Paul Anderson may refer to:

Politics and public figures

Paul Anderson (politician) (born 1951), member of the Minnesota House of Representatives

Paul H. Anderson (born 1944), U.S. judge

Paul Francis Anderson (1917–1987), U.S. bishop

Sports

Paul Edward Anderson (1932–1994), American weightlifter

Paul Anderson (footballer) (born 1988), English footballer

Paul Anderson (sailor) (born 1935), British sailor

Paul Anderson (rugby league) (born 1971), British rugby league player

Paul Anderson, British rugby league player with Sheffield Eagles

Paul Anderson (cricketer) (born 1966), English cricketer

Arts

Paul Thomas Anderson (born 1970), film director

Paul W. S. Anderson (born 1965), film director

Paul Anderson, author of ''Hunger's Brides''

Paul Lewis Anderson (1880–1956), American historical novelist and photographer

Journalism

Paul Anderson (journalist) (born 1959), British journalist

Paul Y. Anderson (1893–1938), American muckracker

Paul Anderson (UK writer) (born 1964), British technology writer

Other

Paul L. Anderson (born 1946), Mormon architectural historian and curator

Paul S. Anderson, American chemist

Paul R. Anderson, former president of Temple University

See also

Poul Anderson (1926–2001), American science fiction author

Poul Andersen (1922–2006), Danish printer and American publisher

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name	Aimee Mann
landscape	Yes
background	solo_singer
birth date	September 08, 1960
origin	Richmond, Virginia, United States
instrument	Guitar, bass guitar, hi-hat
genre	Rock, folk
occupation	Singer-songwriter
years active	1982–present
label	SuperEgo
associated acts	'Til Tuesday
website
notable instruments	}}

Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.

Biography

Early life

Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School (Richmond, Virginia) in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes. The band released the EP ''Bark Along with the Young Snakes'' in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004.

In 1983, she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday, which achieved success in 1985 with its first album, ''Voices Carry''. The title song is said to be inspired by Hausman and Mann's breakup. The record producer, Mike Thorne, in a March 1999 article disputed this and stated the lyrics originally had Mann singing to another woman. The gender was changed due to pressure from the record label. The video became an MTV staple, winning the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. Mann was featured on the Rush song "Time Stand Still" (from ''Hold Your Fire'', 1987) which became a minor UK hit, singing backup vocals and appearing in the music video. Her laughter is also heard at the start of "Force Ten," from the same album. With Mann playing an increasingly important role in songwriting, 'Til Tuesday released two more albums, ''Welcome Home'' and ''Everything's Different Now''. Shortly after the release of Welcome Home, Mann told a writer for Nine-O-One Network Magazine that she was much more pleased with it than Voices Carry, primarily because she felt it made more of a personal statement about her life. On their final tour, musician Jon Brion joined the band, which broke up in 1990 when Mann left to start her solo career.

Around the time of the first album's release, Mann began a romantic relationship with Jules Shear; they broke up before the final 'Til Tuesday album, which contained the song "J For Jules." Professional relationships from the band would continue: Hausman later became Mann's manager, and Brion produced her first two solo albums, along with the ''Magnolia'' soundtrack.

Early solo career

In 1993, Mann released ''Whatever'', her first solo album. Promotion suffered due to the collapse of her label, Imago. The album sold modestly and met with critical praise, paving the way for her next release, 1995's ''I'm with Stupid'', through Geffen Records. Again, reviews were positive, but sales were weak.

Mann recorded ''Bachelor No. 2'', but Geffen saw no hit singles in the material and ordered her back to the studio. The album languished while Mann and the label fought.

In 1997 Mann recorded "Nobody Does It Better" on the album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project.

Meanwhile, Mann became friends with film director Paul Thomas Anderson. This developed as her husband, Michael Penn, and Brion composed the soundtrack for Anderson's movie ''Hard Eight''. Mann gained greater public recognition in 1999 — indeed, more than for anything else since "Voices Carry" — when she contributed eight songs to the soundtrack of Anderson's ''Magnolia'', including the Academy Award and ''Grammy''-nominated song, "Save Me". Anderson deliberately worked from Mann's lyrics to create the film's characters and situations. Mann soon became sought after as a soundtrack contributor. Her song "Amateur" appeared prominently in the 1998 movie ''Sliding Doors''.

Independence

Disillusioned with both the ineffectual promotion and artistic meddling by her record label, an experience documented in songs such as "Calling It Quits" and "Nothing Is Good Enough", she struck out on her own and founded SuperEgo Records in 1999. Mann self-released ''Bachelor No. 2'' in 2000, having negotiated a contract release from David Geffen, and though initially only sold at concerts and via her website, the album became successful, allowing her to secure retail distribution through SuperEgo. The album, which included some songs from ''Magnolia'' and new material, was widely admired and Mann's "more indie than indie" success was carefully noted by other musicians.

Mann, Penn, Brion, Fiona Apple, and other musicians had by this time developed a subculture around the Largo nightclub in L.A. Penn and Mann formed a concept called Acoustic Vaudeville to recreate it on tour in California and eventually on an irregular, ongoing national tour. The Acoustic Vaudeville shows intermix music and stand-up comedy; among the comedians joining them for individual shows were Janeane Garofalo, Patton Oswalt, and David Cross.

''Lost in Space'': 2002–2004

Mann continued her solo career with ''Lost in Space'' (2002), a somewhat more somber album in the same vein as ''Bachelor No. 2'', featuring art by Seth. In 2003 her website released the ''Lost in Space Special Edition'', which featured a second disc containing six live recordings (including a version of Coldplay's "The Scientist"), as well two B-sides and two previously unreleased songs. In November 2004, ''Live at St. Ann's Warehouse'', a live album and DVD recorded at a series of June 2004 shows in Brooklyn, came out; the two discs were sold packaged together in either a CD jewel case or a DVD case. Mann and her band also played two songs from Lost in Space in an episode of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''.

''The Forgotten Arm'' and ''One More Drifter in the Snow'': 2005–2006

Mann described her next album, ''The Forgotten Arm'' (2005), as a concept album set in the 1970s about two lovers who meet at the Virginia State Fair and go on the run. The Joe Henry-produced album, which was recorded mostly live with few overdubs, was released May 3, 2005. The album's illustrations and title reflect Mann's interest in boxing, having trained with the boxing trainer Freddie Roach. In 2006, Mann received her one Grammy Award to date for "Best Recording Package" for art direction work related to ''The Forgotten Arm'' (shared with Gail Marowitz). The album title derives from a boxing move in which one arm is used to hit the opponent, causing him to "forget" about the other arm, which is then used to deliver a harsher blow. The album received weaker reviews overall, with critics impressed at the totality but unimpressed with any individual songs.

Mann also released an EP for Christmas in 2005 as a cover single of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" for sale through her website and iTunes. It also included "Christmastime", the 1996 duet she recorded with Penn for the ''Hard Eight'' soundtrack, and a cover of "The Christmas Song". The iTunes version replaced "Christmastime" with a cover of Joni Mitchell's "River" and "Clean Up for Christmas" from ''The Forgotten Arm''.

Mann's independence from the industry led to more overt political stances. She joined Artists Against Piracy, a group formed to act against the illegal downloading and file sharing of copyrighted music from the Internet. Mann, Penn and Hausman took their experience with SuperEgo to found the independent music collective United Musicians, which is based on the principle that every artist should be able to retain copyright ownership of the work he or she has created, in contrast to normal music industry contracts.

In July 2006, Mann announced that she would be releasing ''One More Drifter in the Snow'', a full-length Christmas album. The album featured primarily covers of Christmas standards, as well as a new version of ''Christmastime'' and an original song, called "Calling On Mary", written by Mann and bassist Paul Bryan, who produced the record. It was released on October 31 in the US, and late November 2006 in the UK. An updated version of the CD was released in 2008 incorporating the Joni Mitchell song "River".

2007–present

On July 31, 2007 the soundtrack for the motion picture ''Arctic Tale'' was released, featuring two new Mann songs, "The Great Beyond" and "At the Edge of the World".

July 2007 also saw the premiere of the music video for a song entitled "31 Today" (which featured comedienne Morgan Murphy alongside Mann and Bobcat Goldthwait as director) on YouTube. The song appears on Mann's seventh studio album, ''@#%&*! Smilers'', released on June 3, 2008. The album debuted on the ''Billboard 200'' at Number 32 (one of Mann's highest positions to date), and on the Top Independent Albums chart at Number 2. ''@#%&*! Smilers'' was met with mostly praise, with ''Billboard'' stating that it "pops with color, something that gives it an immediacy that's rare for an artist known for songs that subtly worm their way into the subconscious... ''Smilers'' grabs a listener, never making him or her work at learning the record, as there are both big pop hooks and a rich sonic sheen."

Mann joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. She was also an inaugural member of the IMAs in 2002. In a September 2009 interview with Los Angeles blog LA Snark, Mann mentioned that she was beginning work on a musical based on her album ''The Forgotten Arm''.

Mann's song Wise Up is being used for the organ donor campaign in Ontario, Canada and can be seen on the video within their site beadonor.ca

On her 2010 fall tour, Aimee talked about "The Forgotten Arm" musical, including playing four new songs written specifically for it: "You've Got To Be Willing To Hurt The One You Love", "Conflicted", "Easy to Die", and "Eiffel Tower". Two of these songs feature a new character from the musical, a boxing trainer named Ollie. In 2011, Aimee stated that the musical was put on hold indefinitely, due to similarities to The Fighter.

Discography

1993 – ''Whatever''

1995 – ''I'm with Stupid''

2000 – ''Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo''

2002 – ''Lost in Space''

2005 – ''The Forgotten Arm''

2006 – ''One More Drifter in the Snow''

2008 – ''@#%&*! Smilers''

Acting

Mann played the role of a German nihilist who sacrificed her green nail polished little right toe in the movie ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998).

Mann and her band appear as themselves in the 2002 ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' episode "Sleeper", performing the songs "This Is How It Goes" and "Pavlov's Bell" at The Bronze. She has one line in the episode: "Man, I hate playing vampire towns." "Pavlov's Bell" also appears on the ''Buffy'' soundtrack album ''Radio Sunnydale''.

She and her band also play themselves in a 2002 episode of ''The West Wing'', "College Kids", performing a cover of James Taylor's "Shed a Little Light" at a Rock the Vote concert.

In 2006, Mann guest-starred as herself on an episode of ''Love Monkey'', "The One Who Got Away".

On March 26, 2008, Mann appeared as herself in the Comedy Central series ''Lewis Black's Root of All Evil''. She took the position that musicians don't need marijuana in a comedic interview conducted by comedian Paul F. Tompkins.

Mann played a cleaning woman putatively based on herself (the music industry now being unprofitable) on the Independent Film Channel show ''Portlandia''; the episode aired 4 February 2011.

Personal life

Mann met fellow singer-songwriter Michael Penn in the late 1980s and with comparable songwriting styles and record-industry woes to share, they struck up a friendship during the recording of ''I'm with Stupid'' (to which Penn contributed vocals), which blossomed into romance and their marriage in 1997. Penn is the brother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn. Penn and Mann live in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. She is stepmother to Liam Penn, Michael's son from a previous marriage. Aimee has a sister, Gretchen Seichrist, who lives in Minnesota. Gretchen is five years younger than Aimee. She is a painter and has released two independent albums under the name, Patches & Gretchen.

References

External links

Official site

Aimee Mann's discography at Discogs

Aimee Mann at Rolling Stone

Aimee Mann Live Interview/Performance on KCMP (2005)

Aimee Mann Live Interview/Performance on KCMP (2008)

Aimee Mann at NPR Music

Aimee Mann on IMDB

Aimee Mann's Off-The-Wall Christmas Concert on NPR.prg

Aimee Mann Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (Performs "The Moth") at Apple.com HD Video Gallery

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birth name	Daniel Alan Mays
birth date	March 31, 1978
birth place	Epping, Essex, United Kingdom
occupation	Actor
years active	2000–present }}

Daniel Alan Mays (born 31 March 1978) is a British actor.

Early life

One of four boys, Mays was raised in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, by his electrician father and bank cashier mother. He attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts before going on to win a place at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career

After graduating from RADA in 2000, Mays soon started appearing in a number of supporting roles ranging from a bit part in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' in 2000 to playing a pilot in Jerry Bruckheimer's big-budget ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001). He was cast in the Mike Leigh film ''All or Nothing'' (2002) as Jason, a thug who abused his girlfriend, and also appeared in Leigh's next project, ''Vera Drake'' (2004), in which he played Sid, the protagonist's son. His performances for Leigh resulted in further offers of work.

One of Mays's most notable early roles was in the improvised BBC drama ''Rehab''. Directed by acclaimed film maker Antonia Bird, ''Rehab'' was a drama about life inside a drug rehabilitation facility. He starred as Adam, a young heroin addict released from prison and sent directly to rehab. For his performance Mays was awarded the Best Actor award at the Palmare-Reims Television Festival in 2003.

Mays has continued to work regularly, and has appeared in a variety of productions, which have included a part in Johnny Vaughan's sitcom, ''Top Buzzer'' (2004); the lead role of Carter Krantz in BBC Three's ''Funland'' (2005); as well as film appearances in ''Atonement'' (2007), ''White Girl'' (2008) and ''The Bank Job'' (2008).

Mays starred in Channel 4's Friday-night comedy-of-errors sitcom ''Plus One'', in which he played Rob Black, the perennial victim of Sod's law whose girlfriend has dumped him to marry "Duncan from Blue". He played the role of Michael Myshkin in Channel 4's adaptation of David Peace's ''Red Riding'' trilogy. He also appears in the third and final series of ''Ashes to Ashes'' on BBC1 as Discipline and Complaints Officer, DCI Jim Keats.

In addition to his TV and film work, Mays has also starred in six stage plays at London's Royal Court Theatre. The productions have included ''Ladybird'', ''Motortown'', ''The Winterling'' and ''Scarborough''. Simon Stephens wrote the lead role of Danny in Motortown with Mays in mind. He went on to win critical acclaim for his performance, but the hard-hitting play was too much for some audience members and walkouts were not uncommon.

Projects in 2009 included ''Hippie Hippie Shake'' (as '60s alternative figurehead David Widgery, alongside Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller); a role opposite Anna Friel in the third series of Jimmy McGovern's ''The Street''; a "mark" in the BBC drama serial ''Hustle''; as well as an appearance in the independent British movie ''Shifty'', co-starring Riz Ahmed, for which he received a nomination for best supporting actor at the British Independent Film Awards.

More recently, Mays has starred as Eddie O'Grady in the 2010 film Made in Dagenham.

Mays appears in the new BBC sci-fi series ''Outcasts'', which started on 7 February 2011, as PAS Officer Cass Cromwell.

Future work

Also expected in 2010 are roles in ''No One Gets Off in This Town'' and a supporting role in the Steven Spielberg film ''The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn''.

Mays is furthermore set to appear in the ninth episode of the 6th series of Doctor Who, entitled "Night Terrors," scheduled for broadcast on BBC One on September 3, 2011.

Personal life

Mays has a young son, Mylo Burton-Mays, and lives in Crouch End, North London. A keen football fan, he is a supporter of Leyton Orient Football Club.

Filmography

Films

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Television

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" border="2" cellpadding="4" background: #f9f9f9; |- align="center" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Show ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- | 2000 | ''EastEnders'' | Kevin | Two episodes |- | rowspan="2"|2001 | ''In Deep'' | Dave Street | Episode 1.5: "Ghost Squad: Part 1" |- | ''The Bill'' | Warren Debdale | Episode 17.46: "Temptation" |- | rowspan="4"|2002 | ''Manchild'' | Mechanic | Episode 1.1: "Fiftysomething" |- | ''NCS Manhunt'' | Danny Bird | Episodes 1.1 and 1.6 |- | ''Dead Casual'' | Unknown | TV film |- | ''Tipping the Velvet'' | Jimmy Burns | TV serial |- | 2003 | ''Rehab'' | Adam | TV film |- | rowspan="2"|2004 | ''Top Buzzer'' | Carlton | Appeared in ten episodes |- | ''Keen Eddie'' | Ronnie Wiggensey Jr. | Episode 1.8: "Sticky Fingers" |- | rowspan="3"|2005 | ''Beneath the Skin'' | Moz Burnside | TV film |- | ''Class of '76'' | DS Steven Grant | |- | ''Funland'' | Carter Krantz | Appeared in all 11 episodes |- | rowspan="3"|2007 | ''Consent'' | Steve | |- | ''Saddam's Tribe'' | Uday | TV film |- | ''Half Broken Things'' | Michael | TV film |- | rowspan="2"|2008 | ''White Girl'' | Steve | TV film |- | ''Consuming Passion'' | Charles Boon | TV film |- | rowspan="4"|2009 | ''Plus One'' | Rob Black | Appeared in all five episodes |- | ''Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974'' | Michael Myshkin | |- | ''Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983'' | Michael Myshkin | |- | ''The Street'' | Mark | Episode 3.2 |- | rowspan="3"|2010 | ''Hustle'' | Mervyn Lloyd | Episode 6.5: "Conned Out of Luck" |- | ''Ashes to Ashes'' | Jim Keats | Appeared in eight episodes |- | ''Outcasts'' | Cass Cromwell | Feb 2011 |- | rowspan="2"|2011 | ''Doctor Who'' | Alex | Series 6 Episode 9: "Night Terrors" |- | ''Treasure Island'' | Doctor Livesey | 2x 120 min Drama, expected Dec 2011 |}

References

External links

Daniel Mays: Curtis Brown, profile at Mays's agency

Daniel Mays Online, an unofficial fansite

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