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<mask> "Rocket" <mask>  (; ; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in one season, accomplishing the feat in 50 games in 1944–45, and the first to reach 500 career goals. <mask> retired in 1960 as the league's all-time leader in goals with 544. He won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player in 1947, played in 13 All-Star Games and was named to 14 post-season NHL All-Star Teams, eight on the First-Team. In 2017 <mask> was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. His younger brother Henri also played his entire career with the Canadiens, the two as teammates for <mask>'s last five years. A centre nicknamed the "Pocket Rocket", Henri is enshrined alongside <mask> in the Hockey Hall of Fame.<mask>, Elmer Lach and Toe Blake formed the "Punch line", a high-scoring forward line of the 1940s. <mask> was a member of eight Stanley Cup championship teams, including a league record five straight between 1956 and 1960; he was the team's captain for the last four. The Hall of Fame waived its five-year waiting period for eligibility and inducted <mask> in 1961. In 1975 he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. The Canadiens retired his number, 9, in 1960, and in 1999 donated the <mask> "Rocket" <mask> Trophy to the NHL, awarded annually to the league's regular season leading goal-scorer. The oldest of eight children, <mask> emerged from a poverty-stricken family during the Great Depression. He was initially viewed as a fragile player.A string of injuries prevented him from joining the Canadian military during the Second World War. Intense, he was renowned for his physical and occasionally violent style of play. <mask> was involved in a vicious on-ice incident late in the 1954–55 season during which he struck a linesman. NHL President Clarence Campbell suspended him for the remainder of the season and playoffs, which precipitated the Richard Riot in Montreal. The riot has taken on a mythical quality in the decades since and is often viewed as a precursor to Quebec's Quiet Revolution. <mask> was a cultural icon among Quebec's francophone population; his legend is a primary motif in Roch Carrier's short story The Hockey Sweater, an emblematic work of Canadian culture. In 1998, <mask> was diagnosed with abdominal cancer and died from the disease two years later.He became the first non-politician honoured by the province of Quebec with a state funeral. Early life
Joseph Henri <mask> was born August 4, 1921, in Montreal, Quebec. His parents, Onésime <mask> and Alice Laramée, were originally from the Gaspé region of Quebec, before moving to Montreal, where they settled in the neighbourhood of Nouveau-Bordeaux. <mask> was the oldest of eight children; he had three sisters: Georgette, Rollande and Marguerite; and four brothers: René, Jacques, Henri and Claude. Onésime was a carpenter by trade, and took a job with the Canadian Pacific Railway shortly after <mask> was born. The Richards struggled during the Great Depression; Onésime lost his job in 1930 and the family relied on government aid until he was re-hired by the railway around 1936. <mask> received his first pair of ice skates when he was four, and grew up skating on local rivers and a small backyard ice surface his father created.He did not play organized hockey until he was 14. Instead, <mask> developed his skills playing shinny and "hog" – a game that required the puck carrier to keep the puck away from others for as long as possible. While he also played baseball and was a boxer, hockey was his passion. After he began playing in organized leagues, <mask> joined several teams and used pseudonyms such as "<mask>" to circumvent rules that restricted players to one team. In one league, he led his team to three consecutive championships and scored 133 of his team's 144 goals in the 1938–39 season. At 16, <mask> dropped out of school to work with his father as a machinist. He enrolled in a technical school, intent on earning a trade certificate.At 18, <mask> joined the Verdun Juniors, though as a rookie he saw little ice time in the regular season. He scored four goals in ten regular season games, and added six goals in four playoff games as Verdun won the provincial championship. He was promoted to the Montreal Canadiens' affiliate in the Quebec Senior Hockey League in 1940, but suffered a broken ankle in his first game after crashing into the boards and missed the remainder of the season. The injury also aborted his hopes of joining the Canadian military: he was called to a recruitment centre in mid-1941, but was deemed unfit for combat. Off the ice, <mask> was a quiet, unassuming youth who spoke little. He met his future wife Lucille Norchet when he was seventeen, when she was nearly fourteen. She was the younger sister of one of his teammates at Bordeaux, and her bright, outgoing personality complemented <mask>'s reserved nature.Lucille proved adept at guiding him through trials and disappointments he experienced in both hockey and life. They were engaged when he was 20, and though her parents felt she was too young, married on September 12, 1942, when she was seventeen. Playing career

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Having recovered from his broken ankle in time for the 1941–42 season, <mask> returned to the QSHL Canadiens, with whom he played 31 games and recorded 17 points before he was again injured. He suffered a broken wrist after becoming entangled with a defenceman and crashed into the net. <mask> rejoined the team for the playoffs. The skills he demonstrated in the QSHL, combined with the NHL parent club's loss of players to the war and struggles to draw fans due to its poor record and a lack of francophone players, earned <mask> a tryout with the Canadiens for the 1942–43 season. He signed a contract worth $3,500 for the year and, wearing sweater number 15, made his NHL debut with the team.<mask>'s first goal was against the New York Rangers on November 8, 1942. Injury again sidelined <mask> as his rookie season ended after only 16 games when he suffered a broken leg. The string of broken bones so early in his career left observers wondering if <mask> was too fragile to play at the highest levels. He made a second attempt to enlist with the military but was again turned down after x-rays revealed that his bones had not healed properly; <mask>'s ankle was left permanently deformed, forcing him to alter his skating style. Humiliated by the rejection, he intensified his training and reported to Montreal's training camp for the 1943–44 season fully healthy. The arrival of his daughter Huguette prompted <mask> to change his uniform to number 9 to match her birth weight of nine pounds. Remaining healthy throughout the season, <mask> appeared in 46 of Montreal's 50 games.He led the Canadiens with 32 goals and tallied 54 points, third-best in his team. His first full NHL season not only ended the criticism about his ability to play in the league, but established him as one of the best young players in the league. Coach Dick Irvin shifted him from left wing to right and put him on a forward line with Toe Blake and Elmer Lach. The trio, known as the "Punch line", formed a dominant scoring unit throughout the 1940s. The Canadiens lost only six games after October, and went on to win the franchise's first Stanley Cup championship in 13 years. <mask> led the league with 12 playoff goals, including a five-goal effort against the Toronto Maple Leafs in a semi-final game. He tied Newsy Lalonde's NHL record for goals in one playoff game (equalled by three players since), which resulted in his being named first, second and third star of the game, as chosen by journalist Charles Mayer.<mask> was named a second team All-Star following the season. It was the first of 14 consecutive years he was named a league all-star. 50 goals in 50 games
The 1944–45 NHL season was a record-setting one for <mask>. He first set a new mark for points in one game when he made five goals and three assists in a 9–1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on December 28, 1944; his eight points broke the previous record of seven held by three players, and stood for 32 years until surpassed in 1976 by Darryl Sittler. <mask> achieved the feat despite arriving for the game exhausted from moving into his new home that afternoon. He continued scoring at an unprecedented rate, and by February 1945 was approaching Joe Malone's 27-year-old NHL record, set in 1918, of 44 goals in one season. <mask> broke the record on February 25, 1945, in a 5–2 victory over Toronto.Malone was on hand to present <mask> with the puck used to score the 45th goal. As <mask> approached 50 goals for the season, opposition players resorted to increasingly violent efforts to prevent him from scoring. He had to fight past slashes, hooks, and even players who draped themselves across his back. <mask> went eight games without scoring and began Montreal's final regular season game, March 18, on the road against the Boston Bruins with 49 goals. He finally reached the milestone by scoring with 2:15 remaining in the game, a 4–2 Montreal win. He became the first player to score 50 goals, a record that would stand until the 1960–61 season, when fellow Canadien, Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion scored 50 goals in 64 regular season games. <mask>'s mark would not actually be surpassed until Bobby Hull scored 54 goals in 65 games while playing for the Chicago Blackhawks during the 1965–66 season.His mark of 50 goals in 50 games also became a standard that remains one of the most celebrated achievements in NHL history, unmatched until 36 years later when Mike Bossy did it in 1981 – the first of only four players to match <mask>'s 50-in-50, in the more than 70 years since <mask> set the mark. <mask> finished the season with 73 points, seven behind Lach and six ahead of Blake, as the Punch line finished first, second and third in league scoring. <mask> finished second in the voting for the Hart Trophy as league MVP behind Lach. <mask>'s critics argued that his scoring record was the result of talent dilution brought about by the war; when many players returned in 1945–46, he won his second Stanley Cup with Montreal, but his goal output was nearly halved to 27. <mask> again reached lofty scoring totals in 1946–47, leading the league with 45 goals in a 60-game season and winning the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player for the only time of his career. He finished second or third in the Hart Trophy voting a further five times in his career. Opponents continued their attempts to drive <mask> to anger or frustration, as they had learned he could be goaded into taking himself out of the game by violently retaliating and fighting.One such incident occurred in the 1947 Stanley Cup Finals when <mask> received a match penalty for striking Toronto's Bill Ezinicki over the head with his stick in a game two loss. <mask> was suspended for the third game of the series, which the Maple Leafs won. As the reigning most valuable player, <mask> sought a pay raise prior to the 1947–48 season. General manager Frank Selke refused, even after <mask> and team captain Émile Bouchard both sat out the Canadiens' preseason before capitulating and returning to the team when the season began. The Punch line was broken up after Blake suffered a career-ending leg injury. <mask>'s season also ended early as he missed the final games of the season due to a knee injury. He finished second in team scoring with 53 points in 53 games, but Montreal missed the playoffs.After recording only 38 points in 1948–49, <mask> posted a 65-point campaign the next season and his 43 goals led the NHL for the third time. In 1950–51, <mask> scored 42 goals, including his 271st career goal, making him Montreal's all-time goal leader. All-time scoring leader

<mask> missed over 20 games of the 1951–52 season due to injury, but overcame another ailment in the playoffs. In the seventh and deciding game of the semi-final against Boston, <mask> was checked by Leo Labine and briefly knocked unconscious after he fell and struck his head on Bill Quackenbush's knee. Though clearly dazed, <mask> returned to the game late in the third period after a large cut above his eye was stitched up. Canadiens coach Dick Irvin sent <mask> back onto the ice in the final minutes of the contest, despite knowing <mask> had suffered a concussion. <mask> scored the winning goal in a 2–1 victory that sent Montreal to the 1952 Stanley Cup Finals.Following the game, a bloodied and still disoriented <mask> was photographed shaking the hand of Boston goaltender Jim Henry, who was also showing symptoms of injuries from the series and who appeared to be bowing to <mask> following the Montreal player's "unconscious goal". The photograph by Roger St. Jean is among the most famous images of <mask>. In the final, Montreal lost to Detroit in four straight games. The 1952–53 season began with <mask> in close pursuit of Nels Stewart's all-time NHL record of 324 goals. <mask> tied the record in Toronto on October 29, 1952, by scoring two goals against the Maple Leafs; his achievement earned a rousing ovation from Montreal's rival fans. He failed to score in his following three games as frenzied fans followed each contest in anticipation of the record-breaking marker. In his fourth try, a November 8 game against Chicago, <mask> scored his 325th goal at the 10:01 mark of the second period.According to the Montreal Gazette, the ovation <mask> received from his fans "shook the rafters" of the Montreal Forum. He finished the season with team-leading totals of 61 points and 28 goals – becoming the first player in NHL history to score at least 20 goals in his first ten full seasons. Aided by <mask>'s 7 goals in 12 playoff games, the Canadiens defeated Boston in the 1953 Stanley Cup Finals to capture Montreal's first Stanley Cup championship since 1946. <mask> led the league in goals for the fourth time in his career with 37 in 1953–54, then for a fifth time in 1954–55 with 38 (shared with Bernie Geoffrion). He scored his 400th career goal on December 18, 1954, against Chicago. <mask> Riot

Opposition players continued to try to stop <mask> through physical intimidation, and he often retaliated with equal force. The situation led to a running feud with NHL President Clarence Campbell.<mask> had been fined numerous times by Campbell for on-ice incidents and at one point was forced to post a $1,000 "good-behaviour bond" after he criticized Campbell in a weekly column he helped author for Samedi-Dimanche. <mask> was among many in Quebec who believed that Campbell treated French Canadian players more harshly than their English counterparts. The simmering dispute erupted after an incident in the Canadiens' March 13, 1955, game against Boston, when Hal Laycoe struck <mask> in the head with his stick. <mask> retaliated by slashing viciously at Laycoe's head, then punched linesman Cliff Thompson when the official attempted to intervene. Boston police attempted to arrest <mask> for assault following the incident, but Montreal coaching staff and teammates refused police entry in protest.

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 Following two days of deliberation, Campbell announced that he had suspended <mask> – who was leading the NHL's overall scoring race at the time – for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs. In English Canada, Campbell was praised for doing what he could to control the erratic <mask>.Unknown to most at the time, Campbell had long wanted to impose a lengthy suspension on <mask> over his previous outbursts. As NHL president however, Campbell ultimately answered to the league's owners and they were reluctant to see such severe discipline imposed against one of the league's star players on account of their value in increasing game attendance. In French Quebec the suspension was viewed as an injustice, an unfair punishment given to a Francophone hero by the Anglophone establishment. <mask>'s supporters reacted angrily to Campbell: he received several death threats and, upon taking his customary seat at the next Canadiens game, unruly fans pelted him with vegetables, eggs and other debris. One fan threw a tear gas bomb at Campbell, which resulted in the Forum's evacuation and the game's forfeiture in Detroit's favour. Fans fleeing the arena were met by a large group of demonstrators who had massed outside prior to the game's start. The mob of over 20,000 people developed into a riot.Windows and doors were smashed at the Forum and surrounding businesses. By the following morning, between 65 and 70 had been arrested. Over 50 stores were looted and 37 people injured. Damage was estimated at $100,000 ($ in  dollars). <mask> had also attended the game, but left immediately following the forfeit. Frank Selke attempted to persuade him to return to try to disperse the crowd, but <mask> refused, fearing that he would instead further inflame the passions of the mob. He took to the radio the next day asking for calm: "Do no more harm.Get behind the team in the playoffs. I will take my punishment and come back next year and help the club and the younger players to win the Cup." The suspension cost <mask> the Art Ross Trophy as the leading point scorer in the league, which he lost to teammate Geoffrion by one point. <mask> never won the point title, finishing second five times in his career. Montreal fans booed Geoffrion when he surpassed <mask> on the final day of the regular season. The fans continued to jeer Geoffrion into the following season. Montreal reached and lost the 1955 Stanley Cup Finals four games to three without <mask>.The defeat was a bitter loss for <mask>, who struggled to control his anger. Captain of a dynasty
<mask> fulfilled his promise to Canadiens' fans, made in his post-riot radio address, by leading Montreal to a Stanley Cup championship in 1955–56 – the start of a still unprecedented 5 consecutive Stanley Cup victories by one team. The season began with the arrival of his young brother and future fellow NHL Hall of Famer Henri, a centre given the nickname the "Pocket Rocket" to the Canadiens roster. It also marked the return of his former Punch line teammate, Toe Blake, as head coach. Along with general manager Frank Selke, Blake worked with <mask> on moderating his temper and responding to the provocation of his opponents by scoring goals rather than engaging in fisticuffs. <mask> finished the season with 38 goals and 71 points, second on the team in both respects to Jean Béliveau's 47 goals and 88 points. <mask> added 14 points in 10 playoff games as Montreal defeated Detroit to claim the Stanley Cup.He scored the second and ultimately Cup-clinching goal in the fifth and final game, a 3–1 victory. Entering his 15th NHL season in 1956–57, <mask>'s teammates named him captain of the Canadiens, succeeding Émile Bouchard, who had retired prior to the season. With 33 goals and 62 points, <mask> again finished second on the team to Béliveau. In the playoffs, he scored the overtime-winning goal in the fifth game of the semi-final to eliminate New York, then scored four goals in a 5–1 victory over Boston in the first game of the finals en route to a five-game series win and second consecutive championship for Montreal. <mask> reached a major scoring milestone early in the 1957–58 season. During the first period of a 3–1 victory over Chicago on October 19, 1957, he became the first player in NHL history to score 500 goals in his career. As <mask> celebrated with his teammates, it was announced to the Montreal Forum crowd: "Canadiens' goal, scored by Mr. Hockey himself, <mask>".He played only 28 regular season games that season, scoring 34 points, as he missed three months due to a severed Achilles tendon. Returning in time for the playoffs, <mask> led Montreal with 11 goals and 15 points as the team won its third consecutive Stanley Cup. He scored the overtime-winning goal in the fifth game of the finals against Boston. It was the sixth playoff overtime-winning goal of his career, and the third during the finals, both NHL records. At 37, <mask> was the oldest player in the NHL in 1958–59. He scored 38 points in 42 games, but missed six weeks due to a broken ankle. Injuries again plagued <mask> during the 1959–60 season as he missed a month due to a broken cheekbone.Montreal nonetheless won the Stanley Cup in both seasons. <mask> scored no points in four games in the 1959 Stanley Cup Finals, but recorded a goal and three assists in 1960. The titles were the seventh and eighth of <mask>'s career, and Montreal's five consecutive championships remain a record. The 1956–60 Canadiens rank as one of eight dynasties recognized by the NHL. The playoff goal was <mask>'s last, as on September 15, 1960, he announced his retirement as a player. <mask> had reported to Montreal's training camp that autumn, but Selke compelled <mask> to end his playing career, fearing he was risking serious injury. In <mask>'s retirement speech, he said he had been contemplating leaving the game for two years, and stated that at age 39, the game had become too fast for him.Upon learning of <mask>'s retirement, Gordie Howe offered praise for his former rival: "He sure was a drawing card. He brought in the crowds that helped pay our wages. <mask> certainly has been one of the greatest players in the game and we will miss him." Playing style
<mask> was nicknamed "the Comet" early in his career. When teammate Ray Getliffe remarked that <mask> "went in like a rocket" as he approached the opposition goal, <mask> was dubbed "The Rocket" by a local sportswriter; both Baz O'Meara from the Montreal Star and Dink Carroll of the Montreal Gazette have been credited for the appellation. The nickname described <mask>'s play in terms of speed, strength, and determination. Teammate and coach Toe Blake said the moniker was fitting because "when he would take off, nothing got in his way that could stop him".Goaltender Jacques Plante declared it one of the most appropriate nicknames given to an athlete, noting the fierce intensity that often showed in <mask>'s eyes and comparing it to "the rocket's red glare" referenced in "The Star-Spangled Banner". Glenn Hall agreed: "What I remember most about Rocket was his eyes. When he came flying toward you with the puck on his stick, his eyes were all lit up, flashing and gleaming like a pinball machine. It was terrifying." The prime of <mask>'s career was the era immediately following the Second World War, where battle-hardened players returned to the NHL and implemented a "gladiatorial" style that featured rugged, physical and often violent play. <mask>'s own temper was infamous, as illustrated by his actions that precipitated the Richard Riot. A pure goal-scorer, <mask> did not play with finesse, nor was he known for his passing.One of his teammates remarked that "<mask> wouldn't even pass you the salt". <mask> led the NHL in goals five times, but never in points. He was best known for dashing toward the net from the blue line and was equally adept at scoring from his forehand or backhand. His exploits revived a Montreal Canadiens franchise that had struggled to draw fans in the 1930s. In addition to his 14 appearances on a post-season all-star team (eight on the first team, six on the second), <mask> played in 13 consecutive NHL All-Star Games between 1947 and 1959. <mask> was still an active player when Gordie Howe overtook his career record for points. Howe surpassed <mask>'s career mark of 544 goals in 1963, while the latter's record of 50 goals in one season stood for 20 years until broken by Bobby Hull in 1965.The Montreal Canadiens donated the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy to the NHL in 1999 as an award presented annually to the league's leading goal scorer. Personal life
Upon his retirement as a player, Selke offered <mask> a job as a team ambassador and promised to pay him his full playing salary in the first year. After serving in the position for three years, <mask> was named a vice-president of the Canadiens in 1964. He became disgruntled with a role he felt was powerless and only honorary, and resigned one year later. <mask> grew estranged from the organization as his desire to be involved in the team's operations was ignored, and the split deepened when the Canadiens forced Frank Selke to retire in 1965. He eventually refused to allow his name to be associated with the team. As <mask> struggled both with the need to find a purpose to his post-retirement life and the fear of being forgotten, he attached his name to numerous endeavours.He acted as a consulting editor for a magazine titled <mask>'s Hockey Illustrated, owned the "544 / 9 Tavern" (named for his career goal total and sweater number) in Montreal, and was a pitchman for dozens of products, including beer, hair dye, car batteries, fishing tackle and children's toys. He continued to use his name as a promotional vehicle for over 30 years after his retirement. <mask> briefly returned to hockey in 1972 as head coach for the Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association. He lasted only two games, a win and a loss, before finding himself unable to handle the strain of coaching. <mask> reconciled with the Canadiens in 1981 and resumed his team ambassador role. <mask> and his wife, Lucille, lived in Montreal where they raised seven children: Huguette, <mask>., Norman, André, Suzanne, Polo and Jean. They had 14 grandchildren.Lucille died of cancer in 1994, two years after the <mask> celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. <mask>'s companion late in his life was Sonia Raymond. Illness and death

It was announced in 1998 that <mask> was diagnosed with abdominal cancer. He died from the disease two years later on May 27, 2000 and was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal. Prior to game 1 of the 2000 Stanley Cup Finals between the New Jersey Devils and Dallas Stars, there was a short tribute video highlighting the great moments and legacy of <mask>'s career. Legacy
Numerous honours were bestowed upon <mask> throughout and following his career: the Canadian Press named him its male athlete of the year on three occasions, and in 1957, <mask> won the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's athlete of the year. The Canadiens retired his sweater number 9 in 1960, while the Hockey Hall of Fame waived its five-year waiting period after retirement and inducted him in 1961.That same year, the 5,000-seat <mask> Arena was built and named in his honour. Upon the creation of the Order of Canada in 1967, <mask> was named one of the inaugural members and, in 1998, was elevated to the rank of Companion of the Order of Canada. Canada's Sports Hall of Fame honoured him in 1975, and <mask> was given a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 1999. He was appointed to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada in 1992. While he was a popular player throughout Canada, <mask> was an icon within Quebec. Author Roch Carrier explained the passion <mask> elicited from the fans in his 1979 Canadian-classic short story The Hockey Sweater. Carrier wrote of how he and his friends all emulated <mask>'s style and mannerisms: "we were five <mask> against five other <mask>, throwing themselves on the puck.We were ten players all wearing the uniform of the Montreal Canadiens, all with the same burning enthusiasm. We all wore the famous number 9 on our backs." The story's publication, and subsequent adaptation into a National Film Board animated short helped entrench <mask>'s image as a pan-Canadian icon. <mask>'s popularity persisted late into his life: when introduced as part of the ceremonies following the final hockey game at the Montreal Forum, <mask> was brought to tears by Canadiens' fans, who acknowledged him with an 11-minute standing ovation. Upon his death, the province of Quebec honoured <mask> with a state funeral, a first in Quebec for a non-politician. Over 115,000 people paid their respects by viewing his lying in state at the Molson Centre. The Richard Riot has achieved a mythical place in Canadian folklore.The riot is commonly viewed as a violent manifestation of the discontent Francophones within Quebec held with their place in largely Anglophone Canada, and some historians consider the riot to be a precursor to the 1960s Quiet Revolution. In its 40th anniversary retrospective of the Riot, Montreal newspaper La Presse opened with the following passage: "Forty years ago began one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Quebec, and of hockey." <mask> himself publicly dismissed his role as a catalyst for cultural or political change. In a 1975 interview, he said he played with "English boys" and was largely unaware of the situation in French Quebec at the time. In an article published four days after the riot, journalist André Laurendeau was the first to suggest that it was a sign of growing nationalism in Quebec. Laurendeau suggested the riot "betrayed what lay behind the apparent indifference and long-held passiveness of French Canadians". In contrast, in his book The Rocket: A Cultural History of <mask> Richard, Benoît Melançon disputes the importance of the riot, stating its perceived importance in history grew retroactively with <mask>'s myth.Melançon wrote: "According to this popular narrative, for the first time the people of Quebec stood up for themselves; especially English Canada delights in anachronistically announcing that this was the beginning of the 1960s Quiet Revolution." <mask> is the subject of the 2005 biopic The Rocket. Career statistics

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See also

 List of family relations in the NHL
 List of players with five or more goals in an NHL game

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"Rocket" <mask>: The Legend – The Legacy – Canadian Museum of History

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<mask> "Chalk<mask> (April 24, 1848 – August 9, 1912) was a well-known businessman, lawman,  cattleman and musician but was best known for his ownership of the famous Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas. Biography
Originally from Salem, Ohio, <mask> was the seventh-born child of Samuel and <mask>. The family moved to Marshalltown, Iowa shortly after his birth. In 1866 the 18-year-old <mask> left Marshalltown and headed west to Texas, where he found employment as a cowboy. Years later, Charles Goodnight would say of Beeson: "He was the best cowboy on the trail ... could stampede or quiet a herd quicker than any rustler I ever met." During 1872 the 24-year-old <mask> was living in Colorado. He worked, for a time, as a guide to buffalo hunters, with his clients including Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, Phil Sheridan, and George Custer.Life in Colorado

When the hunt ended, <mask> returned to Pueblo, Colorado where he participated in many civic activities. He was a member of the volunteer fire department and also Pueblo's baseball team. For employment, he drove a stagecoach between Denver and Colorado Springs. By 1875 <mask> grew bored with Pueblo and relocated to the three-year-old town of Dodge City, Kansas. Marriage
In 1876, Chalk <mask> returned home to Marshalltown, Iowa, where he married 22-year-old Ida Gause on July 17, 1876. The newlyweds intended to locate in Kansas City, Missouri. Before they could do so, Chalk had to return to Dodge City to collect money owed him by A.J.Peacock, the owner of the Billiard Hall Saloon. Peacock was unable to pay <mask> in cash and handed him the deed to the establishment as payment. Dodge City Saloon owner

<mask> had to adjust to the fact that her husband  was a Dodge City saloon owner. She was able to take some comfort in the fact that her husband provided an alternative to "entertainment" usually provided by frontier saloons – namely prostitutes. What Beeson provided may not have been as exciting to a Texas cowboy just arriving from a long drive, but it was certainly more cultural. Chalk <mask> offered a full orchestra. <mask> changed the name of his business to the Saratoga Saloon.According to a local paper: "It is a rare treat to drop in at the Saratoga upon Mr. <mask>, and listen to his last and best musical combination. Mr. <mask> is a thorough lover of good music, and by his skillful selection of good performers ... draws crowds of attentive listeners." Long Branch Saloon

Encouraged by his success with the Saratoga, Beeson decided to take a chance on another saloon. The Long Branch Saloon had been founded early in 1873 by Charles E. Bassett and A.J. Peacock. The saloon changed hands several times. On March 1, 1878, Beeson purchased the Long Branch from the firm of Dexter D. Colley and James M. Manion.Soon after purchasing the Long Branch, <mask> took William H. Harris as his partner. Also with Harris, <mask> established the COD Cattle Ranch, south of Dodge City. During the next several years, the firm of Beeson & Harris became a minor conglomerate whose holdings were located in such far-flung locations as Las Animas, Colorado and Tombstone, Arizona. After owning it for five years, <mask> grew bored with the Long Branch and sold his share of the business to Luke Short on February 6, 1883. In 1884 <mask> purchased a farm some two miles from Dodge City and moved his family there. Dodge City Cowboy Band

In 1884 <mask> formed the "Dodge City Cowboy Band. The group was well received wherever it played.The band members cut dashing figures in full "cowboy" regalia – enormous white stetsons, blue flannel shirts and boots festooned with ornamental spurs. Their fame finally spread far enough that they were featured performers in the March 4, 1889, inaugural parade of President Benjamin Harrison. The parade marked the Dodge City Band's finest hour, and also their final hour. Soon after their return to Dodge City, <mask> sold the ownership of the band to a man from Colorado. The transaction included most of the musical instruments and the right to use the name – all for a purchase price of $750. Sheriff of Ford County, Kansas
In November 1891, 43-year-old Chalk <mask> was elected sheriff of Ford County, Kansas. On November 1, 1892, Oliver Yantis and two accomplices robbed a Speareville, Kansas bank of $1,697.After Yantis was identified as being in Oklahoma, <mask> journeyed there and secured a warrant for him. On November 30, 1892, <mask>, accompanied by three Oklahoma lawmen, tracked Yantis to the residence where he was hiding. A gunfight with the posse followed in which Yantis was mortally wounded. <mask> served two terms as sheriff with distinction and left office in 1896. For the remainder of his life, <mask> concentrated on his cattle ranching. He was occasionally called upon for public service and served four separate terms in the Kansas State legislature between 1903 and 1908. Death and legacy

On the morning of Tuesday, August 6, 1912, with routine ranch chores to attend to, Chalk mounted a horse that was unusually skittish.When he attempted to dismount, the horse bucked and sent <mask> flying. On Friday, August 9, 1912 Chalk <mask> died. His family managed to keep his memory alive for decades after his death. In 1915 his sons, Merritt and Otero, opened the Beeson Theater on First Avenue in Dodge City. His widow, <mask>, remained a prominent member of Dodge City society until her death on June 15, 1928. In 1932, Merritt <mask> opened the Beeson Museum, which became a popular tourist attraction. After Merritt <mask> died on January 28, 1956 his widow managed the museum until 1964, when its large collection of historic documents, photos and artifacts were sold to Dodge City's Boot Hill Museum, Inc.

Bibliography

 DeMattos, Jack."The Dodge Citians: Chalk <mask>," NOLA Quarterly (Vol. XXI, No. 1), January–March 1997. Hunt, Daniel D. and Snell, Joseph W. "Who Killed Oliver Yantis?" True West, January–February 1966. Miller, Nyle H. and Snell, Joseph W. Why the West Was Wild. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1963.Shillingberg, Wm. B. Dodge City: The Early Years, 1872-1886. Norman, OK: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009. .
 Young, Fredric R. Dodge City: Up Through a Century in Story and Pictures. Dodge City, KS: The Boot Hill Museum, Inc. 1972. Young, Fredric R. The Delectable Burg: An Irreverent History of Dodge City - 1872 to 1886. Dodge City, KS: The Boot Hill Museum, Inc., 2009. .

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 <mask>, Steve - "A Brief Biography of Chalkley Beeson" - (excerpt <mask>/Beason family) - Family History Center microfilm #1035659, Item #9
 Vertical File Biographies: <mask> M<mask> - Kansas State Historical Society
 Story of Chalkley Beeson’s participation in the Royal Buffalo Hunt of January, 1872 (extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans)
 The Dodge City Cowboy Band digitized with permission of the Kansas State Historical Society.Inductees - Dodge City Trail of Fame
 Chalk <mask> with 1910 Wiley's Overland Car - Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, KS

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<mask> (1938–1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and community). Inspired by John Cage, <mask> was an early pioneer of electronic correspondence. <mask> coined the word intermedia<ref><mask>,"The Computational Word Works of Eric Andersen and <mask>", Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Digital Computing in the Experimental Arts, <mask>, & Douglas Kahn, eds., pp. 271-281</ref> to describe his artistic activities, defining it in a 1965 essay by the same name, published in the first number of the Something Else Newsletter. His most notable audio contributions include Danger Music scores and the Intermedia concept to describe the ineffable inter-disciplinary activities that became prevalent in the 1960s. Life
<mask> was the son of <mask> and Katherine Huntington Bigelow. He was born in Cambridge, England in 1938 into a rather rich family, due to his father owning Worcester Pressed Steel in Worcester, Massachusetts.He grew up with a brother and sister, Mark and Lisa. His younger brother Mark Huntington <mask> was murdered in the Congo in 1960. As a boy, <mask> grew up and was educated in private boarding schools around the New England area, including Worcester, Massachusetts, Putney, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire. When he got older, he spent a lot of time in school, he attended Yale University, Columbia University (1960), Manhattan School of Printing, and the New School. He trained under many influential artists of this time, such as John Cage and Henry Cowell. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia, and participated in John Cage’s monumental music composition course at the New School. In 1960, he wed Alison Knowles, a fellow artist, and four years later, they had their daughters, <mask> and <mask>.They both grew up to continue the family Fluxus dynasty. One daughter of <mask> and Knowles, <mask>, is the author of Fluxus Experience, an authoritative volume about the Fluxus movement. Her twin sister, Jessica, is a New York based intermedia artist closely associated with seminal curator Lance Fung. <mask> and Knowles divorced in 1970 after 10 years of marriage and remarried in 1984. <mask> died of a heart attack after a performance in Quebec, Canada. Career
<mask> heard the John Cage Twenty-five-year Retrospective Concert in May 1958, and began studying with him that summer. <mask> and Alison Knowles both took part in the Wiesbaden, Germany Fluxus festival in 1962, that marked the founding of Fluxus activity.He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter, Marshall McLuhan, Cage, Merce Cunningham, Cage's teacher Henry Cowell, as well as his contemporaries such as artists Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg, and Ray Johnson as well as leading Fluxus members La Monte Young, George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Eric Andersen, Ken Friedman, Ben Patterson, and others. The Something Else Press series of "Great Bear Pamphlets," documented the earliest Fluxus performances. He was an early and ardent proponent and user of computers as a tool for art making, dating back to the mid-1960s, when Alison Knowles and he created the first computer-generated literary texts. His A Book About Love & War & Death, a book-length aleatory poem published in 1972 included one of those. In his introduction, <mask> states, having finished the first three parts of the poem throwing dice, he wrote a FORTRAN IV program to produce part (or Canto) four. <mask> also created metadrama poems that were minimal emotional statements or narratives. Between 1976 and 1994 he collaborated with the Italian writer and visual artist Luciano Caruso through email correspondence.<mask> wrote and edited forty-seven books, including George Herbert's Pattern Poems: In Their Tradition and On the Composition of Signs and Images, his edition of a Giordano Bruno text, which he annotated. He saw Bruno's essay on the art of memory also as an early text on intermedia. A Dialectic of Centuries: Notes towards a Theory of the New Arts collected many of his essays and theoretical works in 1976. In 1972, <mask> founded Unpublished Editions (later renamed Printed Editions) to publish his short novel Amigo. In 2018, Siglio Press published a posthumous collection of <mask>'s writings titled Fluxus, Intermedia and the Something Else Press. Selected Writings by <mask> edited by Steve Clay of Granary Books and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman. Books
 What are Legends.Illustrated by Bern Porter. Calais, Maine: Bern Porter, 1960. Jefferson’s Birthday/Postface. New York: Something Else Press, 1964. A Book about Love & War & Death. Canto One. New York: Something Else Press, 1965.Die Fabelhafte Geträume von Taifun-Willi. A Hear Show for the Boys at Garnisht Kiegele. Stuttgart: Reflection Press, 1966. Act. A Game of 52 Soaphorse Operas. New York, NY: Threadneedle Editions, 1967. Some Graphis Mirrors.New York, NY: Threadneedle Editions, 1967. A Book about Love & War & Death. San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. Foew&ombwhnw. A grammar of the mind and a phenomenology of love and a science of the arts as seen by a stalker of the wild mushroom. New York: Something Else Press, 1969. Computers for the Arts.Somerville, Massachusetts: Abyss Publications, 1970. Die Fabelhafte Geträume von Taifun Willi. Somerville, Massachusetts: Abyss Publications, 1970. A Book About Love & War & Death. Barton, Vermont: Something Else Press, 1972. For Eugene in Germany. Barton, Vermont: Unpublished Editions, 1973.The Ladder to the Moon. Barton, Vermont: Unpublished Editions, 1973. Modular Poems. Barton, Vermont: Unpublished Editions, 1974. City with All the Angles. A Radio Play. West Glover Vermont: Unpublished Editions, 1974.Spring Game. An Opera for Shadow Puppets. West Glover Vermont: Unpublished Editions, 1974. Classic Plays. New York: Unpublished Editions, 1976. Cat Alley. A Long Short Novel.Willits, California: Tuumba Press, 1976. Five Traditions of Art History. An Essay. New York: Unpublished Editions, 1976. An Exemplativist Manifesto. New York: Unpublished Editions, 1976. Legends & Fishnets.Barton, Vermont: Unpublished Editions, 1976. George Herbert's Pattern Poems. In Their Tradition. West Glover, Vermont: Unpublished Editions, 1977. The Epitaphs = Gli Epitaphi. Napoli, Italy: Morra, 1977. Everyone Has Sher Favorite (His or Hers).New York: Unpublished Editions, 1977. Ett Exemplativistiskt Manifest. Lund: Kalejdoskop Förlag, 1977. The Epickall Quest of the Brothers Dichtung and Other Outrages. Illustrated by Ken Friedman. New York: Printed Editions, 1978. A Dialectic of Centuries.Notes Towards a Theory of the New Arts. New York: Printed Editions, 1978. Of Celebration of Morning. New York: Printed Editions, 1980. Piano Album. Short Piano Pieces, 1962-1984. New York: Printed Editions, 1980.Twenty-Six Mountains for Viewing the Sunset From. Barrytown, New York: Printed Editions, 1981. The Word and Beyond. Four Literary Cosmologists (with Richard Morris, Donald Phelps, and Harry Smith). New York: The Smith, 1982. Horizons. The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia.Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. Pattern Poetry. Guide to an Unknown Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. The Journey. Eight Colored Scenes. Barrytown, New York: Left Hand Books, 1992.Buster Keaton Enters into Paradise. Barrytown, New York: Left Hand Books, 1994. Modernism since Postmodernism. Essays on Intermedia. San Diego, California: San Diego State University, 1997. As editor with Wolf Vostell
 Pop Architektur. Concept Art.Düsseldorf: Droste, 1969. Fantastic Architecture. New York: Something Else Press, 1971. See also

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References

 Further reading
 Steve Clay and Ken Friedman, eds. (2018). Fluxus, Intermedia and the Something Else Press. Selected Writings by <mask>.Catskill, NY: Siglio. External links

 Official <mask> Archive Website
 Fluxus Performance Workbook
 1966 Statement on Intermedia
 <mask> Janssen interview with <mask> about mail art
 Dick Higgins Intermedia book back in print with SDSU Press (scroll down, near the bottom)

 <mask> collection, 1958-2002 – at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
 Dick <mask> Collection, 1968-1993 (MsC 790) – at the University of Iowa
 <mask> papers, 1960-1994 – the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
<mask> Archive -- Northwestern University
 Fluxus, Intermedia and the Something Else Press. Selected Writings by <mask>. <mask> book at Siglio Press edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman
 Something Else Newsletter – a complete open access set of <mask>'s Something Else Newsletter at Primary Information
 An Interview With <mask>, 1971 – recorded at the KPFA studios on June 13, 1971, after <mask> resigned his post at California Institute of the Arts
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 Select Writings by <mask>
 <mask> <mask> Biography at Monoskop
  <mask> Danger Music Number Seventeen'' from Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine Fluxus issue archived at UbuWeb

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<mask> (14 July 1901 – 9 March 1974) was an English professional footballer who played for Darlington, Sheffield Wednesday and briefly with Rotherham United in a 16-year career which lasted from 1923 to 1939, although he appeared in 1945 in a few games after World War II . In total he played 500 League games (550 including cup games) in that time, scoring 168 League goals with 11 more in the FA Cup. <mask> was a diminutive right winger who was only 5 ft 6 in (1.67 m) tall, weighed under 10 stone (64 kg) and wore size 4 boots. <mask> was born in Darlington on 14 July 1901. He was brought up in the Rise Carr area and was part of a family of footballers. His brother Bill had an eight-year-long professional career while other brothers Carl and Danny had brief periods in the paid ranks. His uncle Charlie Roberts captained Manchester United and England while his sisters Sarah and Betty were members of the Darlington Quaker Ladies team.His father worked in the local rolling mill. Playing career
<mask> was initially a goalkeeper but switched to an outfield position after being told he was too small to be an effective keeper. He played as an amateur for Cockfield and featured in the inaugural Northern League Cup final in 1922–23. He was part of the team that reached the FA Amateur Cup semi-final in that season, which they lost to Evesham Town 4–2. Darlington
He signed professionally for local club Darlington for the 1923–24 season, joining his brother Bill, who was already a Quakers player. The pair were key members of the team which won the Third Division North Championship in the 1924–25 season to put Darlington in the Second Division for the first time in their history. <mask> scored 11 goals from the right wing during that promotion campaign and bettered it with 18 the following year in Division Two.On 27 March 1926 of that season Darlington beat Second Division Champions elect Sheffield Wednesday 5–1 at Feethams with <mask> having an exceptional match, a performance which undoubtedly influenced the future direction of his career. The following season Darlington struggled in Division Two and would eventually be relegated at the end of the season. The Darlington directors decided to change the team midway through the campaign and sell <mask> to Sheffield Wednesday and use the money to purchase Jimmy Waugh, a defender, from Sheffield United. Darlington directors met Sheffield Wednesday officials in York on Friday 21 January 1927 and the deal was done, with <mask> signing for Wednesday for a fee of £1,950. Darlington then added £50 to the fee and promptly signed Waugh for £2,000 to bolster their defence. <mask> knew nothing of this and had to be summoned from a night out at the cinema to be told that he had been sold to Sheffield Wednesday. Sheffield Wednesday
<mask> made his Sheffield Wednesday debut the following day on 22 January 1927 in a 2–2 draw with Leicester City at Hillsborough.He played 15 games in the remainder of that season scoring two goals. The following season, he netted 22 goals for Wednesday (a record at the time for a winger) as he finished as top scorer and played a vital part in Wednesday's "Great Escape" season of 1927–28. Towards the end of that season he was joined at the club by left winger Ellis Rimmer and the pair were feted as one of the best pair of extreme wingers in the game. Another accolade often aimed at <mask> in his time at Wednesday was that he was "the best uncapped winger in the country", during his best years he was kept out of the England side by Derby County's fine right winger Sammy Crooks. <mask> was a consistent performer and remained injury free for much of his career. Between April 1928 and April 1932 he amassed 189 consecutive League and Cup matches for Sheffield Wednesday to create a new record for the club. This record stood for 55 years, until February 1987 when it was beaten by Martin Hodge.In the 1928–29 and 1929–30 seasons <mask> was an ever-present as Wednesday lifted back to back Division One championships. He played in Sheffield Wednesday's 2–1 defeat by Arsenal in the Charity Shield at Stamford Bridge in October 1930. In 1933–34 he was joint top scorer with 13 goals along with Neil Dewar and Harry Burgess as Wednesday finished outside of the top three in Division One for the first time in five seasons. In 1935 he won a FA Cup winners medal as Wednesday beat West Bromwich Albion 4–2 in the final. <mask> scored the second goal for the Owls with a shot that went in off the post. He also played as Wednesday won the 1935 FA Charity Shield. <mask> lost his place in the Wednesday team after suffering relegation from the top division in 1937.A knee injury led to a cartilage operation in May 1937 and he only made eight appearances in 1937–38 and none the following season as he became player-coach of the A team. His last game for the first team was on 7 May 1938 against Spurs. <mask> left Wednesday to join Rotherham United in May 1939 just before the outbreak of World War II, he amassed a total of 423 games for Sheffield Wednesday in all competitions and is tenth on the all-time list of appearances. He scored 136 goals and is fifth on the all-time list of goalscorers for the club. Rotherham United
<mask> joined Rotherham as a player-coach at the age of 37, none of his three league appearances for the club in the 1939–40 campaign have been officially recorded as the season was abandoned with the outbreak of the war. He did return after the war and play three FA Cup matches for the club as Rotherham reached the 4th round before losing to Barnsley in January 1946. He remained at Rotherham until 1958 as a coach.After football
<mask> opened a tobacconist and confectionery shop on Middlewood Road, just 200 metres from the Sheffield Wednesday ground in the early 1930s whilst still a Wednesday player. He kept the shop going throughout his coaching time with Rotherham and it remained open until the 1970s. <mask> died on 9 March 1974 in Sheffield, aged 72. References

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was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaidō and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). , a guitarist, is his brother. He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art University. He is best known for his acclaimed anime films Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), and Paprika (2006). He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 46 on August 24, 2010. Biography

Early life
<mask>n was born on October 12, 1963. Due to his father's job transfer, Kon's education from the fourth elementary grade up to the second middle school grade was based in Sapporo.Kon was a classmate and close friend of manga artist Seihō Takizawa. While attending Hokkaido Kushiro Koryo High School, Kon aspired to become an animator. Kon entered the Graphic Design course of the Musashino Art University in 1982. Early career
While in college, Kon made his debut as a manga artist with the short manga Toriko (1984) and earned a runner-up spot in the 10th Annual Tetsuya Chiba Awards held by Young Magazine (Kodansha). Afterward, he found work as Katsuhiro Otomo's assistant. After graduating from college in 1987, Kon authored the one-volume manga Kaikisen (1990) and wrote the script for Otomo's live-action film World Apartment Horror. In 1991, Kon worked in anime for the first time as an animator and on background design for the film Roujin Z, which was written by Otomo.He began working around 1992 as a scriptwriter, layout artist, and background designer for Magnetic Rose (directed by Koji Morimoto), one of three short films in Katsuhiro Otomo's omnibus Memories (released in 1995). This was the first time he adopted the theme of "the fusion of fantasy and reality" as the theme of his work. Kon worked as one of five layout artists on Mamoru Oshii's Patlabor 2: The Movie in 1993, along with other animated films. He made his directorial debut with episode 5 of the 1993-1994 OVA JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which he also wrote the script and storyboarded. Kon then worked with Mamoru Oshii on the manga Seraphim: Wings of 266,613,336, which was written by Oshii and drawn by Kon. The manga was serialized in the monthly anime magazine Animage starting in 1994. However, as the series progressed, the opinions of Kon and Oshii became divided, and the series went on hiatus and ended unfinished.After this work, Kon ended his career as a manga artist and devoted himself to making anime. Directing
In 1997, <mask> began work on his directorial debut Perfect Blue (based on Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel of the same name). It was the first film by Kon to be produced by Madhouse, and producer Masao Maruyama invited him because he liked the episode Kon directed in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.。
A suspense story centered on a pop idol and Kon was initially unsatisfied with the first script based on the original and requested to make changes to it. With the permission of the original author, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Kon was allowed to make any changes he wanted, except for keeping the three elements of the novel ("idol," "horror," and "stalker"). The screenplay was written by Sadayuki Murai, who worked in the idea of a blurred border between the real world and imagination. Following Perfect Blue, Kon considered adapting the 1993 Yasutaka Tsutsui novel Paprika into his next film. However, these plans were stalled when the distribution company for Perfect Blue (Rex Entertainment) went bankrupt.Coincidentally, Kon's next work would also feature a film studio going bankrupt. In 2002, Kon's second film, Millennium Actress, was released to the public. The distribution company for the North American release was DreamWorks-affiliated Go Fish Pictures. The film centers on a retired actress who mysteriously withdraws from the public eye at the peak of her career. Having the same estimated budget as Perfect Blue (approximately 120,000,000 yen), Millennium Actress garnered higher critical and financial success than its predecessor and earned numerous awards. The screenplay was written by Sadayuki Murai, who utilized a seamless connection between illusion and reality to create a "Trompe-l'œil kind of film". Millennium Actress was the first Satoshi Kon film to feature Susumu Hirasawa, of whom Kon was a long-time fan, as composer.In 2003, Kon's third work, Tokyo Godfathers, was announced. The distribution company for the North American release was Sony Pictures-affiliated Destination Films. The film centers on a trio of homeless persons in Tokyo who discover a baby on Christmas Eve and set out to search for her parents. Tokyo Godfathers cost more to make than Kon's previous two films (with a budget of approximately 300,000,000 yen), and centered on the themes of homelessness and abandonment, with a comedic touch worked in. The screenplay was written by Keiko Nobumoto. This work also marked the transition from celluloid animation to digital animation. In 2004, Kon released the 13-episode television series Paranoia Agent, in which Kon revisits the theme of the blending of imagination and reality, as well as working in additional social themes.The series was created from an abundance of unused ideas for stories and arrangements that Kon felt were good but did not fit into any of his projects. In 2006, Paprika was announced, after having been planned out and materializing for several years. The story centers on a new form of psychotherapy that utilizes dream analysis to treat mental patients. The film was highly successful and earned a number of film awards. Kon summed up the film with —roughly, "Everything but the fundamental story was changed." Much like <mask>'s previous works, the film focuses on the synergy of dreams and reality. He participated in the TV program Ani*Kuri15 broadcast by NHK in 2007.His one-minute short film Ohayō was aired along with works by Mamoru Oshii, Makoto Shinkai and others. That same year, Kon helped establish and served as a member of the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). Health deterioration and death
Following Ohayō, Kon began work on his next film, Dreaming Machine. In May 2010, Kon was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Given half a year to live, Kon chose to spend the remainder of his life in his home. Shortly before his death Kon composed a final message, which was uploaded to his blog by his family upon his death. As Kon explained in the message, he chose not to make news of his rapidly advancing illness public, in part out of embarrassment at how drastically emaciated and ravaged his body had become.The result was that the announcement of his death was met with widespread shock and surprise, particularly given that Kon had shown no signs of illness at relatively recent public events, as the cancer progressed to a terminal state in a matter of months after being diagnosed. Kon died on August 24, 2010, at the age of 46. After his death, Kon was mentioned among the Fond Farewells in Times people of the year 2010. Darren Aronofsky wrote a eulogy to him, which was printed in , a Japanese retrospective book of his animation career. Dreaming Machine
In November 2010, Madhouse, the animation studio that had previously produced Kon's works, officially announced that they would continue to produce the unfinished "Yumemiru Kikai", and that the animation director Yoshimi Itazu would be acting as the director. However, the project was halted in 2011 due to financial reasons. As of 2013, the completion of Dreaming Machine remains uncertain due to funding difficulties, with only 600 of the 1500 shots being animated.At Otakon 2012, Madhouse founder Masao Maruyama, who was involved in all of Kon's films from Perfect Blue to Paprika and was also his friend and collaborator, stated: "Unfortunately, we still don't have enough money. My personal goal is to get it within five years after his passing. I'm still working hard towards that goal." In July 2015, Madhouse reported that Dreaming Machine remains in production but they are looking for a director to match Kon's abilities and similar vision. In August 2016, Mappa Producer Masao Maruyama Said in an interview: "For 4~5 years, I kept searching for a suitable director to complete Kon's work. Before his death, the storyboard and script, even part of the keyframe film was already completed. Then I thought, even if someone can mimic Kon's work, it would still be clear that it's only an imitation.For example, if Mamoru Hosoda took the director's position, the completed Dreaming Machine would still be a good piece of work. However, that would make it Hosoda's movie, not Kon's. Dreaming Machine should be Kon's movie, him and only him, not someone else's. That means we cannot and should not "compromise" only to finish it. I spent years to finally reach this hard conclusion. Instead, we should take only Kon's "original concept", and let somebody turn it into a feature film. By doing so, the completed piece could 100% be that person's work, and I'm OK with that.I also considered about doing a documentary of Kon." However, Maruyama has not completely given up on the production. He says, "If a talented director from overseas is willing to take on the project, it is not entirely without possibility," suggesting that the project is not entirely without a chance of restarting. Themes
The theme of "mixture of fiction and reality" is a keyword that symbolizes <mask> <mask>'s works, and he repeatedly depicts the relationship between "fiction and reality" with various approaches in each of his works. In Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Paprika, the boundary between fiction and reality gradually became blurred, and the characters were portrayed as going back and forth between fiction and reality. At first glance, Tokyo Godfathers does not seem to deal with the motif of "fiction and reality," but it does have a device in which the "fiction" of "miracles and coincidences" is successively introduced into the realistic life of homeless people in Tokyo. Because of the character designs and the way they are expressed, Kon's works seem to be aiming for realism.However, Kon's goal is not to "depict landscapes and people that look as if they are real" but to "depict the moment when landscapes and people that look as if they are real suddenly reveal themselves to be 'fiction' or 'pictures'. His ability to depict a realistic world, which he has demonstrated in order in the films he has participated in as a staff member, such as Otomo's and Oshii's works, is utilized in his own works to most effectively show the drop of "transition from reality to fiction". The world that appears to be real in Kon's works does not remain real, but is suddenly transformed into an unfamiliar world in order to disorient the audience. This is the reason why he insisted on animated films instead of live action. When asked about his interest in female characters, Kon stated that female characters were easier to write because he is not able to know the character in the same way as a male character, and "can project my obsession onto the characters and expand the aspects I want to describe." With a frame of reference up to Tokyo Godfathers, Susan J. Napier notes that while the theme of performance is the one obvious commonality in his works, she finds that the concept of the male gaze is the more important topic for discussion. Napier shows the evolution of Kon's use of the gaze from its restrictive and negative aspects in Magnetic Rose and Perfect Blue, to a collaborative gaze in Millennium Actress before arriving at a new type of gaze in Tokyo Godfathers which revels in uncertainty and illusion.Dean DeBlois said, "<mask> Kon used the hand-drawn medium to explore social stigmas and the human psyche, casting a light on our complexities in ways that might have failed in live action. Much of it was gritty, intense, and at times, even nightmarish. Kon didn't shy away from mature subject matter or live-action sensibilities in his work, and his films will always occupy a fascinating middle ground between 'cartoons' and the world as we know it." Influences
Of all the artists, musicians, and writers, it is the music of Susumu Hirasawa that has had the greatest influence on Kon's expressive style. Kon said that he has learned a lot from Hirasawa's attitude towards music and production, and that he owes a lot of the stories and concepts he creates to his influence. Kon's idea of fractal control of film comes from Susumu Hirasawa, who has applied fractal-generating programs to music production. Hirasawa's lyrics sparked Kon's interest in Jungian psychology and the writings of Hayao Kawai, Japan's foremost expert on Jungian psychology, who has psychologically deciphered ancient myths and folktales, which greatly influenced his storytelling and direction.All of <mask>'s works, from Perfect Blue to the suspended Dreaming Machine, have been inspired by Hirasawa's lyrics and songs. Susumu Hirasawa's "Lotation (LOTUS-2)", which is the theme song of "Millennium Actress", was played at <mask>'s funeral. Kon says that he is influenced by everything he has been exposed to in his life, including writing, painting, music, movies, manga, anime, television, and theater. He has learned a lot from Osamu Tezuka and Katsuhiro Otomo in manga, Hayao Miyazaki in animation, Akira Kurosawa and many other great Japanese and international directors in film. He was familiarized with Osamu Tezuka's manga and animation works such as Astro Boy, The Jungle Emperor, and Princess Knight in his childhood. He was an avid watcher of anime titles such as Space Battleship Yamato (1974), Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974), Future Boy Conan (1978), Galaxy Express 999 (1978) and Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) during his junior and senior high school years, which Japanese anime fans of the time were crazy about. Katsuhiro Otomo had a strong influence on him, and his favorite works were Domu: A Child's Dream and AKIRA, especially Domu, which he liked so much that he said if he could make a movie out of only one manga he had ever read, it would be that one.He was also influenced by the  movement in manga started by Otomo and others, and decided to not only read but also draw manga himself in his high school days. He was enlightened by the New Wave's way of overwhelmingly depicting a story in which nothing in particular happens, focusing on a character who could never be the protagonist of the story. <mask> has also said that his drawing style has influenced by Otomo, as he used to work as Otomo's assistant when he was a manga artist. After entering the animation industry, he was greatly influenced by animators Hiroyuki Okiura, Toshiyuki Inoue, Takeshi Honda, Masashi Ando, and art setter Takashi Watabe. He had been watching only live-action movies since he started college. He watched most of the movies on video and made it a routine to draw manga based on the setting, format, and direction of the scenes. Ninety percent of the films he watched were made in the U.S, and he said that he learned a lot about his own style of visual expression from Hollywood films.However, he was not influenced by any particular film or director, but by everything he had ever seen. For example, Millennium Actress has scenes that borrow images from Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, Yasujiro Ozu's films, the hero of the chambara film Kurama Tengu, or the great Japanese star Godzilla. The film that directly influenced Millennium Actress is George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). When he was in college, it was not one film that influenced him the most, but the entire body of work of Terry Gilliam, which were Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989). However, the filmmaker whose works and books he had read the most is Akira Kurosawa. As for novels, the works of Ryotaro Shiba, the Japanese historical novelist, had a great impact on Kon in terms of his own relationship with Japan. He was also very much inspired by Haruki Murakami, whose works have been translated into many foreign languages.He had seen the movie Blade Runner before reading the novel and had not read all of his works, but Philip K. Dick was one of the authors he wanted to read and he became very interested in images of nightmares under his influence. He has been a long-time fan of Yasutaka Tsutsui since before he directed Paprika, and was especially influenced by reading Tsutsui's works intensively when he was around 20 years old. It was such a fundamental influence that even he did not know how or where Tsutsui's work influenced him. According to Kon, the appeal of Yasutaka Tsutsui's work is "deviation from common sense." What he learned from Tsutsui was "doubt the framework of common sense." Legacy
<mask> Kon has had a great influence on many influential directors around the world even after his death. Many artists and works have been influenced by his realistic visual expression and vivid cutting, and his influence can be seen everywhere in the world.<mask>'s influence on foreign filmmakers has been more pronounced than in Japan, with live-action stalwarts such as Darren Aronofsky and Guillermo del Toro expressing their support for Kon. American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky was one of the directors greatly influenced by Kon, especially Perfect Blue. In an interview with Kon in 2001, he said that any scene in Requiem for a Dream that seems to be influenced by Perfect Blue is a homage to it, and that he still wants to make a live-action version of Perfect Blue. His 2010 film Black Swan was also pointed out by several critics for its similarity to Perfect Blue, but Aronofsky denied any direct influence. Christopher Nolan's 2010 film Inception was also noted by several critics and scholars to have many striking similarities with Kon's Paprika (2006), including plot similarities, similar scenes, and similar characters. Filmography

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Other literary works

Accolades

References

Further reading
 Andrew Osmond. <mask> Kon: The Illusionist, Stone Bridge Press, 2009,

External links
 Personal website

 Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
 English translation of <mask> Kon's last words
 Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time on Every Frame A Painting

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Deaths from cancer in Japan
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
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is a Japanese idol singer and actress formerly associated with Hello! Project. She joined in 2006 as a member of Hello Pro Egg, as a trainee. In 2007, she became a member of the Hello! Project futsal team Gatas Brilhantes H.P. and its musical group Ongaku Gatas. On March 29, 2008, she started a solo music career, working under the management and promotion of J.P Room.She continued with Hello! Project until 2013, and is now performing in solo music projects as well as acting in films and television. Life and career

2008
<mask> Erina joined Hello! Project as a Hello! Pro Egg in 2006 after passing the Up-Front Group "Egg" Audition. In 2007, she was one of the six members of the Hello! Pro Egg to be added to Ongaku Gatas and became a reserve player for the Gatas Brilhantes H.P.club. She graduated from Ongaku Gatas on March 2, 2008 and Hello! Pro Egg on March 29, 2008 to debut as a soloist. On June 29, 2008 she released her debut indie, "Manopiano". She has been featured as the opening act in various of her Senpai's concerts (Natsumi Abe, Morning Musume, Berryz Kobo and Cute), starting in August 2008. 2009
Having received piano lessons since kindergarten, Mano's solo work within Hello! Project prominently features her playing the piano parts of her musical releases and providing the vocal and piano parts of her songs while performing in concerts and at live events.In 2008, Mano released three singles under an independent label. She has debuted under a major label Hachama with the single "Otome no Inori", released on March 18, 2009. It reached a number three position on the Oricon charts the first day of release and reached number five on the weekly chart. In 2009, Erina was announced as being one of the members of the new version of Pucchi Moni. Mano's songs are usually composed by KAN. Aya Matsuura has told her via a video comment in April 2009 that she "...needs to be the best singer in H!P, and in order to do that, she'll need to be a better singer than Ai Takahashi." 2010
Mano, along with S/mileage and Morning Musume will star in the CS-Fuji TV-TWO dorama Half Esper which will begin broadcasting in January 2010. Mano's role is a half-trained esper that left a secret government esper research organization known as Kokueken, without being able to fully control her supernatural powers.In 2010 as well, the TBS drama Mano Spy will begin, where <mask> plays herself, under the fictional premise that she's an undercover agent. She's sent to Japan as a spy for the Queen of the United Kingdom, and ends up passing an idol audition, so she has trouble with her espionage duties. The theme song of the show is "Matsuge no Saki ni Kimi ga Iru" (from Mano's first album). The show will begin streaming on the internet on January 26 and will be broadcast on BS-TBS on February 27. She also was in a new drama called DEATH GAME PARK. On July 1, 2010, <mask> made her US debut in Los Angeles. Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo, a Japanese horror film in which she starred and had its world premiere at Club Nokia.She also had a short mini concert, a mini Q and A, and an autograph session for the fans who attended the event. 2011
In 2011, <mask> Erina's radio show, "Mano-Deli", was replaced by Morning Musume 9th gen member Sayashi Riho's "Riho-Deli"
Also in 2011, it was announced that Mano would star in a short film called "Miyuki's Wind Bell". In 2011 she had her another solo concert named, <mask> <mask>'s Concert Tour 2011〜Hatachi no Otome 801DAYS. In July she made a public appearance at South Korea to attend the Puchon International Fantastic Film which would film her movie. 2012
On April 18, it was announced that <mask>, Yajima Maimi, Suzuki Airi, and Okai Chisato would star in a new stage play, Theatre In The Round. On November 30, it was announced that she would be joining the M-Line fanclub in March 2013. 2013
On February 19, it was announced she would star in TV Tokyo's drama Minna!ESPer Dayo!. On February 23, she released the photobook Mano na no and graduated from Hello! Project. On July 25, it was announced she would star in the drama Nijushi no Hitomi, which was her first prime time drama. On August 18, Mano appeared on the cover of the magazine Nini-Funi. On December 6, her manager announced that she would appear in a new drama, Shark, in January 2014. starring Johnnies Jr.

2014
In June 2014, Mano held her first concert since her graduation from Hello! Project1, titled "Again ~ Live House de Moetsukiyou!~".Personal life
She married footballer Gaku Shibasaki on July 16, 2018. Activities outside Japan
On July 1, 2010, she made her first promotional appearance outside Japan at Club Nokia in Los Angeles for her movie debut in Kai-Ki: Tales of Horror. Mano sang two songs before the screening and held a Q&A and autograph session for her fans. In July 2011, she made her second appearance outside Japan in South Korea. Discography

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 Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max - Nadeshiko Misaki
 Waga Haha no Ki ~ Chronicle of My Mother (2012, as Sadayo the maid)
 Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum - Nadeshiko Misaki
 The Next Generation -Patlabor- (2014, 2015) as Akira Izumino
 Tag (2015) – Izumi
 Orange (2015)
 Anonymous Noise (2017) as Miou Suguri
 The 100th Love with You (2017)
 Kids on the Slope (2018) as Yurika Fukahori
 Impossibility Defense (2018) as Yū Kimura
 We Are (2018) as Kana
 Bleach (2018) as Orihime Inoue

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Japan Gold Disc Awards

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<mask>. (May 16, 1910 – September 24, 2000), was the first Puerto Rican and Hispanic four-star admiral, and the second Hispanic to hold that rank in the modern United States Navy, after the American Civil War Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801–1870). After retiring from the Navy, <mask> served as the U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1972–1974), and was also the first Hispanic to hold that position. Early years
<mask> was born and raised in the city of Ponce, located in the southern coast of Puerto Rico, where he also received his primary and secondary education. Military career
On June 20, 1927, he received an appointment from the Honorable Felix Cordova Davila, Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner to attend the United States Naval Academy. On June 4, 1931, he graduated third in a class of 441 from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.<mask>'s first assignment was aboard the . From 1932 to 1936 he served aboard the following ships: , ,  and . He earned his master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1940 and in 1941 married Hazel Hooper. World War II

During World War II, he served aboard the  as a gunnery officer and was involved in providing artillery cover for Marines landing on Guadalcanal, Marshall Islands, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. For his service he was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V". <mask> was reassigned to the . The Pittsburghs  bow had been torn off during a typhoon and <mask>'s strategies saved his ship without a single life lost.For his actions, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. He also participated in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, the attack on Bougainville in the Solomons, the capture of the Gilbert Islands and a series of carrier raids on Rabaul. On June 5, 1945, <mask> participated in the first carrier raids against Tokyo during operations in the vicinity of Nansei Shoto. <mask> served as Assistant to the Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Special Weapons) from August 1945 to February 1946. From February 1946 to June 1947, he served as a technical assistant on the Staff of Commander Joint Task Force One for Operation Crossroads, and was on the Staff of Commander, Joint Task Force Seven during the atomic weapons tests in Eniwetok in 1948. Korean War

After the war, <mask> commanded the  and during the Korean War the . Under his command, the Noble steamed to Korea to participate in the September Inchon amphibious assault.Thereafter, the Noble assisted in the transport of U.S. and foreign troops and equipment to and from the Korean combat zone. In July 1953, the Noble participated in Operation Big Switch, moving Communist North Korean prisoners from Koje Do to Inchon pursuant to the armistice agreement. <mask> studied nuclear weaponry at the National War College and in 1954 he became Assistant Chief of Staff for Naval Operations. In 1955, he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral and was a member of the Staff of the Commander in Chief, Western Atlantic Area. Between January 1958 and March 1959, he served as Commander Destroyer Flotilla One (COMDESFLOT ONE) headquartered in Yokosuka, Japan. Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. On October 22, 1962, Admiral <mask> was the commander of the American fleet sent by President John F. Kennedy to set up a quarantine (blockade) of the Soviet ships in an effort to stop the Cold War from escalating into World War III.On October 28, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered the removal of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, and Kennedy ordered an end of the quarantine of Cuba on November 20, bringing an end to the crisis. <mask> was named Vice Chief of Naval Operations after the previous VCNO, Claude V. Ricketts, died in office on July 6, 1964. On July 31, 1964, <mask> became the first Puerto Rican, and the second Hispanic to become a four-star admiral in the modern era US Navy. Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War, <mask> oversaw the day-to-day work of the Navy as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations. He was a stern supporter of a "brown-water navy," or riverine force, on the rivers of South Vietnam. NATO commander
From 1968 until his retirement from the Navy in 1972, Admiral <mask> was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's commander in chief of the Allied Forces in Southern Europe. He was responsible of the land, sea and air forces of five nations deployed in the Mediterranean area: Italy, Greece, Turkey, Britain and the United States.During his years as commander, some 215,000 of the 310,000 American troops in Europe were stationed in West Germany. At the time, <mask> believed that any withdrawal of United States troops from West Germany might affect the strength of the United States Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Post-Navy career
From 1972 to 1975, Admiral <mask> served as the U.S. Ambassador to Spain under the administration of President Richard M. Nixon from 1972 to 1974. <mask> was also the Honorary Chairman of the American Veterans' Committee for Puerto Rico Self-Determination. Admiral <mask> <mask> died on September 24, 2000 and was buried with full military honors in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery of San Diego, California. He was survived by a daughter, Mary Lynn Hogan; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Sara and Lydia, both of Puerto Rico.On November 11, 2008, the government of Puerto Rico unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda the oil portrait of Admiral <mask> <mask> Jr. Awards and recognitions
Among Admiral <mask>'s decorations and medals were the following:

On April 1, 2017, the United States Navy Reserve dedicated posthumously the Navy Operational Support Center NOSC building in Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico to Admiral <mask> <mask> Jr.

Further reading
"Puertorriquenos Who Served With Guts, Glory, and Honor. Fighting to Defend a Nation Not Completely Their Own"; by : Greg Boudonck; ;

See also

Hispanic Admirals in the United States Navy
List of Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans in World War II
List of Puerto Rican military personnel
Hispanics in the United States Navy
Hispanics in the United States Naval Academy

References

Further reading
"Hispanics in America's Defense" by Diane Publishing Company; Pages 88–89; Published 1997;

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United States Navy personnel of World War II
United States Navy personnel of the Korean War
United States Navy personnel of the Vietnam War
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Víctor Manuel Soto Flores (born July 23, 1975) is a Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler. He is currently signed to Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, where he is the former AAA Latin American Champion. Flores has worked as <mask> in Lucha Underground and in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), as Gato Eveready or simply El Gato under which he was an unofficial member of the wrestling group Real Fuerza Aérea, and as Alan in the group called Los Barrio Boys. Professional wrestling career

Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración

Early years (1998–2001)
Victor Soto made his professional wrestling debut in April, 1998 on a Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) show, under the name Morfo. Later on his ring name was changed to "Jimmy Boy" and he was teamed up with Billy and Vangelis to form a Boy band inspired group called Los Spice Boys. At Triplemanía VII Jimmy Boy, Billy and Vangelis defeated Los Payasos (Coco Amarillo, Coco Rojo and Coco Verde) in one of the undercard matches. At the 2000 Guerra de Titanes event Los Spice Boys lost to Los Vatos Locos (Espiritu, Nygma, Picudo and Silver Cat).Los Barrio Boys (2001–2008)
In 2001 his gimmick was changed to Alan and he was made part of a group called Los Barrio Boys along with Billy Boy (formerly known as "Spice Boy" Billy) and Decnis. The team worked extensive storyline feuds with Los Diabólicos (Ángel Mortal, Mr. Condór and Marabunta) and with AAA trainer Gran Apache to help the young team improve their in-ring skills, especially the storyline with Gran Apache would shape the development of Los Barrio Boys over the years. On September 16, 2001 Los Barrio Boys made their first major show appearance as they wrestled the team of Milano Collection AT, Nitohei Oyanagi and Yasushi Tsujimoto to a draw at Verano de Escandalos. A few months later Los Barrio Boys teamed with Ice Cream to defeat Los Diabolicos and Police Man in the opening match of Guerra de Titanes. On December 12, 2002 Los Barrio Boys teamed up with Oscar Sevilla to defeat Los Vatos Locos  to win the Mexican National Atómicos Championship. The team had one successful title defense, defeating Hator, Monje Negro, Jr., El Potro and Ben Hur on April 6, 2003 On July 18, 2003 the team lost the Atómicos title back to Los Vatos Locos but would regain them under a month later when they defeated Los Vatos Locos on August 8, 2003. Sevilla and Los Barrio Boys successfully defended the Atómicos title against Los Exoticos (Pimpinela Escarlata, May Flowers, Polvo de Estrellas and Sexy Francis) on October 26, 2003.Their second, and final run with the Mexican National Atómicos title ended on August 20, 2004 when they were defeated by The Black Family (Chessman, Ozz, Cuervo and Escoria, ending their combined reigns at 606 days in total. On December 5, 2004 Los Barrio Boys won a four-way match against The Black Family, Los Kumbria Kids and Los Espantapajaros at Guerra de Titanes. By 2007 Los Barrio Boys feud with Gran Apache led to both Alan and Decnis turning against Billy Boy, attacking him and turning Rudó (bad guy or Heel in wrestling terms). Alan and Decnis even sided with Gran Apache for a while. After a few months Decnis decided to join a group called Guapos VIP, leaving Alan alone. Once the storyline with Billy Boy ended Alan turned tecnico (good guy or Face) and formed a new Barrio Boys group. Alan began teaming with Kevin, Javi and Ricky.The team only worked in opening matches and soon after Alan left the group altogether. Gato Eveready / El Gato (2008–2011)
In 2008 Victor Soto began working as Gato Eveready, a masked character sponsored by the Eveready Battery. Originally another wrestler worked under the mask but Alan took over in the spring of 2008 and plays the character to this day, while occasionally working as Alan as well. Soto's first verified appearance as Gato Eveready came at AAA's 2008 Reina de Reina show, teaming with Aero Star, El Ángel and Pegasso in a loss to Los Piratas (Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan, Jr. El Hijo de Pirata Morgan and Barbe Roja). As Gato Eveready Soto often teams up with members of group Real Fuerza Aérea, although he has not yet officially been announced as a member of the group. On October 24, 2008 Gato Eveready was one of thirteen men participating in the annual Copa Antonio Peña tournament at the 2008 Antonio Peña Memorial show but was eliminated by Histeria in the first match of the Copa. In 2009 Gato Eveready has spent most of his time losing to Los Psycho Circus (Murder Clown, Monster Clown and Psycho Clown) in random six-man tag team matches or in a storyline where Exotico Pimpinela Escarlata made several advances towards him.In February 2011 Soto's ring name was simplified to El Gato, after Eveready Battery ended their sponsorship deal with AAA. <mask> (2011–present)

On April 20, 2011, Soto debuted under a new character <mask> and was given a major push as a face fighting for AAA in the war against La Sociedad and Los Bizarros. <mask> then joined forces with La Parka, Dark Cuervo, Dark Espíritu and Dark Ozz to form El Inframundo ("The Underworld"). On December 16 at Guerra de Titanes, Vampiro became the new leader of El Inframundo, replacing La Parka, who had recently turned rudo and joined La Sociedad. On July 19, 2013, <mask> and Faby Apache defeated Halloween and Mari Apache for the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship. On August 11, <mask> and fellow AAA worker Argenis made their debuts for All Japan Pro Wrestling in Tokyo, defeating Kenso and Sushi in a tag team match. Even before their first match in the promotion, <mask> and Argenis were named the number one contenders to the All Asia Tag Team Championship, held by Burning members Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki.In the build-up to the August 25 title match, <mask> and Argenis began working against the Burning stable, defeating Aoki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru on August 14 and Suzuki and Kanemaru on August 16. On August 25, <mask> and Argenis failed in their attempt to capture the All Asia Tag Team Championship from Aoki and Suzuki. On April 19, 2014, <mask> and Apache lost the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship to Pentagón Jr. and Sexy Star. On June 14, <mask> won AAA's 2015 Alas de Oro. Lucha Underground (2014–2018)
In August 2014, <mask> was announced as one of five AAA wrestlers to star in Lucha Underground, a new American television series on El Rey. <mask> debuted on the third episode on November 12, losing a three-way main event involving Pentagón Jr. and winner Fénix. Over the following weeks, <mask> feuded with King Cuerno.On January 21, 2015, Cuerno defeated <mask> in a Last Man Standing match, ending their feud. Then, he defeated Aero Star in a Best of 5 Series match. On February 21, 2015, <mask> unsuccessfully challenged Prince Puma for the Lucha Underground Championship after Hernandez' interference cost him the match. As a result, <mask> was in storyline forced to leave Lucha Underground. <mask> returned on the June 10 episode, agreeing to put his mask on the line for another shot at being allowed to remain in Lucha Underground. <mask> went on to win the match, defeating Cage, Hernandez and King Cuerno to retain his mask and become the number one contender to the Lucha Underground Championship. However, next week, <mask> lost his opportunity against Mil Muertes after an interference from Hernandez.Soon after, <mask> faced Hernandez and won via disqualification, before a rematch between the rivals would be announced for the upcoming Ultima Lucha event. At the first night of Ultima Lucha, <mask> defeated Hernandez in a Believer's Backlash Match. At the season two Ultima Lucha on January 31, 2016, <mask>, Aero Star and Fénix defeated Jack Evans, Johnny Mundo and PJ Black to win the Lucha Underground Trios Championship. On May 7, <mask> turned on Aero Star and Fénix and turning heel and took the Lucha Underground Trios Championship to form a new championship trio with Pindar and Vibora. The series was discontinued after season finale, Ultima Lucha Cuatro. Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2015–2016)
On August 28, 2015, <mask> Jr. in his first round match. Chikara (2015)

<mask> made his debut for another American promotion, Chikara, when he, Aero Star and Fénix entered the 2015 King of Trios tournament as "Team AAA".They defeated the Gentleman's Club (Chuck Taylor, Drew Gulak and The Swamp Monster) in their first round match. The following day, Team AAA defeated the Nightmare Warriors (Frightmare, Hallowicked and Silver Ant) to advance to the semifinals of the tournament. On September 6, Team AAA first defeated reigning King of Trios winners, the Devastation Corporation (Blaster McMassive, Flex Rumblecrunch and Max Smashmaster), in the semifinals and then Bullet Club (A.J. Styles, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) in the finals to win the 2015 King of Trios. Global Force Wrestling/Impact Wrestling (2017-2018)
On July 2, 2017 <mask> and El Hijo del Fantasma represented AAA at Impact Wrestling's Slammiversary XV show, the team lost to The Latin American Xchange (Ortiz and Santana), who successfully defended the Impact Wrestling World Tag Team Championship and GFW Tag Team Championship in a match that also included Laredo Kid/Garza Jr. and Naomichi Marufuji/Taiji Ishimori. On the July 6 episode of Impact Wrestling, <mask> entered the 2017 GFW Super X Cup Tournament.`

Championships and accomplishments
Battle Championship Wrestling Australia
BCW Tag Team championship (1 time) – with Aero Star
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
AAA Latin American Championship (1 time)
AAA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Aero Star
AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Faby Apache
Mexican National Atómicos Championship (2 times) – with Oscar Sevilla, Decnis, and Billy Boy
Alas de Oro (2015)
Best Match of the Night (2017) – with Aero Star vs. DJZ and Andrew Everett
Chikara
King of Trios (2015) – with Aero Star and Fénix
Lucha Underground
Lucha Underground Trios Championship (2 times) – with Aero Star and Fénix (1), and Pindar, and Vibora (1)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked No. 121 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2017
Promociones EMW
EMW World Middleweight Championship (1 time)

Luchas de Apuestas record

Notes

References

External links

AAA profile
AJPW profile

1975 births
Living people
Mexican male professional wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from Mexico City
Masked wrestlers

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