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PUCK YOU - Jonah - Summer Heights High
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Jonah & the Whale - Children's Bible Stories
'Jonah Hex' Trailer HD
The Best of Jonah Lomu MUST SEE!! Part 1
Jonah Lomu - A living rugby legend - Tribute
The Jonah Code - DISC 1 (1 of 11)
System of a Down-Toxicity, Drum Cover, 5 Year Old Drummer, Jonah Rocks
Actor Jonah Hill Freaks Out durring interview
Jonah Lomu All Blacks Legend Dvd
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Breathe - Jonah

I lie awake on a long, dark night
I can't seem to tame my mind
Slings and arrows are killing me inside
Maybe I can't accept the life that's mine
No I can't accept the life that's mine
Simple living is my desperate cry
Been trading live with indifference yeah it suits me just fine
I try to hold on but I'm calloused to the bone
Maybe that's why I fell alone
Maybe that's why I feel alone
Me..I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and it just won't heal
The sun shines and I can't avoid the light
I think I'm holding on to life too tight
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Sometimes I feel like giving up
Sometimes I feel like giving up
Me...I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and it just won't heal
The day reminds me of you
The night hides your truth
The earth is a voice
Speaking to you
Take all this pride
And leave it behind
Because one day it ends
One day we die
Believe what you will
That is your right
But I choose to fight
So I choose to fight
To fight

Paul Simon - Jonah

Half and hour you change your strings and tune up
Sizing the room up
Checking the bar
Local girls unspoken conversations
Misinformation
Plays the guitar
They say Jonah was swallowed by a whale
But I say there's no truth to that tale
I know Jonah
Was swallowed by a song
No one lets their dreams be taken lightly
They hold them tightly
Warm against cold
One more year of traveling 'round this ciruit
Then you can work it into gold
Here's to all the boys who came along
Carrying soft guitars in cardboard cases
All night long
Do you wonder where those boys have gone?
Do you wonder where those boys have gone?

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PUCK YOU - Jonah - Summer Heights High/video details
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  • Published: 19 Sep 2007
  • Duration: 2:07
  • Updated: 01 Aug 2012
Author: millertheaussie
puck you sir, i said puck you, with a P dont you no how to spell or sumshit?
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Jonah Mowry: 'Whats goin on..'/video details
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  • Published: 11 Aug 2011
  • Duration: 4:36
  • Updated: 01 Aug 2012
Author: BlahBlahBlah2145
Jonah Mowry: 'Whats goin on..' video Thank you to everyone for all your loving support, comments, messages, videos and letters.... it has meant more to my family and I than I could ever tell you all. I made this video August 2011, a few weeks before school was about to start. I was 13. It was a very emotionally confusing and dark time in my life. I made the video at 4:00am in the morning. I hadn't been sleeping at night for a long time; I had too many things going on in my head, tearing me up inside. I was dreading going back to school. All I could think about were all the bad things that had been happening at school last year, every year for that matter. I just couldn't bare to go through that anymore. Over the summer I finally just accepted who I was. Only my closest friends knew. I was scared. I wanted to come out to my family but didn't know how to. I was done pretending to be "fake" happy, pretending hateful words didn't hurt me, and done hiding it all from my family. This video was made for me, my family, and my friends that had moved on to High School who were worried for me. I wanted to say to my High School friends that I was going to take a stand and I was going to be OK. And to the haters at my middle school that I'm not going anywhere, I am who I am. I posted the video as "unlisted" here and told people were to find it. That was it... At the end of Aug. 2011, everything eventually came crashing down and out in the open. I finally told my parents what was <b>...</b>
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The Story of Jonah as Told by The Cutest Little Girl/video details
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  • Published: 19 Nov 2010
  • Duration: 7:44
  • Updated: 31 Jul 2012
Author: vinmj123
Truly a must-see! SO CUTE! This delightful little girl will bring a smile to your face as she tells the most enchanting, fascinating and educational story of Jonah ever told! What a blessing! Video from Corinth Baptist Church.
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Jonah & the Whale - Children's Bible Stories/video details
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  • Published: 04 Apr 2008
  • Duration: 5:10
  • Updated: 30 Jul 2012
Author: ukwebcast
Children's Bible Stories - Jonah & the Whale The tale of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale. Produced/Edited - Stef B. Narration - John Hughes. Cameramen - Stephen Heaton, Dyfed John, Stef B. Script - Steve Jones. Music by - Stef B, Paul Farrer. Illustrations - Fred Corser. Available on DVD: CHILDREN'S BIBLE STORIES from www.valleystream.co.uk Copyright ValleyStream Media 1997
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'Jonah Hex' Trailer HD/video details
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  • Published: 30 Apr 2010
  • Duration: 2:31
  • Updated: 01 Aug 2012
Author: hollywoodstreams
For more info on 'Jonah Hex': www.hollywood.com
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The Best of Jonah Lomu MUST SEE!! Part 1/video details
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  • Published: 06 Jan 2009
  • Duration: 3:47
  • Updated: 01 Aug 2012
Author: horipinoy
Watch Part 2: www.youtube.com Jonah Lomu 6'5 Tall 120 Kilograms (265 pounds) 100m in 10.8s = BEAST!!
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Jonah Lomu - A living rugby legend - Tribute/video details
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  • Published: 19 Aug 2006
  • Duration: 2:35
  • Updated: 31 Jul 2012
Author: timmyc1
A short video on jonah lomu featuring some of his great runs, including the run against england in the 99 world cup. Song: Baba O'Reilly - The Who
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The Jonah Code - DISC 1 (1 of 11)/video details
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  • Published: 26 Apr 2009
  • Duration: 9:59
  • Updated: 22 Jul 2012
Author: felixeltecnico
michaelrood.tv Yahshua the Messiah (aka Jesus) declared that here would be only one sign of his authenticity: Three days and three nights in the grave - and rising on the third day. Tragically, inherited ignorance of the Creators reckoning of time and mindless attachment to pagan traditions have left the Christian Church system unable to count to three!! Michael Rood strips away 2000 years of fossilized traditions to reveal profound truths in the Gospels which have eluded Western Christianity for millennia. Michael exposes one of the greatest deceptions foisted upon the Christian world: the blatantly insupportable three and one half year ministry of Jesus and the eight infamous words that were deliberately forged into later texts of Johns Gospel which destroyed the chronological integrity of the Gospels, formed the crumbling foundations of replacement theology, and left the end-time prophecies of Daniel in shambles! Join Michael for two action-packed evenings as he exposes and corrects the fatal error in Western Christianity while unveiling mathematical proofs and astronomical confirmations from the Hebrew Scriptures that were concealed until the end of the age. This is Bible Prophecy 401. To purchase the DVD's of Brother Michael Rood, give a click on the following link: michaelrood.tv
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System of a Down-Toxicity, Drum Cover, 5 Year Old Drummer, Jonah Rocks/video details
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  • Published: 16 Jan 2010
  • Duration: 3:48
  • Updated: 01 Aug 2012
Author: JonahRocksOfficial
Jonah Rocks System of a Down, Toxicity. Jonah on Facebook www.facebook.com Get Your Jonah Rocks T-Shirt here: thrillershop.com Jonah Loves playing SOAD! Enjoy! Jonah is five years of age.Jonah would like to Thank these companies for all of their help: Vic Firth Drumsticks- www.vicfirth.com SJC Custom Drums- sjcdrums.com Zildjian Cymbals- www.zildjian.com DW Pedals, Stands, and Hardware- www.dwdrums.com Evans Drum Heads - www.evansdrumheads.com Stoked Custom Thrones - www.myspace.com ALL COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF "FAIR USE" IN TITLE 17 & 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE, AND UNDER ARTICLES 29 & 29.1 OF THE CANADIAN COPYRIGHT ACT. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE PROPERTY OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE COPYRIGHT, AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY.
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Actor Jonah Hill Freaks Out durring interview/video details
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  • Published: 23 Apr 2008
  • Duration: 3:23
  • Updated: 01 Aug 2012
Author: meltdownvideo
Actor Jonah Hill Freaks Out during a hostile interview while promoting the movie Superbad.
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The Sitter Trailer 2011 Official - Jonah Hill/video details
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  • Published: 09 Aug 2011
  • Duration: 2:16
  • Updated: 01 Aug 2012
Author: nogoodflix
The Sitter Trailer 2011 Official - Jonah Hill When the world's most irresponsible babysitter takes three of the world's worst kids on an unforgettable overnight adventure through the streets of New York City, it's anyone's guess who's going to make it home in one piece. The Sitter movie is a new level of twisted and debauched hilarity from the director of Pineapple Express, starring Jonah Hill. The Sitter Trailer 2011 Official is presented in full HD 1080p high resolution. The Sitter Trailer 2011 Official Release: December 9, 2011 Starring: Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, JB Smoove, and Sam Rockwell Directed By: David Gordon Green Produced By: Michael De Luca The Sitter Trailer Official, "The Sitter" Movie Trailer 2011, courtesy 20th Century Fox. Your daily dose of everything movies. Our passionate team of producers bring you the best of officially licensed movie trailers, clips and featurettes.
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Jonah Johnson - With You/video details
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  • Published: 08 Sep 2009
  • Duration: 3:57
  • Updated: 31 Jul 2012
Author: emirfenix
Cancion Incluida en el soundtrack de la pelicula: My sister's Keeper - La decision mas dificil. Utilizada en la Escena del baile del hospital con Taylor y Kate. Aqui la letra de la cancion: There was hope, there was faith There was truth but I just couldn't get it Now there's love in my life can't let it go I just won't let it Change has played its part And it's healed my wounded heart All I wanna do and all I wanna be All I wanna feel is somethin real I want to believe that everything I do, from here on out will be with you It's gonna be with you Here with you I feel safe and I know this is jut the beginning For so long I was lost, now it feels I'm finally winning I wouldn't mind, I could love you for the rest of my life Cause It's gonna be with you Now that I found you I'm never gonna let you go I'm never gonna let you go away
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Try Jonah Lomu VS France/video details
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  • Published: 17 Dec 2007
  • Duration: 1:01
  • Updated: 28 Jul 2012
Author: jibi123456789
Jonah Lomu All Blacks - France 1999
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  • Jonah Mowry: 'Whats goin on..'...4:36
  • The Story of Jonah as Told by The Cutest Little Girl...7:44
  • Jonah & the Whale - Children's Bible Stories...5:10
  • 'Jonah Hex' Trailer HD...2:31
  • The Best of Jonah Lomu MUST SEE!! Part 1...3:47
  • Jonah Lomu - A living rugby legend - Tribute...2:35
  • The Jonah Code - DISC 1 (1 of 11)...9:59
  • System of a Down-Toxicity, Drum Cover, 5 Year Old Drummer, Jonah Rocks...3:48
  • Actor Jonah Hill Freaks Out durring interview...3:23
  • The Sitter Trailer 2011 Official - Jonah Hill...2:16
  • Jonah Johnson - With You...3:57
  • Try Jonah Lomu VS France...1:01
puck you sir, i said puck you, with a P dont you no how to spell or sumshit?
2:07
PUCK YOU - Jonah - Sum­mer Heights High
puck you sir, i said puck you, with a P dont you no how to spell or sumshit?...
pub­lished: 19 Sep 2007
au­thor: millertheaussie
4:36
Jonah Mowry: 'Whats goin on..'
Jonah Mowry: 'Whats goin on..' video Thank you to ev­ery­one for all your lov­ing sup...
pub­lished: 11 Aug 2011
7:44
The Story of Jonah as Told by The Cutest Lit­tle Girl
Truly a must-see! SO CUTE! This de­light­ful lit­tle girl will bring a smile to your face as ...
pub­lished: 19 Nov 2010
au­thor: vin­mj123
5:10
Jonah & the Whale - Chil­dren's Bible Sto­ries
Chil­dren's Bible Sto­ries - Jonah & the Whale The tale of Jonah, who was swal­lowed ...
pub­lished: 04 Apr 2008
au­thor: uk­we­b­cast
2:31
'Jonah Hex' Trail­er HD
For more info on 'Jonah Hex': www.​hollywood.​com...
pub­lished: 30 Apr 2010
3:47
The Best of Jonah Lomu MUST SEE!! Part 1
Watch Part 2: www.​youtube.​com Jonah Lomu 6'5 Tall 120 Kilo­grams (265 pounds) 100m in 1...
pub­lished: 06 Jan 2009
au­thor: horipinoy
2:35
Jonah Lomu - A liv­ing rugby leg­end - Trib­ute
A short video on jonah lomu fea­tur­ing some of his great runs, in­clud­ing the run against en...
pub­lished: 19 Aug 2006
au­thor: tim­my­c1
9:59
The Jonah Code - DISC 1 (1 of 11)
michaelrood.​tv Yahshua the Mes­si­ah (aka Jesus) de­clared that here would be only one sign o...
pub­lished: 26 Apr 2009
3:48
Sys­tem of a Down-Tox­i­c­i­ty, Drum Cover, 5 Year Old Drum­mer, Jonah Rocks
Jonah Rocks Sys­tem of a Down, Tox­i­c­i­ty. Jonah on Face­book www.​facebook.​com Get Your Jonah ...
pub­lished: 16 Jan 2010
3:23
Actor Jonah Hill Freaks Out dur­ring in­ter­view
Actor Jonah Hill Freaks Out dur­ing a hos­tile in­ter­view while pro­mot­ing the movie Su­per­bad....
pub­lished: 23 Apr 2008
9:40
Jonah Lomu All Blacks Leg­end Dvd
Ca­reer High­lights...
pub­lished: 25 Apr 2008
2:16
The Sit­ter Trail­er 2011 Of­fi­cial - Jonah Hill
The Sit­ter Trail­er 2011 Of­fi­cial - Jonah Hill When the world's most ir­re­spon­si­ble baby...
pub­lished: 09 Aug 2011
au­thor: no­good­flix
3:57
Jonah John­son - With You
Can­cion In­clu­i­da en el sound­track de la pelic­u­la: My sis­ter's Keep­er - La de­ci­sion mas...
pub­lished: 08 Sep 2009
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1:01
Try Jonah Lomu VS France
Jonah Lomu All Blacks - France 1999...
pub­lished: 17 Dec 2007
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6:15
Sleep­less in Seat­tle-Ra­dio and Final
Radio scene and final shop under the lives level....
pub­lished: 29 Mar 2009
au­thor: Vid­hyaAshok
5:09
Jonah Mowry In­ter­view: Ex­plains 'Whats Goin On' Video - 'You Can Be Happy'
Bul­lied teen whose In­ter­net video went viral after being post­ed by Perez Hilton talks to &...
pub­lished: 09 Dec 2011
au­thor: ABC­News
2:25
Jonah Lehrer on the Sur­pris­ing Ben­e­fits of Day­dream­ing
Com­plete Pre­mi­um video at: fora.​tv Au­thor and WIRED con­tribut­ing ed­i­tor Jonah Lehrer discu...
pub­lished: 16 Oct 2010
au­thor: Fo­raTv
9:56
Strange Sex S02E03 'Size Mat­ters' feat. Jonah Fal­con (with uNiT­MaS­TeR Robert aka 'flo­bie')
10 Minute Fea­ture of a day in the life with Jonah Fal­con The Man With (re­port­ed­ly) The Wor...
pub­lished: 03 Sep 2011
au­thor: flo­bie11




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  • Jonah Hill arrives before the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
    AP / 6, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles
  • Jonah Hill arrives before the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
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  • Musician 3rd Class Jonah David, from South Orange, N.J., a member of the U.S. Navy Band Great Lakes, keeps the beat on a bass drum in the Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade.
    US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Andre N. McIntyre
  • Jonah Hill at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego, 22 July 2010
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  • HONOLULU Petty Officer 1st Class Todd Lenet, left, Command Master Chief Michael Ferreira, Rear Adm. Charles Ray, Evelyn Aczon Hao, Petty Officer 2nd Class Abby Marsden and Petty Officer 1st Class Travis Araki stand in front of school supplies donated from members of the Coast Guard in the Hawaiian Islands at Prince Jonah Kuhio Elementary School, August 3, 2011. Members of Maritime Safety and Security Team Honolulu (91107), Air Station Barbers Point and Coast Guard District Fourteen partnered wit
    US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Angela Henderson.
  • HONOLULU - A Coast Guard Color Guard team, made up of members from the 14th Coast Guard District, post colors at a naturalization ceremony held at the Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building, Feb. 9, 2011. A U.S. naturalization ceremony, also commonly referred to as a citizenship ceremony, represents the final step in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. Potential new citizens finalize their process by taking their Oath of Allegiance during the ceremony. U.S. Coast Guard photos by Pe
    US Coastguard
  • HONOLULU - A Coast Guard Color Guard team, made up of members from the 14th Coast Guard District, post colors at a naturalization ceremony held at the Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building, Feb. 9, 2011. A U.S. naturalization ceremony, also commonly referred to as a citizenship ceremony, represents the final step in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. Potential new citizens finalize their process by taking their Oath of Allegiance during the ceremony. U.S. Coast Guard photos by Pe
    US Coastguard
  • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Captain Andy Blomme, commander Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, shares a laugh alongside Capt. Jonah G. Suyo, master of the Filipino flagged merchant vessel Sebring Express and Philippe Gazeau, of Nantes, France, after presenting Capt. Suyo and his crew a certificate of appreciation and AMVER ship's pennant Wednesday Feb. 9, 2011. The crew of the Sebring Express were honored for their efforts in the successful ocean rescue of Gazeau, 1,381 miles east of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
    US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Jessica Potter.
  • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Captain Andy Blomme, commander Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, presents a certificate of appreciation and AMVER ship's pennant to Capt. Jonah G. Suyo, master of the Filipino flagged merchant vessel Sebring Express, and crewmember Sherwin T. Pacia Wednesday Feb. 9, 2011. The crew of the Sebring Express were honored for their efforts in the successful ocean rescue of Philippe Gazeau, of Nantes France, 1,381 miles east of San Juan, Puerto Rico. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty
    US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Jessica Potter.
  • HONOLULU -- Rear Adm. Charles Ray, Commander of the Fourteenth Coast Guard District, sings along to holiday songs sung by elementary students at Prince Jonah Kuhio Elementary School, Dec. 16, 2010. In order to enhance educational opportunities and career awareness for the nation's youth, the Coast Guard participates with a specific school in the Partnership in Education progam. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Angela Henderson. (1079710) ( PIE holiday gift giving.jpg )
    US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Angela Henderson.
  • HONOLULU -- Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Heather Bove, a logistics specialist with the 14th Coast Guard District Auxiliary, gives holiday presents to kindergarten students at Prince Jonah Kuhio Elementary School, Dec. 16, 2010. The Coast Guard participates with specific schools in the Partnership in Education Program in order to enhance educational opportunities and career awareness for the nation's youth. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Angela Henderson. (1079716) ( P
    US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Angela Henderson.
  • HONOLULU - Hawaii Mayor Mufi Hannemann (background) renders honors during the national anthem as U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Cura (center) leads a color guard team as they post colors at a renovation kick-off ceremony held at the Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building, June 4, 2010. The ceremony included remarks from Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, Hannemann and various other dignitaries from Oahu. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse. (898068)
    US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse.
  • HONOLULU - U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Cura and other members of the 14th Coast Guard District Color Guard Team return from posting colors at a renovation kick-off ceremony held at the Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building June 4, 2010. The ceremony included remarks from Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, Hawaii Mayor Mufi Hannemann and various other dignitaries from around the island. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse. (898057) ( Color Guard
    US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse.
  • Nabi Yunis (prophet Jonah) mosque on Al-Tawba mountain in Mosul City
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  • Auch Cathedral, stained glass window by Arnaud de Moles: Jonah (detail)
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  • Engineman 3rd Class Jonah L. Adams, from Portsmouth, Va., a visit, board, search and seizure team member, holds Ensign Todd E. Coursey, from Summerville, S.C.,
    US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky
  • Engineman 3rd Class Jonah L. Adams, from Portsmouth, Va., hands a first aid kit to a crewmember
    US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky
  • Steelworker 3rd Class Jonah Soto and Indian Army Cpl. Kallaseril Vinu paint window frames.
    US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Valcarcel
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  • Jonah Mosaic at St. Anne Melkite Greek Catholic Church, North Hollywood. Moor park, North Hollywood, Leos Angles, California
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  • An example of a bobble head , depicting Jonah, given to fans during 2006 the Nashville Sounds have an annual tradition known as
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  • Cardiff Blues´s Jonah Lomu, right, of New Zealand is tackled by Ghial Calvisano´s Matteo Pratichetti during their Heineken Cup rugby match at the San Michele stadium in Calvisano, near Brescia, northern Italy, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. Former
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  • Jonah Ramirez, 7, who suffers from asthma, says he believes it is a crime when people, including kids, are forced to breathe air that makes them sick, during a California Air Resource Board news conference prior to the board meeting in Diamond Bar, Calif
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File - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 21, 2012.
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Article by WN.com Guest Writer Kourosh Ziabari Economic sanctions, psychological warfare, media propaganda, threats and assassinations; what other sort of evidence may one need to believe that the...



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File - Ivy Mike (yield 10.4 mt) - An atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the U.S. at Enewetak Atoll on 1 November 1952. It was the world's first successful hydrogen bomb.
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12 Aug 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In 1950 when President Harry S. Truman declared, "We had got to do it-make the bomb-though no one wants to use it. But...we have got to have it if only...



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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, Dang Cong Chinh, center, plays with other children at a rehabilitation center in Danang, Vietnam. The children were born with physical and mental disabilities that the center's director says were caused by their parents' exposure to the chemical dioxin in the defoliant Agent Orange.
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13 Aug 2012
She is one of three million Vietnamese affected by the dioxin in Agent Orange – a poison that has caused untold cancers and an estimated 150,000 birth defects – which continue down the generations to...



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AG2  Chad Johnson #85 for the National Football League's Bengals playing exhibition match in Miami, Florida on May 24, 2008
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12 Aug 2012
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Prime Minister of Pakistan Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, in white coat, listens to national anthem on the occasion of Pakistan Independence Day in Islamabad, Pakistan Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012.
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14 Aug 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "What does Pakistan stand for?" became a popular rallying cry decades before its birth on this day, August 14, back in 1947. But even the most ardent and...





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Prophet Jonah

Jonah, as depicted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel.
Prophet, Seer, Apostle to Nineveh, Companion of the Fish[1]
Born 8th Century BC
Honored in Judaism
Islam
Christianity
Major shrine Tomb of Prophet Jonah, Mosul, Iraq
Feast July 31

Jonah (Hebrew: יוֹנָה, Modern Yona Tiberian Yônā ; dove; Arabic: يونس‎, Yūnus or يونان, Yūnān; Greek/Latin: Ionas) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation. The Biblical story of Jonah is also repeated, with minor changes, in the Qur'an.

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The story of Jonah[link]

Jonah son of Amittai appears in 2 Kings[2] as a prophet from Gath-Hepher (a few miles north of Nazareth) active during the reign of Jeroboam II (c.786-746 BC), where he predicts that Jeroboam will recover certain lost territories.

Jonah is also the central character in the Book of Jonah. Ordered by God to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me."[3] Jonah seeks instead to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going to Jaffa and sailing to Tarshish, which, geographically, is in the opposite direction. A huge storm arises and the sailors, realizing this is no ordinary storm, cast lots and learn that Jonah is to blame. Jonah admits this and states that if he is thrown overboard the storm will cease. The sailors try to dump as much cargo as possible before giving up, but feel forced to throw him overboard, at which point the sea calms. The inspired sailors then offer sacrifices to God. Jonah is miraculously saved by being swallowed by a large fish specially prepared by God where he spent three days and three nights.[4] In chapter two, while in the great fish, Jonah prays to God in his affliction and commits to thanksgiving and to paying what he has vowed. God commands the fish to vomit Jonah out. The first time Jonah prays in the book is in the fish which is also the first time Jonah rejoices. In 1554, the French naturalist Guillaume Rondelet, had carefully analyzed the anatomical aspects of the biblical story of Jonah and the fish. He concluded that the windpipe and lungs of a whale were so placed that it would be unlikely that it could swallow a man whole. His candidate for the creature was the great white shark as it has, in some circmstances, been found containing whole men.

God again orders Jonah to visit Nineveh and to prophesy to its inhabitants. This time he goes and enters the city crying, "In forty days Nineveh shall be overthrown." After Jonah walked for a day across Nineveh, the people of Nineveh began to believe his word and proclaimed a fast. The king of Nineveh puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes, making a proclamation to decree fasting, sackcloth, prayer, and repentance. God sees their works and spares the city at that time.[5] The entire city is humbled and broken with the people (and even the animals) in sackcloth and ashes. Animals, plants, warmth and even fish are all seen under the sovereign hand of God. Even the king comes off his throne to repent.

Displeased by this, Jonah refers to his earlier flight to Tarshish while asserting that, since God is merciful, it was inevitable that God would turn from the threatened calamities. He then leaves the city and makes himself a shelter, waiting to see whether or not the city will be destroyed.

God causes a plant (in Hebrew a Kikayon) to grow over Jonah's shelter to give him some shade from the sun. Later, God causes a worm to bite the plant's root and it withers. Jonah, now being exposed to the full force of the sun, becomes faint and desires that God take him out of the world.

And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the Kikayon?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.'
And the LORD said: 'Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night;
and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?'
—Book of Jonah, chapter 4, verses 9-11[6]

Jonah in Christianity[link]

In the New Testament, Jonah is mentioned in Matthew[7] and Luke.[8]

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus makes a reference to Jonah when he was asked for a miraculous sign by the Pharisees and teachers of the Law. Jesus implies that Jonah's restoration after three days inside the great whale prefigures His own resurection.

But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
—Gospel of Matthew, chapter 12 verses 39-41[7]

Jonah is regarded as a saint by a number of Christian denominations. He is commemorated as a prophet in the Calendar of Saints of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church on September 22. On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar his feast day is September 22 also (for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 22 currently falls on October 5 of the modern Gregorian calendar). He is commemorated as one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31. Jonah's mission to the Ninevites is commemorates by the Fast of Nineveh in Syriac and Oriental Orthodox Churches.[9]

The apocryphal Lives of the Prophets, which may be Jewish or Christian in origin, offers further biographical details about Jonah.

Jonah in Judaism[link]

The book of Jonah (Yonah יונה) is one of the 12 minor prophets included in the Tanakh. According to tradition Jonah was the boy brought back to life by Elijah the prophet, and hence shares many of his characteristics (particularly his desire for 'strict judgment'). The book of Jonah is read every year, in its original Hebrew and in its entirety, on Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement, as the Haftarah at the afternoon mincha prayer.

Teshuva - the ability to repent and be forgiven by God - is a prominent idea in Jewish thought. This concept is developed in the book of Jonah: Jonah, the son of truth, (The name of his father "Amitai" in Hebrew means truth,) refuses to ask the people of Nineveh to repent. He seeks the truth only, and no forgiveness. When forced to go, his call is heard loud and clear. The people of Nineveh repent ecstatically, "fasting, including the sheep", and the Jewish scripts are critical of this.[10]

When praying, Jonah repeats God's 13 traits failing to say the last one which is "...and Truthful", and changing it with "...and who is willing to forgive the bad".[11] God responds by showing Jonah that he is "angry at doing good", and that he too would agree to spare an ephemeral plant[12] if it has importance for him.

Jonah in Islam[link]

Jonah (Yunus in Arabic) is highly important in Islam as a prophet who was faithful to God and delivered His messages. In Islam, Jonah is also called Dhul-Nun (Arabic: ذو النون; meaning The One of the Whale). Chapter 10 of the Qur'an is named Jonah, although in this chapter only verse 98 refers to him directly. It is said in Muslim tradition that Jonah came from the tribe of Benjamin and that his father was Amittai.[13] Jonah is the only one of the Twelve Minor Prophets[13] of the Hebrew Bible to be mentioned by name in the Qur'an.

Jonah's Qur'anic narrative is extremely similar to the Hebrew Bible story. The Qur'an describes Jonah as a righteous preacher of the message of God but a messenger who, one day, fled from his mission because of its overwhelming difficulty. The Qur'an says that Jonah made it onto a ship but, because of the powerfully stormy weather, the men aboard the ship suggested casting lots to throw off the individual responsible for this supposed 'bad luck'. When the lots were cast, Jonah's name came out, and he was thrown into the open ocean that night. A gigantic fish came and swallowed him, and Jonah remained in the belly of the fish repenting and glorifying God to the maximum. As the Qur'an says:

So also was Jonah among those sent (by Us).
When he ran away (like a slave from captivity) to the ship (fully) laden,
He (agreed to) cast lots, and he was condemned:
Then the big Fish did swallow him, and he had done acts worthy of blame.
Had it not been that he (repented and) glorified Allah,
He would certainly have remained inside the Fish till the Day of Resurrection.
—Qur'an, chapter 37 (As-Saaffat), verse 139-144[14]

God forgave Jonah out of His mercy and kindness for the man, and because he knew that Jonah was, at heart, one of the best of men. Therefore, the fish cast Jonah out onto dry land, with Jonah in a state of sickness. Thus, God caused a plant to grow where Jonah was lying to provide shade and comfort for him. After Jonah got up, fresh and well, God told him to go back and preach at his land. As the Qur'an says:

But We cast him forth on the naked shore in a state of sickness,
And We caused to grow, over him, a spreading plant of the gourd kind.
And We sent him (on a mission) to a hundred thousand (men) or more.
And they believed; so We permitted them to enjoy (their life) for a while.
—Qur'an, chapter 37 (As-Saaffat), verse 145-148[15]

Muhammad[link]

Jonah is also mentioned in a few incidents during the lifetime of Muhammad. In both instances, Jonah's name is spoken of with praise and reverence by Muhammad. According to historical narrations about Muhammad's life, after ten years of receiving revelations, Muhammad went to the city of Ta’if to see if its leaders would allow him to preach his message from there rather than Mecca, but he was cast from the city by the people. He took shelter in the garden of Utbah and Shaybah, two members of the Quraysh tribe. They sent their servant, Addas, to serve him grapes for sustenance. Muhammad asked Addas where he was from and the servant replied Nineveh. "The town of Jonah the just, son of Amittai!" Muhammad exclaimed. Addas was shocked because he knew that the pagan Arabs had no knowledge of the prophet Jonah. He then asked how Muhammad knew of this man. "We are brothers" Muhammad replied. "Jonah was a Prophet of God and I, too, am a Prophet of God." Addas immediately accepted Islam and kissed the hands and feet of Muhammad.[16]

In one of the sayings of Muhammad, in the collection of Imam Bukhari, it says that Muhammad said "One should not say that I am better than Jonah".[17] This is understood by both mainstream Muslims and historians to have been stated by Muhammad to emphasize upon the notion of equality between all the prophets and the law of making no distinction between any of the messengers. The Arab tribes, of the time, may have begun to exalt Muhammad above Jonah because of the recent revelation Muhammad received, which recounted the story of Jonah's fleeing from his mission. Thus, Muhammad, by saying this, clearly made it a point to the Arabs to not make any distinction between the great apostles of God.

Shrine at Nineveh[link]

At the present time, Nineveh's location is marked by two large mounds, Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus (Prophet Jonah). On the latter there is a Muslim shrine dedicated to that prophet.

Jonah in sailors' superstition[link]

A long-established expression among sailors uses the term "a Jonah" as meaning a person (either a sailor or a passenger) whose presence on board brings bad luck and endangers the ship.[18] Later on, this meaning was extended to "a Jonah" referring to "a person who carries a jinx, one who will bring bad luck to any enterprise."[19] An example of a so-called "Jonah" would be that of the sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, who was supposedly cursed to be lost at sea after he killed an albatross.

The fish[link]

Depiction of Jonah and the "great fish" on the south doorway of the Gothic-era Dom St. Peter in Worms, Germany.

Interpretations of the "fish" fall into these general categories:[20]

  1. A big fish or whale (of unspecified species) did indeed swallow Jonah.
  2. A special creation (not any fish we know of) of God accomplished the act.
  3. There was no fish: the story is an allegory, the fish is a literary device in the story, the story is a vision or a dream etc.
  4. The originators of the story did indeed intend for the story to be taken literally.

Translation[link]

Though it is often called a whale today, the Hebrew, as throughout scripture, refers to no species in particular, simply sufficing with "great fish" or "big fish" (whales are today classified as mammals and not fish, but no such distinction was made in antiquity). While some Bible scholars suggest the size and habits of the great white shark correspond better to the representations given of Jonah's being swallowed, normally an adult human is too large to be swallowed whole.[21] Other scholars instead argue that the fish might instead be a reference to the basking shark. 

In Jonah 2:1 (1:17 in English translation), the original Hebrew text reads dag gadol (דג גדול), which literally means "big fish." The Septuagint translates this phrase into Greek as ketos megas (κητος μεγας). The term ketos alone means "huge fish," and in Greek mythology the term was closely associated with sea monsters, including sea serpents.[22] Jerome later translated this phrase as piscis granda in his Latin Vulgate. He translated ketos, however, as cetus in Matthew 12:40.

At some point cetus became synonymous with "whale" (the study of whales is now called cetology). In his 1534 translation, William Tyndale translated the phrase in Jonah 2:1 as "greate fyshe" and he translated the word ketos (Greek) or cetus (Latin) in Matthew 12:40 as "whale". Which states "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."[23] Tyndale's translation was later incorporated into the Authorized Version of 1611. Since then, the "great fish" in Jonah 2 has been most often interpreted as a whale.

In Turkish, "Jonah fish" (in Turkish yunus baligi) is the word used for dolphin, often shortened to just yunus.

Suggested literal interpretations[link]

Sperm whales have demonstrated the ability to swallow people[24][25] and they do reside in the Mediterranean Sea. Some believers claim that God, being omnipotent, simply altered things as needed and sustained Jonah - the same as in other miraculous accounts in the Hebrew scriptures. Some believers claim that Jonah did die in the belly of the great fish, and was then resurrected by God since Jesus himself associated this event in Jonah's life with his own death and resurrection. See Matthew 12:40. Others have attempted more elaborate explanations.

However, doubts have been cast that any existing whale or fish would be either capable and/or inclined to repeat the feat described, either due to size of mouth, narrowness of throat, or because it diverges so wildly from these animals' normal eating habits. The largest whales - baleen whales, a group which includes the blue whale - eat plankton and "it is commonly said that this species would be choked if it attempted to swallow a herring."[26] Sperm whales, on the other hand, while having demonstrated the ability and occasional behavior to swallow more than a grown man whole,[24][25] have not yet been observed to demonstrate the inclination to swallow humans and generally are known to use their teeth to tear their food to pieces rather than swallow whole.[27] As for the whale shark, Dr. E. W. Gudger, an Honorary Associate in Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History, noted that "while the mouth is cavernous, the throat itself is only four inches wide and has a sharp elbow or bend behind the opening. This gullet would not permit the passage of a man's arm"[citation needed]. In another publication he also noted that "the whale shark is not the fish that swallowed Jonah."[28][29]

Various locations associated with Jonah[link]

Depiction of Jonah in a champlevé enamel (1181) by Nicholas of Verdun in the Verduner altar at Klosterneuburg abbey, Austria.
  • Place of birth: Mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25, the town of Gath Hepher has saved its name to this day, near the Gallilean Arab town of Mashhad, where a monument for Nebi Yunes still exists. The Israeli Gat Hepher industrial zone is erected on that mountain.
  • Location of landing: In the city of Ashdod the light-tower hill is called Givat-Yonah, on the holy Muslim site of Nebbi Yunes, according to traditions of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions, the site where Jonah was thrown by the large fish. Aerial photos taken by German pilots during WWI clearly show the Nebbi Yunes sanctuary, near the British landing site at the beginning of the British 1918 Jerusalem offensive.[30]
  • The city of Jaffa has a main street named after Jonah. The ancient port of Jaffa is still intact and functional. Archeological diggings find that the port has been functioning at this location as early as 300 BC.
  • Another sanctuary and mosque called Nebi Yunes, is in the Palestinian West Bank town of Halhul, 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Hebron. Muslim tradition has it that this is the burial site of Jonah the prophet. A sign erected by the Israeli ministry of religions says that this is Jonah's burial site, but according to Jewish traditions this is the location of the burial of the prophets Nathan and Gad Hahozeh.
  • The sanctuary of Jama Naballa Jonas is another place that tradition says is Jonah's grave, near the city of Mosul (today in Iraq), near the ancient remnants of Nineveh. On one of the two most prominent mounds of Nineveh ruins, rises the Mosque of the Prophet Yunus (previously a Nestorian-Assyrian Church). Jonah is believed to be buried here, where King Esarhaddon had once built a palace. It is one of the most important mosques in Mosul and one of the few historic mosques that are found on the east side of the city.
  • Jonah's grave is also said to be near the city of Sarafand (Sarepta) in Lebanon. This is in accordance with several ancient Jewish writings about Jonah being the son of the woman from "Zarephath" (Sarafand) mentioned in the stories of Elijah.

Connections to other legends[link]

Joseph Campbell attempted to draw parallels between the story of Jonah and the epic of Gilgamesh, in which Gilgamesh obtains a plant from the bottom of the sea.[31] In the Book of Jonah a worm (in Hebrew tola'ath, "maggot") bites the shade-giving plant's root causing it to wither, while in the epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh plucks his plant from the floor of the sea which he reached by tying stones to his feet. Once he makes it back to the shore, the rejuvenating plant is eaten by a serpent.

Campbell also noted several similarities between the story of Jonah and that of Jason in Greek mythology. The Greek rendering of the name Jonah was Jonas, which differs from Jason only in the order of sounds—both os are omegas suggesting that Jason was confused with Jonah. Gildas Hamel, drawing on the Book of Jonah and Greco-Roman sources — including Greek vases and the accounts of Apollonius of Rhodes, Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Orphic Argonautica[32] identifies a number of shared motifs, including the names of the heroes, the presence of a dove, the idea of "fleeing" like the wind and causing a storm, the attitude of the sailors, the presence of a sea-monster or dragon threatening the hero or swallowing him, and the form and the word used for the "gourd" (kikayon). Hamel takes the view that it was the Hebrew author who was reacting to and adapting this mythological material to communicate his own, quite different message. The Greek sources are however several centuries later than the Book of Jonah and the form Jonas which is similar to Jason is from the Septuagint translation of the book.

Biblical scholars have speculated that Jonah may have been in part the inspiration behind the figure of Oannes in late Babylonian mythology.[33] The deity name "Oannes" first occurs in texts from the Library of Ashurbanipal (more than a century after the time of Jonah) as Uanna or Uan but is assimilated to Adapa, a deity first mentioned on fragments of tablets from the 15th or 14th century B.C. found in Amarna in Egypt.[34][35] Oannes is described as dwelling in the Persian Gulf, and rising out of the waters in the daytime and furnishing mankind instruction in writing, the arts and the various sciences. Berossus describes Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man—a detail that, some Biblical scholars[who?] suggest, is not derived from Adapa but is perhaps based on a misinterpretation of images of Jonah emerging from the fish. Scholars of Mesopotamian mythology, however, suggest that Adapa was likely associated with fishing and depicted in half-fish form many centuries before the story of Jonah appeared.[34] Nineteenth-century Irish amateur scholar William Betham speculated that worship of Oannes is the origin of the cult of the Roman god Janus.[36]

Jonah is mentioned twice in Chapter 14 of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, the conclusion of which finds Tobit's son, Tobias, at the extreme age of one hundred and twenty seven years, rejoicing at the news of Nineveh's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus in apparent fulfillment of Jonah's prophecy against the Assyrian capital.

See also[link]

References[link]

  1. ^ This title is Qur'anic, when Jonah is referred to as Dhul-Nun
  2. ^ 2 Kings 14:25
  3. ^ Jonah 1:2
  4. ^ Jonah 1:17
  5. ^ Jonah 3:5-10
  6. ^ Jonah 4:9-11
  7. ^ a b Matthew 12:39-41
  8. ^ Luke 11:29-32
  9. ^ "Three Day Fast of Nineveh". syrianorthodoxchurch.org. http://syrianorthodoxchurch.org/news/2011/02/10/three-day-fast-of-nineveh/. Retrieved 1 February 2012. 
  10. ^ Babelonian Talmud:Sanhedrin 61a
  11. ^ Another translation could be: "...and who regrets the bad".
  12. ^ "Kikayon" - The small Castor tree - is a synonym in Hebrew to "ephemeral"
  13. ^ a b Encyclopedia of Islam, Yunus, pg. 348
  14. ^ Quran 37:139–144
  15. ^ Quran 37:145–148
  16. ^ Summarized from the book of story of Muhammad by Ibn Hisham Volume 1 pg.419-421
  17. ^ Sahih al-Bukhari, 4:55:608
  18. ^ The New York Times Afflicted with a Jonah; The Sea Captain’s Fear of Parsons Sons Wednesday, March 6, 1885.
  19. ^ Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged. Entry for Jonah, sense 2. HarperCollins Publishers 2003
  20. ^ McCurdy, George. "Minor Prophets:Major Messages". Dove Press. http://www.dovepress.org/jonahhow.htm. Retrieved December 9, 2008. 
  21. ^ Theological Topic Search
  22. ^ Theoi Project "Ketea" entry
  23. ^ Matthew 12:40
  24. ^ a b Edward B. Davis (1991). "A Whale of a Tale: Fundamentalist Fish Stories". http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1991/PSCF12-91Davis.html. 
  25. ^ a b R. Gambell, S.G. Brown (1993). Investigations on Cetacea. 
  26. ^ Lydekker's New Natural History, Vol, III, p. 6
  27. ^ C.H. Townsend, 1935
  28. ^ The Scientific Monthly, March, 1940, p. 227
  29. ^ Froth And Fraud In Fundamentalism, "Essays of an Atheist," Woolsey Teller. Copyright 1945, The Truth Seeker Company, Inc.
  30. ^ A second look at the land of Israel by Prof. B.Z. Kedar
  31. ^ Campbell, Joseph (1988). The Hero With A Thousand Faces. Princeton University Press. pp. 90–95. ISBN 0-586-08571-8. 
  32. ^ Taking the Argo to Nineveh: Jonah and Jason in a Mediterranean context, Judaism Summer, 1995.
  33. ^ H. Clay Trumbull, Journal of Biblical literature, Volumes 11-12, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis (U.S.), 1892
  34. ^ a b Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia, Oxford World's Classics, 1989
  35. ^ K. van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst: Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible Edition 2, revised, B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999
  36. ^ Royal Numismatic Society, Proceedings of the Numismatic Society, James Fraser, 1837

External links[link]

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http://it.wn.com/Giona (profeta)

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Jonah Lomu
Full name Jonah Tali Lomu
Date of birth (1975-05-12) 12 May 1975 (age 37)
Place of birth Auckland, New Zealand
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 125 kg (276 lb; 19 st 10 lb)
Notable relative(s) Andrew Lomu, John Tamanika, Seti Kiole
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Wing, Number eight, Prop
New Zealand No. 941
Professional / senior clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
2009 – 2010 Marseille 3 (0)
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Caps (points)
2006
2000–03
1994–99
2005–2006
North Harbour
Wellington
Counties Manukau
Cardiff Blues
3
21
28
10
(0)
(65)
(95)
(5)
correct as of 9 September 2006.
Super Rugby
Years Club / team Caps (points)
2000–03
1999
1996–98
Hurricanes
Chiefs
Blues
29
8
22
(55)
(10)
(65)
correct as of 9 September 2006.
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1994–2002 New Zealand 63 (185)
correct as of 7 March 2008.
Sevens national teams
Years Club / team Comps
1994–2001 New Zealand
Medal record
Commonwealth Games
Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur Rugby 7's

Jonah Tali Lomu, MNZM (born 12 May 1975) is a New Zealand rugby union player. He had sixty-three caps as an All Black after debuting in 1994. He is generally regarded as the first true global superstar of rugby union. He has had a huge impact on the game.[1] He was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame on 9 October 2007,[2] and the IRB Hall of Fame on 24 October 2011.[3]

Lomu burst onto the international rugby scene during the 1994 Hong Kong Sevens tournament and was widely acknowledged to be the top player at the 1995 World Cup in South Africa even though New Zealand lost the championship game to the host Springboks. At one time Lomu was considered 'rugby union's biggest drawcard',[4] swelling attendances at any match where he appeared. He is officially the Rugby World Cup all-time top try scorer with 15 tries.[5]

He has played for several provincial teams, in the Super Rugby and NPC competitions. These included the Blues, Chiefs and Hurricanes, and Counties Manukau, Wellington and later North Harbour. He made a comeback after undergoing a kidney transplant in 2004.

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Early career[link]

Lomu represented New Zealand in the national under-19 side in 1993, as well as the under-21 side the following year.[6] He first came to international attention at the 1994 Hong Kong Sevens tournament,[7] as part of a fearsome team including Eric Rush and Christian Cullen.

At the age of 19 years and 45 days, Lomu became the youngest All Black test player as he debuted on the wing against France in 1994, breaking a record that had been held by Edgar Wrigley since 1905.[6] The match was played at Lancaster Park in Christchurch, and the All Blacks lost 22–8. Lomu's performance was middling. However, he performed well enough to ensure his selection the following week. The match was the second against France and played at Eden Park in Auckland; France won again, 23–20.

1995 World Cup[link]

Despite having just two All Black caps, Lomu was included in the squad for the 1995 World Cup in South Africa. Lomu stunned international rugby audiences (and unsuspecting players) at the 1995 World Cup, when he scored seven tries in five matches, including four in the semi-final against England. In his first ever World Cup match, against Ireland in Johannesburg, he scored two tries in the 43–19 win. In the following match—against Wales—Lomu was replaced during the game, and did not score any tries in the 34–9 victory. He was rested for the final pool match against Japan. In the All Blacks' quarter final, Lomu scored a try in the 48–30 win over Scotland at Loftus Versfeld. He shocked the 51,000 that packed into Newlands in Cape Town to see the semi-final against England, as he notched up four tries in the 45–29 defeat of the English, including a try in which he ran straight over the top of England fullback Mike Catt.

His style of play at times defied description; one New Zealand commentator, Keith Quinn, was famously reduced to gasps as Lomu devastated England's backline.[8] After the game, Will Carling said: "He is a freak and the sooner he goes away the better".[9] Lomu's attacking prowess can be attributed in part to pure power; when near the tryline he often ran his 120 kg frame straight into or over any defenders who had the misfortune to get in his way (a move informally known as the 'Tongan sidestep'). However most of his famous tries were ignited by electric pace (as a schoolboy he ran the 100m in 10.8s) as he stepped "in-and-out" on his opposites and ran around them, then used his powerful fends on the cover defence.

Following the win over England, the All Blacks entered what would become an epic World Cup final match at Ellis Park against South Africa (the Springboks),[10] but despite his efforts, Lomu could not score a try against the South African side. During this game he was famously tackled near the try-line by Joost van der Westhuizen. The game went to the hosts, who scored a drop-goal in extra time to defeat the All Blacks 15–12. Lomu had scored tries against every major test playing nation in World Rugby except South Africa.

In interviews after 2003, Lomu revealed that he was already suffering from the effects of nephrotic syndrome during the 1995 World Cup. As a consequence of this serious and chronic kidney illness he was completely drained and often bedridden for entire days in between Cup games. It was agreed with the All Blacks doctor John Mayhew that his illness, at that time undiagnosed, would be kept secret and it stayed that way for most of his career.

In a Clint Eastwood movie Invictus (2009), which is about Nelson Mandela and South African rugby team in 1995 World Cup, Lomu is portrayed by Isaac Feau'nati and is referred to in reverent tones.

1996–1998[link]

In the first match after the World Cup loss to South Africa, the All Blacks took on Australia at home at Eden Park. Lomu scored New Zealand's only try in the match, which they won 28–16. In the return match, held at the Sydney Football Stadium to decide the Bledisloe Cup, the All Blacks won 34–23 despite trailing at half-time, with Lomu scoring a try. Lomu's scoring for New Zealand continued later that year when he scored two tries in the All Blacks victory over Italy in Bologna. Lomu also played against the French Barbarians in November in Toulon, as well as two matches against French selections. Lomu played in the first Test against France in Toulouse, which was won through penalty goals. In a subsequent match against a French selection, Lomu scored two tries. He scored a try in the second and final test against France in Paris.

Prior to the start of the first Tri Nations Series, Lomu played for the All Blacks in matches against Samoa and Scotland, scoring in the Scottish match. The All Blacks also hosted Australia in Wellington; defeating the Wallabies 43–6, with Lomu getting three of the tries. The 1996 Tri Nations was the first of its kind, and launched with the advent of professionalism in rugby. A close victory over South Africa in Christchurch was followed by a 32–25 win over the Wallabies, in which Lomu scored. The wins ensured the All Blacks became the first ever Tri Nations champions. Lomu played three other matches for the All Blacks following the Tri Nations that year; against Currie Cup sides in South Africa: Eastern Province, Western Transvaal and Griqualand West.

At the end of 1996, he was diagnosed with a rare and serious kidney disorder, which saw him take time off from the sport. As such he did not play in the 1997 Tri Nations Series, but was included in the All Blacks tour of the northern hemisphere at the end of the year. Lomu played in the two warm up matches, scoring tries against Wales 'A' and Emerging England. He played the first test against England at Old Trafford, as well as the test against Wales at Wembley Stadium, and the second match against England— he did not score in any of the three games.

At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, he won a gold medal representing New Zealand in the Sevens Rugby event. The English rugby team came to New Zealand the following year for a two test series. Lomu played in both of the matches, scoring in the first, which was a 64–22 win in Dunedin, but not in the second test won 40–10 by the All Blacks.

1999 and the World Cup[link]

Lomu's 1999 international season kicked off with a warm-up match against New Zealand A, which was followed by a game against Samoa in which Lomu scored one of the All Blacks' nine tries. Lomu came on late in the first game of the 1999 Tri Nations Series, which was a 28–0 win over South Africa, and at one point took eight men to bring him down. He again started from the bench in the subsequent game against Australia which the All Blacks also won. Lomu started from the bench in the following match against the Springboks in Pretoria, though he came in early in the 34–18 win. He was introduced at near half-time in the final Tri Nations game against Australia in Sydney, though the game was characterised by New Zealand errors, and Australia won the rainy affair, in front of 107,042 supporters. Despite the loss, the All Blacks were crowned Tri Nations champions.

He scored eight tries at the 1999 World Cup. In New Zealand's first pool match of the tournament against Tonga he scored two tries, scoring again in one of his finest matches in pool play against England.[11] Lomu scored his second double of the tournament in the third and final pool match against Italy. The All Blacks, finishing at the top of their pool, proceeded to the quarter-finals, where they defeated Scotland, where Lomu scored one of New Zealand's four tries. Lomu scored twice in the semi-final match against France, though it was not enough to see them through to the final, as France went on to win 43–31. Through his career, Lomu has scored eight tries against England — more than any other All Black. Lomu also holds an unbeaten record of 15 tries in World Cup tournaments. Following the World Cup, there was speculation that Lomu would be moving to play American Football in the National Football League, or continue to play rugby in the English Premiership. None of the speculation materialised and Lomu stayed in New Zealand.[12]

2000–2003[link]

After playing the 100+ victory over Tonga, Lomu and Tana Umaga scored five tries between them in the subsequent match against Scotland. One of Lomu's tries was a characteristic bulldozing effort down the wing, leaving Scottish defenders in his wake. In the opening match of the 2000 Tri Nations Series, the All Blacks raced out to a 21 to nil lead, which had the potential to be 28, had George Gregan not stopped Lomu from scoring one of his own. Australia amazingly fought back, and with minutes remaining, both sides had scored five tries each.

Lomu in training

The world record rugby crowd of 109,874 was treated to the highest scoring match ever between the two sides. With just minutes remaining, the Wallabies led 35 to 34; until Lomu "brushed past a desperate Stephen Larkham to tip-toe down the line and score the winning try".[13]

The match was followed by a victory over South Africa, and then a re-match of the thrilling Bledisloe Cup game, which Australia won by just a single point, 24 to 23. A barn-storming Lomu was stopped short of the line early in the second half in the final match against South Africa. The Springboks eventually won, 46 to 40. The All Blacks finished second on the table, with Australia winning the Tri Nations. Lomu played in one other test that year; against France at Stade de France in November, which the All Blacks won 39 to 26.

Lomu also led the New Zealand Sevens team to victory at the 2001 Sevens World Cup, filling in for Rush, who suffered a broken leg during the competition. In the lead up to the 2001 Tri Nations Series, the All Blacks played Argentina and France at home, Lomu scoring a try in the French match. Despite causing havoc for the Springboks, no tries were scored in the opening match of the Tri Nations, which was won on penalty goals by the All Blacks. Lomu played his 50th test for the All Blacks at the Carisbrook 'House of Pain', scoring a try in the second minute of play. The Wallabies spoiled the party however, winning 23 to 15. This was followed by a win over South Africa, and loss to the Wallabies at Stadium Australia.

At the end of the year, the All Blacks played Ireland at Lansdowne Road in Dublin. Lomu was a central figure in the 40 to 29 win, setting up Aaron Mauger for his debut try, and taking an inside pass to blast through for one of his own. The All Blacks end of season tour continued at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, where they defeated Scotland 37 to six, with Lomu contributing one try. In the final match of the tour, the All Blacks played Argentina at the River Plate Stadium. Lomu put the All Blacks in front after Argentina took an early lead, brushing off four defenders to score. In the end, New Zealand won the match by a score of 24 to 20.

In his first test of 2002, he came off the bench in the second half to score a try in a match against Italy. He was again injected into play from the bench in the first of a two test series against Ireland in New Zealand; setting up the All Blacks second try coming on in the last fifteen minutes of play. Lomu was back at his usual starting position for the second test against the Irish, which New Zealand won 40 points to eight. Lomu did not score in the subsequent match against Fiji; though he did however make a trademark run down the wing, setting up Christian Cullen's third try in the match. Lomu came off the bench in the All Blacks first game of the 2002 Tri Nations Series against South Africa, though he did not play in the rest of the tournament.

He was, however, back in his starting position on the wing for a game against England in November. Lomu ended up scoring a double, though it was not enough to secure a New Zealand victory, with England winning 31 to 28. The subsequent match against France resulted in a draw, the first between the two nations in 96 years. The last match of the end of season tour was against Wales, which the All Blacks won 43 to 17.

Statistics[link]

International tries[link]

International analysis by opposition[link]

Against Played Won Lost Drawn Tries Points  % Won
 Argentina
2
2
0
0
1
5
100
 Australia
13
6
7
0
6
30
46.15
 England
7
5
1
1
8
40
71.43
 Fiji
1
1
0
0
0
0
100
 France
8
3
4
1
4
20
37.5
 Ireland
4
4
0
0
3
15
100
 Italy
3
3
0
0
5
25
100
 Samoa
2
2
0
0
1
5
100
 Scotland
6
6
0
0
7
35
100
 South Africa
12
7
5
0
0
0
58.33
 Tonga
2
2
0
0
2
10
100
 Wales
3
3
0
0
0
0
100
Total 63 44 17 2 37 185 69.84

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Personal life[link]

Lomu is of Tongan descent. He has been married and divorced twice and is now living with his third partner, who was herself married when she met Lomu.[citation needed]

He is the cousin of National Rugby League players Andrew Lomu and John Tamanika.[15]

In 1996, shortly after the 1995 Rugby World Cup in which he made such a big impact, Lomu married South African Tanya Rutter and she moved to live in New Zealand. Four years later in 2000, they were divorced. Then in August 2003, Lomu married his second wife Fiona (who also became his personal manager with a firm hand on all his finances) in a secret ceremony on Waiheke Island. A week later they held a party on the island for approximately 160 guests[16]

In December 2007, it was reported that Lomu and his second wife Fiona were taking timeout from one another.[17]

Then in February 2008, it was reported Lomu and his wife Fiona were divorcing. The reason for the divorce was another woman. Nadene Quirk was married to fringe Auckland Blues rugby player Jarek Goebel when she met Lomu in late 2007. Goebel was devastated by what happened.[18] In early 2008, Lomu moved out of his Auckland property and down to Wellington to live with Quirk.[citation needed]

Commitment[link]

Jonah Lomu is today a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club,[19] a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.[20]

Health issues[link]

At the end of 1995 Lomu was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome, a serious kidney disorder. His rugby union career went on hold whilst the disorder was treated. In May 2003, the NZRFU announced that Lomu had been put on dialysis three times a week due to deterioration in his kidney function. Side effects of Lomu's dialysis treatment led to severe nerve damage in his feet and legs; his doctors warned him that he faced life in a wheelchair if a kidney transplant was not performed soon.[citation needed]

Late in March 2004, Lomu was quoted by a Hong Kong newspaper to the effect that a suitable live kidney donor had been found, and that he would have transplant surgery sometime during 2004. However, the former All Blacks team physician who was overseeing Lomu's treatment quickly denied the report. Nonetheless, at the end of July 2004 it was reported that Lomu had indeed undergone a kidney transplant on Tuesday, 28 July, in Auckland, New Zealand. The kidney was in fact donated by Wellington radio presenter Grant Kereama. Lomu soon announced his intention to train for his rugby union renaissance in June 2005.[citation needed]

Comeback quest[link]

In January 2005, Lomu announced his intention to lead a team against Martin Johnson's invitational XV on 4 June 2005, at Twickenham. He scored a try in the first half of the Johnson testimonial, but injured his shoulder in the process and did not return for the second half, dampening an otherwise encouraging first appearance.[21] As it turned out, his injury was more serious than originally thought; he underwent surgery on the shoulder, causing him to miss the 2005 NPC season.

Before returning to professional rugby, he needed special clearance from the World Anti-Doping Agency, as one of the anti-rejection drugs he was required to take is on the WADA list of banned substances.[22] On 8 April 2005, he signed a two-year contract to play for the New Zealand first division provincial team North Harbour in the NPC.[23]

On 9 August 2005, he joined North Harbour, but the shoulder injury he had picked up in the Martin Johnson testimonial game ruled him out for the season, so he worked with the team in a coaching capacity.[24] North Harbour agreed to allow him to play overseas during the NPC offseason, so Lomu signed with the Cardiff Blues of the Celtic League and began playing in Wales in December that year,[25] though he would then return to North Harbour for the 2006 NPC season.[26] Lomu made his first appearance in a competitive match since his transplant on 10 December, in Cardiff's away Heineken Cup fixture against Italian club Calvisano. He started the match and played 60 minutes, although he did not score, making a key line break leading to Cardiff's first try in their 25–10 win.

One week later, he made his home debut for Cardiff at Cardiff Arms Park and played for the whole match. Again, he did not get onto the scoresheet but his presence was enough to create space for other players to score in a 43–16 win over Calvisano. In front of a record home crowd, Lomu scored his first try for Cardiff on 27 December 2005, with a man-of-the-match performance during a Celtic League 41–23 win against the Newport Gwent Dragons. In early 2006, he was sidelined while he concentrated on gaining speed and strength, stating that "I have now lost between 10 and 11 kilos".[27] He got his first start since January against Border Reivers on Saturday, 15 April, but broke his ankle as a result of a cover tackle on him four minutes from time. He was denied a try, but managed to get the ball away for Mark Lewis to score the Blues sixth try in their 46–11 win. He was estimated to be out for six weeks, as reported by his manager and wife, Fiona Lomu, meaning the end of his Celtic League season.

After three seasons of absence from rugby in New Zealand, Lomu played for Massey against Marist in the North Harbour club competition. Lomu was on for 30 minutes, making a blocking run before he twisted his right ankle and was subsequently replaced. Lomu said that it was "a small step"[28] in his comeback. Lomu's aim was to return to the National Provincial Championship and reclaim his All Blacks jersey for the 2007 World Cup. Lomu ended up playing for North Harbour in round four of the National Provincial Championship, in a match against Wellington, playing in the last 26 minutes of the game. Harbour won the match 31–16. Lomu said after the match "For me it's a dream come true...I've always said this is my goal – to come back and play in New Zealand."

It became apparent in early 2007 that Lomu was not going to make the Rugby World Cup after not signing with a New Zealand Super 14 franchise, therefore ruling him out for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France.[29] Previous to not gaining a Super 14 contract,[clarification needed] Lomu had been demoted to the North Harbour 2nd XV. Lomu stated that he was disappointed by his failure to gain a Super 14 contract, but that he had not failed himself.[29] It was subsequently speculated that Lomu may have played in Australia in 2007 for one of the then new national competition clubs.

On 16 October 2006, it was reported that Lomu was close to switching codes and signing for the Gold Coast Titans, a new Queensland franchise in the National Rugby League competition. He was offered a relatively small contract of one hundred thousand dollars. However, the deal did not materialise as Lomu had numerous important sponsorship contracts with companies associated with rugby union and it would have proved difficult to reconcile these if he was to play in the NRL.[30]

On 5 November 2006, the BBC reported that Lomu was considering a return to Welsh rugby.[31] He last played rugby in Hong Kong to take part in the Tens competition.

On 9 April 2007, Lomu appeared on New Zealand's version of This Is Your Life, in which he was united with his brother John Lomu.

Lomu was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen's Birthday Honours list on 4 June 2007.[32]

Retirement[link]

Lomu retired from rugby in 2007, but was persuaded to play in the Help For Heroes charity match at Twickenham a year later, although he had to withdraw after injuring his ankle in training.[33]

Later that year after recovering from the injury Lomu played in another charity match at Aberavon RFC's Talbot Athletic ground. The match was arranged by friends that Lomu had made during his playing days in Wales with Cardiff Blues. Lomu donned the navy blue jersey of the Aberavon Naval RFC, playing against a Port Talbot select XV made up of players from various local clubs such as; Aberavon Quins RFC, Baglan RFC & Taibach RFC in order to raise money for a local children's charity. The match was covered by the BBC rugby show Scrum V. [34]

However, in June 2009, the BBC claimed he was close to joining French third division club Marseille Vitrolles and was expected to start in the first match of the new season.[35]

In September 2009, Lomu took part in an amateur bodybuilding contest in Wellington. He revealed that he has lost weight since preparing in March and now weighs 115 kg. His weight loss was due to intensive gym work and a diet without carbohydrates. He claims he has not weighed this little since he left school at 19. He finished second in two categories, including the men’s open over-90 kg, and the mixed pairs. That meant he's done enough to qualify for next month’s competition. His partner Tracy suffered from breast cancer but also recovered like Lomu did. He also prepared for his comeback to rugby. He joined French Fédérale 1 team Marseille Vitrolles in November.[36] Lomu made his debut against Montmelian, they won 64–13 at home.[37] Lomu started the match at centre and was nervous but enjoyed the occasion very much. Lomu has now moved to number 8 successfully with Marseille Vitrolles Rugby, the position he played as a youngster in New Zealand.

Lomu also made an attempt to take part in a charity boxing event in New Zealand called "Fight for Life" 2011, which he was intended to be the captain of the rugby union team. He was intended to fight the main event against former league player Monty Betham. On 14 November Lomu pulled out of the competition as he had just recently been hospitalised for over a week due to his failing kidney. He was due to fight on 3 December.[38]

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Further reading[link]

  • Phil Shirley "Blood & Thunder The unofficial biography of Jonah Lomu" Harper Collins Publishers London ISBN 0-00-274028-1
  • Lomu, Jonah, (2004). Jonah Lomu Autobiography, Headline Book Pub Ltd, (ISBN 0-7553-1263-5)

External links[link]

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Jonah Hill

Hill at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Born Jonah Hill Feldstein
(1983-12-20) December 20, 1983 (age 28)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor, producer, screenwriter, comedian
Years active 2004–present

Jonah Hill (born Jonah Hill Feldstein;[1] December 20, 1983)[1] is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian, best known for his roles in Superbad (2007), Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Moneyball (2011), and 21 Jump Street (2012). He made his theatrical debut in I Heart Huckabees (2004), alongside Jason Schwartzman and Dustin Hoffman. He also co-created and starred in the animated comedy Allen Gregory on FOX. Hill was first nominated for a Teen Choice Award for his role in Accepted (2006) as Sherman Schrader, and for his role in Moneyball he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Early life[link]

Hill was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Sharon Lyn (née Chalkin), a costume designer and fashion stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses.[2][3][4] Hill was raised Jewish.[5][6] His parents were originally from Long Island, New York, and the family vacationed in the Catskills.[7] He attended The Center for Early Education, Brentwood School and then Crossroads School, in Santa Monica. After graduating from high school, Hill left California to attend The New School, where he studied music and sport.

Career[link]

While in college, Hill began writing his own plays and performing them in the Black and White bar in the East Village neighborhood of New York City.[8] His plays developed a small following and helped him realize that his true desire was to act in films. Hill was befriended by Dustin Hoffman's children, Rebecca and Jake, who introduced Hill to their father. The elder Hoffman asked him to audition for a role in I Heart Huckabees, in which Hill made his film debut.

Hill then made a brief appearance in Judd Apatow's directorial debut The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which eventually led to him starring in a larger supporting role in the Apatow-directed Knocked Up, an uncredited role of Dewey Cox's grown-up brother Nate Cox in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and leading roles in the Apatow-produced Superbad and Get Him to the Greek.

On television, Hill played the "RA Guy" on the first season of the Oxygen Network sitcom Campus Ladies. He also guest-starred in an episode of Clark and Michael.[9]

He was scheduled to host Saturday Night Live on November 17, 2007,[citation needed] which would have featured musical guest Kid Rock, but the episode was canceled due to the Writers Guild of America strike which lasted from November 5, 2007, to February 12, 2008. Instead, he hosted the March 15, 2008, show, which featured musical guest Mariah Carey (who was a replacement for the originally scheduled musical guest Janet Jackson).

He guest-starred in an episode of Reno 911 which aired on April 1, 2009.

Hill was in negotiations for a part in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as a sidekick to Shia LaBeouf's character, but this didn't go through.[10] He next starred in Judd Apatow's third directorial feature, Funny People, which also starred Adam Sandler, Eric Bana and Seth Rogen. He also was an associate producer of the 2009 Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary Brüno.[11]

Hill at the 2012 WonderCon in March 2012.

He guest starred on an episode of The Simpsons called "Pranks and Greens", portraying an immature man named Andy Hamilton who was hailed the best prankster in Springfield Elementary School history.[12]

In July 2011, Hill appeared at ESPN's ESPY awards sporting a much slimmer physique. He claimed to have lost 40 pounds. In November 2011, Hill, along with Sam Worthington and Dwight Howard, starred in commercials for the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, making his first appearance with his new look.[13] Hill was scheduled to guest star on the November 21, 2011 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw, but he skipped the event and a reason for Hill's no-show was not made clear.[14]

Hill received a Golden Globe nomination, his first nomination, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for his performance in the 2011 sports film Moneyball, in which he portrayed his first dramatic role as Peter Brandt.[15] In late January 2012, Hill received his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Moneyball.[16]

Hill co-starred with Channing Tatum in the film 21 Jump Street in 2012. In August 2011, it was confirmed that Hill would star in Neighborhood Watch.[17] Later in 2011, it was announced that Jonah Hill was in talks to star in Quentin Tarantino's new movie Django Unchained.[18] However, Hill had to decline a possible role due to his prior commitment to Neighborhood Watch, lamenting that to act in a Tarantino movie was "the perfect next step" in his career.[18]

Writing[link]

Hill has wanted to be a writer since he was young, dreaming of someday joining the writing teams of The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and The Larry Sanders Show.[8] At one point, Hill was writing a screenplay with close friend and I Heart Huckabees co-star Jason Schwartzman.[8] At another, he was writing Pure Imagination, a comedy for Sony about a man who develops an imaginary friend after a traumatic experience. Filming was expected to begin in 2008, but it has been in development since then.[19] Hill directed his first music video, for singer Sara Bareilles's "Gonna Get Over You".

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Year Title Role Notes
2004 I Heart Huckabees Bret Film Debut
2005 40-Year-Old Virgin, TheThe 40-Year-Old Virgin eBay store Customer
2006 Grandma's Boy Barry
Click Ben Newman – at age 17
Accepted Sherman Schrader Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Scream
10 Items or Less Packy
2007 Knocked Up Jonah
Evan Almighty Eugene Tenanbaum
Rocket Science Lionel
Superbad Seth Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Comedy
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Nate Cox's Ghost Uncredited
2008 Strange Wilderness Lynn Cooker
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Matthew
Just Add Water Eddie
Horton Hears a Who! Tommy
Emerson Park Dylan Machado
Funny People Leo
Invention of Lying, TheThe Invention of Lying Frank
2009 Brüno Associate Producer Only
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Brundon Uncredited
2010 How to Train Your Dragon Snotlout Voice role
Get Him to the Greek Aaron Green Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Comedy
Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Liplock (shared with Russell Brand)
Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Fight/Action Sequence (shared with Russell Brand and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs)
Cyrus Cyrus
Megamind Titan/Hal Stewart Voice role
2011 "Gonna Get Over You" Director Music video
Moneyball Peter Brand Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated - Iowa Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated - St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Sitter, TheThe Sitter Noah Jaybird
2012 21 Jump Street Schmidt Writer, Executive Producer
The Watch Franklin Post-Production
Good Time Gang Unknown Pre-Production[20]
2013 The End of the World Jonah Hill Filming[21]
The Wolf of Wall Street T.B.A Pre-Production[22]
2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 Snotlout Voice role; Pre-Production
True Story Michael Finkel Pre-Production[23]
Zoolander 2 T.B.A. Rumored; Announced[24]
201? 21 Jump Street 2 Schmidt Producer; Announced[25]

Television[link]

Year Title Role Notes
2004 NYPD Blue Clerk Episode "You're Buggin' Me"
2006 Campus Ladies Guy 7 Episodes
2007 Wainy Days Neil (TV series short), Two Episodes
Clark and Michael Derek Episode 8 "Writing Partners"
Human Giant Weenie King Customer Episode "Ta Da"
2009 Reno 911! Daniel Episode "Training Day"
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Jeffrey Simmons Credited as John A. Hill, Episode "Road Trip"
The Simpsons Andy Hamilton Voice, Episode Pranks and Greens
2011 Allen Gregory Allen Gregory Voice, Title Character

References[link]

  1. ^ a b ""Superbad" Star A Real Pisser". The Smoking Gun. August 13, 2007. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0813072superbad1.html. Retrieved August 18, 2007. 
  2. ^ Sharon CHALKIN, b: Private. Levinsongenealogy.org. Retrieved on 2011-11-15.
  3. ^ Social Announcements – Weddings Engagements Births – Article – NYTimes.com. Select.nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2011-11-15.
  4. ^ Brevet, Brad. (2010-06-02) Interview: Jonah Hill Talks Music and Movies Promoting 'Get Him to the Greek'. Rope of Silicon. Retrieved on 2011-11-15.
  5. ^ Solomon, Deborah. (2007-08-12) Jonah Hill – Movies – New York Times. Nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2011-11-15.
  6. ^ "Jonah Hill". Jewogle. http://www.jewogle.com/article/Entertainment/Actors/49/. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
  7. ^ Pfefferman, Naomi (2012-01-11). "Jonah Hill: ‘Moneyball’s’ super-talented, super-nice Jewish boy [VIDEO] | The Ticket". Jewish Journal. http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/jonah_hill_super-talented_super-nice_jewish_boy_20120111/. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
  8. ^ a b c "One on One with... Jonah Hill", Hobo Trashcan, August 2006. Retrieved on June 29, 2007.
  9. ^ Clark and Michael – Episode 8 – "Writing Partners", August 2, 2007
  10. ^ Nicole Sperling (May 6, 2008). "Jonah Hill no longer in talks for 'Transformers 2'". Entertainment Weekly. http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/05/jonah-hill.html. Retrieved May 7, 2008. 
  11. ^ Michael Fleming (June 11, 2008). "Trio joins Judd Apatow film". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987337.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved June 13, 2008. 
  12. ^ "The Simpsons TV Interview – Al Jean". IGN. January 29, 2009. http://au.tv.ign.com/dor/objects/823209/thesimpsons/videos/simpsons_jean_012809.html. Retrieved January 30, 2009. 
  13. ^ Crecente, Brian (2011-11-04). "Jonah Hill, Sam Worthington Star in This Live Action Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Ad". Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/5856653/jonah-hill-stars-in-this-live-action-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-ad. 
  14. ^ "Jonah Hill no-show disappoints wrestling fans". 3 News. http://www.3news.co.nz/Jonah-Hill-no-show-disappoints-wrestling-fans/tabid/418/articleID/233764/Default.aspx. Retrieved 6 December 2011. 
  15. ^ "Few surprises in Golden Globe nominations". Suntimes.com. http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/9464905-421/few-surprises-in-golden-globe-nominations.html. 
  16. ^ "Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". Oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/84/nominees.html. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
  17. ^ Wloszczyna, Susan (23 September 2011). "Jonah Hill forms 'Neighborhood Watch' with Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn". USA Today. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/09/jonah-hill-forms-neighborhood-watch-with-ben-stiller-vince-vaughn/1. Retrieved 25 December 2011. 
  18. ^ a b Jonah Hill turned down ‘Django Unchained’ |. Reservoirwatchdogs.com (2011-11-09). Retrieved on 2011-11-15.
  19. ^ Carroll, Larry. "'Superbad' Star Re-Teams With Apatow For 'Imagination'", MTV News, 2007-07-09. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
  20. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1987572/
  21. ^ Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse (2012). IMDB.com
  22. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/
  23. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2273657/
  24. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1608290/
  25. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294449/

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Jonah Lehrer talking at Pop!Tech, 2009

Jonah Lehrer (born June 25, 1981) is an American author and journalist who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities. He has published three books. Simon Ings has written, "Lehrer fancies himself – and not without reason – as a sort of one-man third culture, healing the rift between sciences and humanities by communicating and contrasting their values in a way that renders them comprehensible to partisans of either camp."[1]

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Life[link]

Lehrer graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a major in neuroscience; while an undergraduate, he examined the biological process of memory in Professor Eric Kandel's Lab.[2] He was also editor of the Columbia Review for two years.[2] He then studied 20th century literature and philosophy at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.[3] He is a contributing editor at Wired, Scientific American Mind, National Public Radio's Radiolab, and has written for The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe.[4] Jonah Lehrer is also featured in brief informational sessions on the television show "Brink", on the science channel. He currently writes the "Head Case" column for The Wall Street Journal.

Books[link]

Jonah Lehrer is the author of three books: Proust Was a Neuroscientist (2007), How We Decide (2009), and Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012).

Proust Was a Neuroscientist was Lehrer's debut book; it is a collection of biographical essays on creative figures such as Paul Cezanne, Walt Whitman, Auguste Escoffier, and Marcel Proust.[5] Lehrer argues for an intimate relationship with science and the humanities, and he holds that many discoveries of neuroscience are actually rediscoveries of insights made much earlier by various artists.[1]

In How We Decide, Lehrer argues there are two main parts of the brain involved in decision-making, the rational and the emotional.[6] His thesis has been called into question based on current understanding of neuroscience.[7] On 5 February 2009, he appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss the book.[8] Lehrer appeared a second time on 17 April 2012 to promote his newest book "Imagine: How Creativity works".

See also[link]

References[link]

  1. ^ a b Ings, Simon (February 11, 2011). "Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer – review". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/12/proust-neuroscientist-jonah-lehrer-review. 
  2. ^ a b Sterling, Kristin (December 16, 2002). "College's Cyrus Habib, Jonah Lehrer Named Rhodes Scholars". Columbia News. Columbia University. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/02/12/rhodes_scholar.html. 
  3. ^ "Jonah Lehrer: Author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist". The Lavin Agency. http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jonah-lehrer.html. Retrieved 2011-12-10. 
  4. ^ "Short bio at personal page". 
  5. ^ Lehrer, Jonah (2007). Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-62010-4. 
  6. ^ Lehrer, Jonah (2009). How We Decide. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-62011-1. 
  7. ^ Kepecs, Adam (April 16, 2009). "Decisions, decisions...". Nature 458 (7240): 835. DOI:10.1038/458835a. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7240/full/458835a.html. Retrieved 2010-09-17. 
  8. ^ "Lehrer on the Colbert Report". http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/217984/february-05-2009/jonah-lehrer. Retrieved 2009-05-15. 

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Brad Pitt
A Caucasian with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a mustache and short brown beard, in front of a turquoise background. He is wearing a white shirt and white hat.
Pitt at the 2008 premiere of Burn After Reading
Born William Bradley Pitt
(1963-12-18) December 18, 1963 (age 48)
Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S.
Alma mater University of Missouri
Occupation Actor, producer
Spouse Jennifer Aniston (m. 2000–2005) «start: (2000)–end+1: (2006)»"Marriage: Jennifer Aniston to Brad Pitt" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Brad_Pitt)
Partner Angelina Jolie (2005–present)
Children 6

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt[1] (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received four Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.[2][3]

Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Legends of the Fall (1994). In 1995, he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In addition, Pitt owns a production company, Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include The Departed (2006), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Moneyball, which garnered a Best Picture nomination.

Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has attracted wide publicity.[4] He and Jolie have six children—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally.

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Early life[link]

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is the son of Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a high school counselor, and William Alvin Pitt, a truck company owner, and was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.[5] The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his younger siblings, Doug (born 1966) and Julie Neal (born 1969).[6] Born into a conservative household, he was raised as Southern Baptist,[7] although he has since described himself as oscillating between atheism and agnosticism.[8] Pitt has stated that his family's ancestry consists of "probably... Irish-Scots-Germans who settled in the area... I know we have some Seminole, and some Cherokee Indian, in us".[9] Pitt has described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country", having grown up with "a lot of hills, a lot of lakes".[9]

Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, tennis, wrestling and swimming teams.[10][11] He participated in the school's Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, and in musicals.[12] Following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism, with a focus on advertising.[12] As a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity,[5] he acted in several fraternity shows.[13] As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down. He loved films—"a portal into different worlds for me"—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made.[7] Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs.[7]

Career[link]

Early work[link]

While struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London.[1][12][14] Pitt's onscreen career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Man's Land and Less Than Zero.[12] His television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World.[15] In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains.[16] He appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade (played by Shalane McCall).[17][1] Pitt described his character as "an idiot boyfriend who gets caught in the hay."[18] Speaking of his scenes with McCall, Pitt later said, "It was kind of wild, because I'd never even met her before."[1] Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street.[19]

In the same year, the Yugoslavian–U.S. co-production The Dark Side of the Sun (1988) gave Pitt his first leading film role, as a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin condition. The film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997.[12] Pitt made two motion picture appearances in 1989: the first in a supporting role in the comedy Happy Together; the second a featured role in the horror film Cutting Class, the first of Pitt's films to reach theaters.[16] He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddy's Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and (for a second time) Growing Pains.[20]

Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, a drug addict who takes advantage of a young runaway (played by Juliette Lewis) in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die?, the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder.[21] Ken Tucker, television reviewer for Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Pitt is a magnificent slimeball as her hoody boyfriend; looking and sounding like a malevolent John Cougar Mellencamp, he's really scary."[21] The same year, Pitt co-starred in six episodes of the short-lived Fox drama Glory Days,[1] and took a supporting role in the HBO television movie The Image.[22] His next appearance came in the 1991 film Across the Tracks; Pitt portrayed Joe Maloney, a high school runner with a criminal brother, played by Ricky Schroder.[23]

After years of supporting roles in movies and frequent television guest appearances, Pitt attracted wider recognition in his supporting role in the 1991 road film Thelma & Louise.[22] He played J.D., a small-time criminal who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). His love scene with Davis has been cited as the event that defined Pitt as a sex symbol.[16][24] After Thelma & Louise, Pitt starred in the 1991 film Johnny Suede, a low-budget picture about an aspiring rock star,[25] and the 1992 film Cool World,[16] although neither furthered his career, having poor reviews and box office performance.[26][27]

Pitt took the role of Paul Maclean in the 1992 biographical film A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford.[28] His portrayal of the character has been described as a career-making performance,[29] proving that Pitt could be more than a "cowboy-hatted hunk."[30] He has admitted to feeling under pressure when making the film[6] and thought it one of his "weakest performances ... It's so weird that it ended up being the one that I got the most attention for."[6] Pitt believed that he benefited from working with such a talented cast and crew. He compared working with Redford to playing tennis with a superior player, saying "when you play with somebody better than you, your game gets better."[29][30]

In 1993, Pitt reunited with Juliette Lewis for the road film Kalifornia. He played Early Grayce, a serial killer and the boyfriend of Lewis's character in a performance described by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone as "outstanding, all boyish charm and then a snort that exudes pure menace."[31] Pitt also garnered attention for a brief appearance in the cult hit True Romance as a stoner named Floyd, providing much needed comic relief to the action film.[32] He capped the year by winning a ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.[33]

Critical success[link]

1994 marked a significant turning point in Pitt's career. Starring as the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the feature film Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice's 1976 novel of the same name,[34] he was part of an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas.[34] Despite his winning two MTV Movie Awards at the 1995 ceremony,[35] his performance was poorly received. According to the Dallas Observer, "Brad Pitt ... is a large part of the problem [in the film]. When directors play up his cocky, hunkish, folksy side ... he's a joy to watch. But there's nothing about him that suggests inner torment or even self-awareness, which makes him a boring Louis."[36]

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Pitt was named Sexiest Man Alive by People in 1995 and 2000

Following the release of Interview with the Vampire, Pitt starred in Legends of the Fall (1994),[37] based on a novel by the same name by Jim Harrison, set in the American West during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Portraying Tristan Ludlow, son of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) a Cornish immigrant,[38] Pitt received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Actor category.[39] Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas co-starred as Pitt's brothers. Although the film's reception was mixed,[40] many film critics praised Pitt's performance. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "Pitt's diffident mix of acting and attitude works to such heartthrob perfection it's a shame the film's superficiality gets in his way."[41] The Deseret News predicted that Legends of the Fall would solidify Pitt's reputation as a lead actor.[42]

In 1995, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow in the crime thriller Seven, playing a detective on the trail of a serial killer (played by Kevin Spacey).[43] Pitt called it a great movie and declared the part would expand his acting horizons.[44] He expressed his intent to move on from "this 'pretty boy' thing [...] and play someone with flaws."[45] His performance was critically well received, with Variety saying that it was screen acting at its best, further remarking on Pitt's ability to turn in a "determined, energetic, creditable job" as the detective.[46] Seven earned $327 million at the international box office.[26]

Following the success of Seven, Pitt took a supporting role as Jeffrey Goines in Terry Gilliam's 1995 science-fiction film 12 Monkeys. The movie received predominantly positive reviews, with Pitt praised in particular. Janet Maslin of the New York Times called Twelve Monkeys "fierce and disturbing" and remarked on Pitt's "startlingly frenzied performance", concluding that he "electrifies Jeffrey with a weird magnetism that becomes important later in the film."[47] He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film[39] and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[48]

The following year he had a role in the legal drama Sleepers (1996), based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel of the same name.[49] The film received mixed reviews.[50] In the 1997 movie The Devil's Own Pitt starred, opposite Harrison Ford, as the Irish Republican Army terrorist Rory Devany,[51] a role for which he was required to learn an Irish accent.[52] Critical opinion was divided on his accent; "Pitt finds the right tone of moral ambiguity, but at times his Irish brogue is too convincing – it's hard to understand what he's saying", wrote the San Francisco Chronicle.[53] The Charleston Gazette opined that it had favored Pitt's accent over the movie.[54] The Devil's Own grossed $140 million worldwide,[26] but was a critical failure. Later that year he led as Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean-Jacques Annaud film Seven Years in Tibet.[55] Pitt trained for months for the role, which demanded significant mountain climbing and trekking practice, including rock climbing in California and the European Alps with his co-star David Thewlis.[56] The film received mostly negative reviews, and was generally considered a disappointment.[57]

Pitt had the lead role in 1998's Meet Joe Black. He portrayed a personification of death inhabiting the body of a young man to learn what it is like to be human.[58] The film received mixed reviews, and many were critical of Pitt's performance. According to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, Pitt was unable to "to make an audience believe that he knows all the mysteries of death and eternity."[59] Roger Ebert stated "Pitt is a fine actor, but this performance is a miscalculation."[60]

From 1999 to 2003[link]

In 1999, Pitt portrayed Tyler Durden, an uncompromising and charismatic individual, in Fight Club,[61][62] a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name, directed by David Fincher.[63] Pitt prepared for the part with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling.[64] To look the part, Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming ended.[65] While promoting Fight Club, Pitt said that the film explored not taking one's aggressions out on someone else but to "have an experience, take a punch more and see how you come out on the other end."[66] Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival.[67] Despite divided critical opinion on the film as a whole,[68][69] Pitt's performance was widely praised. Paul Clinton of CNN noted the risky yet successful nature of the film,[70] while Variety remarked upon Pitt's ability to be "cool, charismatic and more dynamically physical, perhaps than [...] his breakthrough role in Thelma and Louise".[71] In spite of a worse-than-expected box office performance, Fight Club became a cult classic after its DVD release in 2000.[72]

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Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Julia Roberts, cast of Ocean's Eleven and director Steven Soderbergh in December 2001

Following Fight Club, Pitt was cast as an Irish Gypsy boxer with a barely intelligible accent in Guy Ritchie's 2000 gangster film Snatch.[73] Several reviewers were critical of Snatch; however, most praised Pitt.[74] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said Pitt was "ideally cast as an Irishman whose accent is so thick even Brits can't understand him", going on to say that, before Snatch, Pitt had been "shackled by roles that called for brooding introspection, but recently he has found his calling in black comic outrageousness and flashy extroversion;"[75] while Amy Taubin of The Village Voice claimed that "Pitt gets maximum comic mileage out of a one-joke role".[76]

The following year Pitt starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy The Mexican,[77] a film that garnered a range of reviews[78] but enjoyed box office success.[26] Pitt's next role, in 2001's $143 million-grossing Cold War thriller Spy Game,[26] was as Tom Bishop, an operative of the CIA's Special Activities Division, mentored by Robert Redford's character.[79] Mark Holcomb of Salon.com enjoyed the film, although he noted that neither Pitt nor Redford provided "much of an emotional connection for the audience".[80] On November 22, 2001, Pitt made a guest appearance in the eighth season of the television series Friends, playing a man with a grudge against Rachel Green, played by Jennifer Aniston, to whom Pitt was married at the time.[81] For this performance he was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.[82] In December 2001, Pitt had the role of Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack original. He joined an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, and Julia Roberts.[83] Well-received by critics, Ocean's Eleven was highly successful at the box office, earning $450 million worldwide.[26]

Pitt appeared in two episodes of MTV's reality series Jackass in February 2002, first running through the streets of Los Angeles with several cast members in gorilla suits,[84] and participating in his own staged abduction in another episode.[85] In the same year, Pitt had a cameo role in George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.[86] He took on his first voice-acting roles in 2003, speaking as the titular character of the DreamWorks animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas[87] and playing Boomhauer's brother, Patch, in an episode of the animated television series King of the Hill.[88]

After 2003[link]

Pitt had two major film roles in 2004, starring as Achilles in Troy, and making a second appearance as Rusty Ryan, in the sequel Ocean's Twelve. He spent six months sword training before the filming of Troy, based on the Iliad.[89] An on-set injury to his Achilles tendon delayed production on the picture for several weeks.[90] With a total worldwide gross of $497 million, Troy remains Pitt's most commercially successful picture to date. The film earned $364 million outside the U.S. and $133 million domestically.[26][91] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Times stated that Pitt excelled at such a demanding role.[92] Troy was the first film produced by Plan B Entertainment, a film production company he had founded two years earlier with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount Pictures.[93] Ocean's Twelve earned $362 million worldwide,[26] and Pitt and Clooney's dynamic was described (by CNN's Paul Clinton) as "the best male chemistry since Paul Newman and Robert Redford."[94]

In 2005, Pitt starred in the Doug Liman-directed action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in which a bored married couple discover that each is an assassin sent to kill the other. The feature received reasonable reviews but was generally lauded for the chemistry between Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who played his character's wife Jane Smith. The Star Tribune noted that "while the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry."[95] Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned $478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.[96]

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Pitt at the German premiere of Inglourious Basterds in July 2009

For his next feature film, Pitt starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro González Iñárritu's multi-narrative drama Babel (2006).[97] Pitt's performance was critically well-received, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that he was credible and gave the film visibility.[98] Pitt later said he regarded taking the part as one of the best decisions of his career.[99] The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival[100] and was later featured at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.[101] Babel received seven Academy and Golden Globe award nominations, winning the Best Drama Golden Globe, and earned Pitt a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe.[39] That same year, Pitt's company Plan B Entertainment produced The Departed, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Pitt was credited on-screen as a producer; however, only Graham King was ruled eligible for the Oscar win.[102]

Reprising his role as Rusty Ryan in a third picture, Pitt starred in 2007's Ocean's Thirteen.[103] While less lucrative than the first two films, this sequel earned $311 million at the international box office.[26] Pitt's next film role was as American outlaw Jesse James in the 2007 Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, adapted from Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name.[104] Directed by Andrew Dominik and produced by Pitt's company Plan B Entertainment, the film premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival,[105] with Pitt playing a "scary and charismatic" role, according to Lewis Beale of Film Journal International,[106] and earning Pitt the Volpi Cup award for Best Actor at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.[107] Although Pitt attended the festival to promote the film, he left early after being attacked by a fan who pushed through his bodyguards.[108] He eventually collected the award one year later at the 2008 festival.[109]

Pitt's next appearance was in the 2008 black comedy Burn After Reading, his first collaboration with the Coen brothers. The film received a positive reception from critics, with The Guardian calling it "a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy",[110] noting that Pitt's performance was one of the funniest.[110] He was later cast as Benjamin Button, the lead in David Fincher's 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a loosely adapted version of a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows a man who is born an octogenarian and ages in reverse,[111] with Pitt's "sensitive" performance making Benjamin Button a "timeless masterpiece," according to Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun.[112] The performance earned Pitt his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination,[113] as well as a fourth Golden Globe and second Academy Award nomination,[39][114] all in the category for Best Actor. The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations in total, and grossed $329 million at the box office worldwide.[26]

Since 2008, Pitt's work has included a leading role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, released in August 2009 at a special presentation at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[115] Pitt played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France.[116] The film was a box office hit, taking $311 million worldwide,[26] and garnered generally favorable reviews.[117] The film received multiple awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations and seven MTV Movie Award nominations, including Best Male Performance for Pitt.[118][119] He voiced the superhero character Metro Man in the 2010 animated feature Megamind.[120] Pitt appeared in Terrence Malick's drama The Tree of Life, co-starring Sean Penn, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.[121] In a performance that attracted strong praise, he portrayed the Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane in the drama Moneyball, which is based on the 2003 book of the same name written by Michael Lewis.[122] Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations including Best Actor for Pitt.[123]

He has signed on to appear as a British explorer searching for a mysterious Amazonian civilization in The Lost City of Z, based on David Grann's 2009 book of the same name.[124]

Humanitarian and political causes[link]

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Pitt signing autographs for troops during his 2001 visit to Incirlik Air Base

Pitt visited the University of Missouri campus in October 2004 to encourage students to vote in the 2004 U.S. presidential election,[125] in which he supported John Kerry.[125][126] Later in October he publicly supported the principle of public funding for embryonic stem-cell research. "We have to make sure that we open up these avenues so that our best and our brightest can go find these cures that they believe they will find," he said.[127] In support of this he endorsed Proposition 71, a California ballot initiative intended to provide federal government funding for stem-cell research.[128]

Pitt supports the ONE Campaign, an organization aimed at combating AIDS and poverty in the developing world.[129][130] He narrated the 2005 PBS public television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, which discusses current global health issues[131] and traveled to Pakistan in November 2005 with Angelina Jolie to see the impact of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.[132] The following year Pitt and Jolie flew to Haiti, where they visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean.[133] In May 2007, Pitt and Jolie donated $1 million to three organizations in Chad and Sudan dedicated to those affected by the crisis in the Darfur region.[134] Along with Clooney, Damon, Don Cheadle, and Jerry Weintraub, Pitt is one of the founders of "Not On Our Watch", an organization that tries to focus global attention and resources to stop and prevent genocides such as that in Darfur.[135]

Pitt has a sustained interest in architecture[136] and has narrated Design e2, a PBS television series focused on worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design.[137] He founded the Make It Right Foundation in 2006, organizing housing professionals in New Orleans to finance and construct 150 sustainable, affordable new houses in New Orleans's Ninth Ward following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.[138][139] The project involves 13 architectural firms and the environmental organization Global Green USA, with several of the firms donating their services.[140][141] Pitt and philanthropist Steve Bing have each committed $5 million in donations.[142] The first six homes were completed in October 2008,[143] and in September 2009 Pitt received an award in recognition of the project from the U.S. Green Building Council, a non-profit trade organization that promotes sustainability in how buildings are designed, built and operated.[144][145] Pitt met with U.S. President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in March 2009 to promote his concept of green housing as a national model and to discuss federal funding possibilities.[146]

In September 2006, Pitt and Jolie established a charitable organization, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid humanitarian causes around the world.[147] The foundation made initial donations of $1 million each to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders,[147] followed by an October 2006 donation of $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation, an organization created in memory of the late American journalist Daniel Pearl.[148] According to federal filings, Pitt and Jolie invested $8.5 million into the foundation in 2006; it gave away $2.4 million in 2006[149] and $3.4 million in 2007.[150] In June 2009 the Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1 million to a U.N. refugee agency to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between troops and Taliban militants.[151][152] In January 2010 the foundation donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for emergency medical assistance to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.[153][154]

Pitt is a supporter of same-sex marriage. In an October 2006 interview with Esquire, Pitt said that he would marry Jolie when everyone in America is legally able to marry.[155] He reaffirmed his stance to Parade in August 2009,[156] and again to People in July 2011.[157] In September 2008, he donated $100,000 to the campaign against California's 2008 ballot proposition Proposition 8, an initiative to overturn the state Supreme Court decision that had legalized same-sex marriage.[158] Pitt stated his reasons for the stance: "Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8."[159] In March 2012, Pitt was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, '8' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Judge Vaughn Walker.[160] The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, a non-profit organization funding the plaintiffs' legal team and sponsoring the play.[161][162]

In the media[link]

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Pitt interviewed by the news media at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2007

Pitt's sex appeal has been picked up by many sources including Empire, who named him one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history in 1995.[12] The same year, Pitt won People's Sexiest Man Alive, an accolade he won again in 2000.[2][163] Pitt appeared on Forbes's annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in 2006, 2007, and 2008, at No. 20, No. 5, and No. 10 respectively.[164][165][166] In 2007 he was listed among the Time 100, a compilation of the 100 most influential people in the world, as selected annually by TIME.[167] The magazine credited Pitt with using "his star power to get people to look [to where] cameras don't usually catch".[167] Pitt was again included in the Time 100 in 2009, this time in the Builders and Titans list.[168]

Starting in 2005, Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie became one of the most reported celebrity stories worldwide. After confirming that Jolie was pregnant in early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding the couple reached what Reuters, in a story titled "The Brangelina fever," called "the point of insanity".[4] To avoid media attention the couple flew to Namibia for the birth of their daughter Shiloh, "the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ."[169] Similarly intense media interest greeted the announcement two years later of Jolie's second pregnancy; for the two weeks Jolie spent in a seaside hospital in Nice, reporters and photographers camped outside on the promenade to report on the birth.[170]

In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets, Pitt, together with Jolie, was found to be the favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide.[171] Pitt has appeared in several television commercials. For the U.S. market, he starred in a Heineken commercial aired during the 2005 Super Bowl; it was directed by David Fincher, who had directed Pitt in Seven, Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.[172] Other commercial appearances came in television spots designed for Asian markets, advertising such products as the Acura Integra, in which he was featured opposite Russian model Tatiana Sorokko,[173] as well as SoftBank and Edwin Jeans.[174][175]

Personal life[link]

Relationships[link]

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pitt was involved in successive relationships with several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens (Head of the Class),[176] Jill Schoelen (Cutting Class),[176] and Juliette Lewis (Too Young to Die? and Kalifornia), who, at the age of 16, was ten years his junior when they started dating.[29] In addition, Pitt had a much-publicized romance and engagement to his Seven co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1994 to 1997.[176]

Pitt met Friends actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998 and married her in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000.[1][177] For years their marriage was considered a rare Hollywood success;[1][178] however, in January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced that they had decided formally to separate after seven years together.[177] Two months later Aniston filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.[179] Pitt and Aniston's divorce was finalized by the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 2, 2005, legally ending their marriage.[179] Despite media reports that Pitt and Aniston have an acrimonious relationship, Pitt said in a February 2009 interview that he and Aniston "check in with each other", adding that they were both big parts of each others' lives.[180]

During Pitt's divorce from Aniston, his involvement with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie attracted vigorous media attention.[181] While Pitt denied claims of adultery, he admitted that he "fell in love" with Jolie on the set.[182] In April 2005, one month after Aniston filed for divorce, a set of paparazzi photographs emerged showing Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya; the pictures were construed in the press as evidence of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie.[183] During the summer of 2005, the two were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina".[184] On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child, thereby publicly acknowledging their relationship for the first time.[185] Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement in April 2012 after seven years together.[186]

Children[link]

In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, six-month-old Zahara Marley,[187] a decision which Jolie later stated she and Pitt had made together.[188] Pitt's publicist announced in December 2005 that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children, Zahara and Cambodia-born Maddox Chivan.[189] On January 19, 2006, a California judge granted Jolie's request to change the children's surnames from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt".[190] The adoptions were finalized soon after.[191]

Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newborn daughter would have a Namibian passport.[192] The couple sold the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images; the North American rights were purchased by People for over $4.1 million, while Hello! obtained the British rights for approximately $3.5 million. The proceeds from the sale were donated to charities serving African children.[193] Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it marked the first time an infant was recreated in wax by Madame Tussauds.[194]

On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted three-year-old Pax Thien from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.[195] Since Vietnam does not allow unmarried couples to adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent. In April 2007, Jolie filed a request to legally change her son's surname from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt", which was approved on May 31, 2007.[196] The rights for the first post-adoption images of Pax were sold to People for a reported $2 million, as well as to Hello! for an undisclosed amount.[197] Pitt adopted Pax in the United States on February 21, 2008.[198]

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins.[199] She gave birth to son Knox Léon and daughter Vivienne Marcheline on July 12, 2008 in Nice, France.[200] The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.[201][202] The couple donated the proceeds to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.[201][203]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

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