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Brillantes was nominated for the Asian Television Award for Best Actress for her role in
Kadenang Ginto. She is the youngest actress to be nominated for this award.
[10/15, 22:27] SKILL INDIA: Barbie is a 2023 American fantasy comedy film directed by Greta
Gerwig and written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.Based on the Barbie fashion dolls by
Mattel, it is the first live-action Barbie film after numerous computer-animated direct-to-video and
streaming television films. The film stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken,
who go on a journey of self-discovery following an existential crisis, alongside an ensemble cast
that includes America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Simu Liu, Issa
Rae, Rhea Perlman, Helen Mirren, and Will Ferrell.
A live-action Barbie film was announced in September 2009 by Universal Pictures with
Laurence Mark producing. Development began in April 2014, when Sony Pictures acquired the
film rights. Following multiple writer and director changes and the casting of Amy Schumer and
later Anne Hathaway as Barbie, the rights transferred to Warner Bros. Pictures in October 2018.
Robbie was cast in 2019, and Gerwig was announced as director and co-writer with Baumbach
in 2021. The rest of the cast were announced in early 2022. Filming took place primarily at
Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, in England and on the Venice Beach Skatepark in Los
Angeles from March to July 2022.
Barbie premiered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on July 9, 2023, and was theatrically
released in the United States on July 21, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Its simultaneous
release with Oppenheimer led to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon on social media, which
encouraged audiences to see both films as a double feature. The film received mostly positive
reviews with praise for its direction, production design, costumes, music, and the performances
(particularly those of Robbie and Gosling), but was divisive in its themes and messages. Barbie
has grossed over $337 million worldwide.Stereotypical Barbie (“Barbie”) and a wide range of
fellow Barbies all reside in Barbieland, a matriarchal society where all women are self-confident,
self-sufficient, and successful. While their Ken counterparts spend their days engaging in
recreational activities at the beach, the Barbies hold all important job positions such as doctors,
lawyers, and politicians. Beach Ken (“Ken”), Barbie’s boyfriend, is only happy when he is with
Barbie and seeks a closer relationship, but Barbie rebuffs him in favor of independence and
female friendships.
During a dance party, Barbie is suddenly stricken with worries about mortality. The next day, she
finds she can no longer complete her usual routine and discovers her feet have gone flat and
she has cellulite. Weird Barbie, a wise but disfigured outcast, tells her that to cure her affliction
she must travel into the real world and find the child playing with her. On her way to the real
world, Barbie finds Ken stowed away in her convertible, and reluctantly allows him to join her.
Arriving at Venice Beach, the pair cause multiple antics and are arrested, alarming the Mattel
CEO, who orders their capture. Barbie tracks down her owner, a tween girl named Sasha, who
criticizes her for encouraging unrealistic beauty standards. Distraught, Barbie discovers that
Gloria, a Mattel employee and Sasha’s mother, is the catalyst of her existential crisis. Gloria
began playing with Sasha’s Barbie toys while experiencing her own identity crisis, inadvertently

transferring her concerns to Barbie. Gloria and Sasha rescue Barbie from Mattel’s CEO and his
subordinates, and the three travel together to Barbieland.
Meanwhile, Ken learns about the patriarchal system, and feels important and accepted for the
first time. Returning to Barbieland, he persuades the other Kens into taking over and the
Barbies are subjugated into submissive roles such as maids, housewives and agreeable
girlfriends. Barbie arrives and tries to convince Ken and the Barbies to return to the way things
were, only to be rebuffed. She becomes depressed, but Gloria inspires her with a speech about
the problems of being a woman. With the encouragement of Sasha, Gloria, Weird Barbie, Allan,
and other discontinued Barbies, the Barbies free themselves from the Kens. They manipulate
them to fight amongst themselves, allowing the Barbies to regain their systemic power, and
preventing the Kens from altering the Barbieland constitution to enshrine male superiority. As a
concession, the Kens are given a minor role in Barbieland’s society.
Barbie and Ken apologize to each other and acknowledge their failings. Ken bemoans that he
has no identity or purpose without Barbie, to which Barbie encourages him to find an
autonomous identity. Barbie, who remains unsure of her own purpose and identity, meets with
the spirit of Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler, who explains that Barbie’s story has no set ending
and her ever-evolving history surpasses that of her roots.
Barbie decides to become human and return to the real world. Some time later, Gloria, her
husband, and Sasha take Barbie, now going by the name “Barbara Handler”, to her first
gynecologist appointment.Development on a film based on the Barbie toy line began in
September 2009, when it was announced that Mattel had signed a partnership to develop the
project with Universal Pictures and with Laurence Mark as producer, but nothing came to
fruition.Gerwig and Baumbach were given full creative freedom in writing the film. They
collaborated on the screenplay during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns of 2020–2021 and
described the writing process as “open” and “free”. Gerwig’s film treatment consisted of an
abstract poem on Barbie influenced by the Apostles’ Creed. For the narrative arc, she was
partially inspired by the 1994 non-fiction book Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, which accounts
the effects of societal pressures on American adolescent girls. She also found inspiration in
classic Technicolor musicals such as The Red Shoes (1948) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
(1964), and said: “They have such a high level of what we came to call authentic artificiality. You
have a painted sky in a soundstage. Which is an illusion, but it’s also really there. The painted
backdrop is really there. The tangibility of the artifice is something that we kept going back
to.”The script also contains candid criticism of Mattel, which created skepticism among Mattel
officials when they received the first version. However, Kriez decided to trust Gerwig. Brenner
noted that “being safe in this world doesn’t work” as she interpreted Barbie to be a “bold” and
“trailblazer” figure. As a result, Will Ferrell’s portrayal as the Mattel CEO was meant to be an
allegory for corporate America. Kriez praised Ferrell and said that while Mattel officials took their
brands seriously, they did not take themselves seriously.
[10/15, 22:27] SKILL INDIA: Andrea Bocelli
is an Italian tenor. He was born visually impaired, with congenital glaucoma, and at the age of
12, Bocelli became completely blind, following a brain hemorrhage resulting from a football

accident. After performing evenings in piano bars and competing in local singing contests,
Bocelli signed his first recording contract with the Sugar Music label. He rose to fame in 1994,
winning the newcomer’s section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing “Il mare calmo
della sera”.1992–1994: Sanremo and Il mare calmo della sera
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In 1992, Italian rock star Zucchero held auditions for tenors to make a demo tape of his song
“Miserere”, to send to Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. After hearing Bocelli on tape, Pavarotti
urged Zucchero to use Bocelli instead of him. Zucchero eventually persuaded Pavarotti to
record the song with Bocelli, and it became a hit throughout Europe. In Zucchero’s European
concert tour in 1993, Bocelli accompanied him to sing the duet, and he was also given solo sets
in the concerts, singing “Nessun dorma” from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot.Bocelli signed
with the Sugar Music label in Milan after Caterina Caselli heard Bocelli sing “Miserere” and
“Nessun Dorma” at a birthday party for Zucchero.
In December, Bocelli entered the preliminary round of the Sanremo Music Festival in the
category of Giovani, performing “Miserere”. He won the preliminary competition with the highest
marks ever recorded in the newcomers section. On 28 December, he debuted in the classical
world in a concert at the Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia. In February 1994, he entered the
main Sanremo Festival competition with “Il mare calmo della sera”, and he won the newcomers
section, again with a record score. Following his win, Bocelli released his debut album of the
same name in April, and it entered the Italian Top Ten, being certified platinum within weeks.The
same year, Bocelli recorded “Je vis pour elle”, the French version of “Vivo per lei”, as a duet
with French singer Hélène Ségara. Released in December 1997, the song became a hit in
Belgium (Wallonia) and France, where it reached No. 1 on the charts. To date, it is the
best-selling single for Ségara, and the second for Bocelli after “Time to Say Goodbye”. On 3
March, he appeared in Hamburg, Germany, with Sarah Brightman to receive the ECHO music
award for “Best Single of the Year”.In the summer of 1997, he gave 22 open-air concerts in
Germany, and an indoor concert in Oberhausen on 31 August. In September, he performed in
concert at the Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa for the home video A Night in Tuscany (Italian: una
notte nella Toscana) with guests Nuccia Focile, Sarah Brightman and Zucchero. The concert
was also Bocelli’s first concert to air on PBS part of the In The Spotlight series. It also marked
as Bocelli’s debut to the American audiences. On 14 September, in Munich, Germany, he
received an ECHO Klassik Best Seller of the Year award for his album, Viaggio Italiano.Back in
Italy in Bologna on 27 September, he sang at the International Eucharistic Congress. On 19
October, he sang at the TeleFood benefit concert held in the Vatican City to raise awareness
about world hunger. On 25 October, he received a Bambi Award in the Klassik category in
Cologne, Germany.From June to August, he toured North and South America. In September, he
received his second Echo Klassik award, this time for Best Selling Classical Album with Aria:
The Opera Album.On Thanksgiving Eve, Bocelli was a guest on Céline Dion’s television special
These Are Special Times in which he joined Dion to sing “The Prayer” and he also sang “Ave
Maria” solo. The duet was included on Dion’s album These Are Special Times (1998) and was
re-issued with the DVD of the TV special in 2007. The song also appeared on the Quest for
Camelot soundtrack in 1998 and on Bocelli’s album, Sogno, the following year.