Year of the Gentleman

Year of the Gentleman is the third studio album by American recording artist Ne-Yo, released September 16, 2008, on Def Jam Recordings in the United States. Ne-Yo worked with several record producers for the album, including Stargate, Chuck Harmony, Polow da Don, Stereotypes, and Reggie "Syience" Perry, among others.

The album was a commercial success as well, charting in the top-10 in several countries. It produced four singles, including international hits "Closer", "Miss Independent", and "Mad". Year of the Gentleman has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of one million copies in the United States. It has also been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, for shipments of 600,000 copies in the United Kingdom.

Background

Year of the Gentleman was named in honor of Ne-Yo's artistic influences. Ne-Yo cited the 1960s American group Rat Pack, particularly members Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. as influences, whose style inspired his clothes and music. Explaining the album's title, he said he was "trying to take it back to where you couldn't walk out of the house unless you looked your best". Commenting on the likes of the Rat Pack and Nat King Cole he commented that "they're suited and everything is right from top to bottom. Not saying it has to be a suit, 'cause clothes don't make the man — it's the attitude and person. The music needs to personify that.". No featurings are present on the album, as previously announced, though "Single" also features as a version with New Kids on the Block on their album, The Block.

Chinese astrology

Chinese astrology is based on the traditional astronomy and calendars. The development of Chinese astrology is tied to that of astronomy, which came to flourish during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BC to 2nd century AD).

Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy (theory of the three harmony, heaven, earth and water) and uses the principles of yin and yang and concepts that are not found in Western astrology, such as the wu xing teachings, the 10 Celestial stems, the 12 Earthly Branches, the lunisolar calendar (moon calendar and sun calendar), and the time calculation after year, month, day and shichen (時辰).

Background

Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) and flourished during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BC to 2nd century AD). During the Han period, the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture—the Yin-Yang philosophy, the theory of the 5 elements, the concepts of Heaven and Earth, and Confucian morality—were brought together to formalize the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

Gentleman (disambiguation)

A gentleman is a man of good family.

Gentleman or gentlemen may also refer to:

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List of Spider-Man enemies in other media

Spider-Man has had a lot of media attention through to his popularity as an superhero. Same with his villains. Here is a list of his primary villains that has undergone media attention such as films, televisions, video games etc.

Film

This is a list of Spider-Man enemies that have been in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy. The films also introduce Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Connors, the man who in the comics becomes the Lizard, but this entity and transformation never took place during Raimi's tenure as director. Spider-Man 2 also features Daniel Gillies as John Jameson, whose similar transformation into the Man-Wolf is not depicted in the film. Additionally, the Kingpin was featured prominently in the 2003 Mark Steven Johnson film Daredevil, where he was portrayed by Michael Clarke Duncan. Mendel Stromm was also portrayed by actor Ron Perkins in the 2002 Spider-Man film, although he did not become a villain. In Marc Webb's reboot of Spider-Man, the Lizard is the villain. Irrfan Khan also portrays the antagonistic Dr. Ratha in The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Gentleman (film)

The Gentleman is a 1994 Bollywood Vigilante film directed by Mahesh Bhatt and produced by Allu Aravind, starring Chiranjeevi, Juhi Chawla, Harish Kumar and Paresh Rawal. South Indian actress Roja Selvamani does a cameo appearance in a song.

It is a frame-to-frame remake of the Tamil film Gentleman in the year 1993, which starred Arjun Sarja and Madhoo in the lead roles. Three of the songs were re-used without any change in tune or instrumentation, from A. R. Rahman's original compositions for the original Tamil version. Rahman was uncredited for the same. This film was successful at the box office.

Summary

Vijay (Chiranjeevi) owns a little agarbathi making business. When he is not busy with this, he is a master thief who steals crores and crores of money in order to build and run a school where students can freely study to become doctors, lawyers, etc. The police led by Paresh Rawal are always on his tail but he is ever elusive. Finally he is identified as the thief and then is confronted by Juhi Chawla's character, who loves him. He tells her what his intentions are and how his brother (Harish Kumar), because he couldn't pay the donations for medical school committed suicide along with his mother. Vijay is finally caught and convicted and when he is released from prison, his dream school opens. He Marries Juhi Chawla, who waits for him from a long time.