Look up mani, maní, or mâni in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mani may refer to:

People[link]

• Mani (name), a given name and surname (including a list of people with the name)
  • Mani (prophet) (c. 216 – 276), Iranian prophet
  • Mani (bass guitarist) (born 1962), English rock musician
• Mani people, a Negrito ethnic group from Thailand

Geography[link]

• Maní, Casanare a town and municipality in Casanare Department, Colombia
• Mani, Chad, a town and sub-prefecture in Chad
• Mani, Evros, a village in northeastern Greece
• Mani, Karnataka , a village in Dakshina Kannada district of India
• Mani, Nigeria, a town in Katsina State, Nigeria
• Mani, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
• Maní, Yucatán, a small city in Yucatán, Mexico
• Mani Peninsula, a geographical and cultural region in Greece
• El Mani, a community on the island of Puerto Rico

Other uses[link]

• Maní (Amazonian legend), a legend of the indigenous tribe Tupi in Brazil
• Máni, a personification of the moon in Norse mythology
• Mâni, a form of Turkish folk song
• Mani (film), a 2003 Kannada film
• Mani stick fighting, an African derived martial art from Cuba
• Mani the parakeet, a Rose-ringed Parakeet that serves as an astrologer 'assistant' to M. Muniyappan in Singapore
• Mani, short for the mantra of Avalokiteśvara, Om mani padme hum

See also[link]

• Maniyy, a term for sexual fluids in Islamic jurisprudence
• East Mani, a municipality in the Laconia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece
• West Mani, a municipality in the Messenia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece
• All pages beginning with "Mani"
• All pages with titles containing "Mani"
• Manes (disambiguation)

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Sandra Bernhard
Bernhard at the Daryl Roth Theater (NYC) April 2006
Born	(1955-06-06) June 6, 1955 (age 57) Flint, Michigan, United States
Medium	Stand-up, television, music, books
Nationality	American
Years active	1970s-present
Genres	Observational comedy Political satire
Subject(s)	Celebrity culture American politics
Website	http://www.sandrabernhard.com

Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is number 97 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.^[1]

Early life[link]

Bernhard has often addressed her childhood in interviews and within the context of her stand-up comedy. She was born in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of Jeanette and Jerome Bernhard.^[2] She has three older brothers. Her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, when she was 10.^[3]

Of her Jewish family, Bernhard stated in her show Without You I'm Nothing: "My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world." In the documentary program Girls Who Do: Comedy, she discusses being a funny teenager. After graduating from Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, she went to live on a kibbutz in Israel. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19. During that time she made ends meet working as a manicurist in a high-end salon.

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Bernhard became a popular staple at The Comedy Store. As her popularity as a comedian grew she was cast as a supporting player on The Richard Pryor Show in 1977. Guest appearances on evening talk shows followed. Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as stalker and kidnapper Masha in the film The King of Comedy for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She began performing her first one-woman show called I'm Your Woman in 1985, and an album version was released. Bernhard appeared in a variety of tiny film and television roles throughout the 1980s while crafting her stand-up routine into a more performance art oriented show. She launched an Off Broadway one woman show called Without You I'm Nothing, With You I'm Not Much Better in 1988 which played at The Orpheum Theatre. In 1990 it was turned into a film and a double album of the same name. The film was mostly shot on location in 1989 in The Cocoanut Grove located in The Ambassador Hotel. A frequent guest on David Letterman's NBC program, it was during the run of 'Without You I'm Nothing, With You I'm Not Much Better' that she appeared with her then good friend (and rumored lover) Madonna on the show. The two alluded to their romantic relationship and staged a sexy confrontation. They would continue to be friends for several years, with Bernhard even making an appearance in Madonna's film 'Truth or Dare.'

Career after 1990[link]

In 1991 Bernhard began playing the role of Nancy Bartlett on the hit sitcom Roseanne. She appeared in 33 episodes between 1991 and 1997, and was one of the first actresses to portray an openly lesbian recurring character on American television. The role is one of her best known, something she has lamented in her stand-up as being both a blessing and a curse.

In September 1992, Bernhard did a nude pictorial for Playboy. She hosted the USA Network's Reel Wild Cinema for two seasons beginning in 1995. Bernhard continued acting in mostly independent films and TV guest roles and forays into mainstream films such as Hudson Hawk and Dallas Doll. In 1991 she released her first studio album, entitled Excuses For Bad Behavior (Part One).

In 1995, she briefly appeared as a guest in the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast, in an episode titled "Jerk". In 1996, she guest-starred on an episode of Highlander: The Series called "Dramatic License" in which she played a romance novelist writing about the life of the main character. She also appeared (as herself) on Will and Grace in an episode dealing with Will and Grace's spuriously bidding on Sandra's Manhattan apartment in order to become friendly with her and culminates in a diatribe from Bernhard when their ruse is exposed, with obfuscating sounds of a blender (she was having a smoothie made) blotting out supposed obscenities. She returned as herself briefly two years later.

Bernhard returned to Broadway in 1998 with the show I'm Still Here... Damn It!, which was recorded for a live comedy album. At that time of the show Bernhard was pregnant. She gave birth to daughter Cicely Yasin Bernhard on July 4, 1998.^[4][5] For the next several years she would self-record all of her live shows and release cheaply made CD-R versions which were sold in the lobby of her shows. She continued touring and making smaller films and TV guest appearances.

She returned to New York in 2006 with the Off-Broadway show Everything Bad & Beautiful. The CD Everything Bad & Beautiful was critically lauded as one of her best, released by indie label Breaking Records.^[6] The year 2007 saw the creation of Bernhard's show Plan B from Outer Space as well as Indie label upstart Breaking Records release of the compilation "Breaking For the Holidays" where Bernhard co-penned Miracle of Lights with Mitchell Kaplan. She toured "Plan B" through 2008, and performed Miracle of Lights on some morning shows in New York.

Bernhard was a featured guest singer with children's artist Dan Zane's on the Family Dance album's "Thrift Shop".^[7]

In an interview with Howard Stern, the comedian revealed that she was originally offered the role of Miranda Hobbes of TV show Sex and the City, but opted out due to the "terrible" original script and low paycheck.^[8]

Personal life[link]

On July 4, 1998, she had her daughter Cicely Yasin Bernhard via caesarean section.^[9][10]

Controversies and criticisms[link]

In August 2006, Sandra Bernhard served as the spokesperson in a commercial for Make-up Art Cosmetics (MAC). In the commercial, promoting PlushGlass lipgloss, Bernhard referred to someone who might not approve of her outspokenness as a "...little freaked out, intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch". MAC edited the line from the commercial to avoid offending some of its customer base.^[11]

In September 2008, Bernhard created controversy during one of her one-woman shows by saying that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she entered Manhattan. Bernhard later said that the remark was "part of a much larger, nuanced and yes, provocative (that's what I do) piece from my show about racism, freedom, women's rights and the extreme views of Governor Sarah Palin..."^[12]

Music[link]

Albums[link]

Bernhard performs classic pop music, jazz, and blues tunes. She has released several albums (combinations of music and comedy) including:

• I'm Your Woman
• Without You I'm Nothing
• Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One)
• I'm Still Here... Damn It!
• The Love Machine
• Hero Worship
• Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part Two)
• The Love Machine Remastered (entirely different than The Love Machine)
• Giving Til It Hurts
• Gems of Mystery
• Everything Bad & Beautiful
• Whatever It Takes
• I Love Being Me, Don't you? - featuring White Widow

Singles[link]

• "Everybody's Young"
• "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (#13 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play)
• "Manic Superstar"
• "Phone Sex (Do You Want Me Tonight?)"
• "On the Runway" (#39 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play)
• "Perfection"
• "Miracle of Lights"
• "All Around"

Compilations[link]

• AT&T Presents Stormy Weather; song "Is That All There Is?"
• Divas of Dance - Volume 3 (Remixes); song "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"
• Breaking For the Holidays; song "Miracle of Lights"

All of the CDs from The Love Machine through Gems... have been cheaply produced CD-Rs, which is commonly what comedians sell at their shows. In 2004 Bernhard re-released special edition albums of I'm Your Woman and Without You I'm Nothing. The re-releases of both included special tracks, as well as several guests to help attract a new audience. Bernhard has stated that Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One) will be re-released in late 2007.

The Smoking Popes recorded a song entitled "Sandra", a tribute to Bernhard, wherein lead singer Josh Caterer professes his obsession with Sandra.

Literature[link]

• Confessions of a Pretty Lady - Re-released in 1989
• May I Kiss You on the Lips, Miss Sandra?
• Love, Love and Love

Filmography[link]

Features:

• Shogun Assassin (1980) (voice in English dub)
• Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams (1981)
• The King of Comedy (1983)
• The House of God (1984)
• Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird (1985)
• The Whoopee Boys (1986)
• Casual Sex? (1988)
• Track 29 (1988)
• Heavy Petting (1989) (documentary)
• Without You I'm Nothing (1990)
• Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) (documentary)
• Hudson Hawk (1991)
• Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)
• Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady (1994) (documentary)
• Dallas Doll (1994)
• Unzipped (1995) (documentary)
• A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema (1995) (Cameo)
• The Reggae Movie (1995) (documentary)
• Catwalk (1996) (documentary)
• Lover Girl (1997)
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
• Plump Fiction (1998)
• One Hell of a Guy (1998) (voice only)
• Exposé (1998)
• Wrongfully Accused (1998)
• Somewhere in the City (1998)
• Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999) (voice only) (direct-to-video)
• I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1999)
• Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
• Dinner Rush (2000)
• Zoolander (2001) (Cameo)
• The N-Word (2004) (documentary)
• The Easter Egg Adventure (2005) (voice only) (direct-to-video)
• Searching for Bobby D (2005)
• Dare (2009)
• See You in September (2009)
• Looking for Lenny (2009) (documentary)

Short Subjects:

• Museum of Love (1996)
• The Third Date (2003)
• Twenty Dollar Drinks (2006)

Television work[link]

• The Richard Pryor Special? (1977)
• The Richard Pryor Show (1977) (canceled after 4 episodes)
• Roseanne (recurring cast member from 1991–1997)
• Sandra After Dark, with Your Hostess, Sandra Bernhard (1992)
• The A-List (1992 - 1993)
• Reel Wild Cinema (1994 - 1996)
• Freaky Friday (1995)
• The Larry Sanders Show (1995)
• The Late Shift (1996)
• Superman: The Animated Series (1997)
• The Apocalypse (1997)
• Ally McBeal (1997)
• Hercules (1998 - 1999) (voice only)
• Sandra Bernhard: I'm Still Here... Damn It! (1999)
• Will & Grace (2000)
• Sandra Bernhard: Giving Them Lip (2001)
• The Sandra Bernhard Experience (2001 - 2003)
• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2003)
• Silver Lake (2004) (unsold pilot)
• The L Word (As Charlotte Birch, 2005)
• The Queer Edge (co-host from 2005 - 2007)
• Las Vegas (2007)
• The New Adventures of Old Christine
• Head Case (2009)
• Roseanne's Nuts (episode "Grannies Night Out", 2011)
• Hot in Cleveland (episode "Beards", 2012)
• GCB (episode "Revelation", 2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official website
• Sandra Bernhard at the Internet Movie Database
• Sandra Bernhard at the Internet Broadway Database
• Sandra Bernhard at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Sandra Bernhard at AllRovi
• Sandra Bernhard on Twitter
• Bernhard's brief appearance in Philadelphia (video)

Lizz Winstead (born August 5, 1961) is an American comedienne, radio and television personality, and blogger. Ms. Winstead was the youngest child born into a "conservative" Catholic family in Minneapolis, Minnesota^[1]; A native of Minnesota, Winstead was co-creator of The Daily Show along with Madeleine Smithberg, and served as head writer.

Winstead made her standup comedy debut in 1983 in Minneapolis at the Brave New Workshop.^[2] She was a successful national headlining comedian appearing on shows like HBO's Women of the Night and the Aspen Comedy Festival. She wrote and performed for early Comedy Central shows like Women Aloud, and produced the syndicated talk series The Jon Stewart Show, starring the future Daily Show host.^[3] She also created Court TV's Snap Judgment^[4] and served as the consulting producer on the pilot of The Man Show.^[5]

During her time at The Daily Show she helped staff the program with signature talents like Stephen Colbert, Beth Littleford, Brian Unger and Lewis Black.^[3]

Winstead has appeared on various shows on CNN and MSNBC as well as a panelist on shows such as Politically Incorrect, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and the public-access television cable TV/PBS program Mental Engineering (where she was notably featured in an episode that aired following Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002). In 2002, she and Brian Unger created, wrote and co-hosted O2Be, a satire of network morning programs that was broadcast on the Oxygen network.

In 2003, she co-founded and served as the program director at Air America Radio.^{[citation needed]} Until March 2005, she was also co-host of Unfiltered on Air America Radio, along with Rachel Maddow and Chuck D.

Since May 2005 she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

In 2006, she served as the executive producer of the Weekends with Maury and Connie program on MSNBC. The show was canceled later that year and in the last episode Connie Chung performed a musical number with lyrics by Winstead that became an Internet sensation called "Thanks for the Memories."^[6] Ironically, the video was viewed by a larger audience than the show ever was.

Since 2007, she has produced and hosted a live show in New York City called Shoot the Messenger, a satirical wrap-up of the week's news as seen through the eyes of six-hour morning show Wake Up World, and featuring interviews with such media notables as Rachel Maddow, Andy Borowitz, Ted Rall, Kurt Andersen, Paul Rieckhoff, and Mark Crispin Miller.^[3]

Starting in April 2009, she has been appearing every Friday on MSNBC's The Ed Show.

In December 2009, she was interviewed on the RadioChick on Shovio's "Talk Back TV".^[7]

On May 10, 2012 her first book, Lizz Free or Die was published by Riverhead Hardcover; it is a collection of autobiographical essays on her life. ^{[8] [9]}

Notes[link]

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References[link]

• Itzkoff, Dave. "Serving Platters of Minced Politician " The New York Times March 30, 2008
• Corliss, Richard. "Radio: America Still on the Air" Time magazine; April 5, 2005
• "Lizz Winstead on "The Ed Show" - May 1, 2009" The Political Carnival; May 2, 2009

External links[link]

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• Lizz Winstead at the Internet Movie Database
• The official Lizz Winstead site/blog
• Shoot the Messenger site
• Review of live show in New York, 2008, Jesterjournal.com
• Winstead with Christopher Hitchens on "Pop Culture & Politics" panel, June 17, 2008 @ fora.tv
• Interview on WNYC Leonard Lopate Show May 14, 2012
• NPR Books Profile on Lizz Free or Die
• Crooks and Liars.com Interview on Lizz Free or Die
• Lizz Free or Die official website.

The Supermen Lovers is a French house music project by Parisian musician and producer Guillaume Atlan. The act is best known for its 2001 single "Starlight", which reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in 2001.^[1] After 2 albums (The Player & Boys in the wood) and a serie of E.P, guillaume released in 2008 the track "You & I" with Delegation. The new album called "between the ages" is out since November 2011 with great featuring as Rick Bailey (Delegation) and Norma jean wright (Chic)

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• The Player (2002)
• Boys in the Wood (2004)
• Between the Ages (2011)^[2]

EPs

• Underground Disco EP (2001)
• Ultimate Disco EP (2001)
• Fantasia Disco EP (2003)
• Noctus Delectatum EP (2003)
• Material Disco EP (2004)
• Foundation Disco EP (2011)
• "Fantasma Disco EP"

Soundtracks

• Poltergay (2006) (as Moto & The Supermen Lovers)

Singles

• "Starlight" (2001)
• "Diamonds for Her" (2002)
• "Hard Stuff (Get Your Ticket for a Ride)" (2002)
• "Born to Love You" (2004)
• "Bus Stop" (2005)
• "Under Pressure" (2005)
• "Take a Chance" (2010)
• "C'est Bon"

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Supermen Lovers at Allmusic
• The Supermen Lovers discography at Discogs
• Guillaume Atlan discography at Discogs
• The Supermen Lovers on Facebook

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Deva Premal, mantra singer, from October 2006

Deva Premal (born in 1970 in Nürnberg, Germany) is a musician known for her meditative spiritual New Age music which puts ancient Sanskrit mantras into atmospheric contemporary settings.

Deva met her partner in life and music, Miten, at the Osho Ashram in Pune, India in 1990, and they have been touring together since 1992, offering concerts and chant workshops worldwide.^[1]

Best known for her top-selling chant CDs,^[2] Deva is a classically trained musician who grew up singing mantras in a German home permeated with Eastern spirituality. Her albums have topped the New Age charts throughout the world since her first release, The Essence, featuring the Gayatri Mantra. Deva & Miten's record company, Prabhu Music, reports sales of over 900,000 albums.

Deva began her journey with mantra in her mother's womb, as her father chanted the Gayatri Mantra, one of the most sacred mantras of Hinduism, to her daily, and it continued to be her bedtime lullaby after she was born. Many years later, she heard a friend singing the Gayatri and was inspired to put together an album featuring it. She and Miten recorded The Essence in her mother's apartment in Germany, the same one in which she was born and where her parents had sung the Gayatri Mantra to her years before.^[3]

Deva brought this journey with the Gayatri Mantra full circle in July, 2005, when she and Miten chanted the Gayatri for her father as he was dying: "We kept singing for what must have been over half an hour, when suddenly the monitor showed that he was about to leave. I continued to sing and the last sound he heard as he passed on was his beloved Gayatri Mantra. Finally we ended with the mantra Om and the circle was complete. He had welcomed me onto this planet with the Gayatri and I accompanied him out of this physical existence with it. What a blessing this was for me! It was the first time that I was present at a death, and to be at my father’s is a memory I will cherish all my life."^[4]

In an interview with Sam Slovik of LA Yoga Magazine,^[5] Deva discussed the potent effect many notice when chanting Sanskrit mantras:^[6]

“The meaning is secondary. The word table is not the table...With Sanskrit, the word ananda is the sound vibration of bliss. In sound the energy of bliss. We have to say bliss; we have to make it smaller by putting it into an English word. Just the sound; ananda, If we were sensitive enough we’d just feel the entire scope of that energy that’s contained in this sound... It’s working on a cellular level. It’s much deeper than the mind. It’s not a language that you need to understand the meaning of before you use it. It’s a deep universal sound code that connects us all.”

Deva's chants have been used in a wide variety of settings in recent years. Cher featured Deva's version of the Gayatri Mantra on her Farewell Tour^[7] and Russian Prima Ballerina Diana Vishneva danced to Deva's Gayatri in Moses Pendleton's F.L.O.W. series.^[8] Actor/director Edward James Olmos is said to have handed out copies of Deva's Gayatri Mantra to the entire cast and crew of Battlestar Gallactica,^[9] as well as citing her music as a source of inspiration in preparing his role as Commander Adama in the series.^[10] Mr. Olmos also used Om Hraum Mitraya from Deva's album Dakshina to close his HBO movie Walkout,^[11]

Deva and Miten performed for The Dalai Lama during a 2002 Conference in Munich, Germany on Unity In Duality, which brought top figures from the scientific community together with members of the Buddhist community.^[12] They gave a concert for the full conference, and were also invited to sing for the Dalai Lama at a small pre-conference gathering.^[13] They had heard that his favorite mantra was the Tara Mantra, dedicated to the Green Tara of Compassion, and that he had asked for it be chanted recently when he was ill, and so they chanted it for him.

Deva's most recent release, Tibetan Mantras For Turbulent Times, was recorded with the Gyuto Monks of Tibet and was created as a support for mantra meditation practice, featuring eight mantras chanted 108 times each. It is a benefit CD, with all proceeds going to the Gyuto Monastery in Dharmsala, India, the Phowa Project, and Veggiyana.

Discography[link]

• The Essence (1998)
• Love Is Space (2000)
• Embrace (2002)
• Satsang (with Miten) (2002)
• Dakshina (2005)
• The Moola Mantra (2007)
• Into Silence (2008) (compilation)
• In Concert: The Yoga of Sacred Song and Chant (w/Miten & Manose) (2009) (CD/DVD)
• Mantras For Precarious Times (2009)
• Tibetan Mantras For Turbulent Times (2010)
• Password (2011)

Notes[link]

1. ^ Dubrovsky, Anna. Yoga Rock Stars, Yoga International, September 2008.
2. ^ Widran, Jonathan. Review: Dakshina AllMusic.
3. ^ Spirit of Things. Mantras Go Mainstream, Interview with Rachel Kohn on ABC Radio, Feb 2008.
4. ^ Deva Premal. Wolfgang And The Gayatri Mantra, Article, DevaPremalMiten.com.
5. ^ Slovik, Sam. Soul Balancing: Path of the Sacred Road Dog, LA Yoga Magazine, March 2010.
6. ^ Shapiro, Ed & Deb. Do Mantras Really Work, Huffington Post, Oct 20 2009.
7. ^ Tsering, Lisa. "Cher Chants Gayatri Mantra At Her Concerts", Times of London, Sept 5 2003.
8. ^ "Beauty In Motion-F.L.O.W. Part III", YouTube.
9. ^ Stailey, M. Battlestar Gallactica: All Access, DVD Verdict Legal Briefs, June 8, 2007.
10. ^ Ruby, Jamie. "Edward James Olmos: Exclusive Interview With MediaBlvd", Battlestar Aries, Aug 5 2009.
11. ^ Educate Your Thinking, YouTube.
12. ^ Tarab Institute. Unity In Duality-Tendrel Congress, Tarab Institute, Oct 10-13 2002.
13. ^ Attwood, Janet Bray Songs of the Divine: An interview from the Dialogues with the Masters Series, Healthy Wealthy nWise, Feb 2008.

External links[link]

• Official website