or even one shot. The smaller the better. I’ve seen people online refer to Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love or Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder as cameos, which is very, very daft, as those are clearly supporting roles – even if they are quite small (and remember, Dench didn’t win her Oscar for “Best Cameo”, she won it for “We Meant To Give You This Last Year”, which is a very important category in the Oscars). I also think the best cameos should be unexpected; a nice surprising treat. And usually they’re funny – the incongruity of seeing that person in this film. Because that’s the other thing: for a cameo to really work, the person cameoing has to be kinda famous. For instance, some might say that Ashley Johnson in The Avengers is a cameo, but whilst she’s obviously awesome and prodigiously talented, I don’t think she’s instantly recognisable enough (which, y’know, she’s mostly famous as a voice actor); also there’s nothing inherently funny or surprising about her role, she’s a waitress who’s saved by Captain America. It doesn’t feel like it’s saying anything to have Johnson play that role, other than I guess Joss Whedon wanted her in the movie (it’s actually funnier that her brief scene is referenced in Loki, because Kate Herron had the whole of the MCU to draw from in a montage, but chose to use an unknown character who’s in one tiny bit of one film, entirely because she’s a huge fan of The Last of Us – see, that is arguably a cameo).

So my rationale for what is and isn’t a cameo might seem complex or even arbitrary, but when has that stopped me in the past? And so, with no further ado, we now get deep into the weeds of it and celebrate my favourite movie cameos of all time. Oh, and there’s no Bill Murray here; I know, I know, it’s a really famous cameo, but, er, I’ve never seen Zombieland. Sorry.

Stan Lee in Pretty Much Everything (2000-2019): I mean, who else? The absolute King of Cameos. Lee was a massive publicity hound all his life, and passed up no opportunity to get in front of the camera, so once big, proper movies were being made of his comics, he was right there, selling hot dogs in X-Men (2000), rescuing children in Spider-Man (2002), and then right through every MCU film until his sad death in 2019 (and even popping up in Teen Titans!). Hearing him tell Miles Morales “I'm going to miss him,” in Into the Spider-Verse chokes me up every time.

Carrie Fisher & George Lucas in Hook (1991): this has always been one of my favourites because unlike virtually every other entry in this list, you only know this if you’ve been told. But it’s funny and it’s sweet. When Tinkerbell takes Peter to Neverland, she flies over a bridge, where a silhouetted couple are seen canoodling. Her pixie dust falls across them, and they begin to float into the air. And apparently the unrecognisable couple are played by Princess Leia and the director of Star Wars. Which, I think you’ll agree, is pretty cool (Hook is really good for cameos).

Brad Pitt in Deadpool 2 (2018): having an invisible character offers plenty of opportunity for some good gags, especially in a Deadpool movie, but the real laugh in the film comes when the Vanisher is electrocuted and we get to see his face for a split second. And – ha – it turns out to be the hugely mega-famous Brad Pitt. It’s funny because he’s a massive star.

Martin Sheen in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993): it’s one thing for the movie to do an Apocalypse Now gag, as Charlie Sheen’s Topper Harley sails down a river on a military boat, but hanging a lampshade on it by making it cross over with Martin Sheen’s Willard from the classic seventies Vietnam epic is another thing entirely. And then both actors notice each other – ha, funny, they’re father and son in real life – and say in unison, “I loved you in Wall Street!”. Very on-the-nose all the funnier for it.

Steven Spielberg in The Blues Brothers (1980): well, I mentioned him, and here he is, a totally nonplussed-looking administrator bloke just merrily eating a sandwich. He’s frightfully young (I’m guessing he was probably about 32 or 33) and he’s got a big brown tache instead of his usual ‘Berg Beard, he’s dressed very smartly and he’s awfully polite. His demeanour is hilariously in stark contrast to the mayhem around him, and his public persona is also hilariously in contrast to the raucous and ribald mood of the movie.

Cate Blanchett in Hot Fuzz (2007): this is one I didn’t even notice till I read about it after seeing the movie. In a very funny scene where Simon Pegg’s Nick Angel chats to his ex-girlfriend Janine, she is head-to-toe in forensic gear throughout, with a mask covering her face, so all we see are her eyes. But the gag of it is, she’s played by the phenomenally famous Cate Blanchett. You get a megastar to do one scene but make her unrecognisable. So funny it beats Peter Jackson’s evil Santa.

Don Ameche & Ralph Bellamy in Coming to America (1988): this is another one I remember finding hilarious when I was a kid. Walking down the street late at night with love interest Lisa (Shari Headley), Akeem (Eddie Murphy) nonchalantly gives a huge wad of cash to some poor homeless bums. But it turns out that they’re played by Murphy’s old Trading Places co-stars Ameche and Bellamy – and they refer to each other by their character names from that earlier film. “We’re back!” declares Ameche, referencing the end of Trading Places, when their crooked broker characters were defeated and ruined by Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. It’s a great bit of shared-universe tomfoolery, and very funny for fans of Murphy’s movies. Oh, and speaking of Aykroyd…

Dan Aykroyd in Casper (1995): in 1995 it had been six long, bitter years without a new Ghostbusters film; back then, we could still hold out hope for a proper Ghostbuster 3. Sadly that never came to pass, but it was a very pleasant surprise when Ray Stantz himself popped up in Casper, of all things, fearfully running out of Whipstaff Manor in full ghostbusting regalia and declaring, “Who ya gonna call? Someone else!”. I mean, after facing down Gozer and Vigo and who knows what else, you’d think three sarcastic arsehole ghosts would be no match for him, but maybe the ‘busters were having tough times. Maybe this will all be backstory in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Maybe Cathy Moriarty and Eric Idle will return the favour and do cameos of their own. We can but hope.

Matt Damon, Luke Hemsworth, & Sam Neill in Thor: Ragnarok (2017): twenty years ago you could point to Goldmember as the, er, gold standard in multi-character cameo pile-ups. And while that is great – Danny DeVito giving the finger, Spielberg back-flipping – I think it’s been surpassed by this minor gaggle of stars hamming it up. Matt Damon – famouser than anyone actually billed in the movie – is An Actor Playing Loki. Dr. Alan Grant from Jurassic Park is An Actor Playing Odin (whilst Odin’s actor, Anthony Hopkins, plays Tom Hiddleston playing Loki playing Odin – do keep up), and Thor’s Real-Life Brother plays An Actor Playing Thor. It’s all delightfully meta and hilarious.

Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas in The Incredibles (2004): this one’s really sweet, and like the Hook cameo, would very easily slip you by. At the end of the film, after the climactic battle, two old men cheer on the superheroes – “That’s old school!” “Yep, no school like the old school!” – but what’s great is that they’re voiced by – and designed to look like – Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, the last two surviving members of the famous “Nine Old Men” group of Disney animators, who’d worked on many of the classic Disney films. This was Pixar and director Brad Bird giving a tip of the hat to the legends who came before them, and made all the sweeter by the fact that Johnston and Thomas (both sadly now deceased) were absolute best buds in real life. A cameo that educates and makes you think! How nice!

There you go. Sadly no room for any of the many great Star Wars cameos, from Daniel Craig through to George Lucas’ entire family. Oh well!