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Connecting Missy Elliott and Adam Brody
Missy Elliott
In between albums, Elliott produced the "American Dream Remix" (featuring Tweet's additional vocals) of Madonna's single "American Life", was featured rapper on Timbaland & Magoo's return single, "Cop That Shit", and produced "Fighting Temptation" (featuring herself, Beyoncé, Free and MC Lyte) for the soundtrack to the Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles movie of the same name.
McG
Film director
Along with Adam Brody, McG was next set to produce a remake of the cult comedy hit '' Revenge of the Nerds'', planned for a release in 2007 with a budget of $12.5 million and filming to begin at Emory University.
Missy Elliott
Destiny's Child, Eve and Macy Gray have credited her for "clearing a path" in the American music industry towards "their own pop pre-eminence" as Black female R&B/hip-hop performers. The Recording Academy and '' Evening Standard'' have called her a "hip hop icon". '' The Economist'' considered that Elliott "is to rap what Prince was to R&B" due to their "impact upon the genre" and her ability to "weave in styles and strands from outside it."
Kevin Smith
American filmmaker
He wrote and directed the pilot, which starred Smith and Donnell Rawlings, along with Kristin Bauer van Straten, Frankie Shaw, Jason Mewes, Ralph Garman, Adam Brody, Hina Abdullah, Pete Pietrangeliand and Harley Quinn Smith.
Missy Elliott
The pair wrote and produced nine tracks for Aaliyah's second album, ''One in a Million'' (1996), among them the hit singles "If Your Girl Only Knew", "One in a Million", "Hot Like Fire", and "4 Page Letter".
Elliott and Timbaland continued to work together for other artists, later creating hits for artists such as Total; "What About Us?" (1997), Nicole Wray; "Make It Hot" (1998), and Destiny's Child; "Get on the Bus" (1998), as well as one final hit for Aaliyah, "I Care 4 U", before her death in 2001.
Aaliyah
She also contributed to the soundtrack album for the Fox Animation Studios animated film '' Anastasia'', performing a cover version of "Journey to the Past" which earned songwriters Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Anastasia (1997 film)
Directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman; it stars Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Hank Azaria, Christopher Lloyd, Bernadette Peters, Kirsten Dunst, and Angela Lansbury.
* Meg Ryan as Anastasia "Anya" Romanov: Raised as an orphan, sets out on a journey to discover her true heritage.
Meg Ryan
American actress
Starring alongside Kristen Stewart and Olympia Dukakis, she played Sarah Hardwicke, a mother and wife facing breast cancer, who connects with her neighbor's much younger grandson, played by Adam Brody.
Missy Elliott
In 2011 and 2012, Elliott made guest appearances on "All Night Long" by Demi Lovato, "Nobody's Perfect" by J. Cole, the remix of "Why Stop Now" by Busta Rhymes with Chris Brown and Lil Wayne, and a remix of Katy Perry's " Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" that helped catapult "T.G.I.F".
Katy Perry
American singer (born 1984)
Perry lists Gwen Stefani, Shirley Manson, Chloë Sevigny, Daphne Guinness, Natalie Portman, and the fictional character Lolita as her style icons.
Chloë Sevigny
American actress (b. 1974)
The film was written and directed by cult director Whit Stillman and details the rise and fall of the Manhattan club scene in the "very early 1980s".{{efn|It is stated clearly at the beginning of '' The Last Days of Disco'' that the film is set in the "very early '80s.
Sevigny reunited with ''The Last Days of Disco'' director Whit Stillman on '' Love & Friendship'', an adaptation of the Jane Austen novel ''Lady Susan''.
Whit Stillman
American writer-director (born 1952)
After a 13-year hiatus, Stillman released his fourth film, ''Damsels in Distress'', starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Hugo Becker and Lio Tipton (credited as Analeigh Tipton).
