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In The Kid with a Bike, what is Cyril's age?
The Kid with a Bike
St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church and School Thomas Doret The Kid with a Bike St. Cyril's Monastery Cyril Wong
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In 1970, Msgr. Cyril Navin (also a native of Ireland) arrived at St. Cyril's and became the pastor in 1971. Shortly after assuming the pastorship of St. Cyril's, Msgr. Navin faced an immediate crisis. With the expansion of highrises and increased traffic on Ventura Boulevard, the City proposed an extension of Dickens Street that would have closed St. Cyril's School. Msgr. Navin appeared at a public hearing on the proposal and told the group, "Our school would be completely removed if this goes through. It would mean 490 children being thrown out and into the already overburdened public school system." The proposed extension of Dickens Street was defeated. In April 1974, Timothy Manning, Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles, celebrated Mass at St. Cyril's to mark the parish's 50th anniversary. Cardinal McIntyre also attended. In its first 25 years, the "Los Angeles Times" reported that St. Cyril's had grown from a handful to 2,000 active families. In March 1982, St. Cyril's was the site for the installation ceremony of Rev. Thomas Dolinay as the first bishop of the new Byzantine Ruthenian Diocese of Van Nuys. The Cathedral of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, located a short distance from St. Cyril's, is the home of the Van Nuys Eparchy. Navin remained the pastor at St. Cyril's until 1996 when he became Pastor Emeritus. Msgr. Carl Bell, formerly pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Hollywood, became the fourth pastor at St. Cyril's in 1996. In April and May 2003, a string of arson fires struck houses of worship in Encino, including a Presbyterian church, an Iranian synagogue, a Bahá'í community center, and Valley Beth Shalom on Ventura Boulevard. As a demonstration of solidarity during the rash of fires, St. Cyril's hosted an interfaith service on May 8, 2003. St. Cyril's business manager, Ginny Panza, told the "Los Angeles Times": "We're not freaking out, but everybody is a little bit more aware, watchful."
Thomas Doret (born December 10, 1996) is a Belgian actor, best known for playing the role of Cyril in "The Kid with a Bike", and as Coco in "Renoir". 
As of 14 June 2012, "The Kid with a Bike" has grossed $1,389,524 in North America, along with $3,786,899 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $5,176,423. 
St. Cyril's Monastery (, translit. "Kyrylivs’kyi monastyr") is a medieval monastery in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The monastery contains the famous St. Cyril's Church, an important specimen of Kievan Rus' architecture of the 12th century, and combining elements of the 17th and 19th centuries. However, being largely Ukrainian Baroque on the outside, the church retains its original Kievan Rus' interior. 
Cyril has been recognised as Singapore's first truly confessional poet, mainly "on the basis of the brutally candid sexuality in his poetry, along with a barely submerged anxiety over the fragility of human connection and a relentless self-querying; but the label understates Wong's constant evolution". By turns "acerbic and tender, ironic and meditative", the poet "has many styles, all of them limber, which combine the anecdotal and the confessional with the intuitive and the empathetic." His poems are known for their "lyrical intensity" and for "training an almost anthropologically curious eye on the laws and customs of his own family: their strange taciturn ways, their gnomic references to disappointment and guilt, and their penchant for self-delusion." In a way that makes him especially distinctive within the Singaporean poetry scene, his work possesses "a heightened awareness of the physical body, and a desire to probe its visceral materiality for emotional truths." Edwin Thumboo has praised Cyril's poems for their "remarkable inwardness" and how, "without exception, they leave us with the feeling of subjects - occasion, non-happening, an especially poignant experience - explored to unusual limits." With regard to his third collection and its play of presence and absence in the context of Singapore's urbanity and cultural memory, John Phillips described Cyril's poetry as offering "an affirmation of emptiness in a time and place where this is barely possible. "Although Cyril has also been popularly known as a gay poet, Singaporean critic Gwee Li Sui has stressed that readers need not perceive the poet's persona in terms of gay exceptionality, "his qualities of spaciousness and morphing images also manifesting an interest in a kind of New-Age irreligious spirituality." This interest is fully expressed in Cyril's book, "Satori Blues", in which the author "teases us out of our complacencies and directs/guides our thinking along the long, hard route to self-awareness... Hence 'blues'. Hence the extraordinary attempt to seduce the reader into somnambulance-via-rhythmic, rhymic language, the language of meditative poetry." In a review by the "Southeast Asian Review of English", Cyril's poetry has been described as "an art that works simply from a personal plane, and from within such a plane we have some of the most sensitive, articulate probings into the nature of one's self that have never been seen before in all of contemporary Singaporean verse. "Poets who have responded to his work include Timothy Liu who has called Cyril's "transpacific sensibility a fine refreshment"; Lewis Warsh with his description of Cyril's poems as "evocative and sensual" and "untainted by bitterness"; Margot Schilpp who has pointed out that his work shows "how great the divide between expectations and outcomes can be"; and Robert Yeo who has commented on the framing devices in his work that "deliberately blur distinctions between the real (Cyril Wong) and the persona (the poet who 'wonders at his own existence'). The result is a distancing that layers the poems and renders them more fraught and complex and encourages, indeed demands, repeated reading". 