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The name Ariel (Hebrew, "Lion of God") is a prophetic name for Jerusalem found in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish, Christian and secular literature.^[1]

Ariel may refer to:

Places[link]

• Ariel, one of the names for Jerusalem
• Ariel (city), an Israeli settlement and a city in the central West Bank
• Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israeli university
• Ariel (moon), a moon of Uranus
• Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, a town and its namesake lake in the United States

People[link]

• Ariel (given name), any of several real or fictional people of that name

• Ariel, stage name of female pro wrestler Shelly Martinez

Fictional characters[link]

• Ariel (The Tempest), a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest
• Ariel (anime), an anime video series
• Ariel (angel), an angel in Judaism, Christianity (Gnostic) and occult lore
• Ariel (The Little Mermaid), the title character of the 1989 film The Little Mermaid

Film[link]

• Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award
• Ariel (film), a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki

Publications[link]

• Ariel (novel), a science fiction novel by Russian author Alexander Beliaev
• Ariel (newspaper), the in-house magazine of the BBC
• Ariel, an Israeli literary magazine since 1962
• Ariel's Crossing, a novel by American writer Bradford Morrow
• Ariel (book), the last book of poetry by Sylvia Plath
  • "Ariel" (poem), poem by Plath this book is named for
• Ariel: The Book of Fantasy, a periodical published in the 1970s in book form
• Ariel (campus newspaper), the former campus newspaper at the University of Minnesota
• Ariel, published in 1900, a highly influential work by Uruguayan essayist José Enrique Rodó
• Ariel, literary arts magazine at Washington and Lee University
• Ariel, a comedic newspaper by Israel Zangwill
• Ariel, a novel by French writer Andre Maurois
• Ariel, a 1983 post-apocalyptic fantasy by Steve Boyett

Television[link]

• Ariel, a planet visited in "The Last Sunset", an episode of Space: 1999
• "Ariel" (Firefly episode), an episode of the television series Firefly

Music[link]

• Meir Ariel (1942–1999), Israeli singer-songwriter
• Ariel (band), an Australian rock band of the mid-1970s
• Ariel (Canadian band), a Quebec-based French Canadian band
• "Ariel" (song) by Dean Friedman
• Ariels, an album by electronica band Bent
• "Ariel", a song by The Cure unreleased until remastered on their album The Top
• "Ariel", a song by the British hard rock band Rainbow on their album Stranger in Us All
• Ariel, an EP by downtempo band Alpha
• "Motion of Ariel", a song by The Loud Family on their album Attractive Nuisance
• "Ariel", a song by Babes In Toyland from the album Nemesisters
• "Ariel", a song by Diane Birch from the album Bible Belt
• "Ariel", a song by October Project
• "Ariel", a song by Braid on the album Frame and Canvas

Commercial products[link]

• Ariel, a Beanie Baby bear produced by Ty, Inc. in memory of Ariel Glaser
• Ariel (laundry), a washing powder brand

Vehicles[link]

• Ariel (American automobile)
• Ariel Atom, a sports car with an exoskeletal chassis
• Ariel Ltd, a modern British car company
• Ariel Motorcycles a defunct British motorcycle manufacturer
• Ariel (vehicle), a former manufacturer of motorcycles, bicycles, and cars, including a car of the same name
• Ariel 3, the first artificial satellite designed and built in the United Kingdom

Ships[link]

• Ariel (clipper), a British clipper ship
• Ariel (schooner), a 4-masted schooner built by Matthew Turner
• HMS Ariel, any of ten ships of the Royal Navy
• ST Ariel, a tugboat
• USS Ariel, any of five ships of the United States Navy

Other[link]

• Ariel Gazelle, another name for the Dorcas Gazelle
• Operation Ariel, the British military evacuation from western France in World War II

See also[link]

• Arielle (given name)
• Aerial (disambiguation)
• Arial, a font
• Ari (lion)
• Ari (name)

References[link]

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Luna Maya Sugeng (born in Denpasar, Bali, August 26, 1983) is an Indonesian soap opera actress, and movie star. She started her career as an advertising and catwalk model.^[1]

Life and career[link]

She made her first steps into the movie world in 2004 with a supporting role in the film ‘30 hari Mencari Cinta‘. This was followed by ‘Brownies‘ in 2005, also in a supporting role. She has received several nominations during the Indonesian Film Festival, while continuing to appear on the small screen in Indonesian soap operas. She has also appeared in Indonesian advertising campaigns for Lux, XL and Toshiba.^[1]

Sex tape scandal[link]

In 2010, her boyfriend Nazril “Ariel” Irham, lead singer of Indonesian pop group Peterpan, was arrested after a sex video that featured Luna was distributed on the Internet. Ariel was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in January 2011.^[2]

Luna lost her contract to advertise Lux soap as a result of the scandal.^[3]

Comeback[link]

After two years off from a scandalous sex video, Luna Maya is showing her naughty side again in a new cologne commercial ad titled "Heaven on Earth". The commercial on YouTube have a warning note in the beginning saying that the material is only for those 18 years old and above.^[4]

References[link]

Dean Friedman (born May 23, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter who plays piano, keyboard, guitar and other instruments, including the harmonica.

Music[link]

Born and raised in Paramus, New Jersey, Friedman received his first guitar when he was 9, in 1964, and started writing songs. When he was a teenager, he played weddings and bar mitzvahs as part of Marsha and the Self-Portraits,^[1] sent out demos and majored in music at City College of New York where one of his teachers was guitarist David Bromberg.^[2] By the time he was 20, in 1975, he had a manager and a recording contract with Cashman and West's Lifesong label.^[3]

In the United States he is described as a one-hit wonder, following his 1977 hit song "Ariel", which reached # 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[4] and stayed in the chart for five months. "Ariel" has been described as a "quirkily irresistible and uncategorizable pop song about a free spirited, music loving, vegetarian Jewish girl", from Paramus, New Jersey, where he grew up.^[5] It is the only Billboard Top 40 song to contain the word Paramus. It describes the girl Ariel, "standing by the [since dismantled] waterfall at Paramus Park", one of the many shopping malls in Paramus. The quarters she was collecting for "friends of BAI" refers to the New York radio station WBAI-FM, and their listener association,^[6] while the song also makes reference to "channel 2," which refers to local CBS affiliate WCBS-TV.

Although "Ariel" did not make the UK Singles Chart, "Lucky Stars", a duet with Denise Marsa taken from his second album Well Well Said the Rocking Chair, made #3 in the UK in late 1978, and both "Woman of Mine" and "Lydia" were lesser chart hits there.^[7]

Friedman also provided vocals for a series of television commercials in the 1970s in the New York metro area. The electronics chain Crazy Eddie's hired him to sing their doo-wop styled commercial: "When you think you're ready, come down to Crazy Eddie's".

Unlike many one-hit wonders, Friedman has continued to write and perform songs into the 2000s.^[8][9]

Influences[link]

The songs of Dean Friedman have been covered by several contemporary bands, including The Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, Ariel Pink, The Tone Rangers, and The Blenders. The lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, Steve Page, sang background vocals on Friedman's album Songs For Grownups (1998).^[10]

TV and films[link]

Friedman has written, performed and produced the theme music to several TV series including Boon (for which he did all of the music apart from the theme song which was performed by Jim Diamond), starring Michael Elphick. Other TV credits include Nick Arcade (Nickelodeon) and Eerie, Indiana (NBC). He also composed, performed and produced the soundtrack to the cult horror film, I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, in which he performs the track "She Runs on Blood, Not Gasoline".^[10]

Other (non-musical) work[link]

In 1985, Friedman produced a seminal work on the newly emerging synthesizer industry called Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers, and Drum Machines. Whilst dated, this tome is still of use in evaluating devices that crop up on the second-hand market. Friedman also set up the "New York School of Synthesis" and provided a series of videos entitled "Intro to Synthesis". Friedman presents the rudiments of this topic in an audio-visual format, whilst incorporating a unique sense of humor.

In 1986, Friedman saw a demo of a powerful virtual reality program that put the user right inside a video game using a video camera (similar to the technology used by the Eye Toy).

Friedman was impressed by the technology and wrote an article for Electronic Musician magazine. In 1989 he designed a game called Eat-A-Bug which was licensed to Nickelodeon TV, used on the series Total Panic and served as a prototype for the series Nick Arcade, for which Friedman produced a dozen games. He is now the President and Creative Director of InVideo games.^[10]

Controversy[link]

The record label which produced "Ariel" insisted Friedman change the song's second verse, which refers to the eponymous Ariel as "a Jewish girl", believing that radio stations might use it as an excuse not to play the record. The third verse was also removed to make the single shorter for radio. The management company received threats from the Jewish Defense League protesting against the edit and, at Friedman's insistence, the original version was put on the album.

Friedman's second single "McDonald's Girl" was officially banned by the BBC because the chorus mentioned the name of the fast food restaurant.^[10] In 2011, thirty years after the song was banned by the BBC, the McDonald's Corporation licensed "McDonald's Girl" for a national TV/Radio campaign, which aired in the US, featuring a vocal performance of the song by The Blenders.

During 2005, as part of a tie-in to one of his tour sponsors, Friedman's tour of the United Kingdom was almost canceled after it was revealed he intended to distribute cannabis seeds to purchasers of his new album. Although it is not illegal to own or distribute cannabis seeds in this manner "unless they get wet", the suggestion caused friction with a number of venues on the tour, so the intended distribution was not carried out.^{[citation needed]}

Revival[link]

Friedman's album, The Treehouse Journals was financed entirely by his fans via his website. Friedman invited people to finance the cost of the as-yet unrecorded album by making an advance purchase and by making limited edition signed copies available. This tactic has been adopted by other bands, including Marillion. He continued to tour, playing small venues.^[9]

He copied this tactic again in 2005, with the album Squirrels in the Attic. His sister, Racelle Rosett Schaefer, is a noted television writer who was executive producer of the show Blossom, starring Mayim Bialik.

As of 2007^[update] he lived in New York with his wife, Alison, and two children: Hannah Friedman (born 1986), and Sam Friedman (born 1990).^[5][10]

Dean Friedman and Half Man Half Biscuit[link]

The British band Half Man Half Biscuit recorded, in 1986, a song entitled "The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman", a claim Friedman considered improbable, as he was only seven years old when lyricist Nigel Blackwell was conceived.^[11] At the Edinburgh Festival in 2003, The Scotsman newspaper arranged a get together between Friedman and the band, in which he acknowledged that Blackwell had at least surmised right the underlying story in the song "Lucky Stars": "That guy Nigel was hip to the fact Lisa and I didn't just do lunch. You can't interpret a song that way unless you understand what it's about." It also transpired that Blackwell had a copy of a rare vinyl version of Well Well Said the Rocking Chair.^[12]

In 2009, Friedman wrote a 'reply' called "Tale Of A Baker's Son", in which he firmly placed Blackwell's parentage as being that of the local baker, posting it on Half Man Half Biscuit's MySpace site. The band mentioned it on their own website^[13] as "Dean Friedman's Revenge/Dean Friedman strikes back". On September 15, 2010, Dean Friedman appeared at a Half Man Half Biscuit gig at the Robin 2 venue in Bilston, West Midlands (UK) and performed "Tale Of A Baker's Son" to rapturous applause from the partisan crowd. Half Man Half Biscuit's riposte was, naturally, The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman.^[14]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Dean Friedman (1977)
• Well Well Said the Rocking Chair (1978) - UK #21^[7]
• Rumpled Romeo (1981)
• Live! At The Duke of York (1985)
• Bloomsbury Live! (1995)
• Dean Friedman In Concert – Shepherds Bush Empire (1998)
• Songs for Grownups (1998)
• The Treehouse Journals (2002)
• Squirrels in the Attic (2005)
• Submarine Races (2010)

Others[link]

• Music From "Boon" - TV soundtrack
• I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle - soundtrack
• Dean's "Kids Songs"
• A Million Matzoh Balls

Singles[link]

• "Ariel" (1977) - U.S. #26
• "Woman of Mine" (1977) - UK #52
• "Lucky Stars" (1978) - UK #3
• "Lydia" (1978) - UK #31

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DVDs[link]

• "Dean Friedman Live On The Isle Of Wight" (2009)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Dean Friedman at the Internet Movie Database